1995 Poll 2.0

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Choose your favourite films from 1995 (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

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

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.

Deadline for 1995 ballots will be Wednesday, August 31st at around midnight EDT.

[karl]

good year for the asians. the contenders:

good men, good women (hou)
the people in white (bae)
maborosi (koreeda)
super citizen ko (wan)
a single spark (park)
naseem (mirza)
man of the story (gopalakrishnan)
cyclo (tran)
seule, géorgie (iosseliani)
ulysses's gaze (angelopoulos)
salaam cinema (makhmalbaf)
the white balloon (panahi)
king of masks (wu)
holy week (wajda)
cardiogram (omirbaev)
nostalgia for the countryside (dang)
it's a long way to the sea (barua)
persuasion (michell)
the convent (oliveira)
smoke (wang)
nelly and monsieur arnaud (sautet)
blush (li)
shiraku (shinoda)
underground (kusturica)
before sunrise (linklater)
sin remitente (carrera)
all things fair (widerberg)
the arsonist (haji saari)
pari (mehrjui)
shanghai triad (zhang)
heat (mann)
gesualdo (herzog)

[sally]

am really struggling to watch movies after my normal frenetic pattern at the min, so this is probably my only ballot (she says knowing full well that contradiction to such grand statements always ensues and will therefore demand from fate itself a blindness-inducing film frenzy or at least one or maybe two watched for this poll)

the enclosed valley - jean-claude rousseau
anything can happen - marcel łoziński
god's comedy - joão césar monteiro
postman - he jianjun (second most erotic bottom-stamping scene after menzel/hrabal)
acariño galaico (de barro) - josé val del omar
signer's suitcase - peter liechti
the ferry - laila pakalniņa
institute benjamenta - quay brothers
persuasion - roger michell
the arsonist - u-wei haji saari
prisoners of war - yervant gianikian, angela ricci lucchi
antigravitacija - audrius stonys
on the beat - ning ying
kardiogramma - darezhan omirbayev
mother dao, the turtlelike - vincent monnikendam
gesualdo: death for five voices - werner herzog
spiritual voices - aleksandr sokurov
koridorius - šarūnas bartas

[Silga]

[provisional list deleted]

[greennui]

The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Directed by Clint Eastwood
Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995 Directed by Todd Solondz
God’s Comedy 1995 ‘A Comédia de Deus’ Directed by João César Monteiro
The Doom Generation 1995 Directed by Gregg Araki
Heat 1995 Directed by Michael Mann
Strange Days 1995 Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Persuasion 1995 Directed by Roger Michell
Ghost in the Shell 1995 Directed by Mamoru Oshii
Showgirls 1995 Directed by Paul Verhoeven
All Things Fair 1995 ‘Lust och fägring stor’ Directed by Bo Widerberg

Fallen Angels 1995 ‘墮落天使’ Directed by Wong Kar-wai
From the Journals of Jean Seberg 1995 Directed by Mark Rappaport
Wind Water 1995 Directed by Raúl Ruiz
Galician Caress (of Clay) 1995 ‘Acariño galaico (de barro)’ Directed by José Val del Omar
La Haine 1995 Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
La Cérémonie 1995 Directed by Claude Chabrol
Dead Man 1995 Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Workers Leaving the Factory 1995 ‘Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik’ Directed by Harun Farocki

[rischka]

haut bas fragile
the blade
postman
rendezvous in paris
le garcu
blush
love in the time of twilight
august in the water
rangeela
on the beat
persuasion
casino
safe
a chinese odyssey (pt 1)
the addiction
deseret
salaam cinema

[rischka]

to watch:

ballet
the convent
good men good women
zusje
love letter
welcome home
prisoners of war
man of the story
the neon bible

[rischka]

guys watch rangeela if you can -- so cute!!

[Lencho of the Apes]

Preliminary-like:

The Addiction - Abel Ferrara
August In The Water - Sogo Ishii
Institute Benjamenta - Quay Bro.s
Little Criminals - Stephen Surjik
The Mangler - Hooper
Mother Dao The Turtlelike - V. Monnikendam
301 302 - Park Cheol-Su

Guatanamera - Tomas Gutierrez Alea
The King Of Masks - Wu Tianming
Midaq Alley - Jorge Fons
Naseem - Saeed Akhtar Mirza

[DT.]

The Addiction (Abel Ferrara)
The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
Casino (Martin Scorsese)
La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol)
Getting Any? (Takeshi Kitano)
Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
In the Bleak Midwinter (Kenneth Branagh)
Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark)
The Mangler (Tobe Hooper)
Persuasion (Roger Mitchell)
Safe (Todd Haynes)
Shanghai Triad (Zhang Yimou)
Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven)
Underground (Emir Kusturica)
Up, Down, Fragile (Jacques Rivette)
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo)

Want to watch:

Beyond Rangoon (John Boorman)
The City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
The Neon Bible (Terence Davies)
One Hundred and One Nights (Agnes Varda)
The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi)
Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow)
Waati (Souleymane Cisse)

[flip]

Peculiarities of the National Hunt (Alexandr Rogozhkin)
The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi)
From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport)
Eldorado (Charles Biname)

God's Comedy (Joao Cesar Monteiro)
Underground (Emir Kusturica)
Little Criminals (Stephen Surjik)
Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

Corridor (Sharunas Bartas)
Cyclo (Tran Anh Hung)
The Snowman (Phil Solomon)
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)

Surprise! (Veit Helmer)
Kids (Larry Clark)
Institute Benjamenta (Quay Brothers)
Persuasion (Roger Michel)

Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
Citizen X (Chris Gerolmo)
Le Confessional (Robert Lepage)

[karl]

One more great Chinese movie of 1995:

Black Mountain (Zhou Xiaowen). 1994 on LB, but 1995 on IMDB. Tony Rayns mentions it here in his profile of the director, calling it a "cross between backwoods film noir and silent opera":

https://i.imgur.com/l1Dj01z.jpg

[wba]

Films seen: 120+

I have around 40 personal favorites from this year, so listing a mere 20 was hard.

Anyway, here are the 20 best.


Final list

5 Tiers

Cutthroat Island (Renny Harlin, USA/Italy/Germany/France)
Sudden Death (Peter Hyams, USA)
First Knight (Jerry Zucker, USA/UK)
Achterbahn der Gefühle (Josef Kluger, Germany)

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (Stephen Quay/Timothy Quay, UK/Japan/Germany)
The Shooter (Ted Kotcheff, Czech Republic/UK/France/Spain)
Mimi wo sumaseba "Whisper of the Heart" (Yoshifumi Kondô, Japan)
Koridorius "The Corridor" (Sharunas Bartas, Germany/Lithuania/France/Netherlands)

Kôkaku Kidôtai "Ghost in the Shell" (Mamoru Oshii, Japan)
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, USA/Germany/Japan)
The Addiction (Abel Ferrara, USA)
Maboroshi no hikari "Maborosi" (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)

Mizu no naka no hachigatsu "August in the Water" (Sogo Ishii, Japan)
Nihon eiga no hyaku nen "100 Years of Japanese Cinema" (Nagisa Ôshima, Japan/UK)
Hao nan hao nu "Good Men, Good Women" (Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Taiwan/Japan)
To vlemma tou Odyssea "Ulysse's Gaze" (Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greece/France/Italy/Germany/UK/Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Romania/Albania/Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Heat (Michael Mann, USA)
Tokyo Fist (Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan)
Wui wan yeh "Out of the Dark" (Jeffrey Lau, Hong Kong)
Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds, USA)

[sally]

there was an 80 fireman-strong huge fire at the end of my street this morning

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

[rischka]

omg what is this

https://youtu.be/WQWhDvKEiSw

[rischka]

a documentary about how white people are the most oppressed americans

[Lencho of the Apes]

I just want to pop in and recommend Special Effects by Larry Cohen to WBA, the strongest recommendation I'm able to give him. The most WBA movie I've seen since Tintorera and Rape Apartments. Recommended to everyone else as well, but some people would want to cancel it. When the Vertigo parody kicked in, after about an hour... words failed me.

[rischka]

it's been on my watchlist for awhile and i will watch it tonight

[rischka]

since i'm now intensely curious about why someone here would want to 'cancel' it

[Lencho of the Apes]

Oh, bugger, it was 1984 and I posted it on the wrong page. Once you start watching, you'll easily see why it would rub some people the wrong way. Not necessarily any people here, but you can never tell with these things...

[rischka]

Bogosian's house is killing me

[St. Gloede]

My list:

1. La cérémonie (1995, Claude Chabrol)
2. Les rendez-vous de Paris (1995, Eric Rohmer)
3. To Die For (1995, Gus Van Sant)
4. Safe (1995, Todd Haynes)

5. La haine / Hate (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz)
6. Casino (1995, Martin Scorsese)
7. Kids (1995, Larry Clark)
8. Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter)

9. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995, Todd Solondz)
10. Cremaster 4 (1995, Matthew Barney)
11. Duo luo tian shi / Fallen Angels (1995, Kar Wong Wai)
12. Smoke (1995, Wayne Wang)

13. Underground (1995, Emir Kusturica)
14. El día de la bestia / The Day of the Beast (1995, Álex de la Iglesia)
15. Se7en (1995, David Fincher)
16. Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende (1995, Vincent Monnikendam)

17. La vallée close (1995, Jean-Claude Rousseau)
18. Twelve Monkeys (1995, Terry Gillian)
19. Kicking and Screaming (1995, Noah Baumbach)
20. Before Sunrise (1995, Richard Linklater)

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1555 ... hU3-GRh1AA

[rischka]

and i've just discovered there's a much better rip than this, hate it when that happens

[Lencho of the Apes]

I started watching Rangeela last night... but I am sure I've seen an Indian movie about an aspiring actress and a ticketscalper before. Apparently not this one, but....

Any ideas?

[nrh]

off the top of my head the only other movie i can think of where the hero is a ticket scalper is kala bazar with dev anand, but there is probably something else out there...

[pabs]

La Cérémonie (Chabrol)
Dead Man (Jarmusch)
Casino (Scorsese)
The City of Lost Children (Jeunet)
Les rendez-vous de Paris (Rohmer)
To Die For (Van Sant)

[nrh]

Rangeela (Ram Gopal Varma)
The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
August in the Water (Sogo Ishii)
Love in the Time of Twilight (Tsui Hark)
God's Comedy (Joao Cesar Monteiro)

Tatort: Frau Bu Lacht (Dominik Graf)
The Blade (Tsui Hark)
Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
Bombay (Mani Ratnam)
Kathapurushan (Adoor Gopalakrishnan)


A Chinese Odyssey Part 1 - Pandora's Box (Jeffrey Lau)
A Chinese Odyssey Part 2 - Cinderella (Jeffrey Lau)
The Chinese Feast (Tsui Hark)
Baasha (Suresh Krishna)
X Files: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose (David Nutter)

La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol)
Haut Bas Fragile (Jacques Rivette)
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (Shusuke Kaneko)
Memory of the Wind (Naomi Kawase)
The Mangler (Tobe Hooper)

feel like i'm missing some obvious stuff here.

[rischka]

ok ok i'll watch the bridges of madison county

[Holdrüholoheuho]

https://kinometer.com/?list=446

Bouquets 1-10 (Rose Lowder, 1995, 11m)
The Enclosed Valley (Jean-Claude Rousseau, 1995, 144m)
At the Sea (Ute Aurand, 1995, 3m)
A Bag of Air (Tacita Dean, 1995, 3m)
A Rule of Dreams (Naoyuki Tsuji, 1995, 4m)
Jaunt (Andrew Kötting, 1995, 5m)
God's Comedy (João César Monteiro, 1995, 170m)
The Moor's Head (Paulus Manker, 1995, 120m)
The Secret (Rudolf Thome, 1995, 80m)
The Corridor (Sharunas Bartas, 1995, 85m)

Edward James: Builder of Dreams (Avery Danziger, Sarah Stein, 1995, 58m)
Imaginary Architecture, the Architect Hans Scharoun (Hartmut Bitomsky, 1995, 65m)
Il girasole: A House Near Verona (Christoph Schaub, Marcel Meili, 1995, 17m)
Earthen Aerie (Stan Brakhage, 1995, 3m)
A Little Splinter of Time (Jon Behrens, 1995, 2m)
Sculpture for a Windless Space (Barbara Meter, 1995, 11m)
Backcomb (Sarah Pucill, 1995, 3m)
Telly (Nicky Hamlyn, 1995, 5m)
The Cactus (Franz Winzentsen, 1995, 2m)
The Mole's Birthday Party (Zdeněk Miler, 1995, 5m)