SCFZ 10th Anniversary Poll: Ballots

[rischka]

CAW CAW

[ofrene]

can we extend deadline one or two weeks more?

[flip]

i was about to say i probably won't have time to start tallying this week anyway, so yes, we can push the deadline back. let's make it may 7 for now, but i'll check then to see if anyone still wants to submit a ballot.

[cinesmith]

I also need more time and intend to submit one. I'm also trying to reduce a list of 200 in half so I'm not there yet.

[shara]

loosely ranked

Manoel's Destinies (Raul Ruiz, 1984)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1994)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
Her Venetian Name in Calcutta Desert (Marguerite Duras, 1976)
Hovering Over the Water (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1986)
The Poem of Hayachine Valley (Sumiko Haneda, 1982)
Landscape Suicide (James Benning, 1986)
Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
No Way, Spider (Rogerio Sganzerla, 1970)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindo, 1968)
Woman of the Lake (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1966)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
Taiga (Ulrike Ottinger, 1992)
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)

Daisies (Vera Chytilova, 1966)
Ana (Antonio Reis and Margarida Cordeiro, 1982)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Du Cote D’orouet (Jacques Rozier, 1971)
Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
Agatha and the Limitless Readings (Marguerite Duras, 1981)
Mexican Bus Ride (Luis Bunuel, 1952)
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970)
A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
Alice (Jan Svankmajer, 1988)
Spring Awakens (Mikio Naruse, 1947)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
God's Comedy (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1995)
Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1956)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu, 1957)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing, 2002)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
Fe (Kanji Nakajima, 1994)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)
August in the Water (Gakuryu Ishii, 1995)
The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1941)
March Comes in Like a Lion (Hitoshi Yazaki, 1991)
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
Class Relations (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, 1984)
Toute Une Nuit (Chantal Akerman, 1982)
Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)
Celine (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1992)
A Fugitive from the Past (Tomu Uchida, 1965)
The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette, 2003)
Magino Village: A Tale (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1987)
Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Sadao Yamanaka, 1935)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (Jonas Mekas, 1968)
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
Bang Bang (Andrea Tonacci, 1971)

Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1948)
Mind of Clay (Mani Kaul, 1985)
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains and the Seacost (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986)
Mandala (Im Kwon-Taek, 1981)
Nostos: The Return (Franco Piavoli, 1989)
The Rose King (Werner Schroeter, 1986)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
Fuses (Carolee Schneemann, 1967)
Benilde or the Virgin Mother (Manoel de Oliveira, 1975)
The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)
Kanchana Sita (Govindan Aravindan, 1978)
Fire Festival (Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 1985)
Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)
Pierre and Djemila (Gerard Blain, 1987)
New York Film Diary Sep. 3, 1994 - Oct. 3 1995 (Milena Gierke, 1995)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
Rain (Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken, 1929)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)

The Storm-Tamer (Jean Epstein, 1947)
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie (Jang Sun-woo, 1997)
The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
Abraham's Valley (Manoel de Oliveira, 1993)
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (Yasujiro Shimazu, 1934)
Poison (Sacha Guitry, 1951)
Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Shuji Terayama, 1974)
Satan’s Rhapsody (Nino Oxilia, 1917)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
The Enclosed Valley (Jean-Claude Rousseau, 1995)
Pola X (Leos Carax, 1999)
Flowing (Mikio Naruse, 1956)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Typhoon Club (Shinji Somai, 1985)
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, 1998)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1996)
Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel, 2005)
Nostalgia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983)
Few of Us (Sharunas Bartas, 1996)

[wba]

loosely ranked


The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)

The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)

You listed The Parallel Street twice. So you get one more spot for free.

[RogerTheMovieManiac]

Thank you for the extension, flip.

I am planning to put together a list of faves, but there are challenges and DtC all closing at around the same time over on ICMForum. The extension eases things a bit.

[rischka]

loosely ranked


The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)

The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)

You listed The Parallel Street twice. So you get one more spot for free.

parallel votes. it's only fair!

[shara]

loosely ranked


The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)

The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)

You listed The Parallel Street twice. So you get one more spot for free.

parallel votes. it's only fair!

that's right! tiered lists have never been so useful haha

jokes aside, i edited the list (added terayama's pastoral). thank you for the great news, since it was a herculean task

[St. Gloede]

My list:

Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
Le Bonheur / Happiness (1965, Agnès Varda)
Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carné)
The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
Heroic Purgatory (1970, Yoshishige Yoshida)
Brand Upon the Brain! (2006, Guy Maddin)
L’Argent (1983, Robert Bresson)
Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Green Ray (1986, Éric Rohmer)
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963, Kihachi Okamoto)
The Parallel Street (1962, Ferdinand Khittl)
All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)
India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson)
Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988, Agnès Varda)
Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)
The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Pierrot the Fool (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
Careful (1992, Guy Maddin)
Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)

Film Portrait (1970, Jerome Hill)
Dogville (2003, Lars von Trier)
The Trial (1962, Orson Welles)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974, Luis Buñuel)
Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)
The Panic in Needle Park (1971, Jerry Schatzberg)
Eden and After (1970, Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Oh, Woe Is Me (1993, Jean-Luc Godard)
Belle de Jour (1967, Luis Buñuel)
The Beautiful Prisoner (1983, Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Scarecrow (1973, Jerry Schatzberg)
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018, Radu Jude)
Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Ascent (1977, Larisa Shepitko)
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)
Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke)
Alphaville (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)

The Twentieth Century (2019, Matthew Rankin)
Remonstrance (1972, Erik Løchen)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014, Roy Andersson)
Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
Z (1969, Costa-Gavras)
Eros + Massacre (1969, Yoshishige Yoshida)
La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Akira Kurosawa)
M (1931, Fritz Lang)
First Name: Carmen (1983, Jean-Luc Godard)
Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
The Aviator’s Wife (1981, Éric Rohmer)
West Indies (1979, Med Hondo)
The Blue Angel (1930, Josef von Sternberg)
Narcissus and Psyche (1980, Gábor Bódy)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Young and the Damned (1950, Luis Buñuel)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

A Face in the Crowd (1957, Elia Kazan)
Limite (1931, Mario Peixoto)
Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas)
3 Women (1977, Robert Altman)
Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)
Aa bakudan (1964, Kihachi Okamoto)
Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Tsai Ming-liang)
Crumb (1994, Terry Zwigoff)
Chinese Roulette (1976, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Ear (1970, Karel Kachyna)
A Moment of Innocence (1996, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
MURDER and murder (1996, Yvonne Rainer)
Come and See (1985, Elem Klimov)
Happiness (1998, Todd Solondz)
Only God Forgives (2013, Nicolas Winding Refn)
Wittgenstein (1993, Derek Jarman)
Weekend (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922, Fritz Lang)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
The King of Comedy (1982, Martin Scorsese)
Summer 1993 (2017, Carla Simón)
Malmkrog / Manor House (2020, Cristi Puiu)
In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986, Pierre Clémenti)
The Samurai (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)
I Love You, I Love You (1968, Alain Resnais)
After the Reconciliation (2000, Anne-Marie Miéville)
Teorema (1968, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau & René Clément)
The Other Side of Underneath (1972, Jane Arden)
Oedipus Rex (1967, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Endless Night (2019, Eloy Enciso)
Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch)
Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
Fires on the Plain (1959, Kon Ichikawa)
Bicycle Thieves (1948, Vittorio De Sica)
Karl May (1974, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)

[oOgiandujaOo]

5 tiers of 20, hope I made the deadline

Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
The Satin Slipper (Manoel de Oliveira, 1985)
Time Masters (Rene Laloux, 1982)
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne, 1945)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)
The Desert of the Tartars (Valerio Zurlini, 1976)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1983)
Nostos: The Return (Franco Piavoli, 1989)
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, 1947)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
The Saga of Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg, 1953)
Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu, 1960)
The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztov Kieslowski, 1991)
A Town Called Panic (Stephane Aubier & Vincent Patar, 2009)

America America (Elia Kazan, 1963)
Camille (George Cukor, 1936)
Club de femmes (Jacques Deval, 1936)
Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran, 2006)
Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)
Gymnopedies (Larry Jordan, 1965)
Cesaree (Marguerite Duras, 1978)
Deadfall (Bryan Forbes, 1968)
The Pumpkin Eater (Jack Clayton, 1964)
For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)
Footsteps in the Fog (Arthur Lubin, 1955)
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)
Consuming Spirits (Chris Sullivan, 2012)
Alaya (Nathaniel Dorsky, 1987)
A Year of the Quiet Sun (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1984)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu, 2020)
Ferdinand the Bull (Dick Rickard, 1938)
Angel's Egg (Mamoru Oshii, 1985)

The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir, 1936)
Noroit (Jacques Rivette, 1976)
Somewhere, Someone (Yannick Bellon, 1972)
Peau d'ane (Jacques Demy, 1970)
Khrustalyov, My Car! (Aleksey German, 1998)
On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Zulawski, 1988)
The Fantastic Night (Marcel L'Herbier, 1942)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Cesar (Marcel Pagnol, 1936)
Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, George Cukor & Sam Wood, 1939)
The Red and the White (Miklos Jancso, 1967)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)
Krysar (Jiri Barta, 1986)
Five Cartridges (Frank Beyer, 1960)
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
Ecstasy (Moara Passoni, 2020)
Accident (Joseph Losey, 1967)

In the Midst of Life (Robert Enrico, 1963)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey, 2009)
The Boys of Paul Street (Zoltan Fabri, 1968)
Trys Dienos / Three Days (Sharunas Bartas, 1991)
Jofroi (Marcel Pagnol, 1933)
Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman, 1982)
Patterns (Fielder Cook, 1956)
King of New York (Abel Ferrara, 1990)
Last year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
Trois couleurs: Bleu / Three Colours Blue (Krzysztov Kieslowski, 1993)
In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (Pierre Clementi, 1986)
Gwen, the Book of Sand (Jean-Francois Laguionie, 1985)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947)
Confidence (Istvan Szabo, 1980)
Tenderness (Elyor Ishmukhamedov, 1967)
Le Mepris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Winter (Nathaniel Dorsky, 2008)

A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977)
Meandre (Mircea Saucan, 1966)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)
Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1936)
The Good the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, 1944)
At Sea (Peter Hutton, 2007)
Altair (Lewis Klahr, 1995)
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (Julian Jarrold, 2009)
Manhunter (Michael Mann, 1986)
The Bird With Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970)
The Misfortunates (Felix van Groeningen, 2009)
Frost (Fred Kelemen, 1997)
To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin, 1985)
Francisca (Manoel de Oliveira, 1981)
Careful (Guy Maddin, 1992)
Amer (Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani, 2009)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)
A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards, 1964)
The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, 1995)

[greennui]

I've trimmed my top 500 to a top 250 so far, very hard...

175 now!

120...

[flip]

great to have your ballots, shara and oOgiandujaOo, lots of scfz favorites on there, along with several titles that are unfamiliar to me that i'll have to investigate...

[oOgiandujaOo]

great to have your ballots, shara and oOgiandujaOo, lots of scfz favorites on there, along with several titles that are unfamiliar to me that i'll have to investigate...

Along with the warm brandy nostalgia of completing the exercise to make a top 100 list, finding out about everyone else's weird and wonderful picks is a joy.

Preliminarily, I've sent the mail a job to bring me Plympton's The Tune (courtesy of wba's recco), and I have left myself in your's and Gregg Araki's hands for 1hr 25m with Smiley Face.

I feel bad not to be part of the Khittl massive, his one hit wonder is my #109

[wba]

great to have your ballots, shara and oOgiandujaOo, lots of scfz favorites on there, along with several titles that are unfamiliar to me that i'll have to investigate...

Preliminarily, I've sent the mail a job to bring me Plympton's The Tune (courtesy of wba's recco)

Wow, that's great!
I didn't like THE TUNE at all as a young Plympton enthusiast. But some 20 years of life experience (as well as thousands of movies later), I think it's easily his most inspired work.

I also love the soundtrack, which I own on CD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Pd2QKgb6c

EDIT: Speaking of which: there's quite a number of films in my Top 100, which I didn't care about AT ALL when I saw them for the first time (mostly as a young cinephile in love with Tarkovsky, Eustache, Angelopoulos, Antonioni, Bresson, etc.).
Some I even actively disliked.
But time and especially a deep dive into the rabbit hole that is film history, have broadened my taste in ways I would NEVER have thought possible...
The wonders of cinephilia...

[mesnalty]

My ballot:

Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie, 1971)
'Rameau's Nephew' by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (Michael Snow, 1974)
Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
Let Your Light Shine (Jodie Mack, 2013)
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
Topos (Antouanetta Angelidi, 1985)
The Text of Light (Stan Brakhage, 1974)
A Star Is Born (George Cukor, 1954)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000)
Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)

The Falls (Peter Greenaway, 1980)
A Woman's Revenge (Rita Azevedo Gomes, 2012)
Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971)
Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman, 1997)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
Water and Power (Pat O'Neill, 1989)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001)
Moses and Aaron (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, 1975)
Je Tu Il Elle (Chantal Akerman, 1974)
Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos, 1998)
Port of Shadows (Marcel Carne, 1938)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)
Fire in Castilla (Jose Val del Omar, 1961)
The Girls (Mai Zetterling, 1968)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki, 1997)

Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
Cold Water (Olivier Assayas, 1994)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau, 1927)
Stemple Pass (James Benning, 2012)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
Street Angel (Frank Borzage, 1928)
The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
One Way Passage (Tay Garnett, 1932)
Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinas, 2008)
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, 2000)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World (R. Bruce Elder, 1985)
Century of Birthing (Lav Diaz, 2011)
His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
Celine (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1992)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
Spacy (Takashi Ito, 1985)

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1977)
Wagon Master (John Ford, 1950)
Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol, 1960)
Daisies (Vera Chytilova, 1966)
Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991)
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1985)
Le Revelateur (Philippe Garrel, 1968)
The Suitor (Pierre Etaix, 1962)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin, 1951)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
The Days I Don't Exist (Jean-Charles Fitoussi, 2003)
La Roue (Abel Gance, 1923)
Earth Light (Guy Gilles, 1970)
Train of Shadows (Jose Luis Guerin, 1997)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Oh, Sun (Med Hondo, 1967)
Sixty Six (Lewis Klahr, 2015)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997)

High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)
The Silence of the Sea (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1949)
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
Book of Days (Meredith Monk, 1989)
Mozart in Love (Mark Rappaport, 1975)
Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura, 1976)
Eros + Massacre (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1969)
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993)
White Nights on the Pier (Paul Vecchiali, 2014)
A Bread Factory (Patrick Wang, 2018)
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
Inspiration (Karel Zeman, 1949)
Long Day's Journey into Night (Bi Gan, 2018)
Whispering Pages (Alexander Sokurov, 1994)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda, 1965)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang, 1922)
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)

[RenaultR]

Thanks for encouraging me to procrastinate . I'll be submitting a five tier list. Here are the first four (don't mind the numerical ranking. That's just for organizational purposes to make sure I don't surpass 20 films in each tier). I'm still tinkering with the final tier. I tried to limit it to one film per director per tier.




1. L’Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
2. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
3. Lola Montes (Ophuls, 1955)
4. Le Mepris (Godard, 1963)
5. La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
6. PlayTime (Tati, 1967)
7. Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
8. Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)
9. Muriel (Resnais, 1963)
10. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
11. Rules of The Game (Renoir, 1939)
12. Memories of Underdevelopment (Alea, 1968)
13. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
14. Viridiana (Bunuel, 1961)
15. Love Streams (Cassavetes, 1984)
16. Cries and Whispers (Bergman, 1972)
17. Stroszek (Herzog, 1978)
18. Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969)
19. Mes Petites Amoureuses (Eustache, 1974)
20. La Jetee (Marker, 1962)

21. North By Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
22. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Resnais, 1959)
23. Weekend (Godard, 1967)
24. Pickpocket (Bresson, 1959)
25. In A Lonely Place (N. Ray, 1951)
26. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
27. Beau Travail (Denis, 1999)
28. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
29. Three Colors: Blue (Kieslowski, 1993)
30. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
31. We Won’t Grow Old Together (Pialat, 1972)
32. Ordet (Dreyer, 1955)
33. M (Lang, 1931
34. The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
35. Red Desert (Antonioni, 1964)
36. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
37. That Obscure Object of Desire (Bunuel, 1977)
38. Les Rendez-Vous d’Anna (Akerman, 1978)
39. Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
40. The Cranes Are Flying (Kalatozov, 1957)

41. A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1956)
42. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
43. Daisies (Chytilova, 1966)
44. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
45. 2 or 3 Things I know About Her (Godard, 1967)
46. Jules and Jim (Truffaut, 1962)
47. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, 2000)
48. The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975)
49. Le Cercle Rouge (Melville, 1970)
50. Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)
51. Los Olvidados (Bunuel, 1951)
52. The Leopard (Visconti, 1963)
53. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
54. An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu, 1962)
55. High and Low (Kurosawa, 1963)
56. Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
57. Jeanne Dielman (Akerman, 1975)
58. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
59. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi, 1954)
60. Journey to Italy (Rossellini, 1954)

61. Vivre Sa Vie (Godard, 1962)
62. La Gueule Ouverte (Pialat, 1974)
63. La Guerre est Finie (Resnais, 1964)
64. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974)
65. Tokyo Twilight (Ozu, 1957)
66. Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971)
67. Floating Clouds (Naruse, 1955)
68. Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa, 1974)
69. Dillinger Is Dead (Ferreri, 1969)
70. The Mother and The Whore (Eustache, 1974)
71. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Petri, 1970)
72. The Red Shoes (P+P, 1946)
73. El Sur (Erice, 1983)
74. Belle de Jour (Bunuel, 1967)
75. The Conformist (Bertolucci, 1970)
76. Through A Glass Darkly (Bergman, 1961)
77. La Notte (Antonioni, 1961)
78. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
79. The Earrings of Madame de… (Ophuls, 1953)
80. The Gospel According to Matthew (Pasolini, 1964)

P.S. I'm well aware my list is quite conventional compared to some of the others in this thread. lol

[Mauries]

Consuming Spirits (Chris Sullivan, 2012)

Halfway this one, and it's amazing!

[oOgiandujaOo]

Consuming Spirits (Chris Sullivan, 2012)

Halfway this one, and it's amazing!

Glad to find someone else has made their way to a table at the "Juice of the Barley"

[Mauries]

I like the sad but soothing music there

[Angel]

The Mysterious X (Benjamin Christensen, 1914)
Damn the War (Alfred Machin, 1914)
The Hell Ship (Victor Sjostrom, 1923)
Erotikon (Gustav Machaty, 1929)
Other Men's Women (William A. Wellman, 1931)
Man of Aran (Robert J. Flaherty, 1934)
Masquerade in Vienna (Willi Forst, 1934)
The Kidnapping (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1934)
The Big Road (Yu Sun, 1935)
Ferryman Maria (Frank Wisbar, 1936)
Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939)
There's No Tomorrow (Max Ophuls, 1939)
The Four Feathers (Zoltan Korda, 1939)
Blind Venus (Abel Gance, 1941)
Ala-Arriba! (Jose Leitao de Barros, 1942)
People of the Mountains (Istvan Szots, 1942)
Rainbow (Mark Donskoy, 1944)
Under the Bridges (Helmut Kautner, 1946)
Unconquered (Cecil B. DeMille, 1947)
Border Street (Aleksander Ford, 1948)
Death Is a Caress (Edith Carlmar, 1949)
Here's to the Young Lady (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1949)
Empty Eyes (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1953)
The Ship of Condemned Women (Raffaello Matarazzo, 1953)
Song of the Sea (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1953)
Vesna (Frantisek Cap, 1953)
The Blazing Sun (Youssef Chahine, 1954)
Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse, 1954)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Buñuel, 1955)
Tennessee's Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, 1956)
The Ogre of Athens (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)
Fanfare (Bert Haanstra, 1958)
Blessings of the Land (Manuel Silos, 1959)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
Escape by Night (Roberto Rossellini, 1960)
Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961)
The Coachman (Dae-jin Kang, 1961)
Changes in the Village (Lester James Peries, 1963)
Strange Voyage (Fernando Fernan Gomez, 1964)
The Peach Thief (Vulo Radev, 1964)
White Mountains (Melis Ubukeyev, 1965)
Black Wind (Servando Gonzalez, 1965)
Red Angel (Yasuzo Masumura, 1966)
Death of a Bureaucrat (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1966)
Time to Love (Metin Erksan, 1966)
A Long Journey (Patricio Kaulen, 1967)
The Unforgettable (Yuliya Solntseva, 1967)
Dragon's Return (Eduard Grecner, 1968)
Gheysar (Masud Kimiai, 1969)
The Green Wall (Armando Robles Godoy, 1969)
Blood of the Condor (Jorge Sanjines, 1969)
There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani, 1970)
Handcuffs (Krsto Papic, 1970)
The Dupes (Tewfik Saleh, 1972)
The Cruel Sea (Khalid Al Siddiq, 1972)
The Daughter-in-Law (Khodzha Kuli Narliyev, 1972)
Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror, 1972)
Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, 1975)
The Child of Another (Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa, 1975)
Xala (Ousmane Sembene, 1975)
The Punishment (Sergiu Nicolaescu, 1976)
The Silent Partner (Daryl Duke, 1978)
A Distant Cry from Spring (Yoji Yamada, 1980)
Legend of Tianyun Mountain (Jin Xie, 1980)
Smash Palace (Roger Donaldson, 1981)
Gold, Silver, Death (Peque Gallaga, 1982)
Boat People (Ann Hui, 1982)
The Year of Living Dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982)
God's Gift (Gaston Kabore, 1982)
That Day, on the Beach (Edward Yang, 1983)
When the Tenth Month Comes (Dang Nhat Minh, 1984)
Hey Babu Riba (Jovan Acin, 1985)
Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood, 1985)
Butterfly and Flowers (Euthana Mukdasanit, 1985)
La gran fiesta (Marcos Zurinaga, 1986)
Macu, la mujer del policia (Solveig Hoogesteijn, 1987)
A Matter of Honour (Sergio Cabrera, 1988)
The Touch (Amanzhol Aituarov, 1989)
Ashakara (Gerard Louvin, 1991)
A Place in the World (Adolfo Aristarain, 1992)
Drifting Clouds (Aki Kaurismaki, 1996)
A Summer in La Goulette (Férid Boughedir, 1996)
West Beirut (Ziad Doueiri, 1998)
Late Marriage (Dover Koshashvili, 2001)
Slogans (Gjergj Xhuvani, 2001)
Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, 2002)
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (Aparna Sen, 2002)
Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005)
Dry Season (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2006)
Dead Time (Joko Anwar, 2007)
The Pope's Toilet (Cesar Charlone, Enrique Fernandez, 2007)
Sleepwalking Land (Teresa Prata, 2007)
Mid-August Lunch (Gianni Di Gregorio, 2008)
Teza (Haile Gerima, 2008)
The Good Heart (Dagur Kari, 2009)
Jean Gentil (Laura Amelia Guzman, Israel Cardenas, 2010)
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen, 2013)
Tangerines (Zaza Urushadze, 2013)
Much Loved (Nabil Ayouch, 2015)

Titles according to Letterboxd
Years according to IMDb

[flip]

I have left myself in your's and Gregg Araki's hands for 1hr 25m with Smiley Face.

you may need to agree with me and former scfz'er adam (was that his name? the philosophy prof who hasn't been around for years, actually i think it was aaron) that anna faris is a comedic genius to really enjoy that film, but it's her finest work imo, though probably a love it or hate it kind of movie

[sally]

hurrah for angel! (cuz there's at least 20 films on his that i had on mine and agonizingly removed in favour of cute hot men (which is also important aspect of cinema) which was my version of dice-toss deciding between entrants)

[MrCarmady]

I feel like my favourites lists are all super out-of-date, will submit something tomorrow if this is still open. Sorry!

[Angel]

hurrah for angel! (cuz there's at least 20 films on his that i had on mine and agonizingly removed in favour of cute hot men (which is also important aspect of cinema) which was my version of dice-toss deciding between entrants)

I am big fan of Preston Sturges' 11 rules... especially the first one.

[RogerTheMovieManiac]

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls545118895/

I got around to paring my list down to a century of titles. Just need to type them out now, and decide on how to tier them.

I thought I'd just leave the IMDb list here for now.

[RogerTheMovieManiac]

5 tiers of 20; thank you for hosting what must be a pretty taxing poll, flip!

A Year of the Quiet Sun (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1984)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
Homecoming (Joe May, 1928)
The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenabar, 2004)
Blessings of the Land (Manuel Silos, 1959)
The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol, 1969)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
The Prisoner of Zenda (John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke, 1937)
Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
Je t'attendrai (Leonide Moguy, 1939)
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
Through and Through (Grzegorz Krolikiewicz, 1973)
Comrades (Bill Douglas, 1986)
Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke, 1958)
Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch, 1943)
Change of Life (Paulo Rocha, 1966)
Islands of Fire (Vittorio De Seta, 1955)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
The Man Who Planted Trees (Frederic Back, 1987)

The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies, 1952)
Khutwa Khutwa (Ossama Mohammed, 1978)
Feelings of Mountains and Waters (Wei Te, 1988)
Still Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1974)
Masquerade in Vienna (Willi Forst, 1934)
The Curse of the Cat People (Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise, 1944)
The Sea (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962)
Wanderers of the Desert (Nacer Khemir, 1984)
Road Back (Vaclav Krska, 1959)
Scaramouche (George Sidney, 1952)
Once There Was a Girl (Viktor Eysymont, 1944)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
Inspiration (Karel Zeman, 1949)
Rain (Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens, 1929)
Profound Desires of the Gods (Shohei Imamura, 1968)
The Well (Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni, 2009)
A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
Summertime (David Lean, 1955)
La discrete (Christian Vincent, 1990)

Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard, 1938)
One Day Before the Rainy Season (Mani Kaul, 1971)
March, march! Tra-ta-ta! (Raimondas Vabalas, Gediminas Karka, 1964)
The Uninvited (Vittorio De Seta, 1969)
Bull (Nikola Korabov, 1965)
Ladies' Paradise (Julien Duvivier, 1930)
Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)
Family Life (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1971)
Gostanza da Libbiano (Paolo Benvenuti, 2000)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, 1956)
Long Live the Republic (Karel Kachyna, 1965)
Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1961)
The White Ship (Bolotbek Shamshiyev, 1976)
Mburucuya: Portraits of Nature (Jorge Acha, 1991)
Zosya (Mikhail Bogin, 1967)
White Mountains (Melis Ubukeyev, 1965)
The Truth About Bebe Donge (Henri Decoin, 1952)
Ray of Sunshine (Pal Fejos, 1933)
Night Mail (Harry Watt, Basil Wright, 1936)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970)

Ala-Arriba! (Jose Leitao de Barros, 1942)
Cartas del parque (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1988)
Desperate Remedies (Stewart Main, Peter Wells, 1992)
Decoy (Jack Bernhard, 1946)
Homunculus (Otto Rippert, 1916)
Passacaglia y Fuga (Jorge Honik, Laura Honik, 1975)
Henry V (Laurence Olivier, 1944)
A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann, 1966)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)
What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich, 1972)
The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith, 1951)
A Trip to Mars (Holger-Madsen, 1918)
Viagem aos Seios de Duilia (Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1965)
The Rage of Paris (Henry Koster, 1938)
Love Affair (Leo McCarey, 1939)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
I Married a Witch (Rene Clair, 1942)
Possession (Bodil Ipsen, 1944)
Sunflower (Vittorio De Sica, 1970)

The Last Bachelor (Vladimir Yanchev, 1974)
Impressions from the Upper Atmosphere (Jose Antonio Sistiaga, 1989)
Puteshestviye v aprel (Vadim Derbenyov, 1964)
The Bravados (Henry King, 1958)
Die Frau meiner Traume (Georg Jacoby, 1944)
Marinetti (Albie Thoms, 1969)
The Last Bridge (Helmut Kautner, 1954)
Hellfire (R.G. Springsteen, 1949)
My Grandmother (Kote Mikaberidze, 1929)
Blood-stained Begonia (Feng Yueh, 1949)
Les Miserables (Richard Boleslawski, 1935)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
Tommaso (Cecilia Mangini, 1967)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle, 1939)
Tramp (Miguel Morayta, 1950)
Lonesome (Pal Fejos, 1928)
The Bat (Ayaz Salayev, 1995)
Betty (Dimitris Stavrakas, 1979)
My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong, 1979)
La calle sin sol (Rafael Gil, 1948)

I'll check through the other ballots and harmonize any titles that I notice listed differently in my ballot; I have defaulted here mostly to IMDb-listed titles, but some original titles may be the better-known titles.

[RogerTheMovieManiac]

Angel has:

Ala-Arriba! (José Leitao de Barros, 1942)

The 'é' in José is different to how I formatted it. Just flagging that, so that it is known.

There are also several names in Gloede's list that may be problematic for presentational uniformity.

[Mauries]

I made a letterboxd list of my list, if that helps in any way to count the votes: https://letterboxd.com/mjoy/list/top-10 ... ite-films/

[Angel]

Angel has:

Ala-Arriba! (José Leitao de Barros, 1942)

The 'é' in José is different to how I formatted it. Just flagging that, so that it is known.

Fixed.