OK I start the thread. bootsy if you want to count and release the results I'm fine with that.
The rules:
You can post a list of anywhere between 1 and 20 films (or more, but only 20 will be counted) from the period we're covering. The deciding factor in terms of release dates is the RYM list and the top 20 of each period will go on to the final top 100. The deadline is September 30th.
However, these are the maximum amounts of points. If you want to put certain films on your list but don't want to give them too many points, you can choose to give these less points than in this scheme (but never more) to decrease the impact on the overall results. If you don't specifically state that you want to give (some of) your films fewer points, I will assume the standard scheme.
Here are some lists to remind you of the films released in 2013:
Question about Nymphomaniac. Is it one or two movies?
1. Betoniyö [Concrete Night]
2. Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan [Norte, the End of History]
3. Her
4. Återträffen [The Reunion]
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Before Midnight
7. Le passé [The Past]
8. Nymphomaniac: Volume I
9. La vie d'Adèle - chapitres 1 & 2 [Blue Is the Warmest Color]
10. Free Range - Ballaad maailma heakskiitmisest [Free Range - Ballad on Approving of the World]
11. Nymphomaniac: Volume II
12. Poziția copilului [Child's Pose]
13. The Wolf of Wall Street
14. Borgman
15. Stoker
16. Philomena
17. 風立ちぬ [The Wind Rises]
18. Under the Skin
19. Only Lovers Left Alive
20. Prisoners
21. La grande bellezza [The Great Beauty]
22. Nebraska
23. 12 Years a Slave
24. Gravity
25. Blackfish (Documentary)
26. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
27. Only God Forgives
28. かぐや姫の物語 [The Tale of the Princess Kaguya]
29. 뫼비우스 [Moebius]
30. Silmäterä [The Princess of Egypt]
31. 地獄でなぜ悪い [Why Don't You Play in Hell?]
32. Асланның сабақтары [Harmony Lessons]
33. Blue Jasmine
34. Mistaken for Strangers (Documentary)
35. Prince Avalanche
36. The Way Way Back
37. L' écume des jours [Mood Indigo]
38. A Story of Children and Film (Documentary)
39. A Field in England
40. Vi är bäst! [We Are the Best!]
41. Kerron sinulle kaiken [Open Up to Me]
42. Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?: An Animated Conversation with Noam Chomsky
43. Leijonasydän [Heart of a Lion]
44. Haze and Fog
45. The Bling Ring
46. そして泥船はゆく [And the Mud Ship Sails Away]
47. Rush
48. Snowpiercer
49. Dallas Buyers Club
50. American Hustle
51. Return to Homs (Documentary)
52. そして父になる [Like Father, Like Son]
53. Trance
54. Locke
55. Don Jon
56. Michael Kohlhaas [Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas]
57. 夢と狂気の王国 [The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness] (Documentary)
58. 天注定 [A Touch of Sin]
59. Kraftwerk - Pop Art (Documentary)
60. Hilton! (Documentary)
61. Alaska Highway [Alcan Highway] (Documentary)
62. The Class of '92 (Documentary)
63. Feuchtgebiete [Wetlands]
64. Oldboy
65. The Dyatlov Pass Incident [Devil's Pass]
66. Behind the Candelabra
67. Kaikella rakkaudella [Things We Do for Love]
68. 一代宗師 [The Grandmaster]
69. The Congress
70. Monsters University
71. Attila Marcel
72. 8-pallo [8-Ball]
73. 21 tapaa pilata avioliitto
74. Amazonia
75. Sel8nne (Documentary)
76. Muisteja (Documentary)
77. Frozen
78. Las brujas de Zugarramurdi [Witching and Bitching]
79. Kalervo Palsa ja kuriton käsi [The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand]
80. Il était une forêt [Once Upon a Forest] (Documentary)
81. Kick-Ass 2
82. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
83. Los amantes pasajeros [I'm So Excited]
84. Pacific Rim
85. Despicable Me 2
86. Kalevala – Uusi aika
87. Warm Bodies
88. Tavarataivas [My Stuff]
89. Return to Nuke 'Em High: Volume 1
90. Sharknado
1. 12 Years A Slave
2. The Wolf Of Wall Street
3. Snowpiercer
4. Fruitvale Station
5. Mud
6. Captain Phillips
7. Gravity
8. Prisoners
9. American Hustle
10. Lone Survivor
11. Star Trek Into Darkness
12. Locke
13. Her
14. The World's End
15. Man Of Steel
16. Stoker
17. Pacific Rim
18. The Great Gatsby
19. This Is The End
20. World War Z
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1. La Grande Belezza (Paolo Sorrentino)
2. La Vie d'Adèle (Abdellatif Kechiche)
3. Le Passé (Asghar Farhadi)
4. Her (Spike Jonze)
5. American Hustle (David O. Russell)
6. The Counselor (Ridley Scott)
7. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
8. Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
9. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
10. Narco Cultura (Shaul Schwarz)
11. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
12. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
13. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
14. De Nieuwe Wildernis (Ruben Smit and Mart Verkerk)
15. Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
16. Inequality for All (Jacob Kornbluth)
17. Philomena (Stephen Frears)
18. Stoker (Chan-wook Park)
I started college, so less time to view movies. I may have a Top 20 at the end of the month, I may not. But regardless, here is a list for you.
1) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2) Snowpiercer
3) 12 Years a Slave
4) The Wind Rises
5) Fruitvale Station
6) Before Midnight
7) Jodorowsky's Dune
8) The World's End
9) The Tale of Princess Kaguya
10) Her
11) The Dance of Reality
12) Nebraska
13) Gravity
14) Rush
15) The Congress
16) Stray Dogs
17) Inside Llewyn Davis
18) Ida
19) 42
20) Much Ado about Nothing
Snowpiercer would have easily won 2014, but I decided I liked Catching Fire just a wee bit more.
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1. Hard to Be a God / Aleksei German / Russia
2. La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty) / Paolo Sorrentino / Italy
3. Le dernier des injustes (The Last of the Unjust) / Claude Lanzmann / France
4. American Hustle / David O. Russell / U.S.
5. Inside Llewyn Davis / Coen Brothers / U.S.
6. 12 Years a Slave / Steve McQueen / U.S.
7. Costa da morte / Lois Patino / Portugal
8. The Wolf of Wall Street / Martin Scorsese / U.S.
9. Joe / David Gordon Green / U.S.
10. Night Moves / Kelly Reichardt / U.S.
11. Stray Dogs / Tsai Ming-liang / Taiwan
12. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug / Peter Jackson / New Zealand
13. The Unknown Known / Errol Morris / U.S.
14. Jodorowsky's Dune / Frank Pavich / U.S.
15. Phil Spector / David Mamet / U.S.
16. Nebraska / Alexander Payne / U.S.
17. The Wind Rises / Hayao Miyazaki / Japan
18. Blue Jasmine / Woody Allen / U.S.
19. Grigris / Mahamat-Saleh Haroun / France/Chad
20. Mother of George / Andrew Dosunmu / U.S./Nigeria
21. Manakamana / Stephanie Spray/Pacho Velez / U.S.
22. Her / Spike Jonze / U.S.
23. Like Father, Like Son / Hirokazu Kore-eda / Japan
24. Los amantes pasajeros (I'm So Excited) / Pedro Almodovar / Spain
25. Ida / Pawel Pawlikowski / Poland
1. Nymphomaniac: Volume I (Lars von Trier)
2. La grande bellezza [The Great Beauty] (Paolo Sorrentino)
3. Her (Spike Jonze)
4. La vie d'Adèle - chapitres 1 & 2 [Blue Is the Warmest Color] (Abdellatif Kechiche)
5. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
6. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
7. Le passé [The Past] (Asghar Farhadi)
8. L' inconnu du lac [Stranger by the Lake] (Alain Guiraudie)
9. Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam)
10. Au bout du conte [Under the Rainbow] (Agnès Jaoui)
11. The Congress (Ari Folman)
12. La Vénus à la fourrure [Venus in Fur] (Roman Polański)
13. Jeune & jolie [Young & Beautiful] (François Ozon)
14. The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai)
15. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen / Ethan Coen)
16. Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée)
17. Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)
18. Finding Vivian Maier (John Maloof / Charlie Siskel)
19. Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski)
20. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
1) Short Term 12
2) The World's End
3) Nebraska
4) Her
5) 12 Years a Slave
6) Snowpiercer
I'll stop there because other movies I enjoyed don't need a push and are either not that great but with fantastic actor performances (Blue Jasmine, American Hustle) or not that good but technically impressive (Gravity).
Basically, this vote is just a love letter to Short Term 12 and the oh so lovely Brie Larson.
1. Before Midnight
2. Nebraska
3. The Great Beauty
4. The Wolf of Wall Street
5. Her
6. Blue Is the Warmest Color
7. 12 Years a Slave
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. Prisoners
10. Gravity
11. Dallas Buyers Club
12. Blue Jasmine
13. Under the Skin
14. Only Lovers Left Alive
15. Captain Phillips
16. Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1
17. The World's End
18. American Hustle
19. Monsters University
20. Snowpiercer
1. La Vie d'Adèle [Blue Is the Warmest Color]
2. Under the Skin
3. Jeune & jolie [Young & Beautiful]
4. The Bling Ring
5. Grzeli nateli dgeebi [In Bloom]
6. The Book Thief
7. Mr. Morgan's Last Love
8. Twenty Feet from Stardom [doc]
9. Stoker
10. Blue Jasmine
11. How I Live Now
12. La Vénus à la fourrure [Venus in Fur]
13. Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
14. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
15. Lovelace
16. Some Velvet Morning
17. Safe Haven
18. Frozen
19. Ukraine Is Not a Brothel [doc]
20. Oz the Great and Powerful
I didn't see a lot of movies from this year, but managed to find 10 that I thought were OK. No masterpieces though.
1. Prisoners
2. 12 Years a slave
3. Gravity
4. Only lovers left alive
5. La migliore offerta (The Best Offer)
6. Snowpiercer
7. American Hustle
8. Side Effects
9. Star Trek Into Darkness
10. Europa Report
I would feel better about this list if I saw about 8 more movies. Several promising titles I have yet to screen, but I feel good about my top five.
1. Snowpiercer
2. The Spectacular Now
3. The Way, Way Back
4. Warm Bodies
5. Short Term 12
6. World War Z
7. Captain Philips
8. Gravity
9. You're Next
10. The Purge
1. Her – Spike Jonze (USA)
2. Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón (USA / UK)
3. The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese (USA)
4. Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel & Ethan Coen (USA / UK / France)
5. 12 Years of Slave – Steve McQueen (USA)
6. La miggliore oferta (The Best Offer) – Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy)
7. Oldboy – Spike Lee (USA)
8. Tim’s Vermeer – Teller (USA)
9. 風立ちぬ(The Wind Rises)- Hayao Miyakazi (Japan)
10. Les garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Me, Myself and Mum) – Guillamue Galienne (France)
11. Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados (Living is Easy With Eyes Closed – David Trueba (Spain)
12. Oblivion - Joseph Kosinski (USA)
13. Nebraska – Alexander Payne (USA)
14. Mindscape (Anna) – Jorge Dorado (Spain / France / USA)
15. Dallas Buyers Club – Jean Marc Vallee (USA)
16. Wakolda (The German Doctor) – Lucía Puenzo (Argentina / Spain / Norway / France)
17. Ida – Paweł Pawlikowski (Polland)
18. American Hustle – David O. Russell (USA)
19. The Frozen Ground – Scott Walker (USA)
20. Broken City – Allen Hughes (USA)
1. Short Term 12
2. Gravity
3. Ida
4. Nebraska
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. The Spectacular Now
7. 12 Years a Slave
8. Her
9. Snowpiercer
10. Dallas Buyers Club
11 The Wolf of Wall Street
12. American Hustle
Very, very glad to see a couple of other votes for Destin Daniel Cretton's criminally underrated Short Term 12, a magnificently naturalistic portrait of the counselors and residents of a live-in facility for troubled minors. As Nassim states, lead actress Brie Larson (who plays a counselor who cares far too much about her charges and far too little about herself) is indeed lovely as can be, but she's first and foremost a fantastically gifted actress (she's also got a supporting role in my #6, James Ponsoldt's also-underrated Miles Teller/Shailene Woodley teen romantic drama The Spectacular Now).
Larson is about to receive an enormous amount of attention (including from awards groups, most likely) for the film adaptation of Emma Donoghue's life-in-captivity novel Room; the more her profile grows, the more people are apt to go back and see Short Term 12 and find themselves asking, "How did I miss this?" To everyone here: please try to see the film before voting ends.
Much Ado about Nothing and 42 move into the last two spots. I thought they were decent, just barely qualify for an extended list.
Very pleasantly surprised to see Snowpiercer get so many votes. I thought its campy title and our forum's "sci-fi ghetto" would eliminate it quickly, but now it has a very realistic chance of advancing!
1. Ida (Pawl Pawlikowski, Poland)
2. Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, USA)
3. Her (Spike Jonze, USA)
4. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, Japan)
5. The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, France)
6. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, USA)
7. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, USA)
8. American Hustle (David O. Russell, USA)
9. Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, France)
10. The Missing Picture [doc] (Rithy Panh, Cambodia)
11. All Is Lost (J.C. Chandor, USA)
12. Particle Fever [doc] (Mark Levinson, USA)
13. Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen, Singapore)
14. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
15. Cutie and the Boxer [doc] (Zachary Heinzerling, USA)
16. At Berkeley [doc] (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
17. Let the Fire Burn [doc] (Jason Osder, USA)
18. The Past (Asghar Farhadi, France)
19. Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler, USA)
20. The Square [doc] (Jehane Noujaim, Egypt)
1. La Vie d'Adèle chapitres 1 & 2
2. Le passé
3. Nebraska
4. 12 Years of Slave
5. Rush
6. Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1
7. Ida
8. Soshite chichi ni naru
9. Workers
10. Stoker
11. The Counselor
12. Tom à la ferme
13. Jeune et jolie
14. Starred Up
15. Poziția copilului
1. 12 Years a Slave
2. Her
3. Under the Skin
4. Gravity
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Before Midnight
7. Only Lovers Left Alive
8. Upstream Color
9. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
10. Ida
11. The Wind Rises
12. Blue is the Warmest Color
13. The World's End
14. The Great Beauty
15. Snowpiercer
16. Short Term 12
17. Frances Ha
18. Nebraska
19. The Wolf of Wall Street
20. Frozen
