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« Reply #80 on: September 22, 2012, 04:14:41 AM »
Sigh.

There's got to be at least 50 movies that on it that came out AFTER 1990. I think I remember at least one, at the most two silent films?!


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« Reply #81 on: September 22, 2012, 04:18:38 AM »
There's got to be at least 50 movies that on it that came out AFTER 1990.

36 films from 1990 or later.

I think I remember at least one, at the most two silent films?!

Just The Passion of Joan of Arc.

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« Reply #82 on: September 22, 2012, 04:35:48 AM »
Entries by decade for each tier of 100 films:

  1-100    101-200    201-300    301-400    401-500    501-600    601-700 
1920s     
1
3
0
0
2
2
1
1930s
2
5
4
2
2
5
5
1940s
9
5
7
7
3
2
5
1950s
13
8
10
8
6
8
14
1960s
9
15
13
14
9
12
13
1970s
16
10
18
11
9
11
5
1980s
14
13
3
13
15
11
7
1990s
17
22
12
14
20
16
18
2000s
16
18
25
27
31
28
26
2010s
3
1
8
4
3
5
6

Not sure what it all means.

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« Reply #83 on: September 22, 2012, 07:10:50 AM »
Ageism isn't cool. New movies are just as good and bad as old movies.
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« Reply #84 on: September 22, 2012, 08:40:43 AM »
While looking at the spreadsheet, I noticed one minor glitch: Hal Hartley's Surviving Desire received 2 votes, but each was counted as a different film.

More useless stats:
16 out 37 films submitted as #1 didn't make the Top 100.
931 out of 1624 films received only one vote, meaning the average ballot contained 22 films nobody else voted for.
55 out of those 931 films with single votes were in the Top 10 of the respective ballots.

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« Reply #85 on: September 22, 2012, 10:34:11 AM »
Sigh.

There's got to be at least 50 movies that on it that came out AFTER 1990. I think I remember at least one, at the most two silent films?!

I think the Bondo Collection stands as testament that the proper proportion is 50% post-2000, 75% post-1990. The FS100 falls short of this proportion, being too geriatric.

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« Reply #86 on: September 22, 2012, 10:59:46 AM »
While we are all film buffs here, and we are all open to watching movies from all decades, when we talk about the top 100, we are doing a combination of favorites lists. 

Part of what is a favorite is what communicates to us, personally.  Potentially, any decade's movies could communicate to us, strike us, but the likelihood is higher that a movie that is closer to our cultural heart will do so.  In other words, most of us are people of this era.  The cultural assumptions and communications of previous eras may strike us, but more movies of this era should communicate to us. 

The other fact is that there are simply more movies available from more recent decades than earlier.

Frankly, the FS100 covers quite a broad spectrum.  Broader than any modern list should be without some leaning the other way.
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« Reply #87 on: September 22, 2012, 11:09:27 AM »
Ageism isn't cool. New movies are just as good and bad as old movies.

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« Reply #88 on: September 22, 2012, 11:23:38 AM »
Part of what is a favorite is what communicates to us, personally.  Potentially, any decade's movies could communicate to us, strike us, but the likelihood is higher that a movie that is closer to our cultural heart will do so.  In other words, most of us are people of this era.  The cultural assumptions and communications of previous eras may strike us, but more movies of this era should communicate to us. 

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« Reply #89 on: September 22, 2012, 11:26:38 AM »
Part of what is a favorite is what communicates to us, personally.  Potentially, any decade's movies could communicate to us, strike us, but the likelihood is higher that a movie that is closer to our cultural heart will do so.  In other words, most of us are people of this era.  The cultural assumptions and communications of previous eras may strike us, but more movies of this era should communicate to us. 

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