It’s somewhere upthread, with Stanley and OllieLivingstone, I presume.
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 November 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PJxzJNeqYtGcUSSS75pFhZkdbbHqxpQD7tYRUta5jkM/edit#gid=2141122813
― Everybody Loves Ramen (WmC), Saturday, 6 November 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
Thanks WmC
― ignore the blue line (or something), Saturday, 6 November 2021 19:08 (two years ago) link
Was sole voter for a handful of films loosely on the horror continuum: Fulci's The Beyond, Seconds, White of the Eye, Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Valhalla Rising, Communion. Would they all survive if I put a ballot together today? Maybe a couple. Was more surprised to be the only booster of Lola Montès and The Wind Will Carry Us, tho the directors of both have plenty of vote-splitting scope. Alain Tanner's Messidor too, love that film, really struggling to source other films of his
― ignore the blue line (or something), Saturday, 6 November 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
I had Tanner's previous film, Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000, on my long list. I'm still kicking myself for not grabbing the VHS from a bargain bin 15+ years ago. All of his movies are pretty hard to find.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 November 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
...and looking at Tanner's imdb, I see he did a kinda sorta Jonah sequel in 1999.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 November 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
I like Lola Montès and Alain Tanner too, saw many of his films ages ago at the old Walter Reade Theater. I guess now I can go to MUBI stream one I still haven’t seen, Charles, Dead or Alive, his first, but that’s about it as far as streaming, I think.Figure at least some of the underrepresentation is due to there being too many films and directors, too few votes.
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 November 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah, I forgot I saw Charles, Dead or Alive on Mubi, it was pretty good. Really want to find Jonah, The Salamander and In the White City
― ignore the blue line (or something), Saturday, 6 November 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
I was the sole voter for 5 out of my 25, some obscure, some non-ILX-friendly
4. Taking Off (Forman, 1971)8. Six Degrees of Separation (Schepisi, 1993)18. Buffalo 66 (Gallo, 1999)20. Jubilee (Jarman, 1978)23. Huckle (Palfi, 2002)
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 6 November 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
I was wondering what actor has the most appearances in the Top 100. I count four actors with four appearances each: James Stewart, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, and Sterling Hayden. Wondering if there's anybody with more than that.
― Josefa, Saturday, 6 November 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
Shelly Duvall is the only three-time actress I can find...probably missing somebody.
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 November 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
Five if you count Hitchcock’s cameos.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 6 November 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
01 Stalker Tarkovsky, Andrei 197902 Alice Svankmajer, Jan 198803 Touch of Evil Welles, Orson 1958 (GUEST PLACEMENT from My Brother, I asked him what was the Third Best Film Of All Time and he said this)04 Manhunter Mann, Michael 198605 Thing, The Carpenter, John 198206 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Reisz, Karel 196007 Morvern Callar Ramsay, Lynne 200208 Mulholland Dr. Lynch, David 200109 Midnight Run Brest, Martin 198810 Close-Up Kiarostami, Abbas 199011 Kes Loach, Ken 196912 Predator McTiernan, John 198713 Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring Kim Ki-duk 200314 Master, The Anderson, Paul Thomas 201215 Barry Lyndon Kubrick, Stanley 197516 Conformist, The Bertolucci, Bernardo 197017 Memories of Murder Bong Joon-ho 200318 Pierrot le fou Godard, Jean-Luc 196519 California Split Altman, Robert 197420 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Ceylan, Nuri Bilge 201121 To Live And Die In L.A. Friedkin, William 198522 Fly, The Cronenberg, David 198623 Pain & Gain Bay, Michael 201324 Billy Liar Schlesinger, John 196325 Georgy Girl Narizzano, Silvio 1966
I dropped Georgy Girl from the 25 but then multiple people here told me to restore it, then it turns out I WAS THE SOLE VOTER? Sake. Otherwise good work all around tho, thank you Eric H
― The Speak Of The Mearns (Jonathan Hellion Mumble), Sunday, 7 November 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
Btw I got so pissed off at that list, so many amazing things I missed off, but looking at it now... yeah that's cool as all fuck I will stand by that any day
― The Speak Of The Mearns (Jonathan Hellion Mumble), Sunday, 7 November 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
High-five for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Kes and Billy Liar. The tail of my own ballot was more anglophilic than I'd remembered. But Georgy Girl is a blindspot.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 8 November 2021 04:58 (two years ago) link
Any anime fans out there? pic.twitter.com/TxX4qiJhOi— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) November 7, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 November 2021 12:38 (two years ago) link
no traces of any radical leftist traditions in anime, of course
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 8 November 2021 12:50 (two years ago) link
Another Żuławski, one I never heard of, staring Romy Schneider, just popped in my MUBI feed. Not streaming here anyway though.
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 November 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
^^The Important Thing Is To Love, which also has Jacques Dutronc and Klaus Kinski!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 November 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
Yes, just saw those other cast members! Looks pretty intriguing.
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 November 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2RALZ18z88
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 November 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
xps to xyzzzz__ this is particularly uncomfortable given the…allusions…the source material makes to real world events
― suggest bainne (gyac), Monday, 8 November 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
What, like Hiroshima?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 November 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
You saw nothing in Hiroshima.
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 November 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuBIz0G_pls
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 November 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
Gosar is a pox on this thread
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 01:32 (two years ago) link
ugh
― Dan S, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 01:33 (two years ago) link
Shows up in Françoise Hardy's autobio, she was very worried Dutronc would fall for Schneider and leave her.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 9 November 2021 09:12 (two years ago) link
just saw Sans Soleil, what an amazing film. I plan to see it again but as many times as I could watch it I don’t think I will ever be able to absorb it all
― Dan S, Sunday, 14 November 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link
its fun to watch in a movie marathon with la jetée and vertigo
― plax (ico), Sunday, 14 November 2021 09:52 (two years ago) link
So good, and you barely started on Marker (if that's your first by him).
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 November 2021 10:28 (two years ago) link
also watched La Jetée, which is even harder to parse
― Dan S, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
it was the inspiration for twelve monkeys if that helps.
― koogs, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 01:33 (two years ago) link
Hard to parse, you say?
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 01:39 (two years ago) link
:)
There are a couple of others available on the Criterion Channel and one on Kanopy, I will watch, but among his 67 credits there is nothing else I can find right now, including on dvd
― Dan S, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
Tonight I watched one of the films I hadn't seen: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I really liked the structure and timing; the opening crawl and graveyard shots set up the tension, then large segments of the first half of the movie are hippie kids wandering through meadows like some anodyne public television footage I might have watched as a little kid. Many of the most horrific scenes take place on a sunny afternoon or a pale dawn; two of the characters don't even realize they're in danger until two-thirds of the way through. It's definitely true what Clemenza said above that the most horrible scenes are also the most funny. I was also pleased to find that none of the film had been spoiled for me by being quoted or memed (or maybe I just haven't encountered it).
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 02:58 (two years ago) link
I should totally have voted for TCM. It's better than Georgy Girl, or whatever shit I put at 25
― The Speak Of The Mearns (Jonathan Hellion Mumble), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 03:03 (two years ago) link
the scene with the takenoko-zoku dance troupe in Tokyo in Sans Soleil was really great
― Dan S, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 03:26 (two years ago) link
everyone should retire at age 20? not sure I heard that right
― Dan S, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 03:30 (two years ago) link
there was so much that went by in that film
― Dan S, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link
There really is, and as many times as I've seen it, I find myself catching something new in between the bouts of me nodding my head "yes" constantly.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 13:54 (two years ago) link
“The Stargate sequence in 2001 has dated worse than most special effects from that era - feels like something you'd see in some psychsploitation film - and make it v difficult to tune in to the film's idea of transcendence imo”
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, November 5, 2021
that is not true at all, it still feels transcendental. When was a sequence like this ever imagined before
― Dan S, Friday, 3 December 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
By Brakhage.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 3 December 2021 01:03 (two years ago) link
they are very different
― Dan S, Friday, 3 December 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
Kael compared the Stargate sequence (not favorably, to put it mildly) to another filmmaker--checked back, and it wasn't Brakhage but Jordan Belson, who I don't know at all. But this does suggest a strong influence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFA29CsDRe0
― clemenza, Friday, 3 December 2021 02:14 (two years ago) link
oh come on
― Dan S, Friday, 3 December 2021 02:28 (two years ago) link
I'm not saying it's better. I'm not saying anything except there's clearly some similarity, and I suspect Kubrick was aware of it's existence. (Belson wasn't working with a major studio and a big budget, and it was 1959.)
― clemenza, Friday, 3 December 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link
there is no comparison
― Dan S, Friday, 3 December 2021 02:41 (two years ago) link
Okay, Dan S.--Kevin's wrong, Kael's wrong, I'm wrong. Stargate is sui generis.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 December 2021 02:43 (two years ago) link
:) I respect your point of view, but think it is!
― Dan S, Friday, 3 December 2021 02:46 (two years ago) link