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BFI's 100 American Independent Films
Favs/dislikes: 70:0. The top 100 American independent films as selected by Jason Wood, author of BFI Screen Guides' "100 American Independent Films." [url=https://shop.bfi.org.uk/books/100-american-independent-films-book.html#.XleHAWhKg2w]Source[/url] -
TSPDT's Ain't Nobody's Blues but My Own
Favs/dislikes: 70:11. As a counterpart to the fairly mainstream TSPDT top 1000 list, the Ain't Nobody's Blues But My Own list has been created. The movies on this list had as its solely criterium: they must be mentioned at most once in a top list. 250 film critics/film makers got to choose exactly one of the aforementioned movies. The list hadn't been on the website of TSPDT for several years and hadn't been updated for many years as well. In January 2019 the owner of the site sent us a new update. It's not listed on his website, but you can view the spreadsheet [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EJKX9yOpKk3dT9BizPambwxhbjfMd7QAWxzlT31l4f8/edit?usp=sharing]here[/url]. The list contains 253 titles instead of 250, because the vote for Buddha's Palm consists of four parts. -
Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation
Favs/dislikes: 69:1. In 2006, to celebrate the end of the first century of animation, Annecy International Animation Film Festival asked 30 animation specialists from around the world to vote for the top 100 animated short films. -
HKFA's The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures
Favs/dislikes: 69:4. To celebrate one hundred years of Chinese cinema, Hong Kong Film Awards released a list of The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures. Among the 103 films on the list, there are 11 films from China (pre-1949), 13 films from the mainland China (post-1949), 61 films from Hong Kong, 16 films from Taiwan (post-1949), 1 Hong Kong/mainland China co-production and 1 Taiwan/Hong Kong co-production. -
Scott Hocking's 100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 69:3. From the book by Scott Hocking. From indigenous issues and rites of passage, to sexual repression, mateship, larrikins and more, Australian films provide a cultural snapshot of our sunburnt country, as seen through the lenses of some of the world’s finest filmmakers. [url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6284687-100-greatest-films-of-australian-cinema]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Westerns
Favs/dislikes: 65:1. "Addresses the perennial appeal of the Western, exploring its 19th century popular culture, and its relationship to the economic structure of Hollywood. This work considers the defining features of the Western and traces its main cycles, from the epic Westerns of the 1920s and singing cowboys of the 1930s to the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s." [url=https://www.amazon.com/Westerns-Screen-Guides-Edward-Buscombe/dp/1844571114]Source[/url] -
Galloway's Samurai Film Handbook & Companion
Favs/dislikes: 65:2. This list combines 2 books by Patrick Galloway: #1-51: [url=http://www.amazon.com/Stray-Dogs-Lone-Wolves-Handbook/dp/1880656930]Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook[/url] (2005) #52-91: [url=http://www.amazon.com/Warring-Clans-Flashing-Blades-Companion/dp/1933330783]Warring Clans, Flashing Blades: A Samurai Film Companion[/url] (2009) "Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves provides essential background on the samurai warrior in Japanese culture to help explain what makes these tales of loyalty, revenge and explosive swordsmanship so watchable. It covers top directors and stars and has over 50 original reviews of a wide variety of films, from classics like Samurai Trilogy and Yojimbo to influential films like Lady Snowblood, plus newly released hits like Takeshi Kitano’s Zatoichi." "Warring Clans, Flashing Blades picks up where Galloway’s fan-favorite Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves left off, delving deeper into the samurai film and its spin-off genres—yakuza, ninja, and matatabi." [url=https://www.amazon.com/Stray-Dogs-Lone-Wolves-Handbook/dp/1880656930]Source[/url] [url=http://www.amazon.com/Warring-Clans-Flashing-Blades-Companion/dp/1933330783]Source[/url] -
Roy Menarini's Il Grande Cinema Italiano
Favs/dislikes: 65:3. 250 films from throughout Italy's history, 1905-2011. From the book by Roy Menarini. [url=https://www.amazon.com/grande-cinema-italiano-Roy-Menarini/dp/8874550650/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448737166&sr=8-1&keywords=Il+Grande+Cinema+Italiano]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] -
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] -
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] -
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] -
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] -
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]. -
Geoff King's Film Comedy
Favs/dislikes: 60:13. All the comedies mentioned in the filmography of the book "Film Comedy" by Geoff King, published in 2002. "From slapstick to satire and subtle innuendo. From the grotesque to the carefully mannered. From madcap anarchy to the darkly deadpan. Film comedy comes in a wide range of forms. For as long as film has existed as an entertainment medium, so has film comedy. ... Comedy was one of the most popular formats in the early years of cinema and has remained so ever since." (from the introduction to the book) [url=https://www.amazon.com/Film-Comedy-Geoff-King/dp/1903364353/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402285691&sr=8-1&keywords=film+comedy]Source[/url] -
Russian Guild of Film Critics's Best Russian Films
Favs/dislikes: 59:4. This list is a combination of two lists: the best Russian films of [url=http://www.theauteurs.com/topics/5639]1908 to 1957[/url] and [url=http://www.theauteurs.com/topics/5642]1958 to 2000[/url]. There immediately was a grave discussion on [what films should be considered Russian and what not. The resulting list has been chosen by the Russian Guild of Film Critics. -
Sharon A. Russell's Guide to African Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 57:2. Films featured in Sharon A. Russell's book Guide to African Cinema, in alphabetical order. Thanks to PeacefulAnarchy for finding the book and adding it to the IMDb. [url=http://www.amazon.ca/Guide-African-Cinema-Sharon-Russell/dp/0313296219/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330743642&sr=1-1]Source[/url] -
BBC's The 100 Greatest Films Directed by Women
Favs/dislikes: 56:1. From a critic poll published in November 2019. Olympia is one entry. [url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191125-the-100-greatest-films-directed-by-women-poll]Source[/url] -
A.V. Club's The Best Movies of the 2010s
Favs/dislikes: 55:2. [url=https://film.avclub.com/the-100-best-movies-of-the-2010s-1839846306]Source[/url] -
BBC's The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 54:1. So this year BBC Culture decided to get serious about comedy. We asked 253 film critics – 118 women and 135 men – from 52 countries and six continents a simple: “What do you think are the 10 best comedies of all time?” Films from any country made since cinema was invented were eligible, and BBC Culture did nothing to define in advance what a comedy is; we left that to each of the critics to decide. As always, we urged the experts to go with their heart and pick personal favourites, films that are part of their lives, not just the ones that meet some ideal of greatness. List added August 2017 -
Goya Award - Best Spanish Film
Favs/dislikes: 54:4. The [url=http://www.premiosgoya.com/]Goya Awards[/url], known in Spanish as los Premios Goya, are Spain's main national film awards, considered by many people from Spain and world to be the Spanish equivalent to the Academy Awards from the United States. [url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000299/]Source[/url] -
Slate's The Black Film Canon
Favs/dislikes: 53:1. Seven years ago—when #OscarsSoWhite was a hot topic and Obama was still president—Slate published the Black Film Canon, a list of 50 of the best and most culturally significant films by Black directors. Critics, scholars, and the filmmakers themselves, including Ava DuVernay, Robert Townsend, and Gina Prince-Bythewood, weighed in with their picks. The result was a collection of films spanning almost 100 years, several continents, and a wide range of genres and styles: from Oscar Micheaux’s silent-era classic Within Our Gates to Djibril Diop Mambéty’s freewheeling road-trip movie Touki Bouki to F. Gary Gray’s iconic comedy Friday. And then, just months after the Black Film Canon came out, Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight made history with a Best Picture Oscar win and Jordan Peele’s Get Out spawned a new cultural lexicon while reigniting the long-neglected Black horror genre. Just a year after that, Black Panther became an unprecedented box-office juggernaut. Since then, many other Black filmmakers, both seasoned and on the come up, have seized on an increasing number of opportunities to tell stories in bold ways: creators like Janicza Bravo, Boots Riley, and Garrett Bradley. Some adjudicators of cinematic prestige—like the once-a-decade Sight and Sound critics’ poll and the Criterion Collection—have finally come around to acknowledging important Black filmmakers after decades of all but ignoring them. Simply put, we’re now living in a different world for Black film. Yet, as ever, barriers remain. This year’s Oscars saw yet another nominations controversy. The forces that have worked to sideline Black filmmakers have not disappeared. Even as the landscape has shifted, there’s more power than ever in understanding the films that brought us to this moment and the new ones taking us into the future. So it seems only fitting to revisit the Black Film Canon and update it to reflect the rush of great movies that have arrived since 2016, as well as reconsider the films made before 2016 that we missed the first time around. This time, in partnership with NPR, Slate polled a group of experts—a mix of industry and critical authorities from our previous list, as well as some newcomers—and we’re thrilled to present the results in our New Black Film Canon. Use it as an opportunity to appreciate the breadth of artistry Black filmmakers have brought to the movies—and as an unbeatable viewing list deep with surprising treasures. The project excludes movies about black people but directed by non-blacks (A Raisin in the Sun, Coming to America). It is also not a poll: it’s an unranked list presented chronologically. [url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cover_story/2016/05/the_50_greatest_films_by_black_directors.html]Original Source[/url] [url=https://slate.com/culture/2023/02/best-black-movies-directors-streaming.html]Updated Source[/url] -
Caimán's Top Spanish Films
Favs/dislikes: 52:2. This is a list compiled as a result of a poll by Caimán Cuadernos de Cinema magazine, which is the Spanish branch of Cahiers du Cinéma. 350 experts were consulted: journalists, film critics, historians, professors, intellectuals, festival managers... People involved in the creative process were left out. According to the magazine, this way provides an external approach, a more objective one. [url=https://www.caimanediciones.es/la-encuesta-caiman-listado-completo/]Source[/url] -
Outlook India's Best Bollywood Films
Favs/dislikes: 51:21. In May 2003, Outlook India magazine asked 25 leading Indian film directors to draw up their personal lists of the 10 best Hindi films of independent India. This list is the result of that query. [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108071843/https://www.outlookindia.com/article/bollywoods-best-films/220089]Source[/url] -
Público's Top Portuguese Films to Show in Schools
Favs/dislikes: 51:3. 10 important Portuguese personalities chose their top 10 Portuguese films to be shown in schools. Among them were directors, poets, writers, a philosopher, an art curator, an architect and a film critic. The lists were published by the newspaper Público in April 2012. Here are all films nominated from Portugal, ordered by number of nominations (and alphabetically). 1 = 8 votes; 2 and 3 = 6 votes; 4 and 5 = 4 votes; 6-10 = 3 votes; 11-18 = 2 votes; 19-58 = 1 vote. [url=https://www.publico.pt/2012/04/23/culturaipsilon/noticia/filmes-que-deveriam-ser-mostrados-nas-escolas-303881]Source[/url]
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