Top 10 movies with fewer than 500 votes on IMDb

[Melville]

I'll be counting down my list, but others feel free to post theirs too. The true experts in obscurities, the Boners, the Brightsides, and the Russes, can go for movies with fewer than, say, 50 or 100 votes—just to keep things interesting.


10. Boxer from Shantung (Cheh Chang and Hsueh Li Pao, 1972)
Number of IMDb votes: 400

Epic final fight scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXBzGr4PgRM

Review I wrote on Match Cut a few years ago: Easily the best old-school kung-fu movie I've seen. Never mind that I've only seen about three of them. The story is pretty rote rise-and-fall gangster stuff (with the twist that the protagonist remains relatively noble throughout—'70s Chinese filmmakers seem to have a thing for upholding social values or something). But the familiar story is extremely well told. The film makes great use of multiple visual planes to create a sense of immersion and dynamism. It's got a lot of great, jazzy handheld camerawork. It uses its super-slick music very sparingly and effectively. And it's propelled into greatness with its truly awesome, 20-minute-long, brutal climactic fight in which the hero smashes people through banisters and pillars and hacks at them with an axe that he dislodged from his own gut! The camerawork is especially good in those last minutes, with a dynamism that expertly captures the force of the characters' motion. The movie also makes cigarette holders into pure symbols of kung-fu-fighting-ganster-cool.



9. The Old Man of the Mountain (Dave Fleischer, 1933)
Number of IMDb votes: 209

The whole thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJkxNa6v14

Nothing is quite like the jazzy, unmoored energy of old Fleischer cartoons. They're free of gravity and sense in the best way.



8. News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)
Number of IMDb votes: 281

The ending:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTTdj6KnjYc


Shots of New York with Akerman reading letters from her mother. A mesmerizing meditation on the passage of time and the meaning of a place. I preferred it to Jeanne Dielman.

[Watashi]

I don't think I've seen a film with less than a 1,000 votes.

[Melville]

I don't think I've seen a film with less than a 1,000 votes.
There are a lot of great animated shorts to be seen. Have you seen Crac (from the same director as The Man Who Planted Trees)? It's beautiful.

[Melville]

7. Report (Bruce Conner, 1967)
Number of IMDb votes: 369

I couldn't find a clip.

A review I wrote a few years ago on Match Cut:I’m very interested in how a particular event in one’s life can become a kind of core, around which everything else revolves. One experiences life in terms of that event; it lingers, sometimes underneath, sometimes atop each subsequent moment, perpetually coloring all of one’s thoughts and feelings.

Report isn’t quite about that, but it is a sort of filmic analogue of it. The central event, in this case, is the assassination of JFK. Video footage of JFK in his car is shown…then the screen collapses through a sequence of glitches into abstract flickers and finally pure blackness. Over everything, audio recordings detail the event. It’s built up as something dreadful and momentous. More video footage of JFK in his car is shown…again and again, as if time is out of joint, as if this moment weighs down on all others, inescapably. We see a countdown, the kind that precedes the beginning of a film, but it just repeats, never reaching its endpoint. A flurry of footage follows: a bullfight, parades and war scenes, buildings and flags, advertisements, Frankenstein, mushroom clouds and the statue of liberty, a lightbulb bursting in slow motion and a boy falling out of a pool. All these entirely dissimilar scenes, images of Americana, images of film, images of alternative flows of time, are entangled with the assassination, ineluctably colored by it. Everything is viewed in terms of that one event. It claws everything toward itself, and it won’t let go.




6. Oh Dem Watermelons (Robert Nelson, 1965)
Number of IMDb votes: 112

The whole thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvs0-nPNha8


Review I wrote a few years ago on Match Cut:I’m pretty sure this movie is a masterpiece. It begins with a still shot of a watermelon on a patch of grass. The edges of the film are blurred like in those old-timey daguerreotype photos (as in The Assassination of Jesse James). There’s an old-timey song playing, in which a slave laments the death of his master, playing on the watermelon’s traditional role as a signifier of black people and good old-timey southern slavery.

Then everything starts disintegrating. There’s a flurry of scenes showing the watermelon in a variety of bizarre situations: it chases people down a street, falls out of a rocket, is sliced open and has animal organs pulled out of it, makes love to a woman (or vice versa), and is destroyed in any number of ways. This mirthful deconstruction of the watermelon’s traditional signification is accompanied by an analogous change in style. The old-timey music transitions into a droning, repetitious pattern of tones (composed by Steve Reich), and the editing and cinematography become almost frantic. Near the end, there’s a sequence of shots where the camera whips around so rapidly that the images are dissolved into abstractions reminiscent of Man Ray’s rayographs in Emak-Bakia. Then there’s a sequence of edits so rapid that it bests Eisenstein’s most audacious montages. I think I saw a crucifix in there somewhere, but it might have been a telephone poll.

Amazing stuff. The playing with symbols, as well as the use of music to keep things lively, reminded me somewhat of Scorpio Rising, which is one of my favorites.



5. The Forsaken Land (Vimukthi Jayasundara, 2005)
Number of IMDb votes: 237

Short clip:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbumsq_the-forsaken-land-2005-2_shortfilms#.UTPEZ9E7spg


Review I wrote a few years ago on Match Cut:Set in the midst of Sri Lanka’s endless civil war, the film construes this endless state of war as an existential malaise par excellence. The protagonist is awakened in the middle of the night and instructed to bludgeon to death a man whose face is never shown. The one character that seems to maintain a quiet Sisyphean struggle against the absurd for most of the film ends her own life somewhere just over the upper edge of the frame. With almost no dialogue, long, distancing shots, and a recurring motif of a tank moving through a mist-shrouded field, its gun swivelling about to aim at nothing, the narrative’s disjointed absurdities are presented in a mood of static despair. If human experience is a movement—and it is—Jayasundara presents us with a state of living in which that movement is from nowhere and toward nothing. The past and future are dissolved; the war and the characters’ lives within it are a single monotony forever returning to itself, with no origin, history, or goals. Bereft of any historicity, the characters drift in a state of emptiness; without the meaningful context of past and future, they are alienated from their present, only marginally engaged with their own lives, continuing forward simply out of habit.

[Melville]

4. The Cow (Aleksandr Petrov, 1990)
Number of IMDb votes: 360

The movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWGPK5Apv5A

Humanism as only the Russians do it. It enfolds so much of life in a few beautifully animated minutes.



3. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold, 1998)
Number of IMDb votes: 287

The movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgqH3PK6-3Q

The best thing about avant garde films is their willingness to use the raw form to twist time and/or space, highlighting core features of that most foundational perceptual framework. Arnold's movie carves out moments from time, shows them to us from radically new angles, and crafts new meanings from them.



2. Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr, 1970)
Number of IMDb votes: 200

The movie:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xei7ew_serene-velocity-1970_shortfilms#.UTPGBtE7spg

Review written on Match Cut a few years ago:
One of the things I love about 2001: A Space Odyssey, perhaps my favorite movie, is the way its ending uses film to show the evolution of humanity beyond the confines of our everyday understanding of space and time. Serene Velocity basically refines that idea to its essence. It shows us a well-defined space, a hallway, that it then completely breaks apart simply by cutting between different shots, and our whole feeling of space is broken apart at the same time. It’s mesmerizing and overwhelming.

Our usual notions of space and time are based on our view of them (our visual field) from a single position and with a smooth movement forward in time. Even when we think of an “objective� viewpoint, it tends to be conflated with what we would see if we just stood there looking at something. And when we think of space and time from a scientific or mathematical perspective, it tends to be as a rigid structure through which things move. By alternating between the different shots, the film breaks down all these notions by not allowing us to see the hallway from the position of an idealized spectator, and it simultaneously makes the hallway into a fluid rather than rigid space. Also, I think the length of the film is essential, since the film’s rhythm, particularly of its variations in lighting, serves to explore the moods of the space.

It’s also something of an attack on what I think are some basic misinterpretations of cinema: the notion that film simply records “reality�, and the opposite notion that film simply presents illusions, fabricated images that are pointedly unreal. The broken up hallway is clearly not simply a recording of the outside “external reality� of anything; it is an exploration of entirely different dimensions of that “outside� which we are in and which we experience. At the same time, it is not presented as a “pure image�, as a symbol or illusion; it is presented as as an exploration of the actual reality of the space, the limits and extensions of it—not in its empirical, “objective� dimensions, but in its dimensions of feeling and perception. Or as Gehr said it,

In representational films sometimes the image affirms its own presence as image, graphic entity, but most often it serves as vehicle to a photo-recorded event. Traditional and established avant garde film teaches film to be an image, a representing. But film is a real thing and as a real thing it is not imitation. It does not reflect on life, it embodies the life of the mind. It is not a vehicle for ideas or portrayals of emotion outside of its own existence as emoted idea. Film is a variable intensity of light, an internal balance of time, a movement within a given space.

[B-side]

Excellent. I'll be sure to contribute soon.

[Boner M]

The true experts in obscurities, the Boners
Obscuring a boner is indeed an expert's practice.

Agreed re: News From Home > Jeanne Dielman

[number8]

Fun idea.

I started thinking of what movies I like would fit the criteria, and the first one I searched has 508 votes. :|

[Raiders]

This seems very difficult to pull off. The imdb advanced search for all feature film titles with say, 200 - 500 votes, returns over 10,000 hits. The alternative is to go through my own list of all films seen (which is out of date anyway) and look up the films that may have that few of votes.

How did you accomplish this, Melville?

[Melville]

This seems very difficult to pull off. The imdb advanced search for all feature film titles with say, 200 - 500 votes, returns over 10,000 hits. The alternative is to go through my own list of all films seen (which is out of date anyway) and look up the films that may have that few of votes.

How did you accomplish this, Melville?
I use IMDb to maintain a list of every movie I've seen, which means all I had to do was tell IMDb to order the list by number of votes. For people who don't rate movies on IMDb...well, I hadn't put much thought into it. I imagined it would be pretty easy to just think of some of favorite obscure movies and check which of them have fewer than 500 votes. If anyone wants to make a list of favorite obscurities, without any particular vote cutoff, or with a cutoff of 1000 or something, that's ok by me.

[Mysterious Dude]

Utamaro and His Five Women (1946, Kenji Mizoguchi)

http://www.news.wisc.edu/story_images/0000/0253/UTAMARO-BOOK-SCAN.jpg

461 votes.

[Melville]

1. The Devil (Andrzej Zulawski, 1972)
Number of IMDb votes: 433

The whole movie, but it loses a lot in the low-quality format:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0_O0-THe7U

Very slightly rewritten review from a few years ago:
An awe-inspiring depiction of a world gone mad, where, as one character says, "everyone can do everything," depravity reigns, and the one good and beautiful man is hounded by an impish fiend who propels him to murder and betrayal. "Everyone can do anything" immediately brings to mind a line from Dostoevsky: "Everything is permitted." And the characters, too, operate in the mode of Dostoevsky's—also Hamsun's, Strindberg's, and Kafka's—at feverish pitches of emotion and wild temperament. The camera follows suit—indeed, it follows the characters' every move, tumbling after and about them as if seized by frenzy.

It's an indictment of corrupt government, a primal study of humanity in its dark moments, and a stunning cinematic achievement. Zulawski is my new cinema god. [Note: His godlike stature dwindled a bit after I saw more of his movies. Still awesome, though.]

[Mysterious Dude]

I use IMDb to maintain a list of every movie I've seen, which means all I had to do was tell IMDb to order the list by number of votes.
Man, I've rated a lot of Felix the Cat cartoons.

[Melville]

Man, I've rated a lot of Felix the Cat cartoons.
:lol: Yeah, I found a lot of Looney Tunes cartoons among the things I rated with fewer than 500 votes.

[Winston*]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gi7fwFhNVSI/Tu6R7gicNjI/AAAAAAAABmg/zpUL-qOEMkQ/s1600/00128906.jpeg

38 votes.

[Melville]

Never heard of L'enclos. Looks good.

[Spinal]

1. The Devil (Andrzej Zulawski, 1972)
Number of IMDb votes: 433


Hey, I've actually seen that! It was pretty good.

[Raiders]

Because I was bored and am lame, I spent my lunch going through the more obscure titles (feature films) I have seen and just put this together quickly (excluding films from 2000 onward):

1. The Kidnapping (Kiransoff, 1934)
2. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Mekas, 1972)
3. The Last Bolshevik (Marker, 1992)
4. Crime Wave (Paisz, 1985)
5. None Shall Escape (De Toth, 1944)
6. Citizen’s Band (Demme, 1977)
7. Chameleon Street (Harris, 1989)
8. La nuit du carrefour (Renoir, 1932)
9. A Grin Without a Cat (Marker, 1977)
10. The Very Eye of Night (Deren, 1958)

[number8]

Hey I found three!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227408/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092273/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287649/

[Ivan Drago]

3. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold, 1998)
Number of IMDb votes: 287


Fuck yeah.

[Winston*]

Never heard of L'enclos. Looks good.

The opening scene is incredible. For more obscure Holocaust goodness: the bizarrely unseen The Last Stage (Jakubowska ,1947) - 66 votes . Made by survivors and actually shot in Auschwitz. A big influence on Spielberg for Schindler's List. Shots from it have been reused in Night and Fog and The Diary of Anne Frank.

http://venusfebriculosa.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ostatni-etap.jpg

[Yxklyx]

They must have reset the votes at some point because I can't believe The Love of Jeanne Ney has only 274 votes. Here come the Mumblecore I think...

[elixir]

≤100 votes.

Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights... (Philippe Garrel, 1985) [94 votes]
Another Girl Another Planet (Michael Almereyda, 1992) [61 votes]
Manoel on the Island of Marvels (Raúl Ruiz, 1984) [54 votes]
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie (Jang Sun-Woo, 1997) [100 votes]
Une aventure de Billy le Kid (Luc Moullet, 1971) [87 votes]
Correspondencia: Jonas Mekas - J.L. GuerÃ*n (Jonas Mekas & J.L. GuerÃ*n, 2011) [26 votes]
Places in Cities (Angela Schanelec, 1998) [37 votes]
Landscape Suicide (James Benning, 1986) [57 votes]
A Zona (Sandro Aguilar, 2008) [68 votes]
Ah, Liberty! (Ben Rivers, 2008) [18 votes]

[elixir]

Honestly, I started to do 200, but it just contained too many of my absolute favorites, which felt weird...I feel like imdb votes don't quite work in relation to the "true" popularity of lots of films...maybe cinephiles don't really use it that much (i.e. rate films)? Still a fun exercise.

[Russ]

Top 10 w/under 200 votes not yet mentioned..... * cough rapt cough *

Autumn Has Already Started (Mikio Naruse, 1960, 39 votes) - The hardships of being a kid with nobody around you giving fuck all. A virtuoso extended scene at an industrialized beach is one of the finest sequences Naruse ever shot.

Bandits of Orgosolo (Vittorio De Seta, 1961, 128 votes) - Come for the neo-realism, stay for the stunning cinematography of the Sardinian landscape in all its glory (on-location filming in the rugged mountainous terrain must have been an absolute nightmare).

Crainquebille (Jacques Feyder, 1922, 184 votes) - I want one of those time machines so I can live in Paris, circa 1922. Just as an observer though, as the social injustices were just as bad, if not worse, back then.

A Legend Or Was It (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1963, 31 votes) - Post war-Japan tale as filtered through a John Ford western. As breathtaking as it sounds. And best of all? IT'S ON HULU.

Star Spangled To Death (Ken Jacobs, 1957-2004, 73 votes) - Harsh, all-encompassing look at the only parts of the USA that matter - which is every goddamn thing that Jacobs could lay his hands on. Found cultural detritrus along with filmed underground bits illustrate all the history of our country that it doesn't want you to see. And in just under 7 hours, too!

Stars (Konrad Wolf, 1959, 121 votes) - This is a great film that I'll be championing for quite some time: an East German/Bulgarian co-production that valiantly presents a humanized portrait of wartime relationships juxtaposed against the backdrop of Auschwitz-themed wartime atrocities. A compassionate look at the sympathizers (of all nationalities) involved in German occupied Bulgaria as Jews are being held for tansportation to Poland. A suppressed romance between a sensitive German corporal (Jürgen Frohriep) and a brave Jewish prisoner (terrific performance by Sasha Krusharska) is at the center of this devastating account of inhuman injustice. The evolution of Frohriep's character from indifferent participant to sympathetic confidant to willing conspirator is both courageous and remarkable.

The Scenic Route (Mark Rappaport, 1978, 77 votes) - Delightful smorgasbord of classical arts presented as backdrop tapestry for an unusual love triangle involving two sisters and the man of their affections.

Untamed Woman (Mikio Naruse, 1957, 51 votes) - See Hideko Takamine bitchslap a couple of lesser opponents in a knock-down drag-out portrait of non-restraint (and she's not too pleased with her husband, either).

Opfergang (Veit Harlan, 1944, 166 votes) - Ah, German propaganda, how do I love thee? Well, if you had kept making spectacular Sirkian-before-there-was-such-a-thing fatalistic romances, you would have had me at Heil!.

Rotation (Wolfgang Staudte, 1949, 190 votes) - And, speaking of those evil Nazis, I haven't seen a better portrayal of the damage done to their own citizens than this devastating look at the tightrope that people with a moral compass had to walk -- along with the impact of some unexpected factors. One of the best unknown anti-war films you could hope to find.


Hard to narrow it down to just 10.

[Yxklyx]

- 9/10
1. The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927) - Georg Wilhelm Pabst
2. A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984) - Krzysztof Zanussi
3. The Well (1951) - Leo C. Popkin & Russell Rouse
4. The Tempest (1979) - Derek Jarman
5. Fanny Hawthorne (1927) - Maurice Elvey

Some good ones in no particular order...

- Mumblecore
Beeswax
Go Get Some Rosemary
Frownland

- Older English Language
Payday
Bone
J.W. Coop
Newsfront

- Even Older English Language
The Man Who Changed His Mind
On Approval

- Newer English Language
The American Son
Time Indefinite

- Foreign Language
Manji
Giants and Toys
Jana Aranya
Who's Camus Anyway

Excluded Silent Films except for those I rated 9/10 and these are all "Feature" length films.

[Russ]

≤100 votes.

I'm waiting for Brightside's Top 10 ≤ 5 votes

Don't think he can't do it. :)

[Dukefrukem]

I found one with 525 votes. That's the lowest I can go.

[Winston*]

< 40 Votes

Someone Call Matilda
Grey Rocks in the Sawdust
My House is on Fire. There is no House
Henry IX
The Egg
A Thousand Typewriters
Movie
Ichi Ni San Shi Go Roku
Walnuts for Breakfast
Go fuck yourself, Portugal

[Spinal]

My House is on Fire. There is no House


:lol:

[B-side]

I'm waiting for Brightside's Top 10 ≤ 5 votes

Don't think he can't do it. :)

I doubt I could find one with under five votes. I do know a few that aren't even on IMDb, so I suppose that takes the "obscure" cake? :D

[elixir]

Adding movies to IMDB can definitely be a bother.

[B-side]

A few great films not yet mentioned with <100 votes:

Riddance (Márta Mészáros | 1973 | Hungary) [18 votes]
Imperative (Krzysztof Zanussi | 1982 | Poland) [55 votes]
The Gaze (Mani Kaul | 1991 | India) [15 votes]
Pomegranate and Cane (Saeed Ebrahimifar | 1989 | Iran) [31 votes]
A Wolf Teeth Necklace (Algimantas Puipa | 1997 | Lithuania) [88 votes]
Queen of Diamonds (Nina Menkes | 1991 | USA) [42 votes]
Sincerely, Joe P. Bear (Matt McCormick | 2000 | USA) [38 votes]
Dialogue (Zbynek Brynych, Jerzy Skolimowski, Peter Solan | 1968 | Czechoslovakia) [10 votes]
The Gift (Michelangelo Frammartino | 2003 | Italy) [92 votes]
Sunday at Six (Lucian Pintilie | 1965 | Romania) [89 votes]
Current (István Gaál | 1964 | Hungary) [93 votes]
Three Days and a Child (Uri Zohar | 1967 | Israel) [46 votes]
The 19th Century Georgian Chronicle (Aleqsandre Rekhviashvili | 1979 | Georgia/USSR) [26 votes]
Flight of the Bee (Jamshed Usmonov, Boung-hun Min | 1998 | Tajikistan/South Korea) (40 votes)

I had to stop. This was proving too time-consuming and addicting. :P

[Melville]

Opfergang (Veit Harlan, 1944, 166 votes) - Ah, German propaganda, how do I love thee? Well, if you had kept making spectacular Sirkian-before-there-was-such-a-thing fatalistic romances, you would have had me at Heil!.

Definitely want to see this now.


1. The Kidnapping (Kiransoff, 1934)
5. None Shall Escape (De Toth, 1944)
And these. And something by that Mekas fellow.


Honestly, I started to do 200, but it just contained too many of my absolute favorites, which felt weird...I feel like imdb votes don't quite work in relation to the "true" popularity of lots of films...maybe cinephiles don't really use it that much (i.e. rate films)? Still a fun exercise.
Nah, you're just watching a lot of damnably obscure movies. I'll have to look up everything you and Brightside listed; I haven't heard of a single one of them.

[elixir]

I guess I'm thinking of someone like Rivette, where so many of his films are under 500, but he's certainly a well-known figure...

[B-side]

I'll have to look up everything you and Brightside listed; I haven't heard of a single one of them.

I think you'd really dig Imperative, The Gaze, Pomegranate and Cane, A Wolf Teeth Necklace and Queen of Diamonds.

[Grouchy]

I found five:

Thy Neighbour's Wife / Poison - Softcore thriller with Kari Wuhrer. Unwatchable except for the money scene where she swims provocatively in a pool... Still, no nudity.

Satánico Pandemonium / La Sexorcista - A brilliant nunsploitation film about the Devil. The kind of thing that just isn't made with this perverse glee anymore.

Kirikou and the Wild Beasts - The sequel to Kirikou. I had the idea it was a bit more famous due to the success of the first one.

Too Late Blues - Early John Cassavettes film, pretty damn good.

Blowing Wild - Hollywood melodrama with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck directed by my fellow countryman Hugo Fregonese. This is a very good film in spite of the silly title, practically a hidden gem of the genre. I think I wrote a long review of it in a long forgotten thread about movies I owned in VHS.

[Spun Lepton]

Satánico Pandemonium / La Sexorcista - A brilliant nunsploitation film about the Devil. The kind of thing that just isn't made with this perverse glee anymore.

Sold.

[number8]

Wow, Satanico Pandemium has only 380 votes? That's really surprising.

I always assume that any movie that gets referenced in a Tarantino movie is eventually seen by many.

[Thirdmango]

This would probably be my number one since it only has 15 user votes and it was my favorite movie of 2010.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1727250/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

[Grouchy]

Wow, Satanico Pandemium has only 380 votes? That's really surprising.

I always assume that any movie that gets referenced in a Tarantino movie is eventually seen by many.
It's probably a reference that's missed by most.

[Grouchy]

Most Paul Naschy films, even the Valdemar werewolf saga, are under 500 votes and I've seen an unhealthy amount of those.

[transmogrifier]

Is this a good place to mention this one band I saw one time that was like 100 times better than Radiohead and you are all suckers for liking Radiohead when this one band I know is way better and no I'm not going to tell you their name because you wouldn't appreciate them?

[Boner M]

A few unmentioned narrative films:

Cold Water (Olivier Assayas, 1994) 485 votes
Eight Deadly Shots (Mikko Niskanen, 1972) 484 votes
Remember My Name (Alan Rudolph, 1978) 360 Votes
O Sangue (Pedro Costa, 1989) 315 votes
La Libertad (Lisandro Alonso, 2001) 298 Votes
Coeur fidèle (Jean Epstein, 1923) 283 Votes
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (Philippe Garrel, 1991) 210 votes
The Gravy Train (Jack Starrett, 1974) 183 Votes
Last Chants For a Slow Dance (Jon Jost, 1977) 157 Votes
Route One, USA (Robert Kramer, 1989) 119 Votes
A Little Stiff (Caveh Zahedi, 1991) 55 votes

Kinda crazy that the Assayas still has yet to break 500 votes.

[B-side]

Obviously I wholeheartedly support the Jost rec. I have the Niskanen on my hard drive. I believe I donated pretty heavily to the pot for that one.

[Li Lili]

La Libertad (Lisandro Alonso, 2001) 298 Votes

Ah I like very much his films.. La Libertad, Los Muertos, Fantasma - I haven't seen Liverpool.
I never vote on imdb.