MC Yearly Consensus - 1965

[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 voting is closed, 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 War Game
2. Simon of the Desert
3. The Shop on Main Street
4. The Loves of a Blonde
5. Repulsion

[Raiders]

1. Repulsion (Polanski)
2. The War Game (Watkins)
3. The Shop on Main Street (Kadar & Klos)
4. Faster, Pussycat... Kill! Kill! (Meyer)
5. Chimes at Midnight (Welles)

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6. Simon of the Desert (Bunuel)
7. A Thousand Clowns (Coe)
8. Alphaville (Godard)
9. The Sargossa Manuscript (Has)

I wish I could have been able to support the severely underseen A Thousand Clowns, but too much quality up top.

[Russ]

1. Mickey One
2. The Loved One
3. Simon of the Desert
4. The Saragossa Manuscript
5. The Flight of the Phoenix

[Derek]

1. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. The Shop on Main Street (Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos)
3. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
5. A Thousand Clowns (Fred Coe)
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6. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
7. Dr. Zhivago (David Lean)
8. Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellochio)
9. Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger)
10. A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez)

HMs: For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
The War Game (Peter Watkins)
Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda)

[monolith94]

1. The Collector
2. The Sargossa Manuscript
3. Dr. Zhivago
4. Help!
5. Juliet of the Spirits

[soitgoes...]

4. The Round-Up (Miklós Janscó)
1966

[soitgoes...]

1. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
3. Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
4. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
5. Sword of the Beast (Hideo Gosha)
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6. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
7. Mahapurush (Satyajit Ray)
8. The War Game (Peter Watkins)

[MacGuffin]

1. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)
2. Alphaville: A Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)

[Qrazy]

1. Chimes at Midnight
2. Juliet of the Spirits
3. Red Beard
4. Repulsion
5. Samurai Spy

6. Loves of a Blonde
7. For a Few Dollars More
8. Alphaville
9. The War Game
10. Simon of the Desert

HMs: Help!, Thunderball, The Great Race, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Fists in the Pocket

[Derek]

1966

IMdB is shit!

[soitgoes...]

IMdB is shit!
It sucks I know. You just gotta keep telling yourself that it's usually more helpful than not.

[ledfloyd]

1. For a Few Dollars More
2. Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill
3. Thunderball

[Derek]

I wish I could have been able to support the severely underseen A Thousand Clowns, but too much quality up top.

Yes, great film and possibly Robards best performance.

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Repulsion
2. For a Few Dollars More
3. Bunny Lake is Missing
4. Pierrot le fou
5. The Collector

[Ezee E]

1. For a Few Dollars MOre
2. A Charlie Brown Christmas
3. Help!
4. Thunderball

I've seen a few others but would rather not vote for them.

I should get to Repulsion though.

[Russ]

1. Mickey One

ala Raiders, for your consideration. Not on video, so if you're interested and can't locate a copy online, pm me and I'll hook you up.

[Weeping_Guitar]

1. Help!
2. A Charlie Brown Christmas
3. Loves of a Blonde
4. Pierrot Le Fou
5. Alphaville

[Boner M]

So much I haven't seen from this year... will be watching Fists in the Pocket tonight.

1. Repulsion
2. Oh Dem Watermelons
3. Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
4. Film
5. Pierrot Le Fou

[Spinal]

I can't believe that Faster Pussycat is going to place higher than The War Game. Sometimes I don't understand you people.

[Boner M]

I can't believe that Faster Pussycat is going to place higher than The War Game. Sometimes I don't understand you people.
This is a really weak year for me; if I'd seen Watkins' film I'd most likely rank it higher than Meyer's.

[Spinal]

This is a really weak year for me; if I'd seen Watkins' film I'd most likely rank it higher than Meyer's.

Searched online for it, but could only find it with French subtitles.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The War Game
2. Samurai Spy
3. Red Beard
4. A Thousand Clowns
5. Story of a Prostitute

6. The Nanny
7. The Loves of a Blonde
8. The Shop on Main Street
9. A Patch of Blue
10. Chimes at Midnight

Ridiculously good year.

[dreamdead]

1. The War Game
2. Alphaville
3. Dr. Zhivago

So many films I need to see from this year that it's not even funny.

[Spinal]

Hmmm, I guess whining helps.

[Boner M]

Hmmm, I guess whining helps.
Last few times I whined about film not showing up (The Son and another I forget), the next two lists also had said film at #1. Creepy.

[origami_mustache]

Repulsion
Juliet of the Spirits
Red Beard
Alphaville
Faster, Pussycat... Kill! Kill!

[Qrazy]

1. The War Game
2. Samurai Spy
3. Red Beard
4. A Thousand Clowns
5. Story of a Prostitute

6. The Nanny
7. The Loves of a Blonde
8. The Shop on Main Street
9. A Patch of Blue
10. Chimes at Midnight

Ridiculously good year.

Nice to see another fan of Samurai Spy. Way back when people on RT were talking it down a little bit but I find it's quite profiicient, memorable and has a very unique stylization for it's genre. Perhaps it's a little unwieldy at times, but that's part of the charm.

[Sycophant]

I've apparently seen a whopping two films from this year, one of which was A Charlie Brown Christmas.

More people vote for A Charlie Brown Christmas.

[MadMan]

I better not seen any Sound of Music on any of these lists :| Oh and I use Criticker to comply my lists, not IMDB.com. Anyways:

1. A Charlie Brown Christmas
2. Major Dundee-Thanks TCM for showing the film in its original glory
3. For a Few Dollars More

Hmm, I should see more from this year.

[Spinal]

More people vote for A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Christian propaganda!


:)

[Yxklyx]

1. Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
2. Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
3. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
4. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
5. The Shop on Main Street (Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos)

6. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
7. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
8. Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger)
9. The Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich)
10. The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison)

Pretty mediocre year.

Haven't seen Help! in a long time. Should have queued it up.

[Grouchy]

1. The Collector
2. Juliet of the Spirits
3. Repulsion
4. Thunderball
5. For a Few Dollars More

[koji]

1. The Shop on Main Street (Jan Kadar)
2. Repulsion (Polanski)
3. Red Beard (Kurosawa)
4. Loves of a Blond (Forman)
5. Sword of the Beast (Hideo Gosha)
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6. The Story of a Prostitute (Suzuki)
7. Samurai Assassin (Okamoto)
8. A Few Dollars More (Leone)
9. Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio)
10. Pierre le Fou (Godard)

[Spinal]

One more day.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

1. Juliet of the Spirits
2. Pierrot le Fou
3. Red Beard
4. Shop on Main Street
5. The War Game

[Spinal]

Won't get to this until later tonight, so there is time to add votes. Don't edit though. Everything here so far has been counted.

[Spinal]

#10

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Alphaville

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Country: France

An American private-eye arrives in a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist who has outlawed love and self-expression.

Won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Despite the fact that the film is a work of science fiction and supposed to be in a city of the future, all the sets were existing locations in Paris in 1965, and all the weapons are conventional firearms.

"The picture is brilliant, yet it's no good." - Pauline Kael

[Spinal]

#9

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Loves of a Blonde

Director: Milos Forman

Country: Czechoslovakia

A working-class young woman in a hick Czech town sleeps with one of the band members of a group from Prague. When she doesn't hear from him again, she packs up and arrives on his doorstep in the big city.

Nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film.

"The notable thing about it is its frank inconclusiveness—its clear incidental indications that romance is perpetually pursued by young people seeking that something that can never be found totally. It is hopeful—but realistic. And full of delicious characters." - Bosley Crowther (1966)

[Spinal]

#8

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Director: Russ Meyer

Country: USA

Three wild women in three fast cars take time off from stripping in clubs to go on a murder rampage. They kidnap and drug the girlfriend of one of their victims and hole up at a secluded ranch owned by a wheelchair-bound man and his two sons.

Considered by John Waters to be "beyond a doubt, the best movie ever made." The film did not receive a UK certificate until 1980. Lead actress Tura Satana will appear in the upcoming The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, based on a comic by Rob Zombie. She is currently 72 years old.

"What attracts audiences is not sex and not really violence, either, but a Pop Art fantasy image of powerful women, filmed with high energy and exaggerated in a way that seems bizarre and unnatural, until you realize Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal play more or less the same characters. Without the bras, of course." - Roger Ebert

[Spinal]

#7

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Juliet of the Spirits

Director: Federico Fellini

Country: Italy

A rare night when her husband is at home Juliet wakes up to catch him talking to another woman on the phone. He calls out the name "Gabriella" while sleeping, but when she questions him he lies his way out of it. She finds out who Gabriella is and fears her husband will leave her.

Earned Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction (both in the 'color' categories). Named Best Foreign Film by the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle. Fellini claimed he took LSD in preparation for making this film, his first color feature.

"As head films go ... few could match Juliet. Amid the odd characters, jarring imagery, and (for the first time in Fellini's career) wild colors, there are moments of power and beauty that only the director could create. For all the self-conscious artificiality, the film's heart is sincere ... Films like Juliet are the reason the term 'Fellini-esque' can be used both as a compliment and an insult." - Keith Phipps

[Spinal]

#6

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Pierrot le Fou

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Country: France

Pierrot escapes his boring life and travels on a crime spree from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl, who is being chased by hitmen from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run. Eventually, their relationship begins to deteriorate.

As with many of Godard's movies, no scenario was written until the day before shooting (at best), and many scenes were improvised by the actors, especially in the final acts of the movie. The American film director in the party scene is portrayed by Sam Fuller.

"It is not really a film, it's an attempt at cinema. Life is the subject, with [Cinema]Scope and color as its attributes ... In short, life filling the screen as a tap fills bathtub that is simultaneously emptying at the same rate." - Jean-Luc Godard

[Yxklyx]

#6

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Pierrot le Fou

Director: Jean-Luc Godard



Double Blech!

[Spinal]

#4 (tie)

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The Shop on Main Street

Director: Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos

Country: Czechoslovakia

During WWII, authorities offer a poor man a take-over of a Jewish widow's shop for sewing material. She is old and confused and thinks that he is looking for employment and hires him.

Won the Academy Award in 1966 for Best Foreign Film. The following year, the film was nominated again, this time for Best Actress (Ida Kaminska). Ida Kaminska and Jozef Króner earned a special mention at Cannes for their performances. Named Best Foreign Film by the New York Film Critics Circle.

"This is a small film that achieves large goals ... The story never approaches sappiness or becomes manipulative as many Second World War/Nazi occupation films are, since its pathos is generated through the characters’ honest and realistic responses to these many moral dilemmas." - Derek

[Spinal]

#4 (tie)

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The War Game

Director: Peter Watkins

Country: UK

The film uses factual records in order to create a fictional simulation of the aftermath of a large-scale nuclear attack near a rural area of England, arguing that citizens and Civil Defense authorities are poorly prepared for this eventuality.

Won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, leading to a change in the category's eligibility requirements. Won a Special Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Despite having been produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation, the film was banned from television broadcast.

"It may have been the Cold War's most sociopolitically vital film, and it's a straight arrow—Watkins's trademarked faux-doc tropes are in use, but the film never sheds its narrated what-if role, braking short of the scalding sci-fi Watkins has used elsewhere. Still, it's a hammer blow, required viewing, and a keystone into the filmmaker's activist vision." - Michael Atkinson

[Spinal]

#3

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Red Beard

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Country: Japan

In 19th century Japan, an arrogant, proud young doctor is forced to work in a non-profit health facility ruled by a good, sentimental, but also very firm, strong and fair man. While in the clinic, the young doctor learns the true meaning of being a doctor, seeing patients as real people whose lives he can improve.

Won two awards at the Venice Film Festival including Best Actor (Toshirô Mifune). Kurosawa's last black and white film. Also, the end of Kurosawa's collaboration with Toshirô Mifune. The only Kurosawa film to feature nudity.

"Mifune—and perhaps Kurosawa—would never reach such heights again. With slight exceptions, the actor's career would run on fumes, sinking to the ignominy of playing Lou Diamond Phillips's Eskimo father; his once proud form would succumb to Alzheimer's and other medical problems. Red Beard is a last stand, with Mifune's doctor-hero an argument for compassion, fallible but unstoppable, and radiating something like pure charisma." - Ed Park

[Spinal]

#2

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For a Few Dollars More

Director: Sergio Leone

Country: Italy

Two bounty hunters are after the same man. At first, they go their own ways, but eventually they get together to try and find him. But are they after him for the same reason?

Monco is not the same character as Joe in A Fistful of Dollars according to the finding of an Italian court that adjudicated the lawsuit brought by Jolly Films. After the release of the first film, Leone had a falling out with the producers. Jolly Films sued, claiming ownership of the Joe character, but lost when the court decided that the western gunfighter's persona, characterized by the costume and mannerisms, belonged to the public domain's folklore. Clint Eastwood's poncho was never washed during the production of the 'Dollar' trilogy.

"Here is a gloriously greasy, sweaty, hairy, bloody and violent Western. It is delicious." - Roger Ebert (1967)

[Spinal]

#1

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Repulsion

Director: Roman Polanski

Country: UK

While having lunch, a good looking young man spots a manicurist and makes a date for another evening. She shares an apartment with her sister. Her sister's married lover brings out a dislike of men which she cannot explain. Left on her own, her hallucinations intensify and deepen into madness.

Won two awards at the Berlin International Film Festival including the Silver Bear. Polanski's first English language film. Features the first depiction of female orgasm (sound only) to be passed by the British Board of Film Censors.

"Polanski's triumph is a weird, tense depolarization of space, a chipping away at psychological walls so that fear and desire become synonymous ... The film is like a slyly misanthropic theme part ride for the sane—a satiric, disturbing approximation of insanity by way of a master-class mosaic of aural detail and visual sleights of hand." - Ed Gonzalez

[Spinal]

1. Repulsion (36)
2. For a Few Dollars More (23.5)
3. Red Beard (22.5)
4t. The War Game (21.5)
4t. The Shop on Main Street (21.5)
6. Pierrot le Fou (21)
7. Juliet of the Spirits (19.5)
8. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (18)
9. Loves of a Blonde (17.5)
10. Alphaville (17)

Missed it by that much:
Dr. Zhivago (15.5)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (13)
The Collector (12.5)

[Qrazy]

Repulsion is solid but I don't feel very enthused about it being number one.

[soitgoes...]

The totals for this year seem kinda low. Perhaps the voting was more spread out? Or was there just less votes total?

[Spinal]

The totals for this year seem kinda low. Perhaps the voting was more spread out? Or was there just less votes total?

It's pretty evenly spread out. Only 6.5 points separate #2 from #10.