1988 poll

[rischka]

makes me think of wes anderson



i mean if he was clever

[greennui]

Def one of Greenaway's more personal films.

The boy Smut is an evocation of myself in childhood in the nineteen-fifties. Living a private life of games and a fascination for the celebration of dead things which should always be noted and memorialized, with a passion for cricket, playing-cards and insect collecting, and a particular sense of place in mind – a genius loci – the Norfolk and Suffolk coastal landscape as prophetically close to the flat lands of Holland where I now live.

My father was obsessed with that section of the South-East English coast-line – plenty of sea water and fresh water intermingled, forever changing places. Big open skies. Bogs, marshes. Loads of birds. It was ideal for my father’s bird-watching fascinations. As near as possible to the Dutch flat-lands without crossing the English Channel. Three thousand years of back-history into pre-history. Traditional Roman Catholic pilgrimage lands full of ruined and almost forgotten castles and hundreds of moulding unvisited parish churches, priests’ holes, ghost stories, shameful atrocities, moonless nights, nightingales and glow-worms. Fairly reachable from London – though it took a day to get there via small country roads in my father’s battered car that broke down every fifty miles. As children (I have a younger brother) we spent summer holidays in caravans and tents and summer-houses and rented cottages and small hotels in and around Southwold and Walberswick in Suffolk, or further north in Bacton and Holkham and North Walsham. Later, as a young married man with two small children – I bought a very small 18th century loam and horse-hair and plaster-stucco-walled timber-frame cottage in the strange-sounding village of Diss with a stamping ground of another curiously-sounding village of Eye. Diss and Eye were full of ghosts. The cottage and its garden with its walnut tree – where banging your head on the ceiling and burying your shit in the blackberry-patch was mandatory, was bought from the proceeds of selling my SteenBeck – a four-plate, flat-bed 16mm film-editing machine, when I decided to burn my bridges and cease being a film editor with no way back and taking up the risk of becoming a professional film director with an uncertain future.

For this fourth feature-film I wanted to revisit all these places of my youth. The centre of our operational locations was a farm on a tidal estuary creek a few miles inland from Southwold – you can recognize the Southwold lighthouse flashing across the fields– erected to warn locals of Napoleon’s expected invasion – country-lanes, swimming pools, beaches, nettles, woods, forests. A sort of wet, flat ancient Garden of Paradise idyll – my second idyllic Garden of Paradise. My first idyllic Garden of Paradise was in Wiltshire between Salisbury and Shaftesbury at a tucked-away place called Wardour which sounds Tolkienesque and was where I made most of my early short films – the landscape of William Beckford who wrote Vathek, the first Gothic novel and built a folly with a tower higher than the spire of Salisbury Cathedral.

https://exepose.com/2018/10/05/30-years ... greenaway/

[rischka]

so his dad was the birdwatcher

[ofrene]

Distant Voices, Still Live

Running on Empty
My Neighbor Totoro
Dead Ringers
Jane B. by Agnès V.
Landscape in the Mist
Bird
The Thin Blue Line
Alice
Kung-Fu Master!
A Short Film About Killing
The Last Temptation of Christ
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Damnation
Akira
Ariel
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

[rischka]

so i've put drowning by numbers at #1 even if it may be a bit too clever for its own good... this would have been perfect for lencho's old numbers game

btw someone has logged all the numbers in a review on letterboxd. poor smut!

[Silga]

Final list:

1. Landscape in the Mist (Theodoros Angelopoulos)

The Big Blue (Luc Besson)
Another Woman (Woody Allen)
Things Change (David Mamet)
Die Hard (John McTiernan)
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)
Coming to America (John Landis)
Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet)
Midnight Run (Martin Brest)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (Francis Ford Coppola)
A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
Twins (Ivan Reitman)
Gorillas in the Mist (Michael Apted)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Frank Oz)
Radio Bikini (Robert Stone)
Biloxi Blues (Mike Nichols)
The Needle (Rashid Nugmanov)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)
Talk Radio (Oliver Stone)

[...]

Final list I guess, had to leave out a bunch of more or less equal options, mostly stuck with those where the memory was stronger.

The Moderns (Alan Rudolph)
Candy Mountain (Rudy Wurlitzer, Robert Frank)
Is This What You Were Born For? (Abigail Child)
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
A Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens)
The Rainbow-BBC TV Miniseries (Stuart Burge)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman)
Om Dar-B-Dar (Kamal Swaroop)
Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
Salome's Last Dance (Ken Russell)

Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos)
Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
School Daze (Spike Lee)
Apartment Zero (Martin Donovan)
Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears)
Colors (Dennis Hopper)
36 Fillette (Catherine Breillat)
A Summer Story (Piers Haggard)
Two Moon Junction (Zalman King)

[mesnalty]

Final list:

1. Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) (Elder) [it's in 3 parts, but I'm voting for the whole thing]

Sound and Fury (Brisseau)
They Live (Carpenter)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
Chocolat (Denis)
Drowning by Numbers (Greenaway)
A Short Film About Killing (Kieslowski)
Pestonjee (Mehta)
My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
The Cannibals (Oliveira)
Hotel Terminus (Ophuls)
The Fourth Dimension (Rybczynski)
Crossing Delancey (Silver)
Days of Eclipse (Sokurov)
Sur (Solanas)
The Secret Garden (Solomon)
Damnation (Tarr)
Once More (Vecchiali)

[dominicano1970]

Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)

The Accidental Tourist (Kasdan)
The Bear (Annaud)
Crocodile Dundee II (Cornell)
Dangerous Liaisons (Frears)
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
Die Hard (McTiernan)
A Fish Called Wanda (Chrichton)
Frantic (Polanski)
Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)
La méridienne (Amiguet)
Shadow of the Raven (Gunnlaugsson)
Shoot to Kill (Spottiswoode)
A Short Film About Love (Kieslowski)
Sound and Fury (Brisseau)
A Summer Story (Haggard)
Time of the Gypsies (Kusturica)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kaufman)
The Vanishing (Sluizer)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodovar)

[brian d]

on the silver globe (zuławski)
drowning by numbers (greenaway)
amerika, terra incognita (rísquez)
wuthering heights (yoshida)
tales from the gimli hospital (maddin)
mapantsula (schmitz)
damnation (tarr)
medea (trier)
the cannibals (oliveira)
ashik kerib (parajanov)
tall stories/a rock in the bag (pinto)
iguana (hellman)
camp de thiaroye (sembène; sow)
soleil (clémenti)*
king-fu master! (varda)
story of women (chabrol)
steel mask versus blue abyss (rocha)
el dorado (saura)
willow (howard)


failed miserably to watch:
the tribulations of balthazar kober (has)
the cat (graf)

[john ryan]

1. My Neighbor Totoro (miyazaki)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kaufman)
High Hopes (Leigh)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
A Short Film about Killing (Kieślowski)
They Live (Carpenter)
Grave of Fireflies (Takahata)
The Thin Blue Line (Morris)
Cat Listening to Music (Marker)
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
A Fish Called Wanda (Crighton)
The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (Leszczyłowski)
Alice (Švankmajer)
As Tears Go By (Wong Kar-wai)
Eight Men Out (Sayles)
The Cat (Graf)
The Cannibals (de Oliveira)
Patty Hearst (Schrader)
Chocolat (Denis)

[Lencho of the Apes]

final list. (Ay, so many that I wasn't able to get to!And I regret it so deeply!)

Om Dar-B-Dar (Kamal Swaroop)

Adventures Of baron Munchausen - Gilliam
As Tears Go By - Wong Kar Wei
The Cannibals - de Oliveira
The Cat - Graf
Grave Of The Fireflies
Heathers
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Marcel Ophüls, 1988)
Maniac Cop - William Lustig
Noisy Requiem
Red Sorghum
Salome's Last Dance (Ken Russell)
School On Fire - Ringo Lam
The Serpent And The Rainbow - Wes Craven
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
Tabataba - Rajaonarivalo
Talk Radio - Oliver stone
They Live
Track 29 - Roeg

[Lencho of the Apes]

Temporal restrictions to be imposed in 30... 20... 10...

[Lonnie]

1. Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)

The Cat (Graf)
Chocolat (Denis)
Crossing Delancey (Silver)
The Secret Garden (Solomon)
Ariel (Kaurismaki)
As Tears Go By (Wong Kar-wai)
Coming to America (John Landis)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)

[niminy-piminy]

Ay, so many that I wasn't able to get to! And I regret it so deeply!

my residue watchlist is still lengthy too.
you have to start a second round of this poll in 2028 or 2038!

[Lencho of the Apes]

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[Lencho of the Apes]

numbers game

I've thought about reviving that game -- we only got as high as... what, 40-something? -- last time. Wanna play?

[thoxans]

IGUANA (Monte Hellman)

akira (katsuhiro otomo)
alien from la (albert pyun)
the big heat (tsui hark / andrew kam / johnnie to)
cocktail (roger donaldson)
cop (james b. harris)
damnation (bela tarr)
funny farm (george roy hill)
my neighbor totoro (hayao miyazaki)
night of the demons (kevin s. tenney)
on the silver globe (andrzej zulawski)
painted faces (alex law)
slugs (juan piquer simon)
they live (john carpenter)

*final list (if it's too late, no worries)

[Lencho of the Apes]

no worries

I'm still tallying, you're in.

[uuni]

Wish I had made time to watch more movies

1. Deadbeat at Dawn (VanBebber)

Brain Damage (Henenlotter)
Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis)
Alice (Švankmajer)
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
A Short Film About Love (Kieślowski)
Drowning by Numbers (Greenaway)
Akira (Otomo)
The Vanishing (Sluizer)
Damnation (Tarr)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodóvar)
Miracle Mile (Jarnatt)
Ariel (Kaurismäki)
Heathers (Lehmann)

[lineuphere]

I updated mine before the 5PM Pacific deadline.
Please, please, please include it. I watched way too many 1988 movies this month. I don't want it to be all for naught.

[thoxans]

you're in

so you’re saying there’s a chance cocktail could still win ::fistpump::

[Lencho of the Apes]

Oh, alright, lineup... I guess I can figure out a way to do it quickly.

How I suffer...

[Lencho of the Apes]

They're he-e-ere!

1
Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)

3
Landscape in the Mist (Angelopoulos)
My Neighbor Totoro (miyazaki)

5
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)

6
Damnation (Tarr)
They Live

8
Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
Ariel
drowning by numbers (greenaway)
A Short Film About Killing (Kieslowski)
The Thin Blue Line (Morris)

13
Alice (Švankmajer)
The Cannibals - de Oliveira
Grave Of The Fireflies
Iguana (hellman)
The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)

19
As Tears Go By - Wong Kar Wei
camp de thiaroye (sembène; sow)
A Fish Called Wanda (Chrichton)
King-fu master! (varda)

23
Crossing Delancey (Silver)
Krótki film o milosci (A Short Film About Love)
The Vanishing (Sluizer)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis)
Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)

28
Adventures Of baron Munchausen - Gilliam
Une.affaire.de.femmes (Chabrol)
The Cat - Graf
Chocolat (Denis)
Die Hard (John McTiernan)
Heathers
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Marcel Ophüls, 1988)
Sur (Solanas)
Time of the Gypsies (Kusturica)

37
Another Woman (Woody Allen)
Ashik kerib (parajanov)
Days of Eclipse (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Frantic (Polanski)
Gai tung ngap gong / Chicken and Duck Talk (Clifton Ko Chi-Sum, Hui Brothers)
Hairspray (John Waters)
High Hopes (Mike Leigh)
Jane B. by Agnès V.
A Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens)
The Moderns (Alan Rudolph)
on the silver globe (zuławski)
Pestonjee (Mehta)
Rain Man
Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet)
Salome's Last Dance (Ken Russell)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kaufman)

53 - 71
Beetlejuice (Burton)
Coming to America (John Landis)
Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) (Elder)
Cop (James B. Harris, 1988)
Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears)
A Dream (Nina Shorina)
Midnight Run (Brest)
Om Dar-B-Dar (Kamal Swaroop)
Once More (Vecchiali)
Painted Faces (Alex Law, 1988)
Patty Hearst (Schrader)
Red Sorghum
Sound and Fury (Brisseau)
A Summer Story (Piers Haggard)
Talk Radio - Oliver stone
Talking to Strangers (Rob Tregenza)
Tezaab (N. Chandra)
Traveling Circus (Việt Linh)
Vampire's Kiss (Robert Bierman)

[cinesmith]

How many individual titles were nominated? Just curious about the others.

[Lencho of the Apes]

individual titles

219

[MrCarmady]

Letterboxd
ICheckMovies

[Curtis, baby]

Watched TALKING TO STRANGERS. good shit
. Gang shit, will make my list

Lots of dialogue one could sample in the outro of a rap song there

Now that would be a deep cut

CW suicide

https://curtisbaby.bandcamp.com/track/t ... no-marxist