May see one two more tho I doubt I'll see anything that could change the top 20 so here's. Frankly the ones I have seen for poll have been mediocrities for the most part. Os Cajafestes definitely did not kick my ass: young nihilists, Antonionian windowdressing, seen it a hundred times, yawn. ivan's ...

There's a site with English-subbed Polish classics - but only, it claims, till end of November:

https:// 35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/

Does anyone know how to "grab" this stuff while it's still up?

As I said, always check Soviet movies on Google/LB against IMDb. Something to do with the Western vs Eastern calendar I suppose.

one of the post-silent era years from which i've seen the fewest films I, on the other hand, have a letterboxer list what runs to 71 titles, including: NINE DAYS OF ONE YEAR (Mikhail Romm): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Ew8x3D0zE (Man, what a year this was for the reds! Keep in mind though that...

ack! once more failed to get round to the puppetmaster. i'm scratching the big populars (farewell naked groundhogs!), since they'll get their votes anyways. seopyonje calendar scent of green papaya the blue kite the last dance (itami) to the starry island (park) fox hunter (gulea) women from the lak...

OK heres what I got. The date for SHACKLES (Nansalmaagin Uranchimeg) is 1993 on LB, 1998 on IMDb, and various other dates online (1994, even 1991), so who knows. Otherwise I'd have two Mongol films on here, an unusual situation to say the least. The second, RUNNING ANTELOPE (I. Nyamgavaa), ain't on ...

Angèle The Downfall of Osen L'atalante Man of Aran A Story of Floating Weeds The Scarlet Empress Rapt La signora di tutti The Goddess Le Grand Jeu La Belle de Nuit Liliom The Lost Patrol Maria Chapdelaine My Neighbor Miss Yae El Compadre Mendoza Now and Forever A Modern Hero The Wedding of Palo Uzhm...

La belle de nuit (Louis Valray). Two French movies from this year about a Parisian chap who's jilted by a lady and who in some distant place (Toulon this time - not so distant as La Grande Jeu's North Africa) meets a lady who's the spittin image of her. I liked em both about equally. However, based ...

wba wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:08 am Final List
Mister Cinders (Friedrich Zelnik, UK)

You putting this first had me intrigued - but's 1935 on IMDb.

Rippin' year, as are all 1930s. This'd probably be my list now. Will try to actually watch a few for the poll this time, since it ain't 2007 or similarly humdrum: Angèle (Pagnol) The Downfall of Osen (Mizoguchi) ('35 on LB, but IMDb has '34) L'Atalante (Vigo) Story of Floating Weeds (Ozu) Man of Ara...

Is there a good year for movies in the 21st century? Compare 2007 to 1954 and 1929: supremely depressing. Well, for what it's worth: Lust, Caution In the City of Sylvia There Will Be Blood 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days Happiness (Hur Jin-ho) With a Girl of Black Soil (Jeon Soo-il) We Own the Night E...

Finding places for the Gardens of Evil Women. Will watch the Bergman tonight, see if it knocks any off the list. It'll be, alas, the only movie I'll get around to for the poll. Computer busted & am on the road. Sansho the Bailiff The Seven Samurai The Sound of the Mountain The Purple Plain An In...

Sansho is my all time #1. Mizoguchi was really on fire in 1954. Good to see the love for Purple Plain. Contendahs (as in I coulda been a) Sansho Crucified Lovers Woman in the Rumor 7 Samurai Sound of the Mountain Purple Plain Gold of Naples Human Desire Garden of Evil The High and the Mighty La Spia...

Arsenal Den Starkaste The Manxman Un Chien Andalou Eternal Love Maman Colibri The Night Coachman (Tasin) Turksib La Femme et le Pantin Lucky Star Heart's Triumph 2-buldi-2 The Sins of Love (Lamac) Spite Marriage The Last Attraction (Preobrazhenskaya & Pravov) In Spring (Kaufman) Peau de Peche Th...

Just noticed that no English subtitles are available...and someone already translated that interview on kg lol. Maybe it'll be the first subtitle project I'll embark on. If you do, I'll get my better 75% to help me translate one of the currently unsubtitled Soviet films from this year. There are pl...

has anyone seen any italian films from 29? am crazy about the early years but italy had sort of gone off the boil in the late 20's and am wondering what their last gasp silents looked like but can't seem to locate any Camerini's RAILS is another once-was-1929-what's-now-some-other-imdb-year. The ot...

Thanks for the link, Karl! The 1929 Swedish film to see apart from the Molander one is Kingdom of Rye. It premiered on the same day as the first Swedish sound film (Säg det i toner) and was a massive flop. Ingmar Bergman thought highly of it and named it as one of his three favourite Swedish silent...

Oh, and by the way, here's a 1929 for you all - the last great Swedish silent:

https://archive.org/details/den-sarkast ... lf-sjoberg

also can anyone get their hands on a copy of la divine croisière that doesn't have someone's head occupying the bottom half of the screen for the first half? (subs and decent image quality would be nice but will take without) Alas I think that's the sole extant copy. But you rated the great Maman C...

i'm quite sure THE RIVER and DANS LA NUIT were both 1929 when we last did this poll the contenders for this outstanding year Arsenal The Strongest (Axel Lindblom & Alf Sjöberg) Maman Colibri (Julien Duvivier) Un Chien Andalou Eternal Love The Night Coachman (Giorgi Tasin) (pretty sure this was a...

keeping off the big obvious ones they'll get plenty votes anyway pastorale a hundred days after childhood 141 minutes from the unfinished sentence the captivating star of happiness chronicle of the years of fire a woman's decision (zanussi) love at first sight (esadze) sirius (vlacil) iracema (bodan...

Two fine Romanian films starring Mircea Diaconu this year - very different roles, but in both he's a fellow trying to maintain his integrity in a corrupt woild: FILIP THE KIND (Dan Pita) and RED APPLES (Alexandru Tatos): https://i.imgur.com/uDUjFYu.png https://i.imgur.com/tBZuBZi.png The movies are ...

For those looking for something really obscure in 1975, there's the "landmark of Assamese cinema" Ganga Chiloner Pankhi, called in English alternately WINGS OF THE TERN, FEATHERS OF THE TERN, and THE WINGS OF THE ALBATROSS. Take your pick. Here's an article on the film: https://scroll.in/r...

Captivating Star of Happiness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIX4EDGV4ic


A Hundred Days after Childhood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbmypRdgAJc

Contenders: The Traveling Players (Angelopoulos) Pastorale (Iosseliani) Mirror (Tarkovsky) Love at First Sight (Esadze) One Hundred Days after Childhood (Solovyov) Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches (Asanova) Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Lakhdar-Hamina) First Swallow (Mchedlidze) The Captivating Sta...

Day of Wrath Sanshiro Sugata Les Anges du péché The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Ossessione Shadow of a Doubt Heaven Can Wait The Song Lantern (Naruse) I Walked with a Zombie Le Corbeau Ordet (Molander) This Land Is Mine His Butler's Sister Campo de' fiori (Bonnard) Romance in a Minor Key (Käutne...

Worthy '88s on the 'Tyoob: A WOMAN FOR TWO (Ling Zifeng). A woman and her lover find themselves in a pickle when the woman's husband, now a legless beggar, recognizes her on the street and follows her home. Tony Rayns: "Ever since history relieved him of the obligation to direct communist propa...

Not a year of earthshaking masterpieces, but many fine not-quites. Traveling Circus (Việt Linh) Landscape in the Mist Heart of a Dog (Vladimir Bortko) The Last Judgment (Herz Frank) A Woman for Two (Ling Zifeng) The Girl from Hunan (Xie Fei) The Realm between Life and Death (Wu Ziniu) Chilsu and Man...

Happy New Year, champers. The Big City High and Low Donovan's Reef Contempt The House Is Black Silence (Kazimierz Kutz) How to Be Loved (Wojciech Has) A Legend or Was It? The Fire Within Winter Light Transport from Paradise (Zbyněk Brynych) Something Different (Věra Chytilová) Whistle Stop (Boris Ba...