MC Yearly Consensus - 1967

[Spinal]

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.

IMDB Power Search (http://www.imdb.com/list)

[Spinal]

1. The Firemen's Ball
2. Marat/Sade
3. I am Curious - Yellow
4. The Graduate
5. Belle de jour

6. Bonnie and Clyde
7. Cool Hand Luke
8. Privilege
9. Titicut Follies
10. In Cold Blood

[Melville]

1. Play Time
2. Bonnie and Clyde
3. Cool Hand Luke
4. Mouchette
5. The Perfect Human

[monolith94]

1. Doctor Dolittle
2. War and Peace
3. The Fearless Vampire Killers
4. Wait Until Dark
5. Bedazzled

[dreamdead]

1. Mouchette
2. Point Blank
3. Week End
4. Le Samourai
5. Play Time

[Yxklyx]

1. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
2. The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
3. The President's Analyst (Theodore J. Flicker)
4. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
5. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy & Agnès Varda)

6. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
7. The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó)
8. The Firemen's Ball (Milos Forman)
9. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks)
10. Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)

[MadMan]

Huh I guess I've seen a small amount of films from this year.

1. The Graduate
2. Point Blank
3. The Dirty Dozen
4. Cool Hand Luke
5. In The Heat of the Night

[Spinal]

Top Songs of 1967:

1. "To Sir With Love", Lulu
2. "Happy Together", The Turtles
3. "Windy", Association
4. "Ode To Billie Joe", Bobby Gentry
5. "I'm A Believer", The Monkees
6. "Light My Fire", The Doors
7. "Somethin' Stupid", Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra
8. "The Letter", Box Tops
9. "Groovin'", Young Rascals
10. "Kind Of A Drag", Buckinghams

source: musicoutfitters.com

[Eleven]

1. Playtime
2. Titicut Follies
3. Le Samourai
4. Belle de Jour
5. The Firemen's Ball

One of my favorite years of all.

[Raiders]

1. Point Blank
2. Mouchette
3. Week End
4. Titicut Follies
5. Playtime

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Le Samourai (Melville)
2. Playtime (Tati)
3. Titicut Follies (Wiseman)
4. The Fireman's Ball (Forman)
5. Weekend (Godard)
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6. A Man Vanishes (Imamura)
7. Young Girls of Rochefort (Demy)
8. Privilige (Watkins)
9. Scattered Clouds (Naruse)
10. The Graduate (Nichols)

[Russ]

1. Playtime
2. Branded to Kill
3. Bonnie and Clyde
4. Cool Hand Luke
5. Bedazzled

[TrippyRamone]

1. Point Blank
2. Bonnie and Clyde
3. Le Samourai

[SirNewt]

Top Songs of 1967:

1. "To Sir With Love", Lulu

source: musicoutfitters.com

Ugh, the song and film are abominable.

[Qrazy]

1. Play Time
2. Le Samourai
3. The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó)
4. Cool Hand Luke
5. In Cold Blood

6. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy & Agnès Varda)
7. Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
8. The Firemen's Ball
9. The Graduate
10. Belle de Jour

HMs: The Perfect Human, Point Blank, Two or Three Things I Know about Her, Branded to Kill, Earth Entranced, Bonnie and Clyde

Want to see: Viy, Three Poplars at Plyuschika, Marat/Sade, Murketa Lazarova

[ledfloyd]

1. Le Samourai
2. The Graduate
3. Bonnie and Clyde

Other films I've seen don't deserve points.

[Duncan]

1. Wavelength
2. Weekend
3. Point Blank
4. Le Samourai
5. Bonnie and Clyde

[MacGuffin]

1. Play Time (Tati)
2. Wavelength (Snow)
3. Week End (Godard)
4. Dont Look Back (Pennebaker)
5. Eye Myth [short] (Brakhage)

[Llopin]

1. Scattered Clouds (Naruse)
2. Branded to Kill (Suzuki)
2. Peppermint Frappé (Saura)
4. Le Samourai (Melville)
5. The Firemen's Ball (Forman)
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6. I Am Curious (Yellow)
7. Mouchette (Bresson)
8. La Collectionneuse (Rohmer)
9. La Chinoise (Godard)
10. Sing a Song of Sex (Oshima)

[Melville]

1. Wavelength
2. Weekend
3. Point Blank
4. Le Samourai
5. Bonnie and Clyde
All those films ahead of Playtime?

[Duncan]

All those films ahead of Playtime?

Maybe. I dunno. According to a certain list they are, but I'm pretty flexible. I haven't seen a couple of those in a long time.

[Qrazy]

6. I Am Curious (Yellow)


Heh, I'd like to meet this Yellow fellow.

[Duncan]

Big Conner fan eh? Personally I find I'm much more impressed/interested by the stuff he shoots himself over his found footage work, but the found footage stuff is fairly quality too. Well, there are no Conner films on that list, but a glance at IMDB tells me Report probably belongs up there. Are you thinking of Michael Snow? Because he's pretty awesome.

[Watashi]

I've got nothing.

Most of the film I've seen aren't really Top 5 worthy.

[Melville]

Maybe. I dunno. According to a certain list they are, but I'm pretty flexible. I haven't seen a couple of those in a long time.
Oh, yeah, now I remember you saying that you have more films from 1967 on your top 100 than from the 30s and 40s combined. Apparently I don't have any films from 1967 on my list.

[Qrazy]

Well, there are no Conner films on that list, but a glance at IMDB tells me Report probably belongs up there. Are you thinking of Michael Snow? Because he's pretty awesome.

Damn you refreshing before I could delete my mistake.

[Qrazy]

Oh, yeah, now I remember you saying that you have more films from 1967 on your top 100 than from the 30s and 40s combined. Apparently I don't have any films from 1967 on my list.

No Playtime on your list? For shame sir, for shame.

[Derek]

Damn strong year.

1. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
2. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
3. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
4. Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel)
5. The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
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6. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
7. The Red and the White (Miklós Janscó)
8. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
10. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)

HM's (lots to love): Love Affair or Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev), Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage), El Dorado (Howard Hawks), The Shooting (Monte Hellman), Point Blank (John Boorman), Peppermint Frappe (Carlos Saura), The Crush (Ermanno Olmi), La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)

[Qrazy]

Want to see The Crush I've liked/loved all three Olmi's I've seen.

[soitgoes...]

1. The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
2. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
3. Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
4. One-Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh)
5. In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison)

[Derek]

Want to see The Crush I've liked/loved all three Olmi's I've seen.

It's on the DVD of Il Posto and oddly enough, I liked it more than the feature.

[Qrazy]

It's on the DVD of Il Posto and oddly enough, I liked it more than the feature.

That better me you really, really liked it... cause if it means you didn't like Il Posto... that's not OK.

[Weeping_Guitar]

1. Bonnie and Clyde
2. The Graduate
3. Le Samourai
4. The Fireman’s Ball
5. Don’t Look Back

[Boner M]

1. Playtime (Tati)
2. Mouchette (Bresson)
3. Wavelength (Snow)
4. Le Samourai (Melville)
5. Late August at the Hotel Ozone (Schmidt)

6. Point Blank (Boorman)
7. Weekend (Godard)
8. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Godard)
9. La Belle Cérébrale (Foldes)
10. Bedazzled (Donen)

Awesomesauce.

[Spinal]

The following television programs debuted in 1967:

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
The Prisoner (UK)
The Flying Nun
The Carol Burnett Show

* The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. At Sullivan's request, the band changes their lyrics from "Let's spend the night together" to "Let's spend some time together".

The top-rated program in the Nielsen ratings for 1967:

Bonanza

[Philosophe_rouge]

Very good year

1. Bonnie and Clyde (USA, Arthur Penn)
2. Demoiselles de Rochefort (France, Jacques Demy & Agnes Varda)
3. Two for the Road (UK, Stanley Donen)
4. In Cold Blood (USA, Richard Brooks)
5. The Graduate (USA, Mike Nichols)

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The Graduate
2. The Red and the White
3. Playtime
4. Point Blank
5. Oedipus Rex

6. Le Samourai
7. In Cold Blood
8. The Incident
9. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
10. Samurai Rebellion

[Stay Puft]

1. Samurai Rebellion
2. Le Samourai
3. Branded to Kill
4. One-Armed Swordsman

[Grouchy]

1. Belle de Jour
2. Le Samourai
3. The Firemen's Ball
4. The Dirty Dozen
5. Bonnie & Clyde

[Lazlo]

1. Wait Until Dark
2. In Cold Blood
3. Who’s That Knocking at My Door
4. Bonnie and Clyde
5. In the Heat of the Night

[Qrazy]

1. Belle de Jour
2. Le Samourai
3. The Firemen's Ball
4. The Dirty Dozen
5. Bonnie & Clyde

Bunuel really just rocks the house the more I see from the guy the more I admire him... gonna check out his American studio period next... anticipating it but with some trepidation.

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. Le Samourai
2. The Graduate
3. In Cold Blood
4. Titicut Follies
5. Don't Look Back

[koji]

1. Moucette (Bresson)
2. Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
3. Point Blank (John Boorman)
4. The Fireman’s Ball (Forman)
5. The Graduate (M. Nichols)-
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6. In Cold Blood (Brooks)
7. Playtime (Tati)
8. Bonnie & Clyde (A. Penn)-
9. Cool Hand Luke (S. Rosenberg)
10. Branded To Kill (Suzuki)

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Le Samourai
2. The One Armed Swordsman
3. Branded to Kill

[origami_mustache]

1. Playtime
2. Samurai Rebellion
3. Report
4. Bonnie and Clyde
5. Week End

[baby doll]

Best year for movies ever?

1. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
2. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
3. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
6. Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
7. The Red and the White (Miklos Jancso)
8. Belle de jour (Luis Bunuel)
9. Wavelength (Michael Snow)
10. Fuses (Carolee Scheenman)
bubblin' under...
11. The Perfect Human (Jorgen Leth)
12. Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki)
13. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
14. Good Morning... and Goodbye! (Russ Meyer)

[Pop Trash]

1. The Graduate
2. Bonnie and Clyde
3. Belle de Jour
4. In Cold Blood
5. Week End

[Ezee E]

1. Playtime
2. Cool Hand Luke
3. Le Samourai
4. Bonnie and Clyde
5. The Graduate

[SirNewt]

I've heard of quite a bit of resistance to Playtime because it focuses so little on Tati himself. Also, the themes of 'Playtime' were touched on, before in 'Mon Oncle'. Granted, I haven't seen 'Playtime' yet. I have read a lot about it but maybe I should just shut-up.

[Qrazy]

Maybe I should just shut-up.

.

[Spinal]

One more day.

[Spinal]

I'm going to be away for the weekend and I won't have time to tabulate this tomorrow. So I'm going to do it tonight. Hasn't been any action in a while, so I imagine that will be OK.

[Spinal]

#10

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Belle de jour

Director: Luis Buñuel

Country: France

A beautiful young woman loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage.

Named Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. "Belle de jour" is a day lily in French, a flower that blooms only by day, as Severine is available only during the afternoons.

"Today, Belle de Jour remains Buñuel's most recognized film, and while it's not without its flaws, it's a radical work that reimagines some of the director's earlier surrealist impulses and anticipates the work of David Lynch ..." -- Ed Gonzalez

[Spinal]

#9

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Cool Hand Luke

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Country: USA

A man who refuses to conform to the rules is sent to a prison camp for a misdemeanor and soon becomes an idol. The bosses try to break him but he just won't break. After his mother dies, he attempts to escape, hoping to attend the funeral.

Earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (George Kennedy). Also nominated for Best Actor (Paul Newman), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score. In the road-tarring sequence, the actors actually blacktopped a mile-long stretch of highway for the county.

"The movie hero used to be an inspiration, but recently he has become a substitute. We no longer want to be heroes ourselves, but we want to know that heroes are on the job in case we ever need one ... Used to be the anti-hero was a bad guy we secretly liked. Then, with Brando, we got a bad guy we didn't like. And now, in Cool Hand Luke, we get a good guy who becomes a bad guy because he doesn't like us. Luke is the first Newman character to understand himself well enough to tell us to shove off. He's through risking his neck to make us happy." -- Roger Ebert (1967)

[Derek]

Great start. Catherine Deneuve in the 60s may have been the most gorgeous woman to ever walk the earth.

[origami_mustache]

must see more Buñuel soon...loved both Viridianaand The Exterminating Angel.

[Spinal]

#8

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The Firemen's Ball

Director: Milos Forman

Country: Czechoslovakia

The fire department in a small town is having a big party when the ex-boss of the department celebrates his 86th birthday. The whole town is invited but things don't go as planned. Someone is stealing the prizes to the lottery and the candidates for the Miss Fire-Department beauty contest are neither willing nor particularly beautiful.

Earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. Banned in 1968 by the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Carlo Ponti, the film's Italian producer, also took umbrage at the film and pulled his financing, leaving Forman to face a possible 10 years imprisonment for "economic damage to the state". Producers in Paris picked up the rights and spared him of the charges.

"The Firemen's Ball hasn't dated as entertainment; Forman doesn't push his political points, being content to let them make themselves, unfolding gracefully from the human drama. The movie is just plain funny. And, as a parable, it is timeless, with relevance at many times in many lands." -- Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#7

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Week End

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Country: Italy/France

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a neverending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.

It is the first Godard film to explicitly refer to Karl Marx. Godard also refers to Jesus as a Communist. In 1968, Godard would embrace that same label himself.

"Overflowing with, famously, not 'blood' but 'red', it's a high-spirited, irreverent gob in the eye, but Weekend is also one of JLG's most energetic statements of cinematic élan, venturing a dialogue among filmmaker, movie, and the viewing world whose depth and seriousness have no real rival." -- Michael Atkinson

[Spinal]

#6

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Mouchette

Director: Robert Bresson

Country: France

Mouchette is a young teenager living in the tough country. Her mother is going to die, and her father does not take care of her. One night, in the wood, she meets a poacher who thinks he has just committed a horrible crime. He tries to use Mouchette to build an alibi.

Won the OCIC Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Won Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. The trailer for the film was by Jean-Luc Godard and is virtually a miniature essay on (or subversion of) the film, jarringly intercutting excerpts from it with a written commentary that calls it "Christian and sadistic."

"[Mouchette] shows Bresson's astonishing mastery once again, notably his attention to seemingly mundane details and use of sound. The film carefully deals with issues of sex and death on many levels, and at the center of it all is lovely little [Nadine] Nortier, an untrained actress who never made another film, wearing her odd pigtails and giving a heartbreakingly wounded performance." -- Jeffrey M. Anderson

[Spinal]

#5

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Point Blank

Director: John Boorman

Country: USA

Walker sets out to find the partner who double-crossed him during a heist and made off with his wife. However, his partner is now a member of a corporate crime syndicate called The Organization. Initially, they underestimate Walker's tenacity and his desire for revenge.

It was the first major film role for John Vernon. It was the first film ever to shoot at Alcatraz, which had been shut down since 1963, only three years before the production. In her 1967 New Yorker review of Bonnie and Clyde, Pauline Kael disparaged Boorman's movie with one sentence: "A brutal new melodrama is called Point Blank, and it is."

"Long before Mel Gibson turned the character into an endearing, wise-cracking anti-hero in the pathetic remake Payback, Marvin's Walker was the cinema's ultimate unsentimental killing machine—chillingly determined, unfettered by pesky human emotions like love, sympathy, or remorse, and unwilling to halt the bloodshed until he had fulfilled his quest." -- Nick Schager

[Spinal]

#4

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The Graduate

Director: Mike Nichols

Country: USA

A confused 21-year old is worried about his future and does not want to follow the commercial path of his affluent family and their friends. His life becomes complicated when he is embroiled in an affair with Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner. It becomes impossible when he falls in love with Mrs. Robinson's daughter.

Won an Academy Award for Best Director. Also earned nominations for Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman), Best Actress (Anne Bancroft), Best Supporting Actress (Katherine Ross), Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. Although Mrs. Robinson is supposed to be much older than Benjamin, Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman are just under six years apart in age.

"In his breakthrough role, Hoffman captures the way youthful alienation can make one emotion crash into another as excitement becomes depression becomes rage. It's a timeless performance, outdone only by Bancroft, who transforms what could be a wicked-stepmother role by finding untold depths of disappointment." -- Keith Phipps

[Spinal]

#3

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Bonnie and Clyde

Director: Arthur Penn

Country: USA

A bored small-town girl and a small-time bank robber leave in their wake a string of violent robberies and newspaper headlines that catch the imagination of the Depression-struck Midwest in this take on the legendary crime spree of archetypal lovers on the run.

Won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actress (Estelle Parsons). Nominated for eight other Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress. In a 1968 interview, Warren Beatty mentioned that his last conversation with ex-girlfriend Natalie Wood took place in the summer of 1966 when he tried unsuccessfully to get her to play Bonnie Parker in this film. Later that evening, she attempted to take her own life.

"Forty years ago, charming, likeable, fun criminals were a licentious shocker; today, they're old hat, but Bonnie And Clyde still maintains its amiable charisma. Bonnie And Clyde was ... criticized as too violent, too campy, and above all, too affectionate toward its reprehensible protagonists ... It was simultaneously praised as stylish and modern, leading the American charge toward the French New Wave with its swerves between existential angst and comedy, and its pugnacious, fast-cut editing." -- Tasha Robinson

[Spinal]

#2

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Le Samouraï

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Country: France

Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner.

When director Jean-Pierre Melville brought a copy of the script to Alain Delon, Delon asked him what the title was. Told the title was Le Samouraï, Delon had Melville follow him to his bedroom, where there was only a leather couch and a samurai blade hanging on the wall. The caged bird shown as Costello's pet was the only casualty of the fire that destroyed Melville's studio in 1967.

"Le Samouraï has, in effect, been remade a thousand times—every impassive, hollowed-out, urban-man-of-violence movie made in the last 30 years owes it a drink. Swallowed by an anachronistic trench coat and fedora, which nevertheless blends into Melville's un-'60s-ish timelessness, Delon became here that rare thing: a movie totem, not an actor or character but a temple-god in our communal consciousness." -- Michael Atkinson

[Spinal]

#1

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Play Time

Director: Jacques Tati

Country: France

Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos.

Filming began in April 1965 primarily on a set dubbed "Tativille", where 100 construction workers built two buildings using 11,700 square feet of glass, 38,700 square feet of plastic, 31,500 square feet of timber, and 486,000 square feet of concrete. To cut production cost, cardboard cut-outs were used as extras in the background. To give them life some human extras would interact with the cut-outs.

"With Playtime's monumental decor and complex choreographed gags taking place simultaneously in a constantly mutating space, Tati explored the possibilities of 70mm as they had never been utilized before. It's a film that will reward more than one viewing—and from different seats in the theater." -- Elliott Stein

[Spinal]

1. Play Time (64.5)
2. Le Samourai (58)
3. Bonnie and Clyde (51.5)
4. The Graduate (49)
5. Point Blank (28)
6. Mouchette (27.5)
7. Week End (25.5)
8. The Firemen's Ball (22.5)
9. Cool Hand Luke (20.5)
10. Belle de jour (17)

Near misses:
Samurai Rebellion (16.5)
In Cold Blood (16)
Branded to Kill (15)
Titicut Follies (13.5)
Wavelength (12.5)

[MadMan]

"Long before Mel Gibson turned the character into an endearing, wise-cracking anti-hero in the pathetic remake Payback, Marvin's Walker was the cinema's ultimate unsentimental killing machine—chillingly determined, unfettered by pesky human emotions like love, sympathy, or remorse, and unwilling to halt the bloodshed until he had fulfilled his quest." -- Nick SchagerDoes this guy realize that Walker doesn't kill anyone in the movie? Seriously. Otherwise that blurb is spot on, although I strongly disagree that Payback is pathetic. I like that film as much as the original, even though Point Blank is far superior.