MC Yearly Consensus - 1986

[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]

Fell a bit behind with this. Gonna try to catch up.

[Spinal]

1. Blue Velvet
2. Betty Blue
3. Hoosiers
4. Sid and Nancy
5. The Mission

[ledfloyd]

1. Blue Velvet
2. Hannah and Her Sisters
3. Platoon
4. The Great Mouse Detective
5. Down by Law

[Watashi]

1. Hannah and Her Sisters
2. Manhunter
3. Aliens
4. Mona Lisa
5. Laputa: Castle in the Sky

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Hannah and her Sisters
2. Blue Velvet
3. THe Name of the Rose
4. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
5. Stand by Me

[Ezee E]

1. Aliens
2. The Fly
3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
4. Blue Velvet
5. Salvador

[Russ]

1. Blue Velvet
2. River's Edge
3. Aliens
4. Little Shop of Horrors
5. Parting Glances

[Sycophant]

1. Hannah and Her Sisters
2. The Fly
3. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
4. Blue Velvet
5. The Great Mouse Detective

[Ezee E]

Oh, snap. The Fly.

EDITED.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Jean de Florette
2. Manon des sources
3. Street of Crocodiles
4. An American Tail
5. Platoon

[Sycophant]

Oh, snap. Laputa.

EDITED.

[Mysterious Dude]

But wait! I forgot about animated shorts!

I strongly recommend Street of Crocodiles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWtaGI9zuIY). (part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNwCFIejNpo))

[soitgoes...]

1. Aliens (James Cameron)
2. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
3. Manon des Sources (Claude Berri)
4. Jean de Florette (Claude Berri)
5. The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer)
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6. Platoon (Oliver Stone)
7. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
8. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
9. Street of Crocodiles (Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay)
10. Stand by Me (Rob Reiner)

[Melville]

1. Blue Velvet
2. Hannah and Her Sisters
3. Street of Crocodiles
4. The Sacrifice
5. Aliens

[Qrazy]

1. The Sacrifice
2. Street of Crocodiles
3. Castle in the Sky
4. Aliens
5. Kin Dza Dza

6. Hannah and Her Sisters
7. Blue Velvet
8. Down by Law
9. Ginger and Fred
10. Labyrinth

HMs: The Fly, Platoon, Stand by Me, The Mission

[Yxklyx]

1. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
2. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
3. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
4. Platoon (Oliver Stone)
5. Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)

6. Mauvais sang (Leos Carax)
7. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
8. Jean de Florette (Claude Berri)
9. Aliens (James Cameron)
10. Street of Crocodiles (Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay)

[Grouchy]

1. Blue Velvet
2. Platoon
3. The Fly
4. Hanna and her Sisters
5. The Hitcher

6. Labyrinth
7. Aliens
8. Highlander
9. A Better Tomorrow
10. Big Trouble in Little China

[Derek]

1. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
2. Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)
3. Platoon (Oliver Stone)
4. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
5. Aliens (James Cameron)
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6. Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
7. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
8. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
9. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
11. Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)

Although I saw the last 5 minutes of Stand By Me a year or so ago and holy shit was it bad. I'll have to rewatch the rest to see if it holds up at all.

[Boner M]

1. Down By Law
2. The Green Ray
3. Sherman's March
4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5. Mona Lisa

HM: Aliens, Blue Velvet, Something Wild

[origami_mustache]

1. The Sacrifice
2. Down by Law
3. Blue Velvet
4. Hannah and Her Sisters
5. Stand By Me

[balmakboor]

1. Sherman's March
2. The Fly
3. Blue Velvet
4. Down by Law
5. River's Edge

[Pop Trash]

1. Blue Velvet
2. Platoon
3. Stand By Me
4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
5. Aliens

6. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
7. The Fly
8. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
9. River's Edge
10.Pretty in Pink

[Qrazy]

Angels in America - A+

I thought you'd like it.

[balmakboor]

I thought you'd like it.

I was thoroughly taken for the entire six hours. I can't believe I waited so long to see it.

[baby doll]

1. Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
2. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3. Soft and Hard (Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville)
4. Caravaggio (Derek Jarman)
5. Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)

Not to be a Rosenbaum or anything, but I figured Blue Velvet didn't need my vote.

[Stay Puft]

1. Peking Opera Blues
2. Down By Law
3. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
4. The Fly
5. Great Mouse Detective

[Yum-Yum]

1. Blue Velvet
2. The Fly
3. Night of the Creeps
4. My Chauffeur
5. River's Edge

[Raiders]

1. Something Wild
2. The Green Ray
3. Street of Crocodiles
4. Mona Lisa
5. Sherman's March

[Lazlo]

1. Sherman’s March
2. Aliens
3. Blue Velvet
4. Platoon
5. Hannah and Her Sisters

Not seeing enough Sherman's March.

[Melville]

Edited to make room for Street of Crocodiles.

[MadMan]

There's no way I'm missing the year of my birth. Although I still have much to see from this year.

1. Big Trouble In Little China
2. Ferris Buller's Day Off
3. Aliens
4. The Mission
5. The Great Mouse Detective

[monolith94]

1. Labyrinth
2. Blue Velvet
3. Little Shop of Horrors
4. Jean de Florette
5. A Better Tomorrow

6. Tough Guys
7. Platoon
8. Aliens
9. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
10. Flight of the Navigator

HM: The Adventures of Milo and Otis

[dreamdead]

1. Mona Lisa
2. Hannah and Her Sisters
3. The Green Ray
4. Salvador
5. Sherman's March

HM: The Fly, Blue Velvet

I've been meaning to get to Down by Law for so long...

[Qrazy]

1. Mona Lisa
2. Hannah and Her Sisters
3. The Green Ray
4. Salvador
5. Sherman's March

HM: The Fly, Blue Velvet

I've been meaning to get to Down by Law for so long...

What did you love so much about Mona Lisa? It's passable but meh.

[dreamdead]

What did you love so much about Mona Lisa? It's passable but meh.

Largely the way in which it works within genre conventions, but also how it slowly subverts and complicates those issues, even as it still retains a level of ambiguity. Stuff like the rabbit Hoskins delivers to his old boss, which is thankfully never explained, adds nice layers, as does the entire relationship Hoskins has with Robbie Coltrane. Add to that the, to my mind, thoroughly cinematic engagement Jordan has with the material (I'm thinking of the opening as Hoskins walks back into town, as well as the montage with the [admittedly mediocre] Genesis song), and the complexities of the ending, where Hoskins receives little material reward for his troubles and I come away with a neo-noir that extends the tradition in exciting news ways.

Oh, and I'm a whore for Hoskins.

[Sven]

Oh, and I'm a whore for Hoskins.

Have I ever mentioned that he's my favorite living actor?

Have I ever mentioned that my second favorite living actor is Michael Caine?

Have I ever mentioned the extent of my love for Mona Lisa?

I have an article where someone argues its racism and sexism quite convincingly.

[Raiders]

Largely the way in which it works within genre conventions, but also how it slowly subverts and complicates those issues, even as it still retains a level of ambiguity. Stuff like the rabbit Hoskins delivers to his old boss, which is thankfully never explained, adds nice layers, as does the entire relationship Hoskins has with Robbie Coltrane. Add to that the, to my mind, thoroughly cinematic engagement Jordan has with the material (I'm thinking of the opening as Hoskins walks back into town, as well as the montage with the [admittedly mediocre] Genesis song), and the complexities of the ending, where Hoskins receives little material reward for his troubles and I come away with a neo-noir that extends the tradition in exciting news ways.

Oh, and I'm a whore for Hoskins.

Indeed. Marvelous film.

[Qrazy]

I have an article where someone argues its racism and sexism quite convincingly.

Is this supposed to be a thinly veiled barb or are you serious?

[Sven]

Is this supposed to be a thinly veiled barb or are you serious?

No, I'm serious. I love the film, but I have been shown how it is susceptible to such criticisms.

[Qrazy]

No, I'm serious. I love the film, but I have been shown how it is susceptible to such criticisms.

Ah yeah I can see the criticisms personally I'm lukewarm because I just don't find Jordan all that formally meritorious.

[Sven]

Ah yeah I can see the criticisms personally I'm lukewarm because I just don't find Jordan all that formally meritorious.

That's the strangest thing to me, because if anything, its his craft to me that makes his film work. Formally, I think he's dynamite. Unique and vibrant. Did you see Breakfast on Pluto? Damn! The color, the music, the movement...

[Qrazy]

That's the strangest thing to me, because if anything, its his craft to me that makes his film work. Formally, I think he's dynamite. Unique and vibrant. Did you see Breakfast on Pluto? Damn! The color, the music, the movement...

No I've only seen this and The Good Thief.

Nice av. I find that film is often undervalued given Kurosawa's great overall output... but I like it a great deal.

[Sven]

No I've only seen this and The Good Thief.

I love that one! But any way, I'd recommend checking more out. I actually think you'd quite like him.


Nice av.

Gracias. It's one of my first from way back when.

[Sven]

I find that film is often undervalued given Kurosawa's great overall output... but I like it a great deal.

Hooray! Yeah, I can't help but side with the idea that it's probably one of his most expendable ventures... there's just not that much important happening. However, craft-wise, it's very impressive.

[Qrazy]

I wish Hoskins had been in a Cassavetes film. I could see that working well.

[Raiders]

No I've only seen this and The Good Thief.

But that one is quite formally meritorious. For his most formally awesome works, I would go with The Company of Wolves and, believe it or not, In Dreams. Shit story, beautiful film.

[Sven]

Shit story, beautiful film.

The story is fine for a thriller. I don't get that criticism.

[Raiders]

The story is fine for a thriller. I don't get that criticism.

I found the conclusion wholly unsatisfying and the narrative logic ridiculous at best. It works best as a nonsensical, bizarre "dream" that allows Jordan to create visceral, unsettling imagery. In that respect, and in Bening's performance, the film is very effective.

[Grouchy]

Jordan is the walking shiznit. Amazing director.

I love The Company of Wolves, The Crying Game (I didn't know the twist), The Good Thief and Breakfast on Pluto. And, despite the fact that I want to gore Anne Rice with a spoon, I gotta admit Interview with the Vampire has a lot of charms.

I dunno what "formally meritorious" means, though.

[Qrazy]

Jordan is the walking shiznit. Amazing director.

I love The Company of Wolves, The Crying Game (I didn't know the twist), The Good Thief and Breakfast on Pluto. And, despite the fact that I want to gore Anne Rice with a spoon, I gotta admit Interview with the Vampire has a lot of charms.

I dunno what "formally meritorious" means, though.

Just compelling really, I don't find his images lasting.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Blue Velvet
2. Bad Blood (Carax)
3. The Fly
4. Sherman's March
5. The Mission
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6. Shadows in Paradise (Kaurismaki)
7. God's Country (Malle)
8. Mona Lisa
9. Sid and Nancy

h/s The Sacrifice

[SirNewt]

3. THe Name of the Rose


What a fantastic book. Is the film really that good?

[Grouchy]

What a fantastic book. Is the film really that good?
It's a good translation of the whodunit plot of the book. But it has no way to reach its more literary depths.

Sean Connery is very cool in it, though. It's a good movie.

[SirNewt]

It's a good translation of the whodunit plot of the book. But it has no way to reach its more literary depths.

Sean Connery is very cool in it, though. It's a good movie.

That's what I feared. Still, I'll stick this in the queue

[transmogrifier]

Qrazy and iosos being complimentary to each other while still disagreeing? Has the world gone mad?

[origami_mustache]

Did you see Breakfast on Pluto? Damn! The color, the music, the movement...

I didn't like Breakfast On Pluto much, but the elements you mentioned are at least a nice consolation prize.

[koji]

1. Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen)
2. Manon des Sources (Claude Berri)
3. Jean de Florette (Claude Berri)
4. The Name of the Rose (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
5. Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
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6. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
7. The Fly (Cronenberg)
8. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
9. Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)
10. She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee)

[Qrazy]

Qrazy and iosos being complimentary to each other while still disagreeing? Has the world gone mad?

We do it often just depends on which threads you're perusing at any given time.

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. Mona Lisa
2. Blue Velvet
3. Hoosiers
4. Stand by Me
5. Big Trouble in Little China

6. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
7. Labyrinth
8. Fist of the North Star

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Blue Velvet
2. Labyrinth
3. The Great Mouse Detective
4. The Fly
5. Castle in the Sky

[berlin wallflower]

1. The Sacrifice
2. Hannah and Her Sisters
3. Laputa: Castle In the Sky
4. Down by Law
5. Blue Velvet

[Spinal]

Let's wrap this one up tomorrow.

[Spinal]

I'm guessing Llopin is not going to tabulate this one. Is there someone who would like to do it? All I ask is that you model your presentation of the results following the format that has been established. If not, I will get to it when I am able.

[soitgoes...]

#10

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Mona Lisa

Director: Neil Jordan

Country: UK

George, after getting out of prison, begins looking for a job, but his time in prison has reduced his stature in the criminal underworld. The only job he can find is to be a driver for Simone, a beautiful high-priced call girl, with whom he forms an at first grudging, and then real affection. Only Simone's playing a dangerous game, and when George agrees to help her, they both end up in a huge amount of trouble with Mortwell, the local kingpin.

Bob Hoskins was unaware that Michael Caine was in the film until he arrived on set for the first day of shooting. Caine himself had created the ruse while they worked together on Sweet Liberty (1986). He told Hoskins that he had been offered the part but it was too small and he was tired playing villains, even though he had already agreed to take the role.

"In an era when movies about love almost always invariably devolve into formulaic affairs, Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa stands out as an often-surprising, multi-layered achievement. By offering a rumination on a wide variety of love - real, imagined, romantic, sexual, and platonic - Mona Lisa defies easy categorization and offers a complex and superior one-hundred minutes for all who view it." - James Berardinelli

[soitgoes...]

#9

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Sherman's March

Director: Ross McElwee

Country: USA

Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march of destruction through the South during the Civil War, but is continually sidetracked by women who come and go in his life, his recurring dreams of nuclear holocaust, and Burt Reynolds.

McElwee initially planned to make a film about the effects of General William Tecumseh Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas (commonly called the "March to the Sea") during the American Civil War. A traumatic breakup McElwee experienced prior to filming made it difficult for him to separate personal from professional concerns, shifting the focus of the film to create a more personal story about the women in his life, love, romance, and religion.

"McElwee is the Mark Twain of documentary filmmaking, a purveyor of American dreams whose wit is surpassed only by his uncanny knack for observation. It makes sense that a friend calls him self-effacing. Considering just how often events in the present serve as points or counterpoints to the past, or how many times the film doubles back on itself or inadvertently harks back to Sherman, not once does it ever feel cloying." - Ed Gonzalez

[soitgoes...]

#7 (tie)

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Castle in the Sky

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Country: Japan

This film is set in a Victorian era that might have been, influenced by the visions of writers such as Jules Verne. As Pazu, the apprentice of the engineer who maintains a mine's elevator machinery, carries his boss's dinner back to the mine, an unconscious pigtailed girl floats down from the sky into his arms. This girl, Sheeta, and her magical levitation-stone pendant hold the key to a mysterious, mythical sky-castle known as Laputa. Sheeta and Pazu must flee from both air-pirates, who seek the sky kingdom for its legendary treasure, and the army, led by a government agent with his own mysterious agenda for Laputa.

Hayao Miyazaki had said in interviews that he was ignorant that the word "Laputa" means "the whore" in Spanish. If he was aware of the word's meaning, he would had not used it in the first place.

"Miyazaki's world, so full of color and life, is always just across the borderline of imagination, its acute details softened by clouds and shadows, its principles revealed by actions more than words." - Richard Harrington

[Grouchy]

Hayao Miyazaki had said in interviews that he was ignorant that the word "Laputa" means "the whore" in Spanish. If he was aware of the word's meaning, he would had not used it in the first place.
But... the movie doesn't have anything to do with Gulliver's Travels, then? There's a country called Laputa in the book too, so I always assumed it had to do with that.

[soitgoes...]

#7 (tie)

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The Sacrifice

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Country: Sweden

Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happened at all.

The film reflects Tarkovsky's respect for the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. It is set in Sweden on the island of Gotland, where many of Bergman's films had been shot, and features Bergman's favourite cameraman Sven Nykvist as well as one of Bergman's most well known actors, Erland Josephson, and the scenographer Anna Asp, who had been responsible for the sumptuous interior décor of Fanny and Alexander.

'The movie is not easy to watch, and it is long to sit through. Yet a certain joy shines through the difficulty. Tarkovsky has obviously cut loose from any thought of entertaining the audience and has determined, in his last testament, to say exactly what he wants, in exactly the style he wants.' - Roger Ebert

[soitgoes...]

But... the movie doesn't have anything to do with Gulliver's Travels, then? There's a country called Laputa in the book too, so I always assumed it had to do with that.
It does. Coincidently it means the whore in Spanish. I'm sure this wasn't as much an issue when Swift wrote "Gulliver's Travels."

[Grouchy]

It does. Coincidently it means the whore in Spanish. I'm sure this wasn't as much an issue when Swift wrote "Gulliver's Travels."
Heh. Well it was for me when I read it. The book is hilarious on itself, but that only made those parts funnier.

[Spinal]

How nice to find this in process. Thanks a bunch.

[soitgoes...]

#6

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Platoon

Director: Oliver Stone

Country: UK/USA

A gritty and emotional look at the lives of a platoon of American soldiers as they patrol, fight and die in the jungles of Vietnam as seen through the perspective of a young recruit. Two veteran sergeants clash when one of them precipitates a massacre of villagers.

Originally Charlie Sheen was turned down for the main role of Chris because it was felt he was too young for the part. His older brother Emilio Estevez was offered the part but the project fell apart due to financial problems. Two years later the project was given the go ahead but Estevez had already committed to other projects, Sheen again read for the part and won it.

"I know that Platoon is being acclaimed for its realism, and I expect to be chastened for being a woman finding fault with a war film. But I've probably seen as much combat as most of the men saying, 'This is how war is.'" - Pauline Kael

[Spinal]

I didn't realize Dirk Nowitzki was in Platoon.

[soitgoes...]

How nice to find this in process. Thanks a bunch.
Anytime you need me, just shine my signal in the sky and I'll be there. Or just ask on these boards, whichever is easiest.

[soitgoes...]

#5

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Down by Law

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Country: USA/W. Germany

DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn't commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the English language is both entertaining and infuriating -but rather more useful to them is the fact that Roberto knows an escape route.

Only Jim Jarmusch film made with "American money" as Jarmusch himself calls it. He says that he prefers not to have his films funded by Americans because there are too many "strings attached".

"On the surface, it's grim and relentless, but there's a thread of humor running through everything, and that takes the curse off. We are never quite sure that Jarmusch intends us to take anything seriously, and there are times when the actors seem to be smiling to themselves as they growl through their lines." - Roger Ebert

[soitgoes...]

#4

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The Fly

Director: David Cronenberg

Country: UK/Canada/USA

Seth Brundle is a scientist working on teleportation. Just when he thinks he's ironed out the last bug in his system, the intervention of a common house fly turns Seth into a 6 foot insect. The transformation from man to fly is gradual but horrific, and is witnessed by Veronica; a reporter documenting Seth's story. Seth has some time to try to find a cure, but is there enough time...?

The line, "I'm saying I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it, but now that dream is over and the insect is awake," is a reference to author Franz Kafka's 1912 story, "Metamorphisis, in which a man wakes from a nightmare to find himself transformed into a giant insect.

"David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of the sci-fi schlockfest The Fly is celebrated as perhaps the most perfectly balanced of the director's pre-prestige films, with as much attention paid to the director's infamous knack for exploiting the audience's own hang-ups about the deficiencies and unpredictability of their own bodies as is toward his almost completely humorlessness take on the splatter genre." - Eric Henderson

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#3

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Aliens

Director: James Cameron

Country: USA/UK

57 years after her ordeal with an extraterrestrial creature, Ellen Ripley is rescued by a deep salvage team during her hypersleep. When she discovers that transmissions from a colony that has since settled on the alien planet suddenly stop, Ripley is offered a chance to team up with a group of marines to descend on the planet and investigate the alien presence. Determined to end the memories of the alien creature, Ripley agrees to the offer and is once again thrown back into her living nightmare.

Sigourney Weaver had initially been very hesitant to reprise her role as Ripley, and had rejected numerous offers from Fox Studios to do any sequels, fearing that her character would be poorly written, and a sub-par sequel could hurt the legacy of the original film. However, she was so impressed by the high quality of James Cameron's script - specifically, the strong focus on Ripley, the mother-daughter bond between her character and Newt, and the incredible precision with which Cameron wrote her character, that she finally agreed to do the film.

"Aliens never strives to be as accomplished as the original, but it’s wit and turbo-charged battles make it a wild and electric ride, one with the best replay value of the franchise." - Gabe Leibowitz

[Spinal]

I didn't vote for any of these.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Mona Lisa is the only film I've voted for that made the top ten thus far.

[soitgoes...]

#2

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Hannah and Her Sisters

Director: Woody Allen

Country: USA

Woody Allen combined the best parts of his earlier films in creating Hannah and Her Sisters, his 1986 masterwork about the changing relationships among three sisters living in New York City.

Many of Hannah's scenes were filmed in Mia Farrow's actual apartment. Allen said that Farrow once had the eerie experience of turning on the TV to a chance broadcast of the movie thus viewing her own apartment on TV while she was sitting in it.

"Unusually for Allen there is a profoundly old-fashioned, almost moral message behind the film and the themes of love, fidelity, hope, and the fragility of happiness underpin the drama." - Matt Ford

[Spinal]

No Hoosiers? Disgraceful.

[soitgoes...]

#1

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Blue Velvet

Director: David Lynch

Country: USA

Returning home to visit his father who is in intensive care at the hospital, Jeffrey Beaumont stumbles upon a human ear he finds in a field. With local police detective Williams and the local police department unable to investigate, Jeffrey and Sandy, Detective Williams's daughter decide to do their own investigation. But what Jeffrey and Sandy's investigation leads them to discover that a dark underworld exists in their hometown. Jeffrey becomes suspicious of nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens, who is involved with Frank Booth, a violent and evil man.

Several of the actors who were considered for the role of Frank found the character too repulsive and intense. Dennis Hopper, by contrast, is reported to have exclaimed, "I've got to play Frank. Because I am Frank!" Isabella Rossellini actually was naked under her velvet robe, when she did the "ritualistic rape scene". A fact that her partner Dennis Hopper was not aware of, until the cameras started rolling and his co-actor opened her legs for him to kneel between. This scene was the very first time, the two of them ever worked together.

"Rossellini is asked to do things in this film that require real nerve. In one scene, she's publicly embarrassed by being dumped naked on the lawn of the police detective. In others, she is asked to portray emotions that I imagine most actresses would rather not touch. She is degraded, slapped around, humiliated and undressed in front of the camera. And when you ask an actress to endure those experiences, you should keep your side of the bargain by putting her in an important film." - Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

"Rossellini is asked to do things in this film that require real nerve. In one scene, she's publicly embarrassed by being dumped naked on the lawn of the police detective. In others, she is asked to portray emotions that I imagine most actresses would rather not touch. She is degraded, slapped around, humiliated and undressed in front of the camera. And when you ask an actress to endure those experiences, you should keep your side of the bargain by putting her in an important film." - Roger Ebert

This is true. Good thing Lynch did.

[Qrazy]

This is true. Good thing Lynch did.

Then again the man does like warm panties in his mouth... but who doesn't really.

[soitgoes...]

1. Blue Velvet - 86
2. Hannah and Her Sisters - 46.5
3. Aliens - 35
4. The Fly - 32.5
5. Down by Law - 32
6. Platoon - 23.5
T7. Castle in the Sky - 22
T7. The Sacrifice - 22
9. Sherman's March - 21.5
10. Mona Lisa - 21

Close: Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 16.5, Jean de Florette and Street of Crocodiles each with 14.5

Not close: Hoosiers - 7 (Good for 23rd place)

[Sycophant]

I approve of the films I've seen on this list so much, that I'll have to check out the others!

Glad to see Hannah & Her Sisters make the top 2. Kudos, Match Cut.

[ledfloyd]

nice top two. mouse detective is missing.

[Spinal]

Then again the man does like warm panties in his mouth...

Boy, does he ever.

[Spinal]

OK, tabulating team. Let's regroup. Who is still in? I am adding soitgoes to the rotation. I think KF is still in. Eleven, Llopin? Yea or nay.

[soitgoes...]

OK, tabulating team. Let's regroup.
I am so envisioning Captain Planet and the Planeteers right now. :lol:

[Grouchy]

OK, tabulating team. Let's regroup. Who is still in? I am adding soitgoes to the rotation. I think KF is still in. Eleven, Llopin? Yea or nay.
I can do 1976, just PM me when you think enough is enough. But I dunno if I'm gonna stick around for all the others. I can't guarantee it.

Then again, for some reason I'd tabulated 1956 on my own and I saw a tie at #1 that didn't show up on the final list.

[Russ]

Then again, for some reason I'd tabulated 1956 on my own and I saw a tie at #1 that didn't show up on the final list.
Have we done '56?

[Grouchy]

Have we done '56?
Huh, 1957, I mean. I saw a tie between Black Narcissus and Out of the Past.

[Spinal]

I can do 1976, just PM me when you think enough is enough. But I dunno if I'm gonna stick around for all the others. I can't guarantee it.

KF has got that one, but I will keep you posted if I need assistance in the future.

[Grouchy]

KF has got that one, but I will keep you posted if I need assistance in the future.
Ok.

[Kurosawa Fan]

OK, tabulating team. Let's regroup. Who is still in? I am adding soitgoes to the rotation. I think KF is still in. Eleven, Llopin? Yea or nay.

I'm definitely in. And Hoosiers finishing in 23rd place is very disheartening. Is it that people just haven't seen it? Because I refuse to believe that so many people don't think it's good enough.

[Llopin]

My most sincere apologies for not posting the results last time. I've been having a hard time, undergone an operation and being fucked up by studies stuff. However, I can work on this full-time starting next week.

[Ezee E]

Didn't like Hoosiers.

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