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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #110 on: January 06, 2011, 08:46:39 AM »
Yeah, what I meant to imply is that since I was planning on announcing them on Saturday night, the deadline is Saturday evening...there's no special production around this reveal. :)

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #111 on: January 06, 2011, 11:29:43 PM »
I'm not adding anything, here, but this is my list:


First Tier
1.   Dear Zachary
2.   Waltz With Bashir
3.   Fog of War
4.   Exit Through The Gift Shop
5.   Some Kind of Monster
6.   F for Fake
7.   Man on Wire

Second Tier
8.   Sicko
9.   My Kid Could Paint That
10.   Grizzly Man
11.   Bowling for Columbine
12.   Super Size Me
13.   24 City
14.   Roger and Me
15.   Deliver Me From Evil
16.   Murderball

Third Tier
17.   The Corporation
18.   Food, Inc.
19.   Lost In La Mancha
20.   No End In Sight
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #112 on: January 08, 2011, 11:50:21 AM »
Let's go with this.

1. Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994)
2. Gimme Shelter (The Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, 1970)
3. Welfare (Frederick Wiseman, 1975)
4. Ted Baryluk's Grocery (John Paskievick & Mike Mirus, 1982)
5. Dont Look Back (D. A. Pennebaker, 1967)
6. Paul Tomkowicz: Street-railway Switchman (Roman Kroitor, 1953)
7. Children Underground (Edet Belzberg, 2001)
8. Up Series (Paul Almond and Michael Apted)
9. Roger & Me (Michael Moore, 1989)
10. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)
11. Harlan County U.S.A (Barbara Kopple, 1976)
12. Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman, 1997)
13. César's Bark Canoe (Bernard Gosselin, 1971)
14. Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis, 1974)
15. The House Is Black (Forough Farrokhzad, 1962)
16. Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh, 1970)
17. You Are on Indian Land (Mort Ransen, 1969)
18. High School (Frederick Wiseman, 1968)
19. Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns (1994)
20. The Pinochet Case (Patricio Guzmán, 2002)
21. Primary (Robert Drew, 1960)
22. Salesman (The Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)
23. Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1984)
24. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)
25. American Movie (Chris Smith, 1999)
26. La Lutte/Wrestling  (Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière, Claude Fournier and Claude Jutra, 1961)
27. Mad Hot Ballroom (Marilyn Agrelo, 2005)
28. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 2004)
29. Pour la Suite du Monde (Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault, 1963)
30. The New Mayor (Derek Mazur, Ian Elkin, and Bob Lower, 1980)
31. No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese, 2005)
32. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (Robert Drew, 1963)
33. Golden Gloves (Gilles Groulx, 1961)
34. Grey Gardens (The Maysles, 1976)
35. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
36. The Things I Cannot Change (Tanya Ballantyne, 1967)
37. Night And Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
38. Paradise Lost (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1996)
39. Les Raquetteurs/The Snowshoers (Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx, 1958)
40. Lonely Boy (Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor, 1962)
41. Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003)
42. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (Donald Brittain and Don Owen, 1965)
43. The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris, 1981)
44. Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi, 2008)
45. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
46. Lake of Fire (Tony Kaye, 2006)
47. Billy Crane Moves Away (Colin Low, 1967)
48. Housing Problems (1935)
49. The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein, 1984)
50. Frontline: Failure to Protect (Barak Goodman, 2003)
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #113 on: January 08, 2011, 12:09:57 PM »
Speak now or forever hold your peace.

I've got ballots from...if you think you should be on this list, let me know:
Emiliana
matt tmw
oldkid
Beavermoose
Smirnoff
FarFetchFilm
flieger
Keith
MartinTeller
ProperCharlie
Senior Javi
Michael X
Ver Schmer
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: FYC and Your Lists
« Reply #114 on: January 10, 2011, 02:16:11 AM »
Updates in bold:

1   Capturing the Friedmans
2   Gimme Shelter
3   Waltz With Bashir
4   Hoop Dreams
5   The King of Kong
6   Roger & Me
7   Man of Aran
8   Man On Wire
9   Grizzly Man
10   Exit Through the Gift Shop
11   Dark Days
12   Bowling for Columbine
13   American Movie
14   Fog of War
15   Crumb
16   Of Time and the City
17   Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination
18   Wordplay
19   Touching the Void
20   Ryan
21   This Film Is Not Yet Rated
22   The Kid Stays in the Picture
23   The Five Obstructions
24   Super Size Me
25   Restrepo
26   The Aristocrats
27   Man With a Movie Camera
28   My Winnipeg
29   Jesus Camp
30   No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
31   Nanook of the North
32   The Red Chapel
33   Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
34   The Cove
35   Standard Operating Procedure
36   Spellbound
37   Encounters at the End of the World
38   Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
39   American Teen
40   An Inconvenient Truth
41   Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
42   Controll Room
43   Sicko
44   Rize
45   Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
46   Murderball
47   Tyson
48   Scratch
49   Jackass
50   The Weather Underground
51   The Trials of Henry Kissinger
52   The Miscreants of Taliwood
53   The Corporation
54   The Clash: Westway to the World
55   Perversion for Profit
56   Roman Polanksi: Wanted and Desired
57   Religulous
58   Milk In the Land, Ballad of an American Drink
59   My Enemy’s Enemy
60   Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
61   Trekkies
62   Shut Up and Sing
63   Lost in La Mancha
64   Hearts and Minds
65   Food Inc.
66   Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
67   Comedian
68   Baadaasss
69   Anvil! The Story of Anvil
70   Visual Acoustics
71   Who Killed the Electric Car?
72   Thrilla In Manila
73   No End In Sight
74   CINECAST!
75   Art & Copy
76   Jackass 2
77   Salim Babba
78   Garbo: The Spy
79   The Art of the Steal
80   What the Bleep Do We Know?
81   The Road to Guantanamo
82   Why We Fight
83   War Dance
84   Machete Maidens Unleashed!
85   Capitalism: A Love Story
86   Outrage
87   The 11th Hour
88   Better Living Through Circuitry
89   Fahrenheit 9/11
90   At the Death House Door
91   Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: Shortlist
« Reply #115 on: January 10, 2011, 07:49:42 PM »
Below is the 150 film shortlist in consideration for the top 100. Selection criteria was as follows. The initial cutoff was all films earning at least 10 points (everyone who sent a ballot got their top 15 docs onto the shortlist). For films scoring between 7-9 points, films receiving multiple votes were added to the shortlist but films that only had one vote (in someone's 16-20) were not. Considering everyone who participated got their top 15 in, I feel it is fair to say that anyone who did not send in a ballot can submit the name of one documentary, not presently on the shortlist, for inclusion. Thanks to everyone who participated, I think we have a really good list to work from and hopefully people will be inspired to catch up with many of them before April when I will announce the deadline for submitting a rating ballot.

The 2011 Filmspotting Top 100 Documentaries Shortlist:
24 City
Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes, The
Alone in the Wilderness
American Movie
American Teen
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Aristocrats, The
At the Death House Door
Bag It
Baraka
Battle of Chile, The
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Blood of the Beasts
Bowling For Columbine
Buena Vista Social Club
Burden of Dreams
Burma VJ
Business of Being Born
Capitalism: A Love Story
Capturing the Friedmans
Cats of Mirikitani, The
Century of Self, The
Cesar's Bark Canoe
Children Underground
Cinemania
Comedian
Control Room
Corporation, The
Cove, The
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
Crumb
Daguerrotypes
Danse, La
Dark Days
Dear Zachary
Deep Water
Deliver Us From Evil
Devil and Daniel Johnston, The
Divorce Iranian Style
Dogtown and the Z Boys
Domestic Violence
Don't Look Back
Elephant Will Never Forget, The
Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, The
Encounters at the End of the World
Endless Summer 2
Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Eyes on the Prize
F for Fake
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fast Cheap and Out of Control
First Contact
Fog of War, The
Food, Inc.
For All Mankind
Garbo: The Spy
Garden, The
Gates of Heaven
Gimme Shelter
Gleaners & I, The
Good Hair
Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, The
Grey Gardens
Grizzly Man
Harlan County, U.S.A.
Hearts and Minds
Hell House
High School
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
Hoop Dreams
House is Black, The
In the Shadow of the Moon
Inconvenient Truth, An
Jackass
Jesus Camp
Jonestown
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
Kid Stays In The Picture, The
King of Kong, The
Koyannqatsi
Lake of Fire
Land of Silence and Darkness
Let's Get Lost
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Lonely Boy
Looking For Richard
Lost in La Mancha
Mad Hot Ballroom
Man of Aran
Man on Wire
Man With a Movie Camera, The
Married Couple, A
Memorandum
Middletown
Mr. Death
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Murderball
My Kid Could Paint That
My Winnipeg
Mystery of Picasso, The
Nanook of the North
Near Death
Night and Fog
Night Mail
No Direction Home
No End in Sight
Not Quite Hollywood
On Any Sunday
Our School
Paradise Lost
Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman
Power of Nightmares, The
Primary
Prince's Sign of the Times
Prodigal Sons
Public Housing
Religulous
Rembrandt's J'Accuse
Restrepo
Riding Giants
Roger & Me
Roman Polanksi: Wanted and Desired
Ryan
Salesman
Shoah
Sick Around The World
Sicko
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Soufriere, La
Spellbound
Standard Operating Procedure
State Legislature
Stop Making Sense
Street Fight
Streetwise
Super Size Me
Sympathy for the Devil
Tarnation
Ted Baryluk's Grocery
They Took Us to the Sea
Thin Blue Line, The
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Time for Burning, A
Times of Harvey Milk, The
Titicut Follies
Tongues United
Touching the Void
Twist of Faith
Two Escobars, The
Up Series, The
Up the Yangtze
Waltz with Bashir
Warrendale
Way Things Go, The
Weather Underground, The
Welfare
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Winged Migration
Wordplay
Young@Heart
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: Shortlist
« Reply #116 on: January 10, 2011, 07:56:32 PM »
I would like to add At the Death House Door for my one submission to include on the list
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: Shortlist
« Reply #117 on: January 10, 2011, 08:44:24 PM »
And I would like to add Daguerrotypes if I could.

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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: Shortlist
« Reply #118 on: January 11, 2011, 02:16:42 AM »
I don't see Ryan on there - I know at least two people had it at #20 so that should be 16 points right?  Also think Jackass had 7 points from 2 lists.
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Re: Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries: Shortlist
« Reply #119 on: January 11, 2011, 06:15:51 AM »
I don't see Ryan on there - I know at least two people had it at #20 so that should be 16 points right?  Also think Jackass had 7 points from 2 lists.

I had it on my list.

 

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