And now for the (final) posting you have all been waiting for: Our rankings! Hahahaha.
Pixelmatsch’s ranking:
- The Midnight After
- Tsuruhachi to Tsurujiro
- Ship bun
- Calvary
- Kraftidioten
- Akibiyori
- Nymphomaniac
- Bai Ri Yan Huo
- Einstein²
- Ieji
- Mo Jing
- Yukinojo
- Arrete ou je continue
- Velvet Terrorists
- Love is Strange
- Doshaburi
- Wa ga ya wa tanoshii
- Jujiro
- Faust
- The cheat
- Nasake no hikari
- We come as friends
- The typhoon
My own ranking actually changed a million times, with some titles going up and down by as much as five ranks. Sometimes it’s really hard to figure out what I think.
Sasa’s ranking
- Tsuruhachi Tsurujiro
- The Midnight After
- Akibiyori
- Ship bun
- Calvary
- Einstein and Einstein
- Kraftidioten
- Chiisai Ouchi
- Bai Ri Yan Huo
- Retrospective Shorts
- Arrete ou je continue
- Velvet Terrorists
- Nymphomaniac Vol. 1
- Doshaburi
- Love is strange
- Mo jing
- Tui na
- Wa ga ya wa tanoshii
- Faust
- Praia do futuro
- La belle et la bete
- We come as friends
- Nasake no hikari
- Ninjo kamifusen
- Jujiro
- The Cheat
- The Typhoon
In this most recent iteration of a ranking, I would loosely say that 1-6 are brilliant, 7-11 were also brilliant but had a few weaknesses, 12-17 were very good, 18-21 were alright and 22-27 were rather bad.
I am surprised that Ieji and Yukinojo henge are so high up in your ranking. It really makes me want to watch them!
I’m a sucker for Tohoku content and the sadness of the crippled Yukinojo probably propped it up a little more than it deserves in its current form but yeah, you should put them on your list!
You should watch “Wake up, Girls” then hahahaha. Their earthquake relief song is even positively uplifting.
Actually I didn’t comment on this so far! Hahaha, I’m very satisfied that I have seen 5 of Sasa’s best 6 and only 2 of the 6 worst :) It’s striking how similar all of our rankings are – there were no movies on which we didn’t agree at all? And I guess I really have to watch The Midnight After, Kraftidioten and Bai Ri Yan Huo soon.
Hach, I loved to read new Berlinale posts every few days – that way the Berlinale felt a little bit longer! <3 Thanks for sharing all your thoughts and recommendations!