2003 Poll 2.0

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Choose your favourite films from 2003 (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 2003 ballots will be Tuesday, February 28th at roughly midnight EST.

[nrh]

Pithamagan, Bala
The Story of Marie & Julien, Jacques Rivette
Ce jour-la, Raul Ruiz
PTU, Johnnie To
Vai-e-Vem, Joao Cesar Monteiro

Mondo Meyer Uphakyan, Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Raghu Romeo, Rajat Kapoor
The Matrix Reloaded, Wachowski Sisters
The Matrix Revolutions, Wachowski Sisters
Cafe Lumiere, Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Yakuza Demon, Takashi Miike
Maqbool, Vishal Bhardwaj
Subho Mahurat, Rituparno Ghosh
Okkadu, Gunasekhar
Stuck on You, Farrelly Brothers

Moonchild, Takahisa Zeze
A Place Among the Living, Raul Ruiz
Anbe Sivam, Sundar C.
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi, Takeshi Kitano
Kal Ho Naa Ho, Nikhil Advani

[rischka]

goodbye dragon inn
PTU
come and go
running on karma
los angeles plays itself
le monde vivant
elephant
memories of murder
a tale of two sisters
love for all seasons

[sally]

nice year. from jj feild's penis getting slathered in honey amidst bees...to the sore loss of one of the greats...





the python - laila pakalniņa
hush! - viktor kossakovsky
le monde vivant - eugène green
the waiting room - zeki demirkubuz
come and go - joão césar monteiro
the magic gloves - martín rejtman
situation of the street - jan gogola jr
los angeles plays itself - thom andersen
my winter journey - vincent dieutre
uniform - diao yi'nan
memories of murder - bong joon-ho
saltimbank - jean-claude biette
the story of marie and julien - jacques rivette
the tulse luper suitcases part 1 - peter greenaway
all the fine promises - jean-paul civeyrac
goff in the desert - heinz emigholz
niki and flo - lucian pintilie
landscape - sergei loznitsa

to watch:
singing behind screens - ermanno olmi
go west young man - peter delpeut (vimeo)
lucky jack - peter liechti (dafilms)
route 181: fragments of a journey in palestine-israel - michel khleifi, eyal sivan (dafilms)
boredom in brno - vladimír morávek #CoMoCz
holy wood - kidlat tahimik (dafilms) #CoMoFilipino
the gospel according to lift-man albertas - arūnas matelis (dafilms)

[rischka]

thx for listing what's on dafilms

also i forgot singing behind screens - it's so odd

[wba]

Phew, those were the times when I watched a lot of newly released stuff at cinemas and festivals...
Apparently I've seen more than 150 films from this year, but it's been a while for most of them and there are many I don't remember at all and more that I wouldn't suspect that I had seen them if they weren't logged on imdb...

I'll have to think on this for a while.

[Silga]

Final list:

Monster (Patty Jenkins)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
Big Fish (Tim Burton)
Rare Exports Inc. (Jalmari Helander)
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)

Vodka Lemon (Hiner Saleem)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott)
The Human Stain (Robert Benton)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski)
Ruby & Quentin (Francis Veber)
Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella)
Anything Else (Woody Allen)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Daisuke Nishio, Hirotoshi Rissen, Leiji Matsumoto, Kazuhisa Takenouchi)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
Intolerable Cruelty (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)

[Lencho of the Apes]

Starting line-up:

The Brown Bunny - Gallo
Gozu - Takashi Miike
Maqbool -Bhardwaj
Nat Turner, A Troublesome Property - Burnett

and also maybe

Coffee And Cigarettes - Jarmusch
The Dreamers - Bertolucci
Moyngo, El Sueno De Maragareum - Txicao
Plastic Tree - Eo Il-Seong
The Return - Zvyagintsev
The Waiting Room - Demirkubuz

[St. Gloede]

Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom / Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003, Ki-duk Kim)
Dogville (2003, Lars Von Trier)
Bu san / Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Ming-liang Tsai)
The Saddest Music in the World (2003, Guy Maddin)

Salmer fra kjøkkenet / Kitchen Stories (2003, Bent Hamer)
Kontroll (2003, Nimród Antal)
Cowards Bend The Knee or The Blue Hands (2003, Guy Maddin)
Yakuza Horror Theater: Gozu (2003, Takashi Miike)

Jeux d'enfants / Love Me if You Dare (2003, Yann Samuell)
Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
Le temps du loup / The Time of the Wolf (2003, Michael Haneke)
Oldboy (2003, Chan-wook Park)

American Splendor (2003, Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini)
Monster (2003, Patty Jenkins)
The Company (2003, Robert Altman)
Capturing the Friedmans (2003, Andrew Jarecki)

Les égarés / Strayed (2003, André Téchiné)
Janghwa, Hongryeon / A Tale of Two Sisters (2003, Ji-woon Kim)
Vozvrashchenie / The Return (2003, Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Zhifu / Uniform (2003, Yi'nan Diao)

[karl]

Probably final, since I doubt I'll watch any for this one. If I do, I'll edit the following:

The Return (Zvyagintsev)
Repatriation (Kim)
Flashback (Frank)
Good Morning, Night (Bellocchio)

Memories of Murder (Bong)
A Talking Picture (Oliveira)
A Good Lawyer's Wife (Im)
The Idiot (Bortko)

Osama (Barmak)
The Fog of War (Morris)
Singing Behind Screens (Olmi)
Goodbye, Lenin! (Becker)

Niki and Flo (Pintilie)
Elephant (Van Sant)
Intolerable Cruelty (Coen)
Lost in Translation (Coppola)

[DT.]

Alexandra's Project (Rolf de Heer)
The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand)
The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo)
Cafe Lumiere (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom)
The Company (Robert Altman)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
Dogville (Lars von Trier)
The Flower of Evil (Claude Chabrol)
Games of Love and Chance (Abdellatif Kechiche)
A Good Lawyer's Wife (Im Sang-soo)
Landscape (Sergei Loznitsa)
Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
Purple Butterfly (Lou Ye)
Save the Green Planet! (Jang Joon-hwan)
The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)
Swimming Pool (Francois Ozon)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (Peter Greenaway)

Want to watch:

Angels in America (Mike Nichols)
All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
All Tomorrow’s Parties (Nelson Yu Lik-wai)
The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
Come and Go (Joao Cesar Monteiro)
Incantato (Pupi Avati)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
Open Range (Kevin Costner)
PTU (Johnnie To)
Raja (Jacques Doillon)
That Day (Raul Ruiz)
Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon)

[flip]

i think i haven't seen the really good films from this year, this is one year where nothing stands out to me as a first-tier film, so i just chose for my top tier films i thought might need some points, i feel sort of the same about a lot of these:

Koshonin / The Negotiator (Takashi Miike)
Kops (Josef Fares)
Fuse (Pjer Zalica)
Wasp (Andrea Arnold)

Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
Gozu (Takashi Miike)
The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
At Five in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmalbaf)

Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke)
The Five Obstructions (Lars von Trier)
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)

School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
One Missed Call (Takashi Miike)
Goodbye, Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Robert Rodriguez)

Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong)
Big Fish (Tim Burton)

[greennui]

The Living World 2003 ‘Le Monde vivant’ Directed by Eugène Green
Come and Go 2003 ‘Vai e Vem’ Directed by João César Monteiro
The Brown Bunny 2003 Directed by Vincent Gallo
Los Angeles Plays Itself 2003 Directed by Thom Andersen
Dogville 2003 Directed by Lars von Trier
Gozu 2003 ‘極道恐怖大劇場 牛頭 GOZU’ Directed by Takashi Miike
Singing Behind Screens 2003 ‘Cantando dietro i paraventi’ Directed by Ermanno Olmi
PTU 2003 Directed by Johnnie To
News from the Near Future 2003 Directed by Fiona Tan
Young Adam 2003 Directed by David Mackenzie (rare modern barge drama)

[rischka]

is this the year i watch the brown bunny

[shara]

Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Come and Go (João César Monteiro)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Ming-liang Tsai)
Shara (Naomi Kawase)
Niki and Flo (Lucian Pintilie)
‎Ramblers (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)
Vibrator (Ryuichi Hiroki)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)

[thoxans]

the brown bunny (vincent gallo)
doppelganger (kiyoshi kurosawa)

running on karma (johnnie to / wai ka-fai)
the waiting room (zeki demirkubuz)

cafe lumiere (hou hsiao-hsien)
memories of murder (bong joon-ho)

gozu (takashi miike)
ptu (johnnie to)

black cadillac (john murlowski)
kucch to hai (anurag basu / anil v. kumar)

[rischka]

are you here to convince me to watch the brown bunny

p.s. we missed u ♥

[wba]

Final List

5 tiers

The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, USA/Japan)
Bu jian "The Missing" (Kang-sheng Lee, Taiwan)
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (Daisuke Nishio/Hirotoshi Rissen/Leiji Matsumoto/Kazuhisa Takenouchi, Japan/France)
L'esquive "Games of Love and Chance" (Abdellatif Kechiche, France)

Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu "Gozu" (Takashi Miike, Japan)
Histoire de Marie et Julien "The Story of Marie and Julien" (Jacques RIvette, France/Italy)
Goff in der Wüste "Goff in the Desert" (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
Raja (Jacques Doillon, France/Morocco)

Dogville (Lars von Trier, Denmark/Netherlands/Sweden/Germany/UK/France/Finland/Norway/Italy)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant, USA)
Bu san "Good Bye, Dragon Inn" (Ming-liang Tsai, Taiwan)
Son frère "His Brother" (Patrice Chereau, France)

Mong bat liu "Lost in Time" (Derek Yee, Hong Kong)
Michel Vaillant (Louis-Pascal Couvelaire, France)
Wonderful Days (Moon-saeng Kim, South Korea)
The Station Agent (Tom McCarthy, USA)

The Human Stain (Robert Benton, USA/Germany)
Il est plus facile pour un chameau... "It's Easier for a Camel..." (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, France/Italy)
In the Cut (Jane Campion, USA/Australia/UK/France)
The Company (Robert Altman, USA/Germany/UK)

[rischka]

ok i'm gonna watch the brown bunny....

for silga's directed by actors challenge

currently in the middle of batang west side for CoMo philippines!

[...]

In the Cut
Goodbye Dragon Inn
Shara
The Saddest Music in the World
Memories of Murder

Tokyo Godfathers
Maqbool
Cafe Lumiere
Running on Karma
Los Angeles Plays Itself

Zatoichi
Save the Planet
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Return
Nothing

Young Adam
Aragami
Vodka Lemon
Matrix Reloaded
The Adventures of Iron Pussy

[MrCarmady]

Another weak year for me, will try to expand but for now, three tiers of five:

Tier 1
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Salinui chueok / Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
Goodbye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker)

Tier 2
Melvin Goes to Dinner (Bob Odenkirk)
The Room (Tommy Wiseau)
Swimming Pool (Francois Ozon)
Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
Intolerable Cruelty (Joel Coen)

Tier 3
X2 (Bryan Singer)
Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom / Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)
American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini)
The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)

Re-watch:
Return of the King (not seen the Extended Edition)
Master and Commander
Finding Nemo
PTU
The Cooler
Pirates of the Caribbean

Twenty to see:

Los Angeles Plays Itself
The Best of Youth
The Fog of War
Elephant
Last Life in the Universe

The Return
The Triplets of Belleville
Dogville
A Tale of Two Sisters
Save the Green Planet!

Cowards Bend the Knee
The Saddest Music in the World
Matrix Reloaded
Vai e Vem
Shara

Le monde vivant
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
In the Cut
Cafe Lumiere
Running on Karma

[rischka]

i liked maqbool better than haider - maybe i'm sick of hamlet but macbeth rules

[rischka]

fell asleep on bad bunny i mean brown bunny :p i like that he found creative ways to obscure his face so i don't have to look at him



i like the driving scenes too, it's all very dreamy and i will finish it (even if i know what's coming)

edit: chloe is kind of devastating. but gallo is still way too creepy for me. that serial killer van...

[Lencho of the Apes]

Singing Behind Screens - Olmi ... if anyone has a woman-pirates itch to scratch.

That Day - Ruiz -- one of my five top favorite RR.s? Pretty sure it is, as sure as I can be about anything with Ruiz.

Penj E Asr/At Five In The Afternoon - Makhmalbaf -- all about a high school student trying to imagine a post-Taliban world where being a woman was maybe not an insurmountable obstacle to doing anything in life. She has ruby slippers! (As it were...)

[Monsieur Arkadin]

The Story of Marie and Julien - Jacques Rivette
Goodbye, Dragon Inn - Tsai Ming-Liang
Saraband - Ingmar Bergman
Casa De Los Babys - John Sayles
In The Cut - Jane Campion
Dogville - Lars Von Trier
All The Fine Promises - Jean-Paul Civeryac
The Saddest Music in the World - Guy Maddin

[sally]

started watching route 181, but had to stop 1 hour in out of rage. not sure there's anything i could say about it that won't get me banned or censored

[wba]

started watching route 181, but had to stop 1 hour in out of rage. not sure there's anything i could say about it that won't get me banned or censored

Didn't know the film was SO cotroversial...
Is it a propaganda piece for the Palestinians or what irked you that much?
I haven't seen it myself, but I thought that it sounded interesting. Should I refrain from watching?

[Monsieur Arkadin]

270 minutes worth of documentation of apartheid and ethnic cleansing just gets exhausting about 4 minutes in.
I also haven't seen the whole thing because I just get too angry over this stuff now. There's always more to learn, and value to be gleaned, but sometimes I have to forefront my mental health.

[sally]

Is it a propaganda piece for the Palestinians

watch it if you want or not, but i'm not discussing it. i was mainly trying to signal that i too was still attempting to watch some 2003 films

will now beat a cowardly retreat back to the happy silents, where everyone is dead and their particular sufferings at the injustice of the world are long over

[rischka]

That Day - Ruiz -- one of my five top favorite RR.s? Pretty sure it is, as sure as I can be about anything with Ruiz.

thx for reminding me about this loved it