iCM Forum's Favorite Director's Swan Songs; Results

[Lonewolf2003]

iCM Forum's Favorite Director's Swan Songs
Results


About a year ago we chose our favorite directorial debut, cause everybody has to start somewhere. Alas everything also has to end at some point. So this time we chose our favorite final movies directed by a director, i.e. favorite directorial swan songs.

Half-life = 15

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Nominations

Participants (24)

TraverseTown
Perception de Ambiguity
Teproc (unranked10)
gromit82
russa03
zzzorf
mightysparks
St. Gloede
3eyes
Caracortada
peeptoad
OldAle1
DudeLanez
AB537
Good_Will_Harding
Leoparidi
RogerTheMovieManiac88 (unranked3)
Rufus-T
sol
lineuphere
matthewscott8
Silga
Opio
Lonewolf2003

[Lonewolf2003]

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Top 75

Complete List
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[sol]

Excited to see if my #1 made the list or not. I guess we'll find out soon when you post the list of #1s that didn't make the cut.

[Lonewolf2003]

Only one #1 that didn't make the top 75. It's RogerTheMovieManiac's number 1:



#81 Comrades (Bill Douglas, 1986) 126.18 points
149 checks, official lists: 2

Final film of Bill Douglas

2 voters

RogerTheMovieManiac88 (#1)
russa03 (#30)

[Lonewolf2003]

#75 Ronja Rövardotter [Ronia: The Robber's Daughter] (Tage Danielsson, 1984) 141.76 points
1658 checks, official lists: 0

Final film of Tage Danielsson

2 voters

sol (#10)
zzzorf (#7)

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#74 Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968) 145.24 points
1928 checks, official lists: 7

Final film of Michael Reeves

3 voters

Good_Will_Harding (#32)
OldAle1 (#18)
peeptoad (#7)

[OldAle1]

Disappointed to see #74 ranked so low on such a horror-loving forum. But I guess with the small number of voters anything can happen, and hey maybe most people aren't as crazy about this as I am.

[Lonewolf2003]

#73 Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols, 2007) 145.91 points
6018 checks, official lists: 0

Final film of Mike Nichols

6 voters

Good_Will_Harding (#60)
Leoparidi (#42)
Rufus-T (#27)
Silga (#15)
sol (#26)
St. Gloede (#50)

[Lonewolf2003]

#72 Le testament d'Orphée ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi [Testament of Orpheus] (Jean Cocteau, 1960) 146.05 points
961 checks, official lists: 7

Final film of Jean Cocteau

4 voters

DudeLanez (#7)
lineuphere (#40)
OldAle1 (#25)
russa03 (#35)

[Lonewolf2003]

#71 ...All the Marbles (Robert Aldrich, 1981) 148.15 points
125 checks, official lists: 0

Final film of Robert Aldrich

2 voters

Silga (#7)
zzzorf (#8)

[gromit82]

Thanks, Lonewolf. I'm looking forward to the rest of the results.

[Lonewolf2003]

#70 One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando, 1961) 148.95 points
1541 checks, official lists: 10

Final film of Marlon Brando

5 voters

AB537 (#16)
DudeLanez (#21)
Leoparidi (#98)
lineuphere (#50)
matthewscott8 (#17)

[Lonewolf2003]

Thanks, Lonewolf. I'm looking forward to the rest of the results.

Thank you for providing so much input for the master list. Without it the list would been half as extensive

[Lonewolf2003]

#69 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami, 2017) 149.1 points
233 checks, official lists: 1

Final film of Abbas Kiarostami

2 voters

Good_Will_Harding (#5)
OldAle1 (#10)

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#68 Scream 4 (Wes Craven, 2011) 150 points
9546 checks, official lists: 1

Final film of Wes Craven

2 voters

sol (#1)
zzzorf (#16)

[sol]

I don't know if I can think of another director with such a masterful and absolutely fitting swansong.

[Lonewolf2003]

#67 Another Sky (Gavin Lambert, 1954) 151.73 points
45 checks, official lists: 1

Final film of Gavin Lambert

2 voters

lineuphere (#8)
matthewscott8 (#6)

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#66 The Osterman Weekend (Sam Peckinpah, 1983) 156.52 points
432 checks, official lists: 0

Final film of Sam Peckinpah

3 voters

matthewscott8 (#25)
peeptoad (#17)
sol (#7)

[Lonewolf2003]

#65 Unstoppable (Tony Scott, 2010) 159.15 points
8706 checks, official lists: 0

Final film of Tony Scott

3 voters

Lonewolf2003 (#20)
Silga (#13)
zzzorf (#12)

[Lonewolf2003]

#64 Il deserto dei tartari [The Desert of the Tartars] (Valerio Zurlini, 1976) 159.55 points
209 checks, official lists: 3

Final film of Valerio Zurlini

2 voters

matthewscott8 (#3)
RogerTheMovieManiac88 (unranked>3)

[Lonewolf2003]

#63 Buddies (Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 1985) 164.08 points
61 checks, official lists: 1

Final film of Arthur J. Bressan Jr.

3 voters

sol (#22)
TraverseTown (#1)
zzzorf (#30)

[Lonewolf2003]

#62 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard, 1990) 165.59 points
3121 checks, official lists: 3

Final film of Tom Stoppard

4 voters

OldAle1 (#66)
Opio (#18)
russa03 (#32)
Teproc (#3)

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#61 Vivement dimanche! [Confidentially Yours] (François Truffaut, 1983) 168.06 points
628 checks, official lists: 1

Final film of François Truffaut

3 voters

AB537 (#8)
Leoparidi (#68)
sol (#3)

[Lonewolf2003]

#60 Prípad pro zacínajícího kata [Case for a Rookie Hangman] (Pavel Jurácek, 1970) 170.92 points
176 checks, official lists: 2

Final film of Pavel Jurácek

4 voters

3eyes (#15)
peeptoad (#19)
russa03 (#26)
St. Gloede (#19)

[Lonewolf2003]

#59 Charlotte's Web (Charles A. Nichols, Iwao Takamoto, 1973) 176.16 points
10605 checks, official lists: 2

Final film of Iwao Takamoto

5 voters

gromit82 (#14)
Leoparidi (#53)
lineuphere (#17)
Rufus-T (#18)
zzzorf (#37)

[Lonewolf2003]

#58 Arthur (Steve Gordon, 1981) 178.55 points
4848 checks, official lists: 4

Final film of Steve Gordon

3 voters

Caracortada (#11)
gromit82 (#6)
Opio (#23)

[Lonewolf2003]

#57 Saraband (Ingmar Bergman, 2003) 181.2 points
1105 checks, official lists: 4

Final film of Ingmar Bergman

5 voters

DudeLanez (#10)
Good_Will_Harding (#19)
Leoparidi (#44)
Opio (#31)
Rufus-T (#25)

[Lonewolf2003]

#56 Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo, 1971) 185.47 points
1808 checks, official lists: 4

Final film of Dalton Trumbo

3 voters

3eyes (#7)
Leoparidi (#14)
St. Gloede (#14)

[Lonewolf2003]

#55 Un flic [A Cop] (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1972) 186.63 points
804 checks, official lists: 0

Final film of Jean-Pierre Melville

5 voters

AB537 (#7)
DudeLanez (#24)
Good_Will_Harding (#28)
russa03 (#23)
St. Gloede (#48)

[Lonewolf2003]

#54 Salomé (Charles Bryant, Alla Nazimova, 1922) 186.65 points
288 checks, official lists: 2

Final film of Charles Bryant

5 voters

Leoparidi (#36)
matthewscott8 (#20)
peeptoad (#2)
russa03 (#36)
zzzorf (#51)

[Lonewolf2003]

#53 Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982) 196.95 points
576 checks, official lists: 2

Final film of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

5 voters

DudeLanez (#20)
Leoparidi (#60)
lineuphere (#7)
St. Gloede (#26)
TraverseTown (#20)

[Lonewolf2003]

#52 Die Parallelstrasse [The Parallel Street] (Ferdinand Khittl, 1962) 210.81 points
144 checks, official lists: 2

Final film of Ferdinand Khittl

4 voters

lineuphere (#24)
matthewscott8 (#5)
Opio (#25)
peeptoad (#12)

[Lonewolf2003]

#51 Spite Marriage (Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, 1929) 218.15 points
585 checks, official lists: 2

Final film of Buster Keaton

6 voters

3eyes (#11)
gromit82 (#7)
Leoparidi (#71)
Opio (#35)
Rufus-T (#20)
St. Gloede (#45)

[Lonewolf2003]

#50 Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle, 1994) 219.37 points
679 checks, official lists: 2

Final film of Louis Malle

7 voters

Caracortada (#17)
DudeLanez (#31)
Good_Will_Harding (#38)
Leoparidi (#24)
lineuphere (#23)
OldAle1 (#64)
Opio (#15)

[Lonewolf2003]

#49 Gett (Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz, 2014) 231.02 points
449 checks, official lists: 1

Final film of Ronit Elkabetz

6 voters

Good_Will_Harding (#33)
Leoparidi (#37)
OldAle1 (#23)
russa03 (#24)
Teproc (#4)
TraverseTown (#26)

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#48 One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, 1961) 238.09 points
63073 checks, official lists: 8

Final film of Clyde Geronimi

7 voters

Good_Will_Harding (#54)
gromit82 (#12)
lineuphere (#52)
mightysparks (#7)
OldAle1 (#53)
Rufus-T (#16)
zzzorf (#31)

[Lonewolf2003]

#47 Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970) 239.46 points
1208 checks, official lists: 11

Final film of Barbara Loden

5 voters

Leoparidi (#57)
lineuphere (#3)
Opio (#28)
russa03 (#4)
TraverseTown (#31)

[Lonewolf2003]

#46 The Man in the Moon (Robert Mulligan, 1991) 239.69 points
831 checks, official lists: 0

Final film of Robert Mulligan

7 voters

Good_Will_Harding (#37)
gromit82 (#16)
Leoparidi (#100)
OldAle1 (#56)
Rufus-T (#14)
Silga (#5)
zzzorf (#32)

[Lonewolf2003]

#45 Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (Claude Sautet, 1995) 240.55 points
315 checks, official lists: 2

Final film of Claude Sautet

5 voters

3eyes (#6)
DudeLanez (#12)
Leoparidi (#85)
Opio (#10)
St. Gloede (#25)

[Lonewolf2003]

#44 Ninjô kami fûsen [Humanity and Paper Balloons] (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937) 246.5 points
670 checks, official lists: 4

Final film of Sadao Yamanaka

6 voters

Leoparidi (#9)
lineuphere (#18)
Lonewolf2003 (#24)
matthewscott8 (#12)
OldAle1 (#39)
St. Gloede (#36)