Polling 2010-2019 -- End of Decade Poll

[flip]

Closing in on 2020, so time for an SCFZ Best of the Decade Poll! Please read before posting a ballot:

What you can vote for:

- films from 2010-2019 per imdb, with exceptions if imdb seems to be wrong about dates
- tv series are not eligible, but tv movies are, as are short films and documentaries, and anything in a grey area is, so if you think you might need to ask, it's probably fine

How to participate:

- post a ballot of your favourite 50 films. The ballot need not be ranked at all, but (partial) ranking makes for a better poll, so ranking is encouraged. If you would like to (partly) rank your ballot, separate it into 'tiers' or 'blocks' in any of the following arrangements:

- broken into five 'tiers', of 10 films each: i.e. in a 10/10/10/10/10 split, scoring: 5-4-3-2-1 pts
- broken into three 'tiers', in a 10/20/20 split: 4.6/3.2/2 pts
- broken into two tiers: 25/25, scoring 4-2 pts
- one unranked tier of 50 films: 3 points per film

- You can also vote for an additional five films (or less), in addition to the fifty above. Put these at the top of your ballot - these films will get 6 points each. These films must have less than 2500 views on letterboxd.

- So a standard ballot will include 50 films, and a ballot with the extra tier will include 55 films in total.

- Ballots shorter than 50 films are fine, but they can't include the bonus tier. If you want to rank a shorter list, divide it into two, three, four or five equal-sized tiers.

Formatting your Ballot:

It takes an enormous amount of time to tally a poll this size, but the work is greatly reduced when everyone formats their ballots the same way. So if people could please as far as they can follow the formatting guidelines below, I'll be grateful:

- for each film, list the title, followed by the director's name and year, using capitalization when some OED editor would capitalize, so this is the best format:

Yogi Bear (Eric Brevig, 2010)

- please (please!) use English titles *only* (I don't also want another title) when the English title is in common use in English-speaking film circles. Use foreign-language titles only for films which normally go by those foreign-language titles when discussed in English. So please write:

A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)

and not

A Separation / Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)

or anything similar to that. But something like this would be fine:

Sud (Chantal Akerman, 1999)

since that's the film's most common title, even if it's not in English.

- please do not accent any characters, even when accents are normally used outside of English. Accented characters make it hard for me to search for duplicate votes when some people use them and some don't, so please write Rene Clement, and not René Clément, for example

[flip]

i made a decision to again include an extra 'top tier' of five films, as in our most recent scfz annual poll, but i've restricted it to somewhat unseen films ( < 2500 views), thinking that one of the most useful functions of the list we'll end up making (and of the individual ballots) is to help others discover great films that weren't widely publicized or weren't widely available. that bonus tier didn't make a big difference in the last poll anyway, but i want to try it in a poll like this, mainly because i'm curious to see what each voter puts there.

[flip]

Lollipop Monster (Ziska Riemann, 2011)
Punching Henry (Gregory Viens, 2016)
The Mill and the Cross (Lech Majewski, 2011)
My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa, 2010)
Fish and Cat (Shahram Mokri, 2013)

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Reality (Quentin Dupieux, 2014)
Norte, The End of History (Lav Diaz, 2013)
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik, 2018)
Taxi (Jafar Panahi, 2015)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson, 2014)
Bushwick (Jonathan Milott/Cary Murnion, 2017)
Austenland (Jerusha Hess, 2013)
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015)
Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu, 2012)
Symphony No 42 (Reka Bucsi, 2014)

The Square (Ruben Ostlund, 2017)
Drug War (Johnnie To, 2012)
Evolution (Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 2015)
The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
Sully (Clint Eastwood, 2016)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011)
CAFe CAFe (Patrick Downing, 2013)
Take Me Home Tonight (Michael Dowse, 2011)

The Kid With a Bike (Dardenne Brothers, 2011)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
How I Live Now (Kevin MacDonald, 2013)
Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund, 2014)
Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010)
Searching (Aneesh Chaganty, 2018)
Alps (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2011)
Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, 2011)
Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010)

Closer to the Moon (Nae Caranfil, 2014)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2016)
Compliance (Craig Zobel, 2012)
The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig, 2016)
No (Pablo Larrain, 2012)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
Misconduct (Shintaro Shimosawa, 2016)
Good Time (Safdie Brothers, 2017)
Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl, 2012)

Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013)
We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson, 2013)
The Makeover (John Gray, 2013)
Diplomacy (Volker Schlorndorff, 2014)
Marshland (Alberto Rodriguez, 2014)
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
Graduation (Cristian Mungiu, 2016)
A Hologram for the King (Tom Tykwer, 2016)

[flip]

we did a best of 2010s poll three years ago, using a very unusual polling method, the top three films in that poll were Band Baaja Baaraat (Maneesh Sharma, 2010), No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman, 2015) and Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To, 2012). if anyone needs the link to the results of that poll, it's here:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... scfz-poll/

[greennui]

Drift (Helena Wittmann, 2017)
0.5 mm (Momoko Ando, 2014)
Reindeerspotting - Escape from Santaland (Joonas Neuvonen, 2010)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo, 2014)
Parallel I-IV (Harun Farocki, 2014)

Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
Transit (Christian Petzold, 2018)
Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, 2011)
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, 2017)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz, 2010)
Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2015)
These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (Michael Robinson, 2011)
The Forgotten Space (Allan Sekula/Noël Burch, 2010)
Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas, 2012)
Knife+Heart (Yann Gonzalez, 2018)

Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo, 2015)
Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo, 2013)
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2011)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)
Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2018)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
Studies for the Decay of the West (Klaus Wyborny, 2010)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara, 2014)

Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
Good Time (Josh Safdie/Benny Safdie, 2017)
Heaven Knows What (Josh Safdie/Benny Safdie, 2014)
Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)
Thelma (Joachim Trier, 2017)
Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki, 2011)
A Century of Energy (Manoel de Oliveira, 2015)
Made of Air (Paul Clipson, 2015)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico, 2017)
American Reflexxx (Alli Coates, 2015)
Faces of Emmanuelle (Rob Feulner, 2014)
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson, 2017)
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara, 2011)
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Radu Jude, 2018)
Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi, 2010)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine, 2019)

A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, 2015)
Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles, 2018)
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman, 2015)
small roads (James Benning, 2011)
Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, 2011)
The Four Times (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010)

https://letterboxd.com/greennui/list/s0102/

[...]

Man, this is tough since I'm barely caught up through 2016, the most recent year from which I've seen 50+ movies, after that they're all only in the 20s or less, with mostly big budget stuff in the last couple. Not sure whether to vote or not, especially knowing that blackhat will get votes and I'm torn over the best way to deal with that.

[flip]

my ballot definitely skews towards the first half of the decade, but i'd imagine some voters' will skew more to the second half, so it will all balance out -- i hope you'll vote!

[Silga]

When's the deadline, Flip? I'd love to have time until February, as some of the biggest releases of 2019 are only going wide in January.

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(6)
WTC Haikus (Jonas Mekas, 2010)
Lipsett Diaries (Theodore Ushev, 2010)
Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi, 2010)
Peace (Kazuhiro Soda, 2010)
Faust (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2011)

(5)
Oslo, August 31st (Jaochim Trier, 2011)
I Wish (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2011)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014)
Victoria (Sebastian Schipper, 2015)
Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2017)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)

(4)
Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010)
Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011)
The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry, 2011)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (Mark Rappaport, 2015)
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman/Duke Johnson, 2015)
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
Song to Song (Terrence Malick, 2017)
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018)

(3)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)
Enemy Lines (Denis Côté, 2010)
Song of Tomorrow (Jonas Holmström/Jonas Bergergård, 2010)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki, 2011)
Ernest & Celestine (Benjamin Renner/Vincent Patar/Stéphane Aubier, 2012)
Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan, 2013)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2013)
Welcome to Me (Shira Piven, 2014)
Life on the Mississippi (Bill Brown, 2018)

(2)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011)
Tomboy (Céline Sciamma, 2011)
The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg, 2012)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013)
The Immigrant (James Gray, 2013)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2018)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)

(1) [incomplete]
Happy, Happy (Anne Sewitsky, 2010)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2016)

[liquidnature]

Haven't seen enough from the decade to make a good poll, so I'll refrain. Will be cool to see others' and the final list though as a frame of reference for future watches.

[greennui]

I def need to see more films for this poll, preferably another tier of new favourites.

[Silga]

Final list:

Sea Fog (Shim Sung-bo, 2014)
The Farthest (Emer Reynolds, 2017)
May God Save Us (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2016)
Caesar Must Die (Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, 2012)
The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Saverio Costanzo, 2010)

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The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2018)
Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2015)
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013)
Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)

Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonca Filho, 2016)
Young Adult (Jason Reitman, 2011)
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 2011)
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller, 2014)
Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, 2012)
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)

A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, 2015)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
Animal Kingdom (David Michod, 2010)
Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, 2012)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
Fences (Denzel Washington, 2016)
Rango (Gore Verbinski, 2011)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012)

The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2014)
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
The Lost City of Z (James Gray, 2016)
Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai, 2013)
La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016)
American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016)
Birdman (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2014)

Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh, 2017)
Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010)
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve, 2015)
Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012)
Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard, 2012)
Flight (Robert Zemeckis, 2012)
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011)
Krisha (Trey Edward Shults, 2015)
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)

[flip]

When's the deadline, Flip? I'd love to have time until February, as some of the biggest releases of 2019 are only going wide in January.

deadline will be around the end of december, so i can post the results early in the new year. it's true that some films won't yet have been seen at that point, but that will still be true in february too, so there isn't really a perfect time. but the best-of-2019 poll deadline will be later, so at least the wide-release films from january will have a chance in that poll.

[Silga]

Fair enough, Flip! Thanks for running these polls!

[sally]

I didn't think I'd seen enough newer films, and that all I'd be submitting was a list of hong sang soo, but 2010 was SO long ago. So many people still alive

I'll get round to submitting summat sadly.

[rischka]

i have just over 300 films logged for 2010s. luckily greenui has given me an idea where to start here. altho i notice a distinct lack of johnnie to in his list

0.5 mm (Momoko Ando, 2014)
Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2015)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz, 2010)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)
Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi, 2010)
Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara, 2014)
Zama (Lucrecia Martel 2017)
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-Soo 2011)
Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010)
Bulanti (Zeki Demirkubuz 2016)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien 2015)
La Flor (Mariano Llinás 2018)
A Vingança de Uma Mulher (Rita Azevedo Gomes 2012)
Carol (Todd Haynes 2015)
Forget Me Not (Kei Horie 2015)
Band Baaja Baaraat (Maneesh Sharma 2010)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To 2014)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold 2014)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa 2014)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese 2013)
Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton 2013)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-Liang 2013)
Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To 2012)
Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho 2012)
Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios 2014)
Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman 2011)
Life Without Principle (Johnnie To 2011)
Dusty Stacks of Mom (Jodie Mack 2013)
Uncut Gems (Safdies 2019)

*updated* 12/31

[josiahmorgan11]

0. Apple Pie [Sam Hamilton]
0. BNSF [James Benning]
0. EMBARGO [Johann Lurf]
0. Ponce de León [Ben Russell & Jim Drain]
0. Permanent Green Light [Zac Farley & Dennis Cooper]
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1. Twin Peaks: The Return [David Lynch]
2. Split [M. Night Shyamalan]
3. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice [Zack Snyder]
4. Night Moves [Kelly Reichardt]
5. Everybody Wants Some!! [Richard Linklater]
6. Exhibition [Joanna Hogg]
7. Florentina, Hubaldo CTE [Lav Diaz]
8. The Other Side of the Wind [Orson Welles]
9. Nathan For You: Finding Frances [Nathan Fielder]
10. The Social Network [David Fincher]
____
11. small roads [James Benning]
12. The Sound & The Fury [James Franco]
13. Djinn [Tobe Hooper]
14. General Report II: The New Abduction of Europe [Pere Portabella]
15. The Son of Joseph [Eugene Green
16. Les Demons [Philippe Lesage]
17. The Visit [M. Night Shyamalan]
18. Genesis [Philippe Lesage]
19. Call Me By Your Name [Luca Guadagnino]
20. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library [Frederick Wiseman]
____
21. Three Landscapes [Peter Hutton]
22. Logan Lucky [Steven Soderbergh]
23. Song to Song [Terence Malick]
24. Manchester by the Sea [Kenneth Lonergan]
25. Moonlight [Barry Jenkins]
26. The Lone Ranger [Gore Verbinski]
27. Twixt [Francis Ford Coppola]
28. Pavilion [Tim Sutton]
29. 20th Century Women [Mike Mills]
30. The Haunting of Hill House [Mike Flanagan]
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31. High Flying Bird [Steven Soderbergh]
32. Nausea [Zeki Demirkubuz]
33. Paddington 2 [Paul King]
34. The Image Book [Jean-Luc Godard]
35. Looper [Rian Johnson]
36. Hereditary [Ari Aster]
37. Us [Jordan Peele]
38. Mysteries of Lisbon [Raul Ruiz]
39. Contagion [Steven Soderbergh]
40. Cosmopolis [David Cronenberg]
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41. Parasite [Bong Joon-Ho]
42. Unsane [Steven Soderbergh]
43. Get Out [Jordan Peele]
44. Star Wars: The Last Jedi [Rian Johnson]
45. Gerald's Game [Mike Flanagan]
46. 31 [Rob Zombie]
47. The Turin Horse [Bela Tarr]
48. As I Lay Dying [James Franco]
49. Glass [M. Night Shyamalan]
50. Under the Silver Lake [David Robert Mitchell]

[brian d]

looks like i've watched 353 from this past decade. here's what got at least 4 stars from me (in no order yet, dates based on lb): all set

first five:
Nainsukh (Amit Dutta, 2010)
Estrada de Palha (Rodrigo Areias, 2012)
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Aleksey Fedorchenko, 2012)
A Woman's Revenge (Rita Azevedo Gomes, 2012)
Jai Bhim Comrade (Anand Patwardhan, 2012)


and the rest:

Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
Two Letters for Ana (Jose Luis Guerin, 2011)
Goltzius and the Pelican Company (Peter Greenaway, 2012)
Farewell, My Queen (Benoit Jacquot, 2012)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones, 2014)
The Love Witch (Anna Biller, 2016)
Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont, 2016)
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd, 2016)
Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)

House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
The Mill and the Cross (Lech Majewski, 2011)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To, 2011)
L'il Quinquin (Bruno Dumont, 2014)
Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg, 2015)
Cosmos (Andrzej Zulawski, 2015)
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
Five Fingers for Marseilles (Michael Matthews, 2017)
Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)

The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat, 2010)
Finisterrae (Sergio Caballero, 2010)
Un Héretier (Jean-Marie Straub, 2012)
The Story of My Death (Albert Serra, 2013)
The Old Man of Belem (Manoel de Oliveira, 2014)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
The Ornithologist (Joao Pedro Rodrigues, 2016)
Daughters of Fire (Albertina Carri, 2018)
Blackkklansman (Spike Lee, 2018)
Us (Jordan Peele, 2019)

Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman, 2010)
Father (Jose Maria del Orbe, 2010)
Keyhole (Guy Maddin, 2011)
Journey to Portugal (Sergio Trefaut, 2011)
Madrid, 1987 (David Trueba, 2011)
Skinningrove (Michael Almereyda, 2013)
The Best Offer (Giuseppe Tornatore, 2013)
Goodnight, Cinderella (Carlos Conceicao, 2014)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2015)
Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler, 2015)

Fantasia Lusitana (Joao Canijo, 2010)
So Much for Justice! (Miklos Jancso, 2010)
Leap Year (Michael Rowe, 2010)
Faust (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2011)
O Somma Luce (Jean-Marie Straub, 2011)
Blancanieves (Pablo Berger, 2012)
Lines of Wellington (Valeria Sarmiento, 2012)
Redemption (Miguel Gomes, 2013)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kari-Wai, 2013)
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)

[Lencho of the Apes]

It's going to take me longer to put everything in the required format than it did to select the movies... Here's a rough draft in two tiers; I'll tighten it up and clean it up as we go along.

If people are posting that info , I had 369 logged for the decade, at the time I made my list. Up to 371 now.

Bonus babies:
Artificial Paradises (
Ayirathil Oruvan (K. Selvaraghavan,
Juventud (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo,
Thou Gild'st The Even (
We Are the Flesh (



The regular fifty:

All Of Me (
Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan (Gurvinder Singh,
Ballet Aquatique (Raul Ruiz,
Bastards (Claire Denis,
Century Of Birthing (Lav Diaz,
The Death Of Stalin (
Dharma Guns (
Djinn (Hooper
The Dry Valley (Alexandra Strelyanaya
Eega (SS
Eisenstein In Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway,
Evil Games ( Garcia Bogliano
Faust ( Sokurov
A Field In England (
Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013)
Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios 2014)
Hard To Be A God (
Maryadda Ramanna (SS
My Back Page (Nobuhiro Yamashita,
My Joy ( Loznitsa
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz, 2010)
Navajazo (
Nightfall (James Benning
Norte the End Of History (Lav Diaz,
P3nd3jo5 (
Santa Teresa & Other Stories (
A Serbian Film (
The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears (
Thomas Mao (
The Turin Horse

For Those In Peril
Himizu - Sono
I Dream In Another Language
In The Fog - Loznitsa
El Infierno -
Keyhole - Maddin
La La la At Rock Bottom -
League Of Gods
Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola - Vishal Bhardwaj
Bulanti (Zeki Demirkubuz 2016)
A Night In Nude - Salvation
Nymphomaniac Vol I - Von Trier
Nymphomaniac Vol II - Von Trier
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)
Small Roads - benning
This Is Not a Film - Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
The VVitch (2015 Robert Eggers)
Why Don't You Play In Hell
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese 2013)

[Umbugbene]

List in progress. I like Josiah's formatting, so I'm borrowing his style. I've seen a little over 600 from the decade, but only the top six or seven (from Melancholia on) strike me as great movies. Below the top 18 there are very few I've seen more than once, so the lower tiers are based mostly on first impressions.

0. The Last Time I Saw Macao [João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata, 2012] 648 views
0. Good Night, Spain [Raya Martin, 2011] 151 views
0. Mysteries of Lisbon [Raul Ruiz, 2010] 2000 views
0. The Son of Joseph [Eugene Green, 2016] 1300 views
0. Mercury in Retrograde [Michael Glover Smith, 2017] 31 views

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1. Melancholia [Lars Von Trier, 2011]
2. Enemy [Denis Villeneuve, 2013]
3. The Counselor [Ridley Scott, 2013]
4. The Day He Arrives [Hong Sang-soo, 2011]
5. Wild Tales [Damián Szifrón, 2014]
6. Toni Erdmann [Maren Ade, 2016]
7. Parasite [Bong Joon-ho, 2019]
8. The Turin Horse [Béla Tarr, 2011]
9. Arrival [Denis Villeneuve, 2016]
10. The Martian [Ridley Scott, 2015]

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11. Get Out! [Jordan Peele, 2017]
12. Tu dors Nicole [Stéphane Lafleur, 2014]
13. The House That Jack Built [Lars Von Trier, 2018]
14. Phoenix [Christian Petzold, 2014]
15. Li'l Quinquin [Bruno Dumont, 2014]
16. After the Storm [Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2016]
17. Borgman [Alex van Warmerdam, 2013]
18. Escape from Tomorrow [Randy Moore, 2013]
19. The Grand Budapest Hotel [Wes Anderson, 2014]
20. Moonrise Kingdom [Wes Anderson, 2012]

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21. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence [Roy Andersson, 2014]
22. The Past [Asghar Farhadi, 2013]
23. Like Father, Like Son [Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2013]
24. Julieta [Pedro Almodóvar, 2016]
25. Right Now, Wrong Then [Hong Sang-soo, 2015]
26. The Lunchbox [Ritesh Batra, 2013]
27. Jauja [Lisandro Alonso, 2014]
28. The Duke of Burgundy [Peter Strickland, 2014]
29. The Strange Case of Angelica [Manoel de Oliveira, 2010]
30. Prometheus [Ridley Scott, 2012]

____
31. Eisenstein in Guanajuato [Peter Greenaway, 2015]
32. 9 Fingers [F.J. Ossang, 2017]
33. Morgan [Luke Scott, 2016]
34. Dharma Guns [F.J. Ossang, 2010]
35. Neither Heaven Nor Earth [Clément Cogitore, 2015]
36. Bastards [Claire Denis, 2013]
37. Lines of Wellington [Valeria Sarmiento, 2012]
38. Cave of Forgotten Dreams [Werner Herzog, 2010]
39. John From [João Nicolau, 2015]
40. Locke [Steven Knight, 2013]

____
41. Night Train to Lisbon [Bille August, 2013]
42. Snowpiercer [Bong Joon-ho, 2013]
43. Le Havre [Aki Kaurismäki, 2011]
44. Prisoners [Denis Villeneuve, 2013]
45. The Most Important Thing in Life Is Not Being Dead [Olivier Pictet, Marc Recuenco,Pablo Martín Torrado, 2010]
46. Closed Curtain [Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi, 2013]
47. The Rover [David Michôd, 2014]
48. Concrete Night [Pirjo Honkasalo, 2013]
49. A Hard Day [Kim Seong-hoon, 2014]
50. Trollhunter [André Øvredal, 2010]

[Caracortada]

Five tiers of ten films each, plus five bonus films with fewer than 2500 views on letterboxd:
----------------------------------------------------------------
Daphne (Peter Mackie Burns, 2017)
Difret (Zeresenay Mehari, 2014)
In Bloom (Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß, 2013)
Jimmy's Hall (Ken Loach, 2014)
On the Path (Jasmila Zbanic, 2010)
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A Royal Affair (Nikolaj Arcel, 2012)
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 2011)
The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016)
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar, 2010)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
Utoya: July 22 (Erik Poppe, 2018)
---
Brooklyn (John Crowley, 2015)
Happy As Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
Miss Sloane (John Madden, 2016)
Tamara Drewe (Stephen Frears, 2010)
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012)
The King's Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2014)
Wild Tales (Damian Szifron, 2014)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
---
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011)
Denial (Mick Jackson, 2016)
Paradise: Hope (Ulrich Seidl, 2013)
Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012)
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)
The Handmaiden (Chan-wook Park, 2016)
The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg, 2012)
Victoria (Sebastian Schipper, 2015)
Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017)
Young and Beautiful (François Ozon, 2013)
---
After Lucia (Michel Franco, 2012)
If I Stay (R. J. Cutler, 2014)
Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012)
Rams (Grimur Hakonarsen, 2015)
Sami Blood (Amanda Kernell, 2016)
Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010)
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, 2013)
The One I Love (Charlie McDowell, 2014)
The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
---
Labyrinth of Lies (Giulio Ricciarelli, 2014)
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)
On Body and Soul (Ildiko Enyedi, 2017)
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd, 2016)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki, 2011)
The Adjustment Bureau (George Nolfi, 2011)
The Commune (Thomas Vinterberg, 2016)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky, 2012)
Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012)
---

[...]

All right, let's go with this for a start and then maybe change it closer to the end date. Tougher than I thought it would be to cut a few, ended up going the one movie per director route, but felt weird leaving off some like Bahubali 2, which continues the story from the first movie. Looks like I'm a big fan of 2015. The list is from 573 movies logged from the decade.

Tentative choices, to be reordered

The Fake (2013 Yeon Sang-ho)
Three Sisters (2012 Wang Bing)
Songs My Brother Taught Me (2015 Chloe Zhao)
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013 Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
R100 (2013 Hitoshi Matsumoto)


Jackie (2016 Pablo Lorrain)
Cemetery of Splendor (2015 Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Fits (2015 Anna Rose Holmer)
Meek's Cutoff (2010 Kelly Reichardt)
Our Little Sister (2015 Hirokazu Koreeda)
Manifesto (2015 Julian Rosefeldt)
The Sleeping Beauty (2010 Catherine Breillat)
Aferim! (2015 Radu Jude)
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010 Sophie Fiennes)
The VVitch (2015 Robert Eggers)

Zama (2017 Lucrecia Martel)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012 Wes Anderson)
A Dangerous Method (2011 David Cronenberg)
Parched (2015 Leena Yadav)
Bahubali: The Conclusion (2017 S.S. Rajamouli)
Annihilation (2018 Alex Garland)
High Life (2018 Clair Denis)
Miss Hokusai (2015 Keiichi Hara)
Jauja (2014 Lisandro Alonso)
Carol (2015 Todd Haynes)

Good Time (2017 Josh & Benny Safdie)
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014 Olivier Assayas)
Timbuktu (2014 Abderrahmane Sissako)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012 Kathryn Bigelow)
Shin Godzilla (2015 Hideaki Anno)
The Lure (2015 Agnieszka Smoczyńska)
Fan (2016 Maneesh Sharma)
Have a Nice Day (2017 Liu Jian)
Counting (2015 Jem Cohen)
Lost in Paris (2016 Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel)

Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011 Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai)
Ghost in the Shell (2017 Rupert Sanders)
Goodbye to Language (2014 Jean-Luc Godard)
Ha Ha Ha (2010 Hong Sang-soo)
Certified Copy (2010 Abbas Kiarostami)
Anomalisa (2015 Charlie Kaufamn, Duke Johnson)
The Innocents (2016 Anne Fontaine)
Fast Five (2011 Justin Lin)
Into the Forest (2015 Patricia Rozema)
Shadow (2018 Zhang Yimou)

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013 Isao Takahata)
The Great Beauty (2013 Paolo Sorrentino)
Four Lions (2010 Chris Morris)
Wuthering Heights (2011 Andrea Arnold)
The Ornithologist 2016 Joao Pedro Rodrigues
Birdboy:The Forgotten Children (2015 Alberto Vazquez, Pedro Rivera)
The Grandmaster (2013 Wong Kar-wai)
Rowdy Rathore (2012 Prabhu Deva)
The Raid (2011 Gareth Evans)
Interstellar (2014 Christopher Nolan)

[greennui]

i have just over 300 films logged for 2010s. luckily greenui has given me an idea where to start here. altho i notice a distinct lack of johnnie to in his list

I've been meaning to watch his films but never been able to find a good entry point. I've got Drug War and Three watchlisted for this poll though.

[thoxans]

Drug War and Three

between those two (no pun intended), i'd start with drug war

[thoxans]

any judgement calls on miguel gomes' arabian nights? imo it should be considered a single work, but don't want to hurt its chances, if others plan on voting for it separately...

[oscarwerner]

(6)-bonus films with fewer than 2500 views on letterboxd:
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2017)
From Afar (Lorenzo Vigas, 2015)
Caesar Must Die (Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, 2012)
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Radu Jude, 2018)
Pororoca (Constantin Popescu, 2017)
--------
(5)
1. Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)
2. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
3. The Kid With a Bike (Dardenne Brothers, 2011)
4. In the House (Francois Ozon, 2012)
5. Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
6. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
7. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
8. The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2013)
9. The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskyj, 2014)
10. Western (Valeska Grisebach, 2017)
----------------
(4)
11.Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-Liang 2013)
12. Ida ( Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013)
13. Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013)
14. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
15. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
16. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)
17. Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
18. Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017)
19. Victoria (Sebastian Schipper, 2015)
20. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
----------------
(3)
21. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
22. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson, 2014)
23. Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan, 2013)
24. Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)
25. Pain & Glory ( Pedro Almodovar, 2019)
26. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
27. Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg, 2015)
28. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016)
29. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
30. The Square (Ruben Ostlund, 2017)
-----------------
(2)
31. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
32. Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh, 2014)
33. Birdman (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2014)
34. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh, 2017)
35. Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011)
36. The Club ( Pablo Larrain, 2015)
37. Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
38. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
39. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013)
40. Young & Beautiful ( Francois Ozon, 2013)
--------------------
(1)
41. The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
42. 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, 2010)
43. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)
44. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
45. Dallas Buyers Club (Jean Marc Vallee, 2013)
46. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
47. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 2011)
48. Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, 2012)
49. Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016)
50. Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)

[wba]

Puh, I was like "that decade sucked big time, so I doubt, that I'll come up with 50 favorites for the poll". But after checking letterboxd, this is the breakdown of my favorite films per year:

2019: 2
2018: 1
2017: 3
2016: 7
2015: 4
2014: 7
2013: 9
2012: 6
2011: 7
2010: 8

so that's actually 54 films. Ha! Just need to watch 1 more favorite (or maybe browse imdb for one which might not be listed on letterboxd yet...) to get to a full 55.

Still, as letterboxd says I've logged 648 films from the 2010s, it seems I've simply watched too much shit!

[kanafani]

OK chronological order. I set the first 5 to the least viewed movies from my list.

Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (Harun Farocki, 2013)
Vers Madrid! (The Burning Bright) (Sylvain George, 2012)
Toujours moins (Luc Moullet, 2010)
Wake (Subic) (John Gianvito, 2015)
Vapor Trail (Clark) (John Gianvito, 2010)

Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj, 2010)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz, 2010)
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010)
Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman, 2010)
May They Rest in Revolt (Figures of War) (Sylvain George, 2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán, 2010)
Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi, 2010)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica, 2010)
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo, 2011)
Mildred Pierce ( 2011)
This Is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi, 2011)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
Stemple Pass (James Benning, 2012)
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012)
Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012)
Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012)
The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt, 2012)
Passion (Brian De Palma, 2012)
Three Sisters (Wang Bing, 2012)
You Aint Seen Nothin Yet (Alain Resnais, 2012)
A Woman's Revenge (Rita Azevedo Gomes, 2012)
Viola (Matías Piñeiro, 2012)
What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto, 2013)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013)
Jealousy (Philippe Garrel, 2013)
Bastards (Claire Denis, 2013)
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher, 2013)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014)
Two Days, One Night (Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 2014)
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang, 2014)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014)
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman, 2015)
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
Nausea (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2015)
Forget Me Not (Kei Horie, 2015)
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (Abbas Fahdel, 2015)
Hermia and Helena (Matías Piñeiro, 2016)
Scarred Hearts (Radu Jude, 2016)
Ember (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2016)
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater, 2016)
The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra, 2016)
Mektoub, My Love (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2017)
Western (Valeska Grisebach, 2017)
Good Time (Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, 2017)
Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel, 2017)
On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo, 2017)
Kaala (Pa. Ranjith, 2018)

[sally]

6 bonus
L’Inconsolable (Jean-Marie Straub, 2011)
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (Alain Resnais, 2012)
The Gold Bug (Alejo Moguillansky, Fia-Stina Sandlund, 2014)
A Woman's Revenge (Rita Azevedo Gomes, 2012)
The Girl from Nowhere (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 2012)

5
Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)
Story of My Death (Albert Serra, 2013)
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz, 2010)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
Nausea (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2015)
Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo, 2010)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
Finisterrae (Sergio Caballero, 2010)

4
How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal (Eugène Green, 2018)
Le Saphir de Saint-Louis (José Luis Guerin, 2015)
Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller, 2010)
Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski, 2015)
Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi, 2010)
Caesar Must Die (Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, 2012)
Hard to be a God (Aleksey German, 2013)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway, 2015)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014)

3
A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj, 2010)
Father (José María de Orbe, 2010)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo, 2015)
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo, 2011)
Three Landscapes (Peter B Hutton, 2013)
Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 2012)
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, 2011)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison, 2016)
The First, the Last (Bouli Lanners, 2016)
Homo Sapiens (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2016)

2
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto, 2013)
João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved (Manuel Mozos, 2014)
Men Who Save the World (Liew Seng Tat, 2014)
In the Last Days of the City (Tamer El Said, 2016)
Life of Riley (Alain Resnais, 2014)
The Salt of Life (Gianni Di Gregorio, 2011)
I Am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang, 2016)
This is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi, 2011)
Futures Market (Mercedes Álvarez, 2011)

1
Sentimental Education (Júlio Bressane, 2013)
If I Were a Thief… I’d Steal (Paulo Rocha, 2013)
Story of My Hair (Boris Lehman, 2011)
Postcards from the Zoo (Edwin, 2012)
We Are Thankful (Joshua Magor, 2018)
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, 2013)
The Erotic Man (Jørgen Leth, 2010)
Little Baby Jesus of Flandr (Gust Van Den Berghe, 2010)
Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, 2016)
Content (Chris Petit, 2010)

[sally]

so so so so few women directors. you wouldn't know it's half the population.