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Spinal
01-29-2008, 08:24 PM
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
01-29-2008, 08:26 PM
1. The Virgin Spring
2. L'Avventura
3. Peeping Tom
4. Psycho
5. La Dolce Vita

Mysterious Dude
01-29-2008, 08:28 PM
1. Breathless
2. The Virgin Spring
3. Peeping Tom
4. Psycho
5. Le Trou

dreamdead
01-29-2008, 08:29 PM
1. The Virgin Spring
2. Peeping Tom
3. Psycho
4. The Apartment
5. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Mournfully missing:
Shoot the Piano Player
La Dolce Vita
Breathless

Whoops. Missed Naruse's beautiful film...

Derek
01-29-2008, 08:31 PM
1. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
3. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
4. Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo)
5. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
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6. Devi (Satyajit Ray)
7. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
8. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
9. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
10. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)

Gotta see: Le Trou

Eleven
01-29-2008, 08:32 PM
1. L'Avventura
2. Peeping Tom
3. Psycho
4. La Dolce Vita
5. The Virgin Spring

HMs: The Steamroller and the Violin, The Apartment, Breathless, The Devil's Eye, Shoot the Piano Player.

Spinal
01-29-2008, 08:33 PM
This year's got some hardcore auteurin' going on.

Raiders
01-29-2008, 08:36 PM
1. Shoot the Piano Player
2. Eyes Without a Face
3. Peeping Tom
4. The Virgin Spring
5. The Bellboy

Franju's film is 1959, but imdb has never been able to get it right.

Robby P
01-29-2008, 08:36 PM
1. Breathless
2. Shoot the Piano Player
3. The Apartment
4. Psycho
5. Eyes Without a Face

Yxklyx
01-29-2008, 08:37 PM
1. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
2. Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)
3. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
5. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)

Watashi
01-29-2008, 08:40 PM
1. The Apartment
2. Psycho
3. The Magnificent Seven
4. Spartacus
5. The Virgin Spring

Derek
01-29-2008, 08:41 PM
Franju's film is 1959, but imdb has never been able to get it right.

Ditto to Breathless. If they're gonna be wrong, they should at least pick a year and stick with it.

Oh, and check your PMs.

Kurious Jorge v3.1
01-29-2008, 08:56 PM
1. The Naked Island (Shindo)
2. La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
3. The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
4. Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut)
5. The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray)
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6. Breathless (Godard)
7. Le Trou (Becker)
8. Eyes Without a Face (Franju)
9. La Joven (Bunuel)
10. Cruel Story of Youth (Oshima)

I'm convinced 59-60 were the greatest back-to-back years in the history of film.

Russ
01-29-2008, 09:03 PM
1. Inherit the Wind
2. Psycho
3. Black Sunday
4. L'Avventura
5. The Time Machine

Duncan
01-29-2008, 09:28 PM
1. L'Avventura
2. La Dolce Vita
3. Breathless (which I'm like 99% sure was released in '59)
4. Late Autumn
5. The Apartment

Velocipedist
01-29-2008, 09:37 PM
1. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
4. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
5. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)

Honorable mentions:

6. Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
7. Zazie Dans Le Métro (Louis Malle)
8. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
9. The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)
10. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
11. The Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman)

Seriously, how did Peeping Tom and Psycho happen in the same year? Also, La Dolce Vita is my least favourite of the Fellini classics.

Ezee E
01-29-2008, 09:38 PM
1. Psycho
2. The Apartment
3. Peeping Tom
4. Spartacus
5. La Dolce Vita

MadMan
01-29-2008, 10:13 PM
I haven't seen very much from this year, but I've viewed enough to qualify:

1. Psycho
2. The Little Shop of Horrors
3. The Magnificant Seven

Velocipedist
01-29-2008, 10:15 PM
I haven't seen very much from this year

But it's such a great year!

Yxklyx
01-29-2008, 10:17 PM
Ditto to Breathless. If they're gonna be wrong, they should at least pick a year and stick with it.


I dunno, these dates from IMDB have an air of authenticity to them. I mean they've got it down to the day and even an appearance at a film festival.

France 16 March 1960 (Paris)
Japan 26 March 1960
West Germany June 1960 (Berlin International Film Festival)

Boner M
01-29-2008, 10:23 PM
1. Eyes Without a Face
2. Psycho
3. Le Trou
4. La Dolce Vita
5. The Apartment

Kurious Jorge v3.1
01-29-2008, 10:23 PM
I dunno, these dates from IMDB have an air of authenticity to them. I mean they've got it down to the day and even an appearance at a film festival.

France 16 March 1960 (Paris)
Japan 26 March 1960
West Germany June 1960 (Berlin International Film Festival)

The Criterion DVD says 1960 for what its worth and so does Jean Douchet in his book (although it also says Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep came out in 1956!), and he was a Cahiers critic and filmmaker then.
Luc Moullet's review of the film comes from April 1960.

Mr. Valentine
01-29-2008, 10:42 PM
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa)

Melville
01-29-2008, 10:52 PM
1. Psycho
2. The Virgin Spring
3. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
4. Shoot the Piano Player
5. Peeping Tom

Boner M
01-29-2008, 11:04 PM
Is Le Trou worth a blind buy? Seems like something I'd really dig (not to mention my dad likes prison movies and Touchez pas au grisbi), so might grab it before the end of the consensus.

Kurious Jorge v3.1
01-29-2008, 11:06 PM
Is Le Trou worth a blind buy? Seems like something I'd really dig (not to mention my dad likes prison movies and Touchez pas au grisbi), so might grab it before the end of the consensus.

It's amazing.

Lazlo
01-29-2008, 11:09 PM
1. The Apartment
2. Spartacus
3. Inherit the Wind
4. Psycho
5. Breathless

Llopin
01-29-2008, 11:31 PM
Le Trou is excellent.

1. The Apartment (Wilder)
2. Late Autumn (Ozu)
3. El Cochecito (Ferreri)
4. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse)
5. Le Trou (Becker)
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6. The Sun's Burial (Oshima)
7. Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti)
8. Cruel Story of Youth (Oshima)
9. Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut)
10. The Virgin Spring (Bergman)

soitgoes...
01-29-2008, 11:34 PM
1. Two Women (Vittorio De Sica)
2. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
3. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
4. Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu)
5. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)

Watashi
01-29-2008, 11:48 PM
But it's such a great year!
It would be if you considered films like Breathless, The Virgin Spring, and Shoot the Piano Player good films.

I don't.

Spinal
01-30-2008, 12:17 AM
I cannot comprehend disliking The Virgin Spring.

baby doll
01-30-2008, 12:44 AM
1. La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
2. L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
3. À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
5. Les Bonnes femmes (Claude Chabrol)
6. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
8. Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut)
9. The Young One (Luis Buñuel)
10. Les Yeux sans le visage (Georges Franju)
bubblin' under...
11. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
12. The Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman)

baby doll
01-30-2008, 12:47 AM
Seriously, how did Peeping Tom and Psycho happen in the same year?Why are Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, No Country for Old Men and Redacted all obsessed with collateral damage? It's just a coincedence.

Weeping_Guitar
01-30-2008, 01:43 AM
1. Shoot the Piano Player
2. The Apartment
3. La Dolce Vita
4. L'Avventura
5. The Virgin Spring

Duncan
01-30-2008, 02:08 AM
Maybe I am confusing the release of Breathless with the release of The 400 Blows, and Hiroshima, Mon Amour. I always thought of Breathless as the seminal French New Wave film, but I guess those two have it beat by a year.

MacGuffin
01-30-2008, 02:40 AM
1. L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
2. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
3. Black Sunday (Mario Bava, Italy)
4. À about de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
5. La Dolce vita (Federico Fellini, Italy)

I guess I'll include that fifth choice, if only to make five. I loved Toby Dammit, but I'd still take Camille 2000 over La Dolce vita any day of the week.

Philosophe_rouge
01-30-2008, 03:01 AM
Great year fo sho.

1. The Apartment
2. La Dolce Vita
3. Psycho
4. The Virgin Spring
5. Inherit the Wind

MadMan
01-30-2008, 04:59 AM
But it's such a great year!I know, and I shall use this thread and the other threads for recommendations and to note which films are worth seeing.

Bosco B Thug
01-30-2008, 05:09 AM
1. L'Avventura
2. Eyes Without a Face
3. Two Women
4. Psycho
5. Peeping Tom

origami_mustache
01-30-2008, 05:36 AM
1. The Bad Sleep Well
2. The Virgin Spring
3. Breathless
4. La Dolce Vita
5. Psycho

Velocipedist
01-30-2008, 05:51 AM
The Bad Sleep Well

:pritch:

Sycophant
01-30-2008, 05:54 AM
:pritch:I've got a copy of that one. I should watch it this weekend.

Velocipedist
01-30-2008, 06:25 AM
Absolutely no love for Zazie dans le métro?

origami_mustache
01-30-2008, 07:13 AM
Absolutely no love for Zazie dans le métro?

I've seen it...and enjoyed it...I guess it's one for the top 10...

6. L'avventura
7. Cruel Story of Youth
8. Zazie dans le métro
9. The Apartment
10. Never On Sunday

monolith94
01-30-2008, 12:13 PM
imdb dates or imdb US release dates?

Yxklyx
01-30-2008, 01:17 PM
imdb dates or imdb US release dates?

IMDB dates.

ledfloyd
01-30-2008, 02:36 PM
1. The Apartment
2. L'Avventura
3. Shoot the Piano Player
4. Psycho
5. La Dolce Vita

what an unreal year for film.

Spinal
01-30-2008, 02:47 PM
imdb dates or imdb US release dates?

Read the first post! :)

monolith94
01-30-2008, 04:20 PM
1. Devi
2. Shoot the Piano Player
3. The Testament of Orpheus
4. The Apartment
5. Eyes Without a Face

Ezee E
01-30-2008, 05:37 PM
I thought Wats gave Virgin Spring four stars. Guess it's another Bergman movie.

Gizmo
01-30-2008, 07:01 PM
1. Psycho
2. La Dolce Vita
3. Black Sunday

Grouchy
01-30-2008, 07:04 PM
(although it also says Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep came out in 1956!)
What?

1. Black Sunday
2. Psycho
3. La Dolce Vita
4. House of Usher
5. Breathless

Not only a great year, but a great year for Horror.

baby doll
01-30-2008, 07:18 PM
Maybe I am confusing the release of Breathless with the release of The 400 Blows, and Hiroshima, Mon Amour. I always thought of Breathless as the seminal French New Wave film, but I guess those two have it beat by a year.Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud and Claude Chabrol's Le Beau Serge (both 1958) beat all three. (I'm not counting Anges Varda's La Pointe-courte [1954] because it was never officially released, or Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le flambeur [1955] because it wasn't his first film--and in fact, Les Enfants terribles [1950] is the definition of Cinéma de qualité.)

Duncan
01-30-2008, 10:30 PM
Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud and Claude Chabrol's Le Beau Serge (both 1958) beat all three. (I'm not counting Anges Varda's La Pointe-courte [1954] because it was never officially released, or Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le flambeur [1955] because it wasn't his first film--and in fact, Les Enfants terribles [1950] is the definition of Cinéma de qualité.)

Are you using Cinéma de qualité as evidence of New Wave status here? Or are you using it derisively?

Bosco B Thug
01-31-2008, 02:59 AM
What?

1. Black Sunday
2. Psycho
3. La Dolce Vita
4. House of Usher
5. Breathless

Not only a great year, but a great year for Horror.
Ooh, House of Usher. Kudos! House of Usher's awesome, I wish I could put it in my list.

Grouchy
01-31-2008, 05:46 AM
Ooh, House of Usher. Kudos! House of Usher's awesome, I wish I could put it in my list.
Yeah. I mean, I like Little Shop of Horrors as much as the next guy, but House of Usher began a whole series of awesome Corman/Price team-ups and very loose Poe adaptations. It's a deserved classic of gothic Horror.

What I remember the most about Shop (and I guess so does everybody else) is the Jack Nicholson dentist scene. You could tell he was a brilliant actor just by the way he pumped up the volume in what's almost a cameo.

Kurosawa Fan
01-31-2008, 01:01 PM
1. Le Trou
2. Psycho
3. Eyes Without a Face
4. L'Avventura
5. The Magnificent Seven

Kurosawa Fan
01-31-2008, 01:05 PM
Is Le Trou worth a blind buy? Seems like something I'd really dig (not to mention my dad likes prison movies and Touchez pas au grisbi), so might grab it before the end of the consensus.

Absolutely. I'm actually really disappointed in its showing. I was hoping it'd get more support.

mindstream
01-31-2008, 04:19 PM
1. La Dolce Vita
2. L'Avventura
3. Rocco & His Brothers
4. Peeping Tom
5. Breathless

A great year for Italian film.

Spinal
01-31-2008, 04:22 PM
If you are interested in helping me host these threads and tally votes, please send me a PM. I only want to involve people who are willing to host the threads in the format that I have established so that we have a consistent look to them. I'll probably select about 3 other people only max.

Derek
01-31-2008, 08:06 PM
Absolutely. I'm actually really disappointed in its showing. I was hoping it'd get more support.

I just bumped this to the top of my queue. I really like what I've seen from Becker and I've been meaning to see this one for a while.

Kurosawa Fan
01-31-2008, 08:19 PM
I just bumped this to the top of my queue. I really like what I've seen from Becker and I've been meaning to see this one for a while.

Good man.

Boner M
01-31-2008, 09:22 PM
Absolutely. I'm actually really disappointed in its showing. I was hoping it'd get more support.
Bought it yesterday. Better be good!

Kurosawa Fan
01-31-2008, 09:59 PM
I don't know anyone who's seen it who hasn't at least liked it. I can't guarantee that it'll crack your top five, but if it doesn't I'll negative rep you.

koji
02-01-2008, 12:07 AM
1. The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
2. Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
3. The Apartment (Wilder)
4. The Bad Sleep Well (Kurosawa)
5. L’Avventura (Antonioni)
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
6. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse)
7. Eyes Without a Face (Franju)
8. Shoot the Piano Player (Trauffaut)
9. The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)
10. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)

Sweet stuff. Upcoming 1950 :pritch:

baby doll
02-01-2008, 03:39 PM
Are you using Cinéma de qualité as evidence of New Wave status here? Or are you using it derisively?I'm saying Les Enfants terrible is a set-bound adaptation of a literary source--exactly the kind of film the new wave directors were rejecting--so it's not accurate to call Jean-Pierre Melville a new wave director, although the influence of Bob le flambeur can't be over-estimated. In other words, the new wave doesn't start until 1958 with the first films by Chabrol and Malle, followed by Resnais, Truffaut, Godard, Rivette, Rohmer, Varda, Demy and Marker.

Duncan
02-01-2008, 04:27 PM
I'm saying Les Enfants terrible is a set-bound adaptation of a literary source--exactly the kind of film the new wave directors were rejecting--so it's not accurate to call Jean-Pierre Melville a new wave director, although the influence of Bob le flambeur can't be over-estimated. In other words, the new wave doesn't start until 1958 with the first films by Chabrol and Malle, followed by Resnais, Truffaut, Godard, Rivette, Rohmer, Varda, Demy and Marker. OK, from your previous post I thought you were saying that being part of the Cinéma de qualité tradition enhanced the case for Melville being considered a New Wave filmmaker. Which I thought was bizarre. Anyway, now I understand what you were saying.

DSNT
02-02-2008, 11:49 AM
1. The Apartment
2. L'Avventura
3. La Dolce Vita
4. Shoot the Piano Player
5. Psycho

Great year. I keep meaning to see The Virgin Spring.

jesse
02-02-2008, 07:09 PM
01) L'Avventura
02) The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
03) A bout de souffle (Breathless)
04) La dolce vita
05) Rocco and His Brothers

Alt: Les Bonnes femmes

Least favorite: Plein soleil (Purple Noon)

Spinal
02-02-2008, 07:23 PM
Eleven and Llopin will be assisting me with these consensus threads. If they start one up, it is indeed official! :)

Kurosawa Fan
02-02-2008, 07:55 PM
Eleven and Llopin will be assisting me with these consensus threads. If they start one up, it is indeed official! :)

I would also be available to help, if you need more people.

Spinal
02-02-2008, 08:31 PM
I would also be available to help, if you need more people.

Yes. One more would be good. I will send you the info.

Spinal
02-03-2008, 07:04 AM
Fun Facts for 1960:

* Adolph Coors III, chairman of the board of the Coors Brewing Company, is kidnapped and captors demand $500,000. Coors is later found dead in a garbage dump.

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

* In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected to the U.S. presidency over Richard M. Nixon, becoming the youngest man elected to that office.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/president-kennedy.jpg

* France tests its first atomic bomb in the Sahara.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/france4.jpg

* In Brazil, the country's capital is shifted from Rio de Janeiro to BrasÃ*lia.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/brazil_brasilia_federal_capita l_cit.jpg

* The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 5, with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants. The spacecraft returns to earth the next day and all animals are recovered safely.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/BelkaStrelkaRussianDogsNASA.jp g

Spinal
02-03-2008, 07:06 AM
Top Songs of 1960:

1. "Cathy's Clown", Everly Brothers
2. "He'll Have To Go", Jim Reeves
3. "Theme From A Summer Place", Percy Faith
4. "It's Now Or Never", Elvis Presley
5. "Teen Angel", Mark Dinning
6. "I'm Sorry", Brenda Lee
7. "Running Bear", Johnny Preston
8. "Handy Man", Jimmy Jones
9. "Stuck On You", Elvis Presley
10. "The Twist", Chubby Checker

source: musicoutfitters.com

Yum-Yum
02-03-2008, 10:09 AM
Dumping Mr. Coors in a garbage dump was totally uncool.

1. The Apartment
2. Psycho
3. Eyes Without a Face
4. Breathless
5. La Dolce Vita

Spinal
02-04-2008, 02:28 AM
1 more day

Boner M
02-04-2008, 02:32 AM
You mean, as in exactly 24 hours? I can't watch Le Trou tonight, unfortunately.

Spinal
02-04-2008, 02:36 AM
You mean, as in exactly 24 hours? I can't watch Le Trou tonight, unfortunately.

Oh, I don't know. If you want me to hold off a bit, I can. No rush.

Boner M
02-04-2008, 02:40 AM
Oh, I don't know. If you want me to hold off a bit, I can. No rush.
Cool beans. I'll give a holler in this thread when I've seen it, which'll be within the next 36 hours for sure.;)

MacGuffin
02-04-2008, 02:52 AM
What happens if you don't like it, Boner?

Boner M
02-04-2008, 02:53 AM
What happens if you don't like it, Boner?
Then I will kill myself, and the consensus will be called off.

MacGuffin
02-04-2008, 02:54 AM
Then I will kill myself, and the consensus will be called off.
:eek:

Boner M
02-04-2008, 01:24 PM
Sorry to disappoint anyone, but Boner won't be killing himself.

transmogrifier
02-04-2008, 02:27 PM
Absolutely. I'm actually really disappointed in its showing. I was hoping it'd get more support.


Great film. I'd list it if I were making a list. Unfortunately, I've seen maybe 8films from 1960, so I'm not going to make one. But it's #1 so far.

Kurosawa Fan
02-04-2008, 02:53 PM
Sorry to disappoint anyone, but Boner won't be killing himself.

Niiiiice. Glad you liked it.

And trans, you should make a top 3 (which is acceptable) so that Le Trou has a better chance of cracking the top ten.

transmogrifier
02-04-2008, 03:02 PM
Niiiiice. Glad you liked it.

And trans, you should make a top 3 (which is acceptable) so that Le Trou has a better chance of cracking the top ten.


1. Le Trou
2. Breathless
3. Purple Noon

Done and done.

transmogrifier
02-04-2008, 03:10 PM
Seriously, except for a mention for the worst film of the year (!?), I'm the only one to mention Purple Noon?

You're all on crack. And when you're not on crack, you're sniffing glue. And not that stick, kindy-kid glue, but that white PVC stuff. And when you're taking a break from the crack and glue, you're reading Armond White, or something.

Kurosawa Fan
02-04-2008, 04:03 PM
Seriously, except for a mention for the worst film of the year (!?), I'm the only one to mention Purple Noon?


I haven't seen it yet. It's been on my queue for years, but then again so have 400 other films I haven't seen yet.

Spinal
02-04-2008, 06:35 PM
The following TV shows premiered in 1960:

The Flintstones
The Andy Griffith Show
My Three Sons
Danger Man (UK)

The top rated TV show of 1960 was:

Gunsmoke

Boner M
02-04-2008, 06:37 PM
Niiiiice. Glad you liked it.

And trans, you should make a top 3 (which is acceptable) so that Le Trou has a better chance of cracking the top ten.
I was supposed to only watch half of it last night cos I was tired, but I ended up watching the entire film in one sitting, til I was bleary-eyed at 2:AM. Such a hypnotically suspenseful film, that gets so much mileage out of it's elaborate depictions of physical processes. Between this, A Man Escaped and the two Clouzot films I've seen, 'austere French suspense films' are quickly becoming a favorite genre.

Spinal
02-04-2008, 07:01 PM
New poll. This one will last a week. I am withholding my vote unless it is needed to break a tie.

Spinal
02-04-2008, 08:46 PM
The last category in the poll was created specifically for Grouchy, so it's good to see him making use of it.

Grouchy
02-04-2008, 08:51 PM
The last category in the poll was created specifically for Grouchy, so it's good to see him making use of it.
I'm so predictable. Thanks.

Spinal
02-04-2008, 08:57 PM
1960 in sports:

* World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates win 4 games to 3 over the New York Yankees. Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run.

* NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ohio St. wins 75-55 over California.

* NBA Finals: Boston Celtics win 4 games to 3 over the St. Louis Hawks.

* Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games.

* Tour de France - Gastone Nencini of Italy.

* Minnesota Golden Gophers win National college football championship.

* National Football League names Pete Rozelle commissioner of the league.

* NFL Championship: Philadelphia Eagles won 17-13 over the Green Bay Packers.

* The Soviet Union beat Yugoslavia 2-1 to win the first European Football Championship.

* Golf: Arnold Palmer wins the Masters and the US Open.

* Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens win 4 games to 0 over the Toronto Maple Leafs.

* Tennis: Neale Fraser wins Wimbledon and the US Open. Darlene Hard wins the French Open and the US Open.

Spinal
02-04-2008, 09:15 PM
Oh man. Boner wants to punch me too. This is not going well. :sad:

Typical Boner. Always looking for a chance to whack.

Boner M
02-04-2008, 09:25 PM
Oh man. Boner wants to punch me too. This is not going well. :sad:

Typical Boner. Always looking for a chance to whack.
Violence > repeating myself on an issue I don't really care about.

Spinal
02-04-2008, 09:31 PM
Violence > repeating myself on an issue I don't really care about.

Once again, the democratic process is poisoned by apathy.

Boner M
02-04-2008, 09:38 PM
Once again, the democratic process is poisoned by apathy.
Geographic isolation is my excuse. Tucked all the way down in that bottom right-hand corner...

http://www.edabroad.uncc.edu/images/world_map.gif

Yup, good ol' geographic isolation. *reclines back, cracks knuckles*

Spinal
02-04-2008, 09:47 PM
Geographic isolation is my excuse.

First they came for the sycophants, and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a sycophant.
Then they came for the Boners, and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a boner.
Then they came for the geographically isolated, and I didn’t speak up,
because I didn't want to pay international phone rates.
Then they came for me, and they punched me in the face for being indecisive.

Maybe now you'll take online polls about how to manage online polls more seriously.

ledfloyd
02-04-2008, 10:00 PM
* World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates win 4 games to 3 over the New York Yankees. Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run.
that makes this pittsburgh residing sox fan smile everytime i hear about it.

Spinal
02-05-2008, 01:42 AM
Polling over. Results shortly.

Spinal
02-05-2008, 02:01 AM
#10

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Le Trou

Director: Jacques Becker

Country: France

The film tells the true story of five prison inmates in La Santé Prison in France in 1947. The five dig, tunnel and saw their way in an attempt to break out of prison.

Nominated for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. Director Becker died a few months after the completion of shooting and before the film's release. Becker included amongst his cast one man who was involved in the real-life prison break.

"The activities of the prisoners and the movement from inside to outside the prison in Le Trou are not seen in terms of communion and grace as they are in Bresson’s A Man Escaped ... The categories that concern Becker are those of experience: how reality is molded and altered by hands and tools, faith and doubt, language and perception." -- Chris Fujiwara

Spinal
02-05-2008, 02:13 AM
#9

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Eyes Without a Face

Director: Georges Franju

Country: France

A brilliant surgeon kidnaps young women and removes their faces, trying to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter whose face has been disfigured in a car crash.

When the film debuted in the U.S., it was edited and had the title The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus. John Carpenter has credited the film for helping to inspire Michael Myers, the villain of his 1978 slasher film, Halloween.

"... Eyes Without a Face is a masterpiece of poetic horror and tactful, tactile brutality." -- J. Hoberman

Boner M
02-05-2008, 02:15 AM
Both 2-lo!

Spinal
02-05-2008, 02:31 AM
#8

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Shoot the Piano Player

Director: François Truffaut

Country: France

While playing in a bar, a pianist is approached by his crook brother who is being chased by two gangsters. He helps his brother to escape, but upsets the two criminals.

The film is an adaptation of David Goodis' crime novel Down There. On the basis of this film, Truffaut was the first choice of screenwriters Robert Benton and David Newman to direct Bonnie and Clyde.

"A movie-lover's movie, Shoot The Piano Player found a young director drunk on cinema and buying for the bar." -- Scott Tobias

Spinal
02-05-2008, 02:40 AM
#7

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Peeping Tom

Director: Michael Powell

Country: UK

Mark works by day as a focus-puller for a London movie studio. He moonlights by taking girlie pictures above a news agent's shop. But Mark has also taken up a horrifying hobby: he murders women while using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

The film was heavily cut by the British Board of Film Classification before release. The violence was toned down and shots of nudity were deleted. Some scenes have been restored, others are believed to be lost forever. Critical response was harsh upon initial release, threatening Powell's career; however, the film is now widely regarded as one of Britain's best horror films.

"Other movies let us enjoy voyeurism; this one extracts a price." -- Roger Ebert

Spinal
02-05-2008, 02:55 AM
#6

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The Virgin Spring

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Country: Sweden

In 14th century Sweden, a young virgin is brutally raped and murdered by goatherds. By a twist of fate, the murderers ask for food and shelter from the dead girl's parents.

Won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Also earned a Special Mention from the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was banned in Fort Worth, Texas. It served as a primary inspiration for Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left.

"... despite the director’s reticence, four decades later, the sheer sculpted purity of the film, and its powerful narrative thrust, confirm The Virgin Spring as one of the highest peaks in the Bergman range." -- Peter Cowie

Spinal
02-05-2008, 03:05 AM
#5

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Breathless

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Country: France

An irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne.

Earned Godard the Best Director prize at the Berlin Internation Film Festival. Godard asked Jean-Pierre Melville for advice during the post-production stage. He suggested Godard remove all scenes that slowed down the action. Instead of excluding entire scenes, Godard cut little bits from here and there, leading to the influential "jump cut" technique.

"As sordid as is the French film, Breathless, which came to the Fine Arts yesterday—and sordid is really a mild word for its pile-up of gross indecencies—it is withal a fascinating communication of the savage ways and moods of some of the rootless young people of Europe (and America) today." -- Bosley Crowther

dreamdead
02-05-2008, 03:06 AM
Wow, really thought that Bergman would place higher on this one. Just shows how good of a year it was...

I need to give Eyes Without a Face another glance. Couldn't find the right wavelength last year and put it down so that I'd be forced to try again.

Spinal
02-05-2008, 03:12 AM
#4

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La Dolce Vita

Director: Federico Fellini

Country: Italy

A journalist struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.

Won the Golden Palm at Cannes. Won an Oscar for Best Costume Design (Black-and-White). The film serves as the origin for the word 'paparazzi'. The term derives from Marcello's photographer friend Paparazzo.

"In this one masterpiece, Federico Fellini achieved the ideal balance -- between social observation and unconscious imagery, between artistic discipline and freedom, and between the neo-realism of 1950s Italian cinema and the orgiastic flights of his later work." -- Mick LaSalle

origami_mustache
02-05-2008, 03:20 AM
Wow, really thought that Bergman would place higher on this one. Just shows how good of a year it was...


Yeah, I thought Breathless would be higher as well.

Spinal
02-05-2008, 03:26 AM
#3

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L'Avventura

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Country: Italy

A group of rich Italians head out on a yachting trip to a deserted volcanic island in the Mediterranean. When they are about to leave, they find Anna has gone missing. While looking for the missing woman, Claudia, Anna's friend, and Sandro, Anna's boyfriend, develop an attraction for each other.

The film was booed by some members of the audience during its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival; however, it won the Prix le Premier Regard. In 1962, L'Avventura was runner-up in Sight and Sound's poll of the top ten films of all time.

"L'Avventura ... remains the most haunting representation of the ennui of modern life. There is a comfort in knowing one can hide at will but there is no greater unease than not having a souvenir of said disappearance." -- Ed Gonzalez

origami_mustache
02-05-2008, 03:32 AM
The ending of L'Avventura is sooo disturbing.

Spinal
02-05-2008, 03:38 AM
#2

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The Apartment

Director: Billy Wilder

Country: USA

A struggling clerk in a huge New York insurance company discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder - by lending out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. One night he's left with a major problem to solve.

Won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It was the last black-and-white movie to win Best Picture until Schindler's List. Shirley MacLaine was only given forty pages of the script because Wilder didn't want her to know how the story would turn out.

"Lemmon navigates the line between simpering and sympathetic with nervous WASP-ish energy, George Bush Sr. visited by the facial contortions of Jim Carrey. Most indelibly, MacLaine gives us a gamine with the whole gamut of emotions, a cursed capacity to love, and a limit to her own self-pity." -- Ed Park

Spinal
02-05-2008, 03:44 AM
#1

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Psycho

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Country: USA

A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.

Earned four Oscar nominations including Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Janet Leigh). The shower scene is reported to have taken seven days to shoot using 70 different camera angles but only lasts 45 seconds.

"[Hitchcock] has very shrewdly interwoven crime, sex and suspense, blended the real and the unreal in fascinating proportions and punctuated his film with several quick, grisly and unnerving surprises." -- Paine Knickerbocker

Spinal
02-05-2008, 03:47 AM
1. Psycho (93)
2. The Apartment (70)
3. L'Avventura (61.5)
4. La Dolce Vita (61)
5. Breathless (53)
6. The Virgin Spring (52.5)
7. Peeping Tom (39)
8. Shoot the Piano Player (34.5)
9. Eyes Without a Face (31.5)
10. Le Trou (25.5)

Also rans:
Black Sunday (15.5)
Spartacus (14)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (12.5)
Inherit the Wind (11)

dreamdead
02-05-2008, 04:44 AM
L'Avventura


Fine, Match-cut, I'll watch the damn film. But if it's full of protoype ennui and alienation and unresolved storylines I'm not gonna be a happy camper. I'll be negative repping every person who voted for it.

Spinal
02-05-2008, 04:49 AM
Fine, Match-cut, I'll watch the damn film. But if it's full of protoype ennui and alienation and unresolved storylines I'm not gonna be a happy camper. I'll be negative repping every person who voted for it.

You know, it sounds kind of annoying when you try to describe it, but it really is an awesome film. Utterly captivating and beautiful.

transmogrifier
02-05-2008, 10:46 AM
Seriously, except for a mention for the worst film of the year (!?), I'm the only one to mention Purple Noon?

You're all on crack. And when you're not on crack, you're sniffing glue. And not that stick, kindy-kid glue, but that white PVC stuff. And when you're taking a break from the crack and glue, you're reading Armond White, or something.

....he asks again, plaintively, into the empty abyss that is Match Cut's soul.

Yxklyx
02-05-2008, 01:49 PM
....he asks again, plaintively, into the empty abyss that is Match Cut's soul.

I've seen it. it was OK. The ending was hilarious.

Ezee E
02-05-2008, 04:08 PM
L'Avventura was the first movie that I discovered and watched simply because of the raves I read at Rotten Tomatoes. It seemed like everyone loved it. I forgot who in particular, Ger comes to mind, and then I checked it out.

Yep. It's meh. I like the Vitti scene where all the Italians are eyeing her though.

Other then that, someone disappears, we never find out where or why, and that's all I really remember. Maybe I'll check it out again.

Derek
02-05-2008, 05:55 PM
Fine, Match-cut, I'll watch the damn film. But if it's full of protoype ennui and alienation and unresolved storylines I'm not gonna be a happy camper. I'll be negative repping every person who voted for it.

That's a very silly post. Why would you not go into an art film expecting resolved storylines?? It's one of the defining characteristics of art films, especially those from the '60s, which went out of their way to stand opposed to the classical narrative. And it's friggin' '60s Antonioni, so it's obviously going to be about ennui and alienation and considering he was one of the first to explore it almost exclusively in modern cinema and his formal approach has influenced directors for the past 40 years, it's obviously a prototype as well. So please, just get it over with and negative rep me now so I can return the favor. :)

Spinal
02-05-2008, 06:11 PM
Dude's got Pulse and Paris, Texas in his top 50. He'll be just fine.

Derek
02-05-2008, 06:14 PM
Dude's got Pulse and Paris, Texas in his top 50. He'll be just fine.

Oh, I know dreamdead has great taste. That's what made his comment frustrating, though now I'm wondering if it was at least partially in jest.

Spinal
02-05-2008, 06:17 PM
Oh, I know dreamdead has great taste. That's what made his comment frustrating, though now I'm wondering if it was at least partially in jest.

My theory is that he is psychic and was offering a parody of E's post before it was even written.

dreamdead
02-05-2008, 06:52 PM
My theory is that he is psychic and was offering a parody of E's post before it was even written.

:|

:pritch:

The very first film I watched from Netflix back in '04 was L'Eclisse; I was good until the end/coda, when the alienation effect threw me for a loop. I know that L'Avventura is supposedly a better starting point with Antonioni, though, so I should get to it sometime this month.

Spinal
02-05-2008, 07:03 PM
I have a very strong memory of the first part of L'Avventura and a very strong memory of the ending. The middle part is pretty fuzzy. I'd like to watch it again at some point.

MadMan
02-05-2008, 07:40 PM
Ah so the Top 10 list for 1960 is full of those foreign films I'm supposed to be watching instead of the latest Rambo movie ;)

Even though I've only viewed Psycho off this list having actually seen it I highly doubt its the best film from 1960. I think its a damn good film that falls short of greatness. Mainly because of that really annoying, idiotic monologue explaining everything near the end.

PS: I voted for "Make up your mind or I will punch you." I leave the whole debate up to people who think hard about this stuff. Me I'll just continue posting Top 5s for years I've seen at least 10 or more films from in the correct threads for those years that get posted.

Spinal
02-05-2008, 07:45 PM
So many people are willing to punch me.

dreamdead
02-05-2008, 07:52 PM
Even though I've only viewed Psycho off this list having actually seen it I highly doubt its the best film from 1960. I think its a damn good film that falls short of greatness. Mainly because of that really annoying, idiotic monologue explaining everything near the end.


But it doesn't explain anything. It's an interpretation and that's it, one which becomes more problematic the longer that the psychologist keeps talking. It displaces our invested trust in Norman as the lead once Leigh dies, but it shouldn't be assumed to explain anything. Rather, you should question what gaps are instead opened by the reliance on psychology to explain away, since all psychology is simply narrative; Norman gives you a different narrative in the scenes with Leigh, but also at the film's end. So now you've got two or three possibly competing narratives which will contradict one another. Anyway. This is an old can of worms. :)

Spinal
02-05-2008, 07:55 PM
If you were dissatisfied with Psycho, you should definitely watch Peeping Tom.

Duncan
02-05-2008, 09:47 PM
:|

:pritch:

The very first film I watched from Netflix back in '04 was L'Eclisse; I was good until the end/coda, when the alienation effect threw me for a loop. I know that L'Avventura is supposedly a better starting point with Antonioni, though, so I should get to it sometime this month.

I was not so good with L'Eclisse until the ending. What a fantastic ~10 minutes.

Sven
02-05-2008, 09:48 PM
But it doesn't explain anything. It's an interpretation and that's it, one which becomes more problematic the longer that the psychologist keeps talking. It displaces our invested trust in Norman as the lead once Leigh dies, but it shouldn't be assumed to explain anything. Rather, you should question what gaps are instead opened by the reliance on psychology to explain away, since all psychology is simply narrative; Norman gives you a different narrative in the scenes with Leigh, but also at the film's end. So now you've got two or three possibly competing narratives which will contradict one another. Anyway. This is an old can of worms. :)

Awesome.

Duncan
02-05-2008, 09:48 PM
But it doesn't explain anything. It's an interpretation and that's it, one which becomes more problematic the longer that the psychologist keeps talking. It displaces our invested trust in Norman as the lead once Leigh dies, but it shouldn't be assumed to explain anything. Rather, you should question what gaps are instead opened by the reliance on psychology to explain away, since all psychology is simply narrative; Norman gives you a different narrative in the scenes with Leigh, but also at the film's end. So now you've got two or three possibly competing narratives which will contradict one another. Anyway. This is an old can of worms. :)
Man, soooo tempting to respond to this. But I don't like worms. I've tasted them before. Gross.

MadMan
02-06-2008, 03:37 AM
If you were dissatisfied with Psycho, you should definitely watch Peeping Tom.I think its down at my local home town library. I don't remember if they still have a copy of it or not. If they do I'll have to check it out during the summer.


But it doesn't explain anything. It's an interpretation and that's it, one which becomes more problematic the longer that the psychologist keeps talking. It displaces our invested trust in Norman as the lead once Leigh dies, but it shouldn't be assumed to explain anything. Rather, you should question what gaps are instead opened by the reliance on psychology to explain away, since all psychology is simply narrative; Norman gives you a different narrative in the scenes with Leigh, but also at the film's end. So now you've got two or three possibly competing narratives which will contradict one another. Anyway. This is an old can of worms. :)Okay it doesn't completely explain everything, but that scene still is annoying, pointless, and almost wrecks the flow of the film. I still give Psycho a strong 90/100 so I almost feel like I'm nit picking. In any case I just don't feel that its a great film, although its one of my favorite Hitchcocks.


So many people are willing to punch me.Its because your like THE MAN along with other mods and stuff :P

Grouchy
02-06-2008, 05:48 AM
But it doesn't explain anything. It's an interpretation and that's it, one which becomes more problematic the longer that the psychologist keeps talking. It displaces our invested trust in Norman as the lead once Leigh dies, but it shouldn't be assumed to explain anything. Rather, you should question what gaps are instead opened by the reliance on psychology to explain away, since all psychology is simply narrative; Norman gives you a different narrative in the scenes with Leigh, but also at the film's end. So now you've got two or three possibly competing narratives which will contradict one another. Anyway. This is an old can of worms. :)
But one true thing about the scene was that it was studio-enforced. They didn't think it was wise to end the movie with the disturbing moment that came before, leaving the Norman Bates character "unexplained" for all those retarded audiences worldwide.

Incidentally, Carrie is often credited with inventing those "gotcha!" endings in Horror movies, but I think Psycho did it first with the skull over Perkins face in the final shot.

MadMan
02-06-2008, 06:02 AM
But one true thing about the scene was that it was studio-enforced. They didn't think it was wise to end the movie with the disturbing moment that came before, leaving the Norman Bates character "unexplained" for all those retarded audiences worldwide.

Incidentally, Carrie is often credited with inventing those "gotcha!" endings in Horror movies, but I think Psycho did it first with the skull over Perkins face in the final shot.Aye, I don't blame Hitchcock for that scene because I know the Master of Supense wouldn't do something so dumb and cloy. That said, it does fail to dull the extreme creepy power of that final shot. Gotta love that eerie, un-nerving smile that the camera so quickly zooms in on.