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next yr?

hey, i ran this for a "year cup" once upon a time. contenders for the 20: letter from the wife (patri) marriageable girls (kondratiuk) a cuban fight against demons (gutiérrez alea) pearl in the crown (kutz) the true nature of bernadette (carle) the stationmaster (solovyov) psychodrama (piw...

OK. Five that didn't make any lists. For you, Flippah.

1. Nob Hill
2. From Hell to Texas
3. The Desert Fox
4. Now and Forever
5. Down to the Sea in Ships

the year i took up half the thread bashing those artfilm hack stobhullets's repellant "history lessons" with that gaspard dude passionately defending it and calling me an asshole. seems so long ago. sweet memories.

saw a number of good films last year, but not much truly excellent. cream o' crop:

the parson's wife (dreyer)
shame (bergman)
this is my country (brocka)
three godless years (o'hara)
the manxman (hitchock)
the strongest (lindblom & sjoberg)
a piece of sky (malyan)

heck i'm reading all the time, as refuge from our foolish age. probably forgetting some below: i make notes but don't always keep track. twas meant to be the year of the 19th century novels, but aside from the peacocks, austen, gissing, white, and turgenev i didn't get round to any. lots of literary...

dust in the wind (hou) the sacrifice (tarkovsky) the mosquito coast (weir) trial on the road (german) quiet happiness (hanak) the photograph (papatakis) tree without leaves (shindo) chronicle of amorous accidents (wajda) sacrificed youth (zhang) report to mother (abraham) swan song (zhang) the terro...

Why not just give up on this poll business when you all run out of real directors?

SWAN SONG (Zhang Zeming). Bitter picture of the kinds of people destroyed by the so-called Cultural Revolution (who stubbornly cling to Old Ways and refuse to adapt to the New Thinking), those who managed not only to weather it but to succeed when it was all finally over, and the New Youth of the '8...

those interested in obscure movies directed by women might enjoy the following. subs are imperfect to say the least for the first, and quality lousy for the other two: the birds sang in a tranquil place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7KQSzWH9T0 and sacrificed youth, in two parts: https://www.yout...

i used to think the eighties a rather lousy decade for films, when it was really only a lousy decade for american films. china and taiwan this year, oh my. the contenders: dust in the wind the sacrifice the mosquito coast (a very old favorite and still i think spot on as a depiction of a certain typ...

ron howard? you people must be really hard up for directors.

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...