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Top Ten List of All Time: Sight and Sound Critics' List Deadline Extended to May 21

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Sunday night at the Grand (inside the bar, thanks to the deluge), I had a blast comparing top ten list notes with Lizzie Frankie of BFI Productions and John Cooper of the Sundance Film Festival.

By Anne Thompson
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May 21, 2012 11:30 AM
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Oscars 2012: TOH! Readers Poll Results -- Snubbed Fassbender Beats Dujardin; Love for 'Tree of Life'

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The results of our TOH! Readers Poll for Oscars 2012 are in and one thing is clear: Your taste is very different from that of the Academy. Take a look at the winners below.

By Sophia Savage
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February 27, 2012 7:44 PM
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Scorsese's List of 85 Films You Must See

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During an interview, off the top of his head Martin Scorsese gave writer Rick Tetzeli a list of 85 must-see films that influenced him. Of course as an NYU Cinema Studies graduate and so-called film expert, I had to check my mettle against Scorsese.

By Anne Thompson
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February 24, 2012 7:21 PM
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Titles in Search of a Script: from the Stanley Kubrick Archives

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During their 34-year relationship, Stanley Kubrick and his personal assistant Tony Frewin developed a collection of potential movie titles under the headline: "Titles in search of a script." Lists of Note selected several of their wittiest ideas, with commentary from Frewin following each idea. Some of their most droll titles include:

By Maggie Lange
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February 17, 2012 1:53 PM
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IMDb Releases Top 10 of the Last 10 Years Lists

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In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of its IMDBPro service, IMDb has released several "Top 10 of the Last 10 Years" lists, compiled from data collected by the site through the last decade.

By Jacob Combs
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January 27, 2012 1:28 PM
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Best Performances of 2011: Standouts, Duos, Ensemble & Most Underrated

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Standouts are just that -- performances with so much depth and subtlety that they could have college research papers written on their characters alone. Duos are two exceptional performances that are best considered together. Ensembles are those rare films whose entire primary casts are woven so finely that it's hard to tell where one performance begins and the other starts. There's also the Best Peformance Despite a Terrible Film and The Most Underrated Performance. Check them out below:

By Sophia Savage
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January 3, 2012 6:02 PM
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Empire Polls Actors' 2011 Faves with Surprising Results

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I love the choices made by a gaggle of actors polled by Empire Magazine for their fave films of 2011. "Jane Eyre" and "Take Shelter" were on my ten best list, and 'Attack the Block" made my top 20. Here's a sample of some must-see, often offbeat films. I will have to check out "The Adopted."

By Anne Thompson
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December 30, 2011 11:12 AM
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TOH! Top Tens of 2011

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While I shared my top ten on Oscar Talk Friday, here's the actual list, plus an assemblage of ten bests from the TOH! gang of regulars. Like most ten-best listmakers, we range from well-reviewed smart indie fare to mainstream studio pictures to the arcane. The year was strong for docs and foreign films, so I include my top five of both; in a rare departure, no animated film made my ten best this year.

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December 12, 2011 1:44 PM
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How to Make a Ten Best List

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'Tis the season when ten best lists start rolling in. I smile when I get my first Christmas card, always from John Waters (Highland, Maryland), whose Ten Best is in Art Forum, natch, and below. Kris Tapley and I delivered ours in this week's Oscar Talk podcast; I'll publish mine and the TOH crew's lists on Monday. Herewith are some early lists, below; Sight & Sound had 101 critics weigh in, and Mubi is collecting lists as well, including the Cahiers du Cinema.

By Anne Thompson
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December 9, 2011 7:23 PM
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IMDb's Col Needham Responds to Clooney's Top 100

George Clooney recently listed the 100 best movies from 1964-1976, his favorite period. IMDb founder Col Needham checked his IMDb vote history (up-to-date of course) and did his own advanced title search: I've seen a total of 764 movies from this range and included below are the 41 which I have rated 9/10 or 10/10 on IMDb; the list is in reverse chronological order but my 10/10s are: Jaws, Network, Once Upon a Time in the West, Taxi Driver, Carrie, The Godfather, High Plains Drifter, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and From Noon Till Three, All the President's Men.