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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 8, 2023 13:42:11 GMT -5
I will probably just pick Barry Lyndon, but...
1975 also has these Italian movies I like a lot: Le orme/Footprints/Footprints on the Moon (dir. Luigi Bazzoni) and Profondo rosso/Deep Red (dir. Dario Argento).
One of my all-time favorite Tora-san movies was released in '75 too: Tora-san's Rise and Fall/Tora-san meets the Songstress Again (dir. Yoji Yamada). This was the 15th Tora-san movie and the first one to bring back a previous "Madonna", so it shook things up a bit. I could watch Tora-san movies forever haha.
Oh, I also liked Hard Times (dir. Walter Hill), but have only seen it once.
I have massive blind spots when it comes to most non-English language films. I'd like to see Hard Times again. I'm pretty sure I've only seen it once also. I went through a period where I watched most of Charles Bronson's filmography. But it was a LONG time ago. I think I did like it. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 8, 2023 14:14:47 GMT -5
Jaws is great. I saw it when it first came out (I was 11) and I used to watch it every three or four years. At this point, I don’t think I’ve seen it for close to 20 years. I’ll have to watch it again soon.
But for 1975, there’s only one pick for me ...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 8, 2023 14:18:38 GMT -5
I will probably just pick Barry Lyndon, but...
1975 also has these Italian movies I like a lot: Le orme/Footprints/Footprints on the Moon (dir. Luigi Bazzoni) and Profondo rosso/Deep Red (dir. Dario Argento).
One of my all-time favorite Tora-san movies was released in '75 too: Tora-san's Rise and Fall/Tora-san meets the Songstress Again (dir. Yoji Yamada). This was the 15th Tora-san movie and the first one to bring back a previous "Madonna", so it shook things up a bit. I could watch Tora-san movies forever haha.
Oh, I also liked Hard Times (dir. Walter Hill), but have only seen it once.
Despite my obsession for Japanese Cinema, I’ve only seen one Tora-San movie - Tora-San’s Easy Virtue. I liked it well enough, but it didn’t make me want to watch the whole series like I did with Lone Wolf and Cub and like I’m now doing with Zatoichi. Still, if somebody singles out a Tora-San movie as one of the better ones, that sounds like a reason to put it on the list. |
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Post by arfetto on Feb 8, 2023 14:36:20 GMT -5
I consider Rise and Fall/meets the Songstress to be a top five Tora-san movie, and Yoji Yamada I believe considers it the best one, so it can stand on its own and I recommend it regardless. But there is an additional appreciation to be gained from this entry if you are already into the rhythm of the previous movies(I watched them in order). Plus a character from the 11th movie returns in it.
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Post by commond on Feb 8, 2023 18:45:27 GMT -5
I thought my answer was going to be Nashville, but I actually have two films above it -- Ousmane Sembene's brilliant Xala and Lino Brocka's Manila in the Claws of Neon. I'm also a fan of Tarkovsky's The Mirror, though I admit it's not the easiest film in the world to watch. Dersu Uzala is one of my favorite Kurosawa films, and Fox and His Friends is my second favorite Fassbinder film. The Man Who Would Be King made my list, as did Theodoros Angelopoulos's The Travelling Players and Andrzej Zulawski's L'important c'est d'aimer, which features an incredible performance by Romy Schneider.
Love and Death was my favorite of Woody Allen's early comedies, particularly because I was heavily into Dostoevsky and Tolstoy when I first saw it. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a seminal Australian film. Never had the guts to watch Salo.
I've gotta go with Manila in the Claws of Neon.
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Post by berkley on Feb 8, 2023 20:32:16 GMT -5
I will probably just pick Barry Lyndon, but...
1975 also has these Italian movies I like a lot: Le orme/Footprints/Footprints on the Moon (dir. Luigi Bazzoni) and Profondo rosso/Deep Red (dir. Dario Argento).
One of my all-time favorite Tora-san movies was released in '75 too: Tora-san's Rise and Fall/Tora-san meets the Songstress Again (dir. Yoji Yamada). This was the 15th Tora-san movie and the first one to bring back a previous "Madonna", so it shook things up a bit. I could watch Tora-san movies forever haha.
Oh, I also liked Hard Times (dir. Walter Hill), but have only seen it once.
I have massive blind spots when it comes to most non-English language films. I'd like to see Hard Times again. I'm pretty sure I've only seen it once also. I went through a period where I watched most of Charles Bronson's filmography. But it was a LONG time ago. I think I did like it.
Off the top of my head, I'd say it's probably his best movie except for Once Upon a Time in the West. The best where he was the main lead, that is.
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 8, 2023 20:56:01 GMT -5
I thought my answer was going to be Nashville, but I actually have two films above it -- Ousmane Sembene's brilliant Xala and Lino Brocka's Manila in the Claws of Neon. I'm also a fan of Tarkovsky's The Mirror, though I admit it's not the easiest film in the world to watch. Dersu Uzala is one of my favorite Kurosawa films, and Fox and His Friends is my second favorite Fassbinder film. The Man Who Would Be King made my list, as did Theodoros Angelopoulos's The Travelling Players and Andrzej Zulawski's L'important c'est d'aimer, which features an incredible performance by Romy Schneider. Love and Death was my favorite of Woody Allen's early comedies, particularly because I was heavily into Dostoevsky and Tolstoy when I first saw it. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a seminal Australian film. Never had the guts to watch Salo. I've gotta go with Manila in the Claws of Neon. Love and Death is one of my favorite Woody Allen movies. Dersu Uzala is a great film! Yojimbo is my favorite Kurosawa film, but Dersu Uzala is in that 10-way tie for second place. I remember loving The Mirror when I saw it, but it’s been a while and I don’t remember it that well. Picnic at Hanging Rock is among my Top Ten films of Australian Cinema |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 9, 2023 5:53:52 GMT -5
Love and Death is one of my favorite Woody Allen movies. (...) Same here. I've become disenchanted with a lot of Allen's later movies, but I'm still quite fond of his earlier movies (from the late '60s and '70s) and Love & Death is one of the better ones. |
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Post by nellywilk on Feb 9, 2023 9:39:25 GMT -5
Django Unchained is a fantastic movie!
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Post by berkley on Feb 9, 2023 21:56:14 GMT -5
Haven't gone through the wikipedia list for 1975 yet but of the ones mentioned so far it's probably a toss-up between The Man Who Would be King and Holy Grail for me.
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 10, 2023 10:40:08 GMT -5
OK, I fell behind again. Bear with me. 1972. Great year for science fiction. Slaughterhouse Five is adapted about as well as that crazy book could be.Silent Running by the late great effects man Douglas Trumbull. And of course Solaris. Do I want to fast forward at times? Sure I do, but there's a lot to love in this impenetrable and artsy piece of science fiction. Which the director decided was too mainstream, and that he'd fix that with his next science fiction entry.
What's Up, Doc? is a great comedy by Peter Bogdanovich.
But yeah, fine. My #1 film is also The Godfather. I guess.
But I'd like to see what Peter from Family Guy has to say about it:
Honorable mentions to the obscure sci/fi space adventure Eoloma. And Hitchcock's penultimate film, Frenzy.
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 10, 2023 10:50:16 GMT -5
1973.
#1 film if we count Germany television miniseries is World on a Wire. Long before The Matrix, this adaptation of Simulacron-3 asked if we could really tell reality from a good enough approximation.
#2 film (well #1 if you find my top entry ineligible) would be Soylent Green. Though the twist got spoiled for me long before I saw it.
#3 we'll give to Paper Moon, though a contender is the other great con man movie of the year, The Sting. It's admittedly been too long since I've seen the latter and I'm due for a rewatch.
#5 we'll give to the feature debut of Terence Malick, Badlands.
If you're pedantic enough to care that I have 5 entries and don't think my #1 entry counted, then I'll give you one more: Battle for the Planet of the Apes.
Honorable mentions: The Exorcist, Westworld, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Fantastic Planet. And Robin Hood has some great Roger Miller music even if it looks like Disney spent $10 on the animation.
Dishonorable mention to a critically acclaimed film: I think Sleeper is stupid.
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 10, 2023 11:01:09 GMT -5
1974 has two pretty acclaimed classics and I could go either way for my #1. Let's give it to The Godfather Part II, since the director isn't a rapist. We'll give #2 to Chinatown even though the director is.
Then we look into science fiction for humanity's great battle against the ants: Phase IV. Then The Towering Inferno. And The Conversation rounds out my top 5 despite Slam's protestations.
Honorable mention to Death Wish.
Lots of great honorable mentions actually. Best costume award goes to Zardoz. Spielberg makes a strong theatrical debut with The Sugarland Express. The slasher genre as we know it is born between Black Christmas and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I hate slashers, but appreciate cultural touchstones. Murder on the Orient Express is perhaps my favorite Christie adaptation and quite the celebrity fest. Cool paranoia thriller in The Parallax View. Plus The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
And yeah, the Brooks films are solid. I should watch them again. I just kind of hate comedy, I think.
Not on my favorite movies list, but worth mentioning that Wonder Woman (or someone with that name) gets her TV movie debut. Also of note, though again not a favorite, is Carpenter's indie feature debut, Dark Star.
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 10, 2023 11:10:06 GMT -5
1975. Spielberg is pretty close to my favorite director, so that's likely to be my choice if he has a big movie. Similar to Kobayashi or Hitchock before him. Or Chistopher Nolan (familiar name) when we get into the 2000s.
And yeah, best movie of the year is Jaws. Actually just saw it again in the cinema last year. Still amazing.
Been far too long since I've seen it, but off hazy memory we'll give One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest the #2 spot. I said in the last post that I hate comedies, and I do. But I'll make the occasional exception and give Monty Python and the Holy Grail the #3 spot.
Then the year drops fast for me. Kubrick is my #5 director after the four I mentioned above, but Barry Lyndon isn't one I connect with well. Still, I think it gets the #4 spot.
Which means the list is missing science fiction, so we'll give Stepford Wives the #5 spot, as we can't have that.
Honorable mentions to Dog Day Afternoon, Rollerball, Three Days of the Condor, Death Race 2000, and Escape to Witch Mountain.
I have way less certainty about this order than normal. Almost any film I just named could maybe be in the #2 spot. Compared to the last couple years, this is a really steep drop-off for me. I basically love one film that overshadows all the rest.
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 10, 2023 11:10:17 GMT -5
Whew. Back on track.
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