Polling 2010-2019 -- End of Decade Poll

[flip]

Didn't mean to hold off until the last minute...

good to see you back! btw it's not last minute at all yet, i will be tabulating this very early in 2020, so ballots should be in by jan 1st

[Mauries]

I'd love to watch Forget Me Not. Can anyone maybe help me with a link? I can't find it anywhere

[rischka]

avistaZ

[kanafani]

I'd love to watch Forget Me Not. Can anyone maybe help me with a link? I can't find it anywhere

Check the place my friend (the find a film thread...)

[grabmymask]

Bonus:
Night Awake (Sandy Ding, 2016)
Studies for the Decay of the West (Klaus Wyborny, 2010)
American Falls (Phil Solomon, 2012)
Ruins Rider (Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt, 2017)
White Ash (Leighton Pierce, 2014)

Tier I:
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, 2011)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder, 2016)
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrman, 2013)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013)
The Tree of Life (Terence Malick, 2011)
La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016)
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)

Tier II:
Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, 2012)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler, 2017)
Good Time (Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, 2017)
The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017)

Tier III:
The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, 2015)
Searchers (Zacharias Kunuk, 2016)
Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016)
Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez, 2018)
The Lords of Salem (Rob Zombie, 2012)

Tier IV:
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)
Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
Son of Saul (Laszlo Nemes, 2015)
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies, 2016)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
John Wick Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski, 2017)
Goltzius and the Pelican Company (Peter Greenaway, 2012)
Melancholia (Lars Von Trier, 2011)
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014)
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)

Tier V:
Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono, 2013)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey, and Bob Persichetti, 2018)
Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010)
It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
Before We Vanish (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2017)
mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)

Really disappointed with how Hollywood-centric my list is... hopefully I can diversify my taste a bit more in the 2020s

[Pretentious Hipster]

OH GOD COMPLETELY FORGOT

Tier 1

The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011)
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, 2019)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica, 2010)
Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014)
Brouillard: Passage #14 (Alexandre Larose, 2014)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
2012 (Takashi Makino, 2013)
Twisted Pair (Neil Breen, 2018)
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)
El Sicario, Room 164 (Gianfranco Rosi, 2010)

Tier 2

Homo Sapiens (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2016)
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (John Hyams, 2012)
Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers, 2011)
Nausea (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2015)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie. 2013)
Behemoth (Zhao Liang, 2015)
Cocote (Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias, 2017)
Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel, 2012)
Over the Years (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2015)

Tier 3

Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara, 2014)
Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010)
The Immigrant (James Gray, 2013)
High Life (Claire Denis, 2018)
Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2012)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
'Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing, 2013)
The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine, 2019)
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)

Tier 4

Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
The Four Times (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010)
Ernest & Celestine (Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar, 2012)
The Other Side (Roberto Minervini, 2015)
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (Jan Svankmajer, 2010)
An Elephant Sitting Still (Bo Hu, 2018)
Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012)
Dredd (Pete Travis, 2012)
Planet of Snail (Yi Seung-jun, 2011)
Museum Hours (Jem Cohen, 2012)

Tier 5

Psalm IV: 'Valley of the Shadow' (Philip S. Solomon)
Greenery Will Bloom Again (Ermanno Olmi, 2014)
Aferim! (Radu Jude, 2015)
Hinterlands (Scott Barley, 2016)
In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman, 2015)
May They Rest in Revolt (Figures of War) (Sylvian George, 2010)
Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi, 2016)
The Comedy (Rick Alverson, 2012)
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies, 2016)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)

[roujin]

chronological

AAYIRATHIL ORUVAN (Selvaraghavan, 2010)
MARYADA RAMANNA (S.S. Rajamouli, 2010)
BAND BAAJA BAARAAT (Maneesh Sharma, 2010)
HIMIZU (Sion Sono, 2011)
LIFE BACK THEN (Takahisa Zeze, 2011)

A WOMAN'S REVENGE (Rita Azevedo Gomes, 2012)
FATSO! (Rajat Kapoor, 2012)
WOLF CHILDREN (Mamoru Hosoda, 2012)
THE GIRL FROM NOWHERE (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 2012)
TO THE WONDER (Terrence Malick, 2012)

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012)
LESSON OF THE EVIL (Takashi Miike, 2012)
DRUG WAR (Johnnie To, 2012)
THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar Wai, 2013)
NOBODY'S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sangsoo, 2013)

BASTARDS (Claire Denis, 2013)
THE IMMIGRANT (James Gray, 2013)
THE WIND RISES (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming Liang, 2013)
THE PARROT AND THE SWAN (Alejo Moguillansky, 2013)

THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA (Isao Takahata, 2013)
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
HIGHWAY (Imtiaz Ali, 2014)
PHOENIX (Christian Petzold, 2014)
HAIDER (Vishal Bhardwaj, 2014)

AMERICAN SNIPER (Clint Eastwood, 2014)
JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)
BLACKHAT (Michael Mann, 2015)
CAPRICE (Emmanuel Mouret, 2015)
FORGET ME NOT (Kei Horie, 2015)

SPL 2: A TIME FOR CONSEQUENCES (Soi Cheang, 2015)
GAROTO (Julio Bressane, 2015)
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater, 2016)
ELLE (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)
HERMIA & HELENA (Matías Piñeiro, 2016)

CLOSE-KNIT (Naoko Ogigami, 2017)
KAATRU VELIYIDAI (Mani Ratnam, 2017)
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker, 2017)
DOWNSIZING (Alexander Payne, 2017)
PHANTOM THREAD (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)

[nrh]

Joker (Raju Murugan, 2016)
The Parrot and the Swan (Alejo Moguillansky, 2013)
Band Baaja Baaraat (Maneesh Sharma, 2010)
0.5mm (Momoko Ando, 2014)
Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To, 2012)

1.
Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman, 2010)
Raavanan (Mani Ratnam, 2010)
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-Soo, 2013)
Fatso! (Rajat Kapoor, 2012)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones, 2014)
Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton, 2013)
Before We Vanish (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2017)
Attakathi (Pa. Ranjith, 2011)
Forget Me Not (Kei Horie, 2015)
The Midnight After (Fruit Chan, 2014)

2.
Hermia & Helena (Matias Piniero, 2016)
Isn't Anyone Alive? (Gakuryu Ishii, 2012)
Thomas Mao (Zhu Wen, 2010)
Onaayum Aattukkuttiyum (Mysskin, 2013)
Annayum Rasoolum (Rajeev Ravi, 2013)
Tirez La Langue, Mademoiselle (Axelle Ropert, 2013)
Miss Lovely (Ashim Ahluwalia, 2012)
Nainsukh (Amit Dutta, 2010)
Maryadda Ramanna (S.S. Rajamouli, 2010)
A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop, 2013)

3.
Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (Dileesh Pothan, 2017)
Sanchû Uprising: Voices at Dawn (Juichiro Yamasaki)
Ai to Makoto (Takashi Miike, 2012)
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013)
Noukadubi (Rituparno Ghosh, 2011)
Gebo and the Shadow (Manoel de Oliveira, 2012)
Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller, 2010)
Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Love, 2016)
Keyhole (Guy Maddin, 2011)
Aadukalam (Vetrimaaran, 2011)


4.
Chevalier (Athena Rachel Tsangari, 2015)
A Death in the Gunj (Konkona Sen Sharma, 2016)
Highway (Imtiaz Ali, 2014)
Peranbu (Ram, 2018)
Avan Ivan (Bala, 2011)
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz, 2010)
The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio, 2019)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)
Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2014)

5.
Vikram Vedha (Pushkar-Gayathri, 2017)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2013)
Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola (Vishal Bhardwaj, 2013)
Anaarkali of Aarah (Avinash Das, 2017)
SPL 2: A Time for Consequences (Soi Cheang, 2014)
Pariyerum Perumal (Mari Selvaraj, 2018)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais, 2012)
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-Wai, 2013)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011)


somehow found if difficult to put this list together; it still feels *wrong* in a way. one film per director, for whatever reason.

[flip]

i'll be tallying this soon, very early in the new year, so please get ballots posted/edited in the next couple of days!

[Pretentious Hipster]

Edited my list to include Vitalina Varela

[rischka]

updated -- still only 30 films lol

[blueboy]

Happy new year to everyone


6points
01. karamay (xu xin, 2010)
02. vitalina varela (pedro costa, 2019)
03. living and knowing you're alive (alain cavalier, 2019)
04. the dreamed path (angela schanelec, 2016)
05. father (jose maria de orbe, 2010)

5points
06. the tiniest place (tatiana huezo, 2011)
07. le fort des fous (narimane mari, 2017)
08. gens du lac (jean-marie straub, 2018)
09. malgre la nuit (philippe grandrieux, 2015)
10. the anabasis of may and fusako shigenobu, masao adachi and 27 years without images (eric baudelaire, 2011)
11. about endlessness (roy andersson, 2019)
12. the image book (jean-luc godard, 2018)
13. southwest (eduardo nunes, 2011)
14. goodbye (mohammad rasoulof, 2011)
15. inori (pedro gonzalez-rubio, 2012)

4points
16. meteors (gurcan keltek, 2017)
17. goodbye to language (jean-luc godard, 2014)
18. dream and silence (jaime rosales, 2012)
19. the dreamed ones (ruth beckermann, 2016)
20. what now? remind me (joaquim pinto, 2013)
21. winter vacation (hongqi li, 2010)
22. horse money (pedro costa, 2014)
23. leviathan (lucien castaing-taylor & verena paravel, 2012)
24. three sisters (bing wang, 2012)
25. neruda (pablo larrain, 2016)

3points
26. episode of the sea (siebren de haan & lonnie van brummelen, 2014)
27. arraianos (eloy enciso, 2012)
28. jin (reha erdem, 2013)
29. talking about trees (suhaib gasmelbari, 2019)
30. the turin horse (bela tarr, 2011)
31. a useful life (federico veiroj, 2010)
32. bloody beans (narimane mari, 2013)
33. the mill and the cross (lech majewski, 2011)
34. post tenebras lux (carlos reygadas, 2012)
35. the club (pablo larrain, 2015)

2points
36. film socialisme (jean-luc goddard, 2010)
37. malaventura (michel lipkes, 2011)
38. yourself and yours (sang-soo hong, 2016)
39. kotoko (shin'ya tsukamoto, 2011)
40. the tale of iya (tetsuichiro tsuta, 2013)
41. nocturama (bertrand bonello, 2016)
42. a spell to ward off the darkness (ben rivers & ben russels, 2013)
43. sleep has her house (scott barley, 2017)
44. the nothing factory (pedro pinho, 2017)
45. closeness (kantemir balagov, 2017)

1point
46. it may be that beauty has strengthened our resolve: masao adachi (philippe grandrieux, 2011)
47. jean gentil (israel cardenas & laura amelia guzman, 2010)
48. bleak street (arthuro ripstein, 2015)
49. milla (valerie massadian, 2017)
50. the apostate (federico veiroj, 2015)
51. the pearl button (patricio guzman, 2015)
52. stop the pounding heart (roberto minervini, 2013)
53. chevalier (athina rachel tsangari, 2015)
54. three landscapes (peter b. hutton, 2013)
55. til madness do us part (bing wang, 2013)

[rischka]

happy new year nikos

[therouxxx]

Single tier, unranked:

Tanu Weds Manu (Aanand L. Rai, 2011)
Tanu Weds Manu Returns (Aanand L. Rai, 2015)
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012)
Downsizing (Alexander Payne, 2017)
American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016)
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 (Anurag Kashyap, 2012)
Manmarziyaan (Anurag Kashyap, 2018)
Naachiyaar (Bala, 2018)
Li'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont, 2014)
The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood, 2018)

Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012)
Happy New Year (Farah Khan, 2014)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo, 2015)
Highway (Imtiaz Ali, 2014)
Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali, 2015)
The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2017)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016)
Win It All (Joe Swanberg, 2017)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To, 2014)
Chasing Dream (Johnnie To, 2019)

The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig, 2016)
Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016)
Pariyerum Perumal (Maari Selvaraj, 2018)
Band Baaja Baaraat (Maneesh Sharma, 2010)
Fan (Maneesh Sharma, 2016)
OK Kanmani (Mani Ratnam, 2015)
Kaatru Veliyidai (Mani Ratnam, 2017)
Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro, 2017)
Sollers Point (Matthew Porterfield, 2018)
Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2014)

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, 2015)
Paddington 2 (Paul King, 2017)
Thanga Meenkal (Ram, 2015)
Taramani (Ram, 2017)
Peranbu (Ram, 2018)
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater, 2016)
Noukadubi (Rituparno Ghosh, 2011)
Creed (Ryan Coogler, 2015)
Maryada Ramanna (S.S. Rajamouli, 2010)
Eega (S.S. Rajamouli, 2012)

Enthiran (Shankar, 2010)
I (Shankar, 2015)
October (Shoojit Sircar, 2018)
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (Takahisa Zeze, 2018)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones, 2014)
Unstoppable (Tony Scott, 2010)
Aadukalam (Vetri Maaran, 2011)
Vada Chennai (Vetri Maaran, 2018)
Haider (Vishal Bhardwaj, 2014)
Rangoon (Vishal Bhardwaj, 2017)

[flip]

ok, here's the plan:

- i move in to my new place today. i won't have internet installed until friday (so probably won't be on the forum at all for 48 hours), so my plan is to copy the ballots posted so far right now, tally up everything, and then check back on friday to see if there are new ballots or edits to existing ballots, then adjust the tally and post the final results.

- so if you want to edit an already-posted ballot, please do not edit your original post. instead, quote your earlier ballot, and make a brand new post with your updated ballot, so i can compare the two and work out from there how to adjust the tally-in-progress.

- new ballots still welcome, but i will likely close the poll on saturday unless someone needs more time

[josiahmorgan11]

flip - thanks for your help. I have two amendments to make to my ballot; just remove my one-point votes for 'Glass' and 'Under the Silver Lake' and replace them with

Marriage Story [Noah Baumbach]
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? [Richard Linklater]

[thoxans]

i'll wait to post my ballot. will try to sneak in some 2012 watches for both this and the year poll

[flip]

i made an edit to my ballot too, watched good time which was amazing so added it and took out bad genius

[flip]

i'll wait to post my ballot. will try to sneak in some 2012 watches for both this and the year poll

i was hoping to post the results very early in the new year, so if you can get a ballot in very soon that would be great - i've tallied all the ballots so far.

[Mauries]

I just added 3 films to my last tier that I watched last weeks (I left 3 spots open in my original ballot). Thanks Flip!

[thoxans]

very soon

will do, flip! days off work always mess with my sense of time, so when you mentioned a saturday close to the poll, i was sitting here thinking, 'oh boy i've got like a whole week to still watch stuff la dee da,' but now i realize that saturday is actually tomorrow, and i don't want to hold things up (i started rajamouli's eega tho, and it's great so far)

[greennui]

I updated my list a few days ago. Transit ended up being the highest newest entry since the inception of the poll, really liked it.

[ralch]

Updated my list:
took out If Beale Street Could Talk from tier 2 (26-50)
moved Leap Year (Rowe) from tier 1 (1-25) to tier 2
added Spotlight (McCarthy) to tier 1.

[karl]

Since I closed the old Letterboxed and reopened it all the old "log" is gone (I only have two logged for 2016, for example) and I don't really remember what I've seen the last ten years nor much care as I think the 21st century the worst twenty years by far in the history of the flickers and the last ten worse than the first.

magic 5:
Chronicles of the Time of Troubles (Eisner)
The Door (Szabo)
Chantrapas (Iosseliani)
Tokyo Family (Yamada)
Postcard (Shindo)


and then i think these're 50, in no order.

The Immigrant (Gray)
The Ghost (Polanski) (aka The Ghost Writer - a title that misses the joke)
Carnage (Polanski)
A Separation
The Past (Farhadi)
The Deep Blue Sea (Davies)
House of Tolerance
The Son of Joseph (Green)
La Sapienza (Green)
Roma
Burning (Lee)
Poetry (Lee)
Certified Copy
Shoplifters (Koreeda)
The Public (Estevez)
Green Book (Farelly) - That's right, the Best Picture Oscar winner all the highbrows hate!
Parasite (Bong)
My Joy (Loznitsa)
Hell or High Water
Lincoln
The Phantom Thread
Oki's Movie
Ha Ha Ha
The Day He Arrives
The Kid with a Bike
Two Days, One Night
The Homesman
Mr. Turner
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Post Tenebras Lux
The Gardner (Makhmalbaf)
The Act of Killing
The Look of Silence
Essential Killing
Museum Hours
Searching for Sugar Man
Amour
Thérèse Desqueyroux (Miller)
Gebo and the Shadow
A Touch of Sin
Argentinian Lesson (Staron)
Night Train to Lisbon (August)
The Grandmaster (Wong)
Phoenix (Petzold)
Uncle Boonmie Who Can Recall
Cemetery of Splendor
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The First Man (Amelio)
A Simple Life (Hui)
Hanji (Im)

[flip]

josiah, mauries, ralch -- thanks, i've made those changes! and i'll add in karl's ballot to the tally now

[flip]

Best-of-the-2010s SCFZ poll trivia quiz! Some of the answers are subject to change as the last ballot(s) come in:

1. Which film did better:
Joker (Raju Murugan, 2016)
Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019)

2. Which film did better:
Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor/Verena Paravel, 2012)
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)

the next two questions are probably more interesting if you don't look up the award winners:

3. Which two Best Picture winners did not get a single vote? (there were four of them before yesterday, but two just got their first votes)

4. Which two Palme d'Or winners did not get a single vote?

5. Which of our "Best of 201X" end-of-year poll winners is or are no longer the highest-ranking films from their year in this poll?

2015: Carol (Todd Haynes)
2016: Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
2017: Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie)
2018: The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)

[flip]

All Of Me (

there are 13 films from the 2010s on imdb with this title, and three on letterboxd, so i don't know what you're voting for

[wba]

as I think the 21st century the worst twenty years by far in the history of the flickers and the last ten worse than the first.

Couldn't have said it better!

And I also enjoyed The Green Book very much (more than shitty stuff like BlackKklansman or such), but it wouldn't make any of my list. Well, maybe my list of "least annoying Best Picture Oscar nominees of the last 20 years".

[john ryan]

1. Joker (Ruju Murugan, 2016)
2. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor/Verena Paravel, 2012)
3. Green Book and The King's Speech (several feel correct)
4. I, Daniel Blake and The Square (just because it took me the longest to remember these two)
5. 2016: Toni Erdmann and 2018: The Favourite

[DT.]

1. Joker (Ruju Murugan, 2016)
2. Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
3. The King's Speech and Argo
4. Winter Sleep and Dheepan
5. Toni Erdmann and The Favourite