1973 Poll 2.0

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Choose your favourite films from 1973 (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 1973 ballots will be Tuesday, October 31st at roughly midnight EDT.

[greennui]

Sensuela 1973 Directed by Teuvo Tulio
The Iron Rose 1973 ‘La Rose de fer’ Directed by Jean Rollin
World on a Wire 1973 ‘Welt am Draht’ Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Mother and the Whore 1973 ‘La Maman et la Putain’ Directed by Jean Eustache
Touki Bouki 1973 ‘Touki-Bouki’ Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty
Ganja & Hess 1973 Directed by Bill Gunn
Fantastic Planet 1973 ‘La Planète sauvage’ Directed by René Laloux
Willow Springs 1973 Directed by Werner Schroeter
Messiah of Evil 1973 Directed by Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz
Score 1973 Directed by Radley Metzger

Ludwig 1973 Directed by Luchino Visconti
Duvidha 1973 ‘दुविधा’ Directed by Mani Kaul
Inferno 1973 Directed by Stanislav Barabáš
The Baby 1973 Directed by Ted Post
The Day of the Jackal 1973 Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Tenderness of the Wolves 1973 ‘Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe’ Directed by Ulli Lommel
Moon’s Pool 1973 Directed by Gunvor Nelson
The Killing Kind 1973 Directed by Curtis Harrington
The Wicker Man 1973 Directed by Robin Hardy
Last House on Dead End Street 1973 Directed by Roger Watkins

Global Groove 1973 Directed by Nam June Paik, John Godfrey
Audition 1973 Directed by Frans Zwartjes
Some Call It Loving 1973 Directed by James B. Harris
Horizons 1973 Directed by Larry Gottheim
Robin Hood 1973 Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
Immoral Tales 1973 ‘Contes immoraux’ Directed by Walerian Borowczyk
The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 Directed by Peter Yates
The Ascent of Man 1973 Directed by Adrian Malone, Mick Jackson …

Horror bolded.

[sally]

the legend of the old shepherd xeudi and his friend reimann - hans-jakob siber
stone wedding - mircea veroiu, dan pița
mamad - sjuman djaya
the hare census - eduard sachariev
the hourglass sanatorium - wojciech jerzy has
defying everybody - yurii illienko
methods of egg-viewing - yoichi nagata
repertory - ian breakwell
solar flares burn for you - arthur johns
duvidha - mani kaul
h is for house - peter greenaway
ludwig - luchino visconti
audition - frans zwartjes
the house of 72 tenants - chor yuen
through and through - grzegorz królikiewicz
my ain folk - bill douglas
a river called titas - ritwik ghatak
illumination - krzysztof zanussi
touki bouki - djibril diop mambéty
the mother and the whore - jean eustache

[flip]

interesting year... leaving out some classic films i haven't seen in so long i wouldn't know what i'd make of them now

The Mongols (Parviz Kimiavi)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
Not I (Anthony Page)

The Seventh Bullet (Ali Khamraev)
Ward Six (Lucian Pintilie)
Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
Sisters (Brian De Palma)

H is for House (Peter Greenaway)
Island (Fyodor Khitruk)
Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
J'Irai Comme un Cheval Fou (Fernando Arrabal)

Power (Vlatko Gilic)
Tight Spot (Amir Naderi)
Save the Tiger (John Avildsen)
The President's Plane is Missing (Daryl Duke)

A Simple Event (Sohrab Shahid Saless)
Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
The Last of Sheila (Herbert Ross)
The Candy Snatchers (Gordon Trueblood)

[rischka]

well gosh

[karl]

contenders:

melodies of the vera quarter (shengelaya)
the duel (kheifits)
monologue (averbakh)
nirmalyam (vasudevan nair)
blow, wind! (piesis)
we're cursed, irina! (angelovski)
illumination (zanussi)
25 fireman's street (szabo)
spirit of the beehive (erice)
field lilies (havetta)
photography (zolnay)
krystyna m. portrait sketches (karabasz)
badlands (malick)
a brief vacation (de sica)
kamouraska (jutra)
distant thunder (ray)
duvidha (kaul)
touki bouki (mambéty)
defying everybody (ilyenko)
day of the jackal (zinnemann)
day for night (truffaut)
the seventh bullet (khamraev)
the wicket gate (różewicz)
father (malyan)
ward 6 (pintilie)

[sally]

waves - patrick carey (25 mins)

suitable for the horrorphile poll, this is nature documentary via h p lovecraft (positively eldritch) no idea why all the reviews are like 'blah blah beautiful irish coast', this wet stuff is malevolent and possessed and gave me the heebie-jeebies

i think one reason standing on a beach and looking out to sea is so relaxing is because you're thinking 'thank fuck i'm not out there'

streaming: https://ifiarchiveplayer.ie/waves/

[rischka]

Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin ist sehr kluge



how does she not kill him. edit: at least he kept his mouth shut



this is so good tho. it's fearless. i'm putting it in my list

i'm still tryna learn german but i can't get the gendered articles down. so sexist

i try to practice (entschuldigung!) but people think i'm a madwoman

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Duvidha - Mani Kaul
F for Fake - Orson Welles
The Iron Rose - Jean Rollin
The Last Detail - Hal Ashby
Hotel Monteray - Chantal Akerman
Don't Look Now - Nic Roeg
The Long Goodbye - Robert Altman
Scarecrow - Jerry Schatzberg
Turkish Delight - Paul Verhoeven
Day For Night - Francois Truffaut

I guess The Dupes just had a restoration screen at NYFF. That's great, because the print I saw in Minneapolis almost a decade ago was in pretty terrible shape.

*EDIT removing The Dupes because of the confusion about years. Day for night just eeks in.

[sally]

the dupes is 72 on imdb, otherwise i'd have voted for it

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Oh weird. It's 73 on Letterboxd and Wikipedia.

But... it looks like wikipedia also cites it winning the top prize at the 72 Carthage film festival. So 72 is probably more accurate.

[Silga]

[provisional list deleted]

[---]

Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)
Power (Vlatko Gilic)
High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood)

The Sting (George Roy Hill)
Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
Two Men in Town (Jose Giovanni)
Come on Children (Allan King)

Badlands (Terrence Malick)
Robin Hood (Wolfgang Reitherman)
A Simple Event (Sohrab Shahid Saless)
World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Panda! Go Panda!: Rainy Day Circus (Isao Takahata)
Television Delivers People (Richard Serra, Carlota Fay Schoolman)
98.3 KHz (Bridge at Electrical Storm) (Al Razutis)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (Alan J. Pakula)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
Fantastic Planet (Rene Lalous)
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)

[wba]

Films seen: 90+

Final list

5 tiers


Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya “Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable” (Shun'ya Itô, Japan)
La polizia incrimina la legge assolve “High Crime” (Enzo G. Castellari, Italy/Spain/France)
Yaadon Ki Baaraat “Procession of Memories” (Nasir Hussain, India)
Shurayukihime “Lady Snowblood” (Toshiya Fujita, Japan)

Thriller - en grym film “Thriller: A Cruel Picture” (Bo Arne Vibenius, Sweden)
La Maman et la Putain “The Mother and the Whore” (Jean Eustache, France)
Ying chun ge zhi Fengbo “The Fate of Lee Khan” (King Hu, Taiwan/Hong Kong)
Crystal Voyager (David Elfick, Australia/USA)

La nuit des étoiles filantes “A Virgin Among the Living Dead” (Jess Franco, France/Belgium/Italy/Liechtenstein)
Lisa e il diavolo “Lisa and the Devil” (Mario Bava, Italy/West Germany/Spain)
Badlands (Terrence Malick, USA)
Deux hommes dans la ville “Two Men in Town” (José Giovanni, France/Italy)

Zhui sha “The Deadly Chase” (Stanley Wing Siu, Hong Kong)
Avortement clandestin! “Clandestine Abortion” (Pierre Chevalier, Belgium/France)
Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin “Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave” (Alexander Kluge, West Germany)
Cops and Robbers (Aram Avakian, USA)

Yek Etefagh sadeh “A Simple Event” (Sohrab Shahid Saless, Iran)
Na wylot “Through and Through“ (Grzegorz Królikiewicz, Poland)
Le cinque giornate “The Five Days” (Dario Argento, Italy)
Robin Hood (Wolfgang Reitherman, USA)



Bubbling under:

Contes immoraux “Immoral Tales” (Walerian Borowczyk, France)
Emperor of the North Pole (Robert Aldrich, USA)
My Ain Folk (Bill Douglas, UK)
La comtesse noire “Female Vampire” (Jess Franco, France/Belgium)

...

Horror bolded

[wba]

i'm still tryna learn german but i can't get the gendered articles down. so sexist

The articles aren't exactly sexist per se, as you have three available: gender fluid, female and male. But yes, they cannot be used as one would like to use them, so this might seem sexist. On the other hand, some nouns have two articles that are correct and can be applied as one wishes, and a select few have even all three!

[rischka]

so confusing Spanish has gendered articles but it's much easier to figure out which to use

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

The key, I think, is to completely detach the concept of grammatical gender from the concept of human gender. Our word 'gender' is derived from French 'genre' which is derived from Latin 'genus', which just means 'kind'. So the key is to just think that there are three grammatical kinds of nouns and adjectives, and whenever you memorize the word, you memorize its grammatical kind alongside the word.

[rischka]

i was just kidding about it being sexist

it is damned confusing tho

did my pun work at least :p

[St. Gloede]

My top 20:

Film Portrait (1973, Jerome Hill)
Scarecrow (1973, Jerry Schatzberg)
Scener ur ett äktenskap / Scenes from a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
Kaigenrei / Coup D'Etat (1973, Yoshishige Yoshida)

Welt am Draht / World on a Wire (1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
Sanatorium pod Klepsydra / The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973, Wojciech Has)
The Holy Mountain (1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky)

La nuit américaine / Day for Night (1973, François Truffaut)
Paper Moon (1973, Peter Bogdanovich)
Nunta de piatra / Stone Wedding (1973, Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu)
La grande bouffe (1973, Marco Ferreri)

Le magnifique (1973, Philippe de Broca)
Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973, Sam Peckinpah)
La maman et la putain / The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)

Themroc (1973, Claude Faraldo)
Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese)
Fotográfia (1973, Pál Zolnay)
L'an 01 / The Year 01 (1973 - with support from Alain Resnais & Jean Rouch)

Honourable mentions:

Na wylot / Through and Through (1973, Grzegorz Królikiewicz)
O Lucky Man! (1973, Lindsay Anderson)
Régi idök focija / Football in the Good Old Days (1973, Pál Sándor)
The Day of the Jackal (1973, Fredd Zinneman)
J'irai comme un cheval fou / I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1973, Fernando Arrabal)
Ludwig (1973, Luchino Visconti)
The Sting (1973, George Roy Hill)
Emperor of the North Pole (1973, Robert Aldrich)
János vitéz / Johnny Corncob (1973, Marcell Jankovics)

Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird (1972, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
Mogholha / The Mongols (1973, Parviz Kimiavi)
Papillon (1973, Franklin J. Schaffner)
Westworld (1973, Michael Crichton)
The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin)
Sleeper (1973, Woody Allen)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973, Peter Yates)
Serpico (1973, Sidney Lumet)
Don't Look Now (1973, Nicholas Roeg)
The Long Goodbye (1973, Robert Altman)

L'invitation (1973, Claude Goretta)
Juvenile Court (1973, Frederick Wiseman)
Kamouraska (1973, Claude Jutra)
100 / One Hundred Lei (1973, Mircea Saucan)
Sisters (1973, Brian De Palma)
Láska / Love (1973, Karel Kachyna)
Love & Anarchy (1973, Lina Wertmüller)
Wildwechsel / Jail-Bait (1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

El castillo de la pureza / Castle of Purity (1973. Arturo Ripstein)
American Graffiti (1973, George Lucas)
Toda Nudez Será Castigada / All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973, Arnaldo Jabor)
Plokhoy khoroshiy chelovek / The Duel (1973, Iosif Kheifits)
Shurayukihime / Lady Snowblood (1973, Toshiya Fujita)
Una breve vacanza / A Brief Vacation (1973, Vittorio De Sica)
Benilde ou a Virgem Mãe / Benilde or the Virgin Mother (1975, Manoel de Oliveira)
Lisa e il diavolo / Lisa and the Devil (1973, Mario Bava)

Devicanska svirka / Song of Virgins (1973, Djordje Kadijevic)
Sticenik / Ward (1973, Djordje Kadijevic)
The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973, Kinji Fukasaku)
Imagens do Silêncio (1973, Luiz Rosemberg Filho)
High Plains Drifter (1973, Clint Eastwood)
Theater of Blood (1973, Douglas Hickox)
Ilinskiy o Mayakovskom / Mayakovsky Laughs (1973, Sergei Yutkevich, Anatoliy Karanovich)
The Last of Sheila (1973, Herbert Ross)
Vérités et mensonges / F For Fake (1973, Orson Welles)

[rischka]

if benilde was '73 it would be my #1



i watched the strange psychedelic mountain man movie before heading out to see the aspens

tonight's feature will be: the president's airplane is missing!! (am I really the only one who likes payday lol)


https://youtu.be/1aBmN6_s-KY?si=nAuJ8T3zxmYUTdtD

that was good! rip torn is a maniac

[karl]

THE MEN (Edmond Keosayan):

Amusing Armenian comedy about the misadventures of three taxi drivers who try to help their painfully shy taxi driver pal romance his dream girl, rather awkwardly Englished on Youtube. Won't make my list, but it goes down easily and at 67 mins doesn't wear out its welcome:

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



Movie's popular in Armenia. There's even a statue in Yerevan of the characters:

[Lencho of the Apes]

Prelim. list:

The Hourglass Sanatorium
The Mother And The Whore
We Can't Go Home Again - Nick Ray
World On A Wire

Black Caesar - Larry Cohen
Don Quixote Cabalga De Nuevo - Gavaldon
Lisa And The Devil - Bava
Messiah Of Evil

Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein - Franco
J'Irai Comme Un Cheval Fou - Arrabal
Photography - Zolnay
The Spook Who Sat By The Door

[Lencho of the Apes]

What a coincidence -- I started the 1973 game with the psychedelic mountain man movie too. I had only three unseen movies from 1973 on my drive, so it was either that, Don't Look In The Basement or The Werewolf Of Washington.

[rischka]

had to see if i still loved the fate of lee khan and i loved it even more



it's certainly looking better than it did on my yt channel 10 yrs ago

edit: also enjoyed black caesar

[rischka]

ok black caesar was so good i'm having a mini blaxploitation festival with hell up in harlem, coffy and the mack

maybe cleopatra jones too omg shelley winters as a mob boss called mommy



cleo's outfits are the best of not many good parts



thx lencho 4 the inspiration

[Lencho of the Apes]

black caesar

I didn't know anybody actually read these lists! Glad you enjoyed it. (I'm guessing none of the others measured up...)

[rischka]

no, sadly. coffy had pathos at least. much better was a promessa/the vow, cinema novo by antónio de macedo



creepy enough for halloween! and censored by the gov't mainly for it's powerful indictment of religious institutions



a young priest thought he was there to help poor people great claustrophobic atmosphere but cw for a brutal rape scene

[rischka]

watching sensuela and wth???????????????



the colors are wonderful



halloween party !! finns continue to be the strangest dancers



tulio's eternal theme...

[greennui]

It's a shame that it's his only colour film, imagine one of his earlier melodramas in technicolor.

[Angel]

American Graffiti
Charley Varrick
Deux hommes dans la ville (Two Men in Town)
El faham (The Charcoal Burner)
Electra Glide in Blue
Enter the Dragon
Gelin (The Bride)
High Plains Drifter
Les dernières fiançailles (The Last Betrothal)
Les mille et une mains (A Thousand and One Hands)
Mu qin san shi sui (Story of Mother)
Nunta de piatra (The Stone Wedding)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Sssssss
Tangsir (Tight Spot)
Terminal Island
The Day of the Jackal
The Laughing Policeman
The Legend of Hell House
The MacKintosh Man

HM
Invasion of the Bee Girls

Deliberately excluded (IMDB/LBXD/TSPDT/S&S top 500)
Amarcord
Badlands
Don't Look Now
El espíritu de la colmena
F for Fake
La maman et la putain
La montaña sagrada
La nuit américaine
Mean Streets
Paper Moon
Papillon
Scener ur ett äktenskap
The Exorcist
The Long Goodbye
The Sting
The Wicker Man
Touki Bouki

Wanted
Tangna