1979 poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 1979 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible so that others may use them for recommendations. You may, of course, revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 1979 lists will be Wednesday, April 1st at approximately 1 PM Pacific Time. Or a couple hours later, because this winter it has been very hard for me to adhere to this schedule.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Seen and didn't hate:
Alien - R. Scott
The Brood - Cronenberg
Kummatty - G. Aravindan
Messidor - Tanner
Nosferatu - Herzog
Phantasm - Coscarelli
Siberiade - Konchalovsky
Ticket Of No Return - Ottinger
Woyzeck - Herzog

And maybe even:
El ano de la peste - Cazals
Five Evenings - Mikhalkov
Gol Maal - H Mukherjee
The Meateater - David Burton Morris
Rock And Roll High School - Arkush
La Tia Alejandra - Ripstein

Watchlist posted where it will do the most good.

[greennui]

1. Fascination (Jean Rollin)

Messidor (Alain Tanner)
Lady Oscar (Jacques Demy)
New Old (Pierre Clémenti)
Arrebato (Iván Zulueta)
Nezha Conquers the Dragon King (Shuchen Wang, Yan Ding Xian, Jingda Xu)
The Bright Night (Marcel Hanoun)
Je meurs de soif, j’étouffe, je ne puis crier… (Gérard Courant)
The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Radio On (Chris Petit)
Jaguar (Lino Brocka)
Bush Mama (Haile Gerima)
Tess (Roman Polanski)
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki)
A Respectable Life (Stefan Jarl)
Drugstore Romance (Paul Vecchiali)
Anti-Clock (Jane Arden, Jack Bond)
Ticket of No Return (Ulrike Ottinger)
Zoo zéro (Alain Fleischer)
New York Portrait, Chapter I (Peter B. Hutton)
Sunstone (Ed Emshwiller)
Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein)
Mein Fenster (Zbigniew Rybczynski)
House of Flames (Kihachiro Kawamoto)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)

Wanna watch:

Kummatty (Govindan Aravindan)
Don Giovanni (Joseph Losey)
From the Clouds to the Resistance (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub)
The Kirlian Witness (Jonathan Sarno)
The Tempest (Derek Jarman)
Victoria (Bo Widerberg)

[sally]

ffs. just for perspective, on an average year poll my watchlist (from where i start working out what i'm going to prioritise for these polls) usually has about 20 or so films marked down. 1979 has 84. bloody hell.

1st question - what's going on with doomed love? letterboxd has it as 78 and links to the imdb link for the tv series:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077159/

but doomed love as a 4hr+ movie has another imdb entry in 1979 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9249616/?r ... flmg_dr_46 which doesn't link to letterboxd at all.

if i'm going to watch the movie (i guess they're actually the same tho?) does that count as 79 or 78?

[Lencho of the Apes]

I'd go with 79, as long as imdb supports that idea. You do what you think is best.

[Silga]

Provisional list:

1. Hardcore (Paul Schrader)

Escape from Alcatraz (Don Siegel)
Alien (Ridley Scott)
Rocky II (Sylvester Stallone)
The Onion Field (Harold Becker)
Manhattan (Woody Allen)
Going in Style (Martin Brest)
The China Syndrome (James Bridges)
And Justice for All (Norman Jewison)

[sally]

I'd go with 79, as long as imdb supports that idea. You do what you think is best.

okay i'll go with 79, because i want to watch it.

provisional list:

from the clouds to the resistance
le navire night - duras
a walk through h - greenaway
bildnis einer trinkerin - ottinger
nacionalna klasa do 785 ccm - marković
la mémoire courte - de gregorio
die patriotin - kluge
autumn marathon - daneliya
gol maal - mukherjee
tall shadows of the wind - farmanara
the mother - JCM
radio on - petit
love on the run - truffaut
boston fire - hutton
that sinking feeling - forsyth
atrocious tales of love and death - corbucci
joi baba felunath - ray
the very same munchhausen - zakharov
woman between wolf and dog - delvaux
ajándék ez a nap - gothár

and stalker

[---]

top-heavy year

1. Soft Fiction (Chick Strand, USA) (#4 all-time)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, Russia)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Werner Herzog, Germany)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
Alien (Ridley Scott, USA)
Vengeance is Mine (Shôhei Imamura, Japan)
The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorf, Germany)
Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland)
Woyzeck (Werner Herzog, Germany)
"A Documentary" (Frank Cole, Canada)
"38/79: Sentimental Punk" (Kurt Kren, Austria)
"Log Driver's Waltz" (John Weldon, Canada)

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Seen and had warm feelings for:

The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki)
Mad Monkey Kung Fu (Lau Kar-leung)
Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht (Werner Herzog)

[---]

Does anyone want to watch Soft Fiction? It's 55 minutes and pure unadulterated heartbreaking genius... I can put it in the place if anyone's interested

[thoxans]

You do what you think is best.

lota, were you a punk rocker back in the day? cuz i'm pretty sure you were a punk rocker back in the day

[flip]

Ballad of Tara (Bahram Beizai)

Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich)
Harpya (Raoul Servais)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Werner Herzog)
Woyzeck (Werner Herzog)
Manhattan (Woody Allen)
...And Justice for All (Norman Jewison)
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (Grigori Kromanov)
The China Syndrome (James Bridges)
Autumn Marathon (Georgi Daneliya)
Kramer vs Kramer (Robert Benton)
Hardcore (Paul Schrader)
Quintet (Robert Altman)
Scum (Alan Clarke)
Wise Blood (John Huston)
Murder by Natural Causes (Robert Day)

[brian d]

maybe my top pick:
the cruelties of cheriyachan (abraham)
ballad of tara (beizai)
the bogeyman (aravindan)

definitely on my list:
raining in the mountain (hu)
jovana lukina (nikolić)
the mother (monteiro)
nosferatu (herzog)
life of brian (jones)
ti miséria (campos)
the love of the three pomegranates (monteiro)

other good stuff:
a walk through h (greenaway)
from the clouds to the resistance (straub/huillet)
stalker (tarkovsky)
doomed love (oliveira)
anti-clock (arden/bond)
schalken the painter (megahey)
¡qué viva méxico! (eisenstein)
hungarian rhapsody (jancsó)
tess (polanski)
and quiet rolls the dawn (sen)
the muppet movie (frawley)
woyzeck (herzog)
alien (scott)
the hussy (doillon)
five evenings (miklhakov)
siberiade (konchalovsky)
julio comienza en julio (caiozzi)
harpy (servais)
the tin drum (schlöndorff)
the brontë sisters (téchiné)
le navire nuit (duras)
messidor (tanner)
the marriage of maria braun (fassbinder)
alexandria... why? (chahine)
legend of the mountain (hu)


to see:
the butterfly murders (hark)
dirty ho (chia-liang)
last hurrah for chivalry (woo)

[Lencho of the Apes]

were you

Am I not still a punk rocker?

[ofrene]

Doomed Love
The Battle of Chile – Part III
Apocalypse Now
L’Enfant Secret
Vengeance Is Mine
Stalker
The Marriage of Maria Braun
From the Clouds to the Resistance
Alien
Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver)
Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne)

Does anyone want to watch Soft Fiction?

Me!

[thoxans]

still

touché

[DT.]

1. My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)

All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Gol Maal (Hrishikesh Mukherjee)
La Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki)
The Man Who Stole the Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Messidor (Alain Tanner)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise)
Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
The Very Same Munchhausen (Mark Zakharov)

Want to watch:

The China Syndrome (James Bridges)
Don Giovanni (Joseph Losey)
Fascination (Jean Rollin)
Hair (Milos Forman)
Hardcore (Paul Schrader)
Hungarian Rhapsody (Miklos Jancso)
Jaguar (Lino Brocka)
And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (Mrinal Sen)
Quintet (Robert Altman)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
Real Life (James L. Brooks)
West Indies (Med Hondo)
Wise Blood (John Huston)
Woyzeck (Werner Herzog)

[Umbugbene]

1. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)

2. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Werner Herzog)
3. The Plumber (Peter Weir)
4. Portrait of a Drinking Woman (Ulrike Ottinger)
5. A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (Peter Greenaway)
6. Nocturna Artificiala: Those Who Desire Without End (Stephen & Timothy Quay)
7. The Musical Ape (Rudolf Polonsky)
8. The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki)
9. The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
10. Hospital of the Transfiguration (Edward Żebrowski)

[Lencho of the Apes]

ouch

Born in '60, do the arithmetic. It would have been almost impossible for me to avoid it.

I was at this show, but you can't see me in the video cuz the promoter asked me to protect a structurally-unsound part of the room from dancers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFI6UAAtTaw

[karl]

There's enough lesserknown gooduns this year that I can leave off Stalker, Siberiade, Alien, Vengeance Is Mine, Messidor, Camera Buff, Tess, and others that're sure to get plenty votes. 20 already I really like from this fine year, dunno how many more I'll watch since I've pretty much lost interest in these polls.

Ballad of Tara

Five Evenings
Faryatev's Fantasies (Ilya Averbakh)
Hospital of the Transfiguration (Edward Zebrowski)
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Angi Vera (Pál Gábor)
The Days on Earth Are Flowing (Goran Paskaljević)
Sunday Daughters (János Rózsa)
19th Century Georgian Chronicle (Aleqsandre Rekhviashvili)
The Young Girls of Wilko
Full Moon (Andrzej Kondratiuk)
The Theme (Gleb Panfilov)
Nisso (aka Youth's First Morning) (Davlat Khudanazarov)
The Master of Korboja (Leida Laius)
Lessons of a Dead Language (Janusz Majewski)
The Barrier (Christo Christov)
The Unknown Soldier's Patent Leather Shoes (Rangel Vulchanov)
The Bodyguard (Ali Khamraev)
Bogeyman (Govind Aravindan)
Distance (Buddhadeb Dasgupta)

[Holymanm]

The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979)

Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979)
Stalker (Andrey Tarkovskiy, 1979)
Dirty Ho (Chia-Liang Liu, 1979) - 4/5
The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1979)
Mad Monkey Kung Fu (Chia-Liang Liu, 1979)
The Plumber (Peter Weir, 1979)
Five Evenings (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1979)
Kramer vs Kramer (Robert Benton, 1979)
Woyzeck (Werner Herzog, 1979)

[Roscoe]

APOCALYPSE NOW (Coppola)

STALKER (Tarkovsky)
MANHATTAN (Allen)
NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (Herzog)
THE TIN DRUM (Schlondorff)
LIFE OF BRIAN (Jones)
ALIEN (Scott)
RICHARD PRYOR LIVE IN CONCERT (Margolis)

For now. I don't know if I can put ALL THAT JAZZ on that list, as good as a lot of it is, likewise BEING THERE. Loved them both over the years, but the glow has lessened over time. BEING THERE in particular seems to have made us all a little too comfortable with the idea of an idiot in the White House. Still, Fosse's brilliance with the musical numbers in JAZZ might elevate it above the familiar "Great Artist Whose Biggest Problem Is That He's An Asshole" cliche at film's center.

[MrCarmady]

Skazka skazok (Norshteyn)

Manhattan (Allen)
Breaking Away (Yates)
Nosferatu (Herzog)
Fascination (Rollin)
Life of Brian (Jones)
Real Life (Brooks)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
Chilly Scenes of Winter (Silver)
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (Miyazaki)
Being There (Ashby)
Moonraker (Gilbert)
Radio On (Petit)
Alien (Scott)
Love on the Run (Truffaut)
Woyzeck (Herzog)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Anti-Clock (Arden)
Escape from Alcatraz (Siegel)

Wanna see:
Tin Drum (Schlondorff)
Kramer vs Kramer (Benton)
All That Jazz (Fosse)
Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
Vengeance Is Mine (Imamura)
Winter Kills (Richert)
My Brilliant Career (Armstrong)
The Brood (Cronenberg)
Camera Buff (Kieslowski)
Messidor (Tanner)

Graduate First (Maurice Pialat, France)

1978, no?

[nrh]

impostors (mark rappaport)
ek din pratidin (mrinal sen)
legend of the mountain (king hu)
raining in the mountain (king hu)
ondanondu kaladalli (girish karnad)
dirty ho (lau kar leung)
mad monkey kung fu (lau kar leung)
kummatty (aravindan)
dooratwa (buddhadeb dasgupta)
gol maal (hrishikesh mukherjee)
elvis (john carpenter)
kaala patthar (yash chopra)
suhaag (manmohan desai)
the butterfly murders (tsui hark)
the marriage of maria braun (rainer werner fassbinder)
a walk through h (peter greenaway)
meera (gulzar)
full moon scimitar (chor yuen)
doomed love (manoel de oliveira)
la memoire courte (eduardo de gregorio)

to see -
drugstore romance (vecchiali
manzil (chatterjee)
jurmana (hrishikesh mukherjee)
griha pravesh (basu bhattacharya)
aurelia steiners
the two ruiz docs
man who sold the sun

[augusto]

dirty ho (liu chia-liang)

kummatty (g. aravindan)
raining in the mountain (king hu)
from the clouds to the resistance (huillet, straub)
new york portrait: chapter i (peter hutton)
le navire night (duras)

gol maal (mukherjee)
manzil (chatterjee)
ek din pratidin (sen)
kaala patthar (yash chopra)
baton baton mein (chatterjee)

vengeance is mine (imamura)
legend of the mountain (king hu)
the 19th century georgian chronicle (rekhviashvili)
the mother (monteiro)
radio on (petit)
boston fire (peter hutton)
life of brian (jones)
stalker (tarkovsky)
joi baba felunath (ray)

gave top spot to dirty ho as i couldn't choose between the aravindan, king hu and straub/huillet, but it's also truly one of my favorite films of all time, so it works. great year. feel there's many others too that could be on this list (the med hondo, buddhadeb d., john abraham's cheriyachan, a walk through h, etc.) if i'd seen them. i should.

[pabs]

1. Camera Buff (Kieslowski)

Manhattan (Allen)
Nosferatu (Herzog)
Life of Brian (Jones)
Being There (Ashby)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
Alien (Scott)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
The Tin Drum (Schlondorff)
Kramer vs Kramer (Benton)
All That Jazz (Fosse)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)
My Brilliant Career (Armstrong)
Tale of Tales (Norstein)
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Rosi)
Real Life (Brooks)


Watched for this poll:

Real Life √
Christ Stopped at Eboli √
Camera Buff √
Tale of Tales √
Hardcore √
Breaking Away √

[Umbugbene]

and in a perfect world, I'd get to see all of Karl's, Umbugbene's, and Brian d's picks.

I wish I could find The Musical Ape to see it again. Saw it 26 years ago with a bunch of other Austrian avant garde shorts, but now I can't even find a mention of it online. Letterboxd and IMDb don't even acknowledge it. It struck me then as one of the funniest things in the world, but it might lose its effect the second time.

I'll probably revisit Alien for this poll. I'm the biggest Ridley Scott fan on SCFZ, but it's never impressed me. Probably my own fault.

Five Polish films from '79 are available on YouTube's Filmowy Tor channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCalRj8 ... 2wLUlOHnqw

[greennui]

Victoria (Bo Widerberg) - A rather half-hearted attempt by Widerberg at doing another Elvira Madigan-esque film. It had all the hallmarks of a troubled international co-production, actors of different nationalities delivering stilted performances in their second language, with Widerberg having to write in his second one too, non-director approved disjointed cut by the studio and so forth...



Michaela Jolin was gorgeous but couln't hold a candle to Pia Degermark's intense gaze in EM.

[ralch]

1. Tale of Tales — Yuri Norstein

Alien — Ridley Scott
Apocalypse Now — Francis Ford Coppola
Arrebato — Iván Zulueta
Breaking Away — Peter Yates
Buffet froid — Bertrand Blier
Julio comienza en julio — Silvio Caiozzi
Life of Brian — Terry Jones
Mad Max — George Miller
Mamá cumple 100 años — Carlos Saura
Manhattan — Woody Allen
María de mi corazón — Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Norma Rae — Martin Ritt
Raining in the Mountain — King Hu
Retrato de Teresa — Pastor Vega
Return of the Secaucus Seven — John Sayles
Stalker — Andrei Tarkovsky
Tess — Roman Polanski
The Thrushes Are Still Singing — Nikos Nikolaidis
The Warriors — Walter Hill

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Votes:

1. The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki)
Mad Monkey Kung Fu (Lau Kar-leung)
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (Saul J. Turell)
The Humanoid (Aldo Lado)