SCFZ

i don't care for their list, about as bland a list as you could come up with. i decided only to include films the afi might have considered, so i excluded experimental and short film: Broken Blossoms (DW Griffith, 1919) Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton/John Blystone, 1923) Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton, ...

posted this already on tapatalk, but pasting it here in case it's helpful: Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) Fish and Cat (Shahram Mokri) How I Live Now (Kevin MacDonald) A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke) Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) The Past (Asghar Farhadi) The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorse...

yeah i was sort of backtracking on what i said in my earlier post, we could keep these going for a while if we wanted to. so far, sometimes we just get a few ballots posted, and, especially when a director has only a few famous films, the predictable things win, but other times we get a lot of discu...

well, if we wanted to, i think we could probably get close to 200. just off the top of my head i came up with 36 directors who would probably work, though whether we want to poll some of these guys is debatable (some of them are the more reviled directors around these parts). but there are surely lo...

kind of think neither poll is interesting; favorites will dominate and more interesting films won't even show. why bother? neither, meaning frankenheimer and oshii? i said early on that i'd do these polls as long as people were interested in them. when people aren't, i'll stop, and maybe now that w...

maybe we should check mamoru oshii has enough viewership for a poll - i've seen zero

Black Sunday
Andersonville
Seconds
Forbidden Area
French Connection II


seen 21

starting up the director polls again, i'm assuming frankenheimer will have enough views. we're starting nominations from a clean slate, so if you post the first ballot in this thread, feel free to pick our next director (or if you don't want to, please mention that so the next person can choose)

Polling the films of director John Frankenheimer The rules: - your list can include no more than half of the Frankenheimer films you've seen, up to a maximum of 5. So if you've seen seven of his films, for example, you can list only a top 3. It's only if you've seen ten or more of his films than you...

looks cool tho i think it would be better to leave the date off? it might make me think (if i were seeing it for the first time) that scfz was a film festival or something that happened a few years ago

i've seen about thirty films from this year, almost all american films, not many that were good. the best thing i've seen so far is leave no trace (debra granik). i'll run a 'best of 2018' poll, but i'll start that in the new year, and the deadline will be academy awards day, as we've done the last ...

i like most of the ones rischka posted, though the epstein isn't one of my favourites. most of them look amazing tho

also like a couple of others

i'll give it to tomorrow afternoon for either enough yoshida or wakamatsu viewers to reply, or, failing that, for lencho to post a nominee. if neither of those happen, i'll pick a director and start the nominations from a clean slate.

it would have taken me too long to make a short list, so i made a long one, didn't include rewatches: top twenty features seen this year: Hellzapoppin' (HC Potter, 1941) The Dove's Lost Necklace (Nacer Khemir, 1992) Leave No Trace (Debra Granik, 2018) L'Eden et Apres (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1970) The ...

1. stewart wins 21-9
2. stagecoach
3. the shop around the corner

we did this before, i'll just condense my list down to fifteen titles, one per author: Wittgenstein's Mistress - David Markson JR - William Gaddis Man in the Holocene - Max Frisch Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov The End of the World News - Anthony Burgess The Flanders Road - Claude Simon The Sinking of...

and renoir is poll #90 too, we're closing in on #100 (who should probably be bresson?) we need a nominee for the next poll, zulawski suggested koji wakamatsu, but we never checked if he had the views - i've only seen two. so if anyone has seen 8 or more wakamatsu films, please post here (or if anyon...

and finally Mani Kaul is here:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... s-poll-89/

Orson Welles is here:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... s-poll-88/

Terry Gilliam too:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... s-poll-87/

Peter Weir is up:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... s-poll-86/

i'm posting the results of our most recent few micro-polls (Guy Maddin, Peter Weir, etc) to letterboxd, and with the move to our new site, have nowhere to post the links, so i'll just put them in this thread. the Guy Maddin poll is up: https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list/guy-maddin-scfz-director...

congrats on the publication josiah! hope you'll let us know when it's out

i didn't pitch in this time, but i gather we'll need to do this again each year, so i'll just throw in double next time

hey friends, i'm here, just got set up.

thanks for making this happen bure and everyone else involved! feels like a much better environment than the last place, and i'm sure once everyone has avatars up and we migrate over some old content it will feel like a long-term home

I'll start up the micro-polls again soon, maybe this weekend, once everyone has settled in. For now, the results of the Jean Renoir poll: 1. Rules of the Game (1939) -- 41 pts 2. La Grande Illusion (1937) -- 34 pts 3. A Day in the Country (1936) -- 26 pts 4. The Golden Coach (1952) -- 23 pts 5. Fren...