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Jean Serroy's Les 1000 Films Culte de l'Histoire du Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. University professor emeritus and film critic, Jean Serroy takes the reader through the history of cinema which, in 120 years of existence, has never stopped reinventing itself, going from silent to talkies in the early 1930s, from black and white to color, from small format square screens to the spectacular dimensions of ever larger screens, from film and cellulose nitrate to 4D. This book thus proposes to return to the 1,000 cult films that have marked our era and which, each, have punctuated the life of generations of yesterday and today. Hundreds of films from all genres and all countries are presented, decade by decade, according to a selection based on objective data such as the annual admissions rankings, in France and abroad, the major festivals such as Cannes and Venice but also on major celebrations such as the Oscars and the Césars or even on the notoriety consecrated by critics. So many criteria that have allowed cinema to establish itself as a new, unique and irreplaceable art. -
The New Republic's The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. "We wanted to do something special for this double July-August issue of The New Republic, but we weren’t sure what; then it hit us that summer is movie season, so why not combine that fact with this magazine’s great passion and come up with a list of history’s best political movies? (TNR, by the way, is no stranger to motion pictures. For decades, the magazine published the work of famed twentieth-century critic Stanley Kauffmann, and we continue to run trenchant film analysis today.) It was that germ of an idea that led us to reach out to J. Hoberman, one of the leading film critics of the last half-century, to curate this project. Hoberman changed it from “best” to “most significant” and led us in assembling a list of around 130 critics to whom we wrote, asking them to participate. We were pleased that 79 wrote back with their lists." (The New Republic) -
Terror on Tape - A Complete Guide to Over 2,000 Horror Movies on Video (1994)
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. All the movies in the book. Ratings: #: 1-38 **** Excellent #: 39-129 ***½ Very Good #: 130-467 *** Good #: 468-1015 **½ Average #: 1016-1617 ** Fair #: 1618-1860 *½ Poor #: 1861-2063 * Very Poor #: 2064-2104 ½ The Worst TV Series: Dark Shadows, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, The Addams Family, Alfred Hitchcock Presents (three Hitchcock-directed episodes), Dark Shadows, It, Jack the Ripper, Salem's Lot, The Green Man, Monsters, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the Darkside, Amazing Stories, The Tommyknockers TV Episodes: Thriller: If It's a Man, Hang Up, Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense: A Distant Scream, The Wide World of Mystery: Frankenstein: Part 1 & 2, Guardian of the Abyss, The House That Bled to Death, Thriller: One Deadly Owner, Hammer House of Horror: The Silent Scream, Nightmare Classics: The Turn of the Screw, Hammer House of Horror: Visitor from the Grave, Hammer House of Horror: Witching Time, Nightmare Classics: Carmilla, Hammer House of Horror: Carpathian Eagle, Hammer House of Horror: Charlie Boy, Hammer House of Horror: Children of the Full Moon, Thriller: A Killer in Every Corner, Thriller: A Killer with Two Faces, Thriller: Murder Motel, Thriller: The Next Victim, Hammer House of Horror: Rude Awakening, The Wide World of Mystery: Shadow of Fear, Nightmare Classics: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hammer House of Horror: The Thirteenth Reunion, Hammer House of Horror: The Two Faces of Evil, Hammer House of Horror: Growing Pains -
Kyle Turner's The Queer Film Guide
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. 100 great movies that tell LGBTQIA+ stories A selection of 100 of cinema’s greatest films that tell queer stories, from the silent era to contemporary masterpieces. Beginning with early trailblazers like Different from the Others, Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema’s greatest queer films to guide you through the eras. From Hitchcock’s Rope and cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show through the New Queer Cinema movement of the 90s to the present day, where LGBTQIA+ narratives have increasingly made their way into the mainstream and dominated award seasons with films like Carol, Tangerine, and Moonlight. From scrappy auteurs to Academy Award winners, The Queer Film Guide celebrates LGBTQIA+ stories and artists, offering a fresh take on what defines great cinema, and lending a voice to the diverse creators and characters who have shaped the artform. Films are listed chronologically. [url=https://letterboxd.com/crew/list/the-queer-film-guide-100-great-movies-that/]List on Letterboxd[/url] (done in collaboration with the author) [url=https://letterboxd.com/tylekurner/list/the-queer-film-guide-directors-cut/]"Director's Cut" on Letterboxd[/url] (will add to icm soon) -
Richard Brody's The Greatest Independent Films of the Twentieth Century
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. A counter-canon of masterworks by filmmakers who took control of the means of production. By Richard Brody Published in the New Yorker April 28, 2023 Number 16, "Mister E", is missing from IMDb -
Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 50 Best Films of the 21st Century (So Far)
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Over the course of a few months, several Zoom meetings, and countless emails, six THR film critics came together to hash out, and rank, what they consider the greatest films since 2000. BY JON FROSCH, DAVID ROONEY, SHERI LINDEN, LOVIA GYARKYE, LESLIE FELPERIN, JORDAN MINTZER APRIL 6, 2023 Why now? Why not? Sure, we’ve yet to hit the quarter-century mark, when these sorts of lists tend to start landing. But we’ve arguably already lived through 100 years’ worth of upheaval, progress, pain, destruction, hope and heartache in the world — not to mention the film industry — since 2000. We thought it as good a time as any to look back at the films that have, to us, stood the ever-unfolding test of time. In the spirit of transparency, our methodology went something like this: We all offered up titles we thought were worthy of consideration (an initial list of well over 100 movies). Everyone voted “yea” or “nay” on each of those titles. The films with the most yeas — about 80 — advanced to the next round. Everyone scored each title from 0 to 3. We tallied up the points, and then hashed it out from there. Countless emails and a few long Zoom meetings later, we had our list. Our only parameters: All six of us had to love, like or at least respect every film on the list. And we did not consider anything from 2022; it just felt too soon (translation: after the forever-long awards season, we needed a breather from talking about Tár, Everything Everywhere All at Once and the rest of ’em). Picking the movies we love the most, while being mindful of variety and inclusivity, significance and staying power, was difficult (we know: world’s smallest violin). We wanted our list to reflect the breadth of world cinema and of our tastes, but we also didn’t want to placate or pander or allow fear of Film Twitter or Outrage Twitter (or any Twitter) to weigh on our process. That doesn’t mean we weren’t plagued by doubts along the way. What are we missing? Who are we leaving out? Why this movie and not that one? We know certain omissions and selections are bound to incite eye rolls, grumbles and maybe a shriek or two. But we tried to stay true to our love of movies, these movies, and others that didn’t make the cut. (Remember, it’s only 50!) The final list is a reflection of that love, but also of a system that favors certain stories and storytellers at the expense of others. If the list is not a model of representational balance, call us out — we can take it — but also continue to call out an industry that hasn’t given us a more diverse landscape of voices to love, hate and argue over. The most conspicuous, surprising (including to us) and, surely to some readers, infuriating, thing about our list is how many masters are missing. After all our deliberating, point tallying, reconsidering, revoting, retallying and re-deliberating, none of the following directors cracked the top 50 films or 15 honorable mentions: Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Spike Lee, Gus Van Sant, Jean-Luc Godard, David Cronenberg, Michael Mann, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, Alexander Payne, Jim Jarmusch, James Gray, Jia Zhangke, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Asghar Farhadi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Ditto polarizing though prolific auteurs like Woody Allen, Roman Polanski and Lars von Trier. This wasn’t the result of any kind of “out with the old, in with the new” intention. In some cases — Scorsese, Spike, Godard — we felt their best work was pre-21st century. In Spielberg’s case, there were several films that had love (including Minority Report and West Side Story), but none that united all six of us in full-throated enthusiasm. In other cases, as in Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby, Malick’s The New World and The Tree of Life, and Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, there were ardent supporters but also just-as-ardent detractors. In other words, we didn’t reverse-engineer the list by starting with great directors and pulling from their filmographies; we allowed the titles to emerge organically, via memory and good old-fashioned brainstorming. (Five directors — or six if you count the Coens separately — ended up with two films apiece on the list: Jane Campion, Joel and Ethan Coen, Alfonso Cuarón, David Fincher and Richard Linklater. For more stats and specifics about the results, read [url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/?p=1235362388]this breakdown[/url].) Straight-up studio comedy, action, sci-fi and horror are largely, though not entirely, absent from our final selections (cue the cries of film-critic elitism). We love those genres, we swear! Movies like Borat, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Collateral, The Bourne Ultimatum, Master and Commander and, yes, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy were all in contention at one point or another. But the scarcity of this type of entertainment on our list reflects what we see as a certain creative impoverishment in those genres over the past few decades. The lack of risk-taking in mainstream filmmaking, the sameness and safeness of so much of that “product,” results in few of those movies lingering in the mind for longer than their runtimes. We could go on and on about the shortcomings of our work here — not enough animation! — but that’s what we count on you for! Without further ado, here are what we consider the 50 best films of the 21st century so far. Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order): [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/cache/]Caché[/url] (Michael Haneke, 2005); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+dark+knight/]The Dark Knight[/url] (Christopher Nolan, 2008); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/lenfant/]L’Enfant (The Child)[/url] (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2006); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/holy+motors/]Holy Motors[/url] (Leos Carax, 2012); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+hurt+locker/]The Hurt Locker[/url] (Kathryn Bigelow, 2009); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/margaret-2011/]Margaret[/url] (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/marriage+story/]Marriage Story[/url] (Noah Baumbach, 2019); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/la+pianiste/]The Piano Teacher[/url] (Michael Haneke, 2002); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+royal+tenenbaums/]The Royal Tenenbaums[/url] (Wes Anderson, 2001); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/lheure+dete/]Summer Hours[/url] (Olivier Assayas, 2009); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/there+will+be+blood/]There Will Be Blood[/url] (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/sous+le+sable/]Under the Sand[/url] (François Ozon, 2001); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/under+the+skin-2013/]Under the Skin[/url] (Jonathan Glazer, 2014); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/vera+drake/]Vera Drake[/url] (Mike Leigh, 2004); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/vals+im+bashir/]Waltz With Bashir[/url] (Ari Folman, 2008) -
Charles Bramesco's Colors of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Taking you from the earliest feature films to today, Colours of Film introduces 50 iconic movies and explains the pivotal role that colour played in their success. The use of colour is an essential part of film. It has the power to evoke powerful emotions, provide subtle psychological symbolism and act as a narrative device. In Colours of Film, film critic Charles Bramesco introduces an element of cinema that is often overlooked, yet has been used in extraordinary ways. Using infographic colour palettes, and stills from the movies, this is a lively and fresh approach to film for cinema-goers and colour lovers alike. He also explores in fascinating detail how the development of technologies have shaped the course of modern cinema, from how the feud between Kodak and Fujifilm shaped the colour palettes of the 20th Century's greatest filmakers, to how the advent of computer technology is creating a digital wonderland for modern directors in which anything is possible. Filled with sparkling insights and fascinating accounts from the history of cinema, Colours of Film is an indispensable guide to one of the most important visual elements in the medium of film. I. Over the Rainbow: Post-facto Colorization (1-11) II. Unbound Imaginations: Kodak & Fujifilm (12-24) III. Making a Statement: Color Theory (25-41)* IV. Digital Wonderlands: The Color TV (42-52) *Three Colors Trilogy is considered one entry, thus 52 movies. -
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] -
Sight and Sound 101 Hidden Gems
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. "One-vote wonders from Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time Poll" (2022 edition) The list has only 97 films because I couldn't find the following on IMDb: No. 1: "Le chat qui joue" (1897) No. 36: "6 et 12" (1968) No. 51: "Mouth to Mouth" (1975) No. 91: "Qabyo 2" (2003) -
Sight & Sound 2022 Poll - Top Films of the 21st Century
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. From the combined list of critics and directors 19-24 (19 votes) 25-27 (18 votes) 28-30 (16 votes) 31-33 (15 votes) 34-35 (14 votes) 36-37 (13 votes) 38-42 (12 votes) 43-49 (11 votes) 50-63 (10 votes) 64-68 (9 votes) 69-83 (8 votes) 84-96 (7 votes) 97-118 (6 votes) 119-150 (5 votes) 151-197 (4 votes) -
Poll 2022: Top 250 Favourite Film List conducted and proudly presented by HelenWelonmelon (Letterboxd)
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. . HelenWelonmelon: "Dear film friends, stimulated by Adrian Tofei's big poll for the best films of all time, I would also like to start a poll to determine the best films. In my opinion, most surveys have always suffered from the fact that the participants were only allowed to name 1, 10 or maybe 25 titles. Although the result is of course interesting, it is not really meaningful. The famous Sight and Sound poll in particular is pretty silly, as it forces film critics and film historians to name only 10 films out of thousands seen. Basically it's like a lottery and actually only tells you which film is most often named as favorite film and not whether the film is generally rated as outstanding. For example, if you ask a survey about the most overrated films, many of the supposedly best ones would also be named there. That's why a Top 250 survey among film connoisseurs make a lot more sense, since then it is not only decisive for the result which films are named, but also which of the typical poll champions are not named. A Top 250 also offers the advantage that probably mostly people who are somewhat familiar with the history of film vote. That's why this survey is primarily aimed at people who have actually seen many films themselves, who have their own opinions and who don't just bluntly copy internet best lists. Please link your Top 250 lists below. I will then evaluate them by the end of the year. There is no need for a ranking within the Top 250, as each film named gets one point at the end. In any case, I'm very curious to see how many letterboxd users post their Top 250 here. I hope, of course, that there will be many. Please think carefully about which titles you choose and make sure that you don't forget a favorite film, as subsequent changes will no longer be taken into account. Please draw the attention of many potential participants to this survey. I hope that Adrian Tofei will allow me to promote this survey here and not delate my comment." . Note: - It is very time-consuming to import a list presented by Letterboxd to ICM, hence the restriction to all titles with at least 3 votes instead of the 2 votes on Letterboxd. . ------------------------------------------------------------------ . Poll 2023: Top 500 Favourite Film List . HelenWelonmelon: "Dear film friends, many thanks again to all 224 participants in the last survey. As already announced, the Top 500 survey will follow this year. All 224 participants in the last survey are cordially invited. Please create a list of your 500 favorite films and link them below in the comments. . -> no ranking is necessary -> each film named gets one point . Of course, Letterboxd users who did not take part last year can and should also submit a Top 500 list. The more people take part, the more differentiated the end result. However, since this survey is primarily aimed at people who have seen a large number of films, the first-time participants should have seen at least 3000 films. This is to prevent that only the most popular films have a chance of a good placement. The main problem with all film surveys is that films have varying degrees of popularity and therefore popular films always have an advantage. Logically, films that 80-100% of all participants have seen have a much better chance of being placed in the overall list than films that only 10-20% have seen. Especially since these 10-20% are usually the people who have seen a great many films, which further reduces the chance of being named. Because for someone who has seen 1000 films, the chance of a film ending up in the top 500 is 1 in 2, 3000 is 1 in 6, 5000 is 1 in 10, 10,000 is 1 in 20, etc. However, since, in contrast to most other polls, many relatively unknown films are also included in the overall list at the end, this means that such films also receive more attention and may achieve a higher ranking next year. Inevitably, over the years, some popular films will fall in the overall ranking and some unpopular films will rise. If this Top 500 survey is successful, it is planned to repeat it next year. I hope that through word of mouth the number of participants will increase every year. . -> Why 500 Films?: Since this survey is planned annually and is primarily aimed at film experts who have seen a large number of films, it is important that a larger number of films are named because: 1. Even people who have seen well over 5000 films still have enough space for annual changes, which is not the case to this extent in a new TOP 250 survey and the end result for 2023 and the following year will hardly change. 2. The total number of titles mentioned in the poll will increase significantly, which is the very purpose of this poll. 3. A top 500 survey leads to a much more nuanced end result. If there were 56,000 individual votes for 224 Top 250 lists, it would be 112,000 for 224 Top 500 lists. . -> Why no ranking and one point for each film?: Sometimes there were suggestions that the survey could be done on ranked lists with different points depending on the placement. Experience has shown that three points speak against this. 1. A ranking with a corresponding distribution of points would once again unassailably favor the popular films. Because in the vast majority of cases, everyone's absolute favorite films (top 20-top 100) will be the films they saw relatively early and essentially caused them to engage with films. And these are usually popular films, which fall in front of you relatively quickly. 2. Requiring each participant to rank their favorite films and rack their brains over whether a film is 175th or 176th would certainly discourage many from posting a list. And probably especially those who have seen an extremely large number of films and who have trouble limiting their favorite films to only 500 titles. 3. Evaluating the lists would be much more time-consuming and complicated, and I wouldn't be able to do it that easily in terms of time. . I hope now that probably many will submit a top 500 by the end of the year (Deadline is December 31st, 2023) and that this survey and the result at the end will be entertaining and exciting. Of course, no one will completely agree with the final result, but each participant can at least try to influence the result in their favor and support their favourites." -
Where To Start: 50 Avant-Garde Films for the Curious
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. By Michael Sicinsky, @msicism on Letterboxd, @AcademicHack on twitter. " These are mostly canonical works, but it's also a fairly personal list and should be taken with a grain of salt. These films will not be to everyone's taste, nor should they be. But they will give a pretty broad sense of the history of the field, offer some cultural literacy in a-g film, and should serve as a good jumping-off point for further exploration. Organized chronologically. But feel free to dive in anywhere you like. Many can be found on YouTube, Ubuweb, or other nefarious sources. " Not in IMDb: MUTINY, Abigail Child, 1983. THE GREAT ART OF KNOWING, David Gatten, 2004. -
Sight and Sound 2022 Top 250
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. The Sight and Sound 2022 Top 250 films "In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed." -
Sight & Sound 2012 Greatest Films of All Time Critics List (2+ votes)
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Sight and Sound 2012 "The Best Films Of All Time" critics list, as published in the magazine. This ranked list includes films with two or more votes in the poll. For details about the voters, as well as about the films that got one or two votes, see the source list by Alex Anderson. -
Sight & Sound 2002 Greatest Films of All Time Critics List (2+ votes)
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Sight and Sound 2002 "The Best Films Of All Time" critics list, as published in the magazine. This ranked list includes films with two or more votes in the poll. For details about the voters, as well as about the films that got one vote, see the source list by Alex Anderson. -
Variety's The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. "The movies are now more than 100 years old. That still makes them a young medium, at least in art-form years (how old is the novel? the theater? the painting?). But they’re just old enough to make compiling Variety’s first-ever list of the 100 Greatest Movies of All Time a more daunting task than it once might have been. Think about it: You get an average of one film per year. A great deal of ardent discussion and debate went into the creation of this list. Our choices were winnowed from hundreds of titles submitted by more than 30 Variety critics, writers and editors. As we learned, coming up with which movies to include was the easy part. The hard part was deciding which movies to leave out." -
BFI Sight & Sound: The Greatest Films of All Time 2022 - Critics' Poll Top 250
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. BFI Sight & Sound: The Greatest Films of All Time 2022 - Critics' Poll Top 250 -
Sight & Sound 1992 Greatest Films of All Time Critics List (2+ votes)
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Sight and Sound 1992 "The Best Films Of All Time" critics list, as published in the magazine. This ranked list includes films with two or more votes in the poll. For details about the voters, as well as about the films that got one vote, see the source list by Alex Anderson. -
Sight & Sound 1982 Greatest Films of All Time List (2+ votes)
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Sight and Sound 1982 "The Best Films Of All Time" critics list, as published in the magazine. This ranked list includes films with two or more votes in the poll. For details about the voters, as well as about the films that got one vote, see the source list by Alex Anderson. -
Sight & Sound 1972 Greatest Films of All Time List (2+ votes)
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Sight and Sound 1972 "The Best Films Of All Time" critics list, as published in the magazine. This ranked list includes films with two or more votes in the poll. For details about the voters, as well as about the films that got one vote, see the source list by Alex Anderson. -
Sight & Sound 1962 Greatest Films of All Time List (2+ votes)
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Sight and Sound 1962 "The Best Films Of All Time" critics list, as published in the magazine. This ranked list includes films with two or more votes in the poll. For details about the voters, as well as about the films that got one vote, see the source list by Alex Anderson. -
Sight & Sound 1952 Greatest Films of All Time List (2+ votes)
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Sight and Sound 1952 "The Best Films Of All Time" critics list, as published in the magazine. This ranked list includes films with two or more votes in the poll. For details about the voters, as well as about the films that got one vote, see the source list by Alex Anderson. -
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics' top 100 poll
Favs/dislikes: 10:0. In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed. The Sight and Sound poll is now a major bellwether of critical opinion on cinema and this year’s edition (its eighth) is the largest ever, with 1,639 participating critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics each submitting their top ten ballot. -
The Los Angeles Times' Best Asian American Films of the Last 20 Years
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The LA Times: 'Clearly, it’s time for a canon, a set of films that fans can debate, but which make undeniable that Asian American cinema exists and elicit some consensus about their quality and cultural impact. ... To determine that canon, we invited more than 20 Asian American critics and curators who professionally observed and debated the scene for the last two decades to participate in a poll. They were limited to films from this period (2000-2019) directed by and prominently featuring Asian Americans.' (Does not include Asian Canadian cinema.) 1-20: The Asian American films canon 21-71: Every other film that received even a single vote from poll participants -
Lotte H. Eisner's The Haunted Screen - Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Principal films mentioned in Eisner's book on German Expressionism first published in 1952. Production years range from 1913 to 1933, the main period of the German Expressionist Cinema.
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