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72. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, France) [705 points; 6 votes]S&S: 56 | TSPDT: 63 | BOXD: DNP
MORBS SEZ: "God, I hate this board … I'd think you guys could at least bond w/ him over how much he hates Spielberg and Truffaut"pierrot le fou is hilarious if you're a misanthrope like me― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, March 18, 2004 3:36 PMI rewatched Pierrot recently, and it was definitely longer than I'd remembered, and tougher to get through. A thing I think is important to remember re: France/Vietnam is that they themselves were thrown out of Indochina in the fifties. You know: History repeats itself, as tragedy, then comedy. There is a certain cynicism on Vietnam, which I don't think is there when they discuss Algiers.― Frederik B, Monday, February 3, 2014 4:52 AM JLG's 60s run has some very strong use of colour, when he decides to use it.― xyzzzz__, Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:06 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglinkOverdoes it a bit in "Pierrot le Fou" tbh. Overdoes everything a bit in "Pierrot le Fou" tbf.― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:58 AMOther than Breathless and Band of Outsiders and maybe Pierrot le Fou, his films have as many dull or awful moments as wondrous ones.― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:16 PMPierrot le Fou: So wonderful. A Jules Verne fantasyland.― -8-(*_*)-8-, Tuesday, March 4, 2003 9:27 AM would rather watch the Lost Boys than Pierrot le Fou again tbqh― whyte mayne (corey), Tuesday, September 7, 2010 10:26 AM
pierrot le fou is hilarious if you're a misanthrope like me― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, March 18, 2004 3:36 PM
I rewatched Pierrot recently, and it was definitely longer than I'd remembered, and tougher to get through. A thing I think is important to remember re: France/Vietnam is that they themselves were thrown out of Indochina in the fifties. You know: History repeats itself, as tragedy, then comedy. There is a certain cynicism on Vietnam, which I don't think is there when they discuss Algiers.― Frederik B, Monday, February 3, 2014 4:52 AM
JLG's 60s run has some very strong use of colour, when he decides to use it.― xyzzzz__, Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:06 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
Overdoes it a bit in "Pierrot le Fou" tbh. Overdoes everything a bit in "Pierrot le Fou" tbf.― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:58 AM
Other than Breathless and Band of Outsiders and maybe Pierrot le Fou, his films have as many dull or awful moments as wondrous ones.― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:16 PM
Pierrot le Fou: So wonderful. A Jules Verne fantasyland.― -8-(*_*)-8-, Tuesday, March 4, 2003 9:27 AM
would rather watch the Lost Boys than Pierrot le Fou again tbqh― whyte mayne (corey), Tuesday, September 7, 2010 10:26 AM
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
my god is Belmondo sexy here
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:12 (two years ago) link
xposty but days of heaven was my #1 and i *like* how surfacey it is. it's distilled cinema and it's incredibly breezy for malick all things considered. the movie ends up feeling almost like an accident and i love that about it -- you can just feel how they found it in the editing process
― Clay, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link
PLF is p sick tbh
― imago, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:36 (two years ago) link
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71. MIRROR (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, USSR) [708.38 points; 8 votes; Morbs gold]S&S: 13 | TSPDT: 29 | BOXD: 85
MORBS SEZ: "my favorite (Tarkovsky) is The Mirror fwiw, but Andrei Rublev not far behind"The Mirror is the best film ever made.― Frederik B, Wednesday, November 1, 2017 6:23 PMThe Mirror is one of my all time favorite movies― Dan S, Wednesday, November 1, 2017 6:46 PMThe Mirror is just moments of genius, wall-to-wall - I don't claim to understand it, but I view it more as a toolkit of scenes that the viewer must put together in their own way to form a unique emotional response. (That sounds rather cold and technical, but that's how it worked for me.)― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, September 2, 2004 11:44 AMI like Tarkovsky, but his theories on time don't scan to me (has any filmmaker taken them seriously?), some of the symbolism is cool when you first encounter them at an impressionable age but it can get tiresome. The films are often great, his dodging of the censors to make the kind of the thing he wanted almost miraculous - but I'm far more agnostic on the overall achievement. Parajanov is far more concrete with his flights of imagination. I like Mirror almost as much for the parts that allude to Soviet politics of a period. It just grounds things, in a way, making the symbolism richer.― xyzzzz__, Thursday, November 2, 2017 5:17 AM
The Mirror is the best film ever made.― Frederik B, Wednesday, November 1, 2017 6:23 PM
The Mirror is one of my all time favorite movies― Dan S, Wednesday, November 1, 2017 6:46 PM
The Mirror is just moments of genius, wall-to-wall - I don't claim to understand it, but I view it more as a toolkit of scenes that the viewer must put together in their own way to form a unique emotional response. (That sounds rather cold and technical, but that's how it worked for me.)― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, September 2, 2004 11:44 AM
I like Tarkovsky, but his theories on time don't scan to me (has any filmmaker taken them seriously?), some of the symbolism is cool when you first encounter them at an impressionable age but it can get tiresome. The films are often great, his dodging of the censors to make the kind of the thing he wanted almost miraculous - but I'm far more agnostic on the overall achievement. Parajanov is far more concrete with his flights of imagination. I like Mirror almost as much for the parts that allude to Soviet politics of a period. It just grounds things, in a way, making the symbolism richer.― xyzzzz__, Thursday, November 2, 2017 5:17 AM
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
And so Day 3 comes to a close.
100. ROSEMARY'S BABY (Roman Polanski, Roman 1968, USA) [620 points; 10 votes]99. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker, Chris 1962, France) [623.33 points; 9 votes; 1 first-place vote; Morbs silver]98. MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao, 1988, Japan) [623.9 points; 10 votes]97. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira, 1954, Japan) [624.67 points; 9 votes]96. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA) [625.71 points; 7 votes]95. SHOWGIRLS (Paul Verhoeven, 1995, USA) [628 points; 4 votes]94. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011, Turkey) [636 points; 6 votes]93. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, 1977, USA) [636.9 points; 10 votes]92. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, USA) [643.4 points; 10 votes]91. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, 1961, France) [645.82 points; 11 votes]
90. MANDY (Panos Cosmatos, 2018, USA) [646.5 points; 8 votes]89. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Rob Reiner, 1984, USA) [650.91 points; 11 votes]88. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, 1954, USA) [651 points; 6 votes]87. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Victor Erice, 1973, Spain) [652 points; 8 votes]86. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan) [655.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote]85. THE LADY EVE (Preson Sturges, 1941, USA) [656.4 points; 10 votes; Morbs silver]84. CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, 1974, France) [658.57 points; 7 votes]83. THE KING OF COMEDY (Martin Scorsese, 1983, USA) [659.82 points; 11 votes; Morbs gold]82. WILD STRAWBERRIES (Ingmar Bergman, 1957, Sweden) [661.5 points; 6 votes]81. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra, 1946, USA) [661.63 points; 8 votes]
80. CALIFORNIA SPLIT (Robert Altman, 1974, USA) [663 points; 6 votes]79. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer, 2014, UK) [665 points; 12 votes]78. THE WICKER MAN (Robin Hardy, 1973, UK) [668.5 points; 8 votes]77. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone, 1966, Italy) [670 points; 12 votes; Morbs silver]76. DAISIES (Vera Chytilová, 1966, Czechoslovakia) [674.29 points; 7 votes; 1 first-place vote]75. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (John Ford, 1962, USA) [683.63 points; 8 votes; Morbs gold]74. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick, 1978, USA) [683.63 points; 8 votes; 1 first-place vote]73. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (Spike Jonze, 1999, USA) [700.6 points; 10 votes] 72. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, France) [705 points; 6 votes]71. MIRROR (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, USSR) [708.38 points; 8 votes; Morbs gold]
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
WOW. Didnt expect it. I prefer Study Guide Tarkovsky to the epics.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:48 (two years ago) link
Into which of those buckets do you classify Mirror?
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:49 (two years ago) link
Both if necessary.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
Too low
― ignore the blue line (or something), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 22:59 (two years ago) link
Only Tarkovsky epics on my ballot, but Mirror is something else for sure. Visionary.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
I like its focus on memory and time. In his words “no other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time"
― Dan S, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
Godard and Tarkovsky are my two favourite directors! Still, Mirror is the one film of his that I don't get on an emotional level. It seems too private to approach, even if you read about it to understand the personal and cultural references. I think in a way his work was helped by having some superficially corny or cliched genre elements - making an historical film, war film or sci-fi gave him a grounding that he lost when he turned to pure artistic self-expression.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
it does seem very private and abstract
― Dan S, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link
the story keeps shifting - between his failing health, his childhood reminiscences, dream sequences, and our collective memories expressed through archival footage
― Dan S, Thursday, 28 October 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
The first time I watched Mirror I was kind of perpetually dazed, not in a bad way. The second time I could follow the structure a lot more.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 28 October 2021 00:39 (two years ago) link
Anyone anticipating any silent films appearing in the countdown?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:03 (two years ago) link
i put one in my top 10 but not counting on it tbh
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:09 (two years ago) link
https://boxd.it/dPPzw
updated the letterboxd list and reposting the link for anyone who missed it late last night
― Clay, Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
xp Sunrise, The Passion of Joan of Arc, L'Atalante, Battleship Potemkin, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
― Dan S, Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
First two above + Sherlock Jr. would be my guess.
― clemenza, Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
L'Atalante wasn't a silent film, but it felt like one
― Dan S, Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:25 (two years ago) link
Yes, if any silent films appear on the list, I would expect some comedies.Do people really rate Potemkin as a personal favourite these days? I'd have thought it's been strictly "historically important" for decades.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
I love Sunrise and Joan of Arc, but my most thrilling experience with silent film was seeing Safety Last! at the Castro Theater
― Dan S, Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
with pipe organ accompaniment!
― Dan S, Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link
j.lu is the expert on silent cinema
― Dan S, Thursday, 28 October 2021 02:53 (two years ago) link
I had two silents in my top 25, and four overall. I'm pretty sure one of them will place.
― Cherish, Thursday, 28 October 2021 04:00 (two years ago) link
Please no late Malick everyone!
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:15 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
;) fuck off, TO THE WONDER would have threatened to make my list
the DAYS OF HEAVEN quotes are funny. honestly ilx quotes pre 2007 about *anything* are embarrassing to read these days
― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 04:32 (two years ago) link
Days of Heaven was on my list, also a late Malick
― Dan S, Thursday, 28 October 2021 04:53 (two years ago) link
Lots of great stuff in this batch!
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly I first saw at such a young age that I think on some level it's still my go-to for what movies are "supposed" to be like. Rate Once Upon A Time In The West higher but both are perfect to me. Love Tuco so much.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance is really great. I will have to shamefully admit I don't like Ford in general much - he has been far too big an influence on so many of my fave directors (Kurosawa, Hawks, Welles, Leone) for me to just dismiss him altogether but his corny moralizing and one of the worst senses of humour in classic Hollywood make him very hard to take. Liberty Vallance though I love because it pulls back the curtain on his mythology in such an honest way; I may not agree with the final message (is he convinced by it himself?) but I can respect it. That scene in the school with Woody Strode tho, urgh.
Pierrot Le Fou is my fave Godard. The anger in it is laser-focused and at the same time it's a great Summer movie!
Really need to get around to Mirror. I've only seen Solaris, Stalker and Ivan's Childhood but those are all bangers.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 28 October 2021 09:20 (two years ago) link
oh man this finally started. voted for these:
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan) [655.5 points; 6 votes; 1 first-place vote] - 1stJOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, 1954, USA) [651 points; 6 votes] - 7thLAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, 1961, France) [645.82 points; 11 votes] UNRANKEDMESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA) UNRANKED
mandy placing higher than marienbad, disgraceful stuff
― devvvine, Thursday, 28 October 2021 10:17 (two years ago) link
oh and THE LADY EVE - unranked
― devvvine, Thursday, 28 October 2021 10:19 (two years ago) link
Designating Mandy as the "Drive circa early 2010s slot" entry is so devastatingly true.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 10:20 (two years ago) link
i lolled
― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 October 2021 10:21 (two years ago) link
j.lu is the expert on silent cinema― Dan S, Wednesday, October 27, 2021 10:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Dan S, Wednesday, October 27, 2021 10:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
And if any of the silents on my ballot (shoot, any films period from my ballot) place anywhere on this poll, I'll be surprised.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 28 October 2021 11:06 (two years ago) link
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 10:20 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is a lamentable misreading of mandy's merits obv
― imago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 11:21 (two years ago) link
winding refn doesn't even touch cosmatos' grasp of the psychedelic, nor the sincere and emotive sentiments that inform his work
― imago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 11:26 (two years ago) link
winding refn is in the gaspar noe bracket and neither belong here
― imago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
I hold Climax above anything I've seen by either of the other two...
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 11:31 (two years ago) link
Maybe he found his niche later. I've only seen Irreversible
― imago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 11:33 (two years ago) link
Anyway, save us Eric, lol
― imago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 11:34 (two years ago) link
Don't mind if I do!
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70. M (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany) [708.67 points; 9 votes]S&S: 58 | TSPDT: 56 | BOXD: 103
MORBS SEZ: "I rewatched M this week, now knowing that FL did 20 takes of the hoods throwing Lorre down the stairs. Lang couldn't figure out why Lorre was cool to him in the Hollywood years … Also if you're going to call (Fury) a "social issue" movie, you might as well call M one too. Lang usually gets at something existential in addition."M is my favourite film ever. Amongst many wonderful things, it pre-empts modern Policiers with a vengeance.― Noodle Vague, Thursday, September 6, 2007 5:29 PMso awesome. another one I saw really young that I found surprisingly haunting and disturbing. Lorre's confession scene at the end is amazing.― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, May 18, 2012 1:58 PMJust saw M for the first time. Damn, that's a film.― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:38 PMM and Testament are both monuments to how to convey information via a combination of off-screen action and sound or lack thereof.― Ned Raggett, Friday, July 23, 2010 9:29 AMM is my favourite film ever. Amongst many wonderful things, it pre-empts modern Policiers with a vengeance.― Noodle Vague, Thursday, September 6, 2007 5:29 PMM was my first Fritz Lang. Walked into it as an obligation. Walked away with a full-body buzz and a sense of euphoria that I only get from a very few great movies.― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Friday, May 18, 2012 2:03 PM
M is my favourite film ever. Amongst many wonderful things, it pre-empts modern Policiers with a vengeance.― Noodle Vague, Thursday, September 6, 2007 5:29 PM
so awesome. another one I saw really young that I found surprisingly haunting and disturbing. Lorre's confession scene at the end is amazing.― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, May 18, 2012 1:58 PM
Just saw M for the first time. Damn, that's a film.― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:38 PM
M and Testament are both monuments to how to convey information via a combination of off-screen action and sound or lack thereof.― Ned Raggett, Friday, July 23, 2010 9:29 AM
M was my first Fritz Lang. Walked into it as an obligation. Walked away with a full-body buzz and a sense of euphoria that I only get from a very few great movies.― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Friday, May 18, 2012 2:03 PM
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 11:42 (two years ago) link
Good morning!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 October 2021 11:46 (two years ago) link
so true i said it twice
― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 October 2021 11:46 (two years ago) link
anyway TOO LOW but
LOL, given the difficulties that movie presents for search functionality, I forgive myself for doubling you up, NV.
― Milm & Foovies (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 October 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
Even I had this on my longlist. Surprised it's this low tbh
― imago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 12:03 (two years ago) link
It's great. I've warmed to a lot of minor Lang, too - like Cloak And Dagger may not be a masterpiece, but as an interesting failure it's better than many director's successes.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 28 October 2021 12:10 (two years ago) link
First time I saw M was on the big screen, at the Fantasporto festival, which always had a bad rep for just screening DVD copies of shit (it has since been revealed there was some fraudulent business dealings going on, too). For some reason the copy kept skipping between a German and Spanish audio track! Dude accusing Lorre in German and Lorre replying "I don't understand what you mean" in Spanish was a lol.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 28 October 2021 12:12 (two years ago) link
i’ve seen drive. mandy was instantly one of my favorite films of all time bc someone painted the inside of my head on a screen. drive is in no way that personal
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 October 2021 12:24 (two years ago) link