SCFZ

This can or can not be considered the 7th Annual SCFZ Top 100. This year is not real anyway.

- Select 50 films that you saw during Covid.
- They can or can not be rewatches, as you see fit.
- Films can be ranked or grouped as you see fit.

Examples:

ONE
Vertigo - 50

Citizen Kane - 49

Tokyo Story - 48

The 400 Blows - 47

TWO
Vertigo - 50

Citizen Kane - 48.5
Tokyo Story - 48.5

The 400 Blows - 47


THREE
Vertigo - 49
Citizen Kane - 49
Tokyo Story - 49

The 400 Blows - 47

FOUR
Vertigo - 48.5
Citizen Kane - 48.5
Tokyo Story - 48.5
The 400 Blows - 48.5

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Film Titles must be in the following format:

Film (Director, Year), as in: News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1997)

Do not include any other information, including anything denoting a film's rank or group.

- In terms of language, for Film Titles, please use common sense and use what you think is most commonly used, including or not including "special characters". This makes tabulating infinitely easier.
- Please bold your entire post with tags - [.b] and [./b] (without the periods) - at the beginning and end. This makes tabulating a fair bit easier.
- It is preferred that you capitalize Film Titles and Directors. This make tabulating a little bit easier.

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No deadline as of yet.

What date do we take as the start of Covid?

Silga wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 10:57 pm What date do we take as the start of Covid?

Whatever you see fit.

Ok, I'll take March 2020 as a start date, since that's when the lockdown started here.

the first covid case here in quebec (which was actually diagnosed at the closest hospital to where i live) was discovered at the end of feb 2020, and restrictions began a couple of weeks later, so i'm using march 1/2020 as the start date for my list.

first draft of a top 50 -- features only for now, will probably sub in several short films. this is meant to be ranked, so if i've formatted anything badly, let me know and i will fix it! :


The Toth Family (Zoltan Fabri, 1969)
Lost in Munich (Petr Zelenka, 2015)
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (Eldar Shengelaya, 1983)
Kanchana Sita (Govindan Aravindan, 1977)
The Well (Russell Rouse, 1951)
Moving (Shinji Somai, 1993)
Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg, 1976)
Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety, 1992)
Throw Momma from the Train (Danny DeVito, 1987)
Monologue (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1987)
Earth Light (Guy Gilles, 1970)
Who's Singin' Over There? (Slobodan Sijan, 1980)
Mad About Music (Norman Taurog, 1938)
Keep an Eye Out (Quentin Dupieux, 2018)
Why Does Herr R Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970)
One Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning, 1977)
The Need (Alireza Davoudnejad, 1992)
Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann, 1949)
Witchhammer (Otakar Vavra, 1970)
Macario (Roberto Gavaldon, 1960)
Wanderers of the Desert (Nacer Khemir, 1984)
Play (Gholam Reza Ramezani, 2005)
The Guns (Ruy Guerra, 1964)
Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (Dileesh Pothan, 2017)
The Rose King (Werner Schroeter, 1986)
New York Confidential (Russell Rouse, 1955)
The Cat (Dominik Graf, 1988)
Beshkempir (Aktan Abdykalykov, 1998)
Ratz (Thom Eberhardt, 2000)
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport, 1995)
There Is No Evil (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2020)
Assignment: Paris (Robert Parrish, 1952)
The Seventh Bullet (Ali Khamraev, 1972)
Golden Salamander (Ronald Neame, 1950)
The Round-Up (Miklos Jancso, 1966)
Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg, 2020)
When Strangers Marry (William Castle, 1944)
Kummatty (Govindan Aravindan, 1979)
Professor Hannibal (Zoltan Fabri, 1956)
Madeleine (David Lean, 1950)
Emma. (Autumn de Wilde, 2020)
The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming! (Norman Jewison, 1966)
Boom! (Joseph Losey, 1968)
Beyond the Forest (King Vidor, 1949)
The Corporal and the Others (Marton Keleti, 1965)
The Adventures of Picasso (Tage Danielsson, 1978)
Special Bulletin (Edward Zwick, 1983)
Absurdistan (Veit Helmer, 2008)
Sonagi (Young Nam Ko, 1979)
Falcons (Istvan Gaal, 1970)


the top 30 short films i saw, several of which i'm sure i'll end up putting into my top fifty:

Semiotics of the Kitchen (Martha Rosler, 1975)
Launch of the 'Oceanic' (William KL Dickson, 1899)
A Hundred-Odd Years from Now (Fred Schepisi, 1968)
Power (Vlatko Gilic, 1973)
Lancement d'un Navire (Louis Lumiere, 1896)
Cellbound (Tex Avery, 1955)
3/60: Trees In Autumn (Kurt Kren, 1960)
Too Many Cooks (Casper Kelly, 2014)
Common Air (Joseph Bernard, 1984)
Wasteland No 1: Ardent Verdant (Jodie Mack, 2017)
The Snowman (Phil Solomon, 1995)
On the Move (SNS Sastry, 1970)
Posthaste Perennial Pattern (Jodie Mack, 2010)
Kiev Frescoes (Sergei Parajanov, 1966)
Time and Tide (Peter Hutton, 2000)
Movie That Invites Pausing (Ken Jacobs, 2020)
Somebody (Miranda July, 2014)
Panoramic View of Conway on the L&NW Railway (William KL Dickson, 1898)
Burglary at Night (Gaston Velle, 1904)
Schwechater (Peter Kubelka, 1958)
8/64: Ana – Action Brus (Kurt Kren, 1964)
Day and Night (Ken Jacobs, 2011)
Tails (Paul Sharits, 1976)
The Adventurer (Charlie Chaplin, 1917)
Passage d'un Tunnel en Chemin de Fer (Louis Lumiere, 1898)
Demolition of a Wall (Louis Lumiere, 1896)
Irish Mail - L&NW Railway - Taking up Water at Full Speed (William KL Dickson, 1898)
Crissie Sheridan (William KL Dickson, 1897)
The Evidence of the Film (Lawrence Marston/Edwin Thanhouser, 1913)
The Flying Train (Deutsche Mutoskop/Biograph, 1902)


and 30 other features i didn't find room for yet, but might include above if i change my mind about things, just posting here for my reference when i edit my ballot:

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
They Might Be Giants (Anthony Harvey, 1971)
Bowfinger (Frank Oz, 1999)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame, 1969)
The Candy Snatchers (Guerdon Trueblood, 1973)
Persuasion (Roger Michell, 1995)
Ten Thousand Suns (Ferenc Kosa, 1967)
Ruthless People (Jim Abrahams/Jerry Zucker/David Zucker, 1986)
Three Men in a Boat (Stephen Frears, 1975)
The Boot (Mohammad-Ali Talebi, 1993)
The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)
A Nous la Liberte (Rene Clair, 1931)
Oleanna (David Mamet, 1994)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)
The Hunt (Craig Zobel, 2020)
Cruella (Craig Gillespie, 2021)
La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
Breaker Morant (Bruce Berseford, 1980)
Young Mr Lincoln (John Ford, 1939)
Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King, 2021)
Killer's Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, 1955)
Margin Call (JC Chandor, 2011)
Run Hide Fight (Kyle Rankin, 2020)
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, 2011)
Rouge (Kryzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
Showdown at Abilene (Charles Haas, 1956)
The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young, 1960)
Night of the Comet (Thom Eberhardt, 1984)

Since March 2020, no re-watches, no 2020-21 releases

First draft:

Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997)
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski, 2010)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)
The Harder They Fall (Mark Robson, 1956)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997)
I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963)

North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
Streets of Fire (Walter Hill, 1984)
The Nun’s Story (Fred Zinnemann, 1959)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)
Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975)
The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio, 2019)
Nixon (Oliver Stone, 1995)
Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003)

The Winslow Boy (David Mamet, 1999)
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodovar, 2019)
The Big Blue (Luc Besson, 1988)
Howards End (James Ivory, 1992)
Starting Over (Alan J. Pakula, 1979)
Fat City (John Huston, 1972)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
Day of the Outlaw (Andre De Toth, 1959)
The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino, 2004)
The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004)

Shivers (David Cronenberg, 1975)
Last Train from Gun Hill (John Sturges, 1959)
The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979)
North West Frontier (J. Lee Thompson, 1959)
Things Change (David Mamet, 1988)
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 2007)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar, 1988)
Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994)
Guest of Honour (Atom Egoyan, 2019)
The House of Yes (Mark Waters, 1997)

Heaven & Earth (Oliver Stone, 1993)
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin, 1997)
The Sterile Cuckoo (Alan J. Pakula, 1969)
Fear Over the City (Henri Verneuil, 1975)
Adam Wants to Be a Man (Vytautas Zalakevicius, 1959)
Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987)
The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1954)
The Needle (Rashid Nugmanov, 1988)
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, 1980)
The Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion, 1996)

Top short films:

Judith Hotel (Charlotte Le Bon, 2018)
Frankenweenie (Tim Burton, 1984)
Human Voice (Edoardo Ponti, 2014)
The Searching Eye (Saul Bass, 1964)
Why Man Creates (Saul Bass, 1968)
The Last Farm (Runar Runarsson, 2004)
Lick the Star (Sofia Coppola, 1998)
The Lamp (Roman Polanski, 1959)
When Angels Fall (Roman Polanski, 1959)
Life Story (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1975)
Talking Heads (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1980)
Multi-Facial (Vin Diesel, 1995)
Catastrophe (David Mamet, 2000)
Cashback (Sean Ellis, 2004)
Two Cars, One Night (Taika Waititi, 2004)
Everything Goes (Andrew Kotatko, 2004)
Winning Your Wings (John Huston, 1942)
The Dirk Diggler Story (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1988)
Ellis (JR, 2015)
The Short & Curlies (Mike Leigh, 1987)
Carlo (Michael R. Roskam, 2004)

Other great films I might include in my final ballot:

first draft:

Billy Madison (Tamra Davis, 1995)

Frank's Cock (Mike Hoolboom, 1993)
The Wedding Singer (Frank Coraci, 1998)
Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980)
Alone in the Wilderness (Dick Proenneke/Bob Swerer Sr./Bob Swerer Jr., 2004)

Blood of the Condor (Jorge Sanjinés, 1969)
Chilly Scenes of Winter (Joan Micklin Silver, 1979)
The Big Gundown (Sergio Sollima, 1966)
No Name on the Bullet (Jack Arnold, 1959)
Talking to Strangers (Rob Tregenza, 1988)
A Little Romance (George Roy Hill, 1979)
Reality Bites (Ben Stiller, 1994)
The 'Teddy' Bears (Wallace McCutcheon/Edwin S. Porter, 1907)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
Power (Vlatko Gilić, 1973)
Libel (Anthony Asquith, 1959)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
Three Bewildered People in the Night (Gregg Araki, 1987)
We Make Couples (Mike Hoolboom, 2016)
Urban Rashomon (Khalik Allah, 2013)
Transit (Christian Petzold, 2018)
Such a Pretty Little Beach (Yves Allégret, 1949)
From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services – Part Five (Helke Sander, 1987)
The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996)
Commando (Mark L. Lester, 1985)

Finding Frances (Nathan Fielder, 2017)
50 First Dates (Peter Segal, 2004)
The Waterboy (Frank Coraci, 1998)
Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe, 1996)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, 2020)
Home Avenue (Jennifer Montgomery, 1989)
By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet, 1936)
Kuhle Wampe (Slatan Dudow, 1932)
Greetings from Africa (Cheryl Dunye, 1995)
Green Street (Věra Chytilová, 1959)
Betty Tells Her Story (Liane Brandon, 1972)
Judy Versus Capitalism (Mike Hoolboom, 2021)
The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets (Adam Khalil/Zack Khalil/Jackson Polys, 2018)
The Mitten (Roman Kachanov, 1967)
Weihnacht (Roland Klick, 1963)
Dédée d’Anvers (Yves Allégret, 1948)
Stuff (Johnny Depp/Gibby Haynes, 1993)
Mosquinha (Étienne-Jules Marey, 1890)
From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services – Part Eight (Helke Sander, 1986)
Pool of London (Basil Dearden, 1951)
X-Paroni (Spede Pasanen/Jaakko Pakkasvirta/Risto Jarva, 1964)
Field Niggas (Khalik Allah, 2015)
Black Gravel (Helmut Käutner, 1961)
Johnny Stecchino (Roberto Benigni, 1991)
Beans (Tracey Deer, 2020)

I did from the last week of April 2020... that's when I started working from home, and that's what gave me the opportunity to start watching close to a film per day (first time I've ever had that chance for an extended period of time).
No Re-watches.

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude, 2021)
The Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman, 2009)
Katie Tippel (Paul Verhoeven, 1975)
Matewan (John Sayles, 1987)
Harriet Craig (Vincent Sherman, 1950)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929)
The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969)
Agatha and the Limitless Readings (Marguerite Duras, 1981)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
Modern Romance (Albert Brooks, 1981)

Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945)
Providence (Alain Resnais, 1977)
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971)
The Brother From Another Planet (John Sayles, 1984)
Surreal Estate (Eduardo De Gregorio, 1976)
Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader, 1992)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
Destroy She Said (Marguerite Duras, 1969)
Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman, 2002)
Tuesday After Christmas (Radu Muntean, 2010)

Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)
W.R. Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavajev, 1971)
Sudden Fear (David Miller, 1952)
City of Hope (John Sayles, 1991)
Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey, 1976)
Event Horizon (Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997)
Chafed Elbows (Robert Downey Sr., 1966)
Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra, 1985)
California Split (Robert Altman, 1974)

Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010)
Woman in Chains (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1968)
The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith, 1951)
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)
Unfaithful (Adrian Lyne, 1999)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame, 1969)
Casa De Los Babys (John Sayles, 2003)
Death and the Maiden (Roman Polanski, 1994)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
A Woman’s Face (George Cukor, 1941)

The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May, 1972)
Malina (Werner Schroeter, 1991)
Woman is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-Soo, 2004)
Under The Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell, 2018)
In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie, 1980)
Mayor (David Osit, 2020)
Return of the Secaucus Seven (John Sayles, 1980)
Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg, 1973)
Lost in America (Albert Brooks, 1985)

A selection of 50 favourite viewings, chosen to be representative of my viewing interests in this period, from the middle of March 2020 to August 2021. About 30% are rewatches.

The Flying Train (Deutsche Mutoskop und Biograph, 1902)
The Great Toronto Fire (George Scott, 1904)
Max Is Convalescent (Max Linder, 1911)
Two Zeeland Girls in Zandvoort (Louis H. Chrispijn, 1913)
Different from the Others (Richard Oswald, 1919)
Chess Fever (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1925)
So This Is Paris (Ernst Lubitsch, 1926)
The Patsy (King Vidor, 1928)
Riley the Cop (John Ford, 1928)
The Land of Missing Men (John P. McCarthy, 1930)
Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931)
Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy, 1931)
Jewel Robbery (William Dieterle, 1932)
No Blood Relation (Mikio Naruse, 1932)
Two Seconds (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)
Vanity Street (Nick Grinde, 1932)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933)
Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, 1933)
Three Little Pigs (Burt Gillett, 1933)
Turn Back the Clock (Edgar Selwyn, 1933)
Syncopated City (Roy Mack, 1934)
Captain January (David Butler, 1936)
Three Smart Girls (Henry Koster, 1936)
Under Western Stars (Joseph Kane, 1938)
Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)
Bombs over Burma (Joseph H. Lewis, 1942)
To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
Border Patrol (Lesley Selander, 1943)
Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943)
The Falcon and the Co-Eds (William Clemens, 1943)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell, 1943)
My Learned Friend (Basil Dearden, 1943)
Port of Flowers (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1943)
The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)
Cobra Woman (Robert Siodmak, 1944)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
Voodoo Man (William Beaudine, 1944)
Strange Illusion (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)
The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli, 1948)
Anne of the Indies (Jacques Tourneur, 1951)
Tomahawk (George Sherman, 1951)
Love Letter (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1953)
Bewitched Bunny (Chuck Jones, 1954)
Dawn at Socorro (George Sherman, 1954)
The Far Country (Anthony Mann, 1954)
Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman, 1954)
Theodora, Slave Empress (Riccardo Freda, 1954)
Illegal (Lewis Allen, 1955)
I Am a Mobile Librarian (Fred Moore, 1960)
Murder at the Gallop (George Pollock, 1963)

first time watches only. an interesting though lamentable snapshot of who I am as a person.

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
Zack Snyder's Justice League (Zack Snyder, 2021)
Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raul Ruiz, 1983)
The Trip (Roger Corman, 1967)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
Desperate Living (John Waters, 1977)
Holy Flame of the Martial World (Lu Chu-Kun, 1983)
Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)
The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk, 1957)
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin, 1992)

Portrait in Crystal (Hua Shan, 1983)
Footprints (Luigi Bazzoni & Mario Fanelli, 1975)
Entranced Earth (Glauber Rocha, 1967)
The Enchanting Shadow (Li Han-Hsiang, 1960)
Wagon Master (John Ford, 1950)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957)
Blood Beat (1983, Fabrice A. Zaphiratos)
The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)
The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis, 1961)
Devil Fetus (Lau Hung-Chuen, 1983)

Women in Love (Ken Russell, 1969)
Hercules in the Haunted World (Mario Bava, 1961)
Tenet (Christopher Nolan, 2020)
Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher, 1957)
Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)
China Gate (Samuel Fuller, 1957)
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, 1948)
Matinee (Joe Dante, 1993)
A Real Young Girl (Catherine Breillat, 1976)
Wisconsin Death Trip (James Marsh, 1999)

War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996)
Red Spirit Lake (Charles Pinion, 1993)
Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967)
The Angel (Patrick Bokanowski, 1982)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974)
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)
Keoma (Enzo G. Castellari, 1976)
Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951)
Play Dirty (Andre De Toth, 1969)

Caligula (Tinto Brass, 1979)
Lips of Blood (Jean Rollin, 1975)
Face/Off (John Woo, 1997)
Breathless (Jim McBride, 1983)
Cryptic Plasm (Brian Paulin, 2013)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)
Petey Wheatstraw (Cliff Roquemore, 1977)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
Maniac Cop 2 (William Lustig, 1990)

Curtis, baby wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:49 pm Billy Madison (Tamra Davis, 1995)

hey i went to the school in that movie, or one of them anyway

I wasn't able to check the forum much recently, but was there / will there be also a normal annual SCFZ top 100 poll? I like the idea of making a best of Covid list for myself (and checking out the lists of others), but it seems rather random to tally them since the lists will be very different; films at the top will be the films that happen to have been watched by more people in this specific period.

Great idea. First-time viewings and rewatches from March 2020 to now, in the order they were seen:

The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yi'nan, 2019)
Midnight (Mitchell Leisen, 1939)
Eva (Joseph Losey, 1962)
Woman Demon Human (Huang Shuqin, 1987)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)
Harmful Insect (Akihiko Shiota, 2001)
Leo the Last (John Boorman, 1970)
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)
Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark, 1995)
The Color of Paradise (Majid Majidi, 1999)
Life Is a Miracle (Emir Kusturica, 2004)
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Jerry Schatzberg, 1970)
Road (Alan Clarke, 1987)
Naukri (Bimal Roy, 1954)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993)
The Executioner (Luis Garcia Berlanga, 1963)
The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda, 1971)
Avanti! (Billy Wilder, 1972)
Noises Off… (Peter Bogdanovich, 1992)
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, 2020)
Black Sun (Koreyoshi Kurehara, 1964)
Kansas City (Robert Altman, 1996)
The Go-Between (Joseph Losey, 1971)
Marius (Alexander Korda, 1931)
Eve’s Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997)
Choose Me (Alan Rudolph, 1984)
Mank (David Fincher, 2020)
The Trout (Joseph Losey, 1982)
Paradise (Andrei Konchalovsky, 2016)
The Ear (Karel Kachyna, 1970)
Chicken and Duck Talk (Clifton Ko, 1988)
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
Kamome Diner (Naoko Ogigami, 2006)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2007)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke, 2013)
Easy Living (Jacques Tourneur, 1949)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993)
Getting Any? (Takeshi Kitano, 1995)
The Gang’s All Here (Busby Berkeley, 1943)
L’Iceberg (Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy, 2005)
Peppermint Soda (Diane Kurys, 1977)
Kids Return (Takeshi Kitano, 1996)
Speed Racer (Lilly and Lana Wachowski, 2008)
Accident (Soi Cheang, 2009)
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021)
The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane, 2020)
In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin, 2007)
The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola, 1984)
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves, 1947)
Girl Walk // All Day (Jacob Krupnick, 2011)

Final List

all four and a half and five star rated films on letterboxd I've seen since March 2020 listed inthe order I saw them.

my list is unranked, as these are more or less all masterpieces and personal favorites!


Final Accord (Detlef Sierck, 1936)
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986)
Ocean Waves (Tomomi Mochizuki, 1993)
The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, 1925)
Olli’s Apprenticeship (Teuvo Puro, 1920)
Before the Face of the Sea (Teuvo Puro, 1926)
Eva küßt nur Direktoren (Rudolf Jugert, 1958)
Das Hirtenlied vom Kaisertal (Max Michel, 1956)
Die süßesten Früchte (Franz Antel, 1953)
A Bagful of Fleas (Věra Chytilová, 1962)
The Little Fox (Attila Dargay, 1981)
On the Warpath (Teuvo Pakkala, 1922)
The Family Secret (William A. Seiter, 1924)
Gefahren der Großstadt-Straße (Toni Attenberger, 1924)
A Fine Day (Thomas Arslan, 2001)
Berlin Around the Corner (Gerhard Klein, 1966)
One (Ulrich Schamoni, 1971)
The Sovereign (Veit Harlan, 1937)
Once Upon a Time (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1922)
The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2018)
Be My Wife (Max Linder, 1921)
The Mystery of the Green Spider (Franz Marischka, 1960)
Genuine (Robert Wiene, 1920)
Eine kleine Sommermelodie (Volker von Collande, 1944)
Waltz War (Ludwig Berger, 1933)
The Berliner (Robert Adolf Stemmle, 1948)
Daylight (Rob Cohen, 1996)
Gorilla Bathes at Noon (Dušan Makavejev, 1993)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984)
Miss Chic (Hasse Ekman, 1959)
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondou, 1995)
Barbara (Nils Malmros, 1997)
Career (Schamyl Bauman, 1938)
To Kill a Child (Gösta Werner, 1953)
Shanty Town (Weyler Hildebrand, 1932)
Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall, 1990)
Wet Sand in August (Toshiya Fujita, 1970)
Servant’s Entrance (Gustaf Molander, 1932)
The Black Pirate (Albert Parker, 1926)
Violent Summer (Valerio Zurlini, 1959)
Bread, Love and Dreams (Luigi Comencini, 1953)
The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki, 1990)
Highway Racer (Stelvio Massi, 1977)
Kuin uni ja varjo (T.J. Särkkä, Yrjö Norta, 1937)
Tales from Earthsea (Goro Miyazaki, 2006)
The Golden Era (Ann Hui, 2014)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Kar-Leung Lau, 1978)
Village of Haze (Kwon-taek Im, 1983)
Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma, 1996)
White Men Can’t Jump (Ron Shelton, 1992)



By country

Germany: 14
USA: 8
Sweden: 7
Japan: 6
Finland: 5
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