Caetlin Benson-Allott submitted a blank #sightandsoundpoll ballot that seems to no longer be on the site. Might be a temporary glitch, but here's what she wrote about it.

No one else got 15, but a few others snuck in more than 10:

Claudia Weill 12
Pete Docter 11
Paweł Pawlikowski 11
Mia Hansen-Løve 11
Isaac Julien 11
Atom Egoyan 11
Arie Esiri 11
Alexander Payne 11
#sightandsoundpoll
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RT @rgodfrey
Did they let anyone else pick 15?
https://twitter.com/rgodfrey/status/1631488833945497601

RT @SightSoundmag@twitter.com

Phil Tippett shares his list of the Greatest Films of All Time #SightAndSoundPoll

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SightSoundmag/status/1608439441344831489

Watched #JeanneDelmain for the first time yesterday. I truly enjoyed it, even though, truth be told, it was a bit of work to watch at times. Nevertheless, it has really stayed with me. (It was a lot of work being Jeanne, wasn’t it.) I’m obsessed! #SightAndSoundPoll

#JeMeSouviens de Howard #Hawks (30 mai 1896 - 26 décembre 1977)

(mais oublié par les "Directors" lors du #SightAndSoundPoll)

Seuls les Anges ont des ailes⤵️

RT @SightSoundmag
RIP Mike Hodges (1932-2022)

He submitted this list of his Greatest Films of All Time to this month’s #SightAndSoundPoll

RT @SightSoundmag@twitter.com

RIP Mike Hodges (1932-2022)

He submitted this list of his Greatest Films of All Time to this month’s #SightAndSoundPoll

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SightSoundmag/status/1605513595768422400

#JohnMastodon had more films fall off the #SightAndSoundPoll than any other director.

RT SightSoundmag: The Greatest Films of All Time, as voted for by Robert Eggers #SightAndSoundPoll

RT SightSoundmag: The Greatest Films of All Time, as voted for by Robert Eggers #SightAndSoundPoll

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Une Lecture indispensable
(surtout pour les "Directors" qui ont ignoré #FritzLang lors du #SightAndSoundPoll)

#LotteEisner immense témoin de la créativité de #Berlin avant Hitler, historienne d'Art devenue LA spécialiste du Cinéma #Expressionniste allemand

#MarestEditeur

Greta confirms that 2001 should be the top of the #SightAndSoundPoll (as it was from all the directors wise enough to plop it there...).

All signs point to BARBIE being on that list in 2032.
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RT @wbpictures
#BarbieTheMovie, from director Greta Gerwig, only in theatres Summer 2023✨
https://twitter.com/wbpictures/status/1603751943985573889

ICYMI: For their inaugural episode on That Shelf, @ContraZoomPod unveil their Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time as voted by directors, critics, podcasters, bloggers, and film fans alike:
https://thatshelf.com/contra-zoom-pod-episode-220-czps-greatest-films-of-all-time
#SightAndSoundPoll

Interesting…

RT @SightSoundmag@twitter.com

The Greatest Films of All Time, according to George Miller #SightAndSoundPoll

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SightSoundmag/status/1603072134212984833

For their inaugural episode on That Shelf, @ContraZoomPod unveil their Top 10 Greatest Films of All Time as voted by directors, critics, podcasters, bloggers, and film fans alike:
https://thatshelf.com/contra-zoom-pod-episode-220-czps-greatest-films-of-all-time
#SightAndSoundPoll

The top ten films I would’ve picked for the #SightAndSoundPoll
1. Pather Panchali (1955) Satyajit Ray
2. Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky
3. Wild Strawberries (1955) Ingmar Bergman
4. Night and Fog (1956) Alain Resnais
5. Killer of Sheep (1977) Charles Burnett
6. A Man Escaped (1956) Robert Bresson
7. In the Mood for Love (2000) Wong Kar Wai
8. Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
9. Paths of Glory (1957) Stanley Kubrick
10. Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese

But... But... Tsai Ming-Liang has voted for a film he himself made 😶 Surely that's a major faux pas? #sightandsound #sightandsoundpoll #film #filmstudies

I'm still going to watch the 16 films I’ve yet to see on the 2022 #SightAndSoundPoll because I'm confident all of the recommendations, in aggregate, remain highly worthwhile.

It's just that the actual ranking can no longer be trusted until Sight & Sound shores up its polling methods.

If you'd like to discuss the great #JeanneDielman after seeing it some time, feel free to reach out.

And if you've made it this far, thanks for reading. It's my very first thread on #Mastodon.

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Fixating upon exact positions in the #SightandSoundPoll ranking is a mistake because the poll's design needs to be revised to measure voter intent correctly.

So, if you want to blame something, blame the brokenness of the survey.

The voters operated out of a sense of altruism.

Remember, all #art (including #film) is a collective reflection of ourselves.

When the work ceases to represent us as in our entirety, the promise inherent in that art is undermined.

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In the end, if all of these flaws in research methodology mean that the #SightandSoundPoll can't really tell us what their pool of experts think the Greatest Film of All Time is anymore, or even provide a sensible ranking of voters' intent in answering that question, what DOES it tell us?

Only high-level (though still valuable) learnings:

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