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Thirdmango
09-29-2012, 02:31 PM
Submit your five favorite films and five favorite performances from this year and in a week someone will give you a top ten in both categories. 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

10.5 pts will be required to make either list.

There will be no restrictions on short films.

There will be no distinction made between male and female performances.
There will be no distinction made between lead and supporting performances.
Voice acting can be considered a performance.

We would like to be able to count votes as they come in. This means that if you change your vote, you need to make a new post. Please quote your old list and then add your new list so that we can easily track the changes. We will not be looking for edits. Once you make a post, consider your vote cast.

You may begin now.

Dukefrukem
09-29-2012, 02:44 PM
1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2. Beauty and the Beast
3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. Hook
5. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

baby doll
09-29-2012, 03:54 PM
Films:
1. Les Amants du Pont Neuf (Leos Carax)
2. La Belle noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
3. Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. La Double vie de Véronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
5. Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)

Runners-up: Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks), Jungle Fever (Spike Lee), My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant), Slacker (Richard Linklater), World of Glory (Roy Andersson)

Performances:
1. River Phoenix, My Own Private Idaho
2. Michel Piccoli, La Belle noiseuse
3. Denis Levant, Les Amants du Pont Neuf
4. Samuel L. Jackson, Jungle Fever
5. Eddie Constantine, Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro

1991 movies I haven't seen but want to:

A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
Hangin' With the Homeboys (Joseph B. Vasquez)
Highway Patrolman (Alex Cox)
The Hours and Times (Christopher Münch)
Jacquot de Nantes (Agnès Varda)
J'entends plus la guitare (Philippe Garrel)
A Little Stiff (Greg Watkins / Caveh Zahedi)
Nuit et jour (Chantal Akerman)
Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr)
The Suspended Step of the Stork (Theo Angelopoulos)
Van Gough (Maurice Pialat)

Spinal
09-29-2012, 04:28 PM
1. Prospero's Books
2. Raise the Red Lantern
3. Edward II
4. Europa
5. 35 Up

1. Gong Li - Raise the Red Lantern
2. John Gielgud - Prospero's Books
3. Alan Rickman - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
4. Amanda Plummer - The Fisher King
5. Juliette Lewis - Cape Fear

Gizmo
09-29-2012, 04:31 PM
1. Delicatessen
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. JFK
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. Thelma and Louise

1. Jodie Foster- The Silence of the Lambs
2. Anthony Hopkins- The Silence of the Lambs
3. Susan Sarandon- Thelma and Louise
4. Dominique Pinon- Delicatessen
5. Kevin Costner- JFK

Watashi
09-29-2012, 04:32 PM
1. Barton Fink
2. City of Hope
3. JFK
4. Cape Fear
5. Beauty and the Beast

Pop Trash
09-29-2012, 04:36 PM
1. Barton Fink
2. City of Hope
3. JFK
4. Cape Fear
5. Beauty and the Beast

NO HOOK?!?!

Weeping_Guitar
09-29-2012, 04:45 PM
1. The Double Life of Veronique
2. JFK
3. Barton Fink
4. Raise the Red Lantern
5. Solo Con Tu Pareja

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1. Irène Jacob (The Double Life of Veronique)
2. John Goodman (Barton Fink)
3. Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern)
4. Kevin Costner (JFK)
5. Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)

Boner M
09-29-2012, 04:55 PM
Amazing year for French cinema... Carax, Pialat, Rivette, Garrel at their best, and well-regarded Godard, Varda & Akerman I've yet to see.

1. Les Amants du Pont Neuf
2. Barton Fink
3. La Belle noiseuse
4. J'entends plus la guitare
5. Point Break

HM: Van Gogh, Flirting, Terminator 2, Surviving Desire, A Little Stiff, JFK
Need to see: A Brighter Summer Day, ...And Life Goes On, Side/Walk/Shuttle

Performances (sorry ladies):

1. Jacques Dutronc, Van Gogh
2. John Goodman, Barton Fink
3. River Phoenix, My Own Private Idaho
4. Michel Piccoli, La Belle noiseuse
5. Denis Lavant, Les Amants du Pont Neuf

Pop Trash
09-29-2012, 05:06 PM
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. JFK
3. Terminator 2
4. Point Break
5. Cape Fear

6. Slacker
7. Boyz N the Hood
8. Barton Fink
9. My Girl
10. The Man in the Moon

Perfs:
1. Laura Dern, Rambling Rose
2. Robert DeNiro, Cape Fear
3. Juliette Lewis, Cape Fear
4. Jodie Foster, Lambs
5. Anna Chlumsky, My Girl

elixir
09-29-2012, 05:27 PM
1. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
2. Les Amants du Pont Neuf (Leos Carax)
3. Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat)
4. J'entends plus la guitare (Philippe Garrel)
5. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

1. Elias Koteas, The Adjuster
2. Denis Lavant, Les Amants du Pont Neuf
3. Irene Jacob, The Double Life of Veronique
4. Jacques Dutronc, Van Gogh
5. Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs

kopello
09-29-2012, 06:17 PM
1. The Lovers on the Bridge
2. The Double Life of Veronique
3. Raise the Red Lantern
4. Europa
5. Night on Earth

Some great stuff there, and so much from this year I still want to see.

ContinentalOp
09-29-2012, 06:33 PM
1. Terminator 2
2. Night on Earth
3. The Fisher King
4. Boyz N the Hood
5. Proof

1. Bruce Willis- The Last Boy Scout
2. Robert De Niro- Cape Fear
2. Laurence Fishburne- Boyz N the Hood
3. Mercedes Ruehl- The Fisher King
4. Hugo Weaving- Proof

Morris Schæffer
09-29-2012, 07:43 PM
1. T2: Judgment Day
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. JFK
4. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
5. Point Break

1. Anthony Hopkins (the silence of the lambs)
2. Jodie Foster (The Silence of the lambs)
3. Robert de Niro (Cape Fear)
4. Christopher Plummer (star trek VI)
5. Timothy Dalton (The Rocketeer)

Mysterious Dude
09-29-2012, 07:55 PM
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. The Rapture
3. Jacquot de Nantes
4. Black Robe
5. Raise the Red Lantern

1. Mimi Rogers, The Rapture
2. Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs
3. Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs
4. Gong Li, Raise the Red Lantern
5. Hugo Weaving, Proof

Raiders
09-29-2012, 11:06 PM
1. La belle noiseuse
2. A Scene at the Sea
3. The Rapture
4. Until the End of the World
5. Prospero's Books

6. Dead Again
7. The Adjuster
8. Proof
9. Raise the Red Lantern
10. The Silence of the Lambs
11. Hot Shots!

Performances:
1. Hugo Weaving, Proof
2. John Goodman, Barton Fink
3. John Gielgud, Prospero's Books
4. Elias Koteas, The Adjuster
5. Mimi Rogers, The Rapture

StanleyK
09-29-2012, 11:54 PM
Performances:

1. John Turturro (Barton Fink)
2. Samuel L. Jackson (Jungle Fever)
3. John Goodman (Barton Fink)
4. Ruby Dee (Jungle Fever)
5. Ossie Davis (Jungle Fever)

B-side
09-30-2012, 12:21 AM
1. Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
2. Queen of Diamonds (Nina Menkes)
3. The Gaze (Mani Kaul)
4. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
5. Barton Fink (Joel Coen)

1. Peter Weller - Naked Lunch
2. John Goodman - Barton Fink
3. Irène Jacob - The Double Life of Veronique
4. Tinka Menkes - Queen of Diamonds
5. Shambhavi Kaul - The Gaze

elixir
09-30-2012, 12:25 AM
4. Three Days (Sharunas Bartas)


IMDB says 1992. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103132/) Last time I checked it also said that about the Kiarostami and Surviving Desire was 1993, but I have seen all three sourced for this year in other places...so I dunno.

B-side
09-30-2012, 12:30 AM
IMDB says 1992. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103132/) Last time I checked it also said that about the Kiarostami and Surviving Desire was 1993, but I have seen all three sourced for this year in other places...so I dunno.

Yeah, I was gonna mention that the Kiarostami baby doll listed was from 1992. The Corrie Trends feature has Three Days listed as 1991, so I went with that. Must've changed since I entered it.

Lazlo
09-30-2012, 02:26 AM
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. JFK
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. City Slickers

1. Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
2. Bill Murray - What About Bob?
3. Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
4. Dustin Hoffman - Hook
3. Kevin Costner - JFK

soitgoes...
09-30-2012, 04:21 AM
1. A Brighter Summer Day (Yang)
2. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang)
3. JFK (Stone)
4. La belle noiseuse (Rivette)
5. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)

HMs: The Silence of the Lambs, Naked Lunch, Only Yesterday, Barton Fink, Hearts of Darkness, Carne, A Scene at the Sea and World of Glory

1. Gong Li, Raise the Red Lantern
2. Irène Jacob, The Double Life of Veronique
3. John Goodman, Barton Fink
4. Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs
5. Emmanuelle Béart, La belle noiseuse (she nailed her role)

EyesWideOpen
09-30-2012, 01:40 PM
1. Beauty and the Beast
2. A Scene at the Sea
3. Boyz n the Hood
4. Silence of the Lambs
5. Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

Russ
09-30-2012, 06:09 PM
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. The Rapture
3. Rubin & Ed
4. Thelma & Louise
5. Terminator 2


1. Mimi Rogers, The Rapture
2. Howard Hesseman, Rubin & Ed
3. Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs
4. John Goodman, Barton Fink
5. Harley Cross, The Boy Who Cried Bitch

baby doll
10-01-2012, 02:59 AM
I was gonna mention that the Kiarostami baby doll listed was from 1992.In that case, it'll be my number one movie of 1992, and I'll add The Passing to my top five for this year.

B-side
10-01-2012, 06:26 AM
In that case, it'll be my number one movie of 1992

Deservedly so.

Yxklyx
10-01-2012, 04:17 PM
1. Barton Fink (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
2. Slacker (Richard Linklater)
3. JFK (Oliver Stone)
4. Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang)
5. 35 Up (Michael Apted)

1. Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
2. Roberto Benigni - Night on Earth
3. Denis Lavant - The Lovers on the Bridge
4. Lili Taylor - Dogfight
5. Dominique Pinon - Delicatessen

Dukefrukem
10-01-2012, 04:20 PM
Performances;

1. Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
2. Dustin Hoffman - Hook
3. Linda Hamilton - Terminator 2
4. Kevin Costner - JFK
5. Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs

Llopin
10-03-2012, 07:21 AM
1. A Scene at the Sea
2. Only Yesterday
3. La Belle Noiseuse
4. Slacker
5. A Brighter Summer Day

1. Gong Li, Raise the Red Lantern
2. Peter Weller, Naked Lunch
3. Michel Piccoli, La Belle noiseuse
4. Jackie Chan, Armour of God II: Operation Condor
5. Joaquim de Almeida, El Rey Pasmado

Grouchy
10-03-2012, 09:37 AM
1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
2. Barton Fink
3. Naked Lunch
4. The Double Life of Veronique
5. The Fisher King

Yum-Yum
10-03-2012, 09:49 AM
1. Motorama (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-3tjncnqU)
2. Rubin and Ed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK1YOz7apOs)
3. Nekromantik 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr9Ty-6Y9fY)
4. Party Doll A Go-Go!: Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfSg3YC8Acg)
5. Mannequin: On the Move (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1oy_TQ9tyE)

1. Monika M., Nekromantik 2
2. Howard Hesseman, Rubin and Ed
3. Lili Taylor - Dogfight
4. Wendy Robie, The People Under the Stairs
5. Nina Siemaszko, Wild Orchid 2: Two Shades of Blue

Russ
10-03-2012, 10:30 PM
2. Rubin and Ed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK1YOz7apOs)

2. Howard Hesseman, Rubin and Ed

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I think more people should watch films where Crispin Glover gets to say, "My cat can eat a whole watermelon."

Yum-Yum
10-03-2012, 11:17 PM
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I think more people should watch films where Crispin Glover gets to say, "My cat can eat a whole watermelon."

The same goes for films where Howard Hesseman calls people an asswipe.

Melville
10-04-2012, 04:30 PM
1. The Double Life of Veronique
2. The Lovers on the Bridge
3. Raise the Red Lantern
4. Barton Fink
5. Archangel

HMs: Hearts of Darkness, Silence of the Lambs, JFK


1. Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs
2. Gong Li, Raise the Red Lantern
3. Denis Lavant, The Lovers on the Bridge
4. Irene Jacob, The Double Life of Veronique
5. Juliet Binoche, The Lovers on the Bridge

HMs: John Goodman, John Turturro

Izzy Black
10-05-2012, 02:33 AM
1. Trys dienos
2. Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
3. The Double Life of Veronique
4. La Belle Noiseuse
5. J'embrasse pas

As for Trys dienos, I'm going by its initial 1991 Lithuanian release, although I know IMDB has it listed at 1992 for its international film festival releases. It's significantly a 1991 film, however, particularly in its closeness to the establishment of Lithuanian independence through 1990-1991 as one of Lithuanian's first and most important post-Soviet independent films.

I'll also note that I had La Belle Noiseuse much higher in previous years (it sat at the top of my list of '91 and firmly in my top 5 of the 90s for several years ), but for whatever reason, it hasn't aged quite as well with me, or impressed me quite as much as the Carax, Bartas and Kieslowski's films have on revisits and reviewing.

Lastly, it seems criminal not to include Bill Viola's The Passing (I think I have it as one of the only 1991 films listed in my top 100 on my old blog) and Raise the Red Lantern, but they're completely on par with any film in my list (and Jarmusch's Night on Earth is up there) and remain in the shuffle of my frequent reordering of these lists.

elixir
10-05-2012, 02:35 AM
The Viola is also listed as '92, anyway.

Izzy Black
10-05-2012, 02:42 AM
Well, good, that settles that. It deserves to be top 5 otherwise.

baby doll
10-05-2012, 05:48 AM
The Viola is also listed as '92, anyway.Man, '92 just gets better and better. The Passing out, Naked Lunch in.

B-side
10-05-2012, 06:31 AM
If Three Days is going to be counted as 1991, then I'll need to change my list. Whoever's in charge of this, let me know.

Mysterious Dude
10-05-2012, 12:37 PM
For the sake of avoiding future conflicts, I think we should just stick to the rule:


IMDb dates will be used.

Izzy Black
10-05-2012, 04:30 PM
Then I retract my list and withdrawal from the Consensus.

/cries

Dukefrukem
10-05-2012, 04:58 PM
For the sake of avoiding future conflicts, I think we should just stick to the rule:

Still, that can be deceiving. Using IMBD dates is NOT using the date that appears next to the title.

It's scrolling down a bit and looking at the Release Date, correct? Someone confirm this for me.

Pop Trash
10-05-2012, 05:10 PM
Still, that can be deceiving. Using IMBD dates is NOT using the date that appears next to the title.

It's scrolling down a bit and looking at the Release Date, correct? Someone confirm this for me.

No, the date next to the title should be the release date. IMDB uses the first instance of a public showing (like at a film fest, not a private showing for friends or studio execs or whoever) as their release date. I do think occasionally people fuck with these things since I do remember King of Comedy listed as 1982 a few years back because of some "Icelandic Film Fest" premiere, which seems unlikely and has since reverted back to being a 1983 film on IMDB.

Mr. McGibblets
10-05-2012, 05:18 PM
It seems clear to me that years are used for consensus as an easy way to separate things into discrete piles and not as an attempt to capture the actual zeitgeist of the time.

Izzy Black
10-05-2012, 06:17 PM
It seems clear to me that years are used for consensus as an easy way to separate things into discrete piles and not as an attempt to capture the actual zeitgeist of the time.

Yes, in some polls, but in others, it's an attempt to do both.

It's also not the case that IMDB lists the first "public showing" next to the name, what they usually list is the first international showing (and sometimes the first U.S. premiere), and other times, it's even more arbitrary, when it's the first major international showing (i.e. Cannes, Berlin). IMDB doesn't even always have all the initial public premieres listed. It does a decent job of compiling data, but it's certainly not an expert science, and moreover, people were making consensus lists long before IMDB ever existed, and those lists probably tended to mirror something closer to an initial premiere (or whatever the "official" initial release date is) and by taking a particular release date as loosely correlated to cultural impact within a year.

Mysterious Dude
10-05-2012, 07:43 PM
Still, that can be deceiving. Using IMBD dates is NOT using the date that appears next to the title.

It's scrolling down a bit and looking at the Release Date, correct? Someone confirm this for me.What's the difference? It's the same year in both places.

I have no doubt that Three Day was released in 1991 in Lithuania, but until someone submits that information to IMDB, we should use the date that's there.

Derek
10-05-2012, 08:19 PM
What's the difference? It's the same year in both places.

I have no doubt that Three Day was released in 1991 in Lithuania, but until someone submits that information to IMDB, we should use the date that's there.

I think Duke is thinking of the US release date that you can only find by going into the release date section. Just use the date next to the title.

Spinal
10-05-2012, 11:33 PM
IMDb dates are used for two reasons:

1) So that a film's votes don't get split over multiple years.
2) So that we don't have to have tedious debates over a film's legitimate release date in every thread.

Thirdmango
10-05-2012, 11:49 PM
3) If you're actually voting on a movie wouldn't you want others to vote for it too? We're not going to vote for it if it's not IMDB year so... why don't you want you movie voted for bro?

Thirdmango
10-06-2012, 01:00 PM
1. Barton Fink
2. Raise the Red Lantern
3. Star Trek VI
4. Silence of the Lambs
5. Cape Fear

1. Jon Turturro Barton Fink
2. John Goodman Barton Fink
3. Robert De Niro Cape Fear
4. Anthony Hopkins Silence of the Lambs
5. Bill Murray What About Bob

Thirdmango
10-07-2012, 03:13 PM
10. A Scene at the Sea

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I also saw A Scene at the Sea. Subpar Kitano, I think. My main problem is that the story is poignant but it just has TOO MUCH FUCKING SURFING IN IT.

--Grouchy


but I did love Kids Return, Scene at the Sea, a few years ago, they were my favourite.

--Li Lili

Thirdmango
10-07-2012, 03:29 PM
9. Beauty and the Beast

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/thirdmango/Match-Cut/9beauty.jpg


My fave growing up was Beauty and the Beast, and I still hold that one in high regard

-- Dead and Messed Up

Thirdmango
10-07-2012, 03:35 PM
8. La Belle Noiseuse

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/thirdmango/Match-Cut/8la_belle_noiseuse_door.jpg


If its boobies you're after, go for La Belle noiseuse. So much nakedness wrapped in a great film. Emmanuelle Béart. *drools*

--soitgoes

Thirdmango
10-07-2012, 03:40 PM
7. Les Amanta du Pont Neuf

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/thirdmango/Match-Cut/7les-amants-du-pont-neuf-1991-10017-1422648605.jpg


Speaking of which, I took another look at Les Amants du Pont Neuf last night. It definitely peaks early, but that's less a serious flaw than an indication of how mind-blowingly awesome the early scenes are.

-- baby doll

Thirdmango
10-07-2012, 03:49 PM
6. Raise the Red Lantern

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Raise the Red Lantern - terrific study of repression in a brilliantly stylized world

I saw Raise the Red Lantern and Curse of the Golden Flower around the same time, and I was impressed by how Zhang used similar techniques (particularly his use of music and editing to create structural and thematic elements out of daily rituals) to achieve such different goals in the two films.

-- Melville

Thirdmango
10-07-2012, 03:54 PM
4 (Tie). JFK

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/thirdmango/Match-Cut/4kevin-costner-in-jfk.jpg

(I don't have a quote because I can't search for JFK in the forum search)

Thirdmango
10-07-2012, 03:57 PM
4 (Tie). Terminator 2: Judgement Day

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I dunno. When I discuss James Cameron, I love discussing his unerring sense of plot simplicity and direction. He manages to craft cinematic stories that demand continual build of action for their resolutions. If you watch Terminator 2 or Aliens, you're watching fantastic plotting. And considering how those films work first and foremost as breathlessly paced adventures, the plotting is key.

-- Dead and Messed Up

Thirdmango
10-07-2012, 04:09 PM
3. La Double vie de Véronique

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The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)
Yet another terrific movie. It's an ethereal rumination on the profundities of sensuous experience, fate, and human interconnectedness. My two favorite shots come relatively early in the film. In the first of the two, one of the two central characters sings in a choir as it begins to rain. The other singers appear to scurry out of the rain in the background, but the singer in the foreground continues to sing, sublimely, before looking up and smiling almost ecstatically. The shot is framed tightly around her, such that the rain almost appears to come from nowhere--what's important is her immediate experience of it. There is an overwhelming glory in this moment, a transcendent experience of the moment, of the pure, immediate and sensuous experience of it and its infinitude. The second of my two favorite shots is a view of buildings through a window. A distortion in the image, caused by the glass, moves across the frame, stretching and smearing bits of stone and grass is in its passage. It is almost as if the film is revealing something mystical, something beyond our grasp, hidden within or between the quanta of our experience.

-Melville

Thirdmango
10-07-2012, 04:12 PM
2. Barton Fink

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The Coen brothers relish in tiny details, and they take this to the extreme here; a bell rings for a good minute; a suitcase thrown on a bed makes it shake; a fly buzzes, tormenting our writer's block-stricken protagonist. I'm not sure what it all means, but it makes for an incredibly tense film.

-- StanleyK

Thirdmango
10-07-2012, 04:18 PM
1. The Silence of the Lambs

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/thirdmango/Match-Cut/1silence-of-the-lambs2.jpg


I watched The Silence of the Lambs for the first time today. Although it tells its story efficiently, I thought that it also did a good job with meditating on the moment when needed, binding them to your memory with imagery or sounds. Also, while Anthony Hopkins gets all the attention, I thought that Ted Levine was just as good. Creepy as all hell.

--chrisnu

Thirdmango
10-07-2012, 04:24 PM
Stats:

26 Posters participated this year versus 36 in 2008.

There were 48 movies that received at least one vote.

26 of the 48 movies received two votes or more.

Votes for movies which had two or more votes:

1. The Silence of the Lambs -- 37.5
2. Barton Fink -- 32
3. La Double vie de Véronique -- 31.5
4. JFK -- 29.5
4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day -- 29.5
6. Raise the Red Lantern -- 27.5
7. Les Amants du Pont Neuf -- 27
8. La Belle noiseuse -- 22
9. Beauty and the Beast -- 17.5
10. A Scene at the Sea -- 13

A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang) -- 12.5
The Rapture -- 11.5
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg) -- 11
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country -- 9
Cape Fear -- 8
Point Break -- 8
Prospero's Books -- 7.5
Rubin & Ed -- 7.5
Slacker (Richard Linklater) -- 7
Boyz N the Hood -- 6.5
Night on Earth -- 6.5
Europa -- 6
J'entends plus la guitare -- 6
The Fisher King -- 6
Thelma and Louise -- 5.5
35 Up -- 5

2008 Voting:

1. The Silence of the Lambs - 75.5
2. Barton Fink - 67.5
3. JFK - 65
4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day - 30
T5. Raise the Red Lantern - 29.5
T5. Beauty and the Beast - 29.5
7. The Double Life of Veronique - 26
8. Days of Being Wild - 25
9. Delicatessen - 24
10. The Rapture - 23

If someone else would like to do the performances I would appreciate it.

Yxklyx
10-09-2012, 06:07 PM
If someone else would like to do the performances I would appreciate it.

I'll try...

Yxklyx
10-09-2012, 06:59 PM
Top 11 Performances in 1991:

11. Kevin Kostner - JFK (10)
11. John Turturro - Barton Fink (10)
9. Michel Piccoli - La Belle noiseuse (11)
8. Mimi Rogers - The Rapture (12)
7. Robert DeNiro - Cape Fear (15)
6. Denis Lavant - Les Amants du Pont Neuf (17)
5. Irène Jacob - The Double Life of Veronique (19)
4. Gong Li - Raise the Red Lantern (26)
3. Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs (27)
2. John Goodman - Barton Fink (30)
1. Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs (41)

I was going to post photos but I couldn't find a decent one for Denis Lavant from the film.

Dukefrukem
10-09-2012, 07:37 PM
Bah we lost 10 posters.

Thirdmango
10-09-2012, 10:50 PM
Bah we lost 10 posters.

5 were people I either didn't recognize because they left before I got here or someone I knew left a while back. The other 5 were people who participated in one or more of the recent threads, just didn't get into the list this week for whatever reason. There was also a lot more variety in movies this time around then last time.