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Film Comment - Extended Readers' Poll Results: Best of the Decade
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Like many decade-gazers, readers were in the mood for David Lynch (Mulholland Drive #1) and Wong Kar Wai (#2). The Oscar-winning surveillance drama The Lives of Others (#15) infiltrated the Top 25, along with Lost in Translation (#14). P.T. Anderson got a second nod (#17), as other early-decade favorites City of God (#18) and the Hobbits (#21, #23, #27) ganged up anew. In the March/April 2010 issue, we printed the Top 25; here are the Top 50. The numbers in parentheses indicate the films’ rankings in our 2009 Critics’ Poll and Decade Critics' Poll. Check out this year’s selection of readers’ comments, rants, and raves as well as those from the decade. (Film Comment) -
Film Comment's 101 Film Score Milestones
Favs/dislikes: 10:0. This Essential List of 101 Great Film Score Milestones (in chronological order) from 1933-2001 was compiled by John Caps in the November-December 2003 issue of Film Comment magazine in an article titled "Soundtracks 101 – Essential Movie Music: A Listener's Guide." The article also provided a brief history of film music in the introduction and further details on each of the choices. Facts and Commentary About the List: •The list was created to mark the 70th anniversary of the film score in 2003. • The list consisted of composed instrumental film scores (whether symphonic or electronic, classical or pop in style), not film musicals or song scores, from American and British films (English-language films). •These were films from the talkie era onwards (and recognizing that silent films were never silent). •The quality of a film often has nothing to do with the rating of its film score, e.g., Taras Bulba (1962, Waxman). •According to the author, the list was "representative rather than exhaustive; all of the scores in the list "contribute something memorable, something personal, to their films - and communicate one step further to us as music." •Predictably, one-fourth of the list was taken by the six giants of the Golden Age (Steiner, Waxman, Korngold, Newman, Rozsa, Herrmann). Yet the author also recognized some of the great, but seemingly forgotten, figures of the recent past: Laurence Rosenthal, Richard Rodney Bennett, Dave Grusin, David Shire, and Basil Poledouris. -
Film Comment’s End of Year Critics’ Poll 2003
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Filmcomment magazine asked many important American film critics to compiled "Best Films of 2003". -
Film magazine's Best Iranian Films of the Last Three Decades (2008)
Favs/dislikes: 11:0. In 2008, Film magazine asked 40 Iranian critics and authors to vote for the best Iranian films of the last three decades. In 2009, Film magazine made a list of the [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/film+magazines+best+iranian+films+2009/]best Iranian films of all time[/url]. -
Kinema Junpo Annual Top 10s
Favs/dislikes: 50:0. Each year, Kinema Junpo magazine publishes a list of the top 10 Japanese films of the year. This is not the complete list because some of the films are missing from IMDb. You can see a longer list and rankings for each year at the [url=http://www.rinkworks.com/checklist/list.cgi?u=crimsong&U=crimsong&p=kinemajunpotop10s]list source[/url]. -
LWLies Recommends*
Favs/dislikes: 23:0. -
Mad Movies Magazine's 100 Films de Genre à (Re)Découvrir
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Mad Movies is a French cinema magazine created in 1972 and specializing from its inception in fantastic cinema. It deals with all trends in genre cinema: fantasy, science fiction, horror and thriller. "Mad movies - 100 films de genre à (re)découvrir: le guide ultra libre d'un magazine culte" is a book released in 2019. A festive and pioneering guide far from the expected best of, and which, through completely new texts, sees itself as the ideal companion or the hoped-for trigger of a curious, juvenile and decompartmentalized cinephilia. The book is organized by 10 categories: Slashers (1-8) Post-Apocalypse (9-18) Zombies (19-27) Vampires (28-37) Serial Killers (38-46) What the Fuck (47-55) Diabolic (56-64) Phantoms (65-76) Sci-fi (77-86) Monsters (87-100) -
Nickel Odeon - Best Comedies in Spanish Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Results of a poll conducted by Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon for its Winter 1996 issue. -
Nickel Odeon - Best Screenplays in Spanish Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Results of a poll conducted by Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon for its Winter 2000 issue. -
Out Magazine's 50 Essential Gay Films
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. "Which gay movies deserve a bigger audience? We asked our favorite directors, entertainers, and artists to help us compile a hit list." Published February 2011. Listed here in chronological order. -
Paste Magazine's The 100 Best “B Movies” of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 24:0. From Paste: Not every film can be the Citizen Kane of its day. For every high-budget “A movie” that commands significant promotion and funding from its studio, there are piles of B movies that scratch and claw their way into existence without the benefit of things like “a budget” or “a script” in some cases. To compare them with A movies in terms of resources and immersiveness isn’t a fair proposition. Instead, discerning film fans are able to simply appreciate them for what they are. But what does “best” mean when we’re talking about films often famous for their shoddy construction? It certainly doesn’t mean “best-made.” It also doesn’t mean “worst-made,” or else films like Manos: The Hands of Fate and The Beast of Yucca Flats would make prominent appearances. They’re not on this list because the meaning of “best” here is “most entertaining,” and I defy you to be entertained by Manos without its MST3k commentary or a pound of medical-grade marijuana. If these films are painful, they’re also equally fun. Whenever possible, I tried to keep the list to more obscure titles. Although John Carpenter’s Halloween is a great example of a superbly made “B movie” in terms of budget, any film fan has most likely seen it already. Gathered here is a collection of some of the most entertainingly cheap and endearingly bad movies ever made. -
Paste's The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Since its coining in 1946 by French critic Nino Frank, the term “film noir” has been debated endlessly: Is it a genre? A subgenre? A movement? A trend? A commentary? A style? For the purposes of this introduction, let’s call it a response. We think of noirs as urban stories, but that’s not always the case—for every L.A. and N.Y.C.-set saga, there’s a small, heartland tragedy. We think of a never-ending, rain-soaked night—sunlight replaced with neon and nocturnal reflections, the optical trickery of mirrors and shadows—but in contrast, the days of noir scorched its characters. We admire its heavily stylized approach—exaggerated camera angles, tension-crafting mise-en-scène, flashbacks, deep focus and trademark shadows—but also its neo-realist and documentary-like experiments. However (un)conscious a reaction, noir resonates to this day, with several neo-noir cycles beginning with the Cold War era through Gen X and the millennials. And while a healthy share of neo-noirs make our list, the classic period remains the most telling—context is critical. Then there are the sub-classifications within the subgenre: proto-noirs, foreign noirs (like the British “Spiv” cycle), neon noirs, and, of course, neo-noirs. We’ll start with the following 100 titles. Some 70 years after the term “film noir” was first uttered, take a trip through the screwed-up terrain of the mid-century psyche, with all its sex, lies, and crime scene tape. Let’s get going—don’t say we didn’t warn you. -
Premiere Magazine's 100 Movies That Shook the World
Favs/dislikes: 13:0. "Instead of quibbling with the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films, Premiere Magazine decided to rethink the point. In its October 1998 newstand issue, it presented "Rebel Cinema" or 100 Movies That Shook the World, celebrating the filmmakers (and their films) who dared to be ridiculous, offensive, or even unpopular, and who still came up with classic films." -
Rolling Stone's 100 Maverick Movies in the Last 100 Years
Favs/dislikes: 16:0. "Rolling Stone Magazine (in its 1999 end of the year Millenium issue) and film critic Peter Travers offered picks for the best (or essential) movies of the last 100 years that were made by mavericks who 'busted rules to follow their obsessions...in the defiant spirit of rock & roll.' " -
ShortList - The 25 Greatest Movies of the 1990s
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. The 70s was an era of groundbreaking creativity, the 80s saw the advent of the blockbuster, but the 90s saw a little of both, resulting in a perfect mix of big-budget blockbusters, and quirky, inventive cult hits. Here's ShortList's list of the 25 top films of the 90s. -
Slant Magazine's 100 Greatest Horror Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 17:0. Well, it's a top 200 now bitches. -
Slant Magazine's The 100 Best Westerns of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. -
SOMOS Magazine's 100 Greatest Films of Mexican Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 44:0. In 1994, SOMOS Magazine asked 25 specialists to vote for the 100 greatest Mexican films. -
Stuff's Top 25 War Movies
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. War movies, on the other hand, are great. Here are the best of the lot. -
Superinteressante's The 101 Greatest Films of Cinema History
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Selected by Superinteressante (Brazilian Magazine about cultural and scientific curiosities) The most intelligent, innovative and astonishing productions of all time." -
TES Magazine Top 100 Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. From weighty dramas such as The Shawshank Redemption to escapist romcoms such as Love Actually, your responses to a TES survey of teachers’ favourite films reveal plenty about the profession, Richard Vaughan finds -
The Empire Five-Star 500
Favs/dislikes: 28:0. Empire Magazine has compiled a list of the 500 greatest movies they have ever given a five-star review. * The Apu-trilogy is counted as a single entry in the magazine, thus 502 movies on this list. -
The Spectator Magazine's 50 Essential Films
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. The Spectator magazine's official 50 essential films as chosen by Peter Hoskin and Matthew D'Ancona (NOTE: The original list groups "Parts 1 & 2" of the Godfather, hence 51 titles where there should be 50) -
Time Magazine The 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium (Thus Far)
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. TIME's Richard Corliss has created a countdown of the 10 greatest films made since the year 2000, from No. 10 (The Artist) to No. 1 (see for yourself) -
Time Magazine’s 100 All Time movies
Favs/dislikes: 76:0. "Critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel pick the 100 best movies since 1923—the beginning of TIME." update: "Richard Corliss Expands TIME’s List of Cinematic Greats with 20 new entries"
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