2013 Poll 2.0

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Choose your favourite films from 2013 (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 2013 ballots will be Friday, March 31st at roughly midnight EDT.

[sally]

two of my delirious faves....

story of my death - albert serra
hard to be a god - aleksey german
+
the parrot and the swan - alejo moguillansky
love songs - bohdan karásek
incident urbain - john lalor
if i were a thief...i'd steal - paulo rocha
what now? remind me - joaquim pinto
our sunhi - hong sang-soo
nobody's daughter haewon - hong sang-soo
three landscapes - peter b hutton
a spell to ward off the darkness - bens rivers & russell
skinningrove - michael almereyda
el otro día - ignacio agüero


film desperate forever to watch but can't track down:
listening to the space in my room - robert beavers

[Silga]

[provisional list deleted]

[flip]

Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
CAFe CAFe (Patrick Downing)

Fish and Cat (Shahram Mokri)
How I Live Now (Kevin MacDonald)
Austenland (Jerusha Hess)
The Makeover (John Gray)

The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
Lone Survivor (Peter Berg)
We are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson)

Coherence (James Ward Byrkit)
Wrong Cops (Quentin Dupieux)
Sniffer (Buddhadev Dasgupta)
Cold Eyes (Kim Byung-seo/Cho Ui-seok)

Trapped (Parviz Shahbazi)
The Emblazoned Apparition (Philip Solomon)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)
Stoker (Chan-wook Park)

[nrh]

Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
Tirez La Langue Mademoiselle (Axelle Ropert)
Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton)
The Parrot & the Swan (Alejo Moguillansky)
Mille Soleils (Mati Diop)

Seventh Code (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-Liang)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
Onaayum Aattukkuttiyum (Mysskin)
Annayum Rasoolum (Rajeev Ravi)

Akam (Shalini Usha Nair)
Irandam Ulagam (Selvaraghavan)
Tip Top (Serge Bozon)
Thanga Meenkal (Ram)
Our Sunhi (Hong Sang Soo)

Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang Soo)
Tatort: Aus der Tiefe der Zeit (Dominik Graf)
Shuddh Desi Romance (Maneesh Sharma)
Soodhu Kavam (Nalan kumarasamy)
Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa (Buddhadeb Dasgupta)

need to watch - Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost, Ankhon Dekhi

[rischka]

wolf of wall street -scorsese
three landscapes -hutton
tale of the princess kaguya -takahata
stray dogs -tsai
seventh code -kurosawa

the parrot and the swan -moguillansky
story of my death -serra
what now? remind me -pinto
blind detective -to
the wind rises -miyazaki

young detective dee: rise of the sea dragon -tsui
bnsf -benning
dusty stacks of mom -mack
a touch of sin -jia
how to be a god -german

edited ^

[greennui]

Our Sunhi 2013 ‘우리 선희’ Directed by Hong Sang-soo
The Wind Rises 2013 ‘風立ちぬ’ Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 2013 ‘かぐや姫の物語’ Directed by Isao Takahata

Under the Skin 2013 Directed by Jonathan Glazer
Three Landscapes 2013 Directed by Peter B. Hutton
Crystal World 2013 Directed by Pia Borg

[karl]

Two 21st cents in a row? Another one I can ignore. Final:

The Immigrant
A Touch of Sin
The Past (Farhadi)
Tokyo Family

I'm an Old Communist Hag
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (I stopped watching Hong's films at around this point)
The Grandmaster
Night Train to Lisbon

[Lencho of the Apes]

Preliminaries...

Djinn- Hooper
Hard To Be A God
Norte, The End Of History - Diaz
Nymphomaniac 1/2
P3nd3j05
Prologue to The Great Desaparecido - Diaz
The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears -
Thou Gild'st the Even
Why Don't you Play In Hell?

Aanwar Ka Ajaab Kissa - Dasgupta
Abuse Of Weakness - Breillat
Bastards - Claire Denis
A Field In England
For Those In Peril
Gravity - Cuaron
Matru Ki BijliKa Mandola - Bhardwaj
Only Lovers Left Alive
The Wolf Of Wall Street

[DT.]

Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh)
Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)
The Immigrant (James Gray)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Mood Indigo (Michel Gondry)
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay)
Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike)
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zurcher)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono)

Want to watch:

Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen)
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (Arnaud Desplechin)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)
Visitors (Godfrey Reggio)
The Zero Theorem (Terry Gilliam)

[St. Gloede]

My top 20:

Only God Forgives (2013, Nicolas Winding Refn)
Jiao you / Stray Dogs (2013, Ming-liang Tsai)
Kaguyahime no monogatari / The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013, Isao Takahata)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013, Martin Scorsese)

Le passé (2013, Asghar Farhadi)
La grande bellezza / The Great Beauty (2013, Paolo Sorrentino)
Enemy (2013, Denis Villeneuve)
Jigoku de naze warui / Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013, Shion Sono)

Stoker (2013, Chan-wook Park)
The Bling Ring (2013, Sofia Coppola)
L'inconnu du lac / Stranger by the Lake (2013, Alain Guiraudie)
Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch)

American Hustle (2013, David O. Russell)
Dallas Buyers Club (2013, Jean-Marc Vallée)
Her (2013, Spike Jonze)
Before Midnight (2013, Richard Linklater)

La vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 (2013, Abdellatif Kechiche)
Soshite chichi ni naru / Like Father, Like Son (2013, Hirokazu Koreeda)
Koto no ha no niwa / The Garden of Words (2013, Makoto Shinkai)
La danza de la realidad / The Dance of Reality (2013, Alejandro Jodorowsky)

Honourable mentions:

Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan / Norte, The End of History (2013, Lav Diaz)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen)
Coherence (2013, James Ward Byrkit)
Mikra Anglia / Little England (2013, Pantelis Voulgaris)
Omar (2013, Hany Abu-Assad)
Kaze tachinu / The Wind Rises (2013, Hayao Miyazaki)
Camille Claudel 1915 (2013, Bruno Dumont)
Tom à la ferme (2013, Xavier Dolan)
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, Jim Jarmusch)
Snowpiercer (2013, Joon Ho Bong)

[MrCarmady]

Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel Coen)
Trudno byt bogom / Hard to Be a God (Alexei German)
Stoker (Park Chan-wook)
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)

The Double (Richard Ayoade)
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
About Time (Richard Curtis)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)

The Immigrant (James Gray)
La grande belezza / The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh)
Drinking Buddies (Joe Swanberg)
Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener)

Undertone Overture (Jodie Mack)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Ned Benson)
Les Salauds / Bastards (Claire Denis)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
Mistaken for Strangers (Tom Berninger)

Honourable mentions:
Palo Alto
Her
American Hustle
Prisoners
Nymphomaniac
Finding Vivian Maier
Gravity
The Grandmaster
Touch of Sin
Under the Skin
Exhibition

No thanks:
Tom at the Farm
Only God Forgives
The Bling Ring

Wanna see:
12 Years a Slave
Blue is the Warmest Colour
All Is Lost
Pain & Gain
Like Father, Like Son
Short Term 12
Our Sunhi
Enemy
Stranger by the Lake
Nebraska
+++

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Two 21st cents in a row? Another one I can ignore.

There's a 1903 poll too! Something for everyone...

[Monsieur Arkadin]

Stray Dogs - Tsai Ming Liang
Go For Sisters - John Sayles
Ida - Pawel Pawlikowksi
Enough Said - Nicole Holofcener
The Strange Little Cat - Ramon Zurcher
Hard to be a God - Aleksei German
Before Midnight - Richard Linklater
I'm So Excited - Pedro Almodovar
Venus in Fur - Roman Polanski
The Immigrant - James Gray

[rischka]

hard to be a god - 30 mins in

Like watching a three-hour version of Holy Grail's "Bring Out Your Dead" sketch with the jokes removed

credit: mike d'angelo but i swear i was thinking something very similar

also it's extremely gross so far. like the aesthetic is interesting and at the same time i don't want to look at it lol



so not all the jokes were removed, there is a rubber? chicken?? classic. soldiering on and glad i don't live in the 15th century

[wba]

Final list

Films seen: 70+


Five tiers

Kaze tachinu "The Wind Rises" (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
Vi är bäst! "We Are the Best!" (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden/Denmark)
The Green Inferno (Eli Roth, USA/UK/Chile)
Cheatin' (Bill Plympton, USA)

Abus de faiblesse "Abuse of Weakness" (Catherine Breillat, France/Belgium/Germany)
Man of Steel (Zack Snyder, USA/UK)
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay, USA)
Sinsegye "New World" (Hoon-jung Park, South Korea)

Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, Denmark/France/USA/Sweden/Belgium)
The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski, USA)
Martins Feuer "Martin's Fire" (Bruno Sukrow, Germany)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, UK/Switzerland)

The Heat (Paul Feig, USA/UK)
Hummingbird (Steven Knight, USA/UK)
Kaptn Oskar "Captn Oskar" (Tom Lass, Germany)
Fack ju Göhte "Suck Me Shakespeer" (Bora Dagtekin, Germany)

Michael Kohlhaas "Age of Uprising" (Arnaud des Pallières, France/Germany)
Tauchfahrt ins Verderben "Dive into Doom" (Bruno Skurow, Germany)
Escape Plan (Mikael Håfström, USA/UK)
Willkommen in Hamburg "Welcome to Hamburg" (Christian Alvart, Germany)

[sally]

i really like hard to be a god in my memory, but i don't ever want to watch it again.

some short films i watched for the poll i really liked:

autofocus - boris poljak

hidden camera filming tourists visiting an ancient hilltop church. very funny.
https://dafilms.com/film/9567-autofocus




fathom - sharon whooley, pat collins

a rare irish film! all about lighthouses!
https://ifiarchiveplayer.ie/fathom/




theatrum orbis terrarum - salomé lamas

the sea is no time!
https://dafilms.com/film/9118-theatrum-orbis-terrarum





homo ciris - jana mináriková

man wishes he was a fishes
https://dafilms.com/film/9145-homo-ciris

[rischka]

it was funny. it was sad. and the end was weirdly beautiful. and i never want to watch it again.

definitely better than bela tarr's potato movie

[sally]

my conversations on film - boris lehman

6.5 hours of blah blah blah lightened only by the sweet heart of dwoskin, the gestures of serge ouakine and the mischievous impishness of the two ancients rouch & mekas...(was robert kramer very very high or did he always talk like that?)

[ofrene]

At Berkeley
Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project
Stray Dogs
'Til Madness Do Us Part

Before Midnight
Stranger by the Lake
The Tale of Iya
The Wolf of Wall Street

Jealousy
The Immigrant
Three Landscapes
Under the Skin

Big Good
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nobody's daugther Haewon
Redemption

A Thousand Suns
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Nebraska
The Missing Picture

another worth mentioning

All Is Lost
Bastards
Behind the Candelabra
Blind Detective
Closed Curtain
Ida
Night Moves
The Dance of Reality
The Story of Yonosuke
Tokyo Family

[Angel]

Unranked ballot:
Belle
Blue Ruin
Gloria
Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared)
Il capitale umano (Human Capital)
Ilo Ilo
La vie d'Adèle (Blue Is the Warmest Color)
Le temps de l'aventure (Just a Sigh)
Les salauds (Bastards)
Locke
Metro Manila
Pozitia copilului (Child's Pose)
Still Life
The Best Offer
The Lunchbox
Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (Miss and the Doctors)
Tôkyô kazoku (Tokyo Family)
Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados (Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed)
Yurusarezaru mono (Unforgiven)
Zulu

Honorable mentions:
Blood Ties
Don Jon
La herida
L'amour est un crime parfait
The Rocket
Westen

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/Lbxd/TSPDT/S&S top 500):
12 Years a Slave
Before Midnight
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Dallas Buyers Club
Drishyam
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Kaguya-hime no monogatari
La grande bellezza
Mandariinid
Mga kuwentong barbero
Prisoners
Queen
Rush
Short Term 12
So-won
Special Chabbis
The Wolf of Wall Street
Under the Skin

Wanted:
American Dreams in China

[sally]

lacrau - joão vladimiro

oh my god. the images in this were totally gorgeous but i almost got hives from how repulsive the hippie 'spiritual journey' horseshit was. (as if capital-n Nature wasn't just as much an anthropomorphised artificial human construction as what it's opposed to, as if there's some simple, essential Being out there amongst the empty landscape that isn't just parasympathetic blessed relief from the permanent fight-or-flight impotence response from being surrounded by people (and a farm is pure machine)...ugh ugh ugh, i'm glad the director had a nice holiday but jesus)

here's some pretty pictures tho

[rischka]

i watched a few docs -

life is elsewhere (d. nicolas sanchez) nice images and convo with a couple of old men - one in the atacama desert and the other in tierra del fuego. lots of sheep

there will be some who will not fear even that void (d. saeed taji farouky) sci-fi-ish journey to the arctic. i fell asleep and missed the point if there was one

at berkeley (d. frederick wiseman) if college is this boring i'm glad i didn't go :p i do wonder what these people make of the current free speech furor. seems like things have gotten exponentially worse

[oOgiandujaOo]

hard to be a god - 30 mins in

Like watching a three-hour version of Holy Grail's "Bring Out Your Dead" sketch with the jokes removed

credit: mike d'angelo but i swear i was thinking something very similar

also it's extremely gross so far. like the aesthetic is interesting and at the same time i don't want to look at it lol



so not all the jokes were removed, there is a rubber? chicken?? classic. soldiering on and glad i don't live in the 15th century

One of two films I've watched which I perceived as smelling. So many nauseating moments. The other was during The Big Red One, if I remember rightly, there's a birth inside a military tank and a huge wheel of cheese

[oOgiandujaOo]

Highest tier at the top, 4 tiers of 3.

Upstream Color (2013 - Shane Carruth)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013 - Joel and Ethan Coen)
Трудно быть богом / Trudno byt bogom / Hard to be a God (2013 - Aleksey German)

Under The Skin (2013 - Jonathan Glazer)
Nymphomaniac (2013 - Lars von Trier)
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013 - Corneliu Porumboiu)

Les rencontres d'après minuit / You and the Night (2013 - Yann Gonzalez)
A Field in England (2013 - Ben Wheatley)
The Canyons (2013 - Paul Schrader)

The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears (2013 - Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
The Bling Ring (2013 - Sofia Coppola)
Stoker (2013 - Chan-wook Park)

Interesting investigations from sally, would like to see that Lehman film, even if it's a lot of blah, those filmmakers are pretty chill.

I noted I am the only person who has brought up Upstream Color. Carruth was found guilty last year of violating a restraining order against his ex, Amy Seimetz, and also domestic battery. I think the film is neat and whilst I do often drop films from filmmakers if I find their art imitating nonconsensual parts of their lives, I didn't find that to be the case here.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Has James Franco been cancelled really hard? Cuz I can't think of an other reason why Sam Raimi could do a prequel to Wizard Of Oz... for Disney Studios... and it could sink without a trace. Watching it tonightish.

[nrh]

Has James Franco been cancelled really hard? Cuz I can't think of an other reason why Sam Raimi could do a prequel to Wizard Of Oz... for Disney Studios... and it could sink without a trace. Watching it tonightish.

james franco has been cancelled really hard, not until a few years ago. but even at the peak of his career he was more a cult figure than a blockbuster leading man, and that movie had box office bomb written all over it, one of a number of bad idea attempts to chase the success of burton's awful alice in wonderland movies. i'm pretty sure there's an auteurist case to be made for the movie, but i can't remember what it is. and raimi is a director where his fans will passionately defend spiderman 3, quick & the dead, etc.

carruth's behavior definitely harmed the reputations of his two movies but i always felt they were on shaky ground to start with. upstream color's reputation would almost certainly be more settled if he'd made any of those large budget follow up projects, but given his behavior that is not likely to happen.

[rischka]

couldn't get too excited about anything else i had to watch so i updated my original list above

[niminy-piminy]

https://kinometer.com/?list=494

Yâd (Mahine Rouhi, Olivier Fouchard, 2013, 60m)
Le chemin des glaces (Philippe Cote, 2013, 21m)
Return to Adriaport (Adéla Babanová, 2013, 13m)
Fire Sport 2 (Jan Daňhel, Martin Ježek, 2013, 30m)
Photo: A History from behind the Lens (Stan Neumann, Alain Nahum, Juliette Garcias, 2013, 312m)
Dot Matrix (Richard Tuohy, 2013, 17m)
Solaristics (Peter Rose, 2013, 11m)
The Waiting Sands (Margaret Rorison, 2013, 5m)
Obscura Camera (Julie Murray, 2013, 11m)
A Study In Natural Magic (Charlotte Pryce, 2013, 3m)

The Other Day (Ignacio Agüero, 2013, 122m)
Das Schöpfwerk (Jürgen Reble, 2013, 11m)
The Creator of the Jungle (Jordi Morató, 2013, 77m)
Koolhaas Houselife (Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine, 2013, 58m)
Autofocus (Boris Poljak, 2013, 28m)
Homo Ciris (Jana Mináriková, 2013, 22m)
Kateřina Šedá: Mythmaking (Jan Gogola Jr., 2013, 90m)
Suitcase of Love and Shame (Jane Gillooly, 2013, 70m)
Unplugged (Mladen Kovačević, 2013, 51m)
In-Between Frames (Mariam Eqbal, 2013, 1m)

[oOgiandujaOo]

Solaristics (Peter Rose, 2013, 11m)

Thanks for mentioning this one, I had not heard of it before. A lot of fun, I had a little squeal of delight at one of the funkier shots.

It's free to watch here if anyone is interested: https://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/ ... laristics/