IFTA'S Most Significant Indie Film List

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Batutta

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Uh, Lord of the Rings, an indie film!?...Braveheart?...Dances with Wolves?...Basic Instinct!?....EFFFIN TWILIGHT!?!?!?!?!?!


http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2010/9/9/iftas-top-30-indie-films-of-the-past-30-years.html

From 1981-1990, in alphabetical order, their picks are:

Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner, 1990)
Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, 1982)
Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, 1982)
My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, 1989)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984)
Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh, 1989)
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)
And the honorable mentions for that decade:

The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe, 1984)
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987)
The Toxic Avenger (Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman, 1986)
From 1991-2000, the picks are:

Braveheart (Mel Gibson, 1995)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1996)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell, 1994)
Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni, 1997)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, 1995)
Where the Day Takes You (Marc Rocco, 1992)
Honorable mentions for the 90s:

Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1998)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996)
And from 2001-2010, the IFTA picks:

Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
Crash (Paul Haggis, 2005)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2009)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
Juno (Jason Reitman, 2007)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001)
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2005)
Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2004)
The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2003)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2009)
Honarable mentions from the past decade are:

Bowling For Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002)
Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008)
 
It's absolutely 100% meaningless. You can tweak the definition of "indie" every which way and get whatever result you want. At its most general, it's supposed to be made outside of the studio system, and by studio here is meant the big few (some out of business now). But it's so bogus. I mean, when you have a $200 million production that happens to be financed/produced by some huge company that happens not to be directly connected to a major studio, that's indie? BS

The way people think of indies, is as truly financed by small time money - out of your own pocket or by stitching together support from 25 dentists or whatnot. That rarely results in more than about 1-2 million at most. I mean, by the time you start looking at 5 million, it becomes meaningless.

That list is so pointless you really wonder why they bother - foreign movies are now "indie"?? Sure, they are not made by Hollywood studios, but c'mon... some of them have state support or whatnot.

The list is totally bogus.
 
This is the funniest thing I've seen on the internet in a while. What a joke. Trainspotting only gets an honorable mention???
 
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