The films I have seen that were commercially released in New York City in 2016.

1. Silence
2. Manchester by the Sea
3. Cameraperson
4. Toni Erdmann
5. My Golden Days
6. Mountains May Depart
7. The Handmaiden
8. O.J.: Made in America
9. Right Now, Wrong Then
10. Happy Hour

...plus 107 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The films I have seen that were commercially released in New York City in 2015.

1. Carol
2. Phoenix
3. Mistress America
4. The Forbidden Room
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. The Assassin
7. Blackhat
8. When Marnie Was There
9. Sicario
10. Horse Money

...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The films and scenes discussed in Mike D'Angelo's feature on the A.V. Club, where he "looks at key scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean."

Original description: "Sometimes just a scant few minutes of a movie can build a permanent home in your memory. Scenic Routes is a feature devoted to exploring cinema's most remarkable individual sequences: the sublime, the exasperating, the iconic, the ineffable."

Mad Men: Peggy quits

• Boogie Nights

  A harrowing visit to Rahad's pad

• Nowhere to Hide

  The 40 Steps murder

• Double Indemnity

  First encounter

• Good Will Hunting

  "It's not your fault"

• Shock Corridor

  Schizoid sermon

• Barton Fink

  Checking into the Hotel Earle

• The Manchurian Candidate

  Train conversation

• Devils on the Doorstep

  Mistranslated interrogation

• The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

  Dance fight

• Children of Men

  Automobile ambush

...plus 168 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My ranked first watches in 2016.

Renewed Appreciation: The Social Network, Casablanca, True Grit, Easy Rider, Pina, Unknown, Mission: Impossible, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

1. A Brighter Summer Day

   July

2. Chungking Express

   September

3. Trust

   August

4. Wavelength

   December

5. Manhunter

   May

6. ion

   September

7. The Devils

   February

8. Miami Vice

   May

9. Carlito's Way

   September

10. Carol

    January

...plus 310 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My former (as of December 18, 2016) ranked all-time favorites.

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Eraserhead
3. Close-Up
4. Yi Yi
5. Paris, Texas
6. In the Mood for Love
7. A Brighter Summer Day
8. Blade Runner
9. Sans Soleil
10. Persona

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My former ranking (as of December 18, 2016) of all of the films I have logged in my diary on Letterboxd.

The ratings system in the notes are Mike D'Angelo's 100-point scale and Dan Sallitt's color coding (subjective).

1. Mulholland Drive

   100/100
   Red

2. Eraserhead

   100/100
   Red

3. Sans Soleil

   100/100
   Red

4. 2001: A Space Odyssey

   100/100
   Orange

5. A Brighter Summer Day

   100/100
   Red

6. Persona

   99/100
   Red

7. Paris, Texas

   99/100
   Red

8. Yi Yi

   98/100
   Red

9. The Night of the Hunter

   98/100
   Red

10. The ion of Joan of Arc

    97/100
    Orange

...plus 502 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The former (as of December 18, 2016) top tier of films I have seen.

The title is taken from my favorite quote, by Ingmar Bergman: "Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of ing darkness."

1. Cameraperson
2. The Handmaiden
3. Manchester by the Sea
4. O.J.: Made in America
5. The Assassin
6. Blackhat
7. Carol
8. The Forbidden Room
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
10. Mistress America

...plus 151 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My former (as of December 18, 2016) unranked favorite films.

The title is taken from a Tarkovsky quote: "Art affirms all that is best in man—hope, faith, love, beauty, prayer…What he dreams of and what he hopes for…What is art?…Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice."

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Ali
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Aloha
• Annie Hall
• Barton Fink
• The Battle of Algiers
• Battleship Potemkin
• Before Sunrise
• Blackhat

...plus 136 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The films featured on The Next Picture Show podcast, which can be found here: thenextpictureshow.tumblr.com/
and features Scott Tobias, Tasha Robinson, Keith Phipps, Rachel Handler, and Genevieve Koski from the late, great Dissolve.
"Each two-part Next Picture Show discussion combines The Dissolve’s Movie of the Week feature with a movie of the day, taking inspiration from a new release to talk about a classic film."
The list will also include the films discussed in the Your Next Picture Show section after the main two films, "where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar" with the name of the recommender in the notes.

• All the President's Men

  Main

• Spotlight

  Main

• Anomalisa

  Tasha Robinson

• Girls Lost

  Tasha Robinson

• Victoria

  Tasha Robinson

• Carol

  Keith Phipps

• Mulholland Drive

  Keith Phipps

• Our Brand Is Crisis

  Scott Tobias

• Battle Royale

  Main

• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

  Main

...plus 137 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The films that have been selected as the winners of the Best Movies of... polls on Twitter.

Years that have been completed: 1986, 2006, 1997, 1955

Years in progress: 1976

• Blue Velvet
• Syndromes and a Century
• Boogie Nights
• Talk to Her
• The Night of the Hunter

The films that have deemed absolute must-sees by Jaime Christeley's theFilmsaurus website.

Not on Letterboxd:
The Race for Millions (1912, Louis Feuillade)
Revenge [episode, Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955, Alfred Hitchcock)
La banc de la desolation (1974, Claude Chabrol)
Twin Peaks (1990, David Lynch)
Interpolations I-V (1992, Stan Brakhage)

• The Unchanging Sea
• The Usurer
• Enoch Arden: Part I
• Little Nemo
• The Lonedale Operator
• The Roman Orgy
• The Trust, or The Battles for Money
• The Cameraman's Revenge
• The Girl and Her Trust
• The Musketeers of Pig Alley

...plus 1387 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list by Patrick Devitt of essential "long" (~150 minutes+) films in order from longest to shortest. The list will be updated periodically.

1. Out 1
2. Star Spangled to Death
3. Near Death
4. Carlos
5. Mildred Pierce
6. Scenes from a Marriage
7. Mysteries of Lisbon
8. Doomed Love
9. L'Amour fou
10. Norte, The End of History

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Not on Letterboxd:
218. "Camera falls from airplane and lands in pig pen-MUST WATCH END!!"

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Her
3. Under the Skin
4. The Tree of Life
5. The Social Network
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. The Master
8. Boyhood
9. A Separation
10. Drive

...plus 325 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

An impromptu Sight and Sound-style poll I conducted in the Dissolve Facebook group on June 7 & 8, 2016.

Number of voters: 30
List is ordered by number of votes, then release year, then alphabetical order (as per the original poll's order).

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

   10

2. Mulholland Drive

   8

3. The ion of Joan of Arc

   4

4. Rear Window

   4

5. Seven Samurai

   4

6. Vertigo

   4

7. Sans Soleil

   4

8. Do the Right Thing

   4

9. Metropolis

   3

10. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    3

...plus 201 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Children of Men
5. No Country for Old Men
6. Inglourious Basterds
7. WALL·E
8. Zodiac
9. Before Sunset
10. Pan's Labyrinth

...plus 381 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The complete ranked list formed from Scout Tafoya's cinematography poll on Fandor. Rankings are first by number of mentions and then by first mention in the alphabetical list of voters. Number of multiple votes are in the notes.

Separate lists by director and cinematographer.

Not included:
The Knick
The Sopranos

1. Days of Heaven

   13

2. Barry Lyndon

   13

3. Citizen Kane

   11

4. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

   11

5. 2001: A Space Odyssey

   11

6. The Red Shoes

   10

7. The Conformist

   9

8. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

   9

9. The Magnificent Ambersons

   8

10. The Tree of Life

    8

...plus 377 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The greatest films of all time as voted on by the Criterion subreddit using a ranked top 10 methodology from over 166 ballots (510 films in total).

1. Persona
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Seven Samurai
4. Mulholland Drive
5. Taxi Driver
6. The Godfather
7. 8½
8. Apocalypse Now
9. There Will Be Blood
10. Eraserhead

...plus 240 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All of my first watches (that I can recall, thus the lack of ranks) in 2015.

• (500) Days of Summer
• 8½
• A Clockwork Orange
• A Hard Day's Night
• A Trip to the Moon
• A Wild Hare
• A Woman Is a Woman
• A Woman Under the Influence
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Adaptation.

...plus 215 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.