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Eureka!'s The Masters of Cinema Series
Favs/dislikes: 189:3. The Masters of Cinema Series is a specially curated DVD collection of classic and world cinema using the finest available materials for home viewing. An ongoing collaboration between mastersofcinema.org and Eureka Entertainment, the MoC Series started in early 2004 and has so far included award-winning DVD editions of films by Carl Th. Dreyer, F. W. Murnau, Jean Renoir, Akira Kurosawa, John Ford, Masaki Kobayashi, Roberto Rossellini, Kaneto Shindo, Nicholas Ray, Satyajit Ray, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Peter Watkins, Sadao Yamanaka, Rene Laloux, Fritz Lang, Shohei Imamura, Vittorio De Sica and many more. MoC Series releases all come with extensive booklets, and where applicable, a host of extra features. [url=https://eurekavideo.co.uk/masters-of-cinema/#page-1]Source[/url] -
iCM Forum's Favourite Movies 1002-2000
Favs/dislikes: 13:0. Compiled using lists submitted by members of the [url=https://forum.icmforum.com/]unofficial iCheckMovies forum[/url]. Updated for 2024. Huge thanks to Tim2460 for organising it all and calculating all the results, to [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/peacefulanarchy/]PeacefulAnarchy[/url] and [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/allisoncm/]Allisoncm[/url] for doing the previous lists, and to [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/mightysparks/]mightysparks[/url] for hosting the main list, which you can find [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+forums+1001+favourite+movies/mightysparks/]here[/url]. This list can also be found on [url=https://www.imdb.com/list/ls088455812/]IMDB[/url]. And thanks to everyone who submitted lists! -
Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 333:5. The top films in the 2022 Sight and Sound Poll from the combined votes of 1639 critics and 480 directors. Contains films with 4 or more votes. In order by number of votes. [url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time]Source[/url] [url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time/all-voters]All Voters 2022[/url] [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11BGihZPt8niqlBCpnXEh3yCEe9jzes9uoi6GU690PqU/edit?usp=sharing[/url]Spreadsheet with all votes 2022[/url] [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/sight+and+sounds+the+greatest+films+of+all+time+critics/dolwphin/]Sight and Sound 2022 - Critics list[/url] [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/sight+and+sounds+directors+100+greatest+films+of+all+time/dolwphin/]Sight and Sound 2022 - Directors list[/url] -
Laputa Animation Festival's 150 Best Animations of All Time (modified version)
Favs/dislikes: 28:0. At the 2003 Laputa Animation Festival, 140 animation artists and film critics from around the world listed their 20 favorite animations. They used these lists to create a top 150 list and published the list in a [url=http://www.amazon.co.jp/世界と日本のアニメーションベスト150/dp/4893933671]book[/url]. This is not exactly the same as the original list because I made a few changes. The original list includes series of shorts (some of which include more than 100 shorts). Each short is listed separately on IMDb. I'm including only the most acclaimed short from each series (or the 1st short if they are equally acclaimed). I'm including the 1980 version of The King and the Mockingbird because it's the complete version of the film (the book specifies the original version, but I'm guessing that both versions received votes and then they combined them). The Overcoat (Shinel) is an unfinished film. See also: [url=http://www.imdb.com/list/cS6nsI9PksQ/]IMDb list[/url] (with a list of films missing from IMDb) [url=http://nishikataeiga.blogspot.com/2011/02/30-treasures-of-world-animation.html]Pick Up 30[/url] (30 important animations which were excluded from the top 150) [url=http://nishikataeiga.blogspot.com/search/label/Laputa2003]Some of the ballots[/url] [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/tom+and+jerry+theatrical+shorts/mrbungle/]Tom and Jerry shorts[/url] (iCM list) [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/betty+boop+series/billiedove/]Betty Boop shorts[/url] (iCM list) -
The Criterion Collection – Blu-ray Releases
Favs/dislikes: 53:0. A List of all of titles in The Criterion Collection's Blu-ray catalogue. -
Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time 2022 (3+ VOTES)
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. UPDATE OF https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/sight+and+sounds+the+greatest+films+of+all+time/ The top films in the 2022 Sight and Sound Poll from the combined votes of directors. Contains films with 3 or more votes. In order by number of votes. The following is a list of positions and the number of corresponding votes. 21-23 (91 votes), 28-29 (81 votes), (I'm still working on this part) Missing from IMDB: Fatima's Letter (3 votes) The Apu trilogy received three votes as a single entry so I included the two sequels in that place. Pather Panchali has 79 votes and has been left in its original position in the list. -
The Criterion Collection
Favs/dislikes: 845:5. Since 1984, the Criterion Collection, has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements for a wider and wider audience. The foundation of the collection is the work of such masters of cinema as Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, and Kubrick. Each film is presented uncut, in its original aspect ratio, as its maker intended it to be seen. [url=https://www.criterion.com/shop/browse?sort=spine_number&popular=criterion]Source[/url] -
Sight & Sound 2022 Poll - Films on all ballots
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. Temporary list, the title of which may also change Eventually this list will be composed of every single film appearing on a ballot for Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time 2022 poll. Still to be done: rectifying entries for trilogies and multiple films, the mess that is Twin Peaks nominations, and add missing films to imdb so they can be imported to icm. For official list determining purposes... Films on 5+ ballots: 1-833 (up to Zabriskie Point) Films on 4+ ballots: 1-1022 (up to Zimna wojna [Cold War]) Films on 3+ ballots: 1-1344 ( up to Zui hao de shi guang [Three Times]) Films on 2+ ballots: 1-1976 ( up to Ze soboty na neděli [From Saturday to Sunday]) Two 2-vote films are not yet on imdb: Fatima's Letter (1992 Alia Syed) Hayachine no fu [Ode to Mount Hayachine/The Poem of Hayachine Valley] (1983 Sumiko Haneda) Video games nominated so cannot be imported to icm (all with only 1 vote): Bioshock (2007) Home - A VR Spacewalk (2016) Notes on Blindness (2016) More data and statistics are available in a [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11BGihZPt8niqlBCpnXEh3yCEe9jzes9uoi6GU690PqU/edit?usp=sharing]Google Spreadsheet[/url], including male/female divide, country representation, and more (also a work in progress). Also taking requests for stats. Send a PM or comment on the [url=https://forum.icmforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5795&view=unread#unread]ICM Forum Thread about this poll[/url] -
BBC's Top 100 Movie List
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. -
American Society of Cinematographers' 100 Milestone Films in Cinematography of the 20th Century
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. As part of the centennial festivities in 2019, the Society released their members’ list of the 100 milestone films in the art and craft of cinematography of the 20th century. Organized by Steven Fierberg (Secretary, Love & Other Drugs, The Affair) and voted on by ASC members, the list is the first of its kind to showcase the best of cinematography as selected by professional directors of photography. The top 10 are ranked, the rest are listed in order of release. -
The Guinness Book of Film
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. The Guinness Book of Film, subtitled The Ultimate Guide to the Best Films Ever, was an essential hard-cover movie guide published in 1999. It reviewed the top 1000 movies of the 20th Century. From the 1000 films, the guide also selected a Top 100 Films, "essential recommendations" categorized into a Top 5 for each of twenty different genres. -
The Ray Memorial 100 List of Top Foreign Films
Favs/dislikes: 12:0. As compiled by a ballot by Edward Copeland and 173 other film experts -
Toronto Inter'l Film Festival's The Essential 100
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. "This list represents the merging of one 100 film list as determined by an expert panel of TIFF curators with one 100 film list as determined by TIFF stakeholders." -
100 foreign films, recommended by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for watch
Favs/dislikes: 1:1. -
Cahiers du Cinéma's Greatest Films (9-15 votes)
Favs/dislikes: 24:0. In a 2007, Cahiers du Cinéma asked 78 critics and historians to vote for the 100 greatest films. The cutoff for the [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/cahiers+du+cinema+100/]top 100[/url] was 16 votes. This is a list of films that received 9-15 votes. See [url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AhCbA3xledPhdF8wbjFkZ2V4eFhzRy0zYkdaNkRzaXc]this spreadsheet[/url] for the vote counts. -
A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears
Favs/dislikes: 15:0. Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British cinema. -
Georgia Institute of Technology's Experimental Film and Media
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. [b]Course Description:[/b] This course provides an overview of experimental moving images from the European "city symphonies" and abstract films of the 1920s to the flowering of the American postwar avant-garde; from the advent of video art in the 1960s to the online viral videos and digital gallery installations of today. The class thus surveys the artists, institutions, and viewers that have fostered moving image art throughout the history of film, and asks students to consider the historical, social, and institutional forces that have engendered oppositional, political, and aesthetically radical cinemas. A central premise of the course is that technological developments such as video and new media are not historical ruptures, but rather, part of an ongoing tradition of moving-image art making. Other core topics will include the consideration of the meaning and use-value of the avant-garde, the issue of “artists’ film and video” as opposed to “experimental film,” and the thorny relationship between avant-garde and commercial filmmaking. [b]Not on the list:[/b] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqwIXyqwZZg]The Jump (Jack Goldstein, 1978)[/url] (not on IMDb) Melies Shorts (unspecified) [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opg4VGvyi3M]Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra (Gotye, various, 2012)[/url] Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (Kurt Schwerdtfeger, 1922/1966) (not on IMDb) [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmeag1rwQgo]“Round the Bend” music video for Beck (2002)[/url] for Jeremy Blake's artwork (not on IMDb) [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDhuZ2Ya2wM]Walking in an Exaggerated Manner around the Perimeter of a Square (Bruce Nauman, 1967-68)[/url] (not on IMDb) [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z32JTnRrHc]Boomerang (Richard Serra, 1974)[/url] (not on IMDb) [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2deSy2ri1w]Six Colorful Inside Jobs (John Baldessari 1977)[/url] (not on IMDb) Union (Steve Beck, Jordan Belson, 1974) (not on IMDb) Bill Viola, selections (unspecified) Omer Fast, selections (unspecified) [url=http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/paul-chan-lights-and-drawings]The Seven Lights (Paul Chan, 2008)[/url] (not on IMDb) Fragment of a Crucifixion (After Francis Bacon) (Paul Pfeiffer, 1999) (not on IMDb) [url=http://dziga.perrybard.net/]Man With a Movie Camera remix project (2007-ongoing)[/url] (not on IMDb) [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btQ48LMmzMQ]Untitled (The Birds without the birds, or give us today our daily terror) (Martijn Hendriks, 2007)[/url] (not on IMDb) I’m Not Here to Make Friends (richfofo, 2008) Guitar Solo Threeway (John Michael Boling, 2008) In Bb 2.0 (2010) STS, Rolling Stones (2009) The Shining mash up trailer (PS 260, 2005) Artist Looking At Camera (Gutherie Lonergan, 2006) Valentine for Perfect Strangers (Ben Cooley, 2007) You’re Not My Father (Paul Slocum, 2007) JODI game hacks Downfall mashups Zidane headbutt gifs Footlight Parade (1931) is listed for the “By a Waterfall” section Spellbound is listed for the dream sequence (designed by Salvador Dalí) Vertigo is listed for the title sequence Midnight Cowboy is listed for the Joshua Light Show used in the party scene Punch Drunk Love is listed for the abstract hallucination scenes painted by Jeremy Blake The Right Stuff is listed for Jordan Belson's F/X work -
The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films
Favs/dislikes: 22:0. "While there are plenty of encyclopedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays—most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a consensus of the National Society of Film Critics." -
BFI 100 key Noir films
Favs/dislikes: 48:0. The 100 films listed in the book 100 Film Noirs (BFI Screen Guides) . Note that some of these do not fit a strict definition of Film Noir. -
TIFF's The Essential 100: Expert Panel
Favs/dislikes: 19:0. TIFF's [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/toronto+international+film+festival+-+the+essential+100/rtrench/]Essential 100[/url] "represents the merging of one 100 film list as determined by an expert panel of TIFF curators with one 100 film list as determined by TIFF stakeholders." This is the expert panel's list, compiled by five TIFF curators in 2009. Their goal was to create a list of "essential cinema" that balanced "best" and "most influential," with a limit of one film per director. -
BFI's 100 Animated Feature Films
Favs/dislikes: 171:5. This list is from Andrew Osmond's book [url=http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_17635.html]100 Animated Feature Films[/url] (2011). "Andrew Osmond provides an entertaining and illuminating guide to the endlessly diverse styles, cultures, and visions of the genre, with entires on 100 of the most interesting and important animated films from around the world, from the 1920s to the present day." [url=http://shop.bfi.org.uk/books/100-animated-feature-films-book.html#.Wgyw3GhSzIU]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Road Movies
Favs/dislikes: 71:0. From the earliest days of American cinema, the road movie has been synonymous with American culture and the image America has presented both to itself and the world. But the road movie is not uniquely American, and other national cinemas have offered their own take, adapting it to reflect their own sensibilities and geographies. Whatever its nationality, the road movie has presented a means by which to challenge and confront convention, remaining an ever-changing, fascinating metaphor for life. Beginning with an expansive essay tracing its historical development, "100 Road Movies" provides a comprehensive guide to the development of what is perhaps one of the most enduring, popular, and reflexive of sub-genres. -
BFI's 100 European Horror Films
Favs/dislikes: 121:2. Part of the BFI Screen Gudes series, this book provides thoughtful analysis on one hundred European horror films from the silent era to the present day. This list is for those using the BFI publication as a viewing guide. [url=https://shop.bfi.org.uk/100-european-horror-films-book.html#.XoeVvogzY2w]Source[/url] -
Cahiers du Cinéma's 100 Films for an Ideal Cinematheque
Favs/dislikes: 247:2. The top 100 most essential films of 78 French film directors, critics and industry executives. The list was compiled for and published in the French Cahiers du cinéma film magazine. [url=https://www.cahiersducinema.com/produit/100-films/]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Film Musicals
Favs/dislikes: 74:1. "From the coming of sound to the 1960s, the musical was central to Hollywood production. Exhibiting – often in spectacular fashion – the remarkable resources of the Hollywood studios, musicals came to epitomise the very idea of 'light entertainment'. Films like Top Hat and 42nd Street, Meet Me in St. Louis and On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and Oklahoma!, West Side Story and The Sound of Music were hugely popular, yet were commonly regarded by cultural commentators as trivial and escapist. It was the 1970s before serious study of the Hollywood musical began to change critical attitudes and foster an interest in musical films produced in other cultures. Hollywood musicals have become less common, but the genre persists and both academic interest in and fond nostalgia for the musical shows no signs of abating. 100 Film Musicals provides a stimulating overview of the genre's development, its major themes and the critical debates it has provoked. While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, 100 Film Musicals includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye also discuss post-1960s films from many different sources which adapt and reflect on the conventions of the genre, including recent examples such as Moulin Rouge! and High School Musical, demonstrating that the genre is still very much alive." [url=http://shop.bfi.org.uk/books/bfi-screen-guides/100-film-musical-book.html#.Wg3fhGhSzIU]Source[/url]
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