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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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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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I believe in your victory
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1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
2. Pink Flamingos 3. Sleuth 4. Deliverance 5. What's Up, Doc? |
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1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
2. Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer) 3. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) 4. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci) 5. Cabaret (Bob Fosse) HM: Cries and Whispers
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The Long Goodbye - 8.5 Dirty Pretty Things - 7.5 Beloved - 6.5 Inception - 7 Last edited by dreamdead : 08-28-2008 at 07:14 PM. |
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1. Cries and Whispers
2. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes 3. Cabaret 4. The Godfather 5. Sleuth
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House of Mirth and Movies: Top 10s (in progress) |
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Administrator
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1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog)
2. The Godfather (Coppola) 3. The King of Marvin Gardens (Rafelson) 4. Chloe in the Afternoon (Rohmer) 5. The Merchant of Four Seasons (Fassbinder) -------------------------------------------- 6. Cabaret (Fosse) 7. The Lorax (Pratt) 8. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel) 9. The Last House on the Left (Craven) 10. The Candidate (Ritchie)
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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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blurred and indistinct
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1. Solaris
2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God 3. The Godfather 4. Roma 5. The Lorax HM: Luicfer Rising Last edited by origami_mustache : 08-29-2008 at 06:42 PM. |
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nightmare investigator
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1. Play it Again, Sam
2. Aguirre: The Wrath of God 3. The Godfather 4. Cabaret 5. Man of La Mancha
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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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My depressed stance...
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1. Cries and Whispers
2. Solaris 3. Aguirre, the Wrath of God 4. The Godfather 5. Cabaret
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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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King of the Impossible
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1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog) 3. Deliverance (John Boorman) 4. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (Kinji Fukasaku) 5. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel) ---------------------------------------------- 6. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman) 7. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky) 8. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock) 9. Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill) 10. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (Kenji Misumi) 11. Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
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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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blood
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1. Fat City
2. Aguirre: The Wrath of God 3. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant 4. Ulzana's Raid 5. Last Tango in Paris HM: The King of Marvin Gardens, Across 110th Street, Solaris, Frenzy, Deliverance Need to see: The Heartbreak Kid, Images, The King of Marvin Gardens, The Merchant of Four Seasons
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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 Last edited by Boner M : 09-06-2008 at 02:21 AM. |
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Body Double
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1. The Godfather
2. Cries and Whispers 3. Play It Again, Sam 4. What’s Up, Doc? 5. Solaris
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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) |
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Santiago Alvarez
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Sometimes the three film minimum seems unfortunate. The Godfather so totally owns this that it almost seems a disservice to it to mention anything else.
1. The Godfather 2. Aguirre: The Wrath of God 3. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant 4. Cabaret 5. The Merchant of Four Seasons Last edited by balmakboor : 08-29-2008 at 02:47 AM. |
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1. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2. Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó) 3. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog) 4. Fellini's Roma (Federico Fellini) 5. Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel) 6. The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 7. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky) 8. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Wim Wenders) 9. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci) 10. Vertical Roll (Joan Jonas) [video] bubblin' under... 11. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) 12. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex... But Was Afraid to Ask (Woody Allen) 13. Across 110th Street (Barry Shear) Need to re-see: Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
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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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Moderator
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1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
2. Cries and Whispers 3. The Godfather 4. The Lorax 5. Cabaret
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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 Procrastinator
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Honestly I haven't seen too much from this year.
1. The Godfather 2. Aguirre: The Wrath of God 3. Blacula 4. The Cowboys
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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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Social Retard
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1. Marjoe
2. Frenzy 3. Sounder 4. The Godfather 5. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
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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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Moisten your fence
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1. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) 3. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog) 4. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 5. Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger) ************************** 6. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel) 7. Tout va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin & Groupe Dziga Vertov) 8. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci) 9. The Devil (Andrzej Zulawski) 10. Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill) 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 |
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Best Boy
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1. The Godfather
2. Solaris 3. Aguirre: The Wrath of God 4. Frenzy
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last four: inception - 9.5 knight and day - 5 predators - 6.5 the messenger - 9.5 |
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Synegoggles!
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1. Aguirre, The Wrath if God
2. The Discreet Charm of the Burgiouse 3. Cries and Whispers 4. Solaris 5. Play it Again, Sam
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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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Cinematographer
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Frenzy needs more love...
1. The Godfather 2. Frenzy 3. Cries and Whispers 4. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 5. Deliverance 6. Aguirre: The Wrath of God 7. Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii 8. Slaughterhouse-Five 9. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex 10. Pink Flamingos Last edited by Pop Trash : 09-09-2008 at 01:42 AM. |
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A Platypus
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1. Aguirre: the Wrath of God
2. Last Tango in Paris 3. The Godfather 4. Roma 5. The Getaway
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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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Balloons, still
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1. Fellini's Roma
2. Aguirre: The Wrath of God 3. The Godfather 4. Solaris 5. The Lorax
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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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Moderator
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1. The Godfather
2. Un Flic 3. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance 4. Cries and Whispers 5. Deliverance
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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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Administrator
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I think I'm going to try and see this over the weekend.
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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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It suffers from a weak conclusion, but everything leading up to that is near perfection.
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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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Editor
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1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
2. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) 3. What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich) 4. Cabaret (Bob Fosse) 5. Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky) 6. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock) 7. Deliverance (John Boorman) 8. J.W. Coop (Cliff Robertson) 9. Slaughterhouse Five (George Roy Hill) 10. Fat City (John Huston)
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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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Live like it's shark week
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1. The Godfather
2. Super Fly 3. Cries & Whispers 4. Aguirre, Wrath of God 5. Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie No Deliverance? Ouch.
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LATEST SEEN: The Runaways - ** 1/2 Chloe - * 1/2 A Single Man - *** |
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Avatar Thief
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1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
2. The Godfather 3. Sleuth 4. Slaughterhouse-Five 5. Deliverance |
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