The MUBI Forum User's Top 20 Movie List, Curated by DIB
OK…
High & Low (Kurosawa)
Fitzcarraldo (Herzog)
Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges)
Amarcord (Fellini)
Chloe in the Afternoon (Rohmer)
The Sand Pebbles (Robert Wise)
The Phantom of Liberty (Bunuel)
Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
Out of the Past (Tourneur)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
Manhattan (Allen)
Dawn of the Dead (Romero)
Breathless (Godard)
Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/ Kelly)
Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)
Cul-de-Sac (Polanski)
1. roman holiday
2. north by northwest
3. nosferatu
4. la jetee
5. ran
6. double indemnity
7. the elephant man
8. spartacus
9. singin’ in the rain
10. children of men
11. wizard of oz
12. rules of the game
13. night of the hunter
14. atonement
15. lolita
16. taxi driver
17. the diving bell and the butterfly
18. rosemary’s baby
19. brief encounter
20. godfather part II
1.The Saragossa Manuscript
2.Eraserhead
3.Blue Velvet
4.Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
5.Un Chien Andalou
6.Requiem for a Dream
7.Dr. Strangelove
8.Being John Malkovich
9.Taxidermia
10.Apocalypse Now
11. The Godfather
12. The Godfather 2
13. Raging Bull
14. Save the Green Planet
15. Pan’s Labyrinth
16. Raise the Red Lantern
17. Man Bites Dog
18. Tetsuo – The Iron Man
19. Thirst (2009)
20. Barton Fink
I used the Greg X technique:
1. Body and Soul
2. Thieves’ Highway
3. Trouble in Paradise
4. High and Low
5. La Chinoise
6. The Roaring Twenties
7. The Spider’s Stratagem
8. Jules et Jim
9. Bigger than Life
10. The Adjuster
11. The Knack… and how to get it!
12. Umberto D.
13. Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
14. The Big Combo
15. The Lady Eve
16. Touch of Evil
17. Leave Her to Heaven
18. This Gun for Hire
19. My Friend Ivan Lapshin
20. Bunny Lake is Missing
1 | Close-Up (1990)
2 | Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004)
3 | Yi Yi: A One and A Two (2000)
4 | Now Showing (2008)
5 | Age of the Earth (1980)
6 | Un Chant d’Amour (1950)
7 | Millennium Mambo (2001)
8 | L’Argent (1983)
9 | The Mirror (1975)
10 | Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
11 | The Spirit of the Beehive (1972)
12 | Refrains Happen Like Revolutions in a Song (2010)
13 | Eraserhead (1976)
14 | Sans Soleil (1983)
15 | Syndromes and a Century (2006)
16 | Viridiana (1961)
17 | L’Eclisse (1962)
18 | Persona (1966)
19 | Death in the Land of Encantos (2007)
20 | Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Moderated
i retract my list and comply with IMDBen’s response.
I guess, at the moment, something like this…?
1. City of Pirates (Ruiz)
2. See You in Hell, My Darling (Nikolaidis)
3. World on a Wire (Fassbinder)
4. The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky)
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
6. Solyaris (Tarkovsky)
7. The Corridor (Bartas)
8. Alphaville (Godard)
9. Farewell to the Ark (Terayama)
10. Day of the Dead (Romero)
11. Adelheid (Vlacil)
12. The Graduate (Nichols)
13. Macbeth (Tarr)
14. Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio)
15. Days of Heaven (Malick)
16. 25th Hour (Lee)
17. Climates (Ceylan)
18. Vampyr (Dreyer)
19. Safe (Haynes)
20. The House with Laughing Windows (Avati)
1. Touch of Evil
2. Gun Crazy
3. Ugetsu
4. I Walked with a Zombie
5. Sunrise
6. Ali: fear Eats the Soul
7. The Big Heat (Lang)
8. Playtime
9. Mon Oncle
10. Kiss Me Deadly
11. Man Escaped
12. Evil Dead 2
13. Riffifi
14.Rules of the Game
15. The General (Keaton)
16. Pink Flamingos
17. Cat People (Lewton)
18. La Jettee
19. Planes Trains and Automobiles
20. Seven Men From Now
That’ll do.
Good to see The General here. Many great silent films don’t seem to be doing that well.
Malkin: Day of the Dead
Respect.
If I understand how this game works correctly, I’d be better off choosing films that have not been already included in previous lists, just to add more new titles to the game :). But all of these, I consider my favourites. I love how titles like Ordet, A Man Escaped, This Transient Life, The Age of the Earth and Safe keep showing up in a lot of the lists :).
Melancholia (Lav Diaz)
The Fourth Dimension
The Boys from Fengkuei
Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird
The Girl with the Hat Box
The Third Part of the Night
The Wind (Victor Sjostrom)
Eros Plus Massacre
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
Happy Together
Kisses (Yasuzo Masumura)
The Man Who Sleeps
A Moment of Innocence
A Zed and Two Noughts
I Can’t Sleep
Noite Vazia
Crimson Gold
The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Reckless Moment
1. The Graduate
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Mulholland Drive
4. Blood Simple.
5. 8 1/2
6. Naked
7. The Double Life of Véronique
8. My Neighbor Totoro
9. Notorious
10. Fanny and Alexander
11. Lost in Translation
12. Fight Club
13. Léon: The Professional
14. Punch Drunk Love
15. Audition
16. In the Mood for Love
17. Seven Samurai
18. Synecdoche, New York
19. Once Upon a Time in the West
20. Talk to Her
1. The Age of the Earth (Glauber Rocha)
2. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. Blue (Derek Jarman)
4. Io Island (Kim Ki-young)
5. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
6. Wanda (Barbara Loden)
7. The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos)
8. Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller)
9. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
10. Marketa Lazarová (František Vláčil)
11. City of Pirates (Raúl Ruiz)
12. Wavelength (Michael Snow)
13. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
14. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
15. Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Shuji Terayama)
16. The Corridor (Šarūnas Bartas)
17. News from Home (Chantal Akerman)
18. Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
19. Nostalgia for Countryland (Đặng Nhật Minh)
20. Phenomena (Dario Argento)
↑awesome list, good to see another Đặng Nhật Minh submission
1. The Mirror (1975)
2. The Pear Tree (1998)
3. El Sur (1983)
4. The Rules of the Game (1939)
5. La Dolce Vita (1960)
6. Harvest: 3,000Years (1976)
7. The Crowd (1928)
8. Out 1 (1971)
9. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
10. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
11. Late Spring (1949)
12. São Paulo S/A (1965)
13. M/Other (1999)
14. Sátántangó (1994)
15.Gertrud (1964)
16. Rosaura at ten O’clock (1958)
17. Subarnarekha (1964)
18. Les Vampires (1915-16)
19. A City of Sadness (1989)
20. The Goddess (1934)
That awesome list arrow should actually go into both directions. Damn, I should have also included “El Sur”. And “M/Other”. And “A City of Sadness”. Impossibru!!
Limiting myself to one per director…
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
Brazil (Gilliam)
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch)
M (Lang)
Playtime (Tati)
Notorious (Hitchcock)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Weine)
Annie Hall (Allen)
Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
Caché (Haneke)
Pierrot le Fou (Godard)
Cat People (Tourneur)
Blue Velvet (Lynch)
well, well, well
01 The Cameraman (Buster Keaton)
02 Belfast, Maine (Frederick Wiseman)
03 Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris)
04 Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
05 Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
06 Friday Night (Claire Denis)
07 George Washington (David Gordon Green)
08 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
09 Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
10 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
11 Route One USA (Robert Kramer)
12 Grown-Ups (Mike Leigh)
13 The New World (Terrence Malick)
14 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
15 The World (Jia Zhangke)
16 Frownland (Ronald Bronstein)
17 Wanda (Barbara Loden)
18 Sherman’s March (Ross McElwee)
19 On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin)
20 Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
Just for fun and in no particular order:
I Fidanzati (Olmi)
Boy (Oshima)
The Man Without a Past (Kaurismäki)
Wagon Master (Ford)
The Small Back Room (Powell &Pressburger)
Ishtar (May)
High Hopes (Mike Leigh)
Husbands (Cassavetes)
By the Bluest of Seas (Barnet)
Stromboli (Rossellini)
Vulcano (Dieterle)
Autumn Afternoon (Ozu)
Ormanmental Hairpin (Shimizu)
Ride the High Country (Peckinpah)
Kikujiro (Kitano)
You the Living (Andersson)
Léon Morin, prêtre (Melville)
Sunrise (Murnau)
The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
The Hustler (Rossen)
One for luck:
The Hudsucker Proxy ( Joel and Ethan Coen)
1. Chimes at Midnight -
2. Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos – Mario O’Hara
The rest in alphabetical order:
Banshun – Yasujiro Ozu
Batang West Side – Lav Diaz
El Filibusterismo -Gerardo de Leon
Faust – FW Murnau
Hotaru no Haka – Isao Takahata
Insiang – Lino Brocka
Journal d’un curé de campagne – Robert Bresson
Kaagaz ke Phool – Guru Dutt
Kaze no tani no Naushika – Hayao Miyazaki
La Grande Illusion – Jean Renoir
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc – Carl Theodor Dreyer
Los Olvidados – Luis Bunuel
M – Fritz Lang
Make Way for Tomorrow – Leo McCarey
Meghe Dhaka Tara – Ritwik Ghatak
Nuit et brouillard – Alain Resnais
Roma, città aperta – Roberto Rossellini
Sherlock, Jr. – Buster Keaton
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock
1. Der Himmel uber Berlin (1987, Wim Wenders)
2. Love Streams (1984, John Cassavetes)
3. Les Amants du pont-neuf (1991, Leos Carax)
4. La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
5. Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
6. Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
7. Mister Lonely (2007, Harmony Korine)
8. The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)
9. Fox and His Friends (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
10. Bicycle Thieves (1948, Vittorio De Sica)
11. Mysterious Skin (2004, Gregg Araki)
12. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
13. Out of the Blue (1980, Dennis Hopper)
14. Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
15. Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis)
16. Limelight (1952, Charlie Chaplin)
17. The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
18. Je Vous Salue Sarajevo (1993, Jean-Luc Godard)
19. Eternity and a Day (1998, Theodorous Angelopoulos)
20. Mauvais Sang (1986, Leos Carax)
is there a cutoff date for submitting lists? and when does voting begin? sorry if i missed this information
My List-
1.Citizen Kane [Welles]
2.The General [Keaton]
3.A.I.Artificial Intelligence [Spielberg]
4.Fanny and Alexander [Bergman]
5.The Seven Samurai [Kurosawa]
6.Vertigo [Hitchcock]
7.The Rules Of The Game [Renoir]
8.Days Of Heaven [Malick]
9.The Apu Trilogy [Satyajit Ray]
10.Sunrise [Murnau]
11.Jaws [Spielberg]
12Andrei Rublev [Tarkovsky]
13.Stagecoach [Ford]
14.Pierrot le Fou [Godard]
15.Au Hasard Balthazar [Bresson]
16.Touch Of Evil [Welles]
17.Los Olvidados [Bunuel]
18.2001: A Space Odyssey [Kubrick]
19. 8 1/2 [Fellini]
20. Pulp Fiction [Tarantino]
Ruby: the cutoff date is next Wednesday but I may move it to Monday due to the high volume of submissions. We’re already breaching 1000 titles and I don’t want this game to last five years straight.
—DiB
1. Down by Law
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors
3. Sweet Movie
4. Annie Hall
5. Branded to Kill
6. Gummo
7. My Night at Maude’s
8. Chungking Express
9. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
10. I am Cuba
11. Murmur of the Heart
12. Wise Blood
13. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
14. Salo or 120 Days of Sodom
15. I am Curious: Yellow
16. Wings of Desire
17. Zed and Two Noughts
18. The Spirit of the Beehive
19. Two Lane Blacktop
20. Die Hard
Brentos, what did IMDBen say? If his post made you retract your list, it’s pretty intriguing…
1. It’s a Wonderful Life
2. Citizen Kane
3. Seven Samurai
4. 8 1/2
5. The New World
6. Gabbeh
7. Ordet
8. Breaking the Waves
9. L’Avventura
10. 2001: a Space Odyssey
11. Godfather
12. Singin in the Rain
13. Casablanca
14. Sunrise: Song of Two Humans
15. Tokyo Story
16. L’Atalante
17. Godfather II
18. Children of Paradise
19. Mishima: a Life in Four Chapters
20. Nashville
ejw0422
1. Taxi Driver
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Breathless
4. Vertigo
5. Blow-Up
6. The Conversation
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey
8. Barton Fink
9. Citizen Kane
10. Army of Shadows
11. Rosemary’s Baby
12. Mean Streets
13. La Dolce Vita
14. The Shining
15. Goodfellas
16. All the President’s Men
17. Pulp Fiction
18. Wings of Desire
19. Once Upon a Time in the West
20. Love and Death