MC Consensus: Iron Curtain Edition

[Spinal]

Submit your FIVE TO TEN favorite films from 'behind the Iron Curtain' and .... eventually .... I will give you a top TEN TO TWENTY. Films should have one of the countries listed below as a country of origin in IMDb:

Eligible Countries:
Russia/U.S.S.R (as well as Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Ukraine)
Poland
Czech Republic/Slovakia/Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Albania

Ineligible Countries:
East Germany (we already covered them in the Germany thread)
Yugoslavia (and countries formerly a part of Yugoslavia; although Communist, the country is not typically included in the Iron Curtain grouping)

The point system is as follows

1st Place- 10 points
2nd Place - 8 points
3rd Place - 7 points
4th Place - 6 points
5th Place - 5 points
6th Place - 4.5 points
7th Place - 4 points
8th Place - 3.5 points
9th Place - 3 points
10th Place - 2.5 points

(Point system is weighted to give your top film a boost and to minimize the discrepancy between the films in the bottom half of your list.)

There will be no restrictions on short films. A list must have five films to be eligible. If you list more than ten films, I will assume that the top ten films are the ones you want to receive points. If you do not list your films 1-10, I will assign the points from the top on down.

If you decide to edit your ballot, please make a new post indicating the changes. I will give at least 24 hours warning before tallying votes.

If, for some reason, you would like to like to submit your ballot via private message, I will accept those as well. However, your ballot will be revealed after the final results are posted.

You may begin now.

[Melville]

Probably my favorite region.

1. Solaris
2. Andrei Rublev
3. Mirror
4. Ivan the Terrible, Part II
5. Tale of Tales
6. The Devil
7. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
8. Leviathan
9. The Turin Horse
10. The Double Life of Veronique

11. Hedgehog in the Hog
12. A Short Film About Killing
13. Winnie Pooh
14. Werckmeister Harmonies
15. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
16. The Ascent
17. Man with a Movie Camera
18. I am Cuba
19. The Cow
20. The Third Part of the Night

HMs: The Old Man and the Sea, My Love, Nostalgia, Come and See, Three Colors, The Dekalog

[Lazlo]

1. The Pianist
2. Son of Saul
3. Three Colors: Blue
4. Fateless
5. Three Colors: Red
6. Ida
7. Come and See
8. Oliver Twist
9. Solaris
10. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Come and See (1985)
2. The Ear (1970)
3. The Red and the White (1967)
4. The Cremator (1969)
5. The Pied Piper (1986)
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
7. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
8. The Return (2003)
9. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
10. The Joke (1969)

It was painful to leave off these:

11. Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
12. Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
13. By the Law (1926)
14. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
15. Strike (1925)
16. The Glass Harmonica (1968)
17. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)
18. Tale of Tales (1979)
19. October (1927)
20. Somewhere in Europe (1948)

[Dukefrukem]

1. Stalker
2. Solaris
3. The Pianist

[Spinal]

Posted instructions said that you need 10 films to be eligible. I have corrected it. Five is acceptable for this thread. Anything less will not be counted.

[Spinal]

1. The Firemen's Ball
2. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
3. Come and See
4. The Decalogue
5. The Shop on Main Street
6. Witchhammer
7. The Loves of a Blonde
8. Ballad of a Soldier
9. The Cranes Are Flying
10. Closely Watched Trains

Love that Czech New Wave.

[Spinal]

Well, this is interesting. Not very much overlap between the lists posted thus far. Should be a wide open race.

[baby doll]

1. Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó, 1972)
2. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)
3. Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944/58)
4. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
5. The Decalogue (Krzyzstof Kieślowski, 1988)
6. The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
7. Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1961)
8. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
9. Virile Games (Jan Å*vankmajer, 1988)
10. Damnation (Béla Tarr, 1988)

I was tempted to include Atom Egoyan's Calendar (a German-Armenian co-production), but anything post-1991 didn't seem Iron Curtainy enough.

[baby doll]

Edited my list to make it numerical.

[Stay Puft]

1. Khrustalyov, My Car!
2. Stalker
3. Tyll the Giant
4. My Friend Ivan Lapshin
5. Andrei Rublev
6. Solaris
7. Blind Chance
8. Fantastic Planet
9. 12:08 East of Bucharest
10. Hard to Be a God

[dreamdead]

1. The Mirror
2. Solaris
3. The Dekalog
4. The Man with the Movie Camera
5. Earth
6. Come and See
7. I am Cuba
8. Fantastic Planet
9. Werckmeister Harmonies
10. Three Colors: Blue

HM: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Strike, Potemkin, The Ascent, Ivan the Terrible Part II, Stalker

All of these are absolutely amazing. No weak stuff here, o Iron Curtain.

[Peng]

1. Man with a Movie Camera
2. Son of Saul
3. The Pianist
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
5. Prisoner of the Mountains
6. Beyond the Hills
7. Battleship Potemkin
8. A Short Film About Love
9. Knife in the Water
10. The Double Life of Veronique

[Spinal]

Just as a reminder, Three Colors:Blue and Three Colors: Red both already earned a spot on our list for France. If you've included those films, I'm going to encourage you to select something else. If you choose to do so, please make a new post, quoting your old list and indicating the changes.

[Yxklyx]

1. Hukkle (Pálfi)
2. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
3. The Loves of a Blonde (Forman)
4. A Short Film About Killing (Kieslowski)
5. Mother Joan of the Angels (Kawalerowicz)
6. Closely Watched Trains (Menzel)
7. I Am Cuba (Kalatozov)
8. Come and See (Klimov)
8. A Short Film About Love (Kieslowski)
10. Night Train (Kawalerowicz)
...
11. King Lear (Kozintsev/Shapiro)

[Russ]

1. Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (Pálfi, 2012) Hungary
2. Khrustalyov, My Car! (German, 1998) Russia
3. Bibliotheque Pascal (Hajdu, 2010) Romania
4. Szindbad (Huszárik, 1971) Hungary
5. Vortex / Duburys (Luksas, 2009) Lithuania
6. Fehérlófia (Jankovics, 1981) Hungary
7. Hukkle (Pálfi, 2002) Hungary
8. The Stone Wedding (Pita, Veroiu, 1973) Romania
9. The Cremator (Herz, 1969) Czechoslovakia
10. Daisies (Chytilová, 1966) Czechoslovakia

Honorable mention: Vinni-Pukh (Khitruk, 1969) Russia

I almost didn't vote because I haven't seen some of the major players (Stalker, The Mirror, Nostalgia, The Sacrifice). Yeah, I know, what's wrong with me?

[ContinentalOp]

1. Dersu Uzala
2. The Pianist
3. Solaris
4. Battleship Potemkin
5. Come and See
6. Strike

[Raiders]

1. The Ascent (1978)
2. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
3. Stalker (1979)
4. The Mirror (1975)
5. Mother and Son (1997)
6. Satantango (1994)
7. The Man with the Movie Camera (1929)
8. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992)
9. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
10. Come and See (1985)

Man, no Sokurov fans here, huh? I know he's polarizing, but surprised to see him completely shut out so far. Feel like I should have added Russian Ark or Faust just because...

[Grouchy]

1. Dersu Uzala
2. The Pianist
3. The Firemen's Ball
4. A Short Film About Love
4. The Hourglass Sanatorium
5. Knife in the Water
6. Battleship Potemkin

[Spinal]

We have a varied, interesting top 10-12 that has emerged, but the vote is still very spread out and a lot can change. There's still time to shake up the list if you haven't added your vote already.

[dreamdead]

1. The Mirror
2. Solaris
3. The Dekalog
4. The Man with the Movie Camera
5. Earth
6. Come and See
7. I am Cuba
8. Fantastic Planet
9. Werckmeister Harmonies
10. Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (Pálfi, 2012

HM: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Strike, Potemkin, The Ascent, Ivan the Terrible Part II, Stalker

All of these are absolutely amazing. No weak stuff here, o Iron Curtain.

Swapped out Kieslowski's Blue. Haven't seen Double Life... in too long.

Sokurov's films and Daisies have always been on the to-get-to pile, but haven't ever occurred yet. I suspect that Daisies will happen this year, at least.

[Melville]

Sokurov's films and Daisies have always been on the to-get-to pile, but haven't ever occurred yet. I suspect that Daisies will happen this year, at least.

Daisies is great. Delightfully anarchic. I liked Sokurov's The Sun a lot, and I recall reading it was finally released in the US this year. Recommended (though I suspect you'd prefer Russian Ark).

[Russ]

Dreamdead, have you seen Gytis Luksas' 2009 Lithuanian film, Duburys (aka Vortex)? If not you should try to acquire. It's an epic, generational piece of late-period Soviet life in Lithuania. A hard and at times, gloomy, life, to be sure, but impeccably acted and beautifully lensed. I heartily recommend it.

[Spinal]

Busy work week. Apologies for the delay.

[PURPLE]

May not count, but may as well share the love.

1. The Devil (Zulawski)
2. Celebration in the Botanical Garden (Havetta)
3. Birds, Orphans and Fools (Jakubisko)
4. On the Silver Globe (Zulawski)
5. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
6. Days of Eclipse (Sokurov)
7. Mother and Son (Sokurov)
8. Marketa Lazarova (Vlacil)
9. The Temptation of St. Tony (Ounpuu)
10. Visitor of a Museum (Lopushansky)
11. Miraculous Virgin (Oher)
12. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
13. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov)
14. Tuesday, After Christmas (Muntean)
15. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)
16. I Am Twenty (Khutsiyev)
17. The Cremator (Herz)
18. The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (Has)
19. Freeze, Die, Come to Life! (Kanevsky)
20. The Second Circle (Sokurov)