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#976 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 9:45 am

These are all good choices except Le amiche, so I'm sure that one will end up winning and garnering one post about it. I pledge to write about any of the films if they win, though (and voted for the Kennedy films, as it will prod me into watching them)

#977 Post by **swo17** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 2:01 am

It's a tie with just a few hours left...

#978 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:18 am

La Chienne it is!

#979 Post by **domino harvey** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 7:30 am

Back 2 back Renoir and Simon

#980 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Fri Jul 29, 2016 6:42 am

Hre are five films directed by women randomly chosen from the collection.

#981 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 1:26 pm

As support for the current Genre List project, here are four films, chosen at random, that take place within 24 hours.

Drucker · #982 Post by **Drucker** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:08 pm

Haven't watched my Odd Man Out disc yet. So gets my vote.

#983 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Mon Aug 15, 2016 6:08 pm

And Odd Man Out it is!

Sorry for the delay. I just moved and a lot of things were fighting for my attention.

#984 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Fri Aug 26, 2016 6:26 am

Yes, again, it is time to make four films feel very unpopular by casting our votes for a film to discuss. These films have been pulled at random, via witchery, from the collection as a whole.

#985 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:22 am

La Jetée it is!

ando · #986 Post by **ando** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 6:53 pm

Just an idea - The Criterion Collection seems to have restored more than its share of "occupation fillms" (and by that, I mean film narratives featuring an occupation of any invading armed force among a populace). How about choosing from a handful of the lesser known titles?

#987 Post by **swo17** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:01 pm

Could you make a list of all the titles in the CC that would meet this criterion?

DeprongMori · #988 Post by **DeprongMori** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:38 pm

Some that come immediately to mind are:

Kapo and The Battle of Algiers from Gillo Pontecorvo.
Army of Shadows and Le silence de la Mer from Jean-Pierre Melville
Au Revoir Les Enfants and Lacombe, Lucien from Louis Malle
The Two of Us from Claude Berri
Eclipse Series 34: Jean Grémillon During the Occupation (Remorques (1941), Lumière d’été (1943), and Le ciel est à vous (1944)) from Jean Grémillon
To Be or Not To Be from Ernst Lubitsch
The Third Man, and arguably Odd Man Out, from Carroll Reed
Walker from Alex Cox
Late Spring from Yasujiro Ozo (subtle, but there)
Wings of Desire from Wim Wenders
The Rossellini War Trilogy
The Wadja War Trilogy
Anything set in the British Raj

ando · #989 Post by **ando** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 8:55 pm

Wonderful start. My list will be up shortly. That said, I don't really think a listing of every title in the collection dealing with "occupation" has much merit. My initial idea was to discover the lesser known titles - to discover perspectives on war and human behavior that run counter to the norm or that are insightful in unexpected ways.

knives · #990 Post by **knives** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:08 pm

I imagine such an idea then would be better suited to one of the list projects as most of the Criterion releases are reasonably well known and well looked at perspectives.

#991 Post by **swo17** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:09 pm

ando wrote:Wonderful start. My list will be up shortly. That said, I don't really think a listing of every title in the collection dealing with "occupation" has much merit. My initial idea was to discover the lesser known titles - to discover perspectives on war and human behavior that run counter to the norm or that are insightful in unexpected ways.

If I'm going to randomly select titles, I prefer to work from some kind of a comprehensive list of films fitting a particular criterion. If you want to curate a round (where you specifically select all five titles yourself) I guess that's up to Mr Sausage.

ando · #992 Post by **ando** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:16 pm

knives wrote:I imagine such an idea then would be better suited to one of the list projects as most of the Criterion releases are reasonably well known and well looked at perspectives.

swo17 wrote:If I'm going to randomly select titles, I prefer to work from some kind of a comprehensive list of films fitting a particular criterion. If you want to curate a round (where you specifically select all five titles yourself) I guess that's up to Mr Sausage.

You're both right. Trouble is, the vast majority of Occupation Films in the collection appear to deal with Nazis in France and I was interested in a different set of players. Five of the following films (that I have yet to watch), for example, appear to be unusual takes on "the occupation", even though most do involve Nazi occupied France:

The Last Metro, Truffaut
Drunken Angel, Kurosawa
Le Silence dela Mer, Melville
Lucien Lacombe, Malle
Hearts and Minds, Davis
Zulu, Emfield
Europa, Von Trier

Again, "the occupation" was just an idea I thought might be interesting to explore for a theme or subject-based discussion.

#993 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:16 am

If you'd like to curate a round, I'm fine with that. You'd just need to get me a list of films by this Thursday.

Anything beyond that, you'd need to ask domino (and I believe there's a waiting list for the genre project).

#994 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 6:21 am

Ando has been kind enough to curate this round for us. His choice, in his own words, is five films "dealing with the influence of a foreign occupation force either on a personal level or on personal relationships."

ando · #995 Post by **ando** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:30 am

One of aspects of the Occupation Film that I wanted to consider are the ways in which everyday decisions made by beseiged members of said populations are suddenly and unavoidably political given the circumstances; where the lines between the personal and the political are blurred, if not eradicated altogether.

#996 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 6:32 am

Overwhelmingly, it's Leon Morin, Priest!

#997 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Sat Sep 24, 2016 10:04 am

So, I set my notification improperly and missed putting up the vote yesterday. Sorry. Vote will still end at the usual time.

The theme this time is Hitchcock films (to coincide with the current Auteur list).

#998 Post by **swo17** » Sun Sep 25, 2016 10:30 pm

Last minute vote reminder

#999 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 6:22 am

And it's The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Rayon Vert · #1000 Post by **Rayon Vert** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 9:48 am

I voted for The Man Who Knew Too Much, but I had somehow assumed (wrongly) it was the 56 version!

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