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I wanted to get this up before I forget since there is a specific time I want this to start.

I want to do something similar to the last all-time poll I hosted after the 2010s poll ends. The plan is to take the top 30 from each decade poll while also allowing everyone to nominate their three favorite films that fall outside that set. Once I have that list finalized, we will rank it like we do the finals of the decade-specific polls.

I think I will give people a month after the 2010s results are revealed to choose their three bonus nominations.

Then, I don't know, two or three months to submit the ranked list? This is why I'm making a thread ahead of time, to see how people feel about timing.

Does this plan sound good to everyone? Any thoughts? I think an alternative would be to treat the final list as a short list and have everyone only rank their top 100, which might be good with the list having 250+ entries.
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That sounds good!

For me 1+2 months is enough. I prefer the usual way, where you can vote for all the films you've seen.
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That's a great idea! I agree with bonnielaurel, 1 month for bonus nominations plus two for the final ranking should be sufficient.
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I might also do a mini-2020/2021 poll in the bonus thread, just so those years aren't left behind. I'll probably do it like the standard yearly polls except we vote for both years in the same list, and the top 4-5 move on to the final (I figure since there will be an average of 3 movies per year, 4-5 is good for a period that some of us are not caught up on/is probably objectively weaker than other comparable periods due to pandemic-related delays - I think most of us will agree 2020 is the worst year for cinema, at least in our lifetimes)
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BleuPanda wrote: Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:44 pm I think an alternative would be to treat the final list as a short list and have everyone only rank their top 100, which might be good with the list having 250+ entries.
I would prefer this method, but I would participate regardless. I’m excited for the poll, I was just thinking about how it had been 3 years since we last had one.
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Any update on this?
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Nick wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 4:05 pm Any update on this?
I think I will have us rank everything we have seen, since I feel like only ranking our top whatever will give certain films advantages.

I don't know what else to update on - as I said, this will start after the 2010s poll results are revealed.
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BleuPanda wrote: Tue Apr 26, 2022 2:39 pm
Nick wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 4:05 pm Any update on this?
I think I will have us rank everything we have seen, since I feel like only ranking our top whatever will give certain films advantages.

I don't know what else to update on - as I said, this will start after the 2010s poll results are revealed.
Ahhhh okay, cool, just wondering, should be a cool poll!
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I'm going to gather necessary information here - I'm taking the top 30 films of each poll (though maybe 50 in the case of the pre-50s poll). I kind of want to limit the bonus nominations, however. My initial thought is to take the next 20 or 30 films from each poll and use that as the short list - I don't want bonus nominations to be completely open for the all-time poll, but this gives people the option to 'rescue' their favorites that just missed the cut. I'll be updating this post as I go, but you can see what the shortlist for bonus nominations would be below the auto-entrants.

AUTOMATIC ENTRANTS

pre-1950s top 50:
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Modern Times
City Lights
Metropolis
M
Bicycle Thieves
The Third Man
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Children of Paradise
The Gold Rush
It's a Wonderful Life
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Double Indemnity
The General
Battleship Potemkin
To Be Or Not To Be
Gone With the Wind
His Girl Friday
Nosferatu
Grand Illusion
The Great Dictator
The Wizard of Oz
Notorious
Sherlock, Jr.
Meshes of the Afternoon
Shadow of a Doubt
Freaks
The Red Shoes
Rome, Open City
Monsieur Verdoux
Sullivan's Travels
The Maltese Falcon
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
King Kong
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Rules of the Game
Black Narcissus
Duck Soup
Rebecca
The Grapes of Wrath
Late Spring
Man with a Movie Camera
The Phantom Carriage
Fantasia
The Fall of the House of Usher
Greed
The Lady Eve
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

1950s top 30:
Vertigo
The Seventh Seal
Singin' in the Rain
Sunset Blvd.
Some Like It Hot
Seven Samurai
Rashomon
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Wild Strawberries
Ordet
Ikiru
Touch of Evil
12 Angry Men
Tokyo Story
Rebel Without a Cause
Ugetsu
The Night of the Hunter
The 400 Blows
La strada
Les diaboliques
The Searchers
Los olvidados
Paths of Glory
All About Eve
A Man Escaped
The Wages of Fear
Sansho the Bailiff
The Cranes Are Flying
Night and Fog

1960s top 30:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Psycho
Persona
8 1/2
The Apartment
Once Upon a Time in the West
Lawrence of Arabia
La dolce vita
Dr. Strangelove
To Kill a Mockingbird
Andrei Rublev
Le Samourai
Breathless
L'avventura
Blowup
Rosemary's Baby
Bonnie and Clyde
The Leopard
Contempt
The Battle of Algiers
The Birds
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Graduate
High and Low
Doctor Zhivago
The Exterminating Angel
West Side Story
Woman in the Dunes
Belle de Jour
Lolita

1970s top 30:
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A Clockwork Orange
Alien
Annie Hall
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Chinatown
Sleuth
Solaris
Jaws
Eraserhead
Star Wars
Manhattan
Days of Heaven
Stalker
The Exorcist
Barry Lyndon
Nashville
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Holy Mountain
Cabaret
Day for Night
Network
The Conversation
Harold and Maude
A Woman Under the Influence

1980s top 30:
Blade Runner
Blue Velvet
Wings of Desire
The Shining
Raging Bull
Do the Right Thing
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Come and See
Dekalog
Paris, Texas
Once Upon a Time in America
My Neighbor Totoro
Amadeus
Fanny and Alexander
Brazil
Ran
The Elephant Man
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Down by Law
Hannah and Her Sisters
Grave of the Fireflies
Shoah
Blood Simple
Akira
Scarface
Back to the Future
The Empire Strikes Back
Die Hard
Cinema Paradiso
Videodrome

1990s top 30:
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
The Big Lebowski
Festen
Unforgiven
The Silence of the Lambs
Fargo
Magnolia
Breaking the Waves
Fight Club
Boogie Nights
Trainspotting
American Beauty
Before Sunrise
Reservoir Dogs
Naked
The Piano
Princess Mononoke
The Thin Red Line
Eyes Wide Shut
Raise the Red Lantern
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Usual Suspects
Being John Malkovich
Three Colors: Red
Schindler's List
Heat
Satantango
Chungking Express
Trust

2000s Top 30:
Mulholland Drive
Spirited Away
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
No Country for Old Men
There Will be Blood
WALL-E
Yi Yi
City of God
Dancer in the Dark
In the Mood for Love
Amelie
Pan’s Labyrinth
Talk to Her
Dogville
The Lives of Others
Memento
Lost in Translation
The Best of Youth
Before Sunset
Werckmeister Harmonies
Requiem for a Dream
Children of Men
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
The Royal Tenenbaums
Waltz With Bashir
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Far from Heaven
Tropical Malady
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days

2010s top 30:
Parasite
A Separation
The Social Network
Mad Max: Fury Road
Boyhood
Moonlight
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The Handmaiden
Get Out
Twin Peaks: The Return
Holy Motors
Toy Story 3
Melancholia
Toni Erdmann
Her
The Florida Project
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The Act of Killing
Arrival
Manchester by the Sea
Whiplash
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Tree of Life
Lady Bird
Inside Out
Carol
Drive
Inside Llewyn Davis
12 Years a Slave
Marriage Story

ELIGIBLE BONUS FILMS
(will be sorted by title in the actual topic to make it easier to search)

Eligible pre-1950s bonus films:
La roue
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Best Years of Our Lives
Un chien andalou
Shoeshine
The Lady Vanishes
The Big Sleep
Pandora's Box
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
It Happened One Night
Napoleon
Broken Blossoms
The 39 Steps
Germany Year Zero
The Set-Up
A Page of Madness
Frankenstein
The Wind
Make Way for Tomorrow
Gaslight
Sons of the Desert
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
The Kid
The Postman Always Rings Twice
My Darling Clementine
The 47 Ronin
All Quiet on the Western Front
L'atalante
Scarlet Street

Eligible 1950s Bonus Films:
Bigger Than Life
Umberto D.
High Noon
Hiroshima mon amour
Limelight
On the Waterfront
M. Hulot's Holiday
Pather Panchali
Throne of Blood
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Night and the City
The Flowers of St. Francis
Strangers on a Train
Nights of Cabiria
A Streetcar Named Desire
Kiss Me Deadly
Imitation of Life
Written on the Wind
The Killing
Voyage to Italy
East of Eden
Equinox Flower
The Burmese Harp
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Witness for the Prosecution
Ace in the Hole
Rio Bravo
Elevator to the Gallows
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

Eligible 1960s Bonus Films:
Pierrot le Fou
Rocco and His Brothers
Le trou
Midnight Cowboy
Harakiri
Repulsion
The Sound of Music
Jules and Jim
Juliet of the Spirits
Ivan's Childhood
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Last Year at Marienbad
I Am Cuba
Night of the Living Dead
Irma la Douce
The Wild Bunch
One, Two, Three
The Virgin Spring
Viridiana
Peeping Tom
In Cold Blood
The Children's Hour
The Man Who Shot Libert Valance
Marketa Lazarova
Army of Shadows
The Hustler
The Manchurian Candidate
The Producers
Black Sunday
Onibaba

Eligible 1970s Bonus Films:
The Deer Hunter
The Last Picture Show
Don't Look Now
Life of Brian
Opening Night
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Alice in the Cities
The Conformist
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
All That Jazz
Dog Day Afternoon
M*A*S*H
Ryan's Daughter
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Being There
Deep End
Mr. Klein
Kings of the Road
The Passenger
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Suspiria
The Sting
Carrie
The Last Wave
Mirror
The Tenant
Le Cercle Rouge
Walkabout
Badlands

Eligible 1980s Bonus Films:
The Right Stuff
A Short Film About Killing
Aliens
The Thin Blue Line
Das Boot
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Terminator
Blow Out
Stop Making Sense
The Element of Crime
Jean de Florette
Fitzcarraldo
Terms of Endearment
sex, lies, and videotape
Tootsie
The Thing
The King of Comedy
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Zelig
When Harry Met Sally...
Stranger Than Paradise
Manon of the Spring
Sans soleil
Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Red Sorghum
Nostalghia
Spoorloos/The Vanishing

Eligible 1990s Bonus Films:
Barton Fink
The Kingdom
Rosetta
Heimat II: A Chronicle of a Generation
A Brighter Summer Day
L.A. Confidential
Three Colors: Blue
All About My Mother
The Sweet Hereafter
Happiness
Groundhog Day
Toy Story
The Shawshank Redemption
Se7en
Short Cuts
Hoop Dreams
Ju Dou
Safe
Idioterne
The Remains of the Day
The Lion King
The Player
The Matrix
Drifting Clouds
Saving Private Ryan
Lost Highway
The Lovers of the Arctic Circle
The Lovers on the Bridge
The Match Factory Girl
Man Bites Dog

Eligible 2000s bonus films:
Russian Ark
Mary and Max
Zodiac
L’enfant
The Dark Knight
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
Hero
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Nobody Knows
Let the Right One In
Gomorrah
Up
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Class
Oldboy
A History of Violence
Grizzly Man
25th Hour
Inglourious Basterds
Finding Nemo
Little Children
The White Ribbon
Little Miss Sunshine
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Hot Fuzz
3-Iron
Ghost World
The New World
A Prophet
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I think I will try to get the first topic up at the beginning of next month - which will be our bonus film picks and a mini-2020s poll, which will run 1 month. It will be a couple more days until we will know all of the eligible bonus 2010s films, but I think that's fine.

I think I might cut it down from 3 to 2 bonus films? We are currently sitting at 260 automatic entrants and another 4 or 5(?) from 2020-2022, so I think 2 bonus choices is a good max limit. We would likely end up at around 300 films, which makes a solid top 250 when all is said and done.
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This is going to make me sound ancient and out of touch but does anyone know of a good website/app to find most of these films?

There’s a lot on here I’ve never been exposed to but I don’t necessarily want to get 10 streaming services to watch all of them.
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The Criterion Channel has a pretty broad selection of classic/foreign/art films. Also, I would recommend signing up with your local library. Not only do they have solid DVD selections, many of them can get you access to Kanopy/Hoopla, which are streaming services with their own fairly broad libraries.
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There's some overlap, but Criterion has 72 of the current 230 and HBO Max has 81. None of the other paid services I know come close to those two (and I feel like HBO Max will have quite a few of the 2010s films as well, once those are revealed).

And, as acroamor said, hopefully your local library has a collection as well as Kanopy, which has 45 of the films.
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All great advice, thank you! I also checked with my library and they do have Kanopy, I never would’ve thought to check for that
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