1959 poll

[wba]

Yeah, I also snatched it, thanks a lot!

[rischka]

kinoshita's snow flurry. such an underappreciated director. impeccable landscape sense here



it's a bitter tragedy told in telescopic flashbacks. but when it looks like this i mean...



he liked this bridge so much he used it in fuefukigawa the following year. i knew i recognized it ♥♥

[MrCarmady]

Pillow Talk, which has dated really badly in some ways but still put a big grin on my face, colorful, funny, musical, and silly.
Ride Lonesome, which still hasn't fully converted me to Boetticher but packs a lot into 70 minutes and has a killer final shot. Could've done without the Mescalero angle, which is both racist and inert on an action level (the heroes just shoot a bunch of them, escape unharmed, and the Apache ride off). Also the final showdown is a bit of an anti-climax, Van Cleef is set up as this super-menacing guy but again, him and his gang are taken care of with ease. Love Coburn's dumb guy and the visuals, so it's probably on par with Seven Men from Now but not the 'a-ha' moment I was hoping for. Both still make the list as the bottom few were a bit soft.

[MrCarmady]

La caida is a bit goofy but I do like those fucked-up kids. That lawyer guy who's pursuing her is one of the most hateful characters I've ever encountered.

[rischka]

karl thx for telling me about foma gordeev

[Lencho of the Apes]

hateful

He's a Cassavetes character. Him and the other guy both, they just LIVE to splain, browbeat women with their ideas.

[rischka]

lencho watch foma gordeev if u can. soviets echoing in eternity

[Lencho of the Apes]

if u can

I've still got a week, I *think* I can get to it. Also planning on Air Hostess and Adam Wants To Be A Man, cuz those are the three that people cared enough about to make things out of them in the Place Of Things.

Plus also I hope to do
Kaagaz Ke Phool -Guru Dutt
Last Train from Gun Hill (John Sturges)
Ce corps tant désire "This Desired Body" (Luis Saslavsky, France)
Floating Weeds
The Stranglers Of Bombay - Terence Fisher
Ghost Of Motsuya
The Monster Of Piedras Blancas (it has a lighthouse!)
A Female Boss (Hyeong-mo Han, 1959)
Tenka-muso no ken/No Stronger Swords - Matsuda
Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard)
Yu Gwan-Sun - Bong-chun Yun
Adam Wants To Be A Man
General Della Rovere (Rossellini)
Lucky Dragon #5 (Shindo)
Neel Akasher Neechey -Mrinal Sen \
House on Haunted Hill
No Name on the Bullet (Jack Arnold)


But I suspect that's more than I actually have time for.

Also there's that Tarkovsky student film, 45 minutes, that hasn't gotten any attention here at all. I hate the Mr. T fanboys, but that doesn't make his movies any less valid.

[karl]

The year's Vietnamese film, with subs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb5xE0BBzSg

[rischka]

first gila monsters don't live in the woods. second i'm pretty sure he's not 'giant'

[Lencho of the Apes]

not 'giant'

UI liked the LB person that said (from memory) "... menaces a small town. I mean, REALLY small, fits on a tabletop."

[...]

Aw, so harsh, no wonder he hides in the woods. He might not be giant in size, but, to me, he's giant in spirit.

[ofrene]

Final

Imitation of Life

Anatomy of a Murder
Day of the Outlaw
Fires on the Plain
Floating Weeds
Good Morning
Hiroshima Mon Amour
India: Matri Bhumi
Nazarin
North by Northwest
Paper Flower
Pickpocket
Picnic on the Grass
Ride Lonesome
Rio Bravo
Some Like It Hot
The 400 Blows
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Window Water Baby Moving

[sally]

i want to watch all the moviez. didn't someone once work out what year it was no longer feasible to have seen every film ever made? i'm sure it was something 1930-ish which is ridiculous, you'd be blind before 1915. anyway my queen is sentiment and my order is eris and this my first ozu turned all my internal organs into ribbon-bow bubbles and puppy-eyed i luv yous.

ohayo/good morning
picnic on the grass
no name on the bullet (audie ♥ my first audie thanks flip)
blessings of the land
kaagaz ke phool
the nightingale's prayer
night train
cross of valor
day of the outlaw
general della rovere
the lin family shop
time stood still
pendekar bujang lapok (ramlee)
the giant of marathon
araya
los chicos (ferreri)
jakten (løchen)
the horse soldiers
ugler i mosen
pickpocket

wanted:
the cleopatra cottafavi (OF COURSE)
struggle on the nile (omar oh my)
adam wants to be a man (missed the download window doh, always up for some 50/60's lithuanian films)

also i have never liked rio bravo. mainly because i saw it after el dorado and robert mitchum is

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

After a good showing earlier in the month, I seem to have inexplicably lost the motivation for '59 viewing, so here's my 20 favs at press time:

1. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
The Horse Soldiers (John Ford)
Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
The Tingler (William Castle)
The Wasp Woman (Roger Corman)
A Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman)
House on Haunted Hill (William Castle)
Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon)
Horrors of the Black Museum (Arthur Crabtree)
The Fellowship of the Frog (Harald Reinl)
The Alligator People (Roy Del Ruth)
The Mouse That Jack Built (Robert McKimson)
Air Hostess (Yi Wen)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (Ed Wood, Shirley Wood)
Curse of the Undead (Edward Dein)
The Killer Shrews (Ray Kellogg)
Carry On Teacher (Gerald Thomas)
La Cucaracha (Ismael Rodríguez)
Island of Lost Women (former member of the American Communist Party, Frank Tuttle)
Diesel Train Ride (James Ritchie)

Just noticing that over half of my votes are fifties sci-fi/horror movies, lol whoops. What can I say? They're my fav, so warm and cozy, and this is the cycle's finest year.

Shame to be leaving so much unseen. Several films I wanted to get to, including some French arthouse classics, westerns, late noir, HK, Japan, Italy, UK, Mexico, and yes, even more fifties sci-fi/horror. Ah well, crummy B westerns are calling me, so warm and cozy and summery to boot...

[dominicano1970]

Rio Bravo (Hawks)

Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger)
Ben-Hur (Wyler)
The Crimson Kimono (Fuller)
The Facts of Murder (Germi)
Floating Weeds (Ozu)
General Della Rovere (Rossellini)
The Great War (Monicelli)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Kobayashi)
The Indian Tomb (Lang)
North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
Pork Chop Hill (Milestone)
Ride Lonesome (Boetticher)
A Simple Story (Hanoun)
Some Like It Hot (Wilder)
These Thousand Hills (Fleischer)
Timbuktu (Tourneur)
Time Stood Still (Olmi)
Violent Summer (Zurlini)
The Wonderful Country (Parrish)

[rischka]

i started watching this last night and this tiny boy will be the death of me





also i knew sally enjoyed fart humor

[Silga]

adam wants to be a man (missed the download window doh, always up for some 50/60's lithuanian films)

If you care to watch it even after the voting for 1959 Poll ends, I'll be able to re-upload it some time next month. I also have four more films from 60/70s period with eng subs.

[MrCarmady]

I'm still cramming so won't submit my final ballot till Wednesday, but Time Stood Still is my favourite of all the films I watched for this poll so far. The cinematic equivalent of a hot glass of milk with a shot of grappa in it, yes please.

[sally]

adam wants to be a man (missed the download window doh, always up for some 50/60's lithuanian films)

If you care to watch it even after the voting for 1959 Poll ends, I'll be able to re-upload it some time next month. I also have four more films from 60/70s period with eng subs.

oh that would be nice, thank you. i only have one lithuanian film in my to watch pile at the moment (vienos dienos kronika) and your screenshots looked lovely, but no rush...nice just to know they exist and have subtitles!

[sally]

i started watching this last night and this tiny boy will be the death of me

also i knew sally enjoyed fart humor

YEAH ISAMU was the subject i think of my second ever post at mubi after my first one declaring how much i hated woody allen. he's so cute you can't help but be brutally cynical in response. after you've died from all the cuteness. illegal levels of cuteness

[ororama]

Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)

Ballad of a Soldier (Grigoriy Chukhray)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
The Bridge (Bernhard Wicki)
Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard)
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
The Black Pit of Dr. M (Fernando Méndez)
The Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann)
Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
No Name on the Bullet (Jack Arnold)
Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
Sapphire (Basil Dearden)
The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang)
The Kingdom and the Beauty (Li Han-Hsiang)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
The World, The Flesh and The Devil (Ranald MacDougall)
Araya (Margot Benacerraf)

[karl]

Silga, what are the other Lithuanian movies you have?

And magpies, you have subs for vienos dienos kronika? I've also been meaning to ask, do you know what happened to that person Dust Angel at Surrealmoviez who subtitled all the Latvian and Russian movies? Do you have any of those subs? I wish I'd grabbed them before SMz closed so swiftly and suddenly like that.

[Silga]

Silga, what are the other Lithuanian movies you have?

If it's ok, Karl, I'll post my answer in the Lithuanian Cinema thread at Regional Cinemas sub-forum with the latest update on what I've obtained. Might make it easier for Lencho to tabulate without off-topic discussions.

It's here - viewtopic.php?p=19404#p19404

[Lencho of the Apes]

easier

Discussions are never a problem.

[...]

sigh...never enough time to watch what I'd like to anymore. Tough year to narrow down, lots of movies I liked a fair bit, but most also had something that held my appreciation back enough that made picking between them harder.

Lin Family Shop
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Pickpocket
A Summer Place
Kaagaz Ke Phool
The World of Apu
Our Man in Havana
The Ghost of Yotsuya
A Hole in the Head
Jazz on a Summer's Day
Violent Summer
The Overcoat
Middle of the Night
Ride Lonesome
Shadows
Sleeping Beauty
The Tingler
No Name on the Bullet
The Scavengers
Journey to the Center of the Earth

[therouxxx]

Final ballot-

Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
Kaagaz Ke Phool (Guru Dutt)
Day of the Outlaw (André De Toth)
North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
Shadows (John Cassavetes)
The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang)
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Crimson Kimono (Sam Fuller)
Westbound (Budd Boetticher)
Caltiki the Immortal Monster (Riccardo Freda & Mario Bava)

Hoping see 1 or 2 more, but doubt I'll have time

[brian d]

very impressively watched a whole 1 movie for this month's poll:

a simple story (hanoun)
bread (oliveira)
chikamatsu's love in osaka (uchida)
the world of apu (ray)
the first lad (parajanov)
picnic on the grass (renoir)
la cucaracha (rodríguez)
day of the outlaw (de toth)
the tiger of eschnapur (lang)
the indian tomb (lang)
cleopatra's legions (cottafavi)*
ride lonesome (boetticher)
kaagaz ke phool (dutt)
araya (benacerraf)
fever rises in el pao (buñuel)
nazarín (buñuel)
shadows (cassavettes)
the horse soldiers (ford)
imitation of life (sirk)

[sally]

Silga, what are the other Lithuanian movies you have?

And magpies, you have subs for vienos dienos kronika? I've also been meaning to ask, do you know what happened to that person Dust Angel at Surrealmoviez who subtitled all the Latvian and Russian movies? Do you have any of those subs? I wish I'd grabbed them before SMz closed so swiftly and suddenly like that.

karl, it's lovely white on white hardsubs, but if you want it, it's in the place.

i only grabbed three latvian movies:
zvejnieka dels 1939
pie bagātās kundzes 1969 which seems to have 3 different sets of subs and i've not watched it yet so no idea which matches
svešiniece ciemā 1958

let me know if you want em (subs movie or both)

[karl]

karl, it's lovely white on white hardsubs, but if you want it, it's in the place.

i only grabbed three latvian movies:
zvejnieka dels 1939
pie bagātās kundzes 1969 which seems to have 3 different sets of subs and i've not watched it yet so no idea which matches
svešiniece ciemā 1958

let me know if you want em (subs movie or both)

Thanks a lot for the movie. Of the other three I've already got svešiniece ciemā (it's a 1959 according to IMDb! If you haven't watched it for the poll, you just barely have time, it's a nice little movie and will make my final list), and zvejnieka dels would interest me only if it's really good, since I'm primarily interested in the Soviet-era. pie bagātās kundzes got an official DVD release with professional subs, so maybe that's where the three-sub option comes from. And that one I don't have, so if you're up for putting it in the place...

If I can return the favor, let me know.