I thought there might be interest in seeing what was judged to be the best films the last time there was an Afterword best film poll. The poll winners were the standard popular films, but what was more interesting was each voter’s number one favourite film. Here is an alphabetical list (first comment):
Last time films were rated – 2015
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12 Angry Men (davidks, wickerman1138)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Billy Shears, Burt Kocain, moseleymoles, Sewer Robot)
5 Easy Pieces (markunderwood)
Alien (Neil Dyson)
Aliens (maggieloveshopey)
Amelie (Contraryarticle)
The Apartment (madfox)
Apocalypse Now (aging hippy, steerpike, The Pelvis)
Bicycle Thieves (bilko6)
The Big Heat (Biggles)
The Big Lebowski (mikethep)
Blade Runner (Stephen Merrick)
Blue Collar (Jed Clampett)
Bonnie and Clyde (Rufus T Firefly)
Brazil (stuart graham)
Casablanca (Michael, Patrick Crowther)
Chinatown (badartdog)
Cinema Paradiso – director’s cut (FBW)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Moose the Mooche)
The Commitments (jackthebiscuit)
Crash (Corganiser)
The Deer Hunter (kalamo)
Diner (Ted Smith)
Distant Voices. Still Lives (Sting Ono)
Double Indemnity (ianess)
The English Patient (bungliemutt)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Bingo Little)
The Fisher King (fatdan)
Goodfellas (Six Dog)
Gregory’s Girl (Bamber, ganglesprocket)
Grosse Point Blank (SimonL)
Groundhog Day (tiggerlion)
Happiness (z1000jeff)
Head (Barry Vaughan)
The Italian Job (original, natch) (harold holt)
It’s a Wonderful Life (Wheldrake)
King of Comedy (ip33)
The Ladykillers (Beezer)
Lawrence of Arabia (walker1)
The Life of Brian (chrisf)
A Matter Of Life and Death (Ahh_Bisto, Gatz, TheArtfulBlogger, yorkio)
Mulholland Drive (makem)
Nashville (Blue Boy)
Once (Campo)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo`s Nest (Baron Harkonnen)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Charlie Gordon)
Performance (sheev)
Phantom of the Paradise (Sniffity)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (kidpresentable)
The Princess Bride (Paul Wad)
Quadrophenia (Rigid Digit)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (dadwardo, Declan)
The Return (duco01)
The Right Stuff (fazackerly, sitheref2409)
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Austin)
Sarah’s Key (Smudger)
The Searchers (skatalite2)
Seven Samurai (Brucefield, Junglejim)
Sex Lies & Videotape (Rosbif)
Shane (Captain Haddock)
This is Spinal Tap (dogfacedboy )
Strangers On A Train (RealGeordie)
Subway (salwarpe)
Tampopo (Locust)
Together (Vorgongod)
Toy Story 2 (Mike Todd)
Tunes of Glory (Fitter Stoke)
Vertigo (dai)
Withnail & I (Capitalwow, the artist form…)
I thought about nominating Tampopo this time as well, but I didn’t really see this poll as being about our personal favourites, more which films we could all enjoy (and as much as I hope that most people would love Tampopo if they saw it, I doubt there are enough fans of it here to get it into the top…)
Interesting that neither Local Hero nor Third Man are on that list even though they look like potential front runners in KFD’s list. Figures. Our absolute favourites of anything are often likely to be things many people will dislike.
That is interesting reading. When did this take place? I notice, to my shame, that I didn’t even contribute.
One of the things that was lost when the site crashed, I presume. I’m glad you held onto it. It’s a wonderfully eclectic list.
An interesting theory, Blue Boy. There’s not much on that list that I would not enjoy, but I am extremely (excessively, some would say) eclectic in my taste.
Which Crash, @corganiser?
@Moose the Mooche. Apologies for the delay – I’ve been away awhile. As dark as my personality is you may be relieved to know it is the 2004 Paul Haggis film and not the 1996 film of the same name. The Haggis film challenged (and still does whenever I re-watch) my attitude to prejudice and whether I’m as clean as I think I am.