A Top 10 Challenge

Here are the rules. You must create a list of your ten favorite films. However, none of the following films are eligible:

1) You may not use any films that were nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.

2) You may not use any films that were nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars.

3) You may not use any Palme d'Or nominees. (Nominees and winners in other categories are OK.)

4) You may not use any movie in the IMDb top 250.

5) You may not use any movie that has appeared on any of the following AFI lists:
100 Years ... 100 Movies
100 Years ... 100 Laughs
100 Years ... 100 Thrills
100 Years ... 100 Passions
Greatest Movie Musicals
100 Years ... 100 Cheers
100 Years ... 100 Movies - 10th Anniversary Edition
(Mentions on other lists ok.)

What's left?

I have a theory that what is left over will be revealing. We'll see if that turns out to be the case.

You evil bastard! :p

Frozen
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Independence Day
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Spider-Man 3
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(500) Days of Summer
I Am Legend
The Neon Demon
Sucker Punch

I think my list meets requirements.

Akira
The Ninth Configuration
Conan The Barbarian
Primer
The Ninth Gate
Bad Lieutenant
Akira Kurasawa's Dreams
Pi
Pistol Opera
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring

Bonus:
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Eyes Wide Shut
Brick
Lost Highway
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

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Great idea. Very evil. I've been thinking about my list for 10 minutes. Skitch's list inspired me and I think I have a way out of Spinal's trap!

One suggestion: Add BAFTA, Toronto, Venice, and Berlin to the restrictions otherwise the challenge will be a cakewalk for guys like baby_doll :D

I ended up with:

The Vanishing
A Zed and Two Noughts
The Holy Mountain
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Eraserhead
Winter Light
Brazil
Muriel's Wedding
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Ikiru

Not sure how some of these slipped by. Might have to refine the parameters. I like Irish's suggestions.

If you really want to be mean, you could exclude anything on the Library of Congress' National Film Registry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry

Although, that might make it too hard.

This is impossible.

1.The Killing 1956
2. Rope 1948
3. Akira 1988
4.The Devil’s Backbone 2001
5.Sabotage 1936
6.The Cabin in the Woods 2012
7.The Game 1997
8. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
9.The ’Burbs 1989
10.Upstream Color

This feels like homework.

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Originally Posted by Spinal

3) You may not use any Palme d'Or nominees. (Nominees and winners in other categories are OK.)

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I'm going to assume you mean Palme d'Or winners as there are no nominees; any film in competition is eligible for the top prize.

My picks:

• Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
• The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)
• Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1936)
• Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
• Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
• Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
• Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó, 1972)
• City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
• The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998)
• Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène, 2004)

It took me about two minutes to make this list.

There is no way for me to do this without going through all those lists, and that ain't happening. So here is a random Top 10 list of stuff that probably isn't on them, but who knows?

1. La Haine
2. A Midnight Clear
3. Les Miserables (1995)
4. Battle Royale
5. Oldboy
6. Smoke
7. 49th Parallel
8. The Emperor's New Groove
9. Lost Highway
10. Memento Mori

Take it up with IMDb. They refer to the films in competition as nominees.

Just American films:

• Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
• Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)
• Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
• Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
• Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
• One, Two, Three! (Billy Wilder, 1961)
• Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
• Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
• Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
• Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

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Originally Posted by baby doll

Just American films:

• Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
• Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)
• Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
• Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
• Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
• One, Two, Three! (Billy Wilder, 1961)
• Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
• Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
• Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
• Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

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Mulholland Dr. was in competition at Cannes.

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Originally Posted by Spinal

Take it up with IMDb. They refer to the films in competition as nominees.

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My original list, with Cannes competition films removed:

• Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
• The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)
• Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1936)
• Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
• Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
• Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
• Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton, 1970)
• City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
• The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf, 1998)
• Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène, 2004)

I've retained the Makhmalbaf and Sembène films as they were in Un Certain Regard rather than the main competition, and therefore not eligible for the Palme d'Or.

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Originally Posted by Spinal

Mulholland Dr. was in competition at Cannes.

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Revised:

• Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
• Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)
• Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
• Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
• Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
• One, Two, Three! (Billy Wilder, 1961)
• Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
• Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
• Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
• I'm Not There. (Todd Haynes, 2007)

Since 2010:

• Mysteries of Lisbon (Raùl Ruiz, 2010)
• Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont, 2011)
• Modest Reception (Mani Haghighi, 2012)
• Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
• Our Sunhi (Hong Sangsoo, 2013)
• Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund, 2014)
• The Forbidden Room (Evan Johnson/Guy Maddin, 2015)
• Hermia & Helena (MatÃ*as Piñeiro, 2016)
• The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz, 2016)
• Western (Valeska Griesbach, 2017)

1. My Darling Clementine
2. Two Lane Blacktop
3. Hard Boiled
4. The Naked Spur
5. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
6. Ghost in the Shell ('95)
7. The Big Clock
8. The Housemaid ('60)
9. Repo Man
10. The Last Unicorn

I had "Alphaville" on there but TIL it won Berlin. Anyway, thanks to Spinal. This was fun!

East Asian films:

• A Page of Madness (Kinugasa Teinosuke, 1926)
• Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Naruse Mikio, 1935)
• Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1936)
• Spring in a Small Town (Fu Mei, 1948)
• Early Summer (Ozu Yasujiro, 1951)
• Death by Hanging (Oshima Nagisa, 1968)
• Taipei Story (Edward Yang, 1985)
• Ruan Lingyu (Stanley Kwan, 1992)
• Platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000)
• Here, Then (Mao Mao, 2012)

New challenge (for baby doll only)

Make a top 10 list from films that meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Made over $100 million at the domestic box office
• Won a People's Choice or MTV Movie Award (any category)
• Appeared on Richard Roeper's top 10 list of the year's best films

LOL.

The Roeper thing is just cruel. :thumbsup:

1. Breathless (1960)
2. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
3. Napoleon (1927)
4. Badlands (1973)
5. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
6. Germany Year Zero (1948)
7. Testament (1983)
8. Children of Men (2006)
9. Satyricon (1969)
10. Broken Blossoms (1919)

I'm shocked that Breathless wasn't at Cannes. And that Children of Men isn't on the IMDB top 100.

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Originally Posted by Spinal

New challenge (for baby doll only)

Make a top 10 list from films that meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Appeared on Richard Roeper's top 10 list of the year's best films

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• Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
• Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, 2000)
• You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan, 2000)
• In the Bedroom (Todd Field, 2001)
• Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
• Shallow Hal (Bobby and Peter Farrelly, 2001)
• Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)
• 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
• Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)

I could cheat and list my top 10 Thai films without Joe films, but that’s no fun. Here are what I whittle down from my top 100:

1. Be With You (2004)
2. The Breakfast Club (1985)
3. Cloud Atlas (2012)
4. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
5. Contact (1997)
6. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
7. King Kong (2005)
8. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
9. Fan Chan (2003)
10. Eyes Without a Face (1960)