2007 poll 2.0

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Choose your favorite films from 2007 (according to IMDB).

Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number.

Twenty-film ballots can be formatted as follows:
- Five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier
- Four tiers of five films each, 5/5/5/5; scored 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5 pts/film/tier
- Two tiers of ten films each, 10/10; scored 4-2 pts/film/tier
- No tiers, unranked; scored 3 pts/film
- A 20-film three-tier ballot is not possible as yet (pending revision of the present scoring system)

A tiered ballot can include less than 20 films, but in that case the total number of films must still be able to be factored by the number of tiers, so:
- A five tier ballot can include only 20, 15, 10, or 5 films
- A four tier ballot can include only 20, 16, 12, 8, or 4 films
- A three tier ballot can include only 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, or 3 films
- A two tier ballot can include only 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 films
- Ballots that are 19, 17, 13, 11, 7 or 1 films must be no tiers (in the present scoring system)

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible, so that others can use them for recommendations. You may 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 be considered on a case-by-case basis, and are not guaranteed inclusion on the final list.

Deadline for 2007 lists will be Tuesday, August 31st, at around midnight EDT.

[ofrene]

thus far...

At Sea

Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Fengming: A Chinese Memoir

In the City of Sylvia

No Country for Old Men

Om Shanti Om

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

There Will Be Blood

Zodiac

Afternoon

Beyond the Years

Eastern Promises

Flight of the Red Balloon

Frownland
I'm Not There

Secret Sunshine

The Man From London

The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
We Own the Night

[Monsieur Arkadin]

I'll keep an eye for suggestions, because currently this is a mediocre year for me.

Silent Light - Carlos Reygadas
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days - Cristian Mungiu
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Andrew Dominik
Hot Rod - Akiva Schaffer
Help Me Eros - Lee Kang-Sheng

Sweeney Todd - Tim Burton
Eastern Promises - David Cronenberg
Honeydripper - John Sayles
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson
Water Lillies - Celine Sciamma

Grindhouse - Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez*
Zodiac - David Fincher
Margot At The Wedding - Noah Baumbach
At Sea - Peter Hutton
The Walker - Paul Schrader

*(I don't know how to list this... but in 2007 I paid to see a movie titled "Grindhouse" in the theater, the single releases came out a year later.)

[greennui]

Cleopatra (Júlio Bressane)
At Sea (Peter Hutton)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
I'm Not There. (Todd Haynes)
Zodiac (David Fincher)

Afternoon (angela Schanelec)
Rehearsals for Retirement (Phil Solomon)
Last Days in a Lonely Place (Phil Solomon)
Casting a Glance (James Benning)
Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)

[flip]

Mutum (Sandra Kogut)
Smiley Face (Gregg Araki)
Ando-C (Shahram Mokri)
The Class (Ilmar Raag)

The Banishment (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
At Sea (Peter Hutton)
Casting a Glance (James Benning)

You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
Steak (Quentin Dupieux)
No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers)
The Key to Reserva (Martin Scorsese)

Last Days in a Lonely Place (Phil Solomon)
[Rec] (Jaume Balaguero/Paco Plaza)
Naked Fear (Thom Eberhardt)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)

Music and Lyrics (Marc Lawrence)
Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez)
Atonement (Joe Wright)
An American Crime (Tommy O'Haver)

[...]

Preliminary list of 20

The Mad Detective
The Duchess of Langeais
Yamadonga
Water Lilies
The Pope's Toilet
There Will Be Blood
Mister Lonely
Big Man Japan
United Red Army
You the Living
My Winnipeg
Eastern Promises
Persepolis
Guru
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
Flight of the Red Balloon
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Most Distant Course
La Antena
Saawariya

Possible alternatives for slots:
Boarding Gate, Hotel Chevalier/Darjeeling Limited, Going By the Book, Jellyfish, Spider Lilies, Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, Atonement, Shotgun Stories, Up the Yangtze, The Detective, Energie, My Blueberry Nights, The Edge of Heaven, Autumn Ball, The Girl By the Lake, Heartbeat Detector, Secret Sunshine, RR, I'm Not There, Triangle, The Last Mistress, The Trap, Nightwatching, Michael Clayton, Angel, Om Shanti Om, Lust, Caution, The Walker, Evangelion 1.0 You are not Alone

Less likely alternatives:
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows, Spider-Man 3, Margot at the Wedding, Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan, The Warlords, War, Next, You Kill Me, Mr Brooks, Secret of the Grain, Music and Lyrics, Chop Shop, Sunshine, Ocean's 13, Helvetica, Timecrimes, American Gangster, Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, Death Proof, Ghost Rider

Eh:
Becoming Jane, Gone Baby Gone, Waitress, Shoot 'em Up, 1408, 12, 5 Centimeters per Second, Death at a Funeral, The Landlord, La Vie en Rose, Knocked Up, Savages, Hot Fuzz, Redline, Bourne Ultimatum, Pirates of the Caribbean:At the World's End, Encounters at the End of the World, Flatland, Odin's Shield Maiden, Hellboy: Blood and Iron, Hasta el viento tiene miedo, Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, A Kitten for Hitler
Meh:
In the Name of the King, The King of Kong, The Kingdom, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Live Free and Die Hard, Son of Rambow, I Am Legend, Boy A, Dan in Real Life, Eagle vs Shark, Dororo, The Golden Compass, 3:10 to Yuma, The Last Legion, Stardust, Enchanted, Ping Pong Playa, Balls of Fury, Lions for Lambs, Flawless, The Nanny Diaries, No Reservations. The Mist, Transformers, The Orphanage, Nancy Drew, Youth Without Honor, Battlestar Galactica:Razor
Bleh:
St Trinians, Juno, Hitman, Blades of Glory, 28 Weeks Later, Paranormal Activity, Gabriel, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Resident Evil Extinction, Once, Paranoid Park, Vexville, Ratatouille, Afrosamurai, Sukiyaki Western Django, Appleseed:Ex Machina, Superman: Doomsday, Beowolf, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Surf's Up, Planet Terror, AVP: Requiem, Funny Games, Fermat's Room, Battle for Terra, Bridge to Terabithia, Trick r Treat, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, The Simpsons Movie, Bee Movie, Silent Light

[niminy-piminy]

ballot...

Rula, Ticho, Čumba Ladislav, Doc. Karel Floss and Other Heroes of Our Demonstrations in Year 2007 (Helena Všetečková)
Lucio (Jose Mari Goenaga, Aitor Arregi)
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Éric Rohmer)
Yella (Christian Petzold)
Afternoon (Angela Schanelec)
Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
Night Lodgers (Licinio Azevedo)
Notes on Gesture (Solomon Nagler)
Western Sunburn (Karl Lemieux)
Worldstar (Nataša von Kopp)

The Heart is a Dark Forest (Nicolette Krebitz)
Time to Die (Dorota Kędzierzawska)
It's Gonna Get Worse (Petr Nikolaev)
Last Days in a Lonely Place (Phil Solomon)
House (Ben Rivers)
Opium: Diary of a Madwoman (János Szász)
Energie! (Thorsten Fleisch)
Safety Zone (Lukáš Kokeš)
Four Toronto Films (Nicky Hamlyn)
Václav (Jiří Vejdělek)

-------------------------------------------------

in the last few yrs, logged (6!)...
LUCIO (Jose Mari Goenaga, Aitor Arregi)
COMPARISON VIA A THIRD (Harun Farocki)
LOTUS (Nobuhiro Aihara)
IN SEARCH OF THE GREAT BEAST 666 (Robert Garofalo)
FINALE (Klaus Lemke)
7 WONDERS OF BRATISLAVA (Alexandra Gojdičová)
HEAVY ARCHITECTURE (Edgar Pêra)
THE ROMANCE OF ASTREA AND CELADON (Éric Rohmer)
THOMAS HARLAN - MOVING SHRAPNEL (Christoph Hübner)
RAJNIŠ: STRATEGY OF FREEDOM (Josef Dlouhý)
FASHION AVENUE (Jim Jennings)
4B MOVIE (Antonello Matarazzo)
THE INFINITE POSE (Antonello Matarazzo)
NAZI POP TWINS (James Quinn)
CHILDREN’S GAME 2: RICOCHETS (Francis Alÿs)
DREAM HOME (Anthony Discenza)
THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE (Rudolf Thome)
SHADOW TRAP (Greg Pope)
UNTITLED (PINK DOT) (Takeshi Murata)
ESCAPE SPIRIT VIDEOSLIME (Takeshi Murata)
WARM OBJECTS (Peggy Ahwesh)
MADONNAS (Maria Speth)
YELLA (Christian Petzold)
FAILED STATES (Henry Hills)
FUGUE NEFESH (Solomon Nagler)
NOTES ON GESTURE (Solomon Nagler)
HOUSE (Ben Rivers)
QUARTET (Nicky Hamlyn)
FOUR TORONTO FILMS (Nicky Hamlyn)
PHANTOM LOVE (Nina Menkes)
BLIND LIGHT (Sarah Pucill)
SANAA, BLACK PASSAGES (Robert Cahen)
BLIND SONG (Robert Cahen)
ALL THAT RISES (Daïchi Saïto)
SPITTED BY KISS (Miloš Tomić)
ISLAND HEDVIKA (Vít Pancíř)
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Werner Herzog)

in a more distant past, watched (10!)...
IT'S GONNA GET WORSE (Petr Nikolaev)
WORLDSTAR (Nataša von Kopp)
THE TADPOLE, THE RABBIT AND THE HOLY GHOST (Filip Remunda)
RULA, TICHO, CUMBA LADISLAV, DOC. KAREL FLOSS AND OTHER HEROES OF OUR DEMONSTRATIONS IN YEAR 2007 (Helena Všetečková)
WAVE OF CARE (Alexandra Hetmerová)
SAFETY ZONE (Lukáš Kokeš)
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS (Cristian Mungiu)
GRINDHOUSE (Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright, Quentin Tarantino)
PLANET TERROR (Robert Rodriguez)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
EMPTIES (Jan Svěrák)
VÁCLAV (Jiří Vejdělek)
MARCELA (Helena Třeštíková)
MASHA AND THE BEAR (Vlad Bayramgulov, Various)
IMPORT/EXPORT (Ulrich Seidl)
OPIUM: DIARY OF A MADWOMAN (János Szász)
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (Craig Gillespie)
TIME TO DIE (Dorota Kędzierzawska)
REVERSE PLAY (Ján Mančuška)
ANDO-C (Shahram Mokri)
CRASH (Jean-Baptiste Lenglet)
GYROSTATIS - MODEL (Jean-Baptiste Lenglet)
SINGULAR MEETING (Manoel de Oliveira)
21 ALLEYS (Robert Todd)
MENTAL-APOCALYPSE HACKER'S CUT-UP CHAOS (Kaliptus)
PUBLIC DOMAIN (Jim Jennings)
LOST UTOPIA (Mirai Mizue)
HELVETICA (Gary Hustwit)
PRATER (Ulrike Ottinger)
200000 PHANTOMS (Jean-Gabriel Périot)
RR (James Benning)
NIGHT LODGERS (Licinio Azevedo)
A TALE OF TWO CITIES (Jem Cohen)
ENERGIE! (Thorsten Fleisch)
CORRIDORS (Paul Clipson)
MISTER LONELY (Harmony Korine)

watched for the poll (4!)...
SALIVA (Esmir Filho)
THE SMALL ONES (Lynne Sachs)
SUBSTANTIA STELLARIS (Mati Kütt)
TABLE TALK (Yanara Guayasamín)
5/ ATLÈTIC CLUB BANYOLES (Albert Serra, Àngel Martín)
SUCH AS IT IS (Walter Ungerer)
GERHARD RICHTER'S WINDOW (Corinna Belz)
THE HEART IS A DARK FOREST (Nicolette Krebitz)
A VERY BRITISH APOCALYPSE (Ned Parker)
10/ EXTERNAL MUTILATION (Christoph Schlingensief)
SILENCE (François-Jacques Ossang)
REHEARSALS FOR RETIREMENT (Phil Solomon)
CAPITALISM: SLAVERY (Ken Jacobs)
EUROPA (Matteo Botrugno, Daniele Coluccini)
15/ TRANQUIL (Takashi Makino)
WESTERN SUNBURN (Karl Lemieux)
LAST DAYS IN A LONELY PLACE (Phil Solomon)
SIX APARTMENTS (Reynold Reynolds)
EURYDICE... SHE, SO BELOVED (Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay)
20/ AFTERNOON (Angela Schanelec)

watchlist...
THE MELNIKOV HOUSE (Rax Rinnekangas)
THE PIRATE BUBBLE (Julien Donada)

[karl]

Is there a good year for movies in the 21st century? Compare 2007 to 1954 and 1929: supremely depressing. Well, for what it's worth:

Lust, Caution
In the City of Sylvia
There Will Be Blood
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Happiness (Hur Jin-ho)
With a Girl of Black Soil (Jeon Soo-il)
We Own the Night
Elder Blossom (Volker Koepp)
Secret Sunshine
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Wayne Wang)
In Between Days (So Yong Kim)
Aleksandra (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Beyond the Years (Im Kwon-taek)
The Banishment
Goodbye Bafana
I Just Didn't Do It (Suo Masayuki)
The Lark Farm (Taviani bros)
La Vie En Rose
Encounters at the End of the World
The Darjeeling Limited

[sally]

getting a ballot in now so if i lame-up this one as well, at least there's something:

unranked:

The Silence Before Bach (Pere Portabella)♥♥♥
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Éric Rohmer)
At Sea (Peter Hutton)
The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette) - pleasantly now the memory more informed after recently reading hélène cixous' 'respiration de la hache'
Time to Die (Dorota Kędzierzawska) ♥♥♥
Chouga (Darezhan Omirbayev) ♥♥♥
Nightwatching (Peter Greenaway) - will never get over seeing martin freeman's penis
Música nocturna (Rafael Filippelli)
Village People Radio Show (Amir Muhammad)
Heartbeat Detector (Nicolas Klotz)
In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerin)
California Dreamin’ (Cristian Nemescu)
Playing (Eduardo Coutinho)
Blue Eyelids (Ernesto Contreras)
The Man from London (Béla Tarr)
Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot)
Unrelated (Joanna Hogg) - i apologize i totally fancied tom hiddleston in this
Hourglass (Szabolcs Tolnai)
The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
Mad Detective (Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai)

to watch:
Falsa Loura
Nachmittag
Il passaggio della linea
La Recta Provincia
¿Dónde están sus historias?
Un baiser s'il vous plaît
L'histoire de Richard O.
Le cercle des noyés
Actrices
La France

wanted:
L'Homme qui marche

[nrh]

L'Homme qui marche

up in resources in the year poll watchlists thread

[flip]

Is there a good year for movies in the 21st century? Compare 2007 to 1954 and 1929: supremely depressing. Well, for what it's worth:

2000 was a good year i think, but after that, i'd only half-heartedly argue for 2002 and 2011. of course i haven't seen a lot so my mind may change.

that masayuki suo film is 2006 on imdb, by the way, otherwise i would have voted for it too!

[sally]

L'Homme qui marche

up in resources in the year poll watchlists thread

thank you!



now i get to look forward to a serge bozon cameo as well as mathieu amalric as a sex maniac, good year! don't know what everyone's complaining about

[Monsieur Arkadin]

L'Homme qui marche

up in resources in the year poll watchlists thread

What should I be doing to gain access to this magical thread?

[Silga]

[provisional list deleted]

[DT.]

Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov)
Boarding Gate (Olivier Assayas)
Breath (Kim Ki-duk)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
Glory to the Filmmaker! (Takeshi Kitano)
Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)
Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai)
Ocean’s Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
Ploy (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
The Secret of the Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
Smiley Face (Gregg Araki)
Snow Angels (David Gordon Green)
We Own the Night (James Gray)
Yamadonga (S. S. Rajamouli)
 
Want to watch:

I Just Didn't Do It (Masayuki Suo)
I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin)
The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
Om Shanti Om (Farah Khan)
Promise Me This (Emil Kusturica)
Redacted (Brian De Palma)
Rehearsals for Retirement (Phil Solomon)
Saawariya (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
Shall We Kiss? (Emmanuel Mouret)
State Legislature (Frederick Wiseman)
The Sun Also Rises (Jiang Wen)
United Red Army (Koji Wakamatsu)
You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
5 Centimetres per Second (Makoto Shinkai)

[nrh]

The Vow (Dominik Graf)
La France (Serge Bozon)
L’homme qui marche (Aurelia Georges)
La Recta Provincia (Raul Ruiz)

At Sea (Peter Hutton)
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (Shaad Ali)
Om Shanti Om (Farah Khan)
Shall We Kiss? (Emannuel Mouret)

The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette)
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Eric Rohmer)
Johnny Gaddar (Sriram Raghavan)
Kattradhu Thamizh (Ram)

Like a Dragon (Takashi Miike)
Mad Detective (Johnnie To)
We Own the Night (James Gray)
Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)

A Gentle Breeze in the Village (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
Jab We Met (Imtiaz Ali)
Yamadonga (S.S. Rajamouli)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)

want to watch - paruthiveeran, khoya khoya chand, cleopatra, guru, a girl cut in two, musica nocturnal, playing (coutinho), whispers and moans, united red army, afternoon, yella

fwiw i watched the graf with the autotranslated subs on kg and while they weren't perfect i thought they worked more than well enough

[sally]

L'Homme qui marche

up in resources in the year poll watchlists thread

What should I be doing to gain access to this magical thread?

have you been hacked? you mean the thread that's been there for years? (did anyone reply to you, if not i'll dm)

[Monsieur Arkadin]

L'Homme qui marche

up in resources in the year poll watchlists thread

What should I be doing to gain access to this magical thread?

have you been hacked? you mean the thread that's been there for years? (did anyone reply to you, if not i'll dm)

Yes I got it now. Thanks! Not hacked, just never great at picking up on subtlety... so the repeated references to "a place" was always kg in my mind.

[Curtis, baby]

Have Dreams, Will Travel (Brad Isaacs, 2007)
"Rehearsals for Retirement" (Phil Solomon, 2007)
"Last Days in a Lonely Place" (Phil Solomon, 2007)
Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)

No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, 2007)
Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma, 2007)
Nightwatching (Peter Greenaway, 2007)
Quiet City (Aaron Katz, 2007)

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (Sergei Bodrov, 2007)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007)

The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Éric Rohmer, 2007)
Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007)
"Hotel Chevalier" (Wes Anderson, 2007)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007)

Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings, 2007)
5 Centimeters per Second (Makoto Shinkai, 2007)
Joy Division (Grant Gee, 2007)
"The Death of Natural Language" (Clint Enns, 2007)

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Wait... I thought Police, Adjective was 2009?
Is there something I'm missing? Because that would definitely make my list if so.

[Curtis, baby]

whoopsy daisy

[St. Gloede]

2007 feels like such a long time ago, and unfortunately there has been some time since I saw most. Will go with a fairly basic 5x4 set-up:

1. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, Andrew Dominik)
2. I'm Not There (2007, Todd Haynes)
3. My Winnipeg (2007, Guy Maddin)
4. Du Levande / You, the Living (2007, Roy Andersson)
5. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)

6. Youth Without Youth (2007, Francis Ford Coppola)
7. Margot at the Wedding (2007, Noah Baumbach)
8. 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile / 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu)
9. No Country for Old Men (2007, The Coen Brothers)
10. Les amours d'Astrée et de Céladon / The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007, Eric Rohmer)

11. At Sea (2007, Peter B. Hutton)
12. The King of Kong (2007, Seth Gordon)
13. Gone Baby Gone (2007, Ben Affleck)
14. Les témoins / The Witnesses (2007, André Téchiné)
15. 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007, Makato Shinkai)

16. Los cronocrímenes / Timecrimes (2007, Nacho Vigalondo)
17. Lars and the Real Girl (2007, Craig Gillespie)
18. Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber From Fleet Street (2007, Tim Burton)
19. La fille coupee en deux / A Girl Cut in Two (2007, Claude Chabrol)
20. Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (2007, Sidney Lumet)

Honorable mentions:

Zodiac (2007, David Fincer)
Soom / Breath (2007, Ki-duk Kim)
Naissance des pieuvres / Water Lilies (2007, Céline Sciamma)
Ratatouille (2007, Brad Bird & Jan Pinkava)
Stuck (2007, Stuart Gordon)
Ye che / Night Train (2007, Yi'nan Diao)
American Gangster (2007, Ridley Scott)
Eastern Promises (2007, David Cronenberg)
Sukiyaki Western Django (2007, Takashi Miike)
El Orfanato / The Orphanage (2007, J.A. .Bayona)

[rischka]

united red army
casting a glance
at sea
om shanti om
mad detective
mister lonely
go go tales
my winnipeg
zodiac
darjeeling limited

got a chromebook so i can follow along a little better as i may be away for awhile and phone is only good for twitter. still can't watch whatever i want like at home but resources will help

[Pretentious Hipster]

In no order

There Will Be Blood
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
En la ciudad de Sylvia [In the City of Sylvia]
At Sea
Cleópatra
No Country for Old Men
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
Rehearsals for Retirement
Le voyage du ballon rouge [Flight of the Red Balloon]
Zodiac

[sally]

watched joko anwar's dead time cuz i've had it since 2017 and not got to it yet, but it got a little scary so watched most of it with the sound off. am clearly obsessed with silent cinema

[lineuphere]

Was I supposed to be creeped out by the icky stalkiness of "In the City of Sylvia?" It played like an ominous thriller to me, but I think it was supposed to somehow be seen as romantic?

If thriller was the intention, then kudos to Guerin.

[sally]

it's absolutely hideously stalky isn't? but very well shot (tbf to guerin he did address this in the academy of muses which was equally horrendously icky but a step towards self awareness. not enough though!) although it only ramps up what is present in other movies tho so i suppose we should be grateful the sickness is so apparent.

[lineuphere]

Also, I got tickled a couple of times that every gorgeous 20-something model in France was at the same café at the same time. My eyes rolled thinking about that casting call.

I appreciate the step toward self-awareness. And I agree that this behavior/sickness is shining a light on all the other stalker-fantasy-disguised-as-lovestories that came before it. (I'm looking at you, "A Short Film About Love.")

[Angel]

Auf der anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven)
Charlie Wilson's War
Dead Time: Kala
Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters)
Eastern Promises
El baño del Papa (The Pope's Toilet)
Irina Palm
It's a Free World...
Klopka (The Trap)
Knocked Up
La graine et le mulet (The Secret of the Grain)
Mang shan (Blind Mountain)
Milyang (Secret Sunshine)
Noodle
Once
Stardust
Sukkar banat (Caramel)
Terra Sonâmbula (Sleepwalking Land)
The Visitor
Vratné lahve (Empties)

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500)
4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile
Chak De! India
Hot Fuzz
Into the Wild
Le scaphandre et le papillon
No Country for Old Men
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Stellet licht
Taare Zameen Par
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Man from Earth
There Will Be Blood
Tropa de Elite
Zodiac

To see before the deadline
Das Sichtbare und das Unsichtbare
Hængbok
Hofshat Kaits
Sztuczki

Wanted
Ezra
Run Baby Run

[Lencho of the Apes]

Two pretty cool movies that haven't gotten much attention:

Frozen - Shivajee Chandrabhushan
"Parallel" vibe, coming-of-age-girl story, Northern India where it starts looking more like Tibet.

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and
Ulzhan - Volker Schlonsdorff
Meanwhile, next door in Kazakhstan... Reinforcing that "emotionally blocked loner-masculinity" trope, along with the "and the woman who loves him"one is maybe not the coolest thing ever, but Schlonsdorff makes it compelling. The Passenger done right? Also, snowy AF.