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Seen 4, just the horror films but they’re all exceptional

1. The Bride of Frankenstein
2. The Invisible Man

love what I’ve seen, gotta see more.
seen 7

1. The Incredible Shrinking Man
2. Creature from the Black Lagoon
3. High School Confidential
4. Monster on the Campus

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 10:53 pm 1993's a pretty good year for horror...

It’s alright. It’s got nothing on ‘92 tho.

kinda lackluster year imo. unranked. Blue (Derek Jarman) Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater) The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To) I Was a Teenage Serial Killer (Sarah Jacobson) Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (Adam Marcus) Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) Matinee (Joe Dante) The Piano (Jane Campion)...

Seen 15, might try to watch more before poll’s end (haven’t seen Venus in Furs, but based on these lists I guess I really should!)

1. Vampyros Lesbos
2. Night Has a Thousand Desires
3. Eugenie de Sade
4. Venus in Furs
5. Faceless

EDIT:
Ok, I watched Venus in Furs and updated accordingly

first time watches only. an interesting though lamentable snapshot of who I am as a person. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003) Zack Snyder's Justice League (Zack Snyder, 2021) Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raul Ruiz, 1983) The Trip (Roger Corman, 1967) Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Dav...

ugh, I really need to watch more films not from America. 4 tiers of 3: 1. Halloween (Rob Zombie) 2. Zodiac (David Fincher) 3. Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola) 4. Funny Games (Michael Haneke) 5. No Country for Old Men (Coens) 6. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 7. Hostel Part ...

yep, never would’ve guessed him

What about Bob Fosse?

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky) Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir) Deep Red (Dario Argento) Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick) The Switchblade Sisters (Jack Hill) Lips of Blood (Jean Rollin) Jaws (Steven Spielberg) Supervixens (Russ Meyer) Four Women (Julie Dash) Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS (Don Edmonds) The Sup...

lol like at least half of favorite working rappers/producers would probably be from atlanta

Freaks
Dracula

Seen 3

Targets

Ok I’ve seen 12 features and 2 shorts, so I guess that means I can vote for 7?

1. Female Trouble
2. Multiple Maniacs
3. Pink Flamingos
4. Desperate Living
5. Hairspray
6. Polyester
7. A Dirty Shame

flip wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 1:25 pm grabmymask, you can pick our next director if you like!

Y’all haven’t done John Waters yet right? I’ve seen all 12 features.

Seen 7

1. Glass
2. Unbreakable
3. Signs
4. The Sixth Sense

Didn’t vote in this poll, but I’ve seen both and I’d vote for The Seventh Victim

Curtis, baby wrote: ↑Sun May 02, 2021 11:13 pm I think I'm the only one who doesn't like those Val Lewton movies (seen 9 of 11, rated none higher than 3/5)

I shamelessly love all 9 of Lewton’s RKO horror pictures. The lowest I’ve rated any of them is 4/5—and that’s only for Bedlam!

These Oscars/Cannes polls are pretty fun actually.

5
Barry Lyndon

4
Jaws

3
Dog Day Afternoon

2
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest


alternate ballot:
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Night Moves
Mahogany
Mandingo
Tommy

David Church — Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom
J.D. Salinger — The Catcher in the Rye
Andrew Sarris — The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968

five tiers of two: I Walked With A Zombie (Jacques Tourneur) The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur) The Ghost Ship (Mark Robson) The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson) Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren) Angels of Sin (Robert Bresson) Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock) Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli) ...

Quite an amazing list! I’ve also only seen 5 of the top 10, and only 35 from the entire list

It feels like every other new Criterion release these days is either American independent films or new foreign Oscars fare (Parasite, Roma, Portrait of a woman on fire). This is true to a degree, but they still release a lot of “arthouse” “classics”—their March releases included Touki Bouki, Mandab...

I also don't like how Criterion positions all its movies as all great works of art - the implication is that if it isn't morally and aesthetically good, it's not supposed to be in the collection. If you think a given movie in our collection is not morally or aesthetically good, well, (the implicati...

For what it’s worth, though I strongly disliked the film, I do not at all think there is any kind of moral imperative that people should dislike it or anything like that (nor I do I have any kind of personal problem with people who like it, obviously). In fact, my favorite of the best pic noms this ...

people who find no fault with Toy Story or other blockbusters all of a sudden are keyed in on hypocrisy, which seems more than a day late and dollar short, so, personally, I'm not taking any of the talk as being worth much since it's almost all ignoring its own contextual issues among other things ...

I’m voting for The King of Staten Island

Since no one else is biting, I edited my ballot to break the editing tie. My top two were basically tied anyway.

I don't want to be harsh enough to claim that this is the intention, to somehow whitewash poverty and poor living conditions as an eccentric living choice of brave pioneers/individualist. I think McDormand’s Vogue cover story about the film is very revealing about the intentions behind the film. Fo...