SCFZ

Pick your favourite movies of 1970 (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.

The Captive 2000 La Captive Directed by Chantal Akerman
Mourning Rock 2000 Αγέλαστος πέτρα Directed by Filippos Koutsaftis
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors 2000 오! 수정 Directed by Hong Sang-soo
Time and Tide 2000 Directed by Peter Hutton
Love Torn in a Dream 2000 Combat d'amour en songe Directed by Raúl Ruiz

In the Mood for Love 2000 花樣年華 Directed by Wong Kar-wai

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 Directed by Jonas Mekas
O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Directed by Joel Coen
Suzhou River 2000 苏州河 Directed by Lou Ye

La Commune (Paris, 1871) 2000 Directed by Peter Watkins
Dancer in the Dark 2000 Directed by Lars von Trier
Downtown ’81 2000 Directed by Edo Bertoglio
Faithless 2000 Trolösa Directed by Liv Ullmann
Cecil B. Demented 2000 Directed by John Waters

Provisional list:

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
Brother (Takeshi Kitano)
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)

Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
The Weight of Water (Kathryn Bigelow)
Small Time Crooks (Woody Allen)
Malena (Giuseppe Tornatore)

Amores Perros (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
State and Main (David Mamet)
American Psycho (Mary Harron)
The Gift (Sam Raimi)
Snatch (Guy Ritchie)

Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood)
Hollow Man (Paul Verhoeven)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (Robert Redford)
Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
Tigerland (Joel Schumacher)


Watchlist:

Quills
Anatomy
Sexy Beast
Pitch Black
Dinner Rush
Nine Queens
Almost Famous
Before Night Falls
You Can Count On Me

Prison Images is 2001 in IMDB

already one of my favorite year of 21th century

Eureka
In Vanda’s Room
The Day I Became a Woman
Yi Yi

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
The Captive
The Circle
The Gleaners and I

Almost Famous
In the Mood for Love
Origins of the 21st Century
Werckmeister Harmonies

History Lessons
The State I Am In
Time and Tide
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors

~ watchlist ~

Devils on the Doorstep
La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Love Torn in Dreams
Platform
Séance
The House of Mirth
Word and Utopia
You Can Count on Me

etc etc etc...

Brother (Takeshi Kitano)
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)
Dr. T & the Women (Robert Altman)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
George Washington (David Gordon Green)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa)
Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
Suzhou River (Lou Ye)
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran Anh Hung)
The Yards (James Gray)

Want to watch:

Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf)
Fidelity (Andrzej Żuławski)
The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute)

Eh. Something like this:

Chunhyang (Im)
Yi Yi (Yang)
A Time for Drunken Horses (Ghobadi)
The Guava House (Đặng)
The House of Mirth (Davies)
Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (Zanussi)
A Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong)
Platform (Jia)
The Day I Became a Woman (Meshkiny)
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang)
Little Otik (Švankmajer)
My Heart (Bae)
The Vertical Ray of the Sun aka At the Height of Summer (Trần)
The Claim (Winterbottom)
Bread & Roses (Loach)
Blackboards (Makhmalbaf)
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (Farmanara)
Code Unknown (Haneke)
Mysterious Object at Noon (Weerasethakul)
The Luzhin Defence (Gorris)

Def need to rewatch Yi Yi

has to be the strongest year of the 2000s, i even want to vote for the von trier and haneke films from this year, though if i ever see the akerman, varda, hong, mekas, ruiz, costa or aoyama films those could easily lose their spot

The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)
Sanam (Rafi Pitts)

Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
Possible Worlds (Robert Lepage)
Tigerland (Joel Schumacher)
Ratz (Thom Eberhart)

Translations from the East (Nina Shorina)
Time and Tide (Peter Hutton)
Nurse Betty (Neal LaBute)
In Absentia (Quay Brothers)

Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
Water for Maya (Stan Brakhage)
Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf)
Timecode (Mike Figgis)

A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi)
Dead or Alive 2: Birds (Takashi Miike)
Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)

yiyi
as i was moving ahead, occasionally i saw brief glimpses of beauty
time and tide (tsui)
time and tide (hutton)
the house of mirth
the heart of the world
love torn in dreams
la commune, paris 1871
workers for the good lord
eureka

i'll work on it to watch: devils on the doorstep, la captive, virgin stripped bare by her bachelors

need to rewatch stuff like werckmeister harmonies and platform. and in the mood for love!!

Preliminary-like, only the first five are what you might call 'essential':

La Commune - Watkins
Love Torn In A Dream - Ruiz

Eureka - Aoyama
La Perdicion De Los Hombres - Ripstein
Yi Yi

Bamboozled - Spike Lee
Battle Royale
Bruiser - Romero
The Circle - Panahi
The Magic Hour - Oscar Blancarte
Sin Dejar Huella - Maria Novaro

En El Pais De No Pasa Nada - María del Carmen de Lara
In The Mood For Love
The Season Of Men - Moufida Tlatli
The Vertical Ray Of The Sun
The Waiting List -- Juan Carlos Tabio

know it's a weird year when i'm sharing faves with lencho

la commune - peter watkins
love torn in a dream - raúl ruiz
snow white - joão césar monteiro
the gleaners and i - agnès varda
third world hero - mike de leon
werckmeister harmonies - béla tarr
platform - jia zhangke
tuning the instruments - jerzy kucia
mourning rock - filippos koutsaftis
the train stop - sergei loznitsa
time and tide - peter hutton
in vanda's room - pedro costa
bohemia docta or the labyrinth of the world and the lust-house of the heart (a divine comedy) - karel vachek
songs from the second floor- roy andersson
workers for the good lord - jean-claude brisseau
origins of the 21st century - jean-luc godard

Been a very long time since I saw the majority of these, so not too confident about the lower spots:

Fa yeung nin wa / In the Mood for Love (2000, Kar Wai Wong)
Après la réconciliation / After the Reconciliation (2000, Anne-Marie Miéville)
La commune (Paris, 1871) (2000, Peter Watkins)
Otesánek / Little Otik (2000, Jan Svankmajer)

Les glaneurs et la glaneuse / The Gleaners & I (2000, Agnès Varda)
Zhantai / Platform (2000, Zhangke Jia)
Chopper (2000, Andrew Dominik)
Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars von Trier)

El Bola (2000, Achero Mañas)
Seom / The Isle (2000, Ki-duk Kim)
Tillsammans / Together (2000, Lukas Moodysson)
Almost Famous (2000, Cameron Crowe)

Gostanza da Libbiano (2000, Paolo Benvenuti)
Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)
Battle Royale (2000, Kinji Fukasaku)
Princes et princesses (2000, Michel Ocelot)

Snatch. (2000, Guy Ritchie)
Die Stille nach dem Schuß / Legend of Rita (2000, Volker Schlöndorff)
Erin Brockovich (2000, Steven Soderbergh)
Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000, Takashi Miike)

Honourable mentions:

O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000, The Coen Brothers)
Vampire Hunter D (2000, Yoshiaki Kawajiri & Jack Fletcher)
Unbreakable (2000, M. Night Shyamalan)
Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky)
Traffic (2000, Steven Soderbergh)
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages / Code Unknown (2000, Michael Haneke)
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin / The Princess and the Warrior (2000, Tom Tykwer)
Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA / Joint Security Area (2000, Chan-wookPark)
Yi yi (2000, Edward Yang)
No Quarto da Vanda / In Vanda's Room (2000, Pedro Costa)
Die innere Sicherheit / The State I Am In (2000, Christian Petzold)
Fah talai jone / Tears of the Black Tiger (2000, Wisit Sasanatieng)
Sexy Beast (2000, Jonathan Glazer)
Mùa hè chieu thang dung / The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000, Anh Hung Tran)
Princes et princesses / Princes and Princesses (2000, Michel Ocelot)
High Fidelity (2000, Stephen Frears)

I have so many films I love from both 1999 and 2001. Not so much from 2000.

Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Claude Chabrol)
The Captive (Chantal Akerman)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
Fidelity (Andrzej Zulawski)
The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda)

Dr. T and the Women (Robert Altman)
State and Main (David Mamet)
O Brother Where Art Though (Coen Brothers)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shamalayan)
In Absentia (Quay Brothers)

Nostalgia tempts me to include High Fidelity, Requiem for a Dream , and American Psycho. But I'm honestly unsure how I feel about those films at this point and would need to re-watch them to make a firm decision one way or another. Though they were all three very influential on my teenage self.

i watched cringe comedy 'songs from the second floor' but idk if i will vote for it --



me at the airport..



nw ken loach, 'bread and roses' which i wanna like more than i maybe do --

saint-cyr (patricia mazuy) - gorgeous and literate historical drama. exquisite costumes and period detail

















as a fan of girls school genre i couldn't ask for more than a beautifully rendered tale of one of the first schools for girls

edit: something i didn't note at the time: soundtrack by john cale

Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue (Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets)
Bænken (The Bench)
Batoru rowaiaru (Battle Royale)
Better Than Sex
Die innere Sicherheit (The State I Am In)
Howaitoauto (Whiteout)
Italiensk for begyndere (Italian for Beginners)
Kippur
Krámpack (Nico and Dani)
La ville est tranquille (The Town Is Quiet)
Les savates du bon Dieu (Workers for the Good Lord)
Nationale 7
Nueve reinas (Nine Queens)
Pane e tulipani (Bread and Tulips)
Space Cowboys
The Claim
The Dish
The Yards
Tillsammans (Together)
Zamani barayé masti asbha (A Time for Drunken Horses)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/Lbxd/TSPDT/S&S top 500)
Almost Famous
American Psycho
Amores perros
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Dancer in the Dark
Fa yeung nin wah
Gladiator
Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA
Hera Pheri
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
Memento
No Quarto da Vanda
Requiem for a Dream
Sånger från andra våningen
Shiki-Jitsu
Snatch
Werckmeister harmóniák
Wo hu cang long
Yi yi
Yurîka
Zhantai

Ratz (2000, Thom Eberhardt, Canada?)

I think Evelyn wants to see this.