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Paste's 100 Best French Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. French language cinema covers vast swathes of history, geography and genre. The best French movies aren’t simply the product of a French person working strictly with a French team, they represent film as entelechy—a century of directors rooting around within the source code of this particular form of storytelling, pushing it into realms equally transcendent and horrifying. For its own sake. Because it is right to do so. If there is anything unifying the films in the following list—besides the French language—it might be that there exists a current of fundamental innovation throughout the many years surveyed. Auteurist visions care of Belgium, Greece, Poland, Denmark, Taiwan, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Senegal course through and inform the prelapsarian innards of French cinema, transforming the country into a hub for international film. This is foundational stuff. With the following we’re trying to provide a primer on French language film from an English-speaking perspective, exploring the schools of thought and exotic taxonomies that have defined what French filmmaking has been since George Méliès first set a moon cackling like a creep in 1902, and what it can be, skin-flaying, cannibalistic Grand Guignol nightmares and all. The Nouvelle Vague—both those of the Left Bank (Agnès Varda, her husband Jacques Demy, Alain Resnais and Chris Marker) and the Cahiers du cinéma crew (Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol)—the erotic French thriller, the mind-bending (and bowel-emptying) horror of the New French Extremity, the colorful musical, the social farce, the sprawling crime film, the experimental vérité, the personal and unflinching documentaries: Even as so many films on this list have irrevocably altered our ideas of what filmmaking can mean, what it can do, so do they exist on the fringes, at the limits, willing to test the boundaries of taste, logic and (in the case of Chantal Akerman) time in order to question and then pull apart the systems and expectations that stagnate art and oppress artists. -
Paste's 100 Best Superhero Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 7:2. Published in January 2017 (updated June 2023) Two things quickly become evident when putting together a list of the 100 Best Superhero Movies of All Time. First, this is the Golden Age for such films, a decade where technology, long-unrequited fandom and surging popular awareness have all combined to thrill moviegoers and make Hollywood billions of dollars. Second, it’s still fair to say that most superhero films are not that good. There’s no real contradiction at play here. The niche just lacks the pedigree of its fellow movie genres. Though superhero comic books may have started to make a dint in popular culture 75 years ago (give or take), technology only crossed over from hindrance to enabling force in the last 20 years or so. As a result, while curating a 100 Best Westerns of All Time or 100 Best Documentaries of All Time list requires the exclusion of arguably good films to select the best 100—for superhero movies? The pickings get slim after 40. In fact, the real challenge for this list was choosing amongst the dreck (some of it beloved dreck!) that would fill out the bottom half. It turns out it’s much easier to argue for or against a top 10 film’s exact placement (and frankly, compelling arguments could be made for almost any of our top 5 as deserving the #1 position), than weighing the relative “merits” of Masters of the Universe, Swamp Thing and Elektra. This also means the bottom half of this list will change swiftly compared to, say, The Best B-Movies of All Time. In fact, it’s a safe assumption if there are 15 superhero movies in the next three years, at least 14 of them will knock numbers 86-99 off this list. (Our #100 is a bit of a wild card.) Finally, some criteria. To be considered for this list, a film must possess at least two of the following three qualities: 1) It must involve costumed shenanigans, 2) It must involve a superpowered protagonist and/or 3) the protagonist must exist in a world where the supernatural/extraordinary is demonstrably present. These criteria are why meta-commentary films like Kick-Ass and Super are not on this list. And it’s also why some films with pulpy characters like Zorro, Tarzan and Conan are not, while others like The Phantom are. (Zane’s costume combined with the Skulls of Touganda do the trick.) Admittedly, the lines gets blurry. Also absent from this list is any consideration of foreign superhero films. That’s not because some are not worthy—especially given the movie quality issue mentioned at the top—it’s just an area we’d rather get better versed in before pouring into this list. Next year, perhaps. The three Matrix films were counted as a single entry in the source list. -
Paste's 100 Best Western Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. List published in June 2016 Is the Western the most American of movie genres? You can make an argument for the Western film’s internationality on the names of the directors who have contributed to its iconography: You have your John Fords and your Anthony Manns, your Sam Peckinpahs and your Samuel Fullers, but over in Europe you also have filmmakers like Sergio Leone, Enzo G. Castellari and Sergio Corbucci, among many, many others, as authors of Western offshoots that influence filmmakers even today. (And of course there are those great entries in the Western canon that were lifted wholesale from Akira Kurosawa’s filmography.) Hell, let’s flash from the Western’s glory days to the last decade, where Kim Jee-woon and Takashi Miike have put their individual stamps on its tropes and motifs. For these reasons, there’s certainly an argument to made that the Western is truly “universal.” But no matter where Western movies are made, no matter what subgenre classifications they are individually accorded, and no matter who makes them, the films always engage with symbols, eras and images that are quintessentially “American.” The Western is the domain of the cowboy, the solitary hero. It’s a place where law and chaos are ever in conflict with one another and where the difference between survival and death usually comes down to who is faster on the draw. It’s a testament to the rich, awesome power of the Western as a narrative mode that filmmakers from around the planet have found stories worth telling within its purview, but even the Italian maestros simply added their own unique (and significant) flourishes to a cinematic tradition that is American in its DNA. Maybe it’s more accurate to say that they made the Western their own. Spaghetti Westerns are, after all, a cousin to American Westerns in terms of style, content, themes and morality. The Italian Westerns are literally gritty where American Westerns are polished and clean; they deal in ambiguity instead of black and white. The average Spaghetti Western hero looks like a total bastard next to the clean-cut heroes of American Westerns, who uphold all of the best and most commonly accepted standards of heroism as we know them. Who would you rather save the day for you? Will Kane, or the man with no name? There’s a divide separating the Westerns made by Europeans and those shot by Americans, but if you can sort these movies out by their varying approaches, you can’t keep them all from standing under one umbrella. (A better point of debate: Did the Spaghetti Western become a thing in 1958 or 1964?) Like the wide and sprawling landscapes that are so much a part of the Western’s character as a genre, the Western itself is a big, open canvas for storytelling of all stripes. With that in mind, we here at Paste set about collecting Westerns from all over the map and across the ages to assemble our picks for the 100 best Western films of all time. —Andy Crump -
Paste's A Century of Terror: The 100 Best Horror Movies of the Last 100 Years (2019)
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. Jim Vorel chooses the best horror film for each year of the past century, from 1920 to 2019, as well as running down the runners-up. 1-100 are the best films of each year, 101-858 are the honorable mentions. -
Paul Bettany Filmography
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. -
Paul Schrader Filmography
Favs/dislikes: 7:1. Films Written and/or Directed by Paul -
Paul Walker Filmography
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Peaceful Anarchy's Top 250
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. These are my favourite movies. -
Period Films
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Peter Jackson Filmography (as Director)
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Peter Sellers Filmography
Favs/dislikes: 7:1. Does not include appearances in TV series. -
Phi Phenomenon: Top 100 Films of the 2000s
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. This analysis does create a list of greatest films of all time (presented both by rank and alphabetically). However, this site goes beyond just one list. This site has found that there are at least three different tastes in film and looks at the favorite films of each taste. Furthermore, the films on the master list are sorted by director, actor, year and decade, genre, nation of origin, and other means. This site also includes a list of the top films according to regular film fans. -
Philip Baker Hall Filmography
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. All feature films starring Philip Baker Hall. Exluding shorts. -
Pietro Germi filmography
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Pixar's Picks: Family Films
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. "You’re stuck inside, saving the world. So we asked a group of award-winning Pixar filmmakers to help self-isolating families plan the very best movie nights (and days, and nights, and days…). We asked a group of the renowned studio’s directors and story artists—the people behind WALL·E, Finding Nemo, Inside Out, Bao, La Luna, The Good Dinosaur, Purl, Cars 3, Toy Story 4 and more—to show up in your hour of need, and show up they have, with personal recommendations that we’ve split into three Letterboxd lists: All Ages, 7 to 12 Years and 12 Years and Over. From two-minute shorts to the entire Harry Potter collection, there’s something for every viewing window. From Charlie Chaplin to Greta Gerwig, the films cover a century of cinema; and from slapstick to horror, a multitude of genres. Our filmmakers were remarkably restrained, nominating more Studio Ghibli films than Pixar movies, though they collectively agreed that Toy Story should most definitely be there. So we’ll say it for them: please explore all the films of our contributing filmmakers: Angus MacLane, Domee Shi, Kristen Lester, Daniel Chong, Peter Sohn, Valerie LaPointe, Brian Fee, Enrico Casarosa and Andrew Stanton. Thanks, you wonderful people." This list combines all three individual lists that Letterboxd created with the Pixar directors. Some film series explicitly include all films in the series, even though only the first film is included in the Letterboxd lists (see their notes for more information): Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, and Harry Potter. Individual lists on iCM [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pixar+directors+recommend+films+for+families+all+ages/fergenaprido/]Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (All Ages)[/url] [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pixar+directors+recommend+films+for+families+7+to+12+years/fergenaprido/]Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (7 to 12 Years)[/url] [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pixar+directors+recommend+films+for+families+12+years+and+over/fergenaprido/]Pixar Directors Recommend: Films for Families (12 Years and Over)[/url] -
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." -
Prison Escapes on Film
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. Movies with prison breaks are awesome. -
Produced by Paulo Branco
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. Everything ever produced by portuguese producer Paulo Branco currently on IMDB. -
Producers Guild of America Award Winners
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. All the winners of the Producers Guild of America Awards, feature films only, from 1989 to the present. -
Queer Palm
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. description from [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_Palm]Wikipedia[/url]: "an independently sponsored prize for selected LGBT-relevant films entered into the Cannes Film Festival...founded in 2010... "This award recognizes a film for its treatment of LGBT themes and gleans from among those films nominated or entered under Official Selection, Un Certain Regard, International Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight." [url=https://www.queerpalm.org/]Queer Palm on the web[/url] ▼ [url=https://twitter.com/queerpalm]Queer Palm on Twitter[/url] Please note, only films awarded with the Queer Palm (and not 'special mentions') are included in this list. [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/queer+palm+nominees/xianjiro/]All nominees are listed here[/url]. -
Quentin Tarantino Film Festival
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. QT 1 (1997): Entries 1-29 QT 2 (1998): 30-42 QT III (1999): 43-73 QT Quattro (2000): 74-112 QT 5 (2001): 113-153 QT Six (2005): 154-181 Best of QT Fest (2006): 182 was the only film not shown at a previous QT Fest Last Night at the Alamo Grindhouse (2007): 183-188 -
Ralph Fiennes filmography
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. A list of films featuring Ralph Fiennes -
Rate Your Music Top 1000
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. The top 1000 on Rate Your Music. -
Recommended by Harmony Korine
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. -
Red Planet Films - All Nominations
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. In order of imdb ttid.
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