- Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- The Keep (Michael Mann) – a longer version supposedly exists. There’s also an alternate ending which I’ve seen on YouTube.
- Sorcerer (William Friedkin)
- The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty Kick (Wim Wenders)
- The Beaver Trilogy (Trent Harris)
- Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
I’m not sure if I have a single favourite Fassbinder film but this is my top 5:
In a Year With 13 Moons
The Stationmaster’s Wife (aka Bolweiser)
Despair
Fox and His Friends
Lola
Honourable mentions:
The Third Generation
Veronika Voss
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Why Does Herr R Run Amok?
Effi Briest
Beware of a Holy Whore
Love is Colder than Death
Katzelmacher
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Martha
Fear Eats the Soul
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Some of my favourite albums from the last 10 years:
‘Mountain Battles’ by The Breeders
‘1000 Hurts’ by Shellac
‘Still Night Still Light’ by Au Revoir Simone
‘Alice’ by Tom Waits
‘Blood Money’ by Tom Waits
‘Grinderman’ by Grinderman
‘Uh Huh Her’ by PJ Harvey
‘The Milk Eyed Mender’ by Joanna Newsom
‘You Can’t Buy a Gun When You’re Crying’ by Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs
‘Ghosts of Mars’ soundtrack by John Carpenter
‘Murray Street’ by Sonic Youth
‘Actor’ by St Vincent
‘The Woods’ by Sleater-Kinney
‘Dear Heather’ by Leonard Cohen
‘Dreams of Breathing Underwater’ by Eliza Carthy
1. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Bunuel)
A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Last Man on Earth (Ubaldo Ragona & Sidney Salkow)
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut)
A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
The Train (John Frankenheimer)
Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava)
The Best Man (Franklin J. Schaffner)
Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Byron Haskin)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
Breakdown (Jonathan Mostow)
Gasman (Lynne Ramsay)
Cube (Vincenzo Natali)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Career Girls (Mike Leigh)
Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin)
Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog)
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (Errol Morris)
Uncle Sam (William Lustig)
Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
The number one choice was a very tough call. I’d say it’s pretty much a tie between See the Sea and Henry Fool. I ended up picking Ozon’s film as I don’t think I’ve seen it mentioned in any of the lists yet.
I’m a huge John Carpenter fan (he’s quite possibly my favourite filmmaker) so The Ward is definitely the film event of the year for me. However it looks like I may have to wait until 2011 for a UK release. I’m pretty sure that it will get the usual lousy reviews each new Carpenter effort gets, regardless of whether or not it’s actually any good. His later work is really underrated. Even though they are not amongst his best movies I really enjoyed Escape From L.A., Vampires and Ghosts of Mars. They are the kind of hugely entertaining genre films that Hollywood is almost completely incapable of making these days.
Besides the two Masters of Horror episodes in 2005/6 he’s been inactive since he finished Ghosts of Mars in 2001 which is a great shame. It looked for a while as though he may have retired from filmmaking. I really hope The Ward is successful and encourages Carpenter to continue and make more films in future.
Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura)
God Told Me To (Larry Cohen)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg)
Carrie (Brian De Palma)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
The Scar (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Shootist (Don Siegel)
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
The Innocent (Luchino Visconti)
Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog)
The Missouri Breaks (Arthur Penn)
Network (Sidney Lumet)
The House with Laughing Windows (Pupi Avati)
Also Eraserhead (David Lynch) if it counts. Not sure if it belongs to a roundup of ’76 or ’77.
Lift to the Scaffold (aka Elevator to the Gallows) (Louis Malle) – mubi says 1957, imdb lists 1958
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
The Tin Star (Anthony Mann)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
Quatermass II (Val Guest)
Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
Funny Face (Stanley Donen)
Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison. (John Huston)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
The Thing (John Carpenter)
Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Vincent (Tim Burton)
The State of Things (Wim Wenders)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Tommy Lee Wallace)
Q: The Winged Serpent (Larry Cohen)
Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Svankmajer)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
My Favourite Year (Richard Benjamin)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
48 Hours (Walter Hill)
Creepshow (George A. Romero)
First Blood (Ted Kotcheff)
Room 666 (Wim Wenders)
Tenebrae (Dario Argento)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (Carl Reiner)
Dagon (Stuart Gordon)
Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)
Remembrance of Things to Come (Yannick Bellon & Chris Marker)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
La Cienaga (Lucrecia Martel)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-Liang)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
Ghosts of Mars (John Carpenter)
Bartleby (Jonathan Parker)
Visitor Q (Takashi Miike)
A Ma Soeur!/Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
Eloge De L’Amour/In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
Session 9 (Brad Anderson)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike)
Sleepless (Dario Argento)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel)
The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer)
Love is Colder than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Damned (Luchino Visconti)
Kes (Ken Loach)
Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen)
La Femme Infidele/The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol)
Porcile (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Rite (Ingmar Bergman)
Support Your Local Sheriff (Burt Kennedy)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Peter Hunt)
True Grit (Henry Hathaway)
Stereo (David Cronenberg)
The Ward (John Carpenter)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki)
Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
The Woman (Lucky McKee)
St Vincent (Walter Hill)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
Still waiting for the following films to get a UK release:
Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman)
Trigger (Bruce McDonald)
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (Jan Svankmajer)
Outrage (Takeshi Kitano)
Don’t Look Back (Marina De Van)
The Old Dark House (James Whale)
White Zombie (Victor Halperin)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey)
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Scarface (Howard Hawks)
The Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton)
The Mummy (Karl Freund)
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (Aki Kaurismaki)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke)
Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin (Jim Van Bebber)
Faust (Jan Svankmajer)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Spanking the Monkey (David O Russell)
To Live (Zhang Yimou)
Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
Three Colours: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (Wes Craven)
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man (Michele Soavi)
Serial Mom (John Waters)
Amateur (Hal Hartley)
La Reine Margot (Patrice Chereau)
Nadja (Michael Almereyda)
My Sweet Satan (Jim Van Bebber)
L’Enfer (Claude Chabrol)
1. In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
The Driver (Walter Hill)
My Way Home (Bill Douglas)
Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard)
Halloween (John Carpenter)
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
Superman (Richard Donner)
Piranha (Joe Dante)
Interiors (Woody Allen)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder) is a 1979 film according to imdb.com but listed as 1978 on mubi.com. If it counts here then add it to my list.
The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino)
Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)
I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
It Came From Outer Space (Jack Arnold)
A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
The Bigamist (Ida Lupino)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (Roy Rowland)
All I Desire (Douglas Sirk)
Peter Pan (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske)
Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
Beat the Devil (John Huston)
The Captain’s Paradise (Anthony Kimmins)
Shane (George Stevens)
Madame De… (Max Ophuls)
The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
Invaders From Mars (William Cameron Menzies)
Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Thief (Michael Mann)
The Aviator’s Wife (Eric Rohmer)
Escape From New York (John Carpenter)
Pennies From Heaven (Herbert Ross)
Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)
The Beyond (Lucio Fulci)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris)
The Funhouse (Tobe Hooper)
An American Werewolf in London (John Landis)
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich)
Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
Polyester (John Waters)
Scanners (David Cronenberg)
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (Chris Marker)
Ivans XTC (Bernard Rose)
Wings of Hope (Werner Herzog)
Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)
Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)
The Gleaners & I (Agnes Varda)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
Suspicious River (Lynne Stopkewich)
X-Men (Bryan Singer)
Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
Platform (Jia Zhangke)
You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Claude Chabrol)
Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer)
Camera (David Cronenberg)
Comedy of Innocence (Raul Ruiz)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
Black Sabbath (Mario Bava)
Le Feu Follet/The Fire Within (Louis Malle)
The Servant (Joseph Losey)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
8 ½ (Federico Fellini)
Charade (Stanley Donen)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
Dementia 13 (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
Rembrandt (Alexander Korda)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
Swing Time (George Stevens)
Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies)
The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning)
Follow the Fleet (Mark Sandrich)
Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock)
Fury (Fritz Lang)
Betty (Claude Chabrol)
One False Move (Carl Franklin)
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki)
Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski)
Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi)
The Quince Tree Sun (Victor Erice)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (William Lustig)
Under Siege (Andrew Davis)
Basket Case 3: The Progeny (Frank Henenlotter)
Damage (Louis Malle)
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
Braindead (Peter Jackson)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
The Best Intentions (Bille August) – 3 hour cinema version
1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
Dark Star (John Carpenter)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
Black Christmas (Bob Clark)
Deathdream (Bob Clark)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
Female Trouble (John Waters)
It’s Alive! (Larry Cohen)
Death Wish (Michael Winner)
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (Jorge Grau)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)
Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
King Creole (Michael Curtiz)
Les Amants (Louis Malle)
Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)
Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
The Lineup (Don Siegel)
From the Life of the Marionettes (Ingmar Bergman)
Somewhere in Time (Jeannot Szwarc)
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Les Blank)
The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
Cruising (William Friedkin)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Slow Motion (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Fog (John Carpenter)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
Making ‘The Shining’ (Vivian Kubrick)
The Long Riders (Walter Hill)
Christmas Evil (Lewis Jackson)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty)
The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
Superman II (Richard Lester & Richard Donner)
City of the Living Dead (Lucio Fulci)
1. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
T-Men (Anthony Mann)
Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
The Fugitive (John Ford)
The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves)
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
Pursued (Raoul Walsh)
Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
Brighton Rock (John Boulting)
Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk)
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki)
May (Lucky McKee)
Friday Night (Claire Denis)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
Spider (David Cronenberg)
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
Dolls (Takeshi Kitano)
Cypher (Vincenzo Natali)
Waiting for Happiness/Heremakono (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
It Happened Here (Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo)
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
Ride in the Whirlwind (Monte Hellman)
Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda)
Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava)
Always on Sunday (Ken Russell)
For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
Simon of the Desert (Luis Bunuel)
Boy and Bicycle (Ridley Scott)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
M (Fritz Lang)
Dracula (Tod Browning)
A Nous La Liberte (Rene Clair)
The Public Enemy (William Wellman)
Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod)
Waterloo Bridge (James Whale)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau)
Jean Taris, Swimming Champion (Jean Vigo)
Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection over 2 years ago
Six titles that immediately spring to mind:
- Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- The Keep (Michael Mann) – a longer version supposedly exists. There’s also an alternate ending which I’ve seen on YouTube.
- Sorcerer (William Friedkin)
- The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty Kick (Wim Wenders)
- The Beaver Trilogy (Trent Harris)
- Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
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Favorite fassbinder film over 2 years ago
I’m not sure if I have a single favourite Fassbinder film but this is my top 5:
In a Year With 13 Moons
The Stationmaster’s Wife (aka Bolweiser)
Despair
Fox and His Friends
Lola
Honourable mentions:
The Third Generation
Veronika Voss
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Why Does Herr R Run Amok?
Effi Briest
Beware of a Holy Whore
Love is Colder than Death
Katzelmacher
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Martha
Fear Eats the Soul
The Marriage of Maria Braun
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Best Albums 2000-2009 (so far) about 2 years ago
Some of my favourite albums from the last 10 years:
‘Mountain Battles’ by The Breeders
‘1000 Hurts’ by Shellac
‘Still Night Still Light’ by Au Revoir Simone
‘Alice’ by Tom Waits
‘Blood Money’ by Tom Waits
‘Grinderman’ by Grinderman
‘Uh Huh Her’ by PJ Harvey
‘The Milk Eyed Mender’ by Joanna Newsom
‘You Can’t Buy a Gun When You’re Crying’ by Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs
‘Ghosts of Mars’ soundtrack by John Carpenter
‘Murray Street’ by Sonic Youth
‘Actor’ by St Vincent
‘The Woods’ by Sleater-Kinney
‘Dear Heather’ by Leonard Cohen
‘Dreams of Breathing Underwater’ by Eliza Carthy
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1964 POLL almost 2 years ago
1. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Bunuel)
A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Last Man on Earth (Ubaldo Ragona & Sidney Salkow)
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut)
A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
The Train (John Frankenheimer)
Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava)
The Best Man (Franklin J. Schaffner)
Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet)
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Byron Haskin)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
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1997 POLL almost 2 years ago
1. See the Sea (Francois Ozon)
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
Breakdown (Jonathan Mostow)
Gasman (Lynne Ramsay)
Cube (Vincenzo Natali)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Career Girls (Mike Leigh)
Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin)
Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog)
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (Errol Morris)
Uncle Sam (William Lustig)
Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
The number one choice was a very tough call. I’d say it’s pretty much a tie between See the Sea and Henry Fool. I ended up picking Ozon’s film as I don’t think I’ve seen it mentioned in any of the lists yet.
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New John Carpenter directorial effort almost 2 years ago
I’m a huge John Carpenter fan (he’s quite possibly my favourite filmmaker) so The Ward is definitely the film event of the year for me. However it looks like I may have to wait until 2011 for a UK release. I’m pretty sure that it will get the usual lousy reviews each new Carpenter effort gets, regardless of whether or not it’s actually any good. His later work is really underrated. Even though they are not amongst his best movies I really enjoyed Escape From L.A., Vampires and Ghosts of Mars. They are the kind of hugely entertaining genre films that Hollywood is almost completely incapable of making these days.
Besides the two Masters of Horror episodes in 2005/6 he’s been inactive since he finished Ghosts of Mars in 2001 which is a great shame. It looked for a while as though he may have retired from filmmaking. I really hope The Ward is successful and encourages Carpenter to continue and make more films in future.
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1976 Poll over 1 year ago
1. The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura)
God Told Me To (Larry Cohen)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg)
Carrie (Brian De Palma)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
The Scar (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Shootist (Don Siegel)
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
The Innocent (Luchino Visconti)
Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog)
The Missouri Breaks (Arthur Penn)
Network (Sidney Lumet)
The House with Laughing Windows (Pupi Avati)
Also Eraserhead (David Lynch) if it counts. Not sure if it belongs to a roundup of ’76 or ’77.
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1957 poll over 1 year ago
1. The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold)
Lift to the Scaffold (aka Elevator to the Gallows) (Louis Malle) – mubi says 1957, imdb lists 1958
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
The Tin Star (Anthony Mann)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
Quatermass II (Val Guest)
Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
Funny Face (Stanley Donen)
Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison. (John Huston)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
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1982 poll over 1 year ago
1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
The Thing (John Carpenter)
Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Vincent (Tim Burton)
The State of Things (Wim Wenders)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Tommy Lee Wallace)
Q: The Winged Serpent (Larry Cohen)
Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Svankmajer)
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
My Favourite Year (Richard Benjamin)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
48 Hours (Walter Hill)
Creepshow (George A. Romero)
First Blood (Ted Kotcheff)
Room 666 (Wim Wenders)
Tenebrae (Dario Argento)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (Carl Reiner)
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2001 Poll over 1 year ago
1. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
Dagon (Stuart Gordon)
Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)
Remembrance of Things to Come (Yannick Bellon & Chris Marker)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
La Cienaga (Lucrecia Martel)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-Liang)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
Ghosts of Mars (John Carpenter)
Bartleby (Jonathan Parker)
Visitor Q (Takashi Miike)
A Ma Soeur!/Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
Eloge De L’Amour/In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
Session 9 (Brad Anderson)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike)
Sleepless (Dario Argento)
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1969 Poll over 1 year ago
1. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel)
The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer)
Love is Colder than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Damned (Luchino Visconti)
Kes (Ken Loach)
Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen)
La Femme Infidele/The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol)
Porcile (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Rite (Ingmar Bergman)
Support Your Local Sheriff (Burt Kennedy)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Peter Hunt)
True Grit (Henry Hathaway)
Stereo (David Cronenberg)
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What are you most excited to see in 2011? over 1 year ago
The Ward (John Carpenter)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki)
Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
The Woman (Lucky McKee)
St Vincent (Walter Hill)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
Still waiting for the following films to get a UK release:
Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman)
Trigger (Bruce McDonald)
Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (Jan Svankmajer)
Outrage (Takeshi Kitano)
Don’t Look Back (Marina De Van)
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1932 Poll over 1 year ago
1. Freaks (Tod Browning)
The Old Dark House (James Whale)
White Zombie (Victor Halperin)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey)
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Scarface (Howard Hawks)
The Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton)
The Mummy (Karl Freund)
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Any director who you love every film they have done??? over 1 year ago
Andrei Tarkovsky
Frank Henenlotter
Carl Dreyer
Hayao Miyazaki
Ida Lupino
Jean-Pierre Melville
Lynne Ramsay
Bill Douglas
Jean Vigo
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1994 Poll over 1 year ago
1. In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter)
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (Aki Kaurismaki)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke)
Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin (Jim Van Bebber)
Faust (Jan Svankmajer)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Spanking the Monkey (David O Russell)
To Live (Zhang Yimou)
Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
Three Colours: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (Wes Craven)
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man (Michele Soavi)
Serial Mom (John Waters)
Amateur (Hal Hartley)
La Reine Margot (Patrice Chereau)
Nadja (Michael Almereyda)
My Sweet Satan (Jim Van Bebber)
L’Enfer (Claude Chabrol)
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1978 Poll over 1 year ago
1. In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
The Driver (Walter Hill)
My Way Home (Bill Douglas)
Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard)
Halloween (John Carpenter)
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
Superman (Richard Donner)
Piranha (Joe Dante)
Interiors (Woody Allen)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder) is a 1979 film according to imdb.com but listed as 1978 on mubi.com. If it counts here then add it to my list.
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1953 Poll about 1 year ago
1. Summer With Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino)
Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)
I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
It Came From Outer Space (Jack Arnold)
A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
The Bigamist (Ida Lupino)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (Roy Rowland)
All I Desire (Douglas Sirk)
Peter Pan (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske)
Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
Beat the Devil (John Huston)
The Captain’s Paradise (Anthony Kimmins)
Shane (George Stevens)
Madame De… (Max Ophuls)
The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
Invaders From Mars (William Cameron Menzies)
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1981 Poll about 1 year ago
1. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Thief (Michael Mann)
The Aviator’s Wife (Eric Rohmer)
Escape From New York (John Carpenter)
Pennies From Heaven (Herbert Ross)
Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)
The Beyond (Lucio Fulci)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris)
The Funhouse (Tobe Hooper)
An American Werewolf in London (John Landis)
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich)
Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
Polyester (John Waters)
Scanners (David Cronenberg)
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1941 Poll about 1 year ago
1. Citizen Kane
Sullivan’s Travels
High Sierra
The Lady Eve
Dumbo
The Maltese Falcon
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2000 Poll about 1 year ago
1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (Chris Marker)
Ivans XTC (Bernard Rose)
Wings of Hope (Werner Herzog)
Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)
Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)
The Gleaners & I (Agnes Varda)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
Suspicious River (Lynne Stopkewich)
X-Men (Bryan Singer)
Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
Platform (Jia Zhangke)
You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Claude Chabrol)
Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer)
Camera (David Cronenberg)
Comedy of Innocence (Raul Ruiz)
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1963 Poll 11 months ago
1. The Haunting (Robert Wise)
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
Black Sabbath (Mario Bava)
Le Feu Follet/The Fire Within (Louis Malle)
The Servant (Joseph Losey)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
8 ½ (Federico Fellini)
Charade (Stanley Donen)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
Dementia 13 (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
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1936 Poll 11 months ago
1. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
Rembrandt (Alexander Korda)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
Swing Time (George Stevens)
Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies)
The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning)
Follow the Fleet (Mark Sandrich)
Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock)
Fury (Fritz Lang)
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1992 Poll 10 months ago
1. Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
Betty (Claude Chabrol)
One False Move (Carl Franklin)
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki)
Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski)
Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi)
The Quince Tree Sun (Victor Erice)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (William Lustig)
Under Siege (Andrew Davis)
Basket Case 3: The Progeny (Frank Henenlotter)
Damage (Louis Malle)
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
Braindead (Peter Jackson)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
The Best Intentions (Bille August) – 3 hour cinema version
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1974 Poll 9 months ago
1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
Dark Star (John Carpenter)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
Black Christmas (Bob Clark)
Deathdream (Bob Clark)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
Female Trouble (John Waters)
It’s Alive! (Larry Cohen)
Death Wish (Michael Winner)
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (Jorge Grau)
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1958 Poll 9 months ago
1. Lift to the Scaffold (Louis Malle)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)
Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
King Creole (Michael Curtiz)
Les Amants (Louis Malle)
Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)
Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
The Lineup (Don Siegel)
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1980 Poll 8 months ago
1. Inferno (Dario Argento)
From the Life of the Marionettes (Ingmar Bergman)
Somewhere in Time (Jeannot Szwarc)
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Les Blank)
The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
Cruising (William Friedkin)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Slow Motion (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Fog (John Carpenter)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
Making ‘The Shining’ (Vivian Kubrick)
The Long Riders (Walter Hill)
Christmas Evil (Lewis Jackson)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty)
The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
Superman II (Richard Lester & Richard Donner)
City of the Living Dead (Lucio Fulci)
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1947 Poll 7 months ago
1. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
T-Men (Anthony Mann)
Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
The Fugitive (John Ford)
The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves)
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
Pursued (Raoul Walsh)
Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
Brighton Rock (John Boulting)
Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk)
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2002 Poll 7 months ago
1. In My Skin (Marina De Van)
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki)
May (Lucky McKee)
Friday Night (Claire Denis)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
Spider (David Cronenberg)
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
Dolls (Takeshi Kitano)
Cypher (Vincenzo Natali)
Waiting for Happiness/Heremakono (Abderrahmane Sissako)
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1965 Poll 5 months ago
1. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
It Happened Here (Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo)
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
Ride in the Whirlwind (Monte Hellman)
Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda)
Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava)
Always on Sunday (Ken Russell)
For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
Simon of the Desert (Luis Bunuel)
Boy and Bicycle (Ridley Scott)
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1931 Poll 5 months ago
1. Frankenstein (James Whale)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
M (Fritz Lang)
Dracula (Tod Browning)
A Nous La Liberte (Rene Clair)
The Public Enemy (William Wellman)
Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod)
Waterloo Bridge (James Whale)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau)
Jean Taris, Swimming Champion (Jean Vigo)
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