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OscarGuy wrote:Feature-length only. Film lengths vary based on the period, but if it's obviously a short film, don't list it.

Direct-to-Screen films only, not teleplays, movies made for television or miniseries.

I don't think Documentaries should be included, but that's a personal opinion.

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Very sensible idea for the shorts v. features issue! One I never would have thought of. But now that you mention it, it's clear that, say, SHERLOCK JR. is really a shorter-than-usual feature, not a short, even if the imdb clocks it as a minute shorter than, say, THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER, which is by no means a feature film.

On the movies made for television front, I presume the ruling won't apply to films by the likes of Bergman, Fassbinder, Von Trier etc. which though they may have been funded and/or premiered on television, also had substantial life as theatrical films, if perhaps in edited versions?
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Feature-length only. Film lengths vary based on the period, but if it's obviously a short film, don't list it.

Direct-to-Screen films only, not teleplays, movies made for television or miniseries.

I don't think Documentaries should be included, but that's a personal opinion.

by PM or Email is fine for me.




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ITALIANO wrote:my personal number 1, Sergio Bergonzelli's Nelle Pieghe della Carne

Wait, what?
Hehe... Ok, I was joking. But that movie - which has been rediscovered a few years ago by La Cinematheque Francais (I know, nowadays this doesn't mean much) and which I saw in Nice - truly is an unintentional masterpiece of surrealist art. You should try to see it - one laugh a minute, guaranteed. Almodovar must have been inspired by it for some of his early films.

Oh, and Eleonora Rossi Drago is in it (though understandably she retired right after making it).
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Questions of eligibility:

Feature films only, or are shorts eligible, too? If not, what's to be our official cut-off point between features and short films?

Documentaries: are they eligible as well? (I vote yes)

How about made-for-tv works?
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ITALIANO wrote:my personal number 1, Sergio Bergonzelli's Nelle Pieghe della Carne

Wait, what?
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Did you want that PM'd or E-mailed? Or does it not matter?
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Let's do it this way. I'll run it like other lists I've compiled.

Send me an unranked list of 50 films.

Once I receive the lists, I'll put together an AFI-style Top 400 (if I even have that many). Then, you can rank 50 and we'll see how it goes?

Any other suggestions on methodology?
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I say we get down to the bottom of this and make a new list from scratch - like delicious buttermilk biscuits.
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Sonic Youth wrote:Why wouldn't I?

I'd be proud to have it on the top of my list. At the very least, it's one of the three greatest films ever.


Sonic the conformist wasn't the appellation I would have predicted for you :p

Of course it's one of the greatest films. I just thought it was a bit obvious for this board.




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MovieWes wrote:Anyone want to take part in another UAADB top 100 list? I'll even tally the results if no one else wants to.
I'm game for that.
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I'm pretty sure I didn't submit a ballot in the UAADB top 100, though I did in the Zach board one.
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Akash wrote:
FilmFan720 wrote:1. Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles


I'm slightly disappointed that this board couldn't come up with something more original/worthy for its number one film.

I'm not sure who was on the board at the time this list was made (how old are you guys?) but I can't imagine Damien, Italiano, Sabin, Sonic, Eric among others, listing Citizen fucking Cane as the best film.


Why wouldn't I?

I didn't submit a list last time, and I don't expect to submit one now. The idea of compiling such a list is too daunting for me.

But were I to make one, I'd be proud to have it on the top of my list. At the very least, it's one of the three greatest films ever.

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Post by Penelope »

I don't have access to my list right now, but I'm pretty sure Citizen Kane didn't land in my top ten--in fact, I'm pretty sure I ranked The Magnificent Ambersons higher.
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Where would Citizen Kane fit best on the list?
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Well, it IS one of greatest American movies ever, but yes, I agree, it doesn't deserve to be number 1 and I don't think it topped any of our lists back then. But it was probably mentioned by most or all of us, while I guess that my personal number 1, Sergio Bergonzelli's Nelle Pieghe della Carne, sadly wasn't...
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