ICMForum's Favourite Movies 2021 Edition : Results topic

[Tim2460]

Awesome job, Tim! What about a ranking of directors according to their points received, or at least number of films chosen for the top 1000

Here are all the Directors that have received more than 5000 Points

Directors	PTS
Alfred Hitchcock	24920
Stanley Kubrick	23905
Akira Kurosawa	20252
Ingmar Bergman	20217
Martin Scorsese	14230
Billy Wilder	14175
Steven Spielberg	12612
David Lynch	12348
Andrei Tarkovsky	12174
Francis Ford Coppola	11704
Fritz Lang	11631
Quentin Tarantino	11338
Ethan Coen; Joel Coen	10435
Luis Buñuel	10159
Yasujirô Ozu	9578
Hayao Miyazaki	9560
Jean-Luc Godard	9242
Charles Chaplin	9137
Masaki Kobayashi	9064
Orson Welles	9024
Woody Allen	8902
Werner Herzog	8886
Roman Polanski	8765
Sergio Leone	8535
Krzysztof Kieslowski	8271
Sidney Lumet	8083
Michelangelo Antonioni	8051
Robert Bresson	8016
Christopher Nolan	7764
Alain Resnais	7363
Éric Rohmer	7236
Paul Thomas Anderson	7194
Carl Theodor Dreyer	6983
Lars von Trier	6961
Terrence Malick	6954
F.W. Murnau	6937
Howard Hawks	6924
David Lean	6765
Rainer Werner Fassbinder	6654
Michael Haneke	6585
Wes Anderson	6561
Peter Jackson	6561
John Ford	6555
David Fincher	6533
Federico Fellini	6524
Richard Linklater	6503
Jean Renoir	6304
Frank Capra	6080
Ridley Scott	6039
Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger	5989
Robert Altman	5919
James Cameron	5884
Kar-Wai Wong	5853
Kenji Mizoguchi	5700
Milos Forman	5659
Jean-Pierre Melville	5630
Abbas Kiarostami	5618
Satyajit Ray	5523
David Cronenberg	5463
John Huston	5368
Ernst Lubitsch	5008

[GruesomeTwosome]

Only one non Official Film on the top 1001 .. it indeed says a lot about our forum habits

Maybe it was already mentioned and I missed it, but which film would that be?

Pleasantville at #999

Aha, thanks! And it barely squeaked into the list, too, haha.

[OldAle1]

Maybe it was already mentioned and I missed it, but which film would that be?

Pleasantville at #999

Aha, thanks! And it barely squeaked into the list, too, haha.

I think it was similar last year - just one. And probably the same person (or persons) commented on how it showed how boring the list was, or something to that effect.

[GruesomeTwosome]

#1020(⇧842, #1862) Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
Directed by: Barbara Kopple
Country: USA
(387,48 Pts, 10 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1020←1862←1848←1092←730←982←963←1217←1600←NA

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ICheckMovies: 1891 Checks , 194 Favourites , 9 Official lists
Plot: A filmed account of a bitterly violent miner strike.

List of Voters:

Obgeoff (112)
outdoorcats (140)
lineuphere (189)
sebby (192)
Wonderful Rainbow (NA)
Leopardi (231)
mimurph1 (256)
1SO (288)
insomnius (NA)
jeff_v (707)

Hmm, somehow I don’t have this is in my favorites list and it should be, especially to get a bit more representation for docs. Added to my list for next year’s poll.

Also, I’m gonna make it a point to have at least my top 50, ideally my top 100, ranked for next year’s poll. I’ve kept my favorites list unranked for too long now, heh.

[Torgo]

The films that have Jumped Up The most ..

Title	Directors	Year	Dif	2021Pos	2020Pos
Collateral	Michael Mann	2004	1153	973	2126
The Florida Project	Sean Baker	2017	1006	706	1712
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Wes Anderson	2004	863	854	1717
Ôdishon	Takashi Miike	1999	803	923	1726

Yay, that's me!
Florida Project hopefully will stay in future editions. And hooray for Life Aquatic, maybe the funniest of all Wes Anderson films (saying a lot)?

The film that have fallen the most from last year top 1001

Title	Directors	Year	Dif	2021Pos	2020Pos
Johnny Got His Gun	Dalton Trumbo	1971	-730	1655	925
Gummo	Harmony Korine	1997	-657	1635	978

That's also me. Where are the edgy "yeah you wouldn't get it, it's too weird" voters?

[Tim2460]

I can't really think of other stats right now... let me know if you need something else

Great work Tim, thanks a lot !

If easily doable, could you please give the list of films that received a #1 vote, sorted by number of #1 votes and ranking in the final list ?

Here are all the #1s

Title	#1s
Vertigo	3	Caracortada	jeff_v	prodigalgodson
It's a Wonderful Life	3	ororama	Rufus-T	tommy_leazaq
2001: A Space Odyssey	2	klaus78	Melvelet
The Godfather	2	1SO	Lammetje
Pulp Fiction	2	AB537	Teproc
Stalker	2	outdoorcats	toromash
12 Angry Men	2	joachimt	maxwelldeux
L'année dernière à Marienbad	2	St. Gloede	zuma
Sátántangó	2	beavis	Dolwphin
Shichinin no samurai	1	cinephage
A Clockwork Orange	1	filmbantha
Idi i smotri	1	Coryn
Suna no onna	1	Mifune
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc	1	Gorro
Sunset Blvd.	1	Mulholland
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1	mightysparks
Tôkyô monogatari	1	Obgeoff
Blue Velvet	1	russa03
Blade Runner	1	ChrisReynolds
Solyaris	1	Opio
The Night of the Hunter	1	Good_Will_Harding
Hiroshima mon amour	1	cinewest
Reservoir Dogs	1	clemmetarey
The Big Lebowski	1	brokenface
Amadeus	1	beasterne
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	1	Torgo
Annie Hall	1	Leopardi
Dogville	1	rokp
Brief Encounter	1	TalkingElvish
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain	1	Fergenaprido
Les quatre cents coups	1	Mysterious Dude
Banshun	1	Ritesh
Jaws	1	Gordon_Gekko
Inglourious Basterds	1	72aicm
Werckmeister harmóniák	1	pitchorneirda
Les parapluies de Cherbourg	1	monclivie
Lost Highway	1	hurluberlu
Videodrome	1	sol
Twelve Monkeys	1	Jimi Antiloop
Ballada o soldate	1	AdamH
Trainspotting	1	Panunzio
Donnie Darko	1	Lonewolf2003
Le rayon vert	1	tobias
Kaguyahime no monogatari	1	wasabi
Inland Empire	1	mimurph1
Un homme qui dort	1	Traveller
Nashville	1	lineuphere
Kiss Me Deadly	1	frbrown
Hoop Dreams	1	sebby
Les demoiselles de Rochefort	1	Tarris1
Synecdoche; New York	1	TraverseTown
La La Land	1	OldAle1
Bakushû	1	perceval
Only Angels Have Wings	1	connordenney
The Neon Demon	1	Lakigigar
Akahige	1	Smoover
Braindead	1	VincentPrice
Reality's Invisible	1	Perception de Ambiguity
Serial Experiments Lain	1	Carmel1379
Providence	1	RolandKirkSunglasses
Avalon	1	Onderhond
Road to Perdition	1	Nathan Treadway
Dah	1	mathiasa
Promising Young Woman	1	kongs_speech
The.Stand	1	zzzorf

[Tim2460]

#1022(⇩24, #998) Der amerikanische Freund (1977)
[The American Friend]

Directed by: Wim Wenders
Country: West Germany, France
(386,73 Pts, 12 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1022←998←1028←1265←1133←991←1163←1419←1203←NA

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ICheckMovies: 2551 Checks , 214 Favourites , 8 Official lists
Plot: Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

List of Voters:

beavis (96)
Melvelet (NA)
AB537 (127)
Ebbywebby (NA)
Wonderful Rainbow (NA)
St. Gloede (374)
hurluberlu (400)
perceval (422)
Smoover (NA)
sebby (533)
insomnius (NA)
Panunzio (679)

[RolandKirkSunglasses]

Tarantino above Ozu, Nolan above Resnais

[Torgo]

[OldAle1]

Tarantino above Ozu, Nolan above Resnais

It's all the damn kids with their nintendos and their Henry Potter and a-phones. We shouldn't let anyone under 50 vote next year.

[Onderhond]

It's all the damn kids with their nintendos and their Henry Potter and a-phones. We shouldn't let anyone under 50 vote next year.

For 3 or 4 position switches? It already looks like nobody under 60 voted

[mightysparks]

Maybe next year only the admins are allowed to vote

[Tim2460]

#1023(⇩322, #701) Bob le flambeur (1956)
[Bob le Flambeur]

Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
Country: France
(385,97 Pts, 12 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1023←701←700←678←555←611←572←504←443←439

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ICheckMovies: 2981 Checks , 252 Favourites , 14 Official lists
Plot: After losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino.

List of Voters:

Obgeoff (58)
rokp (116)
psychotronicbeatnik (NA)
Ebbywebby (NA)
Wonderful Rainbow (NA)
ororama (302)
hurluberlu (387)
sebby (424)
zomgmouse (NA)
perceval (610)
jeff_v (742)
Fergenaprido (1131)

[Torgo]

The 15 Most iCM-Checked

Spoiler

Title	Directors	Year	checkedcount	2021Pos
The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan	2008	139805	190
Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	1994	139068	401
The Lion King	Rob Minkoff; Roger Allers	1994	136494	386
Toy Story	John Lasseter	1995	136119	350
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson	2001	133904	60
The Matrix	Lilly Wachowski; Lana Wachowski	1999	133111	46
Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton; Lee Unkrich	2003	132500	659
Inception	Christopher Nolan	2010	130168	192
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson	2003	128353	131
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Peter Jackson	2002	128145	182
Fight Club	David Fincher	1999	128123	57
Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	1994	123376	6
Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis	1985	121946	200
Monsters; Inc.	David Silverman; Pete Docter; Lee Unkrich	2001	117944	702
WALL·E	Andrew Stanton	2008	117727	217

I was curious how that looks compared to the most checked films on ICM itself and it really turns out 15/15 of the most checked films ARE part of our list. How close I was to saying that Pirates of the Caribbean, #16th most checked, would be the first outside of our list - but that isn't even true, in fact it ranks #844 at ours So I scrolled a bit further to find the most popular, not 1001-worthy movie and it takes a while. Even not widely (or non-controversially) adored movies like The Incredibles, Titanic, Gladiator, Ratatouille, V for Vendetta - all on our list.
So it seems that #28 Shrek and finally #42 Home Alone are the most checked ICM films not to be featured in our favorites of all time.

You may argue that all of that says something about the nature of the most checked films at ICM, or more about our choices of favorites.

[RolandKirkSunglasses]

It's all the damn kids with their nintendos and their Henry Potter and a-phones. We shouldn't let anyone under 50 vote next year.

Don't forget their Pocketmon-Go.

In my day we were happy with our Daguerrotypes.

[Tim2460]

#1024(⇧186, #1210) The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
[The Witch]

Directed by: Robert Eggers
Country: Canada, USA
(385,93 Pts, 12 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1024←1210←1342←1232←1792←5101←NA←NA←NA←NA

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ICheckMovies: 7520 Checks , 669 Favourites , 4 Official lists
Plot: A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.

List of Voters:

Panunzio (100)
Carmel1379 (NA)
GruesomeTwosome (NA)
mimurph1 (196)
Wonderful Rainbow (NA)
clemmetarey (303)
zuma (NA)
ChrisReynolds (NA)
AB537 (415)
Torgo (483)
VincentPrice (651)
ororama (714)

[connordenney]

But where does one start with HHH?

For HHH, I would have thought A City of Sadness or The Puppetmaster would be both well-known enough and highly regarded enough to make it on here. Even The Assassin seems like it could have made the list given the hype around its (recent) release. I wonder where these three films placed?

Given how esteemed HHH is in many circles, including by some folks here and on TSPDT, I'd be very curious about the answer to this question. But I can tell you unequivocally where NOT to start: The Time to Live and the Time to Die. This was a dreadful theatrical experience a few years ago, on a fairly early date with my (now) wife, which I suggested - we both strongly disliked the film and found it intensely boring. I consider myself lucky this did not directly lead to the end of the relationship ... and that's not a joke or hyperbole. Fortunately she did like both Bande a part and Le Trou later the same summer, but I've been on a fairly short leash for non-English language film suggestions since then despite some notable successes like Parasite, The Vanishing and Cold War.

Despite this fiasco, I've watched two HHH films since then - Dust in the Wind and The Assassin - which were significantly better, but still didn't do much for me.

Funny you should say that, because that's actually my favorite of his!

[Traveller]

Great work, Tim.

[Torgo]

Only one non Official Film on the top 1001 .. it indeed says a lot about our forum habits

I know that was said with a smiley and while it's not totally wrong, it's also true that our picks for favorites don't exist in a vacuum.
It's easy to prove for recent releases, since I'm positive that many forum users watched e.g. Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Lighthouse or maybe Mommy or Winter Sleep before those hit a single list. For much older older releases, you could look how many of the average participants love an unofficial, pre-1980 (or any date) unofficial film more than any official ones .. and how often that appears for lists.
The interesting stand outs for me are titles I'd call either ICMcore or ICM forum mafia; those which do strong in the <400 poll or most-favorite but are otherwise overseen by history, audiences and critics (for whatever reasons, deservedly or not). Cases where the word-of-mouth advertising and cult patterns apply .. I like that.

[Tim2460]

#1025(⇩124, #901) What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Country: USA
(385,46 Pts, 13 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–1
History: 1025←901←811←932←1058←558←648←487←574←512

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ICheckMovies: 8980 Checks , 874 Favourites , 14 Official lists
Plot: A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

List of Voters:

tommy_leazaq (45)
Mulholland (90)
GruesomeTwosome (NA)
joachimt (218)
Nathan Treadway (NA)
TraverseTown (296)
ChrisReynolds (NA)
maxwelldeux (429)
Gordon_Gekko (494)
zomgmouse (NA)
Lonewolf2003 (723)
Gorro (807)
Obgeoff (870)

[Tim2460]

#1026(⇩134, #892) Wise Blood (1979)

Directed by: John Huston
Country: USA
(384,47 Pts, 10 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1026←892←773←984←1071←1269←1281←1022←1054←NA

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ICheckMovies: 1210 Checks , 101 Favourites , 6 Official lists
Plot: A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

List of Voters:

St. Gloede (67)
brokenface (91)
Carmel1379 (NA)
sol (145)
Ebbywebby (NA)
ororama (289)
hurluberlu (330)
zomgmouse (NA)
jeff_v (752)
Caracortada (954)

[Tim2460]

#1027(⇧139, #1166) Sideways (2004)

Directed by: Alexander Payne
Country: USA, Hungary
(383,36 Pts, 15 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1027←1166←1135←1390←1774←1542←1573←1070←978←624

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ICheckMovies: 19532 Checks , 1206 Favourites , 8 Official lists
Plot: Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment embark on a week-long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.

List of Voters:

Lakigigar (64)
GruesomeTwosome (NA)
sol (186)
Smoover (NA)
mightysparks (NA)
Torgo (289)
tommy_leazaq (337)
sebby (393)
jeff_v (465)
zomgmouse (NA)
Gorro (616)
AB537 (NA)
mathiasa (751)
Panunzio (851)
monclivie (965)

[beasterne]

Intersting : the 10 Year Edition Stat, with the average position relative to the number of years the film were present and the delta from the 2021 Ranking

I can make an iCM Ranked List of the first 1001 / 2001 or even 5000 relative to that average if you ask for it

Top 1001 please!

[Tim2460]

#1028(⇩245, #783) How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Directed by: John Ford
Country: USA
(383,11 Pts, 9 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1028←783←818←915←941←1078←1531←1954←1132←879

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ICheckMovies: 4253 Checks , 271 Favourites , 10 Official lists
Plot: At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

List of Voters:

connordenney (53)
ororama (105)
cayado-coro (NA)
1SO (189)
viktor-vaudevillain (NA)
Nathan Treadway (NA)
Leopardi (385)
VincentPrice (395)
lineuphere (533)

[cinewest]

double post

[Torgo]

Awesome job, Tim! What about a ranking of directors according to their points received, or at least number of films chosen for the top 1000

Here are all the Directors that have received more than 5000 Points

Spoiler

Directors	PTS
Alfred Hitchcock	24920
Stanley Kubrick	23905
Akira Kurosawa	20252
Ingmar Bergman	20217
Martin Scorsese	14230
Billy Wilder	14175
Steven Spielberg	12612
David Lynch	12348
Andrei Tarkovsky	12174
Francis Ford Coppola	11704
Fritz Lang	11631
Quentin Tarantino	11338
Ethan Coen; Joel Coen	10435
Luis Buñuel	10159
Yasujirô Ozu	9578
Hayao Miyazaki	9560
Jean-Luc Godard	9242
Charles Chaplin	9137
Masaki Kobayashi	9064
Orson Welles	9024
Woody Allen	8902
Werner Herzog	8886
Roman Polanski	8765
Sergio Leone	8535
Krzysztof Kieslowski	8271
Sidney Lumet	8083
Michelangelo Antonioni	8051
Robert Bresson	8016
Christopher Nolan	7764
Alain Resnais	7363
Éric Rohmer	7236
Paul Thomas Anderson	7194
Carl Theodor Dreyer	6983
Lars von Trier	6961
Terrence Malick	6954
F.W. Murnau	6937
Howard Hawks	6924
David Lean	6765
Rainer Werner Fassbinder	6654
Michael Haneke	6585
Wes Anderson	6561
Peter Jackson	6561
John Ford	6555
David Fincher	6533
Federico Fellini	6524
Richard Linklater	6503
Jean Renoir	6304
Frank Capra	6080
Ridley Scott	6039
Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger	5989
Robert Altman	5919
James Cameron	5884
Kar-Wai Wong	5853
Kenji Mizoguchi	5700
Milos Forman	5659
Jean-Pierre Melville	5630
Abbas Kiarostami	5618
Satyajit Ray	5523
David Cronenberg	5463
John Huston	5368
Ernst Lubitsch	5008

ThAnks, Tim.looks like an even top 60, of which I voted for 23.

So - how different is it from our own directors poll, what are the biggest and most striking differences?

[cinewest]

Awesome job, Tim! What about a ranking of directors according to their points received, or at least number of films chosen for the top 1000

Here are all the Directors that have received more than 5000 Points

Directors	PTS
Alfred Hitchcock	24920
Stanley Kubrick	23905
Akira Kurosawa	20252
Ingmar Bergman	20217
Martin Scorsese	14230
Billy Wilder	14175
Steven Spielberg	12612
David Lynch	12348
Andrei Tarkovsky	12174
Francis Ford Coppola	11704
Fritz Lang	11631
Quentin Tarantino	11338
Ethan Coen; Joel Coen	10435
Luis Buñuel	10159
Yasujirô Ozu	9578
Hayao Miyazaki	9560
Jean-Luc Godard	9242
Charles Chaplin	9137
Masaki Kobayashi	9064
Orson Welles	9024
Woody Allen	8902
Werner Herzog	8886
Roman Polanski	8765
Sergio Leone	8535
Krzysztof Kieslowski	8271
Sidney Lumet	8083
Michelangelo Antonioni	8051
Robert Bresson	8016
Christopher Nolan	7764
Alain Resnais	7363
Éric Rohmer	7236
Paul Thomas Anderson	7194
Carl Theodor Dreyer	6983
Lars von Trier	6961
Terrence Malick	6954
F.W. Murnau	6937
Howard Hawks	6924
David Lean	6765
Rainer Werner Fassbinder	6654
Michael Haneke	6585
Wes Anderson	6561
Peter Jackson	6561
John Ford	6555
David Fincher	6533
Federico Fellini	6524
Richard Linklater	6503
Jean Renoir	6304
Frank Capra	6080
Ridley Scott	6039
Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger	5989
Robert Altman	5919
James Cameron	5884
Kar-Wai Wong	5853
Kenji Mizoguchi	5700
Milos Forman	5659
Jean-Pierre Melville	5630
Abbas Kiarostami	5618
Satyajit Ray	5523
David Cronenberg	5463
John Huston	5368
Ernst Lubitsch	5008

ThAnks, Tim.looks like an even top 60, of which I voted for 26 among my 70 entries, though only 5 of the top 10. Lynch and PTA would probably be the next two directors I added if I enlarged my list, and a few others would probably also have films in my top 100.

Overrated for me (though I still enjoy them) are the more old fashioned filmmakers on the list whose craftsmanship I can admire without really being all that inspired.

[Tim2460]

#1029(⇧515, #1544) The Long Good Friday (1980)

Directed by: John Mackenzie
Country: UK
(382,63 Pts, 10 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1029←1544←1364←828←1094←975←974←843←800←NA

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ICheckMovies: 3087 Checks , 241 Favourites , 10 Official lists
Plot: An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.

List of Voters:

Ritesh (NA)
beasterne (153)
TalkingElvish (162)
ChrisReynolds (172)
klaus78 (NA)
Nathan Treadway (NA)
Panunzio (310)
filmbantha (325)
frbrown (354)
AB537 (413)

[clemmetarey]

#1024(⇧186, #1210) The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
[The Witch]

Directed by: Robert Eggers
Country: Canada, USA
(385,93 Pts, 12 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1024←1210←1342←1232←1792←5101←NA←NA←NA←NA

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ICheckMovies: 7520 Checks , 669 Favourites , 4 Official lists
Plot: A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.

List of Voters:

Panunzio (100)
Carmel1379 (NA)
GruesomeTwosome (NA)
mimurph1 (196)
Wonderful Rainbow (NA)
clemmetarey (303)
zuma (NA)
ChrisReynolds (NA)
AB537 (415)
Torgo (483)
VincentPrice (651)
ororama (714)

So close, I hope it will crack the top 1000 next year.

[Tim2460]

#1030(⇩16, #1014) Total Recall (1990)

Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Country: USA, Mexico
(382,59 Pts, 13 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1030←1014←1020←1268←813←941←900←860←859←NA

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ICheckMovies: 37549 Checks , 1866 Favourites , 8 Official lists
Plot: When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?

List of Voters:

Chilton (NA)
sol (124)
zzzorf (204)
jvv (NA)
VincentPrice (254)
mightysparks (NA)
Tarris1 (NA)
ChrisReynolds (NA)
Panunzio (484)
zomgmouse (NA)
sebby (636)
Jimi Antiloop (651)
mathiasa (808)

[Tim2460]

#1031(⇧637, #1668) Spartacus (1960)

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Country: USA
(381,56 Pts, 13 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1031←1668←1254←996←823←877←712←841←719←705

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ICheckMovies: 21620 Checks , 870 Favourites , 19 Official lists
Plot: The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.

List of Voters:

mjf314 (NA)
cayado-coro (NA)
Rufus-T (155)
psychotronicbeatnik (NA)
Tarris1 (NA)
outdoorcats (NA)
ChrisReynolds (NA)
Caracortada (457)
joachimt (505)
sol (540)
zzzorf (656)
Gorro (726)
Lonewolf2003 (747)

[Tim2460]

#1032(NEW) The Crying Game (1992)

Directed by: Neil Jordan
Country: UK, Japan
(380,71 Pts, 13 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1032←1357←1269←969←1199←1139←1207←814←1040←NA

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ICheckMovies: 8164 Checks , 345 Favourites , 10 Official lists
Plot: A British soldier kidnapped by IRA terrorists soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.

List of Voters:

Mysterious Dude (86)
Tim2460 (NA)
filmbantha (156)
jeff_v (215)
mightysparks (NA)
Mulholland (349)
ororama (372)
ChrisReynolds (NA)
mathiasa (469)
Fergenaprido (502)
sol (701)
monclivie (710)
Jimi Antiloop (956)

[Tim2460]

#1033(⇩309, #724) Rosetta (1999)

Directed by: Luc Dardenne; Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Country: France, Belgium
(380,38 Pts, 9 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1033←724←733←698←607←490←552←713←2767←NA

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ICheckMovies: 2242 Checks , 233 Favourites , 9 Official lists
Plot: Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.

List of Voters:

cayado-coro (NA)
Lonewolf2003 (101)
Caracortada (116)
Ritesh (NA)
perceval (172)
zuma (NA)
tommy_leazaq (392)
Fergenaprido (511)
monclivie (956)

[cinewest]

Here are all the Directors that have received more than 5000 Points

Spoiler

Directors	PTS
Alfred Hitchcock	24920
Stanley Kubrick	23905
Akira Kurosawa	20252
Ingmar Bergman	20217
Martin Scorsese	14230
Billy Wilder	14175
Steven Spielberg	12612
David Lynch	12348
Andrei Tarkovsky	12174
Francis Ford Coppola	11704
Fritz Lang	11631
Quentin Tarantino	11338
Ethan Coen; Joel Coen	10435
Luis Buñuel	10159
Yasujirô Ozu	9578
Hayao Miyazaki	9560
Jean-Luc Godard	9242
Charles Chaplin	9137
Masaki Kobayashi	9064
Orson Welles	9024
Woody Allen	8902
Werner Herzog	8886
Roman Polanski	8765
Sergio Leone	8535
Krzysztof Kieslowski	8271
Sidney Lumet	8083
Michelangelo Antonioni	8051
Robert Bresson	8016
Christopher Nolan	7764
Alain Resnais	7363
Éric Rohmer	7236
Paul Thomas Anderson	7194
Carl Theodor Dreyer	6983
Lars von Trier	6961
Terrence Malick	6954
F.W. Murnau	6937
Howard Hawks	6924
David Lean	6765
Rainer Werner Fassbinder	6654
Michael Haneke	6585
Wes Anderson	6561
Peter Jackson	6561
John Ford	6555
David Fincher	6533
Federico Fellini	6524
Richard Linklater	6503
Jean Renoir	6304
Frank Capra	6080
Ridley Scott	6039
Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger	5989
Robert Altman	5919
James Cameron	5884
Kar-Wai Wong	5853
Kenji Mizoguchi	5700
Milos Forman	5659
Jean-Pierre Melville	5630
Abbas Kiarostami	5618
Satyajit Ray	5523
David Cronenberg	5463
John Huston	5368
Ernst Lubitsch	5008

ThAnks, Tim.looks like an even top 60, of which I voted for 23.

So - how different is it from our own directors poll, what are the biggest and most striking differences?

He's the top 60 from the director's poll:

Top 500

1. Stanley Kubrick - Change: 0
2. Ingmar Bergman - Change: +1
3. Akira Kurosawa - Change: +1
4. Alfred Hitchcock - Change: -2
5. Billy Wilder - Change: +2
6. Martin Scorsese - Change: -1
7. Ethan Coen - Change: +3
8. Andrei Tarkovsky - Change: -2
9. Orson Welles - Change: +5
10. Fritz Lang - Change: -2
11. David Lynch - Change: -2
12. Quentin Tarantino - Change: +1
13. Luis Buñuel - Change: -2
14. Masaki Kobayashi - Change: +9
15. Roman Polanski - Change: +3
16. Satyajit Ray - Change: +21
17. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Change: +10
18. Werner Herzog - Change: -1
19. Yasujirô Ozu - Change: +1
20. Krzysztof Kieslowski - Change: -5
21. Robert Bresson - Change: +15
22. Charles Chaplin - Change: 0
23. Sergio Leone - Change: -11
24. Buster Keaton - Change: +14
25. Michelangelo Antonioni - Change: +18
26. Woody Allen - Change: -5
27. Jean-Pierre Melville - Change: -2
28. Steven Spielberg - Change: -9
29. Hayao Miyazaki - Change: -3
30. Sidney Lumet - Change: +9
31. F.W. Murnau - Change: -7
32. Kenji Mizoguchi - Change: +13
33. Éric Rohmer - Change: -17
34. Wes Anderson - Change: -3
35. Michael Haneke - Change: +6
36. Michael Powell - Change: +8
37. Paul Thomas Anderson - Change: -8
38. Jean-Luc Godard - Change: +4
39. Carl Theodor Dreyer - Change: -11
40. Christopher Nolan - Change: +8
41. Ernst Lubitsch - Change: -9
42. David Fincher - Change: -7
43. David Lean - Change: -9
44. Abbas Kiarostami - Change: +5
45. Francis Ford Coppola - Change: +9
46. David Cronenberg - Change: -16
47. Kar-Wai Wong - Change: -7
48. Jean Renoir - Change: -1
49. Howard Hawks - Change: -16
50. William Wyler - Change: +1
51. Robert Altman - Change: +32
52. Frank Capra - Change: -6
53. Alain Resnais - Change: 0
54. Federico Fellini - Change: +3
55. John Ford - Change: -5
56. Lars von Trier - Change: +3
57. Agnès Varda - Change: -1
58. François Truffaut - Change: -6
59. Yimou Zhang - Change: +10
60. Terrence Malick - Change: -5

[Tim2460]

#1034(⇧126, #1160) Fury (1936)

Directed by: Fritz Lang
Country: USA
(380,37 Pts, 18 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1034←1160←979←1025←825←774←800←730←591←601

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ICheckMovies: 2289 Checks , 230 Favourites , 10 Official lists
Plot: When a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.

List of Voters:

Ritesh (NA)
GruesomeTwosome (NA)
monclivie (243)
Tarris1 (NA)
Panunzio (349)
joachimt (355)
VincentPrice (360)
OldAle1 (NA)
Obgeoff (409)
jeff_v (489)
Lonewolf2003 (495)
Gordon_Gekko (517)
Smoover (NA)
ororama (566)
perceval (614)
sebby (629)
Gorro (745)
mathiasa (778)

[Tim2460]

#1035(⇩368, #667) Muriel ou le temps d'un retour (1963)
[Muriel; or The Time of Return]

Directed by: Alain Resnais
Country: France, Italy
(380,17 Pts, 7 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1035←667←859←1726←1962←1909←1718←1427←1458←NA

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ICheckMovies: 858 Checks , 59 Favourites , 9 Official lists
Plot: In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.

List of Voters:

Opio (51)
OldAle1 (88)
perceval (93)
Chilton (NA)
beavis (114)
Gordon_Gekko (381)
hurluberlu (728)

[Tim2460]

#1036(⇩187, #849) Our Hospitality (1923)

Directed by: John G. Blystone; Buster Keaton
Country: USA
(378,7 Pts, 10 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–1
History: 1036←849←712←823←1114←1084←790←837←628←828

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ICheckMovies: 3679 Checks , 288 Favourites , 12 Official lists
Plot: A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

List of Voters:

Leopardi (50)
Mysterious Dude (88)
pitchorneirda (NA)
Ebbywebby (NA)
Wonderful Rainbow (NA)
OldAle1 (NA)
mathiasa (434)
VincentPrice (475)
maxwelldeux (572)
Gordon_Gekko (591)

[Tim2460]

#1037(⇩259, #778) The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Country: Canada, USA
(378,43 Pts, 6 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–2
History: 1037←778←999←856←954←1182←1637←1095←1306←NA

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ICheckMovies: 7768 Checks , 476 Favourites , 7 Official lists
Plot: The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.

List of Voters:

Good_Will_Harding (22)
OldAle1 (48)
kongs_speech (NA)
Mysterious Dude (170)
GruesomeTwosome (NA)
jeff_v (246)

[Tim2460]

#1038(⇩1, #1037) Ansiktet (1958)
[The Magician]

Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Country: Sweden
(378,29 Pts, 11 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1038←1037←832←852←1209←1506←1301←1255←858←NA

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ICheckMovies: 1568 Checks , 113 Favourites , 3 Official lists
Plot: A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their captures, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.

List of Voters:

Opio (95)
sol (138)
mimurph1 (192)
St. Gloede (207)
ororama (235)
klaus78 (NA)
clemmetarey (294)
AB537 (405)
Caracortada (445)
zomgmouse (NA)
Lonewolf2003 (671)

[Tim2460]

#1039(⇧277, #1316) Woodstock (1970)

Directed by: Michael Wadleigh
Country: USA
(377,92 Pts, 10 Votes) , Top 1–10–50: 0–0–0
History: 1039←1316←1727←1260←2043←2316←1695←3296←1971←NA

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ICheckMovies: 6117 Checks , 343 Favourites , 13 Official lists
Plot: The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival.

List of Voters:

kongs_speech (NA)
Tim2460 (NA)
maxwelldeux (149)
beasterne (152)
Ebbywebby (NA)
Nathan Treadway (NA)
AB537 (372)
OldAle1 (NA)
insomnius (NA)
sebby (756)