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Spinal
01-26-2008, 05:38 AM
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 I lock the thread, which will be in about a week. I will give at least 24 hours warning before locking the thread.

You may begin now.

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Spinal
01-26-2008, 05:39 AM
1. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
2. El Topo
3. Gimme Shelter
4. Catch-22
5. Hi, Mom!

MadMan
01-26-2008, 05:52 AM
I've only seen seven films from this year. Should I submit a Top 5 anyways or simply not participate? The choice is yours people.

Spinal
01-26-2008, 05:54 AM
I've only seen seven films from this year. Should I submit a Top 5 anyways or simply not participate? The choice is yours people.

3 is the minimum. If you find at least three films to be worth your support, then you are welcome to participate. What you should not do is pad your ballot with films you are lukewarm on.

Derek
01-26-2008, 05:57 AM
1. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
2. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica)
3. Les Habitants (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7062273816254866085&q=les+habitants&total=1536&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1) (Artavazd Peleshyan) [highly recommended 9-minute avant-garde "nature" film/meditation on Darwinism]
4. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
5. Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
______________________________ _____

6. Wanda (Barbara Loden)
7. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8. Husbands (John Cassavetes)
9. Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
10. Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Yxklyx
01-26-2008, 06:02 AM
1. Catch-22 (Mike Nichols)
2. The Grandmother (David Lynch) [short]
3. MASH (Robert Altman)
4. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
5. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder & Michael Fengler)

MadMan
01-26-2008, 06:10 AM
3 is the minimum. If you find at least three films to be worth your support, then you are welcome to participate. What you should not do is pad your ballot with films you are lukewarm on.Okay. Good enough for me. Upon second thought there are only two movies I like from this year out of the seven I've seen. So I'll have to pass.

Kurious Jorge v3.1
01-26-2008, 06:43 AM
1. Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson)
2. Claire's Knee (Rohmer)
3. Eros Plus Massacre (Yoshida)
4. Hi, Mom! (DePalma)
5. Le Cercle Rouge (Melville)

and for fun...
6. Husbands (Cassavetes)
7. The Conformist (Bertolucci)
8. The Man Who Left His Will On Film (Oshima)
9. Bed and Board (Truffaut)
10. El Topo (Jodorowsky)

origami_mustache
01-26-2008, 09:49 AM
1. The Conformist
2. M*A*S*H
3. Even Dwarfs Started Small
4. El Topo
5. Catch-22

soitgoes...
01-26-2008, 11:09 AM
1. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
2. Catch-22 (Mike Nichols)
3. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
4. Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
5. Le Cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)

Llopin
01-26-2008, 11:14 AM
1. Claire's Knee (Rohmer)
2. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Fassbinder)
3. Gimme Shelter (Maysleses)
4. Bed and Board (Truffaut)
5. Dodesukaden (Kurosawa)
---
6. El JardÃ*n de las Delicias (Saura)
7. Let it Be (Lindsay-Hogg)
8. Zabriskie Point (Antonioni)
9. Gods of the Plague (Fassbinder)
10. If You Were Young: Rage (Fukasaku)

Russ
01-26-2008, 11:22 AM
1. Little Big Man
2. El Topo
3. The Boys in the Band
3. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
5. M*A*S*H

Velocipedist
01-26-2008, 11:24 AM
1. El Topo (Alexandro Jodorowsky)
2. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
3. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires)
4. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog)
5. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Honorable mentions:

6. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
7. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)

Spinal
01-26-2008, 12:25 PM
3. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires)

:pritch:

Russ
01-26-2008, 12:35 PM
1. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Added to Netflix queue.

Kurosawa Fan
01-26-2008, 12:51 PM
There are a lot of films from this year that I haven't seen yet. Disappointing.

1. Le Boucher
2. MASH
3. Catch-22
4. Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
5. Tora! Tora! Tora!

Weeping_Guitar
01-26-2008, 12:53 PM
1. The Conformist
2. Bed and Board
3. Claire’s Knee
4. Le Cercle Rouge
5. Gimmie Shelter

Boner M
01-26-2008, 01:34 PM
1. The Conformist (Bertollucci)
2. Performance (Cammell & Roeg)
3. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Herzog)
4. The Ear (Kachyna)
5. Hi, Mom! (De Palma)

Kurosawa Fan
01-26-2008, 01:39 PM
1. The Conformist (Bertollucci)
2. Performance (Cammell & Roeg)
3. The Ear (Kachyna)
4. Hi, Mom! (De Palma)
5. Trash (Morrissey)

:|

I don't see any Le Boucher on that list. I'm sorry boner, but I'm gonna ride you until you give in. The movie needs more support!

Boner M
01-26-2008, 01:41 PM
:|

I don't see any Le Boucher on that list. I'm sorry boner, but I'm gonna ride you until you give in. The movie needs more support!
It'd likely be on there if I could watch it, and I'd watch it if I could find it. No luck, KF.

Mysterious Dude
01-26-2008, 01:45 PM
1. The Wild Child
2. Five Easy Pieces
3. Gimme Shelter
4. Lovefilm
5. Little Big Man

Kurosawa Fan
01-26-2008, 01:58 PM
It'd likely be on there if I could watch it, and I'd watch it if I could find it. No luck, KF.

That sucks. If I still had my copy I'd send it to you.

Melville
01-26-2008, 02:02 PM
I'm not a huge fan of any movies I've seen from this year, but at least I can scrape together a list, which is more than I could do in 1980.

1. Patton
2. The Grandmother
3. MASH
4. The Phantom Tollbooth
5. The Conformist

Raiders
01-26-2008, 02:50 PM
1. Trash
2. Five Easy Pieces
3. The Conformist
4. Zabriskie Point
5. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

I have a feeling most of that will be wasted.

Velocipedist
01-26-2008, 03:09 PM
Queued: Trash. I've had it on a wishlist for a long time anyway; more accurately, since I've seen Flesh. I have a hunch this will be better.

Philosophe_rouge
01-26-2008, 04:15 PM
1. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer)
2. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertulucci)
3. Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
4. Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
5. Peau D’Ane (Demy)

monolith94
01-26-2008, 04:34 PM
1. Catch-22
2. El Topo
3. Kelly's Heroes

Duncan
01-26-2008, 04:43 PM
1. El Topo
2. Five Easy Pieces
3. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
4. Even Dwarfs Started Small
5. The Conformist

DSNT
01-26-2008, 05:14 PM
Only want to nominate three here:

1. Patton
2. Woodstock
3. Seven + 7

dreamdead
01-26-2008, 05:19 PM
Unlike the '80s, I can actually contribute 3 here...

1. The Conformist
2. Claire's Knee
3. Catch-22

baby doll
01-26-2008, 05:33 PM
1. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer)
2. Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)
3. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
4. Le Genou de Claire (Eric Rohmer)
5. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)

Eleven
01-26-2008, 05:39 PM
1. MASH
2. Woodstock
3. The Conformist
4. Hospital (Frederick Wiseman)
5. Le Boucher

ledfloyd
01-26-2008, 06:37 PM
There are a lot of films from this year that I haven't seen yet. Disappointing.
yep.

1. Gimme Shelter (Maysles)
2. Patton (Schaffner)
3. M*A*S*H (Altman)
4. Five Easy Pieces (Raefalson)
5. Woodstock (Wadleigh)

is there a reason we're only doing years than end in 0?

Sycophant
01-26-2008, 06:40 PM
is there a reason we're only doing years than end in 0?I don't know what exactly Spinal's intent is, but I expect we'll ultimately go back and fill in... maybe with all the x1 years or something?

At any rate, I've noticed as I go through my lists that I generally have seen more films in each decade in every year that doesn't end in 0. I think I've only seen two or three 1970 films and MASH is the only one that comes close to deserving being on my list, so I abstain.

Kurious Jorge v3.1
01-26-2008, 07:11 PM
There needs to be less bitching and more first place votes for Swedish Love Story.

Velocipedist
01-26-2008, 07:14 PM
There needs to be less bitching and more first place votes for Swedish Love Story.

I have that laying around somewhere.

Kurious Jorge v3.1
01-26-2008, 07:23 PM
I have that laying around somewhere.

Watch it! It's like My Girl, only directed by a crazy Swedish man, and there are no bee or bee-related deaths..but a woman does get slapped in the face for no apparent reason.

Ezee E
01-26-2008, 08:10 PM
1. El Topo
2. Patton
3. Little Big Man
4. MASH
5. Hi, Mom!

Meh.

koji
01-26-2008, 11:39 PM
1. The Conformist (Bertolucci)
2. Claire’s Knee (Rohmer)
3. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovisch (Caspar Wrede)
4. Wanda (Loden)
5. 7 Plus Seven (Apted)
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
6. Le Cercle Rouge (Melville)
7. Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
8. El topo (Jodorowsky)
9. Little Big Man (Arthur Penn)
10. MASH (Robert Altman)

Spinal
01-27-2008, 03:33 AM
Added to Netflix queue.

Watch it quick! :)

Spinal
01-27-2008, 03:37 AM
is there a reason we're only doing years than end in 0?

As we go backward in time, people who have not seen a lot of films from those eras may lose interest. This is to even things out and not have a long dead period where only 1930's fanatics can participate. We will eventually do all years. Worry not.

Yxklyx
01-27-2008, 04:35 AM
As we go backward in time, people who have not seen a lot of films from those eras may lose interest. This is to even things out and not have a long dead period where only 1930's fanatics can participate. We will eventually do all years. Worry not.

I think we may have an issue with not enough viewers for the early films. Maybe we should just post top 3 or 4 instead of 5?

Spinal
01-27-2008, 04:37 AM
I think we may have an issue with not enough viewers for the early films. Maybe we should just post top 3 or 4 instead of 5?

That's what some people are already doing. Three is the minimum.

Gizmo
01-27-2008, 01:44 PM
1. Patton
2. Catch-22
3. MASH


seen just enough quality to make a valid list!

ledfloyd
01-27-2008, 03:22 PM
As we go backward in time, people who have not seen a lot of films from those eras may lose interest. This is to even things out and not have a long dead period where only 1930's fanatics can participate. We will eventually do all years. Worry not.
cool deal, good idea.

jesse
01-27-2008, 07:06 PM
Eh, only four I feel worthy of including:

01) Garden of the Finzi-Contini
02) The Conformist
03) Le Cercle Rouge
04) M*A*S*H

Grouchy
01-27-2008, 09:07 PM
1. Le Boucher
2. Five Easy Pieces
3. The Grandmother
4. Even Dwarves Started Small
5. El Topo

I wi

Russ
01-27-2008, 09:35 PM
I wi


What's your name then?

Ke-

Ke? Splendid!

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Grouchy
01-27-2008, 09:38 PM
What's your name then?

Ke-

Ke? Splendid!

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9396/325019636vz7.gif
Hahaha!

I don't even remember what that was for.

Lazlo
01-27-2008, 11:04 PM
1. Patton
2. El Topo
3. MASH

Duncan
01-27-2008, 11:30 PM
3. Les Habitants (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7062273816254866085&q=les+habitants&total=1536&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1) (Artavazd Peleshyan) [highly recommended 9-minute avant-garde "nature" film/meditation on Darwinism]

Loved the opening of this one. Middle section was maybe a little too cacophonous.

Derek
01-28-2008, 01:48 AM
Loved the opening of this one. Middle section was maybe a little too cacophonous.

The opening is my favorite part as well. I love the abstract effect of framing the swans necks like that and of course the music is gorgeous. I can understand someone finding the middle part a bit too grating, but I think it's hyper pacing coupled with some of the more shrill sound effects properly evokes the feelings of nature at its freest and most purely instinctual. The collision with mankind in the last third would be as impressive without that manic middle section.

Spinal
01-29-2008, 03:30 AM
Fun Facts about 1970 (most of which are not at all fun):

* The Beatles made their last studio performance.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/beatles_1969.jpg

* A bomb being constructed by members of the Weathermen and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey, exploded, killing 3 members of the organization.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/Weather-Underground-21jul03d.jpg

* Apollo 13 is launched towards the moon.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/apollo13-crew_l.jpg

* Janis Joplin dies of of a heroin overdose in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 27. Jimi Hendrix dies from choking on his own vomit while unconscious due to a barbiturate overdose in London.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/janis-joplin.jpg

* An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September crisis.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/jo04_03a.jpg

Yum-Yum
01-29-2008, 09:48 AM
1. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
2. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
3. El Topo
4. Little Big Man
5. Tora! Tora! Tora!

Llopin
01-29-2008, 11:38 AM
Some Kool 1970 Albums
Amon Düül II:Yeti
The Ventures:10th Anniversary Album
The Art Ensemble of Chicago:Les Stances Ã* Sophie
George Harrison:All Things Must Pass
Pink Floyd:Atom Heart Mother | Zabriskie Point
Jimi Hendrix:Band of Gypsys
Nina Simone:Black Gold
Miles Davis:Bitches Brew
Spirit:Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
Led Zeppelin:III
James Brown:Sex Machine
The Band:Stage Fright
Tim Buckley:Starsailor
Popol Vuh:Affenstunde
Loudon Wainwright III:Loudon Wainwright III
Black Sabbath:Black Sabbath | Paranoid
Nick Drake:Bryter Layter
Pentangle:Cruel Sister
Lee Hazlewood:Cowboy in Sweden
Strawbs:Dragonfly
Canned Heat:Future Blues
The Stooges: Funhouse
Vashti Bunyan:Just Another Diamond Day
Derek and the Dominos:Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Syd Barrett:The Madcap Laughs
The Kinks:Lola vs.The Powerman & The Money-Go-Round
The Velvet Underground:Loaded
King Crimson:In the Wake of Poseidon

Boner M
01-29-2008, 01:16 PM
C'mon, I can't be the only one to vote for Performance.

Yxklyx
01-29-2008, 01:33 PM
C'mon, I can't be the only one to vote for Performance.

OK, I moved it to the top of my queue - should see it within a few days.

Yxklyx
01-29-2008, 01:59 PM
As we go backward in time, people who have not seen a lot of films from those eras may lose interest. This is to even things out and not have a long dead period where only 1930's fanatics can participate. We will eventually do all years. Worry not.

Are we doing the 9s next, and then the 8s, etc...? I'd like to arrange my queue so that I can see some movies from that year before the thread pops up.

Grouchy
01-29-2008, 06:30 PM
1. Le Boucher
2. Five Easy Pieces
3. The Grandmother
4. Even Dwarves Started Small
5. El Topo

I wi
Now it's -

1. Le Boucher
2. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
3. Five Easy Pieces
4. The Grandmother
5. Even Dwarves Started Small

If shorts count, how many people here have seen Lynch's Grandmother? It could make some lists one spot longer.

And ab

Velocipedist
01-29-2008, 06:35 PM
And ab

Yes?

Grouchy
01-29-2008, 06:54 PM
Yes?
You are

Spinal
01-29-2008, 08:11 PM
Are we doing the 9s next, and then the 8s, etc...? I'd like to arrange my queue so that I can see some movies from that year before the thread pops up.

Oh gosh, let's do the 9s next. How do you guys want to do the silents? Last time, I believe the pre-30's films were divided into three or four chunks. Thoughts?

Raiders
01-29-2008, 08:19 PM
Oh gosh, let's do the 9s next. How do you guys want to do the silents? Last time, I believe the pre-30's films were divided into three or four chunks. Thoughts?

I'm still in favor of the chunks for the 20s, say 1920-23, 24-26, 27-29. I also think we probably ought to just make "pre-1920" just one chunk.

Yxklyx
01-29-2008, 08:30 PM
Oh gosh, let's do the 9s next. How do you guys want to do the silents? Last time, I believe the pre-30's films were divided into three or four chunks. Thoughts?

The other one was:

pre-1923
23-25
26-27
28-29
30

Mysterious Dude
01-29-2008, 08:30 PM
I'd prefer a few more chunks:

(20-21), (22-23), (24-25), (26-27), (28-29)

and one pre-1920 chunk is okay with me.

Yxklyx
01-29-2008, 08:35 PM
I'd prefer a few more chunks:

(20-21), (22-23), (24-25), (26-27), (28-29)

and one pre-1920 chunk is okay with me.

I'm afraid we will have very few people voting though.

monolith94
01-30-2008, 04:26 PM
I'd say (20-23), (24-25)), (26-27), (28-29), maybe.

I'd certanly participate in the silent era, however it be organized.

Spinal
01-30-2008, 05:14 PM
poll added

Velocipedist
01-30-2008, 05:21 PM
Haha, cool.

Yxklyx
01-30-2008, 05:25 PM
I picked the RT method because I'm sure we're getting fewer voters in this forum than when we did this over there and the clumping is used to counteract that.

MadMan
01-30-2008, 05:55 PM
I voted for "Just pick one already!" :P

Personally I think you guys are putting way too much thought into this. But then we're a bunch of film fanatics so go figure :lol:

Kurosawa Fan
01-30-2008, 06:06 PM
I went with the RT method. It worked well the first time.

bac0n
01-30-2008, 06:19 PM
1. Patton

The only other movies from this year that I've seen aren't worthy of "Best-Of" consideration.

baby doll
01-30-2008, 07:23 PM
1924 totally deserves it's own poll:

1. Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
2. Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang)
3. Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
4. The Navigator (Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton)
5. Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

Spinal
01-31-2008, 03:56 AM
Top Ten Songs of 1970:

1. "Bridge Over Troubled Water", Simon and Garfunkel
2. "(They Long To Be) Close To You", Carpenters
3. "American Woman / No Sugar Tonight", The Guess Who
4. "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head", B.J. Thomas
5. "War", Edwin Starr
6. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", Diana Ross
7. "I'll Be There", Jackson 5
8. "Get Ready", Rare Earth
9. "Let It Be", The Beatles
10. "Band Of Gold", Freda Payne

source: musicoutfitters.com

Derek
01-31-2008, 05:07 AM
I picked Antoine's method because doing 2 years at a time (as opposed to 3 or 4) would encourage people, and most importantly me, to catch up on some great films we haven't seen. I could come up with an acceptable '20-'23 list, but not a '20-'21 and I'd prefer to be forced into seeing some of those films.

Yxklyx
01-31-2008, 01:08 PM
C'mon, I can't be the only one to vote for Performance.

I just watched The Butcher and Performance. Both are very good but just miss my top 5.

Kurosawa Fan
01-31-2008, 01:32 PM
Spinal, are you going to be reducing the minimum number of films a person has to vote for once we hit the 30's and before? I was going back and seeing what I want to prioritize in upcoming years, and I haven't seen a single film from 1930. I have a few I'm going to get to, but I thought that as we go back it might be better, for the sake of participation, if the minimum number of films is reduced.

mindstream
01-31-2008, 04:29 PM
If I'm not too late then:

1. The Conformist
2. Claire's Knee
3. Even Dwarves Started Small
4. Performance
5. The Red Circle

Spinal
01-31-2008, 05:28 PM
Spinal, are you going to be reducing the minimum number of films a person has to vote for once we hit the 30's and before? I was going back and seeing what I want to prioritize in upcoming years, and I haven't seen a single film from 1930. I have a few I'm going to get to, but I thought that as we go back it might be better, for the sake of participation, if the minimum number of films is reduced.

For right now, I'm going to leave the minimum at three. Hard to go less than that. We'll take another look at it if necessary when the time comes.

Kurosawa Fan
01-31-2008, 06:25 PM
For right now, I'm going to leave the minimum at three. Hard to go less than that. We'll take another look at it if necessary when the time comes.

Fair enough. I better get cracking.

MadMan
01-31-2008, 08:04 PM
Fair enough. I better get cracking.Same here, even though at the moment I'm more interested in viewing new films, stuff from famous directors like Hitchcock and Kurosawa, and movies from the 40s and 50s.

koji
02-01-2008, 01:39 AM
Talking about pre-1930 in this thread, I would suggest that we skip those years in this rotation (go back to 1999 after 1930) then pick them up. So with the "9's" we do 1928-1929 then with the "7s" its 1927-26.

Also, if they want to, the posters who have seen many movies from this period (eg Antione) may want to suggest movies, especially if they are available on DVD.

origami_mustache
02-01-2008, 10:22 AM
1924 totally deserves it's own poll:

1. Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
2. Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang)
3. Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
4. The Navigator (Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton)
5. Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

A lot of these years deserve it...especially after the advent of sound. I also like the idea of encouraging the viewing of these older films.

I propose:
1900-1910, 1911-1923, then every year.

The Cocoanuts
Rain
Blackmail
An Andalusian Dog
Man with a Movie Camera
Pandora's Box
Hallelujah! (King Vidor's first sound film)
The Virginian
The Iron Mask

1928
L'Argent
The Circus
The Cameraman
Steamboat Willie
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Steamboat Willie
Champagne

1927:
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
The Lodger
The Jazz Singer
The Unknown
Sunrise
Metropolis
Napoléon
Underworld

1925
The Freshman
The Gold Rush
Battleship Potempkin
Strike
Ben-Hur
Thou Shalt Honor Thy Wife
Paris qui dort

Spinal
02-03-2008, 07:11 AM
This one's overdue. I'm going to go ahead and tally it up now.

Spinal
02-03-2008, 07:41 AM
#10

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/f04.jpg

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Director: Werner Herzog

Country: West Germany

The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. The film shows how justifiable revolt may be empowering, but may also turn to chaos and depravity. The allegory is developed in part by the fact that the film is cast entirely with dwarfs.

Werner Herzog promised the cast he would jump into a field of cactuses if they managed to pull through the movie. Eventually, he fulfilled his promise. The goggles worn by the blind dwarfs are the same goggles which appear repeatedly in Fata Morgana.

"As Herzog progresses as an artist, we'll find the idea of an individual forced by circumstance and nature to lay bare the contents of his lizard brain amidst ritual and ruins surfacing again and again, but even at the height of his artistry, there are few films in the director's portfolio as beautifully shot, scored, and composed as this one." -- Walter Chaw

Boner M
02-03-2008, 07:52 AM
No wonder you postponed announce these, lol.

Spinal
02-03-2008, 07:56 AM
#9

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/le20cercle20rouge201970.jpg

Le Cercle rouge

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Country: France

A cool, aristocratic thief is released from prison on the same day that a murderer escapes from the custody of a cat-loving police superintendent. The thief robs his mob boss, then enlists the murderer and an ex-police sharpshooter in a jewel heist.

Melville said he originally wrote a version of the jewel heist scene in 1950, but after The Asphalt Jungle came out, he shelved the idea until 1970. The film's title refers to a story of Buddha (featured in the epigraph) in which the enlightened one draws a circle with red chalk. This story is not a part of Buddhist literature, but rather was concocted by Melville.

"Today, what sets Melville apart -- aside from his meticulous compositions and inspired pacing -- is that, for all his wit and wry self-knowledge, his existentialism was no pose ... Notions of fate, doom and honor were more important to him than the style aspect of guys in suits and hats carrying guns." -- Mick LaSalle

Spinal
02-03-2008, 08:05 AM
#8

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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Director: Russ Meyer

Country: USA

An all-girl rock band goes to Hollywood to make it big. There they find success, but also sink into a cesspool of decadence.

The screenplay was written by film critic Roger Ebert. The character of Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell was based loosely on legendary record producer Phil Spector.

"I think of it as an essay on our generic expectations. It's an anthology of stock situations, characters, dialogue, cliches and stereotypes, set to music and manipulated to work as exposition and satire at the same time; it's cause and effect, a wind-up machine to generate emotions, pure movie without message." -- Roger Ebert

Duncan
02-03-2008, 08:17 AM
I just want to say that I love you all for voting Even Dwarfs Started Small into the top 10.

Spinal
02-03-2008, 08:19 AM
#7

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Five Easy Pieces

Director: Bob Rafelson

Country: USA

Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. When Robert hears from his sister that his father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him.

Nominated for four Oscars: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson) and Best Supporting Actress (Karen Black). Lars von Trier, Ingmar Bergman, the Coen Brothers and Cormac McCarthy have all expressed their deep admiration for the film.

"There’s a stunning amount of humor and heartbreak contained in Five Easy Pieces, which often seems endless in the possibilities of its human observation." -- Jeremy Heilman

Duncan
02-03-2008, 08:23 AM
I just want to say that I love you all for voting Even Dwarfs Started Small into the top 10.
And Five Easy Pieces.

Spinal
02-03-2008, 08:27 AM
#6

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Catch-22

Director: Mike Nichols

Country: USA

Yossarian is a bombadier during World War II. He desperately tries to be declared insane by the Air Force in order to go home. However during the process he slowly watches each of his friends and crew die off in the horrors of war.

Earned a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. This is the first American film to show an actor on the toilet.

"As far removed from latter-day Nichols fluff like Working Girl as Arkin's angry antihero is from Melanie Griffith's spunky office worker, Catch-22 captures Nichols at his most daring and experimental." -- Nathan Rabin

Spinal
02-03-2008, 08:35 AM
#5

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Patton

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Country: USA

The story of General George S. Patton, Jr. during World War II. His battlefield genius garners him fear and respect from the Germans, and resentment and misunderstanding from the Allies.

Won seven Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor (George C. Scott) and Best Director. Scott refused to accept the nomination and the award, because he did not want to be in any competition with other actors.

"[Patton] holds up far better than its detractors guessed ... not only thanks to Scott's spellbinding acting, but to the epic imagery, [the] highly intelligent script and Schaffner's lucid, perfectly controlled direction." -- Michael Wilmington

Spinal
02-03-2008, 08:43 AM
#4

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Claire's Knee

Director: Eric Rohmer

Country: France

Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets an old friend. She talks him into a flirt with his landlady's teenage daughter, Laura, but he falls for Laura's half-sister Claire and develops a desire to caress her knee.

Named Best Film of by the National Society of Film Critics. The film is the fifth in Rohmer's series of Six Moral Tales.

"What is really happening in this movie happens on the level of character, of thought, of the way people approach each other and then shy away. In some movies, people murder each other and the contact is casual; in a work by Eric Rohmer, small attitudes and gestures can summon up a university of humanity." -- Roger Ebert

Spinal
02-03-2008, 08:55 AM
#3

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El Topo

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Country: Mexico

Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy, the film is about a violent, black-clad gunfighter and his quest for enlightenment.

John Lennon was so impressed by the movie that he urged a close friend of his to buy the rights and take charge of distribution. It has been claimed that this movie was the beginning of Peter Gabriel's inspiration for the Genesis concept album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

"I cannot remember the plot (was there one?), but I do remember the naked midgets! Maybe this says more about me than about the movie. I am open to that idea!" -- Phil Phlash (IMDb user)

Spinal
02-03-2008, 09:06 AM
#2

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MASH

Director: Robert Altman

Country: USA

During the Korean War, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is shaken up by the arrival of crack surgeons who set about dealing with the daily carnage of the war by raising hell.

Won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. According to Altman, it was the first major studio release to use the word "fuck" in its dialogue.

"If it's funny, it's only funny because it casts a delighted light on vital, ugly truths about men in tension and direct, physical, competition for status and women--MASH is In the Company of Men about the Vietnam War (Korean War setting be damned). It could be a primer for the apocalypse." -- Walter Chaw

Spinal
02-03-2008, 09:15 AM
#1

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The Conformist

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Country: Italy

Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him: look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where he and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer.

Nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay. Bertolucci proposed the film adaptation of the novel, Il conformista, to Paramount, without ever reading it himself.

"... The Conformist is a bludgeoning indictment of fascistic follow-the-leader and an orgasm of coolness, ravishing compositions, camera gymnastics ... and atmospheric resonance—as if its decadent, twilit–art deco–noir style is itself a refutation of dictatorial social norms." -- Michael Atkinson

Spinal
02-03-2008, 09:18 AM
1. The Conformist (58.5)
2. MASH (39)
3. El Topo (37.5)
4. Claire's Knee (31.5)
5. Patton (31)
6. Catch-22 (30.5)
7. Five Easy Pieces (29.5)
8. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (25.5)
9. Le Cercle rouge (19.5)
10. Even Dwarfs Started Small (19)

Near misses:
Le Boucher 18.5
Gimme Shelter 18
Little Big Man 14
Woodstock 14
The Grandmother 11

Boner M
02-03-2008, 09:24 AM
Nice results! But Performance being nowhere in sight hurts my soul. That's a film I'd expect to have many fans here, especially given the love for other identity-merging/shifting films like 3 Women, Persona and The Servant.

Ezee E
02-03-2008, 01:54 PM
Wow. 4-7 decided by two points.

#1 is a surprise. I must see that one too.

dreamdead
02-03-2008, 01:56 PM
Still haven't seen MASH or El Topo. I'll take these results as a polite suggestion to do so.

Grouchy
02-03-2008, 08:18 PM
Still haven't seen MASH or El Topo. I'll take these results as a polite suggestion to do so.
I'll take it the same way, but with The Conformist.

Good results. Wish Five Easy Pieces was higher, or The Butcher was somewhere, but hey, it's a fucking consensus.

Yxklyx
02-04-2008, 04:14 AM
Nice results! But Performance being nowhere in sight hurts my soul. That's a film I'd expect to have many fans here, especially given the love for other identity-merging/shifting films like 3 Women, Persona and The Servant.

Performance is better than 7 of the movies in this top 10 but harking on the identity merging aspect is not the way to go.

Spinal
02-04-2008, 04:22 AM
Great. The poll just had to end in a tie, didn't it. Well, I guess I'll just have to make an executive decision.

Ezee E
02-04-2008, 04:25 AM
Great. The poll just had to end in a tie, didn't it. Well, I guess I'll just have to make an executive decision.
When all else fails, bow down to the Master... Admin.

monolith94
02-04-2008, 06:33 PM
Great. The poll just had to end in a tie, didn't it. Well, I guess I'll just have to make an executive decision.
Antoine's method and my method were essentially the same. Antoine himself voted for my method. The poll closed before I had a chance to vote. All of these factors I would ask you to consider.

Raiders
02-04-2008, 06:35 PM
Antoine's method and my method were essentially the same. Antoine himself voted for my method. The poll closed before I had a chance to vote. All of these factors I would ask you to consider.

:lol:

So now you're making it a three-way tie?

Sycophant
02-04-2008, 06:35 PM
I've got more catch-up viewing to do than Lucy ever had splaining to do.

Mysterious Dude
02-04-2008, 06:51 PM
I demand instant runoff voting!

Spinal
02-04-2008, 07:04 PM
I demand instant runoff voting!

Serenity now!

monolith94
02-04-2008, 11:19 PM
:lol:

So now you're making it a three-way tie?
My vote wasn't counted. That'd make antoine and myself have eight votes. I will not be disenfranchised!

Spinal
02-04-2008, 11:27 PM
My vote wasn't counted. That'd make antoine and myself have eight votes. I will not be disenfranchised!

There's a new poll in the 1960 thread.

Instigator.

MadMan
02-06-2008, 03:48 AM
:lol: you guys.

I really must see more films from 1970 ASAP. After seeing the top 10 (I've only seen Patton off it) I really think this has the potential to be one of my favorite years for film.