In the 2022 list, Leonardo Favio was the director with the greatest presence among the top 100 films, with eight titles.[1]

The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema (Spanish: Las 100 mejores películas del cine argentino), also known as the Survey of Argentine cinema (Spanish: Encuesta de cine argentino), are a series of opinion polls carried out to establish a list of the greatest films of Argentine cinema of all time. The original survey was carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in the years 1977, 1984, 1991 and 2000.[1] In 2022, a new edition was held, organized by the film magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, with support from INCAA, the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the FestiFreak International Film Festival of La Plata, the Casa de la Cultura of General Roca and the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken.[2]

In the 1977 and 1984 lists, Prisioneros de la tierra (1939) by Mario Soffici reached first place, while Crónica de un niño solo (1965) by Leonardo Favio was the most voted in 2000.[3] In the 2022 survey, the first place went to La Ciénaga (2001) by Lucrecia Martel by a wide margin.[4][5] The 2022 list generated debate regarding the need for a national Cinematheque (a longtime demand of the local film community), since the difficult or non-existent access to many works from the past greatly affected the result.[1][6]

Surveys by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken

The original surveys were carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in Buenos Aires in the years 1977, 1984, 1991 and 2000.[1] The results of the last survey were published in the 4th issue of La mirada cautiva, the museum's magazine, which also included the top ten from the 1977 and 1984 polls.[3]

Survey of 2022

Development

In 2022, the film magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema decided to carry out a new survey inspired by the previous ones.[1] In the editorial accompanying the list, they stated: "When members of our magazines found out about their existence, almost simultaneously and through different channels, we immediately thought it would be a good idea to carry out a new version of the survey."[1] The project was carried out with the support of INCAA, the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the FestiFreak International Film Festival of La Plata, the Casa de la Cultura of General Roca and the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken.[2]

Various critics, journalists, researchers, historians, programmers, collectors, directors, screenwriters, producers, actors, cinematographers, editors and sound engineers, among other film-related jobs, participated in the 2022 survey.[1] More than 1,000 invitations were sent, of which 546 responses were obtained, including 812 different titles; each participant chose their 10 favorite Argentine films, of any year and length, with all of them having the same value at the time of counting.[1] Due to the coincidences in the number of votes, 62 ranking positions were formed,[1] and the "Top 100" actually consists of 103 films divided into 52 positions.[4]

The results of the Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 (English: "2022 Survey of Argentine cinema") were presented at the 37th Mar del Plata International Film Festival on 11 November 2022.[7][8] During the presentation of the list, Paula Félix-Didier, director of the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken, declared that the "survey has the specific and explicit idea of developing a canon of Argentine cinema and serves to discuss, open doors and draw attention about some things."[7] The first place went to La Ciénaga (2001) by Lucrecia Martel by a wide margin.[4]

Results

Prisioneros de la tierra (1939) by Mario Soffici was chosen as the best Argentine film of all time in the 1977 and 1984 polls.

The top 10 positions in the 1977 and 1984 polls, as well as the top 100 in the 2000 poll, were published in 4th issue of La mirada cautiva, the magazine of the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken.[3]

Top 10 of 1977

Pos. Title Director Year
1 Prisioneros de la tierra Mario Soffici 1939
2 La casa del ángel Leopoldo Torre Nilsson 1957
3 La guerra gaucha Lucas Demare 1942
4 Así es la vida Francisco Mugica 1939
5 La vuelta al nido Leopoldo Torres Ríos 1938
6 Las aguas bajan turbias Hugo del Carril 1952
7 El jefe Fernando Ayala 1958
8 La dama duende Luis Saslavsky 1945
9 Malambo Alberto de Zavalía 1942
10 Fuera de la ley Manuel Romero 1937

Top 10 of 1984

Pos. Title Director Year
1 Prisioneros de la tierra Mario Soffici 1939
2 La Patagonia rebelde Héctor Olivera 1974
3 La guerra gaucha Lucas Demare 1942
4 Las aguas bajan turbias Hugo del Carril 1952
5 Tiempo de revancha Adolfo Aristarain 1981
6 La casa del ángel Leopoldo Torre Nilsson 1957
7 Los isleros Lucas Demare 1951
8 La tregua Sergio Renán 1974
9 Este es el romance del Aniceto y la Francisca, de cómo quedó trunco, comenzó la tristeza y unas pocas cosas más... Leonardo Favio 1967
10 El jefe Fernando Ayala 1958

Top 100 of 2000

Crónica de un niño solo (1965) by Leonardo Favio was chosen as the best Argentine film of all time in the 2000 survey.

Due to the coincidences in the number of votes, the list of the 100 greatest films actually consists of 101 films divided into 43 positions.[3]

Pos. Title Director Year Votes
1 Crónica de un niño solo Leonardo Favio 1965
76
2 Camila María Luisa Bemberg 1984
75
3 Las aguas bajan turbias Hugo del Carril 1952
72
La Patagonia rebelde Héctor Olivera 1974
4 Rosaura a las diez Mario Soffici 1958
68
5 Este es el romance del Aniceto y la Francisca, de cómo quedó trunco, comenzó la tristeza y unas pocas cosas más... Leonardo Favio 1967
67
6 Prisioneros de la tierra Mario Soffici 1939
66
La tregua Sergio Renán 1974
7 La guerra gaucha Lucas Demare 1942
65
8 La historia oficial Luis Puenzo 1985
63
9 Juan Moreira Leonardo Favio 1973
62
Mundo grúa Pablo Trapero 1999
Tiempo de revancha Adolfo Aristarain 1981
10 La casa del ángel Leopoldo Torre Nilsson 1957
61
Apenas un delincuente Hugo Fregonese 1949
Hombre mirando al sudeste Eliseo Subiela 1986
Pizza, birra, faso Bruno Stagnaro e Israel Adrián Caetano 1998

Top 100 of 2022

In the 2022 list, La Ciénaga (2001) by Lucrecia Martel (pictured) was the most voted film by a wide margin, and all her films appear in the Top 100.[5]

Due to the coincidences in the number of votes, the "Top 100" of the Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 actually consists of 103 films divided into 52 positions.[1][4] The total list has 812 titles and 62 ranking positions, belonging to the latter all the titles that had only one vote.[1]

Pos. Title Director Year Votes
1 La Ciénaga Lucrecia Martel 2001
224
2 Invasión Hugo Santiago Muchnik 1969
136
3 Tiempo de revancha Adolfo Aristarain 1981
124
4 El dependiente Leonardo Favio 1969
108
5 Crónica de un niño solo Leonardo Favio 1965
100
6 La hora de los hornos Fernando "Pino" Solanas and Octavio Getino 1968
99
7 Juan, como si nada hubiera sucedido Carlos Echeverría 1987
96
8 Pizza, birra, faso Bruno Stagnaro and Israel Adrián Caetano 1998
88
9 Silvia Prieto Martín Rejtman 1999
86
10 Nueve reinas Fabián Bielinsky 2000
80

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Editorial" (in Spanish). Encuesta de cine argentino 2022. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Quiénes somos" (in Spanish). Encuesta de cine argentino 2022. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d "Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933–1999 del Cine Argentino". La Mirada Cautiva. Buenos Aires: Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken (3): 6–14. 2000. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022 – via Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive.
  4. ^ a b c d "Top 100" (in Spanish). Encuesta de cine argentino 2022. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Encuesta de Cine Argentino: para cifrar la mirada". Revista Ñ. Clarín (in Spanish). 18 November 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  6. ^ Prividera, Nicolás (15 November 2022). "Lo que (no) dice la "Encuesta de cine argentino"". Con los ojos abiertos (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  7. ^ a b Sánchez, Hugo F. (11 November 2022). "Las 100 mejores películas nacionales de todos los tiempos, en el Festival de Mar del Plata" (in Spanish). Télam. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
  8. ^ Riehn, Astrid (11 November 2022). "Festival de Mar del Plata 2022: se eligieron las 100 mejores películas de la historia del cine argentino". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 November 2022.

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