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'Boxcar’ Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early ‘30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man ’Big’ Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment. Based on “Sister of the Road,” the 1937 pseudo-autobiography of fictional character Bertha Thompson, written by anarchist physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman.

k i have to watch this now. Edit: think its really bad but it might be David Carradine creeping me out. Edit edit: no. It's really bad

Pointilly (Adolfo Arrieta) - Francoise Lebrun! Not sure about the film tho.

1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. The Night Stalker (John Llewellyn Moxey)
3. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
4. The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah)
5. Boxcar Bertha (Martin Scorsese)
6. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
7. Solaris (Andrey Tarkovskiy)
8. The Seduction of Mimi (Lina Wertmüller)
9. Spend It All (Les Blank)
10. The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven)
11. Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack)
12. Bad Company (Robert Benton)
13. The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell)
14. Sisters (Brian De Palma)
15. 1776 (Peter H. Hunt)
16. Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill)
17. The Demon (Kihachiro Kawamoto)
18. We Won't Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)
19. Blacula (William Crain)
20. The Canterbury Tales (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

A zori zdes tikhie (The Dawns Here Are Quiet)
Ai nu (Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan)
Al-makhdu'un (The Dupes)
Bas ya Bahar (The Cruel Sea)
Frenzy
Il caso Mattei (The Mattei Affair)
Le avventure di Pinocchio (The Adventures of Pinocchio)
Milano calibro 9 (Caliber 9)
Nevestka (Daughter-in-Law)
Play It Again, Sam
Qiu jue (Execution in Autumn)
Sambizanga
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Carey Treatment
The Getaway
The Poseidon Adventure
Tian xia di yi quan (5 Fingers of Death)
Un flic (Dirty Money)
Un homme est mort (The Outside Man)
What's Up, Doc?

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500)
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
Cabaret
Der Tod der Maria Malibran
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Roma
Sleuth
Solyaris
The Godfather
Ultimo tango a Parigi
Viskningar och rop

To see before the deadline
Al-fahd

Wanted
Bronte: cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno raccontato
Ivanov kater

the most breathtaking/miraculous story of 1972 was not yet told in this thread!

while aimlessly browsing the films that i watched in the past, coincidentally, i stumbled upon a film called WHERE DID THE STEWARDESS FALL FROM? (Adéla Babanová, 2014) → https://www.kinometer.com/?id=211393&menu=film

it (in a purposefully twisted way — as Adéla Babanová usually does related to the weird/odd stories of the Czechoslovak past — this is her charming oeuvre → https://www.kinometer.com/?director=225 ... ear-latest ) retold the incident of January 26th 1972 when a lady fell on earth (on Czechoslovakia specifically) from heaven (from about 33330 ft/10160 meters)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
Vesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 m (33,330 ft; 6.31 mi).

https://youtu.be/e6gvaqL-SOg

An Air Stewardess Fell 33,000 Feet And Lived To Tell The Tale 50 Years Ago Today
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4 ... -ago-today

Vesna Vulovic, stewardess who survived 33,000ft fall, dies
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38427411

How A Stewardess Survived a 10,000-Metre Fall
https://historyofyesterday.com/how-a-st ... 4c96bbffdd

etc., etc., etc.

i must admit that a detail that i least understand about this whole story is why recovering Vesna was posing in a Prague hospital with the puppet of Schweik?!? truly weird/odd (beyond the grasp)!!!

seduction 1972 style...

Two little doggies wanted to cross the little river.
They didn't know how so.
They made a little footbridge.
But it was bad.
So two little doggies had a bath!
Si-bom, si-bom, la-la, la-la-la-la.
Si-bom, si-bom, la-la, la-la-la-la.

Two little doggies went to a shop.
They didn't know they don't like pate.
And the shopkeeper gave them two pates!
Si-bom, si-bom, la-la, la-la-la-la.
Si-bom, si-bom, la-la, la-la-la-la.

Two little doggies went to a meadow.
And found there a red ladybird.
And she has a lot of black dots!
Si-bom, si-bom, la-la, la-la-la-la.
Si-bom, si-bom, la-la, la-la-la-la.

Marriageable Girls (Janusz Kondratiuk, 1972, 45m)
https://youtu.be/30d2NiNeozo?t=2156

Yikes, P. Ramlee got really fat toward the end of his career.

felt like a soviet war picture so i'm watching 'the dawns here are quiet' -- don't know that it will make my ballot but i'm enjoying the b&w vs stylized color segments

https://twitter.com/rbgscfz/status/1495 ... QJ2COPBqLg

loving 8 hours don't make a day. thx rasmus! sure to become one of my very favorite fassbinders ♥

Finished it last night. Much yippee. Thanks, green. I have to wonder, though, if "familienserie" is an identifiable genre with its own conventions...

Maaad that such a great work by a famous director wallowed in obscurity for so many years.

Does anybody know what that video Karl posted is? Google translate says "video of the barrage" and I can't find any Arabic or Persian movie called The Barrage.

My internet is so pants at the minute I can't check but am guessing it's downpour?

Final list

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Fat City (John Huston)
Pete 'n' Tillie (Martin Ritt)

Ulzana's Raid (Robert Aldrich)
The Hot Rock (Peter Yates)
Chato's Land (Michael Winner)
Refrain (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (Woody Allen)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (Woody Allen)
Norman Rockwell's World... An American Dream (Robert Deubel)
Tup Tup (Nedeljko Dragic, Aldo Raparelli)

Somebody Waiting (Hal Riney, Dick Snider)
Solo (Mike Hoover)
Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (Yves Robert)

Oi, Sally, you're almost certainly right! I already have that one from elsewhere, so I guess I'll delete the second copy. T'anks.

yes it's downpour. good movie! proto-new wave

the lost letter (boris ivchenko)

WONDERFUL MOVIE

Across 110th Street (Shear)
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Comencini)
Dirty Money (Melville)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel)
Eight Deadly Shots (Niskanen)
Fat City (Huston)
Frenzy (Hitchcock)
The Godfather (Coppola)
Indian Summer (Zurlini)
Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer)

Avanti! (Wilder)
The Carey Treatment (Edwards)
Don't Torture a Duckling (Fulci)
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Newman)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Misumi)
The New Centurions (Fleischer)
Ruslan and Ludmila (Ptushko)
Sleuth (Mankiewicz)
Ulzana's Raid (Aldrich)
We Won't Grow Old Together (Pialat)

but shouldn't we strike all russian films from our lists as a show of solidarity to the ukrainians? i know what i can do at least.


the lost letter (ivchenko) (take THAT, volodya!)
letter from the wife (patri)
the goalie's anxiety at the penalty kick (wenders)
a cuban fight against demons (gutiérrez alea)

the true nature of bernadette (carle)
pearl in the crown (kutz)
home from the sea (yamada)
marriageable girls (kondratiuk)

pictures of the old world (hanák)
slap the monster on page one (bellocchio)
field lillies (havetta)
her third (günther)

the station master (solovyov)
monologue (averbakh)
psychodrama (piwowski)
the goat horn (andonov)

downpour (beizai)
mirage (robles godoy)
to kill this love (morgenstern)
enough praying (francia)

now back to the so-called news...

Goodbye CP
Solaris
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
The Godfather

Betty Tells Her Story
Fat City
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
The Heartbreak Kid

4 O’Clock, 1950
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
S. Bernardo
The New Land

Cabaret
Past and Present
Morgiana
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Cries and Whispers
Hotel Monterey
Nathalie Granger
Pictures of the Old World

still lots of movies are on watchlist but magnificent year already

goodbye CP
the lost letter (Героям слава!)
eight hours don't make a day
death of maria malibran

age of the medici
history lessons
love in the afternoon
reminiscences of a journey to lithuania

savage messiah
the bitter tears of petra von kant
my childhood
we won't grow old together

s. bernardo
a bee in the rain
the merchant of four seasons
pictures of the old world

hotel monterey
maya darpan
inca light
the goat horn

Finally final, unless I have time to tinker:

Mecanica Nacional - Alcoriza
Female Pisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 - Shunya Ita
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Aguirre The Wrath Of God - Herzog
The Other Side Of The Underneath - Jane Arden

The Bitter Tears f Petra Von Kant - Fassbinder
Jack's Wife - Romero
Roma
Cries And Whispers - Bergman
Don't Play Us Cheap - Melvin Van Peebles

Espejismo - Armando Robles godoy
Uta / Poem (1972, Akio Jissoji)
le Sang - J D Pollet
Ecstacy Of The Angels - Wakamatsu
Fat City - Huston

Paginas Del Diario De Jose Marti - J. Massip
Love In The Afternoon - Rohmer
Agostino D'Ippona
Avanti - Wilder
Bone - Larry Cohen

Pocket Money
The King of Marvin Gardens
Blaise Pascal
Aguirre the Wrath of God

Love in the Afternoon
Pakeezah
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Sambizanga

Bone
Street Mobster
The Candidate
Solaris

St. Michael Had a Rooster
The Harder They Come
The Pollen of Flowers
Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Avanti!
Zatoichi in Desperation
Savage Messiah
Hammersmith Is Out

If I'm not too late...

Cabaret
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Cries and Whispers
Aguirre: The Wrath of God

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
LA Plays Itself
Solaris
Red Psalm

The Godfather
Last Tango in Paris
Deliverance
Fat City

Pink Flamingos
Frenzy
Sleuth
The Poseidon Adventure

Daydreams from a Crosstown Bus
The Harder They Come
The Heartbreak Kid
Super Fly

I'll get this tallied over the next two days. Apologies for delay. Work moved back in person, but things should settle down into a routine again going forward.

Renewed apologies that it took so long to get this tallied. I'll do my best to make sure that never happens again.

Results

1. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant / 35
2. Solaris / 34
3. Aguirre, the Wrath of God / 32
4. The Godfather / 29
5. Fat City / 22
6. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise / 21.5
7. Love in the Afternoon / 20.5
8. Cries and Whispers / 18
9. We Won't Grow Old Together / 15.5
10. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick / 14
— Pictures of the Old World 14

12. Eight Hours Don't Make a Day / 13.5
— The Other Side of the Underneath 13.5
14. The Lost Letter / 13
— Ulzana's Raid 13
16. Frenzy / 12.5
17. The Mattei Affair / 11.5
— Cabaret / 11.5
19. What's Up, Doc? 10.5
20. Pink Flamingos 10
— Goodbye CP 10

22. The Death of Maria Malibran / 9
— The King of Marvin Gardens / 9
— P Like Pelican / 9
— A Cuban Fight Against Demons / 9
26. Sisters / 8.5
— The Getaway / 8.5
28. Maya Darpan / 8
— S. Bernardo / 8
— Marriageable Girls / 8
— Betty Tells Her Story / 8
— Un flic / 8
— Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania / 8

34. Avanti / 7.5
— Last Tango in Paris / 7.5
— Winter Soldier / 7
— Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice / 7
— Nathalie Granger / 7
— History Lessons / 7
— The Age of the Medici / 7
— Sleuth 7
— The Adventures of Pinocchio / 7
— Sambizanga / 7

44. Deliverance / 6.5
— Red Psalm / 6.5
— LA Plays Itself / 6
— The Inner Scar / 6
— Savage Messiah / 6
— My Childhood / 6
— The Goat Horn / 6
— The Poseidon Adventure / 6
— Slaughterhouse-Five / 6
— The Harder They Come / 6

54. A Bee in the Rain / 5
— Play It as it Lays / 5
— The Canterbury Tales / 5
— Her Third / 5
— The Delightful Forest / 5
— Motforestilling / 5
— The Carey Treatment / 5
— Letter from the Wife / 5
— The Heartbreak Kid / 5
— Pocket Money / 5
— Blaise Pascal / 5

Point of comparison: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/the_aut ... html#p9048

Oh, and total ballots: 17; total films voted for: 192.