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Hürriyet's The 100 Best Movies of Turkish Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 45:6. In 2017, Hurriyet asked 100 directors, actors, produces, and film writers to vote for the 100 best Turkish films. See [url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/keyif/iste-100-kisilik-buyuk-jurinin-en-iyi-10-film-tercihleri-40406840]this page[/url] for the ballots. There are 102 titles because Gelin/Dugun/Diyet are listed as 1 entry. -
Empire's The 100 Best Films of World Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 271:2. A list of the best films not in the English language, according to Empire magazine. Documentaries were excluded. [url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/100-greatest-world-cinema-films/]Source[/url] -
Spike Lee's Essential List of Films for Filmmakers
Favs/dislikes: 154:3. This is the list that Spike Lee distributes to his graduate students at NYU every year. Spike says: "I've Been A Professor At The NYU Graduate Film For The Past 15 Years.The 1st Day Of Every Class I Hand Out My List Of Films That I Feel You Must See If You Want To Make Films. Please Look At This List And See What You Might Have Missed. As I Tell My Students If You Want Your Film "Game" To Be Tight You Must Have Seen Great Movies, World Cinema, It Just Can't Be Hollywood Films. Educate Yourself. Learn. Grow. Evolve. Make Great Films. Peace, Onward And Upward, Spike Lee." [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spikelee/the-newest-hottest-spike-lee-joint/posts/574874]Source[/url] -
BFI's Top 100 British Films
Favs/dislikes: 131:0. The best 100 British films were chosen by 1,000 people from the UK's film industry, including producers, directors, writers, actors, technicians, academics, exhibitors, distributors, executives and critics. The final selection spans seven decades and accommodates the work of 70 film directors. Unsurprisingly, literary adaptations feature strongly - ranging from Shakespeare and Dickens to Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh - and the highbrow mixes easily with the low. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/455170.stm]Source[/url] -
Belgian Film Award - Best Film
Favs/dislikes: 26:2. These are the awards being given to the best Belgian films since 1987. From 1987 till 2005 this award was called the Joseph Plateauprijs. In 2005 the last award was given and there were no Belgian films awarded until 2010 (for Flemish movies the "Vlaamse Filmprijs", also called the 'Ensors') and 2011 (for Walloon movies the "Magritte du Cinéma"). [url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0001015/]Source (Joseph Plateau)[/url] [url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0002797/]Ensor[/url] [url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0001778/]Magritte[/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] -
Time Out's The 101 Best Action Movies Ever Made
Favs/dislikes: 39:0. "They get a bad rap from snobs, but don’t mess with action movies—they’re pumped up, loaded with ammo and in your face like Arnold Schwarzenegger on a bad day. Truth be told, no one can live solely on Woody Allen movies or animation alone. We need explosions periodically. Big ones. Preferably accompanied by catchphrases and squealing electric guitars. With crucial contributions from Hong Kong and France, the genre has a global richness that sneaks up on you like a swarthy henchman with a knife clenched between his teeth. And when we arrived at action’s ’80s movies heyday, when Hollywood stars ruled the roost, our research was euphoric. We’ve polled over 50 experts in the field, from essential directors like Die Hard’s John McTiernan to the actual folks in the line of fire, such as Machete himself, Danny Trejo. Critics and experts have weighed in, too." The list has 102 titles because Kill Bill was counted as one entry. List was last updated August 14 2020 Modnote about list order: When Timeout changed the web formatting of the list from its previous pagination the ordering of each group of 10 got reversed. The list here is in it's original correct ordering. [url=https://www.timeout.com/film/the-101-best-action-movies-ever-made]Source[/url] -
Butler's Fantasy Cinema: Impossible Worlds on Screen
Favs/dislikes: 63:2. From the Short Cuts book [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fantasy-Cinema-Impossible-Worlds-Screen/dp/1906660166]Fantasy Cinema: Impossible Worlds on Screen[/url]. [quote]Often dismissed as simple escapist tales of sword and sorcery, fantasy is one of the fundamental impulses in filmmaking, a source of some of the most vivid and memorable films ever made that reaches far beyond the confines of a single genre. As well as some of the major genres, stylistic approaches and exponents of cinematic fantasy - from Georges Méliè̀s, Walt Disney, and Andrei Tarkovsky to contemporary fantasists such as Terry Gilliam and Peter Jackson - this volume focuses on fantasy's social function with case studies including The Thief of Baghdad (1924), Excalibur (1981), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03), and Bruce Almighty (2003). Taking in the popular and the experimental, subversive desires and reactionary dreams, this book is an accessible introduction to one of the vital energies in cinema. The Short Cuts series is a comprehensive list of introductory texts covering the full spectrum of Film Studies, specifically designed for building an individually-styled library for all students and enthusiasts of cinema and popular culture.[/quote] Three films are considered lost: - La cigale et la fourmi (1897) - La caverne maudite (1898) - Le petit chaperon rouge (1901) [url=https://www.amazon.com/Fantasy-Cinema-Impossible-Worlds-Wallflower/dp/1906660166]Source[/url] -
Geoff King's Film Comedy
Favs/dislikes: 60:13. All the comedies mentioned in the filmography of the book "Film Comedy" by Geoff King, published in 2002. "From slapstick to satire and subtle innuendo. From the grotesque to the carefully mannered. From madcap anarchy to the darkly deadpan. Film comedy comes in a wide range of forms. For as long as film has existed as an entertainment medium, so has film comedy. ... Comedy was one of the most popular formats in the early years of cinema and has remained so ever since." (from the introduction to the book) [url=https://www.amazon.com/Film-Comedy-Geoff-King/dp/1903364353/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402285691&sr=8-1&keywords=film+comedy]Source[/url] -
OFCS's Top 100 Animated Features of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 159:13. 138 reviewers of the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS), the international association of the leading Internet-based cinema journalists, selected the Top 100 Animated Features of All Time. The lsit was compiled from a reminder list of more than 350 feature films (not including animated short films), spanning the years from the 1926 silent film The Adventures of Prince Achmed to recent release Treasure Planet. [url=http://ofcs.org/ofcs-top-100-top-100-animated-features/]Source[/url] -
Cahiers du Cinéma's 100 Films for an Ideal Cinematheque
Favs/dislikes: 247:1. The top 100 most essential films of 78 French film directors, critics and industry executives. The list was compiled for and published in the French Cahiers du cinéma film magazine. [url=https://www.cahiersducinema.com/produit/100-films/]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] -
TSPDT's 100 Essential Noir Films
Favs/dislikes: 275:3. To kick things off on their list of 1000 Essential noirs, TSPDT offered up the first 100 of the 1,000 films. These 100 films have been identified, according to their research, as the most mentioned/cited noir films of all-time. Call them the 100 most essential or quintessential, or whatever you like. They are, simply put, the 100 films that most often show up on film noir lists, in film noir festivals, and/or in film noir publications. We at Icheckmovies have made these most essential noirs a separate list which you can find here. The rest of the list can be found here [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/tspdt+1000+noir+films/]TSPDT 1000 Noir Films[/url] [url=http://www.theyshootpictures.com/noir1000.htm]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] -
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] -
Kinemathekverbund's The 100 Most Important German Films
Favs/dislikes: 112:1. In the year of cinematography’s centennial anniversary 1995, the Deutscher Kinematheksverbund conducted a survey in search of the 100 German films that were considered the most important. In the first poll 324 film historians, film journalists, film makers and movie owners decided about places 1 to 75, a second poll with 228 votes determinded the places 76 to 100. [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928035219/http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/fiaf54.pdf]Source[/url] -
Korean Screen's 100 Greatest Korean Films
Favs/dislikes: 22:1. In 2021, Korean Screen asked 158 critics from 28 countries to vote for the greatest Korean films ever. -
KOFA's 100 Korean Films
Favs/dislikes: 49:3. In 2013, the Korean Film Archive asked 62 film scholars, professors, critics and curators to vote for the top 100 Korean films. The top 12 is ranked and the rest is in chronological order. 3 films tied for 1st place. [url=https://eng.koreafilm.or.kr/kofa/publication/books/PB_0000000170?page=&year=]Source[/url] KOFA previously made a list of the [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/kofas+100+korean+films+1936-1996/mjf314/]top 100 Korean films from 1936-1996[/url]. -
Kinema Junpo Award - Best Japanese Film
Favs/dislikes: 23:0. Japan's oldest film award. Awarded yearly by Kinema Junpo magazine since 1927 -
Cinema Tropical's Best Latin American Films 2000-2009
Favs/dislikes: 61:5. This list a list of the Top Latin American Films of the Decade (2000-2009), is based on a survey of distinguished critics, scholars and film professionals based in the New York City area. The list has been compiled by Cinema Tropical. [url=https://www.cinematropical.com/10-best-films-aughts]Source[/url] -
BFI Flare's The Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 99:7. In celebration of their 30th anniversary, in 2016, the London LGBT Film Festival BFI Flare conducted a poll of over 100 programmers, critics and filmmakers asking for a top 10 list of the best LGBT films. Contains all films with at least 3 votes. [url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/30-best-lgbt-films-all-time]Source[/url] -
Scott Hocking's 100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 69:3. From the book by Scott Hocking. From indigenous issues and rites of passage, to sexual repression, mateship, larrikins and more, Australian films provide a cultural snapshot of our sunburnt country, as seen through the lenses of some of the world’s finest filmmakers. [url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6284687-100-greatest-films-of-australian-cinema]Source[/url] -
Cóndor de Plata Award - Best Argentinian Film
Favs/dislikes: 15:0. The Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina is an organization of Argentine-based journalists and correspondents. The association presents the Premios Cóndor de Plata honoring achievements in Argentine cinema. The awards are considered Argentina's equivalent of the Academy Awards. [url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000038/overview/?ref_=ev_sa_1]Source[/url] -
TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films: 1001-2500
Favs/dislikes: 104:1. Since the 2015 TSPDT has released a companion to their greatest 1000 films, consisting of the films ranked 1001-2500. This list contains the most recent version of this list, with all the previous lists in the history. [url=https://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_startinglist_table.php]Source[/url] -
Film Magazine's Best Iranian Films
Favs/dislikes: 60:2. In 2009, Film magazine asked 92 Iranian critics to vote for the best Iranian films. The original list was a top 20. This list includes all films that received at least 2 votes. The ballots are available on [url=http://www.film-magazine.com/archives/articles.asp?id=74]Film magazine's website[/url] (click the 4 links at the bottom). In 2008, Film magazine made a list of the [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/film+magazines+best+iranian+films+of+the+last+three+decades+2008/mjf314/]best Iranian films of the last 3 decades[/url].
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