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Choose your favourite films from 2010 (according to IMDB).

Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number.

Twenty-film ballots can be formatted as follows:
- Five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier
- Four tiers of five films each, 5/5/5/5; scored 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5 pts/film/tier
- Two tiers of ten films each, 10/10; scored 4-2 pts/film/tier
- No tiers, unranked; scored 3 pts/film
- A 20-film three-tier ballot is not possible

A tiered ballot can include less than 20 films, but in that case the total number of films must still be able to be factored by the number of tiers, so:
- A five tier ballot can include only 20, 15, 10, or 5 films
- A four tier ballot can include only 20, 16, 12, 8, or 4 films
- A three tier ballot (scored 5-3-1) can include only 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, or 3 films
- A two tier ballot can include only 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 films
- Ballots that are 19, 17, 13, 11, 7 or 1 films must be no tiers

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible, so that others can use them for recommendations. You may revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Deadline for 2010 ballots will be Friday, September 30th at around midnight EDT.

not my favourite year:

Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski)
My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)

Easy A (Will Gluck)
Posthaste Perennial Pattern (Jodie Mack)
Unstoppable (Tony Scott)
Salt (Philip Noyce)

Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
The Social Network (David Fincher)
Four Lions (Chris Morris)
The Next Three Days (Paul Haggis)

Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
Green Zone (Paul Greengrass)
WTC Haikus (Jonas Mekas)
Act Da Fool (Harmony Korine)

Danny Boy (Marek Skrobecki)
True Grit (Coen Brothers)
Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois)
Monsters (Gareth Edwards)


i don't vote for tv series in these polls, but if i did i'd vote for Terriers (an episode of which, i just learned since i just saw it on imdb, was directed by Rian Johnson)

Heaven's Story (Takahisa Zeze)
Thomas Mao (Zhu Wen)
Band Baaja Baaraat (Maneesh Sharma)
Raavanan (Mani Ratnam)
Aayirathil Oruvan (Selvaraghavan)

Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller)
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
Sorelle Mai (Marco Bellochio)
Nainsukh (Amit Dutta)

In the Face of Crime (Dominik Graf)
Maryada Ramana (SS Rajamouli)
Nandalala (Mysskin)
Ishqiya (Abhishek Chaubey)
Enthiran (Shankar)

Kutty Srank (Shaji N. Karun)
Vikingo (Jose Celestino Campusano)
Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Tsui Hark)
Tamizh Padam (C.S. Amudhan)
When You Love and Are Loved (Takahisa Zeze)

like this year a lot...just missing the list would be yuasa's tatami galaxy series

This was my first year poll on the old forum.

Mysteries of Lisbon 2010 ‘Mistérios de Lisboa’ Directed by Raúl Ruiz
Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland 2010 ‘Reindeerspotting – pako Joulumaasta’ Directed by Joonas Neuvonen
These Hammers Don’t Hurt Us 2010 Directed by Michael Robinson
Nainsukh 2010 Directed by Amit Dutta
The Forgotten Space 2010 Directed by Noël Burch, Allan Sekula

Another Year 2010 Directed by Mike Leigh
Le quattro volte 2010 Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
Winter Vacation 2010 ‘寒假’ Directed by Li Hongqi
Studies for the Decay of the West 2010 ‘Studien zum Untergang des Abendlands’ Directed by Klaus Wyborny
Toujours moins 2010 Directed by Luc Moullet

The Arbor 2010 Directed by Clio Barnard
Oki’s Movie 2010 ‘옥희의 영화’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo
Poetry 2010 ‘시’ Directed by Lee Chang-dong
Four Lions 2010 Directed by Chris Morris
Carlos 2010 Directed by Olivier Assayas

Starting with these...

Aayirathil Oruvan - Selvaraghavan
Juventud - J. H. Hermosillo
Maryanna Ramada - SS Rajamouli
My Joy - Loznitsa
A Night In Nude: Salvation
Thomas Mao

Acorazado
Club Habana - Jorge Herrera
Dharma Guns - F J Ossang
Mysteries Of Lisbon - Ruiz
A Serbian Film
Shutter Island
Tambien La Lluvia -- Iciar Bollain (Post-colonialism! Hopper's The Last Movie, remade by people who know what they're talking about.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfI70TMDbO8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l8ahJXyRHw&t

thank you greennui!

my starters (love this year!!!):

finisterrae - sergio caballero
day of the sparrow - philip scheffner
pelas sombras - catarina mourão
on rubik's road - laila pakalniņa
robinson in ruins - patrick keiller
the erotic man - jørgen leth
content - chris petit
summer of goliath - nicolás pereda
the miners' hymns - bill morrison
aita - josé maría de orbe
get out of the car - thom andersen
winter vacation - li hongqi
a useful life - federico veiroj
aurora - cristi puiu
ha ha ha - hong sang-soo
the strange case of angelica - manoel de oliveira

gonna watch
following flaubert - rump
sleeping beauty - breillat
chantrapas - iosseliani
the dreamed films - pauwels
the sword and the rose - nicolau
20,000 (seems like) czech docs on dafilms

[provisional list deleted]

tees maar khan is probably the only farah khan movie i don't particularly love, though i have come around to it a bit in recent years. but feel the need to shout out sheila ki jawani, the song sequence i have probably watched 1,000 times in bodegas late at night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTmF2v59CtI

10 years seems like forever ago

BAND BAAJA BAARAAT
mysteries of lisbon (TV version)
strange case of angelica
les films reves (pauwels)
nainsukh
winter vacation
carlos
get out of the car
winter's bone
maryada ramanna
another year
finisterrae



watchlist: chantrapas, thomas mao, hahaha, road to nowhere, boxing gym, cairo 678, certified copy, i wish i knew, may they rest in revolt, robinson in ruins, jean gentil, the ditch, etc etc

THE SWORD AND THE ROSE i was just looking at this looks like some kind of hippie pirate movie. i'm gonna have to watch this too

The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
Archipelago (Joanna Hogg)
Black Venus (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
The City Below (Christoph Hochhausler)
Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima)
Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski)
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
Honey (Semih Kaplanoglu)
Kaboom (Gregg Araki)
My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
Outrage (Takeshi Kitano)
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman)
The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
Silent Souls (Aleksei Fedorchenko)
Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
 
Want to watch:
 
Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
R U There (David Verbeek)
A Screaming Man (Mahamat Saleh Haroun)
A Simple Noodle Story (Zhang Yimou)
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project (Kornel Mundruczo)
The Yellow Sea (Na Hong-jin)

Not overly happy with the below list, so going with 4x5 rather than 5x4. 2010 is probably one of the weaker years this century for me, and coupled with the fact that most have not been seen since release I'm less certain on this list than many others:

Black Swan (2010, Darren Aronofsky)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Kokuhaku / Confessions (2010, Tetsuya Nakashima)
Somewhere (2010, Sofia Coppola)
Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) / Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (2010, Jan Svankmajer)

Super (2010, James Gunn)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010, Banksy)
The Killer Inside Me (2010, Michael Winterbottom)
Toy Story 3 (2010, Lee Unkrich)
Tsumetai nettaigyo / Cold Fish (2010, Shion Sono)

The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
Finisterrae (2010, Sergio Caballero)
Animal Kingdom (2010, David Michôd)
The Ghost Writer (2010, Roman Polanski)
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010, Woody Allen)

127 Hours (2010, Danny Boyle)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010, Edgar Wright)
Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
Trolljegeren (2010, André Øvredal)
The Fighter (2010, David O. Russell)

2nd watch for 2010 (already watched orly, think i must have not grasped something there)

dessine-toi... / draw yourself - gilles porte

'world-tour' doc to various infants who are given the brief 'draw yourself' and it's as problematic and cute as you'd expect. some kids are natural artists, some are creatively interpretative of 'yourself', others need therapy immediately





DESPAIR


ME in my youth with the phallic scribbles

Want to see: Archipelago (Hogg)

I saw a couple of her films recently and loved them.

i tried watching that wang bing and - i can't. i'm sorry. i must be getting old..

i'm just not in the mood for some films at the minute (bad reaction to breillat's sleeping beauty) so i'll retreat to idle, ephemeral pleasures

where is my home? - jan látal

(though it went downhill after this. and i swear i could hitchhike with a 1000 people in britain before i ended up in a discussion about jung. czechs, honestly)

double feature hong - hahaha is definitely in

also wiseman's boxing gym

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1566 ... agSh6YM6fA

wrap up bit early cause watched almost every priority of watchlist
(missed some, of course, but not gonna see more in this month at least...)

Another Year
Karamay
Mysteries of Lisbon
Nostalgia for the Light
The Strange Case of Angelica

Ha Ha Ha
Oki’s Movie
Man with No Name
Toy Story 3
Vapor Trail (Clark)

Certified Copy
Dooman River
Hereafter
Meek’s Cutoff
The Illusionist

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Postcard
The Social Network
True Grit
Unstoppable

Not one of my better years for watching. Saw 100 movies, but not many of great interest but likely won't have time to fix that before the end of the month unless the cable gods unexpectedly smile on me.

Meek's Cutoff
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Ha Ha Ha
Certified Copy

The Social Network
Four Lions
Robot
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Carlos
Rare Exports
Gantz
Twilight Eclipse

The Princess of Montpensier
13 Assassins
The Sleeping Beauty
How I Ended This Summer

Chico & Rita
The Other Guys
Winter's Bone
Knight and Day

After looking at my Letterboxd ratings, there were a good number of movies I thought were fine, mostly well crafted stuff by directors with some talent, but not entirely satisfying beyond that.

a espada e a rosa is a very strange film







quasi scifi surrealist pirate movie musical the music was very pleasant

crucial question raised in 2010...

Unranked ballot:
678 (Cairo 678)
À bout portant (Point Blank)
Akunin (Villain)
Boy
De vrais mensonges (Beautiful Lies)
Die Fremde (When We Leave)
Elle s'appelait Sarah (Sarah's Key)
Essential Killing
Hævnen (In a Better World)
Hereafter
Hwanghae (The Yellow Sea)
Jean Gentil
My Name Is Khan
Submarino
Tang shan da di zhen (Aftershock)
The Ghost Writer
The Japanese Wife
The Town
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Unstoppable

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500):
Black Swan
Copie conforme
How to Train Your Dragon
Incendies
Inception
Loong Boonmee raleuk chat
Mistérios de Lisboa
Nostalgia de la luz
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Shutter Island
The King's Speech
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora é Outro
Udaan

To watch before the deadline:
Gang de qin
Les émotifs anonymes

Wanted:
Hevunzu sutôrî
Rassayel el bahr

following flaubert - andres rump

doc following flaubert's trip to corsica with diary extracts and old pics. but come on, i know the peasant is noble, but that doesn't make them interesting. was done with pointless filming of locals a long time ago, can that trend be over now please.

i watched children of the revolution, only because i'm obsessed with the baader-meinhoff gang and japanese red army. like how were women some of the most fierce and notorious revolutionaries of the 60s...

Road To Nowhere by Monte Hellman seems like it could use a lot more love. Kanafani and I four-starred it, Penalosa didn't apparently like it, Brian, Holyman, GregX and Curtis took minor pleasure in it. I'll be surprised if this isn't at the top of my final ballot for 2010...
https://letterboxd.com/lencho_o_t_apes/ ... o-nowhere/

i really liked it too, like one of those noirs you immediately want to watch again to figure out what the hell happened - i think i've put it off because i knew it was about laurie bird. thx lencho

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1573 ... 3t6LP8T-7g

are all contemporary czech films ironical meta docufiction featuring idiots?

the greatest czechs - robert sedláček

thomas mao one of the stranger films i've ever seen and i enjoyed it a lot!

1. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
2. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
3. Small Town Murder Songs (Ed Gass-Donnelly)
4. True Grit (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
5. Tucker and Dale vs Evil (Eli Craig)
6. The Karski Report (Claude Lanzmann)
7. Easy A (Will Gluck)
8. Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán)
9. Let Me In (Matt Reeves)
10. Monsters (Gareth Edwards)
11. Julia's Eyes (Guillem Morales)
12. Trollhunter (André Øvredal)
13. Romantics Anonymous (Jean-Pierre Améris)
14. Boy (Taika Waititi)
15. Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard)
16. Bedevilled (Jang Cheol-soo)
17. How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders)
18. The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)
19. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
20. Don't Tell Santa You're Jewish! (Jody Kramer)