SCFZ 6th Annual Top 100 Poll!

[nrh]

was determined to make a list from scratch, more or less only made up from what i've watched or re-watched in the last few years. which became difficult since it turns out i haven't really made any comprehensive notes on what i've seen over the last few years. so it's a weird list in a lot of ways, maybe not all that representative, but feels right at the moment. not sure the tiers quite make sense.

Pestonjee (Vijaya Mehta, 1987)
Percy (Pervez Mehrwanji, 1989)
Pithamagan (Bala, 2003)
Jait Re Jait (Jabbar Patel, 1977)
Utsav (girish Karnad, 1984)


The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah, 1970)
Femmes Femmes (Paul Vecchiali, 1974)
Rangeela (Ram Gopal Varma, 1995)
Raavanan (Mani Ratnam, 2010)
The Prince of Homburg (Marco Bellocchio, 1997)
The Kingdom of Naples (Werner Schroeter, 1978)
The Naked Dawn (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1955)
Tennessee’s Partner (Allan Dwan, 1955)
Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973)
Barabbas (Richard Fleischer, 1961)

Meeting a Milestone (Goutam Ghose, 1989)
Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa (Buddhadeb Dasgupta, 2013)
Antarmahal (Rituparno Ghosh, 2005)
Simone Barbes or Virtue (Marie-Claude Treilhou, 1980)
Joker (Raju Murugan, 2016)
Kaala (Pa. Ranjith, 2018)
Aspern (Eduardo de Gregorio, 1982)
Le Fantome de Longstaff (Luc Moullet, 1996)
Pilotinnen (Christian Petzold, 1995)
Peaux de Vaches (Patricia Mazuy, 1989)

Etoile Violette (Axelle Ropert, 2005)
Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli, 1956)
El Sacrificio de Nehuen Puyelli (Jose Celestino Campusano, 2016)
Valarthumrugangal (T Hariharan, 1981)
Imsai Arasan 23am Pulikesi (Chimbu Devan, 2006)
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (Aditya Chopra, 2008)
The Blind Owl (Raul Ruiz, 1990)
Nandha (Bala, 2001)
Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974)
Ek Din Pratidin (Mrinal Sen, 1979)

Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur, 1946)
Saagar (Ramesh Sippy, 1985)
Pudhupettai (Selvaraghavan, 2006)
Sparrow (Johnnie To, 2008)
Secret Beyond the Door (Fritz Lang, 1947)
The Pit and the Pendulum (Alexandre Astruc, 1964)
The Pit and the Pendulum (Roger Corman, 1961)
The Whole Shootin’ Match (Eagle Pennell, 1978)
White Fang (Lucio Fulci, 1973)
Anniyan (Shankar, 2005)

Tempting Heart (Sylvia Chang, 1999)
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorcese, 1993)
Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola (Vishal Bhardwaj, 2013)
Pariyerum Perumal (Mari Selvraj, 2018)
Avan Ivan (Bala, 2011)
His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986)
La Mirage (Jean-Claude Guiguet, 1992)
Uma Pedro no Bolso (Joaquim Pinto, 1988)
The Last Dive (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1992)
His Highness Abdullah (Sibi Malayil, 1990)

[flip]

thanks nrh! i'll add myself to the list of people still planning to edit/post a ballot, i meant to more radically update my list from last year.

but unless someone else posts to let me know they're still working on their ballot, i'll start tallying as soon as john ryan, thoxans, rischka and i have final lists up.

[john ryan]

Sorry for the wait

Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947)
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen, 2000)
Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman, 1997)
The Hour of the Furnaces (Fernando E. Solanas, Octavio Getino, 1968)
It Rains in My Village (Aleksander Petrovic, 1968)

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Hiroshima mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962)
Day for Night (Francois Truffaut, 1973)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953)
Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1957)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)

Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968)
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933)
Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou, 1987)
One Week (Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, 1920)

The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
The Ballad of Narayama (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1958)
The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
Head-on (Fatih Akin, 2004)
Dekalog (Krzystof Kieslowski, 1989)
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982)
Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth, 1959)

Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau, Alan Mak, 2002)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)
The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet, 2010)
Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein, 1938)
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus, 1959)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971)

[thoxans]

yeah, apologies for the delay. my normally bad-to-subpar internet has been nigh nonexistent-to-unusable today, while we deal with remnants of a tropical storm. will try to get something in asap. this is what i get for waiting until the last minute...

[rischka]

don't wait on me i can't make myself do it. i need something more focused at the moment. anyways y'all should know me well enough to make a list for me

i'm sorry

[flip]

i'm not really waiting on anyone, there's no deadline, so if you'd post a list in a week if i left the poll open that long, i'd be happy to do that. i can just use your list from last year too if that's okay with you

[rischka]

i could use my icm favorites list, that would be a little bit different

[thoxans]

storms have passed, so will get back to work on this today!

[rischka]

i have a plan too - i am not allowing myself to include any film from my previous 50 (so... my most favorites sit on the bench )

reading some of the other lists i see they're mostly well represented anyway. i thought of not including any film on anyone's current list but it's too
much to keep track of

[lineuphere]

Hi, all. Just joined this forum. Recognizing many of you from other online film joints.
Here's my list, if you'll have it...

Resurrection (Mikhail Shveitser, 1960)
A False Student (Yasuzo Masumura, 1960)
Still Life (Houshang Baharlou, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Morteza Momayyez, 1974)
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Jiri Weiss, 1960)
A Hole of My Own Making (Tomu Uchida, 1955)

Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
The General (Keaton/Bruckman, 1926)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943)

City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanely Kubrick, 1968)100
Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu, 1957)
Forbidden Games (Rene Clement, 1952)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)

Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)

Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1959)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, 1975)
The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
Where Is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
In the Mood for Love (Kar-Wai Wong, 2000)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)

Le Jour se leve (Marcel Carne, 1939)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960)

[rischka]

no ranking so 3 pts for everything

Petition (Liang Zhao, 2009)
The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev/Leonid Trauberg, 1929)
Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg, 1931)
The Love Eterne (Li Han-Hsiang, 1963)
Recollections of the Yellow House (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1989)
In the White City (Alain Tanner, 1983)
Another Sky (Gavin Lambert, 1954)
North on Evers (James Benning, 1992)
Alyonka (Boris Barnet, 1962)
The Stone Wedding (Mircea Veroiu/Dan Pita, 1973)
I by Day, You by Night (Ludwig Berger, 1932)
Turumba (Kidlat Tahimik, 1981)
The Wolves (Kaneto Shindo, 1955)
The Whisperers (Bryan Forbes, 1967)
The Alley (Yang Yanjin, 1981)
Adoption (Marta Meszaros, 1975)
A Free Woman (Vittorio Cottafavi, 1954)
PTU (Johnnie To, 2003)
The Savage Innocents (Nicolas Ray, 1960)
Dzhamilya (Irina Poplavskay, 1969)
A Borrowed Life (Wu Nien-jen, 1994)
Coeur Fidele (Jean Epstein, 1923)
News from Home ( Chantal Akerman, 1976)
Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002)
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light (Yuzo Kawashima, 1956)
The Naked Dawn (Edgar Ulmer, 1955)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Anderson, 2003)
Aventurera (Alberto Gout, 1950)
The River Fuefuki (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1960)
Tlayucan (Luis Alcoriza, 1962)
Strike! (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
La Casa del Angel (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, 1957)
The Underworld Story (Cy Endfield, 1950)
State Fair (Henry King, 1933)
Pirosmani (Giorgi Shengalaia, 1969)
Guide (Vijay Anand, 1965)
Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat, 1991)
Irezumi (Yasuzo Masumura, 1966)
Tih Minh (Louis Feuillade, 1918)
It's Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1955)
Casa de Lava (Pedro Costa, 1994)
Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (Leonardo Favio, 1975)
Les films Reves (Eric Pauwels, 2010)
Romance in a Minor Key (Helmut Kautner, 1943)
The Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg, 1971)
Time Stood Still (Ermanno Olmi, 1959)
Two Days (Grigori Stobovoi, 1927)
A Woman's Revenge (Rita Azevedo Gomes, 2012)
Love in the Time of Twilight (Hark Tsui, 1995)
Siberiada (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1979)

https://letterboxd.com/rischka/list/another-50/

1 per director and left out a bunch of my favorite directors to spotlight some oddball favorites most of which i've seen because of you people cheers

[rischka]

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

uli_cain, filn snob! i bet he still looks in

[MrCarmady]

ha, you have two of my three recommendations to wba on there! only seen 9 in total, though, yeesh

[Holymanm]

i've seen 0 of those but plz remember to format precisely so flip will have an easy job and not flip out

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i've seen 0 of those but plz remember to format precisely so flip will have an easy job and not flip out

you' haven't seen love in the time of twilight? or strike?

[Mauries]

I love this sudden Pirosmani hype <3

(with hype I mean 4 votes in total )

[rischka]

I love this sudden Pirosmani hype <3

(with hype I mean 4 votes in total )

[rischka]

i've seen 0 of those but plz remember to format precisely so flip will have an easy job and not flip out

what's wrong with the format i thought i did it correctly

[Holymanm]

i've seen 0 of those but plz remember to format precisely so flip will have an easy job and not flip out

what's wrong with the format i thought i did it correctly

"dishonored (sternberg 1931)"
vs
"Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg, 1931)" (not sure if the capitalisation matters, but yeah)

flip can correct me if i'm wrong... but it's not just to be a stickler, but rather so when you paste the individual lists onto the master list, or something, then exactly the same movie will show up each time, and there's no need for extra work with manual counting or interpreting and so on

[rischka]

ok officer i will comply

edit: caught some spelling errors too

edit2: inserted a comma after each name, let me know if there's anything else

[Holymanm]

yeah looks good now! and i have actually seen one of them; quel miracle

[Monsieur Arkadin]

5 tiers of 10 + Bonus Tier. I made a point to keep only 1 film per director, and to try to lean heavier towards recent discoveries/new favorites where possible. But there are a lot of longtime favorites on here.

Bonus Tier:
1.Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman, 2002)
2.Bait (Mark Jenkin, 2019)
3.The Dupes (Tewfik Saleh, 1973)
4. Innocent Sorcerers (Andrzej Wajda, 1960)
5. Pleasure Cruise (Frank Tuttle, 1933)


1. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2005)
2. Dillinger is Dead (Marco Ferrari, 1969)
3. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
4. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
5. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
6. Destroy, She Said (Marguerite Duras, 1969)
7. Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda, 1965)
8. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-Soo, 2015)
9. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
10. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965

1. The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011)
2. The Cameraman (Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgewick, 1928)
3. Full Moon in Paris (Eric Rohmer, 1984)
4. The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman, 1969)
5. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
6. First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
7. Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012)
8. Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009)
9. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
10. Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kumel, 1971)

1. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
2. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
3. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
4. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
5. The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957)
6. Repentance (Tengiz Abuladze, 1984)
7. F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
8. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
9. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog, 1970)
10. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)

1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
2. The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969)
3. Struggle in the Valley (Youssef Chahine, 1954)
4. Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg, 1980)
5. Chafed Elbows (Robert Downey Sr., 1969)
6. Targets (Peter Bogdanavich, 1969)
7. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
9. At Land (Maya Deren, 1944)
10. Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2009)

1. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)
2. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
3. Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude-Chabrol, 1960)
4. Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
5. Hard To Be A God (Aleksey Germain, 2013)
6. A Serious Man (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2009)
7. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
8. The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)
9. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel, 1977)
10. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)

[flip]

thanks rischka! the formatting does help me out a lot you do have the option to elevate five (preferably underseen) films to a top tier for extra points, and then you could add five films to the rest of your ballot, if you want to

beside that, as far as i'm aware, we're only waiting for two things:

- for a ballot from thoxans
- for me to edit my ballot, since i basically just posted mine from last year and i want to change a few things

if anyone else is planning to edit or post a ballot, please let me know, because otherwise i'll start tallying once thoxans and i get our ballots in

[thoxans]

a ballot from

pinky swear i've been working on it steadily since tues, when the storm finally passed. got to fifty-five yesterday, and have just been interchanging a handful of titles here and there, until i whittle this thing down to something that seems a genuine representation of my real favs in the here and now, and i'm almost there! might just be my best list yet...

[---]

i look fwd to this list

[thoxans]

spoiler alert: it's got a lot of chitty chitty bang bang on it

[---]

how many times did u vote for it

[thoxans]

wait. is there a max # of times we can vote for a flick? that's gonna make putting this into tiers a lot more difficult...

[MrCarmady]

thanks rischka! the formatting does help me out a lot you do have the option to elevate five (preferably underseen) films to a top tier for extra points, and then you could add five films to the rest of your ballot, if you want to

beside that, as far as i'm aware, we're only waiting for two things:

- for a ballot from thoxans
- for me to edit my ballot, since i basically just posted mine from last year and i want to change a few things

if anyone else is planning to edit or post a ballot, please let me know, because otherwise i'll start tallying once thoxans and i get our ballots in

I was uhming and ahing, gonna do some minor tweaks today and let you know. Should I edit the original post or post a new one?

[flip]

I was uhming and ahing, gonna do some minor tweaks today and let you know. Should I edit the original post or post a new one?

please edit the original post, thanks!

if you can let me know when you're ready, that would be great. once i start tallying, i won't allow further edits at all, because they're too difficult to accommodate if i've already factored in a ballot.