Results from the 2007 Village Voice/ LA Weekly Film Poll:
Best Film
# Artist/Title Points Mentions
1 There Will Be Blood 402 56
2 No Country for Old Men 328 52
3 Zodiac 314 47
4 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 276 43
5 I'm Not There 241 37
6 Syndromes and a Century 208 31
7 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 185 27
8 Killer of Sheep 161 22
9 Ratatouille 135 25
10 Colossal Youth 132 19
11 Black Book 125 24
12 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 123 24
13 Eastern Promises 114 24
14 Once 112 21
15 Michael Clayton 103 19
16 Offside 97 17
17 Into the Wild 93 17
18 The Host 83 22
19 Away from Her 78 15
20 Regular Lovers 70 12
21 I Don't Want to Sleep Alone 67 12
22 Grindhouse 62 14
23 Southland Tales 62 11
24 Private Fears in Public Places 62 10
25 The Bourne Ultimatum 61 10
26 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 60 13
27 Persepolis 59 14
28 Atonement 57 9
29 No End in Sight 56 10
30 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 48 12
31 Knocked Up 48 10
32 Into Great Silence 47 8
33 Bamako 46 8
34 The Darjeeling Limited 46 7
35 12:08 East of Bucharest 44 10
36 Lady Chatterley 40 6
37 The Savages 39 9
38 Brand Upon the Brain! 36 9
39 Rescue Dawn 33 7
The Band's Visit 33 7
41 Hot Fuzz 32 6
42 Superbad 31 7
43 Control 31 6
Lust, Caution 31 6


(I myself loved Southland Tales {and this is from watching it on shitty video on my computer because it never came within 300 or more miles from my town} but thought the ending was a missed opportunity that could have made classic. Other than the ending I thought this was just one of the strangest and oddly effecting films in years. )

I just looked through a list of Top 10's with Ebert, Siskel, Roeper and the guest critics on Ebert and Roeper and this is the first year that the Top 10's don't overlap at all.

2006 and 2007: Richard Roeper and A.O. Scott
2000-2005: Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper
1999: Roger Ebert and Janet Maslin
1975-1998: Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel
1969-1974: No show, but Gene and Roger were critics at the Tribune and Sun-Times, respectively and published a Top 10 in these years.

A star by the year means that the two agreed on the #1 movie of the year.
Titles italicized are the shared #1 of the year.
# indicates a #1 by one critic with the first letter of the last name in parentheses i.e. E for Ebert, S for Siskel, R for Roeper, M for Maslin and S for Scott and MS for Martin Scorsese

Here's the year by year overlaps:

2007
None

2006
Letters from Iwo Jima # (S)
Little Miss Sunshine

2005
Crash # (E)
Syriana # (R)
Munich
Brokeback Mountain
Nine Lives

2004
Million Dollar Baby # (E)
Kill Bill Volume 2
The Aviator
Sideways
Hotel Rwanda # (R)

2003
Monster # (E)
Lost in Translation
Mystic River
Whale Rider
In America # (R)

2002
Minority Report # (E)
Adaptation
Y Tu Mama Tambien

2001
In the Bedroom
Mulholland Drive
A Beautiful Mind

2000
Almost Famous # (E)
Wonder Boys
You Can Count on Me
Traffic
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon # (R)

1990's
Fargo
Breaking the Waves
Malcolm X

1999
Being John Malkovich # (E)
Boys Don't Cry
Topsy-Turvy# (M)
The Insider

1998
Babe, Pig in the City # (S)
Pleasantville
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love

1997
L.A. Confidential
Wag the Dog
In the Company of Men
The Sweet Hereafter

1996*
Fargo
Secret and Lies
Breaking the Waves
Lone Star
Welcome to the Dollhouse

1995
Crumb # (S)
Nixon
Dead Man Walking
Leaving Las Vegas # (E)
Exotica
Apollo 13

1994*
Hoop Dreams
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
Forrest Gump

1993*
Schindler's List
The Piano
Menace II Society
The Fugitive
The Age of Innocence
The Joy Luck Club

1992
One False Move # (S)
The Player
Howard's End
The Crying Game
Malcolm X # (E)
The Hairdresser's Husband
Damage

1991
Boyz N the Hood
Beauty and the Beast
Grand Canyon
JFK # (E)

1990*
Goodfellas
Dances with Wolves
Reversal of Fortune

1980's*
Raging Bull
The Right Stuff
My Dinner with Andre
Do the Right Thing

1989*
Do the Right Thing
Roger & Me
Drugstore Cowboy
Born on the Fourth of July
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Say Anything

1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Accidental Tourist
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1987
The Last Emperor # (S)
House of Games # (E)
Broadcast News
Radio Days
Prick Up Your Ears

1986
Hannah and Her Sisters # (S)
Vagabond
Peggy Sue Got Married
Platoon # (E)
Round Midnight

1985
Ran
The Color Purple # (E)
Streetwise
Prizzi's Honor
The Falcon and the Snowman
Shoah # (S) (Ebert excluded Shoah from his list, not because he thought the other ten films were better, but because he felt it was in a class by itself and it wouldn't be appropriate to rank ordinary movies against it.; Gene had it at #1)

1984
Amadeus # (E)
The Cotton Club
Purple Rain
The Killing Fields
Secret Honor

1983*
The Right Stuff
Terms of Endearment
Fanny and Alexander
The Year of Living Dangerously
Silkwood
Risky Business

1982
Moonlighting # (S)
E.T.
Diva
Mephisto
Personal Best
Das Boot

1981
My Dinner with Andre # (E)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Gates of Heaven
Body Heat

1980
Raging Bull # (S)
Ordinary People
Coal Miner's Daughter
Kagemusha
Being There
The Black Stallion # (E)
The Great Santini

1979
Hair # (S)
The Deer Hunter
Breaking Away
The Marriage of Maria Braun

1978
Days of Heaven
Autumn Sonata
Halloween
Stroszek

1977
Annie Hall # (S)
The Late Show
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Wars

1976
All the President's Men # (S)
Network
Small Change # (E)
Taxi Driver

1975*
Nashville
Dog Day Afternoon
And Now My Love

The following lists are from before the show:

1974
Day for Night # (S)
The Last Detail
Amarcord
The Coversation
Mean Streets
Scenes from a Marriage # (E)
The Mother and the Whore

1973
The Emigrants/The New Land # (S)
Last Tango in Paris
Cries and Whispers # (E)
The Day of the Jackal
American Graffiti

1972*
The Godfather
The Sorrow and the Pity
Le Boucher
Chloe in the Afternoon
Sounder

1971
Claire's Knee # (S)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Last Picture Show # (E)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Bed and Board
Taking Off

1970
My Night at Maude's # (S)
M*A*S*H*
Five Easy Pieces # (E)
The Passion of Anna
Adalen 31
Woodstock
The Wild Child

1969*
Z
The Wild Bunch
if....

1978, 1988, 1997 and 2001 are the only years in which either critic's #1 wasn't on the other's Top 10 list.

That's what I'm talkin' 'bout. Of all the good pictures this year, I would think that at least ONE would be impressive enough to appeal to both critics and show up on both of their lists. Strange.

Just FYI, here's Ebert's list:

1. “Juno”
2. “No Country for Old Men”
3. “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”
4. “Atonement”
5. “The Kite Runner”
6. “Away From Her”
7. “Across the Universe”
8. “La Vie en Rose”
9. “The Great Debaters”
10. “Into the Wild”

Special Jury Prize: “Once”

Special Mentions: “Eastern Promises,” “I’m Not There,” “In the Valley of Elah,” “Michael Clayton,” “Rendition,” “Romance & Cigarettes,” “Starting Out in the Evening,” “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” “Talk to Me,” and “There Will Be Blood.”

Best Foreign Films: “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” “Lust, Caution,” “The Orphanage,” and “Vanaja”

Best Animated Films: “Beowulf,” “Persepolis,” and “Ratatouille,”

Best Documentaries: “In the Shadow of the Moon,” “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters,” “Lake of Fire,” “No End in Sight,” “Pete Seeger: The Power of Song,” and “Sicko.”

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...TARY/176124809

It's certainly strange, but it's explainable by very different tastes, as well as by A. O. Scott's strand ranking system. For example: Knocked Up, Juno, and Superbad were all grouped together as 10th place in his original list. If for the show he had chosen either Juno or Superbad to represent 10th place instead, that would've been one match.

I saw it this past weekend. Very good and great songs.
Saw Waitress too. Enjoyable.

Before the Devil Knows your Dead was horrible. Boring and overlong.