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The Artist as Monster
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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 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 |
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Pixar Whore
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1. 12 Angry Men
2. The Seventh Seal 3. Bridge Over the River Kwai
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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
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I believe in your victory
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1. What's Opera, Doc?
2. 12 Angry Men 3. Wild Strawberries 4. The Bridge on the River Kwai 5. Three Little Bops |
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Synegoggles!
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1. Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
2. Wild Strawberries (Bergman) 3. Kanal (Wajda) 4. Kisses (Masumura) 5. Le Notte Bianche (Visconti) ------------------ 6. 12 Angry Men (Lumet) 7. Throne of Blood (Kurosawa) 8. Seventh Seal (Bergman) 9. Paths of Glory (Kubrick) 10. The Cranes Are Flying (Kalatolozov)
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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] Last edited by Kurious Jorge v3.1 : 04-29-2008 at 02:57 PM. |
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Moderator
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1. Wild Strawberries
2. Throne of Blood 3. The Seventh Seal 4. What's Opera, Doc? 5. 12 Angry Men
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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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The Artist as Monster
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1. The Seventh Seal
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai 3. What’s Opera, Doc? 4. Paths of Glory 5. Nights of Cabiria 5 HMs: Throne of Blood, Sweet Smell of Success, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Curse of the Demon, Wild Strawberries. |
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Balloons, still
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1. Throne of Blood
2. Tokyo Twilight 3. Sweet Smell of Success 4. Nights of Cabiria 5. Paths of Glory edit: Added Paths of Glory. edit2: Removed What's Opera, Doc? and added Tokyo Twilight, which I completely forgot about.
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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. Last edited by Duncan : 04-30-2008 at 12:18 AM. |
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#1 Procrastinator
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Everything I've seen from this year is on the "fresh" side. That's good I suppose. Oh and for the record Night of the Demon is also called Curse of the Demon as well. Its the same film.
1. 12 Angry Men 2. Night of the Demon 3. The Seventh Seal
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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 Last edited by MadMan : 04-28-2008 at 11:50 PM. |
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King of the Impossible
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1. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
2. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet) 3. What's Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones) 4. The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov) 5. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman) ----------------------------------------------------- 6. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin) 7. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini) 8. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa) 9. A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan) 10. Sweet Smell Of Success (Alexander Mackendrick) One of the strongest years pre-1985, (when the number of films I've seen jumps up significantly. I'd be comfortable compiling a top 20 from this year. 1962 might be the only other year I can say that about. |
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blood
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1. Throne of Blood (Kurosawa)
2. Wild Strawberries (Bergman) 3. Paths of Glory (Kubrick) 4. Il Grido (Antonioni) 5. Nights of Cabiria (Fellini) HM: 12 Angry Men (Lumet), The Sweet Smell of Success (McKendrick), Forty Guns (Fuller)
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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 |
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Champion of the sun
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Rep to those w/ SSoS in their top 5
1 The Sweet Smell of Success 2 The Three Little Bops 3 What's Opera, Doc? |
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Best Boy
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1. Paths of Glory
2. The Bridge on the River Kwai 3. 12 Angry Men 4. Sweet Smell of Success 5. Old Yeller
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last four: inception - 9.5 knight and day - 5 predators - 6.5 the messenger - 9.5 |
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Social Retard
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1. Throne of Blood
2. Nights of Cabiria 3. The Incredible Shrinking Man 4. Paths of Glory 5. The Cranes Are Flying 6. Twelve Angry Men 7. The Bridge on the River Kwai 8. The Seventh Seal 9. Sweet Smell of Success 10. A Face in the Crowd
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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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My depressed stance...
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1. The Seventh Seal
2. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 3. Throne of Blood 4. The Bridge on the River Kwai 5. The Cranes are Flying HM: Sweet Smell of Success, The Nights of Cabiria
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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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The Pan
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Quite a few directors with the double punch this year... Kurosawa, Bergman (haven't seen Strawberries yet), Wilder... I also found it pretty much impossible to rank the top six. I think they're all incredible films.
1. Throne of Blood 2. Nights of Cabiria 3. Sweet Smell of Success 4. Paths of Glory 5. Bridge over the River Kwai 6. Seventh Seal 7. A face in the crowd 8. Kanal 9. 12 angry men 10. Cranes are flying HMs: The Lower Depths, Spirit of St. Louis, Witness for the Prosecution, Night of the demon, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Desperately want to see Il Grido.
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Inception - A- Deewaar - D+ Meet me in St. Louis - C+ Dinner for Schmucks - C+ Gimme Shelter - B Last edited by Qrazy : 04-29-2008 at 03:39 AM. |
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A Platypus
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1. Throne of Blood
2. The Seventh Seal 3. Paths of Glory 4. 12 Angry Men 5. The Curse of Frankenstein
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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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Editor
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1. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
2. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman) 3. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean) 4. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet) 5. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick) 6. Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni) 7. 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves) 8. A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan) 9. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick) 10. Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur) Outstanding Year! ![]()
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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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Editor
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Very good year
1. Sweet Smell of Success 2. Le Notti Bianche 3. The Seventh Seal 4. Paths of Glory 5. The Bridge on the River Kwai
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House of Mirth and Movies: Top 10s (in progress) |
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blurred and indistinct
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1. The Cranes Are Flying
2. Nights of Cabiria 3. The Seventh Seal 4. Throne of Blood 5. Wild Strawberries |
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Cinematographer
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1. The Seventh Seal
2. Throne of Blood 3. Paths of Glory 4. Old Yeller 5. Your Mom |
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Screenwriter
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1. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
2. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin) 3. Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu) 4. A King in New York (Charles Chaplin) 5. What's Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones)
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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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Errand Boy
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1. Throne of Blood
2. Bridge on the River Kwai 3. Paths of Glory 4. 12 Angry Men 5. Nights of Cabiria 6. Wild Strawberries Great year for film. 3-6 are nearly a ties for me. |
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Live like it's shark week
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1. 12 Angry Men
2. Throne of Blood 3. The Seventh Seal 4. Paths of Glory 5. What's Opera, Duck?
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LATEST SEEN: The Runaways - ** 1/2 Chloe - * 1/2 A Single Man - *** |
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Screenwriter
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1. Wild Strawberries
2. The Cranes are Flying 3. Paths of Glory 4. What's Opera, Doc 5. Throne of Blood
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The Long Goodbye - 8.5 Dirty Pretty Things - 7.5 Beloved - 6.5 Inception - 7 |
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the one, the only. . .
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1. 12 Angry Men
2. The Seventh Seal 3. The Bridge on the River Kwai 4. Throne of Blood 5. Tokyo Twilight We always say it's a tough choose and an amazing year and now we've made that an understatement for a year like this.
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FILMS A Long Days Journey Into Night - 4 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - 7 The Thin Blue Line - 10 Rachel Getting Married - 8 Z - 9 Synecdoche, NY - 8 Now Reading De Rerum Natura (Lucretius) The Accidental Guerilla (Kilcullen) |
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Errand Boy
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Ugh, I forgot all about The Cranes Are Flying, but still don't have room for it on the list.
My top 10 for 1957: Throne of Blood Bridge on the River Kwai Paths of Glory 12 Angry Men Nights of Cabiria Wild Strawberries The Cranes Are Flying The Seventh Seal Witness for the Prosecution Aparajito |
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Body Double
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The sweet smell of a great year for films. I'd love to watch any of these, and others from '57, again.
1. The Nights of Cabiria (Fellini) 2. Throne of Blood (Kurosawa) 3. Paths of Glory (Kubrick) 4. The Seventh Seal (Bergman) 5. Le Notti bianche (Visconti) ***************************** 6. The Lower Depths (Donzoko) (Kurosawa) 7. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick) 8. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet) 9. The Cranes Are Fying (Mikheil Kalatozishvili) 10. Witness for the Prosecution (Wilder) |
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Run on Girl, Run
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1. 12 Angry Men (Lumet)
2. Paths of Glory (Kubrick) 3. Nights of Cabiria (Fellini) 4. Wild Strawberries (Bergman) 5. The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
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My Site: Film Reviews and Essays New Stuff: 88 Minutes, I Was Born But..., The Idiots, Rififi |
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Balloons, still
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I don't know if my votes have been counted yet, probably not, but the edits are listed above.
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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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