1989 poll

[kanafani]

If you do have your films ordered in a hierarchy (best to "least best"), then it means I'll automatically want to get Les sièges de l'Alcazar
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Alright Pabs, I reordered my list just for you. Some of those I've watched a long time ago, so take the ordering with a grain of salt... But the ones at the top are def my favorites of the year and the Les sièges de l'Alcazar is very high up there.

[pabs]

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Thanks man!

[greennui]

might watch one or two more...

you should def try to catch Nostos.

[rischka]

might watch one or two more...

you should def try to catch Nostos.

ok will watch it today as your taste often coincides with mine also love the piavoli i have seen already

[rischka]

recollections of the yellow house - monteiro

near death - wiseman

bumped down.

because i couldn't bear it if monteiro didn't make the list. strategic voting

[greennui]

might watch one or two more...

you should def try to catch Nostos.

ok will watch it today as your taste often coincides with mine also love the piavoli i have seen already

[liquidnature]

piavoli is the goat for me, and a man after my own heart, so highly rec nostos as well

[flip]

also my #1 in a very strong year

[rischka]

how has a big pirate fan like me never seen this. thank you all so much



i've had a copy for 2+ years btw

[rischka]

HOWEVER I HAVE A QUESTION

is any of the dialogue translated? if not that's fine but why does an srt exist? i'm watching the one on youtube and i'm about 20 mins in and don't want to watch the whole thing with no subs like an idiot. edit: hmm ok continuing. it's certainly beautiful enough that i won't mind

[greennui]

HOWEVER I HAVE A QUESTION

is any of the dialogue translated? if not that's fine but why does an srt exist? i'm watching the one on youtube and i'm about 20 mins in and don't want to watch the whole thing with no subs like an idiot

This is the entire content of the srt I've got lol:

1
00:00:09,652 --> 00:00:14,943
<b>NOSTOS</b>
THE RETURN

2
00:01:01,936 --> 00:01:09,242
Dialogue in the film is inspired by the
sounds of ancient Mediterranean languages.

[rischka]

ahhhhhhh i see! excellent. i rather liked imagining what they were saying

thx greenui

comment from the youtube page

Maybe instead of watching some boring movie where nothing happens you people could try reading a book. But thank you for secluding yourselves away from the rest of us during the hour and twenty minutes you watched some guy stare at the ocean.

[DT.]

comment from the youtube page

Maybe instead of watching some boring movie where nothing happens you people could try reading a book. But thank you for secluding yourselves away from the rest of us during the hour and twenty minutes you watched some guy stare at the ocean.

Was the person’s username karljkipling, by any chance?

[rischka]

it wasn't; i did check!

i thought immediately of karl's reaction to oxhide II

[karl]

If I see no more worthy 1989s (a surprisingly strong year for the lackluster 1980s, so good that I have to pull an Angel and scrap several of the ones I like that are gonna get plenty of votes anyway, like Decalogue) thisns the final:

A City of Sadness

There Were Seven Simeons (H. Frank & V. Eisner)
Black Rain
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
Sitting on a Branch Enjoying Myself (J. Jakubisko)
Banana Paradise (Wang Tung)
Revenge (Yermek Shinarbayev)
A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve' (Tadeusz Konwicki)
Freedom Is Paradise (Sergei Bodrov)
Come, Come, Come Upward (Im Kwon-taek)
Bagh Bahadur (Buddhadev Dasgupta)
And Then There Was Light (Otar Iosseliani)
End of Old Times (Jiri Menzel)
Indian Nocturne (Alain Corneau)
Landscape with Woman (Ivica Matić)
Kuduz (Ademir Kenović)
The Touch (Amanzhol Aituarov)
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bahram Beizai)
Margarit and Margarita (Nikolai Volev)
Mariya (Aleksandr Sokurov)

[karl]

And my last suggestion that no one's gonna watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nchPoYw3V5k

Peace.

[rischka]

we still love you karl. did you watch the uchida yet

[Lencho of the Apes]

I watched The Seven Simians. I've had this 'Freedom" thing downloaded since day one, but it doesn't look like I finally will have time for it.

[karl]

we still love you karl. did you watch the uchida yet

Tonight!

[ofrene]

Final

The Decalogue
A City of Sadness
Histoire(s) du Cinéma
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Do the Right Thing
Emergency Kisses
Recollections of the Yellow House
Pomegranate and Cane
Nostos
Elephant
Eight Taels of Gold
Route One USA
Rosa de Areia
Bashu
Grandmother
My Twentieth Century
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Black Rain
A Visitor to a Museum
Blood


missed Wiseman sadly but what an interesting year..

[brian d]

managed to get the ottinger in with the extra week:

my nights are more beautiful than your days (zuławski)
the cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover (greenaway)
barroco (leduc)
schwarze sünde (straub/huillet)
the gang of four (rivette)
recollections of the yellow house (monteiro)
johanna d'arc of mongolia (ottinger)*
o sangue (costa)
nostos: the return (piavoli)
yaaba (ouedraogo)*
tie me up, tie me down! (almodóvar)
where the sun beats (pinto)
isle of flowers (furtado)
rosa de areia (reis/cordeiro)
fear of drowning (greenaway)
do the right thing (lee)*
the secret nation (sanjinés)
impressions from the upper atmosphere (sistiaga)
the abyss (cameron)
steel mask against blue abyss (rocha)

also watched:
roselyne and the lions (beineix)
lost in new york (rollin)

[mesnalty]

Final list:

1. Water and Power (O'Neill)

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Bae)
Interrogation (Bugajski)
Blood (Costa)
My Twentieth Century (Enyedi)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Greenaway)
A City of Sadness (Hou)
Looking for Langston (Julien)
Monsieur Hire (Leconte)
Barroco (Leduc)
Do the RIght Thing (Lee)
Recollections of the Yellow House (Monteiro)
Nostos: The Return (Piavoli)
Warsaw Bridge (Portabella)
Tongues Untied (Riggs)
sex, lies and videotape (Soderbergh)
Near Death (Wiseman)

[wigwam]

1 Life Lessons (Scorsese)

Les baisers de secours
Boris Godounov
Cat Chaser
Chameleon Street
Darty Report
Do the Right Thing
Drugstore Cowboy
Îlé Aiyé
The Kill-Off
Gang of Four
Gleaming the Cube
Me and Rubyfruit
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Pedicab Driver
Recollections of the Yellow House
Save and Protect
The Unbelievable Truth
Yearning for Sodom
You Take Care Now

[pabs]

Do I have time to watch one more 90 min film?

[rischka]

probably? it's 5 am here. i doubt lencho will be tallying at dawn. in fact the OP says 1 pm pacific so you got about 8 hours

you would know this if you didn't live in the upside down

[MatiasAlbertotti]

1. Nostos il retorno (Franco Piavoli)

Dekalog (Kieslowski)
A city of violence (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
Violent Cop (Kitano)
Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki)
The Killer (John Woo)
Do the right thing (Spike Lee)
Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte)
Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
Les Sieges de L'Alcazar (Luc Moullet)
Marriage of the Blessed (Makhmalbaf)
Tetsuo the Iron Man (Tsukamoto)
Batman (Tim Burton) (First movie I saw on a theatre)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek)
Mistery Train (Jarmusch)

And as usual a ton left to watch (Garrel, Rivette, the Zatoichi one, Pedicab Driver, Beijing Watermelon, Godard, etc).
Also I wanted to add Oshii's Patlabor, but I saw it so long ago that I don't remember it very well, and had no time for a rewatch.

[pabs]

you would know this if you didn't live in the upside down

¿ naem uoy od revetahW

[john ryan]

1. Dekalog (kieslowski)

sex, lies, and videotape (soderbergh)
the killer (woo)
a city of sadness (hou)
elephant (clarke)
the unbelievable truth (hartley)
road house (herrington)
drugstore cowboy (van sant)
mystery train (jarmusch)
the cook, the thief, his wife & her lover (greenaway)
water and power (o'neill)
tongues untied (riggs)
warsaw bridge (portabella)
black rain (imamura)
all about ah-long (to)
near death (wiseman)
a dry white season (palcy)
my nights are more beautiful than your days (zulawski)
how to get ahead in advertising (robinson)
emergency kisses (garrel)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Visitor of a museum - Lopushanskiy

antarjali jatra *
Bagh Bahadur (Buddhadev Dasgupta) *
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bahram Beizai) *
Boris Godunov - Zulawski *
Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr., 1989) *
Damned House Of Hajn - Svoboda *
Death Of A Tea Master - Kumai *
Lost in New York (Jean Rollin) *
Marriage of the Blessed (Makhmalbaf) *
Mentiras Piadosas - Ripstein
Muscle - sato *
My Nights Are More beautiful Than Your days - Zulawski *
Mystery Train - Jarmusch
Nostos, The Return - Piavoli *
Ora Pro Nobis (Lino Brocka) *
Save And Protect - Sokurov *
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 3: BETTER WATCH OUT! (Monte Hellman) *
Tetsuo The Iron Man
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left For The East?


Also watched

Spoiler!

Aje Aje Bara Aje/Come, Come, Come Upward (Im Kwon-taek)
all about ah-long (johnnie to)
Before My Eyes - Kaul
The Cook The Thief The Wife And The Lover
84 Charlie MoPic (Patrick Sheane Duncan)
Ek Din Acharnak - Mrinal Sen
Herdsmen of the Sun (Herzog)
The House Of Clocks - Fulci
The House Of Witchcraft - Lenzi
In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones - Pradip Krishen
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects -
La Maschera Dl Demonio - Lamberto Bava
La nacion clandestina - Sanjines
pièce touchée (Arnold)
Recollections of the Yellow House (João César Monteiro, 1989)
Rojo Amanecer - Fons
Santa Sangre - Joderowsky
Shocker - Craven
Society -
There Were Seven Simeons (Herz Frank & Vladimir Eisner)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Voting ends about three ninety-minute movies from now.