Stories We Tell 2012

In 2015 TIFF organized its decennial poll of Critics, Programmers, Academics and Film Professionals asking 220 of them to name the top Canadian Films of all time. 399 films received votes, this list comprises the 134 films which received at least 3 votes.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20160704203521/http://tiff.net/canadas-all-time-top-ten

As voted on BBC Culture: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160819-the-21st-centurys-100-greatest-films

The best that cinema has had to offer since 2000, as picked by 177 film critics from around the world.

1. Visit BBC Culture here: http://bbc.in/2xTv2z7
2. BBC Culture - The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films: Who voted: http://bbc.in/2x9dpdQ
3. BBC Culture - The 21st Century’s 25 greatest films: http://bbc.in/2xRQes8
4. BBC Culture - Why Mulholland Drive is the greatest film since 2000: http://bbc.in/2yT7nQG
5. BBC Culture - Is this a new golden age of cinema?: http://bbc.in/2g4ggyI
6. CutPrintFilm (http://bit.ly/2whagYL) has a podcast episode discussing this list (skip ahead to 00:33:33).
7. Why is this list so thin on comedy? (http://bit.ly/2wgovgE)
8. This list compared to film's highest earners. (http://on.mktw.net/2vVYgAM)
9. The pleasures and perils of compiling greatest-films-ever lists. (https://tgam.ca/2fayPRs)

Credit supplement list to Andrew Phillips, https://trakt.tv/users/abstractals/lists/bbc-culture-s-100-greatest-films-of-the-21st-century

List compiled from: https://www.vogue.com/article/best-documentaries-of-all-time

Ranked as in the list

1: 13th (2016)
2: A Poem Is a Naked Person (2015)
3: The Act of Killing (2012)
4: American Factory (2019)
5: American Movie (1999)
6: Amy (2015)
7: Bill Cunningham New York (2010)
8: Blackfish (2013)
9: Bowling for Columbine (2002)
10: Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
11: Burden of Dreams (1982)
12: Cameraperson (2016)
13: Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
14: Crumb (1994)
15: Citizenfour (2014)
16: City of Gold (2015)
17: Cusp (2021)
18: Dark Money (2018)
19: Disclosure (2020)
20: Don’t Look Back (1967)
21: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
22: Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
23: F for Fake (1973)
24: The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
25: Gimme Shelter (1970)
26: The Gleaners and I (2000)
27: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)
28: Grey Gardens (1975)
29: Grizzly Man (2005)
30: Harlan County, USA (1976)
31: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)
32: Hoop Dreams (1994)
33: How to Survive a Plague (2012)
34: I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
35: Jane (2017)
36: Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
37: Kate Plays Christine (2016)
38: Kedi (2016)
39: Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
40: Man on Wire (2008)
41: McQueen (2018)
42: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
43: My Octopus Teacher (2020)
44: Nanook of the North (1922)
45: Night and Fog (1956)
46: O.J.: Made in America (2016)
47: Original Cast Album: Company (1970)
48: Paris Is Burning (1990)
49: Pina (2011)
50: The Queen of Versailles (2012)
51: Restrepo (2010)
52: Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018)
53: Salesman (1969)
54: Searching for Sugarman (2012)
55: Senna (2010)
56: The September Issue (2009)
57: Sherman’s March (1985)
58: Shoah (1985)
59: Spellbound (2002)
60: Stories We Tell (2012)
61: Super Size Me (2004)
62: The Thin Blue Line (1988)
63: The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
64: Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013)
65: The Up Series (1964–)
66: Waltz With Bashir (2008)
67: The War Room (1993)
68: Weiner (2016)
69: West of Memphis (2012)
70: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts (2006)
71: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

The Film Fatales, a collective of women indie directors, put together a list of must-see movies made by women.

Source: https://bitchmedia.org/post/female-film-directors-put-together-a-list-of-must-see-movies-made-by-women

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/13/100-best-films-movies-of-the-21st-century

Никто этого, в общем, не просил, а The Guardian взял и сделал топ-100 лучших фильмов 21 века. Среди ста фильмов два российских — «Русский ковчег» Сокурова и «Левиафан» Звягинцева.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/13/100-best-films-movies-of-the-21st-century

pelo amor de deus juro que vou tentar

Hasta 2016. Del 1 al 100.

Movies released from 2010-2017 to watch

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191125-the-100-greatest-films-directed-by-women-poll

Below is our updated running tally of the films most frequently mentioned by individual critics on their year-end Top Ten lists. Note that if a critic ranks more than the standard 10 films, we will not include films ranked 11th or worse. In case of a tie for first or second, each film will receive the full points for that position.
https://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critic-top-10-lists-best-movies-of-2013

Capturing truth, life, and reality — one movie at a time. The best documentaries allow us to see the world with a fresh set of eyes, from social experiments (Super Size Me) to quirky competitions (The King of Kong) to political exposés (Citizenfour) to the ultimate cat video (Kedi). Now, we take the top movies of the form (each is Certified Fresh from at least 100 critics reviews) for our countdown list of the 100 best-reviewed documentaries ranked by Tomatometer.
Link: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/100-best-documentaries/

The Japanese Contemporary Arthouse Guide asked 18 Japanese directors to name 5 documentaries to introduce new viewers to the charm of cinema.

Original answers (Japanese):
https://arthouse-guide.jp/#enquete

Translation by @​Asian_docs:
https://twitter.com/Asian_docs/status/1574343628729683968

Which directors have selected a given film is indicated in the film's note.

Links to directors on Trakt:
Irie Yu: https://trakt.tv/people/yu-irie
Ogawa Sara: https://trakt.tv/people/sara-ogawa
Oda Kaori: https://trakt.tv/people/kaori-oda
Kusano Natsuka: https://trakt.tv/people/natsuka-kusano
Komori Haruka: https://trakt.tv/people/haruka-komori
Shimada Ryuichi: https://trakt.tv/people/ryuichi-shimada
Shiraishi Koji: https://trakt.tv/people/koji-shiraishi
Seta Natsuki: https://trakt.tv/people/natsuki-seta
Soda Kazuhiro: https://trakt.tv/people/kazuhiro-soda
Tomita Katsuya: https://trakt.tv/people/katsuya-tomita
Hirose Nanako: https://trakt.tv/people/nanako-hirose
Fukada Koji: https://trakt.tv/people/koji-fukada
Fujimoto Akio: https://trakt.tv/people/akio-fujimoto
Hokimoto Sora: https://trakt.tv/people/hokimoto-sora
Matsubayashi Yoju: https://trakt.tv/people/yoju-matsubayashi
Miyake Sho: https://trakt.tv/people/sho-miyake
Yamanaka Yoko: https://trakt.tv/people/yoko-yamanaka
Yokohama Satoko: https://trakt.tv/people/satoko-yokohama

Rotten Tomatoes - Best of year

Not my selection, but an easier way to track theirs:
https://lwlies.com/articles/the-100-best-films-of-the-decade/

Source: http://www.raindance.org/the-25-best-films-directed-by-female-film-directors/

Mix of New and Old movies that I've watched this year order by most recently watched

Amazon Prime Top Documentary Movies