1969 Poll 2.0

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Choose your favourite films from 1969 (according to IMDB).

Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number.

Twenty-film 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 20-film three-tier ballot is not possible

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 three tier ballot (scored 5-3-1) can include only 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, or 3 films
- A two tier ballot can include only 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 films
- Ballots that are 19, 17, 13, 11, 7 or 1 films must be no tiers

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.

Deadline for 1969 ballots will be Thursday, August 31st at roughly midnight EDT.

[rischka]

pirosmani - shengalaia
invasión - santiago
dzhamilya - poplovskaya
army of shadows - melville
shônen - oshima
tenchu - gosha
goyokin - gosha
antonio das mortes - rocha
double suicide - shinoda
jackal of nahueltoro - littín
in the year of the pig - de antonio
model shop - demy
larks on a string - menzel
killed the family and went to the movies - bressane
the hungry wolves - güney
the night of counting the years - salam
the sorrow and the pity - ophuls
medea - pasolini
play dirty - de toth

this is gonna be fun. some of these could stand a rewatch. i excluded martial arts movies but indulged my love of samurai films and i do have a watchlist! i'll probably take a few on vacation i purposely left out maude and pomegranates i don't hate them. '69 has anarchic spirit!

détruire, dit-elle
diary of a shinjuku thief
the end of a priest
goodbye, gyulsary!
l'amour fou
salome
law & order
akran
a walk with love and death
that cold day in the park
acts of the apostles
the joke
valparaiso mi amor
go go second time virgin
blind beast

and time of roses was a very interesting watch i described in another thread.

[flip]

seems like an amazing year from what i've seen and i haven't seen most of the films on rischka's list so it's probably even more amazing than i think

The Toth Family (Zoltan Fabri)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack)
Birds, Orphans and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko)
Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Z (Constantin Costa Gavras)
The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui)
Larks on a String (Jiri Menzel)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)

The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel)
The Cremator (Juraj Herz)
Castle Keep (Sydney Pollack)
A Quiet Place in the Country (Elio Petri)

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (Abraham Polonsky)
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (Paul Sharits)
My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
That Cold Day in the Park (Robert Altman)

The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
A Nest of Gentry (Andrei Konchalovsky)
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)

edit -- removed Don't Grieve! (Daneliya) and added Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov) because imdb swapped them from '69 to '68 or vice versa at some point

[greennui]

Model Shop 1969 Directed by Jacques Demy
The Damned 1969 ‘La caduta degli dei’ Directed by Luchino Visconti
The Color of Pomegranates 1969 ‘Նռան գույնը’ Directed by Sergei Parajanov
Salomé 1969 Directed by Pierre Koralnik
The House That Screamed 1969 ‘La residencia’ Directed by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Marinetti 1969 Directed by Albie Thoms
A Woman’s Case 1969 ‘מקרה אישה’ Directed by Jacques Katmor
Blind Beast 1969 ‘盲獣’ Directed by Yasuzō Masumura
The Wild Pussycat 1969 ‘Καυτή εκδίκηση’ Directed by Dimis Dadiras
Adalen 31 1969 ‘Ådalen 31’ Directed by Bo Widerberg

The Unfaithful Wife 1969 ‘La Femme infidèle’ Directed by Claude Chabrol
Venus in Furs 1969 ‘Paroxismus’ Directed by Jesús Franco
Anamnesis 1969 Directed by Frans Zwartjes
Camille 2000 1969 Directed by Radley Metzger
My Night at Maud’s 1969 ‘Ma nuit chez Maud’ Directed by Éric Rohmer
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? 1969 Directed by Sydney Pollack
The Laughing Woman 1969 ‘Femina Ridens’ Directed by Piero Schivazappa
Invocation of My Demon Brother 1969 Directed by Kenneth Anger
Alaska 1969 Directed by Dore O.
Medea 1969 Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Women in Love 1969 Directed by Ken Russell
The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 ‘Das Haus nebenan − Chronik einer französischen Stadt im Kriege’ Directed by Marcel Ophüls
More 1969 Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Cosmos 1969 Directed by Jordan Belson
Civilisation 1969

[sally]

agree, 69 was stellar


the color of pomegranates - sergei parajanov
the night of counting the years - shadi abdel salam
sorrows - gregory j. markopoulos
pirosmani - giorgi shengelaia #CoMoGeorgia
the dependent - leonardo favio
play dirty - andré de toth
the hungry wolves - yılmaz güney
early works - želimir žilnik
nocturne 29 - pere portabella
l'amour fou - jacques rivette
the cow - dariush mehrjui
a walk with love and death - john huston
funeral parade of roses - toshio matsumoto
the witness - péter bacsó
blood of the condor - jorge sanjinés
we are, our mountains - henrik malyan
the end of a priest - evald schorm
precautions against fanatics - werner herzog
ditirambo - gonzalo suárez
invasion - hugo santiago

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Lots of good stuff this year! But there's a lot that's been sitting on my watchlist forever that I haven't gotten to yet either.

Destroy She Said - Marguerite Duras
My Night at Maud's - Eric Rohmer
Dillinger is Dead - Marco Ferrari
The Cremator - Juraj Herz

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice - Paul Mazursky
The Color of Pomegranates - Sergei Parajanov
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Ronald Neame
The Passion of Anna - Ingmar Bergman

Duet for Cannibals - Susan Sontag
La Grande Amour - Pierre Etaix
The Unfaithful Wife - Claude Chabrol
Putney Swope - Robert Downey Sr.

The Seed of Man - Marco Ferrari
The Milky Way - Luis Bunuel
Medium Cool - Haskell Wexler
On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Peter R. Hunt

[Lencho of the Apes]

I'll start wit dese:

L'Amour Fou
Antonio Das Mortes
Boy - Oshima
Medea - Pasolini
The Wild Bunch

Burn
El Chacal De Nahueltoro - Littin
The Cremator
Model Shop
The Rain People

Destroy, She Said
Killed The Family And Went To The Movies - Bressane
Medium Cool
They Shoot Horses Don't They
Venus In Furs

Anticlimax - Gas
Beatrice Cenci/Conspiracy Of Torture - Fulci
Blood Of The Condor
Invasion
Valparaiso Mi Amor

Breve Cielo

[Silga]

white sun of the desert - motyl

1970 on IMDb

[rischka]

thank you. don't grieve! (daneliya) is 1968 on imdb also (@flip)

l'amor fou review at imdb:

4 hours+ to tell a dull story! Chain smoking french men and women rehearsing for Greek play, and some weak-ass relationship drama on the side. That's it!!!

i'm glad rivette is finally growing on me

[Lencho of the Apes]

L'Amour Fou is one of the more experimental ones, it's practically Out One.

[rischka]

experimental films oh no whatever shall i do :p

actually was thinking i could be ready for out 1 soonish

[karl]

One of the best years in the history of the movies, and one where I'd have to leave off at least a dozen terrific films to keep it to 20. And there are a couple dozen I'd like to see to add to the problem.

The contenders:

Larks on a String (Menzel) (one of the "banned forever" Czech movies and until recently a 1990 release on IMDb - cos that's when it was released. damn site keeps changing the dates)
Phantom India (Malle)
To Love... (Kalik) (1968 on LB)
Nest of the Gentry (Konchalovsky)
The Icon Stand (Dinov & Christov)
The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov)
The Toth Family (Fábri)
The Red Tent (Kalatazov) (USSR cut - I've never seen the short US version)
The Structure of Crystals (Zanussi)
Army of Shadows (Melville)
Dzhamilya (Poplavskaya)
Sparkling Winds aka The Confrontation (Jancso)
A Gentle Woman (Bresson)
Pirosmani (Shengelaya)
Goyokin (Gosha)
Annychka (Ivchenko)
Subject for a Short Story (Yutkevich)
The Lady from Constantinople (Elek)
Too Little for Such a Big War (Gabrea) (1970 on IMDb)
Times without War (Gopo)
We Are Our Mountains (Malyan)
Madness (Kiisk)
The Upthrown Stone (Sára)
Gunshot at the Mountain Pass (Shamshiyev) (1968 on LB)
Ave, Vita (Grikevičius)
Portrait of Hell (Toyoda)
Bhuvan Shome (Sen)
The Witness (Bacsó)
The Land (Chahine)
All My Good Countrymen (Jasný)
The Milky Way (Buñuel)
Ådalen 31 (Widerberg)

[St. Gloede]

Incredible year:

Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu / Eros Plus Massacre (1969, Yoshishige Yoshida)
Z (1969, Costa-Gavras)
L'Armée des ombres / Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Vtackovia, siroty a blazni / Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969, Juraj Jakubisko)

Isten hozta örnagy úr / The Toth Family (1969, Zoltan Fabri)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969, Ronald Neame)
Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame / I Am an Elephant Madam (1969, Peter Zadek)
Medea (1969, Pier Paolo Pasonlini)

La Voie lactée / The Milky Way (1969, Luis Bunuel)
Spalovac mrtvol / The Cremator (1969, Juraj Herz)
They Shoot Horses Don't They (1969, Sydney Pollack)
Akage / Red Lion (1969, Kihachi Okamoto)

Macunaíma (1969, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
Ma nuit chez Maud / My Night at Maud's (1969, Eric Rohmer)
Zert / The Joke (1969, Jaromil Jires)
El chacal de Nahueltoro / Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969, Miguel Littin)

Marinetti (1969, Albie Thoms)
Môjû / Blind Beast (1969, Yasuzo Masumura)
Vsichni dobrí rodáci / All My Compatriots (1969, Vojtech Jasný)
A tanú / The Witness (1969, Péter Bacsó)

HMs:

Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger)
Ådalen 31 (1969, Bo Widerberg)
La caduta degli dei (Götterdämmmerung) / The Damned (1969, Luchino Visconti)
Pirosmani (1969, Giorgi Shengelaia)
Dvoryanskoe gnezdo / A Nest of Gentry (1969, Andrey Konchalovskiy)
Menq Enq, Mer Sarere / We Are, Our Mountains (1969, Henrik Malyan)
Que la bête meure / This Man Must Die (1969, Claude Chabrol)
Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern / Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969, Peter Fleischmann)
Zazidani / The Walled In (1969, Vojislav 'Kokan' Rakonjac)
Smutecní slavnost / Funeral Ceremonies (1969, Zdenek Sirový)
Svetáci / Men about Town (1969, Zdenek Podskalský)
The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
Queimada / Burn! (1969, Gillo Pontecorvo)
Meteorango Kid: Herói Intergalático (1969, André Luiz Oliveira)

322 (1969, Dusan Hanák)
Wszystko na sprzedaz / Everything for Sale (1969, Andrzej Wajda)
Yoiyami semareba / When Twilight Draws Near (1969, Akio Jissôji)
Charles mort ou vif / Charles, Dead or Alive (1969, Alain Tanner)
A Married Couple (1969, Allan King)
Gaav / The Cow (1969, Dariush Mehrjui)
Sirokkó / Winter Wind (1969, Miklós Jancsó)
Medium Cool (1969, Haskell Wexler)
Detektive (1969, Rudolf Thome)
Invasión (1969, Hugo Santiago)
Den sedmý, osmá noc / The Seventh Day, the Eighth Night (1969, Evald Schorm)
Women in Love (1969, Ken Russel)
Misshandlingen (1969, Lars Lennart Forsberg)
Feldobott kö / The Upthrown Stone (1969, Sándor Sára)
A Navalha na Carne / Razor in the Flesh (1969, Braz Chediak)
La Residencia (1969, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador)
Take the Money and Run (1969, Woody Allen)
Una sull'altra / Perversion Story (1969, Lucio Fulci)
True Grit (1969, Henry Hathaway)
Gli specialisti / The Specialist (1969, Sergio Corbucci)
Fényes szelek / The Confrontation (1969, Miklós Jancsó)
Age of Consent (1969, Michael Powell)
Le gai savoir / The Joy of Learning (1969)
Une femme douce (1969, Robert Bresson)
O Anjo Nasceu / The Angel Was Born (1969, Julio Bressane)
Kes (1969, Ken Loach)

[sally]

boom - tolomush okeyev

short kyrgyz doc that may be of interest to some in these parts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnjWMV8u7A

[karl]

I'm surprised so many folks have seen THE TOTH FAMILY. Maybe the best comedy ever made about autocracy.

[sally]

haven't watched TOTH yet cuz have had the book on the shelf for years.....guess this is a prompt to read and then watch for the poll...

but in the meantime.....i also haven't watched this yet, but just had a quick scan through paul (dir. diourka medveczky) and had to had to had to yell with joy at our beautiful beautiful boy (fellow cinephiles that have seen the film have been none too impressed but i don't care, i finally figured it out, he looks like a candy-floss sweet artaud)

[sally]

69 was luuuuuuuuuuv!!

[sally]

etc....

[Mario Gaborovic]

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Kes
Midnight Cowboy
Môjû
Zaseda
Zazidani
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Čvor
El dependiente
El libro de piedra
Gaav
Lyubit...
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Cabascabo
Gražuolė
Most
Pirosmani
Vrane
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A Pál utcai fiúk
Dirkie
Easy Rider
Mikreh isha
The Perils of Priscilla
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[Mario Gaborovic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaR6dg2pbZQ

"Why do films always show the bad side? It is better to show something entertaining. Something for fun."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGcA_z1Vb3Q

The excerpt from Zazidani. Excellent film albeit it's a sequel to Pre istine, made one year before.

[Curtis, baby]

Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie)
Blood of the Condor (Jorge Sanjinés)
Boy (Nagisa Ōshima)
Last Summer (Frank Perry)

The Swimming Pool (Jacques Deray)
The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol)
My Night at Maud's (Éric Rohmer)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt)

Samurai Banners (Hiroshi Inagaki)
Model Shop (Jacques Demy)
Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson)
Dillinger is Dead (Marco Ferreri)

Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
Alabama (2000 Light Years) (Wim Wenders)
This Man Must Die (Claude Chabrol)
The Dependent (Leonardo Favio)

The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda)
Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Salesman (Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Started my 1969 explorations with a rewatch, Chastity (Alessio de Paolo -- pseudonym? Maybe Sonny Bono?) It's one of those monstrous, misshapen, wannabe-youthy trainwreck movies, on a par with Skidoo. Maybe surpassing it. Earnest like you wouldn't believe and ... just... wrong... in every way.

[Lencho of the Apes]

etc....

There's a shot... a whole sequence... that looks a lot like this in a student film from 1959...

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[sally]

(added to watchlist for 1959, thanks lencho)

[rischka]

no. this is such a cool little film



Մենք ենք, մեր սարերը/we are our mountains

[karl]

Good movie, that.

[sally]

the icon stand - todor dinov, christo christov

itself a decades-long icon of unattainability (was on youtube, no subs, subs appeared, the film disappeared, till a few years ago it resurfaced, finally complete & watchable) i have at last watched this, which i so longed to do during the period i was hopping about over stone wedding and spring for the thirsty etc....and....now it's almost too late - i am a LOT less sympathetic to the tortured, individualistic male genius than i was then. but still.....looooove that very bulgarian sparse brutality, and the cinematography is as gorgeous as expected....

[rischka]

i wanna see it!!!!




so there's this hot guy from the midwest who sees his life/america crumbling around him - Akran, d. richard myers features montage of clips shot between 1965-69 not far from kent state where in 1970 things went from bad to worse (myers taught there). can it be psychedelic if it's in b&w?? bonus: he gets naked



the most interesting thing here for me was the soundtrack - a cut up tape music thing by fred coulter. lots of clips of news shows and other cultural detritus (media assault by tv has a strong presence) the view from the heartland where people were aware of what was happening on the coasts (bc tv). this year is too strong for me to list this but i liked it. i'm also watching salome but kinda od'd on experimental films and passed out lol. it's alot!~

[sally]

i liked akran too, only these days american movies are hard to watch without subtitles....

anyway, looks like my being pissed off at 60s movies phase is over or i'm just watching nice films:

the lady from constantinople - judit elek

looooooooooooooved this - a female directed slice of mild old-age comedic insanity....(feel like i'm almost there myself) congenial vibe masking some very sharp jibes at contemporary life, in a domestic, non-masculine way. will make space for it on my list.

[karl]

I agree - great movie!