2015 poll

[DT.]

Final list:

1. Blackhat (Michael Mann)
 
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman)
Baahubali: The Beginning (S. S. Rajamouli)
Blood of My Blood (Marco Bellocchio)
Carol (Todd Haydnes)
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Chronic (Michel Franco)
Dheepan (Jacques Audiard)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway)
Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov)
Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
Inside Out (Pete Docter)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Love (Gaspar Noe)
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
Office (Johnnie To)
Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
Son of Saul (László Nemes)
 
Also watched:
 
Behemoth (Zhao Liang)
The Club (Pablo Larrain)
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)

[pabs]

2015's very poor for me so far.


1. Bulanti (Demirkubuz)

Carol (Haynes)
45 Years (Haigh)
Anomalisa (Kaufman, Johnson)
A Bigger Splash (Guadagnino)


Watched for this poll:

-

Hope to see:

The Forbidden Room
Field Niggas
Our Little Sister

[Abe]

Final list:

1. Bulanti / Nausea (Zeki Demirkubuz)

Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Aferim! (Radu Jude)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Carol (Todd Haynes)
Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)

[ofrene]

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
Happy Hour
In Jackson Heights
Carol
The Assassin
Mad Max: Fury Road
No Home Movie
Journey to the Shore
Taxi
Wake (Subic)
World of Tomorrow
Bridge of Spies
Right Now, Wrong Then
45 Years
The Forbidden Room
Inside Out
In the Shadow of Women
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Cemetery of Splendor
Magic Mike XXL

[greennui]

1. Kid (Julio Bressane)

Blackhat (Michael Mann)
A Century of Energy (Manoel de Oliveira)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (Abbas Fahdel)
Anapeson (Francesco Dongiovanni)
Exotica, Erotica, Etc. (Evangelia Kranioti)
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce)
American Reflexxx (Alli Coates)
The Art of Flying (Jan van Ijken)
I, Dalio (Mark Rappaport)
The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (Mark Rappaport)
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
Tangerine (Sean Baker)
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin (Various)
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Cosmos (Andrzej Zulawski)
A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
Listen to Me Marlon (Stevan Riley)
Kaili Blues (Gan Bi)
The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky)

Pretty much the same as my initial list. Exotica, Erotica, Etc being the only new addition.

[rischka]

not sure i'll get any more in.

cemetery of splendor
forget-me-not (kei horie)
the assassin
homeland iraq: year zero
the fits
bulanti
blackhat
carol
aferim!
i promise you anarchy
right now, wrong then
i, dalio
mad max: fury road
tangerine
taxi
baahubali
dead slow ahead
lost and beautiful
kaili blues
spl 2: a time for consequences

[greennui]

not sure i'll get any more in.

The MdO short is only 15 min!

[rischka]

i may just watch kaili blues



well this was a good idea. it's almost the dark side of cemetery of splendor! and i can't be the only one seeing a lot of taiwan new wave influence here. on to the second half

[Searchlike]

Final list:

1. SPL II: A Time for Consequences/Kill Zone 2 - Soi Cheang

The Assassin - Hou Hsiao-hsien
Blackhat - Michael Mann
Despite the Night - Philippe Grandrieux
Office - Johnnie To
Our Little Sister - Hirokazu Kore-eda
Right Now, Wrong Then - Hong Sang-soo

[rischka]

the 40 minutes long take began to remind me of google earth view... but i love a good train video

[Holymanm]

i like flapjacks well enough, i suppose, but what they were eating in that film are clearly pancakes.

FLAPJACKS =

wait what... flapjacks are just synonymous with pancakes here, and this is the first i've heard of them just being "squares" or "bars" in the UK. henceforward i will utilise this knowledge to call other north americans uncivilised fools for not knowing this

[lineuphere]

Final list:

1. Dawn | Ausma (Laila Pakalnina)

Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
The Art of Flying (Jan van Ijken)
Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Tangerine (Sean Baker)
Son of Saul (László Nemes)
American Reflexxx (Alli Coates)
Almacenados | Warehoused (Jack Zagha Kababie)
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Ce sentiment de l'été | This Summer Feeling (Mikhaël Hers)
Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Carol (Todd Haynes)
Anapeson (Francesco Dongiovanni)
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce)
Kaili Blues (Gan Bi)
Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (Stephen Cone)
The Silence of Ani (Francis Alÿs)
Lowlife Love (Eiji Uchida)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)

[sally]

woohoo someone else watched ausma! so glad..i'm a great fan of everything she's done...

now, i watched garoto - consistent response to bressane, great, mature filmmaker, but the women in his films are objects, or things (wise or damning) for the men to react against. but aside from that, and it wasn't that bad this time, it's mostly outdoors so automatically enjoy it

also watched tomasz mielnik's journey to rome which was very czech, gently/slightly icky, very amusing for the first half, but flagged a lot later, nevertheless. enjoyed, it's an icky kaurismaki








and juraj herz!


and i also wondered if they'd hired jiri as location scout...

[niminy-piminy]

mhm, seems like something i should not miss to watch!

[Lencho of the Apes]

I guess I'll go with these, and cry over all the ones I didn't get to some other day.

Mate-Me Por Favor

Almacenados/Warehoused - Jack Zagha Kababie
The Assassin - HHH
Baahubali: The Beginning - Rajamouli
Bulanti/Nausea - Zeki Demirkubuz
La Calle De La Amargura/Bleak Street - Arturo Ripstein
Carol - Todd Haynes
Chi-Raq - spike Lee
Crumbs - Miguel Llanso
Diary Of A Chambermaid - Benoit Jacquot
Eisenstein In Guanajuato - Peter Greenaway
Embrace Of The Serpent - Ciro Guerra
Experimenter - Almereyda
Journey To The shore - K. Kurosawa
La la La At Rock Bottom - Nobuhiro Yamashita
Memories Of A Penitant Heart
Murmur Of The Hearts
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Erg�ven)
Santa Teresa & Historias - Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
The VVitch - Robert Eggers

[Lonnie]

2015 feels like the before times.

1. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)

Engram of Returning (Daïchi Saïto)
Aferim! (Radu Jude)
The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Counting (Jem Cohen)
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce)
World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)
Dil Dhadakne Do (Zoya Akhtar)
Field Niggas (Khalik Allah)
Dheepan (Jacques Audiard)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Strata of the Image (Lois Patiño)
Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky)
Sixty Six (Lewis Klahr)
SPL 2 (Soi Cheang)
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
Office (Johnnie To)
The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Bros (Ben Rivers)

[sally]

mhm, seems like something i should not miss to watch!

actually tbh don't think you'd like it much might be a bit twee for you...

[niminy-piminy]

let's see.
will watch it today!

[sally]

don't close this one yet! i can't even assemble my final list until approx 4 hours from now!!!

[sally]

final list and last kisses at lencho for valiantly doing this for so long

1. right now wrong then
2. cosmos
3. deux rémi, deux
4. dawn / ausma
5. histoire de judas
6. garoto
7. eisenstein in guanajuato
8. bulanti
9. bridge of spies
10. minotaur (pereda)
11. winter song
12. le saphir de saint-louis
13. the vanity tables of douglas sirk
14. innocence of memories (gee)
15. in the shadow of women
16. john from
17. lost and beautiful
18. noite sem distância
19. na vodě (ryšavý)
20. visita ou memórias e confissões

[thoxans]

so long

we def shaved a good 4-5 years off that man's life... which basically makes him like papa jerry-old now

[Lencho of the Apes]

I'm having a horrible time with connectivity issues today -- it has taken me about two hours just to open this page and post this message -- so I don't think I'll be able to tally the results tonight. I'm fucking exhausted, and all tense across my back and shoulders; does anybody else have that somatic response to internet difficulties, or just me? I feel like I've been swimming against a current for a loooong time.

If not tomorrow, certainly on Saturday.

[john ryan]

If I can still submit...

1. World of Tomorrow (Hertzfeldt)

The Forbidden Room (Maddin)
The Witch (Eggers)
Visaranai [aka Interrogation] (Vetrimaaran)
Vertigo Sea (Akomfrah)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Sang-soo)
Cemetery of Splendor (Weerasethakul)
Magic Mike XXL (Jacobs)
Sleeping with Other People (Headland)
Anomalisa (Kaufman, Johnson)
Chi-Raq (Lee)
Mustang (Ergüven)
Lancaster, CA (Ott)
No No Sleep (Ming-liang)

[sally]

or just me?

my internet has been cutting out for a few hours every couple of weeks now for ages, but that hits me straight in the bowels. also makes my immune system go walk about for a day, which in normal people-mixing times would mean i would get an inevitable cold virus 3 days later.

this is part of why finland is so cool. internet is a legal right...

[Lencho of the Apes]

1
Carol - Todd Haynes

2
right now wrong then

3
The Assassin - HHH
Blackhat - Michael Mann
Cemetery of Splendor (Weerasethakul)

6
Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

7
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)

8
Bulanti/Nausea - Zeki Demirkubuz
The VVitch - Robert Eggers

10
Bridge of Spies
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)

13
Anomalisa (Kaufman, Johnson)
Baahubali: The Beginning - Rajamouli

15
Cosmos (Andrzej Zulawski)
Eisenstein In Guanajuato - Peter Greenaway
Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Son of Saul (László Nemes)
Taxi (Panahi)

21
A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce)
The Forbidden Room (Maddin)
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (Abbas Fahdel)
Kaili Blues (Gan Bi)
The Martian — Ridley Scott
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
SPL II: A Time for Consequences/Kill Zone 2 - Soi Cheang
The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (Mark Rappaport)

30
Aferim! (Radu Jude)
O Kadhal Kanmani (Mani Ratnam)
Knight of Cups
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Erg�ven)
Night Without Distance (Patiño)
Sicario (Denis V\illeneuve)
Spotlight (McCarthy)
Tangerine (Sean Baker)
World of Tomorrow (Hertzfeldt)

39 - 65
American Reflexxx (Alli Coates)
Anapeson (Francesco Dongiovanni)
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One
Bone Tomahawk - S. Craig Zahler
Brooklyn (John Crowley)
Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
Chi-Raq - spike Lee
The Club
Dawn | Ausma (Laila Pakalnina)
Dheepan (Jacques Audiard)
Embrace Of The Serpent - Ciro Guerra
The Exquisite Corpus (Tscherkassky)
Experimenter - Almereyda
Field Niggas (Khalik Allah)
The Fits
Forget Me Not (Kei Horie)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
I, Dalio (Mark Rappaport)
I Promise You Anarchy — Julio Hernández Cordón
In Jackson Heights - Frederick Wiseman
Inside Out (Pete Docter)
Journey To The shore - K. Kurosawa
lost and beautiful
Office (Johnnie To)
A Perfect Day (Arama)
Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)
Visaranai [aka Interrogation] (Vetrimaaran)

[rischka]

blackhat and cemetery of splendor tied! my strategy paid off

[...]

Well, it could be worse I guess, but I kinda still hate you all. Heh.

[nrh]

Well, it could be worse I guess, but I kinda still hate you all. Heh.

of course it could be worse - the lifeless, academic carol getting top spot

edit: didn't see the too stupid to be vile anomalisa up there