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	52	3	5278	9	13	2	22	2	18
2	sol	49	11	4732	2	5	2	12	4	6
3	sortile9io	36	1	3802	5	7	1	13	4	6
4	72aicm	32	0	3307	10	2	0	5	1	2
5	AB537	31	2	3148	4	6	2	8	1	5
6	DudeLanez	25	2	2475	4	9	4	19	0	10
7	beavis	24	1	2566	0	1	0	10	1	7
8	Melvelet	23	2	2142	6	5	4	6	2	5
8	OldAle1	23	1	1999	2	2	0	3	2	1
10	Bing147	21	0	1987	2	2	1	11	0	5
11	jdidaco	18	1	1431	0	2	0	1	1	0
11	Perception de Ambiguity	18	1	2322	1	2	1	3	1	3
13	lineuphere	17	1	1393	1	1	1	6	3	2
13	zuma	17	0	1563	1	0	0	2	2	1
15	zzzorf	15	3	1426	0	3	0	6	0	5
16	hurluberlu	12	0	1252	3	4	3	5	0	5
16	klaus78	12	0	1233	1	5	1	5	0	5
18	filmbantha	11	5	1048	1	3	1	5	0	4
18	Lonewolf2003	11	0	1167	0	1	0	8	0	3
18	pitchorneirda	11	0	1382	4	3	3	6	0	5
18	St. Gloede	11	0	1016	1	1	1	3	2	2
22	blocho	5	0	472	1	0	0	2	0	2
23	maksler	4	0	478	2	3	0	3	0	2
24	connordenney	3	0	305	1	2	1	2	0	2
24	monclivie	3	0	205	1	1	1	0	0	0
24	ororama	3	0	297	1	1	1	2	0	1
24	vortexsurfer	3	0	297	1	1	1	1	0	1
28	beasterne	2	0	213	0	0	0	1	0	1
28	frbrown	2	0	173	0	0	0	0	1	0
-	overall	494	34	49109	64	85	31	170	27	109

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	0
Shokei no shima	Punishment Island	1966	Melvelet	1
Special		2006	filmbantha	2
Stir		1980	sol	1
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	206
Japan	65
France	55
UK	51
Italy	25
Australia	13
Germany	12
Canada	10
Sweden	10
Yugoslavia	10
Belgium	9
South Korea	8
India	7
Iran	7
Hong Kong	6
Mexico	6
Russia	6
Soviet Union	6
Brazil	5
Czechoslovakia	5
Egypt	5
Lebanon	5
West Germany	5
Chile	4
Norway	4
Philippines	4
Switzerland	4
Turkey	4
Argentina	3
Austria	3
Denmark	3
Greece	3
Iceland	3
Armenia	2
Estonia	2
Israel	2
Spain	2
Angola	1
Bulgaria	1
China	1
Cuba	1
East Germany	1
Ethiopia	1
Finland	1
Hungary	1
Indonesia	1
Lesotho	1
Netherlands	1
Peru	1
South Africa	1
Taiwan	1
Thailand	1

Decade breakdown:

Decade	Count
1900s	5
1910s	7
1920s	13
1930s	15
1940s	52
1950s	55
1960s	76
1970s	62
1980s	55
1990s	54
2000s	71
2010s	123

Director breakdown (n >= 2)

Director	Count
Makoto Shinkai	7
Michael Boydstun	6
Alli Coates	5
Ben Russell	5
Nagisa Ôshima	5
Tim Grabham	5
Vatroslav Mimica	5
William Dieterle	5
Youssef Chahine	5
Aleksey Balabanov	4
David Leitch	4
Faith Hubley	4
Hayao Miyazaki	4
Henry King	4
Isao Takahata	4
James Benning	4
Jean-Pierre Melville	4
John Hubley	4
Joseph L. Anderson	4
Matthew Rankin	4
Michael Anderson	4
Mike Mills	4
Nathaniel Dorsky	4
Raoul Walsh	4
Ruben Östlund	4
Tom Noakes	4
Alan Crosland	3
Alex Ross Perry	3
Alfred L. Werker	3
Anthony Asquith	3
Arthur J. Bressan Jr.	3
Bertrand Blier	3
Bill Plympton	3
Borhane Alaouié	3
Cyprien Gaillard	3
David Firth	3
Don Hertzfeldt	3
Edith Carlmar	3
Erich von Stroheim	3
Francis Thompson	3
Hal Hartley	3
Ingmar Bergman	3
Jim Drain	3
John Greyson	3
Kwon-taek Im	3
Lotfi Thabet	3
Marcelo Epstein	3
Masahiro Shinoda	3
Max Mack	3
Mikio Naruse	3
Nicolas Provost	3
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi	3
Paul McDermott	3
Satyajit Ray	3
Alain Jessua	2
Alberto Lattuada	2
Alessandro Blasetti	2
Anthony Mann	2
Arthur Rosson	2
Ben Rivers	2
Budd Boetticher	2
Carlos Adriano	2
Cecilia Mangini	2
Charles Vidor	2
Chris Williams(co-director)	2
Claude Barras	2
Craig Gillespie	2
David Fincher	2
Don Hall(co-director)	2
Edward Norton	2
Ermanno Olmi	2
Ernesto Contreras	2
Fernando Di Leo	2
Franco Rosso	2
Frank Tuttle	2
Fred C. Newmeyer	2
Georg Wilhelm Pabst	2
Gustav Möller	2
Gösta Werner	2
Hal Haberman	2
Han Hsiang Li	2
Harutyun Khachatryan	2
Howard Hawks	2
Jacques Doillon	2
Jacques Feyder	2
Jacques Tourneur	2
James Broughton	2
James Francis Khehtie	2
James Ward Byrkit	2
Jean Epstein	2
Jean Grémillon	2
Jean Negulesco	2
Jean Renoir	2
Jeremy Passmore	2
John Ford	2
John Halas	2
John Musker	2
John Smith	2
Jon Scoffield	2
Jonas Geirnaert	2
Joris Ivens	2
Josef von Sternberg	2
Joy Batchelor	2
Jules Dassin	2
Jérémy Clapin	2
Karim Aïnouz	2
Kim Ki-duk	2
Majid Majidi	2
Marlon Riggs	2
Mervyn LeRoy	2
Michael Arias	2
Michael Schultz	2
Mike De Leon	2
Mike Leigh	2
Murat Sayginer	2
Nicolas Gessner	2
Oskar Fischinger	2
Otto Preminger	2
Paul Schrader	2
Peter B. Hutton	2
Philip S. Solomon	2
Pierre Koralnik	2
Ramon Bloomberg	2
Robert Siodmak	2
Ron Clements	2
Sacha Guitry	2
Sam Taylor	2
Stanislav Rostotskiy	2
Susumu Hani	2
Tay Garnett	2
Terence Fisher	2
Tomu Uchida	2
Tony Richardson	2
Toshiaki Toyoda	2
Vittorio De Seta	2
Vladimir Momcilovic	2
William Castle	2
Yasujirô Ozu	2
Yoshifumi Kondô	2
Ziad Doueiri	2

Genre breakdown

Genre

Count

Movies that have been challenged more than once

Times challenged	Name	Year	IMDB	ICM
6	Beyond the Mind's Eye	1993
5	5 Centimeters Per Second	2007
5	Alexandria... Why?	1979
5	American Reflexxx	2015
5	Films to Break Projectors	2017
5	Typhoid Sufferers	1963
4	Atomic Blonde	2017
4	Chase a Crooked Shadow	1958
4	Deformer	2000
4	Incident by a Bank	2010
4	Magnet of Doom	1963
4	Nursery Rhymes	2018
4	Spring Night Summer Night	1967
4	The Flying Train	1902
4	Threnody	2004
4	Windy Day	1968
3	Body Rock	1984
3	Buffet Froid	1979
3	Cities of Gold and Mirrors	2011
3	Cream	2016
3	Death by Hanging	1968
3	Gravity	2006
3	Hair High	2004
3	Hello, Sister!	1933
3	Her Smell	2018
3	House	1977
3	Il ne suffit pas que Dieu soit avec les pauvres	1978
3	My Neighbors the Yamadas	1999
3	N.Y., N.Y.	1957
3	Ponce de León	2012
3	Rope of Sand	1949
3	The Girl Who Swallowed Bees	2007
3	The Song of Bernadette	1943
3	The Stoker	2010
3	The Wayward Girl	1959
3	Two	1965
3	Zero Patience	1993
3	Zweimal gelebt	1912
2	9 Souls	2003
2	A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness	2013
2	Air Force	1943
2	Animal Farm	1954
2	Babylon	1980
2	Black Is... Black Ain't	1994
2	Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji	1955
2	Buddies	1985
2	Bunny Lake Is Missing	1965
2	Caliber 9	1972
2	Coherence	2013
2	Cooley High	1975
2	Coster Bill of Paris	1922
2	Criss Cross	1949
2	Documentarist	2003
2	Dr. Jack	1922
2	Exam Conditions	1992
2	Flatlife	2004
2	Frankenstein Created Woman	1967
2	From the Life of the Marionettes	1980
2	Hollywood Story	1951
2	I Dream in Another Language	2017
2	I, Tonya	2017
2	Invisible Life	2019
2	La Poison	1951
2	Ladies in Retirement	1941
2	Last Days in a Lonely Place	2007
2	Life Is Sweet	1990
2	Life Upside Down	1964
2	Mandala	1981
2	Moana	2016
2	Motherless Brooklyn	2019
2	My Life as a Zucchini	2016
2	Porco Rosso	1992
2	Salomé	1969
2	Skagafjördur	2004
2	Skhizein	2008
2	Special	2006
2	Stemple Pass	2012
2	Stendalì: Suonano ancora	1960
2	T's World: The Over Identification of Terry Thompson	2013
2	Tekkonkinkreet	2006
2	The Bow	2005
2	The Browning Version	1951
2	The Color of Paradise	1999
2	The Dawns Here Are Quiet	1972
2	The Entertainer	1960
2	The Flying Fish	2019
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 Sacrifice	1946
2	The Tall Target	1951
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	Underworld	1927
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.