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Spinal · 09-04-2008, 05:46 AM

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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origami_mustache · 09-04-2008, 06:01 AM

1. Ikiru
2. Life of Oharu
3.Umberto D.
4. High Noon
5. Singin' In the Rain

Spinal · 09-04-2008, 06:09 AM

1. Ikiru
2. Umberto D.
3. Rabbit Seasoning
4. Othello
5. Forbidden Games

soitgoes... · 09-04-2008, 07:47 AM

1. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Forbidden Games (René Clément)
3. Magical Maestro (Tex Avery)
4. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
5. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu)
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6. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
7. Duck and Cover (Anthony Rizzo)
8. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
9. Rabbit Seasoning (Chuck Jones)
10. Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones)

Spoiler

baby doll · 09-04-2008, 07:49 AM

1. Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2. Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang)
3. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
4. Angel Face (Otto Preminger)
5. Limelight (Charles Chaplin)

I assume it's patently unnecessary to vote for either Ikiru or Singin' in the Rain.

Philosophe_rouge · 09-04-2008, 08:14 AM

1. Umberto D
2. Singin' in the Rain
3. On Dangerous Ground
4. The Importance of Being Earnest
5. The Bad and the Beautiful

Boner M · 09-04-2008, 08:18 AM

1. Ikiru
2. Singin' in the Rain
3. Umberto D.
4. Life of Oharu
5. On Dangerous Ground

I assume it's patently unnecessary to vote for either Limelight or The Bad and the Beautiful, as I didn't like them as much as the above five.

Russ · 09-04-2008, 11:13 AM

1. Umberto D.
2. Feed the Kitty
3. Magical Maestro
4. Rabbit Seasoning
5. Singin' in the Rain

Great year for classic animation shorts.

Isaac · 09-04-2008, 01:46 PM

1. Ikiru
2. Umberto D.
3. Life of Oharu
4. The Sniper
5. Forbidden Games

Yxklyx · 09-04-2008, 02:06 PM

1. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Forbidden Games (René Clément)
3. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Orson Welles)
4. Bend of the River (Anthony Mann)
5. Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson)

6. The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)
7. Don't Bother to Knock (Roy Ward Baker)
8. The Marrying Kind (George Cukor)
9. Angel Face (Otto Preminger)
10. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)

Lazlo · 09-04-2008, 02:54 PM

1. Singin’ in the Rain
2. Ikiru
3. High Noon
4. Umberto D.

Grouchy · 09-04-2008, 03:05 PM

1. Ikiru
2. High Noon
3. Singin' in the Rain
4. Othello
5. Angel Face

dreamdead · 09-04-2008, 03:09 PM

1. Ikiru
2. Singin' in the Rain
3. Umberto D.
4. Rabbit Seasoning

The Mike · 09-04-2008, 03:15 PM

1. High Noon
2. Don't Bother to Knock
3. The Quiet Man
4. The Narrow Margin
5. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla

monolith94 · 09-04-2008, 04:02 PM

1. Othello
2. Umberto D
3. Signin’ In the Rain
4. High Noon
5. On Dangerous Ground

HMs: Water, Water Every Hare
The Importance of Being Earnest

Grouchy · 09-04-2008, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Mike

2. Don't Bother to Knock

Very good movie.

Derek · 09-04-2008, 06:24 PM

1. On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
2. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. Lightning (Mikio Naruse)
4. Forbidden Games (Réné Clement)
5. Casque d'or (Jacques Becker)
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6. Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones)
7. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
8. Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
9. Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica)
10. Park Row (Samuel Fuller)

HMs:

Spoiler

Raiders · 09-04-2008, 07:37 PM

1. Park Row (Fuller)
2. The Lusty Men (N. Ray)
3. The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi)
4. Ikiru (Kurosawa)
5. The Bad and the Beautiful (Minnelli)

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6. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Welles)
7. Singin' in the Rain (Donen)
8. Limelight (Chaplin)
9. Umberto D (De Sica)
10. Angel Face (Preminger)

Pop Trash · 09-05-2008, 05:02 AM

1. Forbidden Games
2. Ikiru
3. Umberto D.

Kind of an off year for cinema IMO.

soitgoes... · 09-05-2008, 08:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pop Trash

1. Forbidden Games
2. Ikiru
3. Umberto D.

Kind of an off year for cinema IMO.

I think it's another great example of why the 50's pretty much rule.

Ezee E · 09-05-2008, 12:29 PM

1. Umberto D
2. Ikiru
3. On Dangerous Ground
4. High Noon
5. Singin' In The Rain

thefourthwall · 09-05-2008, 05:38 PM

1. Singin' In the Rain
2. High Noon
3. The Quiet Man

soitgoes... · 09-10-2008, 08:45 AM

This one will be wrapping up shortly as well. Get those ballots in!!

Kurosawa Fan · 09-10-2008, 12:30 PM

1. Ikiru
2. Limelight
3. High Noon
4. Water, Water Every Hare
5. Umberto D.

soitgoes... · 09-11-2008, 07:56 AM

I'm probably not going to have enough time to get to this until Friday. Besides this needs more ballots.

Duncan · 09-11-2008, 02:20 PM

1. Othello
2. Ikiru
3. Rabbit Seasoning
4. Singing in the Rain

Lots to see, obv.

Spinal · 09-11-2008, 09:00 PM

More?

soitgoes... · 09-12-2008, 10:10 AM

Closed. This is going to be a Top 9 apparently, as the tenth place film failed to receive 10 points.

soitgoes... · 09-12-2008, 10:21 AM

#9

Rabbit Seasoning

Director: Chuck Jones

Country: USA

Daffy Duck tricks Elmer Fudd into believing it's rabbit season; but Bugs Bunny uses a female disguise and faulty pronouns to fight back.

It is the sequel to Rabbit Fire, and the second entry in the "Hunting trilogy" directed by Jones and written by Michael Maltese. (The only major difference in format between Rabbit Fire and Rabbit Seasoning is that the former takes place during the springtime, while the latter takes place in autumn. The third cartoon, Duck! Rabbit! Duck!, takes place in the winter.)

"The art of Rabbit Seasoning is superb, but the dialogue and direction here really crackle. Interplay between Bugs and Daffy is always a good thing, and here (as it should be) it's very snappy, which is a credit to both Maltese as a writer and Blanc as a performer, who for all intents and purposes, was arguing with himself." - Ryan Arthur (Not a lot in the way of critical quotes for this one.)

soitgoes... · 09-12-2008, 10:25 AM

#8

On Dangerous Ground

Director: Nicholas Ray

Country: USA

Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate the murder of a young girl in the winter countryside. There he meets Mary Malden, whom he finds attractive and independent. However, Mary's brother is chief suspect in the killing. And Mary herself is blind.

After being completed, the film was shelved for two years, which was not uncommon in RKO under the control of Howard Hughes. Upon Hughes insistence, 10 minutes was cut out of the film, and a scene which originally was just before the ending, the assassination of Myrna, was moved to the ending of the first part of the film.

"One of noir’s most soulful and poetic expressions of hope and redemption – two commodities usually in short supply in the fatalistic genre – Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground begins hard and bitter, only to slowly transform into something gentle and poignant." - Nick Schager

09-04-2008, 05:46 AM	#1
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	MC Yearly Consensus - 1952 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

09-04-2008, 06:01 AM	#2
origami_mustache blurred and indistinct Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 420	1. Ikiru 2. Life of Oharu 3.Umberto D. 4. High Noon 5. Singin' In the Rain __________________ The Auteurs branduponthebrain Last edited by origami_mustache : 09-04-2008 at 08:01 AM.

09-04-2008, 06:09 AM	#3
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	1. Ikiru 2. Umberto D. 3. Rabbit Seasoning 4. Othello 5. Forbidden Games __________________ 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

09-04-2008, 07:47 AM	#4
soitgoes... King of the Impossible Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 633	1. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa) 2. Forbidden Games (René Clément) 3. Magical Maestro (Tex Avery) 4. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica) 5. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu) ------------------------------------------------------ 6. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli) 7. Duck and Cover (Anthony Rizzo) 8. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly) 9. Rabbit Seasoning (Chuck Jones) 10. Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones) Spoiler HM's Limelight (Charles Chaplin) The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi) Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls) Park Row (Samuel Fuller) Children of Hiroshima (Kaneto Shindô) Casque d'or (Jacques Becker) Operation: Rabbit (Chuck Jones) Okaasan (Mikio Naruse) High Noon (Fred Zinnemann) Lightning (Mikio Naruse) Water, Water Every Hare (Chuck Jones) On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray) The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith) __________________ 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 Last edited by soitgoes... : 09-07-2008 at 11:28 AM.*

09-04-2008, 07:49 AM	#5
baby doll Screenwriter Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 426	1. Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi) 2. Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang) 3. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli) 4. Angel Face (Otto Preminger) 5. Limelight (Charles Chaplin) I assume it's patently unnecessary to vote for either Ikiru or Singin' in the Rain. __________________ 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)

09-04-2008, 08:14 AM	#6
Philosophe_rouge Editor Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 743	1. Umberto D 2. Singin' in the Rain 3. On Dangerous Ground 4. The Importance of Being Earnest 5. The Bad and the Beautiful __________________ House of Mirth and Movies: Top 10s (in progress)

09-04-2008, 08:18 AM	#7
Boner M blood Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 1498	1. Ikiru 2. Singin' in the Rain 3. Umberto D. 4. Life of Oharu 5. On Dangerous Ground I assume it's patently unnecessary to vote for either Limelight or The Bad and the Beautiful, as I didn't like them as much as the above five. __________________ 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

09-04-2008, 11:13 AM	#8
Russ I believe in your victory Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 863	1. Umberto D. 2. Feed the Kitty 3. Magical Maestro 4. Rabbit Seasoning 5. Singin' in the Rain Great year for classic animation shorts.

09-04-2008, 01:46 PM	#9
Isaac Social Retard Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 677	1. Ikiru 2. Umberto D. 3. Life of Oharu 4. The Sniper 5. Forbidden Games __________________ Orlando (1992) *½ Demonlover (2002) ½ Inception (2010) ½ Everything Is Illuminated (2002, Jonathan Safran Foer) * July's People (1981, Nadine Gordimer) ***½

09-04-2008, 02:06 PM	#10
Yxklyx Editor Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 177	1. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa) 2. Forbidden Games (René Clément) 3. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Orson Welles) 4. Bend of the River (Anthony Mann) 5. Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson) 6. The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer) 7. Don't Bother to Knock (Roy Ward Baker) 8. The Marrying Kind (George Cukor) 9. Angel Face (Otto Preminger) 10. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly) __________________ Last Excellent Film Seen For The Very First Time: Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming) My Movie Page

09-04-2008, 02:54 PM	#11
Lazlo Best Boy Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 29	1. Singin’ in the Rain 2. Ikiru 3. High Noon 4. Umberto D. __________________ last four: inception - 9.5 knight and day - 5 predators - 6.5 the messenger - 9.5

09-04-2008, 03:05 PM	#12
Grouchy A Platypus Rep Power: 7 Rep Points: 884	1. Ikiru 2. High Noon 3. Singin' in the Rain 4. Othello 5. Angel Face __________________ 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.

09-04-2008, 03:09 PM	#13
dreamdead Screenwriter Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 774	1. Ikiru 2. Singin' in the Rain 3. Umberto D. 4. Rabbit Seasoning __________________ The Long Goodbye - 8.5 Dirty Pretty Things - 7.5 Beloved - 6.5 Inception - 7

09-04-2008, 03:15 PM	#14
The Mike Does not read Sutter Cane Rep Power: 4 Rep Points: 546	1. High Noon 2. Don't Bother to Knock 3. The Quiet Man 4. The Narrow Margin 5. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla __________________ The Mike It's very very horrible, sir. It's one of those things we wish we could disinvent. From Midnight, With Love - My Midnight Movie Blog of Justice!

09-04-2008, 04:02 PM	#15
monolith94 nightmare investigator Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 293	1. Othello 2. Umberto D 3. Signin’ In the Rain 4. High Noon 5. On Dangerous Ground HMs: Water, Water Every Hare The Importance of Being Earnest __________________ "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

09-04-2008, 06:24 PM	#17
Derek Moisten your fence Rep Power: 12 Rep Points: 2656	1. On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray) 2. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi) 3. Lightning (Mikio Naruse) 4. Forbidden Games (Réné Clement) 5. Casque d'or (Jacques Becker) ************************ 6. Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones) 7. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray) 8. Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini) 9. Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica) 10. Park Row (Samuel Fuller) HMs: Spoiler Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen) The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer) Water, Water Every Hare (Chuck Jones) Rabbit Seasoning (Chuck Jones) The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli) __________________ 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

09-04-2008, 07:37 PM	#18
Raiders Administrator Rep Power: 10 Rep Points: 1924	1. Park Row (Fuller) 2. The Lusty Men (N. Ray) 3. The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi) 4. Ikiru (Kurosawa) 5. The Bad and the Beautiful (Minnelli) ----------------------------------- 6. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Welles) 7. Singin' in the Rain (Donen) 8. Limelight (Chaplin) 9. Umberto D (De Sica) 10. Angel Face (Preminger) __________________ 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)

09-05-2008, 05:02 AM	#19
Pop Trash Cinematographer Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 182	1. Forbidden Games 2. Ikiru 3. Umberto D. Kind of an off year for cinema IMO.

09-05-2008, 12:29 PM	#21
Ezee E Live like it's shark week Rep Power: 14 Rep Points: 1804	1. Umberto D 2. Ikiru 3. On Dangerous Ground 4. High Noon 5. Singin' In The Rain __________________ LATEST SEEN: The Runaways - ** 1/2 Chloe - * 1/2 A Single Man - ***

09-05-2008, 05:38 PM	#22
thefourthwall Supporting Actor Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 313	1. Singin' In the Rain 2. High Noon 3. The Quiet Man __________________ Alice in Wonderland - 5 Shutter Island - 6.5 District 9 - 7.5 Variety - 7 The Firm (Clarke) - 7 Elephant (Clarke) - 8

09-10-2008, 08:45 AM	#23
soitgoes... King of the Impossible Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 633	This one will be wrapping up shortly as well. Get those ballots in!! __________________ 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

09-10-2008, 12:30 PM	#24
Kurosawa Fan Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2892	1. Ikiru 2. Limelight 3. High Noon 4. Water, Water Every Hare 5. Umberto D. __________________ 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

09-11-2008, 07:56 AM	#25
soitgoes... King of the Impossible Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 633	I'm probably not going to have enough time to get to this until Friday. Besides this needs more ballots. __________________ 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

09-11-2008, 02:20 PM	#26
Duncan Balloons, still Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 672	1. Othello 2. Ikiru 3. Rabbit Seasoning 4. Singing in the Rain Lots to see, obv. __________________ 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.

09-11-2008, 09:00 PM	#27
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	More? __________________ 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

09-12-2008, 10:10 AM	#28
soitgoes... King of the Impossible Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 633	Closed. This is going to be a Top 9 apparently, as the tenth place film failed to receive 10 points. __________________ 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

09-12-2008, 10:21 AM	#29
soitgoes... King of the Impossible Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 633	#9 Rabbit Seasoning Director: Chuck Jones Country: USA Daffy Duck tricks Elmer Fudd into believing it's rabbit season; but Bugs Bunny uses a female disguise and faulty pronouns to fight back. It is the sequel to Rabbit Fire, and the second entry in the "Hunting trilogy" directed by Jones and written by Michael Maltese. (The only major difference in format between Rabbit Fire and Rabbit Seasoning is that the former takes place during the springtime, while the latter takes place in autumn. The third cartoon, Duck! Rabbit! Duck!, takes place in the winter.) "The art of Rabbit Seasoning is superb, but the dialogue and direction here really crackle. Interplay between Bugs and Daffy is always a good thing, and here (as it should be) it's very snappy, which is a credit to both Maltese as a writer and Blanc as a performer, who for all intents and purposes, was arguing with himself." - Ryan Arthur (Not a lot in the way of critical quotes for this one.) __________________ 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

09-12-2008, 10:25 AM	#30
soitgoes... King of the Impossible Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 633	#8 On Dangerous Ground Director: Nicholas Ray Country: USA Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate the murder of a young girl in the winter countryside. There he meets Mary Malden, whom he finds attractive and independent. However, Mary's brother is chief suspect in the killing. And Mary herself is blind. After being completed, the film was shelved for two years, which was not uncommon in RKO under the control of Howard Hughes. Upon Hughes insistence, 10 minutes was cut out of the film, and a scene which originally was just before the ending, the assassination of Myrna, was moved to the ending of the first part of the film. "One of noir’s most soulful and poetic expressions of hope and redemption – two commodities usually in short supply in the fatalistic genre – Nicholas Ray’s On Dangerous Ground begins hard and bitter, only to slowly transform into something gentle and poignant." - Nick Schager __________________ 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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