voted Yojimbo because Kurosawa is eternal but almost voted Viridiana.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
Didn't realize that I had put two 1961 films in the top 25 on my all-time films ballot - Marienbad and Viridiana
Haven't seen Il Posto yet, but I really liked The Tree of Wooden Clogs
― Dan S, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
Too many canonical things here I still need to see; might go with either Buñuel or Kurosawa, but I have to say (controversially?) that this is one year where I actually have no quarrel with the Best Picture winner.
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 22:36 (two years ago) link
Can't decide which arthouse cliche I prefer right now. Therefore I will write in The Connection.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
I have to say (controversially?) that this is one year where I actually have no quarrel with the Best Picture winner
It's probably my favorite of the decade's BPs also, maybe just behind In the Heat of the Night.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
I've read auteurists defending El Cid.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
Chronicle Of A Summer. Docs that centre on ordinary ppl talking about their lives are catnip to me, cf the Up series and Place de La Republique.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link
xp I mean, I've read auteurists defending My Son John.
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
I haven't seen Divorce Italian Style but Seduced & Abandoned is one of the most harrowing films that I've ever seen billed as a comedy; Germi seems more interested in calling bullshit on Italian masculinity than any of his contemporaries.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
DIS is some cute bullshit, though, and I realized re-watching La Dolce Vita for the sake of my film class that Mastroianni's charms are lost on me.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
Il Posto is a perfect small movie in its way.
― Chris L, Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
It is. I sometimes wonder if it gets confused with Il Postino (not crazy about the English title, The Sound of Trumpets).
― clemenza, Friday, 11 June 2021 12:41 (two years ago) link
i have seen one film on this list so i guess i’ll vote for it (the godard, which i’ve seen many times and probably would still really love if i watched it again)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
I still haven't watched Il Posto.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
Olmi's work has a range that you wouldn't know if you only saw Il Posto (which is good) and Tree of Wooden Clogs (pretty dull). I really liked a couple of mid-career films that are neither gentle social observation or blunt realism: One Fine Day from 1969 and The Circumstance from 1973. They take place in a middle class environment and they're like a less-arty Antonioni.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 11 June 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
see I find Tree of Wooden Clogs soothing: his ambient Eno fiflm.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 June 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
These are the 5 masterpieces I've seen from this year:
The Ladies’ Man (Jerry Lewis, USA)Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, France)Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, France)The Innocents (Jack Clayton, UK)Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, Spain)
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, 21 June 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
Tho if I'm to be honest, I probably rate Viridiana toward the bottom of the '60s Buñuel list. (Still a masterpiece.)
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Monday, 21 June 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
Me too. It gets too slow in the second third.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 June 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
In the best Buñuel films, it feels like he's challenging his own assumptions as well as the audience's. Viridiana feels like he's already proved his points, I don't feel he's weighing any of the issues.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 21 June 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
that's a shrewd point
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 June 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
Somebody said that Buñuel didn't really understand her character, which explains why the film becomes more inert once the uncle dies.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 21 June 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
I've only seen a few of these, but The Hustler is a really dark and fucked-up movie, so that.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
Don’t want to have to pick.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
But I did
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 00:20 (two years ago) link
The problem with The Hustler is it's so damn literary and Newman's still besotted with the Method. I wish the performance he gave in The Color of Money was the one he'd given then.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
It's not Newman's best work, but everyone around him (Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott, Piper Laurie, Murray Hamilton) is great.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 00:34 (two years ago) link
It is very method-y, but I'd say it's about as great as that kind of thing ever gets, this side of On the Waterfront. And yes, the supporting cast is amazing, Scott and Laurie especially. Keep an eye peeled for Jake LaMotta as a bartender.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link
I loved the cynicism in Viridiana, the mirror images of the end and the beginning and its criticism of Franco's Spain. immediately following it The Exterminating Angel was another amazing film
― Dan S, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 00:43 (two years ago) link
voted for Last Year at Marienbad a very strange film
― Dan S, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 01:01 (two years ago) link
Scott is by far the best thing in it.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 01:10 (two years ago) link
George C. Scott in his "blink-and-you-miss-it" role in Last Year at Marienbad.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 6 July 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link