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Spinal
02-28-2008, 07:14 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 the thread is locked, which will be in about a week. I will give at least 24 hours warning before tallying votes.
You may begin now.
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Spinal
02-28-2008, 07:16 PM
1. Satyricon
2. Witches' Hammer
3. Go, Go Second Time Virgin
4. Hamlet (Richardson)
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Watashi
02-28-2008, 07:16 PM
These things go by really fast. Has it really been a week? I'm still catching up on 1989.
Spinal
02-28-2008, 07:19 PM
These things go by really fast. Has it really been a week? I'm still catching up on 1989.
Every 3 or 4 days, a new one will be posted.
Watashi
02-28-2008, 07:22 PM
I can barely keep up with this pace. I've only seen two films from 1969 and the only good one is sitting at top of my signature.
Lazlo
02-28-2008, 07:26 PM
1. The Wild Bunch
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. The Sorrow and the Pity
Spinal
02-28-2008, 07:28 PM
I can barely keep up with this pace. I've only seen two films from 1969 and the only good one is sitting at top of my signature.
I don't want this thing dragging on over a year. We've got something like 80 of them to do.
origami_mustache
02-28-2008, 07:35 PM
1. Andrei Rublev
2. Easy Rider
3. Medium Cool
4. Midnight Cowboy
5. Take the Money and Run
HM: Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, True Grit
Spinal
02-28-2008, 07:42 PM
Top Songs of 1969:
1. "Aquarius", Fifth Dimension
2. "Sugar, Sugar", Archies
3. "I Can't Get Next To You", Temptations
4. "Honky Tonk Women", Rolling Stones
5. "Build Me Up Buttercup", Foundations
6. "Dizzy", Tommy Roe
7. "Hot Fun In The Summertime", Sly and The Family Stone
8. "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", Tom Jones
9. "Everyday People", Sly and The Family Stone
10. "Get Together", Youngbloods
source: musicoutfitters.com
Ezee E
02-28-2008, 07:44 PM
I don't want this thing dragging on over a year. We've got something like 80 of them to do.
Directors Consensus > Yearly Consensus > Life
Spinal
02-28-2008, 07:47 PM
Time Person of the Year for 1969:
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The Middle Americans
Sycophant
02-28-2008, 07:47 PM
Comparing top ten lists of thrity years ago with those of five or ten years ago has me wondering if in twenty years, people of our generations will have the same relative general opinions.
Also, I'm trying to figure if I've seen three worthy films from 1969. In case I'm not actually able to put a vote in.
For your consideration:
Take the Money and Run
http://whatnot.bombdotcom.net/top100/takethemoneyandrun.jpg
soitgoes...
02-28-2008, 07:47 PM
1. Goyokin (Hideo Gosha)
2. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
3. This Man Must Die (Claude Chabrol)
4. Z (Costa-Gavras)
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
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6. Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda)
7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame)
I can't say that this is a very strong year for me.
Spinal
02-28-2008, 07:49 PM
Directors Consensus > Yearly Consensus > Life
The magazine? The board game? The breakfast cereal?
soitgoes...
02-28-2008, 07:49 PM
I don't want this thing dragging on over a year. We've got something like 80 of them to do.
Yeah, I kinda think the pace on these is perfect.
Spinal
02-28-2008, 07:50 PM
For your consideration:
Take the Money and Run
My #6.
Ezee E
02-28-2008, 07:50 PM
The Board game and cereal are clearly better than the magazine. C'mon now.
Spinal
02-28-2008, 07:53 PM
The Board game and cereal are clearly better than the magazine. C'mon now.
Even though I like the magazine, I don't think I would argue this.
Sycophant
02-28-2008, 07:54 PM
My #6.
:)/:cry:
Derek
02-28-2008, 07:55 PM
1. A Gentle Woman (Robert Bresson)
2. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
4. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
5. Kes (Ken Loach)
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6. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
7. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
8. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
9. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
10. Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger)
11. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
Llopin
02-28-2008, 07:58 PM
Amazing year. Quite possibly my favourite for film.
1. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer)
2. Katzelmacher (Fassbinder)
3. Go Go Second Time Virgin (Wakamatsu)
4. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
5. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
----------- (consider the following as "for your consideration" as well)
6. Shonen (Oshima)
7. Army of Shadows (Melville)
8. Double Suicide (Shinoda)
9. La Madriguera (Saura)
10. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Pollack)
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11. L'amour fou (Rivette)
12. Love is Colder than Death (Fassbinder)
13. Japan Organized Crime Boss (Fukasaku)
14. The Milky Way (Buñuel)
15. Z (Costa Gavras)
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16. The Rite (Bergman)
17. Take the Money and Run (Allen)
18. Medea (Pasolini)
19. The Damned (Visconti)
20. Battle of Britain (Hamilton)
Spinal
02-28-2008, 07:58 PM
4. Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin)
1968.
Please don't throw things at me.
Sycophant
02-28-2008, 08:03 PM
Oh! I actually have a copy of Go, Go Second Time Virgin! I think I'll watch it this weekend. It'll be my first Wakamatsu.
Raiders
02-28-2008, 08:05 PM
1. The Wild Bunch
2. Army of Shadows
3. Kes
4. The Sorrow and the Pity
5. That Cold Day in the Park
Eleven
02-28-2008, 08:07 PM
1. Kes
2. Army of Shadows
3. The Wild Bunch
4. Medium Cool
5. La Femme infidele [The Unfaithful Wife]
HMs: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Putney Swope, Katzelmacher.
origami_mustache
02-28-2008, 08:08 PM
4. Medium Cool
Oh I forgot about this one...updating
Llopin
02-28-2008, 08:09 PM
Oh! I actually have a copy of Go, Go Second Time Virgin! I think I'll watch it this weekend. It'll be my first Wakamatsu.
Do it. You'lle be either blown away or very confused (probably both)
By the by, according to Wikipedia, Beat Takeshi does appear in the Wakamatsu film, as an extra. I saw it a couple years ago and cannot remember at all, but look sharp.
Kurosawa Fan
02-28-2008, 08:09 PM
1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
2. Double Suicide
3. Take the Money and Run
4. The Wild Bunch
5. Blind Beast
monolith94
02-28-2008, 08:11 PM
1. Andrei Rublev
2. Army of Shadows
3. Satyricon
4. Take the Money and Run
only 4, I guess.
Derek
02-28-2008, 08:14 PM
1968.
Please don't throw things at me.
Nah, you don't work at Imdb. :) I've come to expect this from them by now.
It's good to see Kes is '69 film since I have it taped. This gives me the motivation to get to it ASAP.
MadMan
02-28-2008, 08:25 PM
1. The Wild Bunch
2. Support Your Local Sheriff!
3. Frosty the Snowman
I've only seen six films from this year, and four of them are westerns.
Boner M
02-28-2008, 08:31 PM
1. Andrei Rublev
2. Kes
3. Army of Shadows
4. Midnight Cowboy
5. A Day With the Boys
Much that I need to see.
Melville
02-28-2008, 08:53 PM
1. Andrei Rublev
2. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
3. The Wild Bunch
4. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
5. The Damned
1. Johnny Cash in San Quentin
2. Midnight Cowboy
3. Andrei Rublev
4. The Wild Bunch
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Duncan
02-28-2008, 09:37 PM
I keep forgetting to participate in these things.
1. Andrei Rublev
2. Satyricon
3. The Wild Bunch
4. Midnight Cowboy
5. Army of Shadows
Philosophe_rouge
02-28-2008, 10:05 PM
1. The Wild Bunch (USA, Sam Peckinpah)
2. Andrei Rublev
3. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (USA, George Roy Hill)
4. On her Majesty’s Secret Service (UK, Peter R. Hunt)
5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brody (UK, Ronald Neame)
Yxklyx
02-28-2008, 10:08 PM
1. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
2. Z (Costa-Gavras)
3. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack)
4. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
5. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
6. Kes (Ken Loach)
7. Witches' Hammer (Otakar Vávra)
8. A Quiet Week in the House (Jan Svankmajer)
9. The Damned (Luchino Visconti)
10. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt)
ledfloyd
02-28-2008, 10:11 PM
1. Army of Shadows
2. Take the Money and Run
3. Easy Rider
the other films i've seen from this year aren't top 5 worthy.
Weeping_Guitar
02-28-2008, 11:13 PM
1. Army of Shadows
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
4. My Night at Maud's
Kurious Jorge v3.1
02-28-2008, 11:27 PM
1. Andrei Rublev
2. Army of Shadows
3. Birds, Orphans, and Fools
4. Spider's Stratagem
5. Midnight Cowboy
Spinal
02-29-2008, 01:49 AM
The following television programs debuted in 1969:
Hee Haw
H.R. Pufnstuf
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Marcus Welby, M.D.
The Brady Bunch
Sesame Street
Monty Python's Flying Circus (UK)
The Benny Hill Show (UK)
The #1 rated show in the Nielsen ratings for 1969:
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
Mysterious Dude
02-29-2008, 01:57 AM
1. Satyricon
2. Z
3. Double Suicide
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. Kes
baby doll
02-29-2008, 05:32 PM
1. Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2. The Damned (Luchino Visconti)
3. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
4. Fellini Satyricon (Federico Fellini)
5. La Femme infidele (Claude Chabrol)
6. Une femme douce (Robert Bresson)
7. Ma nuit chez Maud (Eric Rohmer)
8. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
9. Intervals (Peter Greenaway)
10. Model Shop (Jacques Demy)
Will Rivette's L'amour fou ever come out on DVD?
1. Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen)
2. My Night at Mauds (Rohmer)
3. Army of Shadowa (Melville)
4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Neame)
5. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
6. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
7. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
8. The Red Lion (Okamoto)
9. Alice’s Restaurant (Penn)
10. Women in Love (Russell)
Does this look like "gub" or "gun"?
Grouchy
03-01-2008, 05:05 AM
1. The Wild Bunch
2. Easy Rider
3. Frankenstein must be destroyed
4. On her Majesty's Secret Service
5. Macunaima
Derek
03-01-2008, 05:12 AM
Edited to add Kes at #5.
Yum-Yum
03-02-2008, 09:56 AM
1. Midnight Cowboy
2. The Wild Bunch
3. Venus in Furs (Paroxismus)
4. Easy Rider
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Yxklyx
03-02-2008, 10:20 AM
3. Venus in Furs
Interesting. I had only heard of the band before - didn't realize their name was based on a movie - unless there's a book involved...
Yum-Yum
03-02-2008, 10:45 AM
Interesting. I had only heard of the band before - didn't realize their name was based on a movie - unless there's a book involved...
The band you're referring to is probably named after the book (by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch). Venus of Furs, the movie by Jess Franco, is the American title (Paroxismus is the name listed on IMDB - a name I don't care for). Anyway, it's a must-see for fans of shiny stockings, disoriented trumpet players, Manfred Mann, and the striking beauty of Maria Rohm.
1. Andrei Rublev
2. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
3. Easy Rider
4. Satyricon
Leaving a space blank because I just taped The Wild Bunch off HD and might add it later.
Spinal
03-02-2008, 08:49 PM
Fun Facts for 1969:
* Charles de Gaulle steps down as president of France.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/more/degaullebidault.gif
* John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/more/Jonas20film20picture16-499.jpg
* Lieutenant William Calley is charged with 6 counts of premeditated murder, for the deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/more/79472a.jpg
* Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate, (who was 8 months pregnant), and her friends at Tate and husband Roman Polanski's home in Los Angeles. More than 100 stab wounds are found on the victims.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/more/charlie_manson.jpg
* The Woodstock Festival is held in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/joel_harmon/more/JHGV_bw.jpg
dreamdead
03-03-2008, 03:35 AM
1. My Night at Maud's
2. The Wild Bunch
3. A Touch of Zen
Apparently I have a whole lotta others to get to. I have Andrei Rublev here at home, but likely won't get to it till next weekend, which will be too late.
MadMan
03-03-2008, 05:41 PM
I want to travel back in time just to go to Woodstock and hear Hendrix play.
Spinal
03-04-2008, 11:25 PM
This poll will close sometime tomorrow. If you are still working on a list that you intend to post tomorrow, let me know and I will give you the time you need.
Spinal
03-05-2008, 04:14 PM
Last call.
Sycophant
03-05-2008, 04:17 PM
1. Take the Money and Run (Allen)
2. Go Go Second Time Virgin (Wakamatsu)
3. Support Your Local Sherrif (Kennedy)
Spinal
03-05-2008, 04:20 PM
2. Go Go Second Time Virgin (Wakamatsu)
I'm glad I asked. :)
Spinal
03-05-2008, 06:13 PM
#10
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My Night at Maud's
Director: Eric Rohmer
Country: France
A devout Catholic moves to a provincial town and vows to marry a pretty blond he notices at mass. An old school friend invites him to visit the recently divorced Maud, and he ends up staying the night, having philosophical discussions in her bedroom.
Earned Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay. Won Best Screenplay from the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle. It is the third film in Rohmer's series of Six Moral Tales.
"My Night at Maud's remains, to all eyes, the masterpiece in the middle [of Rohmer's Moral Tales series] — Rohmerians do not need to be told, but for others, begin with this snowy eclogue pitting righteous piety against bohemian freedom..." -- Michael Atkinson
Sycophant
03-05-2008, 06:20 PM
What's a good entry point for Rohmer? Especially after Margot at the Wedding, I think I really need to pay him some attention soon.
Spinal
03-05-2008, 06:21 PM
#9
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Kes
Director: Ken Loach
Country: UK
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence, until tragedy strikes.
Earned BAFTA awards for Best Supporting Actor (Colin Welland) and Most Promising Newcomer (David Bradley). The child actors who were beaten (actually caned on the hand) by the character of the school headmaster were paid an additional 50 pence for their trouble, according to a BBC Radio 4 interview.
"Kes is gritty, sad, funny, and very moving, a film that avoids maudlin sentimentality to tell a simple story with an authenticity you will long remember." -- Howard Schumann
Spinal
03-05-2008, 06:23 PM
"My Night at Maud's remains, to all eyes, the masterpiece in the middle [of Rohmer's Moral Tales series] — Rohmerians do not need to be told, but for others, begin with this snowy eclogue pitting righteous piety against bohemian freedom..." -- Michael Atkinson
What's a good entry point for Rohmer?
:|
Sycophant
03-05-2008, 06:30 PM
:|Whoops. :embarrassed:
Sometimes, I skip the body of the entires if I haven't seen the film in question. That's probably a silly policy, as they don't tend to be too revealing.
Spinal
03-05-2008, 06:34 PM
#8
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Easy Rider
Director: Dennis Hopper
Country: USA
Two hippie bikers sell some dope in Southern California, stash their money away in their gas-tank and set off for a trip across America. On the journey, they encounter bigotry and hatred from small-town communities who despise and fear their non-conformism.
Earned Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson) and Best Original Screenplay. Won an award for Best First Work (Dennis Hopper) at the Cannes Film Festival. It was one of the first films to make extensive use of previously released musical tracks rather than specially written film score.
"If you follow the story closely in Easy Rider, you find out it isn't there. The rough-cut of the movie reportedly ran over three hours, and Hopper edited it to a reasonable length by throwing out the story details and keeping the rest ... All of this divests a motorcycle movie of its weak point (the story) and develops its strong point (the role of the self-proclaimed rebel in a conformist society)." -- Roger Ebert
Raiders
03-05-2008, 06:37 PM
Easy Rider above Kes? Ugh.
Qrazy
03-05-2008, 06:51 PM
I know it's too late but...
1. Andrei Rublev
2. Army of Shadows
3. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
4. Midnight Cowboy
5. The Wild Bunch
HMs: Satyricon, Kes
Spinal
03-05-2008, 06:54 PM
#7
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Take the Money and Run
Director: Woody Allen
Country: USA
A mock documentary which traces the criminal career of Virgil Starkwell from his childhood through his incarceration for bank robbery. Along the way we learn much about his childhood, his musical (and moral) education, and the vagaries of his relationships with women.
Nominated for a Writer's Guild award for Best Original Screenplay. It was the first true directing effort for Allen, not counting What's Up, Tiger Lily?, which was mostly a comedic re-dubbing of a previously made film. Allen initially filmed a bloody downbeat ending (influenced by Bonnie and Clyde) in which he was shot to death. His editor, Ralph Rosenblum, convinced him to go for a lighter ending.
"We're more than accustomed to [mockumentaries] today from the Christopher Guest films and TV shows like The Office ... but in 1969 this was a pretty new genre and for a first time out Woody Allen nails it ... It's hilarious and anarchistic, juvenile and sophisticated." -- Paul Logan
Spinal
03-05-2008, 06:55 PM
I know it's too late but...
1. Andrei Rublev
2. Army of Shadows
3. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
4. Midnight Cowboy
5. The Wild Bunch
HMs: Satyricon, Kes
Doesn't change anything I've posted so far. I'll go ahead and count it.
Spinal
03-05-2008, 07:10 PM
#6
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Satyricon
Director: Federico Fellini
Country: Italy
In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone. The boy, allowed to choose who he goes with, chooses Ascilto. Only a sudden earthquake saves Encolpio from suicide. We then follow Encolpio through a series of adventures where he is eventually reunited with Ascilto.
Earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. When asked why both the leading roles were played by foreign actors and not Italians, Federico Fellini replied, "Because there are no Italian homosexuals." United Artists paid more than $1 million for the distribution rights to Gian Luigi Polidoro's Satyricon to keep it off the market until after the release of this film.
"Fellini clearly spared nothing in translating his vision to film, and the results are visually remarkable. But, just as importantly, it's a vision with teeth ... Viewed as a film about the end of the '60s ... or as a companion piece to La Dolce Vita, Satyricon takes on added resonance. But no matter how you interpret it, it demands to be seen." -- Keith Phipps
Spinal
03-05-2008, 07:29 PM
#5
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Midnight Cowboy
Director: John Schlesinger
Country: USA
Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real hustler, he finds that he is the one getting hustled until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo.
Earned Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. It is the only rated-X film to win Best Picture at the Oscars. However, it was re-rated 'R' in 1971 without any changes or cuts made. According to producer Jerome Hellman on the two-disc DVD's commentary, the famous line, "I'm walkin' here!", contrary to all other accounts, was actually scripted.
"Director John Schlesinger and screenwriter Waldo Salt ... turn abject misery into a funky, visually lively experience. Most importantly, the performances by Hoffman and Voight are big. Voight is all good ol' bluster, a goofy, Lone Star Candide who whoops and yelps all the way to Hell. And as Ratso, Hoffman ... enters the realm of movie folklore." -- Desson Howe
Spinal
03-05-2008, 07:39 PM
#3 (tie)
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Army of Shadows
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Country: France
In 1942, a civil engineer is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp and later attempts to escape.
Earned an award for Best Foreign Film from the New York Film Critics Circle ... but not until 2006. Cinematographer Pierre Lhomme claimed that the last surviving, watchable print of the movie had turned completely pink with age. He later supervised the digital restoration of the film at the Eclair Laboratories in Paris.
"Possessing only a moderate interest in clear-cut three-act storytelling, Army of Shadows works first and foremost on a sensory plane, with the director's carefully modulated pans, edits, and juxtapositions coalescing into a mood that straddles the boundary between historical authenticity and stylistic artifice." -- Nick Schager
Spinal
03-05-2008, 07:56 PM
#3 (tie)
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Director: George Roy Hill
Country: USA
Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. The West is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run.
Earned Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score and Best Original Song ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"). Paul Newman did his own bicycle stunts, after his stunt man was unable to stay on the bike - except for the scene where Butch crashes backwards into the fence, which was performed by cinematographer Conrad L. Hall.
"Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid might not have invented the modern buddy comedy, but it may as well have ... [It is] the gold standard for movies about rugged pals quipping and wisecracking their way through one perilous bonding situation after another." -- Nathan Rabin
Spinal
03-05-2008, 08:04 PM
#2
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The Wild Bunch
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Country: USA
Outlaws on the Mexican-U.S. frontier face the march of progress, the Mexican army and a gang of bounty hunters led by a former member while they plan a robbery of a U.S. army train.
Earned Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score. Won an award for Best Cinematography from the National Society of Film Critics. It is estimated that more blank rounds were discharged during the production than live rounds were fired during the Mexican Revolution of 1914 around which the film is loosely based.
"It's an exciting thing, an event, to see director Sam Peckinpah's 1969 classic again, to be worn down by it, yet to feel the pulse of it, forebodingly calm one minute, pumping like shotgun blasts the next. The film is in your face with a leathery, sun-beat and guilt-crippled bravado." -- Peter Stack
Spinal
03-05-2008, 08:13 PM
#1
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Andrei Rublev
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Country: Soviet Union
The film charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless fighting between rival princes and by Tartar invasions.
Earned the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. For the scene where the cow is on fire, it was covered in asbestos, which protected it from actually being burned. But for the scene where the horse falls down the stairs, it was shot in the head. The crew acquired the horse from a slaughterhouse where it was going to be shot the next day.
"While [Andrei Rublev] is based on an actual historical figure, it is much more than just history, biography or even autobiography. Part of the general difficulty some have experienced with Tarkovsky's cinema has to with the poetic, sensuous and metaphoric way Tarkovsky subverts narrative categories and structures. Andrei Rublev is more aptly described as a fictional fresco linked by poetic rather than narrative logic." -- Anna Dzenis
Boner M
03-05-2008, 08:16 PM
:pritch:
Spinal
03-05-2008, 08:17 PM
1969:
1. Andrei Rublev (59.5)
2. The Wild Bunch (57.5)
3t. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (43.5)
3t. Army of Shadows (43.5)
5. Midnight Cowboy (31)
6. Satyricon (23.5)
7. Take the Money and Run (23)
8. Easy Rider (22)
9. Kes (17.5)
10. My Night at Maud's (17)
Not quite there:
Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (11)
Z (11)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (11)
Ezee E
03-05-2008, 11:04 PM
Damn. I should've voted. Andrei would be #2 overall then.
Oh well.
Grouchy
03-06-2008, 01:57 PM
Damn. I should've voted. Andrei would be #2 overall then.
Oh well.
You definitively should have, then.
Duncan
03-06-2008, 03:38 PM
The last two posts are so wrong. I say hurray for apathy and voluntary disenfranchisement.
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