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Spinal · 05-26-2008, 06:49 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 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 · 05-26-2008, 06:50 AM

1. The Battle of Algiers
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. Persona
5. A Man for All Seasons

Isaac · 05-26-2008, 07:06 AM

1. The Battle of Algiers
2. Blowup
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. Cul-de-sac
5. Father

Pop Trash · 05-26-2008, 07:10 AM

EDIT: I'm switching my top two around. I didn't think Au Hasard Balthazar would get as many votes as it has. I'm also adding Charlie Brown.

1. Persona
2. Au Hasard Balthazar
3. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
5. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

HM: Masculine-Feminine and Blowup

ledfloyd · 05-26-2008, 07:29 AM

1. Masculin Feminin
2. Persona
3. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
4. A Man For All Seasons
5. Blow-Up

a great year just based on what i saw. i still need to see Balthazar, Rublev, Virginia Woolf and some others.

Derek · 05-26-2008, 07:54 AM

1. Au hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
2. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
4. Breakaway (Bruce Conner)
5. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
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6. Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
7. La Caza (Carlos Saura)
8. La Religieuse (Jacques Rivette)
9. Masculine-Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Vaclav Vorlicek)

HMs:

Spoiler

soitgoes... · 05-26-2008, 09:21 AM

1. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
3. Dragon Inn (King Hu)
4. La Caza (Carlos Saura)
5. Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel)
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6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
7. Le Deuxième souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville)
8. Borom sarret (Ousmane Sembene)
9. Young Torless (Volker Schlöndorff)
10. The Naked Prey (Cornel Wilde)
11. The Round-Up (Miklòs Janscò)
12. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene)

origami_mustache · 05-26-2008, 09:56 AM

1. Au hasard, Balthazar
2. Blowup
3. Persona
4. Battle of Algiers
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

baby doll · 05-26-2008, 11:43 AM

1. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
2. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
3. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
4. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Weeping_Guitar · 05-26-2008, 11:44 AM

1. Masculin Feminin
2. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
3. Persona
4. Blowup
5. A Man and a Woman

Boner M · 05-26-2008, 12:34 PM

1. Au Hasard Balthazar
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. The Face of Another
4. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
5. Persona

HM: Masculin/Feminin, Seconds, Hold Me While I'm Naked, Daisies, El Dorado

Russ · 05-26-2008, 01:25 PM

1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2. Tokyo Drifter
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
4. The Wrong Box
5. Rakvickarna

Raiders · 05-26-2008, 02:11 PM

1. Persona
2. Au hasard Balthazar
3. La Caza
4. Masculin-Feminin
5. Kill, Baby... Kill!

What an amazing year when films as awesome as Seconds, The Battle of Algiers and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are only HMs.

Ezee E · 05-26-2008, 03:47 PM

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
2. Persona
3. Au Hasard Balthazar
4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
5. How the Grinch Stole Chrstmas

dreamdead · 05-26-2008, 05:07 PM

1. The Battle of Algiers
2. Persona
3. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
4. Au hasard Balthazar
5. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

H/M: Closely Watched Trains,

Clipper Ship Captain · 05-26-2008, 07:51 PM

1. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. Masculin Feminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
4. Kill, Baby... Kill! (Mario Bava)
5. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown [short] (Bill Melendez)

Spinal · 05-26-2008, 08:15 PM

"I got a rock."

Easily my favorite of the Charlie Brown specials.

Qrazy · 05-26-2008, 08:19 PM

1. Au Hasard Balthazar
2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
3. Battle of Algiers
4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
5. A Man for All Seasons

6. The Round-up
7. Persona
8. Second Breath
9. Hawks and Sparrows
10. Closely Watched Trains

HMs: Tokyo Drifter, Blowup, Seconds, The Pornographers, Breakaway, Daisies

Want to see: Wings, La Caza, Young Torless, Come Drink with Me, Dragon Gate Inn, Django, Cul de Sac, Sword of Doom, Sult, Face of Another

This year blows my mind.

Philosophe_rouge · 05-26-2008, 08:49 PM

1. The Good the bad and the Ugly
2. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
3. Persona
4. The Professionals
5. Daisies

Melville · 05-26-2008, 10:16 PM

1. Persona
2. Au hasard Balthazar
3. The Battle of Algiers
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

HMs: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Hold Me While I'm Naked

Yxklyx · 05-27-2008, 02:25 AM

1, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
2. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
3. Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel)
4. A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinneman)
5. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)

6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
7. Punch and Judy (Jan Svankmajer)
8. Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
9. The Russians are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (Norman Jewison)
10. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)

Grouchy · 05-27-2008, 02:28 AM

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. Cul-de-Sac
3. Persona
4. Seconds
5. Django

MadMan · 05-27-2008, 03:07 AM

Eventually I'll see more from 1966...

1. The God, the Bad, and the Ugly
2. The Professionals
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
4. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Lazlo · 05-27-2008, 04:35 PM

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. The Battle of Algiers
3. Persona
4. Masculin Feminin
5. Penelope

monolith94 · 05-28-2008, 02:03 AM

1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
2. Blowup
3. The Battle of Algiers
4. Tokyo Drifter
5. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Boner M · 05-28-2008, 03:24 PM

Added The Face of Another to my list. Surprised it's not on anyone else's; it's nearly as good as Woman in the Dunes.

koji · 05-29-2008, 01:40 AM

1. Au Hasard Bathazar (Bresson)
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
3. Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel)
4. The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto)
5. Red Angel (Masumura)
**********************************
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone)
7. Come Have a Drink with Me (King Hu)
8. Persona (Bergman)
9. The Naked Prey (Wilde)
10. La Guerre est Finie (Resnais)

HM: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo) A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zimmerman) Blow Up (Antonioni) How to Steal a Million (William Wyler) Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki) The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (Norman Jewison)

Melville · 05-29-2008, 01:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boner M

Added The Face of Another to my list. Surprised it's not on anyone else's; it's nearly as good as Woman in the Dunes.

Is it in the recent collection? If so, maybe I'll buy the whole thing.

Qrazy · 05-29-2008, 01:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boner M

Added The Face of Another to my list. Surprised it's not on anyone else's; it's nearly as good as Woman in the Dunes.

Haven't seen it, but I'm sure I'll love it... how's Pitfall?

Boner M · 05-29-2008, 01:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Qrazy

Haven't seen it, but I'm sure I'll love it... how's Pitfall?

Haven't watched Pitfall yet, will do soon. I think Teshigahara's becoming a favorite, although I suppose Kobo Abe is a major factor in my appreciation of those two films (btw, the short story compilation at the bottom of my sig is really cool).

05-26-2008, 06:49 AM	#1
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	MC Yearly Consensus - 1966 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 __________________ 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

05-26-2008, 06:50 AM	#2
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	1. The Battle of Algiers 2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 4. Persona 5. A Man for All Seasons __________________ 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

05-26-2008, 07:06 AM	#3
Isaac Social Retard Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 677	1. The Battle of Algiers 2. Blowup 3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 4. Cul-de-sac 5. Father __________________ Orlando (1992) *½ Demonlover (2002) ½ Inception (2010) ½ Everything Is Illuminated (2002, Jonathan Safran Foer) * July's People (1981, Nadine Gordimer) ***½

05-26-2008, 07:10 AM	#4
Pop Trash Cinematographer Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 182	EDIT: I'm switching my top two around. I didn't think Au Hasard Balthazar would get as many votes as it has. I'm also adding Charlie Brown. 1. Persona 2. Au Hasard Balthazar 3. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 5. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown HM: Masculine-Feminine and Blowup Last edited by Pop Trash : 05-27-2008 at 01:50 AM.

05-26-2008, 07:29 AM	#5
ledfloyd Producer Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 475	1. Masculin Feminin 2. Persona 3. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly 4. A Man For All Seasons 5. Blow-Up a great year just based on what i saw. i still need to see Balthazar, Rublev, Virginia Woolf and some others. __________________ blog

05-26-2008, 07:54 AM	#6
Derek Moisten your fence Rep Power: 12 Rep Points: 2656	1. Au hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson) 2. Persona (Ingmar Bergman) 3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone) 4. Breakaway (Bruce Conner) 5. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni) **************************** 6. Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo) 7. La Caza (Carlos Saura) 8. La Religieuse (Jacques Rivette) 9. Masculine-Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard) 10. Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Vaclav Vorlicek) HMs: Spoiler It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez) Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones) Seconds (John Frankenheimer) The Rise of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini) __________________ 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

05-26-2008, 09:21 AM	#7
soitgoes... King of the Impossible Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 633	1. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo) 2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols) 3. Dragon Inn (King Hu) 4. La Caza (Carlos Saura) 5. Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel) --------------------------------------------------------- 6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman) 7. Le Deuxième souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville) 8. Borom sarret (Ousmane Sembene) 9. Young Torless (Volker Schlöndorff) 10. The Naked Prey (Cornel Wilde) 11. The Round-Up (Miklòs Janscò) 12. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene)

05-26-2008, 09:56 AM	#8
origami_mustache blurred and indistinct Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 420	1. Au hasard, Balthazar 2. Blowup 3. Persona 4. Battle of Algiers 5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? __________________ The Auteurs branduponthebrain

05-26-2008, 11:43 AM	#9
baby doll Screenwriter Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 426	1. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson) 2. Persona (Ingmar Bergman) 3. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo) 4. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni) 5. The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini) __________________ 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)

05-26-2008, 11:44 AM	#10
Weeping_Guitar Body Double Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 10	1. Masculin Feminin 2. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 3. Persona 4. Blowup 5. A Man and a Woman __________________ Recomended Recent Viewings: The Circus (Chaplin, 1928) Inception (Nolan, 2010) Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010) After Hours (Scorsese, 1985) Still Walking (Koreeda, 2008)

05-26-2008, 12:34 PM	#11
Boner M blood Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 1498	1. Au Hasard Balthazar 2. The Battle of Algiers 3. The Face of Another 4. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 5. Persona HM: Masculin/Feminin, Seconds, Hold Me While I'm Naked, Daisies, El Dorado __________________ 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 Last edited by Boner M : 05-28-2008 at 03:23 PM.*

05-26-2008, 01:25 PM	#12
Russ I believe in your victory Rep Power: 6 Rep Points: 863	1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 2. Tokyo Drifter 3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas 4. The Wrong Box 5. Rakvickarna

05-26-2008, 02:11 PM	#13
Raiders Administrator Rep Power: 10 Rep Points: 1924	1. Persona 2. Au hasard Balthazar 3. La Caza 4. Masculin-Feminin 5. Kill, Baby... Kill! What an amazing year when films as awesome as Seconds, The Battle of Algiers and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are only HMs. __________________ 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)

05-26-2008, 03:47 PM	#14
Ezee E Live like it's shark week Rep Power: 14 Rep Points: 1804	1. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2. Persona 3. Au Hasard Balthazar 4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 5. How the Grinch Stole Chrstmas __________________ LATEST SEEN: The Runaways - ** 1/2 Chloe - * 1/2 A Single Man - ***

05-26-2008, 05:07 PM	#15
dreamdead Screenwriter Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 774	1. The Battle of Algiers 2. Persona 3. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly 4. Au hasard Balthazar 5. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown H/M: Closely Watched Trains, __________________ The Long Goodbye - 8.5 Dirty Pretty Things - 7.5 Beloved - 6.5 Inception - 7

05-26-2008, 07:51 PM	#16
Clipper Ship Captain A Long Way to Tipperary Rep Power: 4 Rep Points: 349	1. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni) 2. Masculin Feminin (Jean-Luc Godard) 3. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone) 4. Kill, Baby... Kill! (Mario Bava) 5. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown [short] (Bill Melendez) Last edited by Clipper Ship Captain : 05-26-2008 at 07:54 PM.

05-26-2008, 08:15 PM	#17
Spinal Moderator Rep Power: 16 Rep Points: 2959	"I got a rock." Easily my favorite of the Charlie Brown specials. __________________ 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

05-26-2008, 08:19 PM	#18
Qrazy The Pan Rep Power: 13 Rep Points: 1744	1. Au Hasard Balthazar 2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 3. Battle of Algiers 4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 5. A Man for All Seasons 6. The Round-up 7. Persona 8. Second Breath 9. Hawks and Sparrows 10. Closely Watched Trains HMs: Tokyo Drifter, Blowup, Seconds, The Pornographers, Breakaway, Daisies Want to see: Wings, La Caza, Young Torless, Come Drink with Me, Dragon Gate Inn, Django, Cul de Sac, Sword of Doom, Sult, Face of Another This year blows my mind. __________________ Inception - A- Deewaar - D+ Meet me in St. Louis - C+ Dinner for Schmucks - C+ Gimme Shelter - B Last edited by Qrazy : 05-27-2008 at 03:09 AM.

05-26-2008, 08:49 PM	#19
Philosophe_rouge Editor Rep Power: 5 Rep Points: 743	1. The Good the bad and the Ugly 2. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 3. Persona 4. The Professionals 5. Daisies __________________ House of Mirth and Movies: Top 10s (in progress)

05-26-2008, 10:16 PM	#20
Melville My depressed stance... Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 1332	1. Persona 2. Au hasard Balthazar 3. The Battle of Algiers 4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! HMs: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Hold Me While I'm Naked __________________ 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

05-27-2008, 02:25 AM	#21
Yxklyx Editor Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 177	1, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone) 2. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson) 3. Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel) 4. A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinneman) 5. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni) 6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman) 7. Punch and Judy (Jan Svankmajer) 8. Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols) 9. The Russians are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (Norman Jewison) 10. Seconds (John Frankenheimer) __________________ Last Excellent Film Seen For The Very First Time: Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming) My Movie Page

05-27-2008, 02:28 AM	#22
Grouchy A Platypus Rep Power: 7 Rep Points: 884	1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2. Cul-de-Sac 3. Persona 4. Seconds 5. Django __________________ 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.

05-27-2008, 03:07 AM	#23
MadMan #1 Procrastinator Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 567	Eventually I'll see more from 1966... 1. The God, the Bad, and the Ugly 2. The Professionals 3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 4. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown __________________ 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

05-27-2008, 04:35 PM	#24
Lazlo Best Boy Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 29	1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2. The Battle of Algiers 3. Persona 4. Masculin Feminin 5. Penelope __________________ last four: inception - 9.5 knight and day - 5 predators - 6.5 the messenger - 9.5

05-28-2008, 02:03 AM	#25
monolith94 nightmare investigator Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 293	1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 2. Blowup 3. The Battle of Algiers 4. Tokyo Drifter 5. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum __________________ "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

05-28-2008, 03:24 PM	#26
Boner M blood Rep Power: 8 Rep Points: 1498	Added The Face of Another to my list. Surprised it's not on anyone else's; it's nearly as good as Woman in the Dunes. __________________ 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

05-29-2008, 01:40 AM	#27
koji Body Double Rep Power: 3 Rep Points: 21	1. Au Hasard Bathazar (Bresson) 2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols) 3. Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel) 4. The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto) 5. Red Angel (Masumura) ********************************** 6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Leone) 7. Come Have a Drink with Me (King Hu) 8. Persona (Bergman) 9. The Naked Prey (Wilde) 10. La Guerre est Finie (Resnais) HM: The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo) A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zimmerman) Blow Up (Antonioni) How to Steal a Million (William Wyler) Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki) The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming (Norman Jewison)

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