2014 poll

[Mauries]

0.5 MM (Momoko Ando)

Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
Atlantis (Ben Russell)
Heaven Knows What (Safdie brothers)
Parallel 1-4 (Harun Farocki)
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
A Million Miles Away (Jennifer Reeder)
Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan)

Atlantis: https://vimeo.com/75421733

[oscarwerner]

My final list:
1.Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)-My top hit
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Other 19 films in random order:
2.Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
3. Birdman (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
4. Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
5. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson)
6. From What Is Before (Lav Diaz)
7. The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi)
8. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
9. The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum)
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
11. Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
12. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
13. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
14. Winter sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
15. Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
16. Wild Tales (Damián Szifron)
17. Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
18. Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar)
19. The Drop (Michaël R. Roskam)
20. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)

[Holymanm]

Damn that's a lot of hatred!
If we're doing that [...]

Oh I always just do it for fun... it's more fun than the main list! Normally I just put on movies I gave a 0/5 or 0.5/5, sometimes 1/5 - but it depends on how, er, vituperative I may be at polling time

Part of the fun, of course, is that movies on your hate list often comprise a chunk the other normal lists. (For instance, American Sniper - easily one of the better anti-war flicks I've seen )

[Silga]

Thanks to this poll, I've finally watched the beautiful short film Human Voice, starring Sophia Loren and directed by her son Edoardo Ponti. It is based on a play by Jean Cocteau. Pristine and elegant cinematography by the great Rodrigo Prieto.

The film is a solo show of Sophia Loren and her emotional range. It was her last performance up till now, but I see that she's in her son's new film The Life Ahead that is currently in post-production and is based on a novel by Romain Gary.

[MrCarmady]

Damn that's a lot of hatred!
If we're doing that [...]

Oh I always just do it for fun... it's more fun than the main list! Normally I just put on movies I gave a 0/5 or 0.5/5, sometimes 1/5 - but it depends on how, er, vituperative I may be at polling time

Part of the fun, of course, is that movies on your hate list often comprise a chunk the other normal lists. (For instance, American Sniper - easily one of the better anti-war flicks I've seen )

Not to start a whole thing here but American Sniper makes me think of this Frankie Boyle clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZOLq82m2Ks

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Nice

Fuck terrorist regimes like usa

[Holymanm]

Not to start a whole thing here but American Sniper makes me think of this Frankie Boyle clip

Oh I certainly get that... but that's not at all what I got from the movie. The movie (for me) was more just about propaganda in general, and 'what makes people go and fight and kill and die for their [country/religion/. . .]'. The whole thing was an endless parade of symbols and imagery - on both sides - and all the love and hatred associated therewith, culminating in the astonishing sandstorm scene in which every single trace of both identity and affiliation - skin colour, uniform, emblem, weapons, languages, accents - is swept away, and all there is is a bunch of sacks of meat struggling to survive, and to somehow know who everyone around them is and only kill the right people.

So the movie was a more interesting look at that issue of identity than most other war movies I've seen, at any rate - but maybe for others it's just an astonishingly bad American prop piece.

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Did you just both-sides the Iraq war

[Holymanm]

Did you just call it a "war" instead of a unilateral violent pilfering of resources from an unarmed population...? Plz check your winning side of history privilege

[thoxans]

seem to recall some american sniper backlash (at the time) as a grudge against eastwood for his empty chair bit at the rnc circa '12 presidential election, while endorsing romney. finally actually watched the film a couple years later, and thought to myself, 'this isn't a pro-war flick. it's about a dude who fuxks himself up over the very folly of it all.' not to mention, dat fake baby

[Lencho of the Apes]

Nabat - E. Musaoglu, Azerbaijan.

A total Karl movie, and it's sublime. Former-Soviet Crone Of Steel. Looks like only Mario has seen this'n? That doesn't seem right somehow.

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[Lencho of the Apes]

A bonus screencap, in honor of Caturday.

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Did you just call it a "war" instead of a unilateral violent pilfering of resources from an unarmed population...? Plz check your winning side of history privilege

Sad to see you haven't matured in the past two years, but I'm not sure what I was expecting.....

[Holymanm]

[wba]

Did you just call it a "war" instead of a unilateral violent pilfering of resources from an unarmed population...? Plz check your winning side of history privilege

[MrCarmady]

unilateral violent pilfering of resources from an unarmed population - what is it good for? absolutely nothing! say it again

[Holymanm]

Eric Burdon and The Aforementioned - Spill the Wine, Take That Oil

[Lencho of the Apes]

absolutely nothing!

Good God, y'all!

[Lencho of the Apes]

Have those people who refused to watch Barfi for the other poll decided what they're going to do with this year's Fugly (dir: Kabir Sadanand)?

[nrh]

Have those people who refused to watch Barfi for the other poll decided what they're going to do with this year's Fugly (dir: Kabir Sadanand)?

apparently there is a second (!) 2014 fugly - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1730760/

[rischka]

Have those people who refused to watch Barfi for the other poll decided what they're going to do with this year's Fugly (dir: Kabir Sadanand)?

apparently there is a second (!) 2014 fugly - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1730760/

LOL

John Leguizamo is...Fugly!

[greennui]

Kinda liked Vecchiali's White Nights on the Pier, a little too academic for my taste perhaps.

I made it one hour into From What Is Before before I gave up. Diaz just does nothing for me and I couldn't face the prospect of four more hours of it.

[rischka]

I made it one hour into From What Is Before before I gave up. Diaz just does nothing for me and I couldn't face the prospect of four more hours of it.

what! you missed the best part~ lol i'm two hours in, it's v slow obvs but also gorgeous





remembering we watched melancholia for a cup at mubi once...lol whose idea was that

[greennui]

I probably would have preservered if I had found it visually appealing but I didn't (modern use of B&W rarely does it for me).

[Angel]

Cold in July

5 to 7
A Most Violent Year
American Sniper
Conducta (Behavior)
Das finstere Tal (The Dark Valley)
Der Goalie bin ig (I Am the Keeper)
Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night)
El Niño
Fehér isten (White God)
Fidelio, l'odyssée d'Alice (Fidelio: Alice's Journey)
Im Labyrinth des Schweigens (Labyrinth of Lies)
La isla mínima (Marshland)
Loreak (Flowers)
Mita Tova (The Farewell Party)
Pas son genre (Not My Type)
Pompeii
Siti
The Equalizer
What We Did on Our Holiday

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT top 500)
1 - Nenokkadine
Adieu au langage
Boyhood
Edge of Tomorrow
Gone Girl
Guardians of the Galaxy
Haider
Interstellar
Kis Uykusu
Mommy
Nightcrawler
PK
Relatos salvajes
Serbuan Maut 2: Berandal
Song of the Sea
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Whiplash
X-Men: Days of Future Past

To watch before the deadline
(there are some titles still pending, but the Doubling keeps me too busy)

Wanted
Villa Touma

[rischka]

so it took me a few days to get through it but in the end it's a very powerful thing and suits my current mood admirably



also i enjoy searching the frame in the long shots for the flutter of movement from which the action would emerge. glad i completed this! i may even watch the godard now~!

[rischka]

ok i watched adieu a language cuz why not and it was probably pretty cool in 3D







also roxie is a very good dog.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Sunrise - Partho Sen Gupta

(reposted from my LB review)
Post-realist Mumbai noir, works within a suffocating atmosphere of imminence, a feeling that anything dreadful could happen at any moment. Inspector Joshi's policing technique usually involves running from his crime-scene into a raging rainstorm, chasing after a phantom that only he can see; eventually, the phantoms take over. I think. Lurid and austere in a combination I haven't seen since Takeshi Miike's A Night In Nude movies.

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[wba]

since Takeshi Miike's A Night In Nude movies.

Would like to see that one! In a perfect world...

[Lencho of the Apes]

Would like

There's a copy on one of the gray-market pages, quality might not be up to your standards, but it looked fine on my laptop...