Doubling the Canon Nominees Challenge (Official, April 2021)

[Melvelet]

Doubling the Canon Nominees Challengee


Pictured: This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (2019)

GOAL
Watch movies that have been nominated for this year's edition of Doubling the Canon. Discuss them.
A list of eligible films can be found below.

BONUS GAME
Recommend and promote a nominated movie (which may or may not be nominated by yourself) and even more importantly: watch other people's bonus recommendations. For every 5 recommendations you've watched for the challenge, you are allowed to recommend another one.

RULES
- Each feature film (over 40 minutes) counts as one entry.
- 80 minutes of short films or miniseries/TV episodes counts as one entry.
- Films must be watched one at a time and at single speed (not sped up).
- Rewatches are allowed and are good for the soul.
- Please include year of release when listing your viewings.

LINKS
Doubling the Canon 2021 Nominations (ICM)
Doubling the Canon 2021 Nominations (IMDB)
Doubling the Canon 2021 Thread
DtC 2021 ballot

Rank	Participant	Count	Recommendations	Minutes	1000<400	500<400 all-time	500<400	DtC all-time	DtC holdovers	DtC revotes
1	flavo5000	61	3	6209	10	14	2	22	3	18
2	sol	53	11	5116	2	6	2	14	4	7
3	sortile9io	42	2	4364	7	9	3	16	4	9
4	72aicm	37	0	3745	12	2	0	7	1	4
5	AB537	35	2	3621	4	8	2	9	1	7
6	beavis	31	1	3221	0	1	0	11	1	8
7	jdidaco	28	1	2349	0	2	0	4	4	2
8	DudeLanez	27	2	2598	5	10	5	20	0	10
8	OldAle1	27	1	2352	3	3	0	4	2	1
10	Bing147	25	0	2395	3	3	2	14	0	7
11	Melvelet	24	2	2261	7	6	5	6	2	5
12	lineuphere	23	1	1978	1	1	1	8	4	4
12	zuma	23	0	2371	3	1	1	3	2	2
14	filmbantha	22	5	2145	5	9	4	11	0	7
15	Perception de Ambiguity	21	1	2587	1	2	1	4	1	3
16	klaus78	18	0	1998	2	7	2	8	0	7
16	zzzorf	18	5	1746	1	5	0	7	0	5
18	hurluberlu	14	0	1460	3	4	3	6	0	6
19	pitchorneirda	11	0	1382	4	3	3	6	0	5
19	St. Gloede	11	0	1016	1	1	1	3	2	2
21	Lonewolf2003	10	0	1049	0	1	0	7	0	2
22	blocho	9	1	895	2	1	1	2	0	2
22	RogerTheMovieManiac88	9	0	952	1	1	1	1	0	0
24	maksler	5	0	561	2	4	0	4	0	2
25	beasterne	4	0	413	0	0	0	3	0	3
25	frbrown	4	0	366	0	0	0	1	1	1
25	ororama	4	0	342	1	1	1	3	0	1
28	connordenney	3	0	305	1	2	1	2	0	2
28	monclivie	3	0	205	1	1	1	0	0	0
28	vortexsurfer	3	0	297	1	1	1	1	0	1
-	overall	605	38	60299	83	109	43	207	32	133

Bonus game recommendations:

Title	aka	Year	Recommended by	Times watched	IMDB	ICM
American Reflexxx		2015	Perception de Ambiguity	5
Babylon		1980	filmbantha	2
Buddies		1985	sol	2
Chase a Crooked Shadow		1958	sol	4
En la selva no hay estrellas	No Stars in the Jungle	1967	sortile9io	1
Hausu	House	1977	flavo5000	3
Kochegar	The Stoker	2010	beavis	3
L'aîné des Ferchaux	Magnet of Doom	1963	AB537	4
Mes séances de lutte	Love Battles	2013	zzzorf	1
Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel	Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven	1975	DudeLanez	1
Shokei no shima	Punishment Island	1966	Melvelet	2
Somewhere in the Darkness		1999	zzzorf	0
Special		2006	filmbantha	3
Stir		1980	sol	2
Sueño en otro idioma	I Dream in Another Language	2017	blocho	2
The Work		2017	72aicm	0
Zero Patience		1993	Fergenaprido	3

Country breakdown:

Country	Count
USA	242
Japan	73
UK	66
France	65
Italy	28
Australia	19
Germany	17
Sweden	13
Canada	12
Yugoslavia	11
Belgium	10
Iran	10
South Korea	9
Hong Kong	8
India	8
Russia	8
Soviet Union	8
West Germany	8
Mexico	7
Austria	6
Chile	6
Czechoslovakia	6
Egypt	6
Turkey	6
Brazil	5
Lebanon	5
Norway	5
Argentina	4
Denmark	4
Philippines	4
Switzerland	4
Iceland	3
Israel	3
Poland	3
Armenia	2
China	2
Estonia	2
Finland	2
Greece	2
Spain	2
Angola	1
Bulgaria	1
Cuba	1
East Germany	1
Ethiopia	1
Hungary	1
Indonesia	1
Lesotho	1
Netherlands	1
Peru	1
Romania	1
South Africa	1
Taiwan	1
Thailand	1

Decade breakdown:

Decade	Count
1900s	5
1910s	8
1920s	21
1930s	17
1940s	63
1950s	69
1960s	91
1970s	77
1980s	62
1990s	61
2000s	94
2010s	151

Director breakdown (n >= 2)

Director	Count
Makoto Shinkai	7
Michael Boydstun	6
Tim Grabham	6
William Dieterle	6
Youssef Chahine	6
Alli Coates	5
Ben Russell	5
Nagisa Ôshima	5
Paul McDermott	5
Vatroslav Mimica	5
Aleksey Balabanov	4
Alex Ross Perry	4
David Firth	4
David Leitch	4
Faith Hubley	4
Hayao Miyazaki	4
Henry King	4
Howard Hawks	4
James Benning	4
Jean-Pierre Melville	4
John Hubley	4
Joseph L. Anderson	4
Masahiro Shinoda	4
Matthew Rankin	4
Michael Anderson	4
Michael Arias	4
Mike Mills	4
Nathaniel Dorsky	4
Oskar Fischinger	4
Raoul Walsh	4
Ruben Östlund	4
Tom Noakes	4
Alan Crosland	3
Alfred L. Werker	3
Anthony Asquith	3
Anthony Mann	3
Arthur J. Bressan Jr.	3
Arthur Rosson	3
Bertrand Blier	3
Bill Plympton	3
Borhane Alaouié	3
Budd Boetticher	3
Cyprien Gaillard	3
David Cronenberg	3
Don Hertzfeldt	3
Edith Carlmar	3
Edward Ludwig	3
Erich von Stroheim	3
Francis Thompson	3
Gösta Werner	3
Hal Haberman	3
Hal Hartley	3
Ingmar Bergman	3
Isao Takahata	3
Jacques Feyder	3
James Ward Byrkit	3
Jeremy Passmore	3
Jim Drain	3
John Greyson	3
Jonas Geirnaert	3
Jonathan Vinel	3
Josef von Sternberg	3
Kwon-taek Im	3
Lotfi Thabet	3
Marcelo Epstein	3
Max Mack	3
Mikio Naruse	3
Murat Sayginer	3
Nicolas Provost	3
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi	3
Philip S. Solomon	3
Ramon Bloomberg	3
Sacha Guitry	3
Satyajit Ray	3
William Castle	3
Adam Elliot	2
Aki Kaurismäki	2
Alain Jessua	2
Alberto Gout	2
Alberto Lattuada	2
Alessandro Blasetti	2
Andrey Konchalovskiy	2
Andrzej Zulawski	2
Bahman Ghobadi	2
Ben Rivers	2
Bryan Forbes	2
Carlos Adriano	2
Cecilia Mangini	2
Charles Vidor	2
Claude Barras	2
Craig Gillespie	2
Crystal Moselle	2
Damien Chazelle	2
Daryl Duke	2
David Fincher	2
Edward Norton	2
Ermanno Olmi	2
Ernesto Contreras	2
Fernando Di Leo	2
Franco Rosso	2
Frank Tuttle	2
François Ozon	2
Fred C. Newmeyer	2
Georg Wilhelm Pabst	2
Giorgio Ferroni	2
Giuliano Montaldo	2
Gustav Möller	2
Han Hsiang Li	2
Harley Cokeliss	2
Harutyun Khachatryan	2
Helmut Käutner	2
Jack Arnold	2
Jacques Doillon	2
Jacques Tourneur	2
Jae-young Kwak	2
James Broughton	2
James Francis Khehtie	2
Jean Epstein	2
Jean Grémillon	2
Jean Negulesco	2
Jean Renoir	2
Jean-Daniel Pollet	2
Jean-François Laguionie	2
John Ford	2
John Halas	2
John Musker	2
John Smith	2
Johnny Mak	2
Jon Scoffield	2
Jordan Belson	2
Joris Ivens	2
Joy Batchelor	2
Jules Dassin	2
Jérémy Clapin	2
Karim Aïnouz	2
Kim Ki-duk	2
Majid Majidi	2
Marguerite Duras	2
Mark Jenkin	2
Marlon Riggs	2
Martin Arnold	2
Mervyn LeRoy	2
Michael Mann	2
Michael Schultz	2
Mike De Leon	2
Mike Leigh	2
Monte Hellman	2
Mori Masaki	2
Nicolas Gessner	2
Nuri Bilge Ceylan	2
Otto Preminger	2
Pablo Larraín	2
Paul Fierlinger	2
Paul Schrader	2
Peter B. Hutton	2
Peter Pewas	2
Phil Karlson	2
Philippe Grandrieux	2
Pierre Koralnik	2
Rainer Werner Fassbinder	2
Raoul Ruiz	2
Robert Siodmak	2
Ron Clements	2
Sam Taylor	2
Samuel Maoz	2
Sandra Fierlinger	2
Sohrab Shahid Saless	2
Stanislav Rostotskiy	2
Stephen Wallace	2
Susumu Hani	2
Tay Garnett	2
Terence Fisher	2
Terence McDonald	2
Terence Nance	2
Tim Burton	2
Tomu Uchida	2
Tony Richardson	2
Toshiaki Toyoda	2
Vittorio De Seta	2
Vladimir Momcilovic	2
William A. Wellman	2
Yasujirô Ozu	2
Yoshifumi Kondô	2
Ziad Doueiri	2

Genre breakdown

Genre	Count
Drama	449
Short	137
Comedy	129
Crime	119
Romance	118
Thriller	103
Animation	98
Documentary	61
Mystery	59
Adventure	53
Action	47
War	40
Fantasy	38
Family	36
Horror	36
Film-Noir	31
Music	29
History	27
Sci-Fi	25
Biography	22
Musical	16
Western	8
Reality-TV	5
Adult	3
Sport	3
News	1

Movies that have been challenged more than once

Times challenged	Name	Year	IMDB	ICM
6	Beyond the Mind's Eye	1993
6	Films to Break Projectors	2017
5	5 Centimeters Per Second	2007
5	Alexandria... Why?	1979
5	American Reflexxx	2015
5	The Girl Who Swallowed Bees	2007
5	Typhoid Sufferers	1963
4	Atomic Blonde	2017
4	Chase a Crooked Shadow	1958
4	Cream	2016
4	Deformer	2000
4	Her Smell	2018
4	Incident by a Bank	2010
4	Magnet of Doom	1963
4	Nursery Rhymes	2018
4	Rope of Sand	1949
4	Spring Night Summer Night	1967
4	Tekkonkinkreet	2006
4	The Flying Train	1902
4	Threnody	2004
4	Windy Day	1968
3	Air Force	1943
3	Body Rock	1984
3	Buffet Froid	1979
3	Cities of Gold and Mirrors	2011
3	Coherence	2013
3	Coster Bill of Paris	1922
3	Death by Hanging	1968
3	Flatlife	2004
3	Gravity	2006
3	Hair High	2004
3	Hello, Sister!	1933
3	Hollywood Story	1951
3	House	1977
3	Il ne suffit pas que Dieu soit avec les pauvres	1978
3	Jivaro	1954
3	La Poison	1951
3	Last Days in a Lonely Place	2007
3	Martin pleure	2017
3	My Neighbors the Yamadas	1999
3	N.Y., N.Y.	1957
3	Ponce de León	2012
3	Special	2006
3	T's World: The Over Identification of Terry Thompson	2013
3	The Flying Fish	2019
3	The Sacrifice	1946
3	The Song of Bernadette	1943
3	The Stoker	2010
3	The Wayward Girl	1959
3	Two	1965
3	Underworld	1927
3	Zero Patience	1993
3	Zweimal gelebt	1912
2	9 Souls	2003
2	A New Life	2002
2	A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness	2013
2	An Oversimplification of Her Beauty	2012
2	Animal Farm	1954
2	At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World	2007
2	Babylon	1980
2	Bait	2019
2	Barefoot Gen	1983
2	Beetlejuice	1988
2	Black Is... Black Ain't	1994
2	Blackhat	2015
2	Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji	1955
2	Buchanan Rides Alone	1958
2	Buddies	1985
2	Bunny Lake Is Missing	1965
2	Caliber 9	1972
2	Captive's Island	1966
2	Clouds of May	1999
2	Cockfighter	1974
2	Cooley High	1975
2	Crash!	1971
2	Criss Cross	1949
2	Der verzauberte Tag	1944
2	Documentarist	2003
2	Dr. Jack	1922
2	Drops of Blood	1960
2	Ema	2019
2	Exam Conditions	1992
2	First Man	2018
2	Foxtrot	2017
2	Frankenstein Created Woman	1967
2	From the Life of the Marionettes	1980
2	Gwen, the Book of Sand	1985
2	Harvie Krumpet	2003
2	I Dream in Another Language	2017
2	I, Tonya	2017
2	Invisible Life	2019
2	Ladies in Retirement	1941
2	Life Is Sweet	1990
2	Life Upside Down	1964
2	Long Arm of the Law	1984
2	Mandala	1981
2	Moana	2016
2	Motherless Brooklyn	2019
2	My Dog Tulip	2009
2	My Life as a Zucchini	2016
2	Porco Rosso	1992
2	Prime Suspect	1991
2	Radio Dynamics	1942
2	Requiem for Sally	1979
2	Sacco & Vanzetti	1971
2	Salomé	1969
2	Samadhi	1967
2	Seance on a Wet Afternoon	1964
2	Seven Journeys	1947
2	Skagafjördur	2004
2	Skate Kitchen	2018
2	Skhizein	2008
2	Stemple Pass	2012
2	Stendalì: Suonano ancora	1960
2	Stir	1980
2	The Adventuress	1950
2	The Bow	2005
2	The Browning Version	1951
2	The Classic	2003
2	The Color of Paradise	1999
2	The Dawns Here Are Quiet	1972
2	The Entertainer	1960
2	The Game of Love	1967
2	The Garden of Words	2013
2	The Girl Chewing Gum	1976
2	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	2011
2	The Guilty	2018
2	The Legend of the Holy Drinker	1988
2	The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane	1976
2	The Love Eterne	1963
2	The Mask of Dimitrios	1944
2	The Postman Always Rings Twice	1946
2	The Silent Partner	1978
2	The Tall Target	1951
2	The Tattered Dress	1957
2	The Telegram Man	2011
2	The Three-Sided Mirror	1927
2	The Twentieth Century	2019
2	This Gun for Hire	1942
2	This Is It	1970
2	This Land Is Mine	1943
2	Turtles Can Fly	2004
2	Valparaiso	1963
2	Vassourinha: The Voice and the Void	1998
2	Waterloo Bridge	1940
2	West Beirut	1998
2	Whisper of the Heart	1995
2	World of Tomorrow	2015

Entries of the DtC 2021 nominations we have watched collaboratively

[sol]

I will make the thread better in the evening, sorry for the delay.

Hooray. And no problem. I'm just excited that you are still up for hosting. And you managed to get the thread active before it hit April on my side of the world too! Not that I'm planning to watch anything immediately after midnight, mind you, unless I can't sleep...

Thanks again for hosting. Really looking forward to this one this year. I have over 75 films lined up. Have to see how many I can actually get through.

[flavo5000]

I'm going to at least try to get through the DTC nominees I own on DVD or blu-ray and will get to whatever else I can while balancing the animation challenge.

[72aicm]

I’m in. Thanks for hosting Melvelet. Dunno if it’s on my end, but none of the images in the OP works.

I’ve already started with a couple of the long ones. I’m going to post them here, ‘cause why not.

000. Al karnak (1975) [zhangalan]
000. Sibiriada (1979) [hurluberlu]
000. Izgnanie (2007) [DtC]
000. Hai tan de yi tian (1983) [DtC]
000. Peterloo (2018) [blocho]
000. City After Dark (1980) [lineuphere]
000. Mandara (1971) [Melvelet]
000. Zivot je cudo (2004) [Fergenaprido]
000. Shiki-Jitsu (2000) [Lakigigar]
000. Il deserto dei tartari (1976) [hurluberlu]

[Melvelet]

I’m in. Thanks for hosting Melvelet. Dunno if it’s on my end, but none of the images in the OP works.

I’ve already started with a couple of the long ones. I’m going to post them here, ‘cause why not.

000. Al karnak (1975) [zhangalan]
000. Sibiriada (1979) [hurluberlu]
000. Izgnanie (2007) [DtC]
000. Hai tan de yi tian (1983) [DtC]
000. Peterloo (2018) [blocho]
000. City After Dark (1980) [lineuphere]
000. Mandara (1971) [Melvelet]
000. Zivot je cudo (2004) [Fergenaprido]
000. Shiki-Jitsu (2000) [Lakigigar]
000. Il deserto dei tartari (1976) [hurluberlu]

It's not just you, I only put placeholders for now.

Mind sharing your approximate ratings?
For this particular challenge they are (even) more useful

[72aicm]

I’m in. Thanks for hosting Melvelet. Dunno if it’s on my end, but none of the images in the OP works.

I’ve already started with a couple of the long ones. I’m going to post them here, ‘cause why not.

000. Al karnak (1975) [zhangalan]
000. Sibiriada (1979) [hurluberlu]
000. Izgnanie (2007) [DtC]
000. Hai tan de yi tian (1983) [DtC]
000. Peterloo (2018) [blocho]
000. City After Dark (1980) [lineuphere]
000. Mandara (1971) [Melvelet]
000. Zivot je cudo (2004) [Fergenaprido]
000. Shiki-Jitsu (2000) [Lakigigar]
000. Il deserto dei tartari (1976) [hurluberlu]

Mind sharing your approximate ratings?
For this particular challenge they are (even) more useful

Nothing weaker than a two, motstly three’s, a couple of fours and one six.

[hurluberlu]

I’m in. Thanks for hosting Melvelet. Dunno if it’s on my end, but none of the images in the OP works.

I’ve already started with a couple of the long ones. I’m going to post them here, ‘cause why not.

000. Al karnak (1975) [zhangalan]
000. Sibiriada (1979) [hurluberlu]
000. Izgnanie (2007) [DtC]
000. Hai tan de yi tian (1983) [DtC]
000. Peterloo (2018) [blocho]
000. City After Dark (1980) [lineuphere]
000. Mandara (1971) [Melvelet]
000. Zivot je cudo (2004) [Fergenaprido]
000. Shiki-Jitsu (2000) [Lakigigar]
000. Il deserto dei tartari (1976) [hurluberlu]

I would like to report nominators as well: did you get them from one of the list or did you search through the nomination thread ?

[72aicm]

I searched manually. Took me about two minute per film.

[Onderhond]

000. Shiki-Jitsu (2000) [Lakigigar]

Such an amazing film.

[Perception de Ambiguity]

I never miss those. What I did miss this year was having an unofficial challenge during the nomination phase, but like 72aicm I still wasn't idle during this time. Here are the nominees I watched for the unofficial unofficial challenge:

American Reflexxx (2015, Alli Coates)
T's World: The Over Identification of Terry Thompson (2013, Ramon Bloomberg)
Monday (2000, SABU)
You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940, Friz Freleng)
First Man (2018, Damien Chazelle)
The Flying Fish (2019, Murat Sayginer) (2 viewings)
Bakit Dilaw ang Gitna Ng Bahaghari? / Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994, Kidlat Tahimik)
Dr. Jack (1922, Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en 1964 / A Married Woman (1964, JLG)
A Wedding (1978, Robert Altman)
Matthias & Maxime (2019, Xavier Dolan)
Happy Here and Now (2002, Michael Almereyda)
Paris est à nous / Paris Is Us (2019, Elisabeth Vogler)
Bad Boy Bubby (1993, Rolf de Heer)
The Vikings (1958, Richard Fleischer)


For the bonus game I'll nominate American Reflexxx (2015, Alli Coates) .

[flavo5000]

000. Shiki-Jitsu (2000) [Lakigigar]

Such an amazing film.

I've been meaning to get around to watching some live action Hideaki Anno work. I may use this challenge as an excuse to finally do so.

[Melvelet]

000. Shiki-Jitsu (2000) [Lakigigar]

Such an amazing film.

That is a misused quote But I actually have it one my watchlist

[Onderhond]

That is a misused quote But I actually have it one my watchlist

Oops! Interested to hear your thoughts too, and not just because I love your current recommend

I've been meaning to get around to watching some live action Hideaki Anno work. I may use this challenge as an excuse to finally do so.

He made some interesting live action films, but it's very different from his animated work. But even his live action films are very hard to compare. Love & Pop is interesting but not very polished, Shin Gojira is fun but hardly a masterpiece ... Ritual on the other hand, everything about that film is just right

[72aicm]

That is a misused quote But I actually have it one my watchlist

Oops! Interested to hear your thoughts too, and not just because I love your current recommend

Two of my favourite FTV on the 2020 edition of the 1000<400 list.

[beavis]

I've got a movie-quiz going on tonight, so it's going to be another slow start on the challenge for me. But I like the bonus challenge idea and would already like to present my pick for it:
From my personal nominations, Kochegar (2010) https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/kochegar/

My favorite (of what I've seen) from Balabanov. He made a few hardhitting movies, coming from the wave of "black cinema" that got made in Russia from the early 90's onward in reaction to years of censorship, combined with the econical state of the country. This one has an edge to it for sure, but with strong (color) cinematography it is not all just doom and gloom. I don't see many people on this forum checking out this kind of cinema, but I'm sure some here would really love it, so all I am saying is give this one a change

[sol]

It starts! First in.

1. Black Is... Black Ain't (1994)



Marlon Riggs reflects on the black experience in America in this fascinating documentary that examines shifting notions and changing ideas over time. Especially fascinating is learning about how earlier on black folks took offence at the term "black" and insisted on being called "coloured". Also intriguing is a look into language bias and preconceptions about talking jive versus the King's English and so on. Less engaging are the deflections into cooking.

[flavo5000]

That is a misused quote But I actually have it one my watchlist

Oops! Interested to hear your thoughts too, and not just because I love your current recommend

I've been meaning to get around to watching some live action Hideaki Anno work. I may use this challenge as an excuse to finally do so.

He made some interesting live action films, but it's very different from his animated work. But even his live action films are very hard to compare. Love & Pop is interesting but not very polished, Shin Gojira is fun but hardly a masterpiece ... Ritual on the other hand, everything about that film is just right

Oh yea, I forgot he did Shin Godzilla which I have seen. That one actually felt like something Anno would do though. Pretty odd take on Godzilla but I liked it.

[Onderhond]

Oh yea, I forgot he did Shin Godzilla which I have seen. That one actually felt like something Anno would do though. Pretty odd take on Godzilla but I liked it.

Yeah, though I felt it was pretty in line with most other Japanese 90s/00s Godzilla films. I think Kitamura's one stood out more

[flavo5000]

Oh yea, I forgot he did Shin Godzilla which I have seen. That one actually felt like something Anno would do though. Pretty odd take on Godzilla but I liked it.

Yeah, though I felt it was pretty in line with most other Japanese 90s/00s Godzilla films. I think Kitamura's one stood out more

Final Wars was a hell of a lot of fun. Some people complain that some of the Godzilla movies are too slow in places with not enough monster fights. For those people, I suggest Final Wars.

[Onderhond]

Final Wars was a hell of a lot of fun. Some people complain that some of the Godzilla movies are too slow in places with not enough monster fights. For those people, I suggest Final Wars.

Haha, so true. For Final Wars though, the common complaint seems to be the "MTV-style" editing. I watched it again last year and though I feared it would bomb, I was really surprised at how alive it still felt.

[hurluberlu]

1. I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, 2017) [TSP 21st drop-off] IMDb: 6+, DtC: 2

[AB537]

I hope to be fairly active here, along with some Middle East stuff I've been wanting to watch for a while.

TCM released its April schedule yesterday, including twenty eligible titles. Since I went to the effort to list them for myself, figured I might as well share along with the airing date in case others are interested, although this may only be useful for North American participants.

April 1: Air Force (possibly too late for this one)
April 3: Caged, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Charade (!!!)
April 4: The Entertainer
April 6: The Four Feathers
April 9: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
April 10: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
April 11: Inherit the Wind
April 12: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
April 13: Judgment at Nuremberg, Key Largo (one of my nominees)
April 14: Ladies in Retirement
April 16: The Man Who Knew Too Much
April 21: A Patch of Blue, The Picture of Dorian Gray
April 24: The Search
April 26: Stage Door, A Star is Born
April 28: This Land is Mine (!!!)

I've previously seen most of these but plan to record the few I haven't. Ladies in Retirement, which I'd never heard of before this year's nominees, looks especially interesting on that front. One other nominee, Mervyn LeRoy's excellent Waterloo Bridge, unfortunately only airs on May 1. The full schedule is available here: https://31days.tcm.com/?fbclid=IwAR3Kb0 ... RamJi8rqTM

[72aicm]

001. A Vida Invisível (2019) [Teproc]
002. Iskanderija... lih? (1979) [DtC]

Spoiler

000. Al karnak (1975) [zhangalan]
000. Sibiriada (1979) [hurluberlu]
000. Izgnanie (2007) [DtC]
000. Hai tan de yi tian (1983) [DtC]
000. Peterloo (2018) [blocho]
000. City After Dark (1980) [lineuphere]
000. Mandara (1971) [Melvelet]
000. Zivot je cudo (2004) [Fergenaprido]
000. Shiki-Jitsu (2000) [Lakigigar]
000. Il deserto dei tartari (1976) [hurluberlu]
001. A Vida Invisível (2019) [Teproc]
002. Iskanderija... lih? (1979) [DtC]

[zzzorf]

1. Jallikattu (2019) - 4/10

Bonus Game Recommendation:
Mes séances de lutte (2013) - Jacques Doillon
I understand this won't be a movie for everyone but I think more people need to see it. An emotional rollercoaster from one of my more favourite foreign directors.

[Fergenaprido]

I hope to be fairly active here, along with some Middle East stuff I've been wanting to watch for a while.

One other nominee, Mervyn LeRoy's excellent Waterloo Bridge, unfortunately only airs on May 1.

I'll probably post a handful of watches at the end of the month. Focusing more on Middle East this month, but there are a number of cross-overs and a few other DTC noms I've got my eye on.

@AB537 since Waterloo Bridge is at the end of the alphabet, it's highly likely that you'll be able to watch it on May 1st and still have time to submit your rating as a write-in ballot, since Ángel always reveals the results alphabetically.

[Fergenaprido]

Might as well add the nominations I saw in March here as well. Some of them I may have seen before they were nominated, but since they don't count for this challenge anyway, I'm listing them so others can make get some recommendations.

Ratings are my personal rating out of 10, and then my likely DTC rating out of 6.
Films in bold I'll most definitely rate 4, 5, or 6 and really hope they make the list. Films in italics I'm less sure about and will probably get a 2 or 3.

0. Skagafjörður (2004 short) - 3.0 - 0
0. Ma vie de Courgette [My Life as a Zucchini] (2016) - 8.2 - 6 - my own nomination
0. Marty (1955) - 8.0 - 5
0. Tulevaisuus ei ole entisensä [The Future Is Not What It Used to Be] (2002) - 6.4 - 1
0. Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) - 7.8 - 4
0. The Queen (1968) - 7.8 - 4
0. Komisario Palmun erehdys [Inspector Palmu's Error] (1960) - 8.0 - 5 - This kind of felt like a Finnish The Thin Man in tone. Looking forward to the sequels.
0. Plaire, aimer et courir vite [Sorry Angel] (2018) - 7.8 - 4
0. The Telegram Man (2011 short) - 7.6 - 3 - or maybe 2. Decent short, but not sure if I consider it "canon-worthy"
0. Films to Break Projectors (2017 short) - 3.4 - 0

And for the Bonus Game, my pick is Zero Patience (1993), one of my nominations and my favourite film that I saw last year. I gave it 8.8/10. The only films I rated higher were Hannah Gadsby's standup special Douglas (2020) (9.2) and two shorts: Turn It Around (2017) (8.6) and Nursery Rhymes (2018) (8.8) (the latter of which I nominated as well). Zero Patience is definitely not a film I think everyone will like, but I firmly believe it deserves a wider audience and I thought it was simply fantastic.

[sol]

DTC Nominees

1. Black Is... Black Ain't (1994)

2. Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979) [aka 'Head over Heels']



For someone who pretty much acts like a stalker throughout, John Heard is remarkably sympathetic in the lead role here, allowing us to feel his heartbreak as his crush tells him that she would rather stay married to someone who loves her less passionately than he does. Tone-wise this is a weird movie though and his on/off talking to the camera is strange too, but Heard gets so into his character (his street vendor interactions especially stand out) that this works.

[blocho]

1. Donovan's Reef (1963)
A threadbare plot means that this is little more than John Wayne and friends hanging around some Pacific islands. Also, because this is a John Wayne move, there are two brawls in which no one gets even slightly hurt. These are apparently supposed to hilarious. It's also the third movie I've seen in which Wayne spanks his love interest -- I used to see this trope as a projection of toxic masculinity, but now I wonder whether it's merely a man revealing his fetishes on screen.

Bonus Game: I will promote I Dream in Another Language (2017)

[AB537]

1. Only the Brave (Joseph Kosinski, 2017) 7.5/10 ... I'm surprised this one didn't get more attention after its release, seems like one that should have done really well at the box office (and better than most films that do)

My bonus challenge nominee is L'aîné des Ferchaux - Magnet of Doom (Jean-Pierre Melville), a badly underseen gem by my favourite French director and my least checked DtC nominee this year. It's currently available on Criterion Channel in USA and Canada.

[sol]

DTC Nominees

1. Black Is... Black Ain't (1994)
2. Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)

3. Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)



Visited by a stranger at her overseas villa who claims to be her brother, a young woman has trouble convincing anyone that he is a fraud in this intriguing noir. We gradually come to question the protagonist's sanity, and the whole thing is incredibly enthralling as the motives of the possible-brother very slowly emerge. The film looks sensational too with Erwin Hiller emphasising every shadow while generally filming from angles that aptly seem a little off.

I don't know who nominated it, but given that it is my first 6/6 film that I have watched for this challenge, I will promote Chase a Crooked Shadow for the Bonus Challenge Game. I assume I can't claim a bonus challenge point for having just watched it myself. Or can I?

[Perception de Ambiguity]

1. Stemple Pass (2012, James Benning)
2. Lonely Are the Brave (1962, David Miller)
3. Zum Vergleich (2009, Harun Farocki)
4. Passing Strangers (1974, Arthur J. Bressan Jr.)
[12 min]. Händelse vid bank / Incident by a Bank (2010, Ruben Östlund)
[9 min]. The Girl Who Swallowed Bees (2007, Paul McDermott)

The reminiscing rat dreams of the time that is no longer real

{0} American Reflexxx (2015, Alli Coates)
{0} T's World: The Over Identification of Terry Thompson (2013, Ramon Bloomberg)
{0} Monday (2000, SABU)
{0} You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940, Friz Freleng)
{0} First Man (2018, Damien Chazelle)
{0} The Flying Fish (2019, Murat Sayginer) (2 viewings)
{0} Bakit Dilaw ang Gitna Ng Bahaghari? / Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow? (1994, Kidlat Tahimik)
{0} Dr. Jack (1922, Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
{0} Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en 1964 / A Married Woman (1964, JLG)
{0} A Wedding (1978, Robert Altman)
{0} Matthias & Maxime (2019, Xavier Dolan)
{0} Happy Here and Now (2002, Michael Almereyda)
{0} Paris est à nous / Paris Is Us (2019, Elisabeth Vogler)
{0} Bad Boy Bubby (1993, Rolf de Heer)
{0} The Vikings (1958, Richard Fleischer)
1. Stemple Pass (2012, James Benning)
2. Lonely Are the Brave (1962, David Miller)
3. Zum Vergleich (2009, Harun Farocki)
4. Passing Strangers (1974, Arthur J. Bressan Jr.)

to be divided by 80:
[12 min]. Händelse vid bank / Incident by a Bank (2010, Ruben Östlund)
[9 min]. The Girl Who Swallowed Bees (2007, Paul McDermott)

[pitchorneirda]

1. La Poison (1951, Sacha Guitry) 2/6
2. Spring Night, Summer Night (1967, Joseph L. Anderson) 2/6

[frbrown]

1. Beyond the Mind's Eye (1993) holdover

[flavo5000]

1. Yogoto no yume a.k.a. Every-Night Dreams (1933) 3/6


2. Waterloo Bridge (1940) 2/6


3-4. Prime Suspect (1991) 4/6

I'm going to nominate Hausu (1977), one of the most batshit insane, ridiculous movies ever made.

Spoiler

1. Yogoto no yume a.k.a. Every-Night Dreams (1933) 3/6
2. Waterloo Bridge (1940) 2/6
3-4. Prime Suspect (1991) 4/6

[DudeLanez]

1. L'assassin habite... au 21 (Clouzot, 1942) 3/6
2. Chiyari Fuji (Uchida, 1955) 3/6
3. Sallah Shabati (Kishon, 1964) 1/6
4. Punishment Park (Watkins, 1971) 3/6

I would like to recommend:
Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel (Fassbinder, 1975)

[sol]

DTC Nominees

1. Black Is... Black Ain't (1994)
2. Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
3. Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)

4. I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951)



A melodrama set in Georgia circa 1910. William Lundigan does well as a young minister, very genuine in his concerns for the spiritual welfare of his flock and not easily deterred. Most of the film though comes from the perspective of Susan Hayward as his wife who is less effective. She has one almost great scene in which she uses metaphors to tell off a flirtatious young woman, but this turns into formulaic squawking as she then openly tells her to go away.

[sortile9io]

Alright, I'll join the exploration party too, several of the nominees were already on my watchlist anyway, and will start with a few Anglo classics. As for the bonus game, I will pick one of my last year's two holdovers: En la selva no hay estrellas (Robles Godoy, 1967).



1. CASH ON DEMAND (Lawrence, 1961) — A good unadorned Hammer Christmas heist that puts both the banker and robber in the same bag (a pleasure for many to see, I presume) after teaching the former, much along the lines of Mr. Scrooge, a lesson to his merciless obsession with efficiency and self-proclaimed idea of moral dignity, it will appeal to fans of the Cushing/Morell duo and those who enjoy films that take place entirely in a single indoor set. 7/10



2. BUCHANAN RIDES ALONE (Boetticher, 1958) — An interesting and promising political setting at the beginning (USA border town owned by a corrupt family that runs into trouble with a Mexican pro-revolutionary honourable family) turns into a sort of more or less plain chase and deception game, not disappointing after all, because everything is skilful and concise, just like all the other four Boetticher’s westerns I’ve seen so far, and besides, Randolph Scott is becoming slowly one of my favourite cowboys. 7/10

[sol]

BUCHANAN RIDES ALONE (Boetticher, 1958) — An interesting and promising political setting at the beginning (USA border town owned by a corrupt family that runs into trouble with a Mexican pro-revolutionary honourable family) turns into a sort of more or less plain chase and deception game, not disappointing after all, because everything is skilful and concise, just like all the other four Boetticher’s westerns I’ve seen so far, and besides, Randolph Scott is becoming slowly one of my favourite cowboys. 7/10

Thanks for watching one of my DTC nominations. Glad you liked it. Probably my favourite Boetticher western after The Tall T. I was surprised to discover that it was on no Official Lists.

[Melvelet]

I don't know who nominated it, but given that it is my first 6/6 film that I have watched for this challenge, I will promote Chase a Crooked Shadow for the Bonus Challenge Game. I assume I can't claim a bonus challenge point for having just watched it myself. Or can I?

As a matter of fact it would take additional programming and logging effort to not count nominations before the date of the nomination

Congratulations to 10k checks btw

[sortile9io]

I searched manually. Took me about two minute per film.

Try using the search box on top of the Dtc topic, it is much faster.