The list started out with a few oldies like Citizen Kane, 2001, and when it hit Mulholland Drive I was thinking "okay now the movies I know better will start filtering in" and they never really did. I will never claim to be the biggest film buff but some of those titles are pretty obscure.
I've seen an embarrassingly high number of that BFI list and I'm still at like maybe 40%
A lot of those movies I've seen because lists like this make me curious. A lot of 50's and 60's French, Italian and Japanese are always on all these lists. Sometimes deservedly, sometimes confusedly without the context of the time and certain technical and stylistic approaches/revolutions being over rewarded by these lists sacrificing narrative. In The Mood For Love being #5 is a bit of a surprise, but that movie is gorgeous so I'm not mad at it.
Oof, I've only seen 13 of the films on the BFI list all the way through, and bits and pieces of another seven or so. I've heard of a bunch of them, but never Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. WTF?
Of the AFI list I've seen 44/100 all the way through, and a bunch more in part, and I've not heard of maybe only three.
Oof, I've only seen 13 of the films on the BFI list all the way through, and bits and pieces of another seven or so. I've heard of a bunch of them, but never Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. WTF?
From the write up on their site, the reasonings for it sound very... 2022.
Such a sudden shake-up at the top of Sight and Sound’s ten-yearly poll! Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) heads the 2022 list. No other film made by a woman has ever even reached the top ten. In the first instance, this is unsurprising: women film directors have always, obviously, been few and far between; equally obviously, the contributing critics have been predominantly male. It was when Sight and Sound expanded the critics’ pool in 2012 that Jeanne Dielman first entered the list, at number 35; its rise to the top now is a triumph for women’s cinema.
But perhaps the ultimate surprise goes even further: the film that collected the most votes in 2022 is made with a cinematic style and strategy closer to avantgarde than mainstream traditions and, furthermore, at just under three and a half hours, demands dedicated viewing. Although confrontational, idiosyncratic and extraordinary films have consistently appeared lower in the lists, the experimental tradition, to which Jeanne Dielman belongs, is – apart perhaps from the recent appearance of Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929) – absent. While it has brought this tradition to the top of the list, Jeanne Dielman is inescapably a woman’s film, consciously feminist in its turn to the avant garde. On the side of content, the film charts the breakdown of a bourgeois Belgian housewife, mother and part-time prostitute over the course of three days; on the side of form, it rigorously records her domestic routine in extended time and from a fixed camera position. In a film that, agonisingly, depicts women’s oppression, Akerman transforms cinema, itself so often an instrument of women’s oppression, into a liberating force.
Night of the Hunter is one film on that list that I think everyone needs to watch. Del Toro said it's one of his favorite films ever and you can see the influence in his work. Some of the shots are so beautiful and haunting it will leave you wondering how they were able to do it back then. Interestingly the movie was a bomb upon release and it was the directors only movie he made.
I'm at 36 on the BFI and I only think I'm that high because of my stint of working at Blockbuster for a couple years in high school, and working there with a good friend who later did the film school -> director pipeline, so we spent a lot of time with Billy Wilder, Kurosawa and Fritz Lang and the like.
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I'm at 36 on the BFI and I only think I'm that high because of my stint of working at Blockbuster for a couple years in high school, and working there with a good friend who later did the film school -> director pipeline, so we spent a lot of time with Billy Wilder, Kurosawa and Fritz Lang and the like.
Wilder is one of my favorite directors. Just saw THE APARTMENT in a theatre as part of a film series I'm curating and was even more blown away than when I watch it at home. I'm also the weirdo that prefers DOUBLE INDEMNITY to SUNSET BLVD.
Edit: Looking at the list I think there is a lot of non US/North American film on there. Which I suppose you could consider niche. I'd probably have VERTIGO lower as I like REAR WINDOW more but what Hitch is doing technically probably pushes it ahead.
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17 from BFI 42 from AFI. Neither list has The Texas Chainsaw Massacre which is ridiculous since that’s the greatest horror film ever made.
Agreed, it's dumb how much the Horror genre doesn't come up in exercises like this.
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I would be curious the know what peoples top ten of all time are
Difficult to say if this is it. But I do love these movies.
1.The Shining
2.The God Father
3.Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
4.The Light House
5.The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring
6.Spirited Away
7.12 Angry Men
8.The Silence of the Lambs
9.The Phantom Thread
10.Walk Hard: The Story of Dewy Cox
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1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
4. The Matrix
5. Interstellar
6. Hot Fuzz
7. The Dark Knight
8. Moulin Rouge!
9. Rocky
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel
I'm not much of a cinephile or anything, that's a pretty accessible / mainstream list movies lol.
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Don’t Worry Darling was a bit… meh. The acting was great, but it was more like a really long episode of Black Mirror. Towards the end I kept thinking how similar it was to some episodes.
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
4. The Matrix
5. Interstellar
6. Hot Fuzz
7. The Dark Knight
8. Moulin Rouge!
9. Rocky
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel
I'm not much of a cinephile or anything, that's a pretty accessible / mainstream list movies lol.
I forgot all about The Grand Budapest Hotel. I might need to re work my list. Mad Max: Fury Road was also a great movie.
got a lot to catch up on
