SCFZ

will do! will let you know if i still need more time, as the deadline approaches

perinbaba - absolute gem! feels like ōbayashi... but just a tad more, err, slovak. and i can see a liiiiiiiittle fellini influence in this one... from the music to the circus scenes, and right down to stealing his wife for the titular role

I could use an extra 20 hours or so.

Birdies, Orphans, and Fools - absolute trash, vile, vapid, irredeemable. everything i hate about 60s new wave nonsense

Waiting for Godot - fine

The Drummer for the Red Cross





WOWEE!!! Every second of B + O + F, his most famous flick: total tedium and 'why am I watching this'. every two seconds of this: mesmerising, beseeching, piercing, vivid! My kind of kinema! If more short movies were like this, I wouldn't be giving them all 0.5/5! Shocked and delighted by how fantastic this bizarre little thing was. Makes me like movies again

john ryan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 6:39 pm I could use an extra 20 hours or so.

i think i'll leave this open until tuesday, so no rush, and i'll start the next poll then too. we're still settling on a name, hard to find widely seen directors to poll after doing 200+ of these!

The Drummer for the Red Cross (Juraj Jakubisko, 1977)
The Feather Fairy (Juraj Jakubisko, 1985)
The Prime of Life (Juraj Jakubisko, 1967)

Seen 5

i watched one more jakubisko film so we could get to a top ten without a runoff vote:

results

1. Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969) -- 14 pts
2. The Feather Fairy (1985) -- 11 pts
3. The Prime of Life (1967) -- 9 pts
3. The Millennial Bee (1983) -- 9 pts
5. It's Better to be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill (1992) -- 7 pts
6. The Deserter and the Nomads (1968) -- 4 pts
6. The Drummer for the Red Cross (1977) -- 4 pts
8. See You in Hell, Friends (1970) -- 3 pts
8. Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989) -- 3 pts
10. An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World (1997) -- 1 pt

An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World?

Holymanm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 11:31 pm Birdies, Orphans, and Fools - absolute trash, vile, vapid, irredeemable. everything i hate about 60s new wave nonsense

Waiting for Godot - fine

The Drummer for the Red Cross





WOWEE!!! Every second of B + O + F, his most famous flick: total tedium and 'why am I watching this'. every two seconds of this: mesmerising, beseeching, piercing, vivid! My kind of kinema! If more short movies were like this, I wouldn't be giving them all 0.5/5! Shocked and delighted by how fantastic this bizarre little thing was. Makes me like movies again

It's funny, that one of the things I love the most about new wave cinema, but many do have that reaction.

I have pretty much the same reaction to shorts as you, so I rarely seek them out, including The Drummer for the Red Cross, but thanks to you I finally saw it, and yes, great stuff!

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:52 pm An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World?

i don't understand what you're asking?

flip wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:51 pm i watched one more jakubisko film so we could get to a top ten without a runoff vote:

An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World?

oh i see! i thought you were maybe questioning my taste. no, i watched the short film, the drummer for the red cross, i saw ambiguous report a few months ago. i didn't think too highly of it (i hated all the dissolve transitions), but there's some poetry to it. only nine jakubisko films got votes so i figured it deserved a place at the end of the list.

up at letterboxd:

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... -poll-202/