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LoveHKFilm.com's The Best Hong Kong Films Ever
Favs/dislikes: 72:3. In 2012, LoveHKFilm.com asked its readers to vote for the best Hong Kong films ever. 166 people participated - mostly normal fans, but also some film fest personnel and producers. This was LoveHKFilm.com's final poll, following three decade polls ([url=http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2010/01/07/top-50-of-the-decade-postmortem-full-list-stats-and-other-stuff/]2000s[/url], [url=http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2010/04/08/top-100-of-the-nineties-postmortem-full-list-plus-random-notes/]1990s[/url], [url=http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2012/03/31/top-100-hong-kong-films-of-the-eighties-postmortem-full-list-stats/]1980s[/url]). [url=http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2013/05/04/the-best-hong-kong-films-ever-postmortem-full-list-stats-apology/]Full list with points and runners up[/url] [url=http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2012/12/17/the-best-hong-kong-films-ever-numbers-200-171/]Countdown with images and descriptions of each movie[/url] [url=http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/damnyoukozo/2013/01/03/the-best-hong-kong-film-performances-part-5-the-best-performance-ever-the-full-list/]Best performances[/url] -
Kinema Junpo's Top 200 Japanese Films
Favs/dislikes: 165:3. The top 200 Japanese movies of all time as chosen by the Kinema Junpo magazine. [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330015712/http://www.kinejun.jp/special/90alltimebest/index.html]Source[/url] -
The Criterion Collection's Eclipse Series
Favs/dislikes: 132:2. Eclipse from the Criterion Collection is a brand for a line of DVD film series released by the Criterion Collection. It debuted on March 27, 2007. The brand was created to produce budget-priced, high-quality DVD editions of hard-to-find films. The DVDs are released in boxed sets that typically contain between two to seven films across and focus on a specific film director. Future sets will also focus on themes. Typically, they are released monthly. In order to keep prices low, the films do not receive the same degree of remastering nor any of the special features that have became associated with Criterion Collection titles. [url=https://www.criterion.com/library/list_view?b=Eclipse&p=1&pp=all]Source[/url] -
Scott Tobias's The New Cult Canon
Favs/dislikes: 393:5. The idea behind The New Cult Canon is to take a fresh look at the new generation of cult movies that have sprung up in the last two decades, although some older movies are also included into the list. The list is authored by Scott Tobias. [From 2008 to 2013, starting with Donnie Darko and ending with The Rapture, I wrote a column for The A.V. Club called The New Cult Canon, my homage to Danny Peary’s three Cult Movies books, which were a huge influence on my moviegoing habits as a young cinephile. My idea was to pick up where Peary’s last book left off, in 1987, and explore “The Classics, The Sleepers, The Weird and the Wonderful”—films that have inspired mad obsession since. With The Reveal, I finally have the opportunity to bring it back.] [url=https://www.avclub.com/tag/the-new-cult-canon]Original Source[/url] [url=https://thereveal.substack.com/archive?sort=search&search=new%20cult%20canon]Revival Source[/url] -
Butler's Fantasy Cinema: Impossible Worlds on Screen
Favs/dislikes: 63:2. From the Short Cuts book [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fantasy-Cinema-Impossible-Worlds-Screen/dp/1906660166]Fantasy Cinema: Impossible Worlds on Screen[/url]. [quote]Often dismissed as simple escapist tales of sword and sorcery, fantasy is one of the fundamental impulses in filmmaking, a source of some of the most vivid and memorable films ever made that reaches far beyond the confines of a single genre. As well as some of the major genres, stylistic approaches and exponents of cinematic fantasy - from Georges Méliè̀s, Walt Disney, and Andrei Tarkovsky to contemporary fantasists such as Terry Gilliam and Peter Jackson - this volume focuses on fantasy's social function with case studies including The Thief of Baghdad (1924), Excalibur (1981), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03), and Bruce Almighty (2003). Taking in the popular and the experimental, subversive desires and reactionary dreams, this book is an accessible introduction to one of the vital energies in cinema. The Short Cuts series is a comprehensive list of introductory texts covering the full spectrum of Film Studies, specifically designed for building an individually-styled library for all students and enthusiasts of cinema and popular culture.[/quote] Three films are considered lost: - La cigale et la fourmi (1897) - La caverne maudite (1898) - Le petit chaperon rouge (1901) [url=https://www.amazon.com/Fantasy-Cinema-Impossible-Worlds-Wallflower/dp/1906660166]Source[/url] -
Golden Globe Award - Best Motion Picture
Favs/dislikes: 136:0. Since their first ceremony in 1944, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has bestowed their Golden Globe Awards to their choices for the best in motion pictures. [url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/]Source[/url] -
TIFF's Top Canadian Films
Favs/dislikes: 65:1. In 2015 TIFF organized its decennial poll of Critics, Programmers, Academics and Film Professionals asking 220 of them to name the top Canadian Films of all time. 399 films received votes, this list comprises the 134 films which received at least 3 votes. [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160704203521/http://tiff.net/canadas-all-time-top-ten]Source[/url] -
Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej's 100 Years of Polish Film
Favs/dislikes: 77:2. The Polish Film Institute created this list for the 100th anniversary of Polish cinema. The films were selected by Polish critics Rafał Marszałek and Andrzej Bukowiecki using the following criteria: "their acknowledged artistic value, national and international awards granted, the influence exerted within a certain film trend, and finally the attendance records indicating the interest aroused among the cinema goers." [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20101119083114/http://100latpolskiegofilmu.pl/en/movies/]Source[/url] -
Academy Award - Best Cinematography
Favs/dislikes: 161:0. This list contains all movies that have won the Best Cinematography prize in the Academy Awards. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Cinematography]Source[/url] -
Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2000-2009
Favs/dislikes: 61:5. This list a list of the Top Latin American Films of the Decade (2000-2009), is based on a survey of distinguished critics, scholars and film professionals based in the New York City area. The list has been compiled by Cinema Tropical. [url=https://www.cinematropical.com/10-best-films-aughts]Source[/url] -
National Film Archive of India's 125 Great Indian Films
Favs/dislikes: 47:2. In 1995, FIAF asked National film archives to send lists of films important in Film History, Film and The Other Arts, Film and Reality, and National Productions. This list has all the Indian films nominated by the National Film Archive of India. The first 26 in the first 3 categories, followed by 99 from the National category. -
Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Non-Fiction Films
Favs/dislikes: 119:0. This list is "an educational resource that offers guidance and encouragement as students seek to find points of orientation within the vast history of film and video." It is not a list of the best films of all time. Rather, it reflects a variety of criteria. The list is divided into 5 sections: I. [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+narrative+films+2012/]Narrative Films[/url] [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+hollywood+genres+2012/mjf314/]Hollywood Genres (with an emphasis on the classical studio era)[/url] II. [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+non-fiction+films+2012/]Non-Fiction Films[/url] III. [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+animated+films+2012/mjf314/]Animated Films[/url] IV. [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+experimentalslashavant-gardeslashunderground+films+2012/mjf314/]Experimental/Avant-garde/Underground Films[/url] V. [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+single-channel+video+2012/mjf314/]Single-channel Video[/url] [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416235509/https://ves.fas.harvard.edu/files/ves/files/fvs_suggested_viewing_2012.pdf]Source[/url] -
Film Magazine's Best Iranian Films
Favs/dislikes: 60:2. In 2009, Film magazine asked 92 Iranian critics to vote for the best Iranian films. The original list was a top 20. This list includes all films that received at least 2 votes. The ballots are available on [url=http://www.film-magazine.com/archives/articles.asp?id=74]Film magazine's website[/url] (click the 4 links at the bottom). In 2008, Film magazine made a list of the [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/film+magazines+best+iranian+films+of+the+last+three+decades+2008/mjf314/]best Iranian films of the last 3 decades[/url]. -
Tim Dirks's 100+ Most Controversial Films of All-Time
Favs/dislikes: 85:2. Films always have the ability to anger us, divide us, shock us, disgust us, and more. Usually, films that inspire controversy, outright boycotting, picketing, banning, censorship, or protest have graphic sex, violence, homosexuality, religious, political or race-related themes and content. They usually push the envelope regarding what can be filmed and displayed on the screen, and are considered taboo, "immoral" or "obscene" due to language, drug use, violence and sensuality/nudity or other incendiary elements. Inevitably, controversy helps to publicize these films and fuel the box-office receipts. [url=http://www.filmsite.org/controversialfilms.html]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Documentary Films
Favs/dislikes: 131:1. "100 Documentary Films is the first book to offer concise and authoritative individual critical commentaries on some of the key documentary films - from the Lumière brothers and the beginnings of cinema through to recent films such as Bowling for Columbine and When the Levees Broke - and is global in perspective. Many different types of documentary are discussed, as well as films by major documentary directors, including Robert Flaherty, Humphrey Jennings, Jean Rouch, Dziga Vertov, Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore. Each entry provides concise critical analysis, while frequent cross reference to other films featured helps to place films in their historical and aesthetic contexts." [url=http://shop.bfi.org.uk/100-documentary-films.html#.WgywgGhSzIU]Source[/url] -
Golden Foundation of Czech and Slovak Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 86:2. A poll conducted by more than 100 Czech film experts to determine the best and most important works of Czech and Slovak cinema. [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090417060346/http:/www.uh.cz/p100/p100/anketa.htm]Source[/url] -
Dovzhenko Centre's Top 100 Ukrainian Films
Favs/dislikes: 16:0. The top 100 is a list of the best films in the history of Ukrainian cinema counted as a large-scale survey of representatives of the national and international film critic community. The purpose of the rating is a creation and rediscover the national film canon and attempt to determine the best Ukrainian films in the history of cinema. The Union of Film Critics of Ukraine and independent film experts were asked to prepare their own top 10 best Ukrainian films from the time of the cinema invention to now (2021). The July Storms duology & the Kazaki series were both counted as a single entry. -
François Truffaut's The Films in My Life
Favs/dislikes: 117:1. "The Films in My Life (Les Films de ma Vie) is Truffaut’s own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film and pay tribute to Truffaut’s particular heroes, among them Hitchcock, Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, Cocteau, Bergman, and Buñuel." [url=https://www.amazon.com/The-Films-Life-Fran%C3%A7ois-Truffaut/dp/0306805995]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Cult Films
Favs/dislikes: 85:1. "Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences. Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spı¨nal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the circus of Freaks, from the gangs of The Warriors to the gangsters of In Bruges and from the flamboyant Rocky Horror Picture Show to the ultimate cool of The Big Lebowski, have all garnered passionate fan followings. Cult cinema has made tragic misfits, monsters and cyborgs, such as Edward Scissorhands or Blade Runner's replicants, heroes of our times. 100 Cult Films explains why these figures continue to inspire fans around the globe. Cult film experts Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik round up the most cultish of giallo, blaxploitation, anime, sexploitation, zombie, vampire and werewolf films, exploring both the cults that live hidden inside the underground (Nekromantik, Café Flesh) and the cult side of the mainstream (Dirty Dancing, The Lord of the Rings, and even The Sound of Music). 100 Cult Films is a true trip around the world, providing a lively and illuminating guide to films from more than a dozen countries, across nine decades, representing a wide range of genres and key cult directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch." -
Cien años sin soledad: Greatest Latin American Films
Favs/dislikes: 64:1. All the films that received two or more votes in a poll of 36 critics and film specialists from 11 different countries - as listed in the book "Cien años sin soledad: Las mejores peliculas Latinoamericanas de todos los tiempos" compiled by Carlos Galiano and Rufo Caballero. Vote breakdown: #1 received 30 votes #2 - 22 votes #3-5 - 21 #6-8 - 17 #9 - 16 #10 - 14 #11 - 13 #12 - 12 #13 - 11 #14-16 - 10 #17-18 - 9 #19-29 - 8 #30-33 - 7 #34-41 - 6 #42-46 - 5 #47-57 - 4 #58-69 - 3 #70-107 - 2 [url=https://www.amazon.com/Cien-Anos-Sin-Soledad-Spanish/dp/9591005040/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511463916&sr=1-1&keywords=9789591005045]Source[/url] -
Empire Russia's 100 Best Russian Films: Readers' Choice
Favs/dislikes: 15:0. In 2008, Empire Russia asked its readers to vote for the best Russian films. See also: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/empire+russia+2008+-+critics+choice+top+100+russian+films/beavis/]Empire Russia's 100 Best Russian Films: Critics' Choice[/url] [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100120090721/http://blog.empireonline.ru/blogs/viewpost/253]Source[/url] -
FLM's Best Swedish Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 64:3. In 2012, FLM asked 50 film critics and academics to vote for the best Swedish films of all time. The original list was a top 25. In 2022 FLM ran a new poll with 72 participants, again producing a top 25. This list contains all films with at least 2 votes. Votes for Utvandrarna/Nybyggarna and Jag är nyfiken - gul/blå were combined. [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTzgJ_E3ni71I67E5bYDkyP_MuEotgewbwzHXz-8u19t9UHlDFC3hKZtE1Gs5c3c4uQtPwiBU26R09X/pub]2022 All Films and Ballots[/url] [url=http://flm.nu/2012/08/de-25-basta-svenska-filmerna-genom-tiderna/]2012 Source[/url] [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AhCbA3xledPhdDF6Qjd2LU5tbnBrYlFGTy1OU2g5bnc]2012 All Films and Ballots[/url] -
BFI Flare's The Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 99:7. In celebration of their 30th anniversary, in 2016, the London LGBT Film Festival BFI Flare conducted a poll of over 100 programmers, critics and filmmakers asking for a top 10 list of the best LGBT films. Contains all films with at least 3 votes. [url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/30-best-lgbt-films-all-time]Source[/url] -
BIFF's Asian Cinema 100
Favs/dislikes: 46:0. In 2015, the late Kim Jiseok, the former BIFF program director, planned the Asian Cinema 100 for the 20th BIFF edition. For the program, he requested film professionals around the world to recommend 10 of the best Asian films for inclusion in the top 100 list; a list which would be updated every five years. BIFF prepared the first update in 2020 that reflected the opinions of 140 film professionals throughout the world. -
Empire's The 100 Best Films of World Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 271:2. A list of the best films not in the English language, according to Empire magazine. Documentaries were excluded. [url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/100-greatest-world-cinema-films/]Source[/url]
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