As an exercise, we decided to compile lists for our favorite films, DVDs, and discoveries from the past year. Being that listmaking is a largely ephemeral exercise, one characterized (for us) by ample second-guessing, we decided to display the results of our tally with some transparency. The results below are compiled from submissions from our contributors, with emphasis given to individual films that received mentions on multiple lists. This should not be construed as an officialized exhibition of our favorites from the past year, but rather an illustration of the gamut of our tastes.
Selections made by Simon Augustine, Adam Balz, David Carter,
Leo Goldsmith, Eva Holland, Jenny Jediny, Ian Johnston,
Evan Kindley, Andrew Schenker, Stephen Snart, & Rumsey Taylor
Results:
- Alice in Wonderland (x-rated version)
- Baron Prasil
- The Beaver Trilogy
- Bigger than Life
- Blithe Spirit
- Body Heat
- Le Bonheur
- The Boy Friend
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Calle Mayor
- Caught
- Céline and Julie Go Boating
- Citizen Dog
- Contempt
- Crime Wave
- Daisy Kenyon
- Dawn of the Dead
- The Descent
- The Devils
- Donnie Darko
- Easy Living
- The Falls
- Fatty and Mabel Adrift
- Female Trouble
- Half Nelson
- Hellzapoppin
- The Holy Mountain
- The Horn Blows at Midnight
- An Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
- It Happened One Night
- Hideko the Bus Conductress
- The Italian
- Jackknife Man
- Jakubisko bootlegs
- Jasny bootlegs
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- The Killing of America
- Klute
- L.A. Confidential
- Lazybones
- Life of Oharu
- Lipsky bootlegs
- The Lodger
- Lola Montès
- Made In USA
- Man of the West
- Marty
- The Masseurs and the Woman
- Metropolitan
- Midnight Run
- Miracle Mile
- The Miracle Worker
- Mr Thank You
- My Man Godfrey
- Nanny McPhee
- The Narrow Margin
- Los Olvidados
- On Dangerous Ground
- One Hour With You
- Ornamental Hairpin
- Passage to India
- Phantasm II
- Polak bootlegs
- Possession
- Primate
- Psycho
- Rebecca
- The River [Reconstruction]
- The Room
- La Roue
- The Rules of the Game
- The Searchers
- Stardust Memories
- Salò, or the 100 Days of Sodom
- Salome’s Last Dance
- The Savages
- Seas Beneath
- La Signora Senza Camelie
- Stop Making Sense
- Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
- A Summer’s Tale
- Swept Away
- Thank You For Smoking
- Titicut Follies
- Trick Baby
- Two-Lane Blacktop
- Vanishing Point
- Vorlicek bootlegs
- Week End
- When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
- Wolf Creek
Legend:
- One mention
- Two mentions
- Three mentions
- Four+ mentions