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Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

Hayden — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 23:47:38 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 03/19/2017 03:47

And that'll be the cut-ff 😁

List will be posted tomorrow.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

cestuneblague — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 16:27:34 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 03/18/2017 20:27

Allright here's a list, kind of a dumping ground but best to get one in

Edit: woops, missed some biggies I need to update letterboxd

1 Broken Blossoms
2 The Passion of Joan of Arc
3 Nosferatu
4 Picadilly
5 A Page of Madness
6 The Gold Rush
7 Laugh Clown Laugh
8 Intolerance
9 The General
10 Metropolis
11 The Last Laugh
12 Strike
13 Un Chien Andalu
14 Faust
15 Ballet Mechanique
16 Berlin: Symphony of a City
17 The Kid
18 Sunrise
19 A Cottage on Dartmoor
20 The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
21 Couer Fidele
22 From Hand to Mouth
23 Satan's Rhapsody
24 The Scarecrow
25 The Seashell and the Clergymen
26 The Scarlett Letter
27 Gertie the Dinasour
28 One Week
29 L' etoile de Mer
30 The Phantom of the Opera
31 The Man Who Laughs
32 The Last of the Mohicans
33 The Outlaw & His Wife
34 Behind the Screen
35 The Fall of the House of Usher
36 The Pillar of Fire
37 The Golem
38 The Unchanging Sea
39 The Thief of Bagdad
40 The Mothering Heart
41 Free Ride
42 Male & Female
43 The Haunted Castle (1921)
44 The Adventures of Dollie
45 Manhatta
46 The Centuars
47 The Last Days of Pompeii

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

mickilennial — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:56:02 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 03/18/2017 19:56

Hayden wrote:

Will update. Just wanna let you know that you have The Phantom Carriage on there twice though (it still adds up to 45, I'm just going to get rid of the lower ranked one).

fixed

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

Hayden — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:36:02 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 03/18/2017 18:36

Gowi wrote:

I expanded my list to 45

Will update. Just wanna let you know that you have The Phantom Carriage on there twice though (it still adds up to 45, I'm just going to get rid of the lower ranked one).

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

mickilennial — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:03:32 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 03/18/2017 18:03

I expanded my list to 45

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

Hayden — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:41:29 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 03/18/2017 16:41

Thanks StreetSpirit 😄

Final day for lists.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

CA Dreamin — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 20:45:41 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 03/18/2017 00:45

Hope we can have a 1 or 2 week extension on this so I can see more titles and make this list better. But I'm not expecting one, so this is the best I have right now:

1. The General
2. The Gold Rush
3. Metropolis
4. Sherlock Jr.
5. Man With a Movie Camera
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc
7. The Thief of Baghdad
8. Battleship Potemkin
9. The Last Command
10. Sunrise
11. The Circus
12. Safety Last!
13. Diary of a Lost Girl
14. The Iron Mask
15. The Unknown
16. Broken Blossoms
17. Intolerance
18. The Kid Brother
19. Tempest
20. Wings
21. Our Hospitality
22. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
23. Grandma's Boy
24. The Mark of Zorro
25. Steamboat Bill Jr
26. The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann)
27. Faust
28. Nosferatu
29. Strike
30. Sadie Thompson
31. Laugh, Clown, Laugh
32. The Freshman
33. The Docks of New York
34. The Phantom of the Opera
35. The Kid
36. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
37. Spies (Fritz Lang)
38. The Manxman
39. The Man Who Laughs
40. The Golem: How He Came Into the World
41. It
42. The Birth of a Nation
43. The Three Musketeers
44. Seven Chances
45. A Woman of Paris
46. The Navigator
47. Nanook of the North
48. Destiny
49. The Cameraman
50. Three Ages
51. The Black Pirate
52. The Cat and the Canary
53. Girl Shy
54. Underworld
55. The Beloved Rogue
56. The Lodger
57. The Cheat
58. The Hands of Orlac
59. Battling Butler
60. Spite Marriage
61. College
62. The Lost World
63. The Man From Beyond
64. The Wildcat
65. Go West
66. A Sailor-Made Man
67. Cabiria
68. Judith of Bethulia

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

Hayden — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 20:34:30 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 03/18/2017 00:34

dividesbyzero wrote:

ok so as we all know I have a tendency to half-finish things and then completely drop the ball, so just to be safe here is the first 50 entries and I will try my darnedest to have a full 100 lined up by the 18th

https://letterboxd.com/dividesbyzero/list/beginnings-pre-1930s-favorites/

Thanks dbz 😄 If nothing comes later, I'll tally this up. Some inclusions I'm really happy to see on there. Hoping you shell out a full 100 though.

Tomorrow is the last day for submissions 😄 List on Sunday.

Quote:

I agree, I'd cap individual lists at 100. Making a personal top 100 will be a cinch, don't know that I could really rank an individual top 250.

And okay, cool. Looks like that's the popular opinion at this point. It'll probably be what we go with.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

AwaitingAndrew — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:33:51 GMT

Author: AwaitingAndrew

Posted: 03/17/2017 15:33

StreetSpirit wrote:

Ha, seems Merc and I were thinking the same thing at the same time. No objection to final 250 list but I think individual lists should be capped at 100.

I agree, I'd cap individual lists at 100. Making a personal top 100 will be a cinch, don't know that I could really rank an individual top 250.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:35:48 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/17/2017 03:35

ok so as we all know I have a tendency to half-finish things and then completely drop the ball, so just to be safe here is the first 50 entries and I will try my darnedest to have a full 100 lined up by the 18th

https://letterboxd.com/dividesbyzero/list/beginnings-pre-1930s-favorites/

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

cestuneblague — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:51:37 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 03/17/2017 02:51

Hayden wrote:

Soooo, cap submissions off at 100 or 250? If it's 100, I'll have some dwindling to do 😨

I think the final list at 250 is pretty set though.

Can't speak for anyone but I can safely assume we're not into that false-modesty bullshite, let's make this the War & Peace of movie polls. 250 ftw. Obviously it's fine if the numbers after 100 or 150 or whatevs have more incremental value, but ya know we all like to show off I mean support our favorites I mean 😨

Also should have this particular list in by the morning.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

Mercury — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:51:25 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 03/16/2017 19:51

Hayden wrote:

This is correct ^

That's how it would work. Which, as you have already pointed out, does make me question the 250. A film with 10 #1's on a list out of 100 would have the same value as 4 #'s on a list of 250. Which, bluntly, is definitely a big difference.

Which is the formula I've been using all along (it's much different than BEA's tallying methods).

Soooo, cap submissions off at 100 or 250? If it's 100, I'll have some dwindling to do 😨

I think the final list at 250 is pretty set though.

Okay, so with that in mind, I suppose capping at 100 is best. My mind is clay and it has been molded.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

Hayden — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:34:36 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 03/16/2017 19:34

StreetSpirit wrote:

if I only submitted 100, they would only count in points as the equivalent of films ranked 151-250 on a 250 size list. If that's incorrect, please tell me what it actually means.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

CA Dreamin — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:02:55 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 03/16/2017 19:02

^^^

Ha, seems Merc and I were thinking the same thing at the same time. No objection to final 250 list but I think individual lists should be capped at 100.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

CA Dreamin — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:58:37 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 03/16/2017 18:58

Mercury wrote:

Bear in mind, much like the top 100s, you can choose to do "just" 100 or 75 or 150. No need to try to reach 250. I may end up distilling my list to my top 150 or 200 or even 100 when all is said and done.

Oh of course. However, it always says "the size of your list determines its weight." I've never completely understood that, but it sounds like if I only submitted 100, they would only count in points as the equivalent of films ranked 151-250 on a 250 size list. If that's incorrect, please tell me what it actually means.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

Mercury — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:57:08 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 03/16/2017 18:57

Which raises another question, Hayden - one which is completely off topic for the early cinema thread but what the hell - how are you planning on weighting the votes, will a number one vote out of 250 count as 250 points? or will it still be capped at 100 and some zones of votes all have the same value? Like toward the end of some potential top 250 lists, will the last 10 or 20 films have the same value as each other in that zone?

math is hard.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

Hayden — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:55:37 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 03/16/2017 18:55

StreetSpirit wrote:

Hayden wrote:

Just want to announce that the list entries for our all-time list will cut off at 250. The final list will be 250 as well. Similar to IMDb's main list.

This is mainly due to the very selfish reason that I can't seem to dwindle my all-time list to below that number 😨

If there are any objections, just say so.

I object, 250 is way too fucking many.

Yeah tell me about it. That sounds like a headache I prefer to avoid.

Too many for personal lists, or the overall list?

I think the overall list will be 250 no matter what. The only thing I'm contemplating is what to cap submissions off at. If you think it's too much, I'm definitely going to take in that input. Looking for a consensus.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

Mercury — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:53:42 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 03/16/2017 18:53

StreetSpirit wrote:

Hayden wrote:

I object, 250 is way too fucking many.

Yeah tell me about it. That sounds like a headache I prefer to avoid.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

CA Dreamin — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:50:31 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 03/16/2017 18:50

Hayden wrote:

I object, 250 is way too fucking many.

Mercury wrote:

making and ranking a fucking 250 film list will be the toughest list I've ever made.

Yeah tell me about it. That sounds like a headache I prefer to avoid.

Re: Best Ever Early Cinema (Pre-1930) [Cut-off]

Hayden — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:07:15 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 03/16/2017 17:07

Mercury wrote:

Hayden wrote:

No objections. Very very very excited about this. Perhaps TOO excited. I need to get my life priorities set.

Although making and ranking a fucking 250 film list will be the toughest list I've ever made - and that's coming from a dork who has been making lists here for 5 years, and in life since I was a child. I'll start preparing today.

I'm looking forward to it too, but don't make it a #1 priority 🤣

But yeah, I've been working on my all-time list and it's... well... not easy 😐 Part of me wants to binge on a whole bunch of big films I've never seen before (yeeees, Alien among them), but part of me is saying that there's no room for them on my list. I pretty much know what I want to include, the order is the difficult part to be honest.

The all-time poll will be out once this one is over. I'm thinking of doubling it up with our 2016 list (which would last three weeks or so, the all-time would maybe be 5 or 6 weeks). I'll sort it all out after this one is over.

Anyway, 3 days left for submissions 😄