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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...

Larisa Shepitko's first - her diploma film, shot in Kyrgyzstan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7e9aHLNkvU&ab_channel=BizdinkgMedia Satyajit Ray's masterpiece may be my #1 for the year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHEnRpTKyfw&ab_channel=infoKothon A Trip without a Load, a great Soviet R...

Too many good ones I'd have to cut to get 20 without even seeing any more: typical for the Sixties. The Contenders: The Big City (Ray) High and Low (Kurosawa) Donovan's Reef (Ford) Contempt (Godard) (the only Godard film I really like) Silence (Kutz) How to Be Loved (Has) Vertigo (Kachyňa) Transport...

Sunday (Jonathan Nossiter) Taste of Cherry The Eel Gadjo Dilo Voyage to the Beginning of Time Children of Heaven Paper Airplanes (Farhad Mehranfar) Xiao Wu Henry Fool A Friend of the Deceased Character Green Fish Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control Gypsy Magic (Stole Popov) Chinese Box Washington Squar...

If you require yr Iranian film of a more "intellectual" bent like Taste of Cherry and scorn something like Children of Heaven or Majidi-type films, I'd say avoid it, but we thought PAPER AIRPLANES (dir: Farhad Mehranfar) a lovely one. It'll definitely make the list for this dull year: On Y...

I thought my ten was a lot for this director, yet there's 11 and 13 above.

The only (fairly) weak ones I've seen are the ones about musicians: Albert and Concert at the End of Summer.

1. Valley of the Bees
2. Marketa Lazarova
3. Adelheid
4. Sirius
5. Shadows of a Hot Summer

Jiří Menzel. Sadness.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... dies-at-82

That's funny, I think it's a purty excellent year. Tough call... between the two Mizoguchis... for number one. Still on the road, so dunno if I'll see many nor any, but the desire's stronger than 2004 certainly. I never did finish the Pagnol trilogy, can't recall why. Who has a subtitled copy of the...

Seen 4:

1. Daybreak
2. Knight Without Armour

Who?

Pont des Arts or Tropical Malady's a tough choice for me. Two of the best movies of the last 20 years. Altogether not so bad far as the 21st century goes; however, since I'm abroad again I doubt I'll see many more. This may end up being the final. Tropical Malady Le Pont des Arts Nobody Knows Los mu...

An underrated director. As someone above said, the "auteurists" really destroyed his reputation. A pity: he made a number of excellent films, and even his failures are interesting ones. Once more listing some less-seens (of my 13): 1. Act of Violence 2. The Search 3. Teresa 4. The Seventh ...

If I can find my copy I'll upload it in resources, but I fear it's on the kaput external hard drive, along with so much of my other stuff.

The Youtube version is stretched, so if you download it and play it "academy ratio" on VLC it should look fine. I got my copy from the dearly departed Surrealmoviez, but it's my least favorite of his features. Seen four that I know of - some shorts long ago too, don't recall which ones - s...

I deleted the old account, then started another one a year later: karljkiplin - sans final g. List newest.

Finally Flip my eyes just glazed over and I got tired. So I listed 50 favorites - not THE 50 favorites, which would be impossible for me - on the Letterbocker list. The "magic five" are also totally random.

Peace.

My apologies for being flippant then, and sorry to hear you know people who've died of it - but you're the first, and I only know you electronically. I'll refrain from using the 1980 thread to air any more of my thoughts on this subject, which I'm sure we could argue about all day.

have a great trip karl, and good to see you again! and if you have a top 50 film list lying around, i'd love to count it as part of our annual scfz top 100 films poll: https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=552&start=30 hope you'll be back someday, i've discovered a lot of great f...