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]]>One favourite film of each year in reverse chronological order.
1930-2024
- How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
- Red Rooms
- Return to Seoul
- Titane
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- The Farewell
- Skate Kitchen
- Columbus
- American Honey
- Son of Saul
...plus 85 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A selection of 100 films that I really need to see. I limited myself to one film per director to avoid overcrowding, generally picking the film I most want to see by each director. I also, for the most part, avoided inserting films from the current decade because that could easily be a list in itself.
This list is in no particular order.
Films I've viewed since the inception of this list: 55
- Tokyo Story
- Wild Strawberries
- L'Avventura
- Blue Is the Warmest Color
- Last Tango in Paris
- Come and See
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- Ashes of Time
- Pixote
...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>personal favourites; after the loosely ranked top 10 or so the order is unimportant and interchangeable
still lots to see so will update as necessary
- Climax
- Inherent Vice
- Uncut Gems
- The Assassin
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
- First Reformed
- 4:44 Last Day on Earth
- The Irishman
- Columbus
- Skate Kitchen
...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- Close-Up
- Metropolitan
- Dreams
- White Hunter, Black Heart
- Cry-Baby
- Bullet in the Head
- Song of the Exile
- The Golden Boat
- The Sheltering Sky
- Revenge
...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>- The Hudsucker Proxy
- No Country for Old Men
- Blood Simple
- Burn After Reading
- The Big Lebowski
- True Grit
- Hail, Caesar!
- Fargo
- Barton Fink
- A Serious Man
...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Anything that isn't a fancy restaurant applies. Suggestions welcomed!
- Falling Down
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- Clerks II
- Gas Food Lodging
- Heat
- American Beauty
- Back to the Future
- Pleasantville
- Diner
- Miracle Mile
...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>5 films by 5 directors that I want to see.
Gregg Araki (2/5)
Joe Dante (3/5)
Abel Ferrara (4/5)
Louis Malle (1/5)
Johnnie To (1/5)
- The Living End
- Totally F***ed Up
- The Doom Generation
- Nowhere
- Kaboom
- The Howling
- Explorers
- Innerspace
- Small Soldiers
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action
...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>The year I was born.
- Heat
- Fallen Angels
- Loving You
- The Doom Generation
- Showgirls
- Strange Days
- Casino
- Se7en
- Dead Man
- The Addiction
...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>All films screening at HKIFF 2018, which runs from Monday 19th March to Thursday 5th April. I am lucky enough to have a trip that coincides with the duration of the festival this year, so hoping to catch quite a few films, especially from the Brigitte Lin retrospective.
Listed in alphabetical order.
Films not in the database:
Cloud of Romance (Chen Hung-Lieh, 1977)
Father (Yang Li-Chou, 2017)
Girls' Encounter (Eda Yuka, 2018)
Looking for Lucky (Jiang Jiachen, 2017)
Mama (Jin Xingzheng, 2017)
The Ringside Story (Take Maseharu, 2017)
- 12 Days
- 24 Frames
- 29+1
- 3/4
- 78/52
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God
- All the Wrong Spies
- Amiko
- Angels Wear White
- April's Daughter
...plus 166 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>The best films I viewed for the first time in 2017. As always, ranking is loose.
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- The Cranes Are Flying
- Terrorizers
- Love Hotel
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch
- Kids Return
- Good Time
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- Nowhere
- Short Cuts
...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Fire Walk With Me represents both the film and Twin Peaks as a whole. The series is absolutely necessary to gain the full, stunning experience of FWWM and it results in Lynch's most powerful film in my opinion. His work is intertextual and so ranking these brilliant works is a difficult task but this is my attempt. Bring on season 3 of Twin Peaks!
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- Animal Kingdom
- Blood Simple
- Blue Collar
- Bone Tomahawk
- Boyz n the Hood
- Breathless
- A Bronx Tale
- The Butterfly Murders
- The Chaser
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]]>Watched two excellent films in a row that coincidentally featured female names so I thought I'd try and compile a list of films that feature them. Would be interesting to investigate how many of these films are successful from a feminist perspective.
If a film has various remakes of the same name, I'll probably just insert the original unless a particular remake is worthy in itself, as I'm trying to keep this to relatively noteworthy films.
In no particular order. Suggestions encouraged!
- (500) Days of Summer
- A Fish Called Wanda
- Alice
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Alice in Wonderland
- Alice's Restaurant
- All About Eve
- Along Came Polly
- Amélie
- Angela's Ashes
...plus 160 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Films I've seen before but either don't particularly well or want to watch again for re-evaluation. List is in no particular order, just listing as they come to me.
- Miami Vice
- Blackhat
- Rear Window
- Seven Samurai
- On the Waterfront
- American Beauty
- Fargo
- Trainspotting
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Aliens
...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Born on the very last day of 95 so that just made the cut and is actually one of my favourite years of film in history. This list is not necessarily what I think is the "best" film of each year, or even my utmost favourite if I think it has loads of exposure already. Just a selection of films I love going through the years, 95-16 (I've only seen Logan from 2017 so far and thought it was merely okay so will wait until I've seen something that I think is deserving that I can place there).
...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I saw 325 films (including a few rewatches) in 2016, which is my highest number of films viewed for one single year so far. I saw a variety of films from all over the world of varying quality and am happy to say that I saw more good than bad. My most watched decade was the 1980s and my most watched directors were Michael Mann and David Lynch. This ranked list of 50 films represents the very best of what I saw for the first time between the 1st January and 31st December 2016.
Honourable Mentions:
Top Gun (T. Scott, 1986)
Get Carter (Hodges, 1971)
Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey, 1935)
The Glass Shield (Burnett, 1994)
Branded to Kill (Suzuki, 1967)
Shock Corridor (Fuller, 1963)
Killer Joe (Friedkin, 2012)
Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda, 1958)
The Keep (Mann, 1983)
Charley Varrick (Siegel, 1973)
- High and Low
- Inherent Vice
- Full
- Lost Highway
- Moonlight
- Millennium Mambo
- Fish Tank
- Paterson
- Rififi
- The Red Shoes
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]]>He played THREE iconic roles in this decade, I challenge anyone to beat his consecutive run of Han Solo, Indy and Deckard from 80-82, and also starred in a number of another excellent features. I've seen every Harrison Ford film made in the 1980s and here is a ranked list of those films.
]]>www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films
As picked by 177 film critics from around the world. Happy to see films like 25th Hour, Shame and Inherent Vice make the cut. Overall a pretty unsurprising list, but these are always of value nevertheless.
A detailed list of each critic and what they voted for can be found here:
www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films-who-voted
- Mulholland Drive
- In the Mood for Love
- There Will Be Blood
- Spirited Away
- Boyhood
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- The Tree of Life
- Yi Yi
- A Separation
- No Country for Old Men
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]]>I thought I would tackle the definitive all time favourites list and as expected it was a frustrating process. In ordering these movies, the ranking does not adhere to my ratings of the films as I tried to order them as favourites, rather than what might be the best critically speaking.
The order is NOT definitive and would probably change on a daily basis if I saw fit to adjust. It is there as a rough guideline for myself, and does work as a basic ranking but it is impossible to rank and be entirely happy with the outcome.
I think my current oeuvre is limited in of classic films and foreign language films but it is constantly expanding and I will update this list as I view new favourites.
1940s: 11
1950s: 23
1960s: 24
1970s: 37
1980s: 32
1990s: 45
2000s: 43
2010s: 35
Directors with Most Entries:
11 - Martin Scorsese
6 - Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Mann, Billy Wilder
4 - Darren Aronofsky, John Carpenter, Joel & Ethan Coen, Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Sidney Lumet, Terrence Malick
3 - Woody Allen, David Fincher, Spike Lee, David Lynch, Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino
Films formerly on the list:
Tootsie (Pollack, 1982)
Rumble Fish (Coppola, 1983)
The Last Tycoon (Kazan, 1976)
Show Me Love (Moodysson, 1998)
Catch Me if You Can (Spielberg, 2002)
The Pledge (Penn, 2001)
Diabolique (Clouzot, 1955)
Boyhood (Linklater, 2014)
Paris Blues (Ritt, 1961)
Frantic (Polanski, 1988)
Half Nelson (Fleck, 2006)
Flirting with Disaster (O'Russell, 1996)
The Aviator (Scorsese, 2004)
About Elly (Farhadi, 2009)
Bad Company (Benton, 1972)
Marathon Man (Schlesinger, 1976)
The Killers (Siodmak, 1946)
King Creole (Curtiz, 1958)
Rescue Dawn (Herzog, 2006)
Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa, 2008)
Blow (Demme, 2001)
Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
Killer Joe (Friedkin, 2012)
Fargo (Coens, 1996)
Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1958)
Midnight in Parris (Allen, 2011)
- Raging Bull
- Heat
- Boogie Nights
- Chinatown
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Godfather Part II
- The Godfather
- Seven Samurai
- Blade Runner
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
...plus 240 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Films where a protagonist has a limited amount of time to save the day, get away or achieve a certain objective. Some of these are more integral to the plot than others and some take actively show the clock counting down (e.g. commando) as the hero rushes to get things done before it is too late.
This formula is most common in action/adventure movies but finds it ways into other genres ranging from political satire to classic western. It gives a movie deft structure where time is an important character and the increasing lack of it becomes more and more tense.
Suggestions more than welcome!
- Run Lola Run
- Commando
- Panic in the Streets
- High Noon
- Escape from New York
- Midnight Run
- The Killing
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Armageddon
- Thirteen Days
...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Used to be a much bigger fan of his than I am now, although I still respect and love some of his work. The Hateful Eight, to me, represents the worst of his qualities; it's a self indulgent and offensive pastiche and represents a huge step backwards in maturity for Tarantino as a filmmaker.
Jackie Brown is possibly the most atypical film for him, which is possibly why it is my favourite, as it feels more personal and less exploitative, although it is still an homage.
Overall QT is probably an overrated director in some quarters but I don't feel the need to lambaste him for wearing his influences on his sleeve because he's unapologetic about this and the cinematic world would undoubtedly be a different place without Tarantino around.
Other directors ranked:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Coen Brothers
Thought I'd do the other good Anderson. List is in order.
Updated 2016.
Other directors ranked:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Coen Brothers
Quentin Tarantino
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of my utmost favourite directors, and one of the rare ones whose entire oeuvre I have viewed. All the films on the list I love, but this is how I would rank them.
Updated 2016.
Other directors ranked:
Wes Anderson
Coen Brothers
Quentin Tarantino
A compilation of films with less than 1000 views on Letterboxd which I rate highly. Assembled in a random order, they're all worth watching.
I cheated with the final two entries but they're both only just over 1000 so therefore still qualify as being underseen.
- A Quiet Life
- Keane
- The Last Tycoon
- The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
- Somebody Up There Likes Me
- The Young Savages
- Q & A
- Bad Company
- Lymelife
- Sugar
...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>These are the best films I saw for the first time in 2015, ranked in order, although as always with such rankings some of the positions are interchangeable.
I didn't see as much films as I would've liked to but I still saw a lot of great films.
Honourable mentions:
A.I.
Forty Guns
Little Children
Office Space
Man on the Moon
Moneyball
Safe
Smoke
- The Godfather Part II
- Sweet Smell of Success
- Mysterious Skin
- Eyes Without a Face
- C.R.A.Z.Y.
- Fruitvale Station
- Something Wild
- Enter the Void
- The Spectacular Now
- Band of Outsiders
...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I love the idea of this challenge as it's much more realistic for someone like me who tends not to view a bunch of similarly themed movies in succession. It will also challenge me to step outside the box with some of the themes.
This list is preliminary and very much subject to change. I will update accordingly.
- The 400 Blows
A film from Roger Ebert's 'Great Movies' selection.
- Top Hat
A 1930s musical.
- High and Low
One previously unseen Akira Kurosawa movie.
- La Dolce Vita
One of the 50 highest grossing movies of the 1960s.
- City Lights
A film from one of PUNQ's top tens prior to 1940.
- The Double Life of Véronique
An Eastern European masterpiece (Kieslowski).
- Ichi the Killer
From Midnight Eye's best Japanese films of the decade.
- Nosferatu
An early horror film.
- Hardcore
A 1970s crime piece from the Hardboiled Wonderland list.
- The Searchers
A Western film from John Ford.
...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>An excellent decade for movies, and one which I still have many classics to see.
Honourable mentions:
The Last Detail
The Last Picture Show
Paper Moon
The Driver
Le Cercle Rouge
The Last Tycoon
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
California Split
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The American Friend
Midnight Express
- Chinatown
- The Godfather
- Taxi Driver
- Apocalypse Now
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Annie Hall
- Mean Streets
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- The Sting
- American Graffiti
...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>A list of spiritual trilogies, where the films are connected by some theme or motif, but generally do not follow on in of story or share the same characters (with some exceptions). Feel free to add suggestions.
- Days of Being Wild
- In the Mood for Love
- 2046
- A Generation
- Kanal
- Ashes and Diamonds
- Three Colours: Blue
- Three Colours: White
- Three Colours: Red
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>I have watched a lot less pre-70s stuff than I would like, but I've still seen a decent amount. So whilst this is currently far from definitive, I will continuously update. But for now, my top 25 films of the 1960s.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Le Samouraï
- Psycho
- The Apartment
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Seconds
- Rosemary's Baby
- The Exterminating Angel
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Continuing my best of decade lists. Again, I haven't seen so much from the 50s, but I have seen enough to make a worthwhile list for the decade and I will continuously update as I watch more films from the era.
- Seven Samurai
- Rear Window
- 12 Angry Men
- Some Like It Hot
- Sweet Smell of Success
- The Wages of Fear
- On the Waterfront
- Throne of Blood
- North by Northwest
- From Here to Eternity
...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>In general, I think the 1980s is a lesser decade in of film. However, there are still many great movies from it, quite a few of which I have yet to see.
Honourable mentions:
The Breakfast Club
E.T.
Drugstore Cowboy
Stand by Me
Manhunter
Frantic
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade
Rumble Fish
Videodrome
- Raging Bull
- Blade Runner
- The Shining
- The King of Comedy
- Blue Velvet
- Full Metal Jacket
- Do the Right Thing
- Blow Out
- The Killing Fields
- Die Hard
...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>The idea of being lonely whilst in close proximity with millions of other people is a strange one, yet it adheres to modern decorum, where interacting with strangers is seen as crazy or insane.
One does not have to be completely alone to be lonely. Surrounded by people, it is possible to still feel lost, aimless, and striving for a purpose in the hustle bustle of this fast moving society.
Film is a medium through which we can connect with strangers on a big (or small) screen and there are many brilliant movie characters who have also felt lost in the big city. I wanted to put together a list of movies which capture that bittersweet essence of being alone, lost and searching for intimacy in a concrete jungle.
The city doesn't necessarily have to be a gigantic one (i.e. NYC, Tokyo). Places like Las Vegas, Barcelona etc. definitely fit as long as the city itself is key to their journey of self discovery. List is in alphabetical order, and feel free to contribute any suggestions you might have!
- 25th Hour
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
- The Apartment
- Biutiful
- Chungking Express
- The Dreamers
- Exotica
- Fight Club
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
- Hard Eight
...plus 18 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>For Henrik's poll. I imagine in the future, once I've got through more of my watchlist, my list of greatest directors will be radically different as there are so many acclaimed ones I've yet to see a movie by or I've only seen one or two by. For now, Martin Scorsese is my definitive no.1, he's my filmmaking idol and I just love his films. The rest of the ranking is kind of arbitrary but I tried my best to do it in a fitting order.
I chose my favourite film by each respective director to represent them.
Honourable mentions:
Wes Anderson
David Fincher
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Terence Malick
Steven Soderbergh
Gus Van Sant
- GoodFellas
Martin Scorsese
- Boogie Nights
Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Big Lebowski
Joel & Ethan Coen
- The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky
- Heat
Michael Mann
- Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder
- Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock
- 12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet
- Annie Hall
Woody Allen
- Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
The decade is still young, and I have much to view but these are my favourites so far. Continually updated.
- Shame
- Animal Kingdom
- Blue Valentine
- The Social Network
- Drive
- Black Swan
- Cosmopolis
- Spring Breakers
- The Artist
- The Master
...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Hate to bombard this one with Pixar but animation is far from my most liked genre and so I haven't really seen a huge amount.
]]>I love the 1990s! My personal top 25. Made this a while ago and I have no reasons to alter it for jvince's list , so this is my entry.
Honourable mentions:
Velvet Goldmine
Schindler's List
Carlito's Way
The Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo
Toy Story
Three Colours Trilogy
Out of Sight
The Ice Storm
Saving Private Ryan
- Fight Club
- Boogie Nights
- GoodFellas
- Magnolia
- The Big Lebowski
- Pulp Fiction
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Léon: The Professional
- Bringing Out the Dead
- Gattaca
...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Continuing the series. The term 'artist' conjures up an idea of painters and related drawers, but it can also refer to dancers, actors, musicians, writers etc. Any film where the main (or important character in an ensemble cast) character is an artist qualifies.
As always, add suggestions in the comments and the list in in random order.
- Andrei Rublev
- Before Night Falls
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
- Adaptation.
- Barton Fink
- Vincent & Theo
- Lust for Life
- Basquiat
- Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Pollock
...plus 149 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>So letterboxd has compiled their official favourites of the 2000s in jvince's excellent list and I thought I'd give my own personal top 100 to compare. Listed in alphabetical order because putting these in an actual order would be excruciating, but some I do prefer to others.
Honourable Mentions:
21 Grams
Adaptation
The Beach
The Bourne Identity
Chop Shop
Knocked Up
Matchstick Men
Road to Perdition
Summer Hours
The Wackness
2000: 10
2001: 6
2002: 6
2003: 5
2004: 9
2005: 17
2006: 8
2007: 15
2008: 12
2009: 12
USA: 76
: 4
South Korea: 3
UK: 3
Brazil: 2
Hong Kong: 2
Japan: 2
Mexico: 2
Australia: 1
Argentina: 1
: 1
Ireland: 1
Romania: 1
South Africa: 1
And the directors with the most appearances are Martin Scorsese, Darren Aronofsky, Gus Van Sant, Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott and Christopher Nolan with 3 films each.
- (500) Days of Summer
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- 25th Hour
- Almost Famous
- Amélie
- American Gangster
- American Psycho
- Amores Perros
- An Education
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Continuing my "films about" series. This time the attempt is to compile a list of films about addiction.
There are many types of addiction portrayed in film, from sex addiction to gambling to drug addiction. Drugs are probably the most common and bring immediate thoughts to mind, but the others are just as relevant.
To qualify, a film must be about addiction in one way or another. Not necessarily the main plotline (although that is preferable) but an important/vital point of the movie.
As always, list is in random order.
Add suggestions in the comments!
- Requiem for a Dream
- Leaving Las Vegas
- The Lost Weekend
- Trainspotting
- Traffic
- The Panic in Needle Park
- Shame
- Candy
- Less Than Zero
- Permanent Midnight
...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>For lack of a better title.
Basically, I just wanted to compile a list of films that are about the sex industry in one way or another. That doesn't necessarily have to be their main theme, but it has to be at least an important part of the movie. For example, a film won't be applicable to this list if it merely features a sex scene or two.
Prostitution, pimps, pornography, strippers, sexual attractions and desires, sexuality itself etc etc.
The list is in random order.
Feel free to add suggestions in the comments section!
- Boogie Nights
- Belle de Jour
- Taxi Driver
- Shame
- Pretty Woman
- Mighty Aphrodite
- Street of Shame
- Magic Mike
- Secretary
- Leaving Las Vegas
...plus 68 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Going to make a few of these "films about ..." lists. After having done sex (hehe), though that remains open to more suggestions, next up is journalism.
Again, the film has to include journalism as either a major plot point, a major theme or something that is important. It has to be relevant to the movie overall.
List is in random order.
Add suggestions in the comments section!
- His Girl Friday
- Sweet Smell of Success
- All the President's Men
- Almost Famous
- The Secret in Their Eyes
- Network
- Citizen Kane
- Ace in the Hole
- Broadcast News
- Good Night, and Good Luck.
...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Another very tricky one, but I am liking these community lists. If it was merely foreign and Australian films were allowed, I would've had Animal Kingdom in there. But as it is foreign language, here's my top ten. I've also kept it to one film per director.
]]>For RagingTaxiDriver's list.
Science fiction is a genre which intrigues me, and although it's not one of my favourites, it contains some films which I do love.
]]>For Driver's western list.
I'm a fan of this recent influx of polls, deciding which films are the ultimate best in letterboxd eyes. As for westerns, I love the genre. There are a few important ones I've yet to see (The Wild Bunch, The Searchers) but I will be able to get through those by the deadline and edit accordingly. For now, my top 10 westerns of all time.
]]>Decided to give up as it's made film watching become something like a chore and actually made me less interested in watching films. I don't want to have to review every single film I watch and be forced to make a schedule etc etc. That's not what film watching is about, and for me, it's no fun doing it this way. Good luck to anyone crazy enough to follow this thing through!
]]>Directors are listed in alphabetical order. There are loads of great directors I haven't viewed enough by, or that I love but haven't viewed enough of (e.g. Kurosawa, loved all 4 of the films I've seen by him but that's not enough).
I shall continually update this list.
For now, in alphabetical order, from left to right:
Woody Allen
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Darren Aronofsky
Joel & Ethan Coen
Brian De Palma
David Fincher
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
Richard Linklater
Sidney Lumet
Terence Malick
Michael Mann
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino
Gus Van Sant
Billy Wilder
P.S. MAKE SURE TO VIEW IN GRID VIEW AND NOT IN LIST VIEW!
- Annie Hall
- Manhattan
- Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Midnight in Paris
- Radio Days
- Boogie Nights
- Magnolia
- The Master
- Punch-Drunk Love
- Hard Eight
...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>My entry. Kinda sad no foreign films made it, but oh well. I got it down to a shortlist of 24 movies, and then it became really difficult to get rid of stuff, so this isn't really definitive, but nevertheless.
]]>All the best picture winners which I have seen ranked from best to worst. Will update, but I'll never get to viewing all of them, as many I have no interest in. Still, thought it might be fun to rank the ones I have seen.
- The Godfather
- The Apartment
- Casablanca
- On the Waterfront
- The Departed
- Annie Hall
- No Country for Old Men
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- The Sting
- The Artist
...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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