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I actually got to see Black God, White Devil during Christmas vacation, but was really too tired to watch any film, so by the time the revolutionary character (the white devil allusion) came along, I was already zoning out. My first impressions of it though is that it's very folkloric and...

Yeah, the collective 124's take you up to 156, and the collective 157's take you all the way to 225. Kind of confusing, but makes sense.

Going by Brian W.'s Combined List, I vote for up to 157, since I've seen everything through 124, and the two that I need to see are in the 157 bracket. Just my two cents. :)

Since I finally got around to writing about Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles on my site, I thought I'd post my running thoughts (sans plot/visual description) here too. I guess, it's a fair assumption that this will be my last post on this old thread and any new post will be...

Oops! Updated Gary's total remaining to 8.

Updated everyone's totals in the Participants' List.

Update Doug D. and Brook's totals on the Participants' List. Brook, definitely try to catch I Was Born But... if you can. Ozu's earlier films were a bit more socially "expository" than his later, more insular gendai geki home dramas. While his later films only show the influence of the...

Updated Thi's total left to 39 in the Participants' List. I'm not too fond of Imitation of Life, but that applies to both versions (the earlier one had Claudette Colbert instead of Lana Turner), so I can't blame Douglas Sirk for that. The two Criterion DVDs, All that Heaven Allows and...

I'm just returning/recovering from vacation, so I apologize for not updating the totals. It looks as though the new totals are: Thi (42) , Brook (12), and Doug (41). Thanks for the compliment, Evan, I'm just glad to be able to share my love for film with everyone. By the way, I seem to be...

Updated the Participants' List with Darren and Evan's totals. Congratulations to Evan for completing the 1992 S&S Challenge! Darren, thanks for sharing your comments on Au Hasard Balthazar, Ikiru, and Strike!. I really like Bill Mousoulis' comment on Au Hasard Balthazar in Senses that...

That's quite a formidable task, Brian. Thanks for posting the composite list for us. There definitely is some discrepancy in the whole accounting system for the list as far as trilogies and sequels go, but overall not too bad. It's fairly clear though that the participants all had different...

Updated the Participants' List with Darren's and Tim's new totals. By the way, Tim, don't you mean 35 left? Either that, or you've gained another film in the S&S challenge after watching all those films. :D Kenji Mizoguchi's eye is definitely very distinctive. He had a penchant for crane...

I'm a little befuddled on the arbitrariness of what is lumped as a trilogy and what is not. Godfather is attached to Godfather Part 2 (but not Godfather Part 3), Three Colors: Blue, White, Red is a trilogy, but Pather Panchali is detached from the Apu Trilogy? :confused:

So here are the results for the 2002 Sight and Sound Top Ten: Critics Top Ten 1. Citizen Kane (Welles) 2. Vertigo (Hitchcock) 3. La Règle du jeu (Renoir) 4. The Godfather and The Godfather part II (Coppola) 5. Tokyo Story (Ozu) 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 7. Battleship...

Updated the Participants' List with Brook and Jim's new totals. Hmm...so BFI is only disclosing the Top 10 on Friday? :frowning: I wouldn't mind seeing how the rest of the films pan out.

Updated Thi's new total to 43. Regarding Yasuzo Masumura's Manji, it was definitely quite a lurid, wacky, entertaining, and aesthetically exquisite piece of filmmaking. Reminds me a bit of early Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura, played over-melodramatically a la Douglas Sirk. :D He definitely...

Updated the Participants' List with Tim's (44) and Darren's (28) new totals. Tim, Life of Oharu is one of my favorite films, so I'm always curious to hear how people to respond to it. It's a deceptively simple story, but Mizoguchi's eye for composition is simply breathtaking. Brook, Manji is...

Updated the Participants' List with Brook's (16) and Gary's (15) new totals. As for the standing of Citizen Kane among cineastes, I've been noticing a similar phenomenon in the last few years - not that it has completely fallen out of favor, but that people are beginning to wonder if the film...

Darren, ;) Ah, the unlimited perks of being a Dreyer-ite! Jim, thank you for your kind words. :b At the start of the Great Directors project, I had actually expressed interest in writing about Kenji Mizoguchi (who is my favorite filmmaker along with Dreyer), Yasujiro Ozu, and Satyajit...

Updated the list with Kevin's new total. Incidentally, I also wanted to mention as a continuation to the Dreyer "themes" discussion about a month back that my Senses of Cinema article is now up: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Updated Thi's totals and added Jim to the Participant's List

Welcome to HTF and especially the Sight and Sound Challenge, Kevin! You've been added to the Participant's List :D As for the Fox Lorber Godard films, My Life to Live looks very good. Pierrot le fou is a little worn, but the colors are still fairly vibrant and quite watchable. First Name...

Updated Darren and Brook's totals here. La Strada was the first or second Fellini film that I had ever seen, so I always have a special affection for it. For me, the film is also the most visually "literal" of Fellini's themes of the soul's (Gelsomina) struggle between the mind (The Fool) and...

Regarding 8 1/2, I know that I sound like a broken record by always qualifying my opinions with an "I'm not a fan of post-8 1/2 Fellini", but Darren's sentiments towards Fellini's earlier films echo mine. They just seem to be more emotionally honest and less self indulgent. As for La Terra...

Updated Thi's total, and added Doug to the S&S challenge. :) Just as a clarification, Jung Woo (who started the challenge) went AWOL on us sometime back, so I've been tracking everyone's progress on page 8 of the thread. The updated list is here Thi - There really isn't a specific order to...

The only one I've read is the SUNY book, The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema by Prof. Dixon. It's more of a primer book on directors and films though, than in-depth film analysis. There's also a new Deren book that came out last year, but I haven't...

Some additional information about Maya Deren: Meshes of the Afternoon was created during the time that Deren was having marital difficulties with her former husband, Alexander Hammid. A lot of these issues of domesticity (key) and emotional death (knife, mysterious woman in black) are...