Today, the result are out.
I am of course mortified to discover that only twenty of my choices went unnamed by any of those other 838 respondents
Furthermore, my taste has become so mainstream and debased that a further 27 made it onto the A-list, and that my other 53 selections were mentioned 181 times by others in (that’s 3.4 times each).
How vulgar and commonplace I’ve become!
My orphan films
Movie Crazy (Clyde Bruckman 1932)
First A Girl (Victor Saville 1935)
The Invisible Ray (Lambert Hillyer 1935)
The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason 1938)
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass (Seijun Suzuki 1961)
Bushman (David Schickele 1971)
Hapkido (Feng Huang 1972)
Death Line aka Raw Meat (Gary Sherman 1972)
Way of the Dragon (Bruce Lee 1972)
The Soul of N***** Charley (Larry G Spangler 1973)
The Terminal Man (Mike Hodges 1974)
The Trial of Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin 1974)
Queen Kong (Frank Agrama 1976)
Diggstown aka Midnight Sting (Michael Ritchie 1992)
Fish Story (Yoshihiro Nakamura 2009)
Animal Factory (Steve Buscemi 2000)
The Last Winter (Larry Fessenden 2006)
Crumbs (Miguel Llansó 2015)
Rams (Grímur Hákonarson 2015)
Keanu (Peter Atencio 2016)
My A-list films (with total number of mentions)
The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh 1924) 12
The Italian Straw Hat (René Clair 1928) 8
Storm Over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin 1928) 8
Under the Roofs of Paris (René Clair 1930) 7
Emil and the Detectives (Gerhard Lamprecht 1931) 4
Le Million (René Clair 1931) 22
La kermesse héroïque (Jacques Feyder 1935) 7
The Million Ryo Pot (Sadao Yamanaka 1935) 22
Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk 1944) 13
Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem 1955) 15
Rififi (Jules Dassin 1955) 75
The Deadly Invention (Karel Zeman 1958) 9
Plein Soleil (René Clément 1960) 34
The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara 1966) 29
The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich 1967) 10
God Told Me To (Larry Cohen 1976) 11
Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano 1989) 10
King of New York (Abel Ferrara 1990) 33
Matinee (Joe Dante 1993) 23
True Romance (Tony Scott 1993) 21
Tears of the Black Tiger (Wisit Sasanatieng 2000) 6
Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker 2001) 12
Primer (Shane Carruth 2004) 22
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin 2007) 50
The Raid (Gareth Evans 2011) 12
The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn 2016) 20
Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi 2016) 18
My non-orphan, non-A-list films (with total number of mentions (including mine))
The Black Pirate (Albert Parker 1926) 3
The Emperor Jones (Dudley Murphy 1933) 2
Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz 1935) 5
The Talk of the Town (George Stevens 1942) 4
Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk 1947) 7
The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich 1955) 4
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (Tomu Uchida 1955) 3
Ilya Muromets (Aleksandr Ptushko 1956) 3
The League of Gentlemen (Basil Dearden 1960) 2
The Damned (Joseph Losey 1962) 7
Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara 1962) 9
It Happened Here (Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo 1964) 2
How to Steal a Million (William Wyler 1966) 5
Support Your Local Sheriff (Burt Kennedy 1969) 3
Bone (Larry Cohen 1972) 5
The Longest Yard aka The Mean Machine (Robert Aldrich 1974) 6
Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston 1978) 7
Bush Mama (Haile Gerima 1979) 10
Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges 1980) 6
The Quiet Earth (Geoff Murphy 1985) 6
Celia (Ann Turner 1989) 8
Roadkill (Bruce McDonald 1989) 3
Highway 61 (Bruce McDonald 1991) 2
Suture (Scott McGehee and David Siegel 1993) 4
Three Kings (David O. Russell 1999) 9
Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer 2000) 7
The Grudge aka Ju-on 3 (Takashi Shimizu 2002) 5
A Snake of June (Shinya Tsukamoto 2002) 9
Blind Shaft (Yang Li 2003) 6
Big Man Japan (Hitoshi Matsumoto 2007) 3
The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson 2008) 2
Frozen River (Courtney Hunt 2008) 3
JCVD (Mabrouk El Mechri 2008) 3
The House of the Devil (Ti West 2009) 6
Stingray Sam (Cory McAbee 2009) 2
Valhalla Rising (Nicolas Winding Refn 2009) 8
Las Acacias (Pablo Giorgelli 2011) 2
Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers 2011) 2
The Angel’s Share (Ken Loach 2012) 3
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin 2012) 12
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce 2015) 3
Men & Chicken (Anders Thomas Jensen 2015) 2
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven 2015) 6
Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa 2016) 5
The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho 2017) 2
Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada 2018) 4
Mandy (Panos Cosmatos 2018) 9
Bait (Mark Jenkin 2019) 6
Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg 2020) 7
Earwig (Lucille Hadzihalilovic 2021) 2
Summer of Soul (Questlove 2021) 9
Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King 2021) 5
Enys Men (Mark Jenkin 2022) 4
Mark Bould 