2010s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol. 3)

[swo17]

Just for fun, here is an expected top 50 based on votes made in the dynamic top 10 threads for each year (caveat: years where more people contributed lists or where the quality threshold was lower are overly represented). I'll include a statistic when I post the results tomorrow that compares against this:

01. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
02. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
03. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
04. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
05. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
06. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
07. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
08. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013)
09. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
10. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
11. Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
12. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
13. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011)
14. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
15. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
16. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)
17. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
18. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
19. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
20. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013)
21. The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
22. Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
23. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
24. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012)
25. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
26. Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2014)
27. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
28. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
29. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz, 2010)
30. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
31. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
32. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, 2012)
33. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
34. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)
35. Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
36. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
37. Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011)
38. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)
39. Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014)
40. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014)
41. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
42. True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2010)
43. Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013)
44. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
45. Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
46. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)
47. The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai, 2013)
48. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke, 2013)
49. Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
50. Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013)

Just to give an idea of how much things can differ when you're polling different people, here is another clue: There are only two films that have received multiple #1 votes, and one of them is not even listed above!

[Tommaso]

This is fun indeed. I actually thought that the list I handed in would be terribly 'mainstream' for the most part, but now seeing this Dynamic Top Tens list it seems I'm pretty much on the fringes again... Oh well.

[TMDaines]

The Rasoulof film, Manuscripts Don't Burn, which has been heavily mentioned here, is currently available on Amazon Prime Video UK in HD. I don't believe the film got a Blu-ray release anywhere, which is why this is worth mentioning.

[Trees]

If I can make one last-minute push for a film I did not see often mentioned in the 2010-2014 annual lists, it is Herzog's Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, which I believe is available via Netflix. One of my favorite documentaries from the last ten years.

[Brood_Star]

There are a couple films that I could not fit into my ballot which I'd like to shout out here: Like Someone in Love, Kiarostami's much more interesting feature of the decade, and Pineiro's Viola, a hugely dense work and very regrettable omission. Also trying to pick which Hong film would make the cut was agonizing, especially since (imo) his greatest, Right Now, Wrong Then, isn't eligible.

[movielocke]

edit looks like I can't read the difference between quote and PM!

the last changes I made was swapping out "Much Ado About Nothing" for "Easy A" and "Inequality for All" for "Cave of Forgotten Dreams", so I guess that makes the Whedon and Reich films my runners up. Interestingly, when I initially assembled the list, "Moonrise Kingdom," "Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Inside Llewyn Davis" all wound up just outside the top twenty five, and I swapped various ones in and out until my final list actually wound up with all of them also runners up--as they were initially--just outside the top twenty-five.

[domino harvey]

I reckon we can all start bitching about how the list both contained no surprises and was outrageously wrong even without the list being posted yet!

[swo17]

But Starlet placed

[domino harvey]

The Starlet is also cursed

[thirtyframesasecond]

I went back over my entries for the 2010-14 lists when I was compiling this and was surprised that the list of 25 I submitted didn't reflect them at all. I didn't rewatch anything for this poll but some of the films that scored really high in my end of year lists didn't even make it. I made completely subjective judgements when compiling this list but I'm pretty sure Tree of Life topped my list in 2011 and didn't even get a vote from me this time.

[TMDaines]

It's my fault that the final list hasn't been posted yet. I thought the deadline was the end of the month, i.e. tomorrow, and swo prompted me about my no show. Thankfully, I could copy and paste it together in several minutes from the Dynamic Top Tens.

[thirtyframesasecond]

Odder still was the fact that three US horror films make the list plus a very dark indie film.

[swo17]

Thanks to everyone for your participation this round. I'll be releasing the results shortly in the next three posts. Below is a guide to what the figures listed after each film represent, each separated with a slash mark:

1. Total points (25 for each #1 placement, 24 for each #2, etc.)
2. Number of lists the film appeared on (out of 27 submitted). If the film appeared in anyone's top 5, the number of top 5 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. How much better or worse the film fared here than might have been expected based on the votes in the dynamic top 10 threads, with differences of 10 or more highlighted.

So for example, the 124/8(2)/1(x2)/+8 shown for Holy Motors means that it scored 124 points and appeared on eight lists (and two top 5s), with two people ranking it as high as #1. The film also placed eight positions higher than expected based on votes in the dynamic top 10 threads.

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

Feel free to continue discussion in this thread regarding the results of this project and to share your individual lists (including defenses of your poor-faring favorites). The grand finale of this round of the lists project is coming up next, in which all of the best performing films from 1895-2014 will duel to the death, oh wait this is art everyone wins. I will start that thread sometime before the end of time. Possibly even this week.

[swo17]

The 2010s List

01. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011) 211/11(6)/1(x2)/+3
02. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014) 177/11(3)/2(x2)/-1
03. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012) 163/12(3)/1/--
04. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011) 159/7(6)/1(x2)/+1
05. Her (Spike Jonze, 2013) 158/10(2)/4(x2)/+6
06. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011) 137/8(5)/1/+1
07. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011) 134/9(2)/1/+7
08. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012) 133/8(4)/1/-2
09. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011) 131/9(1)/4/+4
10. Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012) 124/8(2)/1(x2)/+8
11. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 2014) 120/7(3)/1/+8
12. Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) 112/9(2)/2/+10
13. We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson, 2013) 109/7(2)/2/+49
14. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013) 106/7(2)/1/-4
15. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013) 104/6(1)/1/+16
16. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013) 101/5(4)/1/-8
(tie) Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010) 101/8(2)/3/+14
18. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010) 98/5(3)/2/-1
(tie) Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013) 98/7(2)/3/-2
(tie) Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014) 98/7(2)/2/-16
21. Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2014) 96/5(1)/2/+5
22. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz, 2010) 95/7(3)/1/+7
23. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010) 87/7(1)/5/+5
24. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) 84/7(1)/4/-15
25. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2014) 80/5(1)/2/+49
(tie) Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014) 80/5/8/+28
27. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011) 76/6(2)/2(x2)/-2
(tie) Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013) 76/4(2)/4/+56
(tie) Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013) 76/4(1)/3/-15
30. Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014) 75/6/7/+92
31. My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa, 2010) 72/3(3)/1(x2)/+60
32. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 2011) 68/4(1)/3/+24
(tie) Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010) 68/5(1)/3/+13
(tie) Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, 2010) 68/6/6/+39
35. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013) 66/4(1)/3/-12
36. Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) 65/4(1)/1/+15
37. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010) 64/4(1)/1/+4
38. Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014) 59/3(2)/4/+57
(tie) Young Adult (Jason Reitman, 2011) 59/4(1)/3/+26
(tie) Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012) 59/5/6/-14
41. Fish & Cat (Shahram Mokri, 2013) 58/4(1)/3/New
42. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014) 57/4/6/-4
43. Starlet (Sean Baker, 2012) 56/5(1)/5/+189
(tie) Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012) 56/4/8/+20
45. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, 2012) 54/4(1)/3/-13
46. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014) 52/4(1)/3/-12
(tie) Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011) 52/6(1)/4/+19
48. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012) 51/4(1)/4/-21
49. The Immigrant (James Gray, 2013) 50/3(2)/3(x2)/+21
(tie) Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz, 2013) 50/3(1)/2/+49


Top Directors

Wes Anderson (2 films, 340 points)
Lars von Trier (2 films, 253 points)
Terrence Malick (2 films, 203 points)
Paul Thomas Anderson (2 films, 159 points)
Spike Jonze (1 film, 158 points)
Abbas Kiarostami (2 films, 154 points)
Nicolas Winding Refn (2 films, 153 points)
Asghar Farhadi (2 films, 144 points)
Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky (1 film, 137 points)
Richard Linklater (2 films, 136 points)

Leos Carax (1 film, 124 points)
Damien Chazelle (1 film, 120 points)
Martin Scorsese (3 films, 113 points)
Abdellatif Kechiche (1 film, 112 points)
Lukas Moodysson (1 film, 109 points)
Jonathan Glazer (1 film, 106 points)
Jim Jarmusch (1 film, 104 points)
Christian Petzold (2 films, 103 points)
Joel & Ethan Coen (1 film, 101 points)
Darren Aronofsky (1 film, 101 points)

Denis Villeneuve (2 films, 99 points)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (2 films, 99 points)
Xavier Dolan (3 films, 98 points)
Shane Carruth (1 film, 98 points)
Noah Baumbach (2 films, 98 points)
Alejandro González Iñárritu (1 film, 96 points)
Raúl Ruiz (1 film, 95 points)
Olivier Assayas (3 films, 92 points)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (1 film, 87 points)
Kelly Reichardt (2 films, 85 points)

Andrey Zvyagintsev (2 films, 85 points)
Christopher Nolan (2 films, 78 points)
Kenneth Lonergan (1 film, 76 points)
Alfonso Cuarón (1 film, 76 points)
Sergei Loznitsa (2 films, 75 points)
Jean-Luc Godard (2 films, 75 points)
Lav Diaz (3 films, 74 points)
Woody Allen (3 films, 74 points)
Michelangelo Frammartino (1 film, 68 points)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2 films, 67 points)

Steve McQueen (1 film, 66 points)
David Fincher (2 films, 63 points)
Jason Reitman (1 film, 59 points)
Shahram Mokri (1 film, 58 points)
Joanna Hogg (2 films, 57 points)
Lisandro Alonso (1 film, 57 points)
Sean Baker (1 film, 56 points)
David Cronenberg (3 films, 55 points)
Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel (1 film, 54 points)
Dan Gilroy (1 film, 52 points)


Results by Country

USA (138 films, 51.2% of points)
France (84 films, 29.9% of points)
Germany (45 films, 20.6% of points)
UK (62 films, 16.7% of points)
Denmark (13 films, 6.4% of points)
Spain (14 films, 5.9% of points)
Belgium (12 films, 5.3% of points)
Switzerland (8 films, 4.9% of points)
Italy (15 films, 4.6% of points)
Sweden (8 films, 4.6% of points)

Japan (20 films, 4.2% of points)
Canada (15 films, 4% of points)
Netherlands (9 films, 3.9% of points)
Iran (6 films, 3.6% of points)
Portugal (5 films, 2.4% of points)
Brazil (7 films, 2.3% of points)
Hungary (3 films, 2.2% of points)
Russia (6 films, 1.9% of points)
Poland (3 films, 1.6% of points)
Ukraine (4 films, 1.6% of points)

China (5 films, 1.4% of points)
Thailand (3 films, 1.4% of points)
Norway (6 films, 1.2% of points)
Cyprus (1 film, 1.2% of points)
Greece (1 film, 1.2% of points)
Ireland (5 films, 1.2% of points)
Chile (4 films, 1.1% of points)
Argentina (2 films, 1.1% of points)
Mexico (3 films, 0.9% of points)
Philippines (3 films, 0.8% of points)

Austria (4 films, 0.8% of points)
Turkey (2 films, 0.8% of points)
Romania (5 films, 0.6% of points)
Finland (2 films, 0.6% of points)
Hong Kong (3 films, 0.5% of points)
Czech Republic (3 films, 0.5% of points)
Bosnia & Herzegovina (1 film, 0.5% of points)
Mauritania (1 film, 0.4% of points)
United Arab Emirates (3 films, 0.4% of points)
Indonesia (2 films, 0.3% of points)

Taiwan (3 films, 0.3% of points)
Israel (2 films, 0.3% of points)
Croatia (2 films, 0.3% of points)
Ghana (2 films, 0.3% of points)
South Korea (4 films, 0.3% of points)
Slovakia (1 film, 0.3% of points)
Australia (3 films, 0.3% of points)
India (3 films, 0.3% of points)
Singapore (3 films, 0.3% of points)
Serbia (1 film, 0.2% of points)

Bulgaria (1 film, 0.2% of points)
Dominican Republic (1 film, 0.2% of points)
Egypt (1 film, 0.1% of points)
South Africa (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Kenya (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Jordan (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Saudi Arabia (1 film, 0.1% of points)
Luxembourg (1 film, <0.1% of points)
Congo (1 film, <0.1% of points)


Results by Year




Poor Performers from the Dynamic Top 10 Threads

15. Inherent Vice (also-ran)
20. Before Midnight (also-ran)
21. The Social Network (also-ran)
33. Django Unchained (also-ran)
35. Tabu (also-ran)
36. Goodbye to Language (also-ran)
37. Hugo (orphan)
39. Gone Girl (also-ran)
40. Interstellar (also-ran)
42. True Grit (voteless)
43. Ida (also-ran)
44. The Act of Killing (also-ran)
46. It Follows (also-ran)
47. The Grandmaster (also-ran)
48. A Touch of Sin (also-ran)
49. Amour (also-ran)
50. Nebraska (orphan)

[swo17]

Also-Rans

The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar, 2011) 47/4/7/+7
The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010) 47/5/11/-30
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014) 46/3(2)/3/-17
Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012) 46/3(1)/1/-4
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, 2014) 45/3(2)/5(x2)/+57
American Hustle (David O. Russell, 2013) 45/3(2)/5(x2)/+11
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke, 2013) 45/3(1)/2/-7
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010) 45/3/7/+69
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013) 45/4/11/+30
To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2012) 44/2(1)/1/-3

Beginners (Mike Mills, 2011) 44/3(1)/4/+55
Super 8 (J.J. Abrams, 2011) 42/2(1)/2/+151
Nymph()maniac (Lars von Trier, 2013) 42/3/8/+47
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011) 41/3(1)/1/+37
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010) 41/3/7/-12
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011) 40/2(1)/4/+20
Exhibition (Joanna Hogg, 2013) 40/2(1)/5/+156
Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012) 40/4/11/-31
Greenberg (Noah Baumbach, 2010) 39/2(1)/5/+56
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012) 39/2/6/-36

Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad, 2014) 39/3/11/+57
Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán, 2010) 39/4/10/+97
Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German, 2013) 38/2(1)/2/+14
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014) 38/2(1)/5/+74
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright, 2010) 38/3/6/+2
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 2013) 38/3/6/-53
¡Vivan las antípodas! (Victor Kossakovsky, 2011) 37/2/7/+152
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller, 2014) 35/2/7/+22
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, 2012) 35/3/6/-17
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) 34/2(1)/1/-36

The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai, 2013) 34/2(1)/1/-33
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010) 33/2(1)/2/+15
Detention (Joseph Kahn, 2011) 33/2(1)/2/New
The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2012) 32/2/8/+45
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014) 32/3/8/-11
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011) 32/4/15/+71
Dark Horse (Todd Solondz, 2011) 30/2/7/+166
Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013) 30/3/11/-44
Film socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard, 2010) 29/2(1)/2/+24
The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010) 28/2(1)/1/New

I Wish (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2011) 28/2(1)/2/+60
Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010) 28/2/10/+45
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014) 27/4/13/-3
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014) 26/3/13/-79
Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010) 25/2(1)/5/-17
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012) 24/2(1)/3/-37
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013) 24/2/12/+42
Four Lions (Christopher Morris, 2010) 24/2/13/+170
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2011) 23/2/9/+22
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher, 2013) 23/2/9/+52

Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2010) 23/2/12/+149
Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, 2012) 22/2/9/+168
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) 22/2/15(x2)/-56
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011) 21/2/10/-28
Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski, 2013) 20/3/10/+62
The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2011) 19/2/10/-51
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012) 19/2/16/-13
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011) 19/2/16/-39
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur, 2014) 18/2/11/+146
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2014) 17/2/12/+24

Caesar Must Die (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, 2012) 17/2/15/New
Beyond the Lights (Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2014) 16/2/11/+128
This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011) 16/2/14/+33
Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg, 2010) 16/2/14/+96
Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014) 16/2/15/-73
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013) 16/2/17/-58
La Sapienza (Eugène Green, 2014) 14/2/17/+114
Tomboy (Céline Sciamma, 2011) 14/2/18/New
L'Apollonide (Bertrand Bonello, 2011) 13/2/18/+60
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014) 13/2/18/-79

Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman, 2011) 13/3/20/-15
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010) 12/2/15/-6
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013) 12/2/16/+30
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010) 12/2/17/+6
The Past (Asghar Farhadi, 2013) 10/2/18/+14
Manuscripts Don't Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2013) 9/2/20/New
The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola, 2013) 9/2/20/+48
Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012) 8/2/20/-68
The Myth of the American Sleepover (David Robert Mitchell, 2010) 7/2/21/New
Stoker (Park Chan-wook, 2013) 7/2/21/+31

Tron: Legacy (Joseph Kosinski, 2010) 7/2/22/New

[swo17]

Orphans

About Time (Richard Curtis, 2013) 14
Aita (José María de Orbe, 2010) 23
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis, 2011) 11
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner, 2014) 22
And Everything Is Going Fine (Steven Soderbergh, 2010) 24
The Angels' Share (Ken Loach, 2012) 25
Animal Kingdom (David Michôd, 2010) 24
Antiphon (Peter Kubelka, 2012) 25
Archipelago (Joanna Hogg, 2010) 9
Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012) 16
Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 2011) 21
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujică, 2010) 9
Autrement, la Molussie (Nicolas Rey, 2012) 6

The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014) 12
Bachelorette (Leslye Headland, 2012) 17
Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012) 3
Bastards (Claire Denis, 2013) 6
Bellas mariposas (Salvatore Mereu, 2012) 9
Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012) 15
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc (Toshiyuki Kubooka & Michael Sinterniklaas, 2012-13) 4
The Better Angels (A.J. Edwards, 2014) 15
Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu, 2012) 17
Blancanieves (Pablo Berger, 2012) 11
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013) 24
Brave (Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman, 2012) 2
Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 2011) 24

Calvary (John Michael McDonagh, 2014) 2
Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, 2013) 24
Cassandras Warnung (Dominik Graf, 2011) 10
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010) 24
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (Makoto Shinkai, 2011) 18
Child's Pose (Calin Peter Netzer, 2013) 23
Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer & the Wachowskis, 2012) 25
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2014) 19
Cold in July (Jim Mickle, 2014) 10
Coming Attractions (Peter Tscherkassky, 2010) 8
Compliance (Craig Zobel, 2012) 21
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 2011) 20
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2012) 15
Court (Chaitanya Tamhane, 2014) 25

The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2013) 16
Death of a Man in the Balkans (Miroslav Momčilović, 2012) 6
Declaration of War (Valérie Donzelli, 2011) 20
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, 2011) 14
The Descendants (Alexander Payne, 2011) 7
Detachment (Tony Kaye, 2011) 19
Durak (Yury Bykov, 2014) 12

Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010) 23
Elena (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2011) 16
EIT! Does the Hip-Hop (Everything Is Terrible, 2013) 25

First Cousin Once Removed (Alan Berliner, 2012) 10
Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (Lav Diaz, 2012) 5
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund, 2014) 12
Die fremde Familie (Stefan Krohmer, 2011) 19
From What Is Before (Lav Diaz, 2014) 23

The Garden of Words (Makoto Shinkai, 2013) 19
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz, 2014) 14
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014) 15
Girlhood (Céline Sciamma, 2014) 14
God Bless America (Bobcat Goldthwait, 2011) 23
Goltzius and the Pelican Company (Peter Greenaway, 2012) 13
Goodbye (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2011) 23
Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn, 2014) 7
The Guest (Adam Wingard, 2014) 20
Guilty of Romance (Sion Sono, 2011) 13

Habitación en Roma (Julio Medem, 2010) 25
Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011) 7
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Werner Herzog & Dmitry Yasyukov, 2010) 2
Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan, 2010) 5
A Hijacking (Tobias Lindholm, 2012) 23
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo, 2014) 21
Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014) 4
Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011) 10
Human Capital (Paolo Virzì, 2013) 22
The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg, 2012) 17

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (Spike Lee, 2010) 25
L'Illusionniste (Sylvain Chomet, 2010) 18
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen, 2013) 18
In the Shadows (Thomas Arslan, 2010) 20
Inadequate People (Roman Karimov, 2010) 16
L'Inconsolable (Jean-Marie Straub, 2011) 21
Innocent Saturday (Aleksandr Mindadze, 2011) 9
It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, 2012) 4

Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga, 2011) 17
The Japanese Wife (Aparna Sen, 2010) 24
Jean Gentil (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas, 2010) 12
Jeune et jolie (François Ozon, 2013) 22
Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (Arnaud Desplechin, 2013) 24
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb, 2011) 8
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang, 2014) 11
Just a Sigh (Jérôme Bonnell, 2013) 8

Karamay (Xu Xin, 2010) 10
Kill List (Ben Wheatley, 2011) 22
Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011) 19
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (Mami Sunada, 2013) 11
Knuckle (Ian Palmer, 2011) 16

Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan, 2012) 8
Let Me In (Matt Reeves, 2010) 21
Let the Fire Burn (Jason Osder, 2013) 24
Locke (Steven Knight, 2013) 9
Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012) 10
Lost River (Ryan Gosling, 2014) 23
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra, 2013) 4

Magic in the Moonlight (Woody Allen, 2014) 22
Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa, 2014) 23
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg, 2014) 14
Margin Call (J.C. Chandor, 2011) 19
Marshland (Alberto Rodríguez, 2014) 25
A Master Builder (Jonathan Demme, 2013) 22
Meanwhile (Hal Hartley, 2011) 18
Les Misérables (Tom Hooper, 2012) 22
A Most Violent Year (J.C. Chandor, 2014) 9

Nana (Valérie Massadian, 2011) 19
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman, 2014) 8
Nebraska (Alexander Payne, 2013) 9
Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012) 8
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013) 5
The Nine Muses (John Akomfrah, 2010) 11
No (Pablo Larrain, 2012) 13
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-soo, 2013) 25
Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux, 2014) 13

Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois, 2010) 14
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013) 4
Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, 2011) 22
Out of the Furnace (Scott Cooper, 2013) 25

The Pacific (Tim Van Patten et al., 2010) 17
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay, 2013) 15
Palo Alto (Gia Coppola, 2013) 22
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky, 2012) 18
P'tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont, 2014) 6
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson, 2014) 14
The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance, 2012) 3
Point Blank (Fred Cavayé, 2010) 1
A Portrait of Eden (Gideon Koppel, 2011) 19

Red Hook Summer (Spike Lee, 2012) 12
Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman, 2010) 20
Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller, 2010) 14
A Royal Affair (Nikolaj Arcel, 2012) 20
Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard, 2012) 7

Samsara (Ron Fricke, 2011) 13
Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul, 2012) 3
Senna (Asif Kapadia, 2010) 22
'71 (Yann Demange, 2014) 22
Short Term 12 (Destin Daniel Cretton, 2013) 20
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) 13
Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh, 2013) 12
Silence (Pat Collins, 2012) 4
Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012) 4
Slow Action (Ben Rivers, 2011) 16
Smoke on the Water (Dominik Graf, 2014) 15
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, 2013) 16
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Robert Guédiguian, 2011) 5
Sofia's Last Ambulance (Ilian Metev, 2012) 10
Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas, 2012) 9
A Story of Children and Film (Mark Cousins, 2013) 23
Story of My Death (Albert Serra, 2013) 22
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang, 2013) 19
Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder, 2011) 11
Sudoeste (Eduardo Nunes, 2012) 3
Surviving Life (Jan Švankmajer, 2010) 1

Tabloid (Errol Morris, 2010) 13
Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley, 2011) 18
Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson, 2010) 13
13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, 2010) 20
This Is England '86 (Shane Meadows & Tom Harper, 2010) 9
'Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing, 2013) 15
Too Big to Fail (Curtis Hanson, 2011) 21
Trypps #7 (Badlands) (Ben Russell, 2010) 25
Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean, 2010) 6
Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola, 2011) 12
Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers, 2011) 24

Das unsichtbare Mädchen (Dominik Graf, 2011) 14
Unstoppable (Tony Scott, 2010) 17

Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014) 24

War Horse (Steven Spielberg, 2011) 11
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011) 25
When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014) 25
Wild (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2014) 14
The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher, 2014) 21

[domino harvey]

Wow, 27 films made the All Time List

[swo17]

That's about right--most whole decades have about 50-60 films.

[thirtyframesasecond]

I totally forgot about Melancholia!

[domino harvey]

Interesting results, thanks as always swo! Looking at the Orphans list, man, I feel for so many of you, I would gladly have voted for so many of these but 25 votes only go so far!

[thirtyframesasecond]

On my list:

07. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011) 134/9(2)/1/+7
12. Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) 112/9(2)/2/+10
16. (tie) Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010) 101/8(2)/3/+14
25. (tie) Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2014) 80/5/8/+28
27. (tie) Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013) 76/4(2)/4/+56
46. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014) 52/4(1)/3/-12
(tie) Another Earth (Mike Cahill, 2011) 52/6(1)/4/+19

A decent enough haul. I don't know when I became such a Jake Gyllenhaal fan. I reckon I could've voted for Prisoners too.

[Tommaso]

Thanks a lot for the hard work, as always, swo!

I'm pleased to see that about half of my films made the final list, and that I only have five orphans, among which is "Clouds of Sils Maria", which surprises me given that it's available from CC and has been healthily discussed. Not that it's among my absolute favourite films of these five years, but I still thought it would receive more praise (even though I was initially critical about it at first too, it stuck in my head, which is always a good sign).

The bigger surprise for me is that only two people voted for "Hard to be a God", a film that has also received quite a bit of discussion here and has a widely praised Arrow release. Too hard stuff for most people?

[swo17]

"Clouds of Sils Maria", which surprises me given that it's available from CC

Not until next month

[mfunk9786]

Films from my list that didn't make the top 50:

06. Django Unchained (also-ran)
07. Foxcatcher (also-ran)
11. Beyond the Lights (also-ran) (pleasantly surprised it made it onto another list!)
13. Love & Mercy (also-ran)
18. Interstellar (also-ran)
21. Take Shelter (also-ran)
24. Stoker (also-ran)

Not sure what it says about me that I had zero orphans. I'm a real man of the people.

[knives]

Interesting results, thanks as always swo! Looking at the Orphans list, man, I feel for so many of you, I would gladly have voted for so many of these but 25 votes only go so far!

Seriously, cutting Greenberg felt awful. Still 9 made the list which is nice.