1000<400 Challenge (Official, January 2021)

[frbrown]

7. L'ange (1982) #262

Another shortish "animated" film with unusual visual (and aural) style. I'm not sure what to make of it.

Spoiler

1. The Blue Bird (1918) #416
2. Heroes of the East (1978) #624
3. The Good Fairy (1935) #423
4. The Pearl Button (2015) #320
5. No Highway (1951) #540
6. Krysar (1986) #71
7. L'ange (1982) #262

[tourdesb]

105. Vital (2004, Shin'ya Tsukamoto) #812
106. Tôkyô sensô sengo hiwa (1970, Nagisa Ôshima) #874
107. Ukamau (1966, Jorge Sanjinés) #455
108. Ne okreci se sine (1956, Branko Bauer) #456
109. Jôen (1967, Yoshishige Yoshida) #448

293/500 - 486/1000

1. Yoru no onnatachi (1948, Kenji Mizoguchi) #757
2. Ansatsu (1964, Masahiro Shinoda) #686
3a. Do pivnice (1983, Jan Svankmajer) #601 (15')
3b. Hamsarayan (1982, Abbas Kiarostami) #267 (17')
3c. Ghost (1984, Takashi Ito) #745 (5')
3d. Sisyphus (1974, Marcell Jankovics) #893 (3')
3e. Spacy (1981, Takashi Ito) #876 (10')
3f. The Wanderer (1988, George Ungar) #921 (11')
3g. Brouillard: Passage #14 (2014, Alexandre Larose) #527 (10')
3h. Jack Frost (1934, Ub Iwerks) #808 (9')
4. Zacharovannaya Desna (1964, Yuliya Solntseva) #383
5. Von morgens bis mitternachts (1920, Karl Heinz Martin) #729
6a. Childish Gambino: This is America (2018, Hiro Murai) #871 (4')
6b. Baltie zvani (1961, Ivars Kraulitis) #617 (24')
6c. Pereval (1988, Vladimir Tarasov) #978 (31')
6d. Rusalka (1997, Aleksandr Petrov) #735 (10')
6e. This House Has People in It (2016, Alan Resnick) #738 (12')
7. Chronos (1985, Ron Fricke) #762
8. La ville des pirates (1983, Raoul Ruiz) #79
9. Le grand amour (1969, Pierre Etaix) #206
10. Daïnah la métisse (1932, Jean Grémillon) #677
11. Souls for Sale (1923, Rupert Hughes) #825
12. L'homme qui ment (1968, Alain Robbe-Grillet) #189
13. Une corde un Colt... (1969, Robert Hossein) #495
14. Mujô (1970, Akio Jissoji) #42
15. Pirosmani (1969, Giorgi Shengelaia) #45
16. Alice ou la dernière fugue (1977, Claude Chabrol) #777
17. La cicatrice intérieure (1972, Philippe Garrel) #793
18. Dong dong de jiàqi (1984, Hsiaou-hsien Hou) #52
19. Laissez bronzer les cadavres (2017, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani) #345
20. Dr. Jack (1922, Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor) #962
21. Tsuma yo bara no yô ni (1935, Mikio Naruse) #982
22. Arigatô-san (1936, Hiroshi Shimizu) #62
23. Inazuma (1952, Mikio Naruse) #226
24. Okaasan (1952, Mikio Naruse) #288
25. L'étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps (2013, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani) #675
26. Les biches (1968, Claude Chabrol) #402
27. Le dossier 51 (1978, Michel Deville) #243
28. Suzaki Paradaisu: Akashingô (1956, Yûzô Kawashima) #100
29. Calendar (1993, Atom Egoyan) #749
30. Kummatty (1979, Govindan Aravindan) #436
31. Os Verdes Anos (1963, Paulo Rocha) #407
32. Outrage (1950, Ida Lupino) #955
33. Ôsaka no yado (1954, Heinosuke Gosho) #431
34. 4 passi fra le nuvole (1942, Alessandro Blasetti) #183
35. Entotsu no mieru basho (1953, Heinosuke Gosho) #204
36. Anjô-ke no butôkai (1947, Kôzaburô Yoshimura) #235
37-44. "The Ascent of Man" (1973, David Kennard & Dick Gilling) #592
45. O-bi, O-ba - Koniec cywilizacji (1985, Piotr Szulkin) #249
46. Midaregumo (1967, Mikio Naruse) #164
47. Kyônetsu no kisetsu (1960, Koreyoshi Kurahara) #332
48. Krynytsya dlya sprahlykh (1965, Yuri Ilyenko) #357
49. Kladivo na carodejnice (1970, Otakar Vavra) #391
50. Sarmasik (2015, Tolga Karacelik) #994
51. Natvris khe (1976, Tengiz Abuladze) #541
52. El Chacal de Nahueltoro (1969, Miguel Littin) #688
53. Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy, kotoraya lyubila, da ne vyshla zamuzh (1966, Andrey Konchalovskiy) #906
54. Anma to onna (1938, Hiroshi Shimizu) #954
55. Keshtzar haye sepid (2009, Mohammad Rasoulof) #966
56. Emberek a havason (1942, István Szöts) #854
57-62. "Connections" (1978, -) #170
63. Akai tenshi (1966, Yasuzô Masumura) #6
64. Údolí vcel (1968, Frantisek Vlácil) #70
65. O Último Mergulho (1992, João César Monteiro) #905
66. Rengoku eroica (1970, Yoshishige Yoshida) #99
67. Wrony (1994, Dorota Kedzierzawska) #173
68. El lugar sin límites (1978, Arturo Ripstein) #848
69. Yuke yuke nidome no shojo (1969, Kôji Wakamatsu) #297
70. Valahol Európában (1948, Géza von Radványi) #486
71. Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki (1955, Keisuke Kinoshita) #207
72. Lavoura Arcaica (2001, Luiz Fernando Carvalho) #232
73. Tiempo de revancha (1981, Adolfo Aristarain) #783
74. La ardilla roja (1993, Julio Medem) #360
75-78. "Môsô dairinin" (2004, Satoshi Kon) #605
79-80. "The Final Cut" (1995, -) #563
81. Karami-ai (1962, Masaki Kobayashi) #274
82. Akai satsui (1964, Shôhei Imamura) #305
83. Canoa (1976, Felipe Cazals) #532
84. Chiyari Fuji (1955, Tomu Uchida) #63
85. Das schreckliche Mädchen (1990, Michael Verhoeven) #188
86. Les croix de bois (1932, Raymond Bernard) #115
87. Ich war neunzehn (1968, Konrad Wolf) #103
88. Recordações da Casa Amarela (1989, João César Monteiro) #393
89. [bAssalto ao Trem Pagador[/b] (1962, Roberto Farias) #439
90. Így jöttem (1965, Miklós Jancsó) #208
91. Nagaya shinshiroku (1947, Yasujirô Ozu) #759
92. Holubice (1960, Frantisek Vlácil) #799
93. Tsuitô no zawameki (1988, Yoshihiko Matsui) #512
94. Shinjuku dorobô nikki (1969, Nagisa Ôshima) #873
95. Ples v dezju (1961, Bostjan Hladnik) #216
96. Un maledetto imbroglio (1959, Pietro Germi) #746
97. Secret défense (1998, Jacques Rivette) #846
98. Constans (1980, Krzysztof Zanussi) #752
99. Onna no mizûmi (1966, Yoshishige Yoshida) #93
100. Yanco (1961, Servando Gonzalez) #304
101. Petla (1958, Wojciech Has) #117
102. Noroît (1976, Jacques Rivette) #437
103. Asha Jaoar Majhe (2014, Aditya Vikram Sengupta) #395
104. De cierta manera (1977, Sara Gómez) #971
105. Vital (2004, Shin'ya Tsukamoto) #812
106. Tôkyô sensô sengo hiwa (1970, Nagisa Ôshima) #874
107. Ukamau (1966, Jorge Sanjinés) #455
108. Ne okreci se sine (1956, Branko Bauer) #456
109. Jôen (1967, Yoshishige Yoshida) #448

[DudeLanez]

40. Lucky Star (1929, Borzage) 7/10 #13
41. Lo straniero (1967, Visconti) 8/10 #878
42. L'innocente (1976, Visconti) 7/10 #787

JPN: 11 / USA: 6 / POL, ITA: 3 etc.

1. Tall in the Saddle (1944, USA) 7/10 #381
2. Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001, JPN) 5/10 #558
3. Krysar (1986, CZE) 6/10 #71
4.a Pereval (1988, 31‘) 7/10 #978
4.b Son smeshnogo cheloveka (1992, 20‘) 7/10 #185
4.c The Wanderer (1988, #921, 11‘) 6/10 #921
4.d Brouillard: Passage #14 (2014, 10‘) 6/10 #527
4.e Jack Frost (1934, 9‘) 5/10 #808
5. Broken Lullaby (1932, Lubitsch, USA) 7/10 #789
6. Yoru no onnatachi (1948, Mizoguchi, JPN) 7/10 #757
7. Testament (1983, USA) 7/10 #838
8. Arigatô-san (1936, JPN) 6/10 #62
9. Midareru (1964, Naruse, JPN) 9/10 #18 (added)
10. Meshi (1951, Naruse, JPN) 6/10 #127
11. La caza (1966, Saura, ESP) 7/10 #673
12. Die letzte Brücke (1954, Käutner, AUT) 7/10 #205
13. Shura (1971, JPN) 8/10 #3 (added)
14. Rapture (1965, USA) 7/10 #4
15. Crime and Punishment (1935, Sternberg, USA) 6/10 #719
16. Okaasan (1952, Naruse, JPN) 8/10 #288 (added)
17. Thérèse Raquin (1953, Carné, FRA) 7/10 #215
18. La nuit du carrefour (1932, Renoir, FRA) 5/10 #434
19. Yama no oto (1954, Naruse, JPN) 8/10 #30 (added)
20. Szerelem (1971, HUN) 6/10 #21
21. Przesluchanie (1989, POL) 8/10 #9 (added)
22. Reise der Hoffnung (1990, CH) 6/10 #162
23.a) Agarrando pueblo (1978, 28') #564
23.b) Fuego en Castilla (1961, 20') #136
23.c) Plastic Bag (2009, 18') #468
23.d) Spiegel van Holland (1950, 10') #308
23.e) Ghost (1984, 5') #745
24. Krug vtoroy (1990, Sokurov, RUS) 7/10 #636
25. Az ötödik pecsét (1976, HUN) 7/10 #8
26.-30. Acht Stunden sind kein Tag. Ep. 1-5 (1972, Fassbinder, 475‘, GER) 8/10 #502 (added)
31. Swiadectwo urodzenia (1961, POL) 6/10 #7
32. Malá morská víla (1976, CZE) 4/10 #176
33. Il profumo della signora in nero 6/10 (1974, ITA) #565
34. L'important c'est d'aimer (1975, Zulawski, POL) 5/10 #435
35. Oyû-sama (1951, Mizoguchi, JPN) 8/10 #157 (added)
36. Dni zatmeniya (1988, Sokurov, RUS) 6/10 #199
37. Anatahan (1953, Sternberg, JPN) 7/10 #195
38. The Scarlet Letter (1926, Sjöström, SWE) 7/10 #927
39. Gunki hatameku motoni (1972, Fukasaku, JPN) 8/10 #169 (added)
40. Lucky Star (1929, Borzage, USA) 7/10 #13
41. Lo straniero (1967, Visconti, ITA) 8/10 #878 (added)
42. L'innocente (1976, Visconti, ITA) 7/10 #787

[frbrown]

8. Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scold Myself with Tea (1977) #467
9. A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji (1955) #63
10. Milano calibro 9 (1972) #126

Spoiler

1. The Blue Bird (1918) #416
2. Heroes of the East (1978) #624
3. The Good Fairy (1935) #423
4. The Pearl Button (2015) #320
5. No Highway (1951) #540
6. Krysar (1986) #71
7. L'ange (1982) #262
8. Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scold Myself with Tea (1977) #467
9. A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji (1955) #63
10. Milano calibro 9 (1972) #126

[jdidaco]

21. Dr. Jack (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1922) 8/10 (RV) (#962)
22. For Heaven's Sake (Sam Taylor, 1926) 9/10 (RV) (#476)



That's it for me, thanks again for hosting zzzorf!

!seen 22

Spoiler

1. Lady Windermere's Fan (Ernst Lubitsch, 1925) 9.5/10 (RV) (#842)
2. It Happened on Fifth Avenue (Roy Del Ruth, 1947) 9/10 (#911)
3. The Moon Is Blue (Otto Preminger, 1953) 8/10 (#329)
4. Little Men (Ira Sachs, 2016) 7.5/10 (#890)
5. The Lathe of Heaven (Fred Barzyk & David R. Loxton, 1980) 7.5/10 (#644)
6. Deadly Prey (David A. Prior, 1987) 5/10 (#892)
7. Yim ji kau (Rouge, Stanley Kwan, 1987) 9/10 (RV) (#529)
8. Ying (Shadow, Zhang Yimou, 2018) 7.5/10 (#909)
9. Susana (The Devil and the Flesh, Luis Buñuel, 1951) 8/10 (RV) (#324)
10. Duze zwierze (Big Animal, Jerzy Stuhr, 2000) 7.5/10 (#788)
11. Okraina (Outskirts, Boris Barnet, 1933) 9.5/10 (RV) (#363)
12. All I Desire (Douglas Sirk, 1953) 9/10 (RV) (#672)
13. Little Murders (Alan Arkin, 1971) 8/10 (#323)
14. Risttuules (In the Crosswind, Martti Helde, 2014) 7.5/10 (#83)
15. Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli, 1956) 9/10 (RV) (#588)
16. Lebenszeichen (Signs of Life, Werner Herzog, 1968) 9/10 (RV) (#285)
17. Angst vor der Angst (Fear of Fear, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975) 9/10 (RV) (#256)
18. Zugvögel - ... einmal nach Inari (Train Birds, Peter Lichtefeld, 1998) 7/10 (#944)
19. La kermesse héroïque (Carnival in Flanders, Jacques Feyder, 1935) 8/10 (RV) (#355)
20. Hors Satan (Outside Satan, Bruno Dumont, 2011) 8/10 (#809)

[maxwelldeux]

11. Streetwise (1984) #596 - 8/10
Well, this was profoundly sad. All about homeless youths in Seattle and their struggle. It was a pretty accurate portrayal and sad to see, living in the area, what was going on. You felt for the kids and what they were going through. It was anger-inducing and a tear-jerker at the same time. Sad, wonderful, and an automatic addition to my list next year.

I agree. Dunno if you knew, but the director made a follow up movie 30 years later focusing on Tiny.
https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/tin ... blackwell/

I have not seen it so can’t recommend it or anything, but deffo looks interesting.

This has just become available in some key places, if anyone is interested...

[hurluberlu]

5. The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman / Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu (Kihachi Okamoto, 1963) [#179] 7+
6. Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg, 1953) [#195] 6

[72aicm]

11. Streetwise (1984) #596 - 8/10
Well, this was profoundly sad. All about homeless youths in Seattle and their struggle. It was a pretty accurate portrayal and sad to see, living in the area, what was going on. You felt for the kids and what they were going through. It was anger-inducing and a tear-jerker at the same time. Sad, wonderful, and an automatic addition to my list next year.

I agree. Dunno if you knew, but the director made a follow up movie 30 years later focusing on Tiny.
https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/tin ... blackwell/

I have not seen it so can’t recommend it or anything, but deffo looks interesting.

This has just become available in some key places, if anyone is interested...

Thanks for the heads up.

[insomnius]

Na wylot

10. Na wylot / Through and Through (Grzegorz Królikiewicz, 1973) 8/10 #614
11. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman, 2017) 8/10 #85
12. Herutâ sukerutâ / Helter Skelter (Mika Ninagawa, 2012) 3/10 #570

Spoiler

1. Der Kongreß tanzt (Erik Charell, 1931) 8/10 #253
2. Suzaki Paradaisu: Akashingô / Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (Yûzô Kawashima, 1956) 7/10 #100
3. Swiadectwo urodzenia / Birth Certificate (Stanislaw Rózewicz, 1961) 7/10 #7
4. Night Tide (Curtis Harrington, 1961) 8/10 #730
5. Turksib (Victor A. Turin, 1929) 9/10 #90
6. The Proud Ones (Robert D. Webb, 1956) 8/10 #440
7. Secret défense (Jacques Rivette, 1998) 6/10 #846
8. Des gens sans importance / People of No Importance (Henri Verneuil, 1956) 6/10 #702
9. Faccia a faccia / Face to Face (Sergio Sollima, 1967) 5/10 #613
10. Na wylot / Through and Through (Grzegorz Królikiewicz, 1973) 8/10 #614
11. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman, 2017) 8/10 #85
12. Herutâ sukerutâ / Helter Skelter (Mika Ninagawa, 2012) 3/10 #570

My work here is done. Thanks for hosting.

[ckfilm88]

11.) Marti, dupã Crãciun (Tuesday, After Christmas) (2010, Radu Muntean) - #519

That's it for me. Thank you for hosting!

FINAL LIST - Started at (54/1000), Reached (70/1000)

1.) The Comfort of Strangers (1990, Paul Schrader) - #666
2.) Prípad pro zacínajícího kata (Case for a Rookie Hangman) (1970, Pavel Jurácek) - #289
3.) Decasia (2002, Bill Morrison) - #240
4.) Arigatô-san (Mr. Thank You) (1936, Hiroshi Shimizu) - #62
5.) Calendar (1993, Atom Egoyan) - #749
6.) Heart of a Dog (2015, Laurie Anderson) - #732
7.) Der Nachtmahr (The Nightmare) (2015, Akiz) - #488
8.) Who Killed Captain Alex? (2010, Nabwana I.G.G.) - #388
9.) The Pumpkin Eater (1964, Jack Clayton) - #637
10.) Yoru wa mijikashi aruke yo otome (Night is Short, Walk on Girl) (2017, Masaaki Yuasa) - #294
11.) Marti, dupã Crãciun (Tuesday, After Christmas) (2010, Radu Muntean) - #519

[klaus78]

Spoiler

1. #53 La muerte de un burócrata (1966) 7/10
2. #61 La religieuse (1966) 8/10
3. #82 LA 92 (2017) 8/10
4. #85 Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017) 8/10
5. #86 La gueule ouverte (1974) 6/10
6. #88 Kiga kaikyô (1965) 6/10
7. #107 Bam gua nat (2008) 7/10
8. #109 Mer dare (1983) 8/10
9. #116 Les rendez-vous de Paris (1995) 7/10
10. #124 Tabiate bijan (1974) 8/10
11. #128 Panique (1946) 6/10
12. #134 Flicka och hyacinter (1950) 8/10
13. #135 Uski Roti (1970) 8/10
14. #138 Un coupable idéal (2001) 7/10
15. #139 Le septième juré (1962) 8/10
16. #141 Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) (1996) 7/10
17. #148 Monanieba (1984) 7/10
18. #155 Reality's Invisible (1971) 7/10
19. #159 Kapò (1960) 6/10
20. #160 Motforestilling (1972) 7/10
21. #163 Durak (2014) 5/10
22. #164 Midaregumo (1967) 7/10
23. #165 V tumane (2012) 7/10
24. #167 5 Fingers (1952) 7/10
25. #169 Gunki hatameku motoni (1972) 7/10
26. #171 Les ordres (1974) 7/10
27. #174 Schaste (1935) 6/10

28. #179 Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu (1963) 7/10
29. #181 Stars in My Crown (1950) 4/10
30. #184 Daisy Kenyon (1947) 6/10
31. #187 The Falls (1980) 7/10
32. #190 Gervaise (1956) 7/10

[72aicm]

No more entries from me. Thanks again for hosting zzzorf!

[beavis]

Spoiler

1. Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952, #642) - 8
2. Prästänkan (1920, #593) - 6.5
3. The Patsy (1928, #286) - 7.5
4. Døden er et kjærtegn (1949, #937) - 7.5
5. Kamouraska (1973, #612) - 7.5
6. Les ordres (1974, #171) - 8
7. Hard Core Logo (1996, #967) - 7.5
8. Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang Pilipino (2004, #375) - 8
9. Welfare (1975, #20) - 7
10. Dying at Grace (2003, #48) - 8
11. The Gambler (1974, #40) - 7
12. The Blue Bird (1918, #416) - 7,5
13. Romanze in Moll (1943, #566) - 8
14. Die letzte Brücke (1954, #205) - 7,5
15. Feu Mathias Pascal (1926, #1000) - 7
16. Boxer a smrt (1963, #278) - 7,5
17. Crime and Punishment (1935, #719) - 8
18. Det regnar på vår kärlek (1946, #695) - 7
19. Drôle de drame (1937, #919) - 7
20. Fängelse (1949, #782) - 9
21. Dementia (1955, #714) - 8
22. Lady Windermere's Fan (1925, #842) - 7
23. La poison (1951, #704) - 7
24. Hospital (1970, #271) - 7
25. Der Untertan (1951, #980) - 8
26. A Married Couple (1969, #481) - 7
27. Kapò (1960, #159) - 7.5
28. Daisy Kenyon (1947, #184) - 7.5
29. Sogobi (2002, #696) - 8.5
30. Scandal Sheet (1952, #78) - 7.5
31. La perla (1947, #404) - 6,5
32. Krakatit (1948, #860) - 8
33. Kladivo na carodejnice (1970, #391) - 7
34. Limonádový Joe aneb Konská opera (1964, #983) - 7,5
35. Daisan no kagemusha (1963, #574) - 7,5
36. Dong fu ren (1968, #643) - 7,5
37. Sibaji (1987, #803) - 7,5
38. Ladybug Ladybug (1963, #728) - 8
39. Testament (1983, #838) - 7,5
40. Ramrod (1947, #442) - 5,5
41. Skrivánci na niti (1990, #410) - 7
42. Billy Budd (1962, #143) - 8
43. Chunhyangdyun (2000, #608) - 8.5
44. 24 Frames (2017, #839) - 8
45. Saenghwalui balgyeon (2002, #722) - 7.5
46. Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (2003, #520) - 6
47. Yella (2007, #280) - 8
48. Picture of Light (1994, #385) - 7
49. RR (2007, #415) - 7
50. Le septième juré (1962, #139) - 7.5
51. Chihwaseon (2002, #895) - 8

52. Divorce Iranian Style (1998, #785) - 8
53. Buda as sharm foru rikht (2007, #352) - 4
54. No Name on the Bullet (1959, #242) - 7
55. O Megalexandros (1980, #883) - 7.5
56. El lugar sin límites (1978, #848) - 7.5
57. Der freie Wille (2006, #446) - 8
58. Little Murders (1971, #323) - 7.5

An amazing final batch! I've seen so many special things this past month that I feel my rating becomes rather conservative (for my taste). I might end up giving el lugar, frei wille and little murders all a half point more if they keep lingering on in the mind like they already do!

Also tried another western. this one was a bit better as it did its best to present the viewer with some kind of ethical dilemma. Although the way westerns are formulated and staged, it never becomes anything real (it remains all surface stuff, unlike the surprise I had with Billy Budd earlier). At least it is also short, so there is no time for it to become dull.

And the worst film of the month was in here. From word of mouth among people with similar taste I had already gathered Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame might be bad, bud I had not expected it to be annoying too And this right on the back of a documentary I was thinking to challenge myself with (Wiseman style, court proceedings, about divorce, that cannot be something that speaks to me right? wrong!) what an excellent way to show Iranian people and culture like it really is. And what a great little courtroom they found too. Unlike in the Wiseman films I recently saw I found clear purpose here, excellent build up in the edit and just the right amount of voice-over explanation to get a grip on what was happening. Very good stuff, and another nice surprise coming from the challenge.

So this is it for me too, onward to the Benelux!

[maksler]

Spoiler

1. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935, Mikio Naruse) 7.5 #982
2. Repast (1951, Mikio Naruse) 8 #127
3. Lightning (1952, Mikio Naruse) 8 #226
4. Mother (1952, Mikio Naruse) 8+ #288
5. Sound of the Mountain (1954, Mikio Naruse) 9 #30
6. Late Chrysanthemums (1954, Mikio Naruse) 8+ #547
7. Flowing (1956, Mikio Naruse) 8 #282
8. Yearning (1964, Mikio Naruse) 9 #18
9. The Stranger within a Woman (1966, Mikio Naruse) 7 #227
10. Two in the Shadow (1967, Mikio Naruse) 8 #164
11. Suzaki Paradise Red Light (1956, Yuzo Kawashima) 8 #100
12. A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957, Yuzo Kawashima) 7 #392
13. Kisses (1957, Yasuzo Masumura) 7.5 #356
14. Giants and Toys (1958, Yasuzo Masumura) 7 #810
15. A Wife Confesses (1961, Yasuzo Masumura) 8 #11
16. The Red Angel (1966, Yasuzo Masumura) 8 #6

17. Demons (1971, Toshio Matsumoto) 8+ #3

[Lu-Chin]

Spoiler

1. Ukamau (1966) 5/10 #455
2. Araya (1959) 6/10 #154
3. O-Bi, O-Ba - The End of Civilization (1985) 5/10 #249
4. Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966) 6/10 #263
5. Rien que les heures (1926) 6/10 #451
6. Krysar (1986) 6/10 #71
7. Gauche the Cellist (1982) 6/10 #366
8. My Ain Folk (1973) 4/10 #335
9. Vertical Features Remake (1978) 5/10 #397
10. Chronos (1985) 7/10 #762
11. Dementia (1955) 8/10 #714
12. Daïnah la métisse (1932) 7/10 #677
13. Seven Years Bad Luck (1921) 6/10 #408
14. Haze (2005) 6/10 #534
15. Chanson d'Armor (1934) 5/10 #997
16. Birthplace (1992) 8/10 #175
17. So Is This (1982) 6/10 #670
18. Blockade (2006) 7/10 #549
19. Poesía sin fin (2016) 8/10 #443
20. For Heaven's Sake (1926) 6/10 #476
21. L'ange (1982) 4/10 #262
22. The Inner Scar (1972) 4/10 #793
23. Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001) 4/10 #558
24. The Flying Luna Clipper (1987) 6/10 #603
25. Gwen, the Book of Sand (1985) 4/10 #773
26. The Blue Bird (1918) 6/10 #416
27. The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1978) 8/10 #339
28. Le monde vivant (2003) 6/10 #531
29. A Christmas Carol (1938) 7/10 #640
30. Salt for Svanetia (1930) 7/10 #767
31. Alice in Wonderland (1966) 5/10 #942
32. Dr. Jack (1922) 6/10 #962
33. La vendedora de rosas (1998) 8/10 #579
34. Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) 5/10 #718
35. Kamen (1992) 3/10 #152
36. West of Zanzibar (1928) 6/10 #638
37. The White Reindeer (1952) 4/10 #581
38. Dead Man's Letters (1986) 5/10 #132
39. Carnival of Sinners (1943) 7/10 #180
40. La belle captive (1983) 7/10 #646
41. Ashes and Snow (2005) 5/10 #270
42. Wrony (1994) 6/10 #173
43. Dom na Trubnoy (1928) 6/10 #521
44. Schalcken the Painter (1979) 8/10 #943
45. Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977) 8/10 #467
46. Alone in the Wilderness (2004) 8/10 #265
47. Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969) 4/10 #698
48. The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962) 7/10 #16
49. Carriage to Vienna (1966) 8/10 #1
50. Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994) 5/10 #725
51. Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (1994) 6/10 #924
52. US Go Home (1994) 7/10 #28
53. One Way Boogie Woogie (1977) 3/10 #991
54. El lugar sin límites (1978) 8/10 #848
55. Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969) 5/10 #297
56. La caza (1966) 7/10 #673
57. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) 8/10 #326
58. Nobody's Business (1996) 7/10 #961
59. Alice or the Last Escapade (1977) 7/10 #777
60. Monday (2000) 5/10 #409
61. Canoa (1976) 8/10 #532
62. Nothing (2003) 7/10 #894
63. 22nd of May (2010) 5/10 #981
64. Macunaíma (1969) 5/10 #941
65. Himiko (1974) 6/10 #231
66. Vuelven (2017) 5/10 #517
67. On the Bowery (1956) 5/10 #576
68. Le révélateur (1968) 4/10 #92
69. At Sea (2007) 5/10 #161
70. Deprisa, deprisa (1981) 7/10 #831
71. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001) 4/10 #542
72. Mirrored Mind (2006) 2/10 #891
73. Pictures of the Old World (1972) 6/10 #41
74. Kapurush (1965) 8/10 #299
75. Anma to onna (1938) 5/10 #954
76. Sicilia! (1999) 5/10 #976
77. Tren de sombras (1997) 6/10 #237
78. Testament (1983) 7/10 #838
79. By the Bluest of Seas (1936) 5/10 #131
80. La casa del ángel (1957) 6/10 #652
81. Intimate Lighting (1965) 4/10 #604
82. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) 7/10 #44
83. Mr. Vampire (1985) 8/10 #319
84. From Morn to Midnight (1920) 2/10 #729
85. Plácido (1961) 4/10 #112
86. Three Days (1991) 3/10 #312
87. Beauty and the Beast (1978) 7/10 #37
88. The Structure of Crystal (1969) 7/10 #277
89. Green Snake (1993) 6/10 #224
90. De cierta manera (1977) 4/10 #971
91. Night at the Crossroads (1932) 5/10 #434
92. The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (1968) 4/10 #130
93. Possible Worlds (2000) 8/10 #953
94. Big Animal (2000) 6/10 #788

95. Rouge (1987) 7/10 #529
96. No Name on the Bullet (1959) 8/10 #242
97. Enchanted Desna (1964) 3/10 #383
98. Outrage (1950) 5/10 #955
99. Os Faroleiros (1922) 7/10 #630
100. Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974) 7/10 #29

[AB537]

19. The Pumpkin Eater (Jack Clayton, 1964) 7/10 ... #637
20. Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton, 2017) 7.5/10 ... #797
21. The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young (Iltis/Kane, 2014) 7.5/10 ... #830

[tourdesb]

Last two I've watched yesterday :
110. Romanze in Moll (1943, Helmut Käutner) #566
111. Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke (1965, Nagisa Ôshima) #611

I went from 237/500 and 381/1000 to 293/500 and 488/1000 this month.

Thanks zzzorf for hosting this challenge !

293/500 - 488/1000

1. Yoru no onnatachi (1948, Kenji Mizoguchi) #757
2. Ansatsu (1964, Masahiro Shinoda) #686
3a. Do pivnice (1983, Jan Svankmajer) #601 (15')
3b. Hamsarayan (1982, Abbas Kiarostami) #267 (17')
3c. Ghost (1984, Takashi Ito) #745 (5')
3d. Sisyphus (1974, Marcell Jankovics) #893 (3')
3e. Spacy (1981, Takashi Ito) #876 (10')
3f. The Wanderer (1988, George Ungar) #921 (11')
3g. Brouillard: Passage #14 (2014, Alexandre Larose) #527 (10')
3h. Jack Frost (1934, Ub Iwerks) #808 (9')
4. Zacharovannaya Desna (1964, Yuliya Solntseva) #383
5. Von morgens bis mitternachts (1920, Karl Heinz Martin) #729
6a. Childish Gambino: This is America (2018, Hiro Murai) #871 (4')
6b. Baltie zvani (1961, Ivars Kraulitis) #617 (24')
6c. Pereval (1988, Vladimir Tarasov) #978 (31')
6d. Rusalka (1997, Aleksandr Petrov) #735 (10')
6e. This House Has People in It (2016, Alan Resnick) #738 (12')
7. Chronos (1985, Ron Fricke) #762
8. La ville des pirates (1983, Raoul Ruiz) #79
9. Le grand amour (1969, Pierre Etaix) #206
10. Daïnah la métisse (1932, Jean Grémillon) #677
11. Souls for Sale (1923, Rupert Hughes) #825
12. L'homme qui ment (1968, Alain Robbe-Grillet) #189
13. Une corde un Colt... (1969, Robert Hossein) #495
14. Mujô (1970, Akio Jissoji) #42
15. Pirosmani (1969, Giorgi Shengelaia) #45
16. Alice ou la dernière fugue (1977, Claude Chabrol) #777
17. La cicatrice intérieure (1972, Philippe Garrel) #793
18. Dong dong de jiàqi (1984, Hsiaou-hsien Hou) #52
19. Laissez bronzer les cadavres (2017, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani) #345
20. Dr. Jack (1922, Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor) #962
21. Tsuma yo bara no yô ni (1935, Mikio Naruse) #982
22. Arigatô-san (1936, Hiroshi Shimizu) #62
23. Inazuma (1952, Mikio Naruse) #226
24. Okaasan (1952, Mikio Naruse) #288
25. L'étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps (2013, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani) #675
26. Les biches (1968, Claude Chabrol) #402
27. Le dossier 51 (1978, Michel Deville) #243
28. Suzaki Paradaisu: Akashingô (1956, Yûzô Kawashima) #100
29. Calendar (1993, Atom Egoyan) #749
30. Kummatty (1979, Govindan Aravindan) #436
31. Os Verdes Anos (1963, Paulo Rocha) #407
32. Outrage (1950, Ida Lupino) #955
33. Ôsaka no yado (1954, Heinosuke Gosho) #431
34. 4 passi fra le nuvole (1942, Alessandro Blasetti) #183
35. Entotsu no mieru basho (1953, Heinosuke Gosho) #204
36. Anjô-ke no butôkai (1947, Kôzaburô Yoshimura) #235
37-44. "The Ascent of Man" (1973, David Kennard & Dick Gilling) #592
45. O-bi, O-ba - Koniec cywilizacji (1985, Piotr Szulkin) #249
46. Midaregumo (1967, Mikio Naruse) #164
47. Kyônetsu no kisetsu (1960, Koreyoshi Kurahara) #332
48. Krynytsya dlya sprahlykh (1965, Yuri Ilyenko) #357
49. Kladivo na carodejnice (1970, Otakar Vavra) #391
50. Sarmasik (2015, Tolga Karacelik) #994
51. Natvris khe (1976, Tengiz Abuladze) #541
52. El Chacal de Nahueltoro (1969, Miguel Littin) #688
53. Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy, kotoraya lyubila, da ne vyshla zamuzh (1966, Andrey Konchalovskiy) #906
54. Anma to onna (1938, Hiroshi Shimizu) #954
55. Keshtzar haye sepid (2009, Mohammad Rasoulof) #966
56. Emberek a havason (1942, István Szöts) #854
57-62. "Connections" (1978, -) #170
63. Akai tenshi (1966, Yasuzô Masumura) #6
64. Údolí vcel (1968, Frantisek Vlácil) #70
65. O Último Mergulho (1992, João César Monteiro) #905
66. Rengoku eroica (1970, Yoshishige Yoshida) #99
67. Wrony (1994, Dorota Kedzierzawska) #173
68. El lugar sin límites (1978, Arturo Ripstein) #848
69. Yuke yuke nidome no shojo (1969, Kôji Wakamatsu) #297
70. Valahol Európában (1948, Géza von Radványi) #486
71. Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki (1955, Keisuke Kinoshita) #207
72. Lavoura Arcaica (2001, Luiz Fernando Carvalho) #232
73. Tiempo de revancha (1981, Adolfo Aristarain) #783
74. La ardilla roja (1993, Julio Medem) #360
75-78. "Môsô dairinin" (2004, Satoshi Kon) #605
79-80. "The Final Cut" (1995, -) #563
81. Karami-ai (1962, Masaki Kobayashi) #274
82. Akai satsui (1964, Shôhei Imamura) #305
83. Canoa (1976, Felipe Cazals) #532
84. Chiyari Fuji (1955, Tomu Uchida) #63
85. Das schreckliche Mädchen (1990, Michael Verhoeven) #188
86. Les croix de bois (1932, Raymond Bernard) #115
87. Ich war neunzehn (1968, Konrad Wolf) #103
88. Recordações da Casa Amarela (1989, João César Monteiro) #393
89. [bAssalto ao Trem Pagador[/b] (1962, Roberto Farias) #439
90. Így jöttem (1965, Miklós Jancsó) #208
91. Nagaya shinshiroku (1947, Yasujirô Ozu) #759
92. Holubice (1960, Frantisek Vlácil) #799
93. Tsuitô no zawameki (1988, Yoshihiko Matsui) #512
94. Shinjuku dorobô nikki (1969, Nagisa Ôshima) #873
95. Ples v dezju (1961, Bostjan Hladnik) #216
96. Un maledetto imbroglio (1959, Pietro Germi) #746
97. Secret défense (1998, Jacques Rivette) #846
98. Constans (1980, Krzysztof Zanussi) #752
99. Onna no mizûmi (1966, Yoshishige Yoshida) #93
100. Yanco (1961, Servando Gonzalez) #304
101. Petla (1958, Wojciech Has) #117
102. Noroît (1976, Jacques Rivette) #437
103. Asha Jaoar Majhe (2014, Aditya Vikram Sengupta) #395
104. De cierta manera (1977, Sara Gómez) #971
105. Vital (2004, Shin'ya Tsukamoto) #812
106. Tôkyô sensô sengo hiwa (1970, Nagisa Ôshima) #874
107. Ukamau (1966, Jorge Sanjinés) #455
108. Ne okreci se sine (1956, Branko Bauer) #456
109. Jôen (1967, Yoshishige Yoshida) #448
110. Romanze in Moll (1943, Helmut Käutner) #566
111. Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke (1965, Nagisa Ôshima) #611

[Obgeoff]

6. Macunaíma (1969, Pedro de Andrade) 6 #941
7. At Berkeley (2013, Wiseman) 8 #584
8. L'amour fou (1969, Rivette) 8 #369

[hurluberlu]

7. The Desert of the Tartars / Il deserto dei tartari (Valerio Zurlini, 1976) [#736] 8

[blocho]

3. The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
4. Les Croix de Bois (1932)
5. El Chacal de Nahueltoro (1969)

[OldAle1]

Hey I watched one movie that fits this challenge, and if it had to be one I'm not sure I could have done much better...

1. Nárcisz és Psyché (Gábor Bódy, 1980) #438

I saw Bódy's other immense masterwork, Kutya éji dala, 5 years ago and have been anticipating this one ever since. That was a pretty indescribable film about all kinds of things, a crazy sort of punk-out mixture of satire and fantasy and religion and...well, I should have written a review, and I should see it again. One of those films that you can't really keep in your mind because it's just so outside of normal experience - but that you never quite forget. And while this film starts out a bit more prosaically - apart from the overlapping multiple narrators, which gives you a clue as to some oddities right away - it ends up just as strange and indescribable, and at almost twice the length and covering at least 150 years of Hungarian history, it's one of the more memorable and odd epics that's ever been made. Essentially we have three characters, a sort of love triangle, that exists over several generations - time keeps moving on but the characters stay the same, without any explanation - representing I guess the theme of man's cruelty to man and the inability of a society to ever really progress. And a whole helluva lot more. The two male characters seem to be different aspects of Narcissus - with many of the implications of that name - while the female lead, Psyche, is really the dominant personality, but unable to dominate the world around her, always falling prey to illusion. I probably should have written about this immediately after seeing it, even after a few days it's hard to get a grasp, it's elusive stylistically with a surrealistic attitude towards time and narrative, and the characters are more types than real and yet verge on real pathos at times. I'll just say that this is exactly what I'm often looking for and rarely find in a film, something immediately astounding yet elusive and challenging long after it's over, that only gives you bits to understand readily, and calls out for more attention and effort - and yet remains entertaining and exciting for it's whole 4 1/2 hour run time. Certainly will be a contender for the best film I see this year.

[ororama]

3. The Wolf House (2018) * 73 min.

Spoiler

1. Drive a Crooked Road (1954) * 83 min. #950
2. Sweetgrass (2009) * 103 min. #380

*First time viewing.

[sol]

Bonus Challenge - Complete the List:
As a group lets see if we can complete the list. I will keep track of what is watched, lets see how close we can get.

How close did we get?

Thanks for hosting. I really enjoyed getting into the 1000<400 list this month and managed to cruise into the top 100 users for the Official Gems list.

Once you have updated the OP, I will add the scores my spreadsheet and present the first Overall Challenge Leaderboard for 2021.

[zzzorf]

Bonus Challenge - Complete the List:
As a group lets see if we can complete the list. I will keep track of what is watched, lets see how close we can get.

How close did we get?

Thanks for hosting. I really enjoyed getting into the 1000<400 list this month and managed to cruise into the top 100 users for the Official Gems list.

Once you have updated the OP, I will add the scores my spreadsheet and present the first Overall Challenge Leaderboard for 2021.

Everything should be finalised in a few hours, looking at closing it all up tonight.

[zzzorf]

Well the results are in and Congratulations goes to tourdesb who gained the victory this challenge with 111 points.
A well deserved 2nd place goes to Lu-Chin who also managed to break triple figures, ending up on 100.

As to the bonus challenge, unfortunately we didn't quite make it to 50% of the list, with only 474 of the 1000 movies being watched.

Hope you all had a good challenge and don't forget to let me know if anything is wrong with the scores on the OP

[sol]

As to the bonus challenge, unfortunately we didn't quite make it to 50% of the list, with only 474 of the 1000 movies being watched.

Yeah, I kind of fell off in the last few days of the challenge as I became set on finishing the X-Men series during January. Not that I could have fitted 26 movies into the last three days, but I could have gotten us closer. Maybe next time. If there is a next time. *crosses fingers*

Thanks for the update. I'm too tired to fix up the spreadsheet now (and I still have one more movie I want to watch before bed) but to anyone reading, I'll get the Official Leaderboard up and running tomorrow morning my time.