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Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art
Favs/dislikes: 193:12. "Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored." So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual, and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions." This list contains all movies in the revised version from 2021. Included in this list are movies: 1. with dedicated texts. 2. shown in movie stills. 3. mentioned otherwise as an example of subversive cinema in the context of the text it is mentioned in. Excluded from this list are movies that are mentioned in any other way than an example of subversive cinema. The movies are sorted by appearance in the book. Some movies appear multiple times. In that case, the preferred position is the dedicated text, then a movie still and lastly a mention. The book is divided into parts: Introduction (#1 - #20) Part 1 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Form (#21 - #170) Part 2 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Content (#171 - #355) Part 3 - Weapons of Subversion: Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema (#356 - #572) Part 4 - Towards a New Consciousness (#573 - #598) #599 is the back cover. -
Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art (1974)
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Original 1974 version. This presentation of the book is very similar to the official iCM-list version. The main difference (and basically the only difference) is that this version include an additional 22 entries (examples of non-subversive films) which the official list version excludes (also, the order of the entries is slightly different). In other words, this list includes ALL films mentioned regardless if they are subversive or not. However, some films (or "entries" to be more precise) are not on IMDb yet, or appear in the book with unidentifiable stills (see bottom of list description). Films are sorted by the order they appear in the book. In some cases, the same film is discussed several times in different sections throughout the book (Blowup, 2001: A Space Odyssey, L'âge d'or, W.R. etc. They are listed here by their FIRST appearance in the book regardless if the film is discussed more thoroughly at a later stage in the book. #1-24: Acknowledgements, Preface and "The World View of Subversive Cinema" #1-2: Front cover and Back cover (and also mentioned in Acknowledgements). #25-193 :Part One - The Subversion of Form #25-37: Revolutionary Film Avant-garde in Soviet Russia #38-98: Aesthetic Rebels and Rebellious Clowns #99-117: The Destruction of Time and Space #118-131: The Destruction of Plot and Narrative #132-141: The Assault of Montage #142-160: The Triumph and Death of the Moving Camera #161-162: The Devaluation of Language #163-193: Straining towards the Limits #194-386: Part Two - The Subversion of Content #194: International Left and Revolutionary Cinema #195-257: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: the West #258-307: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: the East #308-332: Left and Revolutionary Cinema: Third World #333-338: East Germany: Against the West #339-352: Nazi Cinema #353-386: Secrets and Revelations #387-599: Part Three - Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema #387-403: The Visual Taboo #404-423: Nudity #424-468: Erotic and Pornographic Cinema #469-508: Homosexuality and Other Variants #509-514: The First Mystery: Birth #515-547: The Ultimate Secret: Death #548-575: The Attack on God #576-599: Trance and Witchcraft #600-621: Part Four - Towards a New Consciousness #600-619: Counterculture and Avant-garde #620-621: The Subversion of Subversion -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Films mentioned in the original version but not included in the revised version and/or iCM version: Staroye i novoye (Old and New) Alexander Nevsky Battleship Potemkin Ivan the Terrible Part 1 Ivan the Terrible Part 2 The Great Train Robbery Das blaue Licht Intolerance Cleopatra Der blaue Engel Gone with the Wind The Sound of Music Journal d'un curé de campagne If... O Lucky Man! The Graduate Romeo and Juliet Lebenszeichen Love Story Tout va bien ¡Que viva México! The Second in Command (The Second Coming) ...for a total of 22 additional entries compared to the iCM-version. "Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht" page 87; never explicitly mentioned but referred to when discussing Pere Portabella's "Cuadecuc, vampir". It IS mentioned in the revised version however. "Der geile Wotan" is included here as it is mentioned and referred to, but is in fact a faulty entry (correctly replaced by the correct film "SS und Judenstern" in the revised iCM-version), page 254. Unidentifiable Keystone Film circa 1915 (page 50-51, featured still) is in fact "In the Clutches of the Gang". Unknown films/entries: UFA Newsreel, 1940 (page 194) Unidentified Nazi documentary footage (page 278) Unidentified Nazi documentary footage (page 280) Entries that aren't on IMDb: Beaver Films (Stag, 1970, USA), page 221; revised version list the years as 1967-72. The None Story (Stag, 1950s, USA), page 225; titled "The Nun's Story" in the revised version. -
Amos Vogel's Missionary Positions
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. from 1982 "A sampling of titles [notable for] their audacious openness to both formal and thematic innovation." not found on IMDb Closing the Circle (sex between a couple in their fifties and a younger male friend) The Squeeze Technique (a graphic demonstration of Master’s and Johnson’s technique for retarding premature ejaculation) props to Lilarcor for locating the list and Nopros and others for sparking a short discussion -
Amy Taubin's Annual Top Ten Lists
Favs/dislikes: 22:0. The annual top ten lists of critic Amy Taubin since 1987. The 2006 list was taken from: http://moviecitynews.com/archived/awards/2007/top_tens/critics_05.html 2007: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_4_46/ai_n31038716/ 2008: http://www.indiewire.com/article/indiewire_critics_poll_08_amy_taubin 2009-2011: http://legacy.indiewire.com/critic/amy_taubin/ A few films aren't listed on IMDb: The Cup and the Lip (dir. Warren Sonbert) Friendly Witness (dir. Warren Sonbert) The Ground (dir. Robert Beavers) Mobile Homestead Trilogy (dir. Mike Kelley) Her lists also include: The Films of Andy Warhol Part II (Retrospective) Robert Beavers / Owen Land retrospective In both case, I've selected a few examples of their work. Other retrospectives: Jean-Luc Godard: The Spirit of the Forms Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler -
An Alternate Feminist Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. by Dselwyns - Sarah For moving towards a decolonial, anticapitalist, emancipated-from-heteronormativity transfeminist future. This is a list capped at 100 films threading a counter history to cinema. This is not a "ra-ra girl power" collection, or even a list of women's influences on a cinematic canon, but a collection of cinema that is unique in its willingness to show and to radicalize the female experience. Early films on here that may be less overt in their feminist messaging are included either because they show women's place in revolutionary causes, are a first to depict an experience, or have been key in the discussion surrounding this alternate text. All films are briefly annotated explaining why they're here. Discussion is welcome, but please understand that this is made with an awareness of an intrinsically misogynist studio system, a desire for avant-garde and worldwide productions. Therefore, this will not be including the newest wide-release intended to pander to "women's issues". In regards to the lack of so-called "genre films" here, with the exception of a couple art-horrors some exploitation cinema, and one work of speculative fiction, this list has ended up largely documentary centered, as this is what nearly all earlier entries are. The prevalence of documentary may be that the personal is political, and it is far easier to document reality than to work the truth of the world into fiction. not on imdb (probably doesnt qualify) https://letterboxd.com/film/preparacao-i/ -
Andrew Collins' Top 10 Westerns
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Andrew Sarris' Annual Top Ten Lists
Favs/dislikes: 35:0. The annual top ten lists of critic Andrew Sarris since 1958. As far as I have been able to find, he doesn't seem to have made any lists since 2008. -
Andrew Sarris' The American Cinema: Pantheon Directors
Favs/dislikes: 14:0. This is a list of the films credited to directors who fall under the banner "Pantheon Directors" in Andrew Sarris' 'The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968.' Please note that only the directors' films that are listed along with each one's entry in the book are included, not subsequent works. The "Pantheon Directors" are: Charles Chaplin, Robert Flaherty, John Ford, D.W. Griffith, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, F.W. Murnau, Max Ophuls, Jean Renoir, Josef von Sternberg, and Orson Welles -
Another 100 Film Noirs (BFI Screen Guide)
Favs/dislikes: 29:0. The appendix for the book "100 Film Noirs" by Jim Hiller & Alastair Phillips contains this list of "Another 100 Film Noirs." -
AP's Top 25 Movies - 2022
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. The AP Top 25 Movies ranking is an honor roll of films from 2022, as determined by a panel of 26 of the country's smartest film critics working for AP-affiliated outlets. Each voter submitted a ballot for the best movies of the year which were tabulated based on a weighted points system for a definitive list. [url=https://apnews.com/article/best-movies-2022-325b1c1493a5a95f5cb94ce577612cb6]Accompanying article[/url] -
Armond White's Eleventh Annual Better Than List 2015
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. January 8, 2016 The year’s best films versus the overrated worst In 2015 more movies were released than ever (an average of a dozen a week). And while many of them offended one’s sense of truth, beauty, and politics, mainstream media (both conservative and liberal) promoted them nonetheless — as if only newness mattered, and not quality. Commerce smothered art in 2015, disguised as movie love. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t still excellent, satisfying films — the best, Queen and Country, released in early January by British master filmmaker John Boorman, remained unsurpassed. You could still have a good time going to movies in 2015, but it required discernment, personal taste, and political rigor. Thus, this year’s Better-Than List reminds filmgoers that in cinema as in politics, quality and integrity are more important than popularity. It’s never too late to vote for the better movies. Armond White, a film critic, writes about movies for National Review Online and received the American Book Award’s Anti-Censorship prize. He is the author of The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World and the forthcoming What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Movies Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/author/armond-white -
Armond White's The Annual Better-Than List
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. "Instead of the usual ten-best list, White offers the “Better-Than List,” in which he expounds on why one lesser-known or critically unfashionable movie is better than another highly touted but ultimately empty product." All "better" films from all lists published since 2007 Missing film: Kanye West: New Slaves 2007 http://www.nypress.com/the-2007-better-than-list/ 2008 http://www.chrisknipp.com/writing/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1213&view=next 2009 http://www.nypress.com/better-than-list-2009 2010 https://letterboxd.com/ren507man/list/armond-whites-2010-better-than-list/ 2011 http://www.nyfcc.com/2012/01/armond-whites-2011-better-than-list/ 2012 http://www.nypress.com/armond-whites-better-than-list-2012/ 2013 http://www.nypress.com/the-better-than-list-for-2013/ 2014 http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396040/tenth-annual-better-list-armond-white 2015 http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429435/movies-2015-best-and-worst 2016 http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443614/better-list-critical-review-2017-best-worst-movies 2017 http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455151/annual-better-movies-list-european-films-dominate -
Armond White's Twelfth Annual Better Than List 2016
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Armond White‘s critical review of the year’s best and worst films January 6, 2017 Armond White, a film critic, writes about movies for National Review Online and received the American Book Award’s Anti-Censorship prize. He is the author of The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World and the forthcoming What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Movies Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/author/armond-white Quote: It’s no accident that the very best movies of 2016 challenged the mainstream and were not from Hollywood. Too many American filmmakers have lost the ability to look at human experience without cheapening our responses to it. Our most urgent issues as human beings, and our most sensitive needs as people who think and feel, are betrayed by a culture committed to childish escapism produced to shore up fatuous, fashionable tenets — which then get endorsed by media shills. The year’s Better-Than List has expanded because film culture has exploded beyond homogenous tastes and interests; multimedia competition has only exacerbated our fragmentation. But the point of the Better-Than List is always to inspire critical thinking and encourage personal response against the conformist hive-mind that aims to tame our diverse tastes. The best movies reward cultural courage, making it easier to reject the garbage. -
At the Movies with Margaret and David Classic Films
Favs/dislikes: 6:1. A weekly feature on the Australian film criticism programme At the Movies, each week is a rotation of either David Stratton or Margaret Pomeranz choosing one of their favourite films. Movies placed in the order they appeared on the show. -
Atlas du cinéma (historical introduction)
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Based on the historical (decade by decade) introduction to André Labarrère's book about world cinema. -
AWFJ’s Top 100 Films List
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The Tenth Anniversary of AFI's 100 Greatest Movies List got us to thinking, especially when we noticed that of 400 films nominated for AFI's list, only 4.5 were directed by women. We thought it would be interesting and fun to see whether AWFJ members– a diverse group of strongly opinionated and outspoken professional women film journalists who care passionately about the movies and industry they cover– would develop a list substantially different AFI's. The result, presented in alphabetical order, is an eclectic, perhaps somewhat surprising, collection of titles. It's neither politically nor academically correct, and it's far from definitive. -
Barry Norman: 50 greatest British films of all time
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Radio Times's resident film critic Barry Norman's 49 favourite British films (Feb '13), plus reader selected 50th. Not in any particular order. The 50th film was chosen to be Slumdog Millionaire. -
Barry Norman: The Best Films of the Century
Favs/dislikes: 15:1. Barry Norman's 100 best films of the century. List produced in 1998. -
Barry Norman's Top 10 Greatest Epics
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Broadcaster and film journalist Barry Norman compiled the top 10 for the Radio Times. The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (2001-03) are the most recent films on the list, while Napoleon (1927) is the oldest. In alphabetical order. -
BBC Culture's 'The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time: Who Voted?' (All films)
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. All films with at least one vote in the BBC Culture poll used to create their list of "100 Greatest Comedies of All Time". Not in IMDb: Lagos Na Wah!! Part 1 (Kehinde Soaga, 1994) [Number 5 in Aderinsola Ajao's list] Zawjati Min Al-Hippies ('My Wife Is a Hippy', Atef Salem, 1973) [Number 4 in Nour El Safoury's list] Toxic Shock (Vanessa Renwick, 1983) [Number 6 in Tara Judah's list] Saddle Sores (Vanalyne Green, 1999) [Number 7 in Tara Judah's list] Dear Lorde (Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, 2015) [Number 8 in Tara Judah's list] Al-Maganeen fi Naaeem (Hassan al-Saify, 1962) [Number 9 in Chadi Zeneddine's list] Going over the alphabetical list of critics, Catherine Bray is the first one whose films had all been mentioned already by someone else. -
BBC Culture's 'The 100 Greatest Films Directed by Women: Who Voted?' (All films)
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. All films with at least one vote in the BBC Culture poll used to create their list of "100 Greatest Films" directed by women. Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl, 1938) appears split into two parts here. Not in IMDb: #TheFourthSide (Uyoyou Adia, 2018) [Number 5 in Judith Audu's list] Half Value Life (Alka Sadat, 2008) [Number 1 in Azizuddin's list] When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Black Man (Jyoti Mistry, 2017) [Number 10 in Lindiwe Dovey's list] Acácio (Marilia Rocha, 2010) [Number 10 in Jacqueline Fowks's list] Mi Aporte (Sara Gómez, 1969) [Number 4 in Lili Hinstin's list] Invoking Justice (Deepa Dhanraj, 2011) [Number 9 in Meenakshi Shedde's list] Here, We Live (Mochizuki Yuko, 1962) [Number 10 in Washitani Hana's list] Anna (Linda Christanell, 1981) [Number 4 in Anna Zača's list] Going over the alphabetical list of critics, Ty Burr is the first one whose films had all been mentioned already by someone else. -
BBC Culture's 'The 100 Greatest Foreign-Language films: Who Voted?' (All films)
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. All films with at least one vote in the BBC Culture poll used to create their list of "100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films". Not in IMDb: Power (Ade Love, 1981) [Number 10 in Toni Kan's list] Going over the alphabetical list of critics, Luke Buckmaster is the first one whose films had all been mentioned already by someone else. -
BBC Culture's 'The 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films: Who Voted?' (All films)
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. All films with at least one vote in the BBC Culture poll used to create their list of "100 Greatest Films" of the 21st Century. Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010) appears split into three episodes here. Che (Steven Soderbergh, 2008) appears split into two parts here. The omnibus film Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet, corresponds to Adrian Martin's #2 pick, but he singled out only Víctor Erice's entry, "Lifeline." I am assuming "Alexandre Sokurov (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2015)" refers to Sokurov's Francofonia. Not in IMDb: Storia di una Donna Amata e di un Assassino Gentile (Luigi M. Faccini, 2009) [Number 6 in Adriano Aprà's list] A Letter to Nelson Mandela (Khalo Matabane, 2013) [Number 3 in Lindiwe Dovey's list] A Commuter’s Life (What a Life!) (Ernie Gehr, 2014) [Number 7 in Tom Gunning's list] Mosaik Mécanique (Norbert Pfaffenbichler, 2008) [Number 10 in Alexander Horwath's list] My Heart Beats Only for Her (Mohamed Soueid, 2009) [Number 7 in Rasha Salti's list] Going over the alphabetical list of critics, Eric Kohn is the first one whose films had all been mentioned already by someone else. -
BBC's 200 Greatest Films Directed by Women
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. An extension of the [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/bbcs+100+greatest+films+directed+by+women/peacefulanarchy/]Top 100[/url] using their same point system from the provided ballots. Position 98-103: 39 Points Position 128-132: 30 Points Position 150-154: 25 Points Position 176-181: 20 Points Position 196-200 16 Points -
BBC's The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 54:1. So this year BBC Culture decided to get serious about comedy. We asked 253 film critics – 118 women and 135 men – from 52 countries and six continents a simple: “What do you think are the 10 best comedies of all time?” Films from any country made since cinema was invented were eligible, and BBC Culture did nothing to define in advance what a comedy is; we left that to each of the critics to decide. As always, we urged the experts to go with their heart and pick personal favourites, films that are part of their lives, not just the ones that meet some ideal of greatness. List added August 2017
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