1959 poll

[karl]

I'll try to see the Lithuanian movie, and if it makes the cut it I'll fit it in there somehow. Like every year of this decade, hard to whittle it down to 20.

Taking out some popular ones that'll get enough votes anyway (Nazarin, Rio Bravo, 400 Blows, North by Northwest, Odds against Tomorrow) to make room for obscurer goodies.

Floating Weeds

Pickpocket
The World of Apu
Day of the Outlaw
Fires on the Plain
Foma Gordeev
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Violent Summer
A Man's Fate
Ballad of a Soldier
Stars (Konrad Wolf)
The Hanging Tree
Time Stood Still
Blind Date (Joseph Losey) (aka Chance Meeting)
Stranger in the Village (Ada Neretniece)
Whistling in Kotan (Naruse Mikio) (aka Whistle in My Heart)
The Three Annas (Branko Bauer)
Cross of Valor (Kazimierz Kutz)
Kiku and Isamu (Imai Tadashi)
Answer to Violence (Jerzy Passendorfer) (aka The Attempt)

[rischka]

day of the outlaw
floating weeds
pickpocket
nazarin
ballad of a soldier
picnic on the grass
good morning
india matri bhumi
time stood still
foma gordeev
lin family shop
no name on the bullet
fate of a man
a simple story
paper flowers
chikamatsu's love in osaka
verboten
crimson kimono
ride lonesome
on the beach

[mesnalty]

Final list:

1. Fires on the Plain (Ichikawa)

Araya (Benacerraf)
Fate of a Man (Bondarchuk)
Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage)
Nazarin (Bunuel)
Room at the Top (Clayton)
A Bucket of Blood (Corman)
The Hanging Tree (Daves)
A Simple Story (Hanoun)
North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Kobayashi)
Good Morning (Ozu)
Floating Weeds (Ozu)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Resnais)
General Della Rovere (Rossellini)
Imitation of Life (Sirk)
La Caida (Torre Nilsson)
The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
Some Like It Hot (Wilder)
Odds Against Tomorrow (Wise)

[MrCarmady]

1597 is my favourite year in cinema!

Super-exciting times, I did terribly on catching up with 1927 stuff but here we go:

Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)*
North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
Roses for the Prosecutor (Wolfgang Staudte)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
The Bridge (Bernhard Wicki)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
Ballad of a Soldier (Grigory Chukhray)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard)
Shadows (John Cassavetes)
Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage)
The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)*
Odds & Ends (Jane Conger Belson Shimané)*
The Fellowship of the Frog (Harald Reinl)
The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang)
Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)

* - would like to re-watch

To see:

The World of Apu
The Human Condition
Floating Weeds
The Day of the Outlaw
Ride Lonesome
Nazarin
Night Train
Odds Against Tomorrow
Porgy and Bess
On the Beach

Seems I saved the best for last! Saw 7 movies, re-watched 1, and 7 of those 8 made the list, but only found more stuff that I wanna watch as a result, it never ends...

Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
Roses for the Prosecutor (Wolfgang Staudte)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
The Bridge (Bernhard Wicki)
Time Stood Still (Ermanno Olmi)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
Ballad of a Soldier (Grigory Chukhray)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard)
Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage)
The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang)
Odds & Ends (Jane Conger Belson Shimané)
Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon)
Adam Wants to Be a Man (Vytautas Žalakevičius)
Picnic on the Grass (Jean Renoir)
La caída (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)

[sally]

pie bagātās kundzes got an official DVD release with professional subs, so maybe that's where the three-sub option comes from. And that one I don't have, so if you're up for putting it in the place...

in the place. doesn't look dvd quality to me (looks like a nice film tho). one lot of subs turned out to be junk, one is synced to the film the other is a few seconds out but i've included it cuz i don't know why it was with it, maybe the synced ones disappear or something, anyway...i'm sure you can return the favour at some point...

[Silga]

Final list:

1. The Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann)

North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
North West Frontier (J. Lee Thompson)
Tiger Bay (J. Lee Thompson)
Last Train from Gun Hill (John Sturges)
Day of the Outlaw (André De Toth)
Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
A Broken Leghorn (Robert McKimson)
Adam Wants to Be a Man (Vytautas Zalakevicius)
The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller)
Middle of the Night (Delbert Mann)
Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
On the Beach (Stanley Kramer)
Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
The Hanging Tree (Delmer Daves)
The Lamp (Roman Polanski)
When Angels Fall (Roman Polanski)

[karl]

pie bagātās kundzes got an official DVD release with professional subs, so maybe that's where the three-sub option comes from. And that one I don't have, so if you're up for putting it in the place...

in the place. doesn't look dvd quality to me (looks like a nice film tho). one lot of subs turned out to be junk, one is synced to the film the other is a few seconds out but i've included it cuz i don't know why it was with it, maybe the synced ones disappear or something, anyway...i'm sure you can return the favour at some point...

There is a restored "HD" copy on Youtube, I see: https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=ia_gZoMxgjA

I'll see if any of the subs sync to that. As for favor, send a list of things you're looking for.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Oh yeah, I need to do this. I really regret not having gotten to see The Naked Venus... and many others.

Adam Wants To Be A Man

Araya - Margot Benacerraf
Biyaya Ng Luppa - Manuel Silos
Ce corps tant désire "This Desired Body" (Luis Saslavsky, France)
Come Back Africa - Lionel Rogosin
Fires On The Plain - Ichikawa
Floating Weeds
Foma Gordeev
400 Blows - Truffaut
El Hombre Del Alazan - Rogelio Gonzalez
Imitation Of Life - Sirk
Jago Hua Savera - A J Kardar
Kaagaz Ke Phool -Guru Dutt
North By Northwest - Hitchcock
Odds Against Tomorrow - Robert Wise
Pendekar Bujang Lapok - P Ramlee
Pickpocket - Bresson
Sapphire - Basil Dearden
Ten Seconds To Hell - Aldrich
Verboten - Fuller

[Lencho of the Apes]

Twelve to sixteen hours remaining -- I'll start compiling the results around 5 PM this evening in whatever godforsaken time zone it is of this hellhole planet I'm occupying. (I think it's Mountain Time.)

[thoxans]

BALLAD of a SOLDIER (Grigoriy Chukhray)

anatomy of a murder (otto preminger)
the bridge (bernhard wicki)
a bucket of blood (roger corman)
les cousins (claude chabrol)
good morning (yasujiro ozu)
hiroshima mon amour (alain resnais)
the horse soldiers (john ford)
last train from gun hill (john sturges)
north by northwest (alfred hitchcock)
odd obsession (kon ichikawa)
pickpocket (robert bresson)
ride lonesome (budd boetticher)
the wasp woman (roger corman)
westbound (budd boetticher)
the wonderful country (robert parrish)
the world of apu (satyajit ray)

[john ryan]

1. Hiroshima mon amour (resnais)

the 400 blows (truffaut)
some like it hot (wilder)
black orpheus (camus)
day of the outlaw (de toth)
rio bravo (hawks)
anatomy of a murder (preminger)
good morning (ozu)
north by northwest (hitchcock)
the world of apu (ray)
picnic on the grass (renoir)
the human condition part i (kobayashi)
pickpocket (bresson)
fires on the plain (ichikawa)
kaagaz ke phool (dutt)
ride lonesome (boetticher)
the song of styrene (resnais)
ballad of a soldier (chukhray)
nazarin (bunuel)

india: matri bhumi (rosselini

didn't really get to anything on my watchlist

[MrCarmady]

Letter Never Sent is 1960 if you wanna put something else on there...

[Lencho of the Apes]

3 fin 18.JPG (52.79 KiB) Viewed 1907 times

[john ryan]

Letter Never Sent is 1960 if you wanna put something else on there...

updated my list to remove letter never sent. don't know why or how i had that in the wrong place on my letterboxd list.

added india: matri bhumi, but separated it from the rest of my list. sorry for the last minute gaff.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Wot the hell? I posted the results last night... or so I thoughhhhhht

We'll 'ave another go, then.

1
400 Blows - Truffaut

2
North By Northwest - Hitchcock

3
Fires On The Plain - Ichikawa
Imitation Of Life - Sirk
ride lonesome (boetticher)

6
ballad of a soldier (chukhray)
Floating Weeds
Pickpocket - Bresson

9
day of the outlaw (de toth)
Hiroshima mon amour (resnais)
some like it hot (wilder)

12
anatomy of a murder (preminger)
good morning (ozu)
rio bravo (hawks)

15
Violent Summer
the world of apu (ray)

17
Kaagaz Ke Phool -Guru Dutt
nazarin (bunuel)
Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)

20
Araya - Margot Benacerraf
the bridge (bernhard wicki)
picnic on the grass (renoir)

23
the human condition part i (kobayashi)
no name on the bullet
Time Stood Still (Ermanno Olmi)

26
Adam Wants To Be A Man
The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller)
General Della Rovere (Rossellini)
The Hanging Tree (Delmer Daves)
the horse soldiers (john ford)
last train from gun hill (john sturges)
A Simple Story (Hanoun)
The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang)
the wonderful country (robert parrish)

35
Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
Biyaya Ng Luppa - Manuel Silos
Fate of a Man (Bondarchuk)
the indian tomb (lang)
lin family shop
The Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann)
shadows (cassavettes)
Stars (Konrad Wolf)
Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage)

44 - 64
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard)
black orpheus (camus)
chikamatsu's love in osaka
Come Back Africa - Lionel Rogosin
la cucaracha (rodríguez
The Facts of Murder (Germi)
Foma Gordeev
human condition part 2
india matri bhuta
Middle of the Night (Delbert )
Moonbird (Hubley) (short)
the nightingale's prayer
Odds Against Tomorrow - Robert Wise
On the Beach (Stanley Kramer)
Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon)
Room at the Top (Clayton)
a bucket of blood (roger corman)
Sapphire - Basil Dearden
Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, Joseph L. Makiewicz)
Verboten - Fuller

[rischka]

how'd that damn french film land at the top

a great year for cinema

[Curtis, baby]

Yeah it blows

[MrCarmady]

ICM

[Lencho of the Apes]

that damn french film

Yeah, it was weird -- I was 80% finished with the tally and Ride Lonesome was in first place, none of the obvious canontop contenders were placing particularly high... and then the last page of ballots, all that changed.

Just last night I discovered that there was a Glauber Rocha short for the year, called Patio. Wish I had known in time...though it's not like I didn't already have more than I could watch...

And then I made myself watch Female Boss, even though polling had ended.I was already loving it a whole bunch, all the stars, even before1:26:50, when they pulled out their big gun

https://youtu.be/T5vT42pCwfI?t=5210

BUT THEN, in the last five minutes somebody came along and pimp-slapped the movie into compliance with male supremacist ideology and I had a big, big sad.

[Mario Gaborovic]

1. Tiger Bay

Apur Sansar / The World of Apu
Araya
Ballada o soldate / Ballad of a Soldier
Ben-Hur
Doa al karawan / The Nightingale’s Prayer
Les quatre cents coups / The 400 Blows
Nobi / Fires on the Plain
North by Northwest
Pukotina raja / Heaven without Love
Some Like It Hot
Sudba cheloveka / Fate of a Man
The Pillow Talk
Tri Ane / Three Girls Named Anna
Une simple histoire / A Simple Story