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Kaylinh's Top 50 Films List

Mostly this plus Portrait of a Lady on Fire, still unranked, but I added director/year and notes re: representation

Feeling pretty good about it, don't think I'll make any changes unless I watch something between now and the deadline

 

I'm trying to not rush my list. I was able to come up with 48 movies last night, but like the last list I left off very important albums and I'm trying to not over think the obvious choices.

 

As you're interested in LGBT representation in films, have you seen The Watermelon Woman? It's Cheryl Dunye's first film, and supposedly the first film by a black lesbian. It's a pretty fascinating little docu-fiction hybrid about representation and history, blending fact and fiction and the personal and political. It's rough around the edges from a production perspective, but there's a charm to the amateur-ness of it.

 

The Watermelon Woman is amazing. I love all of her work so much. The meta style is endlessly entertaining without any sense that it’s trying too hard or forcing the idea.

 

Probably could've tinkered with the order forever, but it goes something like this.

1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg, 1981)

2. Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993)

3. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)

4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Spielberg, 1989)

5. Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)

6. Return of the Jedi (Marquand, 1983)

7. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)

8. Back to the Future (Zemeckis, 1985)

9. Batman Returns (Burton, 1992)

10. Terminator 2 (Cameron, 1991)


11. Star Wars (Lucas, 1977)

12. Ghostbusters (Reitman, 1984)

13. Scream (Craven, 1996)

14. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis, 1988)

15. The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)

16. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)

17. Poltergeist (Hooper, 1982)

18. Heat (Mann, 1995)

19. Tombstone (Cosmatos, 1993)

20. Chinatown (Polanski, 1974)


21. Superbad (Mottola, 2007)

22. LA Confidential (Hanson, 1997)

23. Alien (Scott, 1979)

24. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)

25. Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)

26. The Matrix (Wachowskis, 1999)

27. Rush Hour (Ratner, 1998)

28. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992)

29. True Romance (Scott, 1993)

30. Speed (de Bont, 1994)


31. Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991)

32. Lethal Weapon (Donner, 1987)

33. Independence Day (Emmerich, 1996)

34. Wet Hot American Summer (Wain, 2001)

35. Grand Budapest Hotel (Anderson, 2014)

36. Catch Me If You Can (Spielberg, 2002)

37. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven, 1984)

38. Dazed and Confused (Linklater, 1993)

39.Ed Wood (Burton, 1994)

40. Toy Story (Lasseter, 1995)


41. Casino Royale (Campbell, 2006)

42. Gremlins (Dante, 1984)

43. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen, 2013)

44. Pan's Labyrinth (Del Toro, 2006)

45. Midnight Run (Brest, 1988)

46. Friday the 13th Part VI (McLoughlin, 1986)

47. Sleepless in Seattle (Ephron, 1993)

48. There Will be Blood (Anderson, 2007)

49. The ‘Burbs (Dante, 1989)

50. Paddington 2 (King, 2017)

 

I'll post my list eventually, and I don't want to shame anyone who has it on theirs list, but I re-watched Step Brothers for the first time since high school about a year ago and....it just isn't for me. It's definitely not among my favourite Ferrell films (I think my top one will probably surprise a few).

 

Rankings are all about how you feel in that individual moment you did the ranking and are subject to change as you get older so I really had no issues with just posting my gut feeling top 50 of this moment in time

 

Yeah, I tend to go with the "what would I rather watch/listen to at the moment of ranking" once I get past my concrete favorites. I'm more interested in seeing someone's favorite films than I am seeing 50 lists with the same movies being considered "the best"

 

I bias sorter-ed mine and theres a few that are definitely out of place. Gonna fix that at some point today.

 

1. Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993)
2. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
3. Drive (Refn, 2011)
4. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
5. Black Orpheus (Camus, 1959)
6. Breathless (Godard, 1960)
7. Gojira (Honda, 1954)
8. There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)
9. L’Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
10. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

11. Battle Royale (Fukasaku, 2000)
12. Suspiria (Argento, 1977)
13. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
14. Roman Holiday (Wyler, 1953)
15. Alien (Scott, 1979)
16. The Godfather Saga (Coppola, 1972-1974)
17. A Ghost Story (Lowery, 2017)
18. Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
19. Il Deserto Rosso (Antonioni, 1964)
20. The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)

21. Star Wars Trilogy (Lucas, Kershner, Marquand, 1977-1983)
22. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)
23. Vivre Sa Vie (Godard, 1962)
24. Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
25. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
26. Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
27. Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
28. Oldboy (Chan-wook, 2003)
29. Hausu (Obayashi, 1977)
30. The Man Who Fell to Earth (Roeg, 1976)

31. The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)
32. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
33. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, 1988)
34. Perfect Blue (Kon, 1997)
35. Wait Until Dark (Young, 1967)
36. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
37. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Leone, 1968)
38. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019)
39. Sorcerer (Friedkin, 1977)
40. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)

41. Ex Machina (Garland, 2015)
42. Thief (Mann, 1981)
43. Bride of Frankenstein (Whale, 1935)
44. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957)
45. Skyfall (Mendes, 2012)
46. Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki, 1966)
47. Dazed and Confused (Linklater, 1993)
48. Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003)
49. Another Round (Vinterberg, 2020)
50. Lady Snowblood (Fujita, 1973)

If I were forced to pick a single Godfather film, probably Part II. Return of the Jedi for Star Wars.

 

I might still edit my list, I generally went for films I think of as “great” over films I still think are great but are more personal. Which is not to say I don’t love every film I listed, but it does lean a bit film school.

I also kept forgetting to put films in the bias sorter. I was halfway through when I realized I forgot Tarantino or Wes Anderson completely. Then my final list I forgot Paul Thomas Anderson and who knows what else. 50 films is near impossible, I might do another revision.

 

Okay I re-did my list, let's see if I like this one more.

1. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941)
2. Solaris - Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)
3. The Godfather, Pt. II - Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
4. Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee (1989)
5. Black Narcissus - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (1947)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968)
7. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (1975)
8. The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick (2011)
9. La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini (1960)
10. On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954)

11. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu (1953)
12. A Brighter Summer Day - Edward Yang (1991)
13. Pather Pachali - Satyajit Ray (1955)
14. The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
15. The 400 Blows - Francois Truffaut (1959)
16. The Before Trilogy - Richard Linklater (1995, 2004, 2013)
17. The Master - Paul Thomas Anderson (2012)
18. Casablanca - Michael Curitz (1942)
19. Holiday - George Cukor (1938)
20. Within Our Gates - Oscar Micheaux (1920)

21. Beau Travail - Claire Denis (1999)
22. Mulholland Drive - David Lynch (2001)
23. The Last Temptation of Christ - Martin Scorsese (1986)
24. The Three Colours Trilogy - Krzysztof Kieslowski (1993, 1994, 1994)
25. Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
26. Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa (1950)
27. Singin' in the Rain - Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly (1952)
28. Cluny Brown - Ernst Lubitsch (1946)
29. The Wind That Shakes the Barley - Ken Loach (2006)
30. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman (1975)

31. Black Rain - Shohei Imamura (1989)
32. Holy Motors - Leos Carax (2012)
33. Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders (1984)
34. Killer of Sheep - Charles Burnett (1978)
35. Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino (2009)
36. The Searchers - John Ford (1956)
37. The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick (1998)
38. In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-wai (2000)
39. Margaret - Kenneth Lonergan (2011)
40. Brief Encounter - David Lean (1945)

41. Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kaufman (2008)
42. The Philadelphia Story - George Cukor (1940)
43. First Cow - Kelly Reichardt (2019)
44. Portrait of Jason - Shirley Clarke (1967)
45. Y tu mama también - Alfonso Cuaron (2001)
46. Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola (2003)
47. Magic Mike XXL - Gregory Jacobs (2015)
48. Yi Yi - Edward Yang (2000)
49. The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson (2001)
50. Spider-Man 2 - Sam Raimi (2004)

This edit led to some really great films dropping out of the list. Mizoguchi's 1953 fantastical ghost story Ugetsu is an all-time favorite from one of the greatest filmmakers to helm a camera. It's a Wonderful Life is Frank Capra's humanist masterpiece about how meaningful a single life can be. Dazed and Confused is close to Richard Linklater's best, a portrait of a place and time captured poignantly in the intersection of several stories of relatively low stakes, but still full of meaning. The Godfather has been written about enough but there are few films as singularly great, even if part 2 is even better. Fritz Lang is one of the best of his era, and it hurt to lose 1931's M, a foundational cinematic text. Apocalypse Now is one of the few war movies that manages to contradict Truffaut's famous quote about how you can't make a war movie without making it a pro-war movie, it is devastating and the build up of tension and violence and fury reaches a magnificent climax when Martin Sheen meets Marlon Brando's Colonel Kurtz. The Big Lebowski might be the greatest film the Coens have made even to this day, though I wouldn't argue if someone named a couple of their other best works. Each performance and moment is so specifically memorable and meaningful (or seemingly meaningless). Pulp Fiction is a monumental work from an elite American filmmaker, Tarantino's films sometimes feel like quintessential American cinema in how he's pulled from such a diverse array of U.S. and worldwide influence to create something still unlike anything seen before. Ikiru, Kurosawa's 1952 mediation on a man facing the end of his life, joins the masterpieces of Yasujiro Ozu as one of the defining films of Japan's Golden Age, examining the generational divide of the era and the meaning we find in our lives when we truly realize our mortality. There Will Be Blood is a contender for the greatest American film of its decade, and is one of the great American films of all-time, but when it came down to it, I'll admit I figured it'd get a lot of votes from other people and I decided to include a film that I didn't think would be on as many lists, which is maybe unfair or defeats the purpose of these lists but as titanic as the film is, I wanted to represent something else. I think the rest of the list is the same, in a slightly different order (also: bummed I couldn't find room for James Cameron's Titanic).

Those films unfortunately dropping off the list led to nine that replaced them. Sam Raimi's 2004 Spider-Man sequel, Spider-Man 2, made the biggest jump from it's ranking from the bias sorter to where I decided to place it (roughly the mid 80s up to 50). Superhero cinema has changed so drastically since 2004 when I was a twelve year old actively reading comic books. It is the best live action superhero adaptation, and no live action superhero film since has been able to perfectly balance the unique visual style a comic book adaptation demands with a resonant story that still maintains a narrative of human struggle throughout (Black Panther and Logan probably come closest in the following years).

Y tu mama tambien is Alfonso Cuaron's 2001 complex coming of age story that masterfully weaves a sexual teenage road trip with an urgent and foreboding scenic backdrop. It's my personal favorite Cuaron, someone whose work I consistently find value in.

The screwball comedy of Hollywood's Golden Age is one of my favorite comfort genres, and George Cukor's The Philadelphia Story perfectly pairs Cary Grant across from James Stewart as they fight for the affection of Katherine Hepburn, sending up high society in a way the Hollywood studios used to be so great at.

It's possible that Kenneth Lonergan's third film was better than Margaret, his second, but I find the ambitious scope of Margaret just slightly more resonant than the more insular Manchester by the Sea, though both are exquisite. The opera scene at the end is such a beautiful and heartbreaking catharsis.

John Ford's The Searchers revolutionized cinema, the way the deeply vibrant colors inform every single second of the runtime is a perfect marriage of cinematography and theme, and it's no wonder that Scorsese saw the complex story being told, where John Wayne's character is as monstrous as Wayne was in his personal life, and has been making films about monstrous protagonists that represent the deepest depths of America's ugliness ever since.

Another example of The Searchers' influence joined my list in Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas, and only wasn't in the original because it was one of many I forgot to include in the bias sorter.

A film that wasn't included in the original list because I clicked wrong when doing the original bias sorter is Synecdoche, New York. Charlie Kaufman was probably my single favorite writer in any medium when I entered college, and while I would no longer say that's true, his voice is a gift to the medium. It's hard to imagine him topping the sprawling scope of this film and how it was able to be simultaneously so vast and intimate, but I haven't seen I'm Thinking of Ending Things (which, as I tried to remember the exact title of, I almost typed as "I don't even want to be around anymore", has anyone done that ITYSL mash-up/joke yet).

Holy Motors was another film not included in the initial pool of films I pulled from because I'm an idiot and didn't have it or any of Carax's work included (Mauvais Sang is a rough one to leave off). I was fortunate enough to see it at the Main Art Theater a couple years ago (Rest In Peace to one of the best theaters in the Detroit area), and while I already adored the film, the musical sequence in a theater setting was absolutely stunning.

Lastly, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce literally changed what I thought was possible within the confines of cinema. Chantal Akerman's work is essential and her influence reaches into every filmmaker, seeing her work projected on film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival is a highlight in my theatergoing life. I can't urge anyone with even the slightest interest in cinema as art to explore her work.

I've written a shit-ton already but I took today off anyway so I think I'll quickly try and spotlight five films from my new 50, which I think will be my canon list. I don't want to edit anymore. I'll take one each from the top 10, then one from the next 10, and so on.

5. Black Narcissus - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (1947)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger are cinema 101. Each film I've seen from them as a duo is a masterpiece. My favorite has always been Black Narcissus, the visual spectacle is astounding, it's truly hard to fathom the quality of work that went into the set design and cinematography. Deborah Kerr's performance is one of the great screen performances by anyone in film history.

20. Within Our Gates - Oscar Micheaux (1920)
Cinema's silent era is full of legendary masters defining the what the medium would be to this day, but in terms of technical accomplishment combined with thematic resonance, Oscar Micheaux was probably the greatest master of his era, even despite the reputations of contemporaries like D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin. Given the exorbitant cost of producing a movie, it's incredible what Micheaux was able to accomplish independently, working outside of Hollywood. He produced his films largely in Chicago, and his second feature, Within Our Gates, was made following the Chicago riots of 1919 and in the wake of Griffith's The Birth of a Nation being lauded as a revolution in cinema, despite how deeply racist the film is. Griffith's film did change everything for cinema, but Micheaux was able to take those cutting edge cinematic techniques and create a film directly about the racism of the United States, following the story of Sylvia, a biracial woman portrayed by Evelyn Preer, and her journey as she faces deeply entrenched systemic racism across the northern and southern United States.

23. The Last Temptation of Christ - Martin Scorsese (1986)
It was hard to decide between this and Cluny Brown to expound upon more, but I've already focused on a couple older films so I would like to touch on Scorsese, potentially the greatest modern filmmaker currently working. It is tragic that religious zealots were so infuriated by The Last Temptation of Christ that a Catholic group attempted to burn down a theater while the movie was playing, because to recognize the human struggle of Christ is a profound understanding of what the story truly means. Scorsese's crime films get plenty of attention, and rightfully so, but the extent of Scorsese's talents is so vast that his list of masterpieces is diverse, and he can craft some of the most unbelievably rich endings I've ever seen. Whether it's Goodfellas and it's unforgettable final line, or The Wolf of Wall Street forcing us to face ourselves, or The Irishman where De Niro requests the door be left ajar, or The Age of Innocence as Daniel Day-Lewis' Newland Archer turns from us and walks away from what we know he's always wanted, Scorsese knows well that the moments just before the credits roll have tremendous power. But still, nothing touches the divine magic of The Last Temptation of Christ and its final frames, a moment so unbelievably beautiful and cinematic that it could have only come from working on film, and having to adapt to the chaos of filmmaking.

31. Black Rain - Shohei Imamura (1989)
Imamura's body of work is one of the best of Japan's New Wave, and Black Rain is my personal favorite that I've seen. For many, the bombing of Hiroshima is a historical footnote, and for the more monstrous, it's seen as a a justified act of war. Imamura drains the color out of the lives of the survivors he follows, shooting in black and white as he explores the internalization of a traumatic war crime inflicted on an entire nation. Many of my favorite films are near-silent, and many filmmakers I adore, from Ozu to Costa to Reichardt, know extremely well how impactful a near-silent film can be. But Black Rain is maybe where that silence says the most.

47. Magic Mike XXL - Gregory Jacobs (2015)
The first Magic Mike film is an upper-tier entry in the diverse and sometimes experimental filmography of Steven Soderbergh, whose interest in playing against expectations can sometimes miss but is often at the very least a thoughtful experience. He gave the directorial reigns to Gregory Jacobs for the sequel, as the film was made during Soderbergh's "retirement" from feature filmmaking. Soderbergh's retirement began in 2013 and led to his fantastic miniseries The Knick, as well as some theater work and editing experiments before coming out of retirement with 2017's Logan Lucky, and in that span he worked as the cinematographer and editor on Magic Mike XXL, roles he often takes in his directorial features. All that said not to discredit Jacobs, especially since XXL is a significant shift in form and tone, but to affirm the incredible talents and career of Soderbergh, and how it lined up magically with Channing Tatum's loose adaptation of his real-life experiences as a stripper in Florida. Tatum is probably my favorite American movie star currently working. So many actors take from the James Dean/Marlon Brando method, and rely heavily on their eyes and moody glances, but often it can feel like an affectation, rather than a cinematic performance. Tatum's background as a stripper and self-taught dancer gives him an incredible sense of physicality in all aspects of his performances, reminiscent of Cary Grant's vaudeville background. Throughout the film, you see the life breathed back into Mike as he is reinvigorated by the journey he and his friends embark on, deconstructing and discarding the expected masculine sexuality that's expected of them in order to embrace their authentic selves. It's a film about defining masculinity for oneself, and the necessary casting off of the ways in which masculinity is limiting, and it's also a film about the artistic process, about putting yourself into your craft and finding meaning in creative expression. It's one of my favorite films ever made.

After writing all that I feel good about the list and I won't edit it further. Consider it my official entry.

 

My list has Rush Hour.

 

I’m probably not gonna post my list until probably the last day I’m allowed, but two or three things I know about it:

- Tree of Life is going to be in the #1 spot.

- At least five of the films will be based on characters from Marvel comics, but no more than one will be from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

 

i need to watch more Tarkovsky. both stalker and solaris are top 50 for me.

 

Those are his most accessible films (other than Ivan's Childhood which no one ever talks about), so be prepared.

 

Anyone got a lead on where I can watch Gummo? Been on my list for a long time, but it doesn't seem to be streaming (or available for rent/digital purchase) anywhere.

edit: looks like someone uploaded it to Vimeo:

 

I don't hate the results of the bias sorter tbh

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
2. Jennifer's Body (2009, Karyn Kusama)
3. Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
4. Punch Drunk Love (2002, PTA)
5. Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)
6. Son-In-Law (1993, Steve Rash)
7. Scream (1996, Wes Craven)
8. Billy Madison (1995, Tamra Davis)
9. Inside Out (2015, Pete Docter
10. Small Soldiers (1998, Joe Dante)

11. Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, Henry Selick)
12. Scooby Doo (2002, Raja Gosnell)
13. Bride of Chucky (1998, Ronny Yu)
14. They Live (1988, John Carpenter)
15. You're Next (2011, Adam Wingard)
16. Nation Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989, Jeremiah S. Chechik)
17. Mean Girls (2004, Mark Waters)
18. Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives
19. Halloween (1978, John Carpenter)
20. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, Jim Sharman)

21. Her (2013, Spike Jonze)
22. Midsommar (2019, Ari Aster)
23. Paris is Burning (1990, Jennie Livingston)
24. House of 1000 Corpses (2003, Rob Zombie)
25. Step Brothers (2008, Adam McKay)
26. Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
27. The Strangers (2008, Bryan Bertino)
28. Garden State (2004, Zach Braff)
29. Tangerine (2015, Sean Baker)
30. The Truman Show (1998, Pete Wier)

31. Scott Pilgrim (2010, Edgar Wright)
32. Sleepaway Camp (1983, Robert Hiltzik)
33. House on Haunted Hill (1959, William Castle)
34. A Star is Born (2018, Bradley Cooper)
35. The Terminator (1984, James Cameron)
36. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
37. Paddington 2 (2017, Paul King)
38. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999, Jamie Babbit)
39. Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
40. Toy Story 3 (2010, Lee Unkrich)

41. Bound (1996, Lilly and Lana Wachowski)
42. Green Room (2015, Jeremy Saulnier)
43. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982, Tommy Lee Wallace)
44. Spring Breakers (2012, Harmony Korine)
45. Party Monster (2003, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato)
46. Pink Flamingos (1972, John Waters)
47. Princess Mononoke (1997, Hayao Miyazaki)
48. The Birdcage (1996, Mike Nichols)
49. Robocop (1987, Paul Verhoeven)
50. Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma)

 

what's the bias sorter all i'm getting is kpop

 

bias sorter

create a pool of whatever you want, then it has you pick between all your entries one by one until you have a ranking

 

Ohhhh I totally misinterpreted what that was, I hit Premade in the menu and it brought up Boy Group and Girl Group ahaha

 

I'm thinking of making another list excluding everything from the past ten years, it'll have movies that aren't as important to me now (less representation) but that I still consider very good. Heck, maybe I can combine the two lists in the end.

edit: here it is. Top 50, up to 2010, limit one film per director.

2046 - Wong Kar-Wai - 2005
10 Things I Hate About You - Gil Junger - 1999
Amelie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 2001
Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze - 1999
Big Fish - Tim Burton - 2003
Black Swan - Darren Aronofsky - 2010
Bound - Wachowskis - 1996
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee - 2000
Dancer in the Dark - Lars von Trier - 2000
District 9 - Niel Blomkamp - 2009
Easy A - Will Gluck - 2010
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry - 2004
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson - 2009
Fargo - Coens - 1996
Gangs of New York - Martin Scorsese - 2002
Greenberg - Noah Baumbach - 2010
Hancock - Peter Berg - 2008
Hero - Yimou Zhang - 2002
In Bruges - Martin McDonagh - 2008
Jennifer's Body - Kathryn Kusama - 2009
Jerry Maguire - Cameron Crowe - 1996
Kill Bill 1-2 - Quentin Tarantino - 2003
Kung Fu Hustle - Stephen Chow - 2004
Lilo and Stitch - Chris Sanders, et al. - 2002
Marie Antoinette - Sofia Coppola - 2006
Mean Girls - Mark Waters - 2004
Millennium Actress - Satoshi Kon - 2001
Mulan - Tony Bancroft, et al. - 1998
Paprika - Satoshi Kon - 2006
Pleasantville - Gary Ross - 1998
Saving Private Ryan - Steven Spielberg - 1998
Scott Pilgrim - Edgar Wright - 2010
Secretary - Steven Shainberg - 2002
Seven Pounds - Gabriele Muccino - 2008
Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki - 2001
Stranger than Fiction - Marc Forster - 2006
Synecdoche, New York - Charlie Kaufman - 2008
Tangled - Nathan Greno, et al. - 2010
The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan - 2008
The Incredibles - Brad Bird - 2004
The Lion King - Roger Allers, et al. - 1994
The Lord of the Rings trilogy - Peter Jackson - 2001
The Princess Bride - Rob Reiner - 1987
The Social Network - David Fincher - 2010
The Truman Show - Peter Weir - 1998
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson - 2007
Up in the Air - Jason Reitman - 2009
Wall-E - Andrew Stanton - 2008
Zombieland - Ruben Fleischer - 2009
Zoolander - Ben Stiller - 2001

a lot of these still probably won't make my final list, this is just an experiment to see how my tastes have changed.

 

1. Mullholand Drive
2. Buffalo 66
3. Black Dynamite
4. Possession
5. No Country For Old Men
6. Wake In Fright
7. Synecdoche, New York
8. Thunder Road
9. What We Do in the Shadows
10. The Act of Killing
11. Stalker
12. MacGruber
13. Gummo
14. Edge of Tomorrow
15. Embrace The Serpent
16. Dogville
17. Persona
18. Drive
19. The Sacrifice
20. Fire Walk With Me
21. Vampires Kiss
22. There Will Be Blood
23. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
24. Repulsion
25. Picnic at hanging rock
26. Talk to Her
27. Dogtooth
28. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
29. Apocalypto
30. I'm Not There
31. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
32. Nacho Libre
33. The Darjeeling Limited
34. Mad Max
35. Lost Highway
36. Manchester by the Sea
37. Before Sunset
38. Frances Ha
39. At Eternity's Gate
40. Force Majure
41. The Conversation
42. The King of Comedy
43. Upstream Color
44. Elephant
45. Eyes Wide Shut
46. Secret Sunshine
47. Tropical Malady
48. A Man for All Seasons
49. Call Me By Your Name
50. Equus

 

I feel thoroughly embarrassed posting this after reading all the great lists here and realising how many iconic/classic/Great™ movies I have never seen, but whatever. here is my silly and dumb list of movies I enjoy the most

1. Barton Fink (Coen Bros., 1991)
2. Scream (Craven, 1996)
3. Stand by Me (Reiner, 1986)
4. Alien (Scott, 1979)
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright, 2010)
6. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Ramsey, Persichetti & Rothman, 2018)
7. The Thing (Carpenter, 1982)
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
9. Donnie Darko (Kelly, 2001)
10. Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017)
11. Knives Out (Johnson, 2019)
12. Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004)
13. Halloween (Carpenter, 1978)
14. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (Russell, 1987)
15. Miller's Crossing (Coen Bros., 1990)
16. Parasite (Joon-ho, 2019)
17. Unbreakable (Shyamalan, 2000)
18. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
19. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Bros., 2013)
20. Resolution (Benson & Moorhead, 2012)
21. Anomalisa (Kaufman, 2015)
22. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven, 1984)
23. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, 1992)
24. Coherence (Byrkit, 2015)
25. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
26. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coen Bros., 2000)
27. Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
28. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Jackson, 2002)
29. Another Round (Vinterberg, 2020)
30. Suspiria (Guadagnino, 2018)
31. Don't Look Now (Roeg, 1973)
32. Signs (Shyamalan, 2002)
33. Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008)
34. The Big Lebowski (Coen Bros., 1998)
35. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
36. Die Hard (McTiernan, 1988)
37. True Romance (Scott, 1993)
38. Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989)
39. The Matrix (The Wachowskis, 2001)
40. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)
41. The VVitch (Eggers, 2015)
42. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Anderson, 2004)
43. Aliens (Cameron, 1986)
44. Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002)
45. 25th Hour (Lee, 2002)
46. Goodfellas (Scorsese, 1990)
47. In Bruges (McDonagh, 2008)
48. Evil Dead II (Raimi, 1987)
49. The Master (Anderson, 2012)
50. Arrival (Villeneuve, 2016)

(edited because i forgot Arrival god fucking dammit)

 

Idk man, looks like a pretty great list to me. Lots of fantastic films there. Having a lot of classics left to see is a positive too really because you get to watch them all for the first time, haha.