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Sight & Sound Critics Top 250 (2012)
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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
Favs/dislikes: 1880:32. The 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list is actually a film reference book compiled by various critics worldwide and edited by Steven Jay Schneider. The list spans movies from as early as 1902 up to recent releases. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Movies_You_Must_See_Before_You_Die]Source[/url] -
Mark Cousins's The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Favs/dislikes: 315:1. "The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a 15-part series written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. The series provides a worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an epic tale that starts in nickelodeons and ends as a multi-billion-dollar globalised digital industry." Note: "Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas," a documentary about the making of Avatar, is missing because it does not appear to have an imdb page. [url=https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Cinema-Hollywood-Dream/dp/B00AMQ1B1O]Source[/url] -
Leonard Maltin's 100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century
Favs/dislikes: 170:2. A list of the 100 20th century films as chosen by the film critic Leonard Maltin. This list appears in Maltin's book titled Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2000 (Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide). [url=http://www.filmsite.org/maltin.html]Source[/url] -
Kyle Turner's The Queer Film Guide
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. 100 great movies that tell LGBTQIA+ stories A selection of 100 of cinema’s greatest films that tell queer stories, from the silent era to contemporary masterpieces. Beginning with early trailblazers like Different from the Others, Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema’s greatest queer films to guide you through the eras. From Hitchcock’s Rope and cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show through the New Queer Cinema movement of the 90s to the present day, where LGBTQIA+ narratives have increasingly made their way into the mainstream and dominated award seasons with films like Carol, Tangerine, and Moonlight. From scrappy auteurs to Academy Award winners, The Queer Film Guide celebrates LGBTQIA+ stories and artists, offering a fresh take on what defines great cinema, and lending a voice to the diverse creators and characters who have shaped the artform. Films are listed chronologically. [url=https://letterboxd.com/crew/list/the-queer-film-guide-100-great-movies-that/]List on Letterboxd[/url] (done in collaboration with the author) [url=https://letterboxd.com/tylekurner/list/the-queer-film-guide-directors-cut/]"Director's Cut" on Letterboxd[/url] (will add to icm soon) -
FIPRESCI Grand Prix (1999-2024)
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. The award is the result of votes cast by members of FIPRESCI for any feature-length film premiered internationally over the previous twelve-month period (from July to June). It was created to distinguish the best film for its overall artistic value, regardless of its origin (it is not a regional award) or the filmmaker's experience (neither discovery nor lifetime achievement). It can go to any film of any technique or genre, and coming from any country, as long as it is a feature-length film. The global results reflect the great cultural and personal variety among the members of FIPRESCI. This list shows the 10 most voted films each year (including ties). Please note there is not record of results for 2001. Winners 1999 - All About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar 2000 - Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson 2001 - The Circle, Jafar Panahi 2002 - The Man Without a Past, Aki Kaurismäki 2003 - Uzak, Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2004 - Notre musique, Jean-Luc Godard 2005 - 3-Iron, Kim Ki-duk 2006 - Volver, Pedro Almodóvar 2007 - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu 2008 - There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson 2009 - The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke 2010 - The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski 2011 - The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick 2012 - Amour, Michael Haneke 2013 - Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche 2014 - Boyhood, Richard Linklater 2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller 2016 - Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade 2017 - The Other Side of Hope, Aki Kaurismäki 2018 - Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson 2019 - Roma, Alfonso Cuarón 2020 - not awarded 2021 - Nomadland, Chloé Zhao 2022 - Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi 2023 - Fallen Leaves, Aki Kaurismäki 2024 - Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos -
Guide For The Film Fanatic (Complete)
Favs/dislikes: 40:0. Guide For The Film Fanatic (Core/Addendum) -
Rolling Stone's 150 Greatest Hip-Hop Videos of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. 2023 A pretty solid list for this genre, I'm not satisfied with 150. Of course there are still quite a few simple vids and ostentacious sexist stinkers taking up the places of unaccomodated hidden goodies. missing 57 Chief Keef feat. Lil Reese, ‘I Don’t Like’ 134 Ice Spice, ‘Munch (Feelin’ U)’ 146 Kodak Black, ‘No Flockin’ Freestyle also mentioned but more neutrally EPMD You Gots to Chill https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9702952 Gossip Folks https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9515508/ -
MTV: Top 500 Videos Of All Time '97
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. broadcast May 1997 then updated Sep 1997 more mtv yearly lists https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1573305/lists There are a few positions with multiple videos, i have to figure out which is the most popular to appear on an MTV list. In some cases there will be better videos out there. For example the banned video 1 for Relax, STP Creep. The ranking is also unlikely to be sober with Wicked Game and Voices Carry among those ending up near the bottom (also check out positions 477-479), MJ being limited to 10 videos (while Madonna gets to have 7 among top 101). Smooth Criminal got banned altogether, but perhaps bc it's an excerpt from film -
Rolling Stone’s Original The 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. 1993 For some reason there are 2 copies of the new list on icm but only 0 of the old one. Here to fix that is me. alt link http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1993/rsvideo.htm -
Kerrang! 100 Greatest Rock Videos Ever
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. 2006 Sabotage at #67: mad! missings 21 lost prophets last train home 37 ash burn baby burn 42 feeder just a day 61 liam lynch united states of whatever 76 trivium pull harder on the strings of your martyr 100 feeder buck rogers -
Time Out’s The 100 Best Thrillers
Favs/dislikes: 29:3. Everyone has their favourite genre but we can surely all agree that thrillers are the best. And if you don’t believe us, there’s a suspicious figure in that darkened doorway who’d like a word. From the early classics, like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger or Fritz Lang’s M, to the films of David Fincher and Martin Scorsese, they’re rich in nerve-shredding, adrenaline-pumping rides into the darker recesses of the psyche. Thrillers show us horrors and weave in human dramas, but they use those raw materials to forge something particular: a sense of unease and suspense. With masterful control of those elements, Hitchcock could manipulate his audiences like puppets on a string, delivering shocks that reverberate through cinema history. Fincher’s Seven and Zodiac have carried on the legacy, while films like Pig, Nightmare Alley and The Card Counter show that the thriller is the genre for all eras. Even superhero flicks, like Captain America: Civil War and The Batman, have been borrowing liberally from the crime thriller. It is, unlike many of its ill-fated characters, alive and well. But what are the very best of them? As we’ve done with science fiction, horror films, romances, comedies, westerns and war films, we’ve dusted cinema for prints and taken a magnifying glass to its finest thrillers to boil them down to a tonne of all-timers. On the list? Murder, political intrigue, espionage, conspiracy, manipulation, gaslighting and, of course, crime. Lots of crime. Enjoy – and hold on tight. Written by Abbey Bender, Joshua Rothkopf, Phil de Semlyen, Tom Huddleston, Andy Kryza & Tomris Laffly List created in June 2018 (updated June 2021) Last Updated: March 23, 2022 [url=https://www.timeout.com/film/best-thriller-movies]Source[/url] -
Letterboxd's most liked list: You're not the same person once the film has finished
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. This list has more likes than any other on Letterboxd--over 138,000. Not on IMDb: #207: We Make Couples (2016) - dir. Mike Hoolboom #263: DHARMA (2020) - dir. Gustav Turefeldt -
Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art
Favs/dislikes: 194:12. "Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored." So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual, and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions." This list contains all movies in the revised version from 2021. Included in this list are movies: 1. with dedicated texts. 2. shown in movie stills. 3. mentioned otherwise as an example of subversive cinema in the context of the text it is mentioned in. Excluded from this list are movies that are mentioned in any other way than an example of subversive cinema. The movies are sorted by appearance in the book. Some movies appear multiple times. In that case, the preferred position is the dedicated text, then a movie still and lastly a mention. The book is divided into parts: Introduction (#1 - #20) Part 1 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Form (#21 - #170) Part 2 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Content (#171 - #355) Part 3 - Weapons of Subversion: Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema (#356 - #572) Part 4 - Towards a New Consciousness (#573 - #598) #599 is the back cover. -
Rotten Tomatoes' 100 Best Movies on Disney+
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. "Disney+ covers over 100 years of its flagship studio’s history, from early animated shorts to groundbreaking full-length animated features to family live-action classics to the blockbuster triumvirate of superheroes, space operas, and 3D computer animation of today. It’s a big spread of time filled with classics, some middling stuff, and even a few disasters. Rotten Tomatoes is here to discover and present only the movies with the highest Tomatometer scores on Disney+!" -
Time Out's The 101 Most Romantic Films
Favs/dislikes: 52:0. Romance may be dead in the real world, but in cinema, it’ll live forever. Love is simply too elemental of an emotion for filmmakers to ever abandon. If you live on earth, you’ve experienced it. Even if you’ve never, say, robbed a bank with your loved one or stood by your sweetheart as they transformed into a hideous monster, the best romantic films make you understand and sympathise with the decisions of those under love’s spell – because one way or another, we’ve all been there. There are so many movies about love in all its complications that ranking the greatest of them is a manor challenge. To help us curate this list, we chatted to more than 100 filmmakers, actors and writers, from The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks to Notting Hill director Richard Curtis to our own Time Out scribes. We even got Miss Piggy to chime in. Whether you prefer comedies or dramas, horror or sci-fi, we’re sure you’ll find the following list of the 101 greatest romantic movies ever speaks to your own heart as well. Written by Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun, Tom Huddleston, Catherine Bray, Trevor Johnston, Andy P Kryza, Guy Lodge, Phil de Semlyen, Alim Kheraj & Matthew Singer Last Updated: January 18, 2024 [url=https://www.timeout.com/film/the-100-best-romantic-movies]Source[/url] -
The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die
Favs/dislikes: 249:4. "Well over a century has passed since the Lumière brothers frightened the life out of Parisians with The Arrival of a Train at a Station, and well over a million titles have since been recorded - if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by. Out of these million-plus movies, our team of experts has picked what we believe is the essential 1,000 - those that best sum up the dazzling achievement and variety of the movies." [url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/series/1000-films-to-see-before-you-die]Source[/url] -
Nicole Brenez's Cinémas d'avant-garde
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Taken from the end of Nicole Brenez's 2007 book, in the section entitled "Filmographie chronologique: autres filmes", this does not include every film mentioned in the book. Maybe one day I'll get around to reading and translating the book to list all of the films mentioned in the main section. Films are listed in chronological order, primarily by their French title, according to the book, and a lot of dates are different from those on icm. A number of films are not on imdb: - Série 1 (vols d'insectes) by Lucien Bull, Fr. 1904, 4' - Les tourbillons cellulaires by Henri Bernard & C. Dauzère, Fr. 1912, 9' -
NME: Best Music Videos of 2010-2012
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. 2010 https://www.nme.com/list/50-best-music-videos-of-2010-1361 2011 https://www.nme.com/list/50-best-music-videos-of-2011-1373 2012 (small) https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/peter-serafinowiczs-music-videos-of-2012-25410 2010-2014 (small) https://www.nme.com/photos/nme-s-best-music-videos-of-the-decade-so-far-15-1-1403874 missing 2010 4 Arcade Fire We Used to Wait terry gilliam 10 Islet Ringerz 2010 Ewan Jones Morris 12 Chase & Status Blind Faith 27 These New Puritans We Want War Daniel Askill 31 Darwin Deez Radar Detector Ace Norton 34 Serj Tankian - Left Of Center Tawd Dorenfeld 35 Tobacco - Super Gum 37 UNKLE's The Answer by John Hillcoat 39 We Are Scientists Nice Guys Chris Cain Frontman Keith attempts to show off his skills on a micro scooter 43 Rad OMEN - Rad Anthem Nicholaus Goossen 44 Primary 1's Princess by Radical Friend 48 fun Walking The Dog by Skinny 49 Drop The Lime - Sex Sax Patrick Rood 50 Ash Carnal Love Alex Turvey 2011 11 Tom Vek Aroused 13 Anna Calvi – Suzanne And I 14 Emmy the Great - Paper Forest 16 The Lips Raw Meat 18 TV on the Radio: Will Do 19 Kurt Vile Jesus Fever 24 WU LYF 'We Bros' by Sam Pilling 25 Los Campesinos! Hello Sadness 27 Beirut - Santa Fe 30 Dominant Legs – Hoop of Love 31 TV on the Radio: You 32 Metronomy The Look 33 Girls – Honey Bunny 35 SBTRKT 'Wildfire' 39 Summer Camp – Better Off Without You 45 Wild Flag Romance 49 Cults Abducted 2012 2 DENA – ‘Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools’ 3 LV And Okmalumkoolkat – ‘Sebenza’ 5 The Death Set – ‘They Comes To Get Us’ 2014 7 Eagulls – ‘Nerve Endings’ Best Coast: "When I'm With You" is on both '10 and '11 lists hmm -
An Alternate Feminist Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. by Dselwyns - Sarah For moving towards a decolonial, anticapitalist, emancipated-from-heteronormativity transfeminist future. This is a list capped at 100 films threading a counter history to cinema. This is not a "ra-ra girl power" collection, or even a list of women's influences on a cinematic canon, but a collection of cinema that is unique in its willingness to show and to radicalize the female experience. Early films on here that may be less overt in their feminist messaging are included either because they show women's place in revolutionary causes, are a first to depict an experience, or have been key in the discussion surrounding this alternate text. All films are briefly annotated explaining why they're here. Discussion is welcome, but please understand that this is made with an awareness of an intrinsically misogynist studio system, a desire for avant-garde and worldwide productions. Therefore, this will not be including the newest wide-release intended to pander to "women's issues". In regards to the lack of so-called "genre films" here, with the exception of a couple art-horrors some exploitation cinema, and one work of speculative fiction, this list has ended up largely documentary centered, as this is what nearly all earlier entries are. The prevalence of documentary may be that the personal is political, and it is far easier to document reality than to work the truth of the world into fiction. not on imdb (probably doesnt qualify) https://letterboxd.com/film/preparacao-i/ -
Roger Ebert's Great Movies
Favs/dislikes: 707:12. A list of movies which famous movie critic Roger Ebert considers to be the best movies of all-time. Ebert has written extensive reviews for each and every one of these movies. [url=https://www.rogerebert.com/great-movies]Source[/url] -
Abraccine"s The 100 Best Brazilian Documentaries
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Abraccine is Brazilian Association of Cinema Critics -
Montages.no – Top 200 films from the 80s
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. 131–200 revealed so far. To be fully revealed over the coming months (/years?) https://montages.no/2023/08/montages-karer-80-tallets-beste-filmer/ Shared spots: 135 – Der seibente Kontinent (1989) & Gyakufunsha kazokuhe (1984) 144 – Old Enough (1984) & Smithereens (1982) 145 – The Evil Dead (1981) & Evil Dead II (1987) 151 – This is Spinal Tap (1984) & Zelig (1983) 161 – Mask (1985) & Moonstruck (1987) -
Pitchfork: Best Music Videos of 1998, 2005-2023
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. WIP see comment for WORK AHEAD 1998 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-10-best-music-videos-of-1998/ 2005 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/6215-2005-comments-lists-top-live-shows-and-music-videos/ 2006 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/6505-top-25-music-videos-of-2006/ 2007 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/6748-top-50-music-videos-of-2007/ 2008 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/7565-top-40-music-videos-of-2008/ 2009 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/7737-the-top-music-videos-of-2009/ 2010 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/8729-the-top-music-videos-of-2010/ 2011 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/8731-the-top-music-videos-of-2011/ 2012 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9016-the-top-music-videos-of-2012/ 2013 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9285-the-top-music-videos-of-2013/ 2014 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9557-the-20-best-music-videos-of-2014/ 2015 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9763-the-best-music-videos-of-2015/ 2016 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9979-the-best-music-videos-of-2016/ 2017 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-best-music-videos-of-2017/ 2018 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-best-music-videos-of-2018/ 2019 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-music-videos-2019/ 2020 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-music-videos-2020/ 2022 https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-music-videos-movies-tv-2022/ 2023 https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/lists-and-guides/best-music-video-choreography-2023/ This mega-list only includes yearly lists. see also separately https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pitchfork+the+25+best+music+videos+of+the+1970s+-+all+recommendations/armoreska/ https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pitchfork+medias+the+top+50+music+videos+of+the+1990s/flavo5000/ https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pitchfork+100+awesome+music+videos/armoreska/ https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pitchfork+top+50+music+videos+of+the+2000s/armoreska/ https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pitchfork+50+best+music+videos+of+2010-2014/armoreska/ https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/pitchfork+staffs+favorite+music+videos+of+the+2010s/armoreska/ and for month by month, irregularly https://pitchfork.com/tags/best-music-videos-of-the-month/?page=2 https://pitchfork.com/tags/what-to-watch/ -
Paul Rotha's Silent but Not Forgotten
Favs/dislikes: 109:1. From a poll of 63 critics and film experts conducted in the 1970s by film critic and director Paul Rotha, each asked for a list of their 30 top silent films. This makes for a list of the Top 338 Silent Films. Ties are sorted by imdb original title. Several movies are considered lost: Thérèse Raquin Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheines The Last Moment 4 Devils
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