1997 poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 1997 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible so that others may use them for recommendations. You may, of course, revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 1997 lists will be Friday, December 1st at approximately 5 PM Pacific Time.

[Lencho of the Apes]

My preliminary pics -- almost all Mexican and Argentine, cuz that's what I've seen... but they're all contenders (except maybe Agujero, which has nothing going for it but a powerhouse lead performance by Roberto Cobo). Quien Diablos... may be the only one that has subs easily available...

El Agujero - Beto Gomez
De Noche Vienes, Esmeralda - Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
Gummo - Korine
Invierno, Mala Vida/Winter Land - Gregorio Cramer
Quien Diablos Es Julieta/Who The Hell Is J - Carlo Marcovich
Santo Luzbel/Saint Lucifer - Miguel Sabido

[Monsieur Arkadin]

The River - Tsai Ming-Liang
Event Horizon - Paul W.S. Anderson
Affliction - Paul Schrader
Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson
Starship Troopers - Paul Verhoeven
Abre Los Ojos - Alejandro Amenabar
Nitrate Base - Marco Ferreri
Lost Highway - David Lynch
Face/Off - John Woo
Funny Games - Michael Haneke

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

1. Puss in Books: Adventures of the Library Cat (Gary Roma)
Spice World (The Spice Girls)
Comingled Containers (Brakhage)
Hercules (Ron Clements, John Musker)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Spielberg)
George of the Jungle (Sam Weisman)

I have a documentary about cats who live in the libraries that I hope to watch and will put in a place. Final list above.

[brian d]

one of the top 2 probably my top pick, otherwise unranked for now:

train of shadows (guerin)
the hips of jw (monteiro)
the river (tsai)
leila (mehrjui)
washington square (holland)
the house (bartas)
ossos (costa)
the roe's room (majewski)
public housing (wiseman)
happy together (wong)
the mirror (panahi)

to watch:
miramar (bressane)

[nrh]

the prince of homburg (marco bellocchio)
cure (kiyoshi kurosawa)
iruvar (mani ratnam)
happy together (wong kar wai)
genealogies of a crime (raul ruiz)
from today until tomorrow (straub/huillet)
the hips of j.w. (joao cesar monteiro)
the river (tsai ming-liang)
bhoothakkannadi (ak lohithadas)
private detective two plus two plus one (rajat kapoor)
rainy dog (takashi miike)
hana-bi (takeshi kitano)
blackout (abel ferrara)
the odd one dies (patrick yau/johnnie to)
voyage to the beginning of the world (manoel de oliveira)
minsara kanavu (rajiv menon)
rien ne va plus (claude chabrol)
labyrinth of dreams (sogo ishii)
twilight of the ice nymphs (guy maddin)
made in hong kong (fruit chan)

very good, unusually crowded year. lots of very good films (alain resnai's same old song, princess mononoke, sindhooram) and curiosities (cindy sherman's office killer? alex de la iglesia's perdita durango?) that can't fit on the list.

[niminy-piminy]

ballot...
PARADOX OF PRAXIS 1: SOMETIMES MAKING SOMETHING LEADS TO NOTHING (Francis Alÿs)
PHILIP JOHNSON: DIARY OF AN ECCENTRIC ARCHITECT (Barbara Wolf)
IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS (Dominic Angerame)
KNITTELFELD: A TOWN WITHOUT A HISTORY (Gerhard Benedikt Friedl)
GALLIVANT (Andrew Kötting)
ROBINSON IN SPACE (Patrick Keiller)
TRAIN OF SHADOWS (José Luis Guerín)
BY THEN (Jean-Charles Fitoussi)
HORIZONTAL BOUNDARIES (Pat O'Neill)
THE CAT OF THE WORM'S GREEN REALM (Stan Brakhage)
PSYCHO (Martin Arnold)
ME, AND LARS, AT HOME BATHING (Anja Czioska)
NOCTURNAL BUTTERFLIES (Raoul Servais)
MYSTERIOUS JOURNEY (Jordan Belson)
RETROSPECTROSCOPE (Kerry Laitala)
DESERT ABSTRACTIONS (Jon Behrens)
GUMMO (Harmony Korine)
THE BOSOM FRIEND (Ulrich Seidl)
THE BANNED WOMAN (Philippe Harel)
A MAN WHOSE LIFE WAS FULL OF WOE HAS BEEN SURPRISED BY JOY (R. Bruce Elder)

————————————————————————————————

in the last few yrs, logged (8!)...
HORIZONTAL BOUNDARIES (Pat O'Neill)
CHANGING SKINS (Andreas Dresen)
THE BANNED WOMAN (Philippe Harel)
THE 120 DAYS OF BOTTROP (Christoph Schlingensief)
SOBBIN' WOMEN: THE MAKING OF 'SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS' (Scott Benson)
MOUVEMENT (Yves-Marie Mahé)
PARADOX OF PRAXIS 1: SOMETIMES MAKING SOMETHING LEADS TO NOTHING (Francis Alÿs)
I'M 31 (Jan Peters)
PSYCHO (Martin Arnold)
BAD THOUGHTS (Jacqueline Levitin)
ION'S NAKED DANCE-PERFORMANCE (Anja Czioska)
CONNY, BATHING, 8TH MONTH PREGNANT (Anja Czioska)
ME, AND LARS, AT HOME BATHING (Anja Czioska)
ION, SHOWER (Anja Czioska)
FRIENDS IN FRANKFURT (FILMSCRIBBLES 6) (Anja Czioska)
STAN'S SALON (Jon Behrens)
DESERT ABSTRACTIONS (Jon Behrens)
THE STORY OF I (Jo Ann Kaplan)
RETROSPECTROSCOPE (Kerry Laitala)
BY THEN (Jean-Charles Fitoussi)
HIDE AND SEEK (Su Friedrich)
FLOATING CREATURES (Robert Cahen)

in a more distant past, watched (4!)...
THE BOSOM FRIEND (Ulrich Seidl)
TIMOTHY LEARY'S LAST TRIP (A.J. Catoline, O.B. Babbs)
LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch)
FUNNY GAMES (Michael Haneke)
BUTTONERS (Petr Zelenka)
JACKIE BROWN (Quentin Tarantino)
THE ICE STORM (Ang Lee)
STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven)
2/DUO (Nobuhiro Suwa)
GUMMO (Harmony Korine)
THE HIPS OF JOHN WAYNE (Joao Cesar Monteiro)
MYSTERIOUS JOURNEY (Jordan Belson)
ROBINSON IN SPACE (Patrick Keiller)
KINGDOM II (Morten Arnfred, Lars von Trier)
SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento)
PUBLIC HOUSING (Frederick Wiseman)
BRINGING UP GIRLS IN BOHEMIA (Petr Koliha)
RUFFIANO AND SWEETEETH (Karel Smyczek)
WONDERFUL YEARS THAT SUCKED (Petr Nikolaev)
LOLITA (Adrian Lyne)
CHASING AMY (Kevin Smith)
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (Jim Gillespie)
GERI'S GAME (Jan Pinkava)

watched for the poll (8!)...
1/ VIVEMENT L'AN 2000 (Stéphane Blanquet)
THE MOLE AND THE MUSHROOMS (Zdeněk Miler)
THE MOLE IN THE UNDERGROUND (Zdeněk Miler)
CUP-O-ABOMINATIONS (Ben Hillman)
5/ ATTACK OF THE HUNGRY HUNGRY NIPPLES (Walter Santucci)
LILY AND JIM (Don Hertzfeldt)
NOCTURNAL BUTTERFLIES (Raoul Servais)
LOVE, MATH AND SEX (Charlotte Silvera)
GALLIVANT (Andrew Kötting)
10/ PUSS IN BOOKS: ADVENTURES OF THE LIBRARY CAT (Gary Roma)
IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS (Dominic Angerame)
KNITTELFELD: A TOWN WITHOUT A HISTORY (Gerhard Benedikt Friedl)
PHILIP JOHNSON: DIARY OF AN ECCENTRIC ARCHITECT (Barbara Wolf)
YGGDRASILL: WHOSE ROOTS ARE STARS IN THE HUMAN MIND (Stan Brakhage)
15/ TRAIN OF SHADOWS (José Luis Guerín)
COMINGLED CONTAINERS (Stan Brakhage)
THE CAT OF THE WORM'S GREEN REALM (Stan Brakhage)
A MAN WHOSE LIFE WAS FULL OF WOE HAS BEEN SURPRISED BY JOY (R. Bruce Elder)

watchlist...
NO SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (Dimitris Athanitis)
SHAMAN (Lennart Meri)
AFFLICTION (Paul Schrader)
THE DAY WHEN... (Chantal Akerman)
STUDY OF A RIVER (Peter Hutton)
PAIN IS… (Stephen Dwoskin)
LEVEL FIVE (Chris Marker)
LIBRARY (Kristijonas Vildžiūnas)
THE TRAGEDY OF A BOOK ADDICT (Pietro Reggiani)
THE BATHHOUSE (Rimantas Gruodis)
OFF SEASON (Pepe Danquart, Mirjam Quinte)
WITTSTOCK, WITTSTOCK (Volker Koepp)
TO SONG PHOTO STUDIO (Johan van der Keuken)
IMPRINT (Louise Bourque)
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: MAN AT WORK (Chris Granlund)
CODE NAME: RUBY (Jan Němec)
THE UNSEEN (Miroslav Janek)
CODES OF CONDUCT (David Rimmer)
MIDST (Barbara Sternberg)
IF YOU STAND WITH YOUR BACK TO THE SLOWING OF THE SPEED OF LIGHT IN WATER (Julie Murray)
UNBEARABLE BEING (Colin Barton)
FERNSEHFILM (Albert Sackl)
ZILLERTAL (Jürgen Reble)
STROMBOLI (Chris Newby)
THE WINDOW (Walter Ungerer)
THE DAY IS NIGH (Alexander Kluge)
NOCTURNE (Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi)
THE FILM TO COME (Raúl Ruiz)
AIR CRIES - LE MISTRAL (Carl Brown)
PROJECT ARSE MACHINE (Mara Mattuschka, Gabriele Szekatsch)
IF 6 WAS 9 (Eija-Liisa Ahtila)
A BIT OF SCARLET (Andrea Weiss)
I SHALL HONOUR YOUR LIFE (Cyrus Frisch)
MUSEUM: VISITING THE UNKNOWN MAN (Jem Cohen)
MAN RAY: PROPHET OF THE AVANT GARDE (Mel Stuart)
MIND THE GAP (Elfi Mikesch)
THE SPRING (Valdas Navasaitis)
THE SPIRIT DOESN'T COME ANYMORE (Tsering Rhitar)
BINARY LIVES: STEINA AND WOODY VASULKA (Peter Kirby)
PORTRAIT IN A DROP OF WATER (Kazimierz Karabasz)
THE OAK (Laila Pakalniņa)
BIRTH OF A NATION (Jonas Mekas)
FIRST PERSON SINGULAR: I.M. PEI (Peter Rosen)
I STARE AT YOU AND DREAM (Susan Mogul)
CONCERT OF WILLS: MAKING THE GETTY CENTER (Susan Froemke, Bob Eisenhardt)
AIMLESS WALK - ALEXANDER HAMMID (Martina Kudláček)
META-MECANO (Rudolf Gerber)
WONDERLAND (John O'Hagan)
THE DREAM THAT REMAINS (Leopold Lummerstorfer)
LESBIAN BARBIES (Petra De Nijs)
DAZLAK - SKINHEAD (Helke Sander)
THE EXPRESSION OF HANDS (Harun Farocki)
STILL LIFE (Harun Farocki)
A WHISPERING IN THE MOUNTAIN OF THINGS (Dominik Graf, Michael Althen)
BARLUSCHKE (Thomas Heise)
MY HEART IS MINE ALONE (Helma Sanders-Brahms)
HUNGER: LONGING FOR LOVE (Dana Vávrová)
DEATH GAME (Heinrich Breloer)
THE VIEW (Barbara Hanlo)

[flip]

The Mirror (Jafar Panahi)

Buttoners (Petr Zelenka)
Unagi (Shohei Imamura)
Instrument (Jurgen Moritz)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
The Wrong Guy (David Steinberg)
Color of Justice (Jeremy Kagan)
Death on a Full Moon Day (Prasanna Vithanage)
Postman Blues (Sabu)
Comingled Containers (Stan Brakhage)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (Jon Amiel)
LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)
Rainy Dog (Takashi Miike)
Face Down (Thom Eberhardt)
Regarde la Mer (Francois Ozon)
Affliction (Paul Schrader)

[Silga]

Provisional list [deleted]

[rischka]

stuff i've got to watch

genealogies of a crime
henry fool
labyrinth of dreams
the life of jesus
robinson in space
taste of cherry
iruvar
level five
hips of j.w.
ossos
SOBBIN' WOMEN: THE MAKING OF 'SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS' (Scott Benson) adds to watchlist
adventures of library cat!?

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Well, the library cat documentary was wonderful. Beats out the Spice Girls movie for my #1.

[oscarwerner]

My final list:
1. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson) -My top hit
----------------------
Other films:
2. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
3. Titanic (James Cameron)
4. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
5. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
6. As Good as It Gets (James L. Brooks)
7. Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
8. Happy Together (Kar-Wai Wong)
9. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
10. Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenábar)
11. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
12. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
13. The Fifth Element (Luc Besson)
14. The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo)
15. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
16. Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
17. The Thief (Pavel Chukhray)
18. Seven Years in Tibet (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
19. Brother (Aleksey Balabanov)
20. Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Thomas Jahn)

[sally]

train of shadows is the most insidious film i've ever seen, it's lodged permanently somewhere in the flicker between my eyes and brain, it comes to mind every time i see a film with a house in, or early film footage, so, a lot. it might have actually taken the place of some neurons. i know javier hated it for, if i recall, forcing a meaning, but javier! that's what it was pointing out!

1. train of shadows (guerin)
knittelfeld – stadt ohne geschichte
the hips of jw
from today until tomorrow
mother and son
taste of cherry
the mirror
robinson in space
pain is... (dwoskin)
the roe's room
study of a river
voyage to the beginning of the world
public housing
same old song
level five
the life of jesus
innocence (demirkubuz)
still life (farocki)
the film to come (ruiz)
long twilight (janisch)


eh. have only watched 2 films from 1997 in the last 10 years. (the fitoussi and 2/duo) and only 1 in my watchlist (muratova's three stories) so...yeah, will be catching up with 1915 still

and xiao wu/pickpocket is 98 on imdb

edit - i tell a lie, am going to watch william e jones' finished and also tableau ferraille

[rischka]

and xiao wu/pickpocket is 98 on imdb

DAMMIT

[greennui]

1. The Blackout (Abel Ferrara)

Nowhere (Gregg Araki)
The Hips of John Wayne (Joao Cesar Monteiro)
Knittelfeld – Town Without History (Gerhard Benedikt Friedl)
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Rosas Danst Rosas (Thierry De Mey)
Frost (Fred Kelemen)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno)
Mysterious Journey (Jordan Belson)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
Study of a River (Peter Hutton)
Two Orphan Vampires (Jean Rollin)
Under the Skin (Carine Adler)
Gummo (Harmony Korine)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Ossos (Pedro Costa)

[DT.]

1. Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)

Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Face/Off (John Woo)
Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
Lost Highway (David Lynch)
Mother and Son (Alexander Sokurov)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki)
Nowhere (Gregg Araki)
She's So Lovely (Nick Cassavetes)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
The Blackout (Abel Ferrara)
The Eel (Shohei Imamura)
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson)
The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)

Want to watch:

Affliction (Paul Schrader)
Assassin(s) (Matthieu Kassovitz)
Buud Yam (Gaston Kabore)
Career Girls (Mike Leigh)
Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi)
Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons)
Event Horizon (Paul W. S. Anderson)
Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
Kini and Adams (Idrissa Ouedraogo)
Labyrinth of Dreams (Gakuryu Ishii)
Nil by Mouth (Gary Oldman)
Same Old Song (Alain Resnais)
The Brave (Johnny Depp)
The Life of Jesus (Bruno Dumont)
The Mirror (Jafar Panahi)
The Roe's Room (Lech Majewski)
This World, Then the Fireworks (Michael Oblowitz)
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie (Jang Sun-woo)
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (Guy Maddin)
Western (Manuel Poirier)

[Holymanm]

Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997)

End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno, 1997)
Xiao Wu (Zhang Ke Jia, 1997)
Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
Face/Off (John Woo, 1997)
Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni, 1997)
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997)
Happy Together (Kar Wai Wong, 1997)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog, 1997)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
Hero (Corey Yuen, 1997)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Tetsuya Nakashima, 1997)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997)
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997)
The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola, 1997)
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute, 1997)
Liar Liar (Tom Shadyac, 1997)
Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1997)






Justice League of America (Félix Enríquez Alcalá, 1997)
Doodlebug (Christopher Nolan, 1997)
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death (Masayuki, 1997)
Spawn (Mark A.Z. Dippé, 1997)
Mysterious Journey (Jordan Belson, 1997)
Eternal Family (Kôji Morimoto, 1997)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
Pleasant Grove (David Gordon Green, 1997)
The Game (David Fincher, 1997)
Grosse Point Blanke (George Armitage, 1997)

[therouxxx]

Dil To Pagal Hai (Yash Chopra)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
Breakdown (Jonathan Mostow)

watchlist:

Aar Ya Paar (anyone have subs?), Once Upon a Time in China and America, Churam, Spice World, Absolute Power, Tomorrow Never Dies, As Good as it Gets, The Blackout, Hana-bi, Amistad, The Ice Storm, Full Alert, Princess Mononoke

[St. Gloede]

1. Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch)

Funny Games (1997, Michael Haneke)
Tren de sombras / Train of Shadows (1997, José Luis Guerín)
Stilleben / Still Life (1997, Harun Farocki)
Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Atom Egoyan)
In the Company of Men (1997, Neil LaBute)
Henry Fool (1997, Hal Hartley) 86%
Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary (1997, S.R. Bindler)
Mononoke-hime (1997, Hayao Miyazaki)
Pasáz / Passage (1997, Juraj Herz)
Bacheha-Ye aseman / Children of Heaven (1997, Majid Majidi)
Riget II (1997, Morten Arnfred & Lars von Trier)
The Ice Storm (1997, Ang Lee)
Gattaca (1997, Andrew Niccol)
Natsu jikan no otonatachi / Happy-Go-Lucky (1997, Tetsuya Nakashima)
Cremaster 5 (1997, Matthew Barney)
Deconstructing Harry (1997, Woody Allen)
La vie de Jésus (1997, Bruno Dumont)
Das Schloß / The Castle (1997, Michael Haneke)

[Roscoe]

THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Egoyan)
THE ICE STORM (Lee)

I'll have to check further, but there's not a lot else I'd put on a Best List. I've been wanting an excuse to revisit WINGS OF THE DOVE, we'll see.

[niminy-piminy]

PARADOX OF PRAXIS 1: SOMETIMES MAKING SOMETHING LEADS TO NOTHING (Francis Alÿs)
https://letterboxd.com/film/paradox-of-praxis-1/

For more than nine hours, Francis Alÿs pushes a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it completely melts.

https://vimeo.com/130838361

[niminy-piminy]

anyone with plenty of GBs, please, contribute to the KG SUBS POT of "Picasso in München" (Herbert Achternbusch, 1997)...
https://letterboxd.com/film/picasso-in-munchen/

In this surrealist film, director Picasso can awaken from the dead. He steals a painting painted by himself of a couple of wealthy psychiatrists. When Picasso meets Takla Bash, a patient of the psychiatrists, Picasso falls in love. Although it is his own daughter, he remembers an incredible love affair, in which a film with a blue cow plays a role. In the majority of the paintings shown in the film are works of Herbert Achternbusch.

[ralch]

1. Happy Together — Wong Kar-wai

The Butcher Boy — Neil Jordan
The Chambermaid on the Titanic — Bigas Luna
Character — Mike van Diem
Children of Heaven — Majid Majidi
Contact — Robert Zemeckis
Donnie Brasco — Mike Newell
Green Fish — Lee Chang-dong
Henry Fool — Hal Hartley
The Island on Bird Street — Soren Kragh-Jacobsen
Jackie Brown — Quentin Tarantino
L.A. Confidential — Curtis Hanson
Live Flesh — Pedro Almodóvar
Love and Death on Long Island — Richard Kwietniowski
Ma vie en rose — Alain Berliner
My Best Friend's Wedding — P.J. Hogan
Public Housing — Frederick Wiseman
The River — Tsai Ming-liang
Secrets of the Heart — Montxo Armendáriz
Who the Hell Is Juliette? — Carlos Markovich

[niminy-piminy]

A MAN WHOSE LIFE WAS FULL OF WOE HAS BEEN SURPRISED BY JOY (R. Bruce Elder)
https://letterboxd.com/film/a-man-whose ... ed-by-joy/

Elder depicts forms of life that have grown increasingly out of touch with the body, and attempts to elicit and experience of the delight that results from reconnecting with our natural being.

https://vimeo.com/129685429

[niminy-piminy]

PHILIP JOHNSON: DIARY OF AN ECCENTRIC ARCHITECT (Barbara Wolf)
https://letterboxd.com/film/philip-john ... architect/

This documentary depicts Johnson at work and the importance of the architectural act, the actual construction, and how the buildings interact with their environment — in this case, the autumn leaves or snow of New Canaan.

https://vimeo.com/51236810

[niminy-piminy]

oke, i made my first viewing for the poll.
it is VIVEMENT L'AN 2000 (Stéphane Blanquet).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1002471/
it's a pity, it's not called VIVEMENT L'AN 2020.
then you would be reading here my extensive conspiracy theory about animation from 1997 foretelling the current lockdown!
but there is "2000" in the title instead and thus it seems the film is just a pointless anecdote about a kiss in outer space with no other significant connotation...
https://youtu.be/DvRqVjnvJOQ
or maybe it was called at first "2020" but then SOMEONE forced the filmmaker to change the title???
or was the director bribed to change the title???
will we ever get to know the truth???

[thoxans]

Spawn (Mark A.Z. Dippé, 1997)

so disappointed with that one to this very day... remember when '97 was gonna be the year of spawn, with a theatrical flick, a tv show, and a playstation game all being released? sigh. the movie was garbage (even if leguizamo was solid), and videogame was crap (bad controls, crummy graphics, and pretty much just plain ol' boring); only the tv show was good (especially that first season), but it never really took off cuz a cartoon aimed at an adult audience based on a comic book aimed at teenage boys that aired on hbo late on friday nights was kind of a hard sell. but i still have all my issues of the comic book in plastic sleeves with the hard cardboard slide-ins, 99% of them in mint condition. have most of the issues through #100, as well as some of the crossover/spin-off stuff. out of curiosity, checked not long ago to see how much they were worth, and the value had increased ~0% in the twenty years i've owned them. thank god i started investing in mutual funds instead

[niminy-piminy]

i'm on 1997 spree!
second viewing for the poll...
THE MOLE AND THE MUSHROOMS (Zdeněk Miler) - no dialogue
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428742/

The little mole tries to get rid of two annoying mushrooms. But a bad conscience can sometimes lead to a better solution.

https://youtu.be/N3n_9tfjJY4

[sally]

my conscience is so bad i obliterated youtube apparently. i wouldn't call that a solution. jiri it's broke. maybe a region thing?

[niminy-piminy]

jiri it's broke.

and now? i changed the link for another one. give the mole a second chance...