Alternative Film Guide

The Alternative Film Guide’s Best of the Best lists consist of lengthy and eclectic suggestions of films you might want to check out. If you’ve never heard of some of them . . . Well, it’s time you did.

Those lists, however, have not been written in stone. New names and titles will be added — while some old ones will be deleted — as the Alternative Film Guide’s editor keeps on watching good, great, and/or magnificently rotten films and performances.

The Best of the Best categories are: Film, Feature Documentary, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Writing, Cinematography, and Original Score.

 

Rules and Regulations

1. There’s a maximum of ten listings per category.
2. Listings are organized alphabetically.
3. Non-English-language films will always have an alternate English-language title — usually the title used for the U.S. release, sometimes just a literal translation in case a U.S / U.K. release title can’t be found.
4. Films are listed by year according to their original release date (festivals excluded), to the best of the editor’s knowledge. Exceptions: Movies that saw the light of day, or rather, the darkness of a film theater, years after they were made, e.g., The Plot Against Harry (made in 1969, released in 1990). In such cases, I’ve listed them according to their production date. Movies that have been shown only at festivals will have that screening as their "original release date."
5. Since basically every screenplay is an adaptation of something else: a book, a play, another movie, a short story, another screenplay, or even the same screenplay (which is written and rewritten and re-rewritten and so on by dozens of hands before reaching its final version), the editor considers all screenplays as "adapted." The point is: all screenplays, whether officially "original" or "adapted," are listed in the same category.
6. Also, credited writers are those who, to the best of the editor’s knowledge, wrote the final screenplay (as opposed to penning the "original story" and/or "original screenplay" that may have been so altered it became something else). Admittedly, sometimes — or perhaps more than sometimes — the person(s) who get the credit for a screenplay is/are not the one(s) responsible for the quality (or lack thereof) of the final product.
7. Some East Asian names are alphabetized in reverse order (last name; first name), e.g., Gong Li (instead of Li Gong), or Zhang Yimou (instead of Yimou Zhang). Reason for this editorial choice: Gong Li is known around the world as Gong Li, not Li Gong, and that same rule applies to other East Asian film personalities.
8. TV/cable feature-length films are included in those lists.

 

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