1994 poll

[ofrene]

final (some edit)

Satantango

(alphabetical order)
A Confucian Confusion
A Dedicated Life
Casa de Lava
Chungking Express
Crows
Exotica
Hoop Dreams
In the Mouth of Madness
Joan the Maid 1: The Battles
Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons
Little Odessa
Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the ’60s in Brussels
River of Grass
The Silences of the Palace
U.S Go Home
Vive L’Amour
Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?

missed a lot but it's such a great year already

[thoxans]

Cabin Boy

baller

[rischka]

i really liked ermo~







hope to see a couple more. or at least casa de lava

[rischka]

casa de lava ! ! ! i walked w/a zombie meets stromboli

[sacmersault]

1. White dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski

El heroe dir. Carlos Carrera
Red dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Before the Rain dir. Milcho Manchevski
Leon: the Professional dir. Luc Besson
The Lion King dir. Rogers Allers & Rob Minkoff
Speed dir. Jan de Bont
Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert dir. Stephan Elliott
Hoop Dreams dir. Steve James

Too many others on my watchlist

[greennui]

Final list:

1. Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the '60s in Brussels (Chantal Akerman)

I Can't Sleep (Claire Denis)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
London (Patrick Keiller)
River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt)
Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
Casa de Lava (Pedro Costa)
The Last Seduction (John Dahl)
Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (Aki Kaurismäki)
Satantango (Béla Tarr)
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
US Go Home (Claire Denis)
Cold Water (Olivier Assayas)
The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli)
Lothringen! (Jean-Marie Straub/Danielle Huillet)
Interview with the Vampire (Neil Jordan)

[rischka]

didn't get to see all that i wanted but

pom poko - takahata still #1 as i fear it won't make the list!
casa de lava - costa
vive l'amour - tsai
a borrowed life - wu
i can't sleep - denis
US go home - denis
london - keiller
a confucian confusion - yang
ermo - zhou
crooklyn - lee
the day the sun turned cold - ho
back to back. face to face - huang
fado major and minor - ruiz
take care of your scarf tatiana - kaurismaki
khabi haan khabi naa - shah
the silences of the palace - tlatli
ashes of time - wong
through the olive trees - kiarostami
what happened was - noonan
the legend of drunken master - lau

[mesnalty]

Final list:

1. Satantango (Tarr)

Cold Water (Assayas)
In the Mouth of Madness (Carpenter)
L'Enfer (Chabrol)
Casa de Lava (Costa)
I Can't Sleep (Denis)
U.S. Go Home (Denis)
Exotica (Egoyan)
London (Keiller)
Three Colors: Red (Kieslowski)
Vanya on 42nd Street (Malle)
River of Grass (Reichardt)
Joan the Maid (Rivette)
Fado, Major and Minor (Ruiz)
Whispering Pages (Sokurov)
The Silences of the Palace (Tlatli)
Vive l'Amour (Tsai)
High School II (Wiseman)
To Live (Zhang)
Crumb (Zwigoff)

If voting for the entire Joan the Maid as a single film isn't allowed, I'll ditch Crumb and vote for both parts separately.

[sally]

Final list. i love svankmajer's sound design, but watching arielle dombasle (and not just in the ruiz) is like fingernails on blackboards for some reason.

1. london (patrick keiller)
JLG/JLG - autoportrait de décembre
a caixa/blind man's buff
felix in exile
back to back, face to face
fado, major and minor
faust
a confucian confusian
vive l'amour
ermo
the day the sun turned cold
love on delivery
through the olive trees
casa de lava
whispering pages
trying to kiss the moon
lothringen!
take care of your scarf tatiana
a pure formality
satantango

[nrh]

thenmavin kombath
fado major and minor
london
mahanadhi
the cloud door
kabhi haan kabhi naa
love on delivery
take care of your scarf tatiana
charachar
crooklyn
amateur
vive l'amour
getting any?
pom poko

[dominicano1970]

Red (Kieslowski)

The Black Angel (Brisseau)
Bullets Over Broadway (Allen)
Death and the Maiden (Polanski)
Eat Drink Man Woman (Lee)
Ed Wood (Burton)
Forrest Gump (Zemeckis)
Hell (Chabrol)
I Can't Sleep (Denis)
Ladybird Ladybird (Loach)
Lamerica (Amelio)
Muen and Rid (Songsri)
The Postman (Radford)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
The Secret of Roan Inish (Sayles)
The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)
The Taebaek Mountains (Im)
Through the Olive Trees (Kiarostami)
To Live (Zhang)
Wild Reeds (Techine)

[rischka]

hi dominicano!

[Silga]

Final list:

1. Léon: The Professional (Luc Besson)

Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
Serial Mom (John Waters)
Reality Bites (Ben Stiller)
The Mask (Chuck Russell)
It Could Happen to You (Andrew Bergman)
Blue Chips (William Friedkin)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
Dumb and Dumber (Farrelly brothers)
The Last Seduction (John Dahl)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce)
Renaissance Man (Penny Marshall)
Guarding Tess (Hugh Wilson)
Blown Away (Stephen Hopkins)

[rischka]

crooklyn

[Curtis, baby]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2pzmty3LVs

[kanafani]

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1994)
U.S. Go Home (Claire Denis, 1994)
Nadja (Michael Almereyda, 1994)
Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)
I Can't Sleep (Claire Denis, 1994)
Satantango (Béla Tarr, 1994)
Passions (Kira Muratova, 1994)
River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, 1994)
A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang, 1994)
A Borrowed Life (Wu Nien-Jen, 1994)
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994)
The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994)
Little Odessa (James Gray, 1994)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)
Joan the Maid (Jacques Rivette, 1994)
The Day the Sun Turned Cold (Yim Ho, 1994)
Casa de Lava (Pedro Costa, 1994)
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke, 1994)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
What Happened Was... (Tom Noonan, 1994)

[Lencho of the Apes]

My final

Fado - Ruiz

Casa de lava (Pedro Costa)
Eat Drink Man Woman
Exotica - Egoyan
In The Mouth Of Madness - Carpenter
Jeanne La Pucelle I/II
Nadja -
Natural Born Killers - Stone
平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ [Pom Poko] - Isao Takahata
La Reina De La Noche - Ripstein
Satantango - Tarr
The Silences Of The Palace

[Lencho of the Apes]

Voting closes in about four hours.

[thoxans]

awww and i wanted to get to so much from this year too but stupid life with stupid work and stupid responsibilities have severely limited my ability to watch wonderful wonderful wonderful movies

[Lencho of the Apes]

It's all over now, Bebe Buell.

[Lencho of the Apes]

You'll laugh! You'll cry! All the feels!

Is there any other comparable group online where John Carpenter can tie with Jacques Rivette? I'd be surprised.


1
Satantango - Tarr

2
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)

3
Casa de lava (Pedro Costa)

4
Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)

5
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)

6
Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles [Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 1960s in Brussels] - Chantal Akerman

7
I Can't Sleep - denis

8
The Silences Of The Palace
U.S. Go Home - Claire Denis

10
Exotica - Egoyan
Hoop Dreams - Steve James
Little Odessa
Pulp Fiction - Tarantino

14
Crooklyn
Crumb - Zwigoff
Ed Wood
In The Mouth Of Madness - Carpenter
Jeanne La Pucelle I/II
london (keiller)
Three Colors: Red - Kieslowski
whispering pages - sokurov

22
Fado - Ruiz
lothringen!
To Live (Zhang Yimou)

25
多桑 [A Borrowed Life] - Wu Nien-jen
A Confucian Confusion - Yang
Léon: The Professional (Luc Besson)
平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ [Pom Poko] - Isao Takahata
River of Grass - Kellly Reichardt

30
Amateur - hartey
Ashes of Time
The Cloud Door (Mani Kaul)
Eat Drink Man Woman
L'Eau Froide - Assayas
L'Enfer - Chabrol
the day the sun turned cold - yim ho
JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
The Last Seduction (John Dahl)
Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
Serial Mom - Waters
Speed - de Bont
take care of your scarf tatiana - kaurismaki

44 - 54
Barcelona - Stillman
Charachar "Shelter of the Wings" (Buddhadev Dasgupta, India)
Dumb and Dumber (Bobby Farrelly/Peter Farrelly)lanski
陽光燦爛的日子 [In the Heat of the Sun] - Jiang Wen
khabi haan khabi naa
Love on Delivery
Natural Born Killers - Stone
Passions (Kira Muratova, 1994)
Queen Margot (Patrice Chereau)
Three Colors: White - Kieslowski
Wild Reeds (Andre Techine)

[thoxans]

def a top ten all-time year poll amongst year polls even tho papa jerry’s gonna hate us cuz cow porn placed number one

[rischka]

it's the very official list for the very first poll taken at the new and improved scfz forum!!

HERE

[thoxans]

HERE

super baller

[thoxans]

HERE

super baller

p.s. kinda sorta stoked that speed made the list tbh

[rischka]

haha i well remember watching speed at the drive in with some long gone boyfriend