MY SEVENTH POLL: LIFE IN MONO

--Something to read

Michael Tully’s list
http://blogs.indiewire.com/tully/archives/015678.html

Michael Atkinson’s DVD list
http://ifc.com/news/article?aId=21871

I know about these lists from Greencine Daily
http://daily.greencine.com/


--I just voted for Lilli Carati in a poll in Moon in the Gutter’s blog, because I like her very much in TO BE TWENTY (1978, Fernando di Leo, A+)
http://mooninthegutter.blogspot.com/2007/12/artist-and-muse-33.html

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--My sixth poll ended with 10 votes. The result is

THESE FILMS HAVE SOMETHING CONCERNING STAGE PERFORMANCE. WHICH FILM DO YOU LIKE?

1.THE BABY OF MACON (1993, Peter Greenaway)
+ THE CHERRY ORCHARD (1990, Shun Nakahara)
+ LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (1946, Marcel Carne)
+ GANG OF FOUR (1988, Jacques Rivette)

+THE LIBERTINE (2006, Laurence Dunmore)

Each of them got 3 votes or 30 %

6.ALL THAT JAZZ (1979, Bob osse)
+ BEING JULIA (2004, Istvan Szabo)
+ DIVERTIMENTO (2000, Jose Garcia Hernandez)
+ THE FALSE SERVANT (2000, Benoit Jacquot)
+ THE PEACH BLOSSOM LAND (1992, Stan Lai, Taiwan)
+ LA PURITAINE (1986, Jacques Doillon)
+ VANYA ON 42ND STREET (1994, Louis Malle)

Each of them got 2 vote or 20 %


13.A CHORUS LINE (1985, Richard Attenborough)
+ ESTHER KAHN (2000, Arnaud Desplechin)
+ MY LIFE AND TIMES WITH ANTONIN ARTAUD (1993, Gerard Mordillat)

Each of them got 1 vote or 10 %

Thank you very much for everyone who participated in it. I’m glad GANG OF FOUR got one of the most votes, because I like Jacques Rivette. I also just read an article on Rivette, which is written by Jonathan Romney in Film Comment sep-oct 2007. I think it’s a great article.

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As for my seventh poll, it is inspired by CRY IN SILENCE (2006, J. G. Biggs, A+), which is my most favorite film of 2007. This film is mostly in black-and-white. I just noticed that many films I love are in black-and-white, though they were made not long ago. So my seventh poll is about my favorite recent black-and-white films.

THESE FILMS HAVE SOME OR ALL PARTS IN BLACK-AND-WHITE. WHICH FILM DO YOU LIKE?

1. BEGOTTEN (1991, E. Elias Merhige)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TGGRQ1XDL._SS500_.jpg

2.BULLET BALLET (1998, Shinya Tsukamoto)

3. CRY IN SILENCE (2006, J. G. Biggs)

4. FALLEN (2005, Fred Kelemen)

5. HEREMIAS (2006, Lav Diaz)

6. THE HOURS AND TIMES (1991, Christopher Munch)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qbuVT8dlL._SS500_.jpg

7. HUNT ANGELS (2006, Alec Morgan)

8. INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA (1995, Brothers Quay)

9. LOOK OF LOVE (2006, Yoshiharu Ueoka)

10. MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (2000, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

11. NO PLACE TO GO (2000, Oskar Roehler)

12. PALMS (1993, Artur Aristakisyan)

13. PHANTOM LOVE (2007, Nina Menkes)

14. PI (1997, Darren Aronofsky)

15. PLEASANTVILLE (1998, Gary Ross)

16. REGULAR LOVERS (2005, Philippe Garrel)

17. RIGHT NOW (2004, Benoit Jacquot)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516Y9J1DPTL._SS500_.jpg

18. THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD (2003, Guy Maddin)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EE0X7PYYL._SS500_.jpg

19. SATANTANGO (1994, Bela Tarr)

20. TREASURE ISLAND (1999, Scott King)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518RQAF13CL._SS500_.jpg


You can cast multiple votes.

There are also some recent (partly) black-and-white films that I like very much, but I left them out of my poll so that the poll won’t be too long. These films include

21. FORGOTTEN SILVER (1995, Peter Jackson, Costa Botes)

22. JUHA (1999, Aki Kaurismaki)

23. KAFKA (1991, Steven Soderbergh)

24. THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (2001, Joel Coen)

25. MY LIFE AND TIMES WITH ANTONIN ARTAUD (1993, Gerard Mordillat)

26. SHADOWS AND FOG (1991, Woody Allen)

27. SCHINDLER’S LIST (Steven Spielberg)

28. TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1991, Shinya Tsukamoto)

Please feel free to add any comment here.

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THIS IS MY COMMENT IN BIOSCOPE’S WEBBOARD
http://www.bioscopemagazine.com/smf/index.php?topic=831.0

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