Thanks for all the entries. And special thanks for the 32 people who posted as I asked with dashes in thetheir offering, the rest made my life very hard.;)
Silly me chose the deadline to be on the day when I had 2 huge work deadlines and also the day before I go on (faurly local) vacation for 2 weeks. So apologies for the errors that will surely be there.
Results in the comments. We had 94 entries and 490 unique films were chosen.
Joint 450th 1 point
The Personal History of David Copperfield
28 Days Later
3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
A Night at the Opera
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Amadeus
Arrival
Attack The Block
Big Wednesday
Chico and Rita
Crimes and Misdemeanours
Farewell My Concubine
Fish Tank
Good Night And Good Luck
L’Appartement
Little Big Man
Mad Max Fury Road
Nil by Mouth
O Lucky Man!
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Once Were Warriors
Play Misty for me
Police Story
Raising Arizona
REC
Scott Pilgrim vs the world
Seabiscuit
Slade in Flame
Sleeper
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The King of Marvin Gardens
The Manchurian Candidate
The Odd Couple
The Purple rose of Cairo
The Red Balloon
The Unforgiven
The Wedding Singer
True Romance
V For Vendetta
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Whistle Down the Wind
Joint 413th 2 points
Almost Famous
An American Werewolf in London
Angels With Dirty Faces
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Betty Blue
Blithe Spirit
Changeling
Donnie Darko
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Great escape
In the Heat of The Night
Kill List
Le Mans 66 (Ford v Ferrari)
Leave no trace
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Master and Commander
Pather Panchali
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Sleeping with the enemy
Sleuth
Superman
Taxi
The American
The Equaliser
The Man Who Would Be King
The Matrix
The Mummy
The Swimmer
The Terminator
The Thief of Bagdad
The Untouchables
The Wind Rises
Top Secret
Traffic
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu. sciamma
Radio On
Joint 382nd 3 pts
A Muppet Christmas Carol
Another Time
Apocalypto
Barton Fink
Blackhawk Down
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
ET
From Russia With Love
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Guys and Dolls
Hell Drivers
Hot Fuzz
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Jacob
King Kong
Leon
Miracle on 34th Street
Oldboy
Parasite
Pinocchio
Ride the High Country
Shoplifters
Solaris
Spring and Port Wine
The Lives of Others
The Man with Two Brains
The Warriors
Three Colours: Red
Three Days Of The Condor
Werckmeister Harmonies
On body and soul
Joint 351st 4 points
24-Hour Party People
Aguirre- the Wrath of God
Bull Durham
Bullitt
Cabaret
Gallipoli
Gladiator
Gran Torino
Le salaire de la peur
Les Valseuses
Little Miss Sunshine
Modern Times
Nashville
Passport to Pimlico
Paths of Glory
Performance
Raging Bull
Senna
The Empire Strikes Back
The Grapes Of Wrath
The Lady from Shanghai
The Parallax View
The Philadelphia Story
The Return Of The Pink Panther
The Sting
Under The Skin
Zabriskie Point
Cry Freedom
Radio Days
Ida Pawlikowski
Insider
Joint 290th 5 points
3 Days Of The Condor
All Night Long
Battle Royale
Best In Show
Bicycle Thieves
Brewster McCloud
Calvary
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Catch Us If You Can
Clerks
Cross Of Iron
Double Indemnity
Dune (David Lynch)
Eraserhead
Europa Europa
Excalibur
Fantasia
In Bruges
Infernal Affairs
L’atalante
Last Picture Show
Le Grand Meaulnes
Le Petit Baigneur
Les Valseuses
Love Honour and Obey
Millers Crossing
Mona Lisa
Papillon
Phantom Of The Paradise
Rocky
Savage Messiah
Saving Private Ryan
Seventh Seal
Skyfall
Stardust Memories
Steamboat Bill Jr
The Battle of Algiers
The Bourne Identity
The Elephant Man
The Evil Dead 2
The Haunting
The Master
The Producers
The Railway Children
The Shootist
The Titfield Thunderbolt
The Wrong Trousers
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Tommy
Top Gun
Touch of Evil
Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
Trip to the Moon
Warlords of Atlantis
West Side Story
What’s Up doc
Whos afraid of Virginia Woolf
Zardoz
Lawrence Of Arabia
The Big Sleep
Happy as Lazzarro
So into the top 300.
Joint 249th 6 pts
4 Weddings and a Funeral
American Movie
Animal House
Bad Timing
Before The Devil Knows You
Blow-up
Casino Royale
Dawn of the Dead
Dead Poets Society
Empire strikes back
Fanny and Alexander
Flash Gordon
Harry Brown
Inception
La Dolce Vita
Les Diaboliques
Live Flesh / Carne Tremula
My Favorite Year
My Neighbour Totoro
Night Of The Hunter (original)
No way out
Repulsion
Requiem For A Dream
Reservoir Dogs
Sink The Bismark
So I Married an Axe Murderer
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Cruel Sea
The Discrete Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Incredibles
The Jungle Book
The Secret in Her Eyes
The Thing
Trainspotting
Tree Of Life
Videodrome
L.A. Confidential
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Toni Erdman
Joint 210th 7 pts
Atlantic City
Brighton Rock
Christiane F
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
Dean Spanley
Falling Down
Fear of a black hat
Festen
Gattaca
Green book
Hannah And Her Sisters
Im alright Jack
I Know Where I’M Going
Jason and the argonauts
M. Hulot’s holiday
Metropolis
Night of the Living Dead
Night On Earth
Se7en
Shaun of the Dead
The Bride Of Frankenstein
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
The French Connection
The Knack
The Long Good Friday
The Magnificent Seven
The Straight Story
The Wages Of Fear
There Will Be Blood
Trading Places
White Heat
Wild at Heart
Woodstock
You
The Birds
Build My Gallows High aka Out Of The Past
Enemy of the State
Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Their finest
Into the top 200
Joint 178th 6 pts
A Canterbury Tale
Bill & Teds excellent adventure
Cape Fear
Carlito
Comrades
Cool Hand Luke
Doctor Zhivago
Fitzcarraldo
Hobsons Choice
Jean De Florette
Jules et Jim
Life Is Beautiful
Mars Attacks
Matewan
Muppet Christmas Carol
Night Moves
Robbery
Ronin
The Basketball Diaries
The Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The Maltese Falcon
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Motorcycle Diaries
The Sweet Smell Of Success
Toy Story 2
Vice Versa
When Harry met Sally
When We Were Kings
Zatoichi
Zulu
Andrei Rublev
Guardians of the Galaxy
Joint 143rd
A Room With A View
Amarcord
Avanti!
Bad Day at Black Rock
Blue Velvet
Brazil
Catch-22
Come and See
Diva
Glengarry Glen Ross
Independence Day
KOYAANISQATSI
Lamerica
Lone Star
Melody
Once Upon a time in America
Rashomon
Saturday Night Sunday Morning
Schindler’s List
Stalker
Still Walking
The Lobster
The Long Day Closes
The Man Who Knew Too Little
The Martian
The Night Porter
The Prestige
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Thelma And Louise
Tokyo Story
Wings Of Desire
Notting Hill
The 39 Steps
Pride
Roman Holiday
Joint 116th 10 pts
American Graffiti
Before Sunset
Bonnie and Clyde
Deadpool
Distant Voices Still Lives
Fight Club
George of the Jungle
Harvey
Hoop Dreams
La Grande Bellezza
La Strada
Lost In Translation
Manchester by the Sea
Paris Texas
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
Quadrophenia
Rome Open City
The Big Heat
The Fortune Cookie
The Graduate
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Return
The Shining
The Wicker Man
Tunes of Glory
Up
Still life
Joint 108th 11 pts
Galaxy Quest
Manhattan
Stop making Sense
The Piano
The Usual Suspects
Volver
Way Out West
Boyhood
Joint 101st 12 pts
Apollo 13
City Of God
Das Boot
Head
The White Ribbon
The King of Comedy
Rear Window
And now we get to the top 100
Joint 83rd 13 pts
12 Angry Men
Amelie
His Girl Friday
Kagemusha
Monty Python and Holy Grail
No Country for Old Men
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Ran
Still Crazy
The Commitments
The Double Life of Veronique
The Excorcist
The Italian Job
The Long Goodbye
The Wild Bunch
Trust
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
All the President’s Men
78th 14 points
12 Angry Men
Amelie
His Girl Friday
Kagemusha
Monty Python and Holy Grail
No Country for Old Men
Picnic At Hanging Rock
Ran
Still Crazy
The Commitments
The Double Life of Veronique
The Excorcist
The Italian Job
The Long Goodbye
The Wild Bunch
Trust
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
All the President’s Men
69th 15 pts
Alien
Badlands
Black Narcissus
Citizen Kane
Dazed and Confused
Midnight Run
Stand By Me
Toy Story
Unforgiven
64th 16 points
Chinatown
Cinema Paradiso
School For Scoundrels
The Ladykillers
A Hard Day’s Night
60th 17 pts
Blazing Saddles
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
The Princess Bride
Where Eagles Dare
57th 18 pts
Get Carter (original)
The Dark Knight
The Right Stuff
Joint 53rd 19pts
Fargo
Kes
Sunset Boulevard
Don’t Look Now
Several with 13 points duplicated at 14 points.
Copy and paste error, see full list below.
78 Dr Strangelove 14
Love and Death 14
Tampopo 14
The Deerhunter 14
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 14
Deep Breath 40th to 50th place
40 Aliens 24
If 24
42 Annie Hall 23
Field Of Dreams 23
Once Upon A Time In The West 23
Taxi Driver 23
Back to The Future 1985 23
47 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 22
Brief Encounter 22
49 Billy Liar 21
50 Seven Samurai 20
The Searchers 20
Three billboards outside Ebbing Missouri 2017 20
30 Heat 30
31 Airplane! 28
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 28
Mulholland Drive 28
34 Duck Soup 26
Kind Hearts and Coronets 26
36 Psycho 25
The Conversation 25
The Good the Bad and the Ugly 25
Spirited Away 25
21st to 29th
21 Gregorys Girl 40
22 Goodfellas 39
The Blues Brothers 39
North By North West 39
25 Young Frankenstein 35
The Apartment 35
27 Pans labyrinth 33
28 Terminator 2 32
29 Raiders Of The Lost Ark 31
11th to 20th
11 It’s A Wonderful Life 63
12 Life Of Brian 59
13 One Flew Over The Cuckoo`s Nest 56
14 Withnail & I 54
15 Groundhog Day 51
This is Spinal Tap 51
17 Pulp Fiction 49
18 Local Hero 46
19 Vertigo 44
20 Jaws 43
6th to 10th
6 Apocalypse Now 77
7 Some Like It Hot 74
8 The Godfather Part II 68
9 Casablanca 65
10 The Big Lebowski 64
In 5th place with 85 points Kubrick’s masterpiece
2001: A Space Odyssey
Just pipping it in 4th with 86 pts the 3rd Coppola film in the top 10
The Godfather
101 points for this 1946 classic in 3rd
A Matter of Life and Death
We stay in the 40s for 2nd, Carol Reed’s best with just one point more (102)
The Third Man
And the clear winner (no, I don’t understand this either, it’s pretty good I suppose) with 120 pts.
BLADE RUNNER
Your cut out and keep summary:
1 Bladerunner 120
2 The Third Man 102
3 A Matter of Life and Death 101
4 The Godfather 86
5 2001 A Space Odyssey 85
6 Apocalypse Now 77
7 Some Like It Hot 74
8 The Godfather Part II 68
9 Casablanca 65
10 The Big Lebowski 64
11 It’s A Wonderful Life 63
12 Life Of Brian 59
13 One Flew Over The Cuckoo`s Nest 56
14 Withnail & I 54
15 Groundhog Day 51
This is Spinal Tap 51
17 Pulp Fiction 49
18 Local Hero 46
19 Vertigo 44
20 Jaws 43
21 Gregorys Girl 40
22 Goodfellas 39
The Blues Brothers 39
North By North West 39
25 Young Frankenstein 35
The Apartment 35
27 Pans labyrinth 33
28 Terminator 2 32
29 Raiders Of The Lost Ark 31
30 Heat 30
31 Airplane! 28
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 28
Mulholland Drive 28
34 Duck Soup 26
Kind Hearts and Coronets 26
36 Psycho 25
The Conversation 25
The Good the Bad and the Ugly 25
Spirited Away 25
40 Aliens 24
If 24
42 Annie Hall 23
Field Of Dreams 23
Once Upon A Time In The West 23
Taxi Driver 23
Back to The Future 1985 23
47 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 22
Brief Encounter 22
49 Billy Liar 21
50 Seven Samurai 20
The Searchers 20
Three billboards outside Ebbing Missouri 2017 20
53 Fargo 19
Kes 19
Sunset Boulevard 19
Don’t Look Now 19
57 Get Carter (original) 18
The Dark Knight 18
The Right Stuff 18
60 Blazing Saddles 17
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner 17
The Princess Bride 17
Where Eagles Dare 17
64 Chinatown 16
Cinema Paradiso 16
School For Scoundrels 16
The Ladykillers 16
A Hard Day’s Night 16
69 Alien 15
Badlands 15
Black Narcissus 15
Citizen Kane 15
Dazed and Confused 15
Midnight Run 15
Stand By Me 15
Toy Story 15
Unforgiven 15
78 Dr Strangelove 14
Love and Death 14
Tampopo 14
The Deerhunter 14
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 14
83 12 Angry Men 13
Amelie 13
His Girl Friday 13
Kagemusha 13
Monty Python and Holy Grail 13
No Country for Old Men 13
Picnic At Hanging Rock 13
Ran 13
Still Crazy 13
The Commitments 13
The Double Life of Veronique 13
The Excorcist 13
The Italian Job 13
The Long Goodbye 13
The Wild Bunch 13
Trust 13
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 13
All the President’s Men 13
101 Apollo 13 12
City Of God 12
Das Boot 12
Head 12
The White Ribbon 12
The King of Comedy 12
Rear Window 12
108 Galaxy Quest 11
Manhattan 11
Stop making Sense 11
The Piano 11
The Usual Suspects 11
Volver 11
Way Out West 11
Boyhood 11
116 American Graffiti 10
Before Sunset 10
Bonnie and Clyde 10
Deadpool 10
Distant Voices Still Lives 10
Fight Club 10
George of the Jungle 10
Harvey 10
Hoop Dreams 10
La Grande Bellezza 10
La Strada 10
Lost In Translation 10
Manchester by the Sea 10
Paris Texas 10
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid 10
Quadrophenia 10
Rome Open City 10
The Big Heat 10
The Fortune Cookie 10
The Graduate 10
The Outlaw Josey Wales 10
The Return 10
The Shining 10
The Wicker Man 10
Tunes of Glory 10
Up 10
Still life 10
143 A Room With A View 9
Amarcord 9
Avanti! 9
Bad Day at Black Rock 9
Blue Velvet 9
Brazil 9
Catch-22 9
Come and See 9
Diva 9
Glengarry Glen Ross 9
Independence Day 9
KOYAANISQATSI 9
Lamerica 9
Lone Star 9
Melody 9
Once Upon a time in America 9
Rashomon 9
Saturday Night Sunday Morning 9
Schindler’s List 9
Stalker 9
Still Walking 9
The Lobster 9
The Long Day Closes 9
The Man Who Knew Too Little 9
The Martian 9
The Night Porter 9
The Prestige 9
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 9
Thelma And Louise 9
Tokyo Story 9
Wings Of Desire 9
Notting Hill 9
The 39 Steps 9
Pride 9
Roman Holiday 9
178 A Canterbury Tale 8
Bill & Teds excellent adventure 8
Cape Fear 8
Carlito
Comrades 8
Cool Hand Luke 8
Doctor Zhivago 8
Fitzcarraldo 8
Hobsons Choice 8
Jean De Florette 8
Jules et Jim 8
Life Is Beautiful 8
Mars Attacks 8
Matewan 8
Muppet Christmas Carol 8
Night Moves 8
Robbery 8
Ronin 8
The Basketball Diaries 8
The Hunt for the Wilderpeople 8
The Maltese Falcon 8
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 8
The Motorcycle Diaries 8
The Sweet Smell Of Success 8
Toy Story 2 8
Vice Versa 8
When Harry met Sally 8
When We Were Kings 8
Zatoichi 8
Zulu 8
Andrei Rublev 8
Guardians of the Galaxy 8
210 Atlantic City 7
Brighton Rock 7
Christiane F 7
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid 7
Dean Spanley 7
Falling Down 7
Fear of a black hat 7
Festen 7
Gattaca 7
Green book 7
Hannah And Her Sisters 7
Im alright Jack 7
I Know Where I’M Going 7
Jason and the argonauts 7
M. Hulot’s holiday 7
Metropolis 7
Night of the Living Dead 7
Night On Earth 7
Se7en 7
Shaun of the Dead 7
The Bride Of Frankenstein 7
The Disappearance of Alice Creed 7
The French Connection 7
The Knack 7
The Long Good Friday 7
The Magnificent Seven 7
The Straight Story 7
The Wages Of Fear 7
There Will Be Blood 7
Trading Places 7
White Heat 7
Wild at Heart 7
Woodstock 7
You 7
The Birds 7
Build My Gallows High aka Out Of The Past 7
Enemy of the State 7
Breakfast At Tiffany’s 7
Their finest 7
249 4 Weddings and a Funeral 6
American Movie 6
Animal House 6
Bad Timing 6
Before The Devil Knows You 6
Blow-up 6
Casino Royale 6
Dawn of the Dead 6
Dead Poets Society 6
Empire strikes back 6
Fanny and Alexander 6
Flash Gordon 6
Harry Brown 6
Inception 6
La Dolce Vita 6
Les Diaboliques 6
Live Flesh / Carne Tremula 6
My Favorite Year 6
My Neighbour Totoro 6
Night Of The Hunter (original) 6
No way out 6
Repulsion 6
Requiem For A Dream 6
Reservoir Dogs 6
Sink The Bismark 6
So I Married an Axe Murderer 6
The Bourne Ultimatum 6
The Cruel Sea 6
The Discrete Charm Of The Bourgeoisie 6
The Grand Budapest Hotel 6
The Hudsucker Proxy 6
The Incredibles 6
The Jungle Book 6
The Secret in Her Eyes 6
The Thing 6
Trainspotting 6
Tree Of Life 6
Videodrome 6
L.A. Confidential 6
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 6
Toni Erdman 6
290 3 Days Of The Condor 5
All Night Long 5
Battle Royale 5
Best In Show 5
Bicycle Thieves 5
Brewster McCloud 5
Calvary 5
Captain America: The Winter Soldier 5
Catch Us If You Can 5
Clerks 5
Cross Of Iron 5
Double Indemnity 5
Dune (David Lynch) 5
Eraserhead 5
Europa Europa 5
Excalibur 5
Fantasia 5
In Bruges 5
Infernal Affairs 5
L’atalante 5
Last Picture Show 5
Le Grand Meaulnes 5
Le Petit Baigneur 5
Les Valseuses 5
Love Honour and Obey 5
Millers Crossing 5
Mona Lisa 5
Papillon 5
Phantom Of The Paradise 5
Rocky 5
Savage Messiah 5
Saving Private Ryan 5
Seventh Seal 5
Skyfall 5
Stardust Memories 5
Steamboat Bill Jr 5
The Battle of Algiers 5
The Bourne Identity 5
The Elephant Man 5
The Evil Dead 2 5
The Haunting 5
The Master 5
The Producers 5
The Railway Children 5
The Shootist 5
The Titfield Thunderbolt 5
The Wrong Trousers 5
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 5
Tommy 5
Top Gun 5
Touch of Evil 5
Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge 5
Trip to the Moon 5
Warlords of Atlantis 5
West Side Story 5
What’s Up doc 5
Whos afraid of Virginia Woolf 5
Zardoz 5
Lawrence Of Arabia 5
The Big Sleep 5
Happy as Lazzarro 5
351 24-Hour Party People 4
Aguirre- the Wrath of God 4
Bull Durham 4
Bullitt 4
Cabaret 4
Gallipoli 4
Gladiator 4
Gran Torino 4
Le salaire de la peur 4
Les Valseuses 4
Little Miss Sunshine 4
Modern Times 4
Nashville 4
Passport to Pimlico 4
Paths of Glory 4
Performance 4
Raging Bull 4
Senna 4
The Empire Strikes Back 4
The Grapes Of Wrath 4
The Lady from Shanghai 4
The Parallax View 4
The Philadelphia Story 4
The Return Of The Pink Panther 4
The Sting 4
Under The Skin 4
Zabriskie Point 4
Cry Freedom 4
Radio Days 4
Ida Pawlikowski 4
Insider 4
382 A Muppet Christmas Carol 3
Another Time 3
Apocalypto 3
Barton Fink 3
Blackhawk Down 3
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 3
ET 3
From Russia With Love 3
Goodbye Mr. Chips 3
Guys and Dolls 3
Hell Drivers 3
Hot Fuzz 3
Hunt for the Wilderpeople 3
Jacob 3
King Kong 3
Leon 3
Miracle on 34th Street 3
Oldboy 3
Parasite 3
Pinocchio 3
Ride the High Country 3
Shoplifters 3
Solaris 3
Spring and Port Wine 3
The Lives of Others 3
The Man with Two Brains 3
The Warriors 3
Three Colours: Red 3
Three Days Of The Condor 3
Werckmeister Harmonies 3
On body and soul 3
413 Almost Famous 2
An American Werewolf in London 2
Angels With Dirty Faces 2
Au Revoir Les Enfants 2
Betty Blue 2
Blithe Spirit 2
Changeling 2
Donnie Darko 2
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 2
Great escape 2
In the Heat of The Night 2
Kill List 2
Le Mans 66 (Ford v Ferrari) 2
Leave no trace 2
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels 2
Master and Commander 2
Pather Panchali 2
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon 2
Sleeping with the enemy 2
Sleuth 2
Superman 2
Taxi 2
The American 2
The Equaliser 2
The Man Who Would Be King 2
The Matrix 2
The Mummy 2
The Swimmer 2
The Terminator 2
The Thief of Bagdad 2
The Untouchables 2
The Wind Rises 2
Top Secret 2
Traffic 2
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu. sciamma 2
Radio On 2
450 The Personal History of David Copperfield 1
28 Days Later 1
3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 1
A Night at the Opera 1
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore 1
Amadeus 1
Arrival 1
Attack The Block 1
Big Wednesday 1
Chico and Rita 1
Crimes and Misdemeanours 1
Farewell My Concubine 1
Fish Tank 1
Good Night And Good Luck 1
L’Appartement 1
Little Big Man 1
Mad Max Fury Road 1
Nil by Mouth 1
O Lucky Man! 1
Oh Brother Where Art Thou 1
Once Were Warriors 1
Play Misty for me 1
Police Story 1
Raising Arizona 1
REC 1
Scott Pilgrim vs the world 1
Seabiscuit 1
Slade in Flame 1
Sleeper 1
The Hound of the Baskervilles 1
The King of Marvin Gardens 1
The Manchurian Candidate 1
The Odd Couple 1
The Purple rose of Cairo 1
The Red Balloon 1
The Unforgiven 1
The Wedding Singer 1
True Romance 1
V For Vendetta 1
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane 1
Whistle Down the Wind 1
Well done @dai.
Splendid work.
Brilliant @dai – I think we have ended up with an intriguing list.
Well done for all your calculations. It’s inevitable there will be minor oversights when you’re dealing with such a big dataset. Three/3 that I noticed:
3/Three Billboards….
3/Three Days of the Condor
(The) Unforgiven
Sorry for this!
Holy data dump Batman!
Fantastic! My number one is number one! It’s almost like in 1972 when I would buy a T.Rex single the same week it was number one.
Great work.
@Dai Many thanks for all the hard work on this, and apologies for being one of those who made it harder by forgetting the rules – I was a very last minute contributor in the end, having a read them when the poll was first posted, and totally forgot.
Brill work – have a well-earned holiday!
Good work@dai. I had never heard of “A matter of life and death”! I’d better check it out.
Be prepared to wipe away a tear or tow.
Oh you lucky man! It’s a film I watched as a kid, really enjoyed, forgot the name of and was thrilled when it came on TV years later and I started watching it to find it was THAT film I enjoyed so much as a kid.
And good work Dai. I watch loads of films, have a very large Blu Ray/DVD collection, but when it comes down to it I appear to be a conformist, as I nominated half of the top 10.
And, who knew this? I didn’t until I just found it out by accident whilst typing the last sentence, if you press the space bar on your iPad and don’t release your finger you can control the cursor! Who didn’t someone tell me that years ago?? [pause] It works on your phone too!!! All those years of getting frustrated cos my clumsy fingers keep dropping the cursor in the wrong place!!! And to prove the point, I’ve just been able to go back and change the e to an o in cursor without having to change the entire word, so it no longer looks like I’m talking about a sweary bloke,
Outstanding work Dai. Of the films I have already seen there are very, very few on that list I wouldn’t happily watch today. Only three of my top 10 were single-nominations, and of those the only one I was surprised didn’t get more support was In Bruges.
Salutations for doing a great job.
Diolch Dai.
Good work. You should rest now – maybe watch a film or two. If you want any suggestions…
I have a brief but strong memory watching MOLOD when I was quite young. Years later I was trying to remember the name of film but could only recall small details. This was in the pre internet days and it was years before I found out what it was.
Great work Dai.
Well done Dai, also thanks to everyone who voted – lots of great suggestions for holiday screenings!
The one they stands out for me (apart from the curious winner) is Pan’s Labyrinth in 27th. Never heard of it!
Fascinating (possibly not) that there’s literally bugger all from around 1995 onwards in the top 50 there.
Maybe films need time? I thought last year was a supreme year for new releases, but too soon for them to be in my top 10.
Films, like a classic album, takes a bit of time. 1995 (ie 25 years) is ample for greatness to reveal itself.
I’m guessing not many have – too many remakes/re-hashes, or crowd-pleasing fluff. I’m not sure Film Studios are prepared to take much of a risk anymore. It’s about the income, not the art.
Either I’m getting grumpier or many comedies just aren’t funny anymore. Old jokes, knowing nods to the past, clever wordplay and punnery replaces by a few badly placed) fucks.
(Yes, I am an old git – it wasn’t like that in my day when it was all fields)
But its not all doom (only when I’m talking) …
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood has (in my head, and on my excel spreadsheet) just occupied a Top 10 position
@dai I didn’t vote as not a massive film fan but that’s a labour of love, well done!
Well done. I enjoyed that.
I agree with a lot of the list. I read out the top twenty to my wife and she commented that it was a “very male” list!
She’s not wrong!
That is a very interesting comment from Mrs Cowslip. What makes a film more male or female?
With that in mind, I’d now like to ask: how many movies on our list pass the Bechdel test?
The term was joined by American comic writer Alison Bechdel.
https://dykestowatchoutfor.com/about/#:~:text=Alison%20Bechdel%27s%20comic%20strip%20Dykes,lesbians%20all%20over%20the%20planet.&text=In%20her%20work%2C%20Bechdel%20is,self%20to%20the%20world%20outside.
To pass the test a film must
1) have two named female female characters
2) who talk to each other
23 about something other than a man.
http://bechdeltest.com/
I discovered the term when we were talking about movies that we’ve screened or were planning to screen at Bio Reflexen. We don’t demand that a film fulfils this criterion but are glad when it does.
As a little side-note here, I bought Alison Bechdel’s autobiography, “Fun Home”, which is in graphic novel form.
Mrs duco01 has just read it, and liked it a lot.
I’ll read it sometime soon.
It’s a great graphic novel. As is her follow up Arr You My Mother.
Still on the subject of gender, shall we check how many of the Afterword’s Top 100 films were directed by a woman?
Well, I’ll tell you.
None. Not one.
The highest placing for a film directed by a woman is joint 108th – there it is, a long way down the list: “The Piano”, directed by Jane Campion.
And then we have to go down to joint 116th place to find the next film directed by a woman: “Lost in Translation” by Sofia Coppola.
I can’t be bothered to check how many of the 490 films on our list were directed by women, but it’s clearly only a handful.
Oh well … it shows the patriarchal nature of the movie industry, I suppose…
Sharon and I saw the stage production of this in New York a couple of years ago. Worth seeing if it comes your way,
Great work @dai! Like you I’m bemused by the winner, and it’s inevitably a random list – lots of movies that would unusually be on a list like this are missing (as already mentioned, Citizen Kane for one) but some great stuff here as well. Including A Matter of Life and Death, @Twang, which is a joy.
And thanks to this thread for helping to distract me from having to watch bloody Arsenal lift the FA Cup again…..
I shall have a look!
@twang, when you’ve watched it, let us know how you got on. Will be fascinating to hear from a AMOLOD virgin.
Will do!
Smashing job – like a lot of list polls, it’s the ones down the bottom that spark an interest (usually followed by the phrase “bugger, forgot about that one)
None of my choices made the Top 10, which means either I know bugger all about decent films or you lot are just plain wrong
One in the top ten:
The Third Man
Two more towards the bottom of the top thirty:
Once Upon A Time In The West and Pan’s Labyrinth
Three that only I voted for:
Brazil, Cross Of Iron and Night Of The Hunter
Night of the Hunter is an absolute classic Good choice, Mike.
And you, Dai, deserve an enormous golden hamper from us all in recognition of your heroic efforts.
I am this very moment, packing up a jar of gourmet-style, pickled reindeer testicles for you.
I am salivating. Yes Night of the Hunter is wonderful. Laughton’s only directional effort and he nailed it. Brazil great too.
When me and my mates went to watch Brazil at the pictures the projector broke down around 2 minutes from the end. There weren’t many people in the showing, so the manager arranged for everybody to get a pass, so we could either come back and watch it again, or we could use it against another film. As a mate at school had been to watch it the night before, we just asked him how it ended and decided to keep them for the next film. When we all went to watch the next film we showed the lass on the door the passes, but she didn’t take them off us. I don’t think she’d ever seen the passes before. We managed to watch 4 or 5 films for free (probably 8 or 10 really, as there was usually a second feature) until the last time we tried it the manager was lurking in the foyer. We thought we’d got away with it, but he chased us up the stairs and said “I’ll be taking those tickets lads”!
Wonderful story, Paul. From the days when there were double features!
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/movies/double-feature-movies-in-a-film-forum-retrospective.html
Some places still do double features. When I lived in Toronto I had 2 cinemas within walking distance, one showed new releases, the other showed second run movies in double features. Most bizarre one I remember was The Artist and Shame!
Best double feature I ever saw was The Wicker Man followed by Don’t Look Now. Quite a night.
That’s really a good one.
Mad Max and Mad Max 2 was pretty good (when I hadn’t seen either)
Not a double bill as such, but I once saw consecutively at the same cinema on the same day The BFG and a re-release of Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession. Mark Kermode’s response to my tweet stating this was “Blimey Charlie…”
Of course it was 🙂
9 votes for Amarcord and 10 for La Strada! There are Fellini folks in our midst, and therefore Nino Rota fans as well (of course he wrote the music for The Godfather too)
Well done @dai. Buy yourself a beer!
The on that surprised me is The Third Man. A terrific film, but I didn’t realise it was held in such high and wide esteem that it would take the second position.
Having done the Third Man tour in Vienna, travelled on the Riesenrad and watched the film there, possibly the film has become more than just images on a screen.
How many other films have a museum dedicated to them?
http://www.3mpc.net/englsamml.htm
We did a sort of similar thing a few years ago. Not an organised tour, as such though. We were going for a day out, so we went to Dovedalr in Derbyshire. There are some stepping stones across the river Dove and they featured prominently in one of my favourite zombie films (I’m a big fan of horror films), The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue. It was quite a busy day when we went, so a few families looked at us as if we’d escaped from a secure unit when me and the kids were taking pictures of us pretending to be zombies. It was great fun!
In the way home we stopped off at a church that also featured in a memorable scene in the film. So I have some photos of the kids pretending to be zombies trying to get into the room (although the door to the room is now bricked off) where the main characters in the film were hiding. I should have played the zombie really, as my face was now covered in cuts and bruises after I had a fall (I’m not very steady on my feet) on the walk. Incidentally, we found that Little John, of Robin Hood fame, was buried in the graveyard.
I suspect you are right there, Hubert.
There are many cinema museums, but to niche one’s self to one film, or even one actor or director, is mighty rare.
I was pleasantly surprised. I love it and it was one of my ten, but I didn’t know it was so well regarded.
1. Thanks for all your hard work, dai!
2. One thing’s for certain: Afterworders prefer their films to be in English.
In the Top 20 films, all are in English.
Out of the Top 50 films, a mere three are in languages other than English (Pan’s Labyrinth, Spirited Away and the Seven Samurai)
What a parochial lot we are!
I think we are all probably a little more cosmopolitan than the results suggest.
If each of us had been allowed to submit our top 50 films, we’d have seen a lot more of Almodóvar, Truffaut, Fellini, Kurosawa, Pasolini. Bergman, Kaurismäki, Argento. Malle, Godard etc.
Of course, if we had each submitted 50 films, poor Dai would have lost it completely and been admitted to a sanatorium.
Talking of Pedro, Pain and Glory was excellent.
Yes. I expected a better showing for Kieslowski and very nearly voted for his lesser known A Short Film About 10 Minutes Long.
Spirited Away is a finer work of art than 95% of the films people nominated.
Thanks again to dai for all his hard work. I am certainly no film buff, so I didn’t make a list. I am far too lazy to work out a top 10, though I probably couldn’t name 20 films off the top of my head. Looking at the top 20, I probably would have chosen 3 of them. Also in the top 20, there are 7 that I have never seen, and a couple I have never even heard of, but I’ve now been to the tax dodgers and rectified this. I plan to watch them all over the next fortnight or so.
Given the main demographic of us lot, I am amazed that nobody remembered about Clint Eastwood and his orang outan. Or maybe you did remember but thought it was crap. It would have made my top 10.
I haven’t seen 45 of the 489 films in the list – just 2 of the top 100 (Loneliness Of the Long Distance Runner and Tampopo), both of which I own, but it’s nice to have a list of suggested viewing other than Sight & Sound’s Top 250, which they only do every 10 years (still 75 of those to go). https://www.listchallenges.com/sight-and-sound-critics
Agreed. This will be a great list to refer to when I’m looking for something to watch.
That Listchallenges is impressively varied.
How about Depression Era Food?
https://www.listchallenges.com/depression-era-food
Makes a difference from 100 Sitcoms you must See before you Die.
That S & S list is a doozy. The Letterboxd version offers a short description of each film when you click on its poster..
https://letterboxd.com/garrincha89/list/sight-and-sound-2012-critics-top-250-films/
I must be Mr. Typicalafterworder. I own 36 of the top 40 on Blu Ray (Could have sworn I had Groundhog Day, but I’m buggered if I can find it) and 76 of the top 100.. There are a few of the others I haven’t seen – The Double Life of Veronique, Tampopo, Kagemusha, Brief Encounter (although I have seen a certain scene umpteen times!), Dazed and Confused and Trust.
The one that I don’t get the love for (even though I own it) is Local Hero. I just don’t get it at all. I love Gregory’s Girl, but I just find Local Hero a bit flat and dull. Like most films or albums that are highly praised, to my bemusement, I feel the problem must lie with me, so I watch/listen every so often to see whether I get it yet and, if not, it gets filed away for a couple of years. Some I eventually come to, especially in music – The Fall, Tom Waits and jazz music are obvious examples, whereas some just go round forever, and Local Hero, at the moment, is one of those.
Tampopo is well worth seeing – terrific movie.
Did you ever see That Sinking Feeling? Pre-dates Gregory’s Girl…
All 4 of Bill Forsyth’s opening Scottish quadrilogy (That Sinking Feeling / Gregory’s Girl / Local Hero / Comfort & Joy) are in my top 20, the latter being my Christmas movie of choice.
As I mentioned above Housekeeping is a brilliant film from his later works with a great sense of place and time. I’d rate it as second only to Gregory’s Girl of his films, with Being Human as the clear worst, featuring as it does, multiple roles played by Robin Williams – nightmare casting for me. Local Hero for all its wistful charm and feelgood reputation is notable for ending with the main character’s return to a corporate city life that he probably hates, most likely unchanged by his experiences. There’s melancholy in all of Forsyth’s films. I really like Local Hero for what it’s worth. It was a leap into the mainstream and a quirky, enjoyable tale with some moral lessons delivered in not too cheesy a fashion.
I saw Housekeeping in the cinema when it came out, and couldn’t quite get on board with it, but I may have been too young and immature for it (though bits of it still stick in my mind). I did however get the blu-ray version a while back, which I haven’t watched yet, but will get around to.
If it’s any consolation, Paul, I’ve had the same experience with Blade Runner – down to re-watching with extreme concentration wondering what’s wrong with me, before ultimately concluding it’s mighty pretty in places (and enormously influential as a result), but it’s just not a very good film – and it’s The Afterword’s runaway number one..!
I first watched it as a teenager and thought it was dull, but that will have been the original theatrical version, which isn’t as good. But when I watched the director’s cut 10 years later, or one of the umpteen director’s cuts I should say, I decided it was a masterpiece, as is the soundtrack album. I’ve bought it so many times, but the set I have at the moment has a making of documentary that is twice as long as the film. It’s engrossing though, because it was made just too early to make use of the computer animated special effects that started coming in. Just learning that the opening sweep over the city was a pile of two dimensional cardboard cut outs amazed me. It’s one of the few films I could happily watch every week (30 Days of Night and The Princess Bride fall into that category too).
When the sequel was announced I was dreading it. Blade Runner is so perfect I didn’t want it ruining. But I went along to the IMAX to watch it on it’s opening afternoon and sat in a theatre alone and, just like the other dozen or so fat, bald middle aged blokes who had turned up on their own, I had popcorn in a bucket, the size of which I should frankly be ashamed (hey, it’s a superfood, okay!). And the film was ace. More than ace in fact. Not quite as good as the first one, but that would be difficult. But along with the Mad Max sequel and the Shining sequel it restored my faith in movie follow ups. But they’d still better never make a sequel to The Princess Bride!
I’ve grudgingly accepted the Blade Runner sequel. I went into it just ready to pour hate on it, and it was… kind of okay, kind of boring…. but crucially it wasn’t terrible and wasn’t just a lazy cash-in.
Since then I’ve watched it a couple of times and although I still feel it was unnecessary (and has a few clumsy plot points) it is a brave and worthy film.
I haven’t seen the Shining sequel and I just don’t think I would take to it! Part of what I loved about the original was Kubrick’s style (which you just couldn’t ape without turning into a parody), and also the fact it left so much unsaid. The film wasn’t really about plot or exposition, and the trailer for the sequel looked as if it was full of plot.
And I heartily agree The Princess Bride definitely does not need a sequel! Have you read the book by the way? It’s one of those rare things where the book (also written by Willliam Goldman) is as good as the film, and vice versa.
(On a side note, I would be ghoulishly interested in a sequel to Local Hero, with as many as the original cast who are still alive….)
Anyone who has seen Gregory’s Two Girls would steer you away from the Local Hero sequel
Oof! I’d managed to forget that one. Just awful.
I forgot about that! Haven’t seen it.
I’m trying to think of reasons you should love Local Hero, but I struggle. It’s a strange little whimsical film, and not easy to analyse.
Part of it is definitely the Scottish-ness. I’m Scottish myself, and I recognise instantly that paradoxical combination of sentimentality and hardness that runs through the film. The villagers are unrelentingly sarcastic and money-hungry, yet their unconditional love for their way of life just hangs over the film, unspoken. My favourite line is “Are there two g’s in ‘bugger off’?”, which is just a fabulous put-down, and a great example of that sardonic Scottish wit.
It’s gentle comedy, isn’t it. Very similar to Whiskey Galore, its spiritual twin.
I suppose I like the message overall, which is a simple one at heart and isn’t overcooked in the film. You can be so tied up in a life of work and corporate success that you see the whole world in terms of profit and opportunity, then you have a holiday which takes you out of your normal daily grind for a while, and you suddenly see the world in a whole new light. That scene where he arrives back in Dallas is just heartbreaking – I think we all know that feeling when you arrive back from a holiday and your real life just seems empty by comparison.
Well, I didn’t bother to vote, so I can’t really complain.
However, spreadsheet honours to @dai and all that, congrats for compiling things, yes, but come on, really? REALLY?
Not a single mention of Alfonso Cuarón’s incredible movie “Children Of Men”?
What a disgraceful travesty. This list means nothing to me.
Correct no vote no right to complain, same as a general election.
And come to think of it, how come Jean de Florette gets a mention but Manon des Sources is nowhere to be seen? Doesn’t make sense!!!
Manon was mentioned in the original poll, but people ie @twang opted for JDF despite the appeal of E Beart’s dancing.
Culpable. I think Depardu’s staggering performance (literally, towards the end) aces it but clearly Manon has significant charm. I have mentioned it before but EB got out of a taxi on front of me once in Avenue Georges V and I wasn’t right for days.
I guess I’m not really complaining, just observing; observing my incredulity at the illogicality of what was voted for.
Just like most recent general elections.
No one voted for Absolute Beginners.
Shocking!
No because it’s shit and even the “must love it because Bowie is involved” rule couldn’t save it.
Great work Dai.
One thing I think is interesting is the virtual absence of the Star Wars films. I see only Empire Strikes Back with 4 votes.
I would tentatively put forward the idea that Star Wars films are most loved by people who first saw them when they were children. As this place skews a bit older, there is relatively little love for these films.
Thanks Dai….really great effort
Cheers and thanks all for kind remarks. Fun to do, but I don’t plan to do another one for 5 years or so.
You are a grafter, Dai. Sight and Sound do theirs once every ten years!
One of your greatest achievements with this project was getting a lot of people to post who were new names to me.
And you got us talking about the films that we like and the films we feel we ought to like.
Here’s a sad story, Sight & Sound used to ask critics for their best ever films but at that time (80s?) they didn’t collate them into an overall list. I wrote a computer program to create such a list ….
Interesting! Please, tell us more!
Were you doing it as an assignment for the BFI or just for your own personal interest?
I see from this Wiki entry that they have been doing the poll since 1952.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sight_%26_Sound_Greatest_Films_of_All_Time_2012
In 1952 Bicycle Thieves won and several silent films did well.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/greatest-films-all-time/top-ten-1952
Just for my own fun(!)
Great work @dai!
Cheers mate
Thanks for pulling this together Dai. Good work, fella!
I’m very pleased that my #1 film sits proudly at the top of the pile (and that Withnail is in the top 20). I have seen Bladerunner numerous times, on numerous formats and in numerous versions. I think my favourite screening was on one stiflingly hot Sunday afternoon at the Everyman in Hampstead where none other than Roy Batty himself did a Q&A after the film. Rutger Hauer was immensely proud of the film and happy to sing its praises (this was late 80s, early 90s and so the movie was still pretty much a cult favourite and was yet to get its classic status). I still think it’s a beautiful film, filled with stunning images. The soundtrack is amazing; swooning and romantic, nostalgic yet futuristic. Within the confines of the LA based private eye narrative the film explores some big themes too. Existentialism, empathy, how much of a person’s humanity is made up of their memory – they’re all touched upon to some degree or another and these themes (and many others) can be endlessly teased out and discussed.
I was dreading the sequel – It had been mooted for years, but I just didn’t think there was a need for one. But Bladerunner 2049 far exceeded my expectations. It doesn’t trample over the original but instead builds and expands upon it.