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wba wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2024 12:07 pm One of my favorite Cormans, one of my favorite Westerns, and a masterpiece in my book.

How many masterpieces are in your book? I'm curious. Between you and Lencho (6 5-star ratings) we get the full-range....

Five Guns West (Roger Corman, American Releasing Corporation [soon AIP], 1955) Started off my Complete Corman Retrospective (1 movie a week for a year), accompanied by James Ursini and Alain Silver's retrospective book, with a bang! I'd seen this one before, but really underrated it. Clearly, I don...

The Terrornauts (Montgomery Tully, Amicus Productions) [UK] Brim-filled with neat mid-century modern tech contraptions, which are showcased in the distinctive Eastmancolor process. Among the most Mélièsian of sound films. https://thumbs4.imagebam.com/ad/4e/a3/METWAWD_t.png https://thumbs4.imagebam....

Delightful list. Highlighted, for me, by Mad About Music at 262!

What a delightful poll! Thank you for it, flip. Not sure about the '20s, maybe Finis Terræ? or a Keaton, say Our Hospitality? Limite would have been my guess for the #1 overall film based on how often it was showing up. (Still haven't seen it.) But since it's probably a film from the '60s, '70s, or ...

flip wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 10:51 pm done! still don't think it will be close to the top 100, but it's ahead of gone with the wind and lawrence of arabia now, which makes me happy

I may just do a complete chronological retrospective of Corman movies now... The last of the old masters.

Didn't manage to watch/rewatch as much as I'd hoped. My disappointingly all-American list: They Were Expendable (John Ford, MGM) Identity Unknown (Walter Colmes, Republic) Strange Illusion (Edgar G. Ulmer, PRC) Thrill of a Romance (Richard Thorpe, MGM) Yolanda and the Thief (Vincente Minnelli, MGM) ...

My top 100 for the entire history of cinema, that is, 1895–1959 (lol). I did 3 sets of 20 favourites (10 USA & 10 Non-USA, taking a page from Angel), followed by 20 Expressive Esoterica selections and 20 Comfort Food movies. No director duplicates except for 2 Dreyer and, uh, 5 Lubitsch (lol). S...

Exactly! At least we're not alone...

Another year poll, another glorious find by Lencho. Thanks for the tip. Identity Unknown (Walter Colmes, Republic) was one of the very best '40s Poverty Row movies I've ever seen——one of the best '40s USA movies I've seen, period. At first I didn't think it would work for me at all, but slowly, slow...

Some Hollywood genre viewings over the past few days Thrill of a Romance (Richard Thorpe, MGM) Produced by Joe Pasternak. Highly recommended to fans of Deanna Durbin——and no one else. Esther Williams in a mega-cute romance with Van Johnson, with comic relief / opera performances by the great Danish...

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:07 am according to wiki and khruschevs memoir this was stalin's favorite film

Always thought it was Volga Volga!

Yolanda and the Thief (Vincente Minnelli, MGM) It cost almost $2.5 million and lost over $1.5 million at the box office. I think warmly upon this one, although it wasn't the diamond in the rough I was hoping for. Lucille Bremer doesn't have enough star power to carry it, so it's more of an Astaire ...

Wow! That's impressive. I have 20%... Working on it. I'll use this for recs for a while, I'm sure

https://www.theyshootpictures.com/beyondtheSScanon.htm

https://letterboxd.com/desdemoor/list/b ... list-2024/

"In summary, these are not the most voted-for films overall (if so, this list would have been heavily biased towards recent cinema). They are essentially the most voted-for films from each year and each country. We suspect that you will be quietly stunned at the number of outstanding films on t...

Amazing, thank you!!!

Happy 100th anniversary viewing!!

Choose your favourite films from 1924 (according to IMDB). Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number. Twenty-film ballots can be formatted as follows: - Five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier - Four tiers of ...

La danse du feu (Georges Méliès, Star Film) Cendrillon (Georges Méliès, Star Film) Upside Down; or, The Human Flies (Walter R. Booth, Robert W. Paul) King John (Unknown director, British Mutoscope & Biograph) In the Grip of the Blizzard (Unknown director, American Mutoscope & Biograph) Le po...

February 2024 year poll will be ... 1924

it's funny to see finland rated the happiest country on earth when my primary exposure has been aki's movies :lol: Yes! :lol: I took a course on Finnish Cinema over a decade ago, and the teacher showed all and only the most depressing movies. Eventually, we started to ask for an explanation, and sh...

rischka wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:14 pm some of us are girls

Yes, welcome Zuzu!

Demographics are well-represented by the results: cranky, out-of-touch cinephiles (or perhaps that's just me)!

Ah, then perhaps the other ones will continue to not fully click for me. Oh well.

First movie of the year was Monkey Business (1931) off TCM. What do people make of the Marx Brothers round here? I've never found my way into appreciating their work much, but I wonder if I'll be able to now. In any case, this was the first time a viewing of a Marx Brothers movie has really clicked ...

Choose your favourite films from 2017 (according to IMDB). Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number. Twenty-film ballots can be formatted as follows: - Five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier - Four tiers of ...

Choose your favourite films from 1899—yes, 1899 (according to IMDB). Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number. Twenty-film ballots can be formatted as follows: - Five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier - Four...

Mad About Music Sally Swing Birthright Under Western Stars Nancy Drew… Detective A Star Is Hatched The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse I Am the Law The Adventures of Robin Hood Pals of the Saddle Heart of Arizona Red River Range Making Fashion Holiday Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife Speaking from America Out Where...

Various philosophy, mostly journal articles, some classics, of which Plato's Parmenides was the highlight and new discovery. I got to interview a big prof (hopefully my future thesis supervisor) about his latest book, which I read. Probably the most notable read for these parts was Gershom Scholem's...