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    1. Tree of Life
    2. A Separation
    3. Upstream Color
    4. It’s Such a Beautiful Day
    5. The Act of Killing
    6. Before Midnight
    7. Tabu
    8. Certified Copy
    9. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    10. Oslo, August 31st

    HMs: Girl Walk // All Day, Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen, Inside Llewyn Davis, Meek’s Cutoff, A Touch of Sin

    I would also recommend that people check out Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen, which successfully blends mundane if not actively generic films together with classics in a vibrant exchange of motion and energy. Anyone that loves Girl Walk // All Day should appreciate it... thanks for the heads-up, Russ!
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    The Boat People - 9
    The Power of the Dog - 7.5
    The King of Pigs - 7

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    Quote Quoting dreamdead (view post)
    I would also recommend that people check out Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen, which successfully blends mundane if not actively generic films together with classics in a vibrant exchange of motion and energy. Anyone that loves Girl Walk // All Day should appreciate it... thanks for the heads-up, Russ!
    Thanks! There's a really good in-depth article in Senses of Cinema about the film that you might enjoy.
    "We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."

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    1. Black Swan
    2. Shutter Island
    3. Moonrise Kingdom
    4. Boyhood
    5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    6. Amour
    7. Dallas Buyers Club
    8. The Artist
    9. Before Midnight
    10. The Wolf of Wall Street
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    So many choices I love in this thread that I can't believe I'm not putting on my list, but (for now):

    1. The Tree Of Life [EDIT: originally Enter The Void, but IMDb date is 2009, new #10 added]
    2. Holy Motors
    3. The Look Of Silence
    4. Her
    5. Drive
    6. It's Such A Beautiful Day
    7. The Cabin In The Woods
    8. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance)
    9. Boyhood
    10. Black Swan


    But not putting Black Swan, Ex Machina (already), The Act of Killing, Certified Copy, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Scorsese's last three films, Spring Breakers, Scott Pilgrim and World's End, We Are The Best!, Amour, Chomet's The Illusionist, Inherent Vice, Queen Of Versailles, Lego Movie (even to simply stand as an overall Lord/Miller achievement award), anything Fincher's done in this great stretch, Midnight In Paris, Princess Kaguya, 127 Hours, To The Wonder, either Wes Anderson film, Inception (hell, maybe even Interstellar after another watch), Under The Skin, or This Is Not A Film just feels wrong.... And I'm not even sure that's everything I loved to their level, just what I remember.
    Last edited by Henry Gale; 05-07-2015 at 09:42 PM.
    Last 11 things I really enjoyed:

    Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
    Safe (Haynes, 1995)
    South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
    Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
    Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
    What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
    Diva (Beineix, 1981)
    Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
    The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
    Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
    Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)

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    Quote Quoting Henry Gale (view post)
    So many choices I love in this thread that I can't believe I'm not putting on my list, but (for now):

    1. Enter The Void
    2. The Tree Of Life
    3. Holy Motors
    4. The Look Of Silence
    5. Her
    6. Drive
    7. It's Such A Beautiful Day
    8. The Cabin In The Woods
    9. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance)
    10. Boyhood


    But not putting Black Swan, Ex Machina (already), The Act of Killing, Certified Copy, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Scorsese's last three films, Spring Breakers, Scott Pilgrim and World's End, We Are The Best!, Amour, Chomet's The Illusionist, Inherent Vice, Queen Of Versailles, Lego Movie (even to simply stand as an overall Lord/Miller achievement award), anything Fincher's done in this great stretch, Midnight In Paris, Princess Kaguya, 127 Hours, To The Wonder, either Wes Anderson film, Inception (hell, maybe even Interstellar after another watch), Under The Skin, or This Is Not A Film just feels wrong.... And I'm not even sure that's everything I loved to their level, just what I remember.
    Enter the Void is not eligible. So, you get one more.
    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. The Tree of Life
    2. The Act of Killing
    3. It's Such a Beautiful Day
    4. Boyhood
    5. The Social Network
    6. Before Midnight
    7. Upstream Color
    8. Under the Skin
    9. Whiplash
    10. Another Year



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    1. Certified Copy
    2. The Tree of Life
    3. Margaret
    4. Her
    5. Melancholia
    6. The Wolf of Wall Street
    7. Somewhere
    8. The Turin Horse
    9. Contagion
    10. Exit Through the Gift Shop

    The Passenger (Antonioni): 9
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Yates): 5
    Red (Schwentke): 4
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Reynolds): 5
    Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Herzog): 8
    Kick-Ass (Vaughn): 3

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    I'm thinking I probably won't get around to the final tally until the weekend.

    I hope to have a top 25. But if there isn't enough data to warrant that, it may be a top 20 instead. We'll see.
    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. The Wolf of Wall Street
    2. The Tree of Life
    3. Upstream Color
    4. Margaret
    5. Certified Copy
    6. Under the Skin
    7. Spring Breakers
    8. Stranger by the Lake
    9. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    10. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

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    Quote Quoting Spinal (view post)
    Enter the Void is not eligible. So, you get one more.
    I thought about this, and now see you stated IMDb dates were the criteria, but the movie wasn't shown or released outside of festivals until May of 2010 in France. So as much as I'd personally consider it 2010, since the public didn't see it 'til then, and it would've never been in many 2009 year-end lists or Best of 2000-2009 decade ones at that time...

    I'll slot Black Swan in at #10.
    Last 11 things I really enjoyed:

    Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
    Safe (Haynes, 1995)
    South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
    Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
    Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
    What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
    Diva (Beineix, 1981)
    Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
    The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
    Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
    Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)

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    Quote Quoting Henry Gale (view post)
    I thought about this, and now see you stated IMDb dates were the criteria, but the movie wasn't shown or released outside of festivals until May of 2010 in France. So as much as I'd personally consider it 2010, since the public didn't see it 'til then, and it would've never been in many 2009 year-end lists or Best of 2000-2009 decade ones at that time...

    I'll slot Black Swan in at #10.
    I hear ya. It would have been on my list too. Thanks for the edit.
    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. Inception
    2. The Raid: Redemption
    3. Upstream Color
    4. Black Swan
    5. Interstellar
    6. Cabin in the Woods
    7. Gravity
    8. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    9. Gone Girl
    10. Melancholia
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    1. Inception
    2. Cloud Atlas
    3. Birdman
    4. Black Swan
    5. Boyhood
    6. The Grey
    7. The Social Network
    8. Tangled
    9. Melancholia
    10. The Wolf of Wall Street


    Surprisingly hard to order.

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    1. Looper
    2. Contagion
    3. A Separation
    4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    5. Inside Llewyn Davis
    6. Haywire
    7. Damsels in Distress
    8. Django Unchained
    9. The World’s End
    10. The Social Network

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    There are fish in the Russian Leviathan too, you sillies.

    1. The Tree of Life
    2. Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-Liang)
    3. Oslo, August 31st
    4. The Turin Horse
    5. Holy Motors
    6. Le Quattro Volte
    7. Margaret
    8. Like Someone in Love
    9. Leviathan ('12)
    10. The Master

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    There are fish in the Russian Leviathan too, you sillies.
    If there is Russian in the fish Leviathan then I just fucking give up.

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    There are fish in the Russian Leviathan too, you sillies.
    I was too caught up in the hopelessness to notice the fish. Unless the whale was a fish.

    By the way, did you get my invitation to meet up in Toronto? Or are you back in Australia now?
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    I wanted to fit Melancholia on my list.

    Edit: awe fuck it.
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    This is last call. I will start revealing results today.
    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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    Quote Quoting Spinal (view post)
    What did your original ballot look like, Duke? I need to know what you took out. Thanks.
    Never mind. I remember. It was Argo.
    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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    All right, 25 films and only one tie. Not bad. Just gotta do some double checking and then we can begin.
    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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    It will get better. Everything will be alright ..... Except it won't, you know.

    Oslo, August 31st

    Director: Joachim Trier

    One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.

    The movie is very loosely based on the French book Le feu follet, a 1931 novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle.

    Won Best Film and Best Cinematography at the Stockholm Film Festival.
    Motivation of the jury: "In this film we get to know the man who had all possibilities in a fantastic world, but failed to do anything with it. It is an uncomfortably honest character; both to himself and the world around him. Clever dialogue with an underlying tone of humour, breathtaking cinematography and truthful acting makes this film a perfect portrait of the director's generation."

    "The surface of Oslo, August 31st is as cool and crystalline as a Scandinavian lake, but at its core is a benevolence for the life we all share and tears for the man who can no longer share in it." -- Ty Burr, Boston Globe

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    Rich Kid, No Future?
    Explain it to me
    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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