Anyone who knows me knows that first-place vote was mine.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
Great start to the rundown, 2 for 2 here
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 25 October 2021 13:57 (two years ago) link
I’ve had my eye on you for a long time, Eric, so yeah, of course I knew that.
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZWgCLMsW8Jump cut, they say. DO U SEE?
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
It's a good sign for consensus that even at the lower end of the poll, the entries have nine or ten votes apiece.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 25 October 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
Right. Resisting any urge to say “Too Low!”
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
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98. MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao, 1988, Japan) [623.9 points; 10 votes]S&S: 175 | TSPDT: 227 | BOXD: DNP
MORBS SEZ: … nothing; there is no evidence I found that he ever watched this one.i can no longer deny the obvious: the catbus has catballs― A victim managed to capture evidence of the gimp (bizarro gazzara)The Totoro and US Politics threads are on a similar vibe right now.― jmm, Tuesday, November 26, 2019 12:52 PM
i can no longer deny the obvious: the catbus has catballs― A victim managed to capture evidence of the gimp (bizarro gazzara)
The Totoro and US Politics threads are on a similar vibe right now.― jmm, Tuesday, November 26, 2019 12:52 PM
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
unimpeachably brilliant
― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
Convenience link to Chris Marker
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
totoro's structure or rather its lack of it is always what impresses me
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
She's not -- she's a step ahead of the enemies who consistently underrate her. She just fails to make the obvious connection.
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
No, do tell.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/2a/4e/142a4e23b74eed1a03d77d7b52d0b8c9.jpg
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
totoro's structure or rather its lack of it is always what impresses me― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:32 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:32 (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i've come to think there's something quite Ozu-esque about Totoro - its domesticity, its understated drama, the relationship between the countryside and the city and the movement between them
― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
No, do tell.🖼
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
A friend of mine discovered Totoro decades ago and told me "it's amazing! Nothing happens!"
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 25 October 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
Maybe the best film about what it feels like to be a little kid
― ignore the blue line (or something), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:41 (two years ago) link
h8 the fan theory that Mei is dead
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 October 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
I'm pretty sure that I haven't sat through a full movie since July. A Totoro rewatch is tempting.
― jmm, Monday, 25 October 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
Everything that people say there is to like about Totoro I indeed like in virtually all of Miyazaki's other films ... just not in Totoro for some reason.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link
Tho this moment is cute as hell:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e3/22/4b/e3224b702a90e5b273e0c42d91018b02.gif
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
MORBS SEZ: … nothing; there is no evidence I found that he ever watched this one.
It was on his Letterboxd watchlist.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Monday, 25 October 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
BILL WANTS TO SEE 416 FILMS
;_;
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
Bummed that we won't get to hear what Morbs thought of Moment By Moment.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
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97. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira, 1954, Japan) [624.67 points; 9 votes]S&S: 19 | TSPDT: 10 | BOXD: 7
MORBS SEZ: "Kurosawa is a more versatile filmmaker than given credit for, imho … AK-Mifune pairing nearly as fruitful as Ford-Wayne."Seven Samurai would be greatly improved if it had Bill Murray in it.― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, January 25, 2004 4:01 AMYojimbo isn't actually all that good, is it. It's like if you took Seven Samurai and took out everything interesting. But maybe left in Mifune. And gave him lice. And the lice were the best thing in the movie.― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, September 17, 2005 11:03 AM
Seven Samurai would be greatly improved if it had Bill Murray in it.― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, January 25, 2004 4:01 AM
Yojimbo isn't actually all that good, is it. It's like if you took Seven Samurai and took out everything interesting. But maybe left in Mifune. And gave him lice. And the lice were the best thing in the movie.― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, September 17, 2005 11:03 AM
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
I will accept this only if Ikiru and Throne Of Blood end up in the top20
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 October 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
No American directors so far.
― Alba, Monday, 25 October 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
this is the best movie ever made
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
Not a huge Kurosawa fan, my favourite is High and Low, with Mifune at a lower key of intensity.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 25 October 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
Somehow have never seen this, though have seen three other Kurosawa films. La Jette & Rosemary's Baby were in my honorable mentions, like Totoro but, yes, not going to talk about the fan theories, which are imo.a bit more than just fan theories.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
Like Rashomon somewhat diminished by Film Studies 101 but I look forward to the afternoon my local art house will screen it.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
we should do a poll of 100 best mifune facial expressions after this
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:30 (two years ago) link
Ope, I trust no one needs clarification that S&S equals Sight & Sound 2012, TSPDT indicates They Shoot Pictures Don't They's 2021 edition, and BOXD is from the Letterboxd top 250 from a couple weeks ago.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
You didn't mention Armond White.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
By design.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai will make you either want to rewatch this immediately or never want to hear it mentioned again, I'm not sure which.
― Chris L, Monday, 25 October 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
we're expecting more Kurosawa to place, right? like this is his most canonical work but if nothing else places that's a fucking scandal
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 October 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, October 25, 2021 10:30 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is a good one
http://thebigpicturemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Mifune-2.png
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
here
https://putthison.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/tumblr_mjz9oxG0wv1qa2j8co3_400.jpg
Not sure if anyone had better style.
― Chris L, Monday, 25 October 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
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― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
I mean, maybe.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
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96. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA) [625.71 points; 7 votes]S&S: 139 | TSPDT: 276 | BOXD: DNP
MORBS SEZ: "that kneeslapper Maya Deren"I've seen Meshes at least once a year for the past six years and I never really figured out why. It's not particularly interesting in and of itself, but one can see the horror that came from it -- that is to say, every art school stereotype stems from it. The closeups, the pretensions, narciscisim disgused as melancholy and the idea that, in order to be considered a serious artist, one must avoid any sort of accessability. You want good female directors? Ida Lupino and Lina Wertmuller. Deren is garbage.― JM, Friday, September 21, 2001 7:00 PM
I've seen Meshes at least once a year for the past six years and I never really figured out why. It's not particularly interesting in and of itself, but one can see the horror that came from it -- that is to say, every art school stereotype stems from it. The closeups, the pretensions, narciscisim disgused as melancholy and the idea that, in order to be considered a serious artist, one must avoid any sort of accessability. You want good female directors? Ida Lupino and Lina Wertmuller. Deren is garbage.― JM, Friday, September 21, 2001 7:00 PM
Lol at Morbz sez quote.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 25 October 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
never seen it
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 October 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
It's like 12 minutes long, Addison.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
An opinion.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 October 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
i didn't vote for any short films but no film has had a more profound impact on me probably????
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 25 October 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
didn't vote at all but 'meshes' + 'mulholland drive' = perfectly apposite short + a feature combo
― donna rouge, Monday, 25 October 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
I can't remember if this is the one we watched in 1998 at uni or not.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 October 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
A ballot without shorts (and longs) is foreign to me.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Monday, 25 October 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link