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denti alligator wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2026 8:02 pm Can you add Robert Beavers' wonderful The Hedge Theater?

That was actually already in the database...as a 1990 film (though no one voted for it during the 1990 list). I gather that year was when the last of the footage was shot but then it wasn't actually assembled into a film and screened until 2002? Anyway, I've moved it to this year

ok, cool. thanks. I'd encourage people to check it out. Wonderful montage of Italian architecture and Beavers sewing a shirt. Jumps in scale of shot sizes accompanied by great soundscape made the whole experience sensually satisfying.

Sorry for the late request, but could you please add Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai's My Left Eye Sees Ghosts to the database. Thanks!

Added

My god, Bill Morrison’s Decasia is an incredible achievement in experimental cinema. The haunting, urgent score really emphasizes the study of mortality bleeding from these images sliced together. There's a moment early in the film where a small child is playing while their image decays and it's among the most powerful scenes I've seen in a film, but I bet one could say that about any of these portraits

I really liked Decasia, which has some sequences that are breathtaking, but I felt that on the whole it was too much. The power and beauty of those decaying images faded as the film went on. Some of the sequences seemed somehow thematically out of place. I feel like it should have been shorter or perhaps edited differently. The score, though, is fantastic in every way.

The 2002 List



##. Film (Director) points/votes(top 5 placements, aka likely votes in decade list)/highest ranking

01. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson) 330/17(10)/1(x3)
02. Adaptation (Spike Jonze) 255/13(7)/1(x4)
03. Le Fils [The Son] (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) 254/13(8)/1(x2)
04. Hable con ella [Talk to Her] (Pedro Almodóvar) 213/12(5)/1
05. Demonlover (Olivier Assayas) 207/12(4)/1
06. Cidade de Deus [City of God] (Fernando Meirelles) 201/10(6)/1
07. Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson) 200/13(3)/1(x2)
08. 25th Hour (Spike Lee) 175/10(2)/2
09. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes) 170/11(3)/1
(tie) Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay) 170/13(3)/1
11. Irréversible (Gaspar Noé) 149/9(4)/2(x2)
12. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma) 138/9(2)/2
(tie) Русский ковчег [Russkiy kovcheg] [Russian Ark] (Aleksandr Sokurov) 138/10(1)/1
14. The Pianist (Roman Polański) 133/10(2)/3
15. Gerry (Gus Van Sant) 131/7(3)/2(x2)
16. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh) 129/9(3)/1
17. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg) 119/7(1)/4
18. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg) 116/11(1)/3
19. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne) 113/8(1)/5
20. Auto Focus (Paul Schrader) 110/8(2)/4
21. 오아시스 [Oasiseu] [Oasis] (Lee Chang-dong) 108/6(3)/2
22. Mies vailla menneisyyttä [The Man Without a Past] (Aki Kaurismäki) 100/6(2)/3
23. 無間道 [Mou gaan dou] [Infernal Affairs] (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak) 95/7(1)/2
24. Vendredi soir [Friday Night] (Claire Denis) 92/5(2)/2
25. Spider (David Cronenberg) 91/5(2)/3
26. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson) 88/7(1)/2
27. 任逍遥 [Ren xiao yao] [Unknown Pleasures] (Jia Zhangke) 84/5(1)/2
28. Signs (M. Night Shyamalan) 82/6/6(x2)
29. สุดเสน่หา [Sud sanaeha] [Blissfully Yours] (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 79/6/9
30. 생활의 발견 [Saenghwalui balgyeon] [On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate] (Hong Sang-soo) 69/4(1)/5
31. 鐵西區 [Tie xi qu] [West of the Tracks] (Wang Bing) 65/4(1)/5
32. The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis) 64/4(1)/5
33. Decasia (Bill Morrison) 63/3(2)/2
34. Japón [Japan] (Carlos Reygadas) 60/6(1)/3
35. Secretary (Steven Shainberg) 57/6/12
36. Uzak [Distant] (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 56/5(1)/4
37. Chicago (Rob Marshall) 53/4(1)/1
(tie) 8 Femmes [8 Women] (François Ozon) 53/3(1)/4
(tie) Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears) 53/5(1)/4
(tie) 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle) 53/6/10
41. يد إلهية [Yadon ilaheyya] [Divine Intervention] (Elia Suleiman) 51/3(1)/4
(tie) Чеховские мотивы [Chekhovskie motivy] [Chekhovian Motifs] (Kira Muratova) 51/3(1)/5
(tie) All or Nothing (Mike Leigh) 51/4/8
44. The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce) 49/3/7(x2)
45. Frontale (Siegfried A. Fruhauf) 48/3/9
(tie) The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary) 48/4(1)/5
47. Sunshine State (John Sayles) 47/3(2)/4(x2)
(tie) Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin) 47/3/10(x2)
49. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass) 45/2(2)/2
50. Kylie Minogue: Come into My World (Michel Gondry) 43/2(1)/3
(tie) Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski) 43/3(1)/5
(tie) Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore) 43/5/11

ALSO-RANS

Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach) 41/2(1)/4
Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh) 41/3/11
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman) 41/5/15
たそがれ清兵衛 [Tasogare seibei] [The Twilight Samurai] (Yōji Yamada) 40/3(1)/5
ده [Dah] [Ten] (Abbas Kiarostami) 40/3/8
The Decay of Fiction (Pat O'Neill) 39/2(1)/3
복수는 나의 것 [Boksuneun naui geot] [Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance] (Park Chan-wook) 36/2(1)/4
*Corpus Callosum (Michael Snow) 36/2/6

One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek) 35/4(1)/5
Spider-Man (Sam Raimi) 35/3/8
24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom) 34/4/12
Dans le noir du temps [In the Darkness of Time] (Jean-Luc Godard) 33/2(1)/4
Frailty (Bill Paxton) 33/2/9
The Good Thief (Neil Jordan) 33/3/7
Liberté et Patrie [Freedom and Fatherland] (Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) 32/2(1)/2
自殺サークル [Jisatsu sākuru] [Suicide Club] (Sion Sono) 32/2(1)/2
Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine) 31/2(1)/4
Alumbramiento [Lifeline] (Víctor Erice) 31/2/6
Marie-Jo et ses deux amours [Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers] (Robert Guédiguian) 31/2/8
英雄 [Ying xiong] [Hero] (Zhang Yimou) 31/2/8
Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd) 31/2/10
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan) 31/3/15(x2)

Кукушка [Kukushka] [The Cuckoo] (Aleksandr Rogozhkin) 30/2(1)/5
Laissez-passer [Safe Conduct] (Bertrand Tavernier) 30/2/10
Ararat (Atom Egoyan) 28/2(1)/2
男人四十 [Nam yan sei sap] [July Rhapsody] (Ann Hui) 28/2/11
DumbLand (David Lynch) 27/3/11
Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes) 26/2(1)/5
Panic Room (David Fincher) 26/3/12

Seasons... (Phil Solomon & Stan Brakhage) 24/2(1)/3
Heaven (Tom Tykwer) 24/2/10
Death to Smoochy (Danny DeVito) 24/3/16
Bubba Ho-Tep (Don Coscarelli) 22/2/13
小城之春 [Xiao cheng zhi chun] [Springtime in a Small Town] (Tian Zhuangzhuang) 21/2/12
Frida (Julie Taymor) 21/2/13
Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese) 21/3/17
Path to War (John Frankenheimer) 20/2/7
Bend It Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha) 20/2/15
Choses secrètes [Secret Things] (Jean-Claude Brisseau) 20/3/16

仄暗い水の底から [Honogurai mizu no soko kara] [Dark Water] (Hideo Nakata) 19/2/14
Sex Is Comedy (Catherine Breillat) 17/2/13
Dans ma peau [In My Skin] (Marina de Van) 17/2/14
The Truth About Charlie (Jonathan Demme) 16/2/14
天橋不見了 [Tian qiao bu jian le] [The Skywalk Is Gone] (Tsai Ming-liang) 14/2/14
La Vie nouvelle [A New Life] (Philippe Grandrieux) 14/2/16
8 Mile (Curtis Hanson) 2/2/25(x2)

ORPHANS

Film (Director) highest ranking

في انتظار السعادة [Fil-intizar as-sa'ada] [Heremakono] [Waiting for Happiness] (Abderrahmane Sissako) 1
Unfaithful (Adrian Lyne) 15
Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse... deux ans après [The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later] (Agnès Varda) 25
México (Alejandro González Iñárritu) 16
Zemsta [The Revenge] (Andrzej Wajda) 22
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (Aparna Sen) 1
The Cockettes (Bill Weber & David Weissman) 11
No Good Deed (Bob Rafelson) 7
The Kid Stays in the Picture (Brett Morgen & Nanette Burstein) 4
Historias mínimas [Intimate Stories] (Carlos Sorín) 24
L'Auberge espagnole [The Spanish Apartment] (Cédric Klapisch) 7
Paid in Full (Charles Stone III) 13
Ice Age (Chris Wedge) 14
Video Quartet (Christian Marclay) 1
Le Transporteur [The Transporter] (Corey Yuen & Louis Leterrier) 9
Fine mrtve djevojke [Fine Dead Girls] (Dalibor Matanić) 17
Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard) 21
Cabin Fever (Eli Roth) 13
Eight Legged Freaks (Ellory Elkayem) 17
La caja 507 [Box 507] (Enrique Urbizu) 3
Los lunes al sol [Mondays in the Sun] (Fernando León de Aranoa) 22
Cherish (Finn Taylor) 19
Domestic Violence 2 (Frederick Wiseman) 11
ピンポン [Pinpon] [Ping Pong] (Fumihiko Sori) 9
Daughter from Đà Nẵng (Gail Dolgin & Vicente Franco) 5
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney) 24
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (George Lucas) 25
In Our Garden (Giuseppe Andrews) 1
Naqoyqatsi (Godfrey Reggio) 10
The Ring (Gore Verbinski) 24
Hukkle (György Pálfi) 3
Beneath Clouds (Ivan Sen) 14
La Chatte à deux têtes [Porn Theatre] (Jacques Nolot) 14
La Fiancée de Dracula [Dracula's Fiancée] (Jean Rollin) 17
Vivre me tue [Life Kills Me] (Jean-Pierre Sinapi) 16
Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz) 21
Int. Trailer. Night. (Jim Jarmusch) 25
The Dancer Upstairs (John Malkovich) 20
我左眼見到鬼 [Ngo joh ngan gin do gwai] [My Left Eye Sees Ghosts] (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) 14
Ônibus 174 [Bus 174] (José Padilha) 9
Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen [The Child I Never Was] (Kai S. Pieck) 21
Ken Park (Larry Clark & Ed Lachman) 6
Ripley's Game (Liliana Cavani) 16
Picture Again (Linda Christanell) 18
Laurel Canyon (Lisa Cholodenko) 9
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (Lone Scherfig) 2
May (Lucky McKee) 15
O Princípio da Incerteza [The Uncertainty Principle] (Manoel de Oliveira) 1
My Little Eye (Marc Evans) 16
L'ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) [My Mother's Smile] (Marco Bellocchio) 9
Deanimated (Martin Arnold) 16
L'imbalsamatore [The Embalmer] (Matteo Garrone) 8
Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney) 4
Happy Here and Now (Michael Almereyda) 3
Un monde presque paisible [Almost Peaceful] (Michel Deville) 16
The White Stripes: Fell in Love with a Girl (Michel Gondry) 17
Searching for Paradise (Myra Paci) 8
The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky) 7
Être et Avoir [To Be and to Have] (Nicolas Philibert) 13
Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener) 13
Whale Rider (Niki Caro) 25
Ο χαμένος τα παίρνει όλα [O chamenos ta pairnei ola] [Loser Takes All] (Nikos Nikolaidis) 24
At kende sandheden [Facing the Truth] (Nils Malmros) 8
Lundi matin [Monday Morning] (Otar Iosseliani) 11
見鬼 [Gin gwai] [The Eye] (Oxide & Danny Pang) 18
Volto telato [Face:Canvas:Texture] (Paolo Gioli) 15
Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso) 15
White Oleander (Peter Kosminsky) 9
The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan) 1
Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena [Chilean Rhapsody] (Raúl Ruiz) 14
Reign of Fire (Rob Bowman) 11
The Hedge Theater (Robert Beavers) 23
The Tracker (Rolf De Heer) 11
ایران [Iran] (Samira Makhmalbāf) 17
熱血青年 [Hyn huet ching nin] [New Blood] (Soi Cheang) 3
カタクリ家の幸福 [Katakuri-ke no kōfuku] [The Happiness of the Katakuris] (Takashi Miike) 12
デッド オア アライブ ファイナル [Deddo oa araibu fainaru] [Dead or Alive: Final] (Takashi Miike) 22
ドールズ [Dōruzu] [Dolls] (Takeshi Kitano) 18
黑俠II [Hak hap ji] [Black Mask II: City of Masks] (Tsui Hark) 23
Cypher (Vincenzo Natali) 6
Ten Thousand Years Older (Werner Herzog) 24
Hollywood Ending (Woody Allen) 20
藍色大門 [Lan se da men] [Blue Gate Crossing] (Yee Chih-yen) 22
模倣犯 [Mohou-han] [Copycat Killer] (Yoshimitsu Morita) 1
Молитва за гетьмана Мазепу [Molitva za hetmana mazepu] [A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa] (Yuri Ilyenko) 19

26 lists submitted

Thanks swo!

1. Punch-Drunk Love
2. Decasia
3. demonlover
4. Sunshine State
5. Solaris
6. Adaptation
7. Funny Ha Ha
8. The Man Without A Past
9. The 25th Hour
10. Frailty

Six no. 1s orphaned!

My top 10:

1. Video Quartet
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Seasons...
4. In the Darkness of Time
5. The Son
6. The Man Without a Past
7. Lilja 4-Ever
8. Ten
9. Frontale
10. On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate

I liked what I could see of Video Quartet from snippets available on YouTube but I didn't feel like I could rank it without seeing the whole thing

swo17 wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 5:48 pm I liked what I could see of Video Quartet from snippets available on YouTube but I didn't feel like I could rank it without seeing the whole thing

Yeah, that one has to be seen in an installation.

Thanks again!

1. Lilja 4-ever
2. Irréversible
3. Hukkle
4. Cidade de Deus[City of God]
5. [The Cuckoo]
6. The Century of the Self
7. Sweet Sixteen
8. 8 Femmes[8 Women]
9. Laurel Canyon
10. Hable con ella[Talk to Her]
11. The Cockettes
12. [The Happiness of the Katakuris]
13. [July Rhapsody]
14. [Infernal Affairs]
15. Adaptation
16. Dirty Pretty Things
17. One Hour Photo
18. [The Eye]
19. Morvern Callar
20. [The Twilight Samurai]
21. 28 Days Later
22. Zemsta[The Revenge]
23. Punch-Drunk Love
24. Far from Heaven
25. Bowling for Columbine

denti alligator wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 5:46 pm Six no. 1s orphaned!

Had most of your top ten on my list, but mostly in the second ten. Am pretty stunned Suicide Club and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance didn't make the top 50. It's a new world, I guess.

Mine:

1. ORPHAN ...... 模倣犯 [Mohou-han] [Copycat Killer] (Yoshimitsu Morita) 1
2. ALSO-RAN ... 自殺サークル [Jisatsu sākuru] [Suicide Club] (Sion Sono) 32/2(1)/2
3. 9 (tie) .......... Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay) 170/13(3)/1
4. ALSO-RAN ... 복수는 나의 것 [Boksuneun naui geot] [Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance] (Park Chan-wook) 36/2(1)/4
5. 20 ............... Auto Focus (Paul Schrader) 110/8(2)/4
6. 30 ............... 생활의 발견 [Saenghwalui balgyeon] [On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate] (Hong Sang-soo) 69/4(1)/5
7. 11 ............... Irréversible (Gaspar Noé) 149/9(4)/2(x2)
8. ALSO-RAN ... 英雄 [Ying xiong] [Hero] (Zhang Yimou) 31/2/8
9. ORPHAN ...... ピンポン [Pinpon] [Ping Pong] (Fumihiko Sori) 9
10. 45 (tie) ...... Frontale (Siegfried A. Fruhauf) 48/3/9

Voting for 6 out of the top 50 has to be a new low for me (and I even submitted a longer list this round!)

Looks like The Hours didn't get a single vote. Yayyy! Good job, forum.

Someone submitted a late list. Here are alternative results for anyone interested (this does un-orphan somebody's #1 pick):

01. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson) 330/17(10)/1(x3)
02. Adaptation (Spike Jonze) 255/13(7)/1(x4)
03. Le Fils [The Son] (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) 254/13(8)/1(x2)
04. Lilja 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson) 215/14(3)/1(x2)
05. Hable con ella [Talk to Her] (Pedro Almodóvar) 213/12(5)/1
06. Demonlover (Olivier Assayas) 207/12(4)/1
07. Cidade de Deus [City of God] (Fernando Meirelles) 201/10(6)/1
08. 25th Hour (Spike Lee) 175/10(2)/2
09. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes) 170/11(3)/1
(tie) Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay) 170/13(3)/1
11. Русский ковчег [Russkiy kovcheg] [Russian Ark] (Aleksandr Sokurov) 155/11(1)/1
12. The Pianist (Roman Polański) 151/11(2)/3
13. Irréversible (Gaspar Noé) 149/9(4)/2(x2)
14. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg) 139/8(1)/4
15. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma) 138/9(2)/2
16. Gerry (Gus Van Sant) 131/7(3)/2(x2)
17. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh) 129/9(3)/1
18. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg) 116/11(1)/3
19. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne) 113/8(1)/5
20. Auto Focus (Paul Schrader) 110/8(2)/4
21. 오아시스 [Oasiseu] [Oasis] (Lee Chang-dong) 108/6(3)/2
22. Mies vailla menneisyyttä [The Man Without a Past] (Aki Kaurismäki) 100/6(2)/3
23. 無間道 [Mou gaan dou] [Infernal Affairs] (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak) 95/7(1)/2
24. Vendredi soir [Friday Night] (Claire Denis) 92/5(2)/2
25. Spider (David Cronenberg) 91/5(2)/3
26. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson) 88/7(1)/2
27. 任逍遥 [Ren xiao yao] [Unknown Pleasures] (Jia Zhangke) 84/5(1)/2
28. Signs (M. Night Shyamalan) 82/6/6(x2)
29. สุดเสน่หา [Sud sanaeha] [Blissfully Yours] (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 79/6/9
30. 생활의 발견 [Saenghwalui balgyeon] [On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate] (Hong Sang-soo) 69/4(1)/5
31. Чеховские мотивы [Chekhovskie motivy] [Chekhovian Motifs] (Kira Muratova) 67/4(1)/5
32. 鐵西區 [Tie xi qu] [West of the Tracks] (Wang Bing) 65/4(1)/5
33. The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis) 64/4(1)/5
34. Decasia (Bill Morrison) 63/3(2)/2
35. Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach) 62/3(2)/4
36. Japón [Japan] (Carlos Reygadas) 60/6(1)/3
37. All or Nothing (Mike Leigh) 59/5/8
38. Secretary (Steven Shainberg) 57/6/12
39. Uzak [Distant] (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 56/5(1)/4
(tie) Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore) 56/6/11
41. Laissez-passer [Safe Conduct] (Bertrand Tavernier) 54/3(1)/2
(tie) Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears) 54/6(1)/4
43. Chicago (Rob Marshall) 53/4(1)/1
(tie) 8 Femmes [8 Women] (François Ozon) 53/3(1)/4
(tie) 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle) 53/6/10
46. يد إلهية [Yadon ilaheyya] [Divine Intervention] (Elia Suleiman) 51/3(1)/4
47. The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce) 49/3/7(x2)
48. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass) 48/3(2)/2
(tie) Frontale (Siegfried A. Fruhauf) 48/3/9
(tie) The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary) 48/4(1)/5

ALSO-RANS

Sunshine State (John Sayles) 47/3(2)/4(x2)
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin) 47/3/10(x2)
24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom) 46/5/12
Kylie Minogue: Come into My World (Michel Gondry) 43/2(1)/3
Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski) 43/3(1)/5
L'ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) [My Mother's Smile] (Marco Bellocchio) 42/2(1)/1
Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh) 41/3/11
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman) 41/5/15
たそがれ清兵衛 [Tasogare seibei] [The Twilight Samurai] (Yōji Yamada) 40/3(1)/5
ده [Dah] [Ten] (Abbas Kiarostami) 40/3/8
The Good Thief (Neil Jordan) 40/4/7

The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan) 39/2(1)/1
The Decay of Fiction (Pat O'Neill) 39/2(1)/3
복수는 나의 것 [Boksuneun naui geot] [Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance] (Park Chan-wook) 36/2(1)/4
*Corpus Callosum (Michael Snow) 36/2/6
Être et Avoir [To Be and to Have] (Nicolas Philibert) 35/2(1)/4
One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek) 35/4(1)/5
Spider-Man (Sam Raimi) 35/3/8
Dans le noir du temps [In the Darkness of Time] (Jean-Luc Godard) 33/2(1)/4
Frailty (Bill Paxton) 33/2/9

Liberté et Patrie [Freedom and Fatherland] (Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) 32/2(1)/2
自殺サークル [Jisatsu sākuru] [Suicide Club] (Sion Sono) 32/2(1)/2
Hukkle (György Pálfi) 32/2(1)/3
Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine) 31/2(1)/4
Alumbramiento [Lifeline] (Víctor Erice) 31/2/6
Marie-Jo et ses deux amours [Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers] (Robert Guédiguian) 31/2/8
英雄 [Ying xiong] [Hero] (Zhang Yimou) 31/2/8
Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd) 31/2/10
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan) 31/3/15(x2)
Кукушка [Kukushka] [The Cuckoo] (Aleksandr Rogozhkin) 30/2(1)/5

Ararat (Atom Egoyan) 28/2(1)/2
男人四十 [Nam yan sei sap] [July Rhapsody] (Ann Hui) 28/2/11
DumbLand (David Lynch) 27/3/11
Sex Is Comedy (Catherine Breillat) 27/3/13
Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes) 26/2(1)/5
Panic Room (David Fincher) 26/3/12
L'Auberge espagnole [The Spanish Apartment] (Cédric Klapisch) 25/2/7
Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse... deux ans après [The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later] (Agnès Varda) 24/2(1)/3
Seasons... (Phil Solomon & Stan Brakhage) 24/2(1)/3
Heaven (Tom Tykwer) 24/2/10
Death to Smoochy (Danny DeVito) 24/3/16

Bubba Ho-Tep (Don Coscarelli) 22/2/13
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney) 21/2/7
小城之春 [Xiao cheng zhi chun] [Springtime in a Small Town] (Tian Zhuangzhuang) 21/2/12
Frida (Julie Taymor) 21/2/13
Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese) 21/3/17
Path to War (John Frankenheimer) 20/2/7
Bend It Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha) 20/2/15
Choses secrètes [Secret Things] (Jean-Claude Brisseau) 20/3/16
仄暗い水の底から [Honogurai mizu no soko kara] [Dark Water] (Hideo Nakata) 19/2/14

Dans ma peau [In My Skin] (Marina de Van) 17/2/14
The Truth About Charlie (Jonathan Demme) 16/2/14
天橋不見了 [Tian qiao bu jian le] [The Skywalk Is Gone] (Tsai Ming-liang) 14/2/14
La Vie nouvelle [A New Life] (Philippe Grandrieux) 14/2/16
Whale Rider (Niki Caro) 5/2/22
8 Mile (Curtis Hanson) 2/2/25(x2)

ORPHANS

Film (Director) highest ranking

في انتظار السعادة [Fil-intizar as-sa'ada] [Heremakono] [Waiting for Happiness] (Abderrahmane Sissako) 1
Unfaithful (Adrian Lyne) 15
México (Alejandro González Iñárritu) 16
Zemsta [The Revenge] (Andrzej Wajda) 22
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (Aparna Sen) 1
The Cockettes (Bill Weber & David Weissman) 11
No Good Deed (Bob Rafelson) 7
The Kid Stays in the Picture (Brett Morgen & Nanette Burstein) 4
Historias mínimas [Intimate Stories] (Carlos Sorín) 24
Paid in Full (Charles Stone III) 13
Ice Age (Chris Wedge) 14
Video Quartet (Christian Marclay) 1
Le Transporteur [The Transporter] (Corey Yuen & Louis Leterrier) 9
Fine mrtve djevojke [Fine Dead Girls] (Dalibor Matanić) 17
Reflections of Evil (Damon Packard) 21
Cabin Fever (Eli Roth) 13
Eight Legged Freaks (Ellory Elkayem) 17
La caja 507 [Box 507] (Enrique Urbizu) 3
Los lunes al sol [Mondays in the Sun] (Fernando León de Aranoa) 22
Cherish (Finn Taylor) 19
Domestic Violence 2 (Frederick Wiseman) 11
ピンポン [Pinpon] [Ping Pong] (Fumihiko Sori) 9
Daughter from Đà Nẵng (Gail Dolgin & Vicente Franco) 5
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (George Lucas) 25
In Our Garden (Giuseppe Andrews) 1
Naqoyqatsi (Godfrey Reggio) 10
The Ring (Gore Verbinski) 24
Beneath Clouds (Ivan Sen) 14
La Chatte à deux têtes [Porn Theatre] (Jacques Nolot) 14
La Fiancée de Dracula [Dracula's Fiancée] (Jean Rollin) 17
Vivre me tue [Life Kills Me] (Jean-Pierre Sinapi) 16
Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz) 21
Int. Trailer. Night. (Jim Jarmusch) 25
The Dancer Upstairs (John Malkovich) 20
我左眼見到鬼 [Ngo joh ngan gin do gwai] [My Left Eye Sees Ghosts] (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) 14
Ônibus 174 [Bus 174] (José Padilha) 9
Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen [The Child I Never Was] (Kai S. Pieck) 21
Ken Park (Larry Clark & Ed Lachman) 6
Ripley's Game (Liliana Cavani) 16
Picture Again (Linda Christanell) 18
Laurel Canyon (Lisa Cholodenko) 9
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (Lone Scherfig) 2
May (Lucky McKee) 15
O Princípio da Incerteza [The Uncertainty Principle] (Manoel de Oliveira) 1
My Little Eye (Marc Evans) 16
Deanimated (Martin Arnold) 16
L'imbalsamatore [The Embalmer] (Matteo Garrone) 8
Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney) 4
Happy Here and Now (Michael Almereyda) 3
Un monde presque paisible [Almost Peaceful] (Michel Deville) 16
The White Stripes: Fell in Love with a Girl (Michel Gondry) 17
Kelj fel, komám, ne aludjál [Wake Up, Don't You Sleep] (Miklós Jancsó) 15
Searching for Paradise (Myra Paci) 8
The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky) 7
Biggie & Tupac (Nick Broomfield) 21
Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener) 13
Ο χαμένος τα παίρνει όλα [O chamenos ta pairnei ola] [Loser Takes All] (Nikos Nikolaidis) 24
At kende sandheden [Facing the Truth] (Nils Malmros) 8
Lundi matin [Monday Morning] (Otar Iosseliani) 11
見鬼 [Gin gwai] [The Eye] (Oxide & Danny Pang) 18
Volto telato [Face:Canvas:Texture] (Paolo Gioli) 15
Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso) 15
White Oleander (Peter Kosminsky) 9
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce) 24
Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena [Chilean Rhapsody] (Raúl Ruiz) 14
Reign of Fire (Rob Bowman) 11
The Hedge Theater (Robert Beavers) 23
The Tracker (Rolf De Heer) 11
ایران [Iran] (Samira Makhmalbāf) 17
熱血青年 [Hyn huet ching nin] [New Blood] (Soi Cheang) 3
カタクリ家の幸福 [Katakuri-ke no kōfuku] [The Happiness of the Katakuris] (Takashi Miike) 12
デッド オア アライブ ファイナル [Deddo oa araibu fainaru] [Dead or Alive: Final] (Takashi Miike) 22
ドールズ [Dōruzu] [Dolls] (Takeshi Kitano) 18
黑俠II [Hak hap ji] [Black Mask II: City of Masks] (Tsui Hark) 23
Cypher (Vincenzo Natali) 6
Ten Thousand Years Older (Werner Herzog) 24
Hollywood Ending (Woody Allen) 20
藍色大門 [Lan se da men] [Blue Gate Crossing] (Yee Chih-yen) 22
模倣犯 [Mohou-han] [Copycat Killer] (Yoshimitsu Morita) 1
Молитва за гетьмана Мазепу [Molitva za hetmana mazepu] [A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa] (Yuri Ilyenko) 19

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Thanks swo

My top two films were orphans:

The Magdalene Sisters and Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself.

They really need Blu Ray releases to help raise their profiles.

Aunt Peg wrote: Thu May 07, 2026 11:47 am
The Magdalene Sisters

This was in my Netflix disc queue the entire time I had an account, but I never got around to actually renting it!

Looking at the list result I find some of the top titles intriguingly absent in the Blu-ray era. I remember Talk to Her was pretty popular when I first got hooked on DVD, yet it's nowhere to be found on Blu-ray in all major territories. What gives? And the Dardenne brothers' works from the 2000s, where are they? I thought 4K restorations were done a few years ago. Similarly absent is Apichatpong Weeraserthakul's works from this era. Weren't there gossips that they'd also received proper restoration?