iCM Forum's Favourite Under 50 iCM Checks Movies : Results Thread

[Tim2460]

filmbantha (#1) !!

#2(NEW) Je t'attendrai (1939)

Directed by: Léonide Moguy
Country: France
(447,91 Pts, 6 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–2–5
Plot: During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing ;a young soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to see his parents .

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ICheckMovies: 41 Checks , 8 Favourites , 2 Official lists

List of 6 Voters:

72aicm (#17)
beavis (#21)
Fergenaprido (#34)
filmbantha (#1)
joachimt(#10)
RogerTheMovieManiac88(unranked)

[Tim2460]

Next one has the most number of voters and is
Leopardi (#1) & weirdboy (#1)

[Tim2460]

#1(NEW) Connections (1978)

Directed by: N/A
Country: UK
(564,03 Pts, 7 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 2–4–6
Plot: Follow James Burke through the history of science and technology in this collection of 10 1-hour episodes, starting with ""The Trigger Effect.""

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ICheckMovies: 37 Checks , 13 Favourites , 2 Official lists

List of 7 Voters:

burneyfan (#36)
Jimi Antiloop (#68)
klaus78 (#5)
Leopardi (#1)
Perception de Ambiguity(#2)
sortile9io (#27)
weirdboy (#1)

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[Torgo]

Meehh. Not a fan of TV series with several hours as a pool winner.

But what a weird, different exercise this was. Thank you very much for the work, Tim, and the many nominations from our dear users!

[Tim2460]

I don't really get who is the director ?

[Tim2460]

https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+ ... s/tim2460/

For the Top250

[Tim2460]

and

https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+ ... t/tim2460/

For the full 4851 Film List

[RogerTheMovieManiac88]

That James Burke series certainly looks fascinating but, speaking just for myself, it's a bit strange to see a mini-series coming out on top in a film poll.

So happy to see the exquisite 'Je t'attendrai' so high in the list. One of my very favourite films in the entire list, for sure!

[sol]

Seen:

32 / 250

and

249 / 4851

Didn't expect to be so high on either number (but I'm sure there are others much higher than me).

[Torgo]

That's my guess as well. That's why we need to rely on people only posting their favorites and not look at their list size. Hence why I only posted 4 movies for this challenge.

I don't think so. I mean, the whole point of having a half-life system is that if you submit a very long list, the titles towards the end only get a few points compared to the titles towards top... right?

If the half-life works like I think it works you might be right about that particular example.
What remains is that your #5 8/10 rated film is still racking up more points that my #15 10/10 rated film when our lists have equal lengths

It is not just when your list has equal length.

Unless I have misunderstood the tallying system, your 10th has the same number of points regardless of wether you submitted a list of 10 or 1,000.

Weird how there are any misunderstandings about this.

I hardly have the time (or interest) for watching many obscure films, others here have. I struggled to make a Top 20, maybe a Top 10 would have been wiser, and paid attention to not nominating a film which was "good enough". "Do I want to see this make the Top 100?" My votes for the <400 poll often were too inclusive and pushed titles into the list which weren't that necessary into official status. I decided to vote stricter in this case since a vote weighs tons in such an obscure set of nominees.

I have no doubt that other of you cine-extremists can nominate 100 titles which are great

[Torgo]

Lol I haven't followed the whole presentation of results and had the impression to know exactly 2 of the 250 titles. I missed many pages apparently, as it's 6/250. Whoop!
29/4851, including my own 22 votes probably? Wow, I'm a total failure.

[Onderhond]

Seen: 19/250 (7.60%)
Highest unchecked: Connections (#1)
Number of favorites: 11/19 (57.89%)
Highest favorite: Tai yang zhao chang sheng qi (#53)
Number of dislikes: 0/19 (0.00%)
Highest dislike: None found (n/a)
Unofficial films: 192/250 (76.80%)

Probably the best results I've ever hard (% favorites-wise). Also because they're "cool" favorites, not the Mulholland Drives and whatnot.
Very disappointing winner though. A docu-series

[beavis]

Cool list!!!
Thanks to the host and the many voters

Seen 88/250
(599 on the full list)

[Tim2460]

Here's the excel file... If you wanna play a little with it and know what you're doing with excel

https://we.tl/t-dtOxmYoG1f

[RogerTheMovieManiac88]

Seen: 26/250 (10.4%)
Entries I voted for: 14/250
Highest unchecked: Connections (#1)
Number of favourites: 21/26 (80.77%)
Highest favourite: 'Je t'attendrai' (#2)
Number of dislikes: 0/26 (0.00%)

Thanks for all your efforts, Tim. A beautiful list, and so many here that have caught my eye!

[72aicm]

Seen: 40/250
Highest unchecked: Jenseits der Straße - Eine Tragödie des Alltags (1929) (#6)
Highest favourite: Je t'attendrai (1939) (#2)
Movies from my list that made it: 15/50

Thanks again Tim!

[Torgo]

Seen: 19/250 (7.60%)
Number of dislikes: 0/19 (0.00%)

Coincidence? My #1 film (because I didn't really know better) was 19 (2000) and it ranks #257 - missed the list by not much more than 1 point! Too bad you only ranked it 60ish or so, with a #50-spotting, together, we could have DOMINATED the list, Ondy!

[jvv]

Thanks for hosting Tim.

Seen 25/250 and 324/4851. About what I expected.

[Onderhond]

Too bad you only ranked it 60ish or so, with a #50-spotting, together, we could have DOMINATED the list, Ondy!

Best way to change that is to help get higher-ranking films of my list

Though #60 on my list, it's still in the exceptional (from great - exceptional - perfect) category for me.

[Torgo]

Too bad you only ranked it 60ish or so, with a #50-spotting, together, we could have DOMINATED the list, Ondy!

Best way to change that is to help get higher-ranking films of my list

Hehe, I noticed that your personal cult favorite Honey Pu Pu made it into the list (have you celebrated yet?). Now if only I knew a way to see it and push it into the Top 100 like we did with Umfeld ..

[OldAle1]

Seen:

33/250
358/4851

Voted for: 17
Dislikes: 1 (only a mild dislike at that)

Seen 2 of the top 10 (#s 5 & 7)

Quite a few that I'll probably add to my endless to-see list; already looked up a couple but can't find copies (not surprisingly). Anyway, hope to remember to go through this list really thoroughly soon, lots of interesting stuff here. Guy Gilles is the man I guess. Wonder how much this project might affect the next 500<400?

[Tim2460]

It was My pleasure Everyone even if harder than Usual with the screenshots

Discovered soem cool Short & Films on the way

Here's all the number ones as promised :

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078588/	Connections	0	1978	Leopardi (#1) / weirdboy (#1)	1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037370/	Je t'attendrai	Léonide Moguy	1939	filmbantha (#1)	2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249670/	LA Plays Itself	Fred Halsted	1972	Perception de Ambiguity(#1)	3
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229088/	À l'ombre de la canaille bleue	Pierre Clémenti	1986	hurluberlu (#1)	18
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054124/	Nise daigakusei	Yasuzô Masumura	1960	joachimt(#1)	22
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060867/	Shokei no shima	Masahiro Shinoda	1966	outdoorcats(#1)	27
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051568/	Le désordre et la nuit	Gilles Grangier	1958	peeptoad(#1)	33
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052400/	Wir Wunderkinder	Kurt Hoffmann	1958	Gordon_Gekko (#1)	42
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073911/	Winstanley	Kevin Brownlow	1975	russa03 (#1)	63
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2013298/	Xiao shi da kan	Hung-i Chen	2011	Onderhond (#1)	72
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7263664/	Brothers' Nest	Clayton Jacobson	2018	sol (#1)	78
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303720/	Batang West Side	Lav Diaz	2001	OldAle1(#1)	81
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6971114/	The Perfect Candidate	Haifaa Al-Mansour	2019	Quartoxuma (#1)	82
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134770/	Kono hiroi sora no dokoka ni	Masaki Kobayashi	1954	RolandKirkSunglasses (#1)	88
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3825360/	0.5 miri	Momoko Andô	2014	rnilsson19 (#1)	106
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10849514/	This Is Not a Burial; It's a Resurrection	Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese	2019	klaus78 (#1)	107
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106945/	The Forbidden Quest	Peter Delpeut	1993	Cinepolis (#1)	121
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090052/	Le soulier de satin	Manoel de Oliveira	1985	matthewscott8 (#1)	144
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1999246/	A Vida Invisível	Vítor Gonçalves	2013	beavis (#1)	151
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100905/	Weapons of the Spirit	Pierre Sauvage	1987	burneyfan (#1)	186
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223777/	Más negro que la noche	Carlos Enrique Taboada	1975	tourdesb (#1)	188
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074334/	Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes	Joris Ivens; Jean Bigiaoui; Marceline Loridan Ivens	1976	Mate_cosido (#1)	197
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1223917/	Im Angesicht des Verbrechens	0	2010	Smoover (#1)	198
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0148428/	Lucky People Center International	Johan Söderberg; Erik Pauser	1998	monclivie (#1)	199
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135496/	Kaseki	Masaki Kobayashi	1974	DudeLanez (#1)	245
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364484/	Long Gone	Jack Cahill; David Eberhardt	2003	Lonewolf2003(#1)	251
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262196/	19	Kazushi Watanabe	2000	Torgo (#1)	255
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4466872/	Les ogres	Léa Fehner	2015	Teproc (#1)	320
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5243796/	Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny	Louis Black; Karen Bernstein	2016	ckfilm88 (#1)	330
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210200/	Ôinaru gen'ei	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	1999	Y U M E (#1)	332
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076440/	Nasty Habits	Michael Lindsay-Hogg	1977	Ebbywebby (#1)	454
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071798/	Frozen	Shivajee Chandrabhushan	2007	cinewest (#1)	455
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6044414/	Bad Black	Nabwana I.G.G.	2016	TraverseTown (#1)	456
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3358086/	Das radikal Böse	Stefan Ruzowitzky	2013	Jimi Antiloop (#1)	457
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143016/	The Zodiac Killer	Tom Hanson	1971	Daviddoes (#1)	458
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7714770/	Oleg	Juris Kursietis	2019	Wonderful Rainbow (#1)	459
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197908/	Le sorcier du ciel	Marcel Blistène	1949	pitchorneirda (#1)	460
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205963/	Omocha	Kinji Fukasaku	1998	cinephage (#1)	461
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054449/	Voskreseniye	Mikhail Shvejtser	1960	lineuphere (#1)	462
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286915/	Duct Tape Forever	Eric Till	2002	beasterne (#1)	463
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059456/	Mitt hem är Copacabana	Arne Sucksdorff	1965	Mysterious Dude (#1)	464
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179057/	Het wassende water	0	1986	jvv (#1)	465
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2659574/	A Russian Fairytale	Nicolas Doldinger; Jake Mobbs	2013	Coryn (#1)	466
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185359/	Hi no tori: Hôô-hen	Rintaro	1986	frbrown (#1)	467
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169501/	Ultraviolet	0	1998	ChrisReynolds (#1)	468
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1349455/	O'er the Land	Deborah Stratman	2009	Lilarcor (#1)	469
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160423/	Kidô keisatsu patorebâ	0	1988	mjf314 (#1)	470
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2151589/	Derecho viejo	Mariano Llinás	1998	zomgmouse (#1)	471
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077373/	Così come sei	Alberto Lattuada	1978	sortile9io (#1)	472
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3800560/	Tempestad	Tatiana Huezo	2016	zuma (#1)	473
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063171/	Kaidan yukijorô	Tokuzô Tanaka	1968	1SO (#1)	474
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6785292/	L'extraordinaire voyage de Marona	Anca Damian	2019	Zenigame (#1)	475
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098197/	Reunion	Jerry Schatzberg	1989	Opio (#1)	476
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205738/	AmnesiA	Martin Koolhoven	2001	Gorro (#1)	477
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329321/	Love and Diane	Jennifer Dworkin	2002	jeff_v (#1)	478
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318069/	Shatranj-e baad	Mohammad Reza Aslani	1976	brokenface (#1)	479
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436979/	Yeoja; Jeong-hye	Yoon-ki Lee	2004	Traveller (#1)	480
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2200632/	Meat	Drew Daywalt	2012	mightysparks (#1)	481
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025594/	Kirsa Nicholina	Gunvor Nelson	1969	kongs_speech (#1)	482
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183799/	Somewhere in the Darkness	Paul Fenech	1999	zzzorf(#1)	483
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307937/	Aa bakudan	Kihachi Okamoto	1964	St. Gloede (#1)	484
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104020/	Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232	Lamont Johnson	1992	gromit82 (#1)	485
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022543/	Voruntersuchung	Robert Siodmak	1931	Mifune (#1)	486
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053829/	Flucht nach Berlin	Will Tremper	1961	72aicm (#1)	487
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039543/	Kvinna utan ansikte	Gustaf Molander	1947	Caracortada (#1)	488
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420886/	Schläfer	Benjamin Heisenberg	2005	Obgeoff (#1)	489
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108649/	Zero Patience	John Greyson	1993	Fergenaprido (#1)	490

[Torgo]

Soo, more than half of our #1 films didn't get another vote! Alright.

Noo!, Lonewolf, even closer to the final list than me! Long Gone, the self-proclaimed "hobo doc", looks cool. Added to my doc watchlist. Could make future <400 material if you promote it?

[Torgo]

https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+ ... s/tim2460/

For the Top250

Crazy facts: 11 of our Top 250 are on 2 official lists, 47 more are on one official list. Most of the films with 2 off-lists made it into the Top 100 (2 of them rank #1 and #2 even),

2 titles have only 2 checks.

24 of the Top 250 entries are documentaries (according to ICM), which makes about the same 10% ratio like in our <400 poll, a number which stays true for the 500<400 and 1000<400 as well. It's almost like a law of nature.
25 of the Top 250 are tagged as short films.
Only 1 of the Top 250 are kinky adult films - but a whole 33% of our Top 3.

[St. Gloede]

Top 250: 68
Highest unchecked: Connections (#1)
Number of favourites: 16
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Full list of nominees: 597/4851

Positions of my top 10:

1. Aa bakudan / Oh, Bomb (1964, Kihachi Okamoto) #484
2. Macskajáték / Cat's Play (1974, Karoly Makk) #84
3. À l'ombre de la canaille bleue / In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986, Pierre Clementi) #18
4. Budapesti mesék / Budapest Tales (1977, Istvan Szabo) #633
5. La deuxième nuit / The Second Night (2016, Eric Pauwels) #4
6. Karl May (1974, Hans-Jurgen Syderberg) #710
7. Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame / I'm an Elephant, Madame (1969, Peter Zadek) 756
8. Lisboa (1930, José Leitão de Barros) #440
9. Tízezer nap / Ten Thousand Days (1967, Ferenc Kosa) #886
10. Faunovo velmi pozdní odpoledne / The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983, Vera Chytilová) #952

I'm especially surprised by the bad performance of Aa bakudan, as it always gets a decent amount of support in DtC (but, of course, that's not just this forum).

[burneyfan]

Top 250: 54
Highest unchecked: Je t'attendrai (#2)
Number of favourites: 18
-
Full list of nominees: 565/4851

Positions of my personal top 10:

1. Weapons of the Spirit (Sauvage, 1987) -- #186
2. Idiot (Pyryev, 1958) -- #504
3. Le désordre et la nuit (Grangier, 1958) -- #33
4. At' zije Republika (Kachyna, 1965) -- #10
5. Dzhamilya (Poplavskaya & Yutkevich, 1969) -- #26
6. Thartharah fawq al-Nil (Kamal, 1971) -- #744
7. The Informers (Annakin, 1963) -- #785
8. La corruzione (Bolognini, 1963) -- #15
9. The Day After Trinity (Else, 1981) -- #290
10. Darò un milione (Camerini, 1935) -- #945

[burneyfan]

Grrrrr double post.

[Tim2460]

Those number one .... Only have 1 check

Le sorcier du ciel	1949	1	pitchorneirda (#1)
A Russian Fairytale	2013	1	Coryn (#1)
Derecho viejo	1998	1	zomgmouse (#1)

Amazing

[Torgo]

Some more wild stats:
Our #1 is the only film to get 7 votes, and not surprisingly, basically every film which got 4 to 6 votes got very good ranks, almost all of them in the Top 100.

BabaKiueria (1986) is the biggest outlier with 6 votes and only a #224; interestingly, it was also favorited by exactly 6 users on ICM. Roger was among them, but didn't vote for it in the poll. Mistake or just different thresholds for "fav on ICM / vote in poll"?

#224(NEW) BabaKiueria (1986)

Spoiler

Directed by: Don Featherstone
Country: Australia
(143,55 Pts, 6 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––1
Plot: ""Role reversal study of the historically inaccurate \""plight\"" of Australian Aborigines in modern Anglo-Saxon society. Indigenous \""whities\"" [sic] are being persecuted by racist black people ...""

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ICheckMovies: 48 Checks , 6 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 6 Voters:

Ebbywebby (#102)
Fergenaprido (#159)
Jimi Antiloop (#74)
Lilarcor (#37)
zomgmouse (#221)
zzzorf(#205)

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo at #701 (!) and Sia; le rêve du python at #367 are the only titles with 4 votes which didn't make it into the Top 250. Votes were pretty low, too.

168 films got 3 votes or more.
704 films got 2 votes or more.
About 4000 films got 1 single vote.

[RogerTheMovieManiac88]

I thought of including 'BabaKiueria' (I didn't have to check the spelling, haha) as I do have it favourited and thought it was an incisive and witty reversal. It's a lower favourite for me (if that makes any sense). I set the ratings import to mark IMDb 8/10s as favourites on ICM. For this poll I narrowed things down and overlooked all my 8s.

Rather glad to see it make the list though!

[Lonewolf2003]

Seen 6/250
Voted for all 6, which I all found below average, still I guess it's kind of nice they are in the list
I would have voted for all 6, but somehow Back to Back, Face to Face slipped under my radar.

[Lonewolf2003]

Long Gone Jack Cahill; David Eberhardt 2003 Lonewolf2003(#1) 251

NOOO! So close
Were there any other voters for it?

[Torgo]

Roger: Yeah, that makes sense

Long Gone Jack Cahill; David Eberhardt 2003 Lonewolf2003(#1) 251

NOOO! So close
Were there any other voters for it?

I addressed that a few posts above, LonggoneWolf. Or am I on your ignore list?
There has to be another voter, because otherwise a singular #1 vote ranks from 440-480 or so. I already deleted the Excel, so I can't check, sorry

[Lonewolf2003]

Roger: Yeah, that makes sense

Long Gone Jack Cahill; David Eberhardt 2003 Lonewolf2003(#1) 251

NOOO! So close
Were there any other voters for it?

I addressed that a few posts above, LonggoneWolf. Or am I on your ignore list?
There has to be another voter, because otherwise a singular #1 vote ranks from 440-480 or so. I already deleted the Excel, so I can't check, sorry

Do not be sad, you aren’t on my ignore list. Reacted before I saw your reaction

[Ebbywebby]

I've seen 31/250 (including a short that I only watched after it came up in the countdown) and 387/4851. Seven of my own votes were in the top 250, but my abundance of vintage British picks got no love except "Death in the Seine" and "The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer."

A list of 4851 seems so enormous, especially in a poll with only 71 voters. But I guess this shows how little overlap there was between the ballots.

Based on casually skimming the ballots, I was guessing either "Repeated Absences" or "Connections" would win.

[Traveller]

Thanks for hosting, Tim.

[tommy_leazaq]

Thank You, Tim.. Never knew this list would be this much fun to follow. Lot of great films to watch.

My would be #1 Der Fall Gleiwitz is languishing at the very bottom.. How much more it would have gained if its #1 in my hypothetically submitted 100 film list?

[Torgo]

Not enough to get into the Top 250, if that's what you're asking.

[Coryn]

My nr. 1 is at place 4xx

Nobody else voted for it as I got the only check.

[Quartoxuma]

#68(NEW) The Flying Train (1902)

Directed by: 0
Country: Germany
(209,52 Pts, 3 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–3
Plot: Panoramic view taken from the Suspension Railway at Barmen and Elbefeld, Germany. A marvelous example of engineering work.

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ICheckMovies: 32 Checks , 5 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 3 Voters:

ckfilm88 (#36)
joachimt(#50)
Quartoxuma (#3)

That's my hometown. Always crazy seeing this since I have such a vivid memory of the 90s version of the tracks.