SCFZ 6th Annual Top 100 Poll!

[St. Gloede]

5 to Boost:

Die Parallelstrasse (1962, Ferdinand Khittl)
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963, Kichachi Okamoto)
Heroic Purgatory (1970, Yoshishige Yoshisda)
Film Portrait (1972, Jerome Hill)
Hélas pour moi (1993, Jean-Luc Godard)

1-10.

Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
Le bonheur (1965, Agnés Varda)
Children of Paradise (1945, Carcel Carné)
Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters (2006, Guy Maddin)
Eden and After (1970, Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Pierrot le fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
Mirror (1975, Andrey Tarkovsky)
Chinese Roulette (1976, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Alphaville (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)

11-20.

Careful (1992, Guy Maddin)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson)
Prénom Carmen (1983, Jean-Luc Godard)
Belle de jour (1967, Luis Buñuel)
3 Women (1977, Robert Altman)
Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
Oedipus Rex (1967, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)
Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)

21-30.

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke)
The Panic in Needle Park (1971, Jerry Schatzberg)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Akira Kurosawa)
Nashville (1977, Robert Altman)
Dogville (2003, Lars von Trier)
Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas)
All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974, Luis Buñuel)
The Trial (1963, Orson Welles)

31-40.

Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968, Alain Resnais)
Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Ming-liang Tsai)
The White Ribbon (2009, Michael Haneke)
Scarecrow (1973, Jerry Schatzberg)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F.W. Murnau)
Voskhozhdenie (1977, Larisa Shepitko)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence 2014, Roy Andersson)
La belle captive (1983, Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Teorema (1968, Pier Paolo Pasolini)

41-50.

Z (1969, Costa-Gavras)
A Face in the Crowd (1957, Elia Kazan)
La dolce vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
The Blue Angel (1930, Josef von Sternberg)
Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)
One from the Heart (1981, Francis Ford Coppola)
Chungking Express (1994, Kar-Wai Wong)
Summer 1993 (2017, Carla Simón)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)

[augusto]

God Tier: 5 films

Esthappan (G. Aravindan, 1980)
The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1938)
Njan Gandharvan (P Padmarajan, 1991)
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 2008)
Sparrow (Johnnie To, 2008)

Tier 1: 1 -- 10

A River Called Titash (Ritwik Ghatak)
Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1987)
A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang, 1994)
As Bodas de Deus (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1999)
The Idiot (Mani Kaul, 1991)
An Inn in Tokyo (Yasujiro Ozu, 1935)
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012)
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (Djibril Diop Mambety, 1999)
Melo (Alain Resnais, 1986)

Tier 2: 11 -- 30

Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City) (Peter Hutton, 1986)
Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Sadao Yamanaka, 1935)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971)
Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986)
Acto da Primavera (Manoel de Oliveira, 1963)
Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik, 1977)
Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini, 1972)
Hideko the Bus Conductress (Mikio Naruse, 1941)

Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo, 2014)
Frozen (Wang Xiaoshuai, 1997)
Camouflage (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1977)
The Alley (Yanjin Yang, 1981)
Coup d'Etat (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1973)
Pariyerum Perumal (Maari Selvaraj, 2018)
Mathikukal (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1990)
Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima, 1960)
Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinas, 2008)
Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette, 1989)

Tier 3: 31 -- 50

Vereda Tropical (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1977)
Routine Holiday (Li Hongqi, 2008)
Bhavni Bhavai (Ketan Mehta, 1980)
Attakathi (Pa. Ranjith, 2012)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Liu Chia-Liang, 1984)
The Sword (Patrick Tam, 1980)
Where Chimneys are Seen (Heinosuke Gosho, 1953)
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (Yasujiro Shimazu, 1934)
Othello (Orson Welles, 1951)

Chupke Chupke (Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 1975)
Amrutham Gamaya (T Hariharan, 1987)
24 City (Jia Zhangke, 2008)
On the Beat (Ning Ying, 1995)
Paras Pathar (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967)
Garm Hava (M. S. Sathyu, 1973)
Jait re Jait (Jabbar Patel, 1977)
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (Dibakar Banerjee, 2008)
Maheshinte Prathikaaram (Dileesh Pothan, 2016)

[DT.]

Thanks as always, flip. I’ve come to approach these lists as yearly snapshots, reflecting the old favourites that have stayed with me the most, and the new discoveries that have lingered on my mind.

Great Freedom No. 7 (Helmut Kautner, 1944)
Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota, 2001)
The Colour of Paradise (Majid Majidi, 1999)
Faraway, So Close! (Wim Wenders, 1993)
Naukri (Bimal Roy, 1954)

The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997)
The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, 2018)
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii, 2004)
Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinas, 2008)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
King of New York (Abel Ferrara, 1990)

The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford, 1953)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019)
M/Other (Nobuhiro Suwa, 1999)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019)
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonca Filho, 2016)
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies, 2016)
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
Midnight (Mitchell Leisen, 1939)
Red Psalm (Miklos Jansco, 1972)
The Belly of an Architect (Peter Greenaway, 1987)

Minding the Gap (Bing Liu, 2018)
Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno, 2016)
The Mad Fox (Tomu Uchida, 1962)
Interrogation (Ryszard Bugajski, 1982)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)
Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985)
The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011)
Donovan’s Reef (John Ford, 1963)
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)

Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958)
Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark, 1995)
Insiang (Lino Brocka, 1976)
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)
Opera (Dario Argento, 1987)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1952)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929)
Son of Saul (Laszlo Nemes, 2015)
Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez, 2018)
Road (Alan Clarke, 1987)

American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016)
Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter, 1941)
Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl, 1938)
Crooklyn (Spike Lee, 1994)
The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993)
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel, 1974)
One Way Passage (Tay Garnett, 1932)
Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975)
L'Inhumaine (Marcel L'Herbier, 1924)

[Lencho of the Apes]

If one of our goals is to make a list that doesn't look like Sight And Sound (etc)... howbout putting the list in alphabetical order? That would prevent the predictable ones that we all agree on from clumping together at the top, and it would avoid the appearance of setting a hierarchy where #1 can be understood as being somehow 'better than' #2.

[...]

Now I'm definitely going to put Aag on my list to try and get it that coveted number one slot in the poll!

[wba]

Now I'm definitely going to put Aag on my list to try and get it that coveted number one slot in the poll!

[wba]

If one of our goals is to make a list that doesn't look like Sight And Sound (etc)...

I sincerely hope this is not one of our goals...

[flip]

If one of our goals is to make a list that doesn't look like Sight And Sound (etc)... howbout putting the list in alphabetical order? That would prevent the predictable ones that we all agree on from clumping together at the top, and it would avoid the appearance of setting a hierarchy where #1 can be understood as being somehow 'better than' #2.

i think the point though is for the films we agree on to be near the top. i suppose some people will think we're declaring that our #1 is 'better' than our #2, but i hope most people don't look at our polls that way. to me our poll results reflect the interests of the community - when akerman and ruiz make our top ten and shawshank redemption and fight club do not, that conveys very quickly to a non-scfzer what our forum is about, what kinds of films we talk about here. if the results were alphabetical, they don't really serve that purpose.

that said, in years when someone has asked me to, i've made a long post of every film that got a vote (often 1000-1500 films are in that list), and i can do that again this year if someone wants to create an alphabetical list (or other kind of list) and post it somewhere.

[therouxxx]

extra 5 (all <250 views on letterboxd):

Passion - Allan Dwan (1953)
Bandhanam - M.T. Vasudevan Nair (1978)
Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin - Sudhir Mishra (1996)
Vénus et Fleur - Emmanuel Mouret (2004)
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine - Takahisa Zeze (2018)

single tier, not ranked:

Young Mr. Lincoln - John Ford (1939)
Cluny Brown - Ernst Lubitsch (1946)
Canyon Passage - Jacques Tourneur (1946)
My Darling Clementine - John Ford (1946)
Early Summer - Yasujiro Ozu (1951)

The Big Sky - Howard Hawks (1952)
Some Came Running - Vincente Minnelli (1958)
Sanjuro - Akira Kurosawa (1962)
Masculin Féminin - Jean-Luc Godard (1966)
Au Hasard Balthazar - Robert Bresson (1966)

Uski Roti - Mani Kaul (1970)
A Touch of Zen - King Hu (1971)
The Last House on the Left - Wes Craven (1972)
Duvidha - Mani Kaul (1973)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Tobe Hooper (1974)

The Eiger Sanction - Clint Eastwood (1975)
Deewaar - Yash Chopra (1975)
Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick (1975)
Insiang - Lino Brocka (1976)
That Obscure Object of Desire - Luis Buñuel (1977)

Bhumika - Shyam Benegal (1977)
The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino (1978)
Khubsoorat - Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1980)
Ms .45 - Abel Ferrara (1981)
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter - Lau Kar-leung (1984)

Mouna Ragam - Mani Ratnam (1986)
From Beyond - Stuart Gordon (1986)
Prince of Darkness - John Carpenter (1987)
Geethanjali - Mani Ratnam (1989)
Lamhe - Yash Chopra (1991)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me - David Lynch (1992)
The Last Dive - João César Monteiro (1992)
Bombay - Mani Ratnam (1995)
Rangeela - Ram Gopal Varma (1995)
Dil Se.. - Mani Ratnam (1998)

Pulse - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2001)
Maqbool - Vishal Bhardwaj (2003)
Million Dollar Baby - Clint Eastwood (2004)
Spanglish - James L. Brooks (2004)
Déjà Vu - Tony Scott (2006)

Don't Touch the Axe - Jacques Rivette (2007)
Om Shanti Om - Farah Khan (2007)
Two Lovers - James Gray (2008)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - Werner Herzog (2009)
Eega - S.S. Rajamouli (2012)

Blackhat - Michael Mann (2015)
Ok Kanmani - Mani Ratnam (2015)
Paterson - Jim Jarmusch (2016)
The 15:17 to Paris - Clint Eastwood (2018)
Zero - Aanand L. Rai (2018)

[pabs]

in years when someone has asked me to, i've made a long post of every film that got a vote (often 1000-1500 films are in that list), and i can do that again this year

Yes you did, and yes another one would be very much appreciated.

[liquidnature]

Going with a standard approach but with a focus on more recent viewings and rewatches from the past two years, more confident about the quality, less animation and childhood favorites than last year's list. 5 to boost, then the rest get the same amount of points.

5 Short Films to Boost:
Barcelona Park at Twilight (Segundo de Chomón, 1904)
From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies (Francis J. Marion , Wallace McCutcheon, 1906)
Jack's Dream (Joseph Cornell, 1938)
N.Y., N.Y. (Francis Thompson, 1957)
Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr, 1992)

The Parson's Widow (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1920)
M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné, 1938)
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen, 1940)
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)

The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Fools in the Mountains (Edith Carlmar, 1957)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960)
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965)
The Endless Summer (Bruce Brown, 1966)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez, 1966)
Marketa Lazarová (Frantisek Vlácil, 1967)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)

Pirosmani (Giorgi Shengelaya, 1969)
Du côté d'Orouët (Jacques Rozier, 1971)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
The Blue Planet (Franco Piavoli, 1981)
The Satin Slipper (Manoel de Oliveira, 1985)
Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 1989)
Nostos: The Return (Franco Piavoli, 1989)
Night Sun (Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, 1990)

Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
Mulan (Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook, 1998)
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
Voices Through Time (Franco Piavoli, 1996)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
The Emperor’s New Groove (Mark Dindal, 2000)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)

At the First Breath of Wind (Franco Piavoli, 2002)
Sogobi (James Benning, 2002)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
Birdsong (Albert Serra, 2008)
Un lac (Philippe Grandrieux, 2008)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick 2011)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Gan Bi, 2018)

[ororama]

The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
Love in a Fallen City (Ann Hui, 1984)
Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987)
The Surrogate Woman (Im Kwon-taek 1987)

It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957)
Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel, 1966)
My Sassy Girl (Kwak Jae-yong, 2001)
Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)

M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman, 1931)
Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
Easy Street (Charlie Chaplin, 1917)
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006)

Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
I Know Where I’m Going! (Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, 1945)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
Pygmalion (Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith, 1938)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007)
The Last Bridge (Helmut Kautner, 1954)

My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1977)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, 1947)
Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman, 1937)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)

[kanafani]

Chronological order. I picked 55 from my 'personal canon'

The Pearl (Henri d'Ursel, 1929)
The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad, 1963)
Nomad (Patrick Tam Kar-Ming, Terry Tong, 1982)
Pestonjee (Vijaya Mehta, 1988)
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (Philippe Garrel, 1991)

Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
Morocco (Josef von Sternberg, 1930)
The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh, 1930)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra, 1932)
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford, 1935)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
Stars in My Crown (Jacques Tourneur, 1950)
The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford, 1953)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960)
Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962)
La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
PlayTime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)
Cuadecuc, Vampir (Pere Portabella, 1971)
Out 1 (Jacques Rivette, 1971)
We Won't Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat, 1972)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
Welfare (Frederick Wiseman, 1975)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978)
Doomed Love (Manoel de Oliveira, 1978)
Simone Barbes or Virtue (Marie-Claude Treilhou, 1980)
Too Early/Too Late (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, 1981)
L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
Mélo (Alain Resnais, 1986)
Hovering Over the Water (João César Monteiro, 1986)
Landscape Suicide (James Benning, 1987)
Route One/USA (Robert Kramer, 1989)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1996)
A Summer's Tale (Éric Rohmer, 1996)
The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman, 1998)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999)
Platform (Zhangke Jia, 2000)
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, 2000)
La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
RR (James Benning, 2007)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo, 2011)

[Holymanm]

I-V

All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai, 2001)
Blue Spring (Toshiaki Toyoda, 2001)
The Taste of Tea (Katsuhito Ishii, 2004)
Café de Flore (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2011)
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (Hiroyuki Yamaga, 1987)

1-10

Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
5 Centimetres Per Second (Makoto Shinkai, 2007)
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
Your Name (Makoto Shinkai, 2016)
Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1961)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)

11-20

Castle in the Sky Laputa (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986)
The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma, 2007)
A Tale of Two Sisters (Ji-woon Kim, 2003)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards, 1964)

21-30

Joint Security Area (Chan-wook Park, 2000)
Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2015)
Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
Platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
Fear Strikes Out (Robert Mulligan, 1957)
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)
Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa, 1993)
Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)

31-40

Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2013)
Marketa Lazarová (František Vláčil, 1967)
Sing a Song of Sex (Nagisa Ōshima, 1967)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini, 1965)
Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné, 1938)
Ocean Waves (Tomomi Mochizuki, 1993)
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997)
A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, 2009)

41-50

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013)
Satyricon (Federico Fellini, 1969)
Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai, 1995)
Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
Unchain (Toshiaki Toyoda, 2000)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, 1990)
C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2005)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Imagine Me & You (Ol Parker, 2005)



And while on the topic, just finished my completely fully totally ranked top 101 total:

https://letterboxd.com/holymanm/list/top-101-picturez/

[karl]

Finally Flip my eyes just glazed over and I got tired. So I listed 50 favorites - not THE 50 favorites, which would be impossible for me - on the Letterbocker list. The "magic five" are also totally random.

Peace.

[MrCarmady]

Finally Flip my eyes just glazed over and I got tired. So I listed 50 favorites - not THE 50 favorites, which would be impossible for me - on the Letterbocker list. The "magic five" are also totally random.

Peace.

Curious to take a look, where is it?

[flip]

Finally Flip my eyes just glazed over and I got tired. So I listed 50 favorites - not THE 50 favorites, which would be impossible for me - on the Letterbocker list. The "magic five" are also totally random.

Peace.

i also find it impossible to list "the" fifty favourites. can you post a link here? not sure if you reset your letterboxd account a while back, but i can't seem to find it any more and your comments on my old reviews have disappeared.

[karl]

I deleted the old account, then started another one a year later: karljkiplin - sans final g. List newest.

[MrCarmady]

Given how difficult I found this exercise my hat goes off to all the people on here who have watched 2-4x more than me and can still whittle it down. Here's my stab at it, tried to balance out old favourites and newfound discoveries which reminded me of why I fell in love with movies in the first place. One per director as that felt like fitting more stuff in even though I've had to make some brutal cuts.

5

Courage for Every Day (Evald Schorm, 1964)
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Sergio Martino, 1972)
Times Square (Allan Moyle, 1980)
21 Up (Michael Apted, 1977)
My Twentieth Century (Ildikó Enyedi, 1989)

10

F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
A Man Who Sleeps (Bernard Queysanne, 1974)
Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)
The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950)
Vampire's Kiss (Robert Bierman, 1988)

20

Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)
North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
Voices Through Time (Franco Piavoli, 1996)
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, 2000)
Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000)
Tale of Tales (Yuri Norshteyn, 1979)
Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, 1991)
The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
Stolen Kisses (Francois Truffaut, 1968)
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
Gregory's Girl (Bill Forsyth, 1980)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986)
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
Crank: High Voltage (Mark Neveldine + Brian Taylor, 2009)
The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998)
Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)
Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)

20

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959)
Girlfriends (Claudia Weill, 1978)
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)
Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964)
Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977)
Vamos a matar, companeros (Sergio Corbucci, 1970)
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013)
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai, 1994)
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993)
Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987)
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1968)
Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen, 1940)
Hard to Be a God (Aleksey German, 2013)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)

[sally]

here is a list from me that's missing more than it contains but brain hurts

flip, dunno if some people (if anyone has) list sayat nova as color or colour (might make your searching difficult? but imdb has it as 'colour of', so that's what i put). also al-mummia is known as night of counting the years but also as the mummy, so not sure what i should have put, i put the title i liked better. also not sure if histoire(s) du cinema counts but letterboxd has it as one lump so let me know if i need to replace it

The Extra 5:
The Lighthouse Keepers (Jean Gremillon, 1929)
Backstairs (Leopold Jessner, Paul Leni, 1921)
Miss Else (Paul Czinner, 1929)
Os Lobos (Rino Lupo,1923)
Miracle of the Wolves (Raymond Bernard, 1924)

The 50, unranked:
Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)
The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, 1924)
He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjostrom, 1924)
By the Law (Lev Kuleshov, 1926)
Bardelys the Magnificent (King Vidor, 1926)
The Chess Player (Raymond Bernard, 1927)
Finis terrae (Jean Epstein, 1929)
Dans la nuit (Charles Vanel, 1930)
Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)
The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)
Enamorada (Emilio Fernandez, 1946)
Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
Wagon Master (John Ford)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
Stella (Mihalis Kakogiannis, 1955)
The Ogre of Athens (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)
Pyaasa (Guru Dutt, 1957)
Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
Messalina (Vittorio Cottafavi, 1960)
Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu, 1960)
Bandits of Orgosolo (Vittorio De Seta, 1961)
The Executioner (Luis Garcia Berlanga, 1963)
Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
Bullets Don't Come Back (Nikos Foskolos, 1967)
The Night of Counting the Years (Chadi Abdel Salam, 1969)
The Colour of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)
Hope (Yilmaz Guney, 1970)
Stone Wedding (Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu, 1973)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (Wojciech Has, 1973)
Celine and Julie go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Femmes femmes (Paul Vecchiali, 1974)
India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Ticket of No Return (Ulrike Ottinger, 1979)
From the Clouds to the Resistance (Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, 1979)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
L'argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
The Satin Slipper (Manoel de Oliveira, 1985)
Histoire(s) du cinema (Jean-Luc Godard, 1988)
The Enclosed Valley (Jean-Claude Rousseau, 1995)
Train of Shadows (Jose Luis Guerin, 1997)
From the Notebook of... (Robert Beavers, 2000)
Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinas, 2008)
Hard to Be a God (Aleksey German, 2013)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014)

[ofrene]

try to give some change from last year but seems to fail...

Seisaku's Wife (Yasuzô Masumura, 1965)
Doomed Love (Manoel de Oliveira, 1978)
Fly High Run Far (Im Kwon-taek, 1991)
Smoking / No Smoking (Alain Resnais, 1993)
Moving (Shinji Sômai, 1993)

50 (chronological order)

Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir, 1936)
Angel (Ernst Lubitsch, 1937)
The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951)
Lightning (Mikio Naruse, 1952)
The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford, 1953)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Lola Montes (Max Ophüls, 1955)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
Two English Girls (François Truffaut, 1971)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice, 1973)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
The Godfather : Part 2 (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)
Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey, 1976)
News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)
Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977)
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1977)
Legend of the Mountain (King Hu, 1979)
L'Enfant Secret (Philippe Garrel, 1979)
A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer, 1992)
Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1996)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000)
The Day I Became a Woman (Marziyeh Meshkiny, 2000)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, 2001)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003)
The Beaches of Agnes (Agnes Varda, 2008)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
From What is Before (Lav Diaz, 2014)
Happy Hour (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, 2015)

[Zulawski]

A bit of old favorites, a bit of new

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
The Last Dive (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1992)
News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
Maya Darpan (Kumar Shahani, 1972)
Khustralyov, My Car! (Aleksey German, 1998)
Melodies of a Street Organ (Kira Muratova, 2009)
Birds, Orphans, Fools (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
La guerre d’Algerie (Jean-Marie Straub 2014)

Noroit (Jacques Rivette, 1976)
From What is Before (Lav Diaz, 2014)
The City of Pirates (Raul Ruiz, 1983)
Coup d’etat (Yoshishige Yoshida)
The House in the Woods (Maurice Pialat, 1971)
In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Daddy, Father Frost is Dead (Evgeny Yufit, 1991)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)
We Won’t Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat, 1972)

On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Zulawski, 1988)
Benilde, or the Virgin Mother (Manoel de Oliveira, 1975)
Hard to be a God (Aleksey German, 2013)
Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974)
Artemis’ Knee (Jean-Marie Straub, 2008)
To Our Loves (Maurice Pialat, 1983)
Rosa de Areia (Antonio Reis, 1989)
Defying Everybody (Yury Ilienko, 1973)

Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker (Wojciech Wizniewski, 1975)
25th Fireman’s Street (Istvan Szabo, 1973)
Twilight (Govindan Aravindan, 1982)
Triptych (Ali Khamraev, 1977)
One day before the rainy season (Mani Kaul, 1971)
Poem (Akia Jissoji, 1972)
Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil, 1967)
American Postcard (Gabor Body, 1975)
A Zed and Two Naughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
The Aviator’s Wife (Eric Rohmer, 1981)

And Then There was Light (Iotar Iosseliani, 1989)
The Lion has Seven Heads (Glauber Rocha, 1970)
The Seventh Walk (Amit Dutta, 2013)
Fate (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2001)
Confessions Among Actresses (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1971)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Shuji Terayama, 1974)
Allegory (Kostas Sfikas, 1986)
Et Cetera (Ashish Avikunthak, 1997)
Sweet Love Remembered (Bruce Elder, 1980)
Komitas (Don Askarian, 1989)

[Lencho of the Apes]

I've got something on file from earlier in the month that conforms pretty well to what you asked for, and I don't think I'll be able to give it any more thought, so here it is.

Three bonus babies of five:
Cruces Sobre El Yermo - Mariscal
Longitud De Giuerra -Martinez Ortega
Cada Quien Su Vida - Bracho

Detour
The 400 Blows
Stroszek
Only Angels Have Wings
Stranger On The Third Floor
Children Of Paradise
Rules Of The Game
Fantomas
Judex
Tih Minh

The Big Combo
Kiss Me Deadly
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
A Time To Love And A Time To Die
Crepusculo - Bracho
The Salvation Hunters
Out One
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Dr.Mabuse
The Red Spectacles

Love Torn In A Dream - Ruiz
Three Women - Altman
Dementia
Shock Corridor
Eraserhead

Ikiru
Umberto D
Underworld -von Sternberg
The Kneeling Goddess - Gavaldon
El Compadre Mendoza
Written On The Wind
All That Heaven Allows
Macbeth -- Welles
Strike
Nostos The Return

The Red Light Bandit
Extraordinary Stories
Gummo
Tizoc
Liliom - Borzage
Ivvan The Terrible 1 - Eisenstein
Siegfried - Lang

[flip]

curious to know how much longer i should leave this open? if anyone is planning to post a ballot but hasn't yet, let me know when you'd like the deadline to be, and if anyone is planning to edit an already-posted ballot, let me know too how much time you'll need. if i don't hear from anyone soon, i'll probably just close the poll and start tallying (i can easily then accommodate brand new late-submitted ballots, but cannot easily accommodate edits to already-posted ballots)

[rischka]

love yr list lencho. and that you had room for tizoc k give me one more day and i'll try to post something. god knows i've seen enough films

[nrh]

i can try to post something over the weekend

[flip]

ok i wouldn't want to miss either of your ballots, so i'll leave this open at least until monday!

[thoxans]

thx, flip! working on mine as well. got the deadline for this and the wuxia! poll confused

[john ryan]

I should have one by monday morning as well

[thoxans]

was going back thru the past polls, and for some reason i didn't participate in the first one, and idkw. still, it was worth looking back at that thread just to see uli telling everyone that they were merely intellectual-signaling with their ballots. sometimes i forget i watch movies merely to impress peeps i'll never meet irl, and it's nice to have a reminder