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Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

cestuneblague — Tue, 1 Mar 2016 20:16:33 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 03/02/2016 01:16

dividesbyzero wrote:

4a: Persona vs. Breathless
4b: Spirited Away vs. Stalker
4c: Last Year at Marienbad vs. The 400 Blows
4d: The Mirror vs. Amelie

all y'all voting for Amelie over The Mirror are just...

I guess there's one of those for everybody *cough*lastyearatmarienbad*cough*

Surprisingly, at least personally, these were all pretty easy decisions, though still have only seen about 1/4 of the two movies in 4b so the ballot will likely stay incomplete.

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

Applerill — Tue, 1 Mar 2016 20:12:12 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 03/02/2016 01:12

My favorite Kiarostami movie is Like Someone in Love, and I'm convinced that the greatest Iranian film ever made is Panahi's The Mirror. A Separation is still unquestionably a masterpiece, though.

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Mar 2016 16:07:32 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/01/2016 21:07

4a: Persona vs. Breathless
4b: Spirited Away vs. Stalker
4c: Last Year at Marienbad vs. The 400 Blows
4d: The Mirror vs. Amelie

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Mar 2016 16:06:20 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/01/2016 21:06

4a: Persona vs. Breathless
4b: Spirited Away vs. Stalker
4c: Last Year at Marienbad vs. The 400 Blows
4d: The Mirror vs. Amelie

all y'all voting for Amelie over The Mirror are just...

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

Muslim-Bigfoot — Tue, 1 Mar 2016 12:47:18 GMT

Author: Muslim-Bigfoot

Posted: 03/01/2016 17:47

Majidi's movies are def over-sentimental but it all just fits with everything else of his style. When you cast amateur children and get brilliant innocent acting from them you have the right to be over-sentimental. It's not like it's a hollywood oversimplified biopic or something. Also, have you seen Kiarostami's documentary about schoolchildren? That one is so good. Don't remember the name but you can google that. Also there's Reza MirKarimi's So Close, So Far; def watch that one too, if you're interested.

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

19loveless91 — Tue, 1 Mar 2016 12:26:33 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 03/01/2016 17:26

Muslim-Bigfoot wrote:

There's been a couple dozen better movies than A Separation coming out of just Iran (including Farhadi's own first two movies, Basho, Where's the friend's home [my absolute favorite], taste of cherry, children of heaven etc.) so it not making it into the top 8 of all-time is hardly a surprise for me. It was an average movie (screaming at you and then acting like it was very subtle; it also uses the same exact narrative strategy as Elli so while watching it I thought it was just derivative) that got blown up because of politico-social situation (much like this year's Oscar nominee Mustang which is also an average movie; all I thought during watching it was that this director is not a fan of movies lol. She made so many rookie mistakes; also had nothing on Turkey's own submission, Sivas, or a pigeon . . . for instance; but a tale of dog-fighting with a boy and his dog (esp. since it has no real plot) is not gonna get noticed; Ironically Sivas was a much better commentary on women's condition in rural Turkey compared to Mustnag while not having any main woman characters).

I thought Mustang was very solid, but not really any more than Virgin Suicides in a different background.

As for Iranian cinema, I thought A Separation was an upgrade on all of Farhadi's earlier films that I've seen (even if it's not necessarily wholly new and I do love the three of them). I did think it was a tad more subtle than those and an excellent commentary on human condition.

From those other that you mention, I thought Where's The Friend's Home was not the best film in the "Koker trilogy" (maybe because I'm a sucker for meta cinema and I found the other two more satisfying - also the reason that Close-Up is still my Kiarostami movie of choice) and Majidi is a tad over-sentimental (that's the movie with that out of nowhere running competition scene at the end, right?) for my liking, but none of these films are bad at all...

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

badseed — Tue, 1 Mar 2016 12:24:03 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 03/01/2016 17:24

4a: Persona
4b: Stalker
4c: Last Year at Marienbad
4d: The Mirror

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

Muslim-Bigfoot — Tue, 1 Mar 2016 11:54:53 GMT

Author: Muslim-Bigfoot

Posted: 03/01/2016 16:54

19loveless91 wrote:

I like most of these... Shame for A Separation though...

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

19loveless91 — Tue, 1 Mar 2016 10:49:01 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 03/01/2016 15:49

I like most of these... Shame for A Separation though...

4a: Persona vs. Breathless
4b: Spirited Away vs. Stalker
4c: Last Year at Marienbad vs. The 400 Blows
4d: The Mirror vs. Amelie

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

Muslim-Bigfoot — Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:25:00 GMT

Author: Muslim-Bigfoot

Posted: 03/01/2016 14:25

4a: Persona vs. Breathless
4b: Spirited Away vs. Stalker
4c: Last Year at Marienbad vs. The 400 Blows
4d: The Mirror vs. Amelie

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

cestuneblague — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 12:07:00 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 02/28/2016 17:07

nutso42 wrote:

4a: Persona vs. Breathless
4b: Spirited Away vs. Stalker
4c: Last Year at Marienbad vs. The 400 Blows
4d: The Mirror vs. Amelie

my votes in bold, for now

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

Mercury — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:55:57 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 02/28/2016 16:55

4a: Persona vs. Breathless
4b: Spirited Away vs. Stalker
4c: Last Year at Marienbad vs. The 400 Blows
4d: The Mirror vs. Amelie

Yeah, not nearly as tough as the last round for me. The fact that neither Kurosawa film made it really pisses me off all out of proportion to how significant this actually is. #KurosawaIsTheGOAT

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

SuedeSwede — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:50:34 GMT

Author: SuedeSwede

Posted: 02/28/2016 16:50

4a: Persona vs. Breathless
4b: Spirited Away vs. Stalker
4c: Last Year at Marienbad vs. The 400 Blows
4d: The Mirror vs. Amelie

My choices
Still have to watch

I'll watch the other two I haven't seen yet and vote accordingly by the 7th 😄

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

Hayden — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:08:22 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/28/2016 16:08

nutso42 wrote:

Wow. This is where it begins to hurt. If you don't believe me, take a look at the films that got booted out during the last round.

8 1/2 (WHAT??), Ikiru (WHAT??), A Separation, M (WHAT??), Grave of the Fireflies, Seven Samurai (WHAT??)

Damn 🤣 I figured Le Jetee would be cut, but the rest are brutal.

My votes:

4a: Persona vs. Breathless
4b: Spirited Away vs. Stalker
4c: Last Year at Marienbad vs. The 400 Blows
4d: The Mirror vs. Amelie

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

Norman Bates — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:48:29 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 02/28/2016 12:48

Can't believe Amélie is still in there somewhere. Whatever.

Breathless
Stalker
The 400 Blows
The Mirror

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

Applerill — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 06:58:08 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 02/28/2016 11:58

nutso42 wrote:

4a: Persona
4b: Stalker
4c: The 400 Blows
4d: Amelie
.

Re: Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 06:35:24 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/28/2016 11:35

Okay, so thus far I haven't been voting until the very end, effectively saving my votes for tiebreakers. But we're so close to the end now I simply cannot wait. Here's my votes, out in the open.

4a: Persona vs. Breathless
4b: Spirited Away vs. Stalker
4c: Last Year at Marienbad vs. The 400 Blows
4d: The Mirror vs. Amelie

The only remaining film which I don't really care for too much is Spirited Away, so seeing it up against Stalker made it absolutely necessary to participate.

Non-English Films - Round Four! [Deadline March 7]

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 06:33:00 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/28/2016 11:33

Wow. This is where it begins to hurt. If you don't believe me, take a look at the films that got booted out during the last round.

8 1/2 (WHAT??), Life is Beautiful, Ikiru (WHAT??), A Separation, M (WHAT??), La Jetee, Grave of the Fireflies, Seven Samurai (WHAT??)

Which leaves us with our hardest matchups yet. Take a look.

4a: Persona vs. Breathless
4b: Spirited Away vs. Stalker
4c: Last Year at Marienbad vs. The 400 Blows
4d: The Mirror vs. Amelie

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.