BOT's Top Foreign Films of All Time Poll Deadline July 12th, for realsies this time, that is the final deadline

[cannastop]

 

Also known as Bicycle Thieves.

[mldardy]

On 5/25/2020 at 2:10 PM, charlie Jatinder said:

Spoiler: Parasite will be #1.

Ya think.

[The Stingray]

FYC

 

[Plain Old Tele]

6 hours ago, Joel M said:

One of my favorite movies of all time

 

Oh yes, this is great. 

[Porthos]

16 hours ago, Porthos said:

 

FYC????    

Do I have to make this more obvious?  Fine.

 

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@Plain Old Tele @baumer 👍

 

Spoiler

 

[Porthos]

15 hours ago, misafeco said:

Are short films eligible?

 

FYC

FWIW, Downfall is a full length film, so while it might be mostly famous in the Anglosphere for the meme clip, it surely counts clocking in at over 2 hours. 

Edited May 26, 2020 by Porthos

[Plain Old Tele]

15 minutes ago, Porthos said:

Do I have to make this more obvious?  Fine.

 

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@Plain Old Tele @baumer 👍

 

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Folks here might know it by its alt title, MUD AND CHICKENS. 

 

@baumer

[chasmmi]

15 hours ago, misafeco said:

Are short films eligible?

 

FYC

Let's stick to feature films

[chasmmi]

22 hours ago, grim22 said:

Need to vote for Sholay, DDLJ, 3 Idiots, Hum Aapke Hain Koun, Kal Ho Na Ho, Anand, Guide.

I'll likely have kal Ho Na Ho, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Lagaan, Dil Chahta Hai, Dil Se, and a couple more. 

 

Oh and the Terrorist, but that isn't Bollywood

[chasmmi]

Maybe all those Korean films I have sent people here over the years are gonna finally pay off  

[Porthos]

11 minutes ago, chasmmi said:

Let's stick to feature films

It was released theatrically though?

 

Downfall - Release (Wikipedia)

 

EDIT:
 

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Running time	155 minutes (Theatrical Version)[2]

 

Edited May 26, 2020 by Porthos

[chasmmi]

1 hour ago, Porthos said:

It was released theatrically though?

 

Downfall - Release (Wikipedia)

 

EDIT:
 

 

I assumed the post was in two parts. But I didn't delete the FYC part. 

[chasmmi]

Oh, btw.

 

Just to make my life easier, if you can give the country/language of the film and maybe also the title in both local and English when applicable and potentially not obvious, that would be great.

 

I'll do my best to make sure I don't accidentally list a film twice because I did not realise that Agassi and The handmaiden are the same film. But it would make life easier if you could, at least in instances when its no extra research to do so. 

 

 

[charlie Jatinder]

On 5/25/2020 at 11:38 PM, charlie Jatinder said:

A suggestion,
Since many users would have watched limited films, you can use weight system.

Like there will be users who list 100 films as usual but some may list 10, 15 or even random numbers like 33 films. 

For such lists, take the number of films listed and divide by 100. Use the ratio to weight the films ranked in list.

For instance. No. 1 film is 50 points, no. 2-5 40 points, 6-10 35 points, 11-15 30 points and so on.

And someone give 13 films. 13/100. His 1st film will have 50*13/100 = 6.5 points, 2-5 films 5.2 points and so on.

That way, a person who has watched only limited films won't be impacting the Ranking more than it should.

@chasmmi do look into this.

[Porthos]

13 minutes ago, chasmmi said:

I assumed the post was in two parts. But I didn't delete the FYC part. 

I completely misunderstood his post then.  Wouldn't be the first time; won't be the last. 👍

 

Apologies for any confusion caused.

[RealLyre]

Parasite is the best film that was released in the last 120 years or so (from the ones I've seen), I wouldn't mind if it topped this list 

[Jake Gittes]

On 5/26/2020 at 1:07 AM, Jake Gittes said:

some FYC

 

  

 

These are available on HBO Max it seems, for anyone who's subscribed or is planning to (I was going off this list). So are Yojimbo, Cleo from 5 to 7, La Strada, Z, Late Spring, Late Autumn, Tokyo Story, the Three Colors films, The 400 Blows, Autumn Sonata, Bicycle Thieves, In the Mood for Love, Seven Samurai out of the stuff that's already been listed/FYC'd here. Plus ofc the Ghibli movies.

Edited May 27, 2020 by Jake Gittes

[RealLyre]

46 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

These are available on HBO Max it seems, for anyone who's subscribed or is planning to (I was going off this list). So are Yojimbo, Cleo from 5 to 7, La Strada, Z, Late Spring, Late Autumn, Tokyo Story, the Three Colors films, The 400 Blows, Autumn Sonata, Bicycle Thieves, In the Mood for Love, Seven Samurai out of the stuff that's already been listed/FYC'd here. Plus ofc the Ghibli movies.

yeah they got some of the criterion collection movies, I wonder how HBO Max would affect the criterion channel now because of overlap, I guess CC will stay alive because it's more niche

 

 

and btw Autumn Sonata is my favorite Bergman movie but I feel like it doesn't get as much attention as his other movies, before I started watching his movies all I was hearing from film circles online was about how Persona or Seventh Seal are his best but relatively almost nothing on his other work, hell the only reason I came across Autumn Sonata was because I was doing a Bergman binge and it's ranked highly on LBD. It's a great movie.

 

 

 

[Plain Old Tele]

19 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

yeah they got some of the criterion collection movies, I wonder how HBO Max would affect the criterion channel now because of overlap, I guess CC will stay alive because it's more niche

Yeah, the CC has waaaay more Criterion titles than Max. And in many cases, more interesting titles rotating in and out. Max has some of the very famous stuff.

Edited May 27, 2020 by Plain Old Tele

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