criterionforum.org

Shrew wrote:They obviously got Lancelot du lac and Monty Python and the Holy Grail mixed up. I say arbitrarily decide which position was meant to be the Python based of how sick you got of hearing it quoted in high school.

That sounds as good a way to settle it as any; perhaps after giving the poster 24 hours notice to revert.

Isn't the simplest solution just to lose the duplicate vote and bump everything further down the list up a notch?[/speaking from experience]

I thought all you guys cared about was starting the '80s list.

Seriously though, if I haven't heard by tomorrow morning I'll just post the results treating the list like zedz suggests. In the meantime, to tide everyone over, here is the name of one of the films that received at least one vote during this round of the '70s project:

The Godfather

Not it.

swo17 wrote:I thought all you guys cared about was starting the '80s list.

Seriously though, if I haven't heard by tomorrow morning I'll just post the results treating the list like zedz suggests. In the meantime, to tide everyone over, here is the name of one of the films that received at least one vote during this round of the '70s project:

The Godfather

Quelle Surprise!

domino harvey wrote:

A modern-day Mona Lisa 'enigmatic smile' !

swo17 wrote:In the meantime, to tide everyone over, here is the name of one of the films that received at least one vote during this round of the '70s project:

The Godfather

Secret ballot! Secret ballot!

The last list has now been corrected and all is right with the world. Many thanks to everyone for your participation in this latest round of the lists project! I'll be posting the results shortly in the next three posts. Here again is a guide to what the figures listed after each film represent, each separated with a slash mark:

1. Total points (50 for each #1 placement, 49 for each #2, etc.)
2. Number of lists the film appeared on (out of 34 submitted). If the film appeared in anyone's top 10, the number of top 10 appearances is also denoted in parentheses.
3. Highest placement of the film on any one list. If more than one person ranked the film this high, this is also denoted in parentheses.
4. Change in position from the 2008 list, with movements of 10 or more highlighted.

So for example, the 331/8(6)/2(x2)/-1 shown for The Godfather Part II means that it scored 331 points and appeared on 8 lists (and six top 10s), with two people ranking it as high as #2. The film also moved down one position from its placement on the 2008 list.

For the list of orphans, only figure #3 is displayed (the highest rank, not the score given).

If anyone would like me to PM them a list of how all of their picks fared in the overall tally (rather than having to scour through all of the results) it's a simple thing for me to do. Just let me know.

The 1980s discussion is already under way here. But feel free to continue discussion in this thread regarding the results of the project and to share your individual lists (including defenses of your poor-faring favorites).

The 1970s List

01. Chinatown (Roman Polański, 1974) 700/20(10)/2(x3)/--
02. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) 677/20(10)/1(x3)/+15
03. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974) 613/15(8)/1(x2)/+2
04. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) 573/15(9)/1(x2)/+3
05. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975) 544/14(8)/1(x2)/+6
06. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973) 520/16(5)/1/+8
07. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973) 506/16(6)/1(x2)/+18
08. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) 459/12(7)/1(x2)/+8
09. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) 422/13(5)/1/--
10. Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974) 373/10(5)/1(x3)/-7
11. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979) 354/10(5)/1/+7
12. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) 347/10(4)/1/+7
13. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) 344/9(3)/2/+21
(tie) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972) 344/11(5)/2/+11
15. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) 337/10(4)/1/+8
16. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) 331/8(6)/2(x2)/-1
(tie) The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) 331/11(4)/5/+4
18. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel, 1977) 323/10(5)/3/+9
19. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971) 313/11(3)/3(x2)/-11
20. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977) 305/13(1)/10/+6
21. Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, 1974) 301/11(4)/2/New
22. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974) 298/8(4)/2/+9
23. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) 297/13(3)/2/+24
24. 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977) 295/12(2)/4/+5
25. Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973) 289/10(3)/4/-12
26. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974) 280/10(4)/5/+13
27. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978) 274/9(3)/3/-21
28. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) 272/9(4)/1/+15
29. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) 258/7(2)/4/-25
30. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971) 256/8(3)/5(x2)/-1
31. The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Nagisa Ōshima, 1970) 253/8(3)/1/+43
(tie) Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977) 253/9(3)/4/+46
33. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970) 249/11(3)/8/+146
34. The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raúl Ruiz, 1979) 242/7(3)/2/+31
(tie) Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977) 242/9(3)/4/-12
36. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973) 241/9(1)/4/-34
37. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973) 239/8(3)/6/-1
38. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971) 236/8(2)/1/+24
39. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972) 234/11/17/-27
40. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971) 232/8(1)/1/-12
41. All the President's Men (Alan Pakula, 1976) 223/8(2)/6(x2)/+27
(tie) The Parallax View (Alan Pakula, 1974) 223/9(1)/4/+55
43. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971) 222/8(3)/1/-5
(tie) Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973) 222/9(1)/4/-3
45. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976) 220/7(2)/5/-4
46. Le Cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970) 215/9(2)/8/-4
47. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) 202/7(1)/1/+145
48. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973) 197/10/12/+92
49. Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976) 188/7/16/+21
50. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975) 180/6(3)/3/+25
51. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973) 179/6(2)/3/-1
(tie) Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) 179/6(1)/10/+38
53. The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1976) 174/9/23(x2)/+86
54. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971) 173/5(1)/7/+24
55. Du côté d'Orouët (Jacques Rozier, 1973) 171/5(3)/1/New
56. Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975) 169/6(1)/9/+141
57. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973) 168/7(1)/9/+9
58. Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, 1978) 164/6(1)/9/+48
59. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978) 161/9/16/-38
60. Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway, 1978) 160/5(1)/9/+111
61. Sleuth (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1972) 157/6(1)/7/New
62. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) 153/8(2)/5/-52
(tie) El topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970) 153/6(1)/8/+108
64. Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray, 1970) 151/5(2)/2/New
65. Love in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer, 1972) 150/6(1)/8/+28
66. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri, 1970) 148/5/11/+18
(tie) Salò (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975) 148/5/11/+98
68. Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973) 147/4(2)/6(x2)/-13
69. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) 145/5(2)/5/-9
70. Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979) 144/5(1)/3/+52
71. The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976) 143/6(2)/8/-2
72. Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols, 1971) 141/3(3)/2/+18
73. The Tenant (Roman Polański, 1976) 139/5(1)/3/-10
74. Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970) 138/5(2)/2/+45
75. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971) 136/5/14/+18
76. Vengeance is Mine (Shōhei Imamura, 1979) 134/8/15/-39
77. A Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson, 1970) 133/6(1)/10/+129
(tie) Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer, 1970) 133/6/18/-44
79. The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971) 132/5(1)/10/+30
80. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978) 130/4/11(x2)/-20
(tie) The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) 130/5(1)/10/+1
82. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974) 129/8(1)/3/-15
83. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974) 128/5/20/-30
84. Every Man for Himself and God Against All (Werner Herzog, 1974) 127/4(1)/10/-40
85. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) 126/6/18/-39
86. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972) 125/6(1)/4/-55
87. Performance (Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell, 1970) 124/5(2)/3/-38
(tie) Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977) 124/4(1)/9/-52
89. At Long Last Love (Peter Bogdanovich, 1975) 123/4(2)/4/New
90. Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972) 122/4(1)/5/New
91. Obsession (Brian De Palma, 1976) 120/4(2)/5/New
(tie) The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979) 120/4(1)/6/+74
93. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972) 119/5/13/-45
94. The Stone Wedding (Mircea Veroiu & Dan Pița, 1973) 118/3(2)/8/New
95. Little Big Man (Arthur Penn, 1970) 116/4(2)/8/New
(tie) Klute (Alan Pakula, 1971) 116/4/15/+52
97. La Planète sauvage (René Laloux, 1973) 115/4(1)/4/+53
(tie) Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock, 1972) 115/7/16/+15
99. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973) 113/4(2)/1/+24
(tie) Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975) 113/3(2)/5/-28
(tie) My Ain Folk (Bill Douglas, 1973) 113/3(1)/6/+18


Top Directors

Robert Altman (10 films, 2023 points)
Francis Ford Coppola (4 films, 1582 points)
Andrei Tarkovsky (3 films, 1169 points)
Martin Scorsese (6 films, 1028 points)
Nicolas Roeg (4 films, 995 points)
Roman Polański (5 films, 966 points)
Woody Allen (6 films, 903 points)
Jacques Rivette (4 films, 842 points)
Luis Buñuel (4 films, 831 points)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (12 films, 790 points)

Peter Bogdanovich (5 films, 768 points)
Sam Peckinpah (6 films, 708 points)
Brian De Palma (6 films, 644 points)
Alan Pakula (4 films, 632 points)
Werner Herzog (9 films, 619 points)
Bernardo Bertolucci (5 films, 616 points)
John Cassavetes (4 films, 595 points)
Terrence Malick (2 films, 563 points)
Stanley Kubrick (2 films, 514 points)
Hal Ashby (5 films, 462 points)

Nagisa Ōshima (4 films, 407 points)
Eric Rohmer (3 films, 383 points)
Sidney Lumet (3 films, 376 points)
Ingmar Bergman (4 films, 364 points)
Chantal Akerman (4 films, 338 points)
Peter Greenaway (6 films, 317 points)
Ridley Scott (2 films, 314 points)
David Lynch (1 film, 305 points)
Satyajit Ray (6 films, 294 points)
Steven Spielberg (2 films, 291 points)

Monte Hellman (2 films, 287 points)
Arthur Penn (2 films, 285 points)
Robert Bresson (3 films, 283 points)
Dario Argento (2 films, 283 points)
Wim Wenders (4 films, 283 points)
Hollis Frampton (5 films, 281 points)
Raúl Ruiz (2 films, 280 points)
Jean Eustache (2 films, 275 points)
Jean-Pierre Melville (2 films, 272 points)
Peter Watkins (2 films, 264 points)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (4 films, 250 points)
Jaromil Jireš (1 film, 249 points)
Victor Erice (1 film, 241 points)
Alejandro Jodorowsky (2 films, 240 points)
Michelangelo Antonioni (2 films, 230 points)
François Truffaut (6 films, 224 points)
Federico Fellini (2 films, 220 points)
Maurice Pialat (4 films, 215 points)
George Lucas (3 films, 211 points)
Elaine May (3 films, 210 points)


Results by Country

USA (228 films, 43.2% of points)
France (119 films, 17.7% of points)
UK (81 films, 10.8% of points)
West Germany (74 films, 8.9% of points)
Italy (72 films, 8.7% of points)
USSR (25 films, 4.5% of points)
Japan (41 films, 3.8% of points)
Spain (10 films, 2% of points)
Sweden (9 films, 1.8% of points)
Czechoslovakia (14 films, 1.6% of points)

Australia (7 films, 1.5% of points)
Hong Kong (25 films, 1.3% of points)
Poland (13 films, 1.3% of points)
India (10 films, 1.1% of points)
Belgium (9 films, 1.1% of points)
Canada (14 films, 1% of points)
Iran (8 films, 0.9% of points)
Hungary (8 films, 0.7% of points)
Mexico (4 films, 0.6% of points)
Taiwan (7 films, 0.5% of points)

Yugoslavia (2 films, 0.4% of points)
Philippines (4 films, 0.4% of points)
Senegal (2 films, 0.3% of points)
Norway (1 film, 0.3% of points)
Switzerland (4 films, 0.3% of points)
Romania (2 films, 0.3% of points)
Venezuela (2 films, 0.3% of points)
Greece (2 films, 0.3% of points)
Syria (2 films, 0.2% of points)
Cuba (1 film, 0.2% of points)

Turkey (4 films, 0.2% of points)
Chile (1 film, 0.2% of points)
Argentina (2 films, 0.1% of points)
Peru (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Ivory Coast (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Netherlands (2 films, 0.1% of points)
Sri Lanka (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Panama (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Brazil (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Jamaica (1 film, <0.1% of points)

Georgia (0 film, <0.1% of points)
Egypt (0 film, <0.1% of points)
Tunisia (0 film, <0.1% of points)


Results by Year




Casualties from the 2008 List

45. F for Fake (now an also-ran)
51. The Exorcist (now an orphan)
52. In a Year with 13 Moons (now an also-ran)
56. Love (now an also-ran)
57. The Travelling Players (now an also-ran)
58. The Phantom of Liberty (now an also-ran)
59. Mujō (now an also-ran)
64. Cría cuervos (now an also-ran)
71. Stroszek (now an also-ran)
73. Halloween (now an also-ran)
76. The Devil, Probably (now an also-ran)
78. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (now an also-ran)
80. Nosferatu the Vampyre (now an also-ran)
81. Tristana (now an also-ran)
83. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (now an orphan)
85. The Ceremony (now an also-ran)
86. Cockfighter (now an also-ran)
87. All That Jazz (now an also-ran)
87. Four Nights of a Dreamer (now an also-ran)
90. Hearts and Minds (now an also-ran)
92. O Lucky Man! (now an orphan)
95. Grey Gardens (now an also-ran)
96. Carrie (now an also-ran)
98. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (now an also-ran)
99. Death in Venice (now an also-ran)
100. Effi Briest (now an also-ran)
100. Day for Night (now an also-ran)

Also-Rans

The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel, 1974) 111/5(2)/2/-44
M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1970) 111/5/22/+66
Wrong Move (Wim Wenders, 1975) 110/5(1)/2/+31
Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973) 110/5(1)/8/New
La Gueule ouverte (Maurice Pialat, 1974) 108/3(2)/5/New
Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger, 1971) 105/4/11/New
(nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton, 1971) 104/3(1)/9/New
Out 1 (Jacques Rivette, 1971) 104/4(1)/9/New
The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975) 104/5/13/+67
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977) 103/4(1)/2/-40

India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1974) 102/3(1)/10/+78
Real Life (Albert Brooks, 1979) 102/5/17/+65
Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976) 101/4(1)/9/-18
California Split (Robert Altman, 1974) 100/3(1)/1/+14
Harlan County U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, 1976) 100/3(1)/7/+29
Perceval (Eric Rohmer, 1978) 100/5/15/New
Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol, 1970) 100/4/18(x2)/+46
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Miloš Forman, 1975) 100/4/19/+92
Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975) 100/4/19/-5
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Fred Schepisi, 1978) 99/3(1)/6/New

Cría cuervos (Carlos Saura, 1976) 96/5/11/-58
American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973) 94/3/11/New
Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles et al., 1975) 94/4(1)/5/-28
Milestones (John Douglas & Robert Kramer, 1975) 93/3(1)/7/New
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1975) 91/3/17/-23
Mujō (Akio Jissōji, 1970) 91/3/18/-67
Sleeper (Woody Allen, 1973) 90/5/28(x2)/+70
World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973) 89/3(1)/5/New
Xala (Ousmane Sembene, 1974) 89/4/20/New
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977) 89/5/17/-2

Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton, 1970) 88/2(1)/1/New
A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971) 88/2(1)/3/New
The Travelling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1975) 88/3(1)/8/-75
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973) 87/2(1)/4/-3
The Landlord (Hal Ashby, 1970) 87/4(1)/2/New
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979) 87/4(1)/2/-48
The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May, 1972) 87/3(1)/10/+76
Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter, 1976) 86/4(1)/5/+15
The Story of Adele H. (François Truffaut, 1975) 86/4/20/-2
The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Żuławski, 1971) 85/2(1)/6/+69

Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman, 1974) 85/3(1)/10/New
The Ear (Karel Kachyňa, 1970) 84/2(2)/9(x2)/-2
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson, 1971) 84/3(1)/7/-56
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978) 82/3/22/-72
Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó, 1972) 81/3/12/-22
The Dupes (Tewfik Saleh, 1973) 80/2/11(x2)/New
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas, 1972) 80/3(1)/5/New
Duelle (Jacques Rivette, 1976) 80/3/15/+2
The Promised Land (Andrzej Wajda, 1975) 80/4/24/New
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer, 1970) 79/3/17/+11

Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977) 78/4(1)/4/+35
Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker, 1977) 77/2(1)/4/-28
Blanche (Walerian Borowczyk, 1972) 77/3/13/New
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage, 1971) 77/3/15/-75
Wanda Gościmińska, a Weaver (Wojciech Wiszniewski, 1975) 77/3/16/New
Love (Károly Makk, 1971) 77/4/18/-97
Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970) 77/6/27/-49
Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) 76/3/12/-59
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970) 75/3/20/+31
The Battle of Chile (Patricio Guzmán, 1975-9) 74/2(1)/7/New

Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970) 74/3/14/-35
Casanova (Federico Fellini, 1976) 73/2(1)/9/-27
The Ceremony (Nagisa Ōshima, 1971) 73/3(1)/9/-78
Macbeth (Roman Polański, 1971) 73/4(1)/6/-5
Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974) 73/3/15/New
F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973) 72/3(1)/2/-122
Nickelodeon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1976) 72/2/14/New
Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979) 72/4(1)/10/-46
The Ossuary (Jan Švankmajer, 1970) 71/2(1)/7/-13
The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (Wojciech Has, 1973) 71/3/14/New

The Most Important Thing: Love (Andrzej Żuławski, 1975) 70/2(1)/8/New
The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson, 1977) 70/2(1)/9/-96
Coup d'etat (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1973) 70/2/12/-67
Starting Over (Alan Pakula, 1979) 70/3/15/New
Still Life (Sohrab Saless, 1974) 70/3/14/New
The Cycle (Dariush Mehrjui, 1978) 69/2(1)/2/New
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974) 69/4(1)/2/-39
Interiors (Woody Allen, 1978) 69/2(1)/8/-32
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978) 68/3/21/+32
Indian Summer (Valerio Zurlini, 1972) 67/2(1)/3/New

Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971) 67/3(1)/8/New
Szindbád (Zoltán Huszárik, 1971) 66/3/23/New
Salomè (Carmelo Bene, 1972) 65/2/12/New
The Devil's Playground (Fred Schepisi, 1976) 65/2/17/New
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976) 65/3/18/New
A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971) 64/5/18/New
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (Shūji Terayama, 1971) 63/2/13/--
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, 1975) 62/2(1)/1/New
Cartesius (Roberto Rossellini, 1974) 62/2(1)/1/New
Blood for Dracula (Paul Morrissey, 1974) 61/2/14/New

What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich, 1972) 61/3/16/New
The Emigrants/The New Land (Jan Troell, 1971-2) 60/2(1)/1/New
Day for Night (François Truffaut, 1973) 60/2(1)/3/-93
Sisters (Brian De Palma, 1973) 60/2(1)/4/New
Arabian Nights (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974) 60/2/15/New
Citizen's Band (Jonathan Demme, 1977) 60/2/16/New
Madame X (Ulrike Ottinger & Tabea Blumenschein, 1978) 60/2/17/New
Sebastiane (Derek Jarman & Paul Humfress, 1976) 60/2/19/New
Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey, 1976) 59/4(1)/9/New
The Wild Child (François Truffaut, 1970) 59/3/16/New

Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976) 59/3/29/New
Sounder (Martin Ritt, 1972) 58/2(1)/5/New
Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975) 58/3(1)/9/New
In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Ōshima, 1976) 58/4/14/New
The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978) 57/2/19/-10
Un flic (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1972) 57/2/22/-73
Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein, 1979) 57/3/22/-46
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978) 56/2(1)/8/+11
The Ruling Class (Peter Medak, 1972) 56/3/14/New
1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976) 55/2(1)/8/New

Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti, 1971) 55/2/15/-112
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976) 55/4/32/-97
The Traveler (Abbas Kiarostami, 1974) 53/2(1)/4/-98
Going Places (Bertrand Blier, 1974) 53/4/13/New
Tess (Roman Polański, 1979) 53/2/18/+1
Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972) 53/2/21/-47
Tristana (Luis Buñuel, 1970) 53/2/23/-133
Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg, 1976) 52/2/22/New
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kümel, 1971) 51/2/12/New
The Seasons (Artavazd Peleshian, 1975) 51/2/24/New

Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974) 51/3/26/-134
Ludwig (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1972) 50/2/11/New
Desperate Living (John Waters, 1977) 50/2/12/New
Animal House (John Landis, 1978) 50/2/17/New
Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle, 1971) 50/3/15/-93
Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie, 1972) 49/2/12/New
Little Murders (Alan Arkin, 1971) 49/2/21/New
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971) 49/2/25/New
The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977) 49/4/25/-32
Othon (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, 1970) 48/2/11/New

Sandakan No. 8 (Kei Kumai, 1974) 48/2/22/New
The Silent Partner (Daryl Duke, 1978) 48/3/19/New
Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972) 48/3/24/-113
Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971) 48/3/28/New
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975) 47/2/21/New
Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi, 1976) 47/3/24/-85
The Go-Between (Joseph Losey, 1971) 46/2/12/New
Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis, 1974) 45/2/17/-149
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Ivan Dixon, 1973) 45/2/23/New
The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979) 44/2/14/New

Family Life (Ken Loach, 1971) 44/2/17/-130
Jubilee (Derek Jarman, 1978) 44/2/20/New
Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971) 43/2/18/-18
We Won't Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat, 1972) 43/2/22/New
Fat City (John Huston, 1972) 43/2/27/-26
Shivers (David Cronenberg, 1975) 43/3/33/-68
God Told Me To (Larry Cohen, 1976) 42/2/17/New
Martin (George Romero, 1977) 42/2/24/-63
Our Daily Bread (Mani Kaul, 1970) 41/2/24/New
Pink Narcissus (James Bidgood, 1971) 41/3/30/New

Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle, 1974) 40/2/17/-118
Buffet froid (Bertrand Blier, 1979) 40/2/21/New
New Book (Zbigniew Rybczyński, 1976) 39/2/14/New
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog, 1970) 39/2/19/New
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Newman, 1972) 38/2/17/New
House (Nobuhiko Ōbayashi, 1977) 38/3/20/New
In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978) 38/2/31/-204
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975) 37/2/15/New
Winstanley (Kevin Brownlow, 1976) 37/2/22/New
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Andersen et al., 1975) 37/2/28/New

Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) 36/2/18/-73
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah, 1970) 35/3/27/-83
The Place Without Limits (Arturo Ripstein, 1978) 34/2/21/New
Death Line (Gary Sherman, 1973) 34/2/21/New
The Adversary (Satyajit Ray, 1970) 33/2/21/New
The Phone Box (Antonio Mercero, 1972) 33/2/23/New
Taking Off (Miloš Forman, 1971) 33/3/26/New
Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970) 33/2/27/-49
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (Kinji Fukasaku, 1972) 33/2/29/New
New York, New York (Martin Scorsese, 1977) 33/2/30/New

Grass Labyrinth (Shūji Terayama, 1979) 33/2/30/New
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese, 1974) 32/2/30/-65
The Beguiled (Don Siegel, 1971) 31/2/21/New
Veruschka (Franco Rubartelli, 1971) 31/3/35/New
Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975) 30/2/29/-148
The Kremlin Letter (John Huston, 1970) 29/2/23/New
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974) 29/2/26/New
Dodes'ka-den (Akira Kurosawa, 1970) 29/2/29/New
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972) 28/2/29/-182
The Front (Martin Ritt, 1976) 27/2/30/New

Fingers (James Toback, 1978) 27/2/31/New
From the Clouds to the Resistance (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, 1979) 27/2/37/New
The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1979) 25/2/38/New
The Driver (Walter Hill, 1978) 24/2/33/New
Empire of Passion (Nagisa Ōshima, 1978) 23/2/35/New
Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma, 1970) 21/2/34/New
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, 1973) 20/2/35/New
The Iron Rose (Jean Rollin, 1973) 20/2/39/New
Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974) 18/2/41/New
The Mattei Affair (Francesco Rosi, 1972) 16/2/38/-189

Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979) 15/2/38/-212
Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973) 13/2/41/New
Smile (Michael Ritchie, 1975) 12/3/42/New
Strongman Ferdinand (Alexander Kluge, 1976) 12/2/43/New
Emperor of the North (Robert Aldrich, 1973) 11/2/42/New
Bone (Larry Cohen, 1972) 8/2/45/New
Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974) 6/2/47/-155
Watermelon Man (Melvin Van Peebles, 1970) 4/2/48/New

Orphans

NOTE: The number listed for each film represents the ranking it received, not the number of points.

Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh, 1977) 34
Across 110th Street (Barry Shear, 1972) 37
Adelheid (František Vláčil, 1970) 31
Afonya (Georgi Danelia, 1975) 25
Alex in Wonderland (Paul Mazursky, 1970) 15
Alice, Sweet Alice (Alfred Sole, 1976) 25
The All-Around Reduced Personality (Helke Sander, 1978) 16
American Boy (Martin Scorsese, 1978) 44
The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise, 1971) 36
Angels with Burnt Wings (Zbyněk Brynych, 1970) 49
Apotheosis (John Lennon & Yoko Ono, 1970) 20
The AristoCats (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1970) 44
At the Academy (Guy Sherwin, 1974) 41
Autumn Marathon (Georgi Danelia, 1979) 40
The Avenging Eagle (Sun Chung, 1978) 29

Baba (Yilmaz Güney, 1971) 16
Ballad of Orin (Masahiro Shinoda, 1977) 36
The Bathhouse of Malatily (Salah Abu Seif, 1973) 47
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973-4) 15
The Bead Game (Ishu Patel, 1977) 49
Bed & Board (François Truffaut, 1970) 43
Beg (Aleksandr Alov & Vladimir Naumov, 1971) 15
Belorussian Station (Andrei Smirnov, 1971) 28
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Ted Post, 1970) 45
Berlin Horse (Malcolm Le Grice, 1970) 30
Big Wednesday (John Milius, 1978) 47
Bildnis einer Trinkerin (Ulrike Ottinger, 1979) 8
Black and White in Color (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1976) 14
Black Roots (Lionel Rogosin, 1970) 46
Black Rose Ascension (Tatsumi Kumashiro, 1975) 14
The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard, 1979) 9
The Black Tavern (Teddy Yip, 1972) 36
The Blade Spares None (Teddy Yip, 1971) 18
Blaise Pascal (Roberto Rossellini, 1972) 25
The Blind Owl (Kiumars Derambakhsh, 1975) 38
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader, 1978) 17
A Bonus for Irene (Helke Sander, 1971) 19
Un borghese piccolo piccolo (Mario Monicelli, 1977) 7
A Boy and His Dog (L.Q. Jones, 1975) 50
The Boy Friend (Ken Russell, 1971) 39
Breaking Away (Peter Yates, 1979) 24
Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman, 1970) 10
The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979) 47
The Brotherhood of Satan (Bernard McEveety, 1971) 37

Calmos (Bertrand Blier, 1976) 36
Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1979) 44
Le Camion (Marguerite Duras, 1977) 7
The Candidate (Michael Ritchie, 1972) 12
Canoa (Felipe Cazals, 1976) 46
The Canterbury Tales (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1972) 43
Case for a Rookie Hangman (Pavel Juráček, 1970) 22
Catch-22 (Mike Nichols, 1970) 36
Cat's Play (Károly Makk, 1974) 45
Challenge of Death (Lee Tso Nam, 1978) 24
Charlie Varrick (Don Siegel, 1973) 43
Che? (Roman Polański, 1972) 50
The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray, 1977) 33
China Behind (Shu Shuen, 1974) 15
Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976) 38
Les Choses de la vie (Claude Sautet, 1970) 33
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Francesco Rosi, 1979) 21
La Cicatrice intérieure (Philippe Garrel, 1972) 28
The Clockmaker (Bertrand Tavernier, 1974) 17
Colloque de chiens (Raúl Ruiz, 1977) 13
Coming Home (Hal Ashby, 1978) 17
Company Limited (Satyajit Ray, 1972) 22
The Confession (Costa-Gavras, 1970) 18
Cousin cousine (Jean-Charles Tacchella, 1975) 47
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, 1970) 26
Critical Mass (Hollis Frampton, 1971) 15
Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah, 1977) 36
Cuadecuc, vampir (Pere Portabella, 1971) 42

Dark Star (John Carpenter, 1974) 33
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (Stanislav Rostotsky, 1972) 30
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Peter Medak, 1972) 41
The Day of the Locust (John Schlesinger, 1975) 48
Dear Phone (Peter Greenaway, 1976) 5
Demons (Toshio Matsumoto, 1971) 46
The Desert of the Tartars (Valerio Zurlini, 1976) 18
Did Somebody Drop His Mouse? (Richard Perry, 1972) 34
Dinner for Adele (Oldřich Lipský, 1978) 46
Dirty Ho (Lau Kar Leung, 1979) 19
Disciples of Shaolin (Chang Cheh, 1975) 48
Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray, 1973) 16
Don't Torture a Duckling (Lucio Fulci, 1972) 35
Don Juan (Jan Švankmajer, 1970) 12
Don's Party (Bruce Beresford, 1976) 19
Drive, He Said (Jack Nicholson, 1971) 45
Duck, You Sucker (Sergio Leone, 1971) 26
Duel of the Seven Tigers (Richard Yeung, 1979) 21
The Duellists (Ridley Scott, 1977) 34

Eagle's Claw (Lee Tso Nam, 1977) 42
Ecstasy of the Angels (Kōji Wakamatsu, 1972) 19
Eden and After (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1970) 40
Electra Glide in Blue (James Guercio, 1973) 25
Elektreia (Miklós Jancsó, 1974) 36
11 Harrowhouse (Aram Avakian, 1974) 35
The End of the Rainbow (Uwe Frießner, 1979) 12
Escape from the Trap (Jalal Moghadam, 1971) 36
Eureka (Ernie Gehr, 1974) 25
Everyday Life in a Syrian Village (Omar Amiralay, 1976) 38
Everything Visible Is Empty (Toshio Matsumoto, 1975) 22
Executioners from Shaolin (Lau Kar Leung, 1977) 37
The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973) 26
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Kazuo Hara, 1974) 15

Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman, 1976) 47
The Falcons (István Gaál, 1970) 14
Faratyev's Fantasies (Ilya Averbakh, 1979) 41
Farewell, My Lovely (Dick Richards, 1975) 43
Fascination (Jean Rollin, 1979) 48
Fat Man on a Beach (Michael Bakewell, 1973) 35
Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog, 1971) 20
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (Shunya Itō, 1972) 37
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Shunya Itō, 1972) 42
Follow the Star (John Woo, 1978) 41
Foxy Brown (Jack Hill, 1974) 33
France/tour/detour/deux/enfants (Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville, 1977-8) 7
Fruit of Paradise (Věra Chytilová, 1970) 32
The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978) 10

The Garden of Delights (Carlos Saura, 1970) 7
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica, 1970) 26
The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood, 1977) 50
General Idi Amin Dada (Barbet Schroeder, 1974) 39
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier, 1978) 18
Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1970) 37
The Girl with the Red Scarf (Atif Yilmaz, 1978) 48
Godspell (David Greene, 1973) 46
The Gold Connection (Kuei Chih-Hung, 1979) 38
La grande bouffe (Marco Ferreri, 1973) 32
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Werner Herzog, 1974) 14
The Green Room (François Truffaut, 1978) 44
The Green Wall (Armando Robles, 1970) 12

H Is for House (Peter Greenaway, 1973) 21
Hapax Legomena (Hollis Frampton, 1971-2) 38
Hard Times (Walter Hill, 1975) 36
The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell, 1972) 43
Harry and Tonto (Paul Mazursky, 1974) 28
The Hart of London (Jack Chambers, 1970) 32
Hedgehog in the Fog (Yuri Norstein, 1975) 20
Heinrich (Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1977) 4
Hello Skinny (Graeme Whifler, 1979) 50
The Herd (Zeki Ökten & Yilmaz Güney, 1979) 17
Heroes of the East (Lau Kar Leung, 1978) 21
Heroic Purgatory (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1970) 48
Hickey & Boggs (Robert Culp, 1972) 49
High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood, 1973) 48
The Himalayan (Huang Feng, 1976) 9
The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda, 1971) 25
History Lessons (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, 1972) 24
Hoa Binh (Raoul Coutard, 1970) 9
Hoffman (Alvin Rakoff, 1970) 34
Home from the Sea (Yōji Yamada, 1972) 6
The Homecoming (Peter Hall, 1973) 37
Hope (Yilmaz Güney & Şerif Gören, 1970) 39
Horror Express (Eugenio Martin, 1972) 30
Hospital (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1977) 35
The Hunters (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1977) 29

I, Pierre Rivière… (René Allio, 1976) 31
If You Spot a Cat Flying Through the Air (Daniel Szczechura, 1971) 50
Illumination (Krzysztof Zanussi, 1973) 34
Images (Robert Altman, 1972) 45
Inhabitants (Artavazd Peleshian, 1970) 2
Innocents with Dirty Hands (Claude Chabrol, 1975) 34
Inserts (John Byrum, 1974) 41
Insiang (Lino Brocka, 1976) 10
A Intrusa (Hugo Christensen, 1979) 28
The Irony of Fate (Eldar Ryazanov, 1975) 10
It's Alive (Larry Cohen, 1974) 18
Itchy Fingers (Leong Po Chih, 1979) 26

Jail Bait (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973) 36
Je t'aime moi non plus (Serge Gainsbourg, 1976) 41
Je tu il elle (Chantal Akerman, 1976) 17
Joe Hill (Bo Widerberg, 1971) 25
The Judge and the Assassin (Bertrand Tavernier, 1976) 2
Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah, 1972) 18

King Lear (Grigori Kozintsev, 1971) 35
King Lear (Peter Brook, 1971) 35
Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979) 8
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger, 1970) 49

The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta, 1977) 8
The Lacey Rituals (Bruce Lacey and Everybody, 1973) 4
Lady with a Sword (Kao Pao Shu, 1971) 32
Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1971) 38
The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven, 1972) 42
Last Hurrah for Chivalry (John Woo, 1979) 4
The Last Supper (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1976) 33
The Last Valley (James Clavell, 1971) 17
The Last Woman (Marco Ferreri, 1976) 37
The Late Show (Robert Benton, 1977) 31
Lenny (Bob Fosse, 1974) 29
Let Joy Reign Supreme (Bertrand Tavernier, 1975) 13
Letter to Jane (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972) 25
Life on Earth (Various, 1979) 47
Lipstick (Lamont Johnson, 1976) 50
The Little Mermaid (Karel Kachyňa, 1976) 37
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kenji Misumi, 1972) 33
A Long Goodbye (Kira Muratova, 1971) 15
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta, 1975) 40
Lost, Lost, Lost (Jonas Mekas, 1976) 42
Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1972) 43
Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1972) 45
La luna (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1979) 36

Mad Max (George Miller, 1979) 35
Made (John Mackenzie, 1972) 22
The Maids (Christopher Miles, 1975) 45
La Maison des bois (Maurice Pialat, 1971) 10
The Man Who Stole the Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa, 1979) 50
Mandingo (Richard Fleischer, 1975) 6
Many Wars Ago (Francesco Rosi, 1970) 40
The Matchless Conqueror (Joseph Kuo, 1971) 40
Mathias Kneissl (Reinhard Hauff, 1970) 43
The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophüls, 1976) 38
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971) 3
Mes petites amoureuses (Jean Eustache, 1974) 15
The Middleman (Satyajit Ray, 1976) 23
Milano calibro 9 (Fernando Di Leo, 1972) 28
Mindscape (Jacques Drouin, 1976) 21
Monkey Kung Fu (Lo Mar, 1979) 39
Morgiana (Juraj Herz, 1972) 42
The Morning Schedule (Susumu Hani, 1972) 16
The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979) 12
Musical Stairs (Guy Sherwin, 1977) 8
Mutations (Lillian Schwartz, 1973) 40
My Childhood (Bill Douglas, 1972) 13
My Name Is Nobody (Tonino Valerii & Sergio Leone, 1973) 30

Nachalo (Gleb Panfilov, 1970) 30
Nada (Claude Chabrol, 1974) 25
Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras, 1972) 27
Necrology (Standish Lawder, 1971) 39
News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977) 42
Newsprint (Guy Sherwin, 1972) 15
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (Paul Mazursky, 1976) 20
The Nineteen Year-Old's Map (Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 1979) 40
None But the Brave (Lo Wei, 1973) 30
Noroît (Jacques Rivette, 1976) 6
Notes Towards an African Orestes (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1970) 17

O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973) 6
Ogro (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1979) 48
Oh! I Can't Stop! (Zbigniew Rybczyński, 1975) 31
One Sings, the Other Doesn't (Agnès Varda, 1977) 13
Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977) 48
L'Ordre (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1973) 28
Les Ordres (Michel Brault, 1974) 18
Le orme (Luigi Bazzoni, 1975) 49
Other People's Letters (Ilya Averbakh, 1976) 11
The Other Side of Underneath (Jane Arden, 1972) 30
Our Hitler (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1977) 44
Outlaw Matsu Returns Home (Shōhei Imamura, 1973) 24
Over the Edge (Jonathan Kaplan, 1979) 49
Overlord (Stuart Cooper, 1975) 27

Padre padrone (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, 1977) 19
Papillon (Franklin Schaffner, 1973) 28
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (Alexander Kluge, 1973) 9
Passe ton bac d'abord… (Maurice Pialat, 1978) 28
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Shūji Terayama, 1974) 7
Pastorale (Otar Iosseliani, 1975) 44
Payday (Daryl Duke, 1973) 48
Penda's Fen (Alan Clarke, 1974) 36
Pennies from Heaven (Piers Haggard, 1978) 10
Peppermint Soda (Diane Kurys, 1977) 31
Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik, 1977) 18
Phase IV (Saul Bass, 1974) 46
Picture and Sound Rushes (Morgan Fisher, 1974) 4
Pictures of the Old World (Dušan Hanák, 1972) 26
The Pirates of Bubuan (Shōhei Imamura, 1972) 6
Play It Again, Sam (Herbert Ross, 1972) 31
Poetic Justice (Hollis Frampton, 1972) 11
The Postman (Dariush Mehrjui, 1972) 6
A Priceless Day (Péter Gothár, 1979) 47
Primate (Frederick Wiseman, 1974) 46
The Private Eyes (Michael Hui, 1976) 25
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder, 1970) 2
Profumo di donna (Dino Risi, 1974) 43
The Punishment (Sergiu Nicolaescu, 1976) 46

Rabid Dogs (Mario Bava, 1974) 48
Radio On (Christopher Petit, 1979) 15
The Railway Children (Lionel Jeffries, 1970) 15
Raining in the Mountain (King Hu, 1979) 19
Rape! 13th Hour (Yasuharu Hasebe, 1977) 50
Rebellion in Patagonia (Héctor Olivera, 1974) 20
The Red Snowball Tree (Vasily Shukshin, 1974) 29
Reflections (Jerzy Kucia, 1979) 33
La Région centrale (Michael Snow, 1971) 3
Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (Chantal Akerman, 1978) 28
Requiem for a Village (David Gladwell, 1975) 32
Rheingold (Niklaus Schilling, 1978) 13
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (Jeff Margolis, 1979) 14
Rider on the Rain (René Clément, 1970) 24
Rituals (Peter Carter, 1977) 32
A River Called Titas (Ritwik Ghatak, 1973) 26
The Roads of Exile (Claude Goretta, 1978) 46
Rolling Thunder (John Flynn, 1977) 50
Ruskin (Robert Beavers, 1975) 28

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Lewis John Carlino, 1976) 38
Sayonara CP (Kazuo Hara, 1972) 19
The Scenic Route (Mark Rappaport, 1978) 44
Scum (Alan Clarke, 1977) 25
The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (Margarethe von Trotta, 1978) 15
The Seduction of Mimi (Lina Wertmüller, 1972) 23
The Seedling (Shyam Benegal, 1974) 37
A Sense of Loss (Marcel Ophüls, 1973) 48
The Sentimental Swordsman (Chor Yuen, 1977) 36
Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr, 1970) 2
Série noire (Alain Corneau, 1979) 46
Serpico (Sidney Lumet, 1973) 42
Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmüller, 1975) 11
Seven Days (Chris Welsby, 1974) 19
7 Grandmasters (Joseph Kuo, 1978) 29
Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975) 27
Silence (Masahiro Shinoda, 1971) 25
Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972) 28
A Simple Event (Sohrab Saless, 1974) 10
Sister Street Fighter (Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, 1974) 44
Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness (Margarethe von Trotta, 1979) 27
Slaughterhouse Five (George Roy Hill, 1972) 31
Soldier of Orange (Paul Verhoeven, 1977) 23
La Soufrière (Werner Herzog, 1977) 31
A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977) 4
The Spider's Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) 46
Spoiled Children (Bertrand Tavernier, 1977) 49
State of Siege (Costa-Gavras, 1972) 35
The Strawberry Statement (Stuart Hagmann, 1970) 11
S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED (Paul Sharits, 1971) 19
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (Volker Schlöndorff, 1971) 42
Superman (Richard Donner, 1978) 42
Supervixens (Russ Meyer, 1975) 39
Sweet Movie (Dušan Makavejev, 1974) 40
Swept Away (Lina Wertmüller, 1974) 34
Switchblade Sisters (Jack Hill, 1975) 50
Sybil (Daniel Petrie, 1976) 9
The Scavengers (Ermanno Olmi, 1970) 4

Theodor Hierneis (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1973) 20
There Once Was a Singing Blackbird (Otar Iosseliani, 1970) 21
This Is How It Shall Pass (András Jeles, 1970) 21
The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers (Richard Lester, 1973-4) 26
Three Years Without God (Mario O'Hara, 1976) 29
THX-1138 (George Lucas, 1971) 12
Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy (John Irvin, 1979) 45
Tommy (Ken Russell, 1975) 33
Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973) 6
Trafic (Jacques Tati, 1971) 49
Trial of the Road (Aleksei German, 1971) 40
The Truce (Sergio Renán, 1974) 17
Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven, 1973) 44
The Twelve Gold Medallions (Cheng Kang, 1970) 22
Two English Girls (François Truffaut, 1971) 47

Ulzana's Raid (Robert Aldrich, 1972) 50
Un homme qui dort (Bernard Queysanne, 1974) 16
Under the Cherry Blossoms (Masahiro Shinoda, 1975) 37
Up the Sandbox (Irvin Kershner, 1972) 20

The Valiant Ones (King Hu, 1975) 16
Vengeance! (Chang Cheh, 1970) 35
Le Vent d'est (Dziga Vertov Group, 1970) 30
Viva la muerte (Fernando Arrabal, 1971) 50

A Walk Through H (Peter Greenaway, 1979) 23
The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979) 19
The Wasps Are Here (Dharmasena Pathiraja, 1977) 25
Water Wrackets (Peter Greenaway, 1975) 4
Watersmith (Will Hindle, 1971) 13
We All Loved Each Other So Much (Ettore Scola, 1974) 27
A Wedding (Robert Altman, 1978) 43
The Wedding (Andrzej Wajda, 1973) 49
Welfare (Frederick Wiseman, 1975) 40
Whitchurch Down (Duration) (Malcolm Le Grice, 1972) 31
The White Bird Marked with Black (Yuri Ilyenko, 1971) 45
White Dust (Jeff Keen, 1972) 21
White Hole (Toshio Matsumoto, 1979) 6
Wife to Be Sacrificed (Masaru Konuma, 1974) 49
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev, 1971) 14
The Wind and the Lion (John Milius, 1975) 46
Windows (Peter Greenaway, 1975) 45
Winter Soldier (Winterfilm Collective, 1972) 33
Witchhammer (Otakar Vávra, 1970) 39
The Wold Shadow (Stan Brakhage, 1972) 14
The Woman Who Powders Herself (Patrick Bokanowski, 1972) 14
The Wonderful Crook (Claude Goretta, 1975) 25

The Yakuza (Sydney Pollack, 1974) 7

Clue Answer Key

With 3 lists in, there's currently one film in the top 10 that didn't make the prior list's top 100. And two directors have 3 films each in the top 20, one American, one not.

Spoiler

The Wicker Man. Altman and Herzog.

One of the directors that I initially said had three films in the top 20 has only gotten one measly vote since, and as a result now has zero films there. Two films polling strongly (currently at #4 and #7) were absent from the prior vote entirely.

Spoiler

Herzog. Du côté d'Orouët and Phantom of the Paradise.

There's one film on the list that two people so far have voted for, and both of them misspelled the film's title the exact same way!

Spoiler

Mickey, er, Mikey and Nicky

There are currently two ties in the top 100 where the films tied are by the same director.

Spoiler

American Graffiti/Star Wars and Cries and Whispers/Scenes from a Marriage

The top 10 comprises five countries and eight directors. The current #1 film is the only film from its country in the top 10. Two top 10 films by the same director are tied.

Spoiler

Celine and Julie Go Boating. Stalker and Mirror.

Thanks to very high placements on all five lists that I've received so far today, a film that last night wasn't even in the top 10 is now comfortably our new #1!

Spoiler

Chinatown

The list strikes me as a bit of a safe, middle of the road let down.

My list:

1. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
2. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
3. Performance (Nicolas Roeg)
4. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
5. Sounder (Martin Ritt)
6. The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Zulawski)
7. Pastoral: To Die In the Country (Shûji Terayama)
8. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
9. The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
10. A Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson)
11. Salo (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
12. Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie)
13. Throw Away Your Books, Rally In the Streets (Shûji Terayama)
14. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
15. Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Kazuo Hara)
16. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
17. God Told Me To (Larry Cohen)
18. The Confession (Costa-Gavras)
19. Sayanora CP (Kazuo Hara)
20. Nashville (Robert Altman)
21. Cold Cuts (Bertrand Blier)
22. Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
23. The Man Who Put His Will On Film (Nagisa Oshima)
24. Halloween (John Carpenter)
25. Salomè (Carmelo Bene)
26. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
27. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)
28. Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Andersen)
29. Mickey and Nicky (Elaine May)
30. Grass Labyrinth (Shûji Terayama)
31. Fingers (James Toback)
32. La Grande Bouffe (Marco Ferreri)
33. The Last Supper (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
34. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
35. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
36. The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
37. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
38. Everyday Life in a Syrian Village (Omar Amiralay)
39. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
40. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
41. Macbeth (Roman Polanski)
42. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
43. The Canterbury Tales (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
44. Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
45. The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (Wojciech Has)
46. Primate (Frederick Wiseman)
47. The Silent Partner (Daryl Duke)
48. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
49. Bone (Larry Cohen)
50. Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)

Orphan defense forthcoming...

Edit: And I was one of the one's who misspelled Mikey and Nicky. #-o

bamwc2 wrote:The list strikes me as a bit of a safe, middle of the road let down.

+1. And I'm especially worried about what happened to Fassbinder, Angelopoulos and Makavejev. Good to see that at least Rivette retains his fan base, even though I can't believe that I was really the only one who voted for "Noroit". Did Michael Kerpan forget to hand in his list?

Oh I was certain Stalker was going to be #1 after swo17's clue on Sunday. Still, good to see two top ten spots for Tarkovsky.

Tommaso wrote: Did Michael Kerpan forget to hand in his list?

Didn't forget -- just insufficient time (and mental energy) to make such a long list.

Thanks so much for doing all the calculations and organizing Swo!

Biggest surprise for me is seeing Cría Cuervos on the casualties list after getting a film club discussion dedicated to it recently.

thirtyframesasecond wrote:Oh I was certain Stalker was going to be #1 after swo17's clue on Sunday. Still, good to see two top ten spots for Tarkovsky.

Even if it had been at one point, these things are constantly in flux.

As for the list being safe, that's only true perhaps if you refuse to look beyond the top 100 films. If you're familiar with the law of large numbers, it's inevitable that when you start compiling upwards of 30 lists, it's going to start to look pretty homogenized. We had 34 lists submitted this time. There were 29 last time, and I'm guessing 20-23 the first time. For the first iteration of the list in 2005, a film had to have just 64 points to make the top 100. The top 86 also-rans this time have at least that many points. At various points in the tabulation process, many of those films were included in the top 100. But when you add enough other lists, these films start to get replaced by things like, say, The French Connection or Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, films we're generally all familiar with, and that a relatively large number of people like, but few enough to place them terribly high on their lists. I think the most interesting picks are the ones that have very strong support from just two or three people, but two or three voters can only give out so many points, and these films are always going to have a difficult time making the top 100 as long as more than 30 people are voting. (Only four films were able to make the top 100 this time with only three supporters, two of them tied for #99.) I've actually looked back at the results of various lists and it's pretty consistent that the number of points a film will need to make the top 100 is close to 3.5 times the number of people participating.

Honestly, when I'm compiling, there are generally very few lists submitted that are strictly composed of mainstream, safe choices. And even if someone were to submit a list that was like 49 of every mainstream, obvious movie that I hate plus one film that I only came to know of and treasure because of their recommendation during this project, I would be glad that that person participated.

This comment equally applies to all of these projects, just as this criticism comes up every single time.

Post deleted in the name of progress.

The Top 10 list looks a helluva lot like my Top Ten list, although I had The Godfather top, instead of Chinatown.
I might have liked to rank some leftfield, cult movie #1, - or even a previously-underappreciated film by a major director, such as Sam Peckinpah's 'Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia' - but The Godfather, Chinatown, and Nicolas Roeg's 'Don't Look Now' have stood up to repeated viewings since my original cinema viewing, backintheday, and despite much head-scratching there just wasn't any legitimate reasons I could see for their downgrading.

That list of also-rans - including orphans - looks a veritable treasure-trove, and I hope to explore in more detail, later.

I'll scrutinise the list more closely shortly to see which if any of my list are among the orphans.

And thanks to swo for sterling work in its rounding-up, organisation, and compilation.

P.S. If anyone would like me to PM them a list of how all of their picks fared in the overall tally (rather than having to scour through all of the results) it's a simple thing for me to do. Just let me know.

Thanks Swo for putting up with us schmucks.

I think I had more orphans in this list than in any previous

15). Battles Without Honor and Humanity (complete)
19).Padre padrone
33). Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
35). Mad Max
37).Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
39).Supervixens
43).Farewell, My Lovely
48).Rabid Dogs
50).The Gauntlet

and, my Top 20
, which - with the notable exception of the Fukasaku set, is comprised of films whose qualities remain undimmed after repeat viewings- or many viewings, in the case of 16 or so

1 The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
2 Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski
3 Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky
4 Nashville (1975) Robert Altman
5 Don't Look Now (1973) Nicolas Roeg
6 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) Sam Peckinpah
7 Performance (1970) Nicolas Roeg
8 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) Sam Peckinpah
9 Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976) Federico Fellini
10 Eraserhead (1977) David Lynch
11 Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974) Jacques Rivette
12 Le cercle rouge (1970) Jean-Pierre Melville
13 Blanche (1971) Walerian Borowczyk
14 Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
15 Battles Without Honor and Humanity (complete) Kinji Fukasaku
16 The Long Goodbye (1973) Robert Altman
17 Lacombe Lucien (1974) Louis Malle
18 The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) Clint Eastwood
19 Padre padrone (1977) Taviani Bros
20 Coup D'Etat (1973) Kiju Yoshida

swo17 wrote:I've actually looked back at the results of various lists and it's pretty consistent that the number of votes a film will need to make the top 100 is close to 3.5 times the number of people participating.

Do you mean the number of points (as opposed to votes)?