SCFZ

Time again for the annual SCFZ top 100 films poll! Please read before posting a ballot:

- following the vote on whether to introduce any weightings or restrictions, we'll proceed with no restrictions - all films are eligible, short or long, widely seen or not
- tv series are not eligible, but tv movies are, and anything in a grey area is, so if you think you might need to ask, it's probably fine

How to participate :

I'm introducing one new small change to the scoring to perhaps help out some underseen films. 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

- If you want to, 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, so will get the most points of all. The idea behind this additional tier is to let voters give extra support specifically to great films that might not have been seen by enough people to attract multiple votes. So while there are no restrictions on what you can put in this bonus tier, I hope people will use it for that purpose: to highlight great films that haven't been widely seen, and which deserve more points than they'd get in a standard poll (which is always partly a popularity contest). This is the only structural change I'm making this year (though I'll change the rule if people don't like it).

- 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 should be unranked, and can't include the bonus tier.

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

Last Year's Ballots:

If you voted last year, you might already have most of a ballot already prepared - there's no requirement to change your ballot. Last year's ballots are in this thread:

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/the_aut ... -t207.html

Last Year's Results:

the results of last year's poll are here:

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

A few other notes:

- i won't count ballots by first-time posters who stop in to vote and never participate at scfz again

- especially around directors who are widely loved here, but who have a lot of films people might regard as fairly equal in quality (here i'm thinking of directors like eric rohmer or hong sang-soo), i don't have any objection if people vote a bit strategically to ensure some of their work is represented on our list. if people will be doing that, there's an advantage to posting ballots early!

- i haven't thought about when to set the deadline, but the poll will certainly run at least until the end of june, and possibly longer - i'll make sure everyone who wants to post a ballot has had a chance before closing it

The additional five films:

The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley, 1990)
Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety, 1992)
Affliction (Paul Schrader, 1997)
I'm Not Rappaport (Herb Gardner, 1996)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Robert Ellis Miller, 1968)

1-10

Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Fargo (Coen brothers, 1996)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)

11-20

L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
American Gigolo (Paul Schrader, 1980)
The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)
Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer, 1964)

21-30

The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman, 1998)
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982)
Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann, 1973)
JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet, 1964)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)

31-40

Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1996)
Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis, 2012)
From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)
Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, 1957)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Coen brothers, 2001)
The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin, 1940)

41-50

The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998)
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964)
Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton, 1996)
The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet, 1964)
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014)
The Big Lebowski (Coen brothers, 1998)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
The Odd Couple (Gene Saks, 1968)

List at Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/silga/list/top-55-for-scfz/

I decided to reserve my top five for films with < 700 views on letterboxd


The Mongols (Parviz Kimiavi, 1973)
Nostos: Il Ritorno (Franco Piavoli, 1990)
The Wonderful Country (Robert Parrish, 1959)
Manoel’s Destinies (Raoul Ruiz, 1984)
Filantropica (Nae Caranfil, 2002)

A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969)
Fire in Castilla (Jose Val del Omar, 1961)
The Good Fairy (William Wyler, 1935)
Woman on the Run (Norman Foster, 1950)
Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery, 1947)
The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950)
Khroustaliov, My Car! (Alexei German, 1998)
Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton and John Blystone, 1923)

Ballad of Tara (Bahram Beizai, 1979)
Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur, 1946)
L’Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
The Naked Dawn (Edgar Ulmer, 1955)
Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth, 1959)
The Brick and the Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan, 1965)
Lucky Star (Frank Borzage, 1929)
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)
The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)

Innocent Sorcerers (Andrzej Wajda, 1960)
Woman They Almost Lynched (Allan Dwan, 1953)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
Birds, Orphans and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999)
Rosetta (Dardenne Brothers, 1999)
Spring Parade (Henry Koster, 1940)
Elegia (Zoltan Huszarik, 1965)
Ulzana’s Raid (Robert Aldrich, 1972)
Man from Del Rio (Harry Horner, 1956)

The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2009)
Die Puppe (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
Reality (Quentin Dupieux, 2014)
Showdown (RG Springsteen, 1963)
The Burglar (Paul Wendkos, 1957)
Valley of the Bees (Frantisek Vlacil, 1968)
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen, 2000)
Electra, My Love (Miklos Jancso, 1974)
Ms 45 (Abel Ferrara, 1981)
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)

Sanam (Rafi Pitts, 2000)
Suddenly, One Day (Mrinal Sen, 1989)
The Asthenic Syndrome (Kira Muratova, 1989)
The Wishing Tree (Tenghiz Abuladze, 1976)
Spring for the Thirsty (Yuri Ilyenko, 1965)
Mutum (Sandra Kogut, 2007)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
Le Collier Perdu de la Colombe (Nacer Khemir, 1991)
Water, Wind, Dust (Amir Naderi, 1989)
Smiley Face (Gregg Araki, 2007)

La pied qui étraint (Jacques Feyder, 1916)
Behind the Door (Irving Willat, 1919)
Os Lobos (Rino Lupo, 1923)
Celles qui s'ent font (Germaine Dulac, 1928)
Sangue Mineiro (Humberto Mauro, 1929)

El Dorado (Marcel L'Herbier, 1921)
Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, 1923)
Whirlpool of Fate (Jean Renoir, 1925)
The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac, 1928)
Finis Terrae (Jean Epstein, 1929)
The Lighthouse Keepers (Jean Grémillon, 1929)
Asphalt (Joe May, 1929)
The Pearl (Henri d'Ursel, 1929)
City Girl (F.W. Murnau, 1930)
Limite (Mário Peixoto, 1931)

Blind Husbands (Erich von Stroheim, 1919)
Neighbors (Buster Keaton/Edward Kline, 1920)
The Indian Tomb 1: The Mission of the Yogi (Joe May, 1921)
The Indian Tomb 2: The Tiger of Bengal (Joe May, 1921)
Os Faroleiros (Maurice Mariaud, 1922)
Coeur Fidèle (Jean Epstein, 1923)
Whirlpool of Fate (Jean Renoir, 1925)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein, 1928)
Zvenigora (Alexandr Dovzhenko, 1928)
Spies (Fritz Lang, 1928)

L'Atlantide (Jacques Feyder, 1920)
Variety (EA Dupont, 1925)
Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage, 1927)
The Little Match Girl (Jean Renoir, 1928)
The Dance of the Paroxysms (Jorge Brum do Canto, 1929)
The Manxman (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929)
The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev/Leonid Trauberg, 1929)
Diary of a Lost Girl (GW Pabst, 1929)
People on Sunday (Robert Siodmak/Edgar G Ulmer, 1930)
Happiness (Aleksandr Medvedkin, 1935)

Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)
The Smiling Madame Beudet (Germaine Dulac, 1923)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Fritz Lang, 1924)
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Wrath (Fritz Lang, 1924)
The Marriage Circle (Ernest Lubitsch, 1924)
Underground (Anthony Asquith, 1928)
Street Angel (Frank Borzage, 1928)
L'Argent (Marcel L'Herbier, 1928)
The Sixth Sense (Eusebio Fernández Ardavín/Nemesio Sobrevila, 1929)
Daphnis and Chloe (Orestis Laskos, 1930)

Until They Get Me (Frank Borzage, 1917)
The Swallow and the Titmouse (André Antoine, 1920)
L'Homme du Large (Marcel L'Herbier, 1920)
Erotikon (Mauritz Stiller, 1920)
The Great White Silence (Herbert Ponting, 1924)
L'Inhumaine (Marcel L'Herbier, 1924)
The Late Mathias Pascal (Marcel L'Herbier, 1925)
The Ingmar Inheritance (Gustaf Molander, 1925)
Emak-Bakia (Man Ray, 1925)
Picadilly (EA Dupont, 1929)

Man, this was hard.

5:

Earth Light (Guy Gilles, 1970)
Hindered (Stephen Dwoskin, 1974)
Du côté d’Orouët (Jacques Rozier, 1971)
The Song of the Scarlet Flower (Teuvo Tulio, 1938)
The Other Side of the Underneath (Jane Arden, 1972)

1-10:

Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
City of Pirates (Raul Ruiz, 1983)
Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948)
Model Shop (Jacques Demy, 1969)
Violent Summer (Valerio Zurlini, 1959)
The Aviator’s Wife (Eric Rohmer, 1981)
Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975)
Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenway, 1988)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)

11-20:

Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976)
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai, 1990)
Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle, 1974)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
Port of Shadows (Marcel Carne, 1938)
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970)
Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996)
In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976)

21-30:

The Meetings of Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1978)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936)
Gods of the Plague (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson, 1971)
Such a Pretty Little Beach (Yves Allegret, 1949)
The Arch (Tang Shu Shuen, 1968)
In the White City (Alain Tanner, 1983)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991)

31-40:

Ariel (Aki Kaurismäki, 1988)
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambety, 1973)
Meantime (Mike Leigh, 1983)
Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat, 1991)
Baby Face (Alfred E. Green, 1933)
Blood (Pedro Costa, 1989)
Great Freedom No. 7 (Helmut Käutner, 1944)
Femmes femmes (Paul Vecchiali, 1974)
The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993)

41-50

La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
Friday Night (Claire Denis, 2002)
Marius (Alexander Korda, 1931)
Le tempestaire (Jean Epstein, 1947)
Nostos: The Return (Franco Piavoli, 1989)
Mahler (Ken Russell, 1974)
The Fan (Eckhard Schmidt, 1982)
Fascination (Jean Rollin, 1979)
Brutal Ardour (Manuel Huerga, 1978)
Visa de censure n° X (Pierre Clementi, 1967)


https://letterboxd.com/rnilsson19/list/top-55/

an unranked list of the 55 greatest films in film history

highlighted 5

Torch Singer (Alexander Hall/George Somnes, 1933)
Love Letter (Seijun Suzuki, 1958)
The Travelling Ruffian (Masahiro Makino, 1958)
Rabbit in the Pit (Roger Fritz, 1968)
Angel Guts: Red Classroom (Chusei Sone, 1979)


The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh, 1924)
Docks of Hamburg (Erich Waschneck, 1928)
Anna and Elizabeth (Frank Wisbar, 1932)
Rough Diamond (Humberto Mauro, 1933)
Police Officer (Tomu Uchida, 1933)
Swing Time (George Stevens, 1936)
Condottieri (Luis Trenker/Werner Klingler, 1937)
Michelangelo (Curt Oertel, 1938)
Manon (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1949)
Merry-Go-Round (Zoltan Fabri, 1956)
The Girl from Flanders (Helmut Kautner, 1956)
Kisses (Yasuzo Masumura, 1957)
Monpti (Helmut Kautner, 1957)
Moderato cantabile (Peter Brook, 1960)
The Taste of Violence (Robert Hossein, 1961)
She and He (Susumu Hani, 1963)
Flora on the Sand (Ko Nakahira, Japan 1964)
Das Madchen mit dem Mini (Paul Milan, 1965)
The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds (Bert Williams, 1965)
Carmen from Kawachi (Seijun Suzuki, 1966)
Vulkan der hollischen Triebe (Peter Hauser, 1967)
Hang 'em High (Ted Post, 1968)
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (Susumu Hani, 1968)
The Griller (George Moorse, 1968)
Aido: Slave of Love (Susumu Hani, 1969)
Running in Madness, Dying in Love (Koji Wakamatsu, 1969)
Road to Salina (Georges Lautner, 1970)
The Pacifist (Miklos Jancso, 1970)
Waterloo (Sergey Bondarchuk, 1970)
Le Mans (Lee H. Katzin, 1971)
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (Shunya Ito, 1973)
Procession of Memories (Nasir Hussain, 1973)
Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market (Noboru Tanaka, 1974)
Wife to Be Sacrificed (Masaru Konuma, 1974)
The Story of Sin (Walerian Borowczyk, 1975)
Monika und die Sechzehnjahrigen (Charly Steinberger, 1975)
Shuffle (Sogo Ishii, 1981)
Second Sight (Dominik Graf, 1982)
Breathless (Jim McBride, 1983)
Staying Alive (Sylvester Stallone, 1983)
The Man from Majorca (Bo Widerberg, 1984)
Reckless (James Foley, 1984)
Alpha City (Eckhart Schmidt, 1985)
American Flyers (John Badham, 1985)
Phenomena (Dario Argento, 1985)
The Red Spectacles (Mamoru Oshii, 1987)
Top Model (Joe D'Amato, 1988)
As Tears Go By (Kar-wai Wong, 1988)
The Tune (Bill Plympton, 1992)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, 2003)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)
Beats Being Dead (Christian Petzold, 2011)

one other note - i won't do anything with ballots until i start tabulating, so it's perfectly fine to post a ballot now and edit it later. i'll warn everyone before i stop accepting edits.

For now:

Extra 5 for <500 views

Young Werther (Jacques Doillon, 1993)
Wall Engravings (Guy Gilles, 1968)
Road (Alan Clarke, 1987)
The Ogre of Athens (Nikos Koundouros, 1956)
Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee, 1993)

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
Disintegration Loop 1.1. (William Basinski, 2001)
Die Parallelstrasse (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962)
News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)
La Libertad (Lisandro Alonso, 2001)
Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964)

Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937)
Day Of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth, 1959)
The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986)
Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick, 2015)
A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958)
Un Homme Qui Dort (Bernard Queysanne, 1974)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini, 1966)
At Sea (Peter Hutton, 2007)

Bandits of Orgosolo (Vittorio de Seta, 1961)
Remorques (Jean Gremillon, 1941)
An Inn At Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho, 1954)
Under The Bridges (Helmut Kautner, 1946)
Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch, 1946)
There Once Was A Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani, 1970)
Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937)
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
Menilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926)
Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinás, 2008)

A Day In The Country (Jean Renoir, 1936)
The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
The Set-Up (Robert Wise, 1949)
Girlfriends (Claudia Weill, 1978)
Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997)
Manhunter (Michael Mann, 1986)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer, 1987)
Wake In Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
U.S Go Home (Claire Denis, 1994)

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
L'atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
The Gleaners & I (Agnes Varda, 2000)
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
The Sweet Smell of Succes (Alexander MacKendrick, 1957)
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)

My list. Purposefully ordered roughly by reverse popularity. The majority of my picks (32) are American films, boo! Hope to have expanded my knowledge of other national cinemas by next poll…

The Big Five (6 pts)

— Rosalie and Leontine Go to the Theatre (Romeo Bosetti, 1911)
— Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor, 1935)
— I Love Melvin (Don Weis, 1953)
— You Are On Indian Land (Michael Mitchell and Mort Ransen, 1969)
— Silk Tatters (Gina Telaroli, 2015)

Tier 1 (5 pts)

— Leaving Jerusalem by Railway (Alexandre Promio, 1897)
— Black and Tan (Dudley Murphy, 1929)
— Hold Your Man (Sam Wood, 1933)
— Midnight Mary (William A. Wellman, 1933)
— Mirages of Paris (Fyodor Otsep, 1933)
— I’ll Give a Million (Mario Camerini, 1935)
— Hideko the Bus Conductress (Mikio Naruse, 1941)
— Four Steps in the Clouds (Alessandro Blasetti, 1942)
— No Down Payment (Martin Ritt, 1957)
— Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman, 1992)

Tier 2 (4 pts)

— The Lonedale Operator (D.W. Griffith, 1911)
— I’ll Be Seeing You (William Dieterle, 1944)
— A Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings, 1945)
— The Man from Planet X (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1951)
— All the World’s Memory (Alain Resnais, 1956)
— Offering (Claudio Caldini, 1978)
— Illusions (Julie Dash, 1982)
— From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport, 1995)
— Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold, 1998)
— The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack, 2018)

Tier 3 (3 pts)

— Cinderella (Georges Melies, 1899)
— Dante’s Inferno (Francesco Bertolini and Adolfo Padovan, 1911)
— The Oyster Princess (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
— The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944)
— Bitter Rice (Giuseppe De Santis, 1949)
— Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock, 1949)
— The Prowler (Joseph Losey, 1951)
— Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958)
— Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
— The Whip and the Body (Mario Bava, 1963)

Tier 4 (2 pts)

— The Freshman (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, 1925)
— Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
— Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933)
— Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942)
— Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin, 1947)
— Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)
— The Big Day (Jacques Tati, 1949)
— Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)
— The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, 1953)
— Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene, 1966)

Tier 5 (1 pt)

— His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
— Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
— My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
— The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)
— Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
— Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
— Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
— Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
— Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995)
— Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)

Thanks for organising this, flip. I’ve compiled my list with two self-imposed rules:

- No films from my previous years’ ballots, kanafani-style.
- One film per director (with the exception of Fassbinder, since he’s probably the GOAT).

Lili Marleen (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981)
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies, 2016)
The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura, 1963)
Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, 2016)
Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf, 2014)

Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960)
Donovan’s Reef (John Ford, 1963)
Red Psalm (Miklos Jancso, 1972)
Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2015)
Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985)
Western (Valeska Grisebach, 2017)
The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, 2018)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971)
In the Beginning (Xavier Giannoli, 2009)
Ploy (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2007)

My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata, 1999)
Moving (Shinji Somai, 1993)
Insiang (Lino Brocka, 1976)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)
Keane (Lodge Kerrigan, 2004)
Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017)
The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2007)
Free Zone (Amos Gitai, 2005)

Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969)
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)
Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958)
Demons (Toshio Matsumoto, 1971)
Yaadon Ki Baaraat (Nasir Hussain, 1973)
Serial Mom (John Waters, 1994)
Time Regained (Raul Ruiz, 1999)
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran Anh Hung, 2000)
Summer Palace (Lou Ye, 2006)

Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono, 2013)
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
Vengeance (Johnnie To, 2009)
Clean (Olivier Assayas, 2004)
Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark, 1984)
Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand, 2003)
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961)
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)
Prospero’s Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)

Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz, 2017)
The Addiction (Abel Ferrara, 1995)
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, 1950)
Atlantic City (Louis Malle, 1980)
Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2018)
Stealing Beauty (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1996)
Utopia (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1983)
Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997)
Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 2004)
Wizards (Ralph Bakshi, 1977)

Letterboxd list, if we decide to run the stats again: https://letterboxd.com/suave_ambiguity/ ... ms-ballot/

DT. wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:47 am
Yaadon Ki Baaraat (Nasir Hussain, 1973)

YAY!!

Extra Five
Housekeeping - Forsyth 1987
Chow Hound - Jones 1951
The Doll - Lubitsch 1919
The Parson's Widow - Dreyer 1920
Begone Dull Care - McLaren/Lambart 1949


The General - Keaton/Bruckman 1926
Chimes At Midnight - Welles 1965
Seven Samurai - Kurosawa 1954
8 1/2 - Fellini 1963
Fanny and Alexander - Bergman 1982
One Froggy Evening - Jones 1955
Local Hero - Forsyth 1983
Notorious - Hitchcock 1946
The Rules of the Game - Renoir 1939
Casablanca - Curtiz 1942

2001: A Space Odyssey - Kubrick 1968
A Hard Day's Night - Lester 1964
The Godfather I - Coppola 1972
The Godfather II - Coppola 1974
Die Nibelungen - Lang 1924
The Thief of Bagdad - Walsh/Fairbanks 1924
Heart of the World - Maddin 2000
Mothlight - Brakhage 1963
M. Hulot's Holiday - Tati 1953
Duck Amuck - Jones 1953

Inherent Vice - Anderson 2014
It's A Wonderful Life - Capra 1946
Lambchops - Roth/Burns & Allen 1929
Playtime - Tati 1967
Psycho - Hitchcock 1960
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Burton 2007
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Gilliam 1988
The Wizard Of Oz - Fleming 1939
Topsy Turvy - Leigh 1999
Intolerance - Griffith - 1916

Stagecoach - Ford 1939
Lawrence of Arabia - Lean 1962
M - Lang 1931
Monty Python And The Holy Grail - Jones/Gilliam 1975
Barry Lyndon - Kubrick 1975
Pinocchio - Luske/Sharpsteen/Disney 1940
The Lord Of The Rings - Jackson 2001-03
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Hooper 1974
The Gold Rush - Chaplin 1924
Chuckles Bites The Dust episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Joan Darling 1974

The Shining -- Kubrick 1980
The Rabbit Of Seville - Jones 1950
Twentieth Century - Hawks 1934
The 400 Blows - Truffaut 1959
Big Business - Horne/McCarey 1929
Eraserhead - Lynch 1977
The Incredibles - Bird 2004
The Battle Of The Century - Bruckman 1927
Fantasia - Disney Etc. 1940
Dinner At Eight - Cukor 1933

As with last time -- these are the favorites, the ones that life cannot be lived without. A list of the Greatest would be rather different, and more international. Love me some SATANTANGO and all, but is it a favorite? I might revise here and there, but this is pretty much it.

First Five from My Top 50 with Under 500 Views (6pts)

Jack's Dream (Joseph Cornell, 1938)
Fools in the Mountains (Edith Carlmar, 1957)
N.Y., N.Y. (Francis Thompson, 1957)
Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr, 1992)
Voices Through Time (Franco Piavoli, 1996)

Tier 1 (5pts)

L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960)
Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil, 1967)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
Nostos: The Return (Franco Piavoli, 1989)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

Tier 2 (4pts)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965)
Pirosmani (Giorgi Shengelaya, 1969)
Blue Planet (Franco Piavoli, 1981)
Manhunter (Michael Mann, 1986)
Night Sun (Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, 1990)
Titanic (James Cameron, 1997)
At the First Breath of Wind (Franco Piavoli, 2002)
Birdsong (Albert Serra, 2008)
WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)

Tier 3 (3pts)

The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1950)
The Endless Summer (Bruce Brown, 1966)
11 x 14 (James Benning, 1977)
The Satin Slipper (Manoel de Oliveira, 1985)
Pippi Longstocking (Michael Schaack, Clive A. Smith, 1997)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin, 2007)
Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat, 2009)

Tier 4 (2pts)

Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948)
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
The Red and the White (Miklos Jansco, 1967)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
Du cote d'Orouet (Jacques Rozier, 1973)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
A Lake (Phillipe Grandrieux, 2008)
Monsieur Lazhar (Phillipe Falardeau, 2011)

Tier 5 (1pt)

Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948)
The Prowler (Joseph Losey, 1951)
Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox, 1956)
The Ravishing of Frank N. Stein (Georges Schwizgebel, 1982)
Alpine Fire (Fredi M. Murer, 1985)
Mulan (Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook, 1998)
The Parent Trap (Nancy Meyers, 1998)
The Emperor's New Groove (Mark Dindal, 2000)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)

started to pick favourites from a run-through of my t120, ended up with exactly 55... movie gods are with me rn

Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Éric Rohmer, 1987)
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
Small Change (François Truffaut, 1976)
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)

They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
You Take Care Now (Ann Marie Fleming, 1989)
Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)
La belle captive (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1983)
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)

Pauline at the Beach (Éric Rohmer, 1983)
Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973)
Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
Origins of the 21st Century (Jean-Luc Godard, 2000)
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)
Shadows in Paradise (Aki Kaurismäki, 1986)
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
La jetee (Chris Marker, 1962)
Oslo, August 31st (Jaochim Trier, 2011)
Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)

Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967
The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927)
Muscle Beach (Joseph Strick/Irving Lerner, 1948)
Il posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
Neighbors (Edward F. Cline/Buster Keaton, 1920)
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson, 1962)
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, 1973)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014)
The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950)
Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie, 1969)
Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)
Remorques (Jean Gremillon, 1941)
Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi, 1962)
Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti, 1971)
Faust (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2011)
Walking the Streets of Moscow (Georgiy Daneliya, 1964)

A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929)
The Private Life of a Cat (Alexander Hammid/Maya Deren, 1944)
Young Torless (Volker Schlondorff, 1966)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
Under the Roofs of Paris (Rene Clair, 1930)
Forbidden Games (Rene Clement, 1952)
The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961)
Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)

My list is in flux right now, so to make things simple I'm just going back to my ranking as of the start of 2019. Next year it might be noticeably different. These are just personal favorites, not the movies I consider the best, although of course there's a lot of overlap between those. The top 5 are underrated masterpieces pulled out of my ranking.

Underrated masterpieces (6 pts.)

Chase a Crooked Shadow (Michael Anderson, 1958)
Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras, 1972)
Holiday Inn (Mark Sandrich, 1942)
Fantastic Night (Marcel L'Herbier, 1942)
Moon in the Gutter (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1983)

Tier 1 (5 pts.)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

Tier 2 (4 pts.)

Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
L'immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1963)
La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)
Les enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1950)
India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog, 1976)

Tier 3 (3 pts.)

The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983)
Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1989)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)
L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)

Tier 4 (2 pts.)

The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)
Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette, 1961)
The Man Who Sleeps (Bernard Queysanne, 1974)
Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976)
The Kingdom (Lars von Trier, 1997)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda, 1962)

Tier 5 (1 pt.)

Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raul Ruiz, 1978)
Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, 2007)
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
The Baby of Macon (Peter Greenaway, 1993)

The first 25 or so are somewhat set in stone, the rest is more or less changeable, but I'll nonetheless stick to a 5*10 for now.

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)
The Last Dive (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 1992)
News From Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
Maya Darpan (Kumar Shahani, 1972)
Khustralyov, My Car! (Aleksey German, 1998)
Melodies of a Street Organ (Kira Muratova, 2009)
Birds, Orphans, Fools (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
La guerre d’Algerie (Jean-Marie Straub 2014)

Noroit (Jacques Rivette, 1976)
From What is Before (Lav Diaz, 2014)
The City of Pirates (Raul Ruiz, 1983)
Coup d’etat (Yoshishige Yoshida)
The House in the Woods (Maurice Pialat, 1971)
In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Daddy, Father Frost is Dead (Evgeny Yufit, 1991)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1928)
We Won’t Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat, 1972)

On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Zulawski, 1988)
Benilde, or the Virgin Mother (Manoel de Oliveira, 1975)
Hard to be a God (Aleksey German, 2013)
Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974)
Artemis’ Knee (Jean-Marie Straub, 2008)
To Our Loves (Maurice Pialat, 1983)
Rosa de Areia (Antonio Reis, 1989)
Defying Everybody (Yury Ilienko, 1973)

Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker (Wojciech Wizniewski, 1975)
25th Fireman’s Street (Istvan Szabo, 1973)
Salomé (Carmelo Bene, 1972)
Triptych (Ali Khamraev, 1977)
It has to be lived once and dreamed twice (Rainer Kohlberger, 2019)
Poem (Akia Jissoji, 1972)
Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil, 1967)
American Postcard (Gabor Body, 1975)
A Zed and Two Naughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
The Aviator’s Wife (Eric Rohmer, 1981)

And Then There was Light (Iotar Iosseliani, 1989)
The Lion has Seven Heads (Glauber Rocha, 1970)
Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973)
Fate (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2001)
Confessions Among Actresses (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1971)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Shuji Terayama, 1974)
Allegory (Kostas Sfikas, 1986)
Et Cetera (Ashish Avikunthak, 1997)
Sweet Love Remembered (Bruce Elder, 1980)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)

Difficult task. I tried to concentrate on films, which were very interesting to watch. Films, i had and still have pleasure watching them.
The additional five films(for 6 points):
Blow-Up ( Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
The Return ( Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
The Kid with a Bike ( Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2011)
In the House (François Ozon, 2012)
Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006)

1-50 (All for 3 pts)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci ,1970)
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972)
1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976)
The Damned ( Luchino Visconti, 1969)
Death in Venice ( Luchino Visconti,1971)
The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini,1971)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah,1969)
Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah,1972)
Papillon ( Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973)
Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer, 1964)
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
Maurice (James Ivory,1987)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
That Most Important Thing: Love ( Andrzej Zulawski, 1975)
A Sunday in the Country (Bertrand Tavernier, 1984)
Cabaret (Bob Fosse,1972)
The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann, 1973)
Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma, 1993)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg,1993)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco, 1985)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman,1975)
Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, 2003)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
Chinatown ( Roman Polanski, 1974)
Wild Strawberries ( Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
Paris, Texas ( Wim Wenders, 1984)
Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville,1970)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
Poetry (Chang-dong Lee, 2010)
RoboCop ( Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
Léon: The Professional ( Luc Besson, 1994)
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)
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(I`m sure already tommorow i will remember -omg i missed this and this movie... )

Additional tier: 5 films

Nirmalyam (M. T. Vasudevan Nair, 1973)
Rain Clouds Over Wushan (Zhang Ming, 1995)
Ditirambo (Gonzalo Suárez, 1969)
Kali Salwaar (Fareeda Mehta, 2002)
Joker (Raju Murugan, 2016)

Tier 1: 1-10

Come and Go (Joao Cesar Monteiro, 2003)
Ajantrik (Ritwik Ghatak, 1958)
Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1986)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
The Mind of Clay (Mani Kaul, 1985)
Kanchana Sita (Govindan Aravindan, 1977)
Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)
The Water Magician (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1933)
Raining in the Mountain (King Hu, 1979)
Boy (Nagisa Oshima, 1969)

Tier 2: 11-30

An Inn at Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho, 1954)
Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu, 1951)
Throw Down (Johnnie To, 2004)
Hyènes (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1992)
Wild Grass (Alain Resnais, 2009)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937)
Gebo and the Shadow (Manoel de Oliveira, 2012)
Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo, 2010)
Turumba (Kidlat Tahimik, 1981)
When the Tenth Month Comes (Đặng Nhật Minh, 1984)

Trás-os-Montes (Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis, 1976)
Lodz Symphony (Peter Hutton, 1993)
The Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan – Summer in Sanrizuka (Shinsuke Ogawa, 1968)
Goodbye CP (Kazuo Hara, 1972)
Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, 1962)
A.K.A. Serial Killer (Masao Adachi, 1969)
Fire in Castilla (Tactilvision from the Moor of the Fright) (José Val del Omar, 1961)
Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin, 2009)
Meeting a Milestone (Goutam Ghose, 1989)
India: Matri Bhumi (Roberto Rossellini, 1959)

Tier 3: 31-50

Happiness (Medvedkin, 1935)
Limite (Mário Peixoto, 1931)
A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
The Red Fish (José Antonio Nieves Conde, 1955)
Green Snake (Tsui Hark, 1993)
Dirty Ho (Lau Kar-leung, 1976)
My Memories of Old Beijing (Wu Yigong, 1983)
Postman (He Jianjun, 1995)
Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi, 2010)
The Cruise (Marek Piwowski, 1970)

Jagte Raho (Sombhu Mitra, Amit Maitra, 1956)
Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (Kundan Shah, 1994)
Rangeela (Ram Gopal Varma, 1995)
Iruvar (Mani Ratnam, 1997)
Guide (Vijay Anand, 1965)
Bhoothakkannadi (Lohithadas, 1997)
Rajnigandha (Basu Chatterjee, 1974)
Bandini (Bimal Roy, 1963)
Maya Darpan (Kumar Shahani, 1972)
Report to Mother (John Abraham, 1986)

Great stuff Augusto

Will work on this when I am home next week. even tho I have an awful time ranking things..

BONUS FIVE
Park Row (Samuel Fuller, 1952)
Patterns (Fielder Cook, 1956)
Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli 1962)
The Stunt Man (Richard Rush, 1980)
Three O'Clock High (Phil Joanou, 1987)

UNRANKED FIFTY
Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)
The Last Command (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey (1937)
Stage Door (Gregory La Cava, 1937)
Midnight (Mitchell Leisen, 1939)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
It's Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 1955)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
The Big Country (William Wyler, 1958)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970)
A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)
The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
California Split (Robert Altman, 1974)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargant, 1974)
Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1974)
The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie, 1976)
The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977)
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader 1978)
Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer, 1979)
Breaking Away (Peter Yates, 1979)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1982)
Local Hero (Bill Forsyth, 1983)
Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest, 1984)
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985)
Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986)
White of the Eye (Donald Cammell, 1987)
Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988)
They Live (John Carpenter, 1988)
Midnight Run (Martin Brest, 1988)
Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt, 1988)
Class of 1999 (Mark L. Lester, 1990)
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma (2002)

5 to Boost:

Die Parallelstrasse (1962, Ferdinand Khittl)
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963, Kichachi Okamoto)
Heroic Purgatory (1970, Yoshishige Yoshisda)
Film Portrait (1972, Jerome Hill)
Hélas pour moi (1993, Jean-Luc Godard)


1-10.

Stalker (1979, Andrey Tarkovsky)
Children of Paradise (1945, Carcel Carné)
Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters (2006, Guy Maddin)
Chinese Roulette (1976, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Le bonheur (1965, Agnés Varda)
Eden and After (1970, Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Pierrot le fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
Alphaville (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)


11-20.

Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
Careful (1992, Guy Maddin)
Chungking Express (1994, Kar-Wai Wong)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson)
Prénom Carmen (1983, Jean-Luc Godard)
Belle de jour (1967, Luis Buñuel)
3 Women (1977, Robert Altman)
Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
Oedipus Rex (1967, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)

21-30.

Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Serfei Eisenstein)
The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke)
Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)
Mirror (1975, Andrey Tarkovsky)
The Panic in Needle Park (1971, Jerry Schatzberg)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Akira Kurosawa)
Nashville (1977, Robert Altman)
Dogville (2003, Lars von Trier)
Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas)

31-40.

The Phantom of Liberty (1974, Luis Buñuel)
The Trial (1963, Orson Welles)
Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968, Alain Resnais)
Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Ming-liang Tsai)
The White Ribbon (2009, Michael Haneke)
Scarecrow (1973, Jerry Schatzberg)
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (2003, Ki-duk Kim)
The Blue Angel (1930, Josef von Sternberg)
One from the Heart (1981, Francis Ford Coppola)

41-50.

Teorema (1968, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Z (1969, Costa-Gavras)
Wise Blood (1979, John Huston)
La belle captive (1983, Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F.W. Murnau)
A Face in the Crowd (1957, Elia Kazan)
La dolce vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)

Only applied rule is no more than one film per director in each tier, and for the record, I'm Mars in Aries now posting under something closer to my real name. Only 10-12 of the films in the top 20 are set in stone. Beyond that it becomes very changeable.

Tier 1:
L'Avventura (1960, Antonioni)
Rules of the Game (1939, Renoir)
Love Streams (1984, Cassavetes)
Lola Montes (1955, Ophuls)
In A Lonely Place (1950, Ray)
Week-end (1967, Godard)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971, Hellman)
A Man Escaped (1956, Bresson)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Bunuel)
PlayTime (1967, Tati)

Tier 2:
Une Femme Mariée (1964, Godard)
French Cancan (1955, Renoir)
My Darling Clementine (1946, Ford)
Full Moon in Paris (1984, Rohmer)
Blow-Up (1966, Antonioni)
La Dolce Vita (1960, Fellini)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961, Bergman)*
We Won't Grow Old Together (1972, Pialat)
La Jetée (1963, Marker)
The Master (2012, PTA)

Tier 3:
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967, Godard)*
Jules and Jim (1962, Truffaut)
The Sacrifice (1986, Tarkovsky)*
La Gueule Ouverte (1974, Pialat)*
Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971, Bresson)*
Don't Look Now (1973, Roeg)
La Notte (1961, Antonioni)
Army of Shadows (1969, Melville)
The Searchers (1956, Ford)
Late Spring (1949, Ozu)

Tier 4:
Pickpocket (1959, Bresson)
The 400 Blows (1959, Truffaut)
North By Northwest (1959, Hitchcock)
Phantom Thread (2017, PTA)
Pierrot Le Fou (1965, Godard)
Insiang (1976, Brocka)
A Nos Amours (1983, Pialat)
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964, Pasolini)
The Exterminating Angel (1962, Bunuel)*
Red Desert (1964, Antonioni)

Tier 5:
M (1931, Lang)
Carol (2015, Haynes)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, Bresson)
Mes Petits Amoureuses (1974, Eustache)*
Taipei Story (1985, Yang)
Les Rendez-Vous d'Anna (1978, Akerman)*
Vivre Sa Vie (1962, Godard)
Imitation of Life (1959, Sirk)*
A Woman Under the Influence (1974, Cassavetes)*
Heat (1995, Mann)

*I don't know why, but I felt compelled to asterisk the ones I don't physically own in HD.

Additional tier: 5 films

Path Of Cessation (Robert Fulton, 1974)
The Saga Of Khayal (Kumar Shahani, 1989)
27 Down (Awtar Krishna Kaul, 1974)
Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton, 1970)
Twilight (György Fehér, 1990)

Tier 1: 1-10

Arising From The Surface (Mani Kaul, 1980)
Contempt (Jean Luc Godard, 1963)
Green Snake (Tsui Hark, 1993)
Eros + Massacre (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1969)
Thalapathi (Mani Ratnam, 1991)
Anantaram (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1987)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
L' Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola, 2007)
Salo, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)

Tier 2: 11-30

A Corner In Wheat (D.W. Griffith, 1909)
Seasons.. (Phil Solomon & Stan Brakhage, 2002)
2012 (Takashi Makino, 2013)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian, 1983)
Padatik (Mrinal Sen, 1973)
Blue (Derek Jarman, 1993)
The Moon (Takashi Ito, 1994)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
Nainsukh (Amit Dutta, 2010)

L'Homme Atlantique (Marguerite Duras, 1981)
Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1959)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
Warsaw Bridge (Pere Portabella, 1990)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
Vanaprastham (Shaji.N.Karun, 1999)
Splatter: Naked Blood (Hisayasu Sato, 1996)
Ville Marie (Alexandre Larose, 2009)
Too Early/ Too Late (Jean Marie Straub & Danielle Hulliet, 1982)


Tier 3: 31-50

Nirmalyam (M.T. Vasudevan Nair, 1973)
Altiplano (Malena Szlam, 2018)
The Dwelling (Girish Kasaravalli, 1991)
Moons Pool (Gunvor Nelson, 1973)
Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai, 1997)
The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke, 1989)
The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo, 1960)
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2012)
Chants (Martine Rousset, 1995)
Live And Die In L.A (William Friedkin, 1985)

Kanchana Sita (Govindan Aravindan, 1977)
Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975)
A Touch Of Zen (King Hu, 1971)
In The Realm Of Senses (Nagisa Oshima, 1976)
Pudhupettai (Selvaraghavan, 2006)
Arrebato (Ivan Zulueta, 1979)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, 2003)
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara, 2014)
Throw Away Your Books, Rally In The Streets (Shūji Terayama, 1971)

1-10
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
Summer's Tail (2007)
Chungking Express (1994)
Fallen Angels (1995)
2046 (2004)
Kontroll (2003)
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
The Dark Knight (2008)
End of Evangelion (1997)
8 1/2 (1963)

11-20
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Amelie (2001)
Stalker (1979)
Rebecca (1940)
The Apartment (1960)
Take Care of My Cat (2001)
Small Change (1976)
My Right to Ravage Myself (2003)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003
M (1931)

21-50
Unknown Pleasures (2002)
Psycho (1960)
Suzhou River (2000)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Invisible Waves (2006)
Harakiri (1962)
Baby Driver (2017)
Whiplash (2014)
A Separation (2011)
Rear Window (1954)
Still Walking (2008)
Singapore Dreaming (2006)
Blue Spring (2001)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Love Letter (1995)
9 Souls (2003)
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010)
Memories of Murder (2003)
V for Vendetta (2005)
A Town Called Panic (2009)
Solaris (1972)
House (1977)
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Survive Style 5+ (2004)
Happy Together (1997)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Inception (2010)

something like this for the moment...

Tomorrow's Promise (Edward Owens 1967)
Love Must Love (Myron Ort 1968)
The Wind Is Driving Him Towards the Open Sea (David Brooks 1968)
The Fall (Peter Whitehead 1969)
Earth Light (Guy Gilles 1970)
Okeanos (Myron Ort 1972)
Horizons (Larry Gottheim 1973)
The Birth of a Nation (Klaus Wyborny 1973)
Print Generation (J.J. Murphy 1974)
White Heart (Daniel Barnett 1975)
Fiction (Thanasis Rentzis 1977)
Kanchana Sita (Govindan Aravindan, 1977)
Brutal Ardour (Manuel Huerga 1978)
Floorshow (Richard Myers 1978)
Old Redwood Series (Myron Ort 1979)
19th Century Georgian Chronicle (Aleksandre Rekhviashvilli 1979)
The Sky on Location (Babette Mangolte 1982)
Amerika (Al Razutis 1983)
Capitale-paysage (Michel Nedjar 1983)
Dhrupad (Mani Kaul 1983)
That Has Been (Niki Hamlyn 1984)
Orinoco, New World (Diego Rísquez 1984)
At the Edge of Darkness (Klaus Wyborny 1986)
Habeas Corpus (Jorge Acha 1986)
Magdalena Viraga (Nina Menkes 1987)
Consolations (R. Bruce Elder 1988)
Les antiquités de Rome (Jean-Claude Rousseau 1989)
Feldberg (Michael Pilz 1990)
The Man From Island West (Ming-Chuan Huang 1990)
Libera me (Alain Cavalier 1993)
These Hands (M'mbugu-Schelling 1993)
A Depression in the Bay of Bengal (Mark Lapore 1996)
Afriques: Comment ça va avec la douleur? (Raymond Depardon 1996)
A Burning Star (Kenji Onishi 1996)
The Five Bad Elements (Mark Lapore 1998)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard 1998)
Silvercup (Jim Jennings 1998)
God’s Wedding (João César Monteiro 1999)
Spin (Hannes Schüpbach 2001)
Wot the Ancient Sod (Diane Kitchen 2001)
Soviets Plus Electricity (Nicolas Rey 2001)
The Ground (Robert Beavers 2001)
Regarding Penelope’s Wake (Michele Smith 2002)
Seasons… (Stan Brakhage & Phil Solomon 2002)
Goff in the Desert (Heinz Emigholz 2003)
The Orientalist (Michele Smith 2004)
Falten (Hannes Schüpbach 2005)
Bellavista (Peter Schreiner 2006)
The Wars (Oscar van Alphen 2006)
Drifter (Timoleon Wilkins 2010)

oh yeah i still need to do this. this week for sure! brian d's completely silent list!

all the lists are great i feel like just picking some from each. but that would be cheating

top 50, unranked

The General (Clyde Bruckman + Buster Keaton, 1926)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
Heroes for Sale (William A. Wellman, 1933)
Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen, 1940)
The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942)
Great Freedom No. 7 (Helmut Kauttner, 1944)
I've Always Loved You (Frank Borzage, 1946)
Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947)
Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel, 1950)
The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)

The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
The Long Gray Line (John Ford, 1955)
Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1955)
Great Day in the Morning (Jacques Tourneur, 1956)
Rock-A-Bye Baby (Frank Tashlin, 1958)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, 1961)
Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962)
A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)

Angel Guts: Red Classroom (Chusei Sone, 1979)
They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich, 1981)
Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark, 1984)
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986)
Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao Hsien, 1987)
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
Nazar (Mani Kaul, 1990)
To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett, 1990)
Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, 1991)

Celine (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1992)
Moving (Shinji Somai, 1993)
Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma, 1993)
The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995)
Voices Through Time (Franco Piavoli, 1996)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, 1998)
No Love Juice: Rustling in Bed (Yuji Tajiri, 1999)
The Yards (James Gray, 2000)
Throw Down (Johnnie To, 2004)

Through the Forest (Jean-Paul Civeyrac, 2005)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006)
Night and Day (Hong Sangsoo, 2008)
Aayirathil Oruvan (Selvaraghavan, 2010)
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar Wai, 2013)
The Parrot and the Swan (Alejo Moguillansky, 2013)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)
Forget Me Not (Kei Horie, 2015)
Kaatru Veliyidai (Mani Ratnam, 2017)