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So only swo and I voted for The Flicker? :incessantblinking:

You and someone else

And here I thought I knew you (with the Gunvor Nelson an orphan, did you submit a list?) Might as well post mine- As always, thanks for all your hard work!

1. Masculin Feminin
2. The Flicker
3. Dutchman
4. The Shooting
5. Persona
6. Blow-Up
7. Chimes at Midnight
8. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
9. Process Red
10. Breakaway
11. Brigitte et Brigitte
12. Andrei Rublev
13. A Big Hand for the Little Lady
14. Kill Baby, Kill!
15. Daisies
16. The Hawks and the Sparrows
17. Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus
18. A Report on the Party and the Guests
19. Fighting Elegy
20. Night Games
21. Lord Love a Duck
22. Alvarez Kelly
23. Three on a Couch
24. Schmeerguntz
25. Hand Film

These are the experimental films I voted for:

01 Breakaway (Bruce Conner)
10 Lights (Marie Menken)
13 Word Movie (Paul Sharits)
14 Tung (Bruce Baillie)
25 Process Red (Hollis Frampton)

I somehow forgot to add Persona to my list. it would have been top 5, not that it matters since it topped the list anyways.

1. Au Hasard Balthazar
2. Masculin Feminin
3. Blow-Up
(4. Persona)
4. Le deuxieme souffle
5. As Long as You've Got Your Health
6. Kill, Baby, Kill
7. A Report on the Party and the Guests
8. A Big Hand for the Little Lady
9. The Professionals
10. Andrei Rublev
11. Red Angel
12. Seconds
13. Come Drink with Me
14. The Battle of Algiers
15, Wings
16. Made in USA
17. Irezumi
18. The Chase
19. Samurai Wolf
20. The Stranger within a Woman
21. Alvarez Kelly
22. Three on a Couch
23. The Secret of the Urn
24. The Face of Another
25. Arabesque

therewillbeblus wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 5:39 pm So only swo and I voted for The Flicker? :incessantblinking:

Forget about me already?

My orphans:
10 Piece Mandala/End War (Sharits)
12 Smoking (Jones)
20 Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (Bute)
21 10 Feet (Maciunas)

The last two were at the very bottom of my list and I didn't expect anyone else to vote for them. Despite the ludicrousness of the Bute film, I'm won over by its goofy DIY spirit and its bold and varied interpretive choices in staging bits of Joyce's sui generis novel. Still, I'd find it hard to argue with anyone who finds its "modernism for the acid generation" unwatchable, especially if one isn't predisposed to Joyce's sense of humor. The Maciunas short is a seconds-long, entirely literal joke, but the way it makes the materials of filmmaking and film exhibition transparent is quietly mindbending. Viewers have to reconceptualize their relationship to the screen as the images progress vertically instead of horizontally—actually, I'm not sure I realized that the montage of most films builds horizontally in my subconscious until I saw this film—and we see how time and space become one when the film is projected. 10 Feet has its place among other conceptual artworks of the era which use everyday visual materials that we rarely examine as images and ask what happens when we do, expanding our visual diet to include, in this case, industrial materials and technician guidelines. Fun stuff.

Hey, I didn't know if the "nauseous" conditioning prohibited its inclusion!

Belated appreciation Swo for your tireless efforts. My list. It comes with the health warning that there were several I might have included had I been able to access copies. My inclusion of Antonioni is almost entirely down Criterion's excellent supplements (and what an entertaining interviewee David Hemmings is!)
1.Persona
2. Andrei Rublev
3.Masculin Feminin
4.Wings
5. Battle for Algiers
6.Cathy Come Home
7.The Hero
8. Fighting Elegy
9. Au Hasard Balthazar
10. Alfie
11. Blow Up
12 Made in USA
13. The Round Up
14. Le Deuzieme Souffle
15. Closely Observed Trains
16.Irezumi
17. This Property Is Condemned
18 Sky West and Crooked.
19. War and Peace.
20. Un Homme et Une Femme.
21. The Party and The Guests.
22. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
23. The Family Way.
24.Torn Curtain.
25. Trans Europe Express.

I just watched the original '66 Batman, which for the most part isn't even 'good'-cheesy. However, it gets points for making me laugh on more than one occasion- most notably when, during Catwoman's entrance, she responds to a henchman calling her "Catwoman" in public with a sincerely-pitched "How dare you use my real name!" I also like the part when Batman is trying to get rid of the bomb and can't throw it overboard because of the young couple on the boat, which next to him popping up nonchalantly next to Robin when he's shouting for him, is a pretty great unintentional deadpan gag.

therewillbeblus wrote:So only swo and I voted for The Flicker? :incessantblinking:

The Flicker is a great film, but Arnulf Rainer.

Bumping this because I just read that Pauline Kael voted for Huston’s the Bible as her pick for number three best film of 1966 in the voting for the first National Society of Film Critics (behind Masculin Feminin and Eroica). She also voted for Joan Hackett in the Group as her first choice for Best Actress! Needless to say, nothing Kael voted for in these or other categories moved the needle on the final list

I guess she saved a few orphans.