VOTING FOR THE ILX 60s FILM POLL:THREE DAYS TO GO

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So far I've got 11 ballots in and counted. The list is getting slightly more defined, but more ballots are needed. So if you aren't one of the 11 people who've voted so far (Blount, Kenan, Morbius etc--I'm looking in your direction), please make your final decisions and send 'em in to ilx1960sfilmpoll@yahoo.com. Here's an updated list of rules:

How The Poll Will Be Run (lightly paraphrased from Girolamo): We're going to have a loose nominations system - in which you can nominate whatever you want (as long as it is a film made between 1960 and 1969 - IMDb dating is ultimate reference). Your nominations are unlimited, although I ask that you add them in small batches rather than large barrages. Voting will not be limited to films nominated. HOWEVER, I would strongly like to advise nominations for, discussions of, and advocacy towards titles you mention, as

a) I will be producing a voting ballot (with write-ins allowed) for general guidance for voters every week or so, if needed.
b) you can raise the profile of films you fear may be forgotten by people who have seen them
c) discussion will lead to yet more good nominations and, *gasp*, pre-fabricated BLURBS!!!

How Many Films Will I Get To Vote For On My Ballot?: You will be able to vote for 33 films. Why? I like the number, and maybe (?) we’ll have fewer ties. The point system will not be changed. (i.e. A 1st place vote brings 33 points etc.)

Where Do You Send Your Ballot?: Mail to: ilx1960sfilmpoll@yahoo.com. That’s ilx1960sfilmpoll@yahoo.com. Send them to that address.

When Are Ballots Due?: Due to my work schedule, the cut-off will be on Thursday December 1st @ 6:00 PM (Central Standard Time).

What’s In It For Me, The Voter?: Following Jeff’s lead, one randomly selected voter will win a $20 gift card from Amazon.

When Will The Results Be Revealed?: I’m aiming for Monday December 5th, with each day (save Fridays and Sundays) bringing ten (or more) revealed positions.

What If I Look For A Film On The Ballot, And It Isn’t There?: Either:

a) It wasn’t nominated, or
b) It was nominated, but is listed under another name other than the one you were thinking of under which it saw release. (For Example, “Band of Outsiders” for “Bande A Parte”/“Witchfinder General” for “The Conqueror Worm”)

Anything Else?: Enjoy yourself with this. You deserve it.

The new list of noms will follow in the next post.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

8 1/2
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Fist Full of Dollars
A Hard Day's Night
A Man and A Woman
A Shot in the Dark
A Taste of Honey
A Thousand Clowns
A Touch Of Zen
A Woman Is A Woman
Accatone
Alfie
Alphaville
An Actor's Revenge
Andrei Rublev
Au Hasard Balthazar
Bad Girls Go To Hell
Band of Outsiders /bande a part
Barbarella
Battle of Algiers
Bedazzled
Belle de Jour
Billy Liar
Blackmail Is My Life
Blast of Silence
Blow Up
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Boccaccio 70
Bonnie and Clyde
Branded to Kill
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Breathless
Bullitt
Burn!/Queimada!
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Carnival Of Souls
Carry On up the Khyber
Cape Fear
Charade
Charulata
Chronicle of a Summer
Classes Tous Risques
Cleo From 5 to 7
Closely Observed Trains
Coming Apart
Confessions Of A Psycho Cat
Confessions Of An Opium Eater
Contempt
Cool Hand Luke
Cruel Story of Youth
David Holzman's Diary
Days of Wine and Roses
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards
Diary of a Chambermaid
Divorce Italian Style
Don't Look Back
Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Zhivago
Easy Rider
El Cid
El Dorado
Faces
Fahrenheit 451
Fail-Safe
Falstaff/Chimes At Midnight
Fantastic Voyage
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
For a Few Dollars More
From Russia With Love
Gamlet/Hamlet
Gate of Flesh
Gertrud
Goldfinger
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
Hatari!
Head
Heaven and Earth Magic
Help!
High and Low
High School
Ho!
How I Won The War
Hud
If...
I'll Never Forget Whatisname
Il Grand Silenzio
Il Posto/The Sound of Trumpets
In Cold Blood
In The Heat of the Night
Inherit the Wind
Invocation of My Demon Brother
Irma La Douce
Jules and Jim
Juliet of the Spirits
Knife in the Water
Kwaidan
La Commare Seca
La Dolce Vita
La Jetee
Last Year At Marienbad
L'Avventura
L'Eclisse
Lawrence of Arabia
Le Doulos
Le Petit Soldat
Le Samourai
Life Upside Down / La Vie a L'Envers
Lola
Lolita
Loves of a Blonde
Marat/Sade
Marnie
Mary Poppins
Masculin/Feminin
Medium Cool
Midnight Cowboy
Modesty Blaise
Mondo Trasho
Monterey Pop
Mothlight
Mouchette
Mudhoney
My Fair Lady
My Night at Maud's
Never on Sunday
Night of The Living Dead
Oliver!
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Once Upon A Time In the West
One, Two, Three
Onibaba
Pale Flower
Peep Show
Peeping Tom
Persona
Petulia
Pierrot le Fou
Pigs and Battleships
Planet of the Apes
Playtime
Point Blank
Prelude
Pretty Poison
Psycho
Psych-Out
Purple Noon/Plein Soliel
Putney Swope
Quatermass & The Pit
Red Angel
Red Beard
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Replusion
Ride the High Country
Rosemary's Baby
Ruined Map
Samurai Rebellion
Sanjuro
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Satyricon
Seconds
Seppuku/Harakiri
Shame
Shock Corridor
Shoot The Piano Player
Signs of Life
Simon del Desierto
Skidoo
Spartacus
Splendor in the Grass
Stolen Kisses/Baisers Volées
Story of a Prostitute
Sword Of Doom
Sympathy for the Devil/One Plus One
Take the Money and Run
Targets
Teorema
The Apartment
The Bed Sitting Room
The Bellboy
The Birds
The Bride Wore Black
The Chelsea Girls
The Cincinnati Kid
The Dirty Dozen
The Disorderly Orderly
The Errand Boy
The Exterminating Angel
The Face Of Another
The Firemans Ball
The Flicker
The Graduate
The Great Escape
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Gospel According to St Matthew
The Hustler
The Knack...And How To Get It
The Ladies' Man
The Leopard
The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner
The Magic Christian
The Magnificent Seven
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Manchurian Candidate
The Naked Kiss
The Nutty Professor
The Odd Couple
The Patsy
The Pawnbroker
The Pink Panther
The Pornographers
The President's Analyst
The Producers
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
The Sand Pebbles
The Servant
The Shooting
The Shop On Main Street
The Silence
The Sorrow and the Pity
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Sundowners
The Swimmer
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Trial
The Trip
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Virgin Spring
The War Game
The Wild Angels
The Wild Bunch
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Three on a Couch
Through A Glass Darkly
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Sir with Love
Tokyo Drifter
Tokyo Olympiad
Tom Tom the Piper's Son
Tony Rome
Triumph Over Violence/Ordinary Facism
Two For The Road
Two Thousand Maniacs!
Viridiana
Viva Las Vegas
Vivre Sa Vie/My Life To Live
Wait Until Dark
Wavelength
Weekend
West Side Story
What's Up Tiger Lilly?
"Whatever Happened To Aunt Alice?"
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Winter Light
Witchfinder General/The Conquer Worm
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Woman in the Dunes
Yellow Submarine
Yojimbo
Young Torless
Youth of the Beast
Z

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

just voted!

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

my ballot:

1 Pierrot le Fou

2 Vivre Sa Vie/My Life To Live

3 Yojimbo

4 Night of The Living Dead

5 Breathless

6 Au Hasard Balthazar

7 Masculin/Feminin

8 Marnie

9 Point Blank

10 Tokyo Drifter

11 Skidoo

12 High and Low

13 Falstaff/Chimes At Midnight

14 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

15 Sanjuro

16 Bad Girls Go To Hell

17 Lawrence of Arabia

18 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

19 Le Samourai

20 Weekend

21 Ride the High Country

22 Shock Corridor

23 Band of Outsiders /bande a part

24 Witchfinder General/The Conquer Worm

25 Yellow Submarine

26 Branded to Kill

27 Mudhoney

28 Battle of Algiers

29 Carnival Of Souls

30 The Exterminating Angel

31 Stolen Kisses/Baisers Volées

32 The Apartment

33 The Dirty Dozen

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Thanks. 12 in:12 counted. There are also 12 different #1s.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

14 in--14 counted--14 #1s.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Change of Habit (1969) .... Dr. John Carpenter
The Trouble with Girls (1969) .... Walter Hale
Charro! (1969) .... Jess Wade
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) .... Greg Nolan
Speedway (1968) .... Steve Grayson
Stay Away, Joe (1968) .... Joe Lightcloud
Clambake (1967) .... Scott Heyward/'Tom Wilson'
Double Trouble (1967) .... Guy Lambert
Easy Come, Easy Go (1967) .... Lt. (j.g.) Ted Jackson
Spinout (1966) .... Mike McCoy
Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966) .... Rick Richards
Frankie and Johnny (1966) .... Johnny
Harum Scarum (1965) .... Johnny Tyronne
Tickle Me (1965) .... Lonnie Beale/Panhandle Kid
Girl Happy (1965) .... Rusty Wells
Roustabout (1964) .... Charlie Rogers
Viva Las Vegas (1964) .... Lucky Jackson
Kissin' Cousins (1964) .... Josh Morgan/Jodie Tatum
Fun in Acapulco (1963) .... Mike Windgren
It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) .... Mike Edwards
Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) .... Ross Carpenter
Kid Galahad (1962) .... Walter Gulick
Follow That Dream (1962) .... Toby Kwimper
Blue Hawaii (1961) .... Chad Gates
Wild in the Country (1961) .... Glenn Tyler
Flaming Star (1960) .... Pacer Burton
G.I. Blues (1960) .... Tulsa McLean

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Ah shit, I'd forgotten about this, I'll try to vote today.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

Not inclined to vote, as every week I'm liable to remember a film missing from the list above, like

The Masque of the Red Death

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

you can't find 33 movies on that list you like? i know alan pakula only made one movie during the 60s but it was still a good decade believe it or not, you should check it out.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

And also, juveniles like that will be voting.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

blount's list has some really good films on it.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Funnily enough, I thought "El Topo" !

Way too late, obviously.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

morbs it takes two minutes, plus i don't think you have to vote for 33 so it's ok if you haven't heard of all of them (since you're a big bright eyes fan you might want to check out this movie called 'don't look back', though i hafta warn you - the music might be a bit louder than you're used to!). all i did is look to see if what i was pretty sure was my number one was listed (it was)(you should check out godard, he's the guy who directed my number one, too morbs - he's no pakula or robert benton i'll admit, i don't think he's ever made a movie in a parking deck and 'contempt' is probably as close as he ever gets to your beloved kramer vs. kramer so maybe start there) and then just glanced thru the list throwing stuff that struck me as particularly fun on it, slightly organizing on the way (though not much - it's an ilx poll: why get yr dick twisted over it?). i'm sure if i spent more than one minute on it it looks different and i have time to remember more stuff not nominated like the killers or the devil rides out but two tears in a bucket. my advice: don't spend more than a minute on it. if you're really hard up just copy mine.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

You're Skidoo on legs.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

blount's list has some really good films on it.

so does fritz's!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

18 ballots in:18 counted:18 #1s. Don't be too cool for school. Vote please. 2 days to go.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

BTW, IMDB says El Topo is 1970.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Blount has 10-12 films I'd likely choose too. He's still a wad.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

here's my sadly elvis-free ballot:

1. Falstaff/Chimes At Midnight
2. The Manchurian Candidate
3. Band of Outsiders /bande a part
4. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
5. A Hard Day's Night
6. A Taste of Honey
7. Simon of the Desert
8. Lolita
9. The Graduate
10. Persona
11. Breakfast at Tiffany's
12. The Apartment
13. Breathless
14. 8 1/2
15. Weekend
16. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
17. Pierrot Le Fou
18. Blow Up
19. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
20. Psycho
21. Jules and Jim
22. Midnight Cowboy
23. Two For the Road
24. To Kill a Mockingbird
25. Vivre Sa Vie/My Life To Live
26. Wait Until Dark
27. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
28. Targets
29. Inherit the Wind
30. Dr Strangelove
31. Charade
32. A Shot in the Dark
33. Cleo From 5 to 7

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

so hard, but here is my list of 25:

60s

1. Vivre sa vie
2. L'Avventura
3. Persona
4. Cleo From 5 to 7
5. Playtime
6. Once Upon A Time In the West
7. Battle of Algiers
8. Weekend
9. Replusion
10. Through A Glass Darkly
11. Contempt
12. Au Hasard Balthazar
13. Alphaville
14. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
15. The Firemans Ball
16. Bonnie and Clyde
17. Z
18. Dr. Strangelove
19. Winter Light
20. The Wild Bunch
21. Last Year At Marienbad
22. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
23. Band of Outsiders /bande a part
24. Closely Observed Trains
25. Gertrud

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

I said I'd butt out of these polls from here on out, and I will (someone else deserves the Amazon gift cert). But, for fun, here's what my top 5 would be.

1. La Jetée (Chris Marker)
2. The Ladies' Man (Jerry Lewis)
3. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
4. Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin)
5. Breakaway (Bruce Conner)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

argh, i left out repulsion! how'd that happen?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

I forgot A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS =:O

but so did everyone else lol

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

Only felt strong enough about 15 to vote for -

1 Le Samourai (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)
2 The Trial (1962, Orson Welles)
3 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
4 The Hustler (1961, Robert Rossen)
5 Point Blank (1967, John Boorman)
6 High And Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)
7 Dr Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
8 Midnight Cowboy (1969, John Schlesinger)
9 Branded to Kill (1967, Seijun Suzuki)
10 Blow Up (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
11 Tokyo Drifter (1966, Seijun Suzuki)
12 Salesman (1969, Albert & David Maysles)
13 Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean-Luc Godard)
14 Woman In The Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
15 One Armed Swordsman (1967, Chang Cheh)

― Mil (Mil), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

I'm fiddling with mine, but can't get it under 40. A great decade.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

top 20. all from the posted ballot. I have already decided I'm not happy with it and I need to make revisions, but there you go. I missed the nominations but I'm not going to waste anybody's time with my cockamamie ideas about which war/spy/assassin/hobo movies you missed etc.

1 The Manchurian Candidate
2 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3 High and Low
4 The Sand Pebbles
5 Mary Poppins
6 The Great Escape
7 Tokyo Drifter
8 Bullitt
9 The Producers
10 The Graduate
11 Lawrence of Arabia
12 Spartacus
13 Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
14 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
15 West Side Story
16 The Pink Panther
17 Dr Strangelove
18 The Dirty Dozen
19 The Magnificent Seven
20 The Cincinnati Kid

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I came up with 30 by being completely cutthroat and then taking blount's I don't give a fuuuuck advice.

1. Repulsion
2. The Firemans Ball
3. Bullitt
4. The Manchurian Candidate
5. Belle de Jour
6. 8 ½
7. Peeping Tom
8. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
9. The Trial
10. The Thomas Crown Affair
11. Jules and Jim
12. A Hard Day's Night
13. The Producers
14. Dr. Zhivago
15. Breathless
16. Fail-Safe
17. Cape Fear
18. Andrei Rublev
19. The Cincinnati Kid
20. Easy Rider
21. Blow Up
22. The Great Escape
23. L'Avventura
24. The Magnificent Seven
25. Tokyo Drifter
26. Midnight Cowboy
27. How I Won The War
28. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
29. La Dolce Vita
30. Psycho

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

No Mary Poppins?!?!? WEDDING = OFF

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I went for this lot in the end, but NOW I WANT TO CHANGE IT ALL!
You can only fiddle so much.

1.Carnival Of Souls
2.Branded To Kill
3.2001: A Space Odyssey
4.Kwaidan
5.Ruined Map
6.Yojimbo
7.Blast of Silence
8.Night of The Living Dead
9.Andrei Rublev
10.Battle of Algiers
11.Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
12.Point Blank
13.Repulsion
14.Persona
15.The Face Of Another
16.The Swimmer
17.Confessions Of An Opium Eater
18.Woman in the Dunes
19.Mothlight
20.Onibaba
21.Dr. Strangelove
22.Quatermass & The Pit
23.Rosemary's Baby
24.Peeping Tom
25.Seconds
26.The Silence
27.Last Year At Marienbad
28.The Apartment
29.In Cold Blood
30.Mudhoney
31.A Touch Of Zen (aka Hsia Nu)
32.Once Upon a Time in the West
33.The Virgin Spring

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

27 ballots in:22 counted (so far): 1 day and 2 1/2 hours to go

Just for the hell of it, here's my ballot:

1 My Life to Live
2 The Wild Bunch
3 The Great Escape
4 Z
5 The Apartment
6 Persona
7 The Good The Bad & The Ugly
8 Burn!
9 Shoot The Piano Player
10 Pierrot Le Fou
11 La Dolce Vita
12 Once Upon A Time In The West
13 Branded To Kill
14 The Manchurian Candidate
15 Les Doulos
16 A Man and A Woman
17 Bonnie & Clyde
18 Breathless
19 The Umbrlellas of Cherbourg
20 Mouchette
21 High and Low
22 Lawrence of Arabia
23 A Thousand Clowns
24 Cleo From 5-7
25 A Woman Is A Woman
26 How I Won The War
27 Stolen Kisses
28 Le Samourai
29 Playtime
30 Pigs & Battleships
31 Jules and Jim
32 Two For The Road
33 Band of Outsiders

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

I would vote, but I only know & remember well about 10 of these, so there seems to be little point.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

My ballot had 8 films!

― Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gentleee as you move (Leee), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

No, you had 9 ;-)

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

There were only 30 I thought I could vote for in good conscience (great movie vs. 'old movie I've seen'), and the order is pretty much random/alphabetical after 15. I'm already cherry-picking the best of the '60s that I've seen (which would also be a list filtered down by 30 years of criticism, fans and availability).

1. Masculin/Feminin
2. The Exterminating Angel
3. Au Hasard Balthazar
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Bonnie and Clyde

6. The Manchurian Candidate
7. Cool Hand Luke
8. La Jetee
9. Psycho
10. Mouchette

11. The Wild Bunch
12. Cape Fear
13. The Great Escape
14. Band of Outsiders /bande a part
15. The Gospel According to St Matthew

16. 2001: A Space Odyssey
17. A Fist Full of Dollars
18. Alphaville
19. Battle of Algiers
20. Bedazzled
21. Contempt
22. For a Few Dollars More
23. Once Upon A Time In the West
24. The Birds
25. The Apartment
26. The Dirty Dozen

27. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
28. The Wild Angels
29. Wait Until Dark
30. Branded to Kill

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

I am sad that Jules et Jim has received at least three votes thus far.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Is Godard-Truffaut the Stones-Beatles for movie nerds?

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Without having seen more than 400 Blows, I can confidently pronounce upon Truffaut's overratedness. Godard, on the other hand, is genuinely godhead, having seen only 3 of his films.

― Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gentleee as you move (Leee), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

godard rules, truffaut drools.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

otm

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

You voted for Jules and Jim though!

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

I just liked the way that sounded!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

I've resisted the urge to track down a copy of The 400 Blows (fuck Criterion's $100 box set) after wasting hours of my life on Jules et Jim. His later stuff seems far too self-pleased and middlebrow to be interesting.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

The 400 Blows is pretty crap though, I will admit.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

From 1972-2002 (the great JLG par JLG excepted), Godard pretty much drooled.

Catherine in Jules is kind of an Existential French Slut fantasy.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

too middlebrow

ELITIST!

Godard started drooling when he discovered Mao.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

they can't all be the pelican brief morbs

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

In retrospect, maybe I should have traded Jules & Jim for The Bride Wore Black. Truffaut--while no Godard--was still pretty damn cool in my book.

SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!

(I think this poll stuff is getting to me.)

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

That said, there's also a (supposedly) decent and (defintely) cheap 400 Blows disc out there by Fox Lorber.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

The first 3 Doinel films are wonderful, and not something Godard could do (or would want to).

Blount, I applaud your willingness to drive a joke into the ground (called 'a Cincinnati').

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Watch Masculin/Feminin and Stolen Kisses back to back sometime for a master class in Godard/Truffaut. Why? Below the surface, they are the same film done two different ways unique to the respective autuer.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

1) Au Hasard Balthazar
2) Band of Outsiders /bande a part
3) Psycho
4) Scattered Clouds
5) Mouchette
6) Night of the Living Dead
7) Samurai Rebellion
8) Paris Nous Appartient/Paris Belongs To Us
9) Don't Look Back
10) Playtime
11) Last Year at Marienbad
12) The Apartment
13) Shock Corridor
14) Disorderly Orderly
15) Les Bonnes Femmes
16) Wavelength
17) Branded To Kill
18) Marnie
19) Weekend
20) Knife in the Water
21) When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
22) The Hustler
23) Salesman
24) Battle of Algiers
25) Alphaville
26) Une Femme Est Une Femme/A Woman is a Woman
27) Flaming Creatures
28) Breathless
29) High School
30) Cleo From 5 To 7
31) Rosemary's Baby
32) The War Game
33) Blue Movie/Fuck

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

The Godard/Truffaut thing is a false dichotomy if e'er there were. They're completely different, and the idea you have to choose one at the expense of the other is silly. They both made some clunkers, which clunk in different ways (sentimentality on Truffaut's side, doctrinary bitterness on Godard's), but I'd hate to be without the best of either. (Which for me includes Jules and Jim, so there.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

The Godard/Truffaut thing is a false dichotomy if e'er there were.
So is the Beatles/Stones dichotomy, though. I was suggesting that anyone should or could choose sides, they just seem to occupy the same kind of cultural spheres.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

i actually don't like truffaut all that much, and even jules and jim i only really like for the first 10 minutes or so (the top 20 is really all i stand by on my ballot; after that i was just throwing out random films i'd enjoyed at one point). godard was pretty much on fire for most of the '60s.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

What's not to love in The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim? You people are crazy.

― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

Another Top 10 plus a bunch of movies I like...

1. The Sorrow and the Pity
2. Chronicle of a Summer
3. Jules and Jim
4. The Manchurian Candidate
5. Woman in the Dunes
6. Belle de Jour
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Seppuku (a.k.a. Harakiri)
9. High School
10. The Sundowners
11. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
12. Hard Day's Night
13. Psycho
14. 2001: A Space Odyssey
15. Lolita
16. Spartacus
17. Goldfinger
18. Dr. Strangelove
19. The Odd Couple
20. The Hustler
21. The Birds
22. The Battle of Algiers
23. Planet of the Apes
24. Viva Las Vegas
25. Inherit the Wind
26. From Russia With Love
27. For a Fist Full of Dollars
28. Cape Fear
29. The Producers
30. Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?
31. Fail-Safe
32. The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
33. Z

― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 1 December 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

31 ballots in: 25 ballots counted (so far): 22 1/2 hours to go.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

When this one's settled, is there any interest in a top 50 of 2000-2004?

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

1) Once Upon A Time In the West
2) The Wild Bunch
3) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
4) Le Doulos
5) One, Two, Three
6) La Dolce Vita
7) Vivre Sa Vie/My Life To Live
8) Breathless
9) The Leopard
10) Bullitt
11) The President's Analyst
12) 2001: A Space Odyssey
13) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
14) Charade
15) Le Samourai
16) A Fistful of Dollars
17) Dr. Strangelove
18) Band of Outsiders
19) Weekend
20) Contempt
21) A Hard Day's Night
22) Jules et Jim
23) Battle of Algiers
24) The Great Escape
25) Z
26) Rosemary's Baby
27) Point Blank
28) Seconds
29) The Sorrow and the Pity
30) Modesty Blaise
31) Take the Money and Run
32) Medium Cool
33) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

― gear (gear), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

Milo: Definitely. (Though, I think it should run through 2005)

― C0L1N B.., Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

If it ran through 2k5, that'd be 6 years.

― Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gentleee as you move (Leee), Thursday, 1 December 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

That's what I was thinking, and I didn't know if the freshness/unfamiliarity of 2005 films would skew the results (I suppose they'd balance out?).

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 1 December 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

I swear 2000-2004 has been done already. Plus: why not the 1950s? There's a damned lot of great fillums from that decade!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Funnily, Alfie was on last night. Reckon I undervalued it on my list...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

So far, COLIN B can pick movies for me. (ah fuck, Flaming Creatures.)

These posted ballots are helping me weigh mine (out goes the Excellent But Overrated).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Ah fuck, Salesman.

― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I'd love to do a 50s one as well, though it'd probably be too hard.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I've probably seen more films from the '50s!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

40's would be easier than 50's...

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 1 December 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

35 ballots in: 31 ballots counted (so far): A little less than 3 1/2 hours to go.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 1 December 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

1 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
2 Playtime (Tati)
3 Psycho (Hitchcock)
4 Black Girl/La Noire de... (Sembene)
5 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
6 Peeping Tom (Powell)
7 Chelsea Girls (Morrissey/Warhol)
8 La Jetee (Marker)
9 Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
10 Wavelength (Snow)

11 Gertrud (Dreyer)
12 Cleo From 5 to 7 (Varda)
13 Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
14 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy)
15 Point Blank (Boorman)
16 The Apartment (Wilder)
17 Lola (Demy)
18 Ride the High Country (Peckinpah)
19 Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
20 Through A Glass Darkly (Bergman)

21 Pigs and Battleships (Imamura)
22 Rosemary's Baby (Polanski)
23 The Leopard (Visconti)
24 Once Upon A Time In the West (Leone)
25 Kwaidan (Kobayashi)
26 Belle de Jour (Bunuel)
27 Mouchette (Bresson)
28 The Gospel According to St Matthew (Pasolini)
29 The Sorrow and the Pity (Ophuls)
30 A Hard Day's Night (Lester)

31 The Masque of the Red Death (Corman)
32 Planet of the Apes (Schaffner)
33 Kes (Loach)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Just under two hours. Counting like crazy.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

When this one's settled, is there any interest in a top 50 of 2000-2004?

Sure. I already have a list for that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 December 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

I hope this poll isn't too serious. There are some very good, and very silly 60s movies. That said, voting in these always makes me aware of just how many films I haven't seen.

By the way - no "The Sound of Music"??? What's going ON?!?!

Hopefully it will get more than one vote.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

30 minutes people.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

I just realized this was a write-ins allowed ballot. Oops.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

15 and counting.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Damn, I wish I'd thought of voting for Kes.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

8 minutes

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

And it's time. HOWEVER, I'll be nice and add 1 more hour. (really 57 minutes now)

I've got 36 ballots in, 35 counted. After that I've got to check a couple things, but maybe, just maybe I can start the reveal tonight.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 2 December 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen very much, so don't want to vote, but of what I have seen, the top would be Playtime, Leopard, High and Low, 2001, The Apartment, A Hard Day's Night

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 December 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

oh, and Bonnie and Clyde would place somewhere below

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 2 December 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

At risk of repeating something already mentioned, would retitling the thread not have helped as it still looks like people have three days to get their votes in?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 2 December 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

(which is why I'm not voting, as I am knackered and am fuxored if I'm staying up to do this any sort of justice and thought I had until the weekend)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 2 December 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Polls closed. 36 ballots in and counted. I've got to check my math in a few places, but it looks pretty set. People are gonna be pissed about some of it, and people are gonna be ecstatic too. Business as usual. Look for the reveal to start on Saturday, as I am fairly knackered too.

Major props to everyone who sent in a ballot. I'll do a drawing for the card next week.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 2 December 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

are blount and i really the only ones who've seen chimes at midnight? awww.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 2 December 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

You can still love a movie and not think it's one of the 33 best of a decade. I could've put 6 Bergman films in mine. And I hated leaving out Bedazzled.

I'd hafta see them again to know, but TheImmortal Story might be better than Chimes at Midnight.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

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