Best Ever Movies: Redux [Submission Deadline May 31st]

[nutso42]

So last year we set out to do a forum-wide survey to find what BEA considered to be the best movies ever made. However, many users weren't able to assemble their list in time for inclusion. Therefore, we're going to begin a Round Two of sorts, but leave the time frame for entry much wider than last time. Here's the rules:

1. Every BEA user can submit (via PM) their list. It can range anywhere from 1 film to 100. It can be your favorite films, or what you consider to be the greatest of all time, or a mix of both. Whatever. Just put movies on it. Which brings us to the next rule.

2. What films are eligible for entry? Essentially, if it would be able to garner an Academy Award nomination, it's eligible. That means feature length films, short films, documentaries, anything of the sort. NOT ELIGIBLE are TV movies or mini-series (for instance, the Dekalog would not be allowed, but the individual "Short Film About Love/Killing" films would be). In the case of something that began as a TV film but then later received theatrical release, let IMDb be your guide (Steven Spielberg's "Duel"? Ineligible)

The only seeming exception would be concert videos. If IMDb lists them as documentary (such as The Last Waltz or Stop Making Sense) then they're eligible under the 'Documentary' umbrella.

3. Time frame. You can begin submitting your lists now if you like. We'll keep the time frame open until, say, end of May, unless the entries almost completely cease in a few weeks. If you're assembling a list but haven't gotten it ready, just let me know and we can work on stretching the time frame.

4. Scoring! Much like our BEA album charts, your top ranked film will receive 100 points. Your second place film will receive 99 points, and so on, all the way down to your 100th film receiving 1 point. While it may seem pointless getting down that low, bear in mind last year that Dr. Strangelove nudged Blade Runner out of the top ten by a measly three points. So your votes matter!

So that's that! Feel free to start tossing in your lists! Anywhere from one to one hundred movies!

[nutso42]

If you'd like to see what films made the cut last year, feel free to look through the completed list on IMDb.

[pa]

[mickilennial]

[Skinny]

Never got around to submitting a list last time, so here goes nothing.

1. Casablanca (1942, dir. Michael Curtiz)
2. Miller's Crossing (1990, dir. the Coen brothers)
3. Children of Men (2006, dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
4. Synecdoche, New York (2008, dir. Charlie Kaufman)
5. The Apartment (1960, dir. Billy Wilder)
6. The Shining (1980, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
7. Once Upon a Time in America (1984, dir. Sergio Leone)
8. Jackie Brown (1997, dir. Quentin Tarantino)
9. Blow Out (1981, dir. Brian De Palma)
10. Le Ballon Rouge [The Red Balloon] (1956, dir. Albert Lamorisse)
11. The Princess and the Frog (2009, dir. Ron Clements, John Musker)
12. Malcolm X (1992, dir. Spike Lee)
13. Near Dark (1987, dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
14. Dead Man (1995, dir. Jim Jarmusch)
15. Raging Bull (1980, dir. Martin Scorsese)
16. Barton Fink (1991, dir. the Coen brothers)
17. Chasing Amy (1997, dir. Kevin Smith)
18. The Birds (1963, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
19. Rushmore (1998, dir. Wes Anderson)
20. Where the Wild Things Are (2009, dir. Spike Jonze)
21. The Princess Bride (1987, dir. Rob Reiner)
22. Groundhog Day (1993, dir. Harold Ramis)
23. Man on the Moon (1999, dir. Miloš Forman)
24. It's a Wonderful Life (1946, dir. Frank Capra)
25. East of Eden (1955, dir. Elia Kazan)
26. No Country for Old Men (2007, dir. the Coen brothers)
27. Do the Right Thing (1989, dir. Spike Lee)
28. Badlands (1973, dir. Terrence Malick)
29. The Omen (1976, dir. Richard Donner)
30. Big (1988, dir. Penny Marshall)
31. Spirited Away (2001, dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
32. The Wicker Man (1973, dir. Robin Hardy)
33. The White Diamond (2004, dir. Werner Herzog)
34. Jumanji (1995, dir. Joe Johnston)
35. The Ipcress File (1965, dir. Sidney J. Furie)
36. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974, dir. Guy Hamilton)
37. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009, dir. Werner Herzog)
38. Cross of Iron (1977, dir. Sam Peckinpah)
39. Big Trouble in Little China (1986, dir. John Carpenter)
40. Heathers (1989, dir Michael Lehmann)
41. Time Bandits (1981, dir. Terry Gilliam)
42. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, dir. Miloš Forman)
43. The Great Mouse Detective (1986, dir. David Michener, Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, John Musker)
44. Cinema Paradiso (1988, dir. Giuseppe Tornatore)
45. Shogun Assassin (1980, dir. Robert Houston)
46. Upstream Color (2013, dir. Shane Carruth)
47. L.A. Confidential (1997, dir. Curtis Hanson)
48. Monsters, Inc. (2001, dir. Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, David Silverman)
49. Withnail & I (1987, dir. Bruce Robinson)
50. James and the Giant Peach (1996, dir. Henry Selick)
51. Space Jam (1996, dir. Joe Pytka)
52. Batman Begins (2005, dir. Christopher Nolan)
53. Trading Places (1983, dir. John Landis)
54. Cube (1997, dir. Vincenzo Natali)
55. The Proposition (2005, dir. John Hillcoat)
56. Pretty in Pink (1986, dir. Howard Deutch)
57. Papillon (1973, dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
58. School of Rock (2003, dir. Richard Linklater)
59. Léon (1994, dir. Luc Besson)
60. Touki Bouki (1973, dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty)
61. Shaun of the Dead (2004, dir. Edgar Wright)
62. Shaolin and Wu Tang (1983, dir. Gordon Liu)
63. The Blues Brothers (1980, dir. John Landis)
64. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011, dir. Rupert Wyatt)
65. 8 Mile (2002, dir. Curtis Hanson)
66. Interstellar (2014, dir. Christopher Nolan)
67. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, dir. Frank Capra)
68. Sunshine (2007, dir. Danny Boyle)
69. Blade II (2002, dir. Guillermo del Toro)
70. The Conversation (1974, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
71. The Raid: Redemption (2011, dir. Gareth Evans)
72. Big Fish (2003, dir. Tim Burton)
73. El espinazo del diablo [The Devil's Backbone] (2001, dir. Guillermo del Toro)
74. A Christmas Story (1983, dir. Bob Clark)
75. Yojimbo (1961, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
76. How to Train Your Dragon (2010, dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders)
77. Independence Day (1996, dir. Roland Emmerich)
78. Planet of the Apes (1968, dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
79. The Thing (1982, dir. John Carpenter)
80. Deliverance (1972, dir. John Boorman)
81. Great Expectations (1946, dir. David Lean)
82. Desperado (1995, dir. Robert Rodriguez)
83. Back to the Future Part II (1989, dir. Robert Zemeckis)
84. Almost Famous (2000, dir. Cameron Crowe)
85. Harakiri (1962, dir. Masaki Kobayashi)
86. The Game (1997, dir. David Fincher)

Pretty random number, but I started making a list and that's where I got to.
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[nutso42]

[Applerill]

I guess I might as well post my ballot, though I decided to slightly change it from my Letterboxd list to make the most of every slot.

1. Satantango
2. Persona
3. Eraserhead
4. American Beauty
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Walkabout
7. Amelie
8. Annie Hall
9. Trainspotting
10. My Night at Maud's
11. Alice in Wonderland (1952)
12. Jesus Camp
13. In the Realm of the Senses
14. The Room
15. Weekend (1967)
16. The Lego Movie
17. Last Tango in Paris
18. Breaking The Waves
19. All That Jazz
20. Groundhog Day
21. Sherlock Jr.
22. Inception
23. Slacker
24. Daisies
25. Heathers
26. As I Was Moving Ahead I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
27. Some Like It Hot
28. The Tree of Life
29. The Breakfast Club
30. Carrie
31. Audition
32. A Clockwork Orange
33. Clerks
34. Spring Breakers
35. Jeanne Dielmann
36. Ratatouille
37. Mishima: A Tale in Four Chapters
38. A Woman Under the Influence
39. Alice (1988)
40. Happiness
41. High Fidelity
42. Pink Flamingos
43. Blue (1993)
44. Requiem For a Dream
45. Cloud Atlas
46. Rosemary's Baby
47. The Great Beauty
48. Veridiana
49. Metropolis
50. In Vanda's Room
51. Andrei Rublev
52. Exotica
53. The Truman Show
54. Robocop
55. Malcolm X
56. American Psycho
57. It's Such a Beautiful Day
58. Veronika Voss
59. Exit Through the Gift Shop
60. Peeping Tom
61. The Master
62. The Conversation
63. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
64. The Squid and the Whale
65. Au Halud Balthazaar
66. The White Balloon
67. Salo Or: 120 Days of Sodom
68. Yi Yi (A One and a Two)
69. Das Boot
70. The Wolf of Wall Street
71. Secrets & Lies
72. La Notte
73. Elephant (2003)
74. The Life of Oharu
75. Bad Lieutenant (1992)
76. Kill Bill: Volume 2
77. Irreversible
78. Fat Girl
79. The Best Years of Our Lives
80. The Talented Mr. Ripley
81. The Music Room
82. Eternity & A Day
83. The Karate Kid
84. Sweetie
85. MASH
86. The Celebration
87. Little Miss Sunshine
88. The Tracey Fragments
89. Ghost World
90. The Shawshank Redemption
91. A Separation
92. The Piano Teacher
93. Obvious Child
94. Safety Last
95. HaraKiri
96. I <3 Huckabees
97. Five Easy Pieces
98. Pink Floyd The Wall
99. Wavelength
100. The House is Black

[ButterThumbz]

Ok, here goes...

1. Goodfellas (1990)
2. Brazil (1985)
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
4. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
5. Chinatown (1974)
6. Alien (1979)
7. Withnail & I (1987)
8. Annie Hall (1977)
9. Miller's Crossing (1990)
10. The Lives of Others (2006)
11. Blade Runner (1982)
12. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
13. City of God (2002)
14. There Will Be Blood (2007)
15. The Big Lebowski (1998)
16. Pulp Fiction (1994)
17. Akira (1988)
18. Upstream Color (2013)
19. Fight Club (1999)
20. The Usual Suspects (1995)
21. The Matrix (1999)
22. The Third Man (1949)
23. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
24. Dead Man (1995)
25. The Godfather (1972)
26. Children of Men (2006)
27. Drive (2011)
28. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
29. No Country for Old Men (2007)
30. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
31. Princess Mononoke (1997)
32. Inception (2010)
33. Submarine (2010)
34. Blue Velvet (1986)
35. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
36. High Fidelity (2000)
37. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
38. Die Hard (1988)
39. Amélie (2001)
40. The Prestige (2006)
41. Ghost World (2001)
42. Back to the Future (1985)
43. Aliens (1986)
44. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
45. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
46. Taxi Driver (1976)
47. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
48. Clerks. (1994)
49. Apocalypse Now (1979)
50. Jackie Brown (1997)
51. In Bruges (2008)
52. Memento (2000)
53. Naked (1993)
54. Winter's Bone (2010)
55. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
56. Let the Right One In (2008)
57. Short Term 12 (2013)
58. American Psycho (2000)
59. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
60. Life of Brian (1979)
61. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
62. The Man with Two Brains (1983)
63. The 39 Steps (1935)
64. Stardust Memories (1980)
65. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
66. L.A. Confidential (1997)
67. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
68. Carlito's Way (1993)
69. American Splendor (2003)
70. Evil Dead II (1987)
71. Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
72. Four Lions (2010)
73. Oldboy (2003)
74. Barton Fink (1991)
75. The King of Comedy (1982)
76. Léon (1994)
77. Chopper (2000)
78. 24 Hour Party People (2002)
79. Brief Encounter (1945)
80. Perfect Blue (1997)
81. Trainspotting (1996)
82. True Romance (1993)
83. Hero (2002)
84. Moon (2009)
85. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
86. 28 Days Later... (2002)
87. Total Recall (1990)
88. Rushmore (1998)
89. Magnolia (1999)
90. Sin City (2005)
91. Time Bandits (1981)
92. Being John Malkovich (1999)
93. Casino Royale (2006)
94. The Babadook (2014)
95. Dredd (2012)
96. Minority Report (2002)
97. Three Kings (1999)
98. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
99. Timecrimes (2007)
100. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
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[craola]

what part of "PM" do you people not understand!!!

i'm trying to make my list, but i see these lists, and i can't help but be influenced #:'( #tears #sadface

tempted to make an all-animation list for lack of representation here. seriously what the FAQ?
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[Tap]

I don't think anyone else would vote for it, but is Paper Rad's Trash Talking eligible? It came out on DVD on Load Records, and it's only 60 minutes but that's within most feature length standards.

Oh and anyone who wants their brain melted you can stream it legally http://www.ubu.com/film/paperrad_trash.html

also everyone should watch Mind Game and The Holy Mountain.