SCFZ Best of 2024
I'm starting up our annual best of the year poll, where we poll our favourite films released last year:
• post a list of your favourite films from 2024
-- you can list no more than half of the 2024 films you have seen, up to a maximum of 10, except:
--- if you have seen between 40 and 59 feature films from last year: then you can list up to 11 films
--- if you have seen 60 or more feature films from last year: then you can list up to 12 films
• ranked ballots are *strongly* encouraged (if you aren't sure how to rank, maybe rank in reverse-order of letterboxd views, to give more weight to films less likely to get other votes). Unless you tell me otherwise, I'll assume your ballot is ranked.
• scoring for ranked ballots will be on the usual 1-2-3-4-...-max scale (so a three-film ranked ballot will award 3, 2 and 1 points to the three films)
• unranked ballots will award the same total points as a ranked one would, but awarding an equal number of points to each film. So a ten-film unranked ballot, say, will award 5.5 points per film
• feel free to post a ballot now and edit it later - no need to let me know about changes unless you make changes on the day of the deadline, which is just before Oscars night. As usual, I'll post the results on Academy Award day, which is March 2 this year
• voters can decide which films are eligible for the poll -- anything released in 2024 is clearly eligible, as are any 2023 festival releases that weren't available for most people to watch until 2024. that said, any film that received support in our best of 2023 poll (https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... scfz-poll/) is not eligible for the 2024 poll
deadline: March 1, 2023 at noon ET
I'll start the never-very-popular Academy Awards poll in a separate thread, nominations were announced today
Best of 2024 Poll!
edit -- the list i posted a month ago was horrible, but i've watched a lot now, my current top three i think are outstanding films, and the rest of my list i like quite a bit
1. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
2. Stress Positions (Theda Hammel)
3. Souleymane's Story (Boris Lojkine)
4. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
5. I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
6. The Order (Justin Kurzel)
7. Santosh (Sandhrya Suri)
8. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
9. All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
10. The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux)
11. Saturday Night (Jason Reitman)
12. A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg)
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13. Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)
1. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
2. Stress Positions (Theda Hammel)
3. Souleymane's Story (Boris Lojkine)
4. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
5. I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
6. The Order (Justin Kurzel)
7. Santosh (Sandhrya Suri)
8. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
9. All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
10. The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux)
11. Saturday Night (Jason Reitman)
12. A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg)
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13. Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)
1. Merry Christmas (Sriram Raghavan)
2. Un Prince (Pierre Creton)
3. Kottukaali (PS Vinothraj)
4. Meiyazhagan (C. Prem Kumar)
5. Territorio (Jose Celestino Campusano)
6. Ruka on the Road (Shunji Iwai)
7. Raayan (Dhanush)
8. Stress Positions (Theda Hammel)
9. Vaazhai (Mari Selvraj)
10. La Practica (Martin Rejtman)
11. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang)
12. Scorched Earth (Thomas Arslan)
2. Un Prince (Pierre Creton)
3. Kottukaali (PS Vinothraj)
4. Meiyazhagan (C. Prem Kumar)
5. Territorio (Jose Celestino Campusano)
6. Ruka on the Road (Shunji Iwai)
7. Raayan (Dhanush)
8. Stress Positions (Theda Hammel)
9. Vaazhai (Mari Selvraj)
10. La Practica (Martin Rejtman)
11. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang)
12. Scorched Earth (Thomas Arslan)
I've only seen 18 films from 2024:
1. Maria (Pablo Larraín)
2. Sons (Gustav Möller)
3. Forever-Forever (Anna Buryachkova)
4. Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass)
5. Dormitory (Nehir Tuna)
6. Crossing (Levan Akin)
7. My Favourite Cake (Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha)
8. The Successor (Xavier Legrand)
9. Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega)
10. Excursion (Una Gunjak)
1. Maria (Pablo Larraín)
2. Sons (Gustav Möller)
3. Forever-Forever (Anna Buryachkova)
4. Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass)
5. Dormitory (Nehir Tuna)
6. Crossing (Levan Akin)
7. My Favourite Cake (Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha)
8. The Successor (Xavier Legrand)
9. Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega)
10. Excursion (Una Gunjak)
Last edited by Silga on Thu Feb 27, 2025 11:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.
seen over +80 2024 films so far and I think I'll see up to 100 before the deadline.
still a lot of movies I haven't seen yet, but not many of them will be available before the deadline(Grand Tour releases in March, etc...) I think this will actually be the final list.
Of course, if there's anything more to add, it could change..
edit : seen 95 (missed : A Different Man, Grand Tour, Hard Truths, Megalopolis, Souleymane’s Story, etc...)
two 2023 movies included (these are not mentioned at 2023 poll)
Juror #2
The Beast (2023 stuff)
All We Imagine as Light
By the Stream
Youth (Hard Times)
The Voices of the Silenced (2023 stuff)
Chime
Misericordia
All the Long Nights
Caught By the Tides
No Other Land
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État
also recommandable (alphabetical order)
Dahomey
Daughters
The Diary of a Sky
Direct Action
Dying
Nickel Boys
I Saw the TV Glow
The Invisible Zoo
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
Youth (Homecoming)
still a lot of movies I haven't seen yet, but not many of them will be available before the deadline(Grand Tour releases in March, etc...) I think this will actually be the final list.
Of course, if there's anything more to add, it could change..
edit : seen 95 (missed : A Different Man, Grand Tour, Hard Truths, Megalopolis, Souleymane’s Story, etc...)
two 2023 movies included (these are not mentioned at 2023 poll)
Juror #2
The Beast (2023 stuff)
All We Imagine as Light
By the Stream
Youth (Hard Times)
The Voices of the Silenced (2023 stuff)
Chime
Misericordia
All the Long Nights
Caught By the Tides
No Other Land
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État
also recommandable (alphabetical order)
Dahomey
Daughters
The Diary of a Sky
Direct Action
Dying
Nickel Boys
I Saw the TV Glow
The Invisible Zoo
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
Youth (Homecoming)
Last edited by ofrene on Sat Mar 01, 2025 5:30 am, edited 2 times in total.
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connordenney
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First time posting on this forum in a very long time, so let me know if I'm doing anything wrong here!
01. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams) - 2023 premiere
02. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello) - 2023 premiere
03. Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
04. Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
05. No Other Land (Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, & Yuval Abraham)
06. Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski)
07. Eureka (Lisandro Alonso) - 2023 premiere
08. Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho) - 2023 premiere
09. Coup de chance (Woody Allen) - 2023 premiere
10. La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) - 2023 premiere
11. Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)
01. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams) - 2023 premiere
02. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello) - 2023 premiere
03. Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
04. Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
05. No Other Land (Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, & Yuval Abraham)
06. Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski)
07. Eureka (Lisandro Alonso) - 2023 premiere
08. Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho) - 2023 premiere
09. Coup de chance (Woody Allen) - 2023 premiere
10. La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) - 2023 premiere
11. Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)
Last edited by connordenney on Mon Feb 17, 2025 6:56 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Seen only 8 so far, but loved 6 of them!
Top 4
01. Trap (M. Night Shyamalan) [9/10]
02. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (Kevin Costner) [8/10]
03. The Dead Don’t Hurt (Viggo Mortensen) [7/10]
04. Slide (Bill Plympton) [7/10]
worthless: Anora (Sean Baker) [4/10]
Top 4
01. Trap (M. Night Shyamalan) [9/10]
02. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (Kevin Costner) [8/10]
03. The Dead Don’t Hurt (Viggo Mortensen) [7/10]
04. Slide (Bill Plympton) [7/10]
worthless: Anora (Sean Baker) [4/10]
"I too am a child burned by future experiences, fallen back on myself and already suspecting the certainty that in the end only those will prove benevolent who believe in nothing." – Marran Gosov
welcome back! as long as there's a good reason to count all of the 2022-2023 premieres as "2024 films", then the ballot looks perfect.connordenney wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 5:22 pm First time posting on this forum in a very long time, so let me know if I'm doing anything wrong here!
1. The Girl with the Needle 2024 Pigen med nålen Directed by Magnus von Horn
2. Flow 2024 Straume Directed by Gints Zilbalodis
3. Being John Smith 2024 Directed by John Smith
2. Flow 2024 Straume Directed by Gints Zilbalodis
3. Being John Smith 2024 Directed by John Smith
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Pretentious Hipster
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Seen 55. Will try to watch 60 before the due date. I'll add italics to the films that only had festival releases until 2024 in case they are ineligible. I'm not sure about Hundreds of Beavers because it started having festival releases at 2022. I'll leave it out of the list for now.
EDIT: Now it's over 60 so it'll be 12 films. Spoilered is the old list:
UPDATED LIST:
1. Souleymane's Story - Boris Lojkine
2. Fatal Fixer Upper - David DeCoteau
3. The Primevals - David Allen
4. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat - Johan Grimonprez
5. Better Man - Michael Gracey
6. The Apprentice - Ali Abbasi
7. Chime - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
8. Bramayugam - Rahul Sadasivan
9. The Substance - Coralie Fargeat
10. Anora - Sean Baker
11. Rumours - Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson
12. Local Legends: Bloodbath! - Matt Farley
EDIT: Now it's over 60 so it'll be 12 films. Spoilered is the old list:
Spoiler!
1. Souleymane's Story - Boris Lojkine
2. Fatal Fixer Upper - David DeCoteau
3. The Primevals - David Allen
4. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat - Johan Grimonprez
5. Better Man - Michael Gracey
6. The Apprentice - Ali Abbasi
7. Chime - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
8. Bramayugam - Rahul Sadasivan
9. The Substance - Coralie Fargeat
10. Anora - Sean Baker
11. Rumours - Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson
12. Local Legends: Bloodbath! - Matt Farley
Last edited by Pretentious Hipster on Thu Feb 27, 2025 2:22 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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St. Gloede
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This was my list at 74 films in:
I passed 100 this weekend, and there's been some big shake-ups. What a year! The top 12 are currently all favourites. I'd say 2024 is undoubtedly the strongest year of the 2020s so far.
Here's the 12 I can give points to:
1. All We Imagine as Light (2024, Payal Kapadia)
2. Three Kilometres to the End of the World (2024, Emanuel Pârvu)
3. Nickel Boys (2024, RaMell Ross)
4. The Substance (2024, Coralie Fargeat)
5. Souleymane’s Story (2024, Boris Lojkine)
6. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024, Mohammad Rasoulof)
7. Anora (2024, Sean Baker)
8. Hard Truths (2024, Mike Leigh)
9. A Real Pain (2024, Jesse Eisenberg)
10. Bird (2024, Andrea Arnold)
11. Sex (2024, Dag Johan Haugerud)
12. The Apprentice (2024, Ali Abbasi)
Runner ups:
Crossing (2024, Levan Akin)
Keyke mahboobe man / My Favourite Cake (2024, Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moghadam)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (2024, Johan Grimonprez)
Feng liu yi dai / Caught by the Tides (2024, Jia Zhang-ke)
Bramayugam (2024, Rahul Sadasivan)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024, Rungano Nyoni)
Une langue universelle / Universal Language (2024, Matthew Rankin)
Black Box Diaries (2024, Shiori Itô)
I still really need to see I'm Still Here, should hopefully be available to me soon. Other films high on my watchlist are Afternoons of Solitude, Kjærlighet/Love, Drømmer/Dreams, and April.
Spoiler!
Here's the 12 I can give points to:
1. All We Imagine as Light (2024, Payal Kapadia)
2. Three Kilometres to the End of the World (2024, Emanuel Pârvu)
3. Nickel Boys (2024, RaMell Ross)
4. The Substance (2024, Coralie Fargeat)
5. Souleymane’s Story (2024, Boris Lojkine)
6. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024, Mohammad Rasoulof)
7. Anora (2024, Sean Baker)
8. Hard Truths (2024, Mike Leigh)
9. A Real Pain (2024, Jesse Eisenberg)
10. Bird (2024, Andrea Arnold)
11. Sex (2024, Dag Johan Haugerud)
12. The Apprentice (2024, Ali Abbasi)
Runner ups:
Crossing (2024, Levan Akin)
Keyke mahboobe man / My Favourite Cake (2024, Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moghadam)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (2024, Johan Grimonprez)
Feng liu yi dai / Caught by the Tides (2024, Jia Zhang-ke)
Bramayugam (2024, Rahul Sadasivan)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024, Rungano Nyoni)
Une langue universelle / Universal Language (2024, Matthew Rankin)
Black Box Diaries (2024, Shiori Itô)
I still really need to see I'm Still Here, should hopefully be available to me soon. Other films high on my watchlist are Afternoons of Solitude, Kjærlighet/Love, Drømmer/Dreams, and April.
just a reminder that this poll is closing very soon! would be great to see more ballots -- and if anyone needs to update their ballot, now is the time
trap was pretty good watched it on the plane
twilight of the warriors: walled in
chime
soundtrack to a coup d'etat
conclave
the apprentice
trap
also watched: anora, back to black, saturday night, the killer, juror #2, alien: romulus, twisters, all we imagine as light, megalopolis, the sixth, civil war, kingdom of the planet of the apes. challengers, furiosa, dune pt 2, a real pain, merry christmas
that's a lot for me
twilight of the warriors: walled in
chime
soundtrack to a coup d'etat
conclave
the apprentice
trap
also watched: anora, back to black, saturday night, the killer, juror #2, alien: romulus, twisters, all we imagine as light, megalopolis, the sixth, civil war, kingdom of the planet of the apes. challengers, furiosa, dune pt 2, a real pain, merry christmas
that's a lot for me
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Monsieur Arkadin
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Saw 45
A Different Man - Aaron Schimberg
No Other Land - Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor
Universal Language - Matthew Rankin
Grand Tour - Miguel Gomes
Chime - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
To A Land Unknown - Mahdi Fleifel
The End - Joshua Oppenheimer
Conclave - Edward Berger
Grave Torture - Joko Anwar
The Room Next Door - Pedro Almodovar
A Different Man - Aaron Schimberg
No Other Land - Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor
Universal Language - Matthew Rankin
Grand Tour - Miguel Gomes
Chime - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
To A Land Unknown - Mahdi Fleifel
The End - Joshua Oppenheimer
Conclave - Edward Berger
Grave Torture - Joko Anwar
The Room Next Door - Pedro Almodovar
Bird (Andrea Arnold)
Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
Civil War (Alex Garland)
Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
Civil War (Alex Garland)
Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
there is still time to submit or edit a ballot! i am extending the deadline until tomorrow afternoon, around 2pm or 3pm ET
i'll tally this poll as soon as i finish with the oscars poll, so unless someone needs another hour or two, i'll shut this down in about 15 minutes
results in a minute, first a few notes:
• this may be our least conventional end-of-year list, in most past years, one or two best picture nominees figure in the top five, and a lot of very widely seen films finish high in the rankings. this year, only four out of ten best pic nominees even got a vote, and only one made our top ten, which is largely made up of films that did not do massive box office
• some of the films most celebrated by the academy got absolutely no support in our poll: emilia perez, the brutalist, a complete unknown and i'm still here among them
• a full half (11 of 22) of the cannes competition slate made our final list, which is especially impressive when you consider some of those films aren't easily available to see as yet. of those, one finished in second place, and five other cannes films finished in the 11-20 range
• by comparison, six films that premiered in venice and only two that premiered in berlin made our final list
• 81 films in total got at least one vote, and since we usually post a top 100, i might ask for additional nominations soon, or i might just post a top 75 this year
• ties were broken in reverse-order of letterboxd views
• this may be our least conventional end-of-year list, in most past years, one or two best picture nominees figure in the top five, and a lot of very widely seen films finish high in the rankings. this year, only four out of ten best pic nominees even got a vote, and only one made our top ten, which is largely made up of films that did not do massive box office
• some of the films most celebrated by the academy got absolutely no support in our poll: emilia perez, the brutalist, a complete unknown and i'm still here among them
• a full half (11 of 22) of the cannes competition slate made our final list, which is especially impressive when you consider some of those films aren't easily available to see as yet. of those, one finished in second place, and five other cannes films finished in the 11-20 range
• by comparison, six films that premiered in venice and only two that premiered in berlin made our final list
• 81 films in total got at least one vote, and since we usually post a top 100, i might ask for additional nominations soon, or i might just post a top 75 this year
• ties were broken in reverse-order of letterboxd views
perhaps a surprise #1:
FINAL RESULTS
1. Souleymane’s Story (Boris Lojkine)
2. All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
3. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
4. Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
5. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
6. Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
7. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
8. No Other Land (Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor)
9. Stress Positions (Theda Hammel)
10. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Johan Grimonprez)
11. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
12. The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
13. Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
14. Merry Christmas (Sriram Raghavan)
15. Fatal Fixer Upper (David DeCoteau)
16. Un Prince (Pierre Creton)
17. Three Kilometres to the End of the World (Emanuel Parvu)
18. Bird (Andrea Arnold)
19. The Primevals (David Allen)
20. Kottukaali (PS Vinothraj)
21. Maria (Pablo Larrain)
22. A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
23. The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi)
24. By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo)
25. Sons (Gustav Moller)
26. Melyazhagan (C Prem Kumar)
27. Anora (Sean Baker)
28. Territorio (Jose Celestino Campusano)
29. Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing)
30. Forever-Forever (Anna Buryachkova)
31. Universal Language (Matthew Rankin)
32. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang)
33. Better Man (Michael Gracey)
34. I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
35. Ruka on the Road (Shunji Iwai)
36. The Voices of the Silenced (Park Soon-nam and Park Ma-eui)
37. Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
38. The Order (Justin Kurzel)
39. Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass)
40. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
41. Santosh (Sandhrya Suri)
42. Dormitory (Nehir Tuna)
43. Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski)
44. Raayan (Dhanush)
45. Trap (M Night Shyamalan)
46. Conclave (Edward Berger)
47. Civil War (Alex Garland)
48. To A Land Unknown (Mahdi Fleifel)
49. Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
50. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
51. Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson)
52. Bramayugam (Rahul Sadasivan)
53. Crossing (Levan Akin)
54. Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
55. A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg)
56. Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips)
57. All the Long Nights (Sho Miyake)
58. The End (Joshua Oppenheimer)
59. Vaazhai (Mari Selvraj)
60. My Favourite Cake (Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha)
61. Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonca Filho)
62. La Practica (Martin Rejtman)
63. Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
64. The Successor (Xavier Legrand)
65. Coup de Chance (Woody Allen)
66. The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux)
67. Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 (Kevin Costner)
68. The Girl With the Needle (Magnus von Horn)
69. Sex (Dag Johan Haugerud)
70. Grave Torture (Joko Anwar)
71. The Dead Don’t Hurt (Viggo Mortensen)
72. Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega)
73. La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
74. Saturday Night (Jason Reitman)
75. Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)
76. Slide (Bill Plympton)
77. Local Legends: Bloodbath! (Matt Farley)
78. Being John Smith (John Smith)
79. Excursion (Una Gunjak)
80. Scorched Earth (Thomas Arslan)
81. The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodovar)
FINAL RESULTS
1. Souleymane’s Story (Boris Lojkine)
2. All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)
3. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
4. Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
5. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
6. Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
7. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
8. No Other Land (Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor)
9. Stress Positions (Theda Hammel)
10. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Johan Grimonprez)
11. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
12. The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
13. Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
14. Merry Christmas (Sriram Raghavan)
15. Fatal Fixer Upper (David DeCoteau)
16. Un Prince (Pierre Creton)
17. Three Kilometres to the End of the World (Emanuel Parvu)
18. Bird (Andrea Arnold)
19. The Primevals (David Allen)
20. Kottukaali (PS Vinothraj)
21. Maria (Pablo Larrain)
22. A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
23. The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi)
24. By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo)
25. Sons (Gustav Moller)
26. Melyazhagan (C Prem Kumar)
27. Anora (Sean Baker)
28. Territorio (Jose Celestino Campusano)
29. Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing)
30. Forever-Forever (Anna Buryachkova)
31. Universal Language (Matthew Rankin)
32. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang)
33. Better Man (Michael Gracey)
34. I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
35. Ruka on the Road (Shunji Iwai)
36. The Voices of the Silenced (Park Soon-nam and Park Ma-eui)
37. Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
38. The Order (Justin Kurzel)
39. Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass)
40. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
41. Santosh (Sandhrya Suri)
42. Dormitory (Nehir Tuna)
43. Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski)
44. Raayan (Dhanush)
45. Trap (M Night Shyamalan)
46. Conclave (Edward Berger)
47. Civil War (Alex Garland)
48. To A Land Unknown (Mahdi Fleifel)
49. Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
50. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
51. Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson)
52. Bramayugam (Rahul Sadasivan)
53. Crossing (Levan Akin)
54. Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
55. A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg)
56. Joker: Folie à Deux (Todd Phillips)
57. All the Long Nights (Sho Miyake)
58. The End (Joshua Oppenheimer)
59. Vaazhai (Mari Selvraj)
60. My Favourite Cake (Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha)
61. Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonca Filho)
62. La Practica (Martin Rejtman)
63. Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
64. The Successor (Xavier Legrand)
65. Coup de Chance (Woody Allen)
66. The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux)
67. Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 (Kevin Costner)
68. The Girl With the Needle (Magnus von Horn)
69. Sex (Dag Johan Haugerud)
70. Grave Torture (Joko Anwar)
71. The Dead Don’t Hurt (Viggo Mortensen)
72. Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega)
73. La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
74. Saturday Night (Jason Reitman)
75. Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)
76. Slide (Bill Plympton)
77. Local Legends: Bloodbath! (Matt Farley)
78. Being John Smith (John Smith)
79. Excursion (Una Gunjak)
80. Scorched Earth (Thomas Arslan)
81. The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodovar)
yes, let's try to get to a top 100, if anyone saw other 2024 films that did not make our list, but which are worthwhile, just post a list, ranked, of any length, in this thread, and i'll pick the #1 from each list first, then the #2 from each, etc, and break ties by letterboxd views, until we fill out a top 100
my list:
Casa en Flames (Dani de la Orden)
Liminal Girl (Richard Story)
One More Shot (James Nunn)
and that's about all i'm willing to vote for, so hopefully a few other people will participate!
my list:
Casa en Flames (Dani de la Orden)
Liminal Girl (Richard Story)
One More Shot (James Nunn)
and that's about all i'm willing to vote for, so hopefully a few other people will participate!
Two more from me:
City of Wind (Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir)
Home (Leonor Teles)
City of Wind (Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir)
Home (Leonor Teles)
10 more (thinking it's all good movie)
The Diary of a Sky
Youth (Homecoming)
Dying
Direct Action
The Invisible Zoo
Dahomey
A Traveler’s Needs
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Memoir of a Snail
Daughters
The Diary of a Sky
Youth (Homecoming)
Dying
Direct Action
The Invisible Zoo
Dahomey
A Traveler’s Needs
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Memoir of a Snail
Daughters
the next 15 on my list -
Malaikottai Vaaliban (Liso Jose Pelissery)
Premalu (Girish AD)
LSD 2 (Dibbakar Bannerjee)
A Traveler's Needs (Hong Sang soo)
One Last Bloom (Takahisa Zeze)
Paradise (Prasanna Vithanage)
Polizeiruf 110: Jenseits des Rechts (Dominik Graf)
Amar Singh Chamkila (Imtiaz Ali)
Ullozhukku (Christo Tomy)
Arturo a los 30 (Martin Shanly)
Pushpa 2: The Rule (Sukumar)
Berlin (Atul Sabharwal)
Janet Planet (Annie Baker)
Attam (Anand Ekarshi)
Despatch (Kanu Behl)
Malaikottai Vaaliban (Liso Jose Pelissery)
Premalu (Girish AD)
LSD 2 (Dibbakar Bannerjee)
A Traveler's Needs (Hong Sang soo)
One Last Bloom (Takahisa Zeze)
Paradise (Prasanna Vithanage)
Polizeiruf 110: Jenseits des Rechts (Dominik Graf)
Amar Singh Chamkila (Imtiaz Ali)
Ullozhukku (Christo Tomy)
Arturo a los 30 (Martin Shanly)
Pushpa 2: The Rule (Sukumar)
Berlin (Atul Sabharwal)
Janet Planet (Annie Baker)
Attam (Anand Ekarshi)
Despatch (Kanu Behl)
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Monsieur Arkadin
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The next few on my list would be:
Dead Talents Society - John Hsu
Drama 1882 - Wael Shawky
Mother, Mother - K'Naan
Dead Talents Society - John Hsu
Drama 1882 - Wael Shawky
Mother, Mother - K'Naan
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St. Gloede
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Did you include my runner ups? Happy to extend it as well, such an amazing year.
i was planning to, if you didn't post here -- from your runners-up, only two films didn't make the top 81 so far, so at the moment, your bonus ballot would look like this:St. Gloede wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 6:31 pm Did you include my runner ups? Happy to extend it as well, such an amazing year.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024, Rungano Nyoni)
Black Box Diaries (2024, Shiori Itô)
but feel free to extend (or reorder) it, we have enough ballots that i won't be able to use more than 5 films in total from anyone (and probably only 4), but you could add two or three more!
i think i'll wait until the end of tomorrow for bonus ballots, so people have about 30 hours to post if they want to
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St. Gloede
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flip wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 7:52 pmi was planning to, if you didn't post here -- from your runners-up, only two films didn't make the top 81 so far, so at the moment, your bonus ballot would look like this:St. Gloede wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 6:31 pm Did you include my runner ups? Happy to extend it as well, such an amazing year.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024, Rungano Nyoni)
Black Box Diaries (2024, Shiori Itô)
but feel free to extend (or reorder) it, we have enough ballots that i won't be able to use more than 5 films in total from anyone (and probably only 4), but you could add two or three more!
Sure, here's the next 10
on my list.Fekete pont / Lesson Learned (2024, Bálint Szimler)
My First Film (2024, Zia Anger)
Deda-Shvili an rame ar aris arasodes bolomde bneli / Mother and Daughter or The Night Is Never Complete (2024, Lana Gogoberidze)
I Saw the TV Glow (2024, Jane Schoenbrun)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024, George Miller)
Memoir of a Snail (2024, Adam Elliot)
La Cocina (2024, Alonso Ruizpalacios)
Girl with the Needle (2024, Magnus von Horn)
78 dana / 78 Days (2024, Emilija Gasic)
Dahomey (2024, Mati Diop)
thanks st gloede! a couple of those made our final list, so i'll make your extra ballot into:
Fekete pont / Lesson Learned (2024, Bálint Szimler)
My First Film (2024, Zia Anger)
Deda-Shvili an rame ar aris arasodes bolomde bneli / Mother and Daughter or The Night Is Never Complete (2024, Lana Gogoberidze)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024, George Miller)
Memoir of a Snail (2024, Adam Elliot)
La Cocina (2024, Alonso Ruizpalacios)
78 dana / 78 Days (2024, Emilija Gasic)
Dahomey (2024, Mati Diop)
Fekete pont / Lesson Learned (2024, Bálint Szimler)
My First Film (2024, Zia Anger)
Deda-Shvili an rame ar aris arasodes bolomde bneli / Mother and Daughter or The Night Is Never Complete (2024, Lana Gogoberidze)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024, George Miller)
Memoir of a Snail (2024, Adam Elliot)
La Cocina (2024, Alonso Ruizpalacios)
78 dana / 78 Days (2024, Emilija Gasic)
Dahomey (2024, Mati Diop)