1969 Poll 2.0

[rischka]

https://youtu.be/P0b074CwlVM

favorite bad bible bitch ♥ HI GREG




the costumes, set design, hairstyles, her dance that was weirder than finlnd in 2012. second only to alla nazimova and her lightbulbs ♥



if i remember right the carmelo bene gave me a terrible headache

[rischka]

how is there a john huston movie i never heard about. and i loved it, TY SALLY im a sucker for doomed lovers on the run. guess it bombed pretty badly. SAD

[sally]

NW who doesn't love a doomed medieval romance?

[sally]

familiarities - felipe cazals


yeeeeeeeah....i was totally with this until:



thanks but i think i'll stick to female directed absurd explorations of domestic space from now on....

[sally]

the most beautiful age - jaroslav papoušek

minor czech new wave film that i won't remember in a month

[karl]

One of the champers here is too modest perhaps to admit to subtitling a great Czech movie from this year, K. Kachyna's RIDICULOUS GENTLEMAN (aka FUNNY MAN):



(Was any country making better movies in the sixties than Czechoslovakia?)


Also, the missus and I subbed one of the best Soviet movies of the year. I ran it in one of them competitions we used to do here, so I think several of you've seen it. M. Kalik's TO LOVE:



It's a '68 on LB, but '69 on IMDb.

[Mario Gaborovic]

Oh yeah I forgot about To Love, it's a wonderful film. Will make my ballot for sure.

[wba]

This is such a terrific year, I don't know where to start, so I'll just list personal favorites as possible Top 20 candidates for the time being.

Apparently I've seen a little over 100 films from this year, according to Imdb.


Roulette d'amour (Fronz)
Aido: Slave of Love (Hani)
Pavoncello (Zulawski)
The Girl I Abandoned (Urayama)
Running in Madness, Dying in Love (Wakamatsu)
I'm an Elephant, Madame (Zadek)
Detectives (Thome)
Rabbit in the Pit (Fritz)
Crows (Kozomara, Mihic)
Baby Vickie (Hayes)
Birds, Orphans and Fools (Jakubisko)
Dead Are Countless (Marchent)
Hell’s Angels ’69 (Madden)
Your Caresses (Schamoni, Vesely)
Sixtynine (Donner)
Pippi Goes on Board (Hellbom)
Run, Angel, Run! (Starrett)
Women for Sale (Hofbauer)
Winnie-the-Pooh (Khitruk)
Have Sword, Will Travel (Chang)
Goto - Island of Love (Borowczyk)
Detective Belli (Guerrieri)
Naked Angels (Clark)
Gunman of Ave Maria (Baldi)
Puss in Boots (Yabuki)
Young Billy Young (Kennedy)
Double Face (Freda)
Salesman (Mayles, Mayles, Zwerin)
The Specialists (Corbucci)
Devil in the Flesh (Dallamano)
One on Top of the Other (Fulci)
Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Wakamatsu)
Venus in Furs (Franco)
Horrors of Malformed Men (Ishii)
Play Dirty (de Toth)
Downhill Racer (Ritchie)
The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov)
79 Springs (Alvarez)
Boot Hill (Colizzi)

[niminy-piminy]

One of the champers here is modest

oh, i can wholeheartedly recommend A RIDICULOUS GENTLEMAN.
script Procházka + directing Kachyňa = never wrong
moreover, music by Liška
it will certainly appear on my ballot.

[niminy-piminy]

(Was any country making better movies in the sixties than Czechoslovakia?)

oh, and btw. the other day i noticed there is a new film on the subject (by Christian Paigneau) called A CZECHOSLOVAK FAIRY TALE (UN CONTE DE FEES TCHECOSLOVAQUE) → https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22987414/

and it seems like, (the above-mentioned scriptwriter) Jan Procházka is in the spotlight in that film (that i didn't watch yet)...

http://www.siriusfilms.eu/en/upcoming-p ... laitudes-2
From 1946 to 1971, in Czechoslovakia, two fairy tales come together and align with each other. One is of the Czechoslovak New Wave that contributes to the thawing of the country. The other is the writer Jan Procházka’s attempt to intertwine his own voice with that of the Prague Spring.

or in other words...

https://letterboxd.com/film/a-czechoslovak-fairy-tale/
In Czechoslovakia, between 1946 and 1971, the characters of two very different fairy tales interacted and enriched each other: on the one hand, the filmmakers of the Czechoslovak New Wave who, through poetic, committed and ambitious cinema, fought against the Soviet yoke with subtle irony; and, on the other, the writer Jan Procházka, who in 1968 added his voice to the popular outcry of the Prague Spring.

trailer → https://vimeo.com/398588714

[greennui]

The Wild Pussycat 1969 ‘Καυτή εκδίκηση’ Directed by Dimis Dadiras - The missing link between Russ Meyer and Nikos Nikolaidis.

[sally]

i am.....intrigued.....

(have so many 69s left to watch tho)

watched the toth family yesterday. maybe not such a great idea to read the book then immediately watch the film - maybe the jokes don't work so fast in such quick repetition...

[wba]

maybe not such a great idea to read the book then immediately watch the film

Yeah, that always sucks, in my experience.
I just keep expecting to see certain stuff or automatically "compare" one with the other, which is idiotic.
Thus, some years ago, I've set a rule for myself, to not do this again and again in the future, which I still keep ignoring, of course...

[Angel]

Dong nuan (The Winter)
Dzhamilya (Jamilya)
Femmine insaziabili (Carnal Circuit)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Gheisar
Goyôkin
Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano (Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence)
La femme infidèle (The Unfaithful Wife)
La muralla verde (The Green Wall)
La sirène du Mississipi (Mississippi Mermaid)
Le clan des Siciliens (The Sicilian Clan)
Lyubit… (To Love)
Mackenna's Gold
Na voyne, kak na voyne (At War as at War)
Paint Your Wagon
Paroxismus
Shôwa zankyô-den: Karajishi jingi (The Man with the Dragon Tattoo)
Une corde, un Colt… (Cemetery Without Crosses)
Valparaíso mi amor (Valparaiso My Love)
Yawar mallku (Blood of the Condor)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/Lbxd/TSPDT/S&S top 500)
Al-mummia
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Diaries Notes and Sketches
Funeral Parade of Roses
Kes
L'armée des ombres
Ma nuit chez Maud
Midnight Cowboy
Sayat Nova
The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha
The Cremator
The Damned
The Land
The Wild Bunch
The Witness
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Z

To watch before the deadline
Aradhana
Balladen om Carl-Henning

Wanted
Shey min el khouf
Virágvasárnap

[sally]

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1 ... 69135?s=19

[rischka]

loved the lady from constantinople ♥♥♥ i'm watching ikonostasit and may even have time for l'amour fou! (it's on youtube)!

[nrh]

l'amour fou is a big enough time investment that it might be worth waiting for the recent restoration...

[rischka]

l'amour fou is a big enough time investment that it might be worth waiting for the recent restoration...

thank you very much for this info

[rischka]

pirosmani - shengalaia
invasión - santiago
model shop - demy
dzhamilya - poplovskaya
shônen - oshima

goyōkin - gosha
the wild bunch - peckinpah
the lady from constantinople - elek
jackal of nahueltoro - littín
larks on a string - menzel

valparaíso mi amor - francia
we are our mountains - malyan
the hungry wolves - güney
salome - koralnik
a walk with love and death - huston

antonio das mortes - rocha
killed the family and went to the movies - bressane
the icon stand - dinov/christov
a ridiculous gentleman - kachyna
medea - pasolini

the lady and a gentleman made quite a sweet double feature - two lonely old characters living out their dreams

[sally]

the deserted archipelago - katsu kanai

exactly what you expect from 1969 japan, including the obligatory, normalizing rape scene

[wba]

Rabbit in the Pit (Fritz)
Goto - Island of Love (Borowczyk)
Aido: Slave of Love (Hani)
Baby Vickie (Hayes)

Your Caresses (Schamoni, Vesely)
Naked Angels (Clark)
Running in Madness, Dying in Love (Wakamatsu)
Young Billy Young (Kennedy)

Have Sword, Will Travel (Chang)
Gunman of Ave Maria (Baldi)
Downhill Racer (Ritchie)
The Girl I Abandoned (Urayama)

Puss in Boots (Yabuki)
Winnie-the-Pooh (Khitruk)
Crows (Kozomara, Mihic)
Detectives (Thome)

Pavoncello (Zulawski)
Birds, Orphans and Fools (Jakubisko)
Play Dirty (de Toth)
The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov)

[rischka]

watched wiseman's law and order (filmed in kansas city mo) and they immediately put a woman suspected of prostitution in a chokehold

[Lencho of the Apes]

Oh, this. This! Death May Be Your Santa Claus (Frankie Dymon, UK.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j30BjJEzUME

[sally]

oh was meaning to watch that! running out of time tho

[sally]

winter - marcel hanoun

in india song michael lonsdale did the most haunting, plaintive yell in cinema, and since it was off-screen it therefore inhabits all the infinite Unseen, all time and space, and so even tho l'hiver was made 6 years before india song, that cry is still reverberating in this film. likewise for me, all appearances of bruges are absolutely identical with rodenbach's bruges-la-morte, so every time the city with its canals full of gloomy reflections appears it's already imbued with a certain doomed, 'tragedy of the image-as-double' quality - here in bruges, cinema was born as a ghost - so it's the most perfect perfect place to make a movie about the struggle of the artist, the struggle for and of the image...altho the haunting is so strong i had a hard time paying attention to anything that hanoun (that great philosopher of the image in cinema) was saying specifically. but maybe it was fairly similar to what i was already thinking...

[sally]

definitely getting a little fed up with the 60s stuff now


all the crazy dreams, i don't even know what he was going on about by the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bZIMrZ9YGk

[nrh]

definitely getting a little fed up with the 60s stuff now


all the crazy dreams, i don't even know what he was going on about by the end

need to relax with famous middle brow realist satyajit ray then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmc-gCXeLN8

[karl]

Watch more of the Reds, Sally: according to LB you ain't seen Nest of Gentry, To Love..., Goodbye Gyulsary!, The Confrontation (one of my favorite Jancsos), Funeral Ceremony, and Subject for a Short Story (this I suspect is right down yr alley).

[niminy-piminy]

THE APPLE (Michel Soutter, 1969)


even 7 years later (DC 2016 → 2023) — just by hearing "nest of gentry" — my brain swirls in phlegm ↓↓↓

→ https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic. ... 036#p33036

btw. Konchalovsky was instrumental in the greatest frustration i ever experienced on SCFZ...

DC 2016, Group B, R1: "The Man Who Envied Women" (Rainer) vs. "Nest of the Gentry" (Konchalovsky)
Final score: Rainer 3, Konchalovsky 12

if "The Man Who Envied Women" would lose with "Nest of the Gentry" 7:8 or 6:9 i would consider it ridiculous but i guess i would be able to get over it. but losing 3:12! was completely beyond my comprehension. even 5 years later, it is still beyond my grasp how something so utterly phantasmagorical could happen.

[sally]

these are all great suggestions, but i got overexcited at the beginning of the month and downloaded loads....i feel like i should watch those ones first or i never will

(and the ray looks fun but also like there's only a horrible print around? and 2 whole hours....)

and now i'm totally conflicted on whether to watch nest of gentry or not