Top 25 Films on Memory: Working Tiers

[Evan C]

I know not everyone used this last time, but personally I found it very helpful in prioritizing which nominees to watch before voting.  So here are the tiers:

 

Tier 1 - The Most Important
 
Tier 2 - Must Be On the List
 
Tier 3 - Strong Maybes
 
Tier 4 - Can Understand Why It Was Nominated
 
Tier 5 - Love the Film, Do Not Think Memory Is a Central Theme
 
Tier 6 - Cannot Understand Why It Was Nominated
 
Tier 7 - Not Yet Seen

 

Nominees:

 

2046 (2004) - Kar Wai Wong - seconded

A Beautiful Mind (2001) - Ron Howard

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Steven Spielberg - seconded

The Act of Killing (2012) - Joshua Oppenheimer - seconded

Adam's Apples (2005) - Anders Thomas Jensen - seconded

After Life (1998) - Hirokazu Koreeda - (Top 100, #85) - seconded

Amateur (1994) - Hal Hartley

American Graffiti (1973) - George Lucas

Away From Her (2006) - Sarah Polley - seconded

The Bird with Crystal Plumage (1970) - Dario Argento

Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott - seconded

The Bourne Supremacy (2004) - Paul Greenglass

Cache (2005) - Michael Haneke - seconded

Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz - seconded

Casualties of War (1989) - Brian De Palma - seconded

Certified Copy (2010) - Abbas Kiarostami - (Top 25 Marriage, #2) - seconded

Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles - seconded

Close-Up (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami - (Top 100, #47) - seconded

Code 46 (2003) - Michael Winterbottom

Dark City (1998) - Alex Proyas - seconded

The Deer Hunter (1978) - Michael Cimino - seconded

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010) - Tatsuya Ishihara & Yasuhiro Takemoto

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) - Julian Schnabel - seconded

The English Patient (1996) - Anthony Minghella

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Michel Gondry - seconded

Eternity and a Day (1998) - Theodoros Angelopoulos

Eve's Bayou (1997) - Kasi Lemmons

Exotica (1994) - Atom Egoyan - seconded

Fearless (1993) - Peter Weir - seconded

Field of Dreams (1989) - Phil Alden Robinson - seconded

Finding Nemo (2003) - Andrew Stanton

Gaslight (1944) - George Cukor - seconded

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) - Mamoru Hosoda - seconded

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - Wes Anderson - seconded

Heartbeat Detector (2007) - Nicholas Klotz - seconded

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) - Alain Resnais - seconded

How Green Was My Valley (1941) - John Ford - (Top 100, #74) - seconded

The Hulk (2003) - Ang Lee

In the City of Sylvia (2007) - José Luis Guerín - seconded

Inception (2010) - Christopher Nolan - seconded

Iris (2001) - Richard Eyre - seconded

The Island (2006) - Pavel Lungin - (Top 100, #77) - seconded

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra - (Top 100, #40) - seconded

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) - Don Hertzfeldt

Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Andrei Tarkovsky - seconded

Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) - Alain Resnais

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Robert Hamer - seconded

La Jetée (1962) - Chris Marker - seconded

The Lady Vanishes (1938) - Alfred Hitchcock - seconded

Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Alain Resnais - seconded

Life of Pi (2012) - Ang Lee - seconded

The Lives of Others (2006) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - seconded

Lola Montes (1955) - Max Ophuls

Lone Star (1996) - John Sayles - seconded

The Long Day Closes (1992) - Terrence Davies - seconded

The Man Without a Past (2002) - Aki Kaurismäki - seconded

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - John Ford - seconded

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - John Frankenheimer - seconded

Marwencol (2010) - Jeff Malmberg - seconded

The Matrix (1999) - The Wachowski Brothers

Memento (2000) - Christopher Nolan - seconded

The Mirror (1975) - Andrei Tarkovsky - (Top 100, #11) - seconded

Moon (2009) - Duncan Jones - seconded

Mulholland Drive (2001) - David Lynch - seconded

Mr. Arkadin / Confidential Report (1955) - Orson Welles - seconded

My Winnipeg (2007) - Guy Maddin - seconded

Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) - Raoul Ruiz - seconded

Night and Fog (1955) - Alain Resnais - seconded

Nixon (1995) - Oliver Stone - seconded

Nostalghia (1983) - Andrei Tarkovsky - seconded

Oldboy (2003) - Chan-wook Park - seconded

Once Upon A Time in America (1984) - Sergio Leone - seconded

Orpheus (1950) - Jean Cocteau - seconded

The Page Turner (2006) - Denis Dercourt

Paris, Texas (1984) - Wim Wenders - (Top 100, #72) - seconded

The Pawnbroker (1964) - Sidney Lumet - seconded

Random Harvest (1942) - Mervyn LeRoy

Rashômon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa - (Top 100, #62) - seconded

Rebecca (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock - seconded

Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009) - Anand Tucker

Rhapsody in August (1991) - Akira Kurosawa

Robot & Frank (2012) - Jake Schreier - seconded

Roma (1972) - Federico Fellini

Russian Ark (2002) - Aleksandr Sokurov - seconded

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) - Rithy Panh

Scrooge (1951) - Brian Desmond Hurst - seconded

The Secret Life of Words (2005) - Isabel Coixet - seconded

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) - Sergei Parajanov

Shutter Island (2010) - Martin Scorsese - seconded

The Sixth Sense (1999) - M. Night Shyamalan

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Danny Boyle

Solaris (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky - seconded

Solaris (2002) - Steven Soderbergh - seconded

Sophie's Choice (1982) - Alan J. Pakula

Speed Racer (2008) - The Wachowski Brothers

Spellbound (1945) - Alfred Hitchcock - seconded

Stardust Memories (1980) - Woody Allen - seconded

Stories We Tell (2012) - Sarah Polley - seconded

Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) - Tim Burton

Swimming to Cambodia (1987) - Jonathan Demme

The Third Man (1949) - Carol Reed

Time Regained (1999) - Raoul Ruiz

Three Colors: Blue (1993) - Krzysztof Kieslowski - (Top 100, #14) - seconded

Total Recall (1990) - Paul Verhoeven - seconded

The Tree of Life (2011) - Terrence Malick - seconded

The Trip to Bountiful (1985) - Peter Masterson - seconded

Troubled Water (2008) - Erik Poppe - seconded

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul - seconded

The Usual Suspects (1995) - Bryan Singer

Upstream Color (2013) - Shane Carruth - seconded

Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock - (Top 100, #83) - seconded

Waltz with Bashir (2008) - Ari Folman - seconded

Wild Strawberries (1957) - Ingmar Bergman - (Top 100, #29) - seconded

Wit (2001) - Mike Nichols - seconded

Wreck-It Ralph (2012) - Rich Moore - seconded

Youth Without Youth (2007) - Francis Ford Coppola

 

4/29 Update: (added a few seconds above as well)

 

8 1/2 (1963) - Federico Fellini

Atlantic City (1980) - Louis Malle

The Arbor (2010) - Clio Barnard  - seconded

The Beaches of Agnes (2008) - Agnes Varda - seconded

Birth (2004) - Jonathan Glazer - seconded

Colossal Youth (2006) - Pedro Costa - seconded

F for Fake (1973) - Orson Welles - seconded

The Last Picture Show (1971) - Peter Bogdanovich

Los Muertos (2004) - Lisandro Alonso

Lucky Life (2010) - Lee Isaac Chung - seconded

Martha Marcy May Marlene  (2010) - Sean Durkin - seconded

A Moment of Innocence (1996) - Mohsen Makhmalbaf

The Passion of the Christ (2004) - Mel Gibson - seconded

Saraband (2003) - Ingmar Bergman - seconded

The Thin Blue Line (1988) - Errol Morris - seconded

Time Indefinite (1993) - Ross McElwee

Titanic (1997) - James Cameron

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg  (1964) - Jacques Demy

Walkabout  (1971) - Nicolas Roeg

Edited May 1, 2014 by Evan C

[Evan C]

Tier 1 - The Most Important - 8
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) - Alain Resnais
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Alain Resnais
Memento (2000) - Christopher Nolan
Millennium Actress (2001) - Satoshi Kon
Radio Days (1987) - Woody Allen
Spellbound (1945) - Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
Wild Strawberries (1957) - Ingmar Bergman

Tier 2 - Must Be On the List - 14
2046 (2004) - Kar Wai Wong

8 1/2 (1963) - Federico Fellini
The Act of Killing (2012) - Joshua Oppenheimer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Michel Gondry
In the City of Sylvia (2007) - José Luis Guerín
The Island (2006) - Pavel Lungin
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Robert Hamer
La Jetée (1962) - Chris Marker
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - John Ford
Mulholland Drive (2001) - David Lynch
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) - Raoul Ruiz
Rashômon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa
Rebecca (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock
Three Colors: Blue (1993) - Krzysztof Kieslowski

Tier 3 - Strong Maybes - 23
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Steven Spielberg
Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott
The Bird with Crystal Plumage (1970) - Dario Argento
Cache (2005) - Michael Haneke
Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz
Dark City (1998) - Alex Proyas
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) - Julian Schnabel
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) - Mamoru Hosoda
How Green Was My Valley (1941) - John Ford
I Remember Mama (1948) - George Stevens
Inception (2010) - Christopher Nolan
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - John Frankenheimer
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) - Sean Durkin
The Mirror (1975) - Andrei Tarkovsky
Mr. Arkadin / Confidential Report (1955) - Orson Welles
Night and Fog (1955) - Alain Resnais
Oldboy (2003) - Chan-wook Park
Paris, Texas (1984) - Wim Wenders
The Pawnbroker (1964) - Sidney Lumet
Rhapsody in August (1991) - Akira Kurosawa
Shutter Island (2010) - Martin Scorsese
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Wit (2001) - Mike Nichols

Tier 4 - Can Understand Why It Was Nominated - 17
Birth (2004) - Jonathan Glazer
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) - Paul Greenglass
Certified Copy (2010) - Abbas Kiarostami
The Deer Hunter (1978) - Michael Cimino
F for Fake (1973) - Orson Welles
Fearless (1993) - Peter Weir
Gaslight (1944) - George Cukor
Iris (2001) - Richard Eyre
Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Andrei Tarkovsky
Marwencol (2010) - Jeff Malmberg
Russian Ark (2002) - Aleksandr Sokurov
Stardust Memories (1980) - Woody Allen
Solaris (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky
Stories We Tell (2012) - Sarah Polley
Total Recall (1990) - Paul Verhoeven
The Tree of Life (2011) - Terrence Malick
Waltz with Bashir (2008) - Ari Folman

Tier 5 - Love the Film, Do Not Think Memory Is a Central Theme - 8
Adam's Apples (2005) - Anders Thomas Jensen
Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles
Close-Up (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - Isao Takahata
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra
The Lady Vanishes (1938) - Alfred Hitchcock
The Lives of Others (2006) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Passion of the Christ (2004) - Mel Gibson

Tier 6 - Cannot Understand Why It Was Nominated - 3
Field of Dreams (1989) - Phil Alden Robinson
In Praise of Love (2001) - Jean Luc-Godard
Life of Pi (2012) - Ang Lee

Tier 7 - Not Yet Seen
A Moment of Innocence (1996) - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
After Life (1998) - Hirokazu Koreeda
The Arbor (2010) - Clio Barnard
Away From Her (2006) - Sarah Polley
The Beaches of Agnes (2008) - Agnes Varda
Casualties of War (1989) - Brian De Palma
Chocolat (1988) - Claire Denis
Colossal Youth (2006) - Pedro Costa
Eternity and a Day (1998) - Theodoros Angelopoulos
Exotica (1994) - Atom Egoyan
Heartbeat Detector (2007) - Nicholas Klotz
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) - Don Hertzfeldt
Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) - Alain Resnais
The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012) - Jose Rodrigues & Joao da Mata
Lone Star (1996) - John Sayles
The Long Day Closes (1992) - Terrence Davies
Lucky Life (2010) - Lee Isaac Chung
The Man Without a Past (2002) - Aki Kaurismäki
Moon (2009) - Duncan Jones
My Winnipeg (2007) - Guy Maddin
Nixon (1995) - Oliver Stone
Nostalghia (1983) - Andrei Tarkovsky
Once Upon A Time in America (1984) - Sergio Leone
Orpheus (1950) - Jean Cocteau
The Remains of the Day (1993) - James Ivory
Robot & Frank (2012) - Jake Schreier
Saraband (2003) - Ingmar Bergman
Scrooge (1951) - Brian Desmond Hurst
The Secret Life of Words (2005) - Isabel Coixet
Solaris (2002) - Steven Soderbergh
The Sweet Hereafter (1997) - Anton Egoyan
Syndromes and a Century (2006) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Tetro (2009) - Francis Ford Coppola
The Thin Blue Line (1988) - Errol Morris
The Trip to Bountiful (1985) - Peter Masterson
Troubled Water (2008) - Erik Poppe
Upstream Color (2013) - Shane Carruth
Wreck-It Ralph (2012) - Rich Moore

Edited January 27, 2015 by Evan C

[J.A.A. Purves]

Tier 1 - The Most Important (5)
 
The Mirror (1975) - Andrei Tarkovsky - (Top 100, #11) - seconded
 
The Lives of Others (2006) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - seconded
Stories We Tell (2012) - Sarah Polley - seconded
The Tree of Life (2011) - Terrence Malick - seconded
Wild Strawberries (1957) - Ingmar Bergman - (Top 100, #29) - seconded

Tier 2 - Must Be On the List (9)
 
The Deer Hunter (1978) - Michael Cimino - seconded
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Michel Gondry - seconded
Fearless (1993) - Peter Weir - seconded
In the City of Sylvia (2007) - José Luis Guerín - seconded
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Alain Resnais - seconded
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - John Ford - seconded
Nostalghia (1983) - Andrei Tarkovsky - seconded
Solaris (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky - seconded
Wit (2001) - Mike Nichols - seconded

Tier 3 - Strong Maybes (13)
 
Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott - seconded
How Green Was My Valley (1941) - John Ford - (Top 100, #74) - seconded
Inception (2010) - Christopher Nolan - seconded
Iris (2001) - Richard Eyre - seconded
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Robert Hamer - seconded
The Lady Vanishes (1938) - Alfred Hitchcock - seconded
The Long Day Closes (1992) - Terrence Davies - seconded
Orpheus (1950) - Jean Cocteau - seconded
Paris, Texas (1984) - Wim Wenders - (Top 100, #72) - seconded
Rashômon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa - (Top 100, #62) - seconded
The Secret Life of Words (2005) - Isabel Coixet - seconded
Shutter Island (2010) - Martin Scorsese - seconded
Three Colors: Blue (1993) - Krzysztof Kieslowski - (Top 100, #14) - seconded

Tier 4 - Can Understand Why It Was Nominated
 
A Beautiful Mind (2001) - Ron Howard
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Steven Spielberg - seconded
Cache (2005) - Michael Haneke - seconded
Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles - seconded
Field of Dreams (1989) - Phil Alden Robinson - seconded
Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Andrei Tarkovsky - seconded
Memento (2000) - Christopher Nolan - seconded
Moon (2009) - Duncan Jones - seconded
Mulholland Drive (2001) - David Lynch - seconded
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) - Raoul Ruiz - seconded
Random Harvest (1942) - Mervyn LeRoy
Solaris (2002) - Steven Soderbergh
Spellbound (1945) - Alfred Hitchcock - seconded
Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock - (Top 100, #83) - seconded

Tier 5 - Love the Film, Do Not Think Memory Is a Central Theme
 
Adam's Apples (2005) - Anders Thomas Jensen - seconded
Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz - seconded
Certified Copy (2010) - Abbas Kiarostami - (Top 25 Marriage, #2) - seconded
Gaslight (1944) - George Cukor - seconded
The Island (2006) - Pavel Lungin - (Top 100, #77) - seconded
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra - (Top 100, #40) - seconded
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - John Frankenheimer - seconded
Robot & Frank (2012) - Jake Schreier - seconded

Tier 6 - Cannot Understand Why It Was Nominated
 
The Act of Killing (2012) - Joshua Oppenheimer
American Graffiti (1973) - George Lucas
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) - Paul Greenglass
Code 46 (2003) - Michael Winterbottom
Finding Nemo (2003) - Andrew Stanton
The Hulk (2003) - Ang Lee
Life of Pi (2012) - Ang Lee - seconded
Marwencol (2010) - Jeff Malmberg - seconded
The Matrix (1999) - The Wachowski Brothers
Nixon (1995) - Oliver Stone - seconded
Oldboy (2003) - Chan-wook Park - seconded
Rebecca (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock - seconded
Scrooge (1951) - Brian Desmond Hurst
The Sixth Sense (1999) - M. Night Shyamalan
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Danny Boyle
Sophie's Choice (1982) - Alan J. Pakula
Speed Racer (2008) - The Wachowski Brothers
Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) - Tim Burton
Total Recall (1990) - Paul Verhoeven - seconded
The Usual Suspects (1995) - Bryan Singer
Wreck-It Ralph (2012) - Rich Moore - seconded

Tier 7 - Not Yet Seen
 
2046 (2004) - Kar Wai Wong - seconded
After Life (1998) - Hirokazu Koreeda - (Top 100, #85) - seconded
Amateur (1994) - Hal Hartley
Away From Her (2006) - Sarah Polley
The Bird with Crystal Plumage (1970) - Dario Argento
Casualties of War (1989) - Brian De Palma - seconded
Close-Up (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami - (Top 100, #47) - seconded
Dark City (1998) - Alex Proyas
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010) - Tatsuya Ishihara & Yasuhiro Takemoto
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) - Julian Schnabel - seconded
The English Patient (1996) - Anthony Minghella
Eternity and a Day (1998) - Theodoros Angelopoulos
Eve's Bayou (1997) - Kasi Lemmons
Exotica (1994) - Atom Egoyan
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) - Mamoru Hosoda - seconded
Heartbeat Detector (2007) - Nicholas Klotz - seconded
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) - Alain Resnais - seconded
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) - Don Hertzfeldt
Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) - Alain Resnais
La Jetée (1962) - Chris Marker - seconded
Lola Montes (1955) - Max Ophuls
Lone Star (1996) - John Sayles - seconded
The Man Without a Past (2002) - Aki Kaurismäki - seconded
Mr. Arkadin / Confidential Report (1955) - Orson Welles - seconded
My Winnipeg (2007) - Guy Maddin
Night and Fog (1955) - Alain Resnais - seconded
Once Upon A Time in America (1984) - Sergio Leone - seconded
The Page Turner (2006) - Denis Dercourt
The Pawnbroker (1964) - Sidney Lumet - seconded
Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009) - Anand Tucker
Rhapsody in August (1991) - Akira Kurosawa
Roma (1972) - Federico Fellini
Russian Ark (2002) - Aleksandr Sokurov - seconded
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) - Rithy Panh
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) - Sergei Parajanov
Stardust Memories (1980) - Woody Allen
Swimming to Cambodia (1987) - Jonathan Demme
The Third Man (1949) - Carol Reed
Time Regained (1999) - Raoul Ruiz
The Trip to Bountiful (1985) - Peter Masterson - seconded
Troubled Water (2008) - Erik Poppe - seconded
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul - seconded
Waltz with Bashir (2008) - Ari Folman - seconded
Youth Without Youth (2007) - Francis Ford Coppola

[John Drew]

Just wanted to post this list here, if anyone wanted to work on their tiers.

 

Thanks, John for helping start up some discussion of this.  I will respond more to you soon.

 

Meanwhile, here is our working list of nominated and seconded qualifying films.  If I missed anything, let me know.

 

8 1/2 (1963) - Federico Fellini
2046 (2004) - Kar Wai Wong
A Moment of Innocence (1996) - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Steven Spielberg
The Act of Killing (2012) - Joshua Oppenheimer
Adam's Apples (2005) - Anders Thomas Jensen
After Life (1998) - Hirokazu Koreeda
The Arbor (2010) - Clio Barnard
Away From Her (2006) - Sarah Polley
The Beaches of Agnes (2008) - Agnes Varda
The Bird with Crystal Plumage (1970) - Dario Argento
Birth (2004) - Jonathan Glazer
Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) - Paul Greenglass
Cache (2005) - Michael Haneke
Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz
Casualties of War (1989) - Brian De Palma
Certified Copy (2010) - Abbas Kiarostami
Chocolat (1988) - Claire Denis
Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles
Close-Up (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami
Colossal Youth (2006) - Pedro Costa
Dark City (1998) - Alex Proyas
The Deer Hunter (1978) - Michael Cimino
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) - Julian Schnabel
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Michel Gondry
Eternity and a Day (1998) - Theodoros Angelopoulos
Exotica (1994) - Atom Egoyan
F for Fake (1973) - Orson Welles
Fearless (1993) - Peter Weir
Field of Dreams (1989) - Phil Alden Robinson
Gaslight (1944) - George Cukor
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) - Mamoru Hosoda
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - Isao Takahata
Heartbeat Detector (2007) - Nicholas Klotz
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) - Alain Resnais
How Green Was My Valley (1941) - John Ford
I Remember Mama (1948) - George Stevens
In Praise of Love (2001) - Jean Luc-Godard
In the City of Sylvia (2007) - José Luis Guerín
Inception (2010) - Christopher Nolan
Iris (2001) - Richard Eyre
The Island (2006) - Pavel Lungin
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) - Don Hertzfeldt
Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Andrei Tarkovsky
Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) - Alain Resnais
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Robert Hamer
La Jetée (1962) - Chris Marker
The Lady Vanishes (1938) - Alfred Hitchcock
The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012) - Jose Rodrigues & Joao da Mata
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Alain Resnais
Life of Pi (2012) - Ang Lee
The Lives of Others (2006) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Lone Star (1996) - John Sayles
The Long Day Closes (1992) - Terrence Davies
Lucky Life (2010) - Lee Isaac Chung
The Man Without a Past (2002) - Aki Kaurismäki
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - John Ford
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - John Frankenheimer
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) - Sean Durkin
Marwencol (2010) - Jeff Malmberg
Memento (2000) - Christopher Nolan
Millennium Actress (2001) - Satoshi Kon
The Mirror (1975) - Andrei Tarkovsky
Moon (2009) - Duncan Jones
Mulholland Drive (2001) - David Lynch
Mr. Arkadin / Confidential Report (1955) - Orson Welles
My Winnipeg (2007) - Guy Maddin
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) - Raoul Ruiz
Night and Fog (1955) - Alain Resnais
Nixon (1995) - Oliver Stone
Nostalghia (1983) - Andrei Tarkovsky
Oldboy (2003) - Chan-wook Park
Once Upon A Time in America (1984) - Sergio Leone
Orpheus (1950) - Jean Cocteau
Paris, Texas (1984) - Wim Wenders
The Passion of the Christ (2004) - Mel Gibson
The Pawnbroker (1964) - Sidney Lumet
Radio Days (1987) - Woody Allen
Rashômon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa
Rebecca (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock
The Remains of the Day (1993) - James Ivory
Rhapsody in August (1991) - Akira Kurosawa
Robot & Frank (2012) - Jake Schreier
Russian Ark (2002) - Aleksandr Sokurov
Saraband (2003) - Ingmar Bergman
Scrooge (1951) - Brian Desmond Hurst
The Secret Life of Words (2005) - Isabel Coixet
Shutter Island (2010) - Martin Scorsese
Solaris (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky
Solaris (2002) - Steven Soderbergh
Spellbound (1945) - Alfred Hitchcock
Stardust Memories (1980) - Woody Allen
Stories We Tell (2012) - Sarah Polley
The Sweet Hereafter (1997) - Anton Egoyan
Syndromes and a Century (2006) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Tetro (2009) - Francis Ford Coppola
The Thin Blue Line (1988) - Errol Morris
Three Colors: Blue (1993) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
Total Recall (1990) - Paul Verhoeven
The Tree of Life (2011) - Terrence Malick
The Trip to Bountiful (1985) - Peter Masterson
Troubled Water (2008) - Erik Poppe
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Upstream Color (2013) - Shane Carruth
Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
Waltz with Bashir (2008) - Ari Folman
Wild Strawberries (1957) - Ingmar Bergman
Wit (2001) - Mike Nichols
Wreck-It Ralph (2012) - Rich Moore

[Darren H]

This was an interesting exercise. I limited my top two tiers to 25 total films just to give me a sense of what my own list might look like. The main thing that stands out is how strong a list I could make just from tier 3. It took us a long time to work through the nomination process this go-round, but I think it was time well spent. Of the films I've seen, there was only one, The Passion of the Christ, that would seem out of place on this list. Maybe I missed some conversation about how it qualifies as a memory film?

 

 

Tier 1 - The Most Important

A Moment of Innocence (1996) - Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Close-Up (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami

Colossal Youth (2006) - Pedro Costa

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) - Alain Resnais

In Praise of Love (2001) - Jean Luc-Godard

La Jetée (1962) - Chris Marker

The Mirror (1975) - Andrei Tarkovsky

Mulholland Drive (2001) - David Lynch

Night and Fog (1955) - Alain Resnais

Rashômon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa

Syndromes and a Century (2006) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock

 

Tier 2 - Must Be On the List

8 1/2 (1963) - Federico Fellini

The Act of Killing (2012) - Joshua Oppenheimer

Birth (2004) - Jonathan Glazer

Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott

Cache (2005) - Michael Haneke

Chocolat (1988) - Claire Denis

Heartbeat Detector (2007) - Nicholas Klotz

How Green Was My Valley (1941) - John Ford

In the City of Sylvia (2007) - José Luis Guerín

Memento (2000) - Christopher Nolan

Paris, Texas (1984) - Wim Wenders

The Thin Blue Line (1988) - Errol Morris

Wild Strawberries (1957) - Ingmar Bergman

 

Tier 3 - Strong Maybes

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Steven Spielberg

After Life (1998) - Hirokazu Koreeda

The Arbor (2010) - Clio Barnard

The Beaches of Agnes (2008) - Agnes Varda

Certified Copy (2010) - Abbas Kiarostami

Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Michel Gondry

Exotica (1994) - Atom Egoyan

F for Fake (1973) - Orson Welles

Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - Isao Takahata

Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Andrei Tarkovsky

The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012) - Jose Rodrigues & Joao da Mata

Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Alain Resnais

Lone Star (1996) - John Sayles

Lucky Life (2010) - Lee Isaac Chung

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - John Ford

Mr. Arkadin / Confidential Report (1955) - Orson Welles

My Winnipeg (2007) - Guy Maddin

Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) - Raoul Ruiz

Nostalghia (1983) - Andrei Tarkovsky

Rebecca (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock

Russian Ark (2002) - Aleksandr Sokurov

Saraband (2003) - Ingmar Bergman

Solaris (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky

Solaris (2002) - Steven Soderbergh

The Sweet Hereafter (1997) - Anton Egoyan

Tetro (2009) - Francis Ford Coppola

Three Colors: Blue (1993) - Krzysztof Kieslowski

The Tree of Life (2011) - Terrence Malick

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Upstream Color (2013) - Shane Carruth

Waltz with Bashir (2008) - Ari Folman

Wit (2001) - Mike Nichols

 

Tier 4 - Can Understand Why It Was Nominated

2046 (2004) - Kar Wai Wong

Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz

Dark City (1998) - Alex Proyas

The Deer Hunter (1978) - Michael Cimino

Fearless (1993) - Peter Weir

Field of Dreams (1989) - Phil Alden Robinson

The Island (2006) - Pavel Lungin

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - John Frankenheimer

Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) - Sean Durkin

Nixon (1995) - Oliver Stone

The Remains of the Day (1993) - James Ivory

Spellbound (1945) - Alfred Hitchcock

Stardust Memories (1980) - Woody Allen

Stories We Tell (2012) - Sarah Polley

Total Recall (1990) - Paul Verhoeven

 

Tier 5 - Love the Film, Do Not Think Memory Is a Central Theme

 

Tier 6 - Cannot Understand Why It Was Nominated

The Passion of the Christ (2004) - Mel Gibson

 

Tier 7 - Not Yet Seen

Adam's Apples (2005) - Anders Thomas Jensen

Away From Her (2006) - Sarah Polley

The Bird with Crystal Plumage (1970) - Dario Argento

The Bourne Supremacy (2004) - Paul Greenglass

Casualties of War (1989) - Brian De Palma

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) - Julian Schnabel

Eternity and a Day (1998) - Theodoros Angelopoulos

Gaslight (1944) - George Cukor

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) - Mamoru Hosoda

I Remember Mama (1948) - George Stevens

Inception (2010) - Christopher Nolan

Iris (2001) - Richard Eyre

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) - Don Hertzfeldt

Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) - Alain Resnais

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Robert Hamer

The Lady Vanishes (1938) - Alfred Hitchcock

Life of Pi (2012) - Ang Lee

The Lives of Others (2006) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

The Long Day Closes (1992) - Terrence Davies

The Man Without a Past (2002) - Aki Kaurismäki

Marwencol (2010) - Jeff Malmberg

Millennium Actress (2001) - Satoshi Kon

Moon (2009) - Duncan Jones

Oldboy (2003) - Chan-wook Park

Once Upon A Time in America (1984) - Sergio Leone

Orpheus (1950) - Jean Cocteau

The Pawnbroker (1964) - Sidney Lumet

Radio Days (1987) - Woody Allen

Rhapsody in August (1991) - Akira Kurosawa

Robot & Frank (2012) - Jake Schreier

Scrooge (1951) - Brian Desmond Hurst

The Secret Life of Words (2005) - Isabel Coixet

Shutter Island (2010) - Martin Scorsese

The Trip to Bountiful (1985) - Peter Masterson

Troubled Water (2008) - Erik Poppe

Wreck-It Ralph (2012) - Rich Moore

[M. Leary]

 

Tier 7 - Not Yet Seen

 

Away From Her (2006) - Sarah Polley

Gaslight (1944) - George Cukor

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) - Mamoru Hosoda

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) - Don Hertzfeldt

Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) - Alain Resnais

The Man Without a Past (2002) - Aki Kaurismäki

Rhapsody in August (1991) - Akira Kurosawa

 

 

 

These are must-sees specifically in relation to the theme, I think. Your mileage may vary.

[Peter T Chattaway]

Darren H wrote:
: Of the films I've seen, there was only one, The Passion of the Christ, that would seem out of place on this list. Maybe I missed some conversation about how it qualifies as a memory film?

 

I didn't nominate it, but The Passion is structured around a series of flashbacks, each of which represents a memory of Jesus'. Thanks to its use of these memories/flashbacks (all of which are triggered by point-of-view shots), the film draws the viewer into the flow of Jesus' thoughts.

[Darren H]

Oh, okay, that makes sense. I've only seen it once, soon after it was released on DVD.

[Tyler]

Only have time to do the top 3 tiers.

 

Tier 1 - The Most Important

After Life (1998) - Hirokazu Koreeda - (Top 100, #85) - seconded

 The Act of Killing (2012) - Joshua Oppenheimer – seconded

Close-Up (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami - (Top 100, #47) - seconded

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Michel Gondry - seconded

The Mirror (1975) - Andrei Tarkovsky - (Top 100, #11) - seconded

Paris, Texas (1984) - Wim Wenders - (Top 100, #72) - seconded

Rashômon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa - (Top 100, #62) - seconded

Solaris (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky - seconded

Three Colors: Blue (1993) - Krzysztof Kieslowski - (Top 100, #14) - seconded

Troubled Water (2008) - Erik Poppe - seconded

F for Fake (1973) - Orson Welles - seconded

 
Tier 2 - Must Be On the List

Adam's Apples (2005) - Anders Thomas Jensen – seconded

Certified Copy (2010) - Abbas Kiarostami - (Top 25 Marriage, #2) – seconded

Dark City (1998) - Alex Proyas - seconded

Heartbeat Detector (2007) - Nicholas Klotz - seconded

In the City of Sylvia (2007) - José Luis Guerín - seconded

La Jetée (1962) - Chris Marker - seconded

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - John Ford - seconded

Marwencol (2010) - Jeff Malmberg - seconded

Russian Ark (2002) - Aleksandr Sokurov - seconded

Stories We Tell (2012) - Sarah Polley - seconded

 

Tier 3 - Strong Maybes

Away From Her (2006) - Sarah Polley – seconded

Cache (2005) - Michael Haneke - seconded

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) - Julian Schnabel - seconded

Fearless (1993) - Peter Weir – seconded

The Island (2006) - Pavel Lungin - (Top 100, #77) - seconded

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) - Don Hertzfeldt

he Lives of Others (2006) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - seconded

Nostalghia (1983) - Andrei Tarkovsky - seconded

Shutter Island (2010) - Martin Scorsese - seconded

The Tree of Life (2011) - Terrence Malick - seconded

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul - seconded

The Arbor (2010) - Clio Barnard  - seconded

Lucky Life (2010) - Lee Isaac Chung - seconded

Martha Marcy May Marlene  (2010) - Sean Durkin - seconded

[Evan C]

I updated my initial post. If anyone wants to persuade me to reconsider any of the films I ranked low, feel free to do so (in the discussions thread).

[Darren H]

Evan, my only comment is . . . please try to see A Moment of Innocence, Syndromes and a Century, and Colossal Youth between now and the voting deadline. They're all Tier 1 for me, and our tastes seem to overlap quite a bit with this list.

Edited January 27, 2015 by Darren H

[Josh Hamm]

My biggest problem with my Tiers is not really the number of films I haven't seen, but how many of the Top Tier films I haven't had a chance to see; so even though there isn't much time between now and the voting deadline, I plan on catching up with as many of those films as possible in the next few days. Any recommendations on what to prioritize (and where to find digital copies) are most welcome.

 

Tier 1 - The Most Important

Rashômon (1950) - Akira Kurosawa

The Tree of Life (2011) - Terrence Malick

Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Michel Gondry

Troubled Water (2008) - Erik Poppe

 

Tier 2 - Must Be On the List
How Green Was My Valley (1941) - John Ford

Russian Ark (2002) - Aleksandr Sokurov

Upstream Color (2013) - Shane Carruth
Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock

Three Colors: Blue (1993) - Krzysztof Kieslowski

Stardust Memories (1980) - Woody Allen

La Jetée (1962) - Chris Marker

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) - Don Hertzfeldt

Memento (2000) - Christopher Nolan

 

Tier 3 - Strong Maybes

Moon (2009) - Duncan Jones

Solaris (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) - Steven Spielberg

Radio Days (1987) - Woody Allen
Dark City (1998) - Alex Proyas

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra

Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Andrei Tarkovsky
The Lady Vanishes (1938) - Alfred Hitchcock
Spellbound (1945) - Alfred Hitchcock

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - John Ford

 

Tier 4 - Can Understand Why It Was Nominated

Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles

The Deer Hunter (1978) - Michael Cimino

Inception (2010) - Christopher Nolan

The Lives of Others (2006) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) - John Frankenheimer
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) - Sean Durkin

Robot & Frank (2012) - Jake Schreier

The Remains of the Day (1993) - James Ivory

Shutter Island (2010) - Martin Scorsese

Scrooge (1951) - Brian Desmond Hurst

Rebecca (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock

Total Recall (1990) - Paul Verhoeven

The Bourne Supremacy (2004) - Paul Greengrass
Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) - Julian Schnabel

 

Tier 5 - Love the Film, Do Not Think Memory Is a Central Theme

Certified Copy (2010) - Abbas Kiarostami

Oldboy (2003) - Chan-wook Park

Adam's Apples (2005) - Anders Thomas Jensen

The Passion of the Christ (2004) - Mel Gibson

 

Tier 6 - Cannot Understand Why It Was Nominated

Life of Pi (2012) - Ang Lee

Solaris (2002) - Steven Soderbergh
Wreck-It Ralph (2012) - Rich Moore

Field of Dreams (1989) - Phil Alden Robinson

 

Tier 7 - Not Yet Seen

(I've bolded titles which I have access to watch before voting)

 

8 1/2 (1963) - Federico Fellini*
2046 (2004) - Kar Wai Wong
A Moment of Innocence (1996) - Mohsen Makhmalbaf
The Act of Killing (2012) - Joshua Oppenheimer
After Life (1998) - Hirokazu Koreeda
The Arbor (2010) - Clio Barnard
Away From Her (2006) - Sarah Polley
The Beaches of Agnes (2008) - Agnes Varda
The Bird with Crystal Plumage (1970) - Dario Argento
Birth (2004) - Jonathan Glazer
Cache (2005) - Michael Haneke
Casualties of War (1989) - Brian De Palma
Chocolat (1988) - Claire Denis
Close-Up (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami
Colossal Youth (2006) - Pedro Costa
Eternity and a Day (1998) - Theodoros Angelopoulos
Exotica (1994) - Atom Egoyan
F for Fake (1973) - Orson Welles*
Fearless (1993) - Peter Weir
Gaslight (1944) - George Cukor*
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) - Mamoru Hosoda
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - Isao Takahata
Heartbeat Detector (2007) - Nicholas Klotz
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) - Alain Resnais
I Remember Mama (1948) - George Stevens
In Praise of Love (2001) - Jean Luc-Godard
In the City of Sylvia (2007) - José Luis Guerín
Iris (2001) - Richard Eyre
The Island (2006) - Pavel Lungin
Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) - Alain Resnais
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Robert Hamer
The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012) - Jose Rodrigues & Joao da Mata
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Alain Resnais
Lone Star (1996) - John Sayles
The Long Day Closes (1992) - Terrence Davies
Lucky Life (2010) - Lee Isaac Chung
The Man Without a Past (2002) - Aki Kaurismäki
Marwencol (2010) - Jeff Malmberg
Millennium Actress (2001) - Satoshi Kon
The Mirror (1975) - Andrei Tarkovsky*
Mulholland Drive (2001) - David Lynch
Mr. Arkadin / Confidential Report (1955) - Orson Welles
My Winnipeg (2007) - Guy Maddin
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) - Raoul Ruiz
Night and Fog (1955) - Alain Resnais
Nixon (1995) - Oliver Stone
Nostalghia (1983) - Andrei Tarkovsky*
Once Upon A Time in America (1984) - Sergio Leone
Orpheus (1950) - Jean Cocteau*
Paris, Texas (1984) - Wim Wenders*
The Pawnbroker (1964) - Sidney Lumet
Rhapsody in August (1991) - Akira Kurosawa
Saraband (2003) - Ingmar Bergman
The Secret Life of Words (2005) - Isabel Coixet
Stories We Tell (2012) - Sarah Polley
The Sweet Hereafter (1997) - Anton Egoyan
Syndromes and a Century (2006) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Tetro (2009) - Francis Ford Coppola
The Thin Blue Line (1988) - Errol Morris
The Trip to Bountiful (1985) - Peter Masterson
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Waltz with Bashir (2008) - Ari Folman
Wild Strawberries (1957) - Ingmar Bergman*
Wit (2001) - Mike Nichols
 

[Mr. Arkadin]

I'm pressed for time, so I'm only going to do tier one:

Tier 1 - The Most Important
2046 (2004) - Kar Wai Wong
Casualties of War (1989) - Brian De Palma
Colossal Youth (2006) - Pedro Costa
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) - Alain Resnais
Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) - Alain Resnais
La Jetée (1962) - Chris Marker
Mulholland Drive (2001) - David Lynch
Once Upon A Time in America (1984) - Sergio Leone
Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock

[Christian]

I need to do tiers myself, but I pretty endorse Ryan's, with a couple of exceptions.

 

I'll try to give this some more thought soon.

[John Drew]

This pretty much will reflect my voting.  The top two tiers are locked in.  Some wiggle room with the rest. There are quite few films in the list that I've seen, but are not reflected in these tiers due to time this morning.  I've seen just over half the films that made the final list (which is a lot better than last year).  I might be able to squeeze in a couple more by tomorrow night when I submit my vote.

 

Tier 1 - The Most Important
Blade Runner

Vertigo

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Solaris (1972)

Mulholland Drive

Wild Strawberries

The Sweet Hereafter

 

Tier 2 - Must Be On the List

Once Upon a Time in America

Marwencol

Lone Star

The Man Without a Past

2046

Certified Copy

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Last Year at Marienbad

Hiroshima Mon Amour

The Thin Blue Line

 

Tier 3 - Strong Maybes

The Mirror

A.I.
Dark City

Grave of the Fireflies

Life of Pi

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Nixon

The Pawnbroker

Radio Days

Scrooge (1951)

The Trip to Bountiful

Citizen Kane

Rashomon

Fearless

Field of Dreams

Inception

It's a Wonderful Life

Memento

Russian Ark

Shutter Island

Edited January 31, 2015 by John Drew

[Anders]

In case anyone sees this before voting (assuming my opinion matters at all):

 

Most Important

 

AFTER LIFE (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda)

BLADE RUNNER (dir. Scott)

HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (dir. Alain Resnais)

LA JETÉE (dir. Chris Marker)

MEMENTO (dir. Chris Nolan)

MIRROR (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)

NIGHT AND FOG (dir. Alain Resnais)

RASHÔMON (dir. Akira Kurasawa)

VERTIGO (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

WILD STRAWBERRIES (dir. Ingmar Bergman)

 

Must Be On the List

 

8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini)

2046 (dir. Wong Kar-wai)

CITIZEN KANE (dir. Orson Welles)

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (dir. Michel Gondry)

EXOTICA (dir. Atom Egoyan)

HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (dir. John Ford)

JE T'AIME, JE T'AIME (dir. Alain Resnais)

LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (dir. Alain Resnais)

MULHOLLAND DR. (dir. David Lynch)

MY WINNIPEG (dir. Guy Maddin)

SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

THE THIN BLUE LINE (dir. Errol Morris)

THE TREE OF LIFE (dir. Terrence Malick)

UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN REMEMBER HIS PAST LIVES (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

[Christian]

Can we add a Working Tier category for future lists along the lines of "Saw It but Can't Remember It Well Enough to Classify It," or maybe just "Need to Rewatch"? Such a category would've fit several titles on this list.