cup21 :: r1.7

[Curtis, baby]

His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Ōbayashi, 1986)
xWheels


Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (Tsui Hark, 1980)
xTeens


vote for either
xWheels or xTeens
by Mar 31

[rischka]

wooo hoo first match where i've seen both films already

[Holymanm]

wooo hoo first match where i've seen both films already

i was stressing out over 3 scfzers already having seen my pick for this round... but 12 have seen the other one outdone!

(and my flick is up in the place)

[nrh]

unfortunately this is a match where i *really* like both films...

[rischka]

yes me too that's why i haven't voted yet lol

[rischka]

basically a toss up for me but i'll go with

xWheels

[nrh]

this may be the bias of having seen this more recently but i'm going to go with

xWheels

i love the tsui hark, all the more because it's a road he never really followed in his career, but the obayashi just has a special place in my heart, as do a lot of the films he made in that period.

[john ryan]

xWheels

[niminy-piminy]

i can easily comprehend someone falling madly for a bridge or for a tower.
https://letterboxd.com/film/married-to- ... fel-tower/
falling for a kawasaki was beyond my grasp so far.
now, it makes more sense.
https://youtu.be/yXlaS_jYBFQ

however, i can't still understand why Richard Misek didn't elaborate on this film in his book "Chromatic Cinema: A History of Screen Color"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/858 ... tic-cinema
Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meanings of color in moving images...

(have yet to see the other film to be able to vote.)

[niminy-piminy]

xWheels
tho i liked they play "Guess XY by his/her eyes/scalp/mustache/hands/feet/ears/nose/lips!" in Dangerous Encounters.

[ofrene]

xTeens

[mesnalty]

This one's tough, and I do feel bad that the Tsui Hark has gotten so few votes so far, but I still gotta go with xWheels. His Motorbike, Her Island is recognizably Obayashi, just bursting with creative energy, but compared to a lot of his films (even Bound for the Fields from the same year) it's light on the optical effects and over-the-top weirdness. Those, plus the extended runtimes, can sometimes make the emotional cores of his films hard to reach, and this one feels much more immediate.

I also loved Dangerous Encounters, a brutal, brutal film, but not quite enough to give it the edge over the Obayashi.

[DT.]

'xWheels on Feels', indeed.

[FLABREZU]

i will give a small lead to xWheels (but not a big one)

[Curtis, baby]

xWheels wins 7-1.