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ICS's Best Films of the Decade (2010s)
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. Of all the masterful films in the ICS Best of Decade list, two 2011 releases stood head and shoulders above the rest in the voters’ current mindset: Kenneth Lonergan’s uniquely structured Margaret and Terrence Malick’s metaphysical family drama The Tree of Life. Margaret tells the story of an awkward, passionate teenager whose feelings of guilt over a tragic bus accident propel her into moral dilemmas and a quest for justice, against the backdrop of post-9/11 New York as a metaphor for coming of age and the loss of childhood naivety. Upon its release Margaret was considered messy, sometimes brilliant, and controversial – and it has remained so, yet has only grown in stature. Conversely, Malick’s whispered evocation of nature vs. grace, The Tree of Life, was celebrated from the outset and has held up magnificently over time, the dynamics of a Texas family flowing into the natural world like a flight of birds. While American filmmakers claimed the top two spots, the rest of our top 10 was dominated by international auteurs. Coming in third was French director Leos Carax’s surreal exploration of identity Holy Motors (ICS Best Picture for 2012), followed by Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian divorce drama A Separation (which had won ICS Best Picture for 2011 over both Malick and Lonergan). Todd Haynes’ period love story Carol, our 2015 Best Picture, ended up in 5th place for the decade, followed by Xavier Dolan’s deeply felt transgender romance Laurence Anyways, Lucrecia Martel’s colonialist satire Zama, Martin Scorsese’s haunting missionary saga Silence, the always-controversial Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s five-hour Sirkian melodrama Happy Hour. The full ICS Best of the Decade list can be found below. The list is 102 films because #59 Arabian Nights is considered as one entry by the ICS -
TLA Releasing US
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. With offices in Philadelphia and London, and partnership in France (Optimale/TLA), TLA Releasing is a global leader in LGBT entertainment. Since its inception in 2001, TLA Releasing has been devoted to providing the best in independent cinema for LGBT audiences. Sinapsis has [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/tla+releasing+-+distribution+company./sinapsis/]a list[/url] that is no longer maintained, so I've added one. This is just their main catalog, you can access their [url=http://tlareleasing.com/press-2/]other catalogs[/url], The L Collection, Danger After Dark, Worldwide Catalog, and In Festivals on their site. I may add separate lists for those later. List in in chronological order of TLA release. Some releases are collections of shorts, full seasons, or parts of seasons of TV shows. Missing from imdb: [url=http://tlareleasing.com/films/mexican-men/]Mexican Men[/url] [url=http://tlareleasing.com/films/dishonored-bodies-juanma-carrillo-shorts/]Dishonored Bodies: Juanma Carrillo Shorts[/url] -
Canadian Films on Official iCM Lists
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. All Canadian films featured in at least one official list on iCM. Sorted by number of lists. See also: [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/canadian+films+on+official+icm+lists+-+dropoffs/fergenaprido/]Canadian Films on Official icm Lists - Dropoffs[/url] -
Red Planet Films - All Nominations
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. In order of imdb ttid. -
Adelaide Film Festival Top 100 Australian Films
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. "The nation has voted for their favourite Australian feature fiction or documentary of all time. Here are the top 100 films as voted by you. The response has generated a vibrant debate of favourite screen stories that reflect who we are and who we wish to be as a nation. Family, of course emerges so strongly through these titles. Other interesting elements to note – women directors sit at 26%, 7 films from the Top 100 are from Indigenous directors, David Gulpilil is in 10 of the Top 100, 10 films are from the ADL Film Fest FUND and 22 of the 100 were filmed or produced here in South Australia." Artistic Director and CEO of Adelaide Film Festival, Amanda Duthie said: “The MY TOP 3 #YOUMUSTSEE initiative has given audiences a chance to reflect on the films that are forever stamped in our national psyche, and has generated vibrant debate about who we are and who we wish to be as a nation. Family has emerged as a major theme in the nation’s favourite films. We love Australian cinema and MY TOP 3 allowed us to re-connect audiences with the films they love, making it all the more special to bring the nation’s top 3 films back to the big screen.” Additional info: https://www.if.com.au/the-castle-muriels-wedding-samson-and-delilah-voted-top-aussie-films-of-all-time-in-adelaide-film-fest-poll/ -
Kenji's "Canon": The Big 1000
Favs/dislikes: 16:0. Kenji's MUBI list "I’ve called this list a canon, cos the original intention was of a wide-ranging canon, including established “classics” but also balancing the domination by Hollywood with a geographical spread. Now i’ve thought better of reinforcing received wisdom and the position of many popular and major films which hardly need promoting and which i’m not so keen on. So it’s become a personal “canon” like Rosenbaum’s 1000. Notable films I intend to see can be found on my “Percy the Porcupine” list. I need to keep extending my viewing in neglected areas of the world- Africa, Latin America, the Balkans and parts of Asia should then be better represented. We didn’t have a TV till i was 12. My first memory of going to the cinema was Fantasia- my introduction to the devil and dinosaurs. Then there was a film called Emil and the Detectives. My small town’s cinema closed when i was 7- TV was too strong a competitor-, my sole memory of films there of “red Indians” on a hill. The bigger films were at the grand metropolis of the county town of 3,000 people 20 miles away, or an even greater city of a few thousand more in the other direction. How i wept when the childcatcher caught them in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the sky outside had changed, with castles hidden in the majestic domes of cumulo-nimbus. At 11, The Great Escape was the greatest adventure, at 12, El Cid. At 13, i joined the school film society. I gazed in awe at the naked female on a motorbike in Vanishing Point- more fun than that boring Wild Strawberries. In my mid teens, the best discoveries were North by Northwest and Fred Astaire. At uni, on a French course, my special subject was French Cinema of the 30s- Renoir and Pagnol.. but i really got obsessively hooked on world cinema once i’d bought a video player in the late 80s (ooh those Wenders road movies!) and John Kobal’s book The Top 100 Movies (see my list on that); Tarkovsky and Mizoguchi were new names to me. Soon i saw Andrei Rublev and the rain and light had changed. Then a few years on (less availability in those days) it was the turn of Sansho the Bailiff." Notes: #361 Teen Kanya (Three Daughters, 1961) only refers to the segment "Postmaster" #471 Le plus vieux métier du monde (1967) only refers to the segment "Anticipation, ou l'amour en l'an 2000" #671 Fanny och Alexander (1982) specifically refers to the television version 1007 entries because.... #6-10 Fantômas (5 episodes) counted as one entry #339-341 Ningen no jôken trilogy counted as one entry #603-605 La batalla de Chile trilogy counted as one entry Kenji's list now has only 999 entries -
FSR: Top 5 Films by Year
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. [b]Fergenaprido's Significance Rating - Top 5 Films by Year[/b] This started out as a personal goal to see the top five films of each year, using imdb data. After they removed the weighted rankings beyond the Top 250, I created my own formula to try to balance each rating and its number of votes, in order to make films more comparable. I settled upon the formula of SR=(EXP(rating)*(LN(votes))/100). Why that particular formula? I tinkered around with different variations, but I prefer using ln instead of log, and this formula ended up with a fairly approximate order similar to imdb's weighted formula. Here are the top five films from each year since 1919. For 1919-1934, the minimum number of votes is 1,000; for 1935-2022, the minimum is 5,000. I excluded years before 1919 because there weren't enough films with at least 1,000 votes, so the SR wasn't reliable enough to rank them. I do exclude films that have had voter manipulation, but I don't exclude those rated highly because of enthusiasm from their home country (i.e. "mafias"). Not meant to be definitive, just a fun side project for me, and I decided to move it from my spreadsheet to icm. Feature-length films only (including documentaries). I collect the imdb data on May 1st each year, and update this list shortly thereafter. -
CFB Greatest Movies by Country
Favs/dislikes: 10:0. A compilation list of the Top 20 films (including ties) from the various Classic Film Board polls. 1-20 Ch. 1 Soviet Union, compiled by cayado-coro 21-40 Ch. 2 Spain, compiled by cayado-coro 41-60 Ch. 3 Japan, compiled by ANGEL_GLEZ 61-80 Ch. 4 Poland, compiled by astariam 81-100 Ch. 5 Czechoslovakia, compiled by astariam 101-120 Ch. 6 Denmark*, compiled by astariam 121-140 Ch. 7 Sweden, compiled by astariam 141-159 Ch. 8 Norway*, compiled by Rollo_Treadway 160-179 Ch. 9 Germany, compiled by ANGEL_GLEZ 180-199 Ch. 10 Argentina, compiled by Hal-900 / counted by bkamberger 200-219 Ch. 11 Hungary, compiled by astariam 220-239 Ch. 12 China, compiled by jdidaco 240-259 Ch. 13 Hong Kong, compiled by jdidaco 260-279 Ch. 14 Taiwan, compiled by jdidaco 280-300 Ch. 15 Sub-Saharan Africa, compiled by ali-112 [Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, South Africa, Botswana, Burkina Faso, & Guinea-Bissau] 301-320 Ch. 16 Mexico, compiled by ANGEL_GLEZ 321-340 Ch. 17 Iran, compiled by jdidaco 341-362 Ch. 18 New Zealand, compiled by jdidaco 363-382 Ch. 19 Australia, compiled by sol- 383-410 Ch. 20 India, compiled by bkamberger 411-430 Ch. 21 South Korea, compiled by ANGEL_GLEZ 431-450 Ch. 22 Brazil, compiled by jdidaco 451-470 Ch. 23 Netherlands, compiled by ANGEL_GLEZ 471-491 Ch. 24 Belgium, compiled by jdidaco 492-511 Ch. 25 Israel/Palestine, compiled by astariam 512-533 Ch. 26 Austria, compiled by ANGEL_GLEZ 534-553 Ch. 27 Switzerland, compiled by ANGEL_GLEZ 554-573 Ch. 28 Cuba/Caribbean, compiled by jdidaco [Martinique, Jamaica, & Haiti] 574-594 Ch. 29 Ireland, compiled by ANGEL_GLEZ 595-614 Ch. 30 Yugoslavia, compiled by jdidaco 615-634 Ch. 31 Albania/Bulgaria/Romania, compiled by jdidaco 635-657 Ch. 32 Canada, compiled by jdidaco 658-682 Ch. 33 Philippines, compiled by ANGEL_GLEZ 683-702 Ch. 34 Portugal, compiled by jdidaco 703-722 Ch. 35 Southeast Asia [Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, & Malaysia] I don't know when these polls were conducted, but the newest films on here are from 2010. *Sult placed 7th in the Danish list and 16th in the Norwegian list, but icm will only allow the film to be added to this list once. -
Feminist-Minded Films
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. "As a feminist film theorist and avid moviegoer, my main, geeky goal in life is to see as many female-driven films as possible from every decade, country, and genre imaginable. I’m sure this list won’t please everybody, and you may disagree with my choices, but I tried to be as diplomatic as possible and to keep the list diverse. I certainly haven’t seen every single women’s picture though. The films on this list may not all be widely acclaimed or even directly feminist films, but what some of them may lack in aesthetic pleasures or political correctness is made up tenfold by their feminine bravura and radiant characters. From 1910 to the present, these are the absolute best, most emblematic women’s pictures I’ve ever seen." -
12 Chinese Film Classics Available on YouTube
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. A dozen classic black and white Chinese films from the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s are now available for free on YouTube — with English subtitles. The movies represent some of the key highlights from China’s first “Golden Period” of cinema and are a Sino cinephile’s dream come true. The treasure trove of films is being made available courtesy of the [url=https://asia.ubc.ca/]Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia[/url] and includes Goddess and New Women, both of which star tragic silent screen legend Ruan Lingyu, plus, Street Angel, with singer Zhou Xuan. Also in the mix are Spring in a Small Town, Crows and Sparrows and Wanderings of Sanmao, titles which regularly feature when it comes to lists of the most important Chinese films ever made. Playlist from the [url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Xdirs4_JYpeyWi46h8kdA/]Modern Chinese Cultural Studies YT channel[/url], last updated April 12, 2020. Article from [url=https://radiichina.com/classic-chinese-films-english-subtitles/]Radii China[/url] on April 16, 2020. -
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) -
MUBI + byNWR
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. MUBI Special “It was a myth… No one had ever seen it.” —Nicolas Winding Refn on The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds Welcome to the world of byNWR AN UNADULTERATED CULTURAL EXPRESSWAY FOR THE ARTS Born from Nicolas Winding Refn’s passion for the rare, the forgotten and the unknown, byNWR breathes new life into the culturally intriguing and influential. Home to cultural ephemera created by an array of Guest Editors and contributors, our beautifully restored and revived cinematic gems inspire a world of original content, where we share, enjoy and look to the future with hope, prosperity and the idea that culture is for everyone. MUBI has joined forces with byNWR to give you exclusive early access to the restored films. #18-20 are included in "EARS, EYES AND THROATS: RESTORED CLASSIC AND LOST PUNK FILMS 1976-1981" along with "In the Red". -
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] -
Queerty's 10 beautiful, sexy films that celebrate Black queer love
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. By David Reddish February 14, 2022 at 9:02am Updated on June 16, 2022 We’ve gone back through our cinematic archives to mine some of our favorite depictions of Black, queer love in the movies. These films profiled here explore love in all its forms, from friendship to romance to self-love with probing power. From Oscar winners to indie gems, they offer perspectives on race, gender, sexuality, and relationships that touch our hearts, and that we will not soon forget. Grab the popcorn and someone beautiful, and get ready to stream… -
ICM Forum Country Polls: Mexico
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Poll conducted in February 2023. 34 participants 60 titles received 25+ points 199 titles in total -
Kenneth W. Harrow's Overview of African Cinema: 43 Years of Markers
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. This list is composed of the films mentioned at the end of Harrow's article entitled "Toward a New Paradigm of African Cinema". Note: Harrow lists Zan Boko twice (in 1988 and 1998), so I've replaced the 1998 entry with Buud Yam since I think it's an error. Also mentioned is his list: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/kenneth+w.+harrows+toward+a+new+paradigm+of+african+cinema+films+cited/fergenaprido/]Toward a New Paradigm of African Cinema: Films Cited[/url] Published in Critical Interventions 8, Spring 2011, Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. ISSN: 1930-1944 (Print) 2326-411X (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcin20 To cite this article: Kenneth W. Harrow (2011) Toward a New Paradigm of African Cinema, Critical Interventions, 5:1, 218-236, DOI: 10.1080/19301944.2011.10781411 Published online 10 Jan 2014 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19301944.2011.10781411 -
iCM Forum's Short of the Day
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Project created by Perception de Ambiguity. Forum index also maintained by Carmel1379. [url=https://forum.icmforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=2789]Introduction and Index[/url] Shorts unlisted on IMDb: #11 High-Tech Exploration par Johanna Vaude (Johanna Vaude, 2016) #18 Mlad i radostan / Young and Joyful (Mario Gaborović, 2017) #21 Interstice (Andrew Thomas Huang, 2016) #28 Couch Gag for The Sampsans Epasode Numbar 553 "Clown in the Dumps" (Don Hertzfeldt, 2014) #31 Arca - Now You Know (Jesse Kanda, 2014) #43 Holy Smoke - Fake DMT Commercial (Danny Merk, 2015) #58 Inhale Atlanta - Atlanta Season 1 Promo (Rebecca Joelson, 2016) #63 cows & cows & cows (cyriak, 2010) #64 L'Arrière-Saison (Philippe Grandrieux, 2006) #65 Telephones (Christian Marclay, 1995) #68 Pieces of Spaces (Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin, 2017) #77 Monkey Cucumber Grape Experiment (2012) #78 Michael Cimino par Johanna Vaude / The End of innocence (Johanna Vaude, 2017) #80 I moved to London! (Jeremiah McDonald, 2017) #90 9006 (O[rphan] D[frift>], 1998) #95 Spring (Jamie Scott, 2017) #100 Shane O'neill skateboarding (2011) #106 Life Inside a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine (Motherboard, 2015) #107 Cyanide & Happiness thread #116 Transaension (Dan Baker, 2006) #127 Obrałem Ziemniaka (2011) #131 Walden Connection: The Thoreauvian Agenda in Upstream Color (Anna Catley, 2014) #132 That Mitchell and Webb Look: Alien Invasion #140 Lady Pank: Minus Zero (Zbigniew Rybczyński, 1985) #141 Blade Runner - Autoencoded (side-by-side comparison) (Terence Broad, 2016) #143 Zero-Day (beeple, 2015) #150 Fire ants colony floating! (Maggie, 2013) #153 PencilheaD (AMV for 'Right Here, Right Now' by Fatboy Slim) (Qwaqa, 2011) #154 Code Orange - The Mud (Dmitry Zakharov & Shade, 2017) #156 Inside Amy Schumer - Football Town Nights (Ryan McFaul & Nicole Holofcener, 2015) - imdb entry for the full episode is included in the list instead #165 Munchsferatu (Julien Lahmi, 2017) #169 Interview with the Lifelike Hot Robot Named Sophia (2017) #171 Horror Music Videos; Halloween edition (11 mentioned) #176 Lee Gamble: Mnestic Pressure (Kode9(?) from 'Hyperdub' & R.A.F. Walker, 2017) #177 Czego szukasz w Šwięta? | English for beginners (Allegro, 2016) #184 V A P O R W A V E (a collection of music videos? Not sure what this is as the post has mostly codes for special characters and is illegible) #185 Applied Ballardianism - Official Trailer (urbanomic media, 2018) #186 The Extinct Suite (Anna Malina, 2017) #187 離騷幻覺 Dragon's Delusion (kongkee, 2018) -
ICM Forum's Favourite Unofficial Checks - Top 250
Favs/dislikes: 20:0. As chosen by the ICM Forum users on July 31st, 2022. -
Entertainment Weekly's 20 Classic TV Miniseries
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. In chronological order. Published November 10, 2009. -
Kenneth W. Harrow's Toward a New Paradigm of African Cinema: Films Cited
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. This list is composed of the films mentioned throughout Harrow's article and cited at the end. Missing from imdb: Amsterdam Diary (Ghana 2005) by [url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7389039/]Socrate Safo[/url] Also mentioned is his list: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/kenneth+w.+harrows+overview+of+african+cinema+43+years+of+markers/fergenaprido/]Overview of African Cinema: 43 Years of Markers[/url] Published in Critical Interventions 8, Spring 2011, Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. ISSN: 1930-1944 (Print) 2326-411X (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcin20 To cite this article: Kenneth W. Harrow (2011) Toward a New Paradigm of African Cinema, Critical Interventions, 5:1, 218-236, DOI: 10.1080/19301944.2011.10781411 Published online 10 Jan 2014 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19301944.2011.10781411 -
Slant's The 50 Best Films of 2021
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. By Slant Staff on December 10, 2021 A staggering number of visceral, ambitious, and glorious movies were released in 2021, covering a vast spectrum of tones, sizes, and intentions. And yet one always encounters people who continue to say that “cinema is dead.” Ask for elaboration and they often say that there’s nothing to see in the theaters, which isn’t, paradoxically, the same as saying that movies are well beyond their expiration date. Instead, movies that people tend to remember and take seriously have mostly scurried to streaming outlets, where they’ve proliferated and mutated in the abundance of choice. For one, the thing we used to call a “documentary” has taken on particularly radical contours, and films like Robert Greene’s Procession, a formally and socially audacious documentary-slash-personal confessional, have come as close as modern cinema has to evoking a stream of consciousness. It’s also playing on Netflix, available to every subscriber, and could easily be mistaken by the uninitiated for the kind of routine true-crime shows in which the outlet specializes. Such realizations lead us back to a familiar refrain: that there are lots of great movies without the theater experience to lend them a patina of exceptionalism. And this complication has been intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic and the panic that it’s understandably inspired in Hollywood, which is more determined than ever to rely on spectacle for the global bucks. The easiest short-term solution is to accept that this theatrical patina—save for the arthouses in the larger cities and the few formally adventurous filmmakers, such as Wes Anderson, who can get his work booked in big theaters—is an outdated notion and reacclimate to reality. For people who aren’t fortunate enough to live near a venue playing, say, Janicza Bravo’s Zola or Hamaguchi Ryûsuke’s Drive My Car, theaters are bloated stadiums playing mega-act dinosaurs, and should be accorded appropriate respect or lack thereof, while the best films are usually hidden somewhere on a streamer’s menu between Hallmark Christmas movies and various seasons of Everyone Loves Raymond. In other words, good movies require the effort of personal vigilance, and the films below merit the expansion of purview. In troubled times, these daring, highly disparate productions show that a cherished medium isn’t only not dying but may, in fact, just be beginning to get its sea legs. Cinema could be evolving into a form that’s more personal and eccentric than ever, in accordance with the newfound intimacy that arrives from learning that theaters can be lovely but are also essentially beside the point. Chuck Bowen Click [url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/best-films-of-2021-the-ballots/]here[/url] for our contributors’ individual ballots. Editor’s Note: Hong Sang-soo’s [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/dangsin-eolgul-apeseo/]In Front of Your Face[/url], which isn’t scheduled for release until 2022, has been removed from our list due to eligibility criteria. See you next year, Hong. -
Yardbarker's The 25 Best Prison Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Updated December 28, 2022 | By Matt Sulem It has been over 25 years since the release of “The Shawshank Redemption,” a prison escape film based on the 1982 Stephen King novella “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.” It's arguably one of the best movies ever made. The film is undoubtedly synonymous with the prison genre, but it’s not the only flick about life in the clink. To celebrate more than a quarter-century of "Shawshank," here are the 25 best prison movies of all time. Note: List does not appear to be ranked. -
IndieWire's 25 Essential Prison Movies
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. The Playlist Staff Jul 23, 2015 2:03 pm Kyle Patrick Alvarez‘s “[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+stanford+prison+experiment/]The Stanford Prison Experiment[/url],” now playing in limited release, took fourteen years to get made, and finally arrived at Sundance 2015 with a stellar ensemble including Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Olivia Thirlby, Tye Sheridan and Michael Angarano. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the uncompromising nature of the film, the reception was divided (our own rave is here) but even those on the more negative end of the spectrum tended to use words like “compelling,” “vivid” and “effective” in their critiques. And those are adjectives that this film (which scooped the Screenwriting award for Tim Talbott) shares with the best in the wide and variegated genre of the prison movie. The microcosmic possibilities of life on the inside have been mined many times for dramas, comedies, spoofs and thrillers that, while set in penal institutions or situations that resemble them, actually comment on human psychology or on the society outside those walls. And we got to thinking about our own favorite prison movies through the ages. Here are 25 we’d consider a great primer in the genre. Honorable Mentions If you’ve seen all the above, you’re a) really into prison movies and b) probably hankering for more, so here’s another few titles we debated including (out of the many hundreds of films that qualify): [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+green+mile/]The Green Mile[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/cube/]The Cube[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/caged/]Caged[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/caged+heat/]Caged Heat[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/stir+crazy/]Stir Crazy[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+longest+yard-1974/]The Longest Yard[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/carandiru/]Carandiru[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/scum/]Scum[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+escapist/]The Escapist[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/victory/]Escape to Victory[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+rock/]The Rock[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/on+death+row/]Death Row[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/into+the+abyss-2011/]Into the Abyss[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+life+and+mind+of+mark+defriest/]The Life and Mind of Mark deFriest[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/tattooed+tears/]Tattooed Tears[/url] –Jessica Kiang, Erik McClanahan, Oliver Lyttelton, Rodrigo Perez [b]Notes[/b]: - List does not appear to be ranked. - I removed most of the HM text and just included the mentioned films. See also: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/indiewires+our+15+favorite+prison+breaks+at+the+movies/fergenaprido/]IndieWire's Our 15 Favorite Prison Breaks at the Movies[/url] -
Peccadillo Pictures - Boys on Film
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. A list of all of the short films included in Peccadillo Pictures' Boys on Film anthology series of DVDs. 1-9: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+1+hard+love/]Boys on Film 1: Hard Love[/url] 10-18: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+2+in+too+deep/]Boys on Film 2: In Too Deep[/url] 19-25: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+3+american+boy/]Boys on Film 3: American Boy[/url] 26-34: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+4+protect+me+from+what+i+want/]Boys on Film 4: Protect Me from What I Want[/url] 35-43: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+5+candy+boy/]Boys on Film 5: Candy Boy[/url] 44-51: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+6+pacific+rim/]Boys on Film 6: Pacific Rim[/url] 52-61: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+7+bad+romance/]Boys on Film 7: Bad Romance[/url] 62-71: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+8+cruel+britannia/]Boys on Film 8: Cruel Brittania[/url] 72-79: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+9+youth+in+trouble/]Boys on Film 9: Youth in Trouble[/url] 80-87: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+x/]Boys on Film X[/url] 88-95: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+11+we+are+animals/]Boys on Film 11: We Are Animals[/url] 96-104: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+12+confession/]Boys on Film 12: Confession[/url] 105-114: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+13+trick+and+treat/]Boys on Film 13: Trick & Treat[/url] 115-123: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+14+worlds+collide/]Boys on Film 14: Worlds Collide[/url] 124-132: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+15+time+and+tied/]Boys on Film 15: Time & Tied[/url] 133-142: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+16+possession/]Boys on Film 16: Possession[/url] 143-151: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+17+love+is+the+drug/]Boys on Film 17: Love Is the Drug[/url] 152-161: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+18+heroes/]Boys on Film 18: Heroes[/url] 162-171: [url=https://icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+19+no+ordinary+boy/]Boys on Film 19: No Ordinary Boys[/url] 172-182: [url=https://icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+20+heaven+can+wait/]Boys on Film 20: Heaven Can Wait[/url] 183-191: [url=https://icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+21+beautiful+secret/]Boys on Film 21: Beautiful Secret[/url] 192-199: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/boys+on+film+22+love+to+love+you/]Boys on Film 22: Love to Love You[/url] (missing Invierno [Winter] (2021) by Rafael Ruiz Espejo) -
Kenji's The Caucasus
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. This neglected but fascinating region with high mountains and beautiful scenery, between the Black and Caspian seas, has produced some extraordinary and exceptional films. Most essential first here, the rest in year order. Sorry, I have let this list slip, will update to include more recent films soon. I thought we already had a Caucasus list here, we do have some that cover the area along with others, but i can’t locate one on the Caucasus alone. Turkey is on the edge of the Southern Caucasus, and to the North, Russia; here it’ll just be Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, indigenous directors like Paradjanov, Kalatozov, Iosseliani, Abuladze, Peleshian and a couple of films by Atom Egoyan who is of Armenian heritage. I’m not including films set elsewhere, for instance Iosseliani’s French films, and Kalatozov’s in Russia (The Cranes are Flying…) and Cuba (I am Cuba), but i am including films by other Europeans like Since Otar Left and Journey to Armenia. See Noema’s list Georgian Cinema and "Kolar’’s list CINEMA OF AZERBAIJAN, invaluable resources that fill major gaps here. Good to see lots of Azerbaijani films now added to database. Parajanov’s Ukrainian-set Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a must-see too. The Iranian film Bashu the Little Stranger may also be of interest as much of it takes place in the Northern region of Gilan, which is next to the Caspian Sea and is thus culturally contiguous with the Caucasus (thanks to Chai Wallah for that info). The list is separated into a Top 14 and the rest, with both sections listed chronologically. Missing from imdb (mostly shorts): #70 Biri Vardi, Biri Yoxdu... (1967 Eldar Quliyev) #97 Untitled (1976 Hamlet Hovsepian) #119 Tənha narın nağılı [Tale of the Lonely Pomegranate Tree] (1984 Şamil Mahmudbəyov & Hasanaga Turabov) #150 A Night at Parajanov Museum (1998 Roman Balayan) #157 Impressions from Rustaveli (2001 Nana Tchitchoua) #186 Mayak [The Beacon] (2012 Fariz Ahmedov) #190 Ert katss vukvardi [One Man Loved Me] (2012 Ana Urushadze)
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