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Where has this been all my life? I am overwhelmed by a feeling of love for the art form of animation and filmmaking more broadly. I cannot put into words how happy this film has made me.

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A ranking of every single movie to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. A lot of these movies are great, but this award also has the problem that they generally just give it to whichever Disney or Pixar movie came out that year, which has led to quite a few boring winners and a lot of great, creative movies being overlooked. (Many of us The Lego Movie somehow not even being nominated in 2015.)

1. Finding Nemo
2. WALL·E
3. The Incredibles
4. Spirited Away
5. Ratatouille
6. Flow
7. Inside Out
8. Up
9. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
10. Rango

...plus 14 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My favourite anime films of all time.

1. My Neighbor Totoro
2. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
3. Millennium Actress
4. Princess Mononoke
5. The First Slam Dunk
6. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
7. A Silent Voice: The Movie
8. In This Corner of the World
9. Spirited Away
10. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Metropolis
2. The Last Laugh
3. The ion of Joan of Arc
4. The Gold Rush
5. Häxan
6. The General
7. The Kid
8. Battleship Potemkin
9. A Cottage on Dartmoor
10. The Man Who Laughs

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Brutalist
2. The Zone of Interest
3. Triangle of Sadness
4. Hundreds of Beavers
5. The Banshees of Inisherin
6. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
7. All of Us Strangers
8. Anora
9. Challengers
10. About Dry Grasses

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Alex Garland is one of my favourite directors, probably because Ex Machina was one of the most influential movies on me as a teenager.

This is my ranking of all of the movies he's directed, not counting the films he's written but not directed.

1. Ex Machina
2. Annihilation
3. Men
4. Civil War
5. Warfare

I'm trying the HORRORx52 challenge for 2025, my first time attempting it. I always look forward to Hooptober, so here's a way of extending that over an entire year. Each movie will be a first-time watch and I'll be attempting to watch one each week all year, following the order below. The theme for each film is specified in the notes.

1. Midsommar

   The most popular horror film on my watchlist

2. Stigmata

   The lowest rated horror film on my watchlist

3. Longlegs

   BLINDSPOT: The most popular horror I haven't seen that's not on my watchlist

4. House of Usher

   The horror film that's been on my watchlist the longest

5. Companion

   Released in 2025

6. Saw

   A short that was made into a feature film

7. Saw

   The feature that related to the above pick

8. Hour of the Wolf

   FREE pick #1

9. The Amusement Park

   Released in 1975

10. Requiem

    ALTER short #1

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Current topic: best films about male friendship

This is my list for all the Letterboxd showdowns with the current topic occupying the first ten spots. Not every list is complete here because you can't have the same movie twice on the same list, so some spots are empty in older showdowns.

Here is the key to this list:

#1-10: The Nice Guys (best films about male friendship)
#11-20: Grand Illusion (best classic sci-fi/fantasy films)
#21-27: This Must Be the Place (best films with location titles)
#28-36: The Killing Joke (best dark-comedy films)
#37-45: Monkey Business (best primates in film)
#46-51: The Favourite (best nominees for the Outstanding British Film BAFTA)
#52-55: The NeverEnding Story (best long films)
#56-65: Call Me by Your Name (best films with first-name titles)
#66-74: Panic Room (best chamber-piece films)
#75-84: Stay Tuned (best films about television)
#85-94: The Others (favourite ing horror performances)
#95-99: Fighting with My Family (best films about siblings)
#100-109: Band of Misfits (best underseen family films)
#110-118: Good Time (best taut thrillers)
#119-124: Short Cuts (best anthology films)
#125-132: Chopping Mall (best 1980s horror movies)
#133-139: Stage Door (best stage-to-screen film adaptations)
#140-145: Crimes of the Future (best dystopian worlds in film)
#146-149: The French Dispatch (best Palme d'Or-nominated films)
#150-157: Babylon (best films about filmmaking)
#158-162: A Quiet Place (best films with limited dialogue)
#163-169: A New Leaf (best films about fresh starts)
#170-172: Calling the Shots (best Oscar-nominated film directing)
#173-180: The Breadwinner (best Oscar-nominated animated films)
#181-184: No Reservations (best meal scenes in film)
#185-190: Girls, Interrupted (weirdest women in film)
#191-196: Nightcrawler (best nocturnal films)
#197-204: Look Who's Talking (best animal-human communication in film)
#205-206: It's Complicated (best love triangles in film)

Here are the empty space in older showdowns:

This Must Be the Place: The Shawshank Redemption should be #4, The Grand Budapest Hotel should be #8, Metropolis should be #10
The Killing Joke: Shaun of the Dead should be #2
Monkey Business: 2001: A Space Odyssey should be #2
The Favourite: Shaun of the Dead should be #3, Dr. Strangelove should be #5, The Favourite should be #6, The Banshees of Inisherin should be #8
The NeverEnding Story: Pulp Fiction should be #1, Stalker should be #2, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King should be #3, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring should be #4, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers should be #5, Magnolia should be #10
Panic Room: Ex Machina should be #2
Fighting with My Family: Autumn Sonata should be #1, The Godfather should be #2, The Godfather Part II should be #3, Parasite should be #7, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre should be #10
Good Time: Reservoir Dogs should be #1
Short Cuts: Pulp Fiction should be #1, Chungking Express should be #2, 2001: A Space Odyssey should be #3, Fantasia should be #4
Chopping Mall: Santa Sangre should be #3, Videodrome should be #9
Stage Door: Amadeus should be #1, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant should be #3, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? should be #7
Crimes of the Future: Metropolis (1927) should be #2, A Clockwork Orange should be #4, Metropolis (2001) should be #7, WALL-E should be #8
The French Dispatch: Pulp Fiction should be #1, Mulholland Drive should be #2, The Celebration should be #3, The Zone of Interest should be #4, Parasite should be #6, Brief Encounter should be #8
Babylon: Persona should be #1, Mulholland Drive should be #2
A Quiet Place: The Zone of Interest should be #1, The Spirit of the Beehive should be #3, Metropolis (1927) should be #5, The ion of Joan of Arc should be #7, Fantasia should be #10
A New Leaf: Mulholland Drive should be #1, Bonnie and Clyde should be #2, A Streetcar Named Desire should be #9, Wanda should be #10
Calling the Shots: Pulp Fiction should be #2, Mulholland Drive should be #4, Psycho should be #5, The Godfather should be #6, The Godfather Part II should be #7, 2001: A Space Odyssey should be #8, Rocky should be #10
The Breadwinner: WALL-E should be #2, Kung Fu Panda 2 should be #9
No Reservations: Psycho should be #1, Pulp Fiction should be #2, Triangle of Sadness should be #4, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre should be #7, Reservoir Dogs should be #8, Magnolia should be #9
Girls, Interrupted: Ex Machina should be #1, Persona should be #2, Chungking Express should be #3, The Favourite should be #7
Nightcrawler: The World's End should be #1, Blade Runner should be #2, Blue Velvet should be #4, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? should be #8
Look Who's Talking: Paddington 2 should be #1, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish should be #4
It's Complicated: The Favourite should be #1, In the Mood for Love should be #2, Brief Encounter should be #4, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp should be #5, Mulholland Drive should be #6, Blue Velvet should be #7, Citizen Kane should be #9, Triangle of Sadness should be #10

1. The World's End
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. Shaun of the Dead
8. The Shawshank Redemption
9. The Great Escape
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel

...plus 196 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Vertigo
2. Paths of Glory
3. The 400 Blows
4. Pather Panchali
5. Wild Strawberries
6. All About Eve
7. Sansho the Bailiff
8. Hiroshima Mon Amour
9. Throne of Blood
10. The Bridge on the River Kwai

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My favourite movies ever as of right now.

1. Persona
2. Pulp Fiction
3. It's Such a Beautiful Day
4. Son of the White Mare
5. Rocky
6. Citizen Kane
7. Stalker
8. Autumn Sonata
9. Ex Machina
10. The World's End

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• The Kid
• Häxan
• Safety Last!
• The Last Laugh
• The Gold Rush
• The General
• Metropolis
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• A Cottage on Dartmoor

...plus 95 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. It's Such a Beautiful Day
2. Ex Machina
3. The World's End
4. Phantom Thread
5. The Favourite
6. The Wolf of Wall Street
7. Parasite
8. The Act of Killing
9. O.J.: Made in America
10. Marriage Story

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Rocky
2. Stalker
3. Autumn Sonata
4. The Godfather
5. The Godfather Part II
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. Taxi Driver
8. Barry Lyndon
9. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
10. Eraserhead

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Son of the White Mare
2. Amadeus
3. Blade Runner
4. The Princess Bride
5. My Neighbor Totoro
6. Blue Velvet
7. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
8. Die Hard
9. Fanny and Alexander
10. Koyaanisqatsi

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original article: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/best-movies/50-best-movies-of-the-decade-2000-2009

Paste Magazine's list of the best movies of the 2000s, originally published on 3 November 2009, written by Paste Staff. It can be very interesting to see people's takes from fourteen years ago. The list is pretty different to how I imagine it would be if they made this list now, but that means there are some interesting recommendations that we usually wouldn't get (like Ghost Dog at number 26). I have only seen 27 out of 50 (54%). If we consider the tied films separately, then I have seen 30 out of 53 (56%).

Some statistics:

The highest-rated film out of the 50 on Letterboxd is City of God (number 1) at 4.50/5 and the lowest-rated is Millions (number 36) at 3.20/5. The longest entry on this list is unsurprisingly The Lord of the Rings trilogy, included as one film at number 4, with a combined theatrical running time of 559 minutes. The longest single film entry is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King at 201 minutes and the shortest is The Squid and the Whale (number 50) which is 81 minutes long. Lastly, the oldest film on the list is Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (number 26) which was actually released in 1999 but was erroneously included in this list. (Beau Travail (number 6) was also released in 1999.) The newest movie here is Up.

As far as the Oscars go, there are three Best Picture-winners present - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Departed and No Country for Old Men - with nine more nominees. The list also features three winners of the Palme d'Or - Elephant, L'Enfant and 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.

Directors with multiple films on the list:

2 films - Joel and Ethan Coen, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Christopher Nolan

*Also, Peter Jackson directed all three Lord of the Rings movies, included as one film at number 4 and Quentin Tarantino directed both Kill Bill movies, included as one entry at number 33.

1. City of God
2. Amélie
3. Almost Famous
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

   Number 4 was actually a tie between all three Lord of the Rings movies, so I just included the first film to represent the trilogy.

5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Beau Travail
7. Lost in Translation
8. The Son
9. No Country for Old Men
10. The Royal Tenenbaums

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original article: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/best-movies/the-80-best-movies-of-the-1980s/

Paste Magazine's list of the 80 Best movies of the 1980s, published on 10 November 2021 and written by Michael Burgin, Joan Radell, Jeremy Matthews, Scott Wold, Michael Dunaway & Amy Glynn. The list is mostly made up of American movies, with many of the top spots taken up by the usual fare. Then again, most of these movies are genuinely great. Besides, there is also space for less widely seen Hollywood movies and for foreign films. I have currently seen 48 out of the 80 movies (60%).

Some statistics:

The highest-rated movie on Letterboxd is Ran (number 18) at 4.48/5 while Ladyhawke (number 80) is the lowest-rated at 3.29/5. The longest film to be included is also Shoah at an imposing 566 minutes. The shortest, however, is Monsieur Hire (81 minutes). The oldest movie on the list is Gates from Heaven, which some resources (including Letterboxd) list as being released in 1978 whereas others say February 1980. The newest is The Little Mermaid.

As far as the Oscars go, five Best Picture winners are on the list (Ordinary People, Chariots of Fire, Amadeus, Platoon and The Last Emperor) with sixteen other nominees present. There are only two Palme d'Or winners on the list: Kagemusha and Sex, Lies, and Videotape.

Directors with multiple films on the list:

3 films - Rob Reiner, Martin Scorsese
2 films - Woody Allen, James Cameron, Joel Coen, Roland Joffé, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Spike Lee, David Lynch, Errol Morris, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis

1. Raging Bull
2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
3. Do the Right Thing
4. The Princess Bride
5. The Thin Blue Line
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. The Empire Strikes Back
8. Ordinary People
9. The Right Stuff
10. Raising Arizona

...plus 70 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original article: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/best-movies-1960s/

Paste Magazine's Top 100 Movies of the 1960s, published on 6 September 2022, written by Paste Movies Staff. This list is full of a lot more foreign language films than Paste's lists for the previous few decades, which is nice but also means that I haven't seen a lot of them. In fact I've only seen 58 of the 100.

Some statistics:

The highest-rated entry on the list is Harakiri (number 11) at 4.67/5 while A Thousand and One Nights (number 88) is the lowest-rated at 3.33/5. The longest entry is the three-part Human Condition series - which is included as one film at number 23 - with a combined running time of 574 minutes. The longest single film entry is The Sorrow and the Pity (251 minutes). The shortest movie on the list is The War Game at 48 minutes. The oldest film is The Human Condition I: No Greater Love, which is actually from 1959 but makes the list as a part of the Human Condition film series, which stretched into the 1960s. The newest film on the list is The Honeymoon Killers, which was in fact released in February 1970 but was included in this list erroneously.

As far as the Oscars go, five Best Picture winners made the list (The Apartment, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sound of Music, In the Heat of the Night and Midnight Cowboy) while ten other nominees are present. Only three winners of the Palme d'Or are represented: The Leopard, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and If....

Directors with multiple films on the list:

6 films - Jean-Luc Godard
3 films - Masaki Kobayashi, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Pierre Melville
2 films - Robert Aldrich, Ingmar Bergman, John Ford, John Frankenheimer, Sergio Leone, Roman Polanski, Wolfgang Reitherman, John Sturges, Hiroshi Teshigahara, François Truffaut, Luchino Visconti

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. 8½
3. Psycho
4. Au Hasard Balthazar
5. Yojimbo
6. Lawrence of Arabia
7. Persona
8. Once Upon a Time in the West
9. Cléo from 5 to 7
10. Army of Shadows

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original article: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/1950s/the-100-best-films-of-the-1950s/

Paste Magazine's Top 100 Movies of the 1950s. Paste has done lists for the best films of all decades since the 1920s (besides the '70s for some reason). The very top of the list is mostly the sort of classics that you'll find being recommended in a ton of other places, but there are quite a few interesting entries as well: foreign films that aren't that widely known in the English-speaking world and more "low-brow" genre movies. I have seen 63 of the 100, which is not a great showing, but I will work my way through the remaining movies, especially the major classics that I haven't seen.

Some statistics:

Out of these, the highest-rated on Letterboxd is 12 Angry Men (number 11) at 4.61/5 while the lowest-rated is Houseboat (number 65) at 3.18/5. The longest film present is Ben-Hur (222 minutes) and the shortest is Night and Fog (32 minutes). The oldest entry is Cinderella and the newest is Ben-Hur.

As far as Oscars go, six Best Pictures winners are on the list (All About Eve, An American in Paris, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Ben-Hur) with 16 other nominees represented.

Directors with multiple films on the list:

7 films - Alfred Hitchcock
6 films - Billy Wilder
3 films - Ingmar Bergman, Terence Fisher, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Vincente Minnelli, Nicholas Ray
2 entries - Richard Brooks, Henri-Georges Clouzot, George Cukor, Federico Fellini, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Stanley Kubrick, Max Ophüls, Alain Resnais, George Stevens, Andrzej Wajda, Orson Welles, William Wyler, Fred Zinneman

1. Vertigo
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. Rear Window
4. All About Eve
5. The Bridge on the River Kwai
6. Seven Samurai
7. Tokyo Story
8. Singin' in the Rain
9. The Seventh Seal
10. Rebel Without a Cause

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original article: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/1940s/the-50-best-films-of-the-1940s/

Paste Magazine's Top 50 Movies of the 1950s, published on the 4th of March 2017 and written by Amy Glynn, Andy Crump, Dom Sinacola, Jim Vorel and the Paste Staff. I recently stumbled across Paste's list of the best 1920s movies and I've ended up using their decade lists as a source of a good old movie recommendations. This list is unusually heavy on Hollywood fare with less foreign and diverse representation than the other ones, but it's still got quite a lot of interesting recommendations. I have seen a pretty unimpressive 30 (60%).

Some statistics:

The highest-rated of these movies on Letterboxd is It's a Wonderul Life (number 10) at 4.37/5 while the lowest-rated is The Uninvited (number 50) at 3.49/5. The longest film on the list is Children of Paradise (191 minutes) and the shortest is The Wolf Man (70 minutes). The oldest entry is His Girl Friday and the newest is Adam's Rib.

As far the Oscars go, there are three Best Picture winners on the list (Rebecca, Casablanca and All the King's Men) with 14 other nominees in there.

Directors with multiple films on the list:

4 films - Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock
3 films - George Cukor, John Huston, Orson Welles
2 films - Frank Capra, Michael Curtiz, Akira Kurosawa, Jacques Tourneur

1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. Bicycle Thieves
4. The Philadelphia Story
5. Double Indemnity
6. The Maltese Falcon
7. The Great Dictator
8. His Girl Friday
9. Gaslight
10. It's a Wonderful Life

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Persona
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Psycho
4. La Dolce Vita
5. Wavelength
6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
7. The Graduate
8. The Cremator
9. Z
10. The Battle of Algiers

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. The Red Shoes
5. Brief Encounter
6. Children of Paradise
7. Fantasia
8. Bicycle Thieves
9. The Magnificent Ambersons
10. Late Spring

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is my first time doing the Criterion Challenge. All of the movies are first-time watches so I'll be watching a lot of movies that I've been meaning to watch for a while. I've restricted myself to movies in the actual Criterion Collection, not allowing films that are simply on the Criterion Channel.

I plan on watching them in the order below, one a week for the whole year. I have specified the theme for each film in the notes.

1. Sullivan's Travels

   A film from the CC40 box set

2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch

   A film from the year I was born

3. 3 Women

   Directed by Robert Altman

4. F for Fake

   A film that would be my first choice in the Criterion Closet

5. Z

   Great Soundtrack

6. Rocco and His Brothers

   John Turturro's Adventures in Moviegoing

7. The Circus

   1920s

8. A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

   A film that will be added to the physical collection in 2025

9. The Awful Truth

   1930s

10. Naked

    Andrew Garfield's Closet Picks

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The BBC's list of the best female-directed films, published on 26 November 2019 based on a worldwide critics' poll.

The list made in response to the dominance of male directors in their previous polls. I appreciate this poll for bringing attention to a lot of female directors. Unfortunately it's still very dominated by white directors, though that's because of issues beyond the scope of this list. The list also skews towards newer movies since female filmmakers have mostly become more prominent with time. (Unfortunately, one early filmmaker who did make the cut is Leni Riefenstahl.) I have seen a pitiful 32 out of 100.

Some statistics:

The highest-rated entry on Letterboxd is Paris Is Burning (#38) at 4.49/5 while the lowest-rated is unsurprisingly Triumph of the Will (#45) at 3.06/5 which was a pretty regrettable inclusion. The longest film on the list is Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles at 202 minutes and the shortest is At Land which is a mere 15 minutes. Lastly, the oldest inclusion is Shoes (1916) and the newest is Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Directors with multiple films on the list:

6 films - Agnès Varda
5 films - Kathryn Bigelow
4 films - Sofia Coppola, Claire Denis, Lynne Ramsay
3 films - Chantal Akerman, Andrea Arnold, Jane Campion, Shirley Clarke, Lucrecia Martel, Céline Sciamma
2 films - Maya Deren, Ava DuVernay, Debra Granik, Amy Heckerling, Ida Lupino, Penny Marshall, Kira Muratova, Mira Nair, Kelly Reichardt, Leni Riefenstahl

(Note that Olympia is listed as #37, but it is two separate movies on Letterboxd. I have therefore included Olympia Part One: Festival of Nations in that position.)

1. The Piano
2. Cléo from 5 to 7
3. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
4. Beau Travail
5. Lost in Translation
6. Daisies
7. The Hurt Locker
8. Toni Erdmann
9. Fish Tank
10. Daughters of the Dust

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is the BBC's list of the greatest foreign-language films, published on 30 October 2018 based on a global critics' poll.

This list was made to respond to the dominance of English-language movies on their previous polls. It's a pretty good list actually, although pretty traditional. There are some surprising exclusions and some surprising placements, but it still adheres pretty closely to what you'd expect. That's not necessarily bad, though, and I personally got a lot of great recommendations from here back when I was starting to get into foreign-language films. By now I have seen 84 of the 100 movies.

There are four silent films on the list, which are somewhat debatable as "foreign-language", especially Man with a Movie Camera which has no intertitles.

Some statistics:

The highest-rated entry on Letterboxd is Come and See (#59) at 4.64/5 and the lowest-rated is Touki Bouki (#62) at 3.82/5. The longest film is Shoah at an eye-watering 566 minutes, while the shortest is La Jetée which is just 28 minutes. Lastly, the oldest inclusion is Battleship Potemkin (1925) and the newest is Amour (2012)

Directors with multiple films on the list:

5 films - Ingmar Bergman, Luis Buñuel
4 films - Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovsky
3 films - Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami, Kenji Mizoguchi, Wong Kar-wai
2 films - Michelangelo Antonioni, Vittorio De Sica, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Fritz Lang, Ang Lee, Yasujirō Ozu, Jean Renoir, François Truffaut, Edward Yang, Zhang Yimou

A breakdown of all the represented languages with their top entry in brackets:

French - 28 films (The Rules of the Game #5)
Italian - 11 films (Bicycle Thieves #2)
Japanese - 11 films (Seven Samurai #1)
Chinese - 10 films (Farewell My Concubine #12)
Spanish - 7 films (Pan's Labyrinth #22)
German - 6 films (M #13)
Russian - 5 films (Mirror #20)
Swedish - 5 films (Persona #6)
Persian - 4 films (A Separation #21)
Cantonese - 3 films (In the Mood for Love #9)
Arabic - 1 film (The Battle of Algiers #19)
Belarusian - 1 film (Come and See #59)
Bengali - 1 film (Pather Panchali #15)
Danish - 1 film (Ordet #65)
Greek - 1 film (Landscape in the Mist #100)
Korean - 1 film (Oldboy #29)
Polish - 1 film (Ashes and Diamonds #99)
Portuguese - 1 film (City of God #42)
Romanian - 1 film (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days #47)
Wolof - 1 film (Touki Bouki #62)
No language at all - 1 film (Man with a Movie Camera #73)

1. Seven Samurai
2. Bicycle Thieves
3. Tokyo Story
4. Rashomon
5. The Rules of the Game
6. Persona
7. 8½
8. The 400 Blows
9. In the Mood for Love
10. La Dolce Vita

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is BBC's list of the best comedies of all time, originally published on 22 August 2017 based on a worldwide poll of critics.

One of the issues with a poll like this is that there's going to be a lot of disagreement on what constitutes a comedy, so we get some pretty weird placements where really beloved movies are pretty far down the list (like Pulp Fiction at #46 and The Exterminating Angel at #92) because most participants didn't consider them comedies. So yeah, it's kind of a weird list with some strange placements and some very disputable inclusions. I have seen 53 out of 101 (52%).

Some statistics:

The highest-rated entry on Letterboxd is The Apartment (#27) at 4.43/5 while the lowest-rated is There's Something About Mary (#81) at 3.24/5. The longest movie on the list Toni Erdmann at 162 minutes – which is pretty damn long for a comedy – and the shortest is The Music Box at just 29 minutes. The oldest film is Safety Last! (1923) and the newest is again Toni Erdmann (2016).

The list features three Best Picture winners – Annie Hall, The Apartment and It Happened One Night – and another seven nominees.

There are also three Palme d'Or winners: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, M*A*S*H and Pulp Fiction.

Directors with multiple films on the list:

4 films - Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch
3 films - Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Howard Hawks, Buster Keaton, John Landis, Preston Sturges, Rob Reiner, Jacques Tati, David Zucker
2 films - Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, Wes Anderson, Luis Buñuel, Frank Capra, Joel and Ethan Coen, George Cukor, Christopher Guest, Terry Jones, Jerry Lewis, Leo McCarey, Adam McKay, Trey Parker, Harold Ramis, Billy Wilder, Edgar Wright

(Note that #100 is a tie and so there are 101 films on the list.)

1. Some Like It Hot
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
3. Annie Hall
4. Groundhog Day
5. Duck Soup
6. Life of Brian
7. Airplane!
8. PlayTime
9. This Is Spinal Tap
10. The General

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is the BBC's list of the best movies since 2000, published on 23 August 2016 based on a worldwide poll of critics. Obviously it could only include movies from 2000 to 2016, but the movies are distributed fairly evenly between those years. The early 2010s are the densest time frame, though, and the most represented years are 2012 and 2013 with nine movies each. I have seen a pretty unimpressive 60 out of the 102 films (58%).

Some statistics:

The highest-rated entry on Letterboxd is Yi Yi (#7) at 4.54/5 and the lowest-rated is Spring Breakers (#74) at a pretty low 2.77/5. The longest film is Carlos at a daunting 339 minutes while the shortest is Goodbye to Language at just 70 minutes. Lastly, the oldest films are Yi Yi and Requiem for a Dream which both premiered on the first day of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival (I don't know which screening was earlier in the day), while the newest film is Toni Erdmann.

There are four Best Picture winners on the list – 12 Years a Slave, The Hurt Locker, No Country for Old Men and Spotlight – and another 20 nominees.

There are also seven Palme d'Or winners: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Amour, Blue Is the Warmest Color, The Pianist, The Tree of Life, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and The White Ribbon.

Directors with multiple films on the list:

3 films - Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Joel and Ethan Coen, Michael Haneke, Christopher Nolan, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2 films - Kathryn Bigelow, David Fincher, Todd Haynes, Abbas Kiarostami, Ang Lee, Richard Linklater, Terrence Malick, Steve McQueen, Andrew Stanton, Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, Lars von Trier, Andrey Zvyagintsev

(Note that #100 is a three-way tie and so there are 102 films on the list.)

1. Mulholland Drive
2. In the Mood for Love
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Spirited Away
5. Boyhood
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. Yi Yi
8. The Tree of Life
9. A Separation
10. No Country for Old Men

...plus 92 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is BBC's list of the greatest American movies of all time, published on 21 July 2015 based on a global critics' poll.

The list is reasonably interesting. It presents a more up-to-date and interesting set of recommendations than the AFI's lists – although it does feature The Birth of a Nation – and there are some pretty surprising omissions like Rear Window and A Clockwork Orange. I have seen 80 out of 100.

There are twelve Best Picture winners on the list – 12 Years a Slave, Annie Hall, The Apartment, The Best Years of Our Lives, Casablanca, Forrest Gump, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Gone with the Wind, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Schindler's List and West Side Story – and the winner of Best Unique and Artistic Picture from the 1st Academy Awards – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.

There are also five Palme d'Or winners – Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver and The Tree of Life.

Here are some statistics:

The highest-rated entry on Letterboxd is The Godfather (#2) at 4.59/5 while the lowest is unsurprisingly The Birth of a Nation (#39) at just 2.36/5. The longest movie on the list is Gone with the Wind at 233 minutes and the shortest is Meshes of the Afternoon , being only 14 minutes long, over three-and-a-half hours shorter than Gone with the Wind. The oldest film is The Birth of a Nation (1915) and the newest is 12 Years a Slave (2013).

Directors with multiple films on the list:

5 films - Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Billy Wilder
4 films - Francis Ford Coppola, Howard Hawks, Martin Scorsese
3 films - Charlie Chaplin, John Ford, Orson Welles
2 films - Woody Allen, Robert Altman, John Cassavetes, Victor Fleming, Spike Lee, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Vincente Minnelli, Nicholas Ray, Robert Zemeckis

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Godfather
3. Vertigo
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. The Searchers
6. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
7. Singin' in the Rain
8. Psycho
9. Casablanca
10. The Godfather Part II

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My ranking of every film to win the Palme d'Or that I have seen. Perhaps one day I'll have seen all of them.

This is to many people the most prestigeous award that a film can receive and accordingly most of the winners are great and some of these are amongst the greatest films ever made. But in any list there are those that are less distinguished.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. La Dolce Vita
3. Taxi Driver
4. Parasite
5. Brief Encounter
6. Taste of Cherry
7. Triangle of Sadness
8. The White Ribbon
9. Apocalypse Now
10. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My ranking of every movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture that I have seen. I'll probably see all of them eventually.

Despite the Oscars' increasingly poor reputation and extremely frequent embarassing mistakes, most of these movies are pretty good. Some are excellent, some are less than good. (And yeah, I know my top pick may be a bit strange given the competition.)

1. Rocky
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3. Schindler's List
4. The Godfather
5. The Godfather Part II
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. Amadeus
8. Lawrence of Arabia
9. Parasite
10. Moonlight

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
4. Mulholland Drive
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
6. Caché
7. Shaun of the Dead
8. Zodiac
9. There Will Be Blood
10. Kill Bill: Vol. 1

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Brutalist
2. Anora
3. Challengers
4. No Other Land
5. I'm Still Here
6. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
7. I Saw the TV Glow
8. Flow
9. Nickel Boys
10. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Schindler's List
3. Magnolia
4. The Celebration
5. Chungking Express
6. The Shawshank Redemption
7. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
8. Taste of Cherry
9. Three Colours: Red
10. The Thin Red Line

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original article: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/best-movies/the-best-movies-of-the-1930s/

Paste Magazine's Top 60 Movies of the 1930s, published on the 16th of August 2022. Paste has now done a list of the best movies for every decade since the 1920s (except for the '70s for some reason). As with all their other lists, this gives love to some extremely well-known classics while also recommending some more obscure movies that many of us might not know about otherwise. I've seen a pretty unimpressive 33 (55%) so far but I plan on seeing all of them eventually.

Here are some statistics:

The highest-rated entry on Letterboxd is City Lights (number 23) at 4.33/5 and the lowest-rated is Riders of Destiny (number 58) at 2.97/5. The list's longest movie is The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (144 minutes) while Land Without Bread (29 minutes) is its shortest. The oldest movie is All Quiet on the Western Front and the newest is Destry Rides Again.

As far the Oscars go, there are two Best Picture winners on the list (All Quiet on the Western Front and It Happened One Night) and eight other nominees.

Directors with multiple films on the list:

4 films - Jean Renoir
3 films - Tod Browning
2 films - Luis Buñuel, Frank Capra, Charlie Chaplin, Michael Curtiz, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, Leo McCarey, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu, G.W. Pabst, King Vidor, James Whale

1. M
2. I Was Born, But...
3. The Rules of the Game
4. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
5. Stagecoach
6. Grand Illusion
7. The Lower Depths
8. Modern Times
9. The Wizard of Oz
10. Young Mr. Lincoln

...plus 50 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. M
2. Make Way for Tomorrow
3. Modern Times
4. Grand Illusion
5. Only Angels Have Wings
6. The Rules of the Game
7. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
8. Stagecoach
9. Son of Frankenstein
10. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original article: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/best-movies/the-90-best-movies-of-the-1990s/

Paste Magazine's list of the 90 best movies of the 1990s, published on 12 July 2012 and written by Michael Dunaway. This list doesn't give quite as many interesting recommendations as their lists for earlier decades, partially just because we're generally more familiar with more recent films and the vast majority are American. It's also interesting to see how the community has slightly changed in the last ten and a half years because some of these picks weirdly seem somewhat dated (like Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me somehow making it one place behind Taste of Cherry). There are still some interesting picks, though, and not all the top entries are American. I have seen 50 out of 90 (55%).

Some statistics:

The highest-rated entry on Letterboxd is The Shawshank Redemption (number 5) at 4.53/5, while the lowest-rated is (unsurprisingly) Austing Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (number 73) at 3.22/5. The oldest film is Metropolitan and the newest is The Talented Mr. Ripley. The longest entry present is the Three Colors trilogy, which is placed collectively at number 4: the combined running time is 290 minutes. The longest single film entry is Malcolm X at 202 minutes and the shortest is The Wrong Tros (just 30 minutes).

As far the Oscars go, there six Best Picture winners on the list (The Silence of the Lambs, Unforgiven, Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, Braveheart and American Beauty) as well as 15 other nominees. There are only three Palme d'Or winners present: Barton Fink, Pulp Fiction and Taste of Cherry.

Directors with multiple films on the list:

4 films - Joel Coen
3 films - David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino
2 films - Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Atom Egoyan, Krzysztof Kieślowski (or 4 if counting individual films), John Lasseter, Steven Spielberg, Lana and Lilly Wachowski

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Schindler's List
3. Magnolia
4. Three Colours: Red

   Fourth place was given to the entire Three Colors trilogy. I arbitrarily chose Three Colors: Red to put here as it the highest-rated on Letterboxd and generally the most beloved.

5. The Shawshank Redemption
6. Fargo
7. GoodFellas
8. Hoop Dreams
9. Rushmore
10. The Apostle

...plus 80 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original article: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/best-movies-of-the-1920s/

Paste Magazine's list of the greatest films of the 1920s, published on the 18th of October 2021, written by Jeremy Matthews and the Paste Movies Staff.

I stumbled across this and found a lot of movies I'd never heard of before. While it features some of the common recommendations that you'll definitely know with a ing knowledge of silent cinema (like Sunrise and The ion of Joan of Arc being in the Top 10), it also spotlights a lot of lesser-known movies, some of which are actually really difficult track down. I've only seen 32 so far (42%) but I hope to see all of them eventually as I'm trying to get more into silent cinema.

Here are some statistics:

The highest-rated entry on Letterboxd is The ion of Joan of Arc (number 6) at 4.43/5 and the lowest-rated is Downhill (number 33) at 2.94/5. The longest film is Napoléon (333 minutes!) and the shortest is Walking from Munich to Berlin (4 minutes - it's listed as 3 minutes on Letterboxd but it's actually four). The oldest movie on the list is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the newest is H2O (ittedly this isn't that interesting considering that it's restricted to a ten-year window).

As far as the Oscars go, there is one Best Picture nominee (7th Heaven). Also, the winner of the Academy Award for Best Unique and Artistic Picture (Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans) as well as one nominee (The Crowd) are present.

Directors with multiple films on the list:

15 films - Buster Keaton
7 films - Edward F. Cline (all co-directed with Buster Keaton)
4 films - F.W. Murnau
3 films - Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor
2 films - Clarence Brown, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Epstein, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Leo McCarey, G.W. Pabst, Victor Sjöström, Josef von Sternberg

1. Sherlock Jr.
2. The Crowd
3. Un Chien Andalou
4. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
5. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
6. The ion of Joan of Arc
7. Our Hospitality
8. He Who Gets Slapped
9. Crossroads
10. The Man Who Laughs

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Here's my list for the Official Hater Club Movie Challenge 2025. I might not actually commit to watching all these this year since I'm already doing some other challenges for the year.

Irrespective, my plan is to watch all of these movies in the below order, ideally one per week.

1. Orlando

   A24 Vibes

2. Soul

   Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

3. Paranormal Activity

   Found Footage

4. Election

   MTV Films

5. Jackie Brown

   Pam Grier

6. Being John Malkovich

   Drinking The Kool-Aid

7. Ritual

   Romance

8. Monkey Man

   Jordan Peele

9. The Hunt

   Sigma Female

10. A Dog's Will

    Dark Comedy

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'm participating in the Ani-MAY-tion challenge for the second time. The rules are here, which I will be interpreting by picking new movies for every single prompt, which is why my list contains far more than 31 films.

Every single movie here will be a first-time watch, meaning that there are some shorts on this list, where I had already seen every feature film matching the prompt.

1. A Town Called Panic

   8 countries: Belgium

2. The Wolf House

   8 countries: Chile

3. Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest

   8 countries:

4. Son of the White Mare

   8 countries: Hungary

5. Wolfwalkers

   8 countries: Ireland

6. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

   8 countries: Japan

7. Klaus

   8 countries: Spain

8. It's Such a Beautiful Day

   8 countries: United States

9. Watership Down

   6 decades: 1970s

10. Angel's Egg

    6 decades: 1980s

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'm giving this challenge a go for 2025. This will help me to watch a whole lot of classics that I haven't gotten around to yet. I've tried to space this out as much as possible so that there's a good distribution of years over film history. Whittling it down to 52 was painful, but this is what I've come up with (subject to change).

Here's the original post.

1. Cabiria
2. Shoes
3. I Don't Want to Be a Man
4. Broken Blossoms
5. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
6. Safety Last!
7. The Man Who Laughs
8. Pandora's Box
9. The Blue Angel
10. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

...plus 42 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The Movie Book is an important part of my life as a movie lover. I read it as a teenager and it was my introduction to a lot of classic movies. I had seen barely any of the highlighted films. By now, though, I've seen most of them, so I figured I may as well rank all of them.

There are 116 movies highlighted in the book as listed here. One day I'll have seen all of them and this list will be completed.

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Citizen Kane
3. Stalker
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. The Godfather
6. Blade Runner
7. M
8. The Celebration
9. The Shawshank Redemption
10. Vertigo

...plus 89 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Original article: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/best-of-2010s/best-movies-2010s-decade

Paste Magazine's list of the best movies of the 2010s, written by Paste Staff. Being a list of recent movies, there isn't really a solid concensus here and so it's pretty interesting to look at. I also appreciate that a lot of these choices are fairly unconventional (even if I disagree with quite a few of them). None of these are all that obscure, but they're not necessarily what you'd expect to see here, like Cameraperson in tenth place. I have only seen 45 out of the 100.

Some statistics:

The highest-rated of these films on Letterboxd is Parasite (number 49) at 4.58/5 while the lowest-rated is The Bling Ring (number 100) at 2.82/5. The longest film on the list is O.J.: Made in America (number 11) at 467 minutes and the shortest is The Grand Bizarre (number 90) at just 61 minutes. Lastly, the oldest movie of the bunch is Certified Copy (number 58) and the newest is Parasite (number 49).

As far as the Oscars go, there are three Best Picture-winners here - 12 Years a Slave, Moonlight and Parasite - as well as thirteen more nominees. There also four winners of the Palme d'Or present - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, The Tree of Life, Shoplifters and Parasite.

Directors with mutiple films on the list:

2 films - Paul Thomas Anderson, Yorgos Lanthimos, Martin Scorsese

*Also, both The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence are presented in a tie at number 27, both directed by Joshua Oppenheimer.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Moonlight
3. Get Out
4. First Reformed
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
6. Under the Skin
7. Annihilation
8. The Babadook
9. The Lobster
10. Cameraperson

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This year I actually managed to watch every single Oscar nominee, finishing with Death by Numbers about two and a half hours before the ceremony. Here's my ranking of all the movies.

Also, I've decided that I may as well put my picks for each category here, even though no-one is likely to see this. Not my predictions; my personal choices:

Best Picture: The Brutalist
Best Director: Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)
Best Actor: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
Best Actress: Mikey Madison (Anora)
Best ing Actor: Guy Pearce (The Brutalist)
Best ing Actress: Felicity Jones (The Brutalist)
Best Original Screenplay: The Brutalist
Best Adapted Screenplay: Conclave
Best Animated Feature Film: Flow
Best International Feature Film: I'm Still Here
Best Documentary Feature Film: No Other Land
Best Documentary Short Film: Incident
Best Live Action Short Film: I'm Not a Robot
Best Animated Short Film: Magic Candies
Best Original Score: The Brutalist
Best Original Song: Like a Bird (Sing Sing)
Best Sound: Dune: Part Two
Best Production Design: The Brutalist
Best Cinematography: The Brutalist
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: The Substance
Best Costume Design: Nosferatu
Best Film Editing: Anora
Best Visual Effects: Dune: Part Two

Hey, 13 of my picks ended up winning. Not too bad.

1. The Brutalist
2. Anora
3. No Other Land
4. I'm Still Here
5. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
6. Flow
7. Nickel Boys
8. A Different Man
9. Memoir of a Snail
10. The Substance

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Zone of Interest
2. All of Us Strangers
3. About Dry Grasses
4. Beau Is Afraid
5. Oppenheimer
6. Anatomy of a Fall
7. Past Lives
8. Four Daughters
9. May December
10. Killers of the Flower Moon

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A ranking of every Martin Scorsese movie that I have seen. I obviously haven't seen all of them and there are some pretty major omissions, but I will build it up as I see more of them.

1. Taxi Driver
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Raging Bull
4. GoodFellas
5. The Departed
6. The Irishman
7. The Aviator
8. Casino
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
10. Silence

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is my ranking of all the Hammer movies that I have seen.

There is a huge number of Hammer films, so this list will never be comprehensive. The vast majority of the company's movies that I have seen (and likely will ever see) are horror movies, although there are plenty of thrillers and some straight-up comedies as well. I will keep updating this with every Hammer movie I see.

1. Taste of Fear
2. Frankenstein Created Woman
3. The Curse of Frankenstein
4. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
5. Quatermass and the Pit
6. The Damned
7. The Abominable Snowman
8. The Devil Rides Out
9. Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
10. Captain Clegg

    Not really a horror movie in my opinion; more of an adventure thriller.

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is my ranking of every feature film that David Lynch has directed. Many people include Twin Peaks: The Return in rankings of his movies, but it's not here because it's a season of television and I'm not sure how to compare to feature films.

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Blue Velvet
3. Eraserhead
4. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
5. The Straight Story
6. The Elephant Man
7. Wild at Heart
8. Inland Empire
9. Lost Highway
10. Dune

This a ranking of all the movies I watched for this year's Hooptober challenge, updating it as I go. Here is the list of the movies I watched in order.

1. Martin

   8 decades: 1970s

2. Climax

   8 decades: 2010s

3. The Host

   6 countries: South Korea

4. Black Christmas

   6 countries: Canada

5. Mad God

   8 decades: 2020s

6. Bones and All

   1 film starring a black woman

7. Braindead

   6 countries: New Zealand

8. Titane

   6 countries:

9. Blood and Black Lace

   4 Italian films (2/4)

10. Strangler vs Strangler

    1 film from 1984

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is my list for Hooptober 11. I love doing movie challenges like this, so I've been looking forward to this one for a while.

I fill each criterion separately, that is I'll look for one movie for each one, not mix and match them. I have tried to make each film a first-time viewing for me, although, I broke that rule with the entire franchise that I'm watching (I've already seen the first three Evil Dead movies but not either of the more recent ones).

I plan on watching them in the exact order below. The notes say exactly which criterion each movie is satisfying.

1. At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

   6 countries: Brazil

2. Black Christmas

   6 countries: Canada

3. Titane

   6 countries:

4. House

   6 countries: Japan

5. Braindead

   6 countries: New Zealand

6. The Host

   6 countries: South Korea

7. Island of Lost Souls

   8 decades: 1930s

8. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

   8 decades: 1960s

9. Martin

   8 decades: 1970s

10. Re-Animator

    8 decades: 1980s

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A ranking of every Paul Thomas Anderson movie I've seen. I haven't seen Hard Eight yet but I'll definitely get round to it because he's easily one my favourite directors so it'd be nice to have seen his entire filmography.

1. Magnolia
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Phantom Thread
4. The Master
5. Boogie Nights
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. Licorice Pizza
8. Inherent Vice

This is my ranking of every Hitchcock movie that I've seen. I will definitely build this list up much more as I see more and more of his films, but we have to start somewhere.

1. Vertigo
2. Psycho
3. Rear Window
4. Notorious
5. North by Northwest
6. Dial M for Murder
7. Rebecca
8. Rope
9. The Lady Vanishes
10. Frenzy

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

For some reason my sister and I decided to watch all of the Planet of the Apes movies in build-up to Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Neither of us has ever had a particular attachment to this franchise, but we've landed up owning all of them on physical media (aside from the Tim Burton remake). So we figured we may as well watch all of them.

1. Planet of the Apes
2. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
3. War for the Planet of the Apes
4. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
6. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
7. Escape from the Planet of the Apes
8. Beneath the Planet of the Apes
9. Planet of the Apes
10. Battle for the Planet of the Apes