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Doubling the Canon 2023 Nominations
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. Voting thread located here: https://forum.icmforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=806917#p806917 -
Panunzio's Favourite Films
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Netflix Original Films
Favs/dislikes: 31:0. A list of all original feature films produced and/or distributed by Netflix. -
Panunzio's Top Films
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Panunzio's Favourite Films 2018
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The A.V. Club Yearly Best Film Lists
Favs/dislikes: 15:0. Beginning in 2006, the AV Club has published an annual list of the year's best films. Sorted by year, in descending order for each year. -
Rateyourmusic.com 250 Surrealist Films
Favs/dislikes: 20:0. Top 250 surrealist films of all time according to members of Rateyourmusic.com -
Canada's Top Ten Annual Lists
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival and announced in December each year to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films. The list was first introduced in 2001 as an initiative to help publicize Canadian films. The list is determined by tabulating votes from film festival programmers and film critics across Canada. Films must have premiered, either in general theatrical release or on the film festival circuit, within the calendar year; although TIFF organizes the vote, films do not have to have been screened specifically at TIFF to be eligible. -
Panunzio's Favourite Films of the 2010's
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BFI Film Classics
Favs/dislikes: 12:0. The BFI Film Classics series is a collection of short books analysing major works of world cinema. Volumes in this series have been assembled by some of the world's leading film critics. The first volumes in the series were published in 1992 and new entries continue to be added every year. -
Panunzio's Favourite Films of the 2010's (2018)
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Istanbulfilm's Balkan cinema lists
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. A list of films compiled from various Balkan countries. Most countries are represented with various standouts from their respective national cinemas. Albania (1-8), Bosnia and Herzegovina (9-17), Bulgaria (18-48), Croatia (49-62), Greece (63-91), Macedonia (92-102), Romania (103-134), Serbia (135-171), Slovenia (172-183) -
The Hollywood Romantic Comedy
Favs/dislikes: 12:0. From the book by Leger Grindon (2011). The filmography is arranged by a chronological progression of themes: Transition to Sound (1930-1933) Screwball (1934-1942) World war II and the Homefront (1942-1946) Post-War: Melancholy and Reconciliation (1947-1953) The Comedies of Seduction: The Playboy, the Gold Digger, and the Virgin (1953-1966) The transition through the counter-culture (1967-1976) Nervous Romance (1977-1987) Reaffirmation of Romance (1986-1996) Grotesque and Ambivalent (1997-present) -
National Canadian Film Day: 150 Canadian Films
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Need a place to start? REEL CANADA is here to help with our “150 Canadian Films” list. This is not a “best ever” list and is by no means definitive. But the films on this list do reflect the vast range of stories that Canadians tell. It’s a list as diverse as the country itself, providing examples of excellence in every conceivable genre. Think of it as a sampler. If you love movies or Canada or both, there is something here for you. -
Panunzio's Favourite Animated FIlms
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A Film Buff's Guide to Movie Movements
Favs/dislikes: 22:1. Films held up as examples of prominent film movements by Empire magazine in their "Film 101" section. The films are divided into their respective movements: French Impressionaism German Expressionism Soviet Montage Documentary Film Movement Poetic Realism Italian Neorealism Polish Film School Free Cinema Direct Cinema British New Wave French New Wave Japanese New Wave Cinema Novo Czech New Wave New German Cinema LA Rebellion The Movie Brats Australian New Wave Cinema du Look New Queer Cinema Dogme 95 Mumblecore -
American Gangster Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. The filmography listed in the book American Gangster Cinema: From Little Caesar to Pulp Fiction (2002) by Fran Mason -
Paste's United States of Film Lists
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. A continuing series of films published by U.S. state highlighting some of the major films produced or set in each state. States organized alphabetically. Illinois (1-20) Louisiana (21-35) Massachusetts (36-45) Michigan (46-65) Pennsylvania (66-85) Vermont (86-95) Virginia (96-115) -
Mark Cousin's The Story of Film: A New Generation
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. Film critic and documentarian Mark Cousins returns to his long running Story of Film project with a new chapter dedicated to the cinematic innovators of the 21st Century. Drawing on a broad range of examples from around the world and across every genre, he expertly interrogates key sequences to reveal the new ideas which are extending the language of cinema. From Frozen to Cemetery of Splendour, The Act of Killing to Lover’s Rock, cinema in the digital age proves to be as valued and versatile as it’s ever been and a welcome return to the big screen. -
Taschen's movies of the 2010's
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. From the book edited by Jürgen Muller -
Crave's Best Political Movies
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. A nation divided. A war of ideals. It sounds a lot like reality and it sounds a lot like a movie. Indeed, the history of cinema is fertile with motion pictures with political storylines and lofty social ambitions. Ever since we discovered that the moving image has a distinct power over the masses, artists and governments have been using films to convey their message… for better and often for worse. Compiling a list of the best political movies in history is a daunting task. We had to allow for films that espouse ideas and ideals that don’t necessarily match our own. We had to consider a film’s quality as a political document and/or statement as a separate entity from its overall quality (the so-called “best movie ever made” only ranks at #49 on this list for that very reason). And we had to cast a wide net, so this Big List was voted upon and written by a half dozen film critics: Crave‘s William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold, The Wrap‘s Alonso Duralde, Linoleum Knife‘s Dave White, Blumhouse‘s Alyse Wax and Collider‘s Brian Formo. They each nominated 50 films, ranked from #1-50, and we tabulated those votes to come up with the following Top 50 Best Political Movies Ever. (Stick around at the end, when we’ll reveal our 50 runners-up as well.) -
Paste's the 100 Best Sci-fi Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 13:0. Much like its close genre cousin (nephew/niece?) the superhero film, the potential of cinematic science fiction exploded in the latter part of the 20th century thanks to technological advances that transformed special effects. Unlike superhero films, which were so stunted for so long that almost every new one makes it onto our updated 100 Best Superhero Films of All Time list, science fiction proved fertile ground for filmmakers before the likes of Industrial Light & Magic supercharged a director’s ability to exceed our imagination. Thus, this list, while filled with films from the ’80s onward, has its fair share of older films. Before we dive into it, though, let’s discuss a few things this list will not have (or at least, not have many of). Superhero films are for the most part absent. Though so many superhero stories involve the stuff of science fiction—aliens, high-tech and strange worlds—there are plenty of great sci-fi movies to include on this list without bumping 20 of them off for DC and the MCU. (We’ve made an exception for one entry because the space opera underpinnings were too strong to ignore.) We’ve also left off, for the most part, the traditional giant monster/kaiju movie for the same reason. If you want a nice roundup of Godzilla’s greatest hits, check out our own Jim Vorel’s ranking of Godzilla’s cinematic oeuvre. (For the real kaiju rank-o-phile, Jim has also taken the measure of every Godzilla monster.) Finally, joining superheroes and kaiju on the sidelines, are the post-apocalyptic (and a few mid-apocalyptic) films. Though, again, there are a few exceptions, for the most part you will not find Mad Max here, or Eli, or even that guy who is Legend. (I see you frowning—“But will there be dystopias,” you ask? Hell yeah, we got dystopias.) -
A Year With Women: 103 Essential Films By Female Filmmakers
Favs/dislikes: 33:1. From Cinemafanatic.com: Lately I’ve become more and more frustrated with the various “best ever” lists that have been released because they rarely feature films by women, or if they do it’s usually one or two films. I think this is more a reflection of those who are polled for these kinds of lists, as well as a compounding of history on itself. For so long films by men have made up the bulk of the film canon and I think people are afraid to add new films to these revered lists. I also think many people haven’t seen very many films by women, or if they have it’s always the same handful of films. In an attempt to create a better, more inclusive list of great films by women, I polled over 500 critics, filmmakers, bloggers, historians, professors and casual film viewers, asking them to tell me what films directed (or co-directed) by women are essential viewing. Some people only responded with as little as five votes, others submitted hundreds of films. In the end, I received over 7,000 votes for 1,100+ different films. After tallying up this data, with ties factored in, I then had a list of 103 essential films directed by women. While this list is in no way the end all and be all of female filmmakers, it does include films from multiple countries, filmmakers of all ages, films from all kinds of genres and spans 9 decades. Also, I would like to point out that although the earliest film on this list is from 1935, there were several filmmakers from the silent era who were women (and whose films were in the initial 1,100+ list), including Alice Guy-Blaché, Lois Weber and others. This list should be looked at as a springboard, a way to get your feet wet with the most beloved films made by women. There are lots of resources to find even more great films by women. DirectedByWomen.com and TheDirectorList.com are two such invaluable places to start learning more about the thousands of women who have been making films since the beginning of cinema. -
Panunzio's Favourite Fantasy Films
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Paste's 100 Greatest War Movies
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. War. What is it good for? Well, if nothing else, then a tidy template for cinema: conflict, clear protagonists and antagonists, heightened emotions, and a generally unpredictable, lawless atmosphere which—as per the western—has since the dawn of cinema offered an elastic dramatic environment in which filmmakers can explore men at both their best and worst. And make no mistake, the war movie is almost always about men. It’s the most masculine of genres, the fact that armies have throughout history often been almost exclusively male seeing to it that men almost always dominate these things. It’s a genre that emphasizes action and existential angst. It’s also a malleable genre, and one that could broadly include all manner of films that we ultimately ruled out of the running in this list. With this top 100, we’ve made the decision to include only movies whose wars are based on historical conflicts, so none of the likes of Edge of Tomorrow or Starship Troopers. We’ve picked films that deal with soldiers, soldiering and warfare directly, meaning wartime movies set primarily away from conflict, often told largely or exclusively from the civilian perspective—a category which includes such classics as The Cranes Are Flying and Hope & Glory, Grave of the Fireflies and Forbidden Games—didn’t make the cut. Post-war dramas, like Ashes and Diamonds and Germany, Year Zero, as well as films that go to war for only a fraction of the running time, such as From Here to Eternity and Born on the Fourth of July, were also excluded. Some tough choices were made on what actually constituted a “war movie.” Resistance dramas feature in this list, but Casablanca doesn’t appear. Likewise Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped and Sidney Lumet’s The Hill. It was decided ultimately that the war was too much a peripheral element in these films. On the other hand, while both western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and biopic The Imitation Game feature war prominently, they, like Casablanca (a romance with noir and thriller elements) plus A Man Escaped and The Hill (both prison movies), belong more obviously to other genres. We’ve also decided not to include movies which focus on the Holocaust here; those are set to appear in another feature entirely. Regarding the films that do feature here: our 100 hail from all over the world. These films were released as recently as last year and as far back as 1930. They range from comical to harrowing, action-packed to quietly introspective, proudly gung-ho to deeply anti-war. They are a diverse set of movies; they are also worthy of being called the 100 greatest war movies ever made. Published May 2017
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