...but you know you can't resist, and I have an excuse anyway, since we've been talking about the Sight & Sound polls and the like. I think these lists provide a snapshot of a time and place. And I think it would be interesting to compare it to one that I tabulated at AMS probably 15 years ago, and see what changes have come along in the communal perception of the art since then.
So here's the drill:
1. Jot down your top ten, preferably without looking at the lists as they're posted. You can define "top ten" however you want-- greatest, favorite, most artistically important, what you'd most happily watch again, stuck on a desert island with, however you choose.
2. Post it in this thread. I will put up a big random picture at the end of the message, to make it easier to avoid reading the lists before you intend to.
3. Then read the lists.
4. Eventually, I'll tabulate and draw sociological conclusions re who's up, who's down.
Mine will be below the big random picture.
Not 13, Norma, 10! I said 10!
Mike Gebert:
1. Our Hospitality
2. The Crowd
3. Seventh Heaven
4. The Kid Brother
5. My Best Girl
6. I Was Born, But
7. The Iron Mask
8. Asphalt
9. The Whistle
10. Bed and Sofa
La Boheme (I'm surprised too!)
