Seen 11:

(Still not seen Visage, as it ended up being mentioned here I may see it before the deadline, did not have big expectations).

Rebels of the Neon God
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Vive L'Amour
Stray Dogs
The Hole

I love the interest in Okamoto, and the wish for a "drive" to explore his work. I think for the next poll it makes more sense to do Tsai, but we could always set up an Okamoto thread, and run it as a drive/challenge to explore and discuss his films (could be interesting to do this for othe...

flip wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:11 pm

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:53 pm

lencho technically can nominate if he wants, but he passed last time, so if he does again, st gloede can choose our next director.

but if lencho wants to make a nomination, he'll have priority.

Thanks flip and Lencho, my pick is Kihachi Okamoto, or, if he lacks the views Ming-liang Tsai.

Seen 18:

Beggars of Life
Other Men's Women
Safe in Hell
Heroes for Sale
Night Nurse

We Were Strangers - John Huston I'm not too keen on Huston, and the first reels of this used back-projection so insistently I started wondering if there was some "meaning" to be read from that choice... But once it picked up speed it became a thing I couldn't notlove, endorsing terrorist ...

Seen 10. Not a fan. Cukor-Minnelli-Mankiewicz is the Hollywood triangle of deathly boredom for me. Interesting to see Mankiewicz counted among them, I always saw him as a separate entity from the majority of studio directors, and closer to the likes of Hawks and Wyler, in that he, despite being a j...

Seen 11, but will only vote for 3:

Dinner at Eight
A Double Life
Gaslight

Seen 3 by Jenning, 18 by Wellman.

My current toplist - bolded films I believe may have fallen under the radar for many: 1. The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed) 2. Banshun / Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu) 3. All the King's Men (1949, Robert Rossen) 4. Liebe '47 (1949, Wolfgang Liebeneiner) 5. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949, Robert Hame...

Seen 8, though I don't consider any of them great. However, as it is not doing too well, I may just as well vote for True Romance, and throw in The Last Boy Scout too (liked that one a lot as a pre-teen):

1. True Romance
2. The Last Boy Scout

flip wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 2:24 pm i'm counting late ballots from long-time members, so i've added that in!

Very nice surprise, thank you, and just like that 3 Women won.

Seen 21 (all features + selected shorts). Top 5:

Monsieur Verdoux
Limelight
City Lights
The Kid
One A.M.

Damn it, how did I miss Altman?! My list would have been:

3 Women
Nashville
The Player
California Split
Brewster McCloud

Seen 22

pabs wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2019 5:19 am I didn't know there was a 2011 Maddin film! Hooray!

Cheers, hope you like it! It is one of his most ignored, but visually spectacular and as absurd as ever. It was also his very last solo effort (in terms of features).

1. Keyhole (2011, Guy Maddin) The Artist (2011, Michel Hazanavicius) Melancholia (2011, Lars von Trier) The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick) Shame (2011, Steve McQueen) The Sunset Limited (2011, Tommy Lee Jones) Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011, Sean Durkin) La piel que habito / The Skin I Live I...

Seen 10. I am mixed on Losey's career, the little I have seen of his American work is just not interesting, You should watch THE PROWLER (1950)! Brilliant, brilliant film. And THE CRIMINAL (1960) from that british period (which you mentioned, but maybe you haven't seen this one), which is also a ma...

Seen 10. I am mixed on Losey's career, the little I have seen of his American work is just not interesting, and similarly (granted, like many directors) he seemed to start losing his touch later in life, leaving essentially the 60s as the period where he genuinly shone as a master of great artistic ...

Wellman 18
Losey 10
Lewis 7

Seen 10, only liked The King of Kings, but not enough to vote on it. DeMille is without a doubt one of the most bloated, cringeworthy and silly storytellers in Hollywood history. He literally gives Griffith a run for his money - and at least Griffith could pull of a sense of grandeur.

Seen 13:

Day of Wrath
The Parson's Widow
Leaves Out of the Book of Satan
Master of the House
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

This is a horribly tight match, watched both for DtC19 this month, and both got the top grade, however, as I have to pick, I will give it to A Cuban Fight Against Demons. x1972

Seen 13,

Kuroi ame / Black Rain (1989)
Akai satsui / Intentions of Murder (1964)
Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari / Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Hateshinaki yokubô / Stolen Desire (1958)
Nianchan / My Second Brother (1959)

100 yrs > 20 years I know the conversation has moved on, but just wanted to say that this was the perfect retort. And to bring the conversation back for the OP, I don't think anyone would honestly compare the 20th and 21st century yet, what people are likely talking about is their favorite period o...

Seen 9:

1. La gueule ouverte / The Mouth Agape (1974)
2. Passe ton bac d'abord / Graduate First (1978)
3. Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble / We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)
4. Loulou (1980)

Seen 6:

L'amant d'un jour / Lover for a Day (2017)
Les baisers de secours (1989)

Seen 15:

1. The Devils (1971)
2. Mahler (1974)
3. The Boy Friend (1971)
4. Savage Messiah (1972)
5. Salome's Last Dance (1988)

I have actually not seen The Music Lovers, will try to watch it before the deadline.

Seen 15:

1. Teorema (1968)
2. Edipo re / Oedipus Rex (1967/I)
3. Salo (1975)
4. Medea (1969)
5. Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (1964)

My list: 1. Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles) 2. Ansiktet / The Magician (1958, Ingmar Bergman) 3. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) 4. Édes Anna (1958, Zoltán Fábri) 5. Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Louis Malle) 6. Ház a sziklák alatt / The House Under the Rocks (1958, ...

Seen 23:


The Naked Spur
Bend of the River
Men of the West
The Furies
Reign of Terror (had to add one non-Western ...)

I am one of the very few people who are not at all a fan of Garrel's early work, and as it is often his most noted work I had given the rest of his career a miss. Luckily I caught Lover for a Day last year, which showed tremendous craftmanship. This is one of the rare cases where I simply enjoy some...

Seen 7 from Henry King. Sadly the only film I found great was:

1. Twelve O'Clock High

(Seen 23 from Anthony Mann however, looking forward to that one)