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Thirdmango
10-13-2012, 09:41 AM
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.

Changed From Spinal's way: If you want to make any changes, edit your old post. I won't be counting them as they come in so it's easier for me and/or others for you to only have one post with your official submissions.

You may begin now.

Melville
10-13-2012, 09:58 AM
1. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Fata Morgana
4. The Third Part of the Night
5. Two Lane Blacktop

Could throw in The Devils or Mon Oncle Antoine instead. Walkabout and Punishment Park are also pretty great.

1. Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange
2. Oliver Reed, The Devils
3. Warren Oates, Two Lane Blacktop
4. Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
5. Ruth Gordon, Harold and Maude

B-side
10-13-2012, 10:01 AM
Amazing year.

1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
3. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
4. A New Leaf (Elaine May)
5. Drive, He Said (Jack Nicholson)

1. Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
2. Dustin Hoffman - Straw Dogs
3. Elaine May - A New Leaf
4. Susan George - Straw Dogs
5. Tuesday Weld - A Safe Place

Robby P
10-13-2012, 03:22 PM
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
The Last Picture Show
Harold and Maude

Spinal
10-13-2012, 03:45 PM
1. Walkabout
2. Punishment Park
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Johnny Got His Gun
5. The Cat in the Hat

1. Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
2. Gene Hackman - The French Connection
3. Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
4. Dustin Hoffman - Straw Dogs
5. Jenny Agutter - Walkabout

elixir
10-13-2012, 03:50 PM
1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
3. Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
4. Une aventure de Billy le Kid (Luc Moullet)
5. The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage)

1. Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2. Warren Beatty, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
3. Gena Rowlands, Minnie and Moskowitz
4. Jean-Pierre Léaud, Une aventure de Billy le Kid
5. Gene Hackman, The French Connection

baby doll
10-13-2012, 04:00 PM
Films:
1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
3. Taking Off (Miloš Forman)
4. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
5. A New Leaf (Elaine May)

Runners-up: Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols), (nostalgia) (Hollis Frampton), Trafic (Jacques Tati), W.R. Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev)

Performances:
1. Buck Henry, Taking Off
2. Walter Matthau, A New Leaf
3. Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
4. Jack Nicholson, Carnal Knowledge
5. Milena Dravić, W.R. Mysteries of the Organism

1971 movies I haven't seen but want to:

The Death of Maria Malibrun (Werner Schroeter)
Les Deux anglaises et le continent (François Truffaut)
Juste avant la nuit (Claude Chabrol)
Little Murders (Alan Arkin)
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
Out 1, noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette)
Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (Robert Bresson)
La Région centrale (Michael Snow)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
Le Souffle au coeur (Louis Malle)

More an illustrated thesis than a movie with much formal or stylistic interest despite a rather good performance by Malcom McDowell: A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)

Pop Trash
10-13-2012, 05:34 PM
More an illustrated thesis than a movie with much formal or stylistic interest despite a rather good performance by Malcom McDowell: A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)

Dude.

baby doll
10-13-2012, 05:47 PM
Dude.The structure of the film is pretty schematic: Alex brutalizes a series of people over a period of about forty-eight hours, goes to prison, gets out, and is brutalized by mostly the same people over a period of twenty-four hours. The whole thing is dead on arrival.

Pop Trash
10-13-2012, 05:52 PM
The structure of the film is pretty schematic: Alex brutalizes a series of people over a period of about forty-eight hours, goes to prison, gets out, and is brutalized by mostly the same people over a period of twenty-four hours. The whole thing is dead on arrival.

I don't even feel this post is worth responding to, but style and form is much more than a structure, which was there as a foundation when the script (or book even? I haven't read it so not sure if the screenplay structure adheres to it) was written up. I mean, shit, the droog costumes alone have become iconic.

baby doll
10-13-2012, 06:01 PM
I don't even feel this post is worth responding to, but style and form is much more than a structure, which was there as a foundation when the script (or book even? I haven't read it so not sure if the screenplay structure adheres to it) was written up. I mean, shit, the droog costumes alone have become iconic.I'll grant that it's not a bad looking film (no Kubrick movie is a complete waste of time), and McDowell's charisma goes along way towards making it watchable, but long stretches of the thing are so bloody dull with minor characters explaining the movie's point ("You've robbed him of his humanity!") again and again.

Pop Trash
10-13-2012, 06:04 PM
1. The Last Picture Show
2. Two Lane Blacktop
3. Harold and Maude
4. Murmur of the Heart
5. A Clockwork Orange

6. The French Connection
7. Dirty Harry
8. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
9. Duel
10. Johnny Got His Gun

Perfs:
1. Malcolm McDowell, ACO
2. Ruth Gordon, Harold and Maude
3. Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka
4. Gene Hackman, The French Connection
5. Bud Court, HaM

Needs a rewatch: Straw Dogs and Walkabout.

Great year.

Irish
10-13-2012, 06:07 PM
The structure of the film is pretty schematic: Alex brutalizes a series of people over a period of about forty-eight hours, goes to prison, gets out, and is brutalized by mostly the same people over a period of twenty-four hours. The whole thing is dead on arrival.

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. (Oh, shit, did I say that out loud?)

I found this a really interesting take. The only thing I can add is --

I've always viewed Clockwork as a pure horror film. My buddies and I rented it when we were kids, around 13 or so, and that was when we were digging through semi obscure stuff like Scanners and X-Tro and Driller Killer. We didn't have any idea who Kubrick was, what his filmography was, and wouldn't have cared if we did. It was just something to watch that was rumored to be hardcore and nasty. So I can't get away from viewing it in that context. Especially since I'm pretty sure watching something so grotesque and violent fucked each of us in the head for awhile.

The other thing that's interesting to me is that the movie was released in the same few years as a couple of other brutal pictures: Last House on the Left, Deliverance, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Most people probably don't think about those movies in terms of their formal qualities, or their themes, or anything else outside their pure shock value and emotional toll.

I think Clockwork fits in there nicely. It's an art house exploitation, and it's only art house at all because Kubrick was Kubrick, an obsessive craftsman incapable of producing anything unrefined. But the movie's soul is pure exploitation with a tacked on social message (similar, again, to those other movies).

Gamblor
10-13-2012, 06:28 PM
1. The Devils (Ken Russell)
2. Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff)
3. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
5. The French Connection (William Friedkin)

1. Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
2. Donald Pleasance - Wake in Fright
3. Michael Caine - Get Carter
4. Gene Hackman - The French Connection
5. Vanessa Redgrave - The Devils

ContinentalOp
10-13-2012, 06:36 PM
1. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Walkabout
4. Two English Girls
5. Straw Dogs

1. Malcolm McDowell- A Clockwork Orange
2. Gene Wilder- Willy Wonka
3. Dustin Hoffman- Straw Dogs
4. Clint Eastwood- Dirty Harry
5. Jean-Pierre Leaud- Two English Girls

Boner M
10-13-2012, 11:25 PM
Oh wow, this is quite a year, esp. for the avant-garde.

1. The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes (Brakhage)
2. Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman)
3. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)
4. Wake in Fright (Koetcheff)
5. Valentin de las Sierras (Baillie)

6-206. Minnie & Moskowitz (Cassavetes)
7. A New Leaf (May)
8. (nostalgia) (Frampton)
9. Duel (Spielberg)
10. The Beguiled (Siegel)
11. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Herzog)
12. Bleak Moments (Leigh)
13. Just Before Nightfall (Chabrol)
14. The Land of Silence and Darkness (Herzog)
15. Two English Girls (Truffaut)
16. Punishment Park (Watkins)
17. Family Life (Loach)
18. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
19. Dirty Harry (Siegel)
20. Walkabout (Roeg)

Perfz:

1. Warren Oates, Two-Lane Blacktop
2. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Two English Girls
3. Julie Christie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller
4. Anne Raitt, Bleak Moments
5. Gena Rowlands, Minnie & Moskowitz

HM: La Région centrale (seen half of it)

Need to see: Four Nights of a Dreamer, Harold & Maude, Critical Mass, The Third Part of the Night, Out 1, Get Carter

Been too long: The French Connection, The Devils

Not a big fan: Straw Dogs, A Clockwork Orange

Mysterious Dude
10-14-2012, 12:17 AM
1. Straw Dogs
2. Bananas
3. Nicholas and Alexandra
4. Mon oncle Antoine
5. The Panic in Needle Park

1. Dustin Hoffman, Straw Dogs
2. Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange
3. Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
4. Susan George, Straw Dogs
5. Seymour Cassel, Minnie and Moskowitz

Weeping_Guitar
10-14-2012, 12:29 AM
1. Two English Girls
2. The Last Picture Show
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. THX 1138
5. Mon Oncle Antoine

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1. Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange)
2. Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
3. Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show)
4. Jean-Pierre Leaud (Two English Girls)
5. George C. Scott (The Hospital)

Raiders
10-14-2012, 03:46 AM
1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2. Four Nights of a Dreamer
3. Fata Morgana
4. The Last Picture Show
5. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

Performances:
1. Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2. Warren Oates, Two-Lane Blacktop
3. Vanessa Redgrave, The Devils
4. Dustin Hoffman, Straw Dogs
5. Vincent Price, The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Russ
10-14-2012, 03:46 AM
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Last Picture Show
3. The French Connection
4. Szindbád
5. Emperor Tomato Ketchup

1. Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange
2. Oliver Reed, The Devils
3. Gene Wilder, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
4. Gene Hackman, The French Connection
5. Vincent Price, The Abominable Dr. Phibes

B-side
10-14-2012, 04:53 AM
I could've easily thrown in (nostalgia) and Valentin de las Sierras.

Derek
10-14-2012, 05:20 AM
1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2. The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima)
3. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
4. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
5. WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)

HMs:
6. Trafic (Jacques Tati)
7. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
8. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
9. Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)
10. Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
11. Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg)
12. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
13. Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
14. Trial on the Road (Alexei German)
15. The French Connection (William Friedkin)

Perfs:

1. Kenzô Kawarasaki - The Ceremony
2. Warren Beatty - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
3. Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
4. Julie Christie - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
5. Gena Rowlands - Minnie & Moskowitz

Derek
10-14-2012, 05:21 AM
5. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism

Penis sculpting FTW!

Boner M
10-14-2012, 05:24 AM
The Phantom Carriage (Sjöström, 1921) ****
Good man. Did you watch the Criterion, w/ the KTL score? Amaze.

B-side
10-14-2012, 05:28 AM
McCabe and Mrs. Miller, WR: Mysteries of the Organism...

Man, what a year.

Watashi
10-14-2012, 05:40 AM
I haven't seen a lot of these movies in a while, so I can't properly rank it.

I would probably put Wilder at #1 for performances though.

Yxklyx
10-14-2012, 05:59 AM
1. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
2. The Devils (Ken Russell)
3. The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise)
4. Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
5. Little Murders (Alan Arkin)

1. Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange
2. Peter Finch - Sunday Bloody Sunday
3. Dustin Hoffman - Straw Dogs
4. Jüri Järvet - King Lear
5. Warren Beatty - McCabe & Mrs. Miller

EyesWideOpen
10-14-2012, 06:19 AM
1. A Clockwork Orange (favorite film of all time)
2. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
3. Harold and Maude
4. A Safe Place
5. Straw Dogs

Lazlo
10-15-2012, 02:41 AM
1. Harold and Maude
2. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
5. And Now For Something Completely Different

1. Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
2. Ruth Gordon - Harold and Maude
3. Julie Christie - McCabe and Mrs. Miller
4. Warren Beatty - McCabe and Mrs. Miller
5. John Cleese - And Now For Something Completely Different

soitgoes...
10-16-2012, 07:56 PM
1. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (Brakhage)
2. Nostalgia (Frampton)
3. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)
4. Love (Makk)
5. Sympathy for the Underdog (Fukaskau)

HM's: The Last Picture Show, Punishment Park, Walkabout, Straw Dogs and Winnie the Pooh Goes Visiting

dreamdead
10-16-2012, 08:48 PM
1. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
2. Punishment Park
3. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
4. The French Connection
5. Get Carter

Still a lot that I need to see...

Dukefrukem
10-17-2012, 06:59 PM
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. THX 1138
3. Fists of Fury
4. Duel

Grouchy
10-19-2012, 07:15 PM
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Last Picture Show
3. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
4. The Abominable Dr. Phibes
5. Vanishing Point

elixir
10-19-2012, 07:27 PM
This film has perhaps my two most wanted viewings of all time in La maison de bois and both versions of Out 1 (though specifically the longer one).

elixir
10-19-2012, 07:28 PM
Though maybe I should quickly sign onto Fandor so I can watch Quick Billy...

Llopin
10-21-2012, 03:19 AM
1. Murmur of the Heart
2. The Ceremony
3. The Merchant of Four Seasons
4. Sympathy for the Underdog
5. Death in Venice

1. Bulle Ogier, La Salamandre
2. Riccardo Cucciolla, Sacco and Vanzetti
3. Kenzô Kawarasaki, The Ceremony
4. Gena Rowlands, Minnie and Moskowitz
5. Dirk Bogarde, Death in Venice

Thirdmango
10-21-2012, 03:50 PM
1. Bananas
2. Dirty Harry
3. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
4. Harold and Maude
5. Fiddler on the Roof

Thirdmango
10-21-2012, 03:50 PM
I won't be able to get to this for another day or so, so get those votes in if you haven't.

Gizmo
10-21-2012, 09:00 PM
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Harold and Maude
3. Fiddler on the Roof
4. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Thirdmango
10-22-2012, 11:21 PM
Votes are in, I'll be getting to this shortly.

EyesWideOpen
10-23-2012, 02:12 AM
Just watched The Last Picture Show. That would have easily been my number 2. Magnificent film.

Thirdmango
10-23-2012, 11:47 PM
10. The French Connection

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I watched the first one again (French Connection) for the first time in about ten years and it still holds up. It has such a great lived in, docudrama quality. Plus the editing is just mindblowing. I love the abrupt ending too.

-Pop Trash


Was surprised by how succinct and powerful the editing to The French Connection classic scenes (re: car chase) was--it was dynamic and kept a scene that I've always seen clips of gripping and tense throughout. I feel as though the film doesn't fully explore Hackman's racist and chauvinist tendencies, but the bitterness of the ending remains solid, and the film has enough classic moments that I let it take a pass. Really solid, and a pinnacle of the genre.

-dreamdead

Thirdmango
10-23-2012, 11:54 PM
9. Punishment Park

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Punishment Park is very well-made and entertaining, but boy howdy is it heavy-handed. It's a very effective sledgehammer, but I'm afraid there's nothing much left after the impact.
-StanleyK


The escalating absurdities and rising frustrations felt by the characters in Punishment Park are what make the film so powerful. Sure, the idea is conveyed very early on, but the way in which it displays the hopelessness of the situation, and, in fact, our real world situation, is brilliant.
-D_Davis

Thirdmango
10-24-2012, 12:03 AM
8. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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This was the first movie I ever saw without my parents, just me and my friends. And for years when it would show up on television I would pace the room impatiently waiting through all the boring stuff so I could get to Wonkaland and Wonka himself. Then I would plunk down on the couch and be transfixed. I still think the moment at the end when he turns on an Everlasting Gobstopper from mean to embracing is the most effective "feel good" moment in movie history.

-balmakboor


The sets are dated now but just imagine yourself upon the film's release and seeing this edible chocolate-candy paradise with fresh eyes. It's a dream come true. The song gives you an inside-glimpse at Wonka's genius and what kind of character he really is. He is deranged, odd, and funny, but in his heart, he enjoys bringing joy into the world. The music and lyrics are amazing, but the scene belongs to Gene Wilder. He settles into the Wonka character like it's his normal routine and the role he was meant to play.

-Watashi talking about the song Pure Imagination

Thirdmango
10-24-2012, 12:31 AM
7. Straw Dogs

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I'm just pretending this remake doesn't exist. The original is a masterpiece. -Ivan Drago

Thirdmango
10-24-2012, 12:36 AM
6. Walkabout

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Watched Walkabout tonight. Why did I wait so long to see this beautiful, mysterious masterpiece? - Balmakboor


Yeah, I'm shocked you haven't seen it. Seems like a perfect fit. Top 5 film for me. -Spinal in reply to Balmakboor

Thirdmango
10-24-2012, 12:38 AM
5. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

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It took me a long time to work up the courage to see that one. In the first 10 minutes or so (before the actual autopsy footage began), I found myself frequently looking away from the screen, still very tentative, and ready to shut if off at any moment. But I was determined to see it through, and funny thing is, the more graphic it got, the more quickly I became desensitized to the images; by the end, I was transfixed to the screen. - Russ

Thirdmango
10-24-2012, 12:39 AM
4. Harold and Maude

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I watched Harold and Maude three days ago, and I have had Cat Stevens "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out" in my head constantly since then, amazingly it's still pleasant more than annoying. I liked that movie; Harold reminded me of Jason Schwartzman's Max in Rushmore, quirky and oh, so endearing. - thefourthwall

Thirdmango
10-24-2012, 12:41 AM
3. The Last Picture Show

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The Last Picture Show is impressive, by the way. Excellent film about the love for cinema. - Grouchy


Just watched The Last Picture Show. That would have easily been my number 2. Magnificent film. - EyesWideOpen

Thirdmango
10-24-2012, 12:43 AM
2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller

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McCabe and Mrs. Miller might crack my top 50 film characters. -Adam


McCabe and Mrs. Miller is a strange, alluring little film that manages to elevate a helluva lot higher than its basic story, showing a portrait of a lifestyle, an era and a way of living and thinking through the eyes of the small village where the plot unfolds. Altman is telling a tragic love story, but at the same time, his "realistic", meandering approach manages to tell a lot of different snippets of stories relating to every fully fleshed character. Of course, the acting in general is superb, but it was particularly uncanny how the two well known stars (Warren Beatty and Julie Christie) completely disappeared inside their roles. Incidentally, I finally recognized that amazing character actor from Walker who plays the gossip bartender - Rene Abujernois. The music by Leonard Cohen fits the tone of the film so well that it's miraculous that the scenes weren't thought with it in mind. I'm not very well versed in Altman, tell you the truth, having only seen M.A.S.H. and Gosford Park, but this movie floored me. I'd sort of avoided his stuff so far (even though I liked what I'd seen) because of his approach to deconstructing genre, which I considered sort of mechanical judging the book strictly by the cover, but I liked how it was executed here, particularly the final shoot-out. The part where Keith Carradine's character gets shot is also very affecting, and it's obvious that Altman pulled one on us by fattening up this very minor character so that we like him and grief over his untimely kill.

-Grouchy

Thirdmango
10-24-2012, 12:44 AM
1. A Clockwork Orange

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Hate to be a cliche and say that Kubrick hooked me on movies, but such was the case. It was a summer in Arizona, roughly 1996, at my grandparents' home and they had a free weekend of Cinemax. I saw a commercial advertising a double showing of Dr. Strangelove and A Clockwork Orange. They both looked weird and compelling and beautiful. My mother wouldn't let me watch them for whatever reason mothers don't allow their children to watch things (what with the ol' ultraviolence and all), but luckily it was one of those "We'll show these two movies all night" kind of programs, so I tip-toed out of my bedroom and watched them. I was elated and devastated and thrilled beyond measure. I loved film before this--my family has always been well watched. But that late-night excursion with Cinemax, into a heart of darkness that could cheerily anounce the end of humanity and aestheticize brutality to the synthesized strains of Beethoven's Ninth, heavily upped the ante. It was like a beautiful, terrifying dream. I needed more and more and more. You know the rest.

-Sven

Thirdmango
10-24-2012, 12:46 AM
Stats:

26 movies got more then one vote
52 movies in total
25 posters participated

Movies with more then one vote:

A Clockwork Orange - 62.5
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman) - 43.5
The Last Picture Show - 23
Harold and Maude - 21.5
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes - 21
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg) - 20
Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah) - 17
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - 16
Punishment Park - 15.5
The French Connection (William Friedkin) - 13

Two Lane Blacktop - 10.5
The Devils (Ken Russell) - 9
Bananas - 9
Two English Girls - 8
The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima) - 8
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson) - 8
Murmur of the Heart - 8
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff) - 7
Fata Morgana - 7
THX 1138 - 7
Fiddler on the Roof - 6
A New Leaf (Elaine May) - 5.5
Get Carter (Mike Hodges) - 5.5
Mon oncle Antoine - 5.5
Sympathy for the Underdog (Fukaskau) - 5.5
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism - 5

34 poster participated in the 2008 poll.

2008 Poll

1. A Clockwork Orange 76
2. McCabe & Mrs. Miller 67.5
3. The French Connection 35.5
4. Punishment Park 31
5. Straw Dogs 30.5
6. Walkabout 27.5
7. The Last Picture Show 25
8. Harold and Maude 22.5
9t. Fata Morgana 19
9t. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 19

Almost:
Dirty Harry 17
Bananas 12.5
Two-Lane Blacktop 12.5
The Abominable Dr. Phibes 12
Duel 11