Aa bakudan / Oh, Bomb! (1964, Kihachi Okamoto) Il vangelo secondo Matteo (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini) Bande à part (1964, Jean-Luc Godard) Kaidan (1964, Masaki Kobayashi) Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (1964, Luis Bunuel) El extraño viaje / Strange Voyage (1964, Fernando Fernán Gómez) Cerný Petr (...

Did you include my runner ups? Happy to extend it as well, such an amazing year. i was planning to, if you didn't post here -- from your runners-up, only two films didn't make the top 81 so far, so at the moment, your bonus ballot would look like this: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024, Rungano Nyoni...

My list: Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese) Ucho / The Ear (1970-1990, Karel Kachyna) Das schreckliche Mädchen / The Nasty Girl (1990, Michael Verhoeven) Nema-ye Nazdik / Close Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami) Jacob's Ladder (1990, Adrian Lyne) Privilege (1990, Yvonne Rainer) Lebedyne ozero. Zona / Swan...

Did you include my runner ups? Happy to extend it as well, such an amazing year.

This was my list at 74 films in: Looks like another back-to-back great year. Would have loved it if expanded to 20 slots ;) Seen 74 so far (going by IMDB year). There are a few 2023 releases I really want to vote for, especially Terrestrial Verses, but don't see anyone else voting for it, and it doe...

karl wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 3:35 pm CHILDREN ARE WATCHING US is a 1943 IMDb.

Thanks, karl!

Ivan Groznyy I / Ivan the Terrible part I (1944, Sergei M. Eisenstein) The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944, Laurence Olivier) Boerensymfonie / Peasant Symphony (1944, Henri Storck & Maurice Delattre) On Approval (1944, Clive Brook) A ...

Only 16 this time: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit / Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922, Fritz Lang) Foolish Wives (1922, Erich von Stroheim) Salome (1922, Charles Bryant) The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922, Max Linder) Der Brennende Acker / Burning Soil (1922, F.W. Murnau) Lucrezia Borgia (1922...

Thanks for checking. Updated.

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 5:19 pm

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2024 11:20 am
When Harry Met Sally... (1987, Rob Reiner)

1989, no?

Thanks. Removed.

Der Himmel über Berlin / Wings of Desire (1987, Wim Wenders) Withnail & I (1987, Bruce Robinson) King Lear (1987, Jean-Luc Godard) Au revoir, les Enfants (1987, Louis Malle) L'ami de mon amie / Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987, Éric Rohmer) Les innocents (1987, André Téchiné) Radio Days (1987, W...

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018, Radu Jude) i'm going to watch this again since i don't remember anything about it It might hit a little close to home in the current political climate in the US, but tragically I think it will only become more relevant and important.

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018, Radu Jude) Lazzaro felice / Happy as Lazzaro (2018, Alice Rohrwacher) Pájaros de verano / Birds of Passage (2018, Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra) The Favourite (2018, Yorgos Lanthimos) Transit (2018, Christian Petzold) Di qiu zui hou de ye w...

You are likely right, though I do think that a notable degree of the appeal of MAGA is the cult of personality that Trump has, and while an heir apparent can and likely will tap into that, I think it will be near-impossible to recapture the momentum. Perhaps Tucker Carlson can do it, who knows. You ...

Best of luck to the US and to the rest of us as well, as the insane identity politics of Trumpism is getting exported at rapid speed. It seems insecure men with women issues gravitate towards Trump because he somehow makes them feel emboldened and empowered. Seeing a "macho" sexual predato...

M (1931, Fritz Lang) Limite (1931, Mario Peixoto) À nous la liberté / Freedom for Us (1931, René Clair) Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931, F.W. Murnau) Der Kongreß tanzt / Congress Dances (1931, Erik Charell) Der Hauptmann von Köpenick / The Captain from Köpenick (1931, Richard Oswald) David Gol...

Been a very long time since I saw the majority of these, so not too confident about the lower spots: Fa yeung nin wa / In the Mood for Love (2000, Kar Wai Wong) Après la réconciliation / After the Reconciliation (2000, Anne-Marie Miéville) La commune (Paris, 1871) (2000, Peter Watkins) Otesánek / Li...

Caught 70 first-time viewings last month, probably the most I've seen this year, though it resulted in just 7 great discoveries. The highlight came the very first day of July with Children's Sicknesses becoming an instant favourite, and it is easily one of the greatest films specifically about child...

flip wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 1:41 pm

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2024 11:01 am Reconstituirea / Reconstruction (1970, Lucian Pintilie)

i'd include this in my list too, but it's 1968 on imdb

Thanks, removed. Let's hope it doesn't bounce back to 1970 during the poll.

Like most years in the 60s-70s, especially at the intersection, this is one of the strongest years of all-time: Rengoku eroica / Heroic Purgatory (1970, Yoshishige Yoshida) Il Conformista (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci) L'Éden et après / Eden and After (1970, Alain Robbe-Grillet) Ucho / The Ear (1970-1...

I haven't seen anything by Autaunt-Lara, yet, so how I'll react to that will be very interesting for me in the future. :D I should add that I was being a little unfair to Autant-Lara, he has a couple of films I'd consider great, especially Douce. Even Christian-Jaque made some films I'd consider gr...

My favorite French directors are Jacques Doillon and Jean Rollin, so that doesn't exactly prop my view. :) Now that's two surprising picks. I really like Doillon, though I have seen little from the 80s onwards and nothing post-Ponette, as most were reviewed very poorly. I should do a deep-dive. Rol...

Thanks for the info by the way! Really interesting statistics. So many films made even without counting those made for TV! :o Thank you for making me check, as I'd never seen those numbers either. And the real numbers are likely far higher, as a lot of forgotten/unsuccessful films were likely never...

As to my preferred French directors pre-New Wave, it's the usual suspects: Jean Grémillon, René Clair, Jean Epstein, Marcel Carné, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean-Pierre Melville, etc. and I've seen great films by Marcel L'Herbier, Pierre Chenal, Robert Bresson, Henri Decoin, Julien Duvivier, Richard P...

My favorite French directors are Jacques Doillon and Jean Rollin, so that doesn't exactly prop my view. :) Now that's two surprising picks. I really like Doillon, though I have seen little from the 80s onwards and nothing post-Ponette, as most were reviewed very poorly. I should do a deep-dive. Rol...

My favorite French directors are Jacques Doillon and Jean Rollin, so that doesn't exactly prop my view. :) Now that's two surprising picks. I really like Doillon, though I have seen little from the 80s onwards and nothing post-Ponette, as most were reviewed very poorly. I should do a deep-dive. Rol...

In theory I'd agree with what you're saying, but in the end it probably comes down to personale taste. I have nothing per se against post 1960s cinema and love many directors and films. But in my opinion, the French directors who got a start before the New Wave (and that's over 60 years of French c...

Marie-Antoinette, reine de france (Jean Delannoy) A textbook example of the tradition de la qualitie that Truffaut opposed in his famous '54 article. It's far more artistically interesting than the Cahiers crowd would have you believe. Yeah, the Cahiers critics were notoriously terrible when it cam...

Between these two I also saw Ichikawa's first colour film Bridge of Japan, which I felt promised more in its opening in terms of atmosphere than it delivered. Perfectly well-made, but hardly memorable, and the Macedonian based-on-a-true story Cursed Money, which follows a bunch of farmers who becom...

Seen 3 for this poll so far, and no standouts. The highlight has to be Three Women Around Yoshinaka by Teinosuke Kinugasa, best remembered for his silent, A Page of Madness (1926). It's a fairly drawn out samurai lord sage, of warring clans, and not too remarkable characters, though the battles them...