16th Hall of Fame

Not that obscure

I think it's time for the reveal

It will be tomorrow. We have 11 films now.

I changed my nomination. If everyone's lists are up to date, nobody in this HoF has seen it.

Estimating 5:30 central time for reveal.

So are you able to tell us what your first one was?

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I haven't seen either, but I'm glad it was changed.

I lied! They are here a little early!

Waterloo Bridge- 1931



Wait Until Dark- 1967



Mr. Freedom- 1969



They Shoot Horses Don't They- 1969



Poison for the Fairies- 1984



Naked- 1993



Perfume: The Story of a Murderer- 2006



3:10 to Yuma- 2007



Three Monkeys- 2008



Frances Ha- 2012



Call Me By Your Name- 2017

Velvet was correct with his guesss.

Hmm... I've seen two (+ my own, obviously) of these before. I guess that's pretty much what I expected based on the older HoFs I checked.

Seen 4 including my own and all 4 are excellent. This will be an easy HoF to get through.

Besides my own nomination, I've only seen Call Me By Your Name. I watched it pretty recently and was fairly apathetic to it. I will watch it again but will probably save it for last.

My nomination is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime.

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Deadline: August 5th, 9/11 complete

Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
Nominated By: MovieMad16
2 hours, 12 mins
Source: Amazon Rental
Rewatch: Yes
Rating: +
Review: June 13, 2018


Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012)
Nominated By: rauldc14
1 hour, 26 mins
Source: Netflix
Rewatch: No
Rating:
Review: May 17, 2018


Mr. Freedom (William Klein, 1968)
Nominated By: Siddon
1 hour, 35 minutes
Source: Amazon Mubi Trial
Rewatch: No
Rating:
Review: May 31, 2018


Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
Nominated By: neiba
2 hours, 12 mins
Source: Library
Rewatch: No.
Rating:
Review: May 29, 2018


Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer, 2006)
Nominated By: edarsenal
2 hours, 27 mins
Source: Amazon Prime
Rewatch: No
Rating:
Review: June 11, 2018


Poison for the Fairies/Veneno para las hadas (Carlos Enrique Taboada, 1984)
Nominated By: pahaK
1 hours, 30 minutes
Source: Library
Rewatch: No
Rating: -
Review: May 24, 2018


They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969)
Nominated By: cricket
2 hours, 9 mins
Source: Library
Rewatch: No
Rating: +
Review: May 19, 2018


Three Monkeys/Üç Maymun (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2008)
Nominated By: Okay
1 hour, 49 mins
Source: Amazon Mubi Trial
Rewatch: No
Rating: +
Review: June 3, 2018


3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold, 2007)
Nominated By: Miss Vicky
2 hours, 2 mins
Source: My Collection
Rewatch: Yes
Rating: +
Review: May 20, 2018


Wait Until Dark (Terence Young, 1967)
Nominated By: HashtagBrownies
1 hour, 48 minutes
Source: Library
Rewatch: No
Rating: +
Review: May 26, 2018


Waterloo Bridge (James Whale, 1931)
Nominated By: Citizen Rules
1 hour, 21 mins
Source: YouTube
Rewatch: No
Rating: -
Review: May 15, 2018

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I've seen six, only one I didn't care for. Don't quite understand nominating foreign films while the other foreign film Hall of Fame is going. Looking at this field I think I should have gone with my second choice The Innocents, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, or The Collector would have gone very well with Wait Until Dark.

I'll probably watch Frances Ha first since it's on Netflix streaming and my wife may be interested.

I've seen five of the nominations, and few of them I've been planning on revisiting anyway, so this should be great.

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"A film has to be a dialogue, not a monologue — a dialogue to provoke in the viewer his own thoughts, his own feelings. And if a film is a dialogue, then it’s a good film; if it’s not a dialogue, it’s a bad film."

- Michael "Gloomy Old Fart" Haneke

Call Me By Your Name It was fine. I found it to be a little pornographic....not sexually but more wish fulfillment type. In a number of ways it's the inverse of Moonlight. Beautiful people living in a beautiful place with beautiful minds it was a little much. The film subverts your expectations slightly by not have any disapproving characters of the romance. Having a progressive family in a period piece is something different which I liked.

Timothee Chalamet is very good in this unlike Moonlight which was a true ensemble I think Chalamet really was the singular noteworthy performance. Both the age discrepancy between Hammer and Chalamet was a little uncomfortable for me. Also if your going to cast a jewish love story you shouldn't pick someone who is antithetically Jewish.

The snow shot at the end is probably the most gorgeous shot I saw that year. I also loved the sound track and I didn't have problems with the pacing that others had. I liked the first hour, I liked Stuhlbarg's monologue though I didn't think it was Oscar worthy or even his best work from that year.

Strange to pick a film everyone likely saw in December/January

That's the only movie I probably won't watch again since I just watched it two months ago. I really liked all of the performances but what really made the movie for me was the beautiful setting. I think I liked it as much as I could without being emotionally invested, and I will say the age difference was also a bit uncomfortable for me.

I found this movie on YouTube-

I've seen Call Me by Your Name as well, but I still am definitely going to revisit it, I liked it too much not to so I'm glad it was nominated.