Oh Ali, how could you? 2 Rohmer votes down :( :( Nothing personal? Nao, nao, nao. Majid the Majestic is most displeased.
And what’s all this Brakhage love? Down down down
I just don’t have enough votes to save more films, my work is cut out for me with the two I’ve voted up the most and I still want to be able to help A Snake of June and White Ribbon.
Can I have another + vote for being such a Square G, huh, Dib, can I, can I, huh?
(I may be punch drunk from a long drive and covering a football game, tweaking/submitting five photos, and writing the game story, while trying to beat the 11:3o deadline, I did it by 4 minutes, and the story’s length was 666 words, did I sell my soul? I mean I am in Twentynine Palms, soooo…..)
And Dim, grading the weight of Spite, really? Spite is spite and has little to do with the films and more to do with the people championing them.
+2 Demons (O’Hara)
-1 Picnic at Hanging Rock
-1 Fallen Angels
I have to admit this last round was a lot of fun. Was it as good for you as it was good for me?
ROUND FORTY TWO
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Faces, Je vous salue Sarajevo went home alone last night.
The World of Apu, La Plaisir, Avetik, Late Autumn (1960), Awaara, Cool Hand Luke, Meshes of the Afternoon, Out 1, The Godfather Part II, Histoire(s) du cinema, Gabbeh, Amarcord, A nos amours, Rio Bravo, Modern Times, The Hustler, The Shining, White Heat, Harvest: 3000 Years fell asleep before they could finish.
Commingled Containers couldn’t get it up, and the next five suffered -1s for crying while they did it.
These other ones got something to brag about, though:
Possession 21
Aparajito 20
Eros Plus Massacre 20
The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes 20
The Travelling Players 19
Once upon a Time there was a Singing Blackbird 19
Edvard Munch 19
Veredas 19
Chimes at Midnight 18
The Hole (Tsai) 18
Medium Cool 18
Come and See 18
Les Vampires 18
Berlin Alexanderplatz 18
City of Pirates 18
Manila in the Claws of Neon 18
A Brighter Summer Day 18
Marketa Lazarova 18
The Only Son 18
Andrei Rublev 18
The Mother and the Whore 18
Evolution of a Filipino Family 18
Maborosi 17
Sherlock Jr. 17
3 Women 17
A Woman under the Influence 17
Sansho the Bailiff 17
Wagon Master 17
Heartbeat Detector (aka The Human Question) 17
Celine and Julie Go Boating 17
Follow Me Quietly 17
Stone Wedding 17
My Neighbor Totoro 17
The Passion of Joan of Arc 17
Sans Soleil 17
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 16
L’important c’est d’aimer 16
Pyaasa 16
The Corridor 16
Insiang 16
Duck Soup 16
The Executioner 16
La Cienaga 16
Humanity and Paper Balloons 16
The Sound of the Mountain 16
Manoel on the Island of Miracles 16
The Man without a Past 16
Badlands 16
Jeanne Dielman, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 15
Screen Tests 15
Once before I Die 15
Early Summer 15
Woman in the Dunes 15
The Suspended Vocation 15
Tale of Tales 15
Close-Up (Kiarostami) 15
Lucky Star (Borzage) 15
Subida al Cielo 15
Black God, White Devil 15
Death in the Land of Encantos 15
A City of Sadness 15
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz 15
Alice in the Cities 15
The Charles Bukowski Tapes 15
Yeelen 15
My Night at Maud’s 15
Charulata 15
The Battle of Algiers 15
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 15
Stalker 15
Stranger than Paradise 14
The Ogre of Athens 14
The Golden Thread 14
Eureka (Aoyama) 14
Ornamental Hairpin 14
The Cloud-Capped Star 14
Seven Up! 14
The Third Part of the Night 14
Pastoral: To Die in the Country 14
Brand upon the Brain! 14
I Walked with a Zombie 14
The Color of Pomegranates 14
The Name of a River 14
Playtime 14
Hawks and Sparrows 14
The Browning Version (Asquith) 14
News from Home 14
Tropical Malady 13
The Green Ray 13
Veronika Voss 13
Raise the Red Lantern 13
Goodbye, Dragon Inn 13
Pather Panchali 13
Boudu Saved from Drowning 13
Harakiri (Seppuku) 13
Le Trou 13
Scenes from a Marriage 13
The Age of the Earth 13
Bicycle Thieves 13
My Friend Ivan Lapshin 13
Street of Crocodiles 13
O Megalexandros (Alexander the Great) 13
Pale Flower 13
A Man Escaped 13
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hsiao-Hsien) 13
Killer of Sheep 13
Days of 36 13
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator 13
Train of Shadows 13
The Human Condition 13
The House is Black 13
Noite Vazia 13
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 13
The Steel Helmet 13
The Wild Child 13
The Trial 13
The Dupes 13
Kaagaz Ke Phool 13
The Mirror (Tarkovsky) 13
Videodrome 13
Yi Yi 13
All about Lily Chou-Chou 13
Red Psalm 12
Claire’s Knee 12
El Sur 12
The Conformist 12
Ugetsu 12
The House (Bartas) 12
Late Spring 12
Au hasard Balthazar 12
The Parallel Street 12
400 Blows 12
A Page of Madness 12
Letter from an Unknown Woman 12
Judex (Franju) 12
The Flowers of St. Francis 12
Chungking Express 12
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 12
Pierrot le Fou 12
Koyaanisqatsi 11
The End of Evangelion 11
L’Eclisse 11
The Leopard 11
Ride Lonesome 11
My 20th Century 11
Teorema 11
Yearning (Naruse) 11
The Long Goodbye 11
Out of the Past 11
Tokyo Story 11
The Goddess 11
The Wind (Sjostrom) 11
Kings of the Road 11
M 11
Gamperaliya 11
Wanda 11
London (Keiller) 11
Sweet Movie 11
This Transient Life 11
Memories of Underdevelopment 11
Spirit of the Beehive 11
Ikiru 11
The Apartment 11
Red Angel 11
The Hour of the Furnaces 11
In the Mood for Love 11
Black Narcissus 11
Paths of Glory 11
The Gospel According to St. Matthew 11
Days and Nights in the Forest 11
If… 10
Suspiria 10
Viridiana 10
Death by Hanging 10
The Lady Eve 10
Make Way for Tomorrow 10
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 10
The Red Balloon 10
Eden and After 10
Meet Me in St. Louis 10
L’Atalante 10
Solaris (Solyaris) 10
La Jetee 10
Winter Light 10
Wings of Desire 10
Pickpocket 10
Ace in the Hole 10
Werckmeister Harmonies 10
Caravaggio 10
Los Olvidados 10
Io Island 10
Le Samourai 10
Last Year at Marienbad 10
The Man Who Sleeps 9
The River (Renoir) 9
Syndromes and a Century 9
Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky) 9
Weekend (Godard) 9
Hiroshima mon amour 9
Shadows 9
The Cremator 9
His Girl Friday 9
Rosemary’s Baby 9
World on a Wire 9
Prenom Carmen 9
Trouble in Paradise 9
Abraham Valley 9
Vampyr 9
Throne of Blood 9
Floating Clouds 9
The Cameraman (Keaton) 9
The Wayward Cloud 9
The General 9
Paisan 9
In a Lonely Place 9
The Treasure 9
Donkey in a Brahmin Village 9
We Won’t Grow Old Together 9
Manhattan 9
Khrustalyov, My Car! 9
A Day in the Country 9
Satantango 8
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 8
Dead Ringers 8
The Godfather 8
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun 8
Chinatown 8
Hana-bi (aka Fireworks) 8
The Music Room 8
Daisies 8
Vagabond 8
The Man with a Movie Camera 8
A Spring for the Thirsty 8
Pandora’s Box 8
Birdsong 8
The Round-Up (Jancso) 8
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 8
Dog Day Afternoon 8
The White Ribbon 7
A Snake of June 7
Monty Python’s Life of Brian 7
The Wages of Fear 7
Stars in My Crown 7
Notorious (Hitchcock) 7
Wild Strawberries 7
Invasion (Santiago) 7
The Earrings of Madame de… 7
Funeral Parade of Roses 7
Arrebato (aka Rapture) 7
Husbands 7
Strangers on a Train 7
Nostalgia for Countryland 7
Mr. Thank You 7
Stromboli 7
When the Tenth Month Comes 7
A Canterbury Tale (Powell & Pressburger) 7
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 7
Gun Crazy 7
Our Hospitality 7
The Thing (Carpenter) 7
Blue (Jarman) 7
Titticut Follies 7
La Dolce Vita 7
The Cranes are Flying 7
I Fidanzati 7
Aguirre, the Wrath of God 7
The Third Man 7
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau) 7
Fists in the Pocket 7
Dog Star Man 6
The Rules of the Game 6
A Place in the Sun 6
Taxi Driver 6
The Red Shoes 6
2 or 3 Things I Know about Her 6
Sunrise 6
Sunset Boulevard 6
Les Vacances de M. Hulot (M. Hulot’s Holiday) 6
Ordet 6
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 6
Paris, Texas 6
The Big Heat 6
Cul-de-Sac 6
Children of Paradise 6
Le Cercle Rouge 6
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? 6
Apocalypse Now 6
Fanny and Alexander 6
Samurai Rebellion 6
Refrains Happen like Revolutions in a Song 6
People on Sunday 6
Distant Voices, Still Lives 6
Army of Shadows 6
La Chinoise 6
Born in Flames 6
Ran 6
The Seventh Seal 6
Barry Lyndon 6
Detour 6
Demons (O’Hara) 6
Phenomena (Argento) 5
My Darling Clementine 5
Touch of Evil 5
High and Low 5
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 5
Senso 5
Tetsuo: the Iron Man 5
Onibaba 5
Peeping Tom 5
A Hard Day’s Night 5
Nights of Cabiria 5
The Night of the Hunter 5
City Lights 5
Branded to Kill 5
The Mirror (Panahi) 5
The Sacrifice 5
God’s Comedy 5
Vengeance is Mine 5
Through the Olive Trees 5
Lodz Symphony 5
Seduction (1929) 5
Lonesome 5
Vive L’Amour 5
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch) 5
India: Matri Bhumi 5
The Ox-Bow Incident 5
Life of Oharu 5
The Pear Tree 5
Umberto D 5
Frames of Reference 5
Ride the High Country 5
Il Posto 5
Boy 5
Spring in a Small Town (Mu) 5
Cleo from 5 to 7 5
It Happened One Night 5
The Road to the Racetrack 5
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV 5
The Pearl (d’Ursel) 5
Rififi 5
The Boys from Fengkuei 5
Blood (Costa) 5
A Moment of Innocence 5
Only Yesterday 5
The Great Dictator 5
Tales of the Taira Clan 5
Tabu 5
La ronde 5
Platform 5
A Summer at Grandpa’s 5
The Phantom of Liberty 5
The Young Girls of Rochefort 5
The Saragossa Manuscript 5
Men on the Mountain 5
The Double Life of Veronique 4
Citizen Kane 4
Kontroll 4
Seven Samurai 4
Blissfully Yours 4
The Red and the White 4
I Can’t Sleep 4
Gertrud 4
The Conversation 4
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 4
The Passenger (Antonioni) 4
Songs from the Second Floor 4
Grand Illusion 4
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 4
Land of Silence and Darkness 4
Window Water Baby Moving 4
Landscape in the Mist 4
Sullivan’s Travels 4
Three Days (Bartas) 4
The Best of Youth 4
The Ladykillers (Mackendrick) 4
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 4
Days of Heaven 4
Annie Hall 4
Fallen Angels 3
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 3
Bigger than Life 3
Blue Velvet 3
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 3
The King of Comedy 3
The Lady Vanishes 3
I am Cuba 3
The Last Picture Show 3
Cria Cuervos 3
Brief Encounter 3
The Crucified Woman 3
Cries and Whispers 3
Kind Hearts and Coronets 3
Vivre sa vie 3
Last Exit to Brooklyn 3
Nosferatu (Murnau) 3
The Crowd 3
Love Streams 3
Canyon Passage 3
The Shop around the Corner 3
The Story of Marie and Julien 3
Casque d’or 3
Still Life (Saless) 3
Day of Wrath 3
Meditation on Violence 3
Underworld (von Sternberg) 3
Thieves’ Highway 2
Juvenile Court 2
The Shiinomi School 2
The Decalogue 2
Batang West Side 2
Put on your beer goggles!
—PolarisDiB
+2 The Red and the White
Natch.
-1 If…
-1 Meet Me in St. Louis
—PolarisDiB
“Je ne suis pas déçu. Le ciel est merveilleux.”
Eric Rohmer.
+2 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
-1 The Last Picture Show
-1 The King of Comedy
My 20th Century +2
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly -1
Stranger than Paradise -1
Raise the Red Lantern +2
Barry Lyndon -1
Aguirre, the Wrath of God -1
+2 Pierrot Le Fou
+2 Taxi Driver
-1 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
-1 The Red and the White
+2 The Goddess
-1 Sunrise
- 1 Touch of Evil
Annie Hall +2
Maborosi -1
Satantango -1
+2 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
-1 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
-1 if…
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks +2
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -1
Rosemary’s Baby -1
This is getting more difficult, as I have fewer and fewer issues with every remaining film (that I’ve seen).
Of the top twenty I’ve seen ten.
+2 The End of Evangelion
-1 Blue Velvet
-1 M
Stalker +2
Shadows -1
Touch of Evil -1
Possession +2
Hiroshima mon amour -1 (When it’s buried, at least it can be used as fertilizer.)
Pierrot Le Fou -1 (Does this really need recognition? The movie with Bardot’s backside is better.)
+2 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
-1 Taxi Driver
+2 Throne of Blood
Westley wrote: “The End of Evangelion”
This film’s inclusion on the list has somehow slipped by me until now. I haven’t seen it, but I am surprised that there is still a non-Studio Ghibli animated film remaining.
Stone Wedding +2
Annie Hall -1
Once Before I Die -1
People on Sunday +2
Hiroshima Mon Amour -1
Children of Paradise -1
People on Sunday +2
Hiroshima Mon Amour -1
Children of Paradise -1
“a non-Studio Ghibli animated film remaining”
Street of Crocodiles
—PolarisDiB
Gainax > Ghibli
I haven’t seen Maborosi (yet) but Drew, dude, you’ve been continuously voting down Satantango, did you hate it that much?
+2 Videodrome
-1 Holy Mountain
-1 The Man Who Sleeps
Some great stuff in the top 20…
“Street of Crocodiles”
I always had trouble getting into stop motion, even when I was a kid with Wallace and Gromit, Gumby, etc. Just doesn’t appeal to me.
I do confess to kind of liking Pingu though :)
Josh Hansen
A Day in the Country +2
Koyaanisqatsi -1
The Man Who Sleeps -1