SCFZ

Pick your favourite movies of 1992 (according to IMDB), up to 20 films.

20-film ballots must be ranked as follows (with point totals assigned):
Five tiers 5-4-3-2-1
Four tiers 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5
Three tiers 5-3-1
Two tiers 4-2
One tier (aka unranked) 3

Ballot totals that aren't divisible by the number of tiers must be unranked. So 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19 film ballots are unranked.

taiga - ottinger
life and nothing more... - kiarostami
el sol del membrillo - erice
travellers - bezai
north on evers - benning

celine - brisseau
the long day closes - davies
simple men - hartley
videograms of a revolution - farocki/ujica
orlando - potter

chasing butterflies - iosseliani
antigone - straub/huillet
porco rosso - miyazaki
hyenas - mambety
the night - malas

kairat - omirbayev
the last dive - monteiro
rebels of the neon god - tsai
moon warriors - sammo
la vie de boheme - kaurismaki

Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety)
Noises Off (Peter Bogdanovich)
Leolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)
La Plage (Patrick Bokanowski)

The Need (Alireza Davoudnejad)
Life, and Nothing More... (Abbas Kiarostami)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Ghostwatch (Lesley Manning)

The Jar (Ebrahim Forouzesh)
Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)
Trespass (Walter Hill)
Simple Men (Hal Hartley)

Food (Jan Svankmajer)
End (Artavazd Peleshian)
Feet of Song (Erica Russell)
Malcolm X (Spike Lee)

Man Bites Dog (Remy Belvaux, Andrei Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde)
The Player (Robert Altman)
Stay Tuned (Peter Hyams)
L627 (Bertrand Tavernier)

The Last Dive 1992 ‘O Último Mergulho’ Directed by João César Monteiro
Hyenas 1992 ‘Hyènes’ Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty
Simple Men 1992 Directed by Hal Hartley
Surviving Desire 1992 Directed by Hal Hartley
My Eye Is Reflecting 1992 ‘Det speglar i mitt öga’ Directed by Nina Hedenius
Basic Instinct 1992 Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Bitter Moon 1992 Directed by Roman Polanski
Bram Stoker’s Dracula 1992 Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Céline 1992 Directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau
Deep Cover 1992 Directed by Bill Duke

Videograms of a Revolution 1992 ‘Videogramme einer Revolution’ Directed by Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujică
Bad Lieutenant 1992 Directed by Abel Ferrara
Spider 1992 ‘Zirneklis’ Directed by Vasilijs Mass
Midori 1992 ‘地下幻燈劇画 少女椿’ Directed by Hiroshi Harada
Tokyo Decadence 1992 ‘トパーズ’ Directed by Ryū Murakami
Blue Black Permanent 1992 Directed by Margaret Tait
Orlando 1992 Directed by Sally Potter
Juice 1992 Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson
Dream of Light 1992 ‘El sol del membrillo’ Directed by Víctor Erice
La Vie de Bohème 1992 Directed by Aki Kaurismäki

Careful (1992, Guy Maddin)
Qing shao nian nuo zha / Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Ming-liang Tsai)
Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema / Once Upon a Time, Cinema (1992, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Hyènes (1992, Djibril Diop Mambéty)

Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood)
Conte d'hiver / A Tale of Winter (1992, Éric Rohmer)
The Player (1992, Robert Altman)
It is Better to be Rich and Healthy than Poor and Ill (1992, Juraj Jakubisko)

Videogrammes of the Revolution (1992, Harun Farocki)
Simple Men (1992, Hal Hartley)
Benny's Video (1992, Michael Haneke)
Un coeur en hiver / A Heart in Winter (1992, Claude Sautet)

Balanta / The Oak (1992, Lucian Pintilie)
And Life Goes On ... (1992, Abbas Kiarostami)
Orlando (1992, Sally Potter)
Quartier Mozart (1992, Jean-Pierre Bekolo)

Bad Lieutenant (1992, Abel Ferrara)
De noorderlingen / The Northerners (1992, Alex van Warmerdam)
Antigone (1992, Hulliet & Straub)
The Passing (1992, Bill Viola)

Honourable mentions:

Kurenai no buta / Porco Rosso (1992, Hayao Miyazaki)
C'est arrivé près de chez vous / Man Bites Dog (1992, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel & Benoît Poelvoorde)
Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarrantino)
Midori / Shôjo tsubaki: Chika gentô gekiga (1992, Hiroshi Harada)
Basic Instinct (1992, Paul Verhoeven)
The Crying Game (1992, Neil Jordan)
Miejsce urodzenia / Birthplace (1992, Pawel Lozinski)
A River Runs Through it (1992, Robert Redford)
One False Move (1992. Carl Franklin)
Allah Tantou / God's Will (1992, David Achkar)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, James Foley) 88%
Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee) 8.4
El sol del membrillo / Dream of Light (1992, Víctor Erice)
Golos travy / The Voice of the Herbs (1992, Natalya Motuzko)
Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992, Orson Welles)
Heya / The Room (1992, Shion Sono)
Édes Emma, drága Böbe - vázlatok, aktok (1992, István Szabó)
Un lugar en el mundo / A Place in the World (1992, Adolfo Aristarain)
Dracula (1992, Francis Ford Coppola) 90%
Lektionen in Finsternis / Lessons of Darkness (1992, Werner Herzog)

Weak year for me, I'll start with these:

Malcolm X
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Bad Lieutenant
Basic Instinct
Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki

Bitter Moon
Cronos
Memoirs Of An Invisible Man

greennui wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 3:39 pm My Eye Is Reflecting 1992 ‘Det speglar i mitt öga’ Directed by Nina Hedenius

https://www.svtplay.se/video/jv16nZM/de ... i-mitt-oga

https://youtu.be/_MHDyW5QI6A




moon warriors!!

[provisional list deleted]

i might have to watch twin dragons...

The Oak (Pintilie)
The Thief of Children aka Stolen Children (Amelio)
Hill of No Return (Wang)
Quince Tree Sun (Erice)
Travelers (Beizai)
Dream of Russia (Satō)
Life and Nothing More (Kiarostami)
The Need (Davoudnejad)
A Heart in Winter (Sautet)
The Best Intentions (movie version) (August)
Waltz on the Petschora (Gogoberidze) (I subtitled this one!)
The Long Day Closes (Davies)
Kairat (Omirbaev)
Our Twisted Hero (Park)
Ripples across Stagnant Water (Ling)
Herzsprung (Misselwitz)
A Place in the World (Aristarain)
Child of Man (Streičs)
Guelwaar (Sembène)
Baduk (Majidi)

Not seeing too many movies these days, so if I post no other that's the final. It's a good year.

karl wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 12:48 pm It's a good year.

would be great to get your ballot for our 10th anniversary poll, if you're interested in participating!

Looking forward to doing some digging on this year. But this is my tentative 10 film list.

Surviving Desire - Hal Hartley
Noises Off - Peter Bogdanovich
Basic Instinct - Paul Verhoeven
Food - Jan Svankmajer
Another Girl, Another Planet - Michael Almereyda

Bitter Moon - Roman Polanski
Malcolm X - Spike Lee
Passion Fish - John Sayles
The Crying Game - Neil Jordan
Light Sleeper - Paul Schrader

flip wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 2:35 pm

karl wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 12:48 pm It's a good year.

would be great to get your ballot for our 10th anniversary poll, if you're interested in participating!

Um yeah maybe. A bit busy these days. Gainfully employed in the Land of the Free (sigh) for the short term. Until I have enough in pocket to flee again.

watched a great 1992 film two days ago (totally by chance), called "Toutes peines confondues" by Michel Deville.

It can be watched here for free in 1080p and with English subs:
https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/de/cinema/ ... confondues

wba wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 7:26 pm https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/de/cinema/ ... confondues

Fehler 403 – Es tut uns leid, dieser Inhalt ist für Ihre geografische Region leider nicht verfügbar.

antigone - jean-marie straub, danièle huillet
never sleep again - pia frankenberg
traces of smoke - frans van de staak
dream of light - víctor erice (when the fuck did the title change to this on letterboxd and imdb? i'm scandalised)
earth of the blind - audrius stonys
videograms of a revolution - harun farocki, andrei ujică
life, and nothing more... - abbas kiarostami
autumn snow - valdas navasaitis
chasing butterflies - otar iosseliani
avetik - don askarian
kairat - darezhan omirbayev
hyenas - djibril diop mambéty
the voice of grass - natalia motuzko
remote control - óskar jónasson
rapado - martín rejtman
day of despair - manoel de oliveira
céline - jean-claude brisseau
mary from beijing - sylvia chang
birthplace - paweł łoziński
hill of no return - wang tung

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 7:40 pm

wba wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 7:26 pm https://www.tv5mondeplus.com/de/cinema/ ... confondues

Fehler 403 – Es tut uns leid, dieser Inhalt ist für Ihre geografische Region leider nicht verfügbar.

Looks like this website isn't available in "your region" (whatever that means).
You probably need to change your VPN.

Three tiers

Rebels of the Neon God
Life, and Nothing More…
Dream of Light
Howard’s End

A Tale of Winter
La Vie de Boheme
Benny’s Video
Bad Lieutenant
Bitter Moon

Celine
Malcolm X
Un Coeur en Hiver
The Player

wba wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 6:45 am
Looks like this website isn't available in "your region" (whatever that means).
You probably need to change your VPN.

Yes, I understood that. My computer skills aren't sophisticated enough to mess with VPNs...

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 5:17 pm

wba wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 6:45 am
Looks like this website isn't available in "your region" (whatever that means).
You probably need to change your VPN.

Yes, I understood that. My computer skills aren't sophisticated enough to mess with VPNs...

Neither are mine. ^^
But fortunately, for every stream one can't access there are dozens of alternatives.

haven't watched too many from this year yet, still too busy to watch films atm but might try and squeak in some watches during the month. might even do one tonight. I'll also put together a list of films which I'll pick from when wanting to watch something (I've never come close to finishing one of those lists, but it's nice to dream). maybe someone will find something from there interesting.

Minbo, dir. Juzo Itami
Hard Boiled, dir. John Woo
Allah Tantou, dir. David Achkar
Udju Azul di Yonta, dir. Flora Gomes
Deep Cover, dir. Bill Duke
Rebels of the Neon God, dir. Tsai Ming-liang
Morte di un matematico napoletano, dir. Mario Martone

balanta (the oak) is an anarchic and very black comedy. this movie is punk rock



i think i can see pintilie's influence on radu jude (:

this one will make my list. lencho i hope you watch it

first time submitting a ballot here! hope this works <3

twin peaks: fire walk with me (lynch)
ghostwatch (manning)
candyman (rose)
cronos (del toro)
man bites dog (poelvoorde, belvaux, bonzel)
a garden without birds (nobi)
unforgiven (eastwood)
cool world (bakshi)
malcom x (lee)
the player (altman)
the bedroom (satô)
basic instinct (verhoeven)
poison ivy (shea)
suburbs of eden (condit)
batman returns (burton)

Two tiers of 8 for the time being. North on Evers from Benning looks fantastic and would undoubtedly be on this list if I could find a nice copy to watch, rather than the pixelly one on YouTube. Queasy about the Hedenius film because of the taxidermy, but I'll have a think about that. There's a few I could watch so could be back with changes.

Careful (1992 - Guy Maddin)
The Long Day Closes (1992 - Terence Davies)
The Tune (1992 - Bill Plympton)
Army of Darkness (1992 - Sam Raimi)
La Plage / The Beach (1992 - Patrick Bokanowski)
Blue Black Permanent (1992 - Margaret Tait)
Провинциальная школа / Provintsialnaya Shkola / Provincial School (1992 - Ivan Maksimov)
Сон смешного человека / Son smeshnogo cheloveka / The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992 - Aleksandr Petrov)

Bitter Moon (1992 - Roman Polanski)
Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992 - Ernie Gehr)
Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der Hölderlinschen Übertragung für die Bühne bearbeitet von Brecht 1948 (Suhrkamp Verlag) (1992 - Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
Alien³ (1992 - David Fincher)
Orlando (1992 - Sally Potter)
All Can Become a Rose (1992 - Linda Christanell)
Equinox (1992 - Alan Rudolph)
Jennifer 8 (1992 - Bruce Robinson)

A wonderful year!

Will have to kick out some favorites to reduce it to a mere 20...

Films seen: 110+


Final list

5 tiers


L'Amant "The Lover" (Jean-Jacques Annaud, France/UK)
The Tune (Bill Plympton, USA)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven. USA/France)
Hap do Ko Fei "Full Contact" (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)

Gô-hime "Basara - The Princess Goh" (Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan)
Jennifer Eight (Bruce Robinson, USA/Canada/UK)
Passenger 57 (Kevin Hooks, USA)
The Last of the Mohicnas (Michael Mann, USA)

White Men Can't Jump (Ron Shelton, USA)
White Sands (Roger Donaldson, USA)
Abstecher (Ulrich Weiß, Germany)
鉄男II BODY HAMMER "Tetsuo II: Body Hammer" (Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, USA/France)
Of Mice and Men (Gary Sinise, USA/France)
Niaz "The Need" (Alireza Davoudnejad, Iran)
Topâzu "Tokyo Decadence" (Ryû Murakami, Japan)

Il ladro di bambini "The Stolen Children" (Gianni Amelio, Italy/France/Switzerland)
Zendegi va digar hich "Life, and Nothing More..." (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, USA)
Verfehlung "The Mistake" (Heuner Carow, East Germany)


bubbling under:

El viaje "The Journey" (Fernando E. Solanas, Argentina/France/Germany/Italy/Japan/Mexico/Spain/UK)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (John Carpenter, USA/France)
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara, USA)
Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski, France/UK)
Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright, Australia)
Hero (Stephen Frears, USA)
Un coeur en hiver "A Heart in Winter" (Claude Sautet, France)
...

i watched justice my foot! and these two are so cute together



but stephen chow's comedy just doesn't work for me

A lesser To (and Chow), for sure. But it's still a fun way to spend 90 minutes.

ONCE UPON A TIME, CINEMA (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)