1980 poll

[karl]

have a great trip karl, and good to see you again! and if you have a top 50 film list lying around, i'd love to count it as part of our annual scfz top 100 films poll: https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic. ... 2&start=30

hope you'll be back someday, i've discovered a lot of great films from your lists.

In these our screwy times, when folk speak in awed, hushed tones of the Mexican beer that's going to kill us all and act like Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets, it should perhaps come as no surprise to me that my flight has been moved up two bleedin' weeks. Good thing my landlady doesn't have a new tenant desperate to move in... Sigh. So, okay, whatever, I guess I can do a fitty. Suddenly I have a lot of free time. May even watch an '80 or two, too. Sigh.

[sally]

Well it has already killed two otherwise fit & healthy people that I know & I don't want any more to die so perhaps some people need to be a bit more awed.

Sorry your flight was delayed, but glad you're still around!

[karl]

My apologies for being flippant then, and sorry to hear you know people who've died of it - but you're the first, and I only know you electronically. I'll refrain from using the 1980 thread to air any more of my thoughts on this subject, which I'm sure we could argue about all day.

[sally]

no worries karl, and please don't refrain from anything, it's interesting to know what everyone else is thinking. and glad it hasn't touched you & yours. ♥

[rischka]

watching evening rain all i can think about is PC run amok and cancel culture (cultural revolution)

nah jk i'm into it. it's quite beautiful in it's unreconstructed state. they're travelling to wuhan strangely enough







also it has that really cute actress from xiao jie/the alley whose name i now know is yu zhang

[augusto]

esthappan

arising from the surface
arrival (mani kaul)
mon oncle d'amerique
evening rain
zigeunerweisen

bhavni bhavai
return to the 36th chamber
khubsoorat (hrishikesh mukherjee)
berlin alexanderplatz
poto and cabengo

sparsh
albert pinto ko gussa kyun ata hai (saeed akhtar mirza)
kagemusha
the shining
raging bull

[kanafani]

Wait, zero votes for Le Voyage en Douce? One of the sweetest road movies ever? Shame, a real shame.

I'll vote for others that received way too little love. Won't bother with the rest.

Simone Barbes ou la Vertue
Personal Problems
Taxi Zum Klo
Voyage en douce

[rischka]

arising from the surface



u got that right. this film is visually stunning and i'm not sure how much of the color shifting is due to the vhs rip



poetry can't be fully appreciated in translation but it's a fascinating piece, i didn't always know which characters were real and which were 'characters'



added some eng subs in watchlist thread fwiw

[rischka]

hmm k let me try again. i've got subs for evening rain too. if they don't work i can put some things in the place

[Lencho of the Apes]

No, wait. There's nothing wrong with the file, I was just discombobbed because I didn't get the pop-up box. It downloaded automatically to my drive and I ended up with six copies of it. I have to figure out what's up with the part one/part two thing, but everything else is fine.Sorry for the fall salaam.

[rischka]

lol no worries

[nrh]

still haven't watched any of the great parallel cinema movies of this year but i do keep watching the om shanti om song sequence from karz a lot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS29KERO_d4

[Joks Trois]

Great year.


Raging Bull

Heaven's Gate
The Empire Strikes Back
Airplane
The Shining
The Blues Brothers
Alexander The Great
The Fog
City of Women
The Stunt Man

[Lencho of the Apes]

christmas evil

Hubba-hubba!

But...judging from what people have written on LB... I'm the only person that thought it was funny?

Easy 3.9 stars, and that punchline almost pushed it to 4.

Interesting sidebar: The soundtrack is credited to Don Christensen, Julia Heyward and Joel Harris -- Heyward's a gallery artist who mostly doesn't record, but has done work with Laurie Anderson, and Don Christenson and "Jody" Harris (if it's the same person) were in avant-punk band The Contortions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKz9urG0aB8

[pabs]

David Thomson, Have You Seen…?

[pabs]

David Thomson, Have You Seen?

[Lencho of the Apes]

Thomson's full of shit, there's nothing "realist" about a movie designed to look like sepia-tone that's built around a character whose wavering sanity leads him into poetic, irrational monologues that express his concerns through a glass very darkly.

Now I'll watch the last 4 episodes consciously wondering when the shoe is going to fall. I might have preferred not to have read that summary of the narrative.

[thoxans]

I'm the only person that thought it was funny?

cognitive dissonance is a joy to behold, ain't it? the character study comments are, um, generous...? it's really more a darkly comic submersion. in that way, it's the yin to lustig's maniac's yang. also, feels like the missing link between bob clark's black christmas and a christmas story

[thoxans]

sidenote: watched alibaba aur 40 chor (listed as '79 on boxd, but '80 on imdb), clan of the white lotus, and the last metro. a couple should make my final list. i'll let y'all guess which one might not. hoping to add a few more before poll's end. yay gluttonous media intake veiled under the guise of productivity!

[greennui]

Tired: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Wired: Eight Hours Don't Make a Day

I've watched a few films for the poll so far but C’est la vie is the only one that's under consideration for joining final the list.

[rischka]

loved c'est la vie!

[Lencho of the Apes]

Germany, Pale Mother by Helma Sanders-Brahms has gotten zero attention, and that ain't right.

[ofrene]

favorite discovery of 1980 thus far is The Last Witness. big long but steady procedure with huge weight of historical tragedy.. definitely one of the best south korean movie ever made

[dominicano1970]

Legend of Tianyun Mountain (Xie)

Airplane! (ZAZ)
Atlantic City (Malle)
A Bad Son (Sautet)
The Big Red One (Fuller)
City After Dark (Bernal)
City of the Living Dead (Fulci)
The Dogs of War (Irvin)
Dressed to Kill (De Palma)
The Elephant Man (Lynch)
The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)
Fame (Parker)
Germany Pale Mother (Sanders-Brahms)
Gloria (Cassavetes)
Hardly Working (Lewis)
Heaven's Gate (Cimino)
Loulou (Pialat)
Superman II (Lester)
The Sword (Tam)
Village in the Jungle (Peries)

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Well, I watched one '80 movie this month, but it was eleven hours, so I'll call that a fine showing.

1. Hollywood (Kevin Brownlow & David Gill)
Bat Without Wings (Chor Yuen)
Narrows Inlet (David Rimmer)

[sally]

since legend of tianyun mountain has topped two lists....don't suppose anyone's got it have they? (didn't angel have it on a channel of his years ago? or..maybe not, i get the feeling i've been meaning to watch it for a long time)

[thoxans]

The Last Witness

watchlisted bigtime. thx!

[rischka]

since legend of tianyun mountain has topped two lists....don't suppose anyone's got it have they? (didn't angel have it on a channel of his years ago? or..maybe not, i get the feeling i've been meaning to watch it for a long time)

I can get this I think. I'm in the middle of a distant cry from spring and its marvellous. Never doubt karlk



shane come back!! sato's western theme music was fun

[rischka]

The Last Witness

watchlisted bigtime. thx!

wish i could have time for this too

[Angel]

since legend of tianyun mountain has topped two lists....don't suppose anyone's got it have they? (didn't angel have it on a channel of his years ago? or..maybe not, i get the feeling i've been meaning to watch it for a long time)

I can get this I think. I'm in the middle of a distant cry from spring and its marvellous. Never doubt karlk

edit: check the place

And again with brighter colors.