Best of the 2010s Poll -- Results!

[flip]

I'll be posting the results of our best-of-the-decade poll in a minute. I decided to make a Top 250 list, so that even scfz'ers who voted for a lot of underseen films would find a few of their favourites on the final list.

A few details about the poll:

- we had 39 ballots in total, which is a lot - this was one of our biggest polls we've ever run
- an astounding (to me) 1061 different films got at least one vote
- the first place film got 53.2 points in total, almost 13 points more than the second place film, so we had a clear winner
- films in the top 100 had at least 12 points, so every film in the top 100 got at least three votes (none had two six-point votes)
- to make the top 250, films needed at least 7 points, so every film in the top 250 received at least two votes
- ties (few near the top of the list, many later on) were broken using letterboxd views (fewer views meant a higher placing)

I'd normally post stills from the top ten, but I don't want to spend the time right now working out a new image host (the one I used to use is defunct), but if someone else wants to do that feel free!

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films that just missed the top 250 -- these were either the films tied for the last spot (7 points) with the most views, or films with more than 6 but less than 7 points (so each got at least two votes):

Creed (Ryan Coogler, 2015)
Prometheus (Ridley Scott, 2012)
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010)
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, 2013)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017)
Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz, 2017)
Son of Saul (Laszlo Nemes, 2015)
A Restoration (Elizabeth Price, 2016)
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono, 2013)
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)
Birdman (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2014)
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, 2011)
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019)

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And finally... SCFZ's Top 250 Films of the 2010s:


1. The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011)
2. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)
3. Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
4. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz, 2010)
5. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
6. Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2015)
7. Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014)
8. Good Time (Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie, 2017)
9. Nausea (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2015)
10. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2013)
11. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012)
12. A Woman's Revenge (Rita Azevedo Gomes, 2012)
13. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
14. Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton, 2013)
15. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo, 2015)
16. The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones, 2014)
17. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
18. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
19. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
20. Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi, 2010)
21. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
22. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
23. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
24. 0.5 mm (Momoko Ando, 2014)
25. Mektoub, My Love (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2017)
26. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-Soo, 2011)
27. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
28. The Son of Joseph (Eugene Green, 2016)
29. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais, 2012)
30. Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014)
31. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
32. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013)
33. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
34. Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Jodie Mack, 2013)
35. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2015)
36. Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
37. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
38. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2019)
39. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
40. Parasite (Joon-ho Bong, 2019)
41. The Immigrant (James Gray, 2013)
42. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
43. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater, 2016)
44. Western (Valeska Grisebach, 2017)
45. Forget Me Not (Kei Horie, 2015)
46. Band Baaja Baaraat (Maneesh Sharma, 2010)
47. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015)
48. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson, 2014)
49. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
50. Maryada Ramanna (S.S. Rajamouli, 2010)
51. Drug War (Johnnie To, 2012)
52. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles, 2018)
53. Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
54. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
55. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Radu Jude, 2018)
56. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, 2019)
57. Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To, 2012)
58. Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo, 2010)
59. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel, 2012)
60. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)
61. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
62. Three Sisters (Wang Bing, 2012)
63. Stemple Pass (James Benning, 2012)
64. Caesar Must Die (Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, 2012)
65. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2014)
66. Hard to be a God (Aleksey German, 2013)
67. Victoria (Sebastian Schipper, 2015)
68. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
69. Finisterrae (Sergio Caballero, 2010)
70. The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010)
71. Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012)
72. Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010)
73. The House that Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
74. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder, 2016)
75. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
76. Nainsukh (Amit Dutta, 2010)
77. Brouillard: Passage #14 (Alexandre Larose, 2014)
78. Keyhole (Guy Maddin, 2011)
79. The Mill and the Cross (Lech Majewski, 2011)
80. Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, 2011)
81. Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
82. Sully (Clint Eastwood, 2016)
83. The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016)
84. Father (Jose Maria del Orbe, 2010)
85. White Nights on the Pier (Paul Vecchiali, 2014)
86. A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj, 2010)
87. Hermia and Helena (Matias Pineiro, 2016)
88. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (S.S. Rajamouli, 2017)
89. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013)
90. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013)
91. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
92. The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai, 2013)
93. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma, 2019)
94. Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2018)
95. Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013)
96. Glass (M. Night Shyamalan, 2018)
97. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012)
98. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2012)
99. Studies for the Decay of the West (Klaus Wyborny, 2010)
100. Ember (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2016)
101. My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa, 2010)
102. Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara, 2014)
103. Highway (Imtiaz Ali, 2014)
104. SPL 2: A Time for Consequences (Soi Cheang, 2014)
105. Cosmos (Andrzej Zulawski, 2015)
106. House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011)
107. Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman, 2010)
108. Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonca Filho, 2012)
109. Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)
110. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo, 2017)
111. Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017)
112. The Love Witch (Anna Biller, 2016)
113. Two Days, One Night (Dardenne Brothers, 2014)
114. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016)
115. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
116. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman/Duke Johnson, 2015)
117. Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)
118. The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)
119. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)
120. The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)
121. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
122. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
123. Knife+Heart (Yann Gonzalez, 2018)
124. The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (Mark Rappaport, 2015)
125. Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Simon Lavoie and Mathieu Denis, 2016)
126. Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (Abbas Fahdel, 2015)
127. Interrogation (Vetrimaaran, 2015)
128. Li'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont, 2014)
129. Norte, The End of History (Lav Diaz, 2013)
130. Bastards (Claire Denis, 2013)
131. Taxi (Jafar Panahi, 2015)
132. The Kid With a Bike (Dardenne Brothers, 2011)
133. Happy As Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)
134. Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
135. Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
136. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
137. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard, 2010)
138. Song to Song (Terrence Malick, 2017)
139. Joker (Raju Murugan, 2016)
140. Gebo and the Shadow (Manoel de Oliveira, 2012)
141. The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec, 2016)
142. Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To, 2011)
143. Eega (S.S. Rajamouli, 2012)
144. Oki's Movie (Hong Sang-soo, 2010)
145. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman, 2015)
146. Faust (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2011)
147. We Are the Flesh (Emiliano Rocha Minter, 2016)
148. Gueros (Alonso Ruizpalacios, 2014)
149. This Is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi, 2011)
150. Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki, 2011)
151. Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2015)
152. Knight of Cups (Terence Malick, 2015)
153. 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, 2010)
154. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch, 2017)
155. High Life (Claire Denis, 2018)
156. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
157. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, 2011)
158. Split (M. Night Shyamalan, 2016)
159. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
160. American Honey (Andrea Arnold, 2016)
161. Faces Places (Agnes Varda, 2017)
162. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
163. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016)
164. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)
165. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
166. Ruins Rider (Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt, 2017)
167. Century of Birthing (Lav Diaz, 2011)
168. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonca Filho, 2016)
169. Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011)
170. Thomas Mao (Zhu Wen, 2010)
171. The Parrot and the Swan (Alejo Moguillansky, 2013)
172. 2012 (Takashi Makino, 2013)
173. Aayirathil Oruvan (Selvaraghavan, 2010)
174. These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us (Michael Robinson, 2011)
175. A Century of Energy (Manoel de Oliveira, 2015)
176. Peranbu (Ram, 2019)
177. What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto, 2013)
178. The Girl from Nowhere (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 2012)
179. Maheshinte Prathikaaram (Dileesh Pothan, 2016)
180. A Bread Factory (Patrick Wang, 2018)
181. Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman, 2010)
182. From What is Before (Lav Diaz, 2014)
183. Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway, 2015)
184. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (John Hyams, 2012)
185. Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola, 2011)
186. Transit (Christian Petzold, 2018)
187. Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh, 2014)
188. Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
189. Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010)
190. The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine, 2019)
191. The Square (Ruben Ostlund, 2017)
192. Wild Tales (Damian Szifron, 2014)
193. La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016)
194. A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies, 2016)
195. The Lost City of Z (James Gray, 2016)
196. The Tiniest Place (Tatiana Huezo, 2011)
197. Fatso! (Rajat Kapoor, 2012)
198. The Militant (Manolo Nieto, 2013)
199. White Ash (Leighton Pierce, 2014)
200. Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (Axelle Ropert, 2013)
201. small roads (James Benning, 2011)
202. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica, 2010)
203. 9 Fingers (F.J. Ossang, 2017)
204. The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat, 2010)
205. Pariyerum Perumal (Maari Selvaraj, 2018)
206. Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman, 2011)
207. Story of My Death (Albert Serra, 2013)
208. From Afar (Lorenzo Vigas, 2015)
209. Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-Soo, 2013)
210. Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont, 2016)
211. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, 2015)
212. A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino, 2015)
213. Pompeii (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2014)
214. Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund, 2014)
215. A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011)
216. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
217. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2012)
218. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013)
219. The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski, 2013)
220. The Visit (M. Night Shyamalan, 2015)
221. The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)
222. Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018)
223. The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskyj, 2014)
224. Alms for a Blind Horse (Gurvinder Singh, 2011)
225. Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller, 2010)
226. Anaarkali of Aarah (Avinash Das, 2017)
227. Southwest (Eduardo Nunes, 2012)
228. Goltzius and the Pelican Company (Peter Greenaway, 2012)
229. Kaala (Pa. Ranjith, 2018)
230. Djinn (Tobe Hooper, 2013)
231. I Promise You Anarchy (Julio Hernandez Cordon, 2015)
232. La Flor (Mariano Llinas, 2018)
233. Homo Sapiens (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2016)
234. Blind Detective (Johnnie To, 2013)
235. Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010)
236. 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara, 2011)
237. Happy New Year (Farah Khan, 2014)
238. Domino (Brian De Palma, 2019)
239. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard, 2018)
240. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
241. The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013)
242. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
243. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014)
244. The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet, 2010)
245. Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2017)
246. Leave No Trace (Debra Granik, 2018)
247. Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)
248. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011)
249. Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
250. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen Brothers, 2018)

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biggest surprises to me:

- i had no idea phantom thread was so highly regarded around here, i would not have thought it would make the top five
- pleasant surprise to discover i've never heard of several of the films in the list, including about a half-dozen in the top 100 (and many more than that later on)

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blackhat number 6?? Y'all are seriously delusional...

[ofrene]

wow that was real surprise..

[wba]

nice to see The Homesman so far up the list.

13 of my 55 made it into the Top 250. Not bad.

[thoxans]

hong sang-soo, dir of the decade

[sally]

epic work flip!

[greennui]

That's a nice list, def exudes scfz.

[DT.]

^ Agreed. I think this is the best list we’ve come up with.

[Silga]

Really great work, Flip. Thanks for doing it!

30 of my 55 made it into the Top 250.

A bit surprised that Domino (Brian De Palma, 2019) made it to the list.

It was the worst film I've seen in 2019.

[josiahmorgan11]

This is an astonishing list. I think it really captures the scope of the community. Many of us, I think, don't 'associate' with 'movements,' but for ease of communication, I think there's a really broad subsection of classicists, vulgar auteurists, regular auteurists and those interested in extremely niche scenes here. It's great to see each of these things represented and none of them outbalancing the other (i.e. Blackhat makes the top 10 because it clearly appeals to a broader demographic than those of us just interested in Mann).

It's great, too, to see so many nations represented. I'll use this list in order to guide me through the 2010s stuff I've missed in future (and I suspect I'll one day go back and worm my way through the other abhorrent Marvel Cinematic Universe items).

Biggest surprises for me are that all Shyamalan films since The Visit made it onto the list, and that Djinn made it on at all. They're all films that I love (and they made my ballot!) but I was surprised to see that there was evidently some broader love for them out there.

I think I was surprised to see Carol rated so highly, too. I suppose I wasn't around SCFZ too much at the time of its release.

[rischka]

wow this is done already! good work everyone. 5 (or 6?) of my 30 in the top ten. good to see these two eccentric picks made top 50 too

45. Forget Me Not (Kei Horie, 2015)
46. Band Baaja Baaraat (Maneesh Sharma, 2010)

[liquidnature]

amazing list! Loved all the ones that I've seen on this list, but I'm very underseen overall - a great resource for future viewing.

[flip]

great to hear such a positive reaction to the list! i'm not sure it's our best list ever -- i have a very high opinion of our series of country polls -- but i think it's a very good list overall, and as josiah points out, it reflects the wide variety of interests of the community here. i think two things i did this time helped -- the bonus tier elevated a few underseen films a bit, and that gave the list a lot more colour. and going to 250 films meant everyone's tastes were reflected in the final list.

[flip]

i'll be posting it to letterboxd soon!

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okay this is up at letterboxd:

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

i've only seen 71 out of 250, which is great, lots of new films to discover!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Definitely share the sentiment of others! A diverse list that should serve as a good guide for future viewing. Kudos for all the work on it, flip/crypt!

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I've only seen 66 of the chosen films, so I don't have the strongest of opinions on the choices, since, of those I've seen, some are really good and some really not, but I do really appreciate the effort put into putting this all together, so my thanks for that, and, whatever else, the list is eclectic and in that way certainly representative of the site.

[thoxans]

terrible work, flip. this list suxxx. i'll be sure to riddle the boxd comments section with snarky retorts. that'll teach you

[rischka]

idle threats, you won't out yourself ^

i got 96/250

[Silga]

I have seen 87/250.

Thanks for Letterboxd list as well, Flip. Will use it as a reference for future exploration of 2010s.

[josiahmorgan11]

I've seen 144, the highest rated I haven't seen is Ming-Liang's Stray Dogs, something I've been meaning to get to for years and years and years...

[nrh]

98/100, which isn't bad i think. highest ranked i haven't seen is...the turin horse.

no idea exactly how letterboxd calculates their popularity statisctic, but it's kind of fascinating to sort the list that way...

[josiahmorgan11]

honestly nrh at a guess i'd say you wouldn't be the biggest fan of the turin horse anyway, but it's worth a look simply b/c it'll be the legacy statement for hungarian cinema for years to come, the way that the seventh seal is still the gold standard for scandinavia

[josiahmorgan11]

Sorting by popularity is really interesting. I had no idea the new Tarantino was such an apparent smash-hit, or that Scorsese still maintains non-niche credibility. I am SHOCKED that we managed to find 7 films less 'popular' than Vaillancourt's Ruins Rider, and kind of want to see Fatso! for the simple reason that it bottoms out the popularity count!

But LA FLOR is first on my priority list. I'm midway through Pt.2 right now and I just don't see the appeal. I think I 'get it' as a work of structural elegance but I don't feel the need for 14 hours of this. Will check back in once the whole thing is finished, I guess, but if anybody feels like illuminating intent/purpose/etc... let me know?

[ofrene]

174/250, highest ranked I haven't seen is Bulanti but I still have no interest about Zeki-.-

priority watchlist is A Woman's Revenge and Twin Peaks(gosh that was last year's resolution but..)

[greennui]

137/250

Films that I haven't seen that piqued my interest:

Aita
Nainsukh
The Tiniest Place
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
A Quiet Passion
Hermia & Helena
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves
We Are the Flesh

[Mauries]

Thanks Flip! Wonderful list.
Out of the top 25 I still need to watch:

4. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz, 2010)
15. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo, 2015)
16. The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones, 2014)
20. Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi, 2010)

A great new year’s resolution for 2020