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watched the most sea-based film of 69. cheerfully danish

we are all demons - henning carlsen

despel mespel wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 11:06 am btw., HONOR AND GLORY is gorgeous as well (without Barnumesque exaggeration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)!
it is truly charming to see the local impoverished nobleman, completely sunk in defeatism and indifference who at the end of the Thirty Years War (when the anti-Habsburg cause is definitely lost) collects all the residue of his stamina and rises against oppressors — the absurdity of such an untimely undertaking (starting to fight when the game is lost) is remarkable and i wholeheartedly recommend watching this charming period piece!
btw. the film was banned after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion.

ignore what jiri says, he's an insane native with an over-cranked irony meter, unless you also find hard-to-be-a-god-level grime, and colossal post-invasion outrage charming. this is the angriest czech (and/or post-68) film i think i've seen for 69. hrušínský's last look to camera is total condemnation.


honor & glory - hynek bočan (1969)

THOSE FEW DAYS... (Yves Ciampi, 1969)
also called "A Matter of Days" → https://letterboxd.com/film/a-matter-of-days/watch/

"May 68" falls in love with "Prague Spring"
an obscure Czech-French co-production....

https://www.filmovyprehled.cz/en/film/3 ... e-few-days

summary
Born of a collaboration between Czech and French filmmakers, this feature film was severally affected by the dramatic changes in the political situation that occurred before and after the Warsaw Pact invasion of August 1968. The crushing of the Prague Spring political liberation meant Yves Ciampi’s film was barred from distribution to cinemas in Czechoslovakia. The protagonist of Těch několik dnů… (1968) is Frenchwoman Francoise, who experiences a love affair while studying sociology in Prague. Francoise had married shortly before she left for her studies, but she tries to break the bonds with her French partner. The love triangle, however, is affected by the political turmoil of 1968 and emotional alienation… The leading parts in the film – which offers an interesting insight into its contemporary era – are portrayed by Thalie Frugés and Vít Olmer.

synopsis
It is the last day of 1968. Young Parisienne Françoise toasts her reflection in a mirror. Sitting alone, she returns to Prague in her memories. As a student of sociology, she received a scholarship to work on her dissertation in East European countries. She arrived in Prague at the beginning of November 1967. On the very first day, she met young handsome Professor Pavel Kučera, who lectured in French literature at the Philosophical Faculty. From the first moment, the two people felt very close to each other and finally fell in love. However, just before her departure for Prague, Françoise had married Jean-Louis in France. She left to see him on Christmas to ask for a divorce. Although their marriage was not very serious, the husband does not want to give up his wife. When the young woman returns to Prague, her relationship begins to be influenced by the political activities of the Prague Spring, with Pavel being one of the main actors of the students' protests. Françoise, too, used to be a devoted activist of similar riots some time ago in Paris, but everything ended in disillusionment for her. Pavel does not have enough time for her and they gradually cease to understand each other. Jean-Louis eventually calls her and agrees to the divorce. Although Françoise still loves Pavel, she refuses to give up her newly acquired freedom. She leaves Prague in June 1968, aware that she would never return to him.

- I'm in favor of a strike, but it has to have a purpose.


- You babbling moron, let's kick it off and see what's next.

lawale - dore o.


oh........love this too..... will be trying to squeeze 40 into a final 20 ballot

https://kinometer.com/?list=516

Honor and Glory (Hynek Bočan, 1969, 87m)
The Apple (Michel Soutter, 1969, 98m)
Adelheid (František Vláčil, 1969, 99m)
Antonio das Mortes (Glauber Rocha, 1969, 100m)
A Ridiculous Gentleman (Karel Kachyňa, 1969, 81m)
The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969, 95m)
Paul (Diourka Medveczky, 1969, 92m)
Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969, 88m)
The Gallows–Tree (Dušan Trančík, 1969, 35m)
The Uninvited Guest (Vlastimil Venclík, 1969, 22m)

Fruit of Paradise (Věra Chytilová, 1969, 99m)
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (Peter Fleischmann, 1969, 88m)
The Joke (Jaromil Jireš, 1969, 80m)
Enough! (Ugo Ulive, 1969, 21m)
Akhtamar (Ernest Martirosyan, Sebouh Sargsyan, 1969, 18m)
All My Compatriots (Vojtěch Jasný, 1969, 114m)
Positano (Pierre Clémenti, 1969, 24m)
Metamorpheus (Jiří Brdečka, 1969, 14m)
Quickly (Daniel Pommereulle, 1969, 33m)
Hieroglyphs (Petr Skala, 1969, 4m)

one hell of year

Army of Shadows
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
The Cremator
The Sorrow and the Pity
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Boy
Kes
Pirosmani
Salesman
Z

A Gentle Woman
Law and Order
The Cow
The Night of Counting the Years
The Unfaithful Wife

Double Suicide
Invasion
L’Amour Fou
Midnight Cowboy
The Witness

final ballot:

the color of pomegranates - sergei parajanov
the night of counting the years - shadi abdel salam
sorrows - gregory j. markopoulos
lawale - dore o.
pirosmani - giorgi shengelaia
the dependent - leonardo favio
play dirty - andré de toth
the hungry wolves - yılmaz güney
early works - želimir žilnik
the cow - dariush mehrjui
a walk with love and death - john huston
blood of the condor - jorge sanjinés
we are, our mountains - henrik malyan
the end of a priest - evald schorm
322 - dušan hanák
acts of the apostles - roberto rossellini
the icon stand - todor dinov, christo christov
the lady from constantinople - judit elek
winter - marcel hanoun
honor & glory - hynek bočan

larks on a string
phantom india
nest of gentry
to love...

the icon stand
the toth family
the structure of crystal
goodbye, gyulsary!

the red tent
sparkling winds aka the confrontation
pirosmani
funeral ceremony (sirový)

une femme douce
goyokin
subject for a short story
annychka

dzhamilya
the lady from constantinople
we are our mountains
the upthrown stone

Somebody put Covid in my drink about a week ago, so FlatOnMyAss time kinda ruined that last-minute rush to see everything. (No Mondo Trasho. Sob.)

L'Amour Fou
Antonio Das Mortes
Boy - Oshima
Ma Nuit Chez Maud
Medea - Pasolini

El Chacal De Nahueltoro
The Color Of Pomegranates
Eggshells
My Wealthy mistress - Leonīds Leimanis
The Wild Bunch

The Cremator
Destroy, She Said
Killed The Family And Went To The Movies - Bressane
The Rain People
Model Shop

Burn
Everything For Sale - Wajda
Goyokin
They Shoot Horses Don't They
Venus In Furs

oh no feel better lencho!

Thanks.

I think it's day 7? I'm on the upswing -- 4th day was the worst, progressively better since then. doing airy-fairy meditative stuff to handle the fevers that wouldn't let me sleep.

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2023 9:50 pm progressively better since then

oh, get well soon!

despel mespel wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2023 7:27 pm oh

No worries, Despel! There's even a plus side, though I don't know what the connection could be -- it's like something flicked a 'record' switch in my bran and I'm remembering dreams again, as vividly as ever before. For sure I'm hoping that continues after the disease fades. I'll try to document last night in the appropriate place.

hope you feel better soon lencho!

flip wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 1:08 am soon

Thanks, Flip; I think I'm quite over it now -- sat up till 3 aM last night watching movies. Even smoked a J. Looking at my lb diary i ralized yesterday was in fact D.14 and not 9 or so that i was imagining, so I guess it's all in the past.

greennui wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:50 pm The Wild Pussycat

Wild indeed. I liked how the cat was on the periphery of so many of the sex scenes -- in one scene toward the end, somebody plugged in a vibrator and the zzzt noise made it jump.

No results for this poll.

I'm actually learning how to use to excel for work at the moment so these polls might be a good exercise

Wow, that would be cool, if you could do the tallying that way.

I used Excel when I did them—the hard part was inputting all of the movies and values and making sure that the titles weren't double-counted or I didn't miss anything. You'd get sometimes 200+ movie titles each needing an assigned value. Strained the eyes. Would take 2–3 hours of work, usually, hours I don't really have anymore. I wish there were a better/quicker way, but can't think of one.

i've done all the polls i've done by hand, i tried to use excel once but i think it slowed me down. i can explain how i do it if anyone cares, but i think i could do a year poll in 20-30 minutes if ballots were all formatted the way i want. scanning through this thread, though, it would take me 2-3 hours to do this poll, because i'd have to rewrite most of the ballots first.

Please share! I would def initiate more polls on here if I knew how to easily do them, perhaps more feel the same.

greennui wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 2:27 pm Please share! I would def initiate more polls on here if I knew how to easily do them, perhaps more feel the same.

ok my method is very primitive, it's a lot of copy/paste, i start out with a text doc that looks like this, but with more point totals:

5 pts

4 pts

3 pts

2 pts

1 pt

and then i paste all the ballots at the bottom. then i take the first ballot, say it has four films, Film A, B, C and D in that order, and they get 4-3-2-1 points, i'd copy/paste each title under the right header:

5 pts

4 pts
Film A

3 pts
Film B

2 pts
Film C

1 pt
Film D

then i'd move on to the next ballot, which is maybe Film C, D, E and F in that order. then unless i know where to find it in the list above, i'd go to the top of the document and apple-f to find "Film C", and move it up 4 points, find Film D and move it up 3 points, and add Films E and F to the 2 and 1 point lists, so the doc then looks like

6 pts
Film C

5 pts

4 pts
Film A
Film D

3 pts
Film B

2 pts
Film E

1 pt
Film F

and i just keep doing that until every ballot is added, then i just delete all the "5 pt" and "4 pt" text and i have the ranked list (i just need to type the ranking numbers in front of each title).

in practice, if i was doing a poll with actual titles, if i was adding Tokyo Story say, i wouldn't search for "Tokyo Story", i'd just search for any short fragment that is likely unique, so for "kyo" maybe, or "tok". it helps that i can type fast, the method would be pretty slow otherwise. and the most important thing for me is that ballots are all formatted identically. for one thing, i'm copy/pasting everything from people's ballots, so the way someone types the title is the way it shows up in my list. the list just looks like chaos if everyone types everything differently, like it could look like:

1. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
2. banshun/late spring -- 1953 -- ozu
3. An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Yasujiro Ozu)
4. floating weeds, JAPAN, 1959, yasujiro ozu
5. Good Morning

and if a list of 100 films looks like that, it's barely readable. so when people don't follow the same format, i have to re-type their ballot. but the other thing is, because i'm searching for duplicate fragments of text to find films with multiple votes, i need people to use the most common title for a film (Late Spring, rather than Banshun, say), because otherwise i might search my doc for "banshun", not find it, and think the film only got one vote. and i need people to not use accented characters, because at least in my text program, if i search a document for "Andre", it won't find "André", so i can miss duplicates if some people use accents and others don't.

it definitely is not a fast method for the huge polls, but i doubt any method is (i tried doing one of the hot 100 polls with curtis using a spreadsheet, and for a poll that size it was maybe slightly faster, but it still took forever). but for the smaller polls, i was able to do this very quickly.

Would A.I be able to handle a poll count? Insert all the ballots and then let it do the counting?

interesting idea -- i just ran a test with simple ballots, and at a glance, it looks possible:

me wrote: These are three ballots for a poll of best film. They should be scored so that the first place film gets 5 points, the second place film gets 4 points, and so on. Can you work out how many points each film gets, and list the films in order of most points to least?

1. Tokyo Story
2. Vertigo
3. Stagecoach
4. The Cow
5. The Matrix

1. Bicycle Thieves
2. Vertigo
3. The Searchers
4. Tokyo Story
5. Ikiru

1. The Searchers
2. Tokyo Story
3. Citizen Kane
4. Ikiru
5. Stagecoach

and chatgpt, after explaining its (correct) understanding of the procedure i wanted it to carry out, made the table below, and then listed the films in ranked order as follows:

CHATGPT wrote: Final Ranking (Most to Least Points)

1. Tokyo Story – 11
2. Vertigo – 8
3. The Searchers – 8
4. Bicycle Thieves – 5
5. Stagecoach – 4
6. Ikiru – 3
7. Citizen Kane – 3
8. The Cow – 2
9. The Matrix – 1

i did not confirm if its calculations are right or wrong, was just doing it as fast as possible, if you have a chance to look over chatgpt's work, you could evaluate it

To count and score the film poll, I would need to run code — but since you're not currently logged into ChatGPT with code execution enabled, I can't run it for you here. However, I can give you the code so you can run it yourself in Python (e.g. using Google Colab or a local Python environment):

Here's the Python code to tally the first five ballots according to your rules:

gave this poll a try but it seems one needs to be have a chatgpt account. Have no clue how Python works or coding works.

i'm learning python right now! chatgpt is surprisingly good at writing python code, and if it gave you any code, there are websites that will run code for you (i can give you a link if you need one). and maybe you could ask chatgpt to do things in steps, give it 3 ballots, ask for a tally, then ask it to add three more ballots to that tally. it might not be worth it for the year polls, but i'm tempted to try it if we do another huge poll, like our somewhat annual scfz top 100

Turns out I do have an account, this is the 1969 poll:

Here is the full ranked list of all films based on the 13 ballots, sorted by total score:

Top Ranked Films

The Cremator – 21.5

The Color of Pomegranates – 20.0

Medea – 17.0

Pirosmani – 15.5

The Unfaithful Wife – 15.5

The Toth Family – 12.0

Boy – 11.5

Blood of the Condor – 11.0

They Shoot Horses Don't They – 10.5

Army of Shadows – 9.5

Next Tier (Scores 9.0–8.0)

Antonio das Mortes – 9.0

Dzhamilya – 9.0

Model Shop – 9.0

The Icon Stand – 9.0

The Lady from Constantinople – 9.0

We Are Our Mountains – 9.0

Z – 8.5

Downhill Racer – 8.0

The Milky Way – 8.0

Scores 7.0–6.0

My Night at Maud's – 7.0

The Wild Bunch – 7.0

Kes – 6.5

A Ridiculous Gentleman – 6.0

A Walk with Love and Death – 6.0

Birds Orphans and Fools – 6.0

Goykin / Goyokin – 6.0

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies – 6.0

Larks on a String – 6.0

Lyubit – 6.0

My Night at Mauds – 6.0

The Hungry Wolves – 6.0

Une Femme Douce – 6.0

Valparaiso Mi Amor – 6.0

Scores 5.5 and Below

There are many films in the 5.5–2.0 range (e.g., The Cow, The Passion of Anna, Easy Rider, The Sorrow and the Pity, Salesman, Dillinger is Dead, etc.).

If you'd like, I can provide the full list in a downloadable file or break it down further (e.g., by tiers or regions). Would you like that?

Hard to know if it's correct or not hehe

greennui wrote: ↑Wed May 14, 2025 8:37 pm Hard to know if it's correct or not hehe

i would assume it is approximately 2/3 correct and 1/3 hallucinated

The AI Industry Has a Huge Problem: the Smarter Its AI Gets, the More It's Hallucinating
→ https://futurism.com/ai-industry-proble ... lucinating

ChatGPT is getting smarter, but its hallucinations are spiraling
→ https://www.techradar.com/computing/art ... -spiraling

OpenAI Admits That Its New Model Still Hallucinates More Than a Third of the Time
→ https://futurism.com/openai-admits-gpt45-hallucinates

etc., etc., etc.