MC Yearly Consensus - 1964

[Spinal]

Submit your five favorite films from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten. IMDb dates will be used.

The point system is as follows

1st Place-5 points
2nd Place-4 points
3rd Place-3.5 points
4th Place-3 points
5th Place-2.5 points

There will be no restrictions on short films. A minimum of three films must be listed. You may edit your post freely up until the time that the voting is closed, which will be in about a week. I will give at least 24 hours warning before tallying votes.

You may begin now.

IMDB Power Search (http://www.imdb.com/list)

[Spinal]

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Onibaba
3. Culloden
4. Gertrud
5. Woman in the Dunes

[Russ]

1. Woman in the Dunes
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Lemonade Joe
4. Scorpio Rising
5. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

[Melville]

1. Woman in the Dunes
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Scorpio Rising
4. The Naked Kiss
5. I Am Cuba

HMs: Marnie, Gertrud

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Fail-Safe
3. A Hard Day's Night
4. The Pawnbroker
5. Onibaba

All five are in my top 100.

6. The Gospel According to Matthew
7. Band of Outsiders
8. I Am Cuba
9. The Train
10. Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

[Pop Trash]

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Goldfinger
3. The Americanization of Emily
4. Band of Outsiders
5. Fail-Safe

[monolith94]

1. Shadows Of Our Forgotten Ancestors
2. I Am Cuba
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. A Hard Day's Night
5. Charulata

honorable nods:

Woman in the Dunes, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

[Ezee E]

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Band of Outsiders
3. Fail-Safe
4. A Hard Day's Night
5. The Pawnbroker

Honorable:
Mary Poppins, Goldfinger, and Fistful Of Dollars

[dreamdead]

1. I Am Cuba
2. Charulata
3. Marnie
4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. Band of Outsiders

H/S: a bunch of stuff, but I need to get around to The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Woman in the Dunes, Scorpio Rising, A Hard Day's Night and Gertrud post-haste.

[Boner M]

1. Woman in the Dunes
2. Gertrud
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. I Am Cuba
5. A Hard Day's Night

6. Scorpio Rising
7. Banda á Part
8. The Pawnbroker
9. 23 Skidoo
10. Marnie

HM: The Cool World, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Killers, The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Need to see: The Soft Skin, The Train, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Charulata, Onibaba

[ledfloyd]

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Seven Up!
3. A Hard Day's Night
4. Bande a Part
5. The Killers

[Dead & Messed Up]

Horror year!

1. Kwaidan
2. Onibaba
3. The Masque of the Red Death
4. Seance on a Wet Afternoon
5. The Last Man on Earth

[Izzy Black]

1. Il Deserto rosso (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
2. Soy Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, Cuba)
3. Bande Ã* part (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
4. Charulata (Satyajit Ray, India)
5. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark)

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Dr.Strangelove or how I learned to Stop Worrying and Learn to love the Bomb
2. Band of Outsiders
3. Marnie
4. Diary of a Chambermaid
5. The Night of the Iguana

[Derek]

1. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
2. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
5. Yearning (Mikio Naruse)
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6. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
7. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
8. Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
9. Hamlet (Gregori Kosintsev)
10. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)

HMs: A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Patsy (Jerry Lewis)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo)
The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut)
A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
I Am Cuba (Mikheil Kalatozishvili)

[Lazlo]

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Fistful of Dollars
3. Fail-Safe
4. Seven Up!
5. Band of Outsiders

[Stay Puft]

1. Scorpio Rising
2. Kwaidan
3. A Fistful of Dollars
4. Onibaba

[Weeping_Guitar]

1. A Hard Day's Night
2. Dr. Strangelove or: ...
3. Band of Outsiders
4. Fail-Safe
5. Goldfinger

[trotchky]

1. I Am Cuba
2. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
3. Band of Outsiders
4. A Hard Day's Night
5. Hamlet

[soitgoes...]

1. Yearning (Mikio Naruse)
2. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
5. The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet)
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6. Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
7. Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
8. Lemonade Joe (Oldrich Lipsky)
9. Culloden (Peter Watkins)
10. Becket (Peter Glenville)
HM's A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha)
That Man from Rio (Philippe de Broca)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)

[Yxklyx]

1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
2. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
4. The Train (John Frankenheimer & Arthur Penn)
5. I Am Cuba (Mikheil Kalatozishvili)

6. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô)
7. Zulu (Cy Endfield)
8. Manji (Yasuzo Masumura)
9. The Killers (TV) (Don Siegel)
10. A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)

[soitgoes...]

Karagarga people need to start checking out some Naruse.

[Russ]

Karagarga people need to start checking out some Naruse.Or Lipský...just curious, anyone else here seen Lemonade Joe? Or maybe you have and just didn't think that much of it?

[soitgoes...]

Or Lipský...just curious, anyone else here seen Lemonade Joe? Or maybe you have and just didn't think that much of it?If someone would seed it, I'd download it. It sounds interesting.

[Qrazy]

1. Onibaba
2. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
3. Woman in the Dunes
4. I am Cuba
5. Kwaidan

6. Dr. Strangelove
7. Gertrud
8. A Hard Day's Night
9. Band of Outsiders
10. Umbrellas of Cherbourg

[Russ]

If someone would seed it, I'd download it. It sounds interesting.
I've got it on my hard drive...if I knew how to seed it I would.

[/kg illiterate]

[soitgoes...]

I've got it on my hard drive...if I knew how to seed it I would.

[/kg illiterate]
Netflix has it. I bumped it to the top of my queue. I'm not sure if I'll get to it by the end of this.

[Russ]

Netflix has it. I bumped it too the top of my queue. I'm not sure if I'll get to it by the end of this.
I don't know if this will affect your decision, but check out DVD Savant's review (http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s2006joe.html) of the Region 1 DVD on Facets. He gives the following grades: Movie: Excellent, Video: Poor, Sound: Good. The Facets video on Netflix is a Pan and Scanned 1:66 of the 2:35 original. I've got the original, thanks to a buddy in Europe. So, if that makes a difference, just pm me.

[koji]

1. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô)
2. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
3. Seven Up (Apted)
4. I am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov) .
5. The Naked Kiss (Fuller)
****************************** *******
6. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
7. Zulu (Cy Enfield)
8. Gate of Flesh (Suzuki)
9. Fistful of Dollars (Leone)
10. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)

[origami_mustache]

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Shadows Of Our Forgotten Ancestors
3. I Am Cuba
4. Band of Outsiders
5. The Cool World

HM: Kwaidan, Scorpio Rising

amazing year...lots I still need to see too.

[Raiders]

1. Charulata (S. Ray)
2. The Naked Kiss (Fuller)
3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy)
4. Marnie (Hitchcock)
5. Scorpio Rising (Anger)

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6. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
7. A Hard Day's Night (Lester)
8. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)
9. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pasolini)
10. The Patsy (Lewis)

[monolith94]

People other than me voting for Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors? Rock! Now that it's been released on dvd, hopefully it'll get more recognition.

[soitgoes...]

I don't know if this will affect your decision, but check out DVD Savant's review (http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s2006joe.html) of the Region 1 DVD on Facets. He gives the following grades: Movie: Excellent, Video: Poor, Sound: Good. The Facets video on Netflix is a Pan and Scanned 1:66 of the 2:35 original. I've got the original, thanks to a buddy in Europe. So, if that makes a difference, just pm me.
It's being seeded now on KG. I am DLing it now. I'll try and watch it before the week is up.

[Ezee E]

I watched The Gospel According to St. Matthew, and that's just what it is. A filmed version of the book.

Not much else to it.

[MadMan]

I've only seen six films from this year, and yet all of them rock one way or another.

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb
2. Goldfinger
3. The Last Man On Earth
4. Rudolph, the Red Noised Reindeer
5. Fistful of Dollars
6. Mary Poppins

[Qrazy]

I watched The Gospel According to St. Matthew, and that's just what it is. A filmed version of the book.

Not much else to it.

Well I wouldn't say exactly that but yeah I'm not too big on the film either.

[Grouchy]

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Zorba the Greek
3. Goldfinger
4. Masque of the Red Death
5. The Last Man on Earth

[Grouchy]

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Zorba the Greek
3. Goldfinger
4. Masque of the Red Death
5. The Last Man on Earth
Forgot something big...

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. A Fistful of Dollars
3. Zorba the Greek
4. Goldfinger
5. Masque of the Red Death

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Onibaba
3. Woman in the Dunes
4. Fail-Safe
5. Topkapi

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Band of Outsiders
4. Woman in the Dunes
5. The Naked Kiss
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6. Gertrud
7. Onibaba
8. The Pawnbroker
9. I Am Cuba
10. Gosepl According to St. Matthew

[Grouchy]

5. The Naked Kiss
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6. The Naked Kiss
That must be a really good movie.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

That must be a really good movie.

Wow, I made alot of typos. I also listed Dr. Strange-glove. fixed.

[origami_mustache]

Wow, I made alot of typos. I also listed Dr. Strange-glove. fixed.

:lol:

[soitgoes...]

Or Lipský...just curious, anyone else here seen Lemonade Joe? Or maybe you have and just didn't think that much of it?
Just watched this. Very good film. Not great enough to make my top 5 though. For film technique alone this was a joy to watch. So refreshing. I've never seen a film like it, and for that I would highly recommend it to everyone. Imaginative editing, daring use of tinting, and the best parody of the Wild West
outside of Blazing Saddles. I'm afraid some of the dialogue lost it's meaning through translation though, as some parts fell a bit flat. I would like to watch this again if/when this gets a proper release. I feel with it's relative obscurity, that that time may be a long time coming. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

[Yxklyx]

That must be a really good movie.

It has its moments - wouldn't put it in a top ten list. That said, I'd like to see it again.

[thefourthwall]

1. Dr. Strangelove
2. Mary Poppins
3. My Fair Lady
4. Fail-Safe

[baby doll]

1. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
3. Bande a part (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)

[Spinal]

Well, the 5 films I've seen from this year are ranked as follows.

Typically, I try to encourage people to list films only when they think highly of them, so as not to skew the results towards films that are widely seen, but do not inspire much enthusiasm. My personal standard is usually that it must be at least a ***1/2 star film for me to include it. If you feel strongly about all five of those, then great. But remember that you can also list as few as three and still have a valid ballot.

[origami_mustache]

5. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)


watching this weekend

[Grouchy]

5. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Pssst! It's called Il Deserto Rosso.

[thefourthwall]

Typically, I try to encourage people to list films only when they think highly of them, so as not to skew the results towards films that are widely seen, but do not inspire much enthusiasm. My personal standard is usually that it must be at least a ***1/2 star film for me to include it. If you feel strongly about all five of those, then great. But remember that you can also list as few as three and still have a valid ballot.

Noted and edited.

[Duncan]

1. Scorpio Rising
2. Woman in the Dunes
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Red Desert
5. Onibaba

[Raiders]

1. Scorpio Rising

Whoops. I have edited my list.

[Yum-Yum]

1. The Masque of the Red Death
2. The Night of the Iguana
3. The Chalk Garden

[Spinal]

Will be counting this up later today.

[Spinal]

Another top 11, Match Cut. :|

I am going to keep this open some more in the hopes that some late voter will sort this out.

[Grouchy]

Another top 11, Match Cut. :|

I am going to keep this open some more in the hopes that some late voter will sort this out.
But... I like Top 11s.

These go to 11.

[Spinal]

So that's how it's going to be, is it? All right then. Your top 11 coming up shortly.

Bastards.

[Spinal]

#10 (tie)

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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Director: Sergei Parajanov

Country: Soviet Union

In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind stays on his lost love.

Based on the book by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, the film was Parajanov's first major work. On its release, the film's presentation contrasted with the social realism style that had government approval. After refusing to change the film, Parajanov was soon blacklisted from Soviet cinema.

"To say that Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors violates every narrative code and representational system known to the cinema is an understatement—at times, in fact, the film seems intent upon deconstructing the very process of representation itself." - David A. Cook

[Spinal]

#10 (tie)

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Director: Jacques Demy

Country: France

A young girl lives with her widowed mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. The girl is secretly in love with an auto mechanic and wants to marry him. Her mother objects and shortly thereafter he is drafted to serve in the war in Algeria.

Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 1965 Oscars. Nominated for four more Oscars at the 1966 Oscar ceremony including Best Original Song, Best Original Screenplay and, oddly enough, both Best Original Score and Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment. Won three awards at Cannes including the Palme d'Or. It was the first French musical in color.

"The camera swoops, the music soars, everyone looks stunning, and nobody's outfit ever clashes with the wallpaper. The plot also refuses to fall into predictable patterns of tragedy and melodrama, giving us a final act as memorable as all these elements combined. It should be seen on the big screen, where it can best be appreciated." - Keith Phipps

[soitgoes...]

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

I don't know why I haven't watched this yet.

[dreamdead]

#10 (tie)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg


Excellent. This one was a wonder to watch last week, letting its rhythms unfold and letting the quiet rapture of the film take hold. Even ignoring the lovely central artifice of the music and lyrics, those last twenty minutes make the film so purposeful, shifting beyond youthful romance into something simultaneously starker and more mature. Also love how the film utilized the seasons as a backdrop to suggest a passage into new realizations, though I do question Watashi's assertion that Catherine Deneuve's character ends up cold and heartless....

[Spinal]

#8 (tie)

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Scorpio Rising

Director: Kenneth Anger

Country: USA

An army of gay/nazi bikers make their engines roar and ride their way to pain/pleasure as sexual and sadistic symbols are intercut into the chaos and rhythm.

Filmed in Brooklyn with young motorcycle buffs whom Anger had met at Coney Island while he was staying at a friend's house on a visit from France. The film was censored for indecency, and the case went to the Supreme Court, where it was decided in Anger's favor.

"Rather than building character through action or dialogue, it constructs a world as a set of symbols, and characters as the confluence of those symbols ... The camera lingers on the donning of leather attire, casting the event as a momentous transmutation: the creation of Self as symbol." - Melville

[Spinal]

#8 (tie)

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Marnie

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Country: USA

The beautiful Marnie is a first-class bookkeeper. She happens also to be a compulsive thief who has taken her last employer to the cleaners before disappearing into thin air. But eventually, she attempts robbery once too often. Her target forces her to marry him, and out of love for her uncovers the mysteries of her past.

Bernard Herrmann's last score for a Hitchcock film. When Hitchcock's discussion with Grace Kelly (to appear as the title character) became public, the residents of Monaco expressed their disapproval, and Kelly withdrew. Bruce Dern can be seen briefly as the sailor in Marnie's flashback.

"Viewed from the safe distance of four decades after its release, Marnie, perhaps even more than The Birds, emerges as the director's definitive late-period masterpiece." - Fernando F. Croce

[Spinal]

#7

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A Hard Day's Night

Director: Richard Lester

Country: UK

Harassed by their manager and Paul's grandpa, the Beatles embark from Liverpool by train for a London TV show. Showing a typical day in the life of the band at the height of Beatlemania, the Beatles are depicted as prisoners of their own fame.

Earned two Academy Award nominations including Best Original Screenplay. The word 'Beatles' is never mention in the movie. A young Phil Collins can be seen in the audience at the television theater. He's wearing glasses. While all four Beatles attended the movie's premiere, reportedly none stayed for the whole thing.

"Made on the fly to capitalize on The Beatles' meteoric rise, Richard Lester's joyous and innovative pseudo-documentary is also transparently promotional, a shrewdly calculated exercise in star manufacture. Yet even as it strings together the obligatory hit parade of singles and performance sequences, the film conveys an intensely liberated spirit, with fun interludes and digressions that make bubblegum out of the French New Wave." - Scott Tobias

[Spinal]

#6
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Fail-Safe

Director: Sidney Lumet

Country: USA

A technical malfunction causes an erroneous order to be sent to a squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail safe distance. The flight crew are trained to cease communications and prepare to fulfill their objective by bombing Moscow. As the planes near their target, together the Americans and Soviets decide on a final, desperate solution.

Columbia Pictures produced both this and Dr. Strangelove. Stanley Kubrick insisted his movie be released first, and it was, in January 1964. When Fail-Safe was released in October, it garnered excellent reviews, but audiences found it unintentionally funny. Henry Fonda later said he would never have made the movie if he had seen Strangelove first, because he would have laughed too. Look for a couple of brief shots of a very young Dom DeLuise in his first film.

"Lumet sensibly avoids pyrotechnics in favour of tightening the psychological screws, as Larry Hagman (the president's translator - nice looking kid) does nervy trade-offs on the hot-line, and everyone, from President Fonda down, starts drowning in a sea of cold sweat." - Time Out Film Guide

[Spinal]

#5

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Onibaba

Director: Kaneto Shindô

Country: Japan

As feudal war rages in 14th-century Japan, the wife and the mother of a soldier make their meager living by preying upon hapless samurai who come their way. When a friend of the soldier returns to the women's hut, tensions build as the younger woman gives in to her loneliness, and the older woman feels jealousy and plots revenge.

The demon mask used in the movie inspired William Friedkin to use a similar design for the makeup in subliminal shots of a white-faced demon in The Exorcist. Initially refused a certificate in England by the BBFC in 1965, but resubmitted in 1968 where it was approved with an X classification albeit with some cuts.

"Cued to Hikaru Hayashi's radical score, which combines frenzied percussion with sharp avant-garde trumpet bursts, Onibaba sustains a high level of emotional intensity, particularly in sex scenes far removed from polite, soft-focus choreography ... Many of the actions in the film are horrifying and despicable, but few are beyond comprehension, because Shindô registers his characters' needs so clearly and urgently." - Scott Tobias

[Spinal]

#4

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I Am Cuba

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

Country: Soviet Union/Cuba

Four vignettes in Batista's Cuba dramatize the need for revolution.

Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. The now famous long take that begins at the top of the hotel, then winds around and down into the swimming pool, originally come out of the water and continued. The camera was hand held, passed from crew member to crew member, to make its way down the side of the hotel into the pool. Much to the disappointment of the camera crew, Kalatozov cut the end of the take.

"I Am Cuba is a cinephile's wet dream, a collage of Herculean feats of technical wizardry that would be easy to dismiss if it wasn't so humane." - Ed Gonzalez

[Spinal]

#3

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Woman in the Dunes

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

Country: Japan

An amateur entomologist searching for insects by the sea is trapped by local villagers into living with a mysterious woman who spends almost all her time preventing her home from being swallowed up by advancing sand dunes.

Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1965. Nominated for the Best Director Oscar in 1966. Won the Jury Special Prize at Cannes. Based on the novel by Kōbō Abe, who also wrote the film's screenplay.

"More than almost any other film I can think of, Woman in the Dunes uses visuals to create a tangible texture--of sand, of skin, of water seeping into sand and changing its nature. It is not so much that the woman is seductive as that you sense, as you look at her, exactly how it would feel to touch her skin." - Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#2

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Band of Outsiders (Bande Ã* part)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Country: France

Franz has met Odile in an English class. She lives with wealthy benefactors and has mentioned that Mr. Stolz keeps a pile of 10,000 franc notes unlocked in his room. Franz tells his friend Arthur, whose shady uncle is pressing him for money. Arthur and Franz case Odile's house and pressure her to assist them with a burglary.

The principle actors rehearsed for the famous dance sequence in nightclubs and bars in Paris' Latin District. The story Franz refers to in the café scene, about something being best hidden in the most obvious place, is The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allen Poe.

"It's as if a French poet took a banal American crime novel and told it to us in terms of the romance and beauty he read between the lines ... This lyrical tragicomedy is perhaps Godard's most delicately charming film." - Pauline Kael

[soitgoes...]

Sweet, but it makes me wonder... what could possibly be number 1??

[Spinal]

Sweet, but it makes me wonder... what could possibly be number 1??

Prepare to be shocked!!!!!

[Spinal]

#1

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Country: UK

U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely mad and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a "Doomsday Machine" which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth.

Nomiated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Peter Sellers) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Won Best Director from the New York Film Critics Circle. The film's first test screening was due to take place on November 22, 1963, the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The film was just weeks away from its scheduled premiere, but, after the assassination, this was pushed back to late January 1964, as it was felt that the public would not be in a mood for a black comedy so soon after such a traumatic event.

"Stanley Kubrick's new film ... is beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across. And I say that with full recollection of some of the grim ones I've heard from Mort Sahl, some of the cartoons I've seen by Charles Addams and some of the stuff I've read in Mad Magazine." - Bosley Crowther (1964)

[soitgoes...]

:eek:

[Spinal]

1. Dr. Strangelove (98)
2. Band of Outsiders (47)
3. Woman in the Dunes (43.5)
4. I Am Cuba (35.5)
5. Onibaba (30)
6. Fail-Safe (26)
7. A Hard Day’s Night (23.5)
8t. Scorpio Rising (19)
8t. Marnie (19)
10t. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (18)
10t. Shadows Of Our Forgotten Ancestors (18)

Not quite:
Charulata (17.5)
A Fistful of Dollars (14)
Goldfinger (13.5)

[Spinal]

:eek:

(Kub)rickrolled!

[soitgoes...]

(Kub)rickrolled!
Nice. :lol:

[Grouchy]

Lots on this list I still need to see. Specially curious about Woman in the Dunes, Onibaba and even Scorpio Rising since I saw Scorsese raving about it on some DVD interview.

[dreamdead]

Definitely need to get around to Shindô and Teshigahara's filmography soon, but that response is tempered by M-C's lackluster response to Satyajit Ray here. :sad:

[Spinal]

Definitely need to get around to Shindô and Teshigahara's filmography soon, but that response is tempered by M-C's lackluster response to Satyajit Ray here. :sad:

I thought Charulata did pretty well for a film that probably hasn't been widely seen.

[Yxklyx]

I thought Charulata did pretty well for a film that probably hasn't been widely seen.

Charulata was OK. I liked Mahanagar (The Big City) and Jalsaghar (The Music Room) quite a bit more. People should watch the former in preparation for the 1963 consensus (though the DVD gets really crappy towards the end when the subtitles get out of sync - at least on the copy I rented).