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SHOWDOWN
The Celluloid Closet: Best underseen queer films

• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
• Farewell, My Queen
• L'immensità
• Life Partners
• Medusa Deluxe
• Multiple Maniacs
• Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
• Shortcomings
• The Velvet Vampire
• Viva

SHOWDOWN
To Be or Not to Be: Best Shakespeare film adaptations

• Anyone But You
• Chimes at Midnight
• Ex Machina
• Forbidden Planet
• Macbeth
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Northman
• Othello
• Ran
• Valley Girl

Updated 5/18/2025: Removed The Turin Horse. Added Margin Call.

• Attack the Block
• Bernie
• Drive
• Haywire
• Margin Call
• Melancholia
• Midnight in Paris
• Super 8
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Young Adult

My favorite films from the year I was born.
Updated 5/18/2025: Removed Clue, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Ran, A Room with a View. Added Lost in America, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Restless Natives, Taipei Story.

• Back to the Future
• Brazil
• The Breakfast Club
• Lost in America
• Malibu Express
• Pee-wee's Big Adventure
• Police Story
• Restless Natives
• Taipei Story
• Tampopo

Still a lot left to see, however... (01/19/2020)
Updated 5/18/2025: Removed The Farewell, The Irishmen, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Pain and Glory, Parasite. Added 1917, Bacurau, Collective, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Vast of Night.

• 1917
• Bacurau
• Collective
• Dolemite Is My Name
• Knives Out
• Little Women
• Marriage Story
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Uncut Gems
• The Vast of Night

Updated 5/18/2025: Removed Cold War, Hereditary, The Nightingale, Sorry to Bother You. Added The Favourite, Never Goin' Back, the Girls, They Shall Not Grow Old.

• Burning
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• The Favourite
• Her Smell
• Never Goin' Back
• Roma
• Shoplifters
• the Girls
• They Shall Not Grow Old
• Under the Silver Lake

Updated 5/18/2025: Removed Call Me By Your Name; I, Tonya; The Florida Project. Added Baby Driver, Faces Places, Logan Lucky.

• Baby Driver
• The Beguiled
• Blade Runner 2049
• The Death of Stalin
• Faces Places
• Get Out
• Good Time
• Lady Bird
• Logan Lucky
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Updated 5/18/2025: Removed Arrival, Certain Women, Paterson. Added The Nice Guys, Silence, Your Name..

• 20th Century Women
• Hail, Caesar!
• The Handmaiden
• Hell or High Water
• Love & Friendship
• The Love Witch
• Moonlight
• The Nice Guys
• Silence
• Your Name.

Updated 5/18/2025: Removed Dear White People, The Drop, Ex Machina [wrong year], A Most Wanted Man, Obvious Child. Added Edge of Tomorrow; Life Partners; Low Down; Remake, Remix, Rip-Off; The Skeleton Twins.

• Clouds of Sils Maria
• Edge of Tomorrow
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• It Follows
• Life Partners
• Low Down
• Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: About Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema
• The Skeleton Twins
• Whiplash

Updated 5/18/2025: Removed Steve Jobs, The Witch. Added The Big Short, Too Late.

• The Assassin
• The Big Short
• The End of the Tour
• Happy Hour
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Mistress America
• Spotlight
• Tangerine
• Taxi
• Too Late

Updated 5/18/2025: Removed Blue Jasmine, Pain & Gain. Added Jodorowsky’s Dune, Locke.

• Her
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Jodorowsky's Dune
• Locke
• Nebraska
• Short Term 12
• A Touch of Sin
• Under the Skin
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• The World's End

SHOWDOWN
The Nice Guys: Best films about male friendship

• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Chimes at Midnight
• Kicking and Screaming
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• RRR
• The Social Network
• Stan & Ollie
• Swingers
• The Trip
• The World's End

SHOWDOWN
Grand Illusion: Best classic sci-fi/fantasy films

• Barbarella
• Battle Beyond the Stars
• The Blob
• Forbidden Planet
• A Matter of Life and Death
• Metropolis
• Space Is the Place
• Stalker
• The Thief of Bagdad
• Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

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This Must Be the Place: Best films with location titles

• A Canterbury Tale
• Fremont
• Grosse Pointe Blank
• Hard Ticket to Hawaii
• Harlan County U.S.A.
• Palm Springs
• Reno 911!: Miami

  A twofer!

• Rye Lane
• The Thief of Bagdad
• Under the Silver Lake

SHOWDOWN
The Killing Joke: Best dark-comedy films

• Bodies Bodies Bodies
• Delicatessen
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Heathers
• In the Loop
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• Serial Mom
• Under the Silver Lake
• Wristcutters: A Love Story
• Zola

SHOWDOWN
Multiplicity: Best dual performances in film

• Beerfest

  "I feel like I know all you guys. So we won't have that awkard 'get to know each other' stage."

• Bikini Beach
• The Double Life of Véronique
• Ernest Goes to Jail
• Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein
• The Great Dictator
• Hail, Caesar!

  "It's a name that 19 million readers trust!"

• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

  "You're Nic F***iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin' ow! wow! Cage!"

• X

SHOWDOWN
Maiden Voyage: BAFTA Outstanding Debut Nominees

• Aftersun
• Attack the Block
• Control
• Hunger
• Kneecap
• Layer Cake
• Lost in La Mancha
• Moon
• Pride
• Submarine

SHOWDOWN
The Favourite: Best Nominees for the Outstanding British Film BAFTA

• 1917
• Amy
• Living
• In the Loop
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
• Rye Lane
• Sexy Beast
• Shaun of the Dead
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

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The NeverEnding Story: Best long films

• Blade Runner 2049
• The Departed
• La Dolce Vita
• Happy Hour
• Jackie Brown
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• Occupied City
• RRR
• Satantango
• Stalker

SHOWDOWN
Call Me by Your Name: Best films with first-name titles

This Showdown raised a lot of important questions. Like, is "Lady Bird" a first name or a nickname? What about the mononyms like Barbarella, Dolemite, and Godzilla? And does the plural of "Heather" still count? Alright, alright, I'll see myself out...

• Amy
• Anora
• Bernie
• Coraline
• Gilda
• LOLA
• Mandy
• M3GAN
• Pearl
• Reality

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Panic Room: Best chamber-piece films

• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• The Beguiled
• Bluebeard's Castle
• Bodies Bodies Bodies
• Carnage
• Moon
• Reality
• Rope
• Secret Honor
• Sanctuary

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Stay Tuned: Best films about television

• A Face in the Crowd
• Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein
• The King of Comedy
• Network
• Nightcrawler
• Reality
• Scrooged
• The Truman Show
• UHF
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Films cited, mentioned, or recommended during the Nederlandse Filmacademie production assistant course for 2024/25.

• Clean Hands
• Night Run
• The Northerners
• Met Mes
• About That Life
• The Forgotten Battle
• Oink
• Brimstone
• Waiter
• Once Upon a Time in the West

...plus 88 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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Fighting with my Family: Best films about siblings

I lacked the courage to list Dicks: The Musical.

• The Blues Brothers
• The Brothers Bloom
• Interiors
• Little Women
• LOLA
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
• Onward
• Our Relations
• The Skeleton Twins
• Supersonic

SHOWDOWN
Band of Misfits: Best underseen family films

• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

  Sarah Polley almost died for this movie, so share it with your family.

• Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
• Bugsy Malone
• For All Mankind

  Kids like space, right?

• Girl Asleep
• Hundreds of Beavers

  In this family, we respect fine cinema.

• Kedi

  Start them on documentaries young. 80 minutes of cat videos is a good places to start.

• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
• Moving
• Restless Natives

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Stage Door: Best stage-to-screen film adaptations

• Barefoot in the Park
• Carnage
• Chimes at Midnight
• The Father
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Guys and Dolls
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• Inherit the Wind
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Sweet Charity

As a 32-year denizen of Florida, I feel that I have earned the right to deem what films present an honest depiction the Sunshine state - if in their spirit if not their factual accuracy. Rocket launches and beaches, car races and bikinis, meth and alligators. As I am poised to move away, I reflect back on what are really just the movies that I liked most that are set here.

• 2 Fast 2 Furious
• Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
• Big Trouble
• Ernest Saves Christmas
• The Florida Project
• Moonlight
• Pain & Gain
• Reno 911!: Miami
• Spring Breakers
• Zola

• Dazed and Confused
• Groundhog Day
• The Heroic Trio
• Jurassic Park
• Moving
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Red Rock West
• So I Married an Axe Murderer
• Three Colours: Blue
• The War Room

For now. Already questioning it as I post it.
Alphabetical.

• Beginners
• Brazil
• La Dolce Vita
• s Ha
• Rear Window
• Repo Man
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• The Sting
• The Third Man

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Short Cuts: Best anthology films

• 5 Centimeters per Second
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Destiny
• I Am Cuba
• The Kentucky Fried Movie
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• Three Examples of Myself as Queen
• Three Times
• A Touch of Sin
• Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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Chopping Mall: Best ’80s horror films

• Chopping Mall
• Encounters of the Spooky Kind
• The Lair of the White Worm
• Night of the Comet
• The Shining
• The Slumber Party Massacre
• Surf Nazis Must Die
• The Thing
• Vampire's Kiss
• Videodrome

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Crimes of the Future: Best dystopian worlds in film

• Akira
• The Beast
• Blade Runner
• Blade Runner 2049
• Brazil
• The FP
• Idiocracy
• Metropolis
• Rollerball
• Turbo Kid

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The French Dispatch: Best Palme d’Or-nominated films

• 24 Hour Party People
• Chimes at Midnight
• La Dolce Vita
• The Double Life of Véronique
• The Handmaiden
• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
• Paris, Texas
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• The Third Man
• Under the Silver Lake

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Babylon: Best films about filmmaking

• Contempt
• The Disaster Artist
• Dolemite Is My Name
• Get Shorty
• Hollywood Shuffle
• Jodorowsky's Dune
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Shirkers
• Singin' in the Rain
• Their Finest

• 12 Angry Men
• The Burglar
• Desk Set
• A Face in the Crowd
• Funny Face
• Nights of Cabiria
• The Seventh Seal
• Sweet Smell of Success
• The Wayward Bus
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• A Fistful of Dollars
• Goldfinger
• A Hard Day's Night
• I Am Cuba
• Marriage Italian Style
• Muscle Beach Party
• My Fair Lady
• Seven Days in May
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Barbarella
• The Bat Woman
• The Devil Rides Out
• The Immortal Story
• The Lion in Winter
• Night of the Living Dead
• Targets
• The Thomas Crown Affair
• Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

• Best in Show
• Sexy Beast
• Almost Famous
• Snatch
• Leak
• Werckmeister Harmonies
• The Gleaners and I
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• High Fidelity
• American Psycho

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Besties Besties Besties: Best friendship-duo films

I will always include Romy and Michele in a Showdown if even slightly applicable.

• Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• High Heels and Low Lifes
• Never Goin' Back
• One Sings, the Other Doesn't
• Pineapple Express
• Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
• RRR
• Shaun of the Dead
• Los Reyes

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A New Leaf: Best films about fresh starts

• Blindspotting
• Coming to America
• I'll Be Seeing You
• Ingrid Goes West
• King Ralph
• Little Old New York
• Next Goal Wins
• The Quiet Man
• Volunteers
• Young Adult

Posting 3/11/2024 at 3:14 AM from my tiny apartment in Amsterdam minutes before those chumps at the Academy have their final say.

• Barbie
• The Beast
• Bottoms
• Fallen Leaves
• Godzilla Minus One
• The Holdovers
• Past Lives
• Perfect Days
• Poor Things
• They Cloned Tyrone

SHOWDOWN
Daughters of the Dust: Best under-seen women-directed films

• Away from Her
• Band Aid
• Clockwatchers
• Daguerréotypes
• Gaby Baby Doll
• Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
• Life Partners
• Los Reyes
• Three Minutes: A Lengthening
• Viva

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Calling the Shots: Best Oscar-nominated film directing

• Apocalypse Now
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Citizen Kane
• La Dolce Vita
• The Last Picture Show
• Nebraska
• Pulp Fiction
• Rear Window
• Roma
• The Third Man

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Cutter’s Way: Best Oscar-nominated film editing

• Almost Famous
• An American in Paris
• Baby Driver
• Cat Ballou
• The Departed
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• GoodFellas
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Lawrence of Arabia
• The Sting

Favorite films of the 53rd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

• The Beast
• Dream Team
• How to Have Sex
• Mars Express
• The Zone of Interest

Making up for lost time... movie-wise.
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My ten favorite films that I saw for the first time in 2021.
Not released within the last 5 years. Limit 1 per director.

• The American Friend
• An Autumn Afternoon
• Brick
• Defending Your Life
• Daguerréotypes
• Locke
• Stories We Tell
• Super 8
• Taipei Story
• Vertigo

Plugging the shameful gaps in my film experience.
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My ten favorite films that I saw for the first time in 2022.
Not released within the last 5 years. Limit 1 per director.

• Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• The Lair of the White Worm
• The Lobster
• Lost in America
• Low Down
• Margin Call
• La Notte
• Restless Natives
• Secret Honor
• Showgirls

I have gaps. These are part of my attempt to fill them.
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My ten favorite films that I saw for the first time in 2023.
Not released within the last 5 years. Limit 1 per director.

• The French Connection
• The Heroic Trio
• Ikiru
• Mind Game
• The Place Promised in Our Early Days
• Spirited Away
• The Thing
• Touki Bouki
• Three Colours: Blue
• Zodiac

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Flight Plan: Best films to watch on a plane

• The Blues Brothers

  Solid and familiar. Impromptu musical numbers to grab your attention so that you don't out on the shoulder of your seatmate. This recently kept me occupied while on a redeye from SeaTac to JFK.

• Crazy, Stupid, Love.

  When you're a little tipsy from the cabin pressurization and duty-free liquor, there's nothing quite like a romantic comedy you've already seen a few times.

• Fast Five

  If I wasn't such a coward, this list would just be Fast 1 to X. Chosen because the scenes in sunny Rio will help you to forget that you're landing in Buffalo where it's -10° F.

• Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein

  Harbour dialed up to 11. Had to throw in a short for those quick connection flights.

• Happy Hour

  Serene and dreamy. Also, at 5+ hours, long enough to cover that SFO to Honolulu flight with just one watch. (The subtitles also help for when your free earphones inevitably break.)

• In the Loop

  Hilarious and vulgar (though purely verbally, not in the violent or French sense, ensuring that those sitting next to you won't rat you out to the flight attendant). Had me laughing into the ninth hour of a transatlantic flight into Amsterdam's Schiphol airport recently.

• Jiro Dreams of Sushi

  Food to drool over while eating your inflight broccoli and ravioli that's still a little frozen in the center.

• Little Women

  Just lovely. No abrupt sound queues or smash cuts to wake you if you happen to nod off into your neck pillow. Great Christmas vibes for those flying home for the holidays.

• RRR

  A must if you're sitting in the middle seat for a transcontinental flight. Epic enough that you forget about your lack of armrests and long enough to get you to your final destination still buzzing. Also, you'll do the good work of converting the aisle and window seats to the work of S. S. Rajamouli.

• View from the Top

  Honorable mention as it is the companion to Richard Ayoade's hilarious book 'Ayoade On Top.' Fair warning, though, it is bad enough that watching it will cause you to deposit your partially-digested Chili's Too into the motion sickness bag found in the seatback in front of you.

SHOWDOWN
No Reservations: Best meal scenes in film

• The Public Enemy

  Breakfast: Squeezed Grapefruit

• Get Shorty

  Lunch: Salt-free egg white omelet with slightly brown shallots and strawberry frappés

• The Blues Brothers

  Dinner: Five shrimp cocktails and Dom Perignon

• Groundhog Day

  Breakfast: All you can eat (Today only!)

• Inglourious Basterds

  Lunch: Strudel à la crème et un verre de lait

• PlayTime

  Dinner: [delayed]

• Phantom Thread

  Breakfast: Loud toast

• Tampopo

  Lunch: Live prawn, lemon juice, egg yolk

• The Menu

  Dinner: Cheeseburger (to go)

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

  Dessert: Chilled Monkey Brains