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FIPRESCI Grand Prix (1999-2023)
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. The award is the result of votes cast by members of FIPRESCI for any feature-length film premiered internationally over the previous twelve-month period (from July to June). It was created to distinguish the best film for its overall artistic value, regardless of its origin (it is not a regional award) or the filmmaker's experience (neither discovery nor lifetime achievement). It can go to any film of any technique or genre, and coming from any country, as long as it is a feature-length film. The global results reflect the great cultural and personal variety among the members of FIPRESCI. This list shows the 10 most voted films each year (including ties). Please note there is not record of results for 2001. Winners 1999 - All About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar 2000 - Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson 2001 - The Circle, Jafar Panahi 2002 - The Man Without a Past, Aki Kaurismäki 2003 - Uzak, Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2004 - Notre musique, Jean-Luc Godard 2005 - 3-Iron, Kim Ki-duk 2006 - Volver, Pedro Almodóvar 2007 - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu 2008 - There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson 2009 - The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke 2010 - The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski 2011 - The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick 2012 - Amour, Michael Haneke 2013 - Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche 2014 - Boyhood, Richard Linklater 2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller 2016 - Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade 2017 - The Other Side of Hope, Aki Kaurismäki 2018 - Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson 2019 - Roma, Alfonso Cuarón 2020 - not awarded 2021 - Nomadland, Chloé Zhao 2022 - Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi 2023 - Fallen Leaves, Aki Kaurismäki -
Laurent Jullier's Lire Les Images de Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. From the book "Reading the Images From Cinema" (free translation), which intends by presenting the tools of interpretation of the plan, and the sequence of the movie, teach us to look at the pictures. Co-written with Michel Marie -
Martin Rubin's Thrillers
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. "This stringent, chronological selection concentrates on (1) films discussed in detail or otherwise highlighted in the text and (2) films of special signifance and influence in the history of the thriller. It is not intended to rrepresent "The 100 Greatest Thrillers of All Time", ..." from Genres in American Cinema series -
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Mike D'Angelo's A and A- Films [82 to 100 score]
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. Mike D'Angelo is one of the first online critics. He has written for Esquire, Las Vegas Weekly, Village Voice, The Dissolve and the AVClub. He is a notoriously difficult critic. High scores are very rare. These are some older movies that are listed in his site as having a score of 80 or higher. Ordered in descending fashion by scores out of 100. -
Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Performances of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. Premiere Magazine (in its April 2006 issue), in an article written by numerous authors, published a list of the 100 Greatest (Movie) Performances of All-Time, to celebrate the best movie performances in film history. The defining performances were excerpted and abbreviated from the article. Facts and Commentary About the List: The authors described the movie performances: "They made us laugh, they made us cry....We love great movies the most - we feel the most electric connection to them - when the actors look out from that big screen, and hook into us. They make us believe that they're the people they're playing and that we, as viewers, have a genuine stake in what's coming next." -
Roger Ebert's Best Films of the Decade (2000s)
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. All of these films are on this list for the same reason: The direct emotional impact they made on me. They have many other qualities, of course. But these evoked the emotion of Elevation, which I wrote about a year or so ago. Elevation is, scientists say, an actual emotion, not a woo-woo theory. I believe that, because some films over the years have evoked from me a physical as well as an intellectual or emotional response. -
Sight & Sound 1952 top 10 poll
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. First of the 10-yearly polls -
Sight & Sound's 50 best films of 2019
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. In a year in which the future of cinema – of independent filmmaking, and collective film-watching – seems more fraught than ever, our poll of 100 S&S contributors has produced a list of 50 outstanding reasons for movie watching. Here below the reflections of past masters jostle with bold experiments from new voices – capped by a triumphant top movie that finds its British female director both looking back and moving forward. In our January 2020 issue we spotlight some of the themes and stories that have defined the cinema of 2019 – from post-#MeToo movies to the fortunes of the European arthouse, as well as expanded cinema and a countdown of the best TV of the year. -
Stagecoach to Tombstone - Guide to Great Westerns (followed by a chronological filmography of important westerns)
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. The first 27 are the main selection. The rest are listed Chronologically. -
The A List - National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. This is the Amazon book description for "The A List", published in 2002: People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays—most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a consensus of the National Society of Film Critics. The Society is a world-renowned, marquee—name organization embracing some of America's most distinguished critics: more than forty writers who have national followings as well as devoted local constituencies in such major cities as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Minneapolis. But make no mistake about it: This isn't a collection of esoteric "critic's choice" movies. The Society has made its selections based on a film's intrinsic merits, its role in the development of the motion-picture art, and its impact on culture and society. Some of the choices are controversial. So are some of the omissions. It will be a jumping-off point for discussions for years to come. And since the volume spans all international films from the very beginning, it will act as a balance to recent guides dominated by films of the last two decades (hardly film's golden age). Here is a book that is definitely ready for its close-up. -
The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. The term “male gaze” was first coined in the 1970s to describe what happens to all of us when the majority of our entertainment has been created by men. The viewer is forced to see female characters through a male lens, which distorts how all of us see women, and even how women see themselves. Typically, the keepers of film history and writers of film criticism have also been men. Yet, since the very birth of cinema, women have been making movies. So, what does the world look like through the “female gaze”? This is the question bestselling author and film reporter Alicia Malone poses, as she presents The Female Gaze―a collection of essays on fifty-two movies made by women. These films encompass various eras, nationalities, and stories, yet each movie is distinctly feminine. Joining Alicia Malone is a variety of established and aspiring female film critics, who write about their favorite film made by a female director. [url]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CXWFD8F/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0[/url] -
The Irish Times Best 50 Irish Movies
Favs/dislikes: 7:1. IN VERY PARTICULAR ORDER, HERE’S OUR (CURRENTLY DEFINITIVE) PICK OF THE GREATEST IRISH MOVIES EVER MADE No sane person will sincerely claim that the ranking of cultural entities is anything other than a sophisticated parlour game. When it comes to Irish film, however, the debate will invariably focus less on relative placings – whether Garage is better than The Quiet Man – than on how we are defining our terms. Is The Quiet Man Irish at all? It was financed by an American studio and set in a fanciful version of the real nation. When testing a novel for Irishness, we need focus our attention on the writer alone. Colm Tóibín’s The Master may be set in England and published by a British house, but nobody would claim it was anything other than an Irish book. John Crowley’s adaptation of Tóibín’s Brooklyn is Irish as well. But it’s also British and a little bit Canadian. A co-production of the BBC and the Irish Film Board (among others), it quite reasonably competed for awards at both the British and Irish Academies. Few of the films on this list pass the purity test for absolute uncorrupted Irishness. Our rules are looser than some may prefer. Significant numbers of Irish personnel is a factor. Notable levels of Irish funding scores you a few more points on our jerry-rigged scale. Shooting a film in Ireland gets you a long way down the road, but, as should be obvious, external productions that use the country as a stand-in for somewhere else aren’t getting anywhere with the jury. Neither Saving Private Ryan (Normandy in Wexford) nor The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (the Berlin Wall in Smithfield) was up for consideration. Setting a film in Ireland is not in itself a qualification. We would never have been much tempted by Waking Ned, a British production filmed in the Isle of Man, but Yann Demange’s 1971, a British film shot in Liverpool and Sheffield, would have walked in if Northern Ireland Screen had lured the filmmakers to the real Belfast. Decisions also had to be made as to what we mean by a feature film. We settled on a production made for theatrical exhibition that exceeds 70 minutes. Pat O’Connor’s fine The Ballroom of Romance fails on two counts. It is a television production that comes in at 65 minutes. (At the 1983 Bafta awards, it won in the TV section, not the film race). Playing hardball on length, we had to regretfully exclude the early work of Vivienne Dick, Bob Quinn’s legendary Poitín and more recent films such as Graham Seely and Kevin Brannigan’s The Man With the Hat. The final ranking is – as all such rankings must be – the creation of a fleeting mood. The order may have been different an hour or so later. It is not, however, a ranking of Irishness. Once a film has qualified it competes equally with all others. Some may reasonably think our top film among the least Irish of the bunch. So be it. Having made the grade, we asked only whether it is better than the rest. The answer today was “yes”. Tomorrow, who knows? -
The Most Influental Films Ever Made
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. These were listed by Total Film magazine as the most influential movies ever made in their May 2009 Issue. It covers a broad range of landmark movies from every decade and from every genre. -
The Odyssey of Brazilian Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. All Brazilian Films (including co-productions) cited in the book "L'odyssée du cinéma brésilien" aka "A Odisséia do Cinema Brasileiro" (2016) written by French scholar Laurent Desbois Missing in Imdb: Forofina (To Africa - L'Afrique - Na África) (1973 DOC), Sylvio Lanna Arabesco (1990 short), Eliane Caffé Troca de Cabeça (1993 short), Sérgio Machado Fragmentos de um Discurso Amoroso (1994 TV DOC), Ivan Cardoso No Eixo da Morte (1998), Afonso Brazza Abá - Índio, Homem, Pessoa - 500 anos D. Cabral (2000 DOC), Rose da Silva Brava Gente: Lira Paulistana (2001 TV episode), Claudio Torres Lost/Unfinished Films: O Guarani (1908), Benjamin Oliveira Nhô Anastácio Chegou de Viagem (1908), Júlio Ferrez O Guarani (1912), Paulo Benedetti A Viuvinha (1914), Luiz de Barros O Guarani (1916), Vittorio Capellaro Lucíola (1916), Franco Magliani Filme do Diabo (1917), Júlio Davesa Ubirajara (1919), Luiz de Barros Urutau (1919), William H. Jansen O Guarani (1922), João de Deus A Carne (1924), Leo Marten Filho sem mãe (1925), Tancredo Seabra Gigi (1925), José Medina O Guarani (1926), Vittorio Capellaro Na Primavera da vida (1926), Humberto Mauro Mademoiselle Cinema (1925), Leo Marten Acabaram-se os Otários (1929), Luiz de Barros Coisas Nossas (1931), Wallace Downey Onde a Terrra Acaba (1933), Mario Peixoto A Voz do Carnaval (1933), Adhemar Gonzaga, Humberto Mauro Alô, Alô, Brasil (1935), João de Barro, Wallace Downey, Alberto Ribeiro Cinzas (1935), Joe Schoene Favela dos Meus Amores (1935), Humberto Mauro Estudantes (1935), Wallace Downey Cidade-Mulher (1936), Humberto Mauro João Ninguém (1936), Mesquitinha Noites Cariocas (1936), Enrique Cadícamo Banana-da-Terra (1939), Ruy Costa Asas do Brasil (1940), Raul Roulien É Tudo Verdade (1942), Orson Welles Moleque Tião (1943), José Carlos Burle É Proibido Sonhar (1943), Moacyr Fenelon Samba em Berlim (1943), Luiz de Barros Este Mundo É um Pandeiro (1947), Watson Macedo Inconfidência Mineira (1948), Carmen Santos Jangada (1949), Raul Roulien Juventude (1949), Nelson Pereira dos Santos Maconha, Erva Maldita (1950), Raul Roulien Aglaia (1950), Ruy Santos A Carne (1952), Guido Lazzarini O Gigante de pedra (1953), Walter Hugo Khouri Sentença de Deus (1955), José Mojica Marins Amazônia Nua (1958), Zygmunt Sulistrowski O Sertanejo (195?), Lima Barreto O Mistério de São Paulo (195?), Rodolfo Nanni The First Odalisca (196?), Maria Gladys Piranhas do Asfalto (1971), Neville de Almeida A Casa de Açúcar (1996), Carlos Hugo Christensen -
The Online Film Community's Top 100 Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. When AFI released their list of the Top 100 Movies of All Time, many people were up in arms over the selections. Over 50 members of the Online Film Journalist Community decided to join together and create a list of their own. A list that might better reflect the views of everyone else who didn’t agree with the AFI list. Sure, you can’t really compare AFI’s list with the Film Community’s Top 100 because we allowed the inclusion of foreign films. -
The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films by Mark Schilling
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. Missing from Icm/Imdb or still can't correctly identify: Level (1994) Shuraba Ga Yuku (1995) Shuraba No Ningengaku (1993) Wakaki Hi No Jorocho (1962) Yaju Shisubeshi: Fukushuhen (1997) Zankyo (1999) -
Top 100 Fantasy Movies Gary Gerani
Favs/dislikes: 7:1. Based on the Book by Gary Gerani -
Western Cartoons
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. -
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. -
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 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 -
Birmingham Post: Graham Young's Top Films of the '00s
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. Listing them in any meaningful order would be impossible. But the criteria should certainly include longevity beyond the initial impact, achievement in making them and, above all, enjoyment and/or appreciation watching them. Except for my No 1, which has to be the Lord of the Rings, these films are in alphabetical order. (Graham Young) -
Dangerous Men
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. A list of movies referenced in Mick LaSalle's book on the pre-Code era, Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man. I've included every film listed in the appendix, save Drag and Young Nowheres, which are considered lost. -
Fantastic Planets Forbidden Zones & Lost Continents
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. The 100 greatest Sci-Fi films according to the book.
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