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OldAle1

Joined May 2005
Movies are all there is. Well, in my life anyway.

Favorites of 2015:
1. Nie yin niang / The Assassin (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
2. Saul fia / Son of Saul (Lásló Nemes)
3. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
4. Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
5. The End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt)
6. Where to Invade Next (Michael Moore)
7. Bitter Lake (Adam Curtis)
8. World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)
9. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
10. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
11. Brooklyn (John Crowley)


Favorites of 2014:

1. Jauja (Lisandro Alsonso)
2. Mula sa kung ano ang noon / From What is Before (Lav Diaz)
3. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
4. Gett (Ronit Elkabetz/Shlomi Elkabetz)
5. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
8. Leviafan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
9. Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
10. Respire / Breathe (Melanie Laurent)


Favorites of 2013

1. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
2. Kaguyahime no monogatari / The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
3. Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan / Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
4. The Immigrant (James Gray)
5. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
6. Her (Spike Jonze)
7. La danza de la realidad / Reality's Dance (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
8. Dast-neveshtehaa nemisoosand / Manuscripts Don't Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof)
9. Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)
10. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)


Favorites of 2012 (by IMDb dates):
1. Cloud Atlas (Andy & Lana Wachowski/Tom Tykwer)
2. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
3. Syngué sabour, pierre de patience / The Patience Stone (Atiq Rahimi)
4. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
5. Fasle kargadan / Rhino Season (Bahman Ghobadi)
6. Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
7. Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
8. Wadjda (Hafiaa Al-Mansour)
9. La noche de enfrante / Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz)
10. Les misérables (Tom Hooper)


Favorites of 2011:
1. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan) ** BEST OF DECADE SO FAR **
2. Bernie (Richard Linklater)
3. Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
4. J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood)
5. Jodaiye Nader az Simin / A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
6. In film nist / This is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb/Jafar Panahi)
7. Keyhole (Guy Maddin)
8. Keo-peul-jeu / Couples (Young-ki Jeong)
9. Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
10. The Tree of Life (Terence Malick)



Favorite 2010 films:
1. Copie conforme (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Hereafter (Clint Eastwood)
3. Shi / Poetry (Chang-dong Lee)
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright)
6. Loong Boonmee raleuk chat / Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
7. Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek)
8. Shekarchi / The Hunter (Raffi Pitts)
9. L'illusionniste / The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet)
10. Four Lions (Christopher Morris)


Best of 2000-2009:
1. Goyangileul butaghae / Take Care of My Cat
2. Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang Pilipino / Evolution of a Filipino Family
3. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
4. Inland Empire
5. My Winnipeg
6. Al primo soffio di vento/At the First Breath of Wind
7. Away from Her
8. Yi yi
9. Where the Wild Things Are
10. Primer
11. The Heart of the World
12. Werckmeister Harmonies
13. Vendredi soir/Friday Night



All-time favorites in approximate order:
Out 1, noli me tangere
Dead Man
Stalker
Vertigo
Once Upon a Time in America
A Brighter Summer Day
The Magnificent Ambersons
Ordet
A Canterbury Tale
Take Care of My Cat

It's a Wonderful Life
2001: A Space Odyssey
Paths of Glory
The Sacrifice
The Rules of the Game
L'amour fou
Once Upon a Time in the West
Defending Your Life
The Third Man
Pinocchio
Singin' in the Rain
Sunrise
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Distant Voices/Still Lives
Sátántangó
M
Duck Soup
L'atalante
The Bridges of Madison County
La jetée
The Passion of Joan of Arc
'I Know Where I'm Going!'
The Reckless Moment
The Searchers
Manoel on the Island of Wonders
Eraserhead
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Falls
Lost Horizon
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Chimes at Midnight
Ivan the Terrible
Play Time
Faces
Make Way for Tomorrow
Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
The Leopard
Land of Silence and Darkness
Close-Up
Les amants du Pont Neuf
Margaret
Rabbit of Seville


Science Fiction - my longest-lasting passion:

1. Stalker
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. La jetée
4. The Falls
5. Brazil
6. Metropolis
7. Artificial Intelligence: A.I.
8. Primer
9. Cloud Atlas
10. Things to Come
11. Angel's Egg
12. Solaris (original)
13. Quatermass and the Pit
14. Planet of the Apes (1968)
15. Seconds
16. A Trip to the Moon
17. WALL-E
18. Blade Runner
19. Back to the Future
20. Videodrome
21. The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
22. Kin-dza-dza!
23. Alphaville
24. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
25. Buck Rogers (1939)


And here are 21 favorite films noir (in rough order) - my most serious filmic obsession over the past few years:

Krakatit
The Reckless Moment
Out of the Past
Touch of Evil
Detour
Night of the Hunter
The Third Man
Black Angel
Shadow of a Doubt
The Big Sleep
Try and Get Me
Sunset Blvd
Kiss of Death
Mildred Pierce
Champion
The Red House
The Lady from Shanghai
Act of Violence
The Scar
Blues in the Night
Kansas City Confidential


And how about my second-favorite obsession lately? Westerns - here are 25 favorites, again more or less in order:

Dead Man
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Searchers
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Western Union
Comanche Station
Red River
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Wild Bunch
Unforgiven
El Topo
Stagecoach
Man of the West
My Darling Clementine
Devil's Doorway
Rio Bravo
Ride Lonesome
The Naked Spur
Blazing Saddles
The Man from Laramie
Ride the High Country
The Tall T
The Far Country
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Canyon Passage


Favorites of Iranian cinema (chronological order):


Khaneh siah ast / The House is Black
Tappe-haye Marlik / The Hills of Marlik
Khesht va Ayeneh / The Brick and the Mirror
Ragbar / Downpour
Asrar ganj dareheye jenni / The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries
Khake Sar Beh Morh / The Sealed Soil
Nema-ye Nazdik / Close-Up
Hamoun
Zendegi va digar hich / Life, and Nothing More
Mosaferan / Travelers
Badkonake sefid / The White Balloon
Nun va Goldoon / A Moment of Innocence
Ta'm e guilass / Taste of Cherry
Bad ma ra khahad bord / The Wind Will Carry Us
Dayereh / The Circle
Baran
Shah-re ziba / The Beautiful City
Jodaiye Nader az Simin / A Separation
In film nist / This is Not a Film
Fasle kargadan / Rhino Season
Dast-neveshtehaa nemisoosand / Manuscripts Don't Burn


And some of my favorite active directors in rough order:

Jean-Luc Godard
David Lynch
Clint Eastwood
Terry Gilliam
Guy Maddin
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Agnès Varda
Damien Chazelle
Jon Jost
Werner Herzog
Charles Burnett
Terence Davies
Béla Tarr
Peter Greenaway
Chantal Akerman
Martin Scorsese
David Cronenberg
Jim Jarmusch
Albert Brooks
Bahram Beizai
Spike Lee
Shane Carruth
Sarah Polley
Spike Jonze



I don't have any posted lists right now, but here are some favorites from other folks with interesting tastes:

top 500 from oOgiandujaOo http://www.imdb.com/list/J-q10yzIdr0/
top 68 African films from Ned_Charles http://www.imdb.com/list/AgG7Ctf2Nos/

this thing like futuristic an awesome i wanna see that stuff why are ppl saying it sucks? - ProtossX

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L'insoumise
Lawless Valley
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Believe It or Not #4
Thé et sympathie
7.38
Thé et sympathie
Believe It or Not #3
5.85
Believe It or Not #3
La peur au ventre
6.46
La peur au ventre
Believe It or Not #2
5.85
Believe It or Not #2
Pirates of the Prairie
5.85
Pirates of the Prairie
A Christmas Story Christmas
6.76
A Christmas Story Christmas
Pauvres Créatures
7.89
Pauvres Créatures
Max, le chien de Noël
7.14
Max, le chien de Noël
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6.77
Strange Bargain
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6.17
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6.46
Colorful Colorado
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The Unwelcome Guest
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Khake Sar Beh Mohr

Khake Sar Beh Mohr

7.1
10
  • Dec 10, 2012
  • Masterful debut feature of quiet feminist anger

    The first Iranian feature directed by a woman, though this has never screened (legally) in Iran; it's director left the country, smuggling the film out and finishing up the editing in the USA. I'd love to know more about that story, as the film was made before the revolution and as far as I know isn't any more radical or transgressive than some other works from the period which did get passed. Anyway, it's the story of a young woman struggling to find her own identity and some kind of freedom in a repressive, highly patriarchal ancient village. The village is made of mud and stone and looks like it could be a thousand years old, but it abuts a newer town that has cars, telephones, TV, etc, and the girl dreams of a way into that world - but seemingly has no way out of her life, which will soon include an arranged marriage.

    This is just beautifully shot, using as far as I can tell all natural lighting (the indoor and night scenes are very, very dark) and the style and in some ways the content are reminiscent of Chantal Akerman's "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" - which had only played commercially in Europe a year before this film was made. It seems hard to imagine that Nabili could have seen Akerman's work, but there is nothing else that comes to mind as a reference. Most of the film is composed of long, static shots, and the young woman's pain and struggle are almost entirely internalized, with rare moments of rapture when she is able to be alone, out in the green grasses and undergrowth by a nearby river. Apart from one remarkable sequence that symbolizes the peak of feeling and despair, the film is entirely in long or medium shots - no closeups. Like Akerman's film, it's "minimalist" in the sense that most of what we learn about the protagonist is going to come out of our own feelings and explorations - what is shown is very simple, on the surface. Near the end, there is finally a sign to others that all is not well, but it seems unlikely that anything will come of it...

    A remarkable, poetic and beautiful debut film, this would be even better if a decent copy were available - as it is there is only a 20-year-old VHS that has a rather soft image and is possibly cropped. But still very much worth seeking out for those interested in Iranian or feminist cinema or in the conflict of old and new worlds.
    Yek atash

    Yek atash

    7.5
    9
  • Oct 10, 2011
  • Important predecessor to the Iranian new Wave

    Ebrahim Golestan has been called the "lion" of Iranian cinema, and at 89 he is one of the last living figures from the country's first "New Wave". He has also, like all too many of his countrymen, lived in exile for a good chunk of his life, departing his homeland for the U.K. in 1967, returning briefly in the mid 1970s, and finally leaving permanently in 1975 after his second and last feature, "The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries" was released to a not-so-positive reception. I've seen his first full-length film, 1965's "Brick and Mirror", a dark and noirish black-and-white Cinemascope feature about a cab driver's long night of the soul, and it's a great film which I'll be rewatching soon.

    "A Fire", Golestan's first film, is one of four short documentaries he made at the beginning of his film career while working for oil companies. It concerns a protracted fire and the attempts over several weeks to put it out by various means, and the footage of the fire and the efforts of the men is all pretty compelling, but what's most interesting is the subtext showing how the lives of villagers and farmers nearby are affected; though there's no overt environmental message here, it couldn't be more clear how disruptive this modern industry is to traditional ways of life. The impressive editing is by Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, Golestan's lover, who was to make her own impressive (and sadly, only) film "The House is Black" a couple of years later.
    Taepungtaeyang

    Taepungtaeyang

    5.8
    8
  • Jul 8, 2010
  • It's no TAKE CARE OF MY CAT, but this skating melodrama deserves at least a little exposure

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