Year-by-Year Polls: 1980 (***CLOSED***)

outdoorcats · #41

1. Zig-Zag [aka Snakes and Ladders] (Raoul Ruiz)

2. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)

3. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)

4. Mon oncle d'Amerique (Alain Resnais)

5. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kushner)

6. Merry-Go-Round (Jacques Rivette)

7. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)

8. The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut)

9. Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted)

10. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)

URLs

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080956/reference
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/reference
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080979/reference
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081176/reference
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/reference
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085934/reference
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/reference
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080610/reference
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080549/reference
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080678/reference

kongs_speech · #42

Happy to see a good amount of love in this thread for my dear friend Cannibal Holocaust. I understand why it's among the most polarizing and divisive films ever made, but while I disagree with the animal murders and watch the version on the Blu-Ray that skips them (Deodato's preferred cut), I still think it's absolutely brilliant. I have a tradition of watching it on Halloween, though I missed it in 2018 and 2019 due to lame personal shit. Finally got to do it again last year and that was a treat, especially on a 4K TV. I also have a pretty sweet shirt with the original banned poster art.

frbrown · #43

frbrown · #44

kongs_speech wrote: ↑January 6th, 2021, 1:29 pmI also have a pretty sweet shirt with the original banned poster art.

Do you ever wear it in public?

kongs_speech · #45

frbrown wrote: ↑January 6th, 2021, 3:51 pm
kongs_speech wrote: ↑January 6th, 2021, 1:29 pmI also have a pretty sweet shirt with the original banned poster art.
Do you ever wear it in public?

I haven't been in public in the past couple months since I got it, but I intend to wear it if I'm going somewhere that I wouldn't expect young kids to be. There are boobs (with nipples covered by the victim's hair) and gore on it, so I'm considerate enough to not be strolling into Chuck E. Cheese in it. (Or in any other outfit, for that matter.) It's perfect for visits to friends; also, I wear my cool shirts in the house every day because I don't have anywhere to go.

joachimt · #46

kongs_speech wrote: ↑January 6th, 2021, 3:58 pm
frbrown wrote: ↑January 6th, 2021, 3:51 pm
kongs_speech wrote: ↑January 6th, 2021, 1:29 pmI also have a pretty sweet shirt with the original banned poster art.
Do you ever wear it in public?
I haven't been in public in the past couple months since I got it, but I intend to wear it if I'm going somewhere that I wouldn't expect young kids to be. There are boobs (with nipples covered by the victim's hair) and gore on it, so I'm considerate enough to not be strolling into Chuck E. Cheese in it. (Or in any other outfit, for that matter.) It's perfect for visits to friends; also, I wear my cool shirts in the house every day because I don't have anywhere to go.

Off topic:
When I first started teaching when I was 22 years old, I had a T-shirt with the cover of Cruelty and the Beast by Cradle of Filth. I wore it a few times at work, but then the principal came to ask me politely not to wear it again.

joachimt · #47

1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
3. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
4. The Gods Must Be Crazy (Jamie Uys)
5. Le dernier métro (François Truffaut)
6. Gadajace glowy (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
7. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
8. Mon oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais)
9. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
10. Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted)
11. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker)
12. Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
13. Zig-Zag - le jeu de l'oie (Une fiction didactique à propos de la cartographie) (Raoul Ruiz)
14. Berlin Alexanderplatz ()
15. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
16. Constans (Krzysztof Zanussi)
17. Les bons débarras (Francis Mankiewicz)
18. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
19. Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
20. Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper)

urls

DudeLanez · #48

1. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
2. La città delle donne (Fellini)
3. The Elephant Man (Lynch)
4. Mon oncle d'Amérique (Resnais)
5. Aus dem Leben der Marionetten (Bergman)
6. Un mauvais fils (Sautet)
7. Kagemusha (Kurosawa)
8. Gloria (Cassavetes)
9. Moskva slezam ne verit (Menshov)
10. Le dernier métro (Truffaut)

imdb urls

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080196
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080539
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080678
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081176
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080397
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081678
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080979
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080798
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079579
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080610

Mysterious Dude · #49

morrison-dylan-fan · #50

lynchs · #51

Only one I'm afraid,

1. The Coca-Cola Man AKA The Man with the Coca-Cola

hurluberlu · #52

1. The Elephant Man ( David Lynch )
2. Mon oncle d'Amérique ( Alain Resnais )
3. Heaven's Gate ( Michael Cimino )
4. Le roi et l'oiseau ( Paul Grimault )
5. Permanent Vacation ( Jim Jarmusch )
6. La città delle donne ( Federico Fellini )
7. 'Breaker' Morant ( Bruce Beresford )
8. The Blues Brothers ( John Landis )
9. Bad Timing ( Nicolas Roeg )
10. Gloria ( John Cassavetes )
11. Raging Bull ( Martin Scorsese )
12. The Shining ( Stanley Kubrick )
13. Tian yun shan chuan qi ( Jin Xie )
14. Le dernier métro ( François Truffaut )
15. Kagemusha ( Akira Kurosawa )
16. The Long Good Friday ( John Mackenzie )
17. Out of the Blue ( Dennis Hopper )
18. Un mauvais fils ( Claude Sautet )
19. Social Life of Small Urban Spaces ( William H. Whyte )
20. Jiu shi liu liu de ta ( Hsiao-Hsien Hou )

IMDb links

timshelboy · #53

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.... Kubrick usually does well... Hopper's hihilistic teen odyssey was much liked at time... as was the Malle...AIRPLANE is a crowdpleaser... the DePalma is one of his most widely admired ....the Lynch I guess....Not sure Big prestige drama of the year ORDINARY PEOPLE has worn well in public esteem.... not seen it for 40 years

EDIT Amazed at the love for CRUISING - but kind of so much I want to give it another go. Glad to see my favourite has some admirers... as a cinematic achievement I'd rate it alongside DONT LOOK NOW .. but subject matter much less accessible.....

OBSCURITIES?
SWEET WILLIAM a gentle Brit romcom with Sam Waterston a bucolic Romeo - here with the ever fragrant Jenny Agutter

JANE AUSTEN IN MANHATTAN - rather arch but well played (Robert Powell, Anne Baxter, Sean Young) comedy about atristic rivalry to stage an Austen play,,, early Merchant Ivory
Robert Powell turns up in HARLEQUIN - an offbeat and creepyAussie tale about a politician who gets mixed up in psychic events.
HEALTH is minor Altman - an easy target for sure - but great cast having low key fun is worth a peek.

leonor · #54

murnaunosferatu · #55

zzzorf · #56

Dolwphin · #57

1. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
2. Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Godard)
3. The Shining (Kubrick)
4. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
5. Atlantic City (Malle) [This is not very good, but the list must have 5 entries]

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080196/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079854/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080388/

gromit82 · #58

lynchs wrote: ↑January 8th, 2021, 3:49 pm Only one I'm afraid,

1. The Coca-Cola Man AKA The Man with the Coca-Cola

I was going to make a joke that I've only seen the sequel that Dusan Makavejev made about his son, but I just looked at IMDb and found that The Coca-Cola Man isn't even listed, so I don't even know what this movie is.

lynchs · #59

@gromit82

HINT: Africa
HINT2: 3 times mentioned
HINT3: COCA-COLA

lynchs · #60

I am old, I am old, I have been bought and I have been sold

2018 - 17 titles
2019 - 7 titles
2020 - 4 titles

lineuphere · #61

1. Ko to tamo peva | Who's Singin' Over There? (Slobodan Sijan)
2. Manila By Night | City After Dark (Ishmael Bernal)
3. Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4. Ordnung | Order (Sohrab Shahid Saless)
5. Gadajace glowy | Talking Heads (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
6. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
7. Die Verlobte (Günter Reisch & Günther Rücker)
8. Nárcisz és Psyché (Gábor Bódy)
9. 9 to 5 (Colin Higgins)
10. Personal Problems (Bill Gunn)
11. Babylon (Franco Rosso)
12. Mon oncle d'Amérique | My American Uncle (Alain Resnais)
13. 'Breaker' Morant (Bruce Beresford)
14. Taxi zum Klo | Taxi to the Toilet (Frank Ripploh)
15. Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted)
16. Let There Be Light (John Huston)
17. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
18. Splav meduze | The Medusa Raft (Karpo Acimovic-Godina)
19. O Megalexandros | Alexander the Great (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
20. Csontváry (Zoltán Huszárik)

Spoiler

connordenney · #62

01. LOULOU (Maurice Pialat)
02. DRESSED TO KILL (Brian De Palma)
03. EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (Jean-Luc Godard)
04. ORDINARY PEOPLE (Robert Redford)
05. RAGING BULL (Martin Scorsese)
06. THE ELEPHANT MAN (David Lynch)
07. HEAVEN'S GATE (Michael Cimino)
08. CUTE GIRL (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
09. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTED (Jean Rollin)
10. THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick)
11. THE ENIGMATIC CASE (Johnnie To & Yeung-Wah Kam)
12. AIRPLANE! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, & Jerry Zucker)
13. THE FLY (Ferenc Rofusz)

Spoiler

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081076/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080661/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079854/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081283/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080678/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080855/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080964/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081250/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080688/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081040/

insomnius · #63

1. A Idade da Terra / The Age of the Earth (Glauber Rocha)
2. Lacrima Christi (Teo Hernandez)
3. Amor (Robert Beavers)
4. The Birth of Magellan: Mindfall I [along with part VII] (Hollis Frampton)
5. Esthappan (Govindan Aravindan)
6. Ordnung / Order (Sohrab Shahid Saless)
7. Exopragmatiko (Stavros Tornes)
8. Landscape and Desire (Ken Kobland)
9. Eugenie (Historia de una perversión) (Jesús Franco)
10. Fixation (Joseph Bernard)
11. Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper)
12. Coeur bleu (Gérard Courant)
13. Tutuguri - Tarahumaras 79 (Raymonde Carasco)
14. Satah Se Uthata Aadmi / Arising from the Surface (Mani Kaul)
15. Baddegama / Village in the Jungle (Lester James Peries)
16. Daughters of Chaos (Marjorie Keller)
17. Un mauvais fils / A Bad Son (Claude Sautet)
18. Operneïa (Claudine Eizykman)
19. Extérieur, nuit / Exterior Night (Jacques Bral)
20. Les bons débarras (Francis Mankiewicz)

The superb 'Dialogue with a Woman Departed' (Leo Hurwitz) would be my #3, but it was listed (incorrectly) as 1981 when we did that poll and I voted for it then, so leaving it out now to get another slot.

Spoiler

beasterne · #64

Just watched The Long Good Friday last night and had to add it to my list. A strong film and Bob Hoskins gives a fantastic performance.

lynchs · #65

insooooooooooooooooooooooomniussssssss

downloaded 'Lacrima ...' yesterday, gonna see it tomorrow

'Dialogue...' would be my #1

NO '...solution' ??

'Les bons...' in my 1979 list, now 1980

saw 'Out of...' Today... good but wouldn't enter in my top20

5/20 seen or 6/21 if you count '... departed'

I also have an 1980 short listed ... IMDB says 2005 now

take out '... Terra' and you have a good list, but it would be different if you mentioned '... States' or 'Bad...'

insomnius · #66

lynchs wrote: ↑January 14th, 2021, 6:42 pm insooooooooooooooooooooooomniussssssss

downloaded 'Lacrima ...' yesterday, gonna see it tomorrow

'Dialogue...' would be my #1

NO '...solution' ??

'Les bons...' in my 1979 list, now 1980

saw 'Out of...' Today... good but wouldn't enter in my top20

3/20 seen or 4/21 if you count '... departed'

I also have an 1980 short listed ... IMDB says 2005 now

take out '... Terra' and you have a good list, but it would be different if you mentioned '... States' or 'Bad...'

Bruno Fernandes!!!

One per director is my solution.
Yeah, I've seen it listed as 1979. Don't think we've done that year yet though, and as of now, it wouldn't be accepted for that year.
Hey, hey, my, my!
Well, I haven't seen the coke film.

Terra stays, good or bad, it alteres my state.

lynchs · #67

Who's Bruno Fernandes? aaahhhhhhhhh the actor, Bruno penaltys aka Bruno Penaldo

you haven't seen the coke film? I doubt that.

EDIT: 'Lacrima Christi' it's the new kind of AWESOMENESS, goes directly to no.1

)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Cheers mate!

RolandKirkSunglasses · #68

Lonewolf2003 · #69

1. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
2. Raging Bull
3. The Shining
4. The Elephant Man
5. Kagemusha
6. Shao Lin da peng da shi [Return to the 36th Chamber]
7. The Long Good Friday
8. Gregory's Girl
9. Paura nella città dei morti viventi [City of the Living Dead]
10. The Blues Brothers
11. Friday the 13th
12. Superman II
13. Altered States
14. Hong Wending san po bai lian jiao [Fist of the White Lotus]
15. Jiu shi liu liu de ta [Cute Girl]
16. Constans [The Constant Factor]
17. Cruising
18. The Fog
19. Wan ren zan [Killer Constable]
20. 'Breaker' Morant

Spoiler

monclivie · #70

Ranked:
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
The Elephant Man
Airplane!
The Blues Brothers
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Ordinary People
Stardust Memories
Raging Bull
La Boum
The Shining
Ko to tamo peva
Caddyshack
The Changeling
Super Fuzz
Bronco Billy
A Légy
Cannibal Holocaust

links

VincentPrice · #71

1. The Elephant Man
2. Forbidden Zone
3. The Fog
4. The Long Riders
5. The Island
6. Let There Be Light
7. Used Cars
8. City of the Living Dead
9. Humanoids from the Deep
10. The Final Countdown
11. Dressed to Kill
12. The Exterminator
13. Alligator
14. Bloodrage
15. Motel Hell
16. Maniac
17. Ordinary People
18. Mother's Day
19. Midnight Madness
20. Without Warning

Spoiler

Angel Glez · #72

Unranked ballot
Aakrosh (Cry of the Wounded)
Ba shan ye yu (Evening Rain)
Brubaker
City After Dark
Haruka naru yama no yobigoe (A Distant Cry from Spring)
Honeysuckle Rose
Jagko (Pursuit of Death)
Ko to tamo peva (Who's Singin' Over There?)
Kontrakt (The Contract)
La verdad sobre el caso Savolta (The Truth on the Savolta Affair)
Moskva slezam ne verit (Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears)
Petrijin venac (Petria's Wreath)
Resurrection
Spetters
The Big Red One
The Changeling
The Final Countdown
The Long Good Friday
The Stunt Man
Tian yun shan chuan qi (Legend of Tianyun Mountain)

Spoiler

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Heaven's Gate
Kagemusha
Raging Bull
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
The Blues Brothers
The Elephant Man
The Shining

To see before the deadline
Ming jian
Las grandes aguas
Vacanze per un massacro

Wanted
Giselle
Manhã Submersa
Paciorki jednego rózanca
The Club

brokenface · #73

1. The Shining
2. Altered States
3. Berlin Alexanderplatz
4. Airplane!
5. The Falls
6. The Last Metro
7. Loulou
8. Out of the Blue
9. Gloria
10. The Empire Strikes Back
11. Death Watch
12. Kagemusha
13. The Fog
14. The Elephant Man
15. The King & the Mockingbird
16. The Changeling
17. A Bad Son
18. The Constant Factor
19. The Long Riders
20. Dressed to Kill

Spoiler

AB537 · #74

1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505
2. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684
3. The Elephant Man (David Lynch) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080678
4. Atlantic City (Louis Malle) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080388
5. The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081070
6. Airplane! (Abrahams/Zucker/Zucker) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339
7. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080979
8. Gloria (John Cassavetes) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080798
9. The Blues Brothers (John Landis) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455
10. Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081698

sol · #75

Spoiler

1. The Shining
2. The Ninth Configuration
3. Death Watch
4. Dressed to Kill
5. Ordinary People
6. Stardust Memories
7. Cannibal Holocaust
8. The Falls
9. Success
10. The Changeling
11. La Città delle Donne
12. The Big Red One
13. Friday the 13TH
14. Altered States
15. Inside Moves
16. The Mirror Crack'd
17. American Gigolo
18. Fame
19. Harlequin
20. The Lathe of Heaven

kongs_speech · #76

I edited my top 20. Took the bottom two films off the list and made Heaven's Gate and Raging Bull #1 and 2, respectively.

Opio · #77

Hi sol,
Was trying to see what "Success" was on your list, and I think you put "Changeling" twice in the imdb links.

Leopardi · #78

1. The Shining
2. Cosmos
3. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
4. Kagemusha
5. Mon oncle d'Amérique
6. Raging Bull
7. Neskolko dney iz zhizni I.I. Oblomova (AKA Oblomov)
8. Forbidden Zone
9. Hopscotch
10. Gloria
11. The Changeling
12. The Elephant Man
13. Ordinary People
14. Gadajace glowy (AKA Talking Heads)
15. The Long Riders
16. The Long Good Friday
17. The Sweater
18. Nárcisz és Psyché (AKA Narcissus and Psyche)
19. The Ninth Configuration
20. Atlantic City

Spoiler

sol · #79

Opio wrote: ↑January 20th, 2021, 12:09 am Hi sol,
Was trying to see what "Success" was on your list, and I think you put "Changeling" twice in the imdb links.

Thanks! Fixed. This is the film that I meant. Great movie from the director Winter Kills with a Larry Cohen script!

gromit82 · #80

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Oldest Living Graduate
3. A légy / The Fly
4. Superman II
5. Nine to Five
6. Circle of Two
7. Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)
8. The Gods Must Be Crazy
9. Melvin and Howard
10. Bio Woman

URLs

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081273/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081040/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081573/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080319/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080536/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080461/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081150/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215570/

Should we do a 2020 year-end poll?