Ebbywebby's favorite unofficial checks

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I'll be adding more titles as time passes. Also subtracting some, based on either waning enthusiasm or a film's debut on an official list. See below to check out the abundant films that I've deleted for the latter reason. In fact, I've had to delete so many films that the remaining ones' dwindling quality has me debating whether this list is still worth sharing. ICM's bloated set of official lists now suggests there are over 17,000 essential, canonical films to see? Silly.

I so wish I was more confident about the shorts I've included...I've checked off about 6,400 shorts on ICM and now really regret not taking notes on the best ones. I just don't remember all those blips of film footage well enough.

Newly "official" films deleted during 2024: The World According to Garp

During 2023: Morgiana, Saute ma Ville, The Sun's Burial, Deerskin, Images, Phase IV, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Mademoiselle, Asparagus

During 2022: Jodorowsky's Dune, Mingus - Charlie Mingus 1968, Mandara, Uta, El Empleo, The Hand of God, The Power of the Dog, Johnny Corncob, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

2021: Night Tide, Crimson Peak, Boy Meets Girl, Macbeth (1948), Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, Savage Messiah, The Valley, First Cow

2020: From the Life of the Marionettes, Diabel, Machete, Dead Man Walking, Yoiyami Semareba, Small Change, Orchestra Rehearsal, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, High Life, The Bad News Bears (1976)

2019: Youth, Plastic Bag, Endless Poetry, Visa de Censure No X, Shinboru, Catch Us If You Can, Thieves Like Us, Faraway So Close!, David & Lisa, Eat the Document

2018: I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Long-Haired Hare, Smithereens, King of Hearts, Model Shop, mother!, A Coffee in Berlin

2017: Rocky II, California Split, The L-Shaped Room, Paterson, The Selfish Giant, Submarine, Borom Sarret, The Telephone Book

2016: Heart of a Dog, The Lobster, Prick Up Your Ears, Aprili, Wrong Move, The Hateful Eight, Accident, Bubble, Confidentially Yours, The Forgotten Faces, My Best Fiend, The Panic in Needle Park, Peppermint Frappé, Space Is the Place, Sweet & Lowdown, Sympathy for the Devil, The White Bus

2015: The Witches, The Shout, Cat People (1982), La Cabina, Italianamerican, The Hudsucker Proxy, La Lune à un Mètre, The Perfect Human, Giants & Toys, All the Boys Are Called Patrick, Dogma, Film Film Film, Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel), Slaughterhouse-Five, They Call Me Trinity, The Station Agent, Broken Flowers, Match Point, Idiocracy, Burn After Reading, Bernie, Inherent Vice, Cat Soup

2014: Bob Roberts, Live Flesh, Chuck & Buck, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Rock 'n' Roll High School, WarGames, Tommy, Silent Movie, Lost in La Mancha, Kingpin, I'll Never Forget What's'isname, High Anxiety, These Are the Damned, The Meaning of Life, Rabbit Fire, Duck Rabbit Duck, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Upstream Color, Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, The Idle Class, Pay Day, Rachel Getting Married

2013: Laugh Clown Laugh, Dirty Pretty Things, Emak-Bakia, For Heaven's Sake, Blind Chance, West of Zanzibar, A Zed & Two Noughts, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Lisztomania, Steppenwolf, Made in Britain, After the Rehearsal, City of Women, Comfort & Joy, Hi Mom!, Intervista, Vicky Cristina Barcelona….

Strange but true: This may be only "favorite unofficial checks" list on ICM that does not contain any official checks.