MC Yearly Consensus - 1982

[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. The Atomic Cafe
2. Poltergeist
3. The Secret of NIMH
4. The Dark Crystal
5. Sophie's Choice

Very honorable mention: Sweeney Todd

6. Fitzcarraldo
7. The King of Comedy
8. The Draughtsman's Contract
9. Diner
10. E.T.

[Raiders]

1. White Dog (Fuller)
2. Night of the Shooting Stars (Taviani)
3. The Thing (Carpenter)
4. Tenebre (Argento)
5. Shoot the Moon (Parker)

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6. The Draughtsman's Contract (Greenaway)
7. Eating Raoul (Bartel)
8. Fitzcarraldo (Herzog)
9. One from the Heart (Coppola)
10. Poltergeist (Hooper)

[Mysterious Dude]

1. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
2. Fanny and Alexander
3. Tron
4. Time Masters
5. The King of Comedy

[Ezee E]

1. Fitzcarraldo
2. Blade Runner
3. The Thing
4. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
5. Poltergeist

6. Sophie's Choice
7. Secret of NIMH
8. The King of Comedy
9. Conan the Barbarian
10. E.T.

[Russ]

1. Vernon, Florida
2. Burden of Dreams
3. Blade Runner
4. Eating Raoul
5. Fitzcarraldo

[Derek]

1. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
3. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
4. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
5. White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
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6. Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
7. The Thing (John Carpenter)
8. The Atomic Cafe (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty & Pierce Rafferty)
9. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
10. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)

HMs: Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker)
Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
Veronicka Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

[Melville]

1. Fanny and Alexander
2. Fitzcarraldo
3. Koyaanisqatsi
4. Blade Runner
5. The King of Comedy

[monolith94]

1. Tron
2. Blade Runner
3. The Snowman
4. The Return of Martin Guerre
5. One From the Heart


An excellent year.

[Yxklyx]

1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
2. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
3. Diner (Barry Levinson)
4. The World According to Garp (George Roy Hill)
5. Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

6. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
7. Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris)
8. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
9. Tenebre (Dario Argento)
10. The Thing (John Carpenter)

[origami_mustache]

1. Fitzcarraldo
2. Koyaanisqatsi
3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
4. Gandhi
5. The Thing

need to see Fanny and Alexander

[Teh Sausage]

01. Blade Runner
02. Fitzcarraldo
03. Pink Floyd: The Wall
04. Koyaanisqatsi
05. Tenebre

[dreamdead]

1. The Draughtsman's Contract
2. Fitzcarraldo
3. The Thing
4. Blade Runner
5. Fanny and Alexander

[Grouchy]

1. Fitzcarraldo
2. The Thing
3. Blade Runner
4. The King of Comedy
5. Conan the Barbarian

[Watashi]

1. Blade Runner
2. Fitzcarraldo
3. The Thing
4. The Secret of NIMH
5. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Kahn

HM: E.T., Tron, The Snowman

[Watashi]

I still don't understand how The King of Comedy is 1982. Damn Icelandians.

[Grouchy]

I still understand how The King of Comedy is 1982. Damn Icelandians.
Yeah, people, don't forget about it. I saw a lot more votes for it when everyone thought it was 1983.

[Stay Puft]

1. Koyaanisqatsi
2. Fitzcarraldo
3. The Atomic Cafe
4. 18 Legendary Weapons of China
5. Tron

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Fanny and Alexander
2. Blade Runner
3. John Carpenter's The Thing
4. The Verdict
5. Vincent

[Mysterious Dude]

E.T. not making the top ten = you all suck

[Yxklyx]

Have you all seen the theatrical or television cut of Fanny and Alexander? I saw the shorter version and it really did feel chopped up too much.

[Melville]

Have you all seen the theatrical or television cut of Fanny and Alexander? I saw the shorter version and it really did feel chopped up too much.
I've only seen the shorter version, and it never felt choppy to me. It's one of my favorites.

[Lazlo]

1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2. Fitzcarraldo
3. Fanny and Alexander
4. Tootsie
5. The Thing

[Weeping_Guitar]

1. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
2. Blade Runner
3. Fanny and Alexander
4. Pink Floyd: The Wall
5. Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

[Spinal]

E.T. not making the top ten = you all suck


1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial



1. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial


It never fails.

[baby doll]

1. The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)
2. Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3. Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. The State of Things (Wim Wenders)

[Boner M]

1. The Thing
2. The King of Comedy
3. Fanny & Alexander
4. White Dog
5. Made in Britain

HM: ET; Vernon, Florida; Fitzcarraldo; Tenebre; Passion

Need to see: Tootsie, The State of Things, One From the Heart

[Boner M]

Made in Britain only making my list = you all suck

I wish number8 participated in these things.

[Spinal]

Watch (http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=atomic+cafe&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1#) The Atomic Cafe, you bastards.

[Boner M]

I hate you, Spinal.

[Derek]

It never fails.

Zapped! not making the top 10 = you all suck.

Come on, people!

http://www.impawards.com/1982/posters/zapped.jpg

[monolith94]

It never fails.
Somehow I doubt the same thing would happen if I said that about Tron. :(

[MadMan]

Watch (http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=atomic+cafe&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1#) The Atomic Cafe, you bastards.I did back in high school. Awesome, at times chilling, film. So what do I win? :P

1. The Thing
2. Blade Runner
3. Star Trek: The Wraith of Khan
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
5. First Blood
6. The Atomic Cafe
7. The Snowman
8. Koyaanisqatsi

Huh I think this is the second, or maybe the third, time I've only put forth a Top 7 or 8 list. On reflection though even though I haven't seen much from this year the Top 6 rocks.

[soitgoes...]

Watch (http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=atomic+cafe&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1#) The Atomic Cafe, you bastards.I've been putting off my list until I finish watching Fanny and Alexander. Halfway through as of now. I'll finish it tonight hopefully. Then you'll see The Atomic Cafe on another list. Brilliant film that one.

[Spinal]

6. The Atomic Cafe


You're killing me here. :|

[Pop Trash]

1. Poltergeist
2. The World According to Garp
3. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
4. E.T.
5. The Secret of NIMH

6. Koyaanisqatsi
7. Pink Floyd: The Wall
8. The King of Comedy
9. Eating Raoul
10. Creepshow

[Stay Puft]

The Atomic Cafe is a great movie... that I forgot to put on my list. Happens with one every year!

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Veronika Voss
2. Fitzcarraldo
3. The Thing
4. The Atomic Cafe

[Pop Trash]

3. Sans Soliel


This is '83 people.

[Spinal]

Stay Puft and soitgoes are non-bastards.

[soitgoes...]

1. The Atomic Cafe (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty)
2. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
3. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough)
4. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
5. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
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6. The Chorus (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
8. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
9. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
10. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
11. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer)
12. Walter (Stephen Frears)

[soitgoes...]

Stay Puft and soitgoes are non-bastards.And Kurious Jorge. Must not forget him.

[soitgoes...]

This is '83 people.
As is Ballad of Narayama.

[Yum-Yum]

1. Liquid Sky
2. Eating Raoul
3. Café Flesh
4. Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
5. The Last American Virgin

[balmakboor]

I usually just jump in after a bunch of people have posted and pick my top 5 out of those listed, but this is going to be tough. There are like 30-35 terrific movies listed so far.

Here goes:

1. E.T.
2. Blade Runner
3. Koyaanisqatsi
4. Fast Time at Ridgemont High
5. Veronika Voss

[Grouchy]

Where are all the people that were complaining that King of Comedy was inelligible for 1983?

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. The Thing
2. The Verdict
3. The Secret of NIMH
4. Gandhi
5. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

[balmakboor]

Where are all the people that were complaining that King of Comedy was inelligible for 1983?

They had forgotten that 1982 was such a damn tough year. It would be in my top ten.

[MadMan]

You're killing me here. :|There really is no way for me to please you, is there? :P The Top 3 on my list receive 100's from me. #4 and #5 are only slightly better than "Cafe." Thus, "Cafe" is #6 on the list. That's how it works. ;)

[Spinal]

More?

[Spinal]

#10

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Veronika Voss

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Country: West Germany

A sports journalist meets Veronika Voss, an actress who supposedly had an affair with Goebbels. Now declining, Voss is kept by her doctor who supplies her house, food, clean clothes and her favorite: morphine.

Won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and the International Critics' Award at the Toronto Film Festival. The film is based on the true story of German film star Sybille Schmitz, who appeared in both Dreyer's Vampyr and Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl.

"Fassbinder's Veronika Voss is a bleak, cheerless and sometimes savage addition to his trilogy about the collapse of the West German postwar dream, but did he realize that he himself was one of the victims of his stories? This movie makes you wonder." - Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#8 (tie)

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The King of Comedy

Director: Martin Scorsese

Country: USA

Rupert Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol with a plea to perform on his show, he is only given the run-around. He does not give up, however, stalking Jerry in an attempt to get what he wants.

Named Film of the Year at the London Critics Circle Film Awards. Earned Best Supporting Actress (Sandra Bernhard) from the National Society of Film Critics. In the scene where Robert De Niro and Sandra Bernhard argue in the street, three of those that mock Bernhard are Mick Jones, Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon, members of The Clash.

"It’s De Niro’s movie and one of his finest performances. Scene after scene we see a side to De Niro we haven’t seen before, or since." - Alan Bacchus

[Spinal]

#8 (tie)

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Poltergeist

Director: Tobe Hooper

Country: USA

A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone. Then they turn nasty and start to terrorize the family before kidnapping the youngest daughter.

Earned three Academy Award nominations including Best Visual Effects. The hands which pull the flesh off the investigator's face in the bathroom mirror are Steven Spielberg's. The sound effect for the beast that attacks the house at the end of the movie is the source for the current MGM lion roar.

"Poltergeist is the most sensation-dependent film of Spielberg's career, and, in its demolition of the Spielberg mystique, may be the most subversive film of all Hooper's work. It's one of the strongest films in either director's canon, and yet it's eerily impersonal. Collaboration can be a scary thing." - Eric Henderson

[Spinal]

#7

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The Atomic Café

Director: Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty

Country: USA

An overview of the atomic age pieced together entirely from United States government issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the bomb was not a threat to their safety.

Named Best Documentary by the Boston Society of Film Critics. One of the filmmakers, Kevin Rafferty, was later befriended by a young Michael Moore who was seeking advice on how to make his first film, Roger & Me. Rafferty ended up becoming the cinematographer on the film and acted as a mentor to Moore.

"Using only archival footage and avoiding narration, the filmmakers are nonetheless able to construct a coherent narrative of America’s bizarre fetishistic relationship with nuclear weaponry and death in general with the use of masterful editing and a wicked sense of humor ... And yet, beyond the kitsch, there is a sobering message that is still relevant today as we make every effort to top ourselves in terms of destructive human folly." - Spinal

[Spinal]

#6

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Koyaanisqatsi

Director: Godfrey Reggio

Country: USA

A visual concert of images using extensive time lapse photography and slow motion photography to make comparisons between different types of physical motion. The film progresses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own environment.

Reggio originally wanted an uninterpretable symbol as the title of the film, but instead settled on "Koyaanisqatsi", from an obscure language (Hopi) that he said "had no emotional baggage attached to it" due to its obscurity. One shot of a mountain range was provided by MacGillivray-Freeman Films; the shot was leftover footage from The Shining.

"[Koyaanisqatsi] demands respect, as the increasingly frenetic Glass music and Ron Fricke's striking compositions make urban decay and human gaudiness seem almost as beautiful as stark canyons and tumultuous ocean waves. Any one of Koyaanisqatsi's short sequences could feed a hundred experimental films—or a hundred thousand TV commercials." - Noel Murray

[Sven]

"Using only archival footage and avoiding narration, the filmmakers are nonetheless able to construct a coherent narrative of America’s bizarre fetishistic relationship with nuclear weaponry and death in general with the use of masterful editing and a wicked sense of humor ... And yet, beyond the kitsch, there is a sobering message that is still relevant today as we make every effort to top ourselves in terms of destructive human folly." - Spinal

You, sir, are a whore.

[MadMan]

Wow Spinal. Wow :lol: :P

[Spinal]

#5

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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Director: Steven Spielberg

Country: USA

A group of aliens visit earth and one of them is lost and left behind, stranded on this planet. The alien is found by a 10 year old boy. Soon the two begin to communicate. The alien wants to go home. But if the boy helps him, he'll lose a friend.

Won four Oscars including Best Visual Effects and Best Original Score. Nominated for a total of nine Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Original Screenplay. The screenplay was written by Melissa Mathison, Harrison Ford's wife. A scene with Ford playing a school principal was cut because Spielberg felt it would be too distracting.

"Watching E.T. 20 years after it was first released ... I can't say that the movie holds the same sense of discovery it did in 1982 ... But for people who saw E.T. on its first go-round, particularly moviegoers who were kids back then, the pleasure of seeing it now is the joy of feeling your responses deepen. It's no news to anyone that E.T. is one of the loveliest and happiest of American movie entertainments. It's also a greater picture than we could have known." - Charles Taylor (2002)

[Spinal]

You, sir, are a whore.

The quote-finding was taking too long, so I went where I knew I could find one. Are you suggesting that I do not carry the weight of Roger Ebert and Slant Magazine?

[Sven]

The quote-finding was taking too long, so I went where I knew I could find one. Are you suggesting that I do not carry the weight of Roger Ebert and Slant Magazine?

The only thing I'm saying is that you are a whore. A smart, well-written whore, whom I frequent with a more feverish fervor than I do those other jokers. They got nothing on you. You are my whore.

[soitgoes...]

The only thing I'm saying is that you are a whore. A smart, well-written whore, whom I frequent with a more feverish fervor than I do those other jokers. They got nothing on you. You are my whore.
:eek:

[Spinal]

#4

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Fanny and Alexander

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Country: Sweden

Fanny and Alexander live in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. After their father's early death, their mother marries the bishop and moves with the children to his austere and forbidding chancery where the children are immediately miserable.

Won four Oscars including Best Foreign Film, Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design. Also nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Bergman was named Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle. Bergman and cinematographer Sven Nykvist had a big falling-out during shooting, since Nykvist wanted to attend his ex-wife's funeral and Bergman wouldn't allow him to leave the set.

"It is very much, and in the best way, an old man's movie, the work of an artist resigned to life's mystery, full of wonder at the passage of time, full of forgiveness for past wrongs, and full of understanding, even of those people whose wrongs can never quite be forgiven. It's an epic family film that revisits Bergman's favorite subjects ... and yet in ways more generous and less austere than in his other films. That's why it is repeatedly called his most accessible work and why, though it's his last film, it's probably the ideal first Bergman film for the uninitiated." - Mick LaSalle

[Spinal]

The only thing I'm saying is that you are a whore. A smart, well-written whore, whom I frequent with a more feverish fervor than I do those other jokers. They got nothing on you. You are my whore.

That makes me feel so good, I think I'll stop hitting the crack pipe.


Ahhhh, who am I kidding?

[Spinal]

#3

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The Thing

Director: John Carpenter

Country: USA

Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that the task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated.

The Norwegian camp scenes were actually the charred remains of the American site from the end of the film. Rather than go to the expense of building and burning down another camp, Carpenter re-used the destroyed American camp. The female voice on MacReady's computer was performed by Carpenter's wife, actress Adrienne Barbeau.

"Even by today's standards, the film's gore factor is quite high, with some truly grotesque and convincing creatures to give you nightmares the rest of your life. It's a B-movie through and through, but they don't come much better than this." - Vince Leo

[Spinal]

#2

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Fitzcarraldo

Director: Werner Herzog

Country: Peru/West Germany

Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this, he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business. His cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local Indians.

Herzog was named Best Director at Cannes. A real 340-ton steam ship was moved over the mountain with a bulldozer without the use of special effects. Mick Jagger was originally cast as Fitzcarraldo's assistant Wilbur, but his shooting schedule expired and he departed to tour with the Rolling Stones. Herzog dropped Jagger's character from the script and reshot the film from the beginning.

"Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo is one of the great visions of the cinema, and one of the great follies. One would not have been possible without the other ... The movie is imperfect, but transcendent; this story could not have been filmed on this location in this way and been perfect without being less of a film." - Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#1

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Blade Runner

Director: Ridley Scott

Country: USA

Deckard is a Blade Runner, a policeman of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when four replicants hijack a ship back to Earth.

Nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Visual Effects and Best Art Direction). The visual concept was given a special achievement prize from the London Critics Circle Film Awards. The moves that Roy plays to checkmate Tyrell are from a famous game played in 1851 by the German chess master Adolf Anderssen. It is known to chess enthusiasts as "The Immortal Game" where Anderssen sacrificed his Queen in order to force checkmate on the very next move.

"[Blade Runner is] an amazingly sophisticated, sumptuously visionary treatise on the consequences of attaining god-hood ... Grand enough in scale to carry its many Biblical and mythological references, Blade Runner never feels heavy or pretentious -- only more and more engrossing with each viewing. It helps, too, that it works as pure entertainment. In its soul, it's a detective story complete with a glossy dame and a Chandler-style gumshoe suffering from a case of hard-boiled heartburn." - Rita Kempley

[Sven]

Any list that prizes Blade Runner over Herzog I call "bullshit". The end.

Lord, I'm cranky tonite.

[Spinal]

1. Blade Runner (56)
2. Fitzcarraldo (48.5)
3. The Thing (45)
4. Fanny and Alexander (36)
5. E.T. (29.5)
6. Koyaanisqatsi (22.5)
7. The Atomic Café (16.5)
8t. Poltergeist (14.5)
8t. The King of Comedy (14.5)
10. Veronika Voss (14)

Not quite:
Gandhi (13.5)
The Secret of NIMH (12.5)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (12)
Tron (11)
White Dog (10.5)

[transmogrifier]

White Dog (10.5)

Best movie on the list.

[MadMan]

Note, I never said that Spinal wasn't a good writer. He is. He's one of the many posters on this site that I look forward to reading. If anything this bunch spurs me to try and be a much better writer, and stop turning in such lazy bits of crappy short works that couldn't really pass for penscratch (whatever the hell that means).

I honestly can't believe that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan didn't even crack the HM's. You've got to be shitting me. Its a great film, and one of the best sci-fi flicks ever made.

[Derek]

I honestly can't believe that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan didn't even crack the HM's. You've got to be shitting me.

Wow, that is...that is a great reaction! :lol:

[MadMan]

Wow, that is...that is a great reaction! :lol:Why thank you (I think....hmm....:P). What's even funnier is that I'm not even a Star Trek geek. But I thought there were some on this site.

[Grouchy]

I honestly can't believe that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan didn't even crack the HM's. You've got to be shitting me. Its a great film, and one of the best sci-fi flicks ever made.
I'm completely ignorant about Star Trek, but I feel this way about the Conan film. Am I seriously the only one who voted for it?

[MadMan]

I'm completely ignorant about Star Trek, but I feel this way about the Conan film. Am I seriously the only one who voted for it?I have not seen "Barbarian" yet. But considering how big of an Arnuld fan I am I probably would have voted for it had I seen it.