36 lists about #film

the first 18 of Kurosawa's 100 favorite films

• 01Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
• 02The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
• 03Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang, 1922)
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martin scorsese's list for a young filmmaker: the first 19 of 39

Saul Bass title sequences, in chronological order

• 01Carmen Jones (1954)
• 02The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
• 03Vertigo (1958)
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Quentin Tarantino's Sight and Sound ballot (2012)

• 01The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• 02Apocalypse Now, 1979
• 03The Bad News Bears (1976)
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sight and sound's greatest films of all time: the 2022 top 20

• 01Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• 02Vertigo
• 03Citizen Kane
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Wes Anderson's Criterion Top 10 (well, 12)

• 01The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls, 1953)
• 02Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
• 03Pigs and Battleships (Shohei Imamura, 1961)
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Sight and Sound 2022, the directors' top 10

• 012001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)↗
• 02Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
• 03The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
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Denis Villeneuve's Criterion Closet picks (2024)

• 01Three Colors
• 02A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman
• 03Che (Steven Soderbergh)
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Best Director Oscar winners since 2010

• 01Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker (2010)
• 02Tom Hooper - The King's Speech (2011)
• 03Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist (2012)
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Best Picture winners, 2010-2026

• 01The Hurt Locker (2010)
• 02The King's Speech (2011)
• 03The Artist (2012)
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guillermo del toro's criterion top 10 (2010)

• 01Throne of Blood / High and Low / Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
• 02The Seventh Seal / Fanny and Alexander: Theatrical Version (Ingmar Bergman)
• 03Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau) / Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
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23 picks from Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite films

• 01Nosferatu (1922)
• 02The General (1926)
• 03Metropolis (1927)
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spike lee's essential list, where i'd start

• 01Casablanca
• 02Some Like It Hot
• 03Rashomon
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Roger Ebert's ten greatest films (his final ballot)

• 01Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, dir. Werner Herzog)
• 02Apocalypse Now (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
• 03Citizen Kane (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
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Greta Gerwig's Barbie watchlist

• 01The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• 02The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
• 03Singin' in the Rain (1952)
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20 from Scorsese's 85-film list

Stanley Kubrick's favorite films

• 01I Vitelloni - Federico Fellini
• 02Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman
• 03Citizen Kane
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Bong Joon-ho's Sight and Sound ballot

• 01A City of Sadness (1989, dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)
• 02Cure (1997, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
• 03Happy as Lazzaro (2018, dir. Alice Rohrwacher)
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Barry Jenkins's Criterion closet picks

• 01Ratcatcher - Lynne Ramsay
• 02George Washington - David Gordon Green
• 03The Apu Trilogy - Satyajit Ray
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the films Tarkovsky said were his favorite

• 01Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951)
• 02Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)
• 03Nazarin (Luis Buñuel, 1959)
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Ari Aster's Criterion Closet picks (his second visit, 2025)

• 01Winchester '73 (1950) - Anthony Mann
• 02The Parallax View (1974) - Alan J. Pakula
• 03Lacombe, Lucien (1974) - Louis Malle
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Christopher Nolan's Criterion top 10

• 01The Hit (1984)
• 0212 Angry Men (1957)
• 03The Thin Red Line (1998)
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anime scores that work with zero context

• 01Spirited Away - Joe Hisaishi
• 02Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Yoko Kanno
• 03A Silent Voice (A Shape of Light) - Kensuke Ushio↗
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films where the rewatch tax is worth paying

movie night marathons that survive round two

• 01set a runtime budget before you pick anything
• 02pick films that share a mood, not a director or a decade
• 03shortest film goes first, save the slow burn for right after food
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criterion blind buys (graded honestly)

• 01House (1977) - Spine #539↗
• 02In the Mood for Love - Spine #147
• 03The Killer (1989) - Spine #8
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gifts for the horror fan who already owns everything scary

• 01Rosemary's Baby (Criterion Collection, spine #630)
• 02Halloween (2018) score, 2xLP on Waxwork Records↗
• 03John Carpenter's The Fog, vinyl on Waxwork Records↗
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letterboxd rating scale and jargon, explained for normal people

• 01★★★★★ (5 stars)
• 02half stars (the .5s)
• 03Diary
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things film people say that mean nothing to anyone else

• 01"unlikeable characters were the point"
• 02"this lives rent free"
• 03"I need to sit with this one"
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non-ghibli anime that deserves the same hype

• 01Perfect Blue (dir. Satoshi Kon, 1997)
• 02Paprika (dir. Satoshi Kon, 2006)
• 03Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2001)
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pay the rewatch tax

the ten films Barack Obama listed as favorites of 2024

• 01All We Imagine as Light (2024)
• 02Conclave (2024)
• 03The Piano Lesson (2024)
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satoshi kon's four films, in order of how much they wrecked me

• 01Paprika (2006)↗
• 02Perfect Blue (1997)↗
• 03Millennium Actress (2001)
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following a festival lineup from your couch

• 01mark the fest's actual start/end dates, not just the days everyone's posting
• 02check if it has a public streaming arm (Sundance runs one some years, Cannes never has)
• 03follow trade press (Variety, Screen Daily, IndieWire), not just film twitter
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anime for the friend who swears they don't watch anime

• 01Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• 02In This Corner of the World (2016)
• 035 Centimeters per Second (2007)
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Rainy Sunday films