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hey it's the summer hols and I was bored

I used the dog latin top50 albums rules - i.e. pretended I had no access to the internet, no looking stuff up on letterboxd, no looking at my collection (which is elsewhere anyway) and to the greatest extent I could I tried to ignore any "gotta touch on every aspect of my taste" impulses, though obv they always sneak in

the full top100: https://letterboxd.com/reifferschizzle/list/a-blind-top100/

Once Upon A Time In The West (Leone, 1968)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Dante, 1990)
Out Of The Past (Tourneur, 1947)
Pierrot Le Fou (Godard, 1965)
Camouflage (Zanussi, 1977)
Singin' In The Rain (Donen, 1952)
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Leone, 1966)
Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)
Solaris (Tarkosvky, 1972)
Caliber 9 (Di Leo, 1972)
Chronicle Of Good Hoodlums (Lopes, 1984)
Comfort & Joy (Forsyth, 1984)
F For Fake (Welles, 1973)
Clueless (Heckerling, 1995)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
The Joke (Jires, 1969)
The Leopard (Visconti, 1963)
Matinee (Dante, 1993)
Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)
Army Of Shadows (Melville, 1969)
The Big City (Ray, 1963)
The Island Closest To Heaven (Obayashi, 1984)
Hellzapoppin' (Potter, 1941)
Penda's Fen (Clarke, 1974)
Throne Of Blood (Kurosawa, 1957)
Confessions Of A Congressman (De La Iglesia, 1978)
The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941)
Chronicle Of A Summer (Morin/Rouch, 1961)
Tall Stories (Pinto, 1988)
D.E.B.S. (Robinson, 2004)
Election (To, 2005)
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (Becker, 1954)
Passport To Pimlico (Cornelius, 1949)
Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
The Band Wagon (Minelli, 1953)
Young Soul Rebels (Julien, 1991)
The Asphalt Jungle (Huston, 1950)
Forbidden Planet (Wilcox, 1956)
I Vitelloni (Fellini, 1953)
Eastern Condors (Hung, 1987)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (Jackson, 2001)
Let Joy Reign Supreme (Tavernier, 1975)
Baby Face (Green, 1933)
Thalapathi (Ratnam, 1991)
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Peckinpah, 1973)
Cesar & Rosalie (Sautet, 1972)
Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)
Old Boy (Chan Wook, 2003)
The Village Of Mist (Kwon Taek, 1983)


Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 11:02 (one week ago) link

Some excellent stuff and a few to look up but this?

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (Jackson, 2001)

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 11:05 (one week ago) link

I grew up a Tolkien kid, it absolutely blew me away when I saw it, the magic still works on me. I don't have much of a theoretical defense of it as a Great Film (though as a po faced epic I'd argue it's better than many a Lean), but you gotta be honest.

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 11:09 (one week ago) link

d.e.b.s.

ivy., Tuesday, 3 September 2024 11:16 (one week ago) link

Fun list, my instinctive choice would be Harakiri or Oldboy but I'll mull it over before I vote for Oldboy

Yuwen Hu's army (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 11:40 (one week ago) link

Oh I missed Late Spring now I'm really torn

Yuwen Hu's army (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 11:41 (one week ago) link

I see Ozu, I vote Ozu.

glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 11:49 (one week ago) link

The Good The Bad & The Ugly

Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 12:04 (one week ago) link

A number of films I respect and find interesting, none that I really love.
It's Solaris over Pierrot le fou and , although I Vitelloni and The Leopard probably hold together better as coherent works.

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 14:19 (one week ago) link

Matinee is super underrated, great to see it here

waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 14:26 (one week ago) link

the maltese falcon ahead of once upon a time in the west ahead of rio bravo but this is a really good list

tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 14:30 (one week ago) link

For me it’s between Singing in the Rain and Rio Bravo. I’ll probably vote Rio Bravo because I watched it more recently.

o. nate, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 14:51 (one week ago) link

Singin' In The Rain... possibly.

Defund Phil Collins (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 14:51 (one week ago) link

Some excellent stuff and a few to look up but this?

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (Jackson, 2001)

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, September 3, 2024 6:05 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

stfu

hott ogo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 14:54 (one week ago) link

wasn't gonna vote lotr but now i am

hott ogo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 14:55 (one week ago) link

I thought I was the only person on here who loved Comfort and Joy, so that gets my vote.

clemenza, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 14:59 (one week ago) link

The Naked Gun 2 1/2 would comfortably sit betwixt Satantango and Pickpocket on my list ftr.

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:00 (one week ago) link

Went with Once Upon a Time in the West because it was already first on this list.

Got my hopes up for a real anti-choice with Confessions...of a Congressman.

Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:09 (one week ago) link

I’m not voting cos I haven’t seen enough to give an honest vote but Fellowship of the Ring is really good, best of the trilogy & also I have lots of recommendations based on the overlap in stuff we like

Romy Gonzalez’s utility infusion (gyac), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:13 (one week ago) link

stfu

― hott ogo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Its your ten hours, not mine xp

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:14 (one week ago) link

Going for.

Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:16 (one week ago) link

In these polls I vote for what I'd watch now or later today, so it's The Big City (Ray, 1963) or The Maltese Falcon (Huston, 1941).

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:16 (one week ago) link

For me it’s between Singing in the Rain and Rio Bravo. I’ll probably vote Rio Bravo because I watched it more recently.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 14:51 (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

would happily have voted #1 for either also

tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:34 (one week ago) link

Hellzapoppin is 10/10

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 15:38 (one week ago) link

I've thought about Pickpocket most days since I saw it (hyperbole, but not by much), but I think I'll go to Penda's Fen.

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 16:31 (one week ago) link

Very tempted by Gremlins 2 as it is my perfect hangover film, but voting for Penda's Fen.

emil.y, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 16:47 (one week ago) link

BBC psyop to make xyzz care about LOTR:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca5TUYB1nlw

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 16:54 (one week ago) link

ah fuck didn't work, jump to about 8:20

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 16:54 (one week ago) link

Matinee is super underrated, great to see it here

A surprising amount of guests on Joe Dante's podcast bring it up to him, which is nice.

Went with Once Upon a Time in the West because it was already first on this list.

These are actually in order of preference so I agree!

also I have lots of recommendations based on the overlap in stuff we like

Fire away!

Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 16:58 (one week ago) link

Its your ten hours, not mine xp

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, September 3, 2024 10:14 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

please. it's 12 hours with the dvd extended editions.

hott ogo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 17:08 (one week ago) link

Once Upon A Time In The West

oscar bravo, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 19:47 (one week ago) link

please. it's 12 hours with the dvd extended editions.

― hott ogo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, September 3, 2024

lol much longer

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 19:48 (one week ago) link

its like three hours long

tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 20:46 (one week ago) link

please. it's 12 hours with the dvd extended editions.

― hott ogo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Like I said mate, its your time. I'll just keep judging you.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 3 September 2024 21:08 (one week ago) link

takes me about that long to pronounce your username

hott ogo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 September 2024 21:36 (one week ago) link

Singin’ In The Rain is one of the greatest films ever made

laughter is the best weapon (DJP), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 12:56 (one week ago) link

Singing' in the Rain also has the funniest line in history ("I don't have time to find out")

glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 13:20 (one week ago) link

"BBC psyop to make xyzz care about LOTR"

Its a v well made programme.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 13:49 (one week ago) link

One more big Matinee fan here, although my favorite is either The Band Wagon or Singin’ in the Rain. Might throw the former a vote since the latter will obviously do well.

Pierre Moerlen’s Falun Gong (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 4 September 2024 13:59 (one week ago) link

Singing' in the Rain also has the funniest line in history ("I don't have time to find out")

I thought you were gonna say my personal favourite, "ok, you're a cab".

Its a v well made programme.

Posted it especially because of Tolkien's contention that LOTR is about death and then busting out that Simone de Beauvoir snippet he kept in his wallet.

Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 15:54 (one week ago) link

Ikiru for me. Towers above the rest

octobeard, Wednesday, 4 September 2024 16:14 (one week ago) link

Instantly voted G2, had to laugh b/cit is also my second favorite movie.
Cool to see the love for Matinee (also my second favorite Joe Dante movie, when are we gonna have a Dante geekout session??)

Deflatormouse, Friday, 6 September 2024 04:03 (one week ago) link


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