21st c entries:

In the Mood for Love 2000 Hong Kong Kar-Wai Wong
Donnie Darko 2001 USA Richard Kelly
Mulholland Drive 2001 USA David Lynch
Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Café Lumiere 2003 Japan Hou Hsiao-hsien
No Country for Old Men 2007 USA Joel and Ethan Cohen
A Fistful of Quarters: The King of Kong 2007 USA Seth Gordon DOC
Sea of Darkness 2008 USA Michael Oblowitz DOC
Man on Wire 2008 UK James Marsh DOC
Wall-E 2008 USA Andrew Stanton
There Will be Blood 2008 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Master 2012 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
Frances Ha 2012 USA Noah Baumbach
The Look of Silence 2014 Indonesia Joshua Oppenheimer  DOC
Virunga 2015 UK Orlando von Einsiedel DOC
La La Land 2016 USA Damien Chazelle
Embrace of the Serpent 2016 Colombia Ciro Guerra
Roma 2018 Mexico Alfonso Cuarón
Apollo 11 2019 USA Todd Douglas Miller DOC
The Lighthouse 2019 USA Robert Eggers
Diego Maradona 2019 UK Asif Kapadia DOC
Fire of Love 2022 France Sara Dosa DOC
Aftersun 2022 UK Charlotte Wells

Right that’s it. The above list is void. La facking la land?! wtf?

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It's a very good film. Just cause you have a heathenry towards musicals even though you wear cabaret outfits every morning doesn't make it any less true.

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It's a very good film. Just cause you have a heathenry towards musicals even though you wear cabaret outfits every morning doesn't make it any less true.
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the Bluey version was moor betterer tbh

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comment by Baz tard - Ineos your face (U19119)
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It's a very good film. Just cause you have a heathenry towards musicals even though you wear cabaret outfits every morning doesn't make it any less true.
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the Bluey version was moor betterer tbh
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thats true of everything fam

in fairness I do think it's borderline as a masterpiece. I think it's a brilliant film. It's in my all time top 10. It's just the best love story. A lot of it though looks like cheap tat, which should instantly DQ it from consideration as a masterpiece, and would normally DQ it from my favourite films list too.
But the feeling at the end of the film that it's built in the viewer, without I think even really realising, is just overwhelming. It just hits you like a sledgehammer, and I don't think there's many films do that.
I'm actually open to taking it out of a masterpiece list, but that's how it got in there in the first place.

I'll be honest that's not a massively accessible list (perhaps unlike some of the earlier decades).
Some of them may need a couple of viewings to appreciate. There's definitely quality in there though.

Me thinks you throw around ‘masterpiece’ too easily

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Me thinks you throw around ‘masterpiece’ too easily
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Yes, the list might need a trim in fairness.

50s and 60s look pretty solid though:
Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyijat Ray
La Point Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda
The Silent World (doc) 1956 France Louis Malle and Jacques Cousteau
Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
12 Angry Men 1957 USA Sydney Lumet
The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
Touch of Evil 1958 USA Orson Welles
Elevator to the Gallows 1958 France Louis Malle
Anatomy of a Murder 1959 USA Otto Preminger
North by Northwest 1959 USA Alfred Hitchcock
The Naked Island 1960 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
La Notte 1961 Italy Michaelangelo Antonioni
La Jetee 1962 France Chris Marker
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Soy Cuba 1964 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 France Robert Bresson
Bonnie and Clyde 1967 USA Arthur Penn
The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
Dragon Inn 1967 Taiwan King Hu
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
Stolen Kisses 1968 France François Truffaut
Kuroneko/Black Cat 1968 Japan Kaneto Shindô
Kes 1969 UK Ken Loach

Film is far too personal to me for me to call anything a masterpiece. I can recommend things I love and generally it’s because they reach on a level that I’m unable to define or explain.

Most of time I end up loving films that are obviously flawed but they resonate with me completely. Maybe it’s a commentary on my character .

comment by RtM (U1097)
posted 3 minutes ago
Film is far too personal to me for me to call anything a masterpiece. I can recommend things I love and generally it’s because they reach on a level that I’m unable to define or explain.

Most of time I end up loving films that are obviously flawed but they resonate with me completely. Maybe it’s a commentary on my character .
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I haven’t got a problem saying, Jaws, Raiders of the lost Ark, 12 Angry Men and Once upon a time in the West, are Matserpieces..

To me, they’re all near perfection movies

comment by RtM (U1097)
posted 17 minutes ago
Film is far too personal to me for me to call anything a masterpiece. I can recommend things I love and generally it’s because they reach on a level that I’m unable to define or explain.

Most of time I end up loving films that are obviously flawed but they resonate with me completely. Maybe it’s a commentary on my character .
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fair enough

no problem with a film not being flawless btw! not many are probably!

comment by Pun (U21588)
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comment by Baz tard - Ineos your face (U19119)
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It's a very good film. Just cause you have a heathenry towards musicals even though you wear cabaret outfits every morning doesn't make it any less true.
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Musicals shouldn’t even be classified as movies, they’re an abomination.

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comment by Pun (U21588)
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It's a very good film. Just cause you have a heathenry towards musicals even though you wear cabaret outfits every morning doesn't make it any less true.
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Musicals shouldn’t even be classified as movies, they’re an abomination.
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You're an abomination.

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comment by Pun (U21588)
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It's a very good film. Just cause you have a heathenry towards musicals even though you wear cabaret outfits every morning doesn't make it any less true.
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Musicals shouldn’t even be classified as movies, they’re an abomination.
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You're an abomination.
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That’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever said to me….

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comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
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comment by Pun (U21588)
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comment by Baz tard - Ineos your face (U19119)
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It's a very good film. Just cause you have a heathenry towards musicals even though you wear cabaret outfits every morning doesn't make it any less true.
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Musicals shouldn’t even be classified as movies, they’re an abomination.
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You're an abomination.
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That’s the most beautiful thing you’ve ever said to me….
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Now imagine that in song format.

+1 for la la land

comment by Movies Guy (U23088)
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comment by RtM (U1097)
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Film is far too personal to me for me to call anything a masterpiece. I can recommend things I love and generally it’s because they reach on a level that I’m unable to define or explain.

Most of time I end up loving films that are obviously flawed but they resonate with me completely. Maybe it’s a commentary on my character .
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fair enough

no problem with a film not being flawless btw! not many are probably!
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Art is largely subjective, but there are certain movies that should never be considered masterpieces, regardless of how they feel to you.

My favourite movie of all time is Empire Strikes Back but wven I can see some of the flaws.

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comment by Movies Guy (U23088)
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comment by RtM (U1097)
posted 17 minutes ago
Film is far too personal to me for me to call anything a masterpiece. I can recommend things I love and generally it’s because they reach on a level that I’m unable to define or explain.

Most of time I end up loving films that are obviously flawed but they resonate with me completely. Maybe it’s a commentary on my character .
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fair enough

no problem with a film not being flawless btw! not many are probably!
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Art is largely subjective, but there are certain movies that should never be considered masterpieces, regardless of how they feel to you.

My favourite movie of all time is Empire Strikes Back but wven I can see some of the flaws.

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yes there are many on my favourites list that I have not included in this list (and visa versa).

year with the best 3 films?
I'm going 1949

Late Spring
Stray Dog
The Third Man

Rear Window 1954
Journey to Italy 1954
On the Waterfront 1954

isn't too shabby either.

Apocalypse Now 1979
Alien 1979
Manhattan 1979

OK so I actually watched Manhattan and it's not all that once you get beyond the gorgeous photography in places.

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comment by Pun (U21588)
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comment by Baz tard - Ineos your face (U19119)
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It's a very good film. Just cause you have a heathenry towards musicals even though you wear cabaret outfits every morning doesn't make it any less true.
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Musicals shouldn’t even be classified as movies, they’re an abomination.
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This. Ignore Oklahoma pun and his prancing fairyness musicals are pointless

how influential on today's world of movies was Superman (1978)?