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Thank you for the extension, flip.

I am planning to put together a list of faves, but there are challenges and DtC all closing at around the same time over on ICMForum. The extension eases things a bit.

Hi greenui! Not a year I've really explored and the war certainly seems to have made it rather a UK and American-centric year, going by what I've seen/rated. 4 tiers: Tier 1: The Lost Weekend (Wilder) Brief Encounter (Lean) Dead of Night (Cavalcanti, Crichton, Dearden, Hamer) I Know Where I'm Going!...

A belated thank you, therouxxx!

The SCFZ cohort seems to have noticeably dwindled this year. Sadly missed! The eclecticism of their submissions was welcome and often revelatory. Seconded. Keep up the fight, aggrieved minority ! :P And thanks for your contribution! Not quite Sponsored by Torgo level, but glad to add to the thread'...

MrCarmady wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 11:44 am Let's get some smut on there.

The Metzger will get full support from me and I'll dive into the Damiano for the DtC challenge over on ICM Forum.

I should try to post on here more often! If you'll have me, here are 20 I hold dear. please do roger! (and if you're so minded, post your ballot early so it gives the rest of us some interesting suggestions to hunt down before the poll is over :)) Cheers Sal. I shall try to keep SCFZ in my posting ...

I should try to post on here more often! If you'll have me, here are 20 I hold dear. 4 tiers of 5: En haut des marches (Vecchiali) Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai (Puipa) Mascara (Findlay & Pachard) Mer dare (Peleshian) Olivia (Lommel) Another Time, Another Place (Radford) L'eau de la Seine (Hernand...

ha! not only have i heard of a few on roger's list, i've actually already got some to watch! i don't think that's ever happened before Ah, that's nice. One of my reasons for going with a sprinkling of nations rather than a heavy focus on one area that I love (such as the Baltics or Central Asia) wa...

My nominations for 2023: Հնձան / Sour Grapes / (1974, Bagrat Oganesyan) / Armenia En el balcón vacío / On the Empty Balcony / (1962, Jomí García Ascot) / Mexico Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai / A Woman and Her Four Men / (1983, Algimantas Puipa) / Lithuania Palo y hueso / Stick and Bone / (1968, Nicolá...

Hi sally. I have tended to nominate films I have discovered over the preceding 12 months - new faves, if you will. I don't speak Russian, unfortunately. Just English and French, middling Irish, and a bit of German. I rely on the auto-translated subs, and read synopses on the Russian websites (KinoTe...

Hi Karl (sorry, quote doesn't work).

Yes, Angel is right in what he says. I wouldn't be too hopeful of subs showing up online for these. From what I recall, the auto-translated subs on YT are acceptable for the Motyl and the Derbenyov.

I posted my picks over on ICMForum, but I'll put them over here as well. Deti Pamira / The Children of Pamir (1963, Vladimir Motyl) Marš, marš, tra-ta-ta / March, march! Tra-ta-ta! (1964, Raimondas Vabalas) Puteshestviye v aprel / Travel in April (1964, Vadim Derbenyov) Romeo, moy sosed / Romeo, My ...

Some short docs perhaps, Sal?

Everybody is valuable!

Hi there flip. Assuming this is still open...

I've seen 5. Three of them don't stand out in my memory, but I liked these two:

1. 'THE PETRIFIED FOREST' - 8/10
2. 'ILLICIT' - 6.5 OR 7/10

I like them both but I'll go with 'Night Moves'.

Poll #1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman) - 4/5 Jaws (Steven Spielberg) - 3/5 Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick) - 4/5 Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet) - 5/5 Nashville (Robert Altman) - 4/5 Poll #2 Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975, Lina Wertmüller) Professione: reporter (1975, Michelangelo An...

Hi flip! Poll #1: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) - 5/5 The Song of Bernadette (Henry King) - not seen For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sam Wood) - 3/5 Watch on the Rhine (Herman Shumlin) - not seen The More the Merrier (George Stevens) - not seen The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman) - 5/5 Heaven Can Wait (Ern...

I've only seen three from Kachyna, two from Szabó, and one from Fábri.

Hi flip (and thanks for the friendly words in the DtC thread)!

I've seen seven from McCarey. These three are all pretty great (in my eyes, at least!):

1. LOVE AFFAIR
2. DUCK SOUP
3. THE AWFUL TRUTH

Hmmmmm... my top 10 (arranged mainly by how much I liked her performances): 01. LADY OF BURLESQUE 02. ALL I DESIRE 03. THE MIRACLE WOMAN 04. REMEMBER THE NIGHT 05. MEET JOHN DOE 06. THE LADY EVE 07. DOUBLE INDEMNITY 08. THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS 09. THE GREAT MAN'S LADY 10. BALL OF FIRE Gaps ...

If I'm not too late, I'll put up a list in a little while. She's a big fave of mine (and was one of the very first stars I really latched on to as a young film fan). I've seen 54 of her films.

Yay, I finally managed to log in (after forgetting my password for yonks)! Hello again, SCFZ! Thank you to flip for that teasing out and examination of the Bayesian formula principle. Maths is not really my strong-point but I think DtC might be losing part of its very unique charm by discarding the ...

I've seen 8 from Mulligan.

1. 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
2. 'Up the Down Staircase'
3. 'Summer of '42'
4. 'Same Time, Next Year'

Wonderful choice. One of my favourite French directors. I've seen seven from him.

1. 'Touchez pas au grisbi'
2. 'Goupi mains rouges'
3. 'Falbalas'

Hello once again, flip (and everyone!) Good to be back! I have missed these micro-polls. I had become logged out on the old board and couldn't for quite some time recall my log-in details. I've seen 12 from Frankenheimer. 1. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE 2. SEVEN DAYS IN MAY 3. BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ 4. THE...

Thanks for the very thoughtful message directing me over here, bure! I hadn't been able to log in to my account on the old board for the last few months and finally yesterday I managed to get it to work for me.

Very nice to see this. You've done a great job!