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Please share your votes here

posted 21 years ago by lee-109
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I asked DFC and he said it was okay.

I can't follow who's voting for what... E.T. wasn't even on the one-vote list this morning, and now it's on the core list... What's going on?!! Pleas share here.

Anyway, this Monday, I've cast a vote for Los Olvidados based on a viewing, I was convinced to re-register my old withdrawn vote for E.T., and I cast "haven't seen" votes for Only Yesterday and Children for Heaven -- but that only raised them to two votes each so they still need more to place.

[–] kerpan 21 years ago

Seen votes

Return to Oz
Wild Child
Secret of Roan Inish

I can't believe I forgot this before:

Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao a/k/a Shanghai Triad (Zhang Yimou, 1995)

Unseen votes

Spirit of the Beehive
I have one more unseen vote -- which I will give to The River (unless it already has a 3rd vote). If the vote is superfluous for River, then I'm leaning towards Go-between.

Has anyone else here seen Ozu's "Good Morning" (other than DFC and me)?

MEK

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[–] lee-109 21 years ago

I haven't seen Good Morning yet, and don't plan on watching it for this exercise. On the other hand, I fully expect to give it a "haven't seen" vote later this week if it doesn't make the list through other support.

I hope to see Inn at Tokyo this week, though.

I'm absolutely thrilled to see that The River will make the list, and hope that you get an opportunity to see this beautiful movie sometime.

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[–] lee-109 21 years ago

I've placed Beyond Silence at the top of my Netflix queue. With any luck, I'll watch it by this weekend. I'm not promising though, so if anyone decides to give it a "haven't seen" vote to put it on the list before then, that's okay with me.

[–] kerpan 21 years ago

If you get impatient to see tis to the end, I could lend you my fansub version (on VCD).

The more I reflect on this show, the fonder I grow of it. I really think that, content-wise, it is as good as the best of Takahata (which means "even better than Miyazaki"). Surprisingly, Yoshitoshi Abe and his colleagues were working under the gun, staying just barely ahead of the demands of the producers while making this.

MEK

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[–] bkamberger 21 years ago

...that makes clear who has voted for what (though not when, admittedly).

I haven't yet voted for any films I haven't seen. I endorsed about 10 films yesterday that I had seen, but I'm afraid I didn't keep a record of which. I do remember I was one of the E.T. voters, and I also voted for Mother India, which doesn't have my initial by it.

Note to DFC: I'd also like to take this opportunity to vote for another film I've seen: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

As of now, I must confess I'm more interested in gathering support for a number of films I have seen that still need 1 or two votes to make the core list. My top 20 would be:

Au Revoir les Enfants
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
The Children Are Watching Us
Come and See
The Innocents
Intruder in the Dust
Kes
The Kid
Landscape in the Mist
The Learning Tree
The Long Day Closes
The Lord of the Flies
Ma Vie en Rose
Mouchette
My Name Is Ivan
The Night of the Hunter
Pixote
Shoe Shine
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Where Is the Friend's House?

I'm afraid I don't have much time to argue on their behalf, but please bear them in mind when casting your daily votes!

[–] lee-109 21 years ago

I just posted a plea for a legitimate argument for Come and See.

Our participants all seem set on expanding our pool rather than arguing for the two-vote masterpieces that need support. I don't think there's even been a single mention of Forbidden Games yet.

Now I'll go see if I can spur an argument for gkearns' favorite Fairy Tale: A True Story. I know that Wild Nights loves it, but she's off on a tangent. This is frustrating.

[–] bkamberger 21 years ago

...thanks to gkearns.

[–] lee-109 21 years ago

I'm celebrating now.

Thank you, Gordon! Did you see it, or was it a "haven't seen" vote of mercy?

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[–] lee-109 21 years ago

15 of them to consider...

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The Black Stallion
The Children Are Watching Us
A Christmas Story
The Curse of the Cat People
The Fallen Idol
The Innocents
Intruder in the Dust
The Kid
Little Man Tate
My Name is Ivan
The Night of the Hunter
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Shoe Shine
The Window

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[–] kerpan 21 years ago

The ones I care about most:

Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000) BK
Haibane Renmei (Yoshitoshi Abe & Tomokazu Tokoro, 2002) DK
Khane-ye doust kodjast? [Where is the Friend's House] (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987) BK
Mon oncle Antoine [My Uncle Antoine] (Claude Jutra, 1971) BK
Nagaya shinshiroku [Record of a Tenement Gentleman] (Yasujiro Ozu, 1947) KL
Ohayô [Good Morning] (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959) DK
Dokomademo ikô [Don't Look Back] (Akihiko Shiota, 1999) K
Gaichu [Harmful Insect] (Akihiko Shiota, 2001) K
Ohikkoshi [Moving] (Shinji Sômai, 1993) K
Tokyo no yado [Inn at Tokyo] (Yasujiro Ozu, 1935) K
Watashi wa nisai [Being Two Isn't Easy] (Kon Ichikawa, 1962) K
Yi ge dou bu neng shao [Not One Less] (Zhang Yimou, 1999) K

One more I'm embarrassed to say I (we) forgot about:

Mon Oncle (Tati, 1958)

MEK

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[–] kerpan 21 years ago

Les fantômes des trois Madeleine (Guylaine Dionne, 2000)

Also not available in any video format, of course.

MEK

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