The End of the World (Dorota Kędzierzawska)
An Inn at Osaka (Gosho Heinosuke)
Near Death (Frederick Wiseman)
A Summer at Grandpa’s (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
Three Days (Šarūnas Bartas)
Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
Chouga (Darezhan Omirbaev)
The Ruins (Mrinal Sen)
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
Wattstax (Mel Stuart)
A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
The Misfits (John Huston)
Beau travail (Claire Denis)
The Lovers on the Bridge (Léos Carax)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder)
sex, lies and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
Fuck it, I’ll try to have a list that reflects Jazzaloha’s thread on accessibility and see how things stand-
Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! (Russ Myer)
Phantom Of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu)
Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
Fitzcarraldo (Herzog)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
High and Low (Kurosawa)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
Dawn of The Dead (Romero)
8-2? Pedestrian…
Ah, why the hell not?
-An American in Paris -1951, Vincente Minnelli
-Berlin Alexanderplatz -1980, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
-Early Summer -1951, Yasujiro Ozu
-Heaven’s Gate -1980, Michael Cimino
-A Perfect World -1993, Clint Eastwood
-Pierrot le fou -1965, Jean-Luc Godard
-The Rules of the Game -1939, Jean Renoir
-Stromboli -1950, Roberto Rossellini
-Ugetsu -1953, Kenji Mizoguchi
-Young Mr. Lincoln -1939, John Ford
This changes so often it’s ridiculous.
1. The Only Son – Yasujiro Ozu, 1936
2. City Lights – Charles Chaplin, 1931
3. Window Water Baby Moving – Stan Brakhage, 1962
4. The Age of Earth – Glauber Rocha, 1980
5. Even Dwarfs Started Small – Werner Herzog, 1970
6. The Face of Another – Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966
7. Goodbye, Dragon Inn – Tsai Ming-liang, 2003
8. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom – Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975
9. The Fourth Dimension – Trinh T. Minh-ha, 2001
10. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors – Sergei Parajanov, 1964
On the Waterfront – Elia Kazan, 1954
Last Tango in Paris – Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles, 1941
The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick, 2011
Raging Bull – Martin Scorsese, 1980
The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola, 1972
12 Angry Men – Sidney Lumet, 1957
Rebel Without a Cause – Nicholas Ray, 1955
Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick, 1999
Dark Passage – Delmer Daves, 1947
A Touch of Zen – Hu
Chihwaseon – Im
The Hes Case – Seunke
Pyassa – Dutt
Kadosh – Gitai
Germany, Pale Mother – Sanders-Brahms
To Sleep With Anger – Burnett
The Plea – Abuladze
The Man Who Laughed — Leni
Zero Focus – Yoshitaro
To follow Jack, in the spirit of why the hell not:
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
Only because I just missed out on voting in PolarisDiB’s one.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Sansho the Bailiff
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
The New World
Dead Ringers
A Man Escaped
Stalker
Andrei Rublev
Rear Window
L’Atalante
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
2. True Heart Susie (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
4. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)
5. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
6. The General (Buster Keaton, 1926)
7. Once Upon A Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
8. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
9. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008)
10. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, 2007)
New to the forums here, so I’ll bite.
The Exterminating Angel
Mulholland Drive
Stalker
The Third Man
Last Year at Marienbad
La Dolce Vita
Persona
The Swimmer (68)
TC: Red
The Leopard
The Good Fairy (William Wyler, 1935)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944)
The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Paradjanov, 1964)
The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has, 1965)
Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
Opening NIght (John Cassavetes, 1977)
Night of the Shooting Stars (Taviani Brothers, 1982)
Rosetta (Dardenne Brothers, 1999)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2000)
here’s no such thing as “strategy free” because some people will look at the lists, then decide to add on films they like that are under-represented even if they ain’t their favorites, because their true favorites are already listed by others.
that’s why lists in these polls should only be PM’d to the compiler and available to view after the event
Meh…OK….I’ll play:
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Psycho (1960)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
L’ Enfant (2005)
Battle of Algiers (1966)
Modern Times (1936)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Gallipoli (1981)
Le Mepris (Godard, 1963)
Beau Travail (Denis, 1999)
The Conformist (Bertolucci, 1970)
Badlands (Malick, 1973)
Miami Vice (Mann, 2006)
Pickpocket (Bresson, 1950)
The General (Keaton/Bruckman, 1926)
The Kid (Chaplin, 1919)
Rebel Without A Cause (Ray, 1955)
Wild At Heart (Lynch, 1990)
Polarisdib’s epic poll revealed the extraordinary wisdom of mubi users in arriving, after months of fevered struggle, at the peak of cinema. That has definitively settled for all time the greatest film of all. Further polls not only are mere shadows of its vast enlightenment but can only detract and step aside from its ultimate truth.
Grey Daisies did a fine poll, and here is his list.
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
Mirror (Tarkovsky)
The Green Ray (Rohmer)
Alice in the Cities (Wenders)
North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
Abraham Valley (Oliveira)
Maborosi (Kore-eda)
Rules of the Game (Renoir)
Sunrise (Murnau)
Pather Panchali (S.Ray)
Polarisdib’s epic poll revealed the extraordinary wisdom of mubi users in arriving, after months of fevered struggle, at the peak of cinema. That has definitively settled for all time the greatest film of all. Further polls not only are mere shadows of its vast enlightenment but can only detract and step aside from its ultimate truth.
HAHAHA kenji!
You guys are calling that politically warped fiasco of a voting process a consensual list? Seemed more like a game to me. (No offense to DIB or the participants of said game!) I mean like ULI pointed out there of course is no such thing as a “game free” system, but what DIB ran was like, the absolute antithesis of “game free”…
The Graduate (Nichols)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
Blood Simple (Coens)
8 1/2 (Fellini)
Naked (Leigh)
The Double Life of Véronique (Kieslowski)
My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
Notorious (Hitchcock)
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
Note:
A idade da terra = The Age Of The Earth
I think there’s going to be so many ballots for this that it would take too much effort to usefully cheat.
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Apocalypse Now
Night and Fog
The Battle of Algiers
A Woman Under the Influence
Alien
Chinatown
Elephant (van Sant)
The Long Goodbye
Today, my list would include….
Olmi-Tree of Wooden Clogs
Olmi- I Fidanzati
May-A New Leaf
Ford-Young Mr. Lincoln
Melville-Léon Morin, prêtre
Ozu-Early Summer
Oshima-Boy
Leigh-Another Year
Dardenne-Le fils
Miyazak-Kiki’s Delivery Service
Tomorrow, my choices would be different…..
One from each decade since the 20’s (except this one, too early) + a bonus film:
The Wind (Sjöström)
La Grande Illusion (Renoir)
The Big Sleep (Hawks)
Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
La Collectionneuse (Rohmer)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)
Is it Easy to Be Young? (Podnieks)
Boogie Nights (Anderson)
The Intruder (Denis)
The Mother and the Whore (Eustache)
Bubbling under: Persona, The Last Detail, Five Easy Pieces, Blue Velvet, Dead Ringers, Tropical Malady, Night of the Hunter, Kiss Me Deadly, Alice in the Cities +
My favourite films tend to be made in the years around 1955 or in the early 70’s..
L’Atalante (Vigo)
Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut [A Man Escaped] (Bresson)
The General (Keaton)
Marketa Lazarová (Vlacil)
Pickpocket (Bresson)
The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger)
Les quatre cents coups [The 400 Blows] (Truffaut)
Sunrise (Murnau)
The Thin Red Line (Malick)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Okay, fine, but only because I don’t have to rank them.
Singin’ In The Rain (Donen/Kelly)
Casablanca (Curtiz)
Star Wars (Lucas)
In The Mood for Love (Kar-Wai)
Amelie (Jeunet)
Psycho (Hitchcock)
Jules et Jim (Truffaut)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson)
Playtime (Tati)
The Red Balloon (Lamorisse)
Jaws
Alien
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather
Psycho
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Empire Strikes Back
Ran
Old Boy
Seven Samurai
1. Gertrud
2. Heavenly Creatures
3. The Color of Pomegranates
4. Blade Runner
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. Tabu
7. Branded to Kill
8. Citizen Kane
9. My 20th Century
10. The New World
Uli Cain, Cinefidel¹³
there’s no such thing as “strategy free” because some people will look at the lists, then decide to add on films they like that are under-represented even if they ain’t their favorites, because their true favorites are already listed by others.
DiB’s list last year wasn’t really a good representation because it had voting up and down, RUS’ list is suspect because RUS was involved