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Stephen asked a question in Flickchart on October 16, 2009 01:18:

More missing masterpieces

Obviously, there's always complaints about important movies missing, and you've been very good about getting to them so far. But here's a few more suggestions:

-Orson Welles has only two movies here, but you're missing "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Chimes at MIdnight" and "F for Fake" as well as several others
-Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" and "The Virgin Spring," as well as "Winter Light," "The Silence," and "Through a Glass Darkly"
-Fritz Lang's "M" and "The Big Heat"
-Murnau's "Sunrise" and "The Last Laugh" and "Faust"
-There's a few more Powell and Pressburger out there, including "A Matter of Life and Death," "A Canterbury Tale," "The Small Back Room," and "I Know Where I'm Going!"
-A bunch of John Ford movies, including "The Grapes of Wrath," "How Green Was My Valley," "Young Mr. Lincoln," "Drums ALong the Mohawk," "Stagecoach," "Fort Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," "Rio Grande," and "My Darling Clementine"
-Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rubilev"
-Godard's "Breathless"

All these films are considered masterpieces. I'd suggest checking with They Shoot Pictures Don't They?'s list of 1,000 Greatest Films as well as their list of the most acclaimed films of the 21st Century.

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Stephen replied on September 05, 2009 03:25 to the idea "Broadening the Kurosawa collection" in Flickchart:

Of course, now you need to add Kurasawa's High and Low, Sanjuro, Ikiru, Dersu Uzala, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, and The Bad Sleep Well.

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Stephen replied on September 02, 2009 06:49 to the question "Films recently added to the database?" in Flickchart:

This is a great idea. It would be good to just be able to search for titles added in the las 1 day, or 1 week. Then we could quickly bring them up to speed with the other ranking and sort of situate them where they want to be.

I was actually going to make this suggestion myself.

Stephen Morton replied on September 02, 2009 06:42 to the idea "POP-UP SYNOPSES" in Flickchart:

The synopsis idea would be nice to have, but I think there's a lot of other things to work on first. Definitely keep it on the back-burner, though.

Stephen Morton replied on September 02, 2009 06:34 to the idea "Obvious Titles Are Missing" in Flickchart:

As he said, any Ingmar Bergman movie, especially The Seventh Seal.
Powell & Pressburger films, including The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus.
Any Jean-Luc Godard films.
Any Jean Renoir films, especially Rules of the Game.
Fritz Lang movies, especially M.
Buster Keaton movies, like The General and Steamboat Bill, Jr.
And more Orson Welles, especially The Magnificent Ambersons and Touch of Evil.

Obviously you're still working on this, just some helpful suggestions.

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Stephen Morton replied on September 02, 2009 06:22 to the idea "Option to use "Only Unranked" filter with other filters" in Flickchart:

I agree, that sounds like a great idea.

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Stephen Morton replied on September 02, 2009 06:19 to the idea "Comparing the same movies more than once" in Flickchart:

Yeah, I've gotten the same matchup a couple times within an hour. That's way too soon. If it comes up like a thousand rankings later, it would be perfectly fine, but not within 50.

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