Le Schpountz’s Top 500 Favourite Movies (for Helen’s poll)

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My list is in chronologiical order.

Link to the poll: For HelenWelonmelon's Poll: Top 500 Favourite Film Lists
https://letterboxd.com/helenwelonmelon/list/poll-2023-top-500-favourite-film-lists/
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/poll+2022+top+250+favourite+film+list+conducted+and+proudly+presented+by+helenwelonmelon+letterboxd/leschpountz/


-> Breakdown of the Directors:

12 x Akira Kurosawa

10 x Yasujirô Ozu

9 x Alfred Hitchcock

8 x Fritz Lang, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Quentin Tarantino

7 x Andrei Tarkovsky, Billy Wilder, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick

6 x Ethan & Joel Coen, Federico Fellini, Jean-Pierre Melville, Kar-Wai Wong, Masaki Kobayashi, Michael Powell (hereof 5 x with Emeric Pressburger), Orson Welles

5 x Charles Chaplin, Emeric Pressburger (thereof 5 x with Michael Powell), Ernst Lubitsch, François Truffaut, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergio Leone, Wim Wenders

4 x Béla Tarr, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Christopher Nolan, David Lynch, F.W. Murnau, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Capra, Henri-Georges Clouzot, John Cassavetes, Jules Dassin, Luis Buñuel, Marcel Carné, Mikio Naruse, Satoshi Kon, Sidney Lumet, Takeshi Kitano, Vittorio De Sica

3 x Carol Reed, David Lean, Edward Yang, Helmut Käutner, Hirokazu Koreeda, James Whale, Jean Renoir, John Huston, Louis Malle, Luchino Visconti, Mervyn LeRoy, Otto Preminger, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Jackson, Preston Sturges, Raoul Walsh, Richard Linklater, Robert Altman, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini, Roman Polanski, Satyajit Ray, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Werner Herzog

2 x Andrzej Wajda, Costa-Gavras, Denys Arcand, Hayao Miyazaki, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Jacques Becker, Jacques Demy, Jean Cocteau, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, John Sturges, Josef von Sternberg, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Joseph Losey, Leo McCarey, Martin Scorsese, Max Ophüls, Mikhail Kalatozov, Ming-liang Tsai, Nicholas Ray, Park Chan-wook, Robert Rodriguez, Sam Peckinpah, Seijun Suzuki, Spike Jonze, Steven Spielberg, Sylvain Chomet, Tomm Moore, Victor Sjöström, Wes Anderson, William A. Wellman, Wojciech Has, Woody Allen

1 x Abel Ferrara, Abel Gance, Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais, Albert Lewin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Aleksey German, Alex Garland, Alexander Korda, Alexander Mackendrick, Alfonso Cuarón, Andrzej Zulawski, Ang Lee, Arthur Penn, Bernardo Bertolucci, Bernhard Wicki, Blake Edwards, Bong Joon Ho, Bryan Singer, Céline Sciamma, Charles Laughton, Charles Vidor, Charlie Kaufman, Chris Marker, Claude Sautet, Clint Eastwood, Curtis Hanson, Damien Chazelle, David Cronenberg, David Fincher, Denis Villeneuve, Dino Risi, Edgar G. Ulmer, Elem Klimov, Elia Kazan, Elio Petri, Elmar Klos & Ján Kadár, Erich von Stroheim, Ettore Scola, Franklin J. Schaffner, Frantisek Vlácil, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, George Cukor, George Lucas, George Miller, Georges Franju, Gillo Pontecorvo, Giuseppe Tornatore, Gregory La Cava, Grigoriy Chukhray, Henry Selick, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Ingmar Bergman, Irvin Kershner, Isao Takahata, István Szabó, Jacques Tati, Jacques Tourneur, James McTeigue, Jean Vigo, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jim Jarmusch, Jirí Menzel, John Boorman, John Boulting, John Frankenheimer, John Landis, Jonathan Demme, Joseph H. Lewis, Julien Duvivier, Kihachi Okamoto, Kim Ki-young, Konstantin Lopushanskiy, Lana & Lilly Wachowski, Larisa Shepitko, Leontine Sagan, Luc Besson, Mamoru Oshii, Marc Allégret, Marcel Pagnol, Marlen Khutsiev, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, Michael Curtiz, Michael Radford, Michael Wadleigh, Michel Gondry, Milos Forman, Noah Baumbach, Olivier Assayas, Otakar Vávra, Paul Schrader, Paul Thomas Anderson, Paul Verhoeven, Pedro Almodóvar, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, René Clément, Ridley Scott, Rob Reiner, Robert Aldrich, Robert Eggers, Robert Hamer, Robert Siodmak, Robert Wiene, Robert Zemeckis, Rouben Mamoulian, Salvador Simó, Samuel Fuller, Sergei Parajanov, Sergio Corbucci, Sofia Coppola, Stanley Donen, Ted Kotcheff, Terry Gilliam, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tod Browning, Todd Phillips, Toshiya Fujita, W.S. Van Dyke, William Cameron Menzies, William Friedkin, William Wyler, Wolfgang Petersen, Yves Robert, Zoltán Fábri


-> Breakdown of the decades:

14 x 1920er
47 x 1930er
71 x 1940er
81 x 1950er
92 x 1960er
50 x 1970er
42 x 1980er
41 x 1990er
35 x 2000er
25 x 2010er
2 x 2020er


-> Most represented years:

15 x 1960, 1962
14 x 1959
12 x 1946, 1957, 1966
10 x 1950, 1964
9 x 1931, 1948, 1961, 1965, 1967, 2003
8 x 1944, 1945, 1954, 1955, 2019
7 x 1932, 1939, 1947, 1973, 1976, 1984, 1988, 1994
6 x 1940, 1943, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1963, 1974, 1977, 1981, 2001
5 x 1933, 1938, 1941, 1951, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1979, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2000


-> Breakdown of the countries:
201 x United States (40,2 %)
70 x France (14,0 %)
57 x Japan (11,4 %)
34 x Italy (6,8 %)
32 x United Kingdom (6,4 %)
26 x Germany (5,2 %)
18 x Soviet Union (3,6 %)
12 x Poland (2,4 %)
7 x Taiwan (1,4 %)
5 x Hong Kong (1,0 %)
5 x Hungary (1,0 %)
5 x Mexico (1,0 %)
4 x Czechoslovakia (0,8 %)
4 x South Korea (0,8 %)
4 x Spain (0,8 %)
3 x India (0,6 %)
3 x Sweden (0,6 %)
2 x Australia (0,4 %)
2 x Canada (0,4 %)
2 x Denmark (0,4 %)
2 x Ireland (0,4 %)
1 x Algeria (0,2 %)
1 x Greece (0,2 %)


In a comparison to my votes for the poll from 2022, the following films from the top 250 at that time unfortunately no longer qualified for the new top 500:

The Crowd (1928, King Vidor, United States)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936, Frank Capra, United States)
Lost Horizon (1937, Frank Capra, United States)
You Can't Take It with You (1938, Frank Capra, United States)
Midnight (1939, Mitchell Leisen, United States)
The Mortal Storm (1940, Frank Borzage, United States)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli, United States)
The Magnificent Seven (1960, John Sturges, United States)
Vyssí princip (1960, Jirí Krejcík, Czechoslovakia)

However, these films remain among my favorites.