1995 Poll 2.0

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Better put in a list now so I don't miss out like I have been doing since I'm still a bit distracted.

Angels and Insects
Nostalgia for the Countryside
Safe
Strange Days

Guimba the Tyrant
On the Beat
Fallen Angels
Ulysses’ Gaze

Maborosi
Wild Side
Zero Kelvin
Cyclo

The Blade
Kristin Lavransdatter
Welcome to the Dollhouse
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella

Funny Bones
The Addiction
The Stairway to the Distant Past
The Passion of Darkly Noon

From what I've seen, it was a year more interesting than exciting, a lot of experimenting around the edges over what might be done with movies, not entirely successful for the most part, but better than sticking to formula. It was a pleasant year but I didn't see much top flight stuff.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Mortal Kombat - Paul W S Anderson
Visually intense, tonnes of CGI. Plays like a Tsui Hark movie, only it's really really stupid.

[rischka]

thx for reporting, i had vaguely wondered

[Lencho of the Apes]

Another one that''s under the radar: Rough Magic - Clare Peploe, UK. British movies that try a Mexican setting get it pret-ty weird, but this one also gets USA-1950s 'wrong,' so it's just other-worldly and fantastical instead of offensive. Not canon-worthy, but rather fun; with the main comic strategy being "let's pretend this is a film noir" and the two leads seeming to channel Veronica Lake/Lauren Bacall and Idon'tknowDickPowellmaybe, it feels like a very Evelyn movie.

Added to youknow, if necessary -- I'll go look.

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1563 ... KmT7AUqIcQ

i like hippie clint better than fascist clint. this was kind of erotic!

[rischka]

good men good women distracted me into rewatching late spring...

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1563 ... -KowztmyYg

[rischka]

haut bas fragile
the blade
postman
rendezvous in paris
le garcu

blush
love in the time of twilight
august in the water
rangeela
on the beat

persuasion
casino
safe
a chinese odyssey (pt 1)
the addiction

deseret
salaam cinema
ballet
bridges of madison county
good men good women

[ofrene]

Heat
La Ceremonie
Maborosi
The Bridges of Madison County

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
Casino
God's Comedy
Toy Story

Safe
Salaam Cinema
The Blade
Whisper of the Heart

Dead Man
Good Men, Good Women
Le Haine
Up, Down, Fragile

Like Grains of Sand
Persuasion
Showgirls
The Neon Bible

[sally]

final ballot

the enclosed valley - jean-claude rousseau
anything can happen - marcel łoziński
god's comedy - joão césar monteiro
postman - he jianjun (second most erotic bottom-stamping scene after menzel/hrabal)
acariño galaico (de barro) - josé val del omar
signer's suitcase - peter liechti
the ferry - laila pakalniņa
institute benjamenta - quay brothers
persuasion - roger michell
the arsonist - u-wei haji saari
prisoners of war - yervant gianikian, angela ricci lucchi
antigravitacija - audrius stonys
on the beat - ning ying
kardiogramma - darezhan omirbayev
mother dao, the turtlelike - vincent monnikendam
gesualdo: death for five voices - werner herzog
spiritual voices - aleksandr sokurov
koridorius - šarūnas bartas
imaginary architecture: the architect hans scharoun - hartmut bitomsky
sculptures for a windless space - barbara meter

[Angel]

A Comédia de Deus (God's Comedy)
Badkonake sefid (The White Balloon)
Casas de fuego (Houses of Fire)
Circle of Friends
Cry, the Beloved Country
El Callejón de los Milagros (Midaq Alley)
El día de la bestia (The Day of the Beast)
Hong ying tao (Red Cherry)
Land and Freedom
Le hussard sur le toit (The Horseman on the Roof)
Les misérables
Lust och fägring stor (All Things Fair)
Maboroshi no hikari (Maborosi)
My Family
Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto (Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead)
Nu ren si shi (Summer Snow)
Outbreak
Screamers
The American President
Thuong nho dong quê (Nostalgia for Countryland)

Deliberately excluded (TSPDT/IMDb/S&S top 500)
Before Sunrise
Braveheart
Casino
Dead Man
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Do lok tin si
Heat
Kôkaku Kidôtai
La flor de mi secreto
La haine
Safe
Se7en
Showgirls
The Bridges of Madison County
The Usual Suspects
Toy Story
Twelve Monkeys
Underground

To watch before the deadline (oops, too late!)
Bienvenido-Welcome
Circuit Carole
Hong fen
Small Faces

Wanted
El techo del mundo

[karl]

good men, good women (hou)
a single spark (park)
super citizen ko (wan)
maborosi (koreeda)

naseem (mirza)
seule, géorgie (iosseliani)
ulysses's gaze (angelopoulos)
cyclo (tran)

salaam cinema (makhmalbaf)
the white balloon (panahi)
king of masks (wu)
holy week (wajda)

black mountain (zhou)
state of things (gulea)
cardiogram (omirbaev)
nostalgia for the countryside (dang)

it's a long way to the sea (barua)
sharaku (shinoda)
the convent (oliveira)
smoke (wang)

[Lencho of the Apes]

August In The Water - Sogo Ishii
Dead Man - Jarmusch
The Doom Generation 1995 Directed by Gregg Araki
Institute Benjamenta - Quay Bro.

The Addiction - Abel Ferrara
Midaq Alley - Jorge Fons
Safe - Todd Haynes
12 Monkeys - Gilliam

The Blade - Tsui Hark
a chinese odyssey
The King Of Masks - Wu Tianming
One Hundred And One Nights - Varda

Mortal Kombat
Little Criminals - Stephen Surjik
A Trick Of Light - Wenders
Welcome To The Dollhouse - Solondz

The Mangler - Hooper
Mother Dao The Turtlelike - V. Monnikendam
Naseem - Saeed Akhtar Mirza
301 302 - Park Cheol-Su

Also watched

As Good As Dead - Larry Cohen
Beautiful Dreamer
Beyond Rangoon - Boorman
Un Bruit Que Rend Fou -- Robbe-Grillet, Dmitri DeClerco
Castle Freak - Stuart Gordon
Clockers - Spike lee
Day Of The Beast - de la Iglesia
Ghost In The Shell - Mamoru Ishii
Haut Bas Fragil - Rivette
Hotel Paradise - Roeg
Karan Arjun
nostalgia for the countryside (dang)
Peculiarities of the National Hunt (Alexandr Rogozhkin)
A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi)
Rough Magic
A Rule Of Dreams
Showgirls - Verhoeven
a single spark (park)
To Die For - Van Sant
Village Of The Damned - John Carpenter
Wind Water 1995 Directed by Raúl Ruiz

[Silga]

Final list

Heat (Michael Mann)
To Die For (Gus Van Sant)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz)
Se7en (David Fincher)
Nixon (Oliver Stone)

Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld)
Friday (F. Gary Gray)
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)

Mighty Aphrodite (Woody Allen)
Desperado (Robert Rodriguez)
12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
Crimson Tide (Tony Scott)
Casino (Martin Scorsese)

The Addiction (Abel Ferrara)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
Georgia (Ulu Grosbard)
The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven)

[lineuphere]

Final:

Underground (Emir Kusturica)
Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
Safe (Todd Haynes)
The Old Man in the Cottage (Nina Hedenius)

Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
Anything Can Happen (Marcel Lozinski)
Toy Story (John Lasseter)
To Die For (Gus Van Sant)
Fallen Angels (Kar-Wai Wong)

The Enclosed Valley (Jean-Claude Rousseau)
Záhrada (Martin Sulík)
Ulysses' Gaze (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee)
Hunters' Sense of Touch (Hisayasu Satô)

The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman)
A Close Shave (Nick Park)
Friday (F. Gary Gray)
Dust of Life (Rachid Bouchareb)
The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi)

[wba]

I just want to pop in and recommend Special Effects by Larry Cohen to WBA, the strongest recommendation I'm able to give him. The most WBA movie I've seen since Tintorera and Rape Apartments. Recommended to everyone else as well, but some people would want to cancel it. When the Vertigo parody kicked in, after about an hour... words failed me.

Thanks, I'll put it on my watchlist!

[wba]

The Cactus (Franz Winzentsen, 1995, 2m)

THE CACTUS!!! I love this flm!
Winzentsen is usually great.

[wba]

Mortal Kombat - Paul W S Anderson
Visually intense, tonnes of CGI. Plays like a Tsui Hark movie, only it's really really stupid.

Ok, I'm intrigued.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Results

Ballots: 17. Films: 178.

I thought Monteiro was going to win, but Haynes just beat him out.

1. Safe (Todd Haynes) / 27

2. A Comédia de Deus (João César Monteiro) / 26.5

3. Maborosi (Hirokazu Kore-eda) / 23.5

4. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood) / 19.5

— La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol) / 19.5

6. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch) / 18

7. Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien) / 17

8. The Blade (Tsui Hark) / 16

— Casino (Martin Scorsese) / 16

— To Die For (Gus Van Sant) / 16

11. Persuasion 15.5
— Welcome to the Dollhouse 15.5
13. The Addiction 15
— August in the Water 15
15. Heat 14.5
16. Institute Benjamenta 14
17. Underground 13.5
18. La Haine 12.5
— Fallen Angels 12.5
— Ulysses's Gaze 12.5
— The White Balloon 12.5

22. Salaam Cinema 11.5
— Toy Story 11.5
23. Love in the Time of Twilight 11
25. The Enclosed Valley 10.5
— On the Beat 10.5
27. Cyclo 10
— Nostalgia for the Countryside 10
— Whisper of the Heart 10
30. Showgirls 9.5
— Up, Down, Fragile 9.5

32. Before Sunrise 9
— The Doom Generation 9
— Strange Days 9
35. The Corridor 8
— Rangeela 8
— Les rendez-vous de Paris 8
38. Postman 7.5
— Twelve Monkeys 7.5
40. From the Journals of Jean Seberg 7
— Ghost in the Shell 7
— Midaq Alley 7

[Silga]

Great to see To Die For in the Top 10.

Thanks for running Year Polls, Evelyn!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Oh my pleasure—they're the best!

[rischka]

https://letterboxd.com/rischka/list/1995-20-poll/

rangeela just missed the cut