2010s List Discussion and Suggestions (Lists Project Vol. 3)
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 12:09 pm
VOTING IS CLOSED. RESULTS CAN BE FOUND HERE.
If you are reading this sentence, you are eligible to participate in our forum's latest decades lists project exploring the films of the first half of the 2010s (2010-2014). If you know anyone adventurous enough--on or off the forum--that you think would also enjoy participating, feel free to invite them as well.
Please PM me your list of what you believe are the top 25 films from this five-year period toward the end of the project. I will send confirmation that I have received your list after I have tabulated it. If you haven't heard from me within a day, you should follow up with me to make sure that I received your list. You may feel that you could compile a list of 25 favorite films from this period much earlier than the deadline, but it's still highly recommended that you engage in the discussions here. Don't keep your favorites a secret, and always be open to suggestions from others!
THE RULES
1) Each individual list is to comprise no more or less than 25 films, ranked in your order of preference (with no ties). If you haven't yet seen 25 films from this five-year period that you think are genuinely great (or even if you have), please take advantage of the resources listed below and participate in the ongoing discussions to find films that you can be proud to put on your list.
2) Any feature film, documentary, experimental film, short film, music video, TV miniseries, TV movie, TV special, or isolated episode from an anthology TV series released in the first half of the 2010s (2010-2014) is eligible.
3) The date given on IMDb is the relevant date for determining a film's year of release, even when it's clearly wrong (unless a special case is made below). If the film is not on IMDb and you say it was released between 2010 and 2014, I'll take your word for it.
4) In certain cases, it may be appropriate for films that are technically separate to be combined, or for films that are technically combined to be separated. In such cases, you may vote for either a part or the whole, but bear in mind that all votes will be competing against each other (e.g. a vote for Ivan the Terrible Pt. 1 will not count toward the vote for Ivan the Terrible in the final tally). Generally, if multiple films are allowed to be combined for voting purposes, you should probably vote for them that way unless you are strongly opposed to doing so. The most common cases:
• Single-director multi-part films for which each segment was released separately (e.g. Feuillade's serials, Lang's two-part epics) may be considered as a single film. Films included in trilogies may not be combined.
• Variant edits: For films that exist in multiple versions (e.g. Welles' Mr. Arkadin, Rivette's Out 1), all votes that don't specify a "secondary" version will be counted toward the "primary" version.
• Portmanteau films: Each of the individual segments and the film as a whole are all separately eligible.
We may occasionally need to make a special case related to rule 3 or 4. If you are seriously considering including a film on your list that you have a question about in this regard, bring it up in this thread and we'll iron it out. However, I will not make any further exceptions during the last week of the project.
For more details about rules and procedures, please refer here.
Finally, though it is not strictly required, it is recommended that you include titles for films that you discuss in this thread in bold, as it will help the film titles stick out amidst all of the other information that will inevitably pile up in this thread. If you particularly like a film, you might even highlight it in another color.
ELIGIBILITY – REMINDERS / SPECIAL CASES
The following are examples of multi-part films/miniseries that are eligible to be voted for as a single film: P'tit Quinquin, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Nymph()maniac, The Trip, Carlos, Mysteries of Lisbon, Mildred Pierce, Top of the Lake, Berserk: The Golden Age Arc
In some of these cases, you may feel strongly that you only want to vote for one part of the whole. You can do this, but again, just remember that all votes will be competing against each other (e.g. for all intents and purposes, Nymph()maniac, Nymph()maniac Vol. I, and Nymph()maniac Vol. II are three separate films).
True Detective and other TV shows that blur the line between series and mini-series with individual seasons are still not eligible unless the entire run of the show constitutes a self-contained mini-series.
The following films may be cited as 2010-2014 releases in some places, but not on IMDb, and so are not eligible for this list: Enter the Void, Extraordinary Stories, Un prophète, Dogtooth, White Material, Wild Grass, Fish Tank, I Am Love, Katalin Varga, Life During Wartime, Melody for a Street Organ, Our Beloved Month of August, Valhalla Rising, The Time That Remains, The White Meadows, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno, Incident by a Bank, At Sea, Alamar, Amer, About Elly, Cántico das criaturas, Love Exposure, Double Tide, Bluebeard, Trash Humpers
The following films are cited as 2010-2014 films on IMDb, and so are eligible for this list, regardless of what anyone else might say: Shutter Island, Biutiful, In Camera (Palit), Margaret, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Jauja, P'tit Quinquin, It Follows, Phoenix, The Duke of Burgundy, Clouds of Sils Maria, Mommy, Love & Mercy, Hard to Be a God, Timbuktu, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, The Tribe, Horse Money, Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, Maps to the Stars, Tu dors Nicole, What We Do in the Shadows, While We're Young, The Wonders, Whiplash, Inherent Vice, Goodbye to Language, Enemy, Mr. Turner, Force Majeure, Calvary, Foxcatcher, Winter Sleep, Leviathan, A Most Violent Year, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Wild Tales, Life of Riley, La Sapienza, White God, Stations of the Cross, Fish & Cat, Only Dream Things, Elms, Song of the Sea, Amour fou, Cymbeline, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, The Keeping Room, EIT! Does the Hip-Hop, Shirley: Visions of Reality, Lost River, The Look of Silence, When Marnie Was There
RESOURCES
Past Forum Discussions
Discussion from the Forum's Genre List Projects
The Alternate Oscars: Best Picture 1969-Present
Dynamic Top Tens of 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014
Dynamic Consensus Lists (Note that several films being classified here as 2015 films are 2014 films per IMDb, and so are eligible for this project.)
Forum Discussions of International DVDs
African / Bulgarian / Chinese / Cuban / Czech / Dutch / Finnish / German / Hungarian / Indian / Italian / Norwegian / Polish / Romanian / South American / Swedish / Turkish / Ukrainian / Yugoslavian
Forum Discussions of Filmmakers Active Between 2010 and 2014
Woody Allen / Pedro Almodóvar / Paul Thomas Anderson / Wes Anderson / Shinji Aoyama / Aleksei Balabanov / Noah Baumbach / Bernardo Bertolucci / Leos Carax / John Carpenter / Chen Kaige / Joel & Ethan Coen / Wes Craven / David Cronenberg / Adam Curtis / Joe Dante / Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne / Alex de la Iglesia / Claire Denis / Brian De Palma / Lena Dunham / Jess Franco / Phillipe Garrel / Terry Gilliam / Jean-Luc Godard / Peter Greenaway / Michael Haneke / Monte Hellman / Don Hertzfeldt / Hong Sang-soo / Otar Iosseliani / Shunji Iwai / Kim Ki-duk / Alexander Kluge / Hirokazu Koreeda / Harmony Korine / Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Spike Lee / David Lynch / Guy Maddin / Terrence Malick / David Mamet / Michael Mann / Takashi Miike / Hayao Miyazaki / Lukas Moodysson / Errol Morris / Kira Muratova / Christopher Nolan / Nicolás Pereda / Roman Polański / Mohammad Rasoulof / Alain Resnais / Raúl Ruiz / Martin Scorsese / Jerzy Skolimowski / Steven Soderbergh / Aleksandr Sokurov / Steven Spielberg / Jan Švankmajer / Quentin Tarantino / Béla Tarr / Bertrand Tavernier / Johnnie To / Jan Troell / Tsai Ming-liang / Shinya Tsukamoto / Gus Van Sant / Agnès Varda / Paul Verhoeven / Andrzej Wajda / Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Wong Kar-wai / Zhang Yimou
Guides Within This Thread
Do you feel you have an especially informed opinion about the work during this five-year period from a particular director, country, genre, etc.? Many people here would greatly appreciate your taking the time to prepare a guide for navigating through all that's available. (Though they do not necessarily need to be comprehensive.) Guides are especially welcome for extremely prolific directors/movements, or to summarize availability for films (such as shorts) that are often hidden away on releases for other films or only available on the web. Past examples: Director Guide, Country Guide, Genre Guide, DVD Availability Guide
AWAITING YOUR GUIDES
External Resources
A list of eligible films appearing on They Shoot Pictures, Don't They's Top 1000, 21st Century, or Doubling the Canon lists, or on our own forum's dynamic consensus lists
(This list is by no means comprehensive, but can serve as a good reminder of some of the more prominent films that are eligible from this five-year period. Conversely, if you love a film that doesn't show up here, that might be a good indicator that it could use an extra push.)
National lists
Cahiers du Cinema's Top 10 lists for 2010-2011 and 2012-2014
AWAITING FURTHER SUGGESTIONS
Recommended Reading
AWAITING SUGGESTIONS
FORUM MEMBER SPOTLIGHTS
Is there a film you love that you fear is under most people's radar? Try shining a light on it! To inaugurate a film into the spotlight section, just follow these three simple steps:
1. Make a post about the film discussing why you find it so exceptional.
2. Clearly indicate that you wish the film to be one of your spotlight titles.
3. Direct others to where the film can be found.
I'll keep track of all the spotlight titles here so that they can be easily referenced. You're welcome to have more than one spotlight title, but try not to have too many more, so it's manageable for everyone to be able to see them all. Remember: This might be the only time someone goes out on a limb to take one of your recommendations, so make it count!
Everyone is strongly encouraged to give each of these films the same chance that you would hope others would give your own spotlight titles.
Starlet (Sean Baker) (domino harvey)
Detention (Joseph Kahn) (domino harvey)
Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman) (mizoguchi5354)
Michael (Markus Schleinzer) (mfunk9786)
Beyond the Lights (Gina Prince-Bythewood) (mfunk9786)
Out of the Furnace (Scott Cooper) (DarkImbecile)
Dark Horse (Todd Solondz) (knives)
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay) (knives)
First Cousin, Once Removed (Alan Berliner) (zedz)
Coming Attractions (Peter Tscherkassky) (swo17)
¡Vivan las Antípodas! (Victor Kossakovsky) (swo17)
Teddy Bear (Mads Matthiesen) (Lemmy Caution)
Sudoeste (Eduardo Nunes) (Tommaso)
DESPERATELY SEEKING SO AND SO
Is there a film you're dying to see but you've exhausted all possible avenues for finding it and still come up short? List it here and perhaps some kind soul will be able to direct you to a copy by PM. Please limit listings here to only a few films that you're most desperate to see.
copen is seeking:
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (Lodge Kerrigan, 2010)
***Please PM me if you have any suggestions for additions to/deletions from this first post.***
If you are reading this sentence, you are eligible to participate in our forum's latest decades lists project exploring the films of the first half of the 2010s (2010-2014). If you know anyone adventurous enough--on or off the forum--that you think would also enjoy participating, feel free to invite them as well.
Please PM me your list of what you believe are the top 25 films from this five-year period toward the end of the project. I will send confirmation that I have received your list after I have tabulated it. If you haven't heard from me within a day, you should follow up with me to make sure that I received your list. You may feel that you could compile a list of 25 favorite films from this period much earlier than the deadline, but it's still highly recommended that you engage in the discussions here. Don't keep your favorites a secret, and always be open to suggestions from others!
THE RULES
1) Each individual list is to comprise no more or less than 25 films, ranked in your order of preference (with no ties). If you haven't yet seen 25 films from this five-year period that you think are genuinely great (or even if you have), please take advantage of the resources listed below and participate in the ongoing discussions to find films that you can be proud to put on your list.
2) Any feature film, documentary, experimental film, short film, music video, TV miniseries, TV movie, TV special, or isolated episode from an anthology TV series released in the first half of the 2010s (2010-2014) is eligible.
3) The date given on IMDb is the relevant date for determining a film's year of release, even when it's clearly wrong (unless a special case is made below). If the film is not on IMDb and you say it was released between 2010 and 2014, I'll take your word for it.
4) In certain cases, it may be appropriate for films that are technically separate to be combined, or for films that are technically combined to be separated. In such cases, you may vote for either a part or the whole, but bear in mind that all votes will be competing against each other (e.g. a vote for Ivan the Terrible Pt. 1 will not count toward the vote for Ivan the Terrible in the final tally). Generally, if multiple films are allowed to be combined for voting purposes, you should probably vote for them that way unless you are strongly opposed to doing so. The most common cases:
• Single-director multi-part films for which each segment was released separately (e.g. Feuillade's serials, Lang's two-part epics) may be considered as a single film. Films included in trilogies may not be combined.
• Variant edits: For films that exist in multiple versions (e.g. Welles' Mr. Arkadin, Rivette's Out 1), all votes that don't specify a "secondary" version will be counted toward the "primary" version.
• Portmanteau films: Each of the individual segments and the film as a whole are all separately eligible.
We may occasionally need to make a special case related to rule 3 or 4. If you are seriously considering including a film on your list that you have a question about in this regard, bring it up in this thread and we'll iron it out. However, I will not make any further exceptions during the last week of the project.
For more details about rules and procedures, please refer here.
Finally, though it is not strictly required, it is recommended that you include titles for films that you discuss in this thread in bold, as it will help the film titles stick out amidst all of the other information that will inevitably pile up in this thread. If you particularly like a film, you might even highlight it in another color.
ELIGIBILITY – REMINDERS / SPECIAL CASES
The following are examples of multi-part films/miniseries that are eligible to be voted for as a single film: P'tit Quinquin, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Nymph()maniac, The Trip, Carlos, Mysteries of Lisbon, Mildred Pierce, Top of the Lake, Berserk: The Golden Age Arc
In some of these cases, you may feel strongly that you only want to vote for one part of the whole. You can do this, but again, just remember that all votes will be competing against each other (e.g. for all intents and purposes, Nymph()maniac, Nymph()maniac Vol. I, and Nymph()maniac Vol. II are three separate films).
True Detective and other TV shows that blur the line between series and mini-series with individual seasons are still not eligible unless the entire run of the show constitutes a self-contained mini-series.
The following films may be cited as 2010-2014 releases in some places, but not on IMDb, and so are not eligible for this list: Enter the Void, Extraordinary Stories, Un prophète, Dogtooth, White Material, Wild Grass, Fish Tank, I Am Love, Katalin Varga, Life During Wartime, Melody for a Street Organ, Our Beloved Month of August, Valhalla Rising, The Time That Remains, The White Meadows, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno, Incident by a Bank, At Sea, Alamar, Amer, About Elly, Cántico das criaturas, Love Exposure, Double Tide, Bluebeard, Trash Humpers
The following films are cited as 2010-2014 films on IMDb, and so are eligible for this list, regardless of what anyone else might say: Shutter Island, Biutiful, In Camera (Palit), Margaret, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Jauja, P'tit Quinquin, It Follows, Phoenix, The Duke of Burgundy, Clouds of Sils Maria, Mommy, Love & Mercy, Hard to Be a God, Timbuktu, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, The Tribe, Horse Money, Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, Maps to the Stars, Tu dors Nicole, What We Do in the Shadows, While We're Young, The Wonders, Whiplash, Inherent Vice, Goodbye to Language, Enemy, Mr. Turner, Force Majeure, Calvary, Foxcatcher, Winter Sleep, Leviathan, A Most Violent Year, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Wild Tales, Life of Riley, La Sapienza, White God, Stations of the Cross, Fish & Cat, Only Dream Things, Elms, Song of the Sea, Amour fou, Cymbeline, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, The Keeping Room, EIT! Does the Hip-Hop, Shirley: Visions of Reality, Lost River, The Look of Silence, When Marnie Was There
RESOURCES
Past Forum Discussions
Discussion from the Forum's Genre List Projects
The Alternate Oscars: Best Picture 1969-Present
Dynamic Top Tens of 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014
Dynamic Consensus Lists (Note that several films being classified here as 2015 films are 2014 films per IMDb, and so are eligible for this project.)
Forum Discussions of International DVDs
African / Bulgarian / Chinese / Cuban / Czech / Dutch / Finnish / German / Hungarian / Indian / Italian / Norwegian / Polish / Romanian / South American / Swedish / Turkish / Ukrainian / Yugoslavian
Forum Discussions of Filmmakers Active Between 2010 and 2014
Woody Allen / Pedro Almodóvar / Paul Thomas Anderson / Wes Anderson / Shinji Aoyama / Aleksei Balabanov / Noah Baumbach / Bernardo Bertolucci / Leos Carax / John Carpenter / Chen Kaige / Joel & Ethan Coen / Wes Craven / David Cronenberg / Adam Curtis / Joe Dante / Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne / Alex de la Iglesia / Claire Denis / Brian De Palma / Lena Dunham / Jess Franco / Phillipe Garrel / Terry Gilliam / Jean-Luc Godard / Peter Greenaway / Michael Haneke / Monte Hellman / Don Hertzfeldt / Hong Sang-soo / Otar Iosseliani / Shunji Iwai / Kim Ki-duk / Alexander Kluge / Hirokazu Koreeda / Harmony Korine / Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Spike Lee / David Lynch / Guy Maddin / Terrence Malick / David Mamet / Michael Mann / Takashi Miike / Hayao Miyazaki / Lukas Moodysson / Errol Morris / Kira Muratova / Christopher Nolan / Nicolás Pereda / Roman Polański / Mohammad Rasoulof / Alain Resnais / Raúl Ruiz / Martin Scorsese / Jerzy Skolimowski / Steven Soderbergh / Aleksandr Sokurov / Steven Spielberg / Jan Švankmajer / Quentin Tarantino / Béla Tarr / Bertrand Tavernier / Johnnie To / Jan Troell / Tsai Ming-liang / Shinya Tsukamoto / Gus Van Sant / Agnès Varda / Paul Verhoeven / Andrzej Wajda / Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Wong Kar-wai / Zhang Yimou
Guides Within This Thread
Do you feel you have an especially informed opinion about the work during this five-year period from a particular director, country, genre, etc.? Many people here would greatly appreciate your taking the time to prepare a guide for navigating through all that's available. (Though they do not necessarily need to be comprehensive.) Guides are especially welcome for extremely prolific directors/movements, or to summarize availability for films (such as shorts) that are often hidden away on releases for other films or only available on the web. Past examples: Director Guide, Country Guide, Genre Guide, DVD Availability Guide
AWAITING YOUR GUIDES
External Resources
A list of eligible films appearing on They Shoot Pictures, Don't They's Top 1000, 21st Century, or Doubling the Canon lists, or on our own forum's dynamic consensus lists
(This list is by no means comprehensive, but can serve as a good reminder of some of the more prominent films that are eligible from this five-year period. Conversely, if you love a film that doesn't show up here, that might be a good indicator that it could use an extra push.)
National lists
Cahiers du Cinema's Top 10 lists for 2010-2011 and 2012-2014
AWAITING FURTHER SUGGESTIONS
Recommended Reading
AWAITING SUGGESTIONS
FORUM MEMBER SPOTLIGHTS
Is there a film you love that you fear is under most people's radar? Try shining a light on it! To inaugurate a film into the spotlight section, just follow these three simple steps:
1. Make a post about the film discussing why you find it so exceptional.
2. Clearly indicate that you wish the film to be one of your spotlight titles.
3. Direct others to where the film can be found.
I'll keep track of all the spotlight titles here so that they can be easily referenced. You're welcome to have more than one spotlight title, but try not to have too many more, so it's manageable for everyone to be able to see them all. Remember: This might be the only time someone goes out on a limb to take one of your recommendations, so make it count!
Everyone is strongly encouraged to give each of these films the same chance that you would hope others would give your own spotlight titles.
Starlet (Sean Baker) (domino harvey)
Detention (Joseph Kahn) (domino harvey)
Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman) (mizoguchi5354)
Michael (Markus Schleinzer) (mfunk9786)
Beyond the Lights (Gina Prince-Bythewood) (mfunk9786)
Out of the Furnace (Scott Cooper) (DarkImbecile)
Dark Horse (Todd Solondz) (knives)
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay) (knives)
First Cousin, Once Removed (Alan Berliner) (zedz)
Coming Attractions (Peter Tscherkassky) (swo17)
¡Vivan las Antípodas! (Victor Kossakovsky) (swo17)
Teddy Bear (Mads Matthiesen) (Lemmy Caution)
Sudoeste (Eduardo Nunes) (Tommaso)
DESPERATELY SEEKING SO AND SO
Is there a film you're dying to see but you've exhausted all possible avenues for finding it and still come up short? List it here and perhaps some kind soul will be able to direct you to a copy by PM. Please limit listings here to only a few films that you're most desperate to see.
copen is seeking:
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) (Lodge Kerrigan, 2010)
***Please PM me if you have any suggestions for additions to/deletions from this first post.***