1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Delicatessen
3. Thelma & Louise
4. The Commitments
5. Les amants du Pont-Neuf [The Lovers on the Bridge]
6. Fried Green Tomatoes

1. Délicatessen
2. The Silence of the lambs
3. Van Gogh
4. Tacones Lejanos
5. Tous les matins du monde
6. La belle noiseuse
7. Terminator 2
8. La Double Vie de véronique
9. My Own private Idaho

Same issue with my computer as last week, so you can still vote until Monday morning. I hope I can find time to watch another film; I simply cannot find the time to watch 4+ films in only 2 weeks.

Questions for Romain and other French cinephiles:

La Belle Noiseusse is my first Rivette. Where should I go next?

Also, if I was lukewarm on The Taste Of Others, should I see Let's Talk About The Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie)?

First my own list, which is kinda pathetic, couldn't even come up with a proper top 10. Did manage to watch La Double Vie, but didn't really enjoy it.

1. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron)
2. The Silence Of The Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
3. Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott)
4. Raise The Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang)
5. Beauty And The Beast (Gary Trousdale / Kirk Wise)
6. JFK (Oliver Stone)
7. Hook (Steven Spielberg) (5 points)
8. La Double Vie de Véronique [The Double Life of Veronique] (Krzysztof Kieslowski) (4 points)

And the top 10, with Demme's masterpiece receiving at least 20 points from every voter except Greg and thus destroying the competition. Other than that, 1991 seems like a pretty good year for French cinema.

Title (Director) - Points/Votes/#1s
1. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) - 461/12/5
2. Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà [Raise the Red Lantern] (Zhang Yimou) - 234/7/2
3. Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott) - 222/8/0
4. La Double Vie de Véronique [The Double Life of Veronique] (Krzysztof Kieslowski) - 164/6/0
5. Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - 156/6/1
6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron) - 151/8/1
7. Les Amants du Pont-Neuf [The Lovers on the Bridge] (Leos Carax) - 141/6/1
8. Barton Fink (Joel Coen) - 140/8/0
9. La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette) - 125/4/1
10. JFK (Oliver Stone) - 99/6/0

I have a question about JFK.

Is it worth seeing, even knowing it's a work of complete fiction that passes itself off as a historical document? Knowing that everything it says about the JFK murder is completely false? Is it something more than a trendy government conspiracy pic, and I'm missing something about it's appeal?

Right now I have it sort of mentally lumped in with the Dale Gribble-type "9/11 was an inside job" people.

Also, another question, regarding the 80's poll.

A) Is Berlin Alexanderplatz eligable?
B) Is anyone else voting for it? Should I devote 15 hours of my life to watching this?

3: there were at least two snipers.

The Clay Shaw subplot however provides the usual homophobic eyewash made in Hollywood.

Well gee Capt. Adama, thanks for insulting my intelligence. Assuming you've studied the JFK assassination, as you've implied you have, I guess I would ask, preliminarily, how bullet casings, specifically CE-399, as cited in the Warren Commision Report, match the style of gun (I'm sure you know which) Oswald was purported to have used; second, how you would explain, or, I guess, disregard, the testimony of 56 witnesses who testified that gunshots were fired directly from the "grassy knoll", and finally, how it's possible that Executive Order 11110, which potentially could have crippled the Fed, ended up being "assassinated" in a similar fashion...which more or less brings us to 9/11, plus or minus a Gulf of Tonkin here and a Gulf War there...but I'll let you respond to all this before I get into all that "evidence" I've ignored. Thanks,

T.M.

Thanks Petri, I'll make sure to see it. I think it might stream on Netflix.

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If you really want to play Dale Gribble about this, please start a different thread devoted to it instead of hijacking a film thread.

Yes, I would also say Berlin Alexanderplatz is eligible. I will at least try to watch it, but it's still quite far away.

Berlin Alexanderplatz was made for TV. If it is eligible, then Riget (The kingdom), and most importantly, Heimat, Die Zweite Heimat, and Die Dritte Heimat are too. Edgar Reitz spoke of the entire Heimat series as a series of "films".

I think what we decided upon in a previous discussion is that mini-series adapted for TV or shown in their entirety are eligible. Since Heimat was released and shown as a film, I'd say it is eligible. Same goes for Riget, as we've already decided in a previous topic. The Decalogue or Band of Brothers, on the other hand, were only ever aired as episodes, so we cannot vote for those.

I hadn't started collating for 1992 yet, but I'm reading through the lists now and I figure you'll want Die Zweite Heimat as your #1 for 1992?

Look, I'm sorry I insulted your intelligence. I'd love to have an in depth discussion about this, and I only do not because this is not the forum for it. I'm sure there's some circumstantial evidence supporting the conspiracies, but there's a direct path of hard physical evidence supporting the accepted versions. Eyewitness testimony has been proven to be unreliable, especially during an episode of mass panic, so if it contradicts the ballistics evidence, I'll go with the ballistics evidence. Bush's crime is exploiting a tragedy to promote his political agenda.

I would go more in depth, but this is a music forum, and I will not have this conversation here.