The complete list Notable omissions. But I should really not start rambling. The point being, is a good number. I might even be dead in ! Which is why I rather need to take advantage of this most auspicious date to present a most ambitious project:. First things first: the rules. I strictly follow the convention that no film made within the last ten years should be on a list of this sort; it takes time to let these things settle.
Sorry news for My Neighbor Totoro , Ivan the Terrible both parts , The Beyond , and at least a few other likely titles that, in all honesty, I should have seen before now; but one cannot help it.
Also, to keep the list more interesting, I used a limit of three films per director. It is tremendously lopsided, with the s and s accounting for a huge portion of the whole.
Unfortunately, attempts to correct this simply looked too artificial, like I was trying to account for a quota; best to admit that whatever the list says about me, it says, and move on. The most nettling question was of definition: there have been many kinds of films made in years, and not all of them deserve to be thrust into competition like racehorses.
I have thus made some concessions to categorisation: -No trick films, actualities, or any of the other early films from the era before continuity. On the other hand, short films and documentaries both seemed entirely fair game to me, and both are comfortably well-represented. The top post on the blog throughout all of this is going to be the running tally of all films, tastefully hidden behind a jump.
