1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is a film reference book edited by Steven Jay Schneider with original essays on each film contributed by over 70 film critics.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Movies_You_Must_See_Before_You_Die
The They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1,000 greatest films list is primarily compiled by using over 6000 individual critics' and filmmakers' best-films-of-all-time lists/ballots. The resulting list is very diverse and spans virtually all movie-producing decades and countries.
Source: http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm
The top films in the 2012 Sight and Sound Poll from the combined votes of 846 critics and 359 directors. Contains films with 3 or more votes. In order by number of votes.
The following is a list of positions and the number of corresponding votes. 21-22 (66 votes), 27-28 (55 votes), 29-30 (54 votes), 36-37 (46 votes), 39-42 (44 votes), 43-46 (43 votes), 47-50 (41 votes), 51-52 (40 votes), 53-55 (39 votes), 56-57 (38 votes), 59-60 (35 votes), 62-74 (33 votes), 75-77 (32 votes), 78-79 (31 votes), 82-88 (28 votes), 89-90 (27 votes), 91-93 (26 votes), 94-99 (25 votes), 100-103 (24 votes), 104-106 (23 votes), 107-110 (22 votes), 111-118 (21 votes), 119-127 (20 votes), 128-139 (19 votes), 140-146 (18 votes), 147-153 (17 votes), 154-166 (16 votes), 167-182 (15 votes), 183-193 (14 votes), 194-206 (13 votes), 207-228 (12 votes), 229-243 (11 votes), 244-271 (10 votes), 272-302 (9 votes), 303-330 (8 votes), 331-375 (7 votes), 376-423 (6 votes), 424-497 (5 votes), 498-624 (4 votes), 625-817 (3 votes)
Source: http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012
The greatest films ever made, as voted by MUBI’s global community of film lovers.
https://mubi.com/lists/the-top-1000
This list contains the favorite movies of movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum who writes for the Chicago Reader. The movies span virtually every decade, and include many an obscure movie.
#1 - #1012: original list
#1013 - #1073: 2008 additions
#1074 - #1133: 2016 additions
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Cinema-Necessity-Film-Canons/dp/0801889715
TCM's monumental three-month-long festival, Women Make Film, celebrating female filmmakers with groundbreaking, 14-part documentary from Mark Cousins, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2020), and three dozen movies by women directors. Cousins' extensive documentary is a TCM premiere, as are 23 of the 36 films in this installment of the festival. By the time it is completed TCM will have paid tribute to 100 films and 100 filmmakers spanning six continents, 44 countries and 12 decades! // CITATION: TCM. "WOMEN MAKE FILM - TUESDAYS IN SEPTEMBER." Accessd September 13, 2020. http://www.tcm.com/
TCM PREMIERE DATES ††
01—08 SEP 01 2020 — Openings; Tone
09—15 SEP 08 2020 — Believability; Introducing Character; Meet Cute
16—22 SEP 15 2020 — Conversation; Framing; Tracking
23—29 SEP 22 2020 — Staging; Journey; Discovery
30—37 SEP 29 2020 — Adult/Child; Economy; Editing
38—44 OCT 06 2020 — POV; Close-Up; Dream
45—51 OCT 13 2020 — Bodies; Sex
52—58 OCT 20 2020 — Home; Religion; Work
59—65 OCT 27 2020 — Politics; Gear Change; Comedy
66—73 NOV 03 2020 — Melodrama; Sci Fi; Horror and Hell
74—80 NOV 10 2020 — Tension; Status; Leave Out
81—87 NOV 17 2020 — Reveal; Memory; Time
88—94 NOV 24 2020 — Life Inside; Meaning of Life; Love
95—101 DEC 01 2020 — Death; Endings; Song and Dance
† NOTE: This is first of two lists based on Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2019) by Mark Cousins. This list (with TCM premier dates) is narrower in scope and is a complete showcase of TCM's 2020 Women Make Film Film Festival through DEC 1, 2020. My second list (similar but broader), Women Make Film II, is a compendium of all the films by chapter that appear in Cousins' 14 hour documentary. It's ranked and notated to mirror the documentary's structure. https://trakt.tv/users/lezelmaz/lists/women-make-film-ii
†† NOTE: As I developed my broader Women Make Film II list, I noticed that while most films curated by TCM for their Women Make Film Film festival are culled from Cousins' documentary, several films (along with those female directors) did not originate from his doc, and are not included in that other Women Make Film II list.
Movies about labor movements, civil rights struggles, anti-war efforts, or community organizing. These movies often blend strong narrative storytelling with a deep exploration of social and political themes, providing viewers with not just a compelling story, but also a thought-provoking examination of the human condition and the power of collective action.
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time?ok=
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
Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.
I might be a nihilist except that I don’t believe in anything.
― Mitchell Heisman
The ‘Asian Cinema 100’ is a collaboration project with the Busan International Film Festival and the Busan Cinema Center to shed light on the values of Asian film. The list will be updated every 5 years to act as a guide for the aesthetic value and history of Asian cinema and to discover hidden masterpieces and talented directors of Asia.
For the project, 73 prominent film professionals at home and abroad included film critics such as Jonathan Rosenbaum, Tony Rayns, Hasumi Shigehiko, and renowned festival executives, programmers, and directors Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Bong Joon-ho, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. They recommended their top 10 films, resulting in 113 selections and 106 directors (including joint rankings) for the final 100 list.
This list is from 2015. See the list source for the top directors and to see which films are tied.
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20151031145338/http://www.biff.kr/Template/Builder/00000001/page.asp?page_num=5865
Women Make Film II †
https://www.womenmakefilm.net/
Introductions and Chapters††
01 – 05 / Introductions
06 – 29 / Chapter 01 | Openings
30 – 42 / Chapter 02 | Tone
43 – 56 / Chapter 03 | Believability
57 – 66 / Chapter 04 | Introducing Character
67 – 76 / Chapter 05 | Meet Cute
77 – 88 / Chapter 06 | Conversation
89–104 / Chapter 07 | Framing
105–109 / Chapter 08 | Tracking
110–114 / Chapter 09 | Staging
115–126 / Chapter 10 | Journey
127–136 / Chapter 11 | Discovery
137–149 / Chapter 12 | Adult/Child
150–150 / Chapter 13 | Economy
151–154 / Chapter 14 | Editing
155–161 / Chapter 15 | POV
162–166 / Chapter 16 | Close Up
167–173 / Chapter 17 | Surrealism and Dreams
174–180 / Chapter 18 | Bodies
181–191 / Chapter 19 | Sex
192–197 / Chapter 20 | Home
198–199 / Chapter 21 | Religion
200–207 / Chapter 22 | Work
208–219 / Chapter 23 | Politics
220–221 / Chapter 24 | Gear Change
222–228 / Chapter 25 | Comedy
229–232 / Chapter 26 | Melodrama
233–235 / Chapter 27 | SCI-FI
236–241 / Chapter 28 | Horror and Hell
242–245 / Chapter 29 | Tension
246–251 / Chapter 30 | Stasis
252–254 / Chapter 31 | Leave Out
255–259 / Chapter 32 | Reveal
260–264 / Chapter 33 | Memory
265–267 / Chapter 34 | Time
268–270 / Chapter 35 | Life Inside
271–275 / Chapter 36 | The Meaning of Life
276–XXX / Chapter 37 | Love
XXX–XXX / Chapter 38 | Death
XXX–XXX / Chapter 39 | Endings
XXX–XXX / Chapter 40 | Song and Dance
† NOTE: This is my second and broader list based on Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2019) by Mark Cousins. It's a complete list of all films by chapter that appear in Cousins' 14 hour documentary. It's ranked and notated to mirror the documentary's structure. My other (first) list is similar but more narrow selection of films and their TCM premier dates, based on the same Cousins' documentary which airs in TCM's 2020 Women Make Film Film Festival. https://trakt.tv/users/lezelmaz/lists/women-make-film-tcm-tuesdays-2020
†† NOTE: This list notes the first instance only of a film that may appear in multiple chapters.
From a critic poll published in November 2019.
Olympia is one entry.
Source: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191125-the-100-greatest-films-directed-by-women-poll
The Arts & Faith's Top 100 Films (previously known as the 100 most spiritually significant films) list has been selected by the Arts & Faith members, which is dedicated to the combination of art and faith.
2020 update added a new restriction of one film per director, but other films that would have made the list without that restriction can be seen in the subtitle for each main entry in the source.
Source: http://artsandfaith.com/index.php?/films/year/8-2020-top-100/
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191125-the-100-greatest-films-directed-by-women-poll
The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a 15-part series written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation.
The series provides a worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an epic tale that starts in nickelodeons and ends as a multi-billion-dollar globalised digital industry."
Note: "Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas," a documentary about the making of Avatar, is missing because it does not appear to have an imdb page.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Birth-Cinema-Hollywood-Dream/dp/B00AMQ1B1O
In 2014, Sight & Sound polled 340 documentary critics, curators, academics and filmmakers asking for top 10 documentary lists. Over 1000 films got votes, from years as early as 1892 to as recent as 2013. This list is the combined critics and filmmakers list of all films that received 3 or more votes.
Source: http://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/greatest-docs
In 2009, Film magazine asked 92 Iranian critics to vote for the best Iranian films. The original list was a top 20. This list includes all films that received at least 2 votes. The ballots are available on Film magazine's website (click the 4 links at the bottom).
In 2008, Film magazine made a list of the best Iranian films of the last 3 decades.
Missing: Ghesehaye Majid (1990)
Asian Cinema: A Field Guide (2007) by Tom Vick is a book about the history of cinema in various regions throughout Asia. This is a list of films mentioned in the book.
Part One: The Old Guard
China: Tradition and Resistance (#1-76)
Japan: Cinema of Extremes (77-266)
India: All That and then Some (267-355)
Part Two: Postwar Booms
Hong Kong: The Fine Art of Popular Cinema (356-459)
Korea: Rising from the Ashes of History (460-573)
Part Three: Recent Arrivals
Iran: A Continuing Conversation (574-632)
Taiwan: The Little Island that Could (633-675)
Part Four: New Players
South and Southeast Asia: Coming Into Focus
Bangladesh (676 & 677), Bhutan (678 & 679), Cambodia (680-682), Indonesia (683-689), Malaysia and Singapore (690-704), Nepal (705 & 706), Pakistan (707), The Philippines (708-732), Sri Lanka (733-737), Thailand (738-766), Tibet (767-772), Vietnam (773-784)
Central Asia and the Middle East: Global Intersections
The Former Soviet Republics, Afghanistan, and Mongolia (785-800), The Middle East (801–832), Turkey (833-843)
Part Five: Where to Go from Here
(List of websites and books)
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Asian-Cinema-A-Field-Guide/dp/0061145858/
All credits go to IMDb user: RDLongoria
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? (TSPDT) is a modest but growing film resource dedicated to the art of motion picture filmmaking and most specifically to that one particular individual calling the shots from behind the camera - the film director.
This list is based on TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films, a list compilated by Bill Georgaris using thousands of best-of/all-time lists.
www.theyshootpictures.com
In chronological order
Source: http://lwlies.com/articles/100-great-movies-by-female-directors-part-1/
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