"PATHER PANCHALI" IS THE WINNER

My poll 25 ended with 6 votes, including one vote from me for MUSASHINO HIGH VOLTAGE TOWERS, MY BROTHER’S SUMMER, and SOUS-SOL. Thanks very much to everyone who participated in it. Here is the result:


I LOVE THESE FILMS ABOUT LITTLE BOYS. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?

1.PATHER PANCHALI (1955, Satyajit Ray, India)

It got 4 votes, or 66 %.


2.THE BLOSSOMING OF MAXIMO OLIVEROS (2005, Auraeus Solito, Philippines)
+IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union)
+MUSASHINO HIGH VOLTAGE TOWERS(1997, Naoki Nagao, Japan)
+MY BROTHER’S SUMMER (2005, Pietro Reggiani, Italy)
+SOUS-SOL (1996, Pierre Gang, Canada)

Each of them got 2 votes, or 33 %.


7.ADEUS, PAI (1996, Luis Filipe Rocha, Portugal)
+ALPSEE (1995, Matthias Mueller, Germany)
+BLINDFOLDED (1999, Matti Ijas, Finland)
+A CHILD IN THE CROWD (1976, Gerard Blain, France)
+DUCK SEASON (2004, Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico)
+EARTHCORE (2005, Chookiat Sakvirakul, Thailand)
+FLOWER IN THE POCKET (2007, Liew Seng Tat, Malaysia)
+MUD (1997, Ivaylo Simidchiev, Bulgaria)
+THE REFLECTING SKIN (1990, Philip Ridley, UK)
+SPRING IN MY HOMETOWN (1998, Lee Kwangmo, South Korea)
+TSATSIKI, MUM AND THE POLICEMAN (1999, Ella Lemhagen, Sweden)
+URANYA (2006 Costas Kapakas, Greece)
+THE WAR (1994, Jon Avnet, USA)
+ZAPPA (1983, Bille August, Denmark)

Each of them got 1 vote, or 16 %.


SPECIAL MENTION: Vespertine wanted to vote for EARTHCORE, but he couldn’t make it in time.


--Talking about boy’s childhood reminds me of some paintings by Nate Frizzell. I don’t know the meanings of these paintings. Are they showing the world of a child’s imagination?

Nate Frizzell’s website:
http://www.natefrizzell.com/


HEAD IN THE TREES
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/2655895042_50fb9ffb42_o.jpg

HOME (DIPTYCH)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2401/2655895048_63aecb375a_o.jpg

LOST AND FOUND
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2026/2655895064_7901755284_o.jpg

SING
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2655895054_1a269bc0c4_o.jpg

TRUE BELIEVER (FOR STAN LEE SHOW)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2655895058_80b482d1f8_o.jpg


I knew about Nate Frizzel from Art Moco’s blog:
http://mocoloco.com/art/