All about Lily Chou-Chou +2
News From Home -1
Insiang -1
I think there’s some heresy in there, too. That movie ranks as one of the worst things a good director has ever done. A true abomination.
There are more than a couple of Coen brothers films I’d put below it.
+2 — The Road to the Racetrack
+ 2 Brand on the Brain
-1 Gun Crazy
-1 Sans Soleil
BTW this poll is insane. There are a million good films that are just getting totally assassinated.
Really weird.
+2 Eros Plus Massacre
-1 The Only Son
-1 The Lady Eve
Veredas +2
Once Before I Die -1
We Won’t Grow Old Together -1
Pierrot le Fou +2
Risselada wrote: “There are more than a couple of Coen brothers films I’d put below it.”
Really? Like what? I realize that most people here do not like Intolerable Cruelty (though I personally think it is good for what it is). But aside from that one I can’t think of anything they’ve done even close to being as bad as (or worse than) The Ladykillers.
Judex (Franju) +2
The Corridor -1
L’important c’est d’aimer -1
Los Olvidados +2
Spirit of the Beehive -1
Duck Soup +2
The Red Balloon -1 (POP!)
People On Sunday -1
+2 The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
-1 This Transient Life
-1 The Color of Pomegranates
+2 Gertrud
-1 Black Narcissus
-1 The Corridor
(POP!)
Ahahahaha! Awwwww…… :(
—PolarisDiB
ROUND FIFTY THREE
Paris, Texas and The Red Balloon met their end today, which in their aloneness on being voted down probably has made serial killers of heartbroken Mubites out there today. But anyway,
A total of 31 unused partial votes takes down The Apartment, Syndromes and a Century, The Shop around the Corner, Red Psalm, This Transient Life, and Paisan. I’m sure they too will be missed, though the bite is a little less.
All about Lily Chou-Chou was left at the bottom, and drops. I KNOW that’ll be missed. The next five get -1s.
208 titles left:
We Won’t Grow Old Together 19
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 19
Heartbeat Detector (aka The Human Question) 19
Eros Plus Massacre 19
Once upon a Time there was a Singing Blackbird 18
Edvard Munch 18
The Mother and the Whore 18
The Travelling Players 18
Black God, White Devil 17
Donkey in a Brahmin Village 17
A Brighter Summer Day 17
The Lady Eve 16
Manila in the Claws of Neon 16
Stone Wedding 16
City of Pirates 16
Chimes at Midnight 16
Pastoral: To Die in the Country 16
A Woman under the Influence 16
Tropical Malady 16
Veredas 16
The Only Son 15
Woman in the Dunes 15
Marketa Lazarova 15
Men on the Mountain 15
Les Vampires 15
Aparajito 15
Celine and Julie Go Boating 15
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator 15
The Human Condition 15
The Executioner 15
Evolution of a Filipino Family 15
Pyaasa 15
Death in the Land of Encantos 15
Train of Shadows 15
The Ogre of Athens 15
Medium Cool 15
Hiroshima mon amour 15
Come and See 15
Sans Soleil 14
Jeanne Dielman, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 14
My Neighbor Totoro 14
Le Samourai 14
My Night at Maud’s 14
Yeelen 14
Andrei Rublev 14
The Age of the Earth 14
The Sound of the Mountain 14
The House is Black 14
La Cienaga 14
Ornamental Hairpin 14
Early Summer 14
The Cloud-Capped Star 14
Close-Up (Kiarostami) 14
Scenes from a Marriage 14
The End of Evangelion 14
The Mirror (Panahi) 14
The Browning Version (Asquith) 14
The Charles Bukowski Tapes 14
A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger) 14
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau) 14
Los Olvidados 14
Floating Clouds 13
Possession 13
Sherlock Jr. 13
Sansho the Bailiff 13
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz 13
Tale of Tales 13
Killer of Sheep 13
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 13
A Moment of Innocence 13
The Golden Thread 13
The Dupes 13
Out of the Past 13
Chungking Express 13
The Hour of the Furnaces 13
A Man Escaped 13
Duck Soup 13
The Corridor 12
Black Narcissus 12
Insiang 12
3 Women 12
The Man without a Past 12
The Conformist 12
The Third Part of the Night 12
Follow Me Quietly 12
Subida al Cielo 12
Humanity and Paper Balloons 12
Manoel on the Island of Miracles 12
El Sur 12
The Name of a River 12
Hawks and Sparrows 12
The Passion of Joan of Arc 12
The Flowers of St. Francis 12
When the Tenth Month Comes 12
Stars in My Crown 12
Eureka (Aoyama) 12
The Parallel Street 12
A Spring for the Thirsty 12
Shadows 12
The Ladykillers (Mackendrick) 12
A Page of Madness 12
Il Posto 12
Judex (Franju) 12
L’important c’est d’aimer 11
News from Home 11
I Walked with a Zombie 11
Berlin Alexanderplatz 11
Fanny and Alexander 11
The Gospel According to St. Matthew 11
Wagon Master 11
Charulata 11
My Friend Ivan Lapshin 11
Letter from an Unknown Woman 11
Screen Tests 11
Lucky Star (Borzage) 11
A City of Sadness 11
Alice in the Cities 11
Kaagaz Ke Phool 11
The Cameraman (Keaton) 11
Memories of Underdevelopment 11
Wanda 11
Gamperaliya 11
Invasion (Santiago) 11
Mr. Thank You 11
London (Keiller) 11
Frames of Reference 11
Satantango 11
Au hasard Balthazar 11
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hsiao-Hsien) 11
Once before I Die 10
Playtime 10
In the Mood for Love 10
Street of Crocodiles 10
The Red and the White 10
The Battle of Algiers 10
The Suspended Vocation 10
Bicycle Thieves 10
L’Eclisse 10
Vampyr 10
Teorema 10
The Man with a Movie Camera 10
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 10
Death by Hanging 10
Aguirre, the Wrath of God 10
The Road to the Racetrack 10
Pierrot le Fou 10
The Mirror (Tarkovsky) 10
Spirit of the Beehive 9
Gun Crazy 9
The Third Man 9
The Long Goodbye 9
Eden and After 9
The Cremator 9
Viridiana 9
The House (Bartas) 9
The Hole (Tsai) 9
The Green Ray 9
Claire’s Knee 9
The Trial 9
The Steel Helmet 9
Pather Panchali 9
Veronika Voss 9
Days of 36 9
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 9
The Goddess 9
Kings of the Road 9
Abraham Valley 9
The Leopard 9
Harakiri (Seppuku) 9
I Fidanzati 9
Ride Lonesome 9
In a Lonely Place 9
Pandora’s Box 9
The Wind (Sjostrom) 9
The Big Heat 9
The Treasure 9
Seduction (1929) 9
Pale Flower 9
Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky) 8
Yearning (Naruse) 8
Weekend (Godard) 8
His Girl Friday 8
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 8
Ugetsu 8
Ace in the Hole 8
La Jetee 8
Khrustalyov, My Car! 8
Ordet 8
Husbands 8
My 20th Century 8
The Boys from Fengkuei 8
A Day in the Country 8
Late Spring 8
Maborosi 8
Gertrud 7
The Color of Pomegranates 7
People on Sunday 7
The General 7
Pickpocket 7
Nights of Cabiria 7
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? 7
Titticut Follies 7
Brand upon the Brain! 7
Ikiru 6
The Music Room 5
Throne of Blood 5
The Wild Child 5
Boudu Saved from Drowning 5
Goodbye, Dragon Inn 5
“Once upon a time we were fallin’ in love, now we’re only…”
—PolarisDiB
+2 L’Eclisse
-1 Holy Mountain (just like the movie itself, its presence has long outlasted its welcome)
-1 The Conformist (Ay-yah, just sink that cave)
—PolarisDiB
We Won’t Grow Old Together +2
Throne of Blood -1
The Wild Child -1
No problem with those negatives. I actually love those two films, but they’re at the bottom so…
And I will be one of those people who will not be missing All About Lily Chou Chou.
+2 Ikiru
-1 Brand Upon the Brain!
-1 Gertrud
+2 Il Posto
-1 The General
-1 Ikiru
Lucky Star (Borzage) +2
Wagon Master -1
The Suspended Vocation -1
The Time To Live and the Time To Die +2
Ace in the Hole -1
Floating Clouds -1
Brand Upon the Brain! +2
Possession -1
Duck Soup -1
People on Sunday +2
Manila in the Claws of Neon -1
Flowers of St. Francis -1
On Holy Mountain, I should clarify.
I don’t really hate Holy Mountain, in fact I enjoyed most of it. However, both it and El Topo do the same really obnoxious thing I don’t like: end, and then continue running for another 45 minutes. I know that the idea of criticizing a movie for being too long or too short is anathema here, that the idea itself results in close scrutiny and conversation about auteur’s intentions and audience expectations and the time-based aspect of the medium itself, but the thing is, when The Dark Knight ends and then decides to tack on an extra two acts, at least the reversal follows a directed thematic element of how the symbolism of the characters themselves are up to attack and destruction at any given turn of events, which comes to par in the final act. And despite all of that, I barely forgave that movie for running on after its clear endpoint.
Just as you can see the line where Mulholland Dr. changes from a television series to a feature length movie, you can see the line in both El Topo and Holy Mountain where Jodorowsky goes, “And if anybody’s still with us at this point, I might as well just keep the drug-binge going.” And the second time, he was funded to do it because John Lennon thought it was cool story, bro, not particularly because of other midnight movie successes like Night of the Living Dead that despite its campiness actually meant something and Pink Flamingos which was honest about its “Let’s see if you’ll sit through this” and other movies that had their social or political element. Jodorowsky just liked going out in the desert with drugs, midgets, and a camera. I feel like his popularity is the art-house equivalent of the stoners who watch Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for the wrong reasons.
Which is Ari’s criticism of Koyaanisqatsi, ironically, so that just goes to show how differently people can perceive different things. I give Jodorowsky kudos for gaining the respect that he has and Sante Sangre isn’t as bad (mostly because it doesn’t last as long), and I have an off-hand suspicion that Fando & Lis may be pretty good simply because it seems like his movies are good in bits and pieces, just not 2 1/2 to 3 hour epics of “Well and now I’m bored with the desert, let’s start dousing someone in honey and then make a completely different movie to tack on to the ending.”
And I mean come on. I already struggle with how Werner Herzog and Francis Ford Coppola and so on have destroyed animals, forestry, and sometimes people to make their crazy-ass imaginations come to life, but at least they have something resembling focus and a point. Look at how many animals Jodorowsky slaughters in his movies, and for what? So that John Lennon can feel a good vibe, man?
Edit: and on the flipside, I do have a fondness for basically any movie where the director goes, “Fuck it, I do whaddiwant!” and just exults. So there’s that.
—PolarisDiB
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums +2
Celine and Julie Go Boating -1
Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky) -1
Ugetsu + 2
His Girl Friday -1
Husbands -1
The Boys from Fengkuei +2
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes -1
Edvard Munch -1
+2 Jetee
-1 The General
-1 The Color of Pomegranates
Vlietronium
We need a mercy kill. Otherwise the lava floor will rise…