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Mike Leigh Films
Favs/dislikes: 32:0. All the films (and tv movies) of the great English director Mike Leigh. I'd say he's my favourite director, I just have a strong personal connection with so many of his films and characters. I've seen all his features except Bleak Moments, his debut. Look out for his next feature called Mr. Turner, due for release in 2014. Starring long term collaborator and fantastic actor, Timothy Spall in the title role. -
1001 Music Videos You Must See Before You Die
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Unofficial list and a personal and ongoing project that showcases the evolution of the medium from the early 60's to the present day. The list will be divided in 2 halves: 20th century (1-500) & 21st century (501-1001). Includes curated selections from several lists (editorial, awards, etc..). [b]Some rules:[/b]Televised, staged live performances (with/out audiences), choreographed performances in films and MV with footage from other sources (such as movie scenes) will be ignored. No more than 20 MV's per year and no more than 2 MV's per artist in the same year. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness but if you decide to partake on this journey, I hope you have as much fun as I'm having compiling this list. Some tweaks to the list can be made during the process. Click on the source to go to the youtube playlist if you're having trouble finding a music video! [spoiler]1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die (2017); ARIA Award for Best Video; AV Club's The 50 best music videos of all time, ranked (2023) BET Award for Video of the Year; Billboard 100 greatest Music Video Artists of All Time (2020); Billboard's 100 Greatest Music Videos of the 21st Century: Critics’ Picks (2018); Billboard's 100 Greatest Music Videos of the 2010s: Staff Picks (2019); Brit Award for British Video of the Year; Channel 4's 100 Greatest Pop Videos Of All Time (2005); Complex's Best Music Videos of the 2000s (2009); Crack's Brief history of music videos (2020); Films Fatale: Best 100 Music Videos of All Time (2021); Grammy Award for Best Music Video; GQ: 50 Best music videos of all time (2010); Insider's 55 of the Most Iconic Music Videos of All Time (2023); Juno Award for Video of the Year; Kerrang! Award for Best Single; Les Inrockuptibles: 100 best music videos of all time; Louder's 50 best rock videos ever (2022); MTV Australia Awards: Music Video of the Year; MTV's Top 100 Videos of the 1980s (2021); MTV's 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made (1999); MTV's Top 500 Videos Of All Time (1997/2005); MTV Europe Music Award for Best Video; MTV Video Music Award (VMA): Video of the Year; MTV Video Music Award for Best Dance/Hip Hop/Pop/Rock/Rap/R&B Video; NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Music Video; NME's 100 Greatest Music Videos (2011); NME's Best Music Video Award; Parade: 102 Best Music Videos of All Time (2023); Pitchfork: 100 Awesome Music Videos (2006); Pitchfork Media's The 25 Best Music Videos of the 1970s (2016); Pitchfork Media's The Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s (2010); Pitchfork: Top 50 Music Videos of the 2000s (2009); RollingStone's 100 Greatest Music Videos (2021); Rolling Stone's 150 Greatest Hip-Hop Videos of All Time (2023); Rue Morgue's 25 Ghastliest Music Videos of the Past 25 Years (2022); Slant Magazine's 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time (2003/2021); Slant Magazine's 50 Best Music Videos of the 2000's (2010); Stylus Magazine's Top 100 Music Videos of All Time (2006); Soul Train Music Award for Best Video of the Year; TimeOut New York's 13 Best Music Videos Of All Time (2022); VH1: 100 Greatest Videos (2001); Victoires de la Musique for Music Video of the Year; Yardbarker's Top 50 Music Videos of All Time (2023). [/spoiler] [b]The list just got soft rebooted in order to get a much better focus, flow, structure and presentation. It won't change much from the previous one but small changes may occur (sometimes I need to correct some dates on imdb, etc).[/b] -
The Art of Noir - Eddie Muller
Favs/dislikes: 22:1. All the posters in Muller's book. ISBN: 1-58567-073-1 -
Film Noir Guide - 745 Films of the Classic Era (1940-1959)
Favs/dislikes: 60:1. "More than 700 films from the classic period of film noir (1940 to 1959) are presented in this exhaustive reference book. For each film, the following information is provided: the title, release date, main performers, screenwriter(s), director(s), type of noir, thematic content, a rating based on the five-star system, and a plot synopsis that does not reveal the ending." Keaney's ratings: #1-27: ★★★★★ #28-51: ★★★★½ #52-159: ★★★★ #160-255: ★★★½ #256-404: ★★★ #405-550: ★★½ #551-659: ★★ #660-727: ★½ #728-745: ★ Michael F. Keaney is a fan of classic movies and the author of "British Film Noir Guide". ISBN: 978-0-7864-6366-4 -
Film Noir - TASCHEN
Favs/dislikes: 30:0. Contains all films that have at least one still included in TASCHEN's recently re-released "Film Noir". ISBN: 978-3-8365-3462-8 -
AIWFF’s Best 100 Films on Women in Arab Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Aswan International Women's Film Festival was founded in 2017 by Egyptian screenwriter Mohamed Abdel Khalek and has quickly become one of Egypt's premier film events. On it's 5th edition they announced a list of the 100 best films on women throughout the history of Egyptian and Arab cinema, chosen by 70 Egyptian and Arab film critics. -
Universal Classic Monsters: 30 Classic Monster Film
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. From the era of silent -
Films de France Top 100 French Films
Favs/dislikes: 21:0. Per Films de France: "Just about everybody seems to be busy compiling their Top 100 films lists these days, so we thought we’d have a go. Here are what we (humbly) consider to be the best 100 (and a bit) French films so far..." -
Atilla Dorsay's Top 100 Turkish Film
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. EN-ever the best film critic atilla dorsay's the top 100 Turkish film is taken from the book. TR-en iyi sinema eleştirmeni atilla dorsay'ın 100 yılın 100 filmi isimli kitabından alınmıştır. FR-meilleure critique de cinéma Atilla Dorsay 100 années de 100 films ont été prises à partir du livre. ES-mejor crítico de cine Atilla Dorsay 100 años 100 películas fueron tomadas del libro. -
85 Films Scorsese Recommends
Favs/dislikes: 98:1. List of 85 films Scorsese recommends. http://www.fastcocreate.com/1679472/martin-scorseses-film-school-the-85-films-you-need-to-see-to-know-anything-about-film -
Agatha Christie Film Adaptations
Favs/dislikes: 19:1. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time with over 4 billion copies in print. In 1955 Christie was the first recipient of the Grand Master Award, the highest honor of the Mystery Writers of America. There have been numerous television movies and series based on her work, but this list is restricted to feature films. Most follow the exploits of Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, and all are sorted by year of release. -
Werner Herzog - Rogue Film School Film List
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. -
British Film Noir Guide (369 Films 1937-1964)
Favs/dislikes: 38:0. "This work presents 369 British films produced between 1937 and 1964 that embody many of the same filmic qualities as those "black films" made in the United States during the classic film noir era. This reference work makes a case for the inclusion of the British films in the film noir canon, which is still considered by some to be an exclusively American inventory. The following information is presented: a quotation from the film; title and release date; a one- to five-star rating; production company, director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and main performers; and a plot synopsis with commentary. Appendices categorize films by rating, release date, director and cinematographer and also provide a noir and non-noir breakdown of the 47 films presented on the Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre, a 1960 British television series." NOTE: I created this list in May 2012 and had to add well over 75 titles to iCM, suggesting that there are many obscurities worth checking out. Keaney included 26 of the 47 Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre "films" into this work that he considered to be film noirs or at the very least marginal noirs. The remaining 21 "films" were not included. Keaney's ratings: #1-4: ★★★★★ #5-15: ★★★★½ #16-42: ★★★★ #43-85: ★★★½ #86-150: ★★★ #151-234: ★★½ #235-312: ★★ #313-339: ★½ #340-341: ★ #342-369: "Not reviewed" (since they were not available at the time of writing). Michael F. Keaney is a fan of classic movies and the author of "Film Noir Guide". ISBN: 978-0-7864-6427-2 -
An Exploitation Independent Checklist
Favs/dislikes: 16:0. From the book Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents by Stephen Thrower. (Not complete but will be whenever I stop being lazy, there's just a lot of stuff to add to ICM and...I'm lazy.) -
BFI's 100 Bible Films
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the Bible for over 120 years, from the first time the Höritz Passion Play was filmed in the Czech Republic back in 1897. Ever since, these stories have inspired musicals, comedies, sci-fi, surrealist visions and the avant-garde not to mention spawning their own genre, the biblical epic. Filmmakers across six continents and from all kinds of religious perspectives (or none at all), have adapted the greatest stories ever told, delighting some and infuriating others. 100 Bible Films is the indispensable guide to this wide and varied output, providing an authoritative but accessible history of biblical adaptations through one hundred of the most interesting and significant biblical films. Richly illustrated with film stills, this book depicts how such films have undertaken a complex negotiation between art, commerce, entertainment and religion. Matthew Page traces the screen history of the biblical stories from the very earliest silent passion plays, via the golden ages of the biblical epic, through to more innovative and controversial later films as well as covering significant TV adaptations. He discusses films made not only by some of our greatest filmmakers, artists such as Martin Scorsese, Jean Luc Godard, Alice Guy, Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lotte Reiniger, Carl Dreyer and Luis Buñuel, but also those looking to explore their faith or share it with lovers of cinema the world over. -
Every Film That Has Ever Won An Oscar
Favs/dislikes: 168:1. Yes this is in fact every film that has ever won an Oscar for anything. Every film is up here, from Best Picture to Best Makeup. Also included are wins for short films and honorary awards. BIG thanks to user MovieDearest for sending me the complete list of Oscar winners! -
Guillaume Evin's The 101 Historical Films to See
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. from the french "Les 101 films historiques à voir - De la Guerre du feu à Zero Dark Thirty" and expanded from the 2013 version "L'histoire fait son cinéma en 100 films: de La Guerre du feu à Démineurs". History has always made its cinema. This has been the case since the advent of the latter at the turn of the 20th century. The 7th Art takes hold of a historical phenomenon to restore it (rarely), magnify it or mishandle it (sometimes), revisit it (often), thus taking some liberties with the reality of events. From Prehistory to the war in Iraq, from Cleopatra to Napoleon, from the fall of the Roman Empire to that of the Ancien Régime, certain eras, certain events, certain figures have been brilliantly captured over the decades by the discerning eye of filmmakers from around the world (DeMille, Eisenstein, Kubrick, Visconti, Lean, Kurosawa, Renoir, Annaud, Mankiewicz, Tavernier, Leone, Malle, Spielberg, Malick, Cimino, Coppola, Bertolucci, Melville, Losey, Bigelow... ), while other moments have been purely and simply forgotten if not obscured. From The War of Fire to Zero Dark Thirty, here is an overview of the 101 best historical films, where we meet the intimate and the monumental, the derisory and the grandiose, the austere and the spectacular. Note: The book is divided in the following sections: Prehistory, Antiquity, The Middle Ages, Modern Times and Contemporary Times with subset sections within them. PS: If anyone can get ahold of the book, please send me a pm with the name of the missing movie. -
The Moving Arts 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 12:0. A diverse list of the greatest movies ever made, compiled by the critics at the online magazine The Moving Arts Film Journal. -
Quirky
Favs/dislikes: 62:0. Unconventional films where the characters tend to obtain peculiar characteristics, habits, mannerisms, and/or personalities. This collection includes eccentric, bizarre, far out, idiosyncratic, odd, off-the-wall, out of the ordinary, outre, peculiar, strange, unconventional, unorthodox, unusual, wacky, way-out, and weird films. If you like this list, please favourite it. Suggestions are welcome :) -
Tell Your Children - 123 Attempts to Cult Cinema.
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. List of cult movies from the critic Alexander Pavlov's book. -
Paste's The 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. Since its coining in 1946 by French critic Nino Frank, the term “film noir” has been debated endlessly: Is it a genre? A subgenre? A movement? A trend? A commentary? A style? For the purposes of this introduction, let’s call it a response. We think of noirs as urban stories, but that’s not always the case—for every L.A. and N.Y.C.-set saga, there’s a small, heartland tragedy. We think of a never-ending, rain-soaked night—sunlight replaced with neon and nocturnal reflections, the optical trickery of mirrors and shadows—but in contrast, the days of noir scorched its characters. We admire its heavily stylized approach—exaggerated camera angles, tension-crafting mise-en-scène, flashbacks, deep focus and trademark shadows—but also its neo-realist and documentary-like experiments. However (un)conscious a reaction, noir resonates to this day, with several neo-noir cycles beginning with the Cold War era through Gen X and the millennials. And while a healthy share of neo-noirs make our list, the classic period remains the most telling—context is critical. Then there are the sub-classifications within the subgenre: proto-noirs, foreign noirs (like the British “Spiv” cycle), neon noirs, and, of course, neo-noirs. We’ll start with the following 100 titles. Some 70 years after the term “film noir” was first uttered, take a trip through the screwed-up terrain of the mid-century psyche, with all its sex, lies, and crime scene tape. Let’s get going—don’t say we didn’t warn you. -
The Film Book's Top 100 Films
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. The Film Book provides an overview of cinematic styles and genres; the industry's greatest and most influential directors, and their key works; as well as looking at filmmaking around the world, from Hollywood to Bollywood. Published by DK. -
Alice In Videoland's 100 Greatest Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. The only way to make a list of The 100 Greatest Films of All Time is to look at what has come before. So, a decision was made to review a selection of lists made by respected critics and others from around the globe. The commonality of these choices has helped form Alice's overall selection. The most famous poll since 1952 is Sight & Sound magazine's compilation, whereby every 10 years the world's leading film critics and directors are asked for their top 10 choices. Other sources utilised include the AFI (American Film Institute), the BFI (British Film Institute), the National Society of Film Critics, Cahiers du Cinema, Time, Time Out, Empire and so on. In all, 22 Top 100 lists featuring 2200 titles were cross-referenced and tweaked to arrive at this amazing collection that we feel truly represents the best that cinema can offer. Scroll, contemplate and enjoy..... -
Reelviews Top 100
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. A list of films which noted online film critic James Berardinelli calls the best ever made. -
Explore French Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 59:0. This list is a combination of French prizes and Box-Office. You will find here: - The winners of the Prix Lumières for Best film, Best script, Best director, Best actor, best actress (since 1996). - The winners of the Prix Louis-Delluc (since 1937). - The nominees and winners of the Cesar Awards for Best film, Best script, Best director, Best actor, Best actress (since 1976). - The French Ministry of Foreign's Affairs' Top French Films (until 2000). - The French Box-Office with French movies having more than 3 millions of tickets sold. - The Best Of by Films-de-France.com with 5 stars. The order is alphabetical.
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