Criterion Film Club: Suggestions and General Discussion

[Mr Sausage]

To coincide with the current List project, here are 5 films from 2010-2014 randomly chosen from the collection by swo17's excel witchery.

[Drucker]

Weekend is a superb film that I would love to revisit (and is way, way more focused than what little I watched of Looking).

[domino harvey]

Voted for Blue is the Warmest Color for the usual reasons: I own it and haven't seen it yet

[swo17]

Forgiveness of Blood is easily the least discussed of these films, and I remember it being rather good, even if it's not as tense and memorable as Maria Full of Grace.

[zedz]

Voted for Blue is the Warmest Color for the usual reasons: I own it and haven't seen it yet

I just watched it, it was okay, but the least interesting of the Kechiche films I've seen to date. Weekend is the only one on that list I'd consider great, and I want to rewatch it to see if it will make my list, so that's where my vote went.

[swo17]

We're at practically a 3-way tie here.

[Mr Sausage]

We've never had a three way tie before. In a normal tie, I just change my vote from one front-runner to the other, since I invariably vote for one of them at some point in the process--meaning I'm perpetually being disappointed. But a three way tie would finally allow my own arbitrary preferences free reign.

[zedz]

We will later remember this day as the start of Mr Sausage's quest for power that would ultimately make him Emperor of the Galaxy.

[Ricart]

This is the first time I have logged on to the film club and not sure how to vote.
Could someone explain? I realize this is probably a dumb question...
(I would pick Great Beauty, but clearly it will not win, so I would pick Blue is the warmest color from the list)
thanks

[Mr Sausage]

This is the first time I have logged on to the film club and not sure how to vote.
Could someone explain? I realize this is probably a dumb question...
(I would pick Great Beauty, but clearly it will not win, so I would pick Blue is the warmest color from the list)
thanks

You click the little round radio buttons to the left of each name to cast your vote. Not that you're likely to get to it now.

[TMDaines]

The polls are not available on Tapatalk though, for example.

[Mr Sausage]

Good point.

Also, Weekend is our winner.

[Numero Trois]

Mr. Sausage, can you decide the new Supreme Court justice?

[Mr Sausage]

You mean once again vote for things I haven't seen and know little about, from countries I don't live in?

[domino harvey]

You're right, welcome to the 2016 Republican Presidential Ticket instead

[Numero Trois]

Mr. Salsicha is eminently qualified just like some of the sitting members of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee

[Mr Sausage]

colinr0380, being our member of the year (long overdue), has curated this next vote.

[domino harvey]

I've only seen Kanal from this list, and it's a great film, but voted for Wooden Crosses for the usual reasons: I have it (well, the MoC Blu-Ray) and haven't seen it

[Drucker]

Wooden Crosses is great, and would be a re-watch for me, so even better, but I chose Following as I keep meaning to give the lesser-known Nolan titles a fair chance.

[DarkImbecile]

Also chose Following as I just picked it up with a gift certificate during the flash sale this week.

[colinr0380]

This is really a black-and-white film advocacy vote too, with films from different eras and all around the world that I could not really imagine being in colour! From abstracted World War Two in Kanal to 'real' World War One in Wooden Crosses, through to the epic widescreen ratio that ironically serves to emphasise the frames within frames boxing characters in of The Pornographers.

And you cannot talk about black-and-white film without at least one film noir, so Following seemed like a good choice there. Plus the still thrilling action-horror The Most Dangerous Game that is far more than just being a quick dry run at some of the challenges of the filmmaking team's upcoming King Kong!

[Mr Sausage]

Wooden Crosses it is!

[Mr Sausage]

Vote time. Here's a random list of some runners up from our previous votes.

Despite what it says above, I'm ending the poll early Monday morning.

[Mr Sausage]

Don't Look Now it is.

[Mr Sausage]

Random films, from Criterion, for voting!