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A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: The Essential Reference Guide
Favs/dislikes: 38:1. Every movie with an entry in John Grant's 2013 book. -
The Dissolve: Essential Viewing 2013-2015
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. Every film chosen as Essential Viewing (for new theatrical releases) or Essential Retro (for new home-video releases) by The Dissolve from July 2013 to July 2015. (Note: rather than include all 50 films from "The Mack Sennett Collection, Volume 1," I stuck to the seven titles specifically mentioned in The Dissolve's review.) -
House of Psychotic Women: Compendium of Female Neurosis
Favs/dislikes: 19:0. Every film listed in the appendix of Kier-La Janisse's 2012 memoir "House of Psychotic Women." From the book: "[…]while by no means comprehensive, this appendix is a cross-section of horror and violent exploitation films that feature disturbed or neurotic women as primary or pivotal characters […] Admittedly some films stretch genre definitions, and others fall completely outside of the centre but are nonetheless important progenitors for genre characterizations." -
Bill Hader's 200 Essential Movies Every Comedy Writer Should See
Favs/dislikes: 50:0. List compiled by actor Bill Hader and published in "Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers" by Mike Sacks. -
Bordwell & Thompson's Top Films of 90 Years Ago
Favs/dislikes: 9:1. Each year film scholars Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell release a list of the greatest surviving films from 90 years prior. The project started in 2007 to celebrate "the birth of classical cinema" in 1917, when Hollywood filmmakers developed the shooting and editing techniques that have been the basis of narrative film ever since. -
The Dissolve's Movies of the Week
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. "Each week, The Dissolve designates a Movie Of The Week for staffers and readers to watch and discuss, with a lead-off essay on Tuesday, a roundtable-style Forum on Wednesday, and other related features." This list includes all past Movies of the Week, as well as the next few weeks of upcoming films. -
My 500<400 ballot
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. My ranked ballot! -
Guy Maddin Feature Filmography
Favs/dislikes: 18:0. Canadian director Guy Maddin's favorite things include artifice! melodrama! taboos! repression! hyperspeed editing! and exclamation points!!!