[Top 10 films 1965, 75, 85, 95, 05, and 2015. All Countdowns Complete!]

 

There were 45 films listed from 1985, much more than then previous years, there was some great and significant films released that year.

 

A few honorable mentions:

 

 

 

 

 

There we actually the fewest individual films listed in 1975 only 21, but the top 10 films points were more broadly distributed it was a very interesting year in film, and there were several pretty significant films that year. 

 

a few honorable mentions 

 

 

 

 

 

none of the best films are making it

[Empire Magazine's top 500 films of all time]

i've seen 250 btw. the list is fucking terrible.

[Empire Magazine's top 500 films of all time]

More like whoever has completed:

IMDB top 250

Empire 500

Guardian 1000

1001 to See Before You Die (including the ones that have been removed) 

Rosenbaum's 1000

AFI Top 100 (1998 and 2007) 

 

 

the only person who has completed jonathon rosenbaum s list is jonathon rosenbaum.

[Top 10 films 1965, 75, 85, 95, 05, and 2015. All Countdowns Complete!]

no short films? boo. i'll only include stuff i think is decent, at least.

 

1965

1. happiness (agnès varda)

2. repulsion (roman polanski)

3. juliet of the spirits (federico fellini)

4. pierrot le fou (jean-luc godard)

5, the coward (satyajit ray)

 

1975

1. benilde, or the virgin mother (manoel de oliveira)

2. india song (maguerite duras)

3. barry lyndon (stanley kubrick)

4. nashville (robert altman)

5. salò, or the 120 days of sodom (pier paolo pasolini)

6. seven beauties (lina wertmüller)

7. the mirror (andrei tarkovsky)

8. jeanne dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 bruxelles (chantal akerman)

9. one flew over the cuckoo's nest (milos forman)

10. the passenger (michelangelo antonioni)

 

1985

1. come and see (elem klimov)

2. ran (akira kurosawa)

3. shoah (claude lanzmann)

4. when father was away on business (emir kusturica)

5. brazil (terry gilliam)

6. topos (antouanetta angelidi)

7. wuthering heights (jacques rivette)

8. vagabond (agnès varda)

9. after hours (martin scorsese)

 

1995

1. underground (emir kusturica)

2. showgirls (paul verhoeven)

3. ghost in the shell (mamoru oshii)

4. la cérémonie (claude chabrol)

 

2005

1. grizzly man (werner herzog)

2. the new world (terrence malick)

3. regular lovers (philippe garrel)

4. l'enfant (jean-pierre & luc dardenne)

5. a history of violence (david cronenberg)

6. screaming masterpiece (ari alexander ergis magnússon)

7. the death of mr lazarescu (cristi puiu)

8. manderlay (lars von trier)

9. caché (michael haneke)

 

2015

 

the only feature film i've seen this year is INSIDE OUT which wasn't good enough.

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[Best movies of 2009]

masterful
1. antichrist
 
exceptional
2. material
3. berlin berlin
4. imburnal
5. trees of syntax leaves of axis
 
very good
6. it felt like a kiss
7. trash humpers
8. trains are for dreaming
9. disorder
10. petropolis
 
good
11. khual yaang
12. black dynamite
13. where the wild things are

14. le passage
15. in the loop
16. in comparison
17. ruhr
18. a letter to uncle boonmee
19. the limits of control
20. fantastic mr fox
21. night mayor
22. mary and max
 
decent
23. my childhood mystery tree
24. the informant
25. phantoms of nabua

26. o'er the land
27. a town called panic

28. satyagraha
29. a prophet
30. coraline
31. samson and delilah
32. cold mountain
33. lourdes
34. the secret of kells

35. may tomorrow shine the brightest of all your many days as it will be your last
 
okay

argine

arsy versy
beeswax
big river man
broken embraces

chandmani sum
even flowers wake up in the morning
facs of life
fire and rain
fish tank

house of the devil

lux taal
milk of sorrow
palmes d'or
sound of insects
wild grass
 
poor
100 days
59/194/84
alma
an education

atlantis
cat piano
get out
guyane
haiku
hangover
hurt locker
i killed my mother
moon
nuit blanche
partly cloudy
princess and the frog

rip in pieces america
sherlock holmes
st nick
tod und teufel
universal soldier regeneration
up
 
terrible
2012
bitches: women among themselves
boheme
christmas carol
george and aj
greed
inglourious basterds
jan hus: a mass for three dead men
kinematograph
last minutes with oden
logorama
lovely bones
song of love and health

survivor of the hippocampus
 
need to rewatch if i can be bothered
dogtooth
a serious man
harry potter and the half blood prince
district 9
500 days of summer
avatar
...etcetera

[Best movies of 2009]

masterful
1. antichrist
 
exceptional
2. material

3. berlin berlin
4. imburnal
5. trees of syntax leaves of axis
 
invaluable
6. it felt like a kiss
7. trash humpers
8. trains are for dreaming
9. disorder
10. petropolis
 
admirable
11. khual yaang
12. black dynamite
13. where the wild things are

14. in the loop
15. in comparison
16. ruhr
17. a letter to uncle boonmee
18. the limits of control
19. fantastic mr fox
20. night mayor
21. mary and max
 
enjoyable
22. my childhood mystery tree
23. the informant
24. phantoms of nabua
25. a town called panic
26. a prophet
27. coraline
28. samson and delilah
29. cold mountain
30. lourdes
31. the secret of kells
 
passable

arsy versy
beeswax
big river man
broken embraces

even flowers wake up in the morning

facs of life
fire and rain
fish tank
milk of sorrow

palmes d'or
sound of insects
wild grass
 
minimal

100 days

59/194/84
alma
an education
cat piano
get out
guyane
haiku
hangover
hurt locker
i killed my mother
moon
nuit blanche
partly cloudy
princess and the frog
sherlock holmes
st nick
tod und teufel
universal soldier regeneration
up
 
terrible
2012
bitches: women among themselves
boheme
christmas carol
george and aj
greed

inglourious basterds

jan hus: a mass for three dead men
kinematograph
last minutes with oden
logorama
lovely bones
song of love and health
 
need to rewatch if i can be bothered
dogtooth
a serious man
harry potter and the half blood prince
district 9
500 days of summer
avatar
...etcetera

[The Matrix]

rewatched. was worse.

 

3.5/10

[Best movies of 2009]

i've been doing a 2009 marathon sort of thing, so here's all the shit i've seen, excluding a few i haven't seen in years. 

 

(using RYM's release dates)

 

masterful

1. antichrist

 

exceptional

2. material
3. imburnal

4. trees of syntax leaves of axis

 

invaluable

5. it felt like a kiss

6. trash humpers

7. trains are for dreaming

8. disorder

9. petropolis

 

admirable

10. khual yaang

11. black dynamite

12. where the wild things are

13. in comparison

14. ruhr

15. a letter to uncle boonmee

16. the limits of control

17. fantastic mr fox

18. night mayor

19. mary and max

 

enjoyable

20. my childhood mystery tree

21. the informant

22. phantoms of nabua

23. a town called panic

24. a prophet

25. coraline

26. samson and delilah

27. cold mountain

28. lourdes

29. the secret of kells

 

passable

arsy versy

beeswax

big river man

broken embraces

fire and rain

fish tank

milk of sorrow

sound of insects

wild grass

 

minimal

59/194/84

alma

an education

cat piano

get out

guyane

haiku

hangover

hurt locker

i killed my mother

moon

nuit blanche

partly cloudy

princess and the frog

sherlock holmes

st nick

tod und teufel

universal soldier regeneration

up

 

terrible

2012

bitches: women among themselves

boheme

christmas carol

george and aj

greed

kinematograph

last minutes with oden

logorama

lovely bones

song of love and health

 

need to rewatch if i can be bothered

dogtooth

a serious man

harry potter and the half blood prince

district 9

500 days of summer

avatar

...etcetera

 

want to watch

about elly

agrarian utopia

air doll

amer

around a small mountain

bad lieutenant

bluebeard

cafe noir

chandmani sum

change nothing

compline

corneille brecht

danse the paris ballet opera

dreaming film

eccentricities of a blonde haired girl

enter the void

face

film ist a girl and a gun

for stan

full country

hadewijch

house of the devil

inglourious basterds

in the loop

let each one go where he may

lux taal

mouth of the wolf

my son my son what have ye done

mundane history

oxhide ii

parties visible et invisible

podworka

police adjective

temptation of st tony

road

white material

zagreb tram station

[Best films of 2014]

exceptional

1. nymphomaniac

 

invaluable

2. venus in fur

 

admirable

3. journey to the west

4. grand budapest hotel

 

enjoyable

5. nightcrawler

 

passable

6. hacked circuit

7. what we do in the shadows

8. birdman

9. insterstellar

10. the dark horse

 

minimal

11. field punishment no 1

12. pride

13. the imitation game

14. whiplash

15. the railway man

16. peter pan live

 

terrible

17. inherent vice

18. gone girl

19. gradiva

20. boyhood

21. the nest

22. american sniper

[Nightcrawler (2014)]

well-done hollywood production about the perverse incentives created by a profit-driven media.

 

6.4/10

[Whiplash (2014)]

jazz?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgrQhBTDfhk

[Venus in Fur (2014)]

kay, now that was astoundingly clever. especially the ending, wow. oh and roman polanski directed this, i wonder how reflexive it is?

 

8.2/10

[Whiplash (2014)]

well, that he ended up such a great drummer basically vindicated the abusive methods of the teacher. the ending bothered me greatly. though i wasn't a big fan of the rest anyway, the second hand embarrassment i felt during the romance scenes was something vicious. so utterly contrived it becomes painful.

 

anyway.

 

i like jazz.

[Whiplash (2014)]

basically a defense of that thing we always criticise the chinese for. the drum solo at the end was pretty fucking epic i admit though, i do love me some jazz.

 

3.8/10

[Inherent Vice (2014)]

unbearably tedious waste of time.

 

2.4/10

[Birdman (2014)]

if this had more birdman suicide hallucination and less heart-to-heart talk or hollywood insider snideness, it could have been really fun.

 

5.4/10

[The Searchers (1956)]

racist garbage.

 

1.4/10

[Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)]

rewatch: and i still liked this as well, yet another animation from 2009. among wes anderson's best.

 

71/100

[Coraline]

rewatch: the central message is very dumb, but the visuals are all that matter really, and they are pretty great.

 

64/100

[Mary and Max (2009)]

rewatch: i still like this very much. simultaneously scything and sympathetic.

 

70/100

[Moon (2009)]

just watched: not good enough. very sentimental and conventional with tons of stupid references to 2001.

 

43/100

[A Town Called Panic]

just watched: fun as hell. or heaven, if you swing that way.

 

67/100

[Silver Linings Playbook]

worst film of the year

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well everyone reacted as expected.

 

anyway, ERIN BROKOVICH is pretty piss poor by soderbergh's standards, which aren't that great to begin with. actually, it's the worst of his i've seen.