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Top 1000/1001 Lists Consensus
Favs/dislikes: 113:3. Films listed in all 1000/1001 official lists available in ICM (except Beyond the Canon): They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1000 Essential Films 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Have You Seen . . . ?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made Halliwell's Top 1000: The Ultimate Movie Countdown Note: The NYT list restricts releases from 1929 to 2002, therefore excludes silent e newly films. -
Time Magazine’s 100 All Time movies
Favs/dislikes: 76:0. "Critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel pick the 100 best movies since 1923—the beginning of TIME." update: "Richard Corliss Expands TIME’s List of Cinematic Greats with 20 new entries" -
Empire's 50 Greatest Independent Films
Favs/dislikes: 61:2. -
J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum's Midnight Movies
Favs/dislikes: 61:1. "These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps audiences coming back to see them over and over; an exploration of the connections between subversive film and the subcultures from which it emerges." Missing films: ?? - Comedome-1 John Waters - Dorothy, The Kansas City Pothead (unfinished) -
100 Must See Movies: The Essential Men’s Movie Library
Favs/dislikes: 57:1. "And for better and for worse, film has had a huge impact on masculinity in the 20th Century. Movies have produced archetypes of manliness that many men judge themselves against today. To view how male characters of cinema have been portrayed over the decades, is to see clearly the ways in which our perception of masculinity has changed and continues to change." -
Contracampo's Top Brazilian Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 53:1. In 2001, online cinema magazine Contracampo made a poll among directors, producers, critics and scholars asking the greatest Brazilian films ever. Of course, I have my preferences, but this is a really, really good list. [url=http://www.contracampo.com.br/27/filmesmaiscitados.htm]Source[/url] -
Danny Peary's Cult Movies
Favs/dislikes: 46:1. "'Cult Movies' is a 1981 book by Danny Peary, consisting of a series of essays regarding what Peary described as the 100 most representative examples of the cult film phenomenon. Two sequels were published, Cult Movies 2 (1983) and Cult Movies 3 (1988), with each book reviewing fifty additional cult films." -
Top 100 Foreign Films
Favs/dislikes: 43:1. from foreignfilms.com [from Perspective of a native English speaker] -
Kino International
Favs/dislikes: 38:2. "Kino International was founded in 1977 as a theatrical distribution company specializing in classics and foreign language art films." -
Metacritic's Best Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 36:0. Movie Releases by Score (Metascore) Methodology: https://www.metacritic.com/about-metascores -
Beyond the Canon's Films Deserving Greater Attention
Favs/dislikes: 35:0. "Beyond the Canon is essentially a greatest films poll, only without the greatest films. I challenged a number of dedicated film-lovers – critics, bloggers, filmmakers, IMDbers; professional, amateur, and in-between – to select up to 100 films that they believed to have been under-represented by film history, that meant more to them than the established, well-exposed classics." - Iain Stott, The One-Line Review -
The Village Voice Film Guide - 50 Years of Movies From Classics to Cult Hits
Favs/dislikes: 35:1. "The Village Voice Film Guide compiles spirited landmark reviews of the Voice’s selection of the 150 greatest films ever made" -
MUBI's The Best Movies Ever
Favs/dislikes: 34:0. Ranked by MUBI users. Monthly updated. -
Parker Tyler's Underground Film: a critical history
Favs/dislikes: 34:0. "Parker Tyler (1904-1974), one of the few great American film critics, was intimate with and enormously respected by many of the underground and experimental filmmakers of his time. In this book, Tyler evaluated the Underground in general and the seminal films in particular, covering the history and scope of the genre with insight and verve." Missing films: Kenneth Anger - Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome: Sacred Mushroom Edition (1966) (reedited version from 1954 original) -
TCM's 50 Films that You Should See Before You Die
Favs/dislikes: 34:0. These are all films from 6 editions of Brazilian TCM's 50 Films that You Should See Before You Die since 2007. note: some films were broadcasted in more than one edition. -
Total Film Magazine's The 67 Most Influential Films Ever Made
Favs/dislikes: 34:0. "From 1895-1999. The flicks that taught Hollywood its tricks..." -
San Francisco State University's Recomended Films (M.A. Cinema Studies)
Favs/dislikes: 33:0. "The Department of Cinema expects incoming graduate students to possess a reasonable degree of familiarity with films that have proven central to the history of cinema. To that end, at least three advanced film courses are required prior to entering the program. Additionally, the Department expects that new students will be familiar with films in each of the following categories." Silent Cinema European Cinema Classic American Cinema (1928-1975) Modern American Cinema (1975-present) Independent American Cinema Asian Cinema African and Latin American Cinema Experimental Cinema Documentary Cinema -
The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love
Favs/dislikes: 33:0. "Once the B movie was the Hollywood stepchild, the underbelly of the double feature. Today it is a more inclusive category, embracing films that fall outside the mainstream by dint of their budgets, their visions, their grit, and occasionally—sometimes essentially—their lack of what the culture cops call 'good taste'." -
Cinecouch's Top 1000 Short Films
Favs/dislikes: 30:0. "This list of 1000 short films is compiled from various lists as well as my own list. Each has a 50% weight in Top 500. Since there are not enough data or lists for short films further, the second half (501-1000) is almost entirely based my own list (90%)." 1. The original list ranks "Nachalo nevedomogo veka" two segments separably: #95 and #268. Here the film is ranked #99 only. 2. Fantasia to referenced to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment 3. Les sept péchés capitaux is referenced to Godard's "La Paresse" episode 4. L'Amore is referenced to "Il Miracolo" segment -
Village Voice Critics' Poll: 100 Best Films of the 20th Century
Favs/dislikes: 28:0. 100 Best Films of 20th Century: The reknowned Village Voice newspaper held its "First Annual Film Critics' Poll" at the conclusion of the 20th century. -
100 Great Films with No Entry in Any ICM Official List
Favs/dislikes: 27:1. Obviously, It's a discricionary list based on what I saw and liked it , but I think most of the films are agreed to be good. Many great films I haven't seen are missing that I hope to discover someday. I may ignore entries from constantly updated lists. edit: Since I had created the list I removed over 70 films after additions and updates of official lists. It seems that my choices aren't so bad after all. Hopefully, the list is not lowering the quality with my news choices. List of Removed Films: https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/100+great+films+with+no+entry+in+any+icm+official+list+removed+films/baalman/ -
European Film Awards - Winners and Nominees
Favs/dislikes: 27:0. European Film Award for Best Film is one of the annual European Film Awards, presented by the European Film Academy to recognize the best in European filmmaking. -
The Times' The 100 Best Films of the Decade
Favs/dislikes: 27:0. "Art house or Blockbuster? Juno or Jason Bourne? Is The Bourne Supremacy really better than Brokeback Mountain? And if Finding Nemo made it, what the hell happened to Shrek? Tell us where we got it wrong, or right, and post your alternative lists below." -
The Director's Vision: A Concise Guide to the Art of 250 Great Filmmakers
Favs/dislikes: 26:0. "The 250 films which each had a still frame chosen to represent a director’s visual style. Chosen by Geoff Andrew." Missing: The Keystone Cops (Mack Sennett) -
The Guardian's 50 Lost Movie Classics
Favs/dislikes: 25:0. "From scenes of striking Mexican zinc workers to Burt Lancaster wandering through the city in his trunks, film history is rich with neglected masterpieces that have moved, inspired and disturbed us but somehow missed the commercial boat. We asked a panel of critics and film-makers to sing the praises of 50 forgotten gems, introduced below by Philip French"
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