1965 Poll

[kanafani]

(it was subbed by two of our forum members here they could have hurried it a bit)

Hey It’s entirely brian’s fault - he only told me about it last week - jk jk

[sally]

wow, fantastic work guys!

[brian d]

i had been informed it just had portuguese dialogue subbed into french. then i found out it had a whole lot of french dialogue without subs. took me about a month to get through what i could before i had to get kanafani to rescue me.

[rischka]

i was wondering if it was originally in french or portuguese, possibly both in the grand european tradition of allowing actors to act in their native language. really fine work and i'm enjoying the film very much. it's what i now think of as a *brian* film too pierre speaks french the entire time i think?

[brian d]

oh it's definitely a brian film it's got amâlia rodrigues! and pierre clementi! and it's based on herman melville!

(and yeah, amâlia speaks portuguese, clementi speaks french, and the main character speaks both, but just french when he's narrating.)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Y'all done good, I'm proud of this list. All the top-canon directors of the 70s and 80s (except for Akira K.) really struggled to get in at the bottom of the list -- Ritwak Ghatak outperformed Godard, Fellini, Welles, Bunuel and Polanski.

[Lencho of the Apes]

1
Le Bonheur - Varda

2
Yo Yo - Etaix

3
Red Beard - Kurosawa

4
A Spring For The Thirsty -
Subarnarekha/The Golden Thread (Ritwik Ghatak)
The War Game (Peter Watkins)
white mountains (ubukeyev)

8
Elegia (Zoltan Huszarik)
I Knew Her Well (Pietrangeli)
Fists in the Pocket (Bellocchio)
The Seaside Village -

12
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
কাপুরুষ [The Coward] - Satyajit Ray
Guide -
Pierrot le fou (Godard)
Saragossa Manuscript (Has)

17
The Brick and the Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)
For a Few Dollars More (Leone)
Kiga/Kaikyo/ a fugitive from the past (uchida)
my way home (jancso)
Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors -
Simon Of The Desert- Bunuel

24
Alphaville - Godard
The Collector - Wyler
The First Teacher - Konchalovsky
Juliet Of The Spirits - Fellini
Repulsion - Polanski
Shunpu den / Story of a Prostitute (1965, Seijun Suzuki)

30
Bunny Lake Is Missing - Preminger
Clay -
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" (Bill Melendez, 1965)
The Debussy Film (Ken Russell)
The Family Jewels (Jerry Lewis)
Fort Graveyard
The Hand (Jirí Trnka)
I Am Twenty Part 1/Part 2 -
The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie)
Red Line 7000 (Howard Hawks)
Seisaku's Wife
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
B�l� pan� / The White Lady (1965, Zdenek Podskalsk�)

43 - 71
The Ashes (Andzrej Wajda)
The Blizzard (Vladimir Basov)
The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison, 1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965, Fred Zinneman)
Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich)
forest of the hanged (ciulei) three segments
a high wind in jamaica (mackendrick)
I Saw What You Did (William Castle)
Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer)
karla (zschoche)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger)
Loves of a Blonde (Miloš Forman, 1965)
Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev)
El mundo sigue / Life Goes On (1965, Fernando Fern�n G�mez)
Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub)
now! (álvarez)
planet of the vampires (bava)
Quixote (Bruce Baillie)
the rabbit is me (maetzig)
Sevmek Zamanı [Time to Love] - Metin Erksan
Shenandoah (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1965)
The Shop On Main Street
The Sound of Music (Wise)
A Story Written With Water
tattooed life (suzuki)
tri (petrovic)
La 317ème section [The 317th Platoon] - Pierre Schœndœrffer
Viento Negro - Gonzalez

[rischka]

erm i did not copy all 43-71 as i am lazy. interesting list, each entry seemed very different

here is your official letterboxd 1965 poll list

pleased to have pushed yoyo to #2! if i'd kept it in first it would've won but i'd rather see an up and coming lady french new wave director get it

[...]

A fine list. Surprised to see Red Beard all alone in third place, not that it doesn't deserve to make the list or anything, I just didn't think it'd rank that high.

[St. Gloede]

Fantastic and refreshing results and I'm not just saying that because Le Bonheur finally won.

What I'm yet to see: (And there are quite a few)

8
Elegia (Zoltan Huszarik)
The Seaside Village -

12
Guide -

30
Bunny Lake Is Missing - Preminger
Clay -
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" (Bill Melendez, 1965)
The Debussy Film (Ken Russell)
The Family Jewels (Jerry Lewis)
The Hand (Jirí Trnka)
Red Line 7000 (Howard Hawks)

43 - 71
The Ashes (Andzrej Wajda)
Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich)
I Saw What You Did (William Castle)
karla (zschoche)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger)
Quixote (Bruce Baillie)
Sevmek Zamanı [Time to Love] - Metin Erksan
Viento Negro - Gonzalez