The MUBI Forum User's Top 20 Movie List, Curated by DIB
Reminder PLEASE USE COMMON USAGE TITLE. This list is now
1108 movies
long and I do not want duplicates. It takes me about three or four hours to update the list and during that time, another couple-three people publish another list—it takes me even longer if I have to translate the titles to find the most common usage.
What does common usage mean? Usually it means English translation. However, movies like La Strada and Les Vampires are almost always kept in their original form. Ucho/The Ear is a gray area—I have literally seen it mentioned half of the time one way, half of the time the other. But sometimes I doubt even the Japanese call Seven Samurai Shinenen no samurai.
Most people automatically tend to list common usage, but a few have wanted to use the original language title. I understand the desire but for ease of my carpal tunnel please refrain.
Thank you.
PART A: SUBMISSION CUT-OFF TIME UPDATE
Seriously guys, we have over a thousand titles. That means less than two percent of these movies will survive. Also, I have bitten off more than I can chew as this is a lot more work and a timesuck than I expected.
Since most of the regular users I know have posted their lists and many new users have joined the foray, I’m going to cut this early part short.
EVERYONE MUST HAVE THEIR LISTS SUBMITTED IN THE NEXT TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. I will cease to count submissions after 2pm Saturday Abu Dhabi time, which is 3am Los Angeles time— or roughly thereabouts. Just get them in as soon as possible and you won’t have to worry about being late. At any rate not as many lists are providing any new titles so it’s possible many of your favorites are already submitted.
—PolarisDiB
One for the road:
The Story of a Cheat (Guitry)
Et pourquoi pas…..
La collectionneuse (Rohmer)
Sans soleil (Marker)
good idea, DiB. i was worried for u being snowed under there
Sigh, why not?
1. The Big Sleep
2. Pierrot Le Fou
3. 2 Or 3 Things I Know About Her
4. Rope
5. Masculin Feminin
6. The Passenger
7. Faces
8. Une Femme Mariee
9. Strangers When We Meet
10. Touch Of Evil
11. In A Lonely Place
12. Rebel Without A Cause
13. The Trial(1963)
14. Badlands
15. Wanda
16. Quicksand(1950)
17. The Apartment(1960)
18. Blast Of Silence
19. Two For The Seesaw
20. The Immortal Story
And very briefly, DiB: the comprehensive and orderly manner in which this thing is being handled—well, and the fact that it’s being embarked upon at all(disproportionate bite/chew ratio notwithstanding) is, I believe, a testament to your standing as one of our finest.
So now, you know, the thing is to just not let your computer angrily lobotomize you in the coming days.
i’m wondering how you could really be so surprised at the amount of entries you’ve gotten. this is a movie site, and 20 movies per person is quite a huge number.
Not in order:
1. Harakiri
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Maltese Falcon
4. Casablanca
5. Double Indemnity
6. It’s A Wonderful Life
7. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
8. The Third Man
9. Rashomon
10. Sunset Blvd.
11. Ikiru
12. Blade Runner
13. Tokyo Story
14. Rear Window
15. Sansho The Bailiff
16. Seven Samurai
17. Samurai Rebellion
18. The Night Of The Hunter
19. Some Like It Hot
20 The Apartment
Wait a minute, I didn’t see any of these!
1 7th Heaven (1927)
2 Black Sunday (1960)
3 The Congress Dances
4 Dersu Uzala
5 The Executioner
6 Fährmann Maria
7 Forbidden Planet
8 The Great War
9 His Girl Friday
10 The Host
11 I Know Where I’m Going!
12 The Killers (1946)
13 Late Autumn (1960)
14 Man of Aran
15 Ninotchka
16 The Ogre of Athens
17 The One-Armed Swordsman
18 The Ten Commandments (1956)
19 United 93
20 Xala
@Maximillian
IMDBen posted a picture of a distraught Asian man saying “IMPOSSIBRU!!!”
most likely moderated for racism, i just agreed with the “impossible”/frustrating aspect of this thread. (though it is fun!)
@PolarisDiB please don’t take that last post seriously, i do not want to withdraw my list for consideration, i want it there!
also, i’d have to say that going through everyone else’s lists makes me wanna make some switches with my own, i will stand steadfast by my original chosen 20.
most likely moderated for racism, i just agreed with the “impossible”/frustrating aspect of this thread. (though it is fun!)
More likely removed due to a false sense of political correctness. That picture is now a famous part of meme culture and therefore beyond any notion of racism. In spite of all that, this poll is just an exercise in banality.
Yeah, that picture wasn’t saying anything about Japanese people, it was making a reference to Japanese’s game shows.
i know what the picture is. i’m just saying that’s probably why its moderated. racism, false sense of political correctness. whatever you wanna call it.
Top 20 ALL HITCHCOCK
1. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
2. Rich and Strange
3. The 39 Steps
4. Sabotage
5. Young and Innocent
6. The Lady Vanishes
7. Rebecca
8. Foreign Correspondent
9. Suspicion
10. Shadow of a Doubt
11. Notorious
12. Strangers on a Train
13. Dial M for Murder
14. Rear Window
15. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
16. The Wrong Man
17. Vertigo
18. North by Northwest
19. Psycho
20. Marnie
a list AND impending deadline? heaven.
here is my list. if i took these films to a desert island i’d still go crazy, but i’d be laughing and pretty.
1. Germany Year 90 Nine Zero – Jean-Luc Godard
2. The Color of Pomegranates – Sergei Parajanov
3. Sans soleil – Chris Marker
4. Film – Alan Schneider
5. A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist – Peter Greenaway
6. India Song – Marguerite Duras
7. Avetik – Don Askarian
8. Warsaw Bridge – Pere Portabella
9. Le pont des Arts – Eugène Green
10. A Spring for the Thirsty – Yuri Ilyenko
11. Skagafjordur – Peter Hutton
12. Train of Shadows – José Luis Guerin
13. Stone Wedding – Dan Piţa, Mircea Veroiu
14. London – Patrick Keiller
15. Ajantrik – Ritwik Ghatak
16. From the East – Chantal Akerman
17. The All-Around Reduced Personality – Helke Sander
18. Shadows in Paradise – Aki Kaurismäki
19. Chronicle of a Disappearance – Elia Suleiman
20. The Parallel Street – Ferdinand Khittl
Ah, OK Brentos. I guess someone would have to be pretty sensitive to find it racist, haha. But apparently the community guidelines beg to differ :/
I know it’s off subject, but I didn’t really find the picture that offensive at all. I mean, Japanese people pronounce English words in funny ways. I’m sure that when I say “arigato” with my flat midwestern accent, I sound like a fool to Japanese ears. They could probably make a good joke out of it, and good for them. You gotta take that kind of fun with a grain of salt. It was harmless.
i thought it was hilarious lol
some selective moderating going on here. i guess i was the only one that found mark vanselow’s playboy triplets in the best trilogies thread offensive. sigh
shhh, censor House of Leaves is policing us.
“i’m wondering how you could really be so surprised at the amount of entries you’ve gotten. this is a movie site, and 20 movies per person is quite a huge number.”
Because I’ve done this before and not gotten so many responses. Testament to the fact that Mubi is a much bigger and more engaged community than it seems sometimes.
—PolarisDiB
I was going to leave it alone but the person who flagged it is of East-Asian origin. I erred on the side of sensitivity.
01 Eros Plus Massacre
02 Vertigo
03 Contempt
04 Ordet
05 The Conformist
06 Blow Out
07 The Story of Marie and Julien
08 L’avventura
09 Close-Up
10 Teorema
11 Andrei Rublev
12 3 Women
13 Happy Together
14 2001: A Space Odyssey
15 Love Streams
16 Straw Dogs
17 The Seventh Seal
18 Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
19 Medium Cool
20 Sansho the Bailiff
Very intrigued to see how this turns out and a great reason for me to get more involved with the boards on MUBI – Good luck with this huge undertaking:
01- Once Upon a Time in America
02 – Pulp Fiction
03 – A Clockwork Orange
04 – Citizen Kane
05 – Blade Runner
06 – Vertigo
07 – The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
08 – The Empire Strikes Back
09 – The Godfather
10 – Heat
11 – Seppuku
12 – Once Upon a Time in the West
13 – 8½
14 – Aliens
15 – Fight Club
16 – Solyaris (1972)
17 – Hirsoshima, Mon Amour
18 – Kill Bill: Vol. 1
19 – The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
20 – City of God
looks like Sans Soleil might taste glory for a change…. and Ritwik Ghatak in top20, FTW!
The Conformist I like
Just an FYI. Impossibru is an internet meme.
On topic; man I wish I could make a top twenty.
1. Seven Samurai
2. Sherlock Jr.
3. Playtime
4. His Girl Friday
5. Fires on the Plain
6. A Man Escaped
7. Andrei Rublev
8. Tokyo Story
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc
10. 8 ½
11. Le Regle du Jeu
12. The Apartment
13. Wings of Desire
14. Masculin-Feminin
15. Silent Light
16. In the Mood for Love
17. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
18. Afterlife
19. Jules and Jim
20. Come and See
David Semblance
1. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Pierrot le Fou
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Blade Runner
6. Vertigo
7. Manhattan
8. Planet of the Apes (original obviously)
9. The Kid
10. Othello (Welles)
11. Limite
12. A Woman Under the Influence
13. The Tree of Life
14. The Pearl
15. The White Ribbon
16. Ordet
17. Singin’ in the Rain
18. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
19. Claire’s Knee
20. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant