SCFZ

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

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

rischka wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:28 am 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)

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

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

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

xWheels

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.

xWheels

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.)

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

xTeens

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.

'xWheels on Feels', indeed.

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

xWheels wins 7-1.