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Time Out's 1000 Films to Change Your Life
Favs/dislikes: 159:5. "Over 1,000 films are listed in this visually arresting, full-color celebration of the silver screen. Film personalities, including actors, directors, cinematographers, and animators, write about their favorite films from a variety of angles. Martin Scorsese, Nicole Kidman, and Nick Hornby are among those who weigh in. Writers are matched to suitable (or sometimes surprising) themes and genres within the wider subject of how films can alter the course of a life. Movie stills and posters, trivia, and top-ten lists make this a book that can be dipped into or read from cover to cover. Great screen moments — endings, beginnings, kisses, death scenes — are given special spreads. The eclectic approach speaks to fans of big Hollywood blockbusters and factoid-reciting film geeks alike." [url=https://www.amazon.com/Time-1000-Films-Change-Guides/dp/1904978738]Source[/url] -
Golden Foundation of Czech and Slovak Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 86:2. A poll conducted by more than 100 Czech film experts to determine the best and most important works of Czech and Slovak cinema. [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20090417060346/http:/www.uh.cz/p100/p100/anketa.htm]Source[/url] -
Halliwell's Top 1000: The Ultimate Movie Countdown
Favs/dislikes: 141:2. "Trading on its impeccable reputation, Halliwell’s now presents it’s Top 1,000 favorite films. Starting at number 1,000, each entry includes a plot summary, cast and crew, awards, key critical comments, DVD and soundtrack availability, and a wealth of other interesting details. To supplement the countdown, there is commentary from film stars, show business personalities, well-known critics, and the movers and shakers in the film industry, each naming their favorite films or weighing in on Halliwell’s selection. Illustrated throughout with classic and modern film stills and posters, this is a book that every cinema fan will want to own. John Walker is one of Britain’s leading film critics." The list has 43 extra films, because trilogies, or series, are counted as one entry (The Godfather, The Apu Trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, Antoine Doinel, Laurel and Hardy shorts, etc...) [url=https://www.amazon.com/Halliwells-Top-1000-Ultimate-Countdown/dp/0007181655]Source[/url] -
David di Donatello - Best Italian Film
Favs/dislikes: 37:2. The David di Donatello is an award presented every year by the Academy of Italian Cinema (ACI). This is a list of all the movies that have won the "Best Film" award so far, which is given only to Italian movies since 1970. The list is in chronological order. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_di_Donatello_for_Best_Film]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Documentary Films
Favs/dislikes: 131:1. "100 Documentary Films is the first book to offer concise and authoritative individual critical commentaries on some of the key documentary films - from the Lumière brothers and the beginnings of cinema through to recent films such as Bowling for Columbine and When the Levees Broke - and is global in perspective. Many different types of documentary are discussed, as well as films by major documentary directors, including Robert Flaherty, Humphrey Jennings, Jean Rouch, Dziga Vertov, Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore. Each entry provides concise critical analysis, while frequent cross reference to other films featured helps to place films in their historical and aesthetic contexts." [url=http://shop.bfi.org.uk/100-documentary-films.html#.WgywgGhSzIU]Source[/url] -
Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation
Favs/dislikes: 69:1. In 2006, to celebrate the end of the first century of animation, Annecy International Animation Film Festival asked 30 animation specialists from around the world to vote for the top 100 animated short films. -
Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prix
Favs/dislikes: 103:0. The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_(Cannes_Film_Festival)]Source[/url] -
Golden Lotus Award - Best Indian Feature Film
Favs/dislikes: 15:0. The National Award for Best Feature film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, India, and was constituted in the year 1954. This is one of the Golden Lotus Awards (Swarna Kamal) given among National Film Awards. It is announced for films produced in a year across the country, in all Indian languages. It is the most prestigious award in the Indian Cinema. -
BFI's 100 Westerns
Favs/dislikes: 66:1. "Addresses the perennial appeal of the Western, exploring its 19th century popular culture, and its relationship to the economic structure of Hollywood. This work considers the defining features of the Western and traces its main cycles, from the epic Westerns of the 1920s and singing cowboys of the 1930s to the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s." [url=https://www.amazon.com/Westerns-Screen-Guides-Edward-Buscombe/dp/1844571114]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Film Musicals
Favs/dislikes: 75:1. "From the coming of sound to the 1960s, the musical was central to Hollywood production. Exhibiting – often in spectacular fashion – the remarkable resources of the Hollywood studios, musicals came to epitomise the very idea of 'light entertainment'. Films like Top Hat and 42nd Street, Meet Me in St. Louis and On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and Oklahoma!, West Side Story and The Sound of Music were hugely popular, yet were commonly regarded by cultural commentators as trivial and escapist. It was the 1970s before serious study of the Hollywood musical began to change critical attitudes and foster an interest in musical films produced in other cultures. Hollywood musicals have become less common, but the genre persists and both academic interest in and fond nostalgia for the musical shows no signs of abating. 100 Film Musicals provides a stimulating overview of the genre's development, its major themes and the critical debates it has provoked. While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, 100 Film Musicals includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye also discuss post-1960s films from many different sources which adapt and reflect on the conventions of the genre, including recent examples such as Moulin Rouge! and High School Musical, demonstrating that the genre is still very much alive." [url=http://shop.bfi.org.uk/books/bfi-screen-guides/100-film-musical-book.html#.Wg3fhGhSzIU]Source[/url] -
Golden Globe Award - Best Motion Picture
Favs/dislikes: 136:0. Since their first ceremony in 1944, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has bestowed their Golden Globe Awards to their choices for the best in motion pictures. [url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/]Source[/url] -
Cahiers du Cinéma's Annual Top 10 Lists
Favs/dislikes: 264:5. Cahiers du cinéma is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951. The magazine has picked its top ten films of the year, most years. Top ten films were not picked in the years 1952-1954, 1969-1980, and in the year 2003. Rankings can be viewed in my source list URL, or via the link provided in the comments section. In some cases, films tie for a certain spot in the yearly top 10; for example, 2012's #4 spot is tied between three films (consequently, there is no #5 or #6). Some directors definitely appear to be heavily preferred by those responsible for selecting the list. This list does not include the special "best of 1990s" and "best of 2000s" decade lists, though most of those twenty films are included here. (The exceptions are David Lynch's TV show Twin Peaks on the 1990s list, and Gus Van Sant's Elephant, Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain, and Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds on the 2000s decade list.) Other anomalies: The TV show "24" tied for the #10 spot in 2002, along with Gus Van Sant's Gerry. Gerry also tied for #6 on the 2004 list. A TV episode "Travolta et moi" (dir. Patricia Mazuy) from the show "Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge..." was selected as #6 in 1994. Claire Denis' episode "US Go Home" from the same series rated #9 in 1994. Raul Ruiz's Les trois couronnes du matelot (Three Crowns of the Sailor) tied for #7 in 1983 and tied for #8 in 1982. 1968's #4 spot for Histoires extraordinaires is specifically for Federico Fellini's segment "Toby Damnit." 1965's #4 spot for Paris vu par... is specifically for the Jean Rouch episode. 1959's #3 spot was claimed by Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible. Since Part II was released in 1958, it is possible that the award was for Part II, but since my sources didn't specify a part and both parts may have been shown together, I have included Parts I & II in the list. Love it or hate it, here it is... [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahiers_du_cin%C3%A9ma%27s_Annual_Top_10_Lists]Source[/url] -
Bodil Award - Best Danish Film
Favs/dislikes: 49:1. All the films that have won the Danish Bodil Award for Best Danish Film. The Bodil award, established in 1948, is the oldest Danish film award. The awards is named after two prominent women in Danish film, Bodil Ipsen and Bodil Kjer. [url=http://www.bodilprisen.dk/aar-for-aar/1948-2/]Source[/url] -
The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die
Favs/dislikes: 248:4. "Well over a century has passed since the Lumière brothers frightened the life out of Parisians with The Arrival of a Train at a Station, and well over a million titles have since been recorded - if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by. Out of these million-plus movies, our team of experts has picked what we believe is the essential 1,000 - those that best sum up the dazzling achievement and variety of the movies." [url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/series/1000-films-to-see-before-you-die]Source[/url] -
The Criterion Collection's Eclipse Series
Favs/dislikes: 132:2. Eclipse from the Criterion Collection is a brand for a line of DVD film series released by the Criterion Collection. It debuted on March 27, 2007. The brand was created to produce budget-priced, high-quality DVD editions of hard-to-find films. The DVDs are released in boxed sets that typically contain between two to seven films across and focus on a specific film director. Future sets will also focus on themes. Typically, they are released monthly. In order to keep prices low, the films do not receive the same degree of remastering nor any of the special features that have became associated with Criterion Collection titles. [url=https://www.criterion.com/library/list_view?b=Eclipse&p=1&pp=all]Source[/url] -
Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej's 100 Years of Polish Film
Favs/dislikes: 77:2. The Polish Film Institute created this list for the 100th anniversary of Polish cinema. The films were selected by Polish critics Rafał Marszałek and Andrzej Bukowiecki using the following criteria: "their acknowledged artistic value, national and international awards granted, the influence exerted within a certain film trend, and finally the attendance records indicating the interest aroused among the cinema goers." [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20101119083114/http://100latpolskiegofilmu.pl/en/movies/]Source[/url] -
BFI's 100 Animated Feature Films
Favs/dislikes: 172:5. This list is from Andrew Osmond's book [url=http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_17635.html]100 Animated Feature Films[/url] (2011). "Andrew Osmond provides an entertaining and illuminating guide to the endlessly diverse styles, cultures, and visions of the genre, with entires on 100 of the most interesting and important animated films from around the world, from the 1920s to the present day." [url=http://shop.bfi.org.uk/books/100-animated-feature-films-book.html#.Wgyw3GhSzIU]Source[/url] -
Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films
Favs/dislikes: 78:1. In a 2010 survey, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival asked 122 film professionals to vote for the 100 greatest Chinese-language films. Most of the voters were from Taiwan, but film professionals from Hong Kong and China and Chinese cinema experts from other countries participated as well. You can see the individual ballots on the [url=http://100.goldenhorse.org.tw/juries/]Golden Horse website[/url]. [url=http://100.goldenhorse.org.tw/]Source[/url] -
Jennifer Eiss's 500 Essential Cult Movies
Favs/dislikes: 623:9. From the book by Jennifer Eiss. The list is arranged by chapter. Each chapter starts with a top 10 (in alphabetical order), followed by the "best of the rest" (in alphabetical order). #1-83: Dramatic Situatons #84-133: Gripping Tales #134-165: Lights, Camera…! #166-228: Visionary Universes #229-280: Criminal Underworlds #281-360: Tales of Terror #361-432: Cult Humor #433-453: The Wild Wild West #454-502: Film Lab [url=https://www.amazon.com/500-Essential-Cult-Movies-Ultimate/dp/1402774869]Source[/url] -
366 Weird Movies
Favs/dislikes: 532:6. Celebrating the cinematically surreal, bizarre, cult, oddball, fantastique, strange, psychedelic, and the just plain WEIRD! [url=http://366weirdmovies.com/category/weird-movies/]Source[/url] -
Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Narrative Films
Favs/dislikes: 285:4. This list is "an educational resource that offers guidance and encouragement as students seek to find points of orientation within the vast history of film and video." It is not a list of the best films of all time. Rather, it reflects a variety of criteria. The list is divided into 5 sections: I. [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+narrative+films+2012/]Narrative Films[/url] [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+hollywood+genres+2012/mjf314/]Hollywood Genres (with an emphasis on the classical studio era)[/url] II. [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+non-fiction+films+2012/]Non-Fiction Films[/url] III. [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+animated+films+2012/mjf314/]Animated Films[/url] IV. [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+experimentalslashavant-gardeslashunderground+films+2012/mjf314/]Experimental/Avant-garde/Underground Films[/url] V. [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/harvard+universitys+suggested+film+viewing+list+single-channel+video+2012/mjf314/]Single-channel Video[/url] [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416235509/https://ves.fas.harvard.edu/files/ves/files/fvs_suggested_viewing_2012.pdf]Source[/url] -
François Truffaut's The Films in My Life
Favs/dislikes: 117:1. "The Films in My Life (Les Films de ma Vie) is Truffaut’s own selection of more than one hundred essays that range widely over the history of film and pay tribute to Truffaut’s particular heroes, among them Hitchcock, Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, Cocteau, Bergman, and Buñuel." [url=https://www.amazon.com/The-Films-Life-Fran%C3%A7ois-Truffaut/dp/0306805995]Source[/url] -
Akira Kurosawa's A Dream Is a Genius
Favs/dislikes: 178:1. "From Chapter 3 of A Dream is a Genius, 1999. Akira Kurosawa discusses his top 100 films with his daughter, Kazuo. Kurosawa limits his choices to one film per director." -
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese
Favs/dislikes: 251:3. "From one of the world's most acclaimed directors comes an absorbing and informative look at the evolution of American film and how the medium both shaped Scorsese's own artistic vision and influenced the whole of American culture. Hundreds of film stills, many in color, plus dialogue, quotations, and other sources add to and illustrate each chapter's overriding theme." List is of all works with cited clips, in order of first appearance. Part 1: 1-40 Part 2: 41-74 Part 3: 75-99 [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Personal_Journey_with_Martin_Scorsese_Through_American_Movies]Source[/url][Source is the film itself, the wikipedia page includes some films mentioned only in passing] -
Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art
Favs/dislikes: 193:12. "Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored." So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual, and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions." This list contains all movies in the revised version from 2021. Included in this list are movies: 1. with dedicated texts. 2. shown in movie stills. 3. mentioned otherwise as an example of subversive cinema in the context of the text it is mentioned in. Excluded from this list are movies that are mentioned in any other way than an example of subversive cinema. The movies are sorted by appearance in the book. Some movies appear multiple times. In that case, the preferred position is the dedicated text, then a movie still and lastly a mention. The book is divided into parts: Introduction (#1 - #20) Part 1 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Form (#21 - #170) Part 2 - Weapons of Subversion: The Subversion of Content (#171 - #355) Part 3 - Weapons of Subversion: Forbidden Subjects of the Cinema (#356 - #572) Part 4 - Towards a New Consciousness (#573 - #598) #599 is the back cover.
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