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Kurosawa Fan · 09-10-2008, 12:48 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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Russ · 09-10-2008, 01:17 PM

1. Trouble in Paradise
2. Freaks
3. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
4. The Music Box
5. Island of Lost Souls

Boner M · 09-10-2008, 01:47 PM

Gonna hold off voting till I see Boudu Saved From Drowning and Scarface.

Isaac · 09-10-2008, 01:53 PM

For your consideration: L'Idée

http://brightlightsfilm.blogspot.com...-bartosch.html

Yxklyx · 09-10-2008, 02:13 PM

1. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
2. The Blue Light (Béla Balázs & Leni Riefenstahl)
3. Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding)
4. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)

6. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
7. Freaks (Tod Browning)
8. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
9. Rain (Lewis Milestone)
10. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)

Pretty awesome year - too bad about Hayes.

Raiders · 09-10-2008, 03:01 PM

1. Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch)
2. Freaks (Browning)
3. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Renoir)
4. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (LeRoy)
5. A Farewell to Arms (Borzage)

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6. Horse Feathers (McLeod)
7. The Music Box (Parrot)
8. Vampyr (Dreyer)
9. Scarface (Hawks)
10. The Old Dark House (Whale)

monolith94 · 09-10-2008, 03:41 PM

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
2. Scarface
3. Vampyr
4. Blond Venus
5. Freaks

Philosophe_rouge · 09-10-2008, 05:42 PM

1. Trouble in Paradise
2. Scarface
3. One Hour with You
4. Love me tonight
5. Horse Feathers

Derek · 09-10-2008, 06:06 PM

1. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. Freaks (Tod Browning)
3. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
4. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
5. Tiger Shark (Howard Hawks)
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6. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
7. The Crowd Roars (Howard Hawks)
8. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
9. I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
10. Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)

Grouchy · 09-10-2008, 06:27 PM

1. Freaks
2. White Zombie
3. Vampyr
4. Scarface
5. The Mummy

Am I the only one who's seen White Zombie?

Derek · 09-10-2008, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grouchy

Am I the only one who's seen White Zombie?

Is that the one where Bela Lugosi is more human than human?

Spoiler

Yxklyx · 09-10-2008, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grouchy

Am I the only one who's seen White Zombie?

Sorry, it got beat by 26 other films.

Melville · 09-10-2008, 09:20 PM

1. Freaks
2. Vampyr
3. Scarface

soitgoes... · 09-10-2008, 10:43 PM

1. Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard)
2. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. The Music Box (James Parrott)
4. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
5. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
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6. Freaks (Tod Browning)
7. I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
8. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
9. The Dentist (Leslie Pearce)

The Mike · 09-10-2008, 10:52 PM

1. The Most Dangerous Game
2. Freaks
3. I am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang
4. The Mask of Fu Manchu
5. The Old Dark House

HM: Scarface, The Mummy, Doctor X, White Zombie

I still need to see Grand Hotel. Great year for horror!

Spinal · 09-10-2008, 11:41 PM

1. Vampyr
2. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
3. Trouble in Paradise

Weeping_Guitar · 09-11-2008, 12:57 AM

1. Trouble in Paradise
2. Scarface
3. I Was Born, But...

Isaac · 09-11-2008, 01:57 AM

1. L'Idée
2. I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
3. The Music Box
4. Freaks
5. Rain

baby doll · 09-11-2008, 05:51 AM

1. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
3. I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
4. Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg)

baby doll · 09-11-2008, 05:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Philosophe_rouge

One Hour with You

Really? I liked it okay, but it's nothing special. (Love Me Tonight on the other hand...) I blogged about it recently, so if you're at all interested in my thoughts (which I doubt anyone is), you can find it there.

Similarly, I might've voted for Scarface were I not so bothered by the "Wassa matta wit you?" accents. And I found large parts of Freaks similarly corny (I vastly prefer Browning's The Unknown).

Philosophe_rouge · 09-11-2008, 06:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baby doll

Really? I liked it okay, but it's nothing special. (Love Me Tonight on the other hand...) I blogged about it recently, so if you're at all interested in my thoughts (which I doubt anyone is), you can find it there.

Similarly, I might've voted for Scarface were I not so bothered by the "Wassa matta wit you?" accents. And I found large parts of Freaks similarly corny (I vastly prefer Browning's The Unknown).

It's not one of his best, but I thought it was absolutely charming. I prefer the misunderstandings of it to Love me Tonight, though both are good. I've actually been meaning to read your blog for a while, I love Lubitsch.

baby doll · 09-11-2008, 06:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Philosophe_rouge

It's not one of his best, but I thought it was absolutely charming. I prefer the misunderstandings of it to Love me Tonight, though both are good. I've actually been meaning to read your blog for a while, I love Lubitsch.

I found the story fairly threadbare, as if Lubitsch and Raphelson didn't really have their hearts in it. I prefer the style of Love Me Tonight.

Philosophe_rouge · 09-11-2008, 06:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baby doll

I found the story fairly threadbare, as if Lubitsch and Raphelson didn't really have their hearts in it. I prefer the style of Love Me Tonight.

I don't know, maybe it's because I had seen THe Marriage Circle so soon before, which is essentially the same plot... but an all around mediocre film. I haven't seen Love me Tonight in quite a while either. I wouldn't consider One Hour with You to be one of Lubitsch's best though, just middle ground... 1932 is not my favourite year.

origami_mustache · 09-11-2008, 09:17 PM

1. Scarface
2. Freaks
3. Horse Feathers
4. Trouble in Paradise
5. Island of Lost Souls

hm: Blonde Venus, Vampyr, Grand Hotel, The Old Dark House

dreamdead · 09-13-2008, 12:15 AM

Embarrassing. Only seen Trouble in Paradise and Freaks from this year. I hope to tackle von Sternberg's films soon.

Kurious Jorge v3.1 · 09-13-2008, 05:45 AM

1. I Was Born, but...
2. Shanghai Express
3. Freaks
4. Vampyr

Yxklyx · 09-15-2008, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kurious Jorge v3.1

2. Shanghai Express

Doh! I was going to watch this for the '31 consensus - imdb must have changed the year.

Kurosawa Fan · 09-19-2008, 12:58 PM

Any more? I'll probably close it this afternoon.

Kurosawa Fan · 09-19-2008, 03:15 PM

Heh. Just realized I hadn't posted my own rankings.

1. Vampyr
2. One Hour With You
3. The Most Dangerous Game
4. Trouble in Paradise
5. Boudu Saved from Drowning

I'll give this a few more hours before it closes.

Raiders · 09-19-2008, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan

3. The Most Dangerous Game
4. Trouble in Paradise
5. Boudu Saved from Drowning

Ew, really?

09-10-2008, 12:48 PM	#1
Kurosawa Fan Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2892	MC Yearly Consensus - 1932 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 __________________ 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

09-10-2008, 01:47 PM	#3
Boner M blood Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 1498	Gonna hold off voting till I see Boudu Saved From Drowning and Scarface. __________________ 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

09-10-2008, 01:53 PM	#4
Isaac Social Retard Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 677	For your consideration: L'Idée http://brightlightsfilm.blogspot.com...-bartosch.html __________________ Orlando (1992) *½ Demonlover (2002) ½ Inception (2010) ½ Everything Is Illuminated (2002, Jonathan Safran Foer) * July's People (1981, Nadine Gordimer) ***½

09-10-2008, 02:13 PM	#5
Yxklyx Editor Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 177	1. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir) 2. The Blue Light (Béla Balázs & Leni Riefenstahl) 3. Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding) 4. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer) 5. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian) 6. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy) 7. Freaks (Tod Browning) 8. Scarface (Howard Hawks) 9. Rain (Lewis Milestone) 10. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch) Pretty awesome year - too bad about Hayes. __________________ Last Excellent Film Seen For The Very First Time: Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming) My Movie Page

09-10-2008, 03:01 PM	#6
Raiders Administrator Rep Power: 10 Rep Points: 1924	1. Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch) 2. Freaks (Browning) 3. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Renoir) 4. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (LeRoy) 5. A Farewell to Arms (Borzage) ---------------------------------------- 6. Horse Feathers (McLeod) 7. The Music Box (Parrot) 8. Vampyr (Dreyer) 9. Scarface (Hawks) 10. The Old Dark House (Whale) __________________ 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)

09-10-2008, 01:17 PM	#2
Russ I believe in your victory Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 863	1. Trouble in Paradise 2. Freaks 3. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 4. The Music Box 5. Island of Lost Souls

09-10-2008, 03:41 PM	#7
monolith94 nightmare investigator Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 293	1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 2. Scarface 3. Vampyr 4. Blond Venus 5. Freaks __________________ "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 Last edited by monolith94 : 09-13-2008 at 02:52 PM.

09-10-2008, 05:42 PM	#8
Philosophe_rouge Editor Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 743	1. Trouble in Paradise 2. Scarface 3. One Hour with You 4. Love me tonight 5. Horse Feathers __________________ House of Mirth and Movies: Top 10s (in progress)

09-10-2008, 06:06 PM	#9
Derek Moisten your fence Rep Power: 12 Rep Points: 2656	1. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch) 2. Freaks (Tod Browning) 3. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian) 4. Scarface (Howard Hawks) 5. Tiger Shark (Howard Hawks) **************************** 6. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir) 7. The Crowd Roars (Howard Hawks) 8. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer) 9. I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu) 10. Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg) __________________ 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

09-10-2008, 06:27 PM	#10
Grouchy A Platypus Rep Power: 7 Rep Points: 884	1. Freaks 2. White Zombie 3. Vampyr 4. Scarface 5. The Mummy Am I the only one who's seen White Zombie? __________________ 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.

09-10-2008, 09:20 PM	#13
Melville My depressed stance... Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 1332	1. Freaks 2. Vampyr 3. Scarface __________________ 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

09-10-2008, 10:43 PM	#14
soitgoes... King of the Impossible Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 633	1. Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard) 2. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch) 3. The Music Box (James Parrott) 4. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy) 5. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir) ------------------------------------------------- 6. Freaks (Tod Browning) 7. I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu) 8. Scarface (Howard Hawks) 9. The Dentist (Leslie Pearce) __________________ 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, 10:52 PM	#15
The Mike Does not read Sutter Cane Rep Power: 4 Rep Points: 546	1. The Most Dangerous Game 2. Freaks 3. I am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang 4. The Mask of Fu Manchu 5. The Old Dark House HM: Scarface, The Mummy, Doctor X, White Zombie I still need to see Grand Hotel. Great year for horror! __________________ 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!

09-10-2008, 11:41 PM	#16
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	1. Vampyr 2. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 3. Trouble in Paradise __________________ 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

09-11-2008, 12:57 AM	#17
Weeping_Guitar Body Double Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 10	1. Trouble in Paradise 2. Scarface 3. I Was Born, But... __________________ Recomended Recent Viewings: The Circus (Chaplin, 1928) Inception (Nolan, 2010) Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010) After Hours (Scorsese, 1985) Still Walking (Koreeda, 2008)

09-11-2008, 01:57 AM	#18
Isaac Social Retard Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 677	1. L'Idée 2. I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 3. The Music Box 4. Freaks 5. Rain __________________ Orlando (1992) *½ Demonlover (2002) ½ Inception (2010) ½ Everything Is Illuminated (2002, Jonathan Safran Foer) * July's People (1981, Nadine Gordimer) ***½

09-11-2008, 05:51 AM	#19
baby doll Screenwriter Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 426	1. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch) 2. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian) 3. I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu) 4. Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg) __________________ 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)

09-11-2008, 09:17 PM	#24
origami_mustache blurred and indistinct Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 420	1. Scarface 2. Freaks 3. Horse Feathers 4. Trouble in Paradise 5. Island of Lost Souls hm: Blonde Venus, Vampyr, Grand Hotel, The Old Dark House __________________ The Auteurs branduponthebrain

09-13-2008, 12:15 AM	#25
dreamdead Screenwriter Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 774	Embarrassing. Only seen Trouble in Paradise and Freaks from this year. I hope to tackle von Sternberg's films soon. __________________ The Long Goodbye - 8.5 Dirty Pretty Things - 7.5 Beloved - 6.5 Inception - 7

09-13-2008, 05:45 AM	#26
Kurious Jorge v3.1 Synegoggles! Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 222	1. I Was Born, but... 2. Shanghai Express 3. Freaks 4. Vampyr __________________ 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]

09-19-2008, 12:58 PM	#28
Kurosawa Fan Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2892	Any more? I'll probably close it this afternoon. __________________ 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

09-19-2008, 03:15 PM	#29
Kurosawa Fan Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2892	Heh. Just realized I hadn't posted my own rankings. 1. Vampyr 2. One Hour With You 3. The Most Dangerous Game 4. Trouble in Paradise 5. Boudu Saved from Drowning I'll give this a few more hours before it closes. __________________ 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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