1987 Poll 2.0

[rischka]

adding my girlfriend's boyfriend

[rischka]

the wife of an important man d. mohamed khan. a fascist police officer can't deal when he's stripped of his office. his long suffering wife is too naive -- when he allows her to resume her college she tells him about all the radical students in a quite lighthearted manner! only to be shunned as an informer... when she leaves him he threatens her family and neighbors until she's 'returned.' *sigh* ofc it ends in the worst possible way. certainly echoes creeping authoritarianism in our own country and the very real possibility that manufacturing evidence could become ordinary police business! but everything seems political to me now lol

[Angel]

Ansuyeh Atash (Beyond the Fire)
Chau tin dik tung wa (An Autumn's Tale)
Clandestinos (Living Dangerously)
Dao cao ren (Strawman)
El bosque animado (The Enchanted Forest)
Five Corners
Fu rong zhen (Hibiscus Town)
Good Morning, Vietnam
Ground Zero
L'ami de mon amie (Boyfriends and Girlfriends)
Lethal Weapon
Lung foo fung wan (City on Fire)
Macu, la mujer del policía (Macu, the Policeman's Woman)
Marusa no onna (A Taxing Woman)
Near Dark
No Way Out
Street Smart
The Kitchen Toto
The Untouchables
Urs al-jalil (Wedding in Galilee)
...
Mirch Masala ('86 on IMDb)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/Lbxd/S&S/TSPDT top 500)
Au revoir les enfants
Broadcast News
Der Himmel über Berlin
Evil Dead II
Full Metal Jacket
Khane-ye doust kodjast?
Nayakan
Robocop
The Dead
The Princess Bride
Withnail & I
Yeelen

[Jürka]

Images of the Unconscious (Leon Hirszman, 1987)
→ https://letterboxd.com/film/images-of-the-unconscious/

documentary about the institution called “Museum of Images of the Unconscious”
→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of ... nconscious

it is a trilogy.
each segment focuses on a specific person.
so far, i watched the first part called “Fernando Diniz: In Search of Everyday Space”

Fernando Diniz (1918, Aratu, Bahia - 1999, Rio de Janeiro, RJ)


voiceover is slightly ghastly — rooted in some weird petty-bourgeois art theory that is terrified by “chaos” and feels relief when “chaos” transforms into something familiar (a basket full of cherries) ...






... but all the presented paintings (moving freely (back and forth (& vice versa)) between “realistic”, “abstract”, and “surreal”) are wonderful.

[Jürka]

If the Sun Never Returns (Claude Goretta)

The residents of a remote Swiss mountain village come to believe an ancient oracle in this drama taken from the novel by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz.


With news of the Spanish Civil War on the radio, the people begin to believe the sun will not return and the world will be forever darkened.

[Jürka]

it's happening that this poll viewing goes straight to my poll ballot

Professor Taranne (Raúl Ruiz)

→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Adamov

The title character of one of his [Adamov’s] best known works, Le Professeur Taranne (1953), is accused of various things (public nudity, littering, plagiarism), all of which he strenuously denies, only to have his denials turned against him into more evidence of misdemeanours. This particular play was directly influenced by a dream Adamov had.

[sally]

final ballot

the ants - rosemarie blank
valtos - patrick keillor
landscape (for manon) - peter hutton
keep in touch - jean-claude rousseau
the death of empedocles - jean-marie straub, danièle huillet
the black tower - john smith
where is the friend's house? - abbas kiarostami
strawman - wang tung
under the sun of satan - maurice pialat
spaceballs - mel brooks
professor taranne - raúl ruiz
the blind owl - raúl ruiz
morning patrol - nikos nikolaidis
rita, sue & bob too - alan clarke
the last of england - derek jarman
assa - sergey solovyov
the jester - josé álvaro morais
pushpaka vimana - singeetam srinivasa rao
captain khorshid - nasser taghvai
from the pole to the equator - yervant gianikian, angela ricci lucchi

[ofrene]

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Magino Village: A Tale
Where Is the Friend’s House?
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On

Blind Chance
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Road
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

Christine
City on Fire
Evil Dead II
Matewan

Au Revoir les Enfants
Broadcast News
Prince of Darkness
The Man with Three Coffins

The Dead
King of the Children
RoboCop
Under the Sun of Satan

[karl]

King of the Children is somehow 1988 now. Good ole Imdb! Well, off it goes, and in its place I'll put the Chinese film no one's seen, for a total of two lady Chinese directors for the year - surely a record for the top twenty. And if the mysterious "U Lan," co-director of Girl from Hunan is a lady (I've been unable to verify the sex of this person or even if he/she exists - Xie Fei is the only listed director in the credits) that'd make an even more remarkable trio of Chinese lady directors. I didn't get around to the big Chinese movies of the year, Hibiscus Town and Old Well. Next time.

Happy New Year, champers.



Under the Sun of Satan (Pialat)
Mother of Kings (Zaorski)
Where Is the Friend's Home? (Kiarostami)
Monologue (Gopalakrishnan)

Wedding in Galilee (Khleifi)
A Little Bit of Soul (Kenović)
A Tale from the Past (Anagnosti)
Woman Demon Human (Huang)

Garden of Desires (Khamraev)
The Last Judgment (Frank)
The Elephant Keeper (Yukol)
The Spy (Balayan)

Tomorrow Was the War (Kara)
A Girl from Hunan (Xie & U)
A Woman Alone (Holland)
A Forgotten Tune for the Flute (Ryazanov)

Housekeeping (Forsyth)
Yeelen (Cissé)
The Stranger (Barmak)
Far from War (Hu)

[Jürka]

https://kinometer.com/?list=550

Professor Taranne (Raúl Ruiz, 1987, 52m)
Pictures From the Unconscious (Leon Hirszman, 1987, 204m)
The Blind Owl (Raúl Ruiz, 1987, 90m)
The Black Tower (John Smith, 1987, 23m)
The Fat Corner (Michael Bielický, Ricardo Peredo, 1987, 35m)
Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song (Nick Deocampo, 1987, 85m)
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Éric Rohmer, 1987, 103m)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Éric Rohmer, 1987, 95m)
Thames Film (William Raban, 1987, 66m)
Valtos or the Veil (Patrick Keiller, 1987, 11m)

A Flame in My Heart (Alain Tanner, 1987, 106m)
Wolf's Hole (Věra Chytilová, 1987, 92m)
Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (Alan Clarke, 1987, 93m)
If the Sun Never Returns (Claude Goretta, 1987, 112m)
Thundering Scream of the Seraphim's Delight (Reynold Weidenaar, 1987, 14m)
I Have Been Very Pleased (Mara Mattuschka, 1987, 2m)
Caesarean Section (Mara Mattuschka, 1987, 4m)
Usinimage (Ulrike Ottinger, 1987, 11m)
Light Years (Gunvor Nelson, 1987, 28m)
Hide and Seek (Moira Sweeney, 1987, 15m)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Final

The Blind Owl - Ruiz
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On - Hara
Evil Dead 2 - Raimi
The Red Spectacles - Oshii
Walker - Cox

Anantaram - Gopalakrishnan
Morning Patrol - Nikolaidis
A Return To Salem's Lot - Cohen
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story - Haynes
Wings Of Desire - Wenders

China Girl - Ferrari
Lo Que Importa Es Vivir - Alcoriza
Prince Of Darkness - Carpenter
Thaniyarvarthanam - Malayil
Thoovanathumbikal - Padmarajan

Birds Of Prey - Cardona Jr
Destino Clandestino - Hermosillo
King Lear - GodardRouge - Kwan
Wedding In Galilee - Khliefi
Where Is The Friend's House - Kiarostami

[Silga]

Final list:

The Dead (John Huston)
Radio Days (Woody Allen)
Angel Heart (Alan Parker)
House of Games (David Mamet)
The Whales of August (Lindsay Anderson)

September (Woody Allen)
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
The Witches of Eastwick (George Miller)
Predator (John McTiernan)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (John Hughes)

RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
Raising Arizona (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner)
Wall Street (Oliver Stone)
Suspect (Peter Yates)

Hope and Glory (John Boorman)
The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher)
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)