Yes, Lanthimos awful - just as awful as whatever filmmaker you love who was recycling ideas from an earlier era! Or, perhaps you don't even recognize the ideas he's working with. Or perhaps you don't like the way he presents his ideas because someone you do like presented those ideas first, or pres...

It'll be a much more fruitful discussion if you assume that I'm not an idiot. [a.) No, I didn't miss the point of your list. You gave a list with caveats. I gave two lists, the second one based on a similar time frame with similar restrictions, also with caveats about my own limited viewings in the...

Alps is probably his most original film, but it is still wedded to the old ideas that came out of structuralism. Same with Dogtooth and even The Lobster. That kind of film making should have ended with Greenaway. Why? If you never enjoyed it I perfectly understand, but if you actually like a specif...

I strongly disagree. The issue is that we neither have the amount of all time greats, nor a high amount of films produced by the individual all time greats, nor indeed a large quantity of relevant movements. If we had more fantastic directors, even by personal taste as opposed to acclaim, that could...

Asking for lists of filmmakers who started in the 2000s who compare to those of previous eras is also a mistake based on these same issues. Filmmakers can't easily build the same kinds of bodies of work that filmmakers did in earlier eras because the business model has changed, the way the movies f...

I do think that one area where genuine progress is being made and where this century so far is more interesting than the earlier is in the museum/video-installation market (perhaps I shouldn't use that word...). Sara Cwynar, Rainer Kohlberger, Elizabeth Price, Takeshi Makino, Richard Mosse, and lit...

My stance and point is similar to WBA in that the number of obvious all-time Though of course, there is a big, big element of taste in this. Honestly the list is not particularly impressive to me, some all-time greats, a few possibly on the way there, and all notable and good directors, but it is n...

Just to clarify: The question was not who "had been delivering strong work in the past 10, 20 or 30 years" - but comparing the new/young generation in both periods. To rephrase it, which directors, who got started in this century (or even the decade before, if we have to go that far back) ...

I'm afraid I just don't see what you see, though hopefully it really is a case of watching very different films. How many directors who have been active for, say, 10-20-30 or so years, can actually rival the 60s filmmakers when they were at the same point in their career? While the Romanian New Wave...

Only seen two. "Good enough", but not great. Somewhat interested in Tokyo Sonata, but pretty far down my watchlist.

Caught 5 Japanese films from '35: Yotamono to komachimusume / The Lumberjack and the Lady (1935, Hiromasa Nomura) 7/10 Joyû to shijin / The Actress and the Poet (1935, Mikio Naruse) 5/10 Uwasa no musume / The Girl in the Rumour (1935, Mikio Naruse) 7/10 Gubijinsô / Poppies (1935, Kenji Mizoguchi) 6/...

Seems like I really need to import my ratings to Letterboxd ... been sitting on that for far too long. Luckily I do have a word document where I keep track of all the films I have seen (year + decade) so compiling this did not take too much time. Note, I have only kept track of feature-length films ...

Seen 13, but there has been a very, very long time since I saw any of them. 1. Una sull'altra / Perversion Story / One on Top of the Other (1969) 2. E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà / The Beyond (1981) 3. Non si sevizia un paperino / Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) 4. Lo squartatore di New York / ...

Peter Ibbetson is shot so well, and has such a great and well-handled core concept - but the rest (i.e. story) fell flat for me. Really wanted to love it.

Only seen 4. None worth voting for.

Seen 13 by Fulci.

Fantastic and refreshing results and I'm not just saying that because Le Bonheur finally won. What I'm yet to see: (And there are quite a few) 8 Elegia (Zoltan Huszarik) The Seaside Village - 12 Guide - 30 Bunny Lake Is Missing - Preminger Clay - "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (Bill Melendez,...

Ooooh! (And I didn't know that!)

Have that one lined up as well. Luckily/unluckily it just got subbed, so wouldn't have much of a chance. Better luck in 7-13 years I suppose. Let us know what you think all the same though.

Seen 59 feature length films and 1 short from 1935. Not too ideal, but I can muster a mostly great, i.e. 7.5+ top 20. Would like to replace the bottom 3-5 though: 1. Schastye / Happiness (1935, Aleksandr Medvedkin) 2. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935, William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt) 3. Tôkyô no...

I caught Suzuki's Born Under a Bad Star and most of Kei Kumai's The Japanese Archipeligo. The former is utterly bland and weak - well shot, but too many overtly childish jokes with little to make up for it. The latter is just ... essentially pathetic. Kumai's second film. His next The Sands of Kurob...

I caught 50 films in September, but no new favorites in sight. Still found several great films however, including two recently subtitled Fabri films. 8.5/10 Maine Ocean (1986, Jacques Rozier) 8/10s La vieille dame indigne / The Shameless Old Lady (1965, René Allio) En man som heter Ove / A Man Calle...

Surprisingly I have only seen 9. He made a major impression on me when I first became interested in cinema, but for some reason that never translated into seeing his post-80s work. Never actually saw The Dreamers ... (I did see his "comeback" film You and Me though, some exception). Of his...

I caught a few I did not write about. I caught Forest of the Hanged - which was great - but in such a strong year it will not be making my list. The same goes for Salto - what a strange and fun oddity. One major disappointment was Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ... The animated intro...

Seen 15: Zazie dans le métro Atlantic City Pretty Baby Au revoir les enfants My Dinner with Andre This is one of the very strange situations where I prefer a director's work after they went to Holywood. I like and even love more of his early French work as well, but many impressed me less than expec...

Seen 18:

The Big Lebowski
No Country for Old Men
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Fargo
A Serious Man

Late ballot:

Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive
Blue Velvet
Eraserhead
Inland Empire

See it! nrh is right: It is almost impossible to describe just how beautiful it is.

5 films from my Top 20 that do not seem to get much love elsewhere: The White Lady https://ptpimg.me/9ihut7.png What happens when a friendly ghost starts helping people in materialist Czechoslovakia? This is an utterly stunning fantastical satire with fierce and brave critique of the Communist syste...

Only one other person voted for One From the Heart so far? I think anyone who enjoys his ambitious and artistic side, which this was the first true example of, will love it.

Anyhow, seen 19:

One From the Heart
The Godfather, Part II
The Godfather
The Conversation
Youth Without Youth

This was also the year Okamoto did Samurai, which rivals most of Kurosawa's samurai work (though not quite at the level of The Sword of Doom).