SCFZ

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Lumet)
Eastern Promises (Cronenberg)
The Edge of Heaven (Akin)
Egg (Kaplanoglu)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu)
In the Valley of Elah (Haggis)
Rails & Ties (Eastwood)
The Secret of the Grain (Kechiche)
Shall We Kiss? (Mouret)
We Own the Night (Gray)

Bordertown (Nava)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Greengrass)
The Counterfeiters (Ruzowitzky)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel)
Elite Squad (Padilha)
Lust, Caution (Lee)
Once (Carney)
[Rec] (Balaguero, Plaza)
Secret Sunshine (Lee)
Shotgun Stories (Nichols)

mesnalty wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 6:23 pm Final list:

Last Days in a Lonely Place (Solomon)
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (Gianvito)
Cleopatra (Bressane)
RR (Benning)

Om Shanti Om (Khan)
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Rohmer)
Go Go Tales (Ferrara)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Dominik)

Viva (Biller)
At Sea (Hutton)
Boarding Gate (Assayas)
Secret Sunshine (Lee)

The Silence Before Bach (Portabella)
Silent Light (Reygadas)
I-Be Area (Trecartin)
Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor (Yamamura)

Yay, thought I was gonna be the only voter.

I love me some Bressane!

Final list:

Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov)
Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas)
Breath (Kim Ki-duk)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
Glory to the Filmmaker! (Takeshi Kitano)
Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)
Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerin)
My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai)
Ocean’s Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
Ploy (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
Smiley Face (Gregg Araki)
Snow Angels (David Gordon Green)
We Own the Night (James Gray)
Yamadonga (S. S. Rajamouli)
 
Also watched:

Om Shanti Om (Farah Khan)
Rehearsals for Retirement (Phil Solomon)
The Sun Also Rises (Jiang Wen)
You, the Living (Roy Andersson)

Three tiers of five:

The Man From London - Bela Tarr, Agnes Hranitzky
Om Shanti Om - Farah Khan
Planet Terror - Robert Rodriguez
La Recta Provincia - Raul Ruiz
Yamadonga - Rajamouli

La Antena / Aerial
Big Man Japan
La Fille Coupee En Deux - Claude Chabrol
Frozen
My Winnipeg - Maddin

Go Go Tales - Abel Ferrari
Das Herz Ist Ein Dunkler Wald
I'm Not There - Todd Haynes
Redacted - Brian de Palma
Ulzhan - Schlondorff

Reminder that this poll will close at midnight EDT.

1. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
2. [Rec] (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza)
3. The Man from Earth (Richard Schenkman)
4. The Orphanage (J. A. Bayona)
5. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
6. The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky)
7. Blind Mountain (Yang Li)
8. Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero)
9. Protégé ( Yee Tung-Shing)
10. 5 Centimeters Per Second (Makoto Shinkai)
11. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi)
12. Owl and the Sparrow (Stephane Gauger)
13. Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
14. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
15. Timecrimes ( Nacho Vigalondo)
16. Caramel (Nadine Labaki)
17. Teeth (Mitchell Lichtenstein)
18. Watching the Detectives (Paul Soter)
19. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
20. Elite Squad (José Padilha)

Results

Total number of ballots: 26
Total number of films voted for: 226

All films receiving 7+ points are listed below. Top ten is bolded.

1. At Sea / 36
— Zodiac / 36
3. No Country for Old Men / 33
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / 28
— 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days / 28
6. There Will Be Blood / 26.5
7. My Winnipeg / 25.5
8. The Romance of Astrea and Celadon / 25
9. Eastern Promises / 20
10. Om Shanti Om / 19.5

11. We Own the Night / 19
12. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead / 18.5
13. Last Days in a Lonely Place / 18
14. In the City of Sylvia / 17
15. Mad Detective / 15.5
16. Go Go Tales / 14.5
— Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind / 14.5
— Secret Sunshine / 14.5
— Sweeney Todd / 14.5
20. I'm Not There / 13
— Silent Light / 13
— You the Living / 13
— Lust, Caution / 13

24. The Man from London / 12.5
— The Darjeeling Limited / 12.5
26. Yamadonga / 12
27. Cleopatra / 11.5
28. Casting a Glance / 11
29. The Edge of Heaven / 10.5
— Persepolis / 10.5

31. La Recta Provincia / 10
— Rehearsals for Retirement / 10
— The Secret of the Grain / 10
— Water Lilies / 10
35. Elite Squad / 9.5
— RR / 9.5
— The Vow / 9.5
38. The Duchess of Langeais / 9
39. Boarding Gate / 8.5
— Flight of the Red Balloon / 8.5

41. The Counterfeiters / 8
— A Girl Cut in Two / 8
— Shall We Kiss? / 8
— Smiley Face / 8
— Village People Radio Show / 8
— Youth Without Youth / 8
47. Halloween / 7.5
— Margot at the Wedding / 7.5
49. The Banishment / 7
— Import/Export / 7
— Nightwatching / 7
— [Rec] / 7