Yearly Consensus 1961 (Deadline Oct. 29th)

[Thirdmango]

Submit your five favorite films and five favorite performances from this year and in a week someone will give you a top ten in both categories. 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

10.5 pts will be required to make either list.

There will be no restrictions on short films.

There will be no distinction made between male and female performances.
There will be no distinction made between lead and supporting performances.
Voice acting can be considered a performance.

Changed From Spinal's way: If you want to make any changes, edit your old post. I won't be counting them as they come in so it's easier for me and/or others for you to only have one post with your official submissions.

You may begin now.

[baby doll]

Films:
1. Lola (Jacques Demy)
2. L'Année dernière Ã* Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
3. One, Two, Three! (Billy Wilder)
4. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
5. Accattone! (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

One and two are my two favorite films ever.

Performances:
1. Elina Labourdette, Lola
2. Emmanuelle Riva, Léon Morin, prêtre
3. James Cagney, One, Two, Three!
4. Franco Citti, Accattone!
5. Fernando Rey, Viridiana

1961 movies I haven't seen but want to:

E Flat (Ritwik Ghatak)
The Exiles (Kent Mackenzie)
The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
The Ladies' Man (Jerry Lewis)
Pigs and Battleships (Shohei Imamura)
Too Late Blues (John Cassavetes)
Two Daughters (Satyajit Ray)
Underworld USA (Samuel Fuller)
Vanina Vanini (Roberto Rossellini)
A Wife Confesses (Yasuzo Masumura)

[Izzy Black]

1. L’Année dernière Ã* Marienbad
2. La Notte
3. Viridiana
4. A Woman is a Woman
5. The Children's Hour

[Pop Trash]

1. Splendor in the Grass
2. Viridiana
3. A Woman is a Woman
4. Yojimbo
5. West Side Story

Perfs:
1. Natalie Wood, Splendor
2. Silvia Pinal, Viridiana
3. Anna Karina, Woman
4. Warren Beatty, Splendor
5. Fernando Rey, Viridiana

Needs a rewatch: Last Year at Marienbad and The Innocents

Need to see: everything else

[Derek]

1. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
3. The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis)
4. Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
5. Pigs & Battleships (Shohei Imamura)

Perfs:

1. Paul Newman - The Hustler
2. Jerry Lewis - The Ladies Man
3. Anna Karina - A Woman is a Woman
4. Toshirô Mifune - Yojimbo
5. Harriet Andersson - Through a Glass Darkly

[Raiders]

1. Il Posto
2. The Ladies Man
3. The Innocents
4. Last Year at Marienbad
5. Viridiana

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6. Breakfast at Tiffany's
7. Lola
8. Yojimbo
9. The Hustler
10. La Notte

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Performances:
1. Deborah Kerr, The Innocents
2. Paul Newman, The Hustler
3. Jeanne Moreau, La Notte
4. Jerry Lewis, The Ladies Man
5. Anouk Aimee, Lola

[Spinal]

1. Viridiana
2. The Hustler
3. Last Year at Marienbad
4. Through a Glass Darkly
5. Yojimbo

1. Harriet Andersson, Through a Glass Darkly
2. Piper Laurie, The Hustler
3. Toshiro Mifune, Yojimbo
4. Paul Newman, The Hustler
5. Rita Moreno, West Side Story

[Gamblor]

1. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Whistle Down the Wind (Bryan Forbes)
3. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
4. Une femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)

1. Harriet Andersson - Through a Glass Darkly
2. Piper Laurie - The Hustler
3. Paul Newman - The Hustler
4. Hayley Mills - Whistle Down the Wind
5. Deborah Kerr - The Innocents

[ContinentalOp]

1. Yojimbo (top 5 movie)

2. One Eyed Jacks
3. The Hustler
4. A Woman is a Woman

[Weeping_Guitar]

1. A Woman is a Woman
2. Yojimbo
3. Leon Morin, Priest
4. Through a Glass Darkly
5. The Hustler

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1. Emmanuelle Riva (Leon Morin, Priest)
2. Anna Karina (A Woman is a Woman)
3. Paul Newman (The Hustler)
4. Harriet Andersson (Through a Glass Darkly)
5. Toshiro Mifune (Yojimbo)

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Il Posto
2. Blast of Silence
3. West Side Story
4. The Innocents
5. Viridiana

Honorable mention: Invasion of the Neptune Men

1. Allen Baron, Blast of Silence
2. Deborah Kerr, The Innocents
3. Toshiro Mifune, Yojimbo
4. Harriet Andersson, Through a Glass Darkly
5. Silvia Pinal, Viridiana

[Boner M]

1. Il Posto
2. Accatone
3. Last Year at Marienbad
4. Blast of Silence
5. The Exiles

1. Sandro Panseri, Il Posto
2. Piper Laurie, The Hustler
3. Paul Newman, The Hustler
4. Allen Baron, Blast of Silence
5. Deborah Kerr, The Innocents

Surprised to see Il Posto topping the few ballots it's on w/o Panseri on the performances list. One of the best non-pro perfs I've seen.

Also, Killer of Sheep fans should really check out The Exiles (which got a restoration and DVD release a few years ago).

[B-side]

1. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
2. Three Daughters (Satyajit Ray)
3. A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
5. The Human Pyramid (Jean Rouch)

1. Harriet Andersson - Through a Glass Darkly
2. Anna Karina - A Woman Is a Woman
3. Delphine Seyrig - Last Year at Marienbad
4. Max von Sydow - Through a Glass Darkly
5. Jean-Paul Belmondo - A Woman Is a Woman

[Izzy Black]

Wow. Apparently La Notte is really underrated.

[Yxklyx]

1. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (Masaki Kobayashi)
2. Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
3. Lola (Jacques Demy)
4. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
5. West Side Story (Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise)

1. Tatsuya Nakadai - The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
2. Toshirô Mifune - Yojimbo
3. Piper Laurie - The Hustler
4. Gunnar Björnstrand - Through a Glass Darkly
5. Jeanne Moreau - La notte

I couldn't remember much about the performances beyond #3 so I just put my two favorite actors from that year (Gunnar and Jeanne). I expect they were great in those films - I just don't recall much having not seen those films in years.

[Lazlo]

1. The Hustler
2. West Side Story
3. Yojimbo
4. Viridiana
5. Breakfast at Tiffany's

[Pop Trash]

Wow. Apparently La Notte is really underrated.

Or underseen.

[Spinal]

Or underseen.

Seen it. It's ok.

[Izzy Black]

:cry:

Antonioni's esteem has been on a downward spiral over the past 50 years.

[Philosophe_rouge]

Films
1. Through a Glass Darkly (Through a Glass Darkly)
2. The Misfits (John Huston)
3. La Notte (Michaelangelo Antonioni)
4. Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan)
5. Mother: Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)

Performances
1. Harriet Andersson - Through a Glass Darkly
2. Eli Wallach - The Misfits
3. Jeanne Moreau - La Notte
4. Deborah Kerr - The Innocents
5. Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass

[B-side]

Wow. Apparently La Notte is really underrated.

I haven't seen it yet.:cry:

[Derek]

:cry:

Antonioni's esteem has been on a downward spiral over the past 50 years.

Blame the casual film buffs who've made him the whipping boy of "pretentious" European cinema.

As for La Notte, it's very good but it's my least favorite of his 60s work. I do owe it a rewatch since I saw it years ago and soon after L'Avventura, which dwarfs most other films.

[Winston*]

1. Tatsuya Nakadai - The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

Yes. Has no one seen these movies?

[soitgoes...]

1. Il posto (Olmi)
2. Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
3. Viridiana (Buñuel)
4. Mother Joan of the Angels (Kawalerowicz)
5. The Human Condition III (Kobayashi)

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6. Divorce, Italian Style
7. A Song About the Gray Pigeon
8. A Woman Is a Woman
9. Last Year in Marienbad
10. Leon Morin, Priest

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1. Marcello Mastroianni, Divorce, Italian Style

2. Tatsuya Nakadai, The Human Condition III
3. Jerry Lewis, The Ladies Man
4. Harriet Anderson, Through a Glass Darkly
5. Lucyna Winnicka, Mother Joan of the Angels

[Llopin]

1. Plácido
2. Last Year at Marienbad
3. The End of Summer
4. Pigs and Battleships
5. Underworld USA

1. Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg
2. Harriet Anderson, Through a Glass Darkly
3. Rita Moreno, West Side Story
4. Tatsuya Nakadai, The Human Condition III (also for Immortal Love)
5. Russ Tamblyn, West Side Story