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EXPERIMENTAL/AVANT-GARDE FILMS
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Rank Film Points L #1
#1 Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943) 34 8 4
#2 Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929) 24 6 3
#3 Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967) 23 6 3
#4 Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977) 20 8 -
#5 L’Âge d’or (Luis Buñuel, 1930) 13 3 1
Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage, 1962-64) 13 4 -
#7 Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) 11 3 1
#8 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) 10 2 2
Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, 1936) 10 2 2
#10 Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) 9 2 1
#11 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972) 7 2 1
#12 Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001) 6 2 -
#13 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) 5 1 1
Careful (Guy Maddin, 1992) 5 1 1
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963) 5 2 -
Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991) 5 1 1
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) 5 1 1
#18 Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, 1930) 4 2 -
Fantasia (Alger/Armstrong/Beebe..., 1940) 4 1 -
The Foreigner (Amos Poe, 1978) 4 1 -
The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925) 4 1 -
Images (Robert Altman, 1972) 4 1 -
Landscape Suicide (James Benning, 1986) 4 1 -
Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929) 4 2 -
Mongoloid (Bruce Conner, 1978) 4 1 -
Romance Sentimentale (Sergei Eisenstein, 1930) 4 1 -
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1982) 4 1 -
Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh, 1996) 4 1 -
Schwechater (Peter Kubelka, 1958) 4 1 -
Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme, 1987) 4 1 -
Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) 4 1 -
Zerkalo (The Mirror) (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) 4 2 -
#33 Battleship Potemkin (Sergeï M. Eisenstein, 1925) 3 1 -
Caravaggio (Derek Jarman, 1986) 3 1 -
The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998) 3 1 -
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1989) 3 1 -
Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer, 1996) 3 1 -
Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003) 3 1 -
Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963) 3 1 -
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2000) 3 1 -
Pleasures of War (Ruth Lingford, 1998) 3 1 -
Police State (Nick Zedd, 1987) 3 1 -
Punch and Judy (Jan Svankmajer, 1966) 3 1 -
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) 3 1 -
Sirius Remembered (Stan Brakhage, 1959) 3 1 -
Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1962) 3 2 -
#47 The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915) 2 1 -
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000) 2 1 -
Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947) 2 1 -
Gerry (Gus Van Sant, 2002) 2 1 -
Medway Wheelers (Wolf Howard, 2005) 2 1 -
Night on Bald Mountain (Alexander Alexeieff/Claire Parker, 1933) 2 1 -
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Robert Enrico, 1962) 2 1 -
Rainbow Dance (Len Lye, 1936) 2 1 -
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1964) 2 1 -
Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995) 2 1 -
The Very Eye of Night (Maya Deren, 1958) 2 1 -
#58 L'Ange (Patrick Bokanowski, 1982) 1 1 -
Back Against the Wall (James Fotopoulos, 2002) 1 1 -
La Belle et la Bête (Jean Cocteau, 1946) 1 1 -
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine, 1920) 1 1 -
The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, 1968) 1 1 -
C'Etait un Rendezvous (Claude Lelouch, 1976) 1 1 -
F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1974) 1 1 -
The Fall of the House of Usher (James Sibley Watson/Melville Webber, 1928) 1 1 -
Food (Jan Svankmajer, 1992) 1 1 -
La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962) 1 1 -
Last Days (Gus Van Sant, 2005) 1 1 -
Modern Young Man (Harris Smith, 2000) 1 1 -
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922) 1 1 -
Prayer (Jay Rosenblatt, 2002) 1 1 -
Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr, 1991) 1 1 -
Television Assassination (Bruce Conner, 1976/1995) 1 1 -
Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001) 1 1 -
L=How many lists each film appears on                   #1=How many number one votes each film recieves

*points are given as follows: for numbered lists, first place recieves 5 points, second place recieves 4, third place 3, fourth place 2 and fifth place gets 1 point; for unumbered lists, each film will recieve 3 points; total points are then tallied up and a comprehensive Top 5 list is created.

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