Sight and Sound 2022 Round 5: 81-100

"Godard only gets good in 1973" is not an opinion I've encountered elsewhere.

Pretty sure I saw on ILE once some numpty saying Godard didn't get good until the 1980s!

old ILX threads are full of it! dearly missed poster amateurist was a big 80's over 60's Godard booster iirc

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I'm someone who ranks Soigne ta Droite pretty high, and wants to rewatch the films from the 90s onward to get to know them better, but...

Miéville has made some excellent films, though, including Après la réconciliation.

"Godard only gets good in 1973" is not an opinion I've encountered elsewhere.

Think its a more worn out opinion these days than when amateurist was putting this. More like an over-correction, but 60s Godard still dominant in the top 100 so..

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I watched Satantango and Madame de. Loved them both, but I'm still voting for the music and color and spectacle of Once upon a Time in the West!

And now I'm up to 95 out of the 100.

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I have a story about a screening of the winner at Lincoln Center that I can share with you if I haven’t already before.

ah nice, voted for Spirit of the Beehive, didn't expect it to win

Sight and Sound 2022 Round 6: 101-120

yeah that is the first big surprise so far

it's the one film of these I still haven't seen

Cool, I should rewatch that, it's a good movie.

Get Out 3 votes Pierrot le fou 0 is just so wrong

great top 4 but Ugetsu shouldve been up there. ah well.

yeah that is the first big surprise so far

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Yup! I like it but don't love it as much Quince Tree of the Sun.

The biggest issue in the top 100 was the lack of Spanish Language cinema.

Agreed

For those who like The Spirit of the Beehive then I recommend you watch this brilliant film with the same child actor

https://letterboxd.com/film/cria-cuervos/

my experience is that SotB has really ardent fans, feels like it's one of those movies where if you love it you LOVE IT

Same actress also in Alejandro Amenábar’s breakout debut, Tesis/Thesis.

Erice only made one film per decade, if that, and all were different kinds of classic, he’s kind of a Spanish Dreyer, what’s not to love.

i agree. i voted Yi Yi because i love it hugely on a personal level too, only way to pick favourites really

I went to see his second film, El Sur, at the Walter Reade Theater at Film in Lincoln Center and while I was trying to get in I saw him standing against the wall in the interzone between the theater itself and the concession stand. At which point I also noticed a guy I sort of knew from college coming out that I would run into at screenings a lot and asked him “did he do a Q&A?” He said yes and that he told a funny story about how he came to cast Ana Torrent after interviewing a bunch of other children. Erice said he asked her “do you know who Doctor Frankenstein is?” to which she replied “yes, but we haven’t been introduced yet.”

I also voted for Yi Yi. Hard to explain why, but I feel just deeply involved in it every time I watch.

I like it but don't love it as much Quince Tree of the Sun.

I remember my roommate vacillating about seeing this: "this guy's a painter, he's painting a tree, what's the big deal..." He loved it!