The First Features List

[Rayon Vert]

Cherry 2000 is De Jarnatt's first feature, though, isn't it?

[swo17]

Well it's one of those!

[Maltic]

I too had a really hard time paring down from 30 to 25. For what it's worth, I tended to favor films that are far and away my favorite by that director. (So for instance, Breathless loses points because it's not Pierrot le fou.)

Am I the only one to vote for any silents?

I have Strike, which (FWIW) I find to be as interesting as any of Eisenstein's other films.

Three Ages is minor Keaton, but I put it somewhere in the bottom of my list anyway.

Zorns Lemma too

I didn't have the problem you had narrowing down.. I guess I don't feel very attatched to many of the films outside of my Top 10

[bottled spider]

Shit, I need reading glasses. I thought Miracle Mile was '86 not '88.

[domino harvey]

I haven’t started tallying yet, feel free to resubmit with a different film

[bottled spider]

Thanks for the offer, but I have to run. Happy tallying!

[dustybooks]

I have Strike, which (FWIW) I find to be as interesting as any of Eisenstein's other films.

I also voted for Strike which is actually my favorite Eisenstein film. And it isn’t the only silent film on my list, the other being Walsh’s Regeneration.

[Maltic]

I have Strike, which (FWIW) I find to be as interesting as any of Eisenstein's other films.

I also voted for Strike which is actually my favorite Eisenstein film. And it isn’t the only silent film on my list, the other being Walsh’s Regeneration.

Yeah that one occured to me, though forgot to check if iy would be eligible (and available, since I haven't seen it).

They Live by Night ended up being the only film by a golden age Hollywood auteur on my list, though come to think of it, Cabin in the Sky should've been there.

[Rayon Vert]

No The Maltese Falcon?

[knives]

Juice was probably a bit too loose for its own good, but the central four along with most of the support makes it really well lived in and very touching in its own way. I’m also glad that it’s not a Spike Lee clone, as much as I love Lee, and instead aims for its own unique stylistic and thematic voice.

[domino harvey]

For those keeping track at home, we actually got 20 ballots in the end! Hooray! But it'll take me a few days to have results posted, so don't keep hitting refresh

[Maltic]

I wonder if Citizen Kane is on anyone's list \:D/

[Never Cursed]

I think I put it at #14 on mine

[therewillbeblus]

I should have been more charitable to it like I was with Breathless based on its historical significance alone, but there were too many movies I took great pains cutting, and that was not one of them

[Pavel]

I made up for all of that by putting it at #1

[domino harvey]

THE FIRST FEATURES LIST

01 Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) 12 (1)
02 À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) 11 (3)
03 Les quatre cents coups (François Truffaut, 1959) 11 (2)
04 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) 8 (2)
05 Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton, 1970) 7 (1)
06 Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973) 7
07 Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955) 8 (1)
07 the Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) 8
09 Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977) 8 (1)
10 Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) 5

11 Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978) 4 (1)
11 Night of the Living Dead (George Romero, 1968) 6 (1)
13 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966) 4
14 Real Life (Albert Brooks, 1979) 5
14 Strike! (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) 4
16 the Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943) 5
17 the Bird With the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento, 1970) 4
18 Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971) 3 (1)
19 Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley, 2018) 5
19 the Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973) 5

21 Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton, 1991) 3
21 Paris nous appartient (Jacques Rivette, 1961) 3
23 A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971) 3
24 Fucking Åmål (Lukas Moodyson, 1998) 3
24 Accatone (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961) 3
24 Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992) 4
27 Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1984) 5
28 the Blackcoat's Daughter (Oz Perkins, 2015) 4
28 L'enfance nue (Maurice Pialat, 1968) 2
30 On the Town (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1949) 2
30 Ce soir ou jamais (Michel Deville, 1961) 2 (1)
30 the Landlord (Hal Ashby, 1970) 3

33 This Transient Life (Akio Jissôji, 1970) 3
33 Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969) 2
35 Diamonds of the Night (Jan Nemec, 1964) 2 (1)
36 Destination Tokyo (Delmer Daves, 1943) 3
36 Dutchman (Anthony Harvey, 1966) 3
36 the Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999) 4
36 They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948) 3
36 Synechdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008) 2

41 Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005) 2
41 Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland, 2009) 2
43 Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005) 3
44 Dragonwyck (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1946) 3
44 Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo, 1998) 2
44 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957) 3
44 Thief (Michael Mann, 1981) 3
48 One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando, 1961) 3
48 the Traveler (Abbas Kiarostami, 1974) 2
50 Szindibad (Zoltán Huszárik, 1971) 2
50 Signs of Life (Werner Herzog, 1968) 2

# of ballots, out of 20 total (# of ballots with film ranked first)

ALSO-RANS
Good News / Metropolitan / Little Murders / La Ciénaga / Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1) / It's Such a Beautiful Day / Knife in the Water / Seeking a Friend for the End of the World / Boy Meets Girl / L'Age d'Or / Black Sunday / The Baxter / I Wanna Hold Your Hand / Alice / Kicking and Screaming / Bone Tomahawk / Donnie Darko / Jour de fête / Promising Young Woman / Lola / Being John Malkovich / The VVitch / Wavelength / Violent Cop / Another Earth / Helvetica / Le Beau Serge / The Kid / Sexy Beast / Bone / Amores Perros / The Lives of Others / Tremors / Ratcatcher / Maborosi / Duel / Cronos / Fast Times at Ridgemont High / In Bruges / Bottle Rocket / sex, lies, and videotape / Withnail and I / The Watermelon Woman / The Night of Counting the Years / Primer / Re-Animator

ORPHANS
Rebels of the Neon God (1) / Hellraiser (1) / Men on the Mountain (1) / Hedwig and the Angry Inch / Empty Eyes / Red Sorghum / Happiness / Body Heat / Nightcrawler / My Childhood / West Side Story / Hereditary / Solas / Chopper / Force of Evil / George Washington / The Great McGinty / God's Gift / The Element of Crime / Elevator to the Gallows / My Grandmother / The Producers / Fantastic Planet / Henry V / In the Heat of the Sun / Train Birds / Yellow Earth / Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical / Chocolat / The Unbelievable Truth / The Railway Children / Beyond the Black Rainbow / Ex Machina / My American Cousin / The Triplets of Belleville / Brief Encounters / Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project / The Return / Ivan's Childhood / Mid-August Lunch / Radio On / The Duellists / Son of Saul / The Killing Fields / The Last House on the Left / The Bellboy / Along the Sungari River / Miracle Mile / A Tree Grows in Brooklyn / Cabiria / A Time for Drunken Horses / West Beirut / Daughters of the Dust / The Regeneration / An Elephant Sitting Still / The Mother and the Whore / Sling Blade / Evil Dead / Dumb and Dumber / Late Marriage / Sebastiane / Sanshiro Sugata / Le Silence de la Mer / Xiao Wu /Lady Bird / Eve's Bayou / 10 Cloverfield Lane / That Day, on the Beach / Thesis / Shallow Grave / Titus / The Chaser / Following / What Happened Was... / Four Lions / Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice / Ossessione / Raw / Rachel, Rachel / One of Our Aircraft is Missing / The Mysterious X / That Kind of Girl / Gattaca / Love Serenade / Dementia / Sick Sick Sick / Palms / Blue Collar / A Pistol Shot / You Can Count on Me / The Rapture / Kaili Blues / Amer / Extraordinary Stories / The Basilisks / Bullets Don't Come Back / As Tears Go By / The Anniversary Party / Reconstruction / The End of Evangelion / True Stories / Wanda / Margin Call / The Honeymoon Killers / Targets / The Last Train / Coherence / Lady in the Lake / La Pointe Courte / The Girl from the Marsh Croft / Play Misty for Me / Hard Times / The Lunchbox / Pi / Fires Were Started / Microcosmos / The Color of Fear / I Spit on Your Grave / The Hired Hand / Phase IV / Heathers / Diva / The Chocolate War / The Reflecting Skin / For Sama / Hard Eight / Monsters / The Sleeping Car Murders / The White Balloon / My Left Foot / Summer in the City / Magdalena Viraga / Swoon / Funny Ha Ha / Culloden / Three Outlaw Samurai / Shaun of the Dead / The Arbor / Dog Star Man / Hard Candy / This Is Spinal Tap / Sound of Metal / Menace II Society / House of Games / The Apple / Death is a Caress / The Funeral / I Shot Andy Warhol / Shiva Baby / Sweet Charity / Katzelmacher / Juice / Applause / The Cruel Sea / Uski Roti / Eighth Grade / Koyaanisqatsi / The Father / Diamantino / Personnel / Repo Man / The President / Le signe du lion / Three Ages / The Forty-First / Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels / She's Gotta Have It / Life After Life / The Myth of the American Sleepover / Bad Dreams / The Room / Ham on Rye / Hot Rod / American Graffiti / Terms of Endearment / New Jack City / Quick Millions / Waking Ned / Get Out

100% of adulation and kudos should go to DarkImbecile for actually compiling these results

[therewillbeblus]

Thanks DI! So cool that Dutchman made the main list

[swo17]

Interesting, thanks! I ruled Hiroshima mon amour out when I was putting my list together, but I see now that the full-length feature that preceded it is supposedly lost and has no votes on IMDb. If I did a list again today I would have rated it rather highly. Amazing that Zorns Lemma charted as high as it did.

My top 10:

01 Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985) ALSO-RAN
02 Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton, 1970)
03 Happiness (Aleksandr Medvedkin, 1935) ORPHAN
04 Szindbád (Zoltán Huszárik, 1971)
05 George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000) ORPHAN
06 My Grandmother (Kote Miqaberidze, 1929) ORPHAN
07 The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
08 Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland, 2009)
09 Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
10 Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone, 1914) ORPHAN

[Pavel]

For some reason I thought Koyaanisqatsi was ineligible, would've definitely voted for it. Likewise The Kid
Here's my (quickly compiled) list in which I also tried to include some recent debuts that i really liked.
(Orphans bolded)


1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
2. Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
3. It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeld, 2012)
4. Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo, 1998)
5. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
6. The Producers (Mel Brooks, 1967)
7. The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)
8. Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler, 2015)
9. The Duellists (Ridley Scott, 1977)
10. Real Life (Albert Brooks, 1979)
11. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
12. Blood Simple (Joel Coen, 1984)
13. Little Murders (Alan Akin, 1971)
14. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky, 1969)
15. Thief (Michael Mann, 1981)
16. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, 1982)
17. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
18. Coherence (James Ward Byrkit, 2013)
19. Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000)[/b]
20. sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh, 1989)
21. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990)
22. Sound of Metal (Darius Marder, 2019)
23. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
24. The Father (Florian Zeller, 2020)
25. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008)

[Maltic]

Funnily, 6 of my 8 hits were in my top 8.

1. Killer of Sheep 1978
2. Breathless 1960
3. Strike 1925
4. Lola 1961
5. Real Life 1979
6. In the Heat of the Sun 1994
7. A New Leaf 1971
8. Zorns Lemma 1970
9. The Bellboy 1960
10. I Wanna Hold Your Hand 1978
11. Dumb and Dumber 1994
12. That Day, on the Beach 1983
13. They Live by Night 1948
14. Metropolitan 1990
15. Blue Collar 1978
16. Violent Cop 1989
17. Wanda 1970
18. Hard Times 1975
19. Bone Tomahawk 2015
20. Pather Panchali 1955
21. Knife in the Water 1962
22. House of Games 1987
23. Bottle Rocket 1996
24. Three Ages 1923
25. Primer 2004

I rewatched Dumb and Dumber and Primer after submitting the list.. two times disappointed, really

[therewillbeblus]

My list

1. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
3. Fucking Amal (Lukas Moodysson)
4. Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette)
5. Brick (Rian Johnson)
6. Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)
7. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (Lorene Scafaria)
8. Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)
9. Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax)
10. Dutchman (Anthony Harvey)
11. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache) ORPHAN
12. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
13. The Baxter (Michael Showalter)
14. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
15. Bone (Larry Cohen)
16. Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinás) ORPHAN
17. The Blackcoat’s Daughter (Oz Perkins)
18. sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
19. The Color of Fear (Lee Mun Wah) ORPHAN
20. One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)
21. Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski) ORPHAN
22. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
23. Blood Simple (Joel and Ethan Coen)
24. Repo Man (Alex Cox) ORPHAN
25. Hot Rod (The Lonely Island) ORPHAN

[Mr Sausage]

1. Night of the Living Dead
2. Eraserhead
3. Walkabout
4. Bird with the Crystal Plumage
5. Badlands
6. Katalin Varga
7. Thoroughbreds
8. The Wicker Man
9. Reservoir Dogs
10. Strike
11. Maltese Falcon
12. Another Earth ALSO-RAN
13. The Blackcoat’s Daughter
14. Night of the Hunter
15. Amer ORPHAN
16. Black Sunday ALSO-RAN
17. Thief
18. The 400 Blows
19. The Seventh Victim
20. Primer ALSO-RAN
21. Cronos ALSO-RAN
22. Sexy Beast ALSO-RAN
23. Eighth Grade ORPHAN
24. The Myth of the American Sleepover ORPHAN
25. Promising Young Woman ALSO-RAN

There are a handful of films I plum forgot about that would've made my list, including of all things Citizen Kane(!) Dunno what happened there.

[domino harvey]

I can’t believe I and everyone else forgot Adieu Philippine!

[therewillbeblus]

I mentioned it earlier in this thread, and it was one of many great films that just didn't make the cut for me- but not because I forgot about it

[DarkImbecile]

01. Eraserhead (Lynch)
02. Badlands (Malick)
03. Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
04. Hereditary (Aster) ORPHAN
05. Citizen Kane (Welles)
06. À bout de souffle (Godard)
07. Blood Simple (Coens)
08. The Return (Zvyagintsev) ORPHAN
09. Son of Saul (Nemes) ORPHAN
10. Thief (Mann)
11. The Maltese Falcon (Huston)
12. Being John Malkovich (Jonze) ALSO-RAN
13. Thoroughbreds (Finley)
14. Raw (Ducournau) ORPHAN
15. Amores Perros (Inarritu) ALSO-RAN
16. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
17. Sexy Beast (Glazer) ALSO-RAN
18. Duel (Spielberg) ALSO-RAN
19. Pather Panchali (Ray)
20. Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
21. The Blackcoat's Daughter (Perkins)
22. The VVitch (Eggers) ALSO-RAN
23. 12 Angry Men (Lumet)
24. The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck) ALSO-RAN
25. Knife in the Water (Polanski) ALSO-RAN

For some reason, I find the omission of these particular orphans particularly upsetting... much like the films themselves, now that I think about it.