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Merkel is a bit like Hillary Clinton. We're glad we don't have Trump. But that's about all there is to like about her.

Elegy is surprisingly good short (watched Sinbad several years ago and didn't like it) and will make my list

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aeKzOCWVeM


watched so little for this poll and there are so many movies(almost 30+) to catch but unfortunately gonna be able to see 2 or 3 more, I think...

trying to watch the gosho -- beautifully shot most depressing film ever made?

Final list:

1. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Martin Ritt)

For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie)
Thunderball (Terence Young)
How to Murder Your Wife (Richard Quine)

ok that was harrowing. it's very atmospheric. different mood than most gosho i've seen. full on melodrama of a young woman with the worst possible luck. the soundtrack is insistent and spooky. the power of superstition used to subjugate women is a tragedy for the ages and this is one of the more depressing films i've seen





and like eve she takes the fall. i can't vote for it. it's a prime example of the women's suffrage genre and even sally gave it 2.5 stars. it is quite compelling. i could not turn it off tho i often wanted to. gosho is one of my favorite japanese directors

Just for the hell of it, here's a little thing I found this morning. It's kinda charming.

El Bombero Esta Triste Y Llora/The Fireman Is Sad And He's Crying - Pablo Szir, Lita Stantic, Argentina 1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho534FgBZmU&t=30s

Finishing up my 1965 viewing with three of the year's Beach Party-themed movies.

(1) Beach Blanket Bingo — Buster Keaton appears in this one, decked out in his get-up for The Railrodder. Somehow both lousy and endearing.
(2) Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine — Exactly what I'd always hoped it would be: Sixties time capsule delight, with perhaps Vincent Price's most Vincent Price-y performance. Serious question: is this a joke fantasy analogy for James H. Nicholson (Dr. Goldfoot) and Samuel Z. Arkoff (Igor) running American International Pictures as a bikini movie machine?
(3) The Beach Girls and the Monster — Cheapie mash-up of beach party movies and creature features, directed by and starring Jon Hall. Not recommended, though the creature design is endearing enough.

My final votes, ten favourites from groovy '65:

1. I Saw What You Did (William Castle)
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (Norman Taurog)
A Pistol for Ringo (Duccio Tessari)
Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava)
The Railrodder (Buster Keaton)
Water Sark (Joyce Wieland)
Winter Kept Us Warm (David Secter)
I Knew Her Well (Antonio Pietrangeli)
Now! (Santiago Alvarez)
Beach Blanket Bingo (William Asher)

The Debussy Film
Subarnarekha
Yoyo
Guide
Fort Graveyard
Le Bonheur
Not Reconciled
The Ashes
Chemmeen
Chimes at Midnight
The Loved One
Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors
I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are!
The Collector
Story of a Prostitute
The Koumiko Mystery
Morituri
Catch Us If You Can/Having a Wild Weekend
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Who Killed Teddy Bear?

Final list I guess, but deeply unsatisfying for all that I had to leave out which should have gotten slots. Oh well, maybe we'll hit this year again someday and I can switch some choices.

final

Chimes at Midnight
Le Bonheur
Seisaku's Wife
The Saragossa Manuscript
A Fugitive from the Past
The Hand
Yoyo
White Mountains
The War Game
Red Beard
The Seaside Village
Elegy

kind of a toss-up here, any of the top five could get my vote for best of the year.

a story written with water (yoshida)
le bonheur (varda)
the golden thread (ghatak)
shadows of forgotten ancestors (parajanov)
the enchanted isles (vilardebó)
seisaku's wife (masumura)
the war game (watkins)
the white lady (podskalsky)
a spring for the thirsty (ilyenko)
now! (álvarez)
the heights of cumanday (samper/witlin)
clay (mangiameli)
a high wind in jamaica (mackendrick)
chronicle of a boy alone (favio)
i knew her well (pietrangeli)
life goes on (fernán gómez)
white mountains (ubukeyev)
fists in the pocket (bellocchio)
simón of the desert (buñuel)
the deceased (hirszman)


watched:
film (schneider)
an innocent witch (gosho)

guide (anand)
yoyo (etaix)
forest of the hanged (ciulei)
the war game (watkins)
le bonheur (varda)
my way home (jancso)
white mountains (ubukeyev)
viento negro (gonzalez)
a fugitive from the past (uchida)
the saragossa manuscript (has)
seashore village (kim)
tattooed life (suzuki)
planet of the vampires (bava)
tri (petrovic)
the fool killer (gonzalez)
a high wind in jamaica (mackendrick)
subarnarekha (ghatak)
the white lady (podskalsky)
fort graveyard (okamoto)
karla (zschoche)

final list i believe. yoyo in quite a few lists now and guide in not enough. what a great year

The Blizzard (Basov)

The 317th Platoon (Schoendoerffer)
Doctor Zhivago (Lean)
For a Few Dollars More (Leone)
Fort Graveyard (Okamoto)
A Fugitive from the Past (Uchida)
The Golden Thread (Ghatak)
A High Wind in Jamaica (Mackendrick)
I Am Twenty (Khutsiev)
I Knew Her Well (Pietrangeli)
In Harm's Way (Preminger)
An Innocent Witch (Gosho)
Life Goes On (Fernan Gomez)
Loves of a Blonde (Forman)
Major Dundee (Peckinpah)
The Money Trap (Kennedy)
Red Line 7000 (Hawks)
The Sons of Katie Elder (Hathaway)
Sword of the Beast (Gosha)
Young Cassidy (Cardiff, Ford)

Several of these films were released some years after being shot so let me add, if necessary, Masumura's Seisaku's Wife, Suzuki's Tattooed Life and Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

1. Le Bonheur (Varda)

Fists in the Pocket (Bellocchio)
Noviciat (Burch)
Yoyo (Etaix)
Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini)
Subarnarekha (Ghatak)
Pierrot le Fou (Godard)
The Brick and the Miror (Golestan)
Rapture (Guillermin)
A Spring for the Thirsty (Ilyenko)
The Shop on Main Street (Kadar and Klos)
Red Beard (Kurosawa)
Oh Dem Watermelons (Nelson)
I Knew Her Well (Pietrangeli)
The Coward (Ray)
Film (Schneider)
Story of a Prostitute (Suzuki)
The Hand (Trnka)
The Ashes (Wajda)
The War Game (Watkins)

all these films are way too noisy


echoes of silence - goldman
bílá paní - podskalský
the first teacher - konchalovsky
white mountains - ubukeyev
a spring for the thirsty - ilyenko
docking the boat - danielsson
intimate lighting - passer
man is not a bird - makavejev
not reconciled - straub
yoyo - etaix
organ - uher
khasani-arobakash - kimyagarov
a portrait of the artist as filipino - avellana
my way home -jancsó
three - petrović
nobody wanted to die - žalakevičius
la vieille dame indigne - allio
the rabbit is me - maetzig
seaside village - kim
rysopis - skolimowski

Yay! Always happy to see you back Magpies, even it if is just for some damned talkies.

Very tough to choose just twenty, but I'm gonna cut some fine flickers that'll get plenty of votes anyway (Red Beard, The Saragossa Manuscript, A Blonde in Love, The Shop on Main Street, The Coward, Forest of the Hanged) to fit in a few excellent obscurities:

A Fugitive from the Past (Uchida Tomu)

With Beauty and Sorrow (Shinoda Masahiro)
Ilych's Gate aka I Am Twenty (Marlen Khutsiev)
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (Zbynek Brynych)
The Brick and the Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan)
Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer)
The First Teacher (Andrei Konchalovsky)
Three (Aleksandar Petrović)
Tokyo Olympiad (Ichikawa Kon)
Age of Illusions (István Szabó)
Time, Forward! (Sofiya Milkina, Mikhail Shvejtser)
White Mountains (Melis Ubukeyev)
Ordinary Fascism aka Triumph over Violence (Mikhail Romm)
Long Live the Republic! (Karel Kachyňa)
Torrid Noon (Zako Heskiya)
Before Tonight Is Over (Peter Solan)
Alpine Ballad (Boris Stepanov) (thanks for the subs, Mario!)
The Blizzard (Vladimir Basov)
The 317th Platoon (Pierre Schoendoerffer)
Days of Temptation (Branko Gapo)

Oh, damn!
Oh, damn!
Oh, damn!
Oh, damn!
Oh, damn!

Averty's version of Ubu Roi is 1965, and I totally slept on it. I can't allow myself not to watch that before deadline!

Final.

1. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)

The Debussy Film (Ken Russell)
Noviviat (Noël Burch)
The Party’s Over (Guy Hamilton)
Always on Sunday (Ken Russell)
Seisaku's Wife (Yasuzô Masumura)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger)
The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger)
The Seaside Village (Kim Soo-yong)
The War Game (Peter Watkins)
The Hand (Jirí Trnka)
Quixote (Bruce Baillie)
Docking the Boat (Tage Danielsson)

I caught Suzuki's Born Under a Bad Star and most of Kei Kumai's The Japanese Archipeligo. The former is utterly bland and weak - well shot, but too many overtly childish jokes with little to make up for it. The latter is just ... essentially pathetic. Kumai's second film. His next The Sands of Kurobe is a decent, but bland big production. I suppose he was still far from finding his footing when he went to handle this awfully written US military focused story. Some decent visuals is its only saving grace.

Yikes, what a year. Forty titles in my first cut; I don't think I've ever had to play strategy as hard as this before. Twenty salmon for a rehearsal:

A Spring For The Thirsty - Ilyenko

Akuto / The Conquest - Shindo
The Brick and the Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan)
Cronica de un nino solo / Chronicle of a Boy Alone - Leonardo Favio
La donna del lago / Lady of the Lake (Luigi Bazzoni & Franco Rossellini)
Oi Ehthroi - Dinos Dimopoulos
La Formula Secreta -
Fort Graveyard
Guide -
Heitai yakuza / Hoodlum Soldier (1965, Yasuz� Masumura)
The Hyperboloid Of Engineer Garin - Aleksandr Gintsburg
I Knew Her Well (Pietrangeli)
Kabe No Naka No Himegoto /Affairs Behind Walls - Wakamatsu
Fists in the Pocket (Bellocchio)
Quixote (Bruce Baillie)
The Seaside Village -
Sevmek Zamanı [Time to Love] - Metin Erksan
Shunpu den / Story of a Prostitute (1965, Seijun Suzuki)
Thomas L'Imposteur - Franju
Ubu Roi

Poll ends in about 4 hours.

yay enough time to watch enchanted isles

A lot of Not Reconciled went wrrrrrrt - straight over my head - but I'll read up about it in depth and have it explained to me in detail, and then I'll notice stuff I missed and realize how amazing it actually was (no doubt).

Ah, I got a spring for the thirsty from some ad in a magazine through the post in the days before downloading, one of the first 'beyond what the shops sell' movies I ever got. And was completely blown away with. Will always be fond of it.

dammit i'm only halfway through



but ok

Have that one lined up as well. Luckily/unluckily it just got subbed, so wouldn't have much of a chance. Better luck in 7-13 years I suppose. Let us know what you think all the same though.

(it was subbed by two of our forum members here they could have hurried it a bit) JK THX UGUYS

it's totally dreamy and the perfect thing for a hot afternoon

Ooooh! (And I didn't know that!)