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Starting with the January-February issue, Film Comment gets all kinds of listy in the front of the book. Gavin Smith somewhat sheepishly explains the rationale ["People love lists."] in his editor's letter before drawing our attention especially to "the groundbreaking, totally awesome Film Comment Trivial Top 20," in which "we demonstrate the kind of list-making prowess that makes grown men weep."

Oh, men and their lists.

The cinetrix decided, perversely, to make the marketers happy and the editorial side weep by pointing to the first of the Trivial Top 20, the "20 best acting performances by directors in fellow helmer's films," and putting forth my candidate [a.k.a. No. 45], the mournful Barbet Schroeder in The Darjeeling Limited, pictured above. Feel free to do likewise in the comments. The consultants were right! We're like pawns in their hands!

If you click through the link above, you'll see the online version goes to 50 [look! cross-platforms! driving people online!], and they make the following offer:

since we're sure to have overlooked plenty of gems, we invite you to send in your own lists. If we hear from enough of you we'll publish a follow-up readers' poll; if not, we'll at least print the best ones received. Send your entries to [email protected] by February 9.

You know what to do. Generate content, users.