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A Film Buff's Guide to Movie Movements
Favs/dislikes: 22:1. Films held up as examples of prominent film movements by Empire magazine in their "Film 101" section. The films are divided into their respective movements: French Impressionaism German Expressionism Soviet Montage Documentary Film Movement Poetic Realism Italian Neorealism Polish Film School Free Cinema Direct Cinema British New Wave French New Wave Japanese New Wave Cinema Novo Czech New Wave New German Cinema LA Rebellion The Movie Brats Australian New Wave Cinema du Look New Queer Cinema Dogme 95 Mumblecore -
A Year With Women: 103 Essential Films By Female Filmmakers
Favs/dislikes: 33:1. From Cinemafanatic.com: Lately I’ve become more and more frustrated with the various “best ever” lists that have been released because they rarely feature films by women, or if they do it’s usually one or two films. I think this is more a reflection of those who are polled for these kinds of lists, as well as a compounding of history on itself. For so long films by men have made up the bulk of the film canon and I think people are afraid to add new films to these revered lists. I also think many people haven’t seen very many films by women, or if they have it’s always the same handful of films. In an attempt to create a better, more inclusive list of great films by women, I polled over 500 critics, filmmakers, bloggers, historians, professors and casual film viewers, asking them to tell me what films directed (or co-directed) by women are essential viewing. Some people only responded with as little as five votes, others submitted hundreds of films. In the end, I received over 7,000 votes for 1,100+ different films. After tallying up this data, with ties factored in, I then had a list of 103 essential films directed by women. While this list is in no way the end all and be all of female filmmakers, it does include films from multiple countries, filmmakers of all ages, films from all kinds of genres and spans 9 decades. Also, I would like to point out that although the earliest film on this list is from 1935, there were several filmmakers from the silent era who were women (and whose films were in the initial 1,100+ list), including Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber and others. This list should be looked at as a springboard, a way to get your feet wet with the most beloved films made by women. There are lots of resources to find even more great films by women. DirectedByWomen.com and TheDirectorList.com are two such invaluable places to start learning more about the thousands of women who have been making films since the beginning of cinema. -
African-American Film Critics Association Best Film
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. Awarded Annually -
American Gangster Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. The filmography listed in the book American Gangster Cinema: From Little Caesar to Pulp Fiction (2002) by Fran Mason -
BFI Film Classics
Favs/dislikes: 12:0. The BFI Film Classics series is a collection of short books analysing major works of world cinema. Volumes in this series have been assembled by some of the world's leading film critics. The first volumes in the series were published in 1992 and new entries continue to be added every year. -
BFI London Film Festival - Best Film
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Although held annually since 1953, the BFI added a formal awards ceremony (and the best film award) in 2009. This list contains all of the winners since the creation of this award. -
Canada's Top Ten Annual Lists
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival and announced in December each year to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films. The list was first introduced in 2001 as an initiative to help publicize Canadian films. The list is determined by tabulating votes from film festival programmers and film critics across Canada. Films must have premiered, either in general theatrical release or on the film festival circuit, within the calendar year; although TIFF organizes the vote, films do not have to have been screened specifically at TIFF to be eligible. -
Canadian Screen Awards/Genie Awards: Best Motion Picture
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. A list of winners of the Canadian Screen Award (formerly Genie award) for Best Canadian Motion picture. The Canadian Film Awards were first held in 1949 with the award for Best Feature Film first being presented in 1964. This award was presented annually (except for 1974) until 1979, before becoming the Genie Awards in 1980. For the 2013 award season, the Genie awards and the Gemini awards (for excellence in Canadian television) were merged to form the Canadian Screen Awards. Voted on by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. -
Cannes Film Festival - Caméra d'Or
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Since 1978, the Caméra d'Or has been awarded to the best debut feature film presented at the Cannes Film Festival. -
Crave's 100 Funniest Comedies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. Comedy is a little bit like pornography. If it does its job, it doesn’t matter how “good” it really is. So critics sometimes have trouble with motion picture comedies, because little things like story and character development don’t really matter if the film just makes you guffaw. That’s why, when putting together CraveOnline’s list of The Top 50 Funniest Comedies of All Time, we didn’t ask our critics to pick the “best” comedies of all time. We asked them to pick the funniest comedies of all time that make them laugh the most. That’s why some so-called “classic” comedies don’t rank as high on the list as some of the goofiest films ever produced. But that doesn’t mean the classiest comedies on record didn’t make a decent showing. We asked our film critics – William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold (CraveOnline and The B-Movies Podcast), Brian Formo (Collider), Alonso Duralde (The Wrap) and Dave White (Linoleum Knife) – to come up with a ranked list of their picks for the top 50 Funniest Comedies of All Time. Their #1 votes got 50 points, their #50 points got 1 point, and so on in between. We then tabulated the votes and let each critic chime in about 10 of their favorite comedies that cracked the Top 50, and we also listed their 50 runners up below. List Published June 2015 -
Crave's Best Political Movies
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. A nation divided. A war of ideals. It sounds a lot like reality and it sounds a lot like a movie. Indeed, the history of cinema is fertile with motion pictures with political storylines and lofty social ambitions. Ever since we discovered that the moving image has a distinct power over the masses, artists and governments have been using films to convey their message… for better and often for worse. Compiling a list of the best political movies in history is a daunting task. We had to allow for films that espouse ideas and ideals that don’t necessarily match our own. We had to consider a film’s quality as a political document and/or statement as a separate entity from its overall quality (the so-called “best movie ever made” only ranks at #49 on this list for that very reason). And we had to cast a wide net, so this Big List was voted upon and written by a half dozen film critics: Crave‘s William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold, The Wrap‘s Alonso Duralde, Linoleum Knife‘s Dave White, Blumhouse‘s Alyse Wax and Collider‘s Brian Formo. They each nominated 50 films, ranked from #1-50, and we tabulated those votes to come up with the following Top 50 Best Political Movies Ever. (Stick around at the end, when we’ll reveal our 50 runners-up as well.) -
Crave's Most Romantic Movies Ever Made
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. People learn to love quite naturally, by experiencing the wonders of others and taking joy in the way they touch our lives. But romance has to be learned, and nowadays, we learn about romance through movies. We experience the pleasures and pitfalls of courtship, the embarrassments and the successes of declaring our feelings, and even the right way to kiss from watching our romantic fantasies play out on the big screen. Romantic movies have helped shape the way we romance each other. That’s why CraveOnline has decided to present our picks for The Fifty Most Romantic Movies Ever Made. We tasked our four film critics – William Bibbiani, Witney Seibold, Fred Topel and Brian Formo – to come up with their list of the fifty most romantic movies ever made, bringing to the table their unique tastes and experiences. Then we tallied up their votes to come up with the following fifty films, each of which (sometimes in very unexpected ways) are worthy of being considered hallmarks of the romantic movie genre. Some films are sexy, some films are chaste. Some are funny, others will make you bawl your eyes out. But they will all teach you a little something about love, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Published February 2015 -
Doubling the Canon 2023 Nominations
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. Voting thread located here: https://forum.icmforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=806917#p806917 -
Empire's 50 Funniest Comedies Ever
Favs/dislikes: 11:0. Voted on by Empire magazine readers. -
Exclaim! Annual Best Film Lists
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. Exclaim! Magazine has published annual best film lists since 2019. This was preceded by a top 30 list of the 2010s, which have been included here. The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Portrait of a Lady on Fire are 2019 releases that appear on both the 2019 list, and the best of the decade list. -
Film4's 50 Films to See Before You Die
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. Compiled in 2011, Film4's critics compiled a list of "must see" films. -
Films from the South "Silver Mirror" Award
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Films from the South is a Norwegian film festival which takes place in Oslo. The films chosen focus on Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle east. The Silver Mirror is awarded to the best film. -
Golden Globe Best Foreign Language Film Winners
Favs/dislikes: 14:0. All of the winners for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Presented annually since 1965. Between 1973 and 1985, non-American films in the English language were also eligible. -
Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film
Favs/dislikes: 26:0. In October 2013, the British Film Institute unveiled an exhibition chronicling the history of dark and macabre films. In an ambitious project, the BFI unveiled a collection of a large number of films spanning four categories, bringing these films to British cinemas over a four month period. Films are arranged chronologically by theme. The Four Parts: - Monstrous (1-26) - The Dark Arts (27-48) - Haunted (49-71) - Love is a Devil (72-99) Although this exhibition includes a large number of plays, professional talks, documentaries, television series' and shorts, this list contains only the feature films presented in the exhibition. -
iCM Forum's Cities in Cinema: Los Angeles
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Hollywood - the centre of the American (and in many ways, global) film industry lies at the heart of the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. The city has played host to thousands of films and television programmes, and boasts some of the most recognisable settings in cinematic history. With a population of 18.5 million in the greater metro area, Los Angeles is a thriving global metropolis. It's expansive highways and boulevards, warm weather, sprawling footprint, and surrounding hillsides all have added to the city's unique character. -
iCM Forum's Favourite Balkan Films
Favs/dislikes: 16:0. The list created from a poll of members of the unofficial icheckmovies forum. This list contains all the films that received over 100 points (equal to one first place vote) and received 2 or more votes. If you would like to contribute to a future version of this list, please send me an icheckmovies or IMDb list with your choices. For a full list of the films nominated, please see : http://www.imdb.com/list/ls036420290/ -
Istanbulfilm's Balkan cinema lists
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. A list of films compiled from various Balkan countries. Most countries are represented with various standouts from their respective national cinemas. Albania (1-8), Bosnia and Herzegovina (9-17), Bulgaria (18-48), Croatia (49-62), Greece (63-91), Macedonia (92-102), Romania (103-134), Serbia (135-171), Slovenia (172-183) -
Mark Cousin's The Story of Film: A New Generation
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. Film critic and documentarian Mark Cousins returns to his long running Story of Film project with a new chapter dedicated to the cinematic innovators of the 21st Century. Drawing on a broad range of examples from around the world and across every genre, he expertly interrogates key sequences to reveal the new ideas which are extending the language of cinema. From Frozen to Cemetery of Splendour, The Act of Killing to Lover’s Rock, cinema in the digital age proves to be as valued and versatile as it’s ever been and a welcome return to the big screen. -
MSN.com's 100 Best Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Whether we watch them at drive-in theatres (yes, they do still exist) or multiplexes, or on our TV sets, laptops, or smartphones, movies are a part of our life. They divert and entertain us, make us laugh or cry (or both), get us thinking, inspire us, and sometimes are so powerful that they leave us simply drained. What makes a good movie? It’s largely a matter of personal taste, of course. The history of cinema is full of examples of critically acclaimed films that do little at the box office (“Brazil,” “The King of Comedy”) and, conversely, smash hits that the critics mostly disliked (“The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” “The Da Vinci Code”). Movies that score well with both audiences and reviewers — and there are many — tend to have a few basic characteristics in common: a strong, coherent storyline; richly drawn -- and well-acted -- characters; well-done cinematography and (if applicable) special effects; and a satisfying ending. The movies on this list share those virtues to a greater or lesser extent. They cover a wide range, spanning cinema history from 1921 to 2018. They include silent films and technologically dazzling blockbusters. Many feature famous performers of the past and present, as well as some of the film world’s most acclaimed directors — Charlie Chaplin, Frank Capra, George Cukor, Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, Sam Peckinpah, and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of these movies will be familiar to almost anyone — “Citizen Kane,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Star Wars” (now retitled “Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope”). Others are more obscure, but well worth discovering. Taken as a whole, this list provides a vivid illustration of why movies are so important to us. List added January 2019 -
Mubi Releases
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. Mubi is also a distributor. In addition to releasing films on the platform, it started distributing theatrically in the United States and United Kingdom in 2016.
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