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Eleven · 03-02-2008, 06:27 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 thread is locked, 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 · 03-02-2008, 06:31 PM

1. The 400 Blows
2. Ballad of a Soldier
3. Hiroshima, mon amour
4. Ben-Hur
5. The World of Apu

Eleven · 03-02-2008, 06:32 PM

1. Rio Bravo
2. The 400 Blows
3. North by Northwest
4. Shadows
5. Some Like it Hot

HMs: Pickpocket, Black Orpheus, Nazarin, Hiroshima, mon amour.

MadMan · 03-02-2008, 06:34 PM

1. Rio Bravo
2. North By Northwest
3. Sleeping Beauty
4. House On Haunted Hill

Watashi · 03-02-2008, 06:36 PM

1. The 400 Blows
2. North by Northwest
3. Pickpocket
4. Anatomy of a Murder
5. Sleeping Beauty

Derek · 03-02-2008, 06:44 PM

1. Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi)
2. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
4. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
5. Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi)
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6. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
7. The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
8. Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
9. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
10. Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)

Kurious Jorge v3.1 · 03-02-2008, 07:00 PM

1. Hiroshima mon Amour (Resnais)
2. Night Train (Kawalerowicz)
3. Good Morning (Ozu)
4. Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai)
5. Black Orpheus (Camus)
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6. Floating Weeds (Ozu)
7. "When Angels Fall" (Polanski)
8. North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
9. Two Men in Manhattan (Melville)
10. The 400 Blows (Truffaut)

Amazing year.

Russ · 03-02-2008, 07:02 PM

1. Plan 9 from Outer Space
2. Imitation of Life
3. North by Northwest
4. Anatomy of a Murder
5. Black Orpheus

ledfloyd · 03-02-2008, 07:04 PM

this is an amazing year.

1. Rio Bravo
2. Hiroshima, Mon Amour
3. The 400 Blows
4. Some Like it Hot
5. North by Northwest

maybe i'll see pickpocket in the next couple days. i wish the apu films were on dvd.

Yxklyx · 03-02-2008, 07:25 PM

1. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
3. Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
4. Shadows (John Cassavetes)
5. The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens)

6. Compulsion (Richard Fleischer)
7. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
8. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
9. Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
10. The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)

Philosophe_rouge · 03-02-2008, 07:37 PM

Very good year

1. Some Like it Hot
2. Imitation of Life
3. Rio Bravo
4. North by Northwest
5. Sleeping Beauty

ledfloyd · 03-02-2008, 07:47 PM

leaving shadows off the list was hard.

Isaac · 03-02-2008, 07:50 PM

1. The 400 Blows
2. Ballad of a Soldier
3. The World of Apu
4. Ben Hur
5. Imitation of Life

6. Pickpocket
7. Tiger Bay
8. Hiroshima Mon Amour
9. Bucket of Blood
10. Some Like It Hot

soitgoes... · 03-02-2008, 07:56 PM

1. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Human Condition I (Masaki Kobayashi)
3. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
4. The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
5. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
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6. Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai)
7. À double tour (Claude Chabrol)
8. Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
9. The Lamp (Roman Polanski)
10. Our Man in Havana (Carol Reed)

EyesWideOpen · 03-02-2008, 08:08 PM

1. Anatomy of a Murder
2. North by Northwest
3. Some Like it Hot
4. The 400 Blows
5. A Bucket of Blood

baby doll · 03-02-2008, 09:48 PM

1. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
2. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
3. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
4. Les Quatre cents coups (François Truffaut)
5. The Tiger of Eschnapur & The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang)
6. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
7. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
8. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. Nazarín (Luis Buñuel)
10. Shadows (John Cassavetes)

Eleven · 03-02-2008, 09:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baby doll

5. The Tiger of Eschnapur & The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang)

I was blown away by the first half, and if I can get to the second during this week, they may make their ways onto my ballot.

origami_mustache · 03-02-2008, 10:01 PM

1. The Human Condition Part I: No Greater Love
2. Hiroshima mon amour
3. Pickpocket
4. The 400 Blows
5. The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity

6. Some Like It Hot
7. Shadows
8. Ballad of a Soldier
9. Ben-Hur
10. North By Northwest

Melville · 03-02-2008, 10:06 PM

1. Imitation of Life
2. Some Like it Hot
3. The 400 Blows
4. North by Northwest

Boner M · 03-02-2008, 10:16 PM

1. The 400 Blows
2. North By Northwest
3. Pickpocket
4. A Bucket of Blood
5. Rio Bravo

Derek · 03-02-2008, 10:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by origami_mustache

Maybe this will finally motivate me to watch The Human Condition trilogy this week.

It's definitely worth the time, though I still haven't seen the third part since Netflix made them unavailable soon after I rented the second. At least I have KG to bail me out now.

Kurious Jorge v3.1 · 03-02-2008, 10:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Derek

It's definitely worth the time, though I still haven't seen the third part since Netflix made them unavailable soon after I rented the second. At least I have KG to bail me out now.

Coming to Criterion by the end of the year.

Derek · 03-02-2008, 11:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kurious Jorge v3.1

Coming to Criterion by the end of the year.

Great news! I guess I'll hold off and rewatch the first two before going on to the third.

Raiders · 03-02-2008, 11:32 PM

1. Pickpocket
2. Ride Lonesome
3. A Bucket of Blood
4. Rio Bravo
5. Anatomy of a Murder

Sorry Disney.

dreamdead · 03-03-2008, 03:38 AM

1 Hiroshima, Mon Amour
2 The 400 Blows
3 Pickpocket
4 Imitation of Life
5 Shadows

Weeping_Guitar · 03-03-2008, 12:52 PM

1. The 400 Blows
2. North by Northwest
3. Some Like It Hot
4. Rio Bravo
5. Sleeping Beauty

Kurosawa Fan · 03-03-2008, 11:05 PM

1. Black Orpheus
2. Some Like it Hot
3. Anatomy of a Murder
4. Ballad of a Soldier
5. Compulsion

Grouchy · 03-03-2008, 11:57 PM

1. Rio Bravo
2. Pickpocket
3. Hiroshima, mon amour
4. The 400 Blows
5. North by Northwest

monolith94 · 03-04-2008, 01:04 AM

1. Sleeping Beauty
2. Hiroshima, mon amour
3. The 400 Blows
4. Some Like it Hot
5. Darby O'Gill and the Little People

HMs: North By Northwest,Ben-Hur

Sven · 03-04-2008, 01:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kurosawa Fan

1. Black Orpheus

I remember making you watch that. Most excellent that you regard it in such high esteem. I feel like I've affected someone's life for the better.

03-02-2008, 06:27 PM	#1
Eleven The Artist as Monster Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 161	MC Yearly Consensus - 1959 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 thread is locked, 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 __________________ Playtime Magazine articles Film at 11 Top 11s

03-02-2008, 06:31 PM	#2
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	1. The 400 Blows 2. Ballad of a Soldier 3. Hiroshima, mon amour 4. Ben-Hur 5. The World of Apu __________________ 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

03-02-2008, 06:32 PM	#3
Eleven The Artist as Monster Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 161	1. Rio Bravo 2. The 400 Blows 3. North by Northwest 4. Shadows 5. Some Like it Hot HMs: Pickpocket, Black Orpheus, Nazarin, Hiroshima, mon amour. __________________ Playtime Magazine articles Film at 11 Top 11s

03-02-2008, 06:34 PM	#4
MadMan #1 Procrastinator Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 567	1. Rio Bravo 2. North By Northwest 3. Sleeping Beauty 4. House On Haunted Hill __________________ 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

03-02-2008, 06:36 PM	#5
Watashi Pixar Whore Rep Power: 10 Rep Points: 1677	1. The 400 Blows 2. North by Northwest 3. Pickpocket 4. Anatomy of a Murder 5. Sleeping Beauty __________________ The Kids Are Alright (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010) - ½ Cyrus (Jay & Mark Duplass, 2010) - * Book of Eli (The Hughes Brothers, 2010) - ½ Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) - *½ "The trailer for Shark Tale was better than the entirety of Elf." - sycophant

03-02-2008, 06:44 PM	#6
Derek Moisten your fence Rep Power: 12 Rep Points: 2656	1. Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi) 2. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock) 3. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks) 4. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson) 5. Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi) ___________________________________ 6. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut) 7. The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray) 8. Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder) 9. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger) 10. Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) __________________ 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

03-02-2008, 07:00 PM	#7
Kurious Jorge v3.1 Synegoggles! Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 222	1. Hiroshima mon Amour (Resnais) 2. Night Train (Kawalerowicz) 3. Good Morning (Ozu) 4. Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai) 5. Black Orpheus (Camus) ------------------ 6. Floating Weeds (Ozu) 7. "When Angels Fall" (Polanski) 8. North by Northwest (Hitchcock) 9. Two Men in Manhattan (Melville) 10. The 400 Blows (Truffaut) Amazing year. __________________ 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] Last edited by Kurious Jorge v3.1 : 03-02-2008 at 07:17 PM.

03-02-2008, 07:02 PM	#8
Russ I believe in your victory Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 863	1. Plan 9 from Outer Space 2. Imitation of Life 3. North by Northwest 4. Anatomy of a Murder 5. Black Orpheus

03-02-2008, 07:04 PM	#9
ledfloyd Producer Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 475	this is an amazing year. 1. Rio Bravo 2. Hiroshima, Mon Amour 3. The 400 Blows 4. Some Like it Hot 5. North by Northwest maybe i'll see pickpocket in the next couple days. i wish the apu films were on dvd. __________________ blog

03-02-2008, 07:25 PM	#10
Yxklyx Editor Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 177	1. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock) 2. Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus) 3. Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz) 4. Shadows (John Cassavetes) 5. The Diary of Anne Frank (George Stevens) 6. Compulsion (Richard Fleischer) 7. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut) 8. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder) 9. Ben-Hur (William Wyler) 10. The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray) __________________ Last Excellent Film Seen For The Very First Time: Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming) My Movie Page

03-02-2008, 07:37 PM	#11
Philosophe_rouge Editor Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 743	Very good year 1. Some Like it Hot 2. Imitation of Life 3. Rio Bravo 4. North by Northwest 5. Sleeping Beauty __________________ House of Mirth and Movies: Top 10s (in progress)

03-02-2008, 07:47 PM	#12
ledfloyd Producer Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 475	leaving shadows off the list was hard. __________________ blog

03-02-2008, 07:50 PM	#13
Isaac Social Retard Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 677	1. The 400 Blows 2. Ballad of a Soldier 3. The World of Apu 4. Ben Hur 5. Imitation of Life 6. Pickpocket 7. Tiger Bay 8. Hiroshima Mon Amour 9. Bucket of Blood 10. Some Like It Hot __________________ Orlando (1992) *½ Demonlover (2002) ½ Inception (2010) ½ Everything Is Illuminated (2002, Jonathan Safran Foer) * July's People (1981, Nadine Gordimer) ***½

03-02-2008, 07:56 PM	#14
soitgoes... King of the Impossible Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 633	1. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock) 2. The Human Condition I (Masaki Kobayashi) 3. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder) 4. The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray) 5. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher) ------------------------------------------- 6. Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhrai) 7. À double tour (Claude Chabrol) 8. Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa) 9. The Lamp (Roman Polanski) 10. Our Man in Havana (Carol Reed)

03-02-2008, 08:08 PM	#15
EyesWideOpen Man With the Getaway Face Rep Power: 4 Rep Points: 369	1. Anatomy of a Murder 2. North by Northwest 3. Some Like it Hot 4. The 400 Blows 5. A Bucket of Blood __________________ Movies: The Book of Eli (Hughes Brothers, 2010) B The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915) B+ Inception (Nolan, 2010) A The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Oplev, 2009) B Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010) A Cyrus (Duplass Brothers, 2010) B The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Slade, 2010) B *The 40 Year Old Virgin* (Apatow, 2005) A- Sherlock Holmes (Ritchie, 2009) C- Get Him to the Greek (Stoller, 2010) B+

03-02-2008, 09:48 PM	#16
baby doll Screenwriter Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 426	1. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson) 2. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger) 3. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk) 4. Les Quatre cents coups (François Truffaut) 5. The Tiger of Eschnapur & The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang) 6. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks) 7. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais) 8. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu) 9. Nazarín (Luis Buñuel) 10. Shadows (John Cassavetes) __________________ 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)

03-02-2008, 10:01 PM	#18
origami_mustache blurred and indistinct Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 420	1. The Human Condition Part I: No Greater Love 2. Hiroshima mon amour 3. Pickpocket 4. The 400 Blows 5. The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity 6. Some Like It Hot 7. Shadows 8. Ballad of a Soldier 9. Ben-Hur 10. North By Northwest __________________ The Auteurs branduponthebrain Last edited by origami_mustache : 03-06-2008 at 05:14 AM.

03-02-2008, 10:06 PM	#19
Melville My depressed stance... Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 1332	1. Imitation of Life 2. Some Like it Hot 3. The 400 Blows 4. North by Northwest __________________ 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

03-02-2008, 10:16 PM	#20
Boner M blood Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 1498	1. The 400 Blows 2. North By Northwest 3. Pickpocket 4. A Bucket of Blood 5. Rio Bravo __________________ 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

03-02-2008, 11:32 PM	#24
Raiders Administrator Rep Power: 10 Rep Points: 1924	1. Pickpocket 2. Ride Lonesome 3. A Bucket of Blood 4. Rio Bravo 5. Anatomy of a Murder Sorry Disney. __________________ 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)

03-03-2008, 03:38 AM	#25
dreamdead Screenwriter Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 774	1 Hiroshima, Mon Amour 2 The 400 Blows 3 Pickpocket 4 Imitation of Life 5 Shadows __________________ The Long Goodbye - 8.5 Dirty Pretty Things - 7.5 Beloved - 6.5 Inception - 7

03-03-2008, 12:52 PM	#26
Weeping_Guitar Body Double Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 10	1. The 400 Blows 2. North by Northwest 3. Some Like It Hot 4. Rio Bravo 5. Sleeping Beauty __________________ Recomended Recent Viewings: The Circus (Chaplin, 1928) Inception (Nolan, 2010) Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010) After Hours (Scorsese, 1985) Still Walking (Koreeda, 2008)

03-03-2008, 11:05 PM	#27
Kurosawa Fan Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2892	1. Black Orpheus 2. Some Like it Hot 3. Anatomy of a Murder 4. Ballad of a Soldier 5. Compulsion __________________ 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

03-03-2008, 11:57 PM	#28
Grouchy A Platypus Rep Power: 7 Rep Points: 884	1. Rio Bravo 2. Pickpocket 3. Hiroshima, mon amour 4. The 400 Blows 5. North by Northwest __________________ 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.

03-04-2008, 01:04 AM	#29
monolith94 nightmare investigator Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 293	1. Sleeping Beauty 2. Hiroshima, mon amour 3. The 400 Blows 4. Some Like it Hot 5. Darby O'Gill and the Little People HMs: North By Northwest,Ben-Hur __________________ "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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