Since the copy of Tristana I picked up had no subtitles even though the Amazon listing said it did, I suppose my list is ready.
1. Performance
The Conformist (3)
Claire's Knee (2)
Le Boucher (2)
The Spider's Strategem (1)
The Red Circle (1)
1972-1977 are all some of the best years in cinema, why is 1970 so effing weak?
At least there's Performance. I love Roeg's use of sound and cutaways in the two films of his I've seen.
The Conformist is the only movie on the list in the TSPDT top 100. It's a good film, but I find it has some issues. What I like about it is the concept of the main character as a conformist, going along with the fascists while they're in power, then railing against them when they're not. But, the dubbing is pretty terrible and more obvious than most Italian films that dub. So much so that when I first watched the film, I paused it and checked imdb to make sure Italian really was the original language. Also the whole Plato's Cave metaphor doesn't really make sense in context. I'm not sure lack of broader knowledge had anything to do with the country accepting fascism and the film didn't sell it.
