SCFZ

Choose your favourite films from 1976 (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

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 (scored 5-3-1) 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

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.

Deadline for 1976 ballots will be Tuesday, January 31st at roughly midnight EST.

sérail - eduardo de gregorio
noroît - jacques rivette
duelle - jacques rivette
the marquise of o - eric rohmer
elementarz - wojciech wiszniewski
the girl chewing gum - john smith
utopia - raúl ruiz
trás-os-montes - margarida cordeiro, antónio reis
anatomy of a relationship - luc moullet, antonietta pizzorno
central bazaar - stephen dwoskin
satan's brew - rainer werner fassbinder
three years without god - mario o'hara
moi, pierre rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère… - rené allio
sebastiane - derek jarman
the wishing tree - tengiz abuladze
frame for few poses - karpo aćimović godina
family plot - alfred hitchcock
the wind is whistling under their feet - györgy szomjas
the last supper - tomás gutiérrez alea
the last woman - marco ferreri

to watch:
the little mermaid - karel kachyňa #CoMoCz
the clown - vojtěch jasný #CoMoCz
seclusion near a forest - jiří menzel #CoMoCz
fortini/cani - straub/huillet
addio anatolia - stavros tornes
i am self-sufficient - nanni moretti
f comme fairbanks - maurice dugowson
the castaways of turtle island - jacques rozier
letter from my village - safi faye
la marge - walerian borowczyk
redundant - aloizs brencs
the atlantic swimmers - herbert achternbusch
jamais plus toujours - yannick bellon
ghashiram kotwal - multi

The Wishing Tree (Tenghiz Abuladze)
The Garden of Stones (Parviz Kimiavi)
The Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg)
The Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith)

Tails (Paul Sharits)
Two Minute Warning (Larry Peerce)
The Cassandra Crossing (George Cosmatos)
The Judge and the Assassin (Bertrand Tavernier)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)
Nuts in May (Mike Leigh)
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (John Llewellyn Moxey)
Noirs et Blancs en Couleur (Jean-Jacques Annaud)

The Front (Martin Ritt)
The Last Hard Men (Andrew McLaglen)
Harlan County USA (Barbara Kopple)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck... (Werner Herzog)
The Colours (Abbas Kiarostami)
Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)
Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog)

[provisional list deleted]

I like:

Other People's Letters (Averbakh)
Nobody's Daughter (Ranódy)
Insiang (Brocka)
The Wishing Tree (Abuladze)
Mikey and Nicky (May)
I Wish to Speak (Panfilov)
A Wedding Suit (KIarostami)
Red Apples (Tatos)
Three Godless Years (O'Hara)
The White Ship (Shamshiyev)
When the River Kabani Turned Red (Backer)
Secluded, Near Woods (Menzel)
The Fifth Seal (Fabri)
Heart of Glass (Herzog)
Pallavi (Lankesh)
Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven (Loteanu)
Manhunt (Satô)
Cría cuervos... (Saura)
L'innocent (Visconti)
The Village (Yamada)
The Assistant (Koerfer)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Casavettes)
Chinese Roulette (Fassbinder)
Rocky
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Shootist
etc

Don't like:
Taxi Driver
Fellini Casanova
News from Home

news from home
harlan county usa
mikey and nicky
insiang
canoa
the wishing tree
chess of the wind
shaolin temple
i, pierre riviere...
the little mermaid (crazy czech version)
assault on precinct 13
the desert of the tartars
the magic blade
mr klein
godspeed you black emperor
the man who fell to earth
killing of a chinese bookie
cria cuervos
the witch who came from the sea
virikuta

Kings of the Road 1976 ‘Im Lauf der Zeit’ Directed by Wim Wenders
Insiang 1976 Directed by Lino Brocka
Satan’s Brew 1976 ‘Satansbraten’ Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Central Bazaar 1976 Directed by Stephen Dwoskin
Visa de censure n° X 1976 Directed by Pierre Clémenti
The Witch Who Came from the Sea 1976 Directed by Matt Cimber
Martin 1976 Directed by George A. Romero
Man on the Roof 1976 ‘Mannen på taket’ Directed by Bo Widerberg
In the Realm of the Senses 1976 ‘愛のコリーダ’ Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Coup de Grâce 1976 ‘Der Fangschuss’ Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Who Can Kill a Child? 1976 ‘¿Quién puede matar a un niño?’ Directed by Chicho Ibáñez Serrado
I, Claudius 1976 Directed by Herbert Wise
Double Labyrinthe 1976 Directed by Maria Klonaris, Katerina Thomadaki
The Little Mermaid 1976 ‘Malá mořská víla’ Directed by Karel Kachyňa

Goldflocken 1976 ‘Flocons D'or’ Directed by Werner Schroeter
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 Directed by John Cassavetes
Duelle 1976 Directed by Jacques Rivette
Maîtresse 1976 Directed by Barbet Schroeder
The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Directed by Nicolas Roeg
Le Berceau de cristal 1976 Directed by Philippe Garrel
Rendezvous 1976 ‘C'était un rendez-vous’ Directed by Claude Lelouch
Nuts in May 1976 Directed by Mike Leigh
Cría cuervos… 1976 Directed by Carlos Saura
All the President’s Men 1976 Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Eaten Alive 1976 Directed by Tobe Hooper
News from Home 1976 Directed by Chantal Akerman
Network 1976 Directed by Sidney Lumet
It’s Me 1976 Directed by Frans Zwartjes
Marie, the Doll 1976 ‘Marie-poupée’ Directed by Joël Séria

I guess I'll start with these. Excited to dive into a bunch of other stuff, though...

La Casa Del Sur
Longitud De Guerra
News From Home
Taxi Driver

The Little Mermaid
The Shootist
Keoma
Duelle
Mikey And Nicky
The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie
Assault On Precinct 13
The Last Supper
Chinese Roulette
Coronacion
El Nino Y La Estrella
God Told Me To
Burnt Offerings
La Ley Del Monte
La Marquise d'O
The Tenant
The Wishing Tree
The Inugami Family
The Man Who Fell To Earth

Films seen: 90+

I have about 40 personal favorites from this year, so kicking 20 of them off the list was very painful...


FINAL LIST

20 personal favorites, ranked in order of preference

5 tiers

Edogawa Ranpo ryôki-kan: Yaneura no sanposha “The Watcher in the Attic“ (Noboru Tanaka, Japan)
Yong chun da xiong “He's a Legend, He's a Hero“ (Hsing-Lai Wang, Taiwan/Hong Kong)
Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù “Private Vices, Public Virtues“ (Miklós Jancsó, Italy/Yugoslavia)
Mad Dog Morgan (Philippe Mora, Australia)

L'aile ou la cuisse “The Wing or The Thigh?“ (Claude Zidi, France)
Keoma (Enzo G. Castellari, Italy)
Fung yu seung lau sing “The Killer Meteors“ (Wei Lo, Hong Kong/Taiwan)
Da mo mi zong “Shaolin Kung Fu Mystagogue“ (Peng-Yi Chang, Taiwan/Hong Kong)

Sangue di sbirro “Blood and Bullets“ (Alfonso Brescia, Italy)
L’alpagueur “The Hunter Will Get You“ (Philippe Labro, France)
Eva nera “Black Cobra“ (Joe D’Amato, Italy)
Barocco (André Téchiné, France)

Malá morská víla “The Little Mermaid“ (Karel Kachyna, Czechoslovakia)
Le corps de mon ennemi “Body of My Enemy“ (Henri Verneuil, France)
Wu du tian luo “The Web of Death“ (Yuen Chor, Hong Kong)
Jack the Ripper (Jess Franco, Switzerland/West Germany /Spain)

Il corsaro nero “The Black Corsair“ (Sergio Sollima, Italy)
Du hou mi shi “The Sexy Killer“ (Chung Sun, Hong Kong)
Shao Lin si “Shaolin Temple“ (Cheh Chang/Wu Ma, Hong Kong)
Zena s krajolikom “Landscape with a Woman“ (Ivica Matic, Yugoslavia)

maybe i'll watch duelle again - i was sooo not into it but it was years ago - i could have an epiphany

My top 20:

Chinesisches Roulette (1976, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)
Cría cuervos (1976, Carlos Saura)
News From Home (1976, Chantal Akerman)

I, Pierre Rivière, Having Slaughtered My Mother, Sister and Brother... (1976, René Allio)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976, Nicholas Roeg)
Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
Le Locataire (1976, Roman Polanski)

La última cena / The Last Supper (1976, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
Ansikte mot ansikte (1976, Ingmar Bergman)
Az ötödik pecsét / The Fifth Seal (1976, Zoltán Fábri)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976, John Cassavetes)

Jamais plus toujours / Nevermore, Forever (1976, Yannick Bellon)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976, Robert Altman)
Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000 / Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976, Alain Tanner)
All the Presidents Men (1976, Alan J. Pakula)

Les naufragés de l'île de la Tortue / The Castaways of Turtle Island (1976, Jacques Rozier)
Jana Aranya / The Middleman (1976, Satyajit Ray)
Novecento (1976, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Ici et ailleurs (1976, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)

Honourable mentions:

Un enfant dans la foule / A Child in the Crowd (1976, Gérard Blain)
Herz aus Glas / Heart of Glass (1976, Werner Herzog)
Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél / The Wind Blows Under Your Feet (1976, György Szomjas)
Canoa (1976, Felipe Cazals)
Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication / 6x2/Over and Under the Media (1976, Anne-Marie Miéville and Jean-Luc Godard)
Der Fangschuß / Coup de grâce (1976, Volker Schlöndorff)
Allegro non troppo (1976, Bruno Bozzetto)
Árvácska / Nobody's Daughter (1976, László Ranódy & Gyula Mészáros)
La casa dalle finestre che ridono / The House with Laughing Windows (1976, Pupi Avati)
Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976, Federico Fellini)

La meilleure façon de marcher / The Best Way to Walk (1976, Claude Miller)
Todo modo / One Way or Another (1976, Elio Petri)
The Omen (1976, Richard Donner)
Lost, Lost, Lost (1976, Jonas Mekas)
The Front (1976, Martin Ritt)
Communion / Alice, Sweet Alice (1976, Alfred Sole)
The Shootist (1976, Don Siegel)
Sweet Revenge (1976, Jerry Schatzberg)
Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù / Private Vices, Public Pleasures (1976, Miklós Jancsó)
The Missouri Breaks (1976, Arthur Penn)

L'aile ou la cuisse / The Wing and the Thigh (1976, Claude Zidi)
Calmos / Femmes fatales (1976, Bertrand Blier)
Mannen på taket / The Man on the Roof (1976, Bo Widerberg)
Bound for Glory (1976, Hal Ashby)
Barocco (1976, André Téchiné)
Le plein de super / Fill 'er Up with Super (1976, Alain Cavalier)
Malá morská víla / The Little Mermaid (1976, Karel Kachyna)
Guerra Conjugal / Conjugal Warfare (1976, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, Clint Eastwood)

greennui's linking to porn again

tbc i am JK

also is that hard sub german version of utopia all there is out there

uuuknowmeee

addio anatolia - stravros tornes

nice elegaic (funereal prelude to rousseau's antiquities of rome)

watched illustrious corpses cuz i love the face of lino ventura. and antifa cinema!





i'll also probably watch keoma~!

I love Illustrous Corpses! My favorite Rosi.

You absolutely need to see Keoma! Nero at his hottest (though I know that's debatable).

die marquise von o.. is gorgeous and horribly depressing

A truly fascinating film! I love Rohmer's historical movies and this might be my favorite of all his films, together with THE LADY AND THE DUKE (2001).
I still can't believe Rohmer made the film in the German language. Such a tough thing to try this.

The Marquise of O was pretty quickly one of my favorite Rohmer's by the time it ended. The refusal to "update" the novel for a more contemporary audience by changing details or commenting more explicitly on its sense of morality makes it so much more interesting to sit through. I hated the way it looked during the opening battle scenes at first, but pretty quickly was won over. Really fascinating movie.

Also 1976 is a really good year in my opinion.

Hopefully I can track down a few more over the next week, but my default ballot would look like this.

Mr. Klein - Joseph Losey
Serail - Eduardo De Gregorio
News From Home - Chantal Akerman
The Marquise of O - Eric Rohmer
The Man Who Fell To Earth - Nicholas Roeg

The Last Supper - Tomas Gutierrez Alea
The Witch Who Came From the Sea - Matt Cimber
The Wishing Tree - Tengiz Abuladze
Face to Face - Ingmar Bergman
Duelle - Jacques Rivette

There are a lot of movies from this year like The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea or The Astrologer or even Chinese Roulette that I'd have a hard time putting on a list... but also think are really fascinating and think about a lot.

watched the mysterious serail. was hoping they'd murder this guy



gonna watch the end again to make sure they didn't lol i kept falling asleep and not sure which parts i dreamed

i think i love it

that's a spectacular film, directed by a rivette collaborator with his main star at the time (bulle ogier). definitely a favorite of mine. too bad the rest of de gregorio's films aren't quite as good.

brian d wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:22 pm too bad the rest of de gregorio's films aren't quite as good.

i think short memory is very good if not quite up to serail, aspern is his masterpiece though but sadly not available anywhere

keoma is good! don't eat the brown acid xD



or maybe: verily i say unto you... franco IS hot but this wig is ludicrous

Soundtrack is an interesting choice

Haha, yeah, the soundtrack is something else! Personally, I love the Angelis brothers.

Trędowata (jerzy hoffman) thx to greg for this one...so romantic those people were dreadful. strong prince harry vibe lol



also carrie, midsommer (it might be the flowers :p)... source is a novel by helena mniszkówna published in 1906. this was the 3rd film version

My God, Satansbraten by Fassbinder! All those people are so horrible, and it's so goddamned funny! I wouldn't be surprised if John Waters took notes o this one for Polyester, but it goes far beyond that in awfulness.

oh my, i need to watch the hoffman....

and yeah! loooooooooooove satansbraten, so funny (which is probably why it's not as championed)