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    All right then. Counting is happening.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
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    Well, I have a top 7 or so. Going to leave this open one more day in the hopes of getting more votes.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    1. Citizen Kane
    2. Dumbo
    3. Tortoise Beats Hare
    *coming soon*

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    4. The Big Store
    If you're rating this a 5 out of 10 in the other thread, then I would suggest that you probably don't need to be listing it here just to fill out your ballot. Just a thought.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    1. Citizen Kane
    2. The Maltese Falcon
    3. Sergeant York
    4. Dumbo

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    This will be a top 9. Results coming up.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Ball of Fire

    Director: Howard Hawks

    Country: USA

    Eight professors are in the 9th year of an encyclopedia writing project. When Professor Potts discovers that his section on slang is outdated, he sets out to research the topic and ends up helping a nightclub singer escape from the Mob.

    Nominated for four Oscars including Best Actress (Barbara Stanwyck) and Best Writing, Original Story. Kathleen Howard was left with a fractured jaw when the punch that Barbara Stanwyck threw accidentally made contact. While filming the scene in which Potts declares his love for Sugarpuss in a dark hotel bungalow, Gregg Toland put Stanwyck in blackface to make sure that her eyes were shining through the darkness.

    "After the rush of His Girl Friday, Ball of Fire is a more sedate ride, full of such marvelous passages as the conga line Stanwyck's delectable Sugarpuss teaches the professors; ultimately, the film's optimistic integration of intellectual and physical impulses lends it a feeling of wholeness (greatly aided by Gregg Toland's deep-focus cinematography) closer to Hawks's later, more serene films than to his breathless early comedies." - Fernando F. Croce
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Suspicion

    Director: Alfred Hitchcock

    Country: USA

    Johnny is a handsome playboy who lives by borrrowing money from his friends. He meets and marries shy Lina, but after their honeymoon, she finds out Johnny's true character and becomes suspicious of his behavior. Lina starts believing her husband is a murderer and she fears that she could be his next victim.

    Won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Joan Fontaine). Nominated for two other awards, including Best Picture. Hitchcock said that an RKO executive ordered that all scenes in which Cary Grant appeared menacing be excised from the film. When the cutting was completed, the film ran only fifty-five minutes. The scenes were later restored, Hitchcock said, because he shot each piece of film so that there was only one way to edit them together properly.

    "The beauty of Suspicion is that it starts off light and charming, just as Johnny does, and darkens so gradually you won’t even notice what point it shifted from light romance into a psychological thriller." - Brian Webster
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Sergeant York

    Director: Howard Hawks

    Country: USA

    A hillbilly sharpshooter becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI when he single-handedly attacks and captures a German position using the same strategy as in a turkey shoot.

    Won two Oscars including Best Actor (Gary Cooper) and Best Editing. Nominated for nine others, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Walter Brennan) and Best Supporting Actress (Margaret Wycherly). According to the daily production reports included in the film's file at USC, Vincent Sherman directed some scenes while Howard Hawks went to a racetrack.

    "A morality play disguised as a biopic, Sergeant York is structured around two conversions - from Satan to Christ, and from conscientious objection to military decoration; that is, from the Christian Bible to the American Bible ..." - Billy Stevenson
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    The Devil and Daniel Webster

    Director: William Dieterle

    Country: USA

    A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. When Mr. Scratch comes to collect, orator and hero of the common man Daniel Webster comes to the rescue.

    Won the Oscar for Best Scoring of a Dramatic Picture. Also nominated for Best Actor (Walter Huston). Bernard Herrmann's score included recordings of the humming of telephone wires and four violin solos of "Pop Goes The Weasel" recorded separately and laid over each other on the soundtrack to form a 'single' violin solo. The 'blizzard' consisted of 1200 pounds of shredded white onions, 2500 pounds of mothballs and a large amount of uncooked tapioca.

    "[Edward] Arnold and Huston explicitly represent the angel and devil hovering just over Craig's brawny shoulders, but on a more metaphorical level, they represent the egalitarian promise of American Democracy and the greed that serves as its downside. A textbook example of New Deal populism, the film depicts the Devil as just another loan shark, albeit one whose terms are more draconian than most." - Nathan Rabin
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Dumbo

    Director: Ben Sharpsteen

    Country: USA

    The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs Jumbo, but the newborn is ridiculed because of his truly enormous ears. It is up to his only friend, a mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.

    Won the Oscar for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. Also nominated for Best Song ("Baby Mine"). Won an award at Cannes for Best Animation Design. The only Disney animated feature film that has a title character who doesn't speak. When the drunken Timothy is sliding down the staircase-shaped bubble Dumbo has blown, his laugh is actually that of Mickey Mouse.

    "The modern day promotional material for Dumbo trumpets: 'The perfect film for every family!' I'll drink whatever the clown brigade's pouring in support of that endorsement. Dumbo remains the one Disney film that doesn't reduce life's lessons down to Kindergarten Cop's infantile mantra of 'Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina' and expect the heteronormative indoctrination to take root in impressionable minds dazzled by big-screen paint-by-numbers. I know right now you're probably singing along with the crows: 'I thought I'd seen most everything, 'til I seen a critic call a cartoon toddler elephant gay.' But, as far as my empathetic tears as an adult viewer are concerned, it's the perfect Disney film for every definition of family." - Eric Henderson (possibly intoxicated)
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    The Lady Eve

    Director: Preston Sturges

    Country: USA

    Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles meets con-artist Jean on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms. To get back at him, Jean disguises herself as an English lady and comes back to tease and torment him.

    Earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Original Story. Sturges wrote the script in Reno, Nevada, while awaiting his third divorce. When Muggsy places a brush over his face and imitates Hitler, he is really speaking Swedish. Directly translated he is saying: 'Bad boy I'm going to hit you on the jaw.'

    "Although the movie would be inconceivable without Fonda, The Lady Eve is all Stanwyck's; the love, the hurt and the anger of her character provide the motivation for nearly every scene, and what is surprising is how much genuine feeling she finds in the comedy. Watch her eyes as she regards Fonda, in all of their quiet scenes together, and you will see a woman who is amused by a man's boyish shyness and yet aroused by his physical presence." - Roger Ebert
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Sullivan's Travels

    Director: Preston Sturges

    Country: USA

    Sullivan is a successful, spoiled and naive director of fluff films who decides he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor. Much to the chagrin of his producers, he sets off in tramp's clothing with a single dime in his pocket to experience poverty first-hand, and gets some reality shock.

    Veronica Lake made this movie while pregnant. Sullivan plans to make a movie entitled O Brother, Where Art Thou? - a title borrowed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for their 2000 film. Sturges had originally intended to use a clip from a Charles Chaplin film for the church sequence, but Chaplin wouldn't give permission.

    "Perhaps more than any other Sturges movie, Sullivan's Travels commits itself to extreme changes in mood and tone. The chase scene, and Lake's sped-up sprint through a backlot in hoop skirt and bloomers, are pure slapstick. At the other extreme is a chain-gang sequence of shocking realism for 1941 Hollywood." - Matthew Kennedy
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    The Maltese Falcon

    Director: John Huston

    Country: USA

    While Sam Spade is investigating the murder of his partner, he finds himself surrounded by a host of strange characters all after one thing - a statue of a falcon reputed to contain priceless jewels.

    Nominated for three Oscars including Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Sydney Greenstreet). The William Shakespeare reference that ends the film was suggested by Humphrey Bogart. Contrary to popular opinion, 'It's the stuff that dreams are made of,' spoken by Humphrey Bogart, is not the last line in the picture. Immediately after Bogart says that, Ward Bond, playing a detective, says, 'Huh?' making that the last line in the picture.

    "To describe the plot in a linear and logical fashion is almost impossible. That doesn't matter. The movie is essentially a series of conversations punctuated by brief, violent interludes. It's all style. It isn't violence or chases, but the way the actors look, move, speak and embody their characters. Under the style is attitude: Hard men, in a hard season, in a society emerging from Depression and heading for war, are motivated by greed and capable of murder. For an hourly fee, Sam Spade will negotiate this terrain." - Roger Ebert
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Citizen Kane

    Director: Orson Welles

    Country: USA

    Multimillionaire newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies alone in his extravagant mansion, Xanadu, speaking a single word: Rosebud. In an attempt to figure out the meaning of this word, a reporter tracks down the people who worked and lived with Kane. They tell their stories in a series of flashbacks that reveal much about Kane's life but is it enough to unlock the riddle of his dying breath?

    Won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Nominated for eight other Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Welles). William Randolph Hearst was infuriated by this movie, obviously based on his life. According to an essay written for the New York Review of Books by Gore Vidal, Rosebud was Hearst's name for long-time mistress Marion Davies' clitoris.

    Dave: Oh, I saw a great movie last night. It was on the late show. It was-- um, uh, what was it called? It's a classic. It's uh . . . oh, I hate this. I hate it when this happens.
    Kevin: Well, what was it about?
    Dave: It's about this newspaper tycoon and he's dead, and everybody is telling stories about him, and--
    Kevin: It's Citizen Kane.
    Dave: Nnnno, that's not it. No, no - but something like that. It's uh . . .
    Kevin: Okay, who was in it?
    Dave: Orson Welles is in it. It's called . . .
    Kevin: Then this is Citizen Kane. It's Citizen Kane.
    Dave: Nnnno, that isn't it, but you're not far from it. It's uh . . .
    Kevin: Well who else was in it?
    Dave: Oh, um, I dunno.
    Kevin: Was Joseph Cotten in it?
    Dave: What else has he been in?
    Kevin: The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons . . .
    Dave: Oh, The Magnificent Ambersons. Yes, yes, yes, he was in it, yes. That's one of my favourite Orson Welles movies.
    Kevin: Well this is definitely Citizen Kane then. You're talking about Citizen Kane.
    Dave: Nnnno, no, no. But it's something like that. It's ci . . . ci, ci . . . Si. Si . . . sy . . .
    Kevin: No, not sy. It's ci. Ci, ci.
    Dave: Sy . . . sy . . . sy . . .
    Kevin: It's ci, Citizen Kane.
    Dave: Sy . . . sy . . . Psycho!
    Kevin: No it's not Psycho.
    Dave: It's Psycho.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    1. Citizen Kane 107.5
    2. The Maltese Falcon 55.5
    3. Sullivan’s Travels 46
    4. The Lady Eve 42.5
    5. Dumbo 32
    6. The Devil and Daniel Webster 14.5
    7t. Suspicion 10.5
    7t. Sergeant York 10.5
    9. Ball of Fire 8.5
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    "The modern day promotional material for Dumbo trumpets: 'The perfect film for every family!' I'll drink whatever the clown brigade's pouring in support of that endorsement. Dumbo remains the one Disney film that doesn't reduce life's lessons down to Kindergarten Cop's infantile mantra of 'Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina' and expect the heteronormative indoctrination to take root in impressionable minds dazzled by big-screen paint-by-numbers. I know right now you're probably singing along with the crows: 'I thought I'd seen most everything, 'til I seen a critic call a cartoon toddler elephant gay.' But, as far as my empathetic tears as an adult viewer are concerned, it's the perfect Disney film for every definition of family." - Eric Henderson (possibly intoxicated)
    We need more reviews like this.

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    Excellent list, even if I still need to see The Lady Eve.

    Too bad the studio pushed the ending on Suspicion, coulda been so much higher, both in the year and in Hitchcock's canon.....
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    It's very very horrible, sir. It's one of those things we wish we could disinvent.

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