Board 8 Watches and Ranks Art Films: The Results

Evillordexdeath posted...

it's the highest rated film on Letterboxd

Pretty fitting that it also won our list!

Very good winner! Harakiri is great and anyone that didn't get around to it should really check it out, especially thr last around 20 minutes

Thanks for hosting Exdeath!

This was a lot of fun to follow along! Very interesting list and I'm sorry I didn't have time to participate after seeing some of these write ups.

Who/what is next?

Still sad I overlooked this but figured I would share my own ranking now that it's over; the numbers are their placement in my most recent all-time list

2. Persona
4. The Rules of the Game
22. The Passion of Joan of Arc
27. Citizen Kane
29. Vive L'Amour
45. Pan's Labyrinth
47. Harakiri
66. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
73. Eraserhead
79. 8 1/2
94. Ikiru
107. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
116. The Holy Mountain
153. The Grand Budapest Hotel
189. The Tree of Life
214. Ordet
215. Playtime
224. The Ascent
228. Tokyo Story
237. Three Colors: Red
340. Beau Travail
428. Pather Panchali
431. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
438. Mirror
479. Amelie
607. The Battle of Algiers
631. The Spirit of the Beehive
639. Synecdoche, New York
735. The Conformist
n/a. Black Girl (4 stars, outside top 1000)

FoolFantastic posted...

Still sad I overlooked this but figured I would share my own ranking now that it's over; the numbers are their placement in my most recent all-time list

Whats your #1?

Glad I finally got around to these classics, the more I see from Kurosawa the more I think he's one of the best.

I never use letterboxd so I'm surprised Harakiri is the highest-rated movie on there. I guess it just has the perfect balance of accessibility and artistry

redrocket posted...

Whats your #1?

Mulholland Drive

FoolFantastic posted...

Still sad I overlooked this but figured I would share my own ranking now that it's over; the numbers are their placement in my most recent all-time list

Shame you didn't participate! But you also would've plummeted Synecdoche and Amelie soooooo

Seginustemple posted...

Glad I finally got around to these classics, the more I see from Kurosawa the more I think he's one of the best.

I never use letterboxd so I'm surprised Harakiri is the highest-rated movie on there. I guess it just has the perfect balance of accessibility and artistry

This is only the third I've seen from Kurosawa after Rashomon and Seven Samurai, but absolutely agreed, the three I've seen have all been excellent. Ikiru is my least favorite of the three, but only because the other two are so damn good

Suprak_the_Stud posted...

This was a lot of fun to follow along! Very interesting list and I'm sorry I didn't have time to participate after seeing some of these write ups.

Who/what is next?

Next up is Crime 2, I'll throw up the topic probably some time this weekend. After that I think is Inviso with "So Bad It's Good" movies (so the exact opposite of art films) but I'll open up discussion in the topic of who wants to host what; a lot of ideas were thrown out in the last topic but I don't know who all's committing to what

Thanks for an excellent topic, I really enjoyed reading along.

Final Scoreboard
1. Johnbobb: 10 (Ordet, The Holy Mountain, Tokyo Story, Persona, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Eraserhead, Aguirre, Synecdoche, Amlie, Ikiru)
2. Karo: 9 (The Holy Mountain, Jeanne Dielman, Tokyo Story, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Battle of Algiers, Eraserhead, Aguirre, Synecdoche, The Grand Budapest Hotel)
3. PunishedJeezy: 8 (The Conformist, The Holy Mountain, Jeanne Dielman, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Eraserhead, Synecdoche, Amlie, Citizen Kane)
4. Inviso: 6 (The Holy Mountain, The Battle of Algiers, Eraserhead, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Amlie, Citizen Kane)
5. Seginus: 4 (Persona, The Battle of Algiers, Amlie, Citizen Kane, Ikiru)
6. Sergiocornaga: 3 (Amlie, Citizen Kane, Ikiru)
7. LightningStrikes: 1 (The Holy Mountain)

Congrats to Johnbobb, who clutches out first place by correctly predicting that Ikiru is second and finishes having called one third of the eliminations. While Karo is the truest art snob here, it must be satisfying to know that you're the best at understanding how an art snob thinks.

btw I've been keeping a list of my rankings for all the film lists I've participated in on B8, combined into one, so I thought I'd post that now if anyone is curious to see it:

https://letterboxd.com/evildex/list/board-8-rankings-combined-list/

Evillordexdeath posted...

btw I've been keeping a list of my rankings for all the film lists I've participated in on B8, combined into one, so I thought I'd post that now if anyone is curious to see it:

https://letterboxd.com/evildex/list/board-8-rankings-combined-list/

I think you accidentally put a random pokemon movie in that list lol

FoolFantastic posted...

Still sad I overlooked this but figured I would share my own ranking now that it's over; the numbers are their placement in my most recent all-time list

2. Persona
4. The Rules of the Game
22. The Passion of Joan of Arc
27. Citizen Kane
29. Vive L'Amour
45. Pan's Labyrinth
47. Harakiri
66. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
73. Eraserhead
79. 8 1/2
94. Ikiru
107. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
116. The Holy Mountain
153. The Grand Budapest Hotel
189. The Tree of Life
214. Ordet
215. Playtime
224. The Ascent
228. Tokyo Story
237. Three Colors: Red
340. Beau Travail
428. Pather Panchali
431. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
438. Mirror
479. Amelie
607. The Battle of Algiers
631. The Spirit of the Beehive
639. Synecdoche, New York
735. The Conformist
n/a. Black Girl (4 stars, outside top 1000)

I made a list of 1000 favorite films a few years ago and a lot of these would be on that as well. Though I don't know if I could number them all the way to 1000 like that. I tried cutting that down to a list of 100 favorite films like a year ago and it was really difficult.

Though The Rules of the Game would also be up there in like a top 5 or top 10 for me.

Evillordexdeath posted...

btw I've been keeping a list of my rankings for all the film lists I've participated in on B8, combined into one, so I thought I'd post that now if anyone is curious to see it:

https://letterboxd.com/evildex/list/board-8-rankings-combined-list/

oh man maybe I should do that one of these days

I'm curious how many movies it would be at this point

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