1962 Poll 2.0

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1962 Poll 2.0

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Choose your favourite films from 1962 (according to IMDB).

Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number.

Twenty-film ballots can be formatted as follows:
- Five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier
- Four tiers of five films each, 5/5/5/5; scored 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5 pts/film/tier
- Two tiers of ten films each, 10/10; scored 4-2 pts/film/tier
- No tiers, unranked; scored 3 pts/film
- A 20-film three-tier ballot is not possible as yet (pending revision of the present scoring system)

A tiered ballot can include less than 20 films, but in that case the total number of films must still be able to be factored by the number of tiers, so:
- A five tier ballot can include only 20, 15, 10, or 5 films
- A four tier ballot can include only 20, 16, 12, 8, or 4 films
- A three tier ballot (scored 5-3-1) can include only 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, or 3 films
- A two tier ballot can include only 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 films
- Ballots that are 19, 17, 13, 11, 7 or 1 films must be no tiers (in the present scoring system)

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible, so that others can use them for recommendations. You may 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 be considered on a case-by-case basis, and are not guaranteed inclusion on the final list.

Deadline for 1962 lists will be Tuesday, November 30th at around midnight EST.
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neon noirickykino wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:27 am https://youtu.be/eaPNyjGVsi4
Marina Vlady!
Saw her a few years ago at an event honoring her former husband Robert Hossein as a director (she also starred in a few of the films that were shown).
She was very charming, very witty and still looked marvelous for her age!
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I am a long time lurker but finally decided to join today. Not sure if there is a waiting period to participate. If so, feel free to disregard my list.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
Proces de Jeanne d'Arc (Bresson)
Senseless (Rice)
Hatari (Hawks)
The Ring of King Koda (Alassane)

Love (Iimura)
Wintercourse (Sharits)
A Joking Relationship (Marshall)
L'Eclisse (Antonioni)
Barravento (Rocha)

Hands of Purple Distance (Trifkovic)
Thanatopsis (Emshwiller)
Two Balls (Tyrlova)
Scotch Tape (Jack Smith)
The Parallel Street (Khittl)

The Trial (Welles)
The Graceful Brute (Kawashima)
Mamma Roma (Pasolini)
Pop Goes the Easel (Russell)
Horse Over Tea Kettle Breer)
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wba wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:57 am very charming, very witty
Marina Vlady in ADORABLE LIAR (1962), directed by MAN (MICHEL) DEVILLE...
https://letterboxd.com/beatmarquee/film/adorable-liar/

This one is pop nouvelle vague -- all of the playfulness and energy without anything personal or political...
...
If the film were the product of a middle aged man it would come off as typical older dude wish fulfillment but as this was co-written and edited by a woman (Nina Companeez!) it is refreshingly grounded more in the world of female fantasy.
...
Oh, this also features ... an uncredited cameo from a baby faced Pierre Clementi.
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essie wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 12:00 pm Not sure if there is a waiting period to participate. If so, feel free to disregard my list.
no waiting periods! feel free to participate in other polls (or whatever other thread) too! welcome!
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essie wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 12:00 pm I am a long time lurker but finally decided to join today. Not sure if there is a waiting period to participate. If so, feel free to disregard my list.
Glad to have you join us :D !
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welcome essie! i think whether there's a waiting period depends on who's running the poll, but you're certainly welcome to participate in any of the directors polls i'm running
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one of the post-silent era years from which i've seen the fewest films, and a lot of the best-known from the year i saw so long ago i don't know what i'd think of them now (lawrence of arabia, lolita, knife in the water, l'eclisse, what ever happened to baby jane, the manchurian candidate, vivre sa vie, etc) so i've usually elevated more recent views at the expense of those films:


Harakiri (Masaski Kobayashi)
Tlayucan (Luis Alcoriza)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Lonely are the Brave (David Miller)
Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards)
Heureux Anniversaire (Pierre Etaix)
The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "The Opportunity" (Robert Florey)
The Story of One Crime (Fyodor Khitruk)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "I Saw the Whole Thing" (Alfred Hitchcock)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich)

The People vs Paul Crump (William Friedkin)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Black Curtain" (Sydney Pollack)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Where Beauty Lies" (Robert Florey)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)

Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
David and Lisa (Frank Perry)
The Counterfeit Traitor (George Seaton)
L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
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flip wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 1:03 pm one of the post-silent era years from which i've seen the fewest films
I, on the other hand, have a letterboxer list what runs to 71 titles, including:

NINE DAYS OF ONE YEAR (Mikhail Romm):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Ew8x3D0zE

(Man, what a year this was for the reds! Keep in mind though that with the Russian flicks the year is often one year earlier on LB than on IMDb, which meant I could add MAN FOLLOWS THE SUN, WHEN THE TREES WERE TALL, and BUT WHAT IF THIS IS LOVE?)

THERESE DESQUEYROUX (Georges Franju):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smj4r4bZmOc

LOS INUNDADOS (Fernando Birri):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WczpqRbGKy4

...and you'd have to snatch from Youtube and download the subs for this, but it's worth it! ME, GRANDMA, ILIKO, AND ILARION (Tengiz Abuladze):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v-nzOaLT4o
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Another fantastic year with too many favorites for a list with merely 20 titles…

FInal list

Films seen: 70+


5 tiers

Pytel blech “A Bagful of Fleas“ (Vera Chytilová, Czechoslovakia)
Sen-hime to Hideyori “Lady Sen and Hideyori“ (Masahiro Makino, Japan)
Eheinstitut Aurora “Marriage Bureau Aurora“ (Wolfgang Schleif, West Germany)
Hell Is for Heroes (Don Siegel, USA)

Le Doulos “The Finger Man“ (Jean-Pierre Melville, France/Italy)
La jetée “The Pier“ (Chris Marker, France)
Shin no shikôtei “The Great Wall“ (Shigeo Tanaka, Japan)
Assembly Line (Mort Heilig, USA)

Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
Devchata “The Girls“ (Yuriy Chulyukin, Soviet Union)
L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock “The Horrible Dr. Hichcock“ (Riccardo Freda, Italy)
Tsubaki Sanjûrô “Sanjuro“ (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)

Sanma no aji “An Autumn Afternoon“ (Yasujirô Ozu, Japan)
Ningen “Human“ (Kaneto Shindô, Japan)
Otoshiana “Pitfall“ (Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan)
Cléo de 5 à 7 “Cleo from 5 to 7“ (Agnès Varda, France/Italy)

Le combat dans l'île “Fire and Ice“ (Alain Cavalier, France)
Arrivano i titani “The Titans“ (Duccio Tessari, Italy/France/Spain)
Chelovek-Amfibiya “Amphibian Man“ (Vladimir Chebotaryov/Gennadiy Kazanskiy, Soviet Union)
Ipnosi “Hypnosis“ (Eugenio Martín, Spain/West Germany/Italy)
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some stuff i have and may watch:

o pagador de promessas (duarte)
magnificent concubine (li)
malefices (decoin)
adieu philippine (rozier)
barravento (rocha)

+ plus suggestions from this thread! thx karl :D
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rischka wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:28 pm and i see amphibian man is '61 on imbd
where did u see that?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055844/reference
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you're right, google is wrong. ty wba, i love that movie ♥
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rischka wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:42 pm you're right, google is wrong. ty wba, i love that movie ♥
no prob!

I noticed it, cause it also made it onto my list (just, at place 19).
I once saw it from a very good, subtitled 35mm print at a festival with a packed audience: it was magical!!
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As I said, always check Soviet movies on Google/LB against IMDb. Something to do with the Western vs Eastern calendar I suppose.
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wba wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:41 pm
rischka wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:28 pm and i see amphibian man is '61 on imbd
where did u see that?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055844/reference
OMG the new IMDB look is so cumbersome and I was completely unaware of this 'reference' view. All I have to do on any IMDB link is add the word reference at the end, and I get all the info I want in neat order. I'll be using this every day now :)
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Evelyn Library P.I. wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 4:02 pm
wba wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:41 pm
rischka wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:28 pm and i see amphibian man is '61 on imbd
where did u see that?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055844/reference
OMG the new IMDB look is so cumbersome and I was completely unaware of this 'reference' view. All I have to do on any IMDB link is add the word reference at the end, and I get all the info I want in neat order. I'll be using this every day now :)
Yes, I've been using that one ever since, and never "switched" to the new look (which obviously sucks big time).
You can make that look your "standard" one in your "preferences/settings", if you're logged in, btw.
That's how Imdb always looks for me.
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Hatari (Howard Hawks)
Sahib Bibi Aur Gulam (Abrar Alvi & Guru Dutt)
The Horrible Dr. Hitchcock (Riccardo Freda)
The Seventh Sword (Riccardo Freda)
Maciste in Hell (Riccardo Freda)

The Third Lover (Claude Chabrol)
Kiru (Kenji Misumi)
The Tale of Zatoichi (Kenji Misumi)
Ride The High Country (Sam Peckinpah)
Two Weeks in Another Town (VIncente Minnelli)

L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Cleo From 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
Vivre La Vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
Dog Star Man: Part 1 (Stan Brackhage)
The Premature Burial (Roger Corman)

really need to see the rozier. curious about the two hammer pirate movies, cottafavi'soperazione vega, and the six rifleman episodes directed by joseph h. lewis.
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wba wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 4:05 pm
Evelyn Library P.I. wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 4:02 pm
wba wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:41 pm
rischka wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 3:28 pm and i see amphibian man is '61 on imbd
where did u see that?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055844/reference
OMG the new IMDB look is so cumbersome and I was completely unaware of this 'reference' view. All I have to do on any IMDB link is add the word reference at the end, and I get all the info I want in neat order. I'll be using this every day now :)
Yes, I've been using that one ever since, and never "switched" to the new look (which obviously sucks big time).
You can make that look your "standard" one in your "preferences/settings", if you're logged in, btw.
That's how Imdb always looks for me.
this is excellent, thank you!!
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hi i hate the 60s (also pretty busy at the mo so not going to watch anything but mubi/netflix watchlists so i can stop giving them money. but seriously, the 60s are horrible)

chased by the dogs - kamal el sheikh
hatari! - howard hawks
the given word - anselmo duarte
me, grandma, iliko and ilarion - tengiz abuladze
sahib bibi aur gulam - abrar alvi & guru dutt
the parallel street - ferdinand khittl
cold tracks - arne skouen
the devil's trap - františek vláčil
the stars will tell, inspector palmu - matti kassila
the man who shot liberty valance - ford
alyonka - boris barnet
mamma roma - pier paolo pasolini
the twelve chairs - tomás gutiérrez alea
the exterminating angel - buñuel
an autumn afternoon - ozu
happy anniversary - jean-claude carrière & pierre étaix
the slave - sergio corbucci
march on rome - dino risi
electra - mihalis kakogiannis
amphibian man - gennadi kazansky & vladimir chebotaryov

although saying that i was thinking of watching this anyway without even realising it was 62, so i'll watch one film

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The Graceful Brute (Yūzō Kawashima)
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirō Ozu)
Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi)
The Mad Fox (Tomu Uchida)
Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson)
Elgar: Portrait of a Composer (Ken Russell)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
Adieu Philippine (Jacques Rozier)
Les Roses de la vie (Paul Vecchiali)
Domenica sera (Franco Piavoli)
Thanatopsis (Ed Emshwiller)
Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner)
Lacrimae rerum (Nikos Nikolaidis)
Mouse Into Space (Gene Deitch)
La Jetée (Chris Marker)
Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)

Watchlist:

Satan in High Heels
Ballad of a Hussar
Love Under the Crucifix
Lolita
Experiment in Terror
Amphibian Man
The Third Lover
Akitsu Springs
Confessions of an Opium Eater
Mamma Roma
The Treasure of the Silver Lake
Le Doulos
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
An Autumn Afternoon
Harakiri
La Jetee
The Exterminating Angel
A Wanderer's Notebook
Akitsu Springs
Cleo From 5 to 7
L'Eclisse
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
What Ever happened to Baby Jane?
Ivan's Childhood
The Trial
Adieu Philipine
Carnival of Souls
Lawrence of Arabia

strong year already but there are too many things on watchlist😵‍💫😵‍💫
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La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson, 1962)
Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)

Lonely are the Brave (David Miller, 1962)
L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
The Devil's Trap (Frantisek Vlácil, 1962)
Antoine and Colette (François Truffaut, 1962)

Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962)

Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962)
All Night Long (Basil Dearden, 1962)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962)
Dreams (Allan King, 1962)

Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1962)
Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
Sundays and Cybele (Serge Bourguignon, 1962)
The Creation of the Humanoids (Wesley Barry, 1962)
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Winter Light's '63 on imdb.
The opposite of 'reify' is... ?
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So much!
Akitsu Springs - Yoshida
Autumn Afternoon - Ozu
Barravento - Glauber Rocha
Ivan's Childhood - that guy
Jules And Jim - Truffaut
Die Parallelstrasse - Khittl
Pitfall - Teshigahara
Salvatore Giulani - F. Rosi
Tlayucan - Alcoriza
The Trial - Welles
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane - Aldrich

Not so much...
The Extermibating Angel - Bunuel
Anni Ruggenti - Zampa
The Intruder - Corman
la Jetee - Marker
Lolita - Kubrick
El Malvado Carabel - Rafael Baledon
Phaedra - Jules Dassin
Pueblito - Emilio Fernandez
Setenta Veces Siete - leopoldo Torres Nilsson
El Tejedor De Milagros
The opposite of 'reify' is... ?
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1. Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
3. Jules et Jim (François Truffaut)
4. L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. Cleo de 5 a 7 (Agnes Varda)
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6. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
7. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
8. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
9. Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi)
10. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
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11. The Trial (Orson Welles)
12. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson)
13. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
14. The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
15. Lonely are the Brave (David Miller)
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16. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich)
17. Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson)
18. Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
19. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
20. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
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ballot...

A BAGFUL OF FLEAS (Věra Chytilová)
ADORABLE LIAR (Michel Deville)
VERTIGO (Karel Kachyňa)
SIGN OF LEO (Éric Rohmer)
THE SUN IN A NET (Štefan Uher)
BALLET ON A PARAPHRENIC TOPIC (Eric Duvivier)
THE OUTRAGEOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN (Karel Zeman)
SUNDAYS AND CYBELE (Serge Bourguignon)
TO ARMS, WE’RE FASCISTS (Lino Del Fra, Cecilia Mangini)
5/62: PEOPLE LOOKING OUT OF THE WINDOW, TRASH, ETC. (Kurt Kren)

MAGUEYES (Rubén Gámez)
WINTERCOURSE (Paul Sharits)
ON EYE RAPE (Takahiko Iimura)
IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (Andrei Tarkovsky)
FORTY GRANDFATHERS (Václav Bedřich)
THE TOURIST (Evald Schorm)
COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner)
MR. TOMPKINS INSIDE HIMSELF (Stan Brakhage)
THE FLYING MAN (George Dunning)
MAMMALS (Roman Polanski)

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in the last few yrs, logged (4!)...
JULES AND JIM (François Truffaut)
THE OUTRAGEOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN (Karel Zeman) :!:
ADORABLE LIAR (Michel Deville) :!:
WEIMAR REPUBLIC POSTERS (Haro Senft)
FORTY GRANDFATHERS (Václav Bedřich) :!:
I WILL... I SHANT: A STUDY ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR (Cioni Carpi)
REASON AND EMOTION (Jiří Brdečka)
THE FROZEN LOGGER (Jiří Brdečka)
MAN UNDER WATER (Jiří Brdečka, Ladislav Čapek)
THE TOURIST (Evald Schorm) :!:
THROUGH THE ICE TO FINLAND (Valentin Vaala)
TWO BALLS OF WOOL (Hermína Týrlová)
THE DEATH OF TARZAN (Jaroslav Balík)
IDIOT FROM XEENEMÜNDE (Jaroslav Balík)
CARROUSEL (Mikheil Kobakhidze)
THE TEMPLE OF THE WILD GEESE (Yuzo Kawashima)

in a more distant past (that i can still remember), watched (5!)...
DAVID AND LISA (Frank Perry)
IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (Andrei Tarkovsky) :!:
THE SUN IN A NET (Štefan Uher) :!:
THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (Joseph Green)
A BAGFUL OF FLEAS (Věra Chytilová) :!:
LOVE (Takahiko Iimura)
JUNK (Takahiko Iimura)
ON EYE RAPE (Takahiko Iimura) :!:
SUNDAYS AND CYBELE (Serge Bourguignon) :!:
LINES: HORIZONTAL (Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart)

watched for the poll (11!)...
BALLET ON A PARAPHRENIC TOPIC (Eric Duvivier) :!:
TO ARMS, WE’RE FASCISTS (Lino Del Fra, Cecilia Mangini) :!:
MARTIAN THROUGH GEORGIA (Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Maurice Noble)
MALE (Osamu Tezuka)
5/ HUMAN ZOO (Yoji Kuri)
AWAITING (Witold Giersz)
PLAYTHINGS (Kazimierz Urbański)
WINTERCOURSE (Paul Sharits) :!:
VERTIGO (Karel Kachyňa) :!:
10/ MR. TOMPKINS INSIDE HIMSELF (Stan Brakhage) :!:
TECHNOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION (Edgar Reitz)
SIGN OF LEO (Éric Rohmer) :!:
THE FLYING MAN (George Dunning) :!:
MAGUEYES (Rubén Gámez) :!:
15/ THE HOT CITY (Raffaele Andreassi)
BLUE MOSES (Stan Brakhage)
OBSESSION (Jiří Trnka)
HERE I AM (Bruce Baillie)
MAMMALS (Roman Polanski) :!:
20/ COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner) :!:
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Watched Kujira Gami/The Whale God and was quite pleased. It's directed by Tokuzô Tanaka, who did a few of the Zatoichi films and has Shintarō Katsu as one of its stars, and it's written by Kaneto Shindo who made Onibaba, Kuroneko, Naked Island and wrote Manji and Fighting Elegy among many other things. It's called a Japanese version of Moby Dick, which it sorta is, if Queegqueg was more a sociopathic drifter type and Ishmael a devoted mama's boy and Queequeg wanted Ishmael dead for most of the story. There isn't an Ahab exactly, though Takashi Shimura plays a village elder who kinda fits the role, but instead of the killing of the Whale God as being just his obsession, it's the obsessive interest of the entire village where his character and the other main lead, Shaki, played by Kōjirō Hongō of Gamera fame, have been fighting and suffering from attacks on the Whale God for many years. Shaki's lost his grandfather, father, and brother to the whale and his ma demands he also fight it as it must die. Shimura's elder promises his lands, title and daughter to the man who kills the Whale God, Shaki seeming the likely candidate, but Katsu's Kishu shows up and asks if that offer is open to anyone, even a drifter like himself, and Shimura disgustedly says it is, so it becomes something of a competition between Shaki and Kishu for who'll be the one to "ring the snout" of the Whale God.

Shaki is as pure as his motives for wanting the Whale God dead, refusing to think about anything else until the deed is done, while Kishu is completely impure in his motives and actions. Most of this is established in the first ten minutes of the film, with the initial attacks on the Whale God serving as the opening, the rest is in seeing how the two characters deal with their desires and motivations as the movie builds towards its final battle. It's a gripping enough actioner, if you're looking for that, but there's also suggestion of a larger theme that calls to mind that other "Whale God" movie, Werckmeister Harmonies, which is nothing like this movie on its surface, but carries enough of the suggestion over to make me wonder if Tarr had seen this film or if its purely coincidental as it is more a thematic hint and a couple shots than any definitive connection. Whatever the case, The Whale God is likely to make my final list as a new entry.

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I'll go with the 4/4/4/4/4 system once again:

Tier 1

Die Parallelstrasse / The Parallel Street (1962, Ferdinand Khittl)
El Ángel exterminador (1962, Luis Bunuel)
Le Procès / The Trial (1962, Orson Welles)
Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962, Jean-Luc Godard)

Tier 2

Mamma Roma (1962, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)
Dáblova past / The Devil's Trap (1962, Frantisek Vlácil)
The Intruder (1962, Roger Corman)

Tier 3

Abhijaan / The Expedition (1962, Satyajit Ray)
Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962, Agnés Varda)
Akitsu onsen / Akitsu Springs (1962, Yoshishige Yoshida)
Jules et Jim (1962, François Truffaut)

Tier 4

Karami-ai / The Inheritance (1962, Masaki Kobayashi)
Ivanovo detstvo / Ivan's Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Slnko v sieti / The Sun in a Net (1962, Stefan Uher)
Shitoyakana kedamono / The Graceful Brute (1962, Yûzô Kawashima)

Tier 5

Ilektra (1962, Mihalis Kakogiannis)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962, John Frankenheimer)
Assalto ao Trem Pagador / Assault on the Pay Train (1962, Roberto Farias)
La commare secca / The Grim Reaper (1962, Bernardo Bertolucci)

Honourable mentions:

Le doulos (1962, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
Nikui an-chikushô / I Hate But Love (1962, Koreyoshi Kurahara)
La punition / The Punishment (1962, Jean Rouch)
Le soupirant / The Suitor (1962, Pierre Étaix)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Gan no tera / The Temple of Wild Gees (1962, Yûzô Kawashima)
The L-Shaped Room (1962, Bryan Forbes)
Advise & Consent (1962, Otto Preminger)
Ride the High Country (1962, Sam Peckinpah)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford)
Billy Budd (1962, Peter Ustinov)
Pytel blech / A Bag of Fleas (1962, Vera Chytilová)
Dikaya sobaka Dingo / The Wild Dog Dingo (1962, Yuli Karasik)
La marcia su Roma / March on Rome (1962, Dino Risi)
Nóz w wodzie / Knife in the Water (1962, Roman Polanski)
Adorable menteuse / Adorable Liar (1962, Michel Deville)
Tsubaki Sanjûrô (1962, Akira Kurosawa)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962, Sidney Lumet)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962, John Frankenheimer)
Requiem For A Heavyweight (1962, Ralph Nelson)
Kurotokage / Black Lizard (1962, Umetsugu Inoue)
La guerre des boutons / War of the Buttons (1962, Yves Robert)
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