Sight and Sound (and your) Top Ten Films of All Time - 2022 • Page 5

Guy at work just keeps calling this list pretentious and I’m losing my mind. Anything mildly challenging is automatically pretentious? Just a wild way to navigate the world.

 

It is a critics' list; what do people expect to be on there? They can use the IMDb list or something else if they want populism.

 

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
Queen of Diamonds (Nina Menkes, 1991
Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)

 

I did a top 100 years ago. With the break coming up I might do it again.

 

Love this list

 

Should we do 10 or 20 since we have a smaller pool for our chorus Top 100? I posted my top 10, would love to do 20 or even 25

 

Shot from the hip. What I've loved recently/all timers/what I'd wanna see make the list

 

For the longest time my top 3 books were:
1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. East of Eden
3. The Great Gatsby

I’m not as high on Gatsby anymore but I’d have to think about what would replace it. I’ve just been reading books without even a thought to where they rank haha. Probably because nothing has come very close to 1 and 2 for me.

 

I'm very basic on both of these topics haha.

Books off the top of my head that I love would be....

1. World War Z
2. The Great Santini
3. To Kill a Mockingbird


But...yeah. I've mostly read books I had to read for school, zombie books, and Song of Ice and Fire books haha. Otherwise I read mostly non-fiction/informational type stuff.

 

I have a top five for books that I feel pretty good about.

1. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
2. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
4. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

I'd have to think quite a bit to go further than that. Incidentally, there's probably a good argument for The Road being the most recently released "canon" book. I can't think of too many other contenders, but I also don't actively keep up with new book releases every year aside from a couple authors.

I could post my movies list too but it would be very recent/American.

 

Very difficult to make a movie list IMO. There are so many I’ve yet to see and it’s always growing. But I THINK I would at the least have these films:

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Spirited Away (and/or Princess Mononoke)
2001 (and/or The Shining)
Twin Peaks: The Return (it was on a director's list so I had to put it on mine!)
It's A Wonderful Life
The Truman Show
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Don’t even ask me about books. It changes all the time and I finish a book about every 2-3 weeks.

 

I feel like book people would get even angrier at newer releases than the film people.

 

Idk the last book I'd consider for the canon. People talk about that House of Leaves book a lot but no way do I have the time to read that. I just bought A Visit From the Goon Squad after reading a lot of mentions in the replies.

 

I considered it a movie because it is a single, unified work with the same director and screenwriter, but the line is becoming more and more arbitrary.

 

A Visit From the Goon Squad is a good pick. It didn't land for me the way it did for a lot of people though. The Underground Railroad is another great one I saw mentioned a couple times in the replies.

House of Leaves is definitely a commitment and probably impossible if you can't get on board with the style.

 

I read way too little to have a meaningful list. All Quiet on the Western Front would probably be #1 though.

 

for films my quick list today is:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather Part II
4. Mulholland Dr
5. Masculin Feminin
6. The Thin Red Line
7. Au Hasard Balthazar
8. There Will Be Blood
9. The Tree of Life
10. The Seventh Seal

really could be a different list tomorrow with Raging Bill, Aguirre the Wrath of God, more Godard, a favorite horror, action or comedy and who knows what else. It’d be easier to do a top 50 without any order.

 

Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
Heat (Mann, 1995)
The Game (Fincher, 1997)
The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
The Evil Dead (Raimi, 1981)
Collateral (Mann, 2004)
Scream (Craven, 1996)
Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993)

 

Off the cuff movie list. Even the order is pretty arbitrary — any of the top four or five could by number one on a given day.

1. The Social Network
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Se7en
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. The Empire Strikes Back
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Silence of the Lambs
9. Toy Story
10. Parasite

 

I almost want to do a "canon list" and a "ignore the canon list".

 

Okay real list for books:

1. Goosebumps #11-The Haunted Mask
2. Goosebumps #16-One Day At Horrorland
3. Goosebumps #5-The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
4. Goosebumps #51-Beware, The Snowman
5. Goosebumps #43-The Beast from the East
6. Goosebumps #18-Monster Blood II
7. Goosebumps #35-A Shocker on Shock Street
8. Goosebumps #08-The Girl Who Cried Monster
9. Goosebumps #27-A Night in Terror Tower
10. Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice-The Rising Force

A pretty formidable list tbh

 

The ease with which you can quickly become an expert in a type of media:
1. TV
2. Music
3. Film
4. Literature


I will take a book snob’s recommendation the most seriously. I am an english teacher and I am still intimidated to talk about “good” literature

 

Letterboxd is making it very easy to see who I can ignore in terms of hot take tweets. People dunking on Ti West’s list, for instance, show their asses very quickly if they have their LB linked