Archives of Others' Lists, Part 4: Baylor aka Kidsmoker aka NilbogSavant

I have made a lot of lists on this blog, but in the words of Confucius I am not an originator but a transmitter. All my lists are nothing more than a compilation of interesting stuff I've found by perusing other lists on various forums and sites. When lists are of particular value to me, I tend to save them on a document, and I'd like to share them here as an extension of my archive, since the originals of these lists are long, long gone at this point. Most of the originals had great images along with them, but oh well. Sacrifices will have to be made. Unless stated otherwise, the lists are one-film-per-director, as was tradition.

I had these up on ICheckMovies but I kinda hate that site.

The primary place I have lists from is two forums, YMDb and its re-incarnation The Life Cinematic. I browsed from 2008 onward and posted between 2010 and 2013 when the forum finally died.

Baylor was one of the youngest posters, a few years older than me. I was often lurking through old threads, so I read a lot of his posts when he was around 15-16 as I was 15-16. He was a funny guy with a lot of character. He had a pretty engaged life but also one where he watched a ton of films while doing so, so getting a hint of whatever he was doing was always exciting. He once described his daily schedule as going to school during the day, practicing baseball for his high school team, hanging out with friends for a few hours, and then coming back and watching as many movies as he could until the early morning. How he found the time for homework or even for sleep was questionable, but it was always a treat to hear from him. He was a close friend of Carmelo and Juan-Carlos and so his list often appears as something of a mix of the two.

List 1: Baylor's 50 Favorite Films

This was a fantastic early list I found that made a huge impression on me early on. It was one of the second or third ones after Carmelo's. Baylor was very funny and charismatic and made me realize how great exploitation/gore/horror stuff could be.

1. Possession (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981)

2. Birds, Orphans, and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969)

3. Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1997)

4. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974)

5. Sweet Movie (Dušan Makavejev, 1974)

6. El sur (Víctor Erice, 1983)

7. Blood for Dracula (Paul Morrissey, 1974)

8. Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926)

9. Rolling Thunder (John Flynn, 1977)

10. L'Ange (Patrick Bokanowski, 1982)

11. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, 2005)

12. Commingled Containers (Stan Brakhage, 1997)

13. Race With the Devil (Jack Starett, 1975)

14. Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)

15. Café Flesh (Stephen Sayadian, 1982)

16. I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noé, 1998)

17. Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec, 1964)

18. The American Astronaut (Cory McAbee, 2001)

19. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)

20. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog, 1970)

21. Street Trash (J. Michael Muro, 1987)

22. The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)

23. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)

24. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)

25. Jabberwocky (Jan Švankmajer, 1971)

26. Feathers in My Head (Thomas De Thier, 2003)

27. Aimless Walk (Alexander Hammid, 1930)

28. They Live (John Carpenter, 1988)

29. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

30. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)

31. Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973)

32. Cruel Jaws (Bruno Mattei, 1995)

33. The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel, 1972)

34. Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger, 1969)

35. The Dying Swan (Yevgeni Bauer, 1917)

36. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (Shunya Itou, 1972)

37. Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman, 1982)

38. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974)

39. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)

40. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)

41. Je t'aime... moi non plus (Serge Gainsbourg, 1976)

42. City of the Living Dead (Lucio Fulci, 1980)

43. O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973)

44. Blind Beast (Yasuzou Masumura, 1969)

45. Street of Crocodiles (Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay, 1986)

46. Electra Glide in Blue (James William Guercio, 1973)

47. Who Can Kill a Child? (Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, 1976)

48. Pink Narcissus (James Bidgood, 1971)

49. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)

50. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)

List 2: Baylor's 46 Favorite Films

The influence from Carmelo and Juan-Carlos is blatantly obvious, but this still has a ton of personality and flair of its own. I believe he said that this list was "missing some essentials" and somewhat hasty. I guess just fill up the bottom four empty spaces with El sur, Rolling Thunder, Race With the Devil, and Come and See.

1. Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1997)

2. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)

3. A Comédia de Deus (João César Monteiro, 1995)

4. Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)

5. That Most Important Thing: Love (Andrzej Żuławski, 1975)

6. Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (Pedro Costa, 2001)

7. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)

8. Tobacco Road (John Ford, 1941)

9. Class Relations (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, 1984)

10. Part-Time Work of a Female Slave (Alexander Kluge, 1973)

11. Blood for Dracula (Paul Morrissey, 1974)

12. The Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)

13. Near Death (Frederick Wiseman, 1989)

14. Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax, 1986)

15. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, 2005)

16. Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1966)

17. Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Lam Ngai-kai, 1991)

18. One Hamlet Less (Carmelo Bene, 1973)

19. L'Ange (Patrick Bokanowski, 1982)

20. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins, 2000)

21. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)

22. Sherman's March (Ross McElwee, 1985)

23. Commingled Containers (Stan Brakhage, 1997)

24. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog, 1970)

25. Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec, 1964)

26. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1946)

27. Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926)

28. Film ist. 1-12 (Gustav Deutsch, 1998-2002)

29. Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985)

30. Blokada (Sergei Loznitsa, 2006)

31. Le Révélateur (Philippe Garrel, 1968)

32. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1965)

33. Eastern Condors (Sammo Hung Kam-bo, 1987)

34. Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Shuuji Terayama, 1974)

35. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)

36. I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)

37. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)

38. The Embryo Hunts in Secret (Kouji Wakamatsu, 1966)

39. Heroic Purgatory (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1970)

40. Living (Frans Zwartjes, 1972)

41. Birds, Orphans, and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969)

42. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold, 1998)

43. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)

44. They Live (John Carpenter, 1988)

45. Cruel Jaws (Bruno Mattei, 1995)

46. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)

List 3: Baylor's 30 Favorite Directors

I have no clue if the directors within the tiers are ordered or not. I assume they roughly are but that could be my bias because I could never imagine making a list that was somehow random.

    Tier 1:

Jean-Luc Godard

Andrzej Żuławski

Tsai Ming-liang

Stan Brakhage

Philippe Garrel

Alexander Kluge

Frederick Wiseman

João César Monteiro

Pedro Costa

Sammo Hung

    Tier 2:

John Ford

Johan van der Keuken

Jacques Rivette

Lucio Fulci

Carmelo Bene

Alain Robbe-Grillet

John Cassavetes

Werner Herzog

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Peter Watkins

    Tier 3:

Shuuji Terayama

Nicholas Ray

Mario Bava

Vincente Minnelli

Budd Boetticher

John Carpenter

Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi

Leos Carax

Šarūnas Bartas

Chang Cheh

List 4: Baylor's 10 Favorite Albums

Short and sweet.

1. Hapmoniym (1972-1975) by Magical Power Mako

2. Dopethrone (2000) by Electric Wizard

3. Carnival Folklore Resurrection Radio (2000-2006) by Sun City Girls

4. Machine Gun (1968) by Peter Brötzmann

5. Niggamortis (1994) by Gravediggaz

6. Wowee Zowee (1995) by Pavement

7. Live in Greenwich Village (1965-1967/1998) by Albert Ayler

8. Opera from the Works of Tadanori Yokoo (1969) by Toshi Ichiyanagi

9. Pacific Ocean Blue (1977) by Dennis Wilson

10. Plays Standards (1997) by Ground Zero

List 5: Baylor's 11 Favorite Hip Hop Albums

This was his favorite genre. He mostly liked oldschool east coast stuff, but in the last couple years he was a big fan of dirty south.

1. Niggamortis (1994) by Gravediggaz

2. Liquid Swords (1995) by Genius/GZA

3. Masters of the Universe (2000) by Binary Star

4. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993) by Wu-Tang Clan

5. Funcrusher Plus (1997) by Company Flow

6. Supreme Clientele (2000) by Ghostface Killah

7. Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996) by Dr. Octagon

8. 2 Hype 2 Wype (2001) by Hawd Gankstuh Rappuh MC's Wid Ghatz

9. Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (1995) by Ol' Dirty Bastard

10. Illmatic (1994) by Nas

11. Deltron 3030 (2000) by Deltron 3030