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The time's they are a-changing Swo. I think if people can't fit in any of these late discoveries within the next ten days they can in a few years when we revisit this thing again.

Yeah, I mean, less than a day after I submitted my list, I saw two films I should have considered for inclusion. This will keep happening, regularly and indefinitely, right up to and beyond the deadline for the next iteration of the 60s list.

Well, I'm mostly curious if anyone is in the same boat as me and would just appreciate an extra week. (I'll concede that two would be pushing it.) If most of you are ready to move on, I'll leave the deadline where it is.

Might be in the minority, but I'd appreciate the extra week or two.

I've one more film to see then I'll send my list in.

My list, as I remember, is quite diverse in terms of nationality. No country dominates. There's barely a dozen English language films. Some big films/directors of the decade aren't there.

I certainly won't forget Franju

Tommaso wrote:Is there a "Medea" blu?

Or an "Eyes without a face" or "Judex" blu? Please don't forget voting for Franju, folks. These two films are among the most poetical and visually stunning works of this entire period.

And all three films I've just mentioned are in my Top Ten.

knives wrote:I'm probably missing out on a joke, but Jancso has pretty much no dialogue in his films.

That's not remotely true.

I've got a few big names I want to get to before submitting my list, and while I'd like to say I could use another week, I'm not sure how well I'd actually use it.

That said now that I'm in the business of picking what I should try to get to first. I was planning on watching a lot more Czechoslovak new wave films for this project than I have.

I've still got Celebration in the Botanical Gardens, 322, The Prime of Life, Birdies Orphans and Fools on DVD unwatched.

Should I rush out to see any of these?

YnEoS wrote:I've still got Celebration in the Botanical Gardens, 322, The Prime of Life, Birdies Orphans and Fools on DVD unwatched.

Should I rush out to see any of these?

Sorry. I wish that I could help, but I've never heard of any those. Perhaps MichaelB could give you a hand. It's been my experience that his knowledge of Eastern & Central European cinema is unrivaled on this board.

Noiradelic wrote:Might be in the minority, but I'd appreciate the extra week or two.

swo17 wrote:Well, I'm mostly curious if anyone is in the same boat as me and would just appreciate an extra week. (I'll concede that two would be pushing it.) If most of you are ready to move on, I'll leave the deadline where it is.

YnEoS wrote:I've got a few big names I want to get to before submitting my list, and while I'd like to say I could use another week, I'm not sure how well I'd actually use it.

I'd appreciate it too, as I was going to ask for an extension but didn't feel it was my place to, since this is my first time participating. Got exams and a dissertation to hand in next week, and going to run out of time to get through my pile of stuff to watch.

YnEoS wrote:I've got a few big names I want to get to before submitting my list, and while I'd like to say I could use another week, I'm not sure how well I'd actually use it.

That said now that I'm in the business of picking what I should try to get to first. I was planning on watching a lot more Czechoslovak new wave films for this project than I have.

I've still got Celebration in the Botanical Gardens, 322, The Prime of Life, Birdies Orphans and Fools on DVD unwatched.

Should I rush out to see any of these?

All of them, if you have time (though none made my list). From the Golden Sixties set, I got the impression that The Prime of Life was a very big deal for other filmmakers, one of those local touchstone films like The Sun in a Net that didn't travel at the time, so that might give it a slight edge.

This is 'Murica.... we call it The Crucial Years around these parts.

That sounds like a Bon Jovi Greatest Hits CD.

Two extra weeks means people have more time to see Sundays and Cybele... \:D/

But I've already submitted my list so I'm cool with the current deadline.

Dylan wrote:Two extra weeks

Well, let's not go crazy. Given the moderate interest in an extension, let's go with just one more week (putting it at the 26th). If you've already submitted a list, feel free to a) keep watching '60s films and revise your list if you see fit, b) put your time into the animation list, or c) get a headstart watching '70s films.

Just PMed you my updated 50s list

Hmmm...On the Beach, interesting choice for your #1 spot.

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One final recommendation, and the only 'experimental' film which will be on my list:

Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (Mary Ellen Bute, 1966): Of course Joyce's final book must be the most unfilmable work in literary history, but this film proves to be a surprisingly satisfying and successful attempt. Taking many key passages (the funeral scene, the washerwomen, the final floating into the sea, to name a few), the film captures the paralogic of the text with beautiful images that are less surrealist than dreamlike in the more narrow sense of the word but also manages to convey a lot of the humour that is in Joyce's text. Don't try to make any 'sense' of it (even though it's possible in some way) and float along with the visuals. A much more convincing film than Strick's "Ulysses", if you ask me.

Got a few more lists in over the weekend. Though the "canon" usually ends up coming through in the end, it's always interesting to see how things shape up one list at a time. For instance, there is one rather prominent film that showed up in zero of the first ten lists submitted, but in all but one of the last six, presently placing it in our overall top 10.

Just saw Les Tontons Flingueurs for the first time -- and it will likely make my list -- laughed my ass off.

Have submitted my list now. Statistics (if I haven't miscounted) by country:

Japan 12
Italy 9
France 7
USSR 6

followed by the usual suspects. I even managed to get exactly one German film in, even though it was made by a British director (guess who).

Tommaso wrote:I even managed to get exactly one German film in, even though it was made by a British director (guess who).

Harumph. Did you see at least Kirmes by Wolfgang Staudte?

Germany's faring pretty well overall, I think. I don't know what expectations might be, but so far, 13 films from West Germany and 2 from East Germany have received votes. (Note: This is including co-productions like The Trial and Medea.)

lubitsch wrote:Harumph. Did you see at least Kirmes by Wolfgang Staudte?

If you had given us some recommendation for it, I might have...