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2001 · directed by Béla Tarr · 139 min
24,267 feet · Prominence
759th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw19

Lifetime worldwide gross $0m, re-releases included; about $0m in 2026 money.

Rank10,369 of 11,051In 2001220 of 229

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise95

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics95 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy62

Judged directly: Tarr monument, Criterion and Sight & Sound.

Verdict62 of 100IMDb8 from 17kWikipedia9k views a monthAge25 years

On the listsCriterion CollectionSight & Soundevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 520 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 19 praise 95 legacy 62averages 59, placing it at24,267 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Peter Fitz▲ Lars Rudolph▲ Alfréd Járai

In these careers — elevation for this film

Lars Rudolph18,283 ftHanna Schygulla18,140 ftPeter Fitz18,033 ftAlfréd Járai17,722 ft