Goodbye, Boys! is listed as 1966 on IMBd, and this might be one of those occasions where they're correct - made in '64, briefly released in '66 before being banned. IMDb is all over the place with these dates, though. Drahomíra Vihanová's Squandered Sunday, which I didn't get around to seeing for th...

There's no Whoa, Masterpiece! but I liked a number of films from this year. Freeze, Die, Come to Life (Kanevsky) Homeland (Podnieks) Close Up (Kiarostami) Open Doors (Amelio) Siddheshwari (Kaul) The Walls (Gopalakrishnan) Five Girls and a Rope (Yeh) Ju Dou (Zhang) Black Snow (Xie) Mankurt (Kuli Narl...

I've been watching some obscurer movies of the year, but this is the only one so far that I'd recommend:

Like both the abovementioned features (Madness, Mountaineer Hotel) and: Well, Come On, Smile (Leida Laius, Arvo Iho) The Master of Korboja (LL) Werewolf (LL) From Evening Till Morning (LL) can be seen here: https://arkaader.ee/landing/bc/rHczO7kKnl/x46-MXdfJsz Spring (Arvo Kruusement) The Smacking S...

Fair enough. I was a little surprised that one of Ray's best films didn't make it onto any of those lists. So how about a Jean Renoir?

Le Tournoi (Jean Renoir, 1928)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019486/

OK, Angel, didn't see any of these on your list. Though I admit I didn't look too hard. Iris and the Lieutenant (Alf Sjöberg, 1946): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038647/ Banana Paradise (Wang Toon, 1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490518/ Nirmalyam (M. T. Vasudevan Nair, 1973) https://www.imdb.c...

This is not an uninteresting year, a lot of great movies (if no outstanding masterpiece), but I despise Goodfellas and Wild at Heart and most other films of their directors. Would at present have to whittle 20 down from this bunch: Freeze, Die, Come to Life (Kanevsky) Close Up (Kiarostami) Open Door...

See? Sometimes Karl knows what he's talking about.

greennui wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2025 7:03 pm It's a shame no ones watch Enchanted Day!

That's how I feel about Premier de cordée - but OK, since I have a couple of days yet I'll try to get round to Enchanted.

To Have and Have Not Premier de cordée (Louis Daquin) A Canterbury Tale Hail the Conquering Hero Murder, My Sweet Marie-Louise (Leopold Lindtberg) Double Indemnity La Vie de plaisir (Albert Valentin) Buffalo Bill (William Wellman) The Way Ahead (Carol Reed) Woman of the Mountains (Renato Castellani)...

next!

Doesn't seem to be much enthusiasm for 1944, but I highly recommend one I've seen recently: Louis Daquin's Swiss mountaineers flick Premier de cordée. It'll end up close to the top of the list.

CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US is a 1943 IMDb.

Not a great year, but I may see one or two.

Probably final. Although, come to think of it, Nosferatu remains one of the few "standards" I've never seen. Love's Crucible (Sjöström) Häxan (Christensen) Love One Another (Dreyer) Foolish Wives (Stroheim) Anna Liisa (Puro & Snellman) Phantom (Murnau) Lorna Doone (Tourneur) Nanook of ...

King of the Children is somehow 1988 now. Good ole Imdb! Well, off it goes, and in its place I'll put the Chinese film no one's seen, for a total of two lady Chinese directors for the year - surely a record for the top twenty. And if the mysterious "U Lan," co-director of Girl from Hunan i...

A second recommendation for "Girls' Reformatory." Pic is the Shimizu "formula," yes, but in some directors you don't mind the formula because of the skill with which the movies are made. Only the best manage to escape the formula becoming a mannerism: for me Ozu and Bresson fit i...

Paradise of the Blind Dương Thu Hương Washington Square Henry James Iceland's Bell Halldór Laxness The Magician of Lublin I. B. Singer The Foundation Pit Andrei Platonov Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk Pnin (once again) Vladimir Nabokov Glad to have finally found a Henry Ja...

Everyone likes Eric Rohmer except me, it seems. I don't despise him. He's just... OK. There are already a number of great movies I'm leaving off the provisional Top 20 below. Can no room be found, Karl, for Au Revoir les Enfants, Daughter of the Nile, Wish You Were Here, Zegen, The Surrogate Woman, ...

Final: Sir Arne's Treasure (Stiller) Song of the Scarlet Flower (Stiller) Sons of Ingmar (Sjostrom) The Fairy of Solbakken (Brunius) True Heart Susie (Griffith) A Dangerous Proposal (Carlsten) The President (Dreyer) Broken Blossoms (Griffith) Victory (Tourneur) The Wicked Darling (Browning) Unknown ...

Final:

Roma
Burning
Ayka
Shoplifters

The Public
How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal
Green Book

Mario Gaborovic wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 2:50 pm https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172681/

Red Meadows is translated, too.

I know. I should watch it already.

Lăutarii (Loteanu)
Heavenly Gypsies (Loteanu)
To Love... (Kalik) (wife translated this and I did the timings)
Sandu Follows the Sun (Kalik)

That's what I got! Not too many subbed Moldovan movies out there.

Not many for this year either: Roma Burning Ayka Shoplifters The Public How Fernando Pessoa Saved Portugal Green Book (yeah, I liked it, and I don't care what all you haters say - and now, for your edification, THE ATTACKS ON GREEN BOOK AND THE RACIALIST INFECTION OF THE AFFLUENT MIDDLE CLASS by Dav...

Haven't seen many, probably won't see more, but this what I got: Sir Arne's Treasure (Stiller) Song of the Scarlet Flower (Stiller) Sons of Ingmar (Sjostrom) The Fairy of Solbakken (Brunius) True Heart Susie (Griffith) A Dangerous Proposal (Carlsten) The President (Dreyer) Broken Blossoms (Griffith)...

Would like to have seen more, but I'm on the road. City Lights (Chaplin) M (Lang) Tabu (Murnau) David Golder (Duvivier) La Chienne (Renoir) Alone (Kozintsev & Trauberg) Frankenstein (Whale) À Nous la Liberté (Clair) The Congress Dances (Charell) The Upright Sinner (Kortner) Mädchen in Uniform (S...

Lot of good movies, '31. Germans especially - and there are several of theirs I haven't seen. It's been awhile since I've seen some of these. Will narrow to 20 later. City Lights (Chaplin) M (Lang) Tabu (Murnau) David Golder (Duvivier) La Chienne (Renoir) Alone (Kozintsev & Trauberg) Frankenstei...

Late reply. I'm one of those poor souls got whacked with the hurricane/power outage in SE USA. Fortunately I'm soon to depart from this crumbling thirdworld nation. Chunhyang (Im) Yi Yi (Yang) A Time for Drunken Horses (Ghobadi) The Guava House (Đặng) The House of Mirth (Davies) Life As a Fatal Sexu...

I quite liked SONG OF TIBET Xie Fei's last film to date, and THE CHILD AND THE SOLDIER (Reza Mirkarimi) - they'll both make the final list, I think - but don't know if they'll be up the alley of folks here. Although Jonathan Rosenbaum listed the latter in his 2000 Top Ten, and I know what a god JR i...

I've seen a fair number of Macedonian movies. They tend to be pretty dark. Dark... and stony. Aside from aforementioned WE'RE CURSED, IRINA these ones I like: The Price of a Town (L. Georgievski, 1970) Mountain of Wrath (Georgievski, 1968) Under the Same Sky (Georgievski & Stamenković, 1964) Thr...

Eh. Something like this: Chunhyang (Im) Yi Yi (Yang) A Time for Drunken Horses (Ghobadi) The Guava House (Đặng) The House of Mirth (Davies) Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (Zanussi) A Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong) Platform (Jia) The Day I Became a Woman (Meshkiny) Devils ...