1975 poll 2.0

[thoxans]

choose your favorite films from 1975 (according to imdb)

each person can vote for up to 20 films. do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number. ballots can be formatted as follows:
- five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier
- four tiers of five films each, 5/5/5/5; scored 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5 pts/film/tier
- two tiers of ten films each, 10/10; scored 4-2 pts/film/tier
- no tiers, unranked; scored 3 pts/film

a tiered ballot can include less than 20 films, but in that case the total number of films must still be able to be factored by the number of tiers, so:
-- a five tier ballot can include only 20, 15, 10, or 5 films
-- a four tier ballot can include only 20, 16, 12, 8, or 4 films
-- a two tier ballot can include only 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 films
*any number of films up to 20 that is not a multiple of five, four, or two cannot be tiered. apologies to enthusiasts of 19, 17, 13, 11, 9, 7, 3, and 1

users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible, so that others can use them for recommendations. you may revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline. ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and are not guaranteed inclusion on the final list

deadline for 1975 lists will be monday, may 31st, at approximately whatever time i feel like yo

[greennui]

Stacked year tbh.

Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka)
Far from Home (Sohrab Shahid Saless)
That Most Important Thing: Love (Andrzej Żuławski)
Shivers (David Cronenberg)
Euridice BA 2037 (Nikos Nikolaidis)
The Garden That Tilts (Guy Gilles)
Lips of Blood (Jean Rollin)
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Wrong Move (Wim Wenders)
Cracked Actor (Alan Yentob)
Welfare (Frederick Wiseman)
Translucent Appearances (Barry Gerson)
Hedgehog in the Fog (Yuri Norstein)
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Andersen)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta)
Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack)
India Song (Marguerite Duras)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)

[karl]

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 Star of Happiness (Motyl)
141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence (Fábri)
The Middleman (Ray)
Seasons of the Year (Peleshyan)
The Red Apple (Okeyev)
Sirius (Vláčil)
Dream and Live (Ilyenko)
The Young Girl (Cissé)
Wings of the Tern (Barua)
Memories of a Sunday (Kanellopoulos)
A Woman's Decision (Zanussi)
Restricted Area (Frank)
Throne of Capricorn (Aravindan)
Under the Blossoming Cherry Tree (Shinoda)
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
The Passenger (Antonioni)
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder)
Fear of Fear (Fassbinder)
Preparation for the Festival (Kuroki)
The Man Who Would Be King (Huston)
Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)
Adoption (Mészáros)
Lies My Father Told Me (Kadár)
Three Days of the Condor (Pollack)
Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet)
They Fought for Their Motherland (Bondarchuck, Dostal)
Days of Hope (Loach)

[karl]

Captivating Star of Happiness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIX4EDGV4ic


A Hundred Days after Childhood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbmypRdgAJc

[karl]

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/reel/820296/lost-and- ... onir-pakhi

And the only place I know of that has a subtitled version is INDIANCINE.MA - you have to know how to grab it from there (there was a thread on this).

[Lencho of the Apes]

Some preliminary big, biggish and lesser likes:

Black Moon - Malle
Coonskin - Bakshi
Euridice BA 2037 - Nikolaidis
Far From Home - Saless
Las Fuerzas Vivas - Alcoriza
L'Histoire d'Adele H - Truffaut
Nazareno Cruz Y El Lobo - Favio
No Oyes Ladrar Los Perros - Francois Reichenbach
Pastorale - Ioselliani
Presagio - Alcoriza
Profondo Rosso - Argento
Salo - Pasolini
Shivers - Cronenberg
Smallpox Tale - Terayama
Throne Of Capricorn - Govindan Aravindan
Xala - Sembene

Seen: 46 Mexico, 7 USA, 4 France, 4 Spain, 3 Italy, 3 UK, 2 Argentina, 2 Japan, 1 Canada, 1 Greece, 1 Guatemala, 1 India, 1 Iran, 1 Senegal, 1 Sweden, 1 USSR

[Curtis, baby]

31/75: Asylum (Kurt Kren)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
Nashville (Robert Altman)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Miloš Forman)
Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles/David Maysles/Muffie Meyer/Ellen Hovde)
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)

Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
Hedgehog in the Fog (Yuri Norstein)
Doll Clothes (Cindy Sherman)
Wrong Move (Wim Wenders)

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff/Margarethe von Trotta)
Seasons of the Year (Artavazd Peleshyan)
Disciples of Shaolin (Chang Cheh)
This Bit of That India (S. N. S. Sastry)

Sirius (František Vláčil)
Cooley High (Michael Schultz)
Florence (Peter B. Hutton)
The Story of Adele H. (François Truffaut)

[sally]

not going to watch a lot for 1975 since i doubt any would really newly enter my top twenty on this strangely stonking year

we can't have one favourite now, so i do, but it's an all time favourite rather than just for 1975. if the female gaze was ever something possible or desirable, then the germ of it is in duras, and india song....oh my ♥

moses und aron is an almost torrid, demented, stunning straub/huillet on the necessity of form (lol), love a good jesus movie and rossellini serves up his great one, barry lyndon is pretty much the only kubrick i like, seems churlish to ignore the impact of tarkovsky on a young cinephile, pleasure party one of the great chabrols, there's iosseliani, manoel de oliveira, ruiz, zulawski, krolikiewicz...kanellopoulos' memories of a sunday is mannered but beautiful....african cinema is alive! (muna moto ♥), the first angelopoulos we were ever instructed to ardently watch by dimmy (travelling players, and worth it)...the best shoe in cinema since pickford's cinderella (la bête)...and one of the most gorgeous most necessary british films ever made, winstanley. so many films i have loved for years (should in that case probably not rewatch)



excited to get to:
the irony of fate
the captivating star of happiness
lady inger of ostrat (medieval!)
the blind owl
elckerlyc (medieval!)
que la fête commence!
towers of silence
hotel pacific
what shall i do with this sword? (one of my last remaining monteiros )
hustruer
the romantic englishwoman (!!!)

also will reiterate my request i made in the watchlist thread for subs for sachariev's villa zone Вилна зона - anyone???

[sally]

oh and the best pink panther!

[ofrene]

didn't see many but already good year

unranked for now

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
The Battle of Chile: Part I
Jaws
Barry Lyndon
Picnic at Hanging Rock
India Song
Moses and Aaron
Benilde or The Virgin Mother
Adoption
Dog Day Afternoon
The Road to Sampo
The March of Fools

need to rewatch Nashville, Mirror, and so many on watchlist...

[flip]

i haven't even seen the majority of films on other ballots, and i think this year is loaded:

Le Vieux Fusil (Robert Enrico)
Night Moves (Arthur Penn)
Semiotics of the Kitchen (Martha Rosler)
The Blind Owl (Kiumars Darambakhsh)

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
The Legend of Lizzie Borden (Paul Wendkos)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Nashville (Robert Altman)
Le Jeu avec le Feu (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Breakheart Pass (Tom Gries)
Le Grand Nettoyage (Michel Chion)

French Connection II (John Frankenheimer)
L'Histoire d'Adele H (Francois Truffaut)
Cursa (Mircea Daneliuc)
The Hindenburg (Robert Wise)

Day of the Locust (John Schlesinger)
Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack)
A Boy and His Dog (LQ Jones)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (Gene Wilder)

[niminy-piminy]

ballot...

Laocoon & Sons (Ulrike Ottinger, Tabea Blumenschein)
Benilde Or The Virgin Mother (Manoel de Oliveira)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
Diary (Rudolf Thome)
Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Under the Pavement Lies the Strand (Helma Sanders-Brahms)
India Song (Marguerite Duras)
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Salo, Or The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Backbone (Vlatko Gilić)

Winstanley (Kevin Brownlow)
Earthquake in Chile (Helma Sanders-Brahms)
The Swan’s Journey (Fero Fenič)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta)
Weak Spot (Peter Fleischmann)
Associations (John Smith)
Yawning (Hamlet Hovsepian)
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Thom Andersen)
The Eternal Frame (T.R. Uthco, Ant Farm)
31/75: Asylum (Kurt Kren)

---------------------------------

in the last few yrs, logged (7!)...
ALOÏSE (Liliane de Kermadec)
CARNIVOROUS JULIE (Pavla Řezníčková)
DIARY (Rudolf Thome)
THE MOLE AT CHRISTMAS (Zdeněk Miler)
ASSOCIATIONS (John Smith)
HYPERION (Mircea Veroiu)
THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta)
EARTH PULSE (Gary Hill)
DO RIGHT AND FEAR NO ONE: THE LIFE OF GERDA SIEPEBRINK (Jutta Brückner)
MOTHER KÜSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
THE SWAN’S JOURNEY (Fero Fenič)
TIME (Coleen Fitzgibbon)
A SONG ABOUT HARMONICA (Jiří Brdečka)
WHAT I DIDN'T SAY TO THE PRINCE (Jiří Brdečka)
CLOSED DUE TO ILLNESS (Jiří Brdečka)
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF JOSEF HLINOMAZ (Jiří Brdečka)
TRITITY (Peter Weibel)
ORGANISM (Hilary Harris)
MEDIA BURN (Ant Farm)
THE ETERNAL FRAME (T.R. Uthco, Ant Farm)
THAT MOST IMPORTANT THING: LOVE (Andrzej Żuławski)
EARTHQUAKE IN CHILE (Helma Sanders-Brahms)
SILVER STREET (Nicky Hamlyn)
PASSACAGLIA AND FUGUE (Jorge Honik)
PREPARATION FOR THE FESTIVAL (Kazuo Kuroki)
SHADOWS ON THE WALL (Petr Skala)
GEOMETRY OF MEMORY (Petr Skala)
THE MAIDS (Christopher Miles)
DON'T CHANGE HANDS (Paul Vecchiali)
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)

in a more distant past, watched (5!)...
FEAR OF FEAR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
WEDDING TROUGH (Thierry Zéno)
EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, ZOOPRAXOGRAPHER (Thom Andersen)
ARABESQUE (John Whitney)
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones)
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (Peter Weir)
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (Sydney Pollack)
LEADING LIGHT (John Smith)
MIRROR (Andrei Tarkovsky)
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (Miloš Forman)
SIRIUS (František Vláčil)
DEAR AUNTS AND ME (Zdeněk Podskalský)
GIRLS FROM A PORCELAIN FACTORY (Juraj Herz)
HOW TO DROWN DR. MRACEK, THE LAWYER (Václav Vorlíček)
MAXIDOG FÍK (Václav Bedřich) ... bedtimes stories tv-series
RAKOSNICEK AND STARS (Zdeněk Smetana) ... bedtimes stories tv-series
SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
AMERICAN TORSO (Gábor Bódy)
FOUR BAGATELLES (Gábor Bódy)
SATAN CLAUS (J.X. Williams)
SEMIOTICS OF THE KITCHEN (Martha Rosler)
BENILDE OR THE VIRGIN MOTHER (Manoel de Oliveira)
FANTIK (Efim Gamburg)
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Jim Sharman)

watched for the poll (8!)...
YAWNING (Hamlet Hovsepian)
ITCH (Hamlet Hovsepian)
HEAD (Hamlet Hovsepian)
BOO HOO (Grant Munro)
5/ SHELL (Jerzy Kalina)
CLOUDS (Manfredo Manfredi)
KINESIS (Lillian F. Schwartz)
COLLAGE (Lillian F. Schwartz)
ALAE (Lillian F. Schwartz)
10/ TARZOON, SHAME OF THE JUNGLE (Boris Szulzinger, Picha)
LUMAAQ: AN ESKIMO LEGEND (Co Hoedeman)
DOLL CLOTHES (Cindy Sherman)
PERSPECTIVES (Georges Schwizgebel)
INSPIRATION (Elbert Tuganov)
15/ KITSCH IN SYNCH (Adam Beckett)
THE MOLE AND THE EGG (Zdeněk Miler)
HOW THE COSSACKS BOUGHT SALT (Vladimir Dakhno)
200 (Vince Collins)
SOUP (Zbigniew Rybczynski)
20/ BACKBONE (Vlatko Gilić)
LAOCOON & SONS (Ulrike Ottinger, Tabea Blumenschein)
PSYCHIC KILLER (Ray Danton)
THE ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN (Joseph Losey)
WINSTANLEY (Kevin Brownlow)
25/ PHOTO IS NECESSARY (Yuriy Piskunov)
MAN FOLLOWS BIRDS (Ali Khamraev)
LIKE A BIRD ON THE WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
31/75: ASYLUM (Kurt Kren)
INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
30/ WEAK SPOT (Peter Fleischmann)
TWO PORTS AND A HILL (Mario Handler)
UNDER THE PAVEMENT LIES THE STRAND (Helma Sanders-Brahms)
NEW BOOK (Zbigniew Rybczynski)

watchlist..
THE ENCHANTMENT OF THE BLUE SAILOR (Ulrike Ottinger, Tabea Blumenschein)
Monika und die Sechzehnjährigen (Charly Steinberger)
SECOND SPRING (Ulli Lommel)
ICE AGE (Peter Zadek)
Lotte in Weimar (Egon Günther)
Wolkenpfad (Bastian Clevé)

[flip]

i started up parallel 1975 cannes festival and 1975 oscar polls, everyone encouraged to vote!

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=740
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=739

i also tallied up the 2015 editions of those polls, will leave the 1943 one open a little longer since i started it late

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
India Song (Marguerite Duras)
Katie Tippel (Paul Verhoeven)
That Most Important Thing: Love (Andrzej Zulawski)
The Beast (Walerian Borowczyk)

Personal (Krystof Kieslowski)
Battle of Chile (Patricio Guzman)
Shampoo (Hal Ashby)
Picnic At Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
Manila In The Claws of Light (Lino Brocka)

[niminy-piminy]

1975 poll No1-3

YAWNING (Hamlet Hovsepian) 3m ... https://ubu.com/film/hovsepian_yawn.html ... or ↓
https://youtu.be/6OSfDyP75IQ

ITCH (Hamlet Hovsepian) 5m ... https://ubu.com/film/hovsepian_itch.html
Žižek's all-time favorite!

HEAD (Hamlet Hovsepian) 12m ... https://ubu.com/film/hovsepian_head.html ... or ↓
https://youtu.be/PIythgf1TZ4

[sally]

1975 poll No1-3
ITCH (Hamlet Hovsepian) 5m ... https://ubu.com/film/hovsepian_itch.html
Žižek's all-time favorite!

he has a lot of favourites! another from 1975: (ps i will always watch clips of him, literally two seconds of his absurd waffle and i am laughing my head off)

https://youtu.be/OqpxT_iJ8Mc?t=33

[sally]

Cursa (Mircea Daneliuc)

nice looking list flip, i've added a few to my watchlist, but how did you see cursa? i don't suppose you've got it or at least some subtitles for it at all that you can share?

[flip]

nice looking list flip, i've added a few to my watchlist, but how did you see cursa? i don't suppose you've got it or at least some subtitles for it at all that you can share?

i'm not sure what you'd make of several of the films on my list, but cursa and the blind owl are probably the two i'd be most optimistic you'd like, one day i hope to compare the blind owl with the ruiz version. i saw cursa on youtube at some point. i just did a quick search, and i didn't find the subtitled print there, so i'm guessing it was taken down. there does seem to be a nice looking copy there though (and one very poor print too), so if you can find subs and know how to marry subs with a youtube vid (i don't know how to do that but i gather it's possible), that might be an option!

[nrh]

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/reel/820296/lost-and- ... onir-pakhi

And the only place I know of that has a subtitled version is INDIANCINE.MA - you have to know how to grab it from there (there was a thread on this).

version of this from kg is up in the usual spot. quality is...not great but seems watchable

[therouxxx]

Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
Chupke Chupke (Hrishikesh Mukherjee)
Deep Red (Dario Argento)
Deewaar (Yash Chopra)
The Eiger Sanction (Clint Eastwood)
Nishant (Shyam Benegal)
Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka)
Mili (Hrishikesh Mukherjee)
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Salo (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

[lineuphere]

Some things I enjoyed and some things in my queue:

Nashville
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Fox and His Friends
O Thiasos
Barry Lyndon
The Mirror
India Song
Dog Day Afternoon
The Day of the Locust
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Grey Gardens
Manila in the Claws of Neon
Sisyphus
Dersu Uzala
Salò, or The 120 Days Of Sodom
The Passenger
Yozhik v tumane
Fear of Fear
Noce i dnie
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Christopher's Christmas Mission
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Boss's Head
Mozart in Love
Gypsies Go To Heaven
Lips of Blood
Footprints on the moon
Beehive

[Silga]

[provisional list deleted]

[sally]

yearpoll intermittent graveyard theme:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/boo-hoo/

lovely little canadian doc of mad old cemetery supervisor

[niminy-piminy]

No0-0 (rewatches)

SATAN CLAUS (J.X. Williams)
ltbxd 2000 ... https://letterboxd.com/film/film:301478/
imdb (and other databases) 1975 ... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12783098/

“In the mid-Seventies, I was working as a projectionist for this crummy movie theatre in downtown LA. The owner owed me six weeks back wages and when I ask him for the money, the scumbag has the gall to inform me that I’m getting laid off Christmas week. If he’d known my reputation for mischief, he might have thought twice about it. On my last day of work, I had to project a Christmas matinee for kids. Before the main feature, I added an unannounced opener to the program called “Satan Claus”. I fled the theatre right after my film ended but I heard the owner had to refund the entire box office. Even then, several outraged parents filed a lawsuit against the theatre. Merry Christmas, you cheap bastard!” – J.X. Williams

https://youtu.be/9eD5eD7-g4g

SEMIOTICS OF THE KITCHEN (Martha Rosler)
N = nutcracker
T = tenderiser
https://youtu.be/ZuZympOIGC0

[Mario Gaborovic]

Great because one of my favourite Yugo films might be loved here; and very few have actually seen it: Kičma/Backbone by Vlatko Gilić. Coming!

[rischka]

watchlist. mostly stuff i collected last time we ran this one xD

benilde or the virgin mother
down the ancient stairs
eurydice BA 2037
haixia
preparation for the festival
under the blossoming cherry trees
the most important thing: love
winstanley
deewaar
mozart in love
dersou uzala
towers of silence
let joy reign supreme
the day of the locust
cracked actor
la bête
pleasure party
wings of the tern
dialogues of exiles

edit: captivating star of happiness bookmarked! good to see you karl

i second 100 days after childhood

PS -- loved BOO HOO

[rischka]

bowie was doing all the coke at this point right.

[Lencho of the Apes]

all the

Literally.

[Lencho of the Apes]

I'm just happy because this poll gives me an excuse to watch Criminally Insane aka Crazy Fat Ethel.

[rischka]

omg i might have to watch that too it's on youtube