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Spinal · 10-05-2008, 09:43 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 · 10-05-2008, 09:44 PM

1. The Lady Eve
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Devil and Daniel Webster

Isaac · 10-05-2008, 09:45 PM

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. Dumbo
4. 49th Parallel
5. Suspicion

Derek · 10-05-2008, 09:49 PM

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. Wabbit Twouble (Robert Clampett)
4. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
5. That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch)

HMs: Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges), Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen), The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)

Raiders · 10-05-2008, 09:54 PM

1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. The Devil & Daniel Webster (Dieterle)
3. The Lady Eve (Sturges)
4. Dumbo (Sharpsteen)
5. 49th Parallel (Powell)

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6. The Maltese Falcon (Huston)
7. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Cline)
8. Sullivan's Travels (Sturges)
9. The 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi)

The Mike · 10-05-2008, 09:58 PM

1. The Wolf Man
2. Sullivan's Travels
3. Citizen Kane
4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
5. Invisible Ghost

HM: The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Maltese Falcon, Suspicion, Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Need to see The Lady Eve badly.

Philosophe_rouge · 10-05-2008, 10:02 PM

Hopefully I'll get around to seeing The Devil and Daniel Webster this week.

1. Sullivan’s Travels
2. Citizen Kane
3. How Green was my Valley
4. That Uncertain Feeling
5. The Maltese Falcon

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6. 49th Parallel
7. Ball of Fire
8. The Lady Eve
9. Sergeant York
10. Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Pop Trash · 10-05-2008, 10:06 PM

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. Sullivan's Travels
4. The Lady Eve
5. Dumbo

One of the better years of the 40s.

soitgoes... · 10-05-2008, 10:24 PM

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
3. The Devil and Miss Jones (Sam Wood)
4. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
5. The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Yasujiro Ozu)
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6. The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle)
7. 49th Parallel (Michael Powell)
8. Hideko the Bus Conductress (Mikio Naruse)

Weeping_Guitar · 10-05-2008, 10:58 PM

1. Sullivan's Travels
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Maltese Falcon
4. The Lady Eve
5. Ball of Fire

Russ · 10-05-2008, 11:00 PM

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Lady Eve
3. Dumbo
4. The Devil and Miss Jones
5. In the Sweet Pie and Pie

HMs: The Maltese Falcon, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Sergeant York

Film I'm most wanting to see: Hellzapoppin'

Ezee E · 10-05-2008, 11:14 PM

Never Give a Sucker...

Awesome title.

Boner M · 10-05-2008, 11:48 PM

1. The Lady Eve
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Maltese Falcon
4. Sullivan's Travels
5. Dumbo

Derek · 10-06-2008, 12:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boner M

1. The Lady Eve
2. Citizen Kane

Et tu, Boner?

ledfloyd · 10-06-2008, 01:19 AM

1. Citizen Kane
2. Sullivan's Travels
3. The Maltese Falcon
4. Ball of Fire
5. High Sierra

Boner M · 10-06-2008, 01:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Derek

Et tu, Boner?

If 'Rosebud' was a nickname for Barbara Stanwyck's vag, maybe I'd reverse that order. But it isn't, so I won't.

Yxklyx · 10-06-2008, 02:21 AM

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
3. The Flame of New Orleans (René Clair)
4. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
5. 49th Parallel (Michael Powell)

6. They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh)
7. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
8. The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle)
9. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall)
10. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)

origami_mustache · 10-06-2008, 03:44 AM

1. Sullivan's Travels
2. Citizen Kane
3. The Lady Eve
4. The Maltese Falcon
5. Dumbo

HM: The Wolf Man

Grouchy · 10-06-2008, 03:57 PM

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. Sullivan's Travels
4. The Wolf Man
5. The Little Foxes

dreamdead · 10-06-2008, 04:11 PM

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Lady Eve
3. Dumbo
4. Ball of Fire
5. Maltese Falcon

Need to see more Mizoguchi when it becomes available.

Kurosawa Fan · 10-06-2008, 04:26 PM

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Lady Eve
3. The Maltese Falcon
4. The Devil and Daniel Webster
5. Suspicion

Lazlo · 10-06-2008, 06:38 PM

1. The Maltese Falcon
2. Citizen Kane
3. Sergeant York
4. Sullivan’s Travels

baby doll · 10-08-2008, 03:12 PM

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
3. The Little Foxes (William Wyler)
4. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)

Need to re-see: The Loyal 47 Ronin of the Genroku Era (Kenji Mizoguchi); Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges).

monolith94 · 10-08-2008, 11:20 PM

1. Citizen Kane
2. Dumbo
3. Sergeant York

Melville · 10-11-2008, 02:21 PM

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Devil and Daniel Webster
3. The Lady Eve
4. Sullivan's Travels
5. Suspicion

Spinal · 10-13-2008, 02:22 AM

More?

Spinal · 10-13-2008, 04:28 PM

All right then. Counting is happening.

Spinal · 10-13-2008, 04:42 PM

Well, I have a top 7 or so. Going to leave this open one more day in the hopes of getting more votes.

Gizmo · 10-13-2008, 07:55 PM

1. Citizen Kane
2. Dumbo
3. Tortoise Beats Hare

Spinal · 10-13-2008, 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gizmo

4. The Big Store

If you're rating this a 5 out of 10 in the other thread, then I would suggest that you probably don't need to be listing it here just to fill out your ballot. Just a thought.

10-05-2008, 09:43 PM	#1
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	MC Yearly Consensus - 1941 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

10-05-2008, 09:44 PM	#2
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	1. The Lady Eve 2. Citizen Kane 3. The Devil and Daniel Webster __________________ 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

10-05-2008, 09:45 PM	#3
Isaac Social Retard Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 677	1. Citizen Kane 2. The Maltese Falcon 3. Dumbo 4. 49th Parallel 5. Suspicion __________________ Orlando (1992) *½ Demonlover (2002) ½ Inception (2010) ½ Everything Is Illuminated (2002, Jonathan Safran Foer) * July's People (1981, Nadine Gordimer) ***½

10-05-2008, 09:49 PM	#4
Derek Moisten your fence Rep Power: 12 Rep Points: 2656	1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) 2. The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi) 3. Wabbit Twouble (Robert Clampett) 4. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston) 5. That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch) HMs: Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges), Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen), The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges) __________________ 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

10-05-2008, 09:54 PM	#5
Raiders Administrator Rep Power: 10 Rep Points: 1924	1. Citizen Kane (Welles) 2. The Devil & Daniel Webster (Dieterle) 3. The Lady Eve (Sturges) 4. Dumbo (Sharpsteen) 5. 49th Parallel (Powell) ----------------------------------- 6. The Maltese Falcon (Huston) 7. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Cline) 8. Sullivan's Travels (Sturges) 9. The 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi) __________________ 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)

10-05-2008, 09:58 PM	#6
The Mike Does not read Sutter Cane Rep Power: 4 Rep Points: 546	1. The Wolf Man 2. Sullivan's Travels 3. Citizen Kane 4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 5. Invisible Ghost HM: The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Maltese Falcon, Suspicion, Mr. & Mrs. Smith Need to see The Lady Eve badly. __________________ 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!

10-05-2008, 10:02 PM	#7
Philosophe_rouge Editor Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 743	Hopefully I'll get around to seeing The Devil and Daniel Webster this week. 1. Sullivan’s Travels 2. Citizen Kane 3. How Green was my Valley 4. That Uncertain Feeling 5. The Maltese Falcon ----- 6. 49th Parallel 7. Ball of Fire 8. The Lady Eve 9. Sergeant York 10. Here Comes Mr. Jordan __________________ House of Mirth and Movies: Top 10s (in progress)

10-05-2008, 10:06 PM	#8
Pop Trash Cinematographer Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 182	1. Citizen Kane 2. The Maltese Falcon 3. Sullivan's Travels 4. The Lady Eve 5. Dumbo One of the better years of the 40s.

10-05-2008, 10:24 PM	#9
soitgoes... King of the Impossible Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 633	1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) 2. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges) 3. The Devil and Miss Jones (Sam Wood) 4. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston) 5. The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Yasujiro Ozu) --------------------------------------------------------------- 6. The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle) 7. 49th Parallel (Michael Powell) 8. Hideko the Bus Conductress (Mikio Naruse) __________________ 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

10-05-2008, 10:58 PM	#10
Weeping_Guitar Body Double Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 10	1. Sullivan's Travels 2. Citizen Kane 3. The Maltese Falcon 4. The Lady Eve 5. Ball of Fire __________________ Recomended Recent Viewings: The Circus (Chaplin, 1928) Inception (Nolan, 2010) Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010) After Hours (Scorsese, 1985) Still Walking (Koreeda, 2008)

10-05-2008, 11:00 PM	#11
Russ I believe in your victory Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 863	1. Citizen Kane 2. The Lady Eve 3. Dumbo 4. The Devil and Miss Jones 5. In the Sweet Pie and Pie HMs: The Maltese Falcon, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, Sergeant York Film I'm most wanting to see: Hellzapoppin' Last edited by Russ : 10-05-2008 at 11:04 PM.

10-05-2008, 11:14 PM	#12
Ezee E Live like it's shark week Rep Power: 14 Rep Points: 1804	Never Give a Sucker... Awesome title. __________________ LATEST SEEN: The Runaways - ** 1/2 Chloe - * 1/2 A Single Man - ***

10-05-2008, 11:48 PM	#13
Boner M blood Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 1498	1. The Lady Eve 2. Citizen Kane 3. The Maltese Falcon 4. Sullivan's Travels 5. Dumbo __________________ 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

10-06-2008, 01:19 AM	#15
ledfloyd Producer Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 475	1. Citizen Kane 2. Sullivan's Travels 3. The Maltese Falcon 4. Ball of Fire 5. High Sierra __________________ blog

10-06-2008, 02:21 AM	#17
Yxklyx Editor Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 177	1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) 2. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston) 3. The Flame of New Orleans (René Clair) 4. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges) 5. 49th Parallel (Michael Powell) 6. They Died with Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh) 7. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges) 8. The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle) 9. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall) 10. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks) __________________ Last Excellent Film Seen For The Very First Time: Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming) My Movie Page

10-06-2008, 03:44 AM	#18
origami_mustache blurred and indistinct Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 420	1. Sullivan's Travels 2. Citizen Kane 3. The Lady Eve 4. The Maltese Falcon 5. Dumbo HM: The Wolf Man __________________ The Auteurs branduponthebrain

10-06-2008, 03:57 PM	#19
Grouchy A Platypus Rep Power: 7 Rep Points: 884	1. Citizen Kane 2. The Maltese Falcon 3. Sullivan's Travels 4. The Wolf Man 5. The Little Foxes __________________ 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.

10-06-2008, 04:11 PM	#20
dreamdead Screenwriter Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 774	1. Citizen Kane 2. The Lady Eve 3. Dumbo 4. Ball of Fire 5. Maltese Falcon Need to see more Mizoguchi when it becomes available. __________________ The Long Goodbye - 8.5 Dirty Pretty Things - 7.5 Beloved - 6.5 Inception - 7

10-06-2008, 04:26 PM	#21
Kurosawa Fan Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2892	1. Citizen Kane 2. The Lady Eve 3. The Maltese Falcon 4. The Devil and Daniel Webster 5. Suspicion __________________ 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

10-06-2008, 06:38 PM	#22
Lazlo Best Boy Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 29	1. The Maltese Falcon 2. Citizen Kane 3. Sergeant York 4. Sullivan’s Travels __________________ last four: inception - 9.5 knight and day - 5 predators - 6.5 the messenger - 9.5

10-08-2008, 03:12 PM	#23
baby doll Screenwriter Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 426	1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) 2. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges) 3. The Little Foxes (William Wyler) 4. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock) 5. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston) Need to re-see: The Loyal 47 Ronin of the Genroku Era (Kenji Mizoguchi); Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges). __________________ 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)

10-08-2008, 11:20 PM	#24
monolith94 nightmare investigator Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 293	1. Citizen Kane 2. Dumbo 3. Sergeant York __________________ "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

10-11-2008, 02:21 PM	#25
Melville My depressed stance... Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 1332	1. Citizen Kane 2. The Devil and Daniel Webster 3. The Lady Eve 4. Sullivan's Travels 5. Suspicion

10-13-2008, 02:22 AM	#26
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

10-13-2008, 04:28 PM	#27
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	All right then. Counting is happening. __________________ 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

10-13-2008, 04:42 PM	#28
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	Well, I have a top 7 or so. Going to leave this open one more day in the hopes of getting more votes. __________________ 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

10-13-2008, 07:55 PM	#29
Gizmo Gone down wrong road Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 25	1. Citizen Kane 2. Dumbo 3. Tortoise Beats Hare __________________ coming soon Last edited by Gizmo : 10-13-2008 at 09:50 PM.

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