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Spinal · 08-07-2008, 06:22 PM

Submit your five favorite films from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten. IMDb dates will be used.

The point system is as follows

1st Place-5 points
2nd Place-4 points
3rd Place-3.5 points
4th Place-3 points
5th Place-2.5 points

There will be no restrictions on short films. A minimum of three films must be listed. You may edit your post freely up until the time that the voting is closed, which will be in about a week. I will give at least 24 hours warning before tallying votes.

You may begin now.

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Spinal · 08-07-2008, 06:24 PM

1. Lord of the Flies
2. The House is Black
3. Contempt
4. 8 1/2
5. High and Low

Raiders · 08-07-2008, 06:30 PM

1. Shock Corridor (Fuller)
2. The Servant (Losey)
3. 8½ (Fellini)
4. High and Low (Kurosawa)
5. Bay of Angels (Demy)

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6. Contempt (Godard)
7. The Birds (Hitchcock)
8. The Whip and the Body (Bava)
9. Flaming Creatures (Smith)
10. The Leopard (Visconti)

Kurosawa Fan · 08-07-2008, 07:06 PM

1. 8 1/2
2. High and Low
3. The Great Escape
4. Contempt
5. Charade

Russ · 08-07-2008, 07:17 PM

1. Jason and the Argonauts
2. The Haunting
3. Flaming Creatures
4. 8½
5. The Birds

Spinal · 08-07-2008, 07:17 PM

The House is Black is only 20 minutes long and available on Youtube. Only drawback is that it suffers a bit from the white-on-white subtitles phenomenon.

Yxklyx · 08-07-2008, 07:39 PM

1. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
2. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Tom Jones (Tony Richardson)
4, The Servant (Joseph Losey)
5. Mahanagar (Satyajit Ray)

6. The Great Escape (John Sturges)
7. Billy Liar (John Schlesinger)
8. Hud (Martin Ritt)
9. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
10. The Haunting (Robert Wise)

Dead & Messed Up · 08-07-2008, 08:03 PM

1. The Haunting
2. The Birds
3. X the Man with the X-Ray Eyes
4. Jason and the Argonauts
5. Black Sabbath

Lazlo · 08-07-2008, 08:12 PM

1. The Birds
2. High and Low
3. The Haunting
4. 8½

Duncan · 08-07-2008, 08:17 PM

1. 8 1/2
2. Flaming Creatures
3. Contempt
4. The trailer for Contempt
5. The Great Escape

I've seen a few more of the "classics" from this year, but I don't want to include them. Will watch The House is Black later tonight.

Raiders · 08-07-2008, 08:24 PM

Wish more people had seen Losey's The Servant.

Bosco B Thug · 08-07-2008, 08:58 PM

Can I just give all my points to The Birds?

1. THE BIRDS
2. The Servant
3. The Haunting

Pop Trash · 08-07-2008, 09:02 PM

I think I'll pass on this year...

monolith94 · 08-07-2008, 09:10 PM

1. Tom Jones
2. The Haunting
3. 8 1/2
4. High and Low
5. The Sword in the Stone

Isaac · 08-07-2008, 09:31 PM

1. Lord of the Flies
2. The Birds
3. High and Low
4. The Fire Within
5. Vidas Secas

Melville · 08-07-2008, 09:32 PM

1. The Servant
2. 8 1/2
3. Shock Corridor
4. The House is Black

baby doll · 08-07-2008, 10:50 PM

1. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
2. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith)
5. The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)

baby doll · 08-07-2008, 10:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan

5. Charade

Boo!

Boner M · 08-07-2008, 11:53 PM

1. High and Low
2. The Servant
3. The Haunting
4. The Birds
5. Billy Liar

6. 8½
7. The Great Escape
8. The Leopard
9. Shock Corridor
10. Charade

HM: The last segment of Bava's Black Sabbath

Need to see: The House is Black, Le Petit Soldat, This Sporting Life, Flaming Creatures

soitgoes... · 08-07-2008, 11:54 PM

I'm going to see if I can squeeze in the couple of '63 films I have at my disposal before posting a list.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raiders

Wish more people had seen Losey's The Servant.

This is one of them.

Weeping_Guitar · 08-07-2008, 11:57 PM

1. 8 ½
2. Charade
3. I Fidanzati
4. The Birds
5. The Leopard

ledfloyd · 08-08-2008, 12:14 AM

1. 8 1/2
2. Charade
3. The Birds
4. The Great Escape
5. Dr. No

Yxklyx · 08-08-2008, 12:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boner M

HM: The last segment of Bava's Black Sabbath

Yeah, the last segment is great but I liked the first as well and while the second wasn't executed that well it was still a great concept.

SirNewt · 08-08-2008, 03:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baby doll

Boo!

I've never understood the love that movie gets.

1. 8 1/2
2. Contempt
3. Jason and the Argonauts
4. High & Low
5. The Sword and the Stone

6. The Leopard
7. The Birds

What a year for colour.

Derek · 08-08-2008, 05:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baby doll

Boo!

Yeah. Awful film.

EDIT: Had The House is Black as '62. Added.

1. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa)
3. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
4. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
5. The House is Black (Farough Farrokhzad)
***********************
6. High & Low (Akira Kurosawa)
7. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer)
9. The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (Eric Rohmer)
10. Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)

HMs:

Spoiler

*has seen The Servant*

*probably wouldn't consider it worse than ...Mad World had he seen the latter in the last 7/8 years*

*wants to stop posting asides like this, but doesn't know how*

Watashi · 08-08-2008, 07:54 AM

1. High and Low
2. The Birds
3. Shock Corridor
4. The Great Escape
5. Charade

Watashi · 08-08-2008, 07:57 AM

Very surprised The Great Escape isn't getting more votes. I thought that film was universally loved?

soitgoes... · 08-08-2008, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Watashi

Very surprised The Great Escape isn't getting more votes. I thought that film was universally loved?

I think it's great, Steve McQueen's best performance?, but it will be out of my top 5.

Ezee E · 08-08-2008, 11:38 AM

1. High & Low
2. Contempt
3. The Great Escape
4. 8 1/2
5. The Sword and the Stone

Kurosawa Fan · 08-08-2008, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baby doll

Boo!

Rosenbaum didn't care for it?

08-07-2008, 06:22 PM	#1
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	MC Yearly Consensus - 1963 Submit your five favorite films from this year and in a week I will give you a top ten. IMDb dates will be used. The point system is as follows 1st Place-5 points 2nd Place-4 points 3rd Place-3.5 points 4th Place-3 points 5th Place-2.5 points There will be no restrictions on short films. A minimum of three films must be listed. You may edit your post freely up until the time that the voting is closed, which will be in about a week. I will give at least 24 hours warning before tallying votes. You may begin now. IMDB Power Search __________________ A Town Called Panic (Aubier/Patar, 2009) *1/2 You, the Living (Andersson, 2007) 1/2 Godzilla* (Honda, 1954) * Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Dante, 2003) 1/2 Inception (Nolan, 2010) ** Blue Beard (Breillat, 2009) * Despicable Me (Coffin/Renaud, 2010) The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009) * The Stone Raft (Sluizer, 2002) How to Train Your Dragon (DeBlois/Sanders, 2010) 1/2 The Fly* (Neumann, 1958) ***1/2

08-07-2008, 06:24 PM	#2
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	1. Lord of the Flies 2. The House is Black 3. Contempt 4. 8 1/2 5. High and Low __________________ A Town Called Panic (Aubier/Patar, 2009) *1/2 You, the Living (Andersson, 2007) 1/2 Godzilla* (Honda, 1954) * Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Dante, 2003) 1/2 Inception (Nolan, 2010) ** Blue Beard (Breillat, 2009) * Despicable Me (Coffin/Renaud, 2010) The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009) * The Stone Raft (Sluizer, 2002) How to Train Your Dragon (DeBlois/Sanders, 2010) 1/2 The Fly* (Neumann, 1958) ***1/2

08-07-2008, 06:30 PM	#3
Raiders Administrator Rep Power: 10 Rep Points: 1924	1. Shock Corridor (Fuller) 2. The Servant (Losey) 3. 8½ (Fellini) 4. High and Low (Kurosawa) 5. Bay of Angels (Demy) ------------------------------ 6. Contempt (Godard) 7. The Birds (Hitchcock) 8. The Whip and the Body (Bava) 9. Flaming Creatures (Smith) 10. The Leopard (Visconti) __________________ Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2,000 of something. Recently Viewed: The Kids Are All Right (2010) *****½ Inception (2010) (500) Days of Summer (2009) ½ Toy Story 3 (2010) ***½ Day & Night (s) (2010) ****** Films By Year The Fifth Dimension: A Chronological Twilight Zone (UPDATED 7/1/10)

08-07-2008, 07:06 PM	#4
Kurosawa Fan Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2892	1. 8 1/2 2. High and Low 3. The Great Escape 4. Contempt 5. Charade __________________ Films I've Seen: Inception (2010) - Despicable Me (2010)- 1/2 Zombieland (2009) - * The Crazies (2010) - * Land of the Lost (2009) - 1/2 MacGruber* (2010) - * Book I'm Reading:** A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin

08-07-2008, 07:17 PM	#6
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	The House is Black is only 20 minutes long and available on Youtube. Only drawback is that it suffers a bit from the white-on-white subtitles phenomenon. __________________ A Town Called Panic (Aubier/Patar, 2009) *1/2 You, the Living (Andersson, 2007) 1/2 Godzilla* (Honda, 1954) * Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Dante, 2003) 1/2 Inception (Nolan, 2010) ** Blue Beard (Breillat, 2009) * Despicable Me (Coffin/Renaud, 2010) The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009) * The Stone Raft (Sluizer, 2002) How to Train Your Dragon (DeBlois/Sanders, 2010) 1/2 The Fly* (Neumann, 1958) ***1/2

08-07-2008, 07:17 PM	#5
Russ I believe in your victory Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 863	1. Jason and the Argonauts 2. The Haunting 3. Flaming Creatures 4. 8½ 5. The Birds

08-07-2008, 07:39 PM	#7
Yxklyx Editor Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 177	1. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini) 2. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock) 3. Tom Jones (Tony Richardson) 4, The Servant (Joseph Losey) 5. Mahanagar (Satyajit Ray) 6. The Great Escape (John Sturges) 7. Billy Liar (John Schlesinger) 8. Hud (Martin Ritt) 9. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa) 10. The Haunting (Robert Wise) __________________ Last Excellent Film Seen For The Very First Time: Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming) My Movie Page

08-07-2008, 08:03 PM	#8
Dead & Messed Up walks with the dead. Rep Power: 9 Rep Points: 1967	1. The Haunting 2. The Birds 3. X the Man with the X-Ray Eyes 4. Jason and the Argonauts 5. Black Sabbath __________________ *RECENT BLOGGING:* Analysis: The House of the Devil (Ti West, 2009) - 07/28/10 *RECENTLY DIGESTED CULTURE:* Doppelganger (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2003) - B- District 9 (Neil Blomkamp, 2009) - B The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 2009) - C+ My Neighbor Totoro (Hiyao Miyazaki, 1988) - A Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) - A-

08-07-2008, 08:12 PM	#9
Lazlo Best Boy Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 29	1. The Birds 2. High and Low 3. The Haunting 4. 8½ __________________ last four: inception - 9.5 knight and day - 5 predators - 6.5 the messenger - 9.5

08-07-2008, 08:17 PM	#10
Duncan Balloons, still Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 672	1. 8 1/2 2. Flaming Creatures 3. Contempt 4. The trailer for Contempt 5. The Great Escape I've seen a few more of the "classics" from this year, but I don't want to include them. Will watch The House is Black later tonight. __________________ Peering upward at his endless hurtling, let us simply shrug, fold up the trampoline we were going to try to catch him in, and place it once again on top of the the rafters, in the garage.

08-07-2008, 08:24 PM	#11
Raiders Administrator Rep Power: 10 Rep Points: 1924	Wish more people had seen Losey's The Servant. __________________ Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2,000 of something. Recently Viewed: The Kids Are All Right (2010) *****½ Inception (2010) (500) Days of Summer (2009) ½ Toy Story 3 (2010) ***½ Day & Night (s) (2010) ****** Films By Year The Fifth Dimension: A Chronological Twilight Zone (UPDATED 7/1/10)

08-07-2008, 08:58 PM	#12
Bosco B Thug Editor Rep Power: 4 Rep Points: 327	Can I just give all my points to The Birds? 1. THE BIRDS 2. The Servant 3. The Haunting __________________ Monster House (Kennan 06) - 7 The Naked Kiss (Fuller 64) - 8 Inception (Nolan 10) - 6 * Inferno (Argento 80) - 5.5 * Suspiria (Argento 77) - 7.5 * The Thing (Carpenter 82) - 7 Stalker (Tarkovsky 79) - 8 Toy Story 3 (Unkrich 10) - 7.5 * Maniac (Lustig 80) - 5 Make Way For Tomorrow (McCarey 37) - 8.5 Southern Comfort (Hill 81) - 7 Showgirls (Verhoeven 95) - 8 Alice in Wonderland (Burton 10) - 3.5 I Spit On Your Grave (Zarchi 78) - 4 * Deep Red (Argento 75) - 7.5

08-07-2008, 09:02 PM	#13
Pop Trash Cinematographer Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 182	I think I'll pass on this year...

08-07-2008, 09:10 PM	#14
monolith94 nightmare investigator Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 293	1. Tom Jones 2. The Haunting 3. 8 1/2 4. High and Low 5. The Sword in the Stone __________________ "Modern weapons can defend freedom, civilization, and life only by annihilating them. Security in military language means the ability to do away with the Earth." -Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

08-07-2008, 09:31 PM	#15
Isaac Social Retard Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 677	1. Lord of the Flies 2. The Birds 3. High and Low 4. The Fire Within 5. Vidas Secas __________________ Orlando (1992) *½ Demonlover (2002) ½ Inception (2010) ½ Everything Is Illuminated (2002, Jonathan Safran Foer) * July's People (1981, Nadine Gordimer) ***½

08-07-2008, 09:32 PM	#16
Melville My depressed stance... Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 1332	1. The Servant 2. 8 1/2 3. Shock Corridor 4. The House is Black __________________ I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad? lists and reviews Last edited by Melville : 08-07-2008 at 10:01 PM.

08-07-2008, 10:50 PM	#17
baby doll Screenwriter Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 426	1. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini) 2. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard) 3. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock) 4. Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith) 5. The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad) __________________ Because I don't have time to blog... Europa (Lars von Trier, 1991) / * Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967) / * Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937) / *1/2 The last book I read was... The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies** by David Bordwell The World (July: Ossos, In Vanda's Room, Colossal Youth, Cyrus, Inception)

08-07-2008, 11:53 PM	#19
Boner M blood Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 1498	1. High and Low 2. The Servant 3. The Haunting 4. The Birds 5. Billy Liar 6. 8½ 7. The Great Escape 8. The Leopard 9. Shock Corridor 10. Charade HM: The last segment of Bava's Black Sabbath Need to see: The House is Black, Le Petit Soldat, This Sporting Life, Flaming Creatures __________________ blog (latest: notes on a few recent films) / twitter / lastfm Sweetgrass (Barbash & Castaing-Taylor, 2009) *½ Primate (Wiseman, 1974) * The Unloved (Morton, 2009) Boy (Waititi, 2010) ½ Beeswax (Bujalski, 2009) *½ Hahaha (Hong, 2010) * Blank City (Danhier, 2009) * Cell 211 (Monzón, 2009) ½ The Messenger (Moverman, 2009) **½

08-07-2008, 11:57 PM	#21
Weeping_Guitar Body Double Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 10	1. 8 ½ 2. Charade 3. I Fidanzati 4. The Birds 5. The Leopard __________________ Recomended Recent Viewings: The Circus (Chaplin, 1928) Inception (Nolan, 2010) Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010) After Hours (Scorsese, 1985) Still Walking (Koreeda, 2008) Last edited by Weeping_Guitar : 08-10-2008 at 02:10 PM.

08-08-2008, 12:14 AM	#22
ledfloyd Producer Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 475	1. 8 1/2 2. Charade 3. The Birds 4. The Great Escape 5. Dr. No __________________ blog

08-08-2008, 07:54 AM	#26
Watashi Pixar Whore Rep Power: 10 Rep Points: 1677	1. High and Low 2. The Birds 3. Shock Corridor 4. The Great Escape 5. Charade __________________ The Kids Are Alright (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010) - ½ Cyrus (Jay & Mark Duplass, 2010) - * Book of Eli (The Hughes Brothers, 2010) - ½ Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) - *½ "The trailer for Shark Tale was better than the entirety of Elf." - sycophant

08-08-2008, 07:57 AM	#27
Watashi Pixar Whore Rep Power: 10 Rep Points: 1677	Very surprised The Great Escape isn't getting more votes. I thought that film was universally loved? __________________ The Kids Are Alright (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010) - ½ Cyrus (Jay & Mark Duplass, 2010) - * Book of Eli (The Hughes Brothers, 2010) - ½ Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) - *½ "The trailer for Shark Tale was better than the entirety of Elf." - sycophant

08-08-2008, 11:38 AM	#29
Ezee E Live like it's shark week Rep Power: 14 Rep Points: 1804	1. High & Low 2. Contempt 3. The Great Escape 4. 8 1/2 5. The Sword and the Stone __________________ LATEST SEEN: The Runaways - ** 1/2 Chloe - * 1/2 A Single Man - ***

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