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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
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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 |
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1. Tokyo Story
2. El 3. Duck Amuck 4. Ugetsu 5. Summer with Monika
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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 |
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I believe in your victory
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1. Duck Amuck
2. The Wages of Fear 3. Pickup on South Street 4. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday 5. Eaux d’artifice |
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My depressed stance...
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1. Eaux d'artifice
2. Sawdust and Tinsel 3. The Tell-Tale Heart 4. Ugetsu monogatari
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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 : 08-11-2008 at 09:40 PM. |
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Body Double
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1. Tokyo Story
2. M. Hulot's Holiday 3. I Vitelloni 4. Ugetsu 5. I Confess
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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 08:55 PM. |
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Cinematographer
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1. The Wages of Fear
2. The Wild One 3. Pickup on South Street 4. Glen or Glenda 5. The War of the Worlds |
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I believe in your victory
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Cinematographer
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Despite it's low production value, I thought it was a genuinely interesting film. It has a strange, almost experimental structure that bounces around from found footage documentary to fake documentary to narrative film. I also thought it was Wood's way of trying to make some sense of his "condition." It felt personal and from the heart.
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Administrator
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1. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
2. Duck Amuck (Jones) 3. El (Bunuel) 4. The Earrings of Madame de... (Ophuls) 5. Glen or Glenda (Wood) ---------------------------------------- 6. Pickup on South Street (Fuller) 7. It Came from Outer Space (Arnold) 8. I Confess (Hitchcock) 9. I Vitelloni (Fellini) 10. The Naked Spur (Mann) It was tough leaving off Arnold and Hitch's films.
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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) |
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walks with the dead.
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1. The Wages of Fear
2. The Naked Spur 3. Duck Amuck 4. Tokyo Story 5. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
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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- |
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Moisten your fence
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1. The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
2. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi) 3. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller) 4. All I Desire (Douglas Sirk) 5. El (Luis Bunuel) *************************** 6. A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi) 7. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann) 8. Monika (Ingmar Bergman) 9. Roman Holiday (William Wyler) 10. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones) HMs:
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The Flowers of St. Francis (Rossellini, 1950) *** Get Him to the Greek (Stoller, 2010) ** The Kids Are All Right (Cholodenko, 2010) **½ Inception (Nolan, 2010) ***½ Predators (Antal, 2010) ** Predator (McTiernan, 1987) ***½ MacGruber (Taccone, 2010) ** Robin Hood (Scott, 2010) * Valhalla Rising (Refn, 2010) ***½ Cyrus (Duplass Bros., 2010) **½ My site Music "It's not a blockbuster because I don't want to see it." - Dukefrukem Last edited by Derek : 08-11-2008 at 03:45 PM. |
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Editor
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1. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks) 3. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati) 4. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot) 5. The Tell-Tale Heart (Ted Parmelee) 6. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu) 7. I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini) 8. Glen or Glenda (Edward D. Wood Jr.) 9. The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophüls) 10. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
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Last Excellent Film Seen For The Very First Time: Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming) My Movie Page |
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Editor
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The Tell-Tale Heart is an excellent animated short - it's online somewhere...
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Last Excellent Film Seen For The Very First Time: Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming) My Movie Page |
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Administrator
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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) |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4s9V8aQu4c 1. Roman Holiday 2. The Big Heat 3. Madame de... 4. Duck Amuck 5. I Confess ---- 6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 7. The Tell-Tale Heart 8. The Naked Spur 9. Les Statues meurent aussi 10. Stalag 17
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House of Mirth and Movies: Top 10s (in progress) |
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nightmare investigator
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1. Roman Holiday
2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 3. Niagara I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Glen or Glenda is a bad movie.
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"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 |
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King of the Impossible
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1. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophüls) 3. El (Luis Buñuel) 4. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones) 5. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller) ------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (Chuck Jones) 7. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi) 8. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann) 9. Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman) 10. I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
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Anzukko (Naruse 58) ***½ Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen 03) **** Fires Were Started (Jennings 43) **½ On the Town (Donen/Kelly 49) *** The Ghost Writer (Polanski 10) *** Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Ophüls 88) *** Johnny Guitar (Ray 54) ***½ The Asphalt Jungle (Huston 50) ***½ Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Lewin 51) **½ Babes in Arms (Berkeley 39) *½ Viewing log and all films seen |
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Synegoggles!
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1. The Wages of Fear
2. Sawdust and Tinsel 3. Eaux d'Artifice 4. Ugestu 5. Summer With Monika
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Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa - '08) 87 Culloden (Watkins - '64) 77 The Lost Weekend (Wilder - 1945) 81 Adieu Phillipine (Jacques Rozier - '63) 88 The Blue Bird (Tourneur - '19)90 Falstaff aka Chimes at Midnight (Welles - '65) 66 A Trip to Mars (Holger-Madsen - '18) 71 The War Game (Watkins - '66) 73 I Want to Go Home (Resnais -'89) 38 Life Is Sweet (Leigh - '91) 78 [/color] |
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#1 Procrastinator
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I have seen at least three films, but aside from Shane I don't like any of them enough to put them on a list. So I'm abstaining from this year.
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Good Lord, son, no, I do not. I was, in days gone by, a believer. But alas, I came to this beleaguered land, and the God in me just . . . evaporated. Let us change our toast, sir. To the God who has forgotten us. Down the Rabbit Hole |
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1. The Wages of Fear
2. Pickup On South Street 3. M. Hulot's Holiday 4. Tokyo Story 5. Ugetsu Need to see: Madame De..., Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, I Vitelloni, El, The Naked Spur Need to re-see: #'s 4 & 5, The Big Heat
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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 |
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A Platypus
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1. Tales of Ugetsu
2. The Big Heat 3. Shane 4. Hondo 5. Beat the Devil
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There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it. -- Niven Law #16 TOY STORY 3 - Solid entertainment of the Pixar brand, but an unnecessary sequel that adds nothing to the story. TETRO - I applaud Coppola for making a genuinely strange movie. When it works, it works. CHÉRI - Average period piece, but worth seeing for Michelle Pfeiffer's incredibly acting - and body. |
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Avatar Thief
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1. The Naked Spur
2. The Wages of Fear 3. Ugetsu 4. Stalag 17 5. Duck Dodgers in the 241/2th Century Surprised by the absence of Wilder. Might be 2nd tier, but still listworthy. |
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Screenwriter
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1. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2. Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati) 3. All I Desire (Douglas Sirk) 4. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu) 5. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller) 6. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang) 7. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones) 8. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (Roy Rowland) 9. Beat the Devil (John Huston) 10. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
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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) |
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Balloons, still
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1. Tokyo Story
2. Duck Amuck 3. Ugetsu 4. The Tell-Tale Heart 5. The Wild One
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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. |
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blurred and indistinct
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1. Ugetsu
2. Eaux d'artifice 3. I Vitelloni 4. Wages of Fear 5. Tokyo Story HM: Roman Holiday, Duck Amuck, Stalag 17 Last edited by origami_mustache : 08-12-2008 at 09:12 AM. |
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Moisten your fence
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The Flowers of St. Francis (Rossellini, 1950) *** Get Him to the Greek (Stoller, 2010) ** The Kids Are All Right (Cholodenko, 2010) **½ Inception (Nolan, 2010) ***½ Predators (Antal, 2010) ** Predator (McTiernan, 1987) ***½ MacGruber (Taccone, 2010) ** Robin Hood (Scott, 2010) * Valhalla Rising (Refn, 2010) ***½ Cyrus (Duplass Bros., 2010) **½ My site Music "It's not a blockbuster because I don't want to see it." - Dukefrukem |
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Moderator
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1. The Wages of Fear
2. Ugetsu 3. Duck Amuck 4. Tokyo Story 5. The Tell-Tale Heart
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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 Last edited by Kurosawa Fan : 08-11-2008 at 05:58 PM. |
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Social Retard
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1. Ugetsu
2. The Tell-Tale Heart 3. Pickup on South Street 4. Roman Holiday 5. Little Fugitive
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Orlando (1992) ***½ Demonlover (2002) ***½ Inception (2010) ***½ Everything Is Illuminated (2002, Jonathan Safran Foer) *** July's People (1981, Nadine Gordimer) ***½ |
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The Tell-Tale Heart was pretty great. I've edited my list to include it.
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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 |
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My depressed stance...
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Edited for The Tell-Tale Heart.
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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 |
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