Don’t think your vote counts? Check out this year’s photo finish between two very different forays into a bygone America. Our voracious readers saluted most of the same 20 films as in last issue’s survey of critics, but overruled them to boost Django Unchained (#6), Argo (#11), and Looper (#14). Note: Numbers in parentheses refer to the film’s ranking in the Critics’ Poll (Jan/Feb 2013). For each ballot, a first-place choice was allotted 20 points, 19 for second, and so on. Congratulations to the winners selected randomly from this year’s poll participants to receive Criterion Collection DVDs of their choice: Mitch Anderson of Rumley, MI (First Prize); Louise Jaubert of Arundel, ME (Second Prize); and Tim Streb of San Francisco, CA, and Joaquin Villalobos of Denver, CO (Third and Fourth Prizes). And many thanks to Criterion for its generous donation of prizes.
For readers’ thoughts on their picks, click here.
1.The Master Paul Thomas Anderson, U.S. (2)
2. Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson, U.S. (3)
3. Holy Motors Leos Carax, France (1)
4. Zero Dark Thirty Kathryn Bigelow, U.S. (10)
5. Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin, U.S. (14)
6. Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino, U.S. (21)
7. Lincoln Steven Spielberg, U.S. (9)
8. Amour Michael Haneke, France (5)
9. The Kid with a Bike Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium (7)
10. Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell, U.S. (18)
11. Argo Ben Affleck, U.S. (24)
12. Cosmopolis David Cronenberg, Canada (15)
13. Bernie Richard Linklater, U.S. (13)
14. Looper Rian Johnson, U.S. (29)
15. The Turin Horse Béla Tarr, Hungary (6)
16. The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies, U.K. (12)
17. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey (8)
18. This Is Not a Film Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran (4)
19. Skyfall Sam Mendes, U.S. (32)
20. Tabu Miguel Gomes, Portugal (11)
