The Syndicate

My obsession with cinema began when I was 11. It has since swallowed me whole.

For Your Consideration:

Some of us love cinema in a legit erotic way. For those people, I present the following.

For nearly forty years this story has given faithful service to the Young
in Heart; and Time has been powerless to put its kindly philosophy out of
fashion.

To those of you who have been faithful to it in return

...and to the Young in Heart --- I dedicate this mafia game.

Film Director Mafia

This will be a traditional-format game, but with an inappropriate amount of fun.

Civilians

Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse Director: Has BTSC with Tarantino.


Quentin Tarantino Grindhouse Director: Has BTSC with Rodriguez.


David Lean Director of epics, he knows the value of taking one's time during shoots. Steady wins the race. 2 lynch pardons.


George Cukor American Director of Classic Comedies. Can target a player to reference a romantic comedy in each post they make.


Howard Hawks Classic Hollywood Director. A silent era director that fully embraced and utilized sound, he can be flexible. May adopt a player's power at night.


Jean Luc Godard New Wave Director: Can send one message every day period to protege Truffaut.


François Truffaut New Wave Director: Can send one message every night period to mentor Godard.


Busby Berkeley Glitzy movie director and cinematographer: Can distract another player with glam and gold. Role blocker.


Sergei Eisenstein Soviet Film Director and Godfather of Montage. Can post a recap each day.


Fritz Lang German-Austrian Expressionist: Can creatively post his thoughts every night.


Darren Aronofsky Another auteur who can find BTSC with David Lean using math, a common theme in his films.


Pedro Almodovar With passion and desire being two of the prevalent themes of this acclaimed Spanish director, he may cause 2 players to miss the vote due to the manifestation of their carnal desires.


Stanley Kubrick Realist, perfectionist director and genre hopper. He can once reshoot a day period.


Cecil B Demille Known for his flamboyant showmanship, he also successfully made the transition from silent to sound. Each night he searches for Howard Hawks. If he finds him, they gain BTSC.


Orson Welles Excess and the demise of Don Quixote left the former prodigy weak. However, in his early days, he is stronger. For the first 5 votes, his vote will count as 2. And 0 thereafter.


John Waters Transgressive and ecclectic cult film director who often features Baltimore in his films. He can send The Baltimore FootStomper out after a player each night. That player will be muted during the day period and blocked during the night period.


Ingmar Bergman Evocative Swedish film director who often had religion as a theme in his films. May grant amnesty to a player 3x, which will result in his/her removal from the lynch that day.

Mafia - The Brotherhood (BTSC). Odd Night Kill.


Coen Bros. Jewish brothers who often use the same actors in their films. Can call upon the Golem to protect a player.


Duplass Bros. Mumblecore creators. Inspired by Cassavetes, their super-realism shows the nuances of every day life.


Wachowskis. Siblings known for their multi-part storytelling.

Mafia - The Hacks (BTSC). Even Night Kill.


Michael Bay Known for explosions over plot, this director, can distract civs and turn their minds off (role block).


Uwe Boll Known for video game adaptations, he can twice lock the thread when his work gets criticized.


Roland Emmerich Natural disaster movie guru, his over the top films do not garner much critical acclaim.


Events
* The Katherines (Katherines Bigelow and Hardwicke)
* Billy Wilder's Cameo
* Shyamalan Clusterhump
* Actors Turned Directors Day (Clint Eastwood, George Clooney, Ron Howard, Mel Gibson. etc)
* Bollywood Day
* Nollywood Day
* Oscar Party!
* Everything's animated! (John Lassiter and Miyizaki stop by.)
* James Lipton Interviews the Directors
* Fresh Air Interview w/Terry Gross
* Directors Respond to Bad Reviews
* Roger Ebert
* Raimi Drops Keep Falling on My Head
* Misspelled Director's Chair.
* Interfering Producer(s)
* David Lynch Period
* Georges Melies Short Film
* Found Footage Fest
* Lucas/Spielburg Retaliation
* Copolla Cop Out
* Ozu, Oh Me!
* Christopher Nolan Nation
* That's Not Scorsese!
* Where's Roman Polanski Hiding?
* and more

Items
Film ratings, Academy Awards, and Positive Reviews


PLAYER LIST
Made 2.0 (originally Lizzy)
Long Con
Ricochet
TurnipHead 2.0 (originally Roxy)


Dead:
BirdWithTeeth - Killed Day 1 (Howard Hawks) Day reshot
A Person - Killed Day 1 (Darren Aronofsky)
MovingPictures07 - Killed Day 2 (Stanley Kubrick)
FZ - Murdered Night 2.
Vompatti - Killed Day 3 (Francois Truffaut)
BirdWithTeeth11 - Murdered Night 3, Rezz'd
Ninjablooper - Killed Day 4 (Pedro Almodovar)
Timmer - Murdered Night 4
Made - Lynched Day 5 (David Lean)
thellama73 - Murdered Night 5
Turnip Head - Lynched Day 6 (John Waters)
BirdWithTeeth11 - Murdered Night 6
Metalmarsh - Lynched Day 7 (Uwe Boll)
Black Rock - Murdered Night 7
DFaraday - Lynched Day 8 (Jean-Luc Godard)
S~V~S - Murdered Night 8
Bass - Murdered Night 9
A Person - Lynched Day 10
Vompatti - Murdered Night 11
Canucklehead - Lyched Day 12
Dom - Murdered Night 12

The Story So Far
Day 1 - BWT is lynched
Day 1 is rewound (BWT still lives)
Day 2 - Moving Pictures is lynched.
Night 2 - FZ is murdered
Day 3 - Vompatti is lynched
Night 3 - BirdWithTeeth is murdered. BWT is rezz'd
Day 4 - Ninjablooper is lynched.
Night 4 - Timmer is murdered.
Day 5 - Made is lynched.
Night 5 - thellama73 is murdered.
Day 6 - A Person replaces Sabie. Made replaces Lizzy.
Turnip Head is lynched.
Night 6 - BirdWithTeeth11 has been murdered.
Day 7 - Vompatti replaces SpaceDaisy.
Metalmarsh is lynched.
Night 7 - Black Rock is murdered.
Day 8 - DFaraday is lynched.
Night 8 - S~V~S is murdered.
Day 9 - No one died.
Night 9 - Bass is murdered.
Day 10 - A Person is lynched.
Night 10 - No one died.
Day 10 - No one died.
Night 11 - Vompatti 2.0 is murdered.
Day 12 - Canucklehead is lynched (Cecil B. Demille)
Night 12 - Dom is murdered.

MAFIA: The Hacks won!
Congrats to Metalmarsh, Turniphead & Ricochet!

Honorary Winner: Roxy!

RULES.

1. No unauthorized BTSC (behind the scenes conversation).

2. No role outing or information dumping. If you have a concern about this or whether a prospective post is questionable, please feel free to PM me or the game mod, Epignosis. Remember that it's not actually better to ask forgiveness rather than permission.

3. Epignosis is our game mod. If you feel overheated (in a bad way) by a fellow player or host (that's me), take it to him. That's what he's here for! If you have concerns about my hosting or just generally any issues, he is a great resource. But remember, although I might seem like pushover, Epi the Enforcer will kindly make sure this is a tight ship.

4. Off-topic conversation is not discouraged in my games (imagine that), but please use Off-Topic green. There's an OT button in the toolbar above.

5. Non-players can post off-topic only, but please use Non-Player blue. There's an NP button in the toolbar above.

6. Dead players can post off-topic only, but please use Dead Red. There's a Dead button in the toolbar above.

7. I will be posting in this color. Please refrain from using it.

8. Don't be a jerk.

9. No double targeting. This means you cannot choose the same person to target on subsequent nights.

10. FUN is a requirement.

11. No one is Supatown.

Canucklehead wrote:Hmmmmm....I am by no means an expert in or connoisseur of film, so imma just vote for a woman, cuz there are practically none on the list.
Ava Duvernay is absent, and Kathryn Bigelow is spelt wrong which made her hard to google, and Nora Ephron made "Julie and Julia" which I hated, and while I loved "The Virgin Suicides", "Marie Antoinette" was an abomination that should've revoked Sofia Copola's filmmaking liscense, so that leaves me with Susanne Bier, of whom I have never heard, but whose films I may now watch just because I now feel an intimate connection with her because I just typed a long and unnecessary paragraph justifying a vote for her.

I truly believe Susanne Bier is the most gifted filmmaker alive today. I had Penny Marshall and others on the list too (Catherine Hardwicke, foreign directors, Mira Nair etc). but you can only have 50 poll options.

Canucklehead wrote:

Mongoose wrote:

Canucklehead wrote:Hmmmmm....I am by no means an expert in or connoisseur of film, so imma just vote for a woman, cuz there are practically none on the list.
Ava Duvernay is absent, and Kathryn Bigelow is spelt wrong which made her hard to google, and Nora Ephron made "Julie and Julia" which I hated, and while I loved "The Virgin Suicides", "Marie Antoinette" was an abomination that should've revoked Sofia Copola's filmmaking liscense, so that leaves me with Susanne Bier, of whom I have never heard, but whose films I may now watch just because I now feel an intimate connection with her because I just typed a long and unnecessary paragraph justifying a vote for her.

I truly believe Susanne Bier is the most gifted filmmaker alive today. I had Penny Marshall and others on the list too (Catherine Hardwicke, foreign directors, Mira Nair etc). but you can only have 50 poll options.

In that case, I am legit excited to watch her films! Where should I start? The one she won the Oscar for? (Keep in mind I am a cinema neophyte and may not appreciate some of the subtler/more technical aspects of filmmaking...

In a Better World won her the Oscar, but I loved After the Wedding in a nearly erotic way. It's being currently remade by Hollywood, who also remade her film Brothers.

Cinema neophytes are welcome!

zeek wrote:No Hitchcock on the poll

Hitchcock was a big omission -- I didn't put any of the characters I had in my game in the poll (which was an easy way to delete the poll options from 210 to 50), but I forgot I deleted him. He might pop up somewhere later k.

Vic/Ric - You are just remembering wrong, sug. My living room is Hitchcock themed. I should take pictures. He's actually my favorite director (I refer to PT Anderson as my favorite living director because I am ridiculous).

Ricochet wrote:That movie was genuinely bonkers, but in all sorts of good ways, I thought.

I don't know, atm, if I should just dive into Inherent Vice or attempt the book first.

I was not impressed by the film. It's deffo my least favorite PTA film.

timmer wrote:Going by the poll, I voted for Fellini but almost went with my homeboy Cronenberg. But really, there's just no topping Fellini, c'mon. 8 1/2? Roma? Satyricon? La Strada? God, I LOVE Fellini.

Mmm my favorite is La Strada. Gotta love a circus theme. By the way, did anyone see The Last Circus? The opening 10 minutes blew my mind into a thousand shards.

Roxy wrote:no Taurog :/ he directed the only movie I have watched 100's of times. went with Mel Brooks bc he brought the funny every time.

There's a great new documentary out about Mel Brooks you might fancy called "Make a Noise" that I really loved. It spans his whole career, and gives tidbits on the making of many gems, including Young Frankenstein and The Producers. Delicious.

Vompatti wrote:he's k but not in my personal top 100

What IS your personal top 100?

thellama73 wrote:I mean, Tyler Perry makes the list but not Michael freaking Curtiz? I sense a bias towards modern directors at the expense of the classics.

I did it for the lulz. I mean he is a very popular director. And wears the hell out of a suit in Gone Girl, by the way.

Vompatti wrote:

Vompatti wrote:

Mongoose wrote:

Vompatti wrote:he's k but not in my personal top 100

What IS your personal top 100?

i might make one k

not in a completely non-random order:

andrei tarkovsky
jean-luc godard
wim wenders
jean eustache
jean vigo
walerian borowczyk
robert bresson
luis bunuel
akira kurosawa
rainer werner fassbinder
john cassavetes
aki kaurismäki
emir kusturica
leos carax
pier paolo pasolini
maya deren
marco ferreri
werner herzog
kenneth anger
gabor body
tommy wiseau
jean cocteau
f. w. murnau
alain resnais
carl theodor dreyer
francois truffaut
alain corneau
frank henenlotter
dusan makavejev
jim jarmusch
krzysztof kieslowski
jean-pierre melville
masaki kobayashi
lucio fulci
rene clair
louis malle
eric rohmer
buster keaton
jan svankmajer
victor sjöström
irving lerner
roman polanski
milos forman
sergio leone
e. elias merhige
michael haneke
david cronenberg
alain robbe-grillet
volker schlöndorff
michelangelo antonioni
lars von trier
hans richter
bela tarr
jean rollin
russ meyer
jean-jacques beineix
robin hardy
david lynch
sergio corbucci
richard brooks
stanley kubrick
otto muehl
sergei eisenstein
ed wood
stuart gordon
alexander dovzhenko
leonard kastle
john ford
matti ijäs
dario argento
francesco rosi
jean renoir
mario bava
teuvo tulio
john hillcoat
luchino visconti
henri-georges clouzot
sam peckinpah
fritz lang
john huston
alexander sokurov
takashi miike
umberto lenzi
orson welles
mikko niskanen
charlie chaplin
federico fellini
martin scorsese
ingmar bergman
fatih akin
michel gondry
robert altman
jacques rivette
ken russell
luc besson
peter greenaway
bernardo bertolucci
ridley scott
tim burton
peter weir

OMG let's get married

thellama73 wrote:

Mongoose wrote:

thellama73 wrote:I mean, Tyler Perry makes the list but not Michael freaking Curtiz? I sense a bias towards modern directors at the expense of the classics.

I did it for the lulz. I mean he is a very popular director. And wears the hell out of a suit in Gone Girl, by the way.

Do you think Michael Curtiz is a good director? (Y/N)

Yes. Again, 50 spots! I had 210 in there originally. Can you imagine what it was like for me to cut... how many ever people that is from the poll?

Visceral pain.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Who still hasn't checked in?

I'm a little too loopy and headachey to match up the numbers, but it's 5 players. I'll give them another day and then post Day 1 tomorrow.

timmer wrote:Some question for Mongoose:

Kubrick can "reshoot a day period" once in the game. Does that he reverses a day, annulling the lynch, or just simply that we get two day periods in a row?

The Duplass, Wachowskis and Emmerich seem to not have any powers? Is this true?

Uwe Boll - what does "lock the thread" mean, exactly?

Thanks, and items of interest to throw out there:

The Coens Bros have been picked to lead this year's Cannes jury!

Also, in light of Welles being in this game, his unfinished film The Other Side of the Wind, starring Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper, John Huston and featuring all kinds of filmmakers like Claude Chabrol has actually now been completed and will screen at Cannes in May on Welles' 100th birthday!!!

Kubrick's role - more annulment in scope.

True, they do not have any powers, per se.

Lock the thread, meaning no one can post for a period of time.

I was hearing about Jason Segel playing David Foster Wallace at Sundance and that was very intriguing. And also a new Duplass Bros series with 10 episodes. So stoked.

Ricochet wrote:Also, there's a 1932 version fo Scarface ????

It's the Paul Muni version. Listen to how vibrant the *pop* *pop* *pop* of the guns sound. It is a great example of one of the first films to really exquisitely use sound.

Definitely give it a go, and if you like that, try Angels with Dirty Faces.

Tonight I'm watching this weird film Wetlands, based on the book of the same title. It's on Netflix, for those that may be interested.

MovingPictures07 wrote:So who is that one no show anyway? I'll try and find out here.

HOST: Just a request, but for future polls and for the main player listing, is it possible for the names to be alphabetized? I know it's rather trivial, but it helps for better organization: to keep better track of who is playing, who has votes, etc.

Thanks!

Absolutely! Thanks for letting me know that's useful.

Vompatti wrote:Is my mafia clock correct if it says I can still sleep for 18-19 hours before the lynch, q.m.

You're in the wrong place if you want me to do math, sug. Mine says 2:43pm EST (-5GMT).

A Person wrote:

Vompatti wrote:Is my mafia clock correct if it says I can still sleep for 18-19 hours before the lynch, q.m.

Yeah i think so, if you have your forum time set properly. It's just 7 hours behind for you if you're using EST though, so just subtract 7 from the time.

Thanks, Mattmatt!

Epignosis wrote:Voted Herschel Savage.

Oops, I had to google who that was. Well played, Epi.

Day 1 Vote

Who put the junk in the trunk?
Poll ended at Sun Jan 25, 2015 2:43:55 pm


A Person
1
A Person (18) 6%
Sockface
1
Canucklehead (7) 6%
Long Con
1
birdwithteeth11 (8) 6%
Spacedaisy
0
No votes
S~V~S
0
No votes
FZ.
0
No votes
Bass the Clever
0
No votes
Turnip Head
0
No votes
DFaraday
0
No votes
Made
1
Ricochet (17) 6%
Dom
1
MovingPictures07 (10) 6%
Lizzy
1
Spacedaisy (15) 6%
Vomperdoodle
0
No votes
Timmer
0
No votes
Birdy
5
S~V~S (9), timmer (12), thellama73 (13), Turnip Head (14), FZ. (16) 28%
Ricochet
0
No votes
Black Rock
0
No votes
Lolama
2
Lizzy (4), Dom (6) 11%
Ninja Blooper
0
No votes
Roxy
0
No votes
Sabie
0
No votes
Metalmarsh
2
Metalmarsh89 (2), Vompatti (11) 11%
Canucklehead
0
No votes
Lars von Trier (Host/Mod/NP/Deadies)
3
Mongoose (1), zeek (3), Epignosis (5) 17%
Total votes : 18

PSA: My night polls are just for fun. I encourage you to participate, but it is not mandatory and has not bearing on the game.


This is the historic Tampa Theatre. It was built in the 1920s. Llama and I saw Citizen Kane there in August.



http://tampatheatre.org/

thellama73 wrote:

Mongoose wrote:PSA: My night polls are just for fun. I encourage you to participate, but it is not mandatory and has not bearing on the game.


This is the historic Tampa Theatre. It was built in the 1920s. Llama and I saw Citizen Kane there in August.

We did. It was great.

Does this mean we have to use OT Green when talking about the night polls?

Nah.

Ricochet wrote:With nothing but Magnolia to ever possibly change this (since I still haven't seen it), my favourite PTA is definitely There Will Be Blood. And sorry to bitch, but this poll would have rather been nice in chronological order.

Well, that's how I was going to do it, but I remembered Sock's request for alphabetized! It will go back up on Night 1 by the way, so you will have two extra days to choose your favorite PTA film, wooo!

Made wrote:Made - p chill, could use more hugs tho

*Hugs*

DFaraday wrote:So sorry I missed the first day, hostess! I was out of town over the weekend and didn't really check in. I will catch up tomorrow, which is apparently Day 1, Version 2.0.

It's okay, the poll ended at a dumb time, so I totally understand.

Happy Monday, players!

Dom wrote:

Mongoose wrote:Hi darlings.

Hope you are having a magical ass Monday!

This was my favorite thing I saw this year: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2407380/combined

What was yours?

Happy hunting!

I don't watch many films, but I really really enjoyed The Skeleton Twins.

I did too! I watched them singing Starship 5x in a row.

Dom wrote:

Mongoose wrote:

Dom wrote:

Mongoose wrote:Hi darlings.

Hope you are having a magical ass Monday!

This was my favorite thing I saw this year: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2407380/combined

What was yours?

Happy hunting!

I don't watch many films, but I really really enjoyed The Skeleton Twins.

I did too! I watched them singing Starship 5x in a row.

SAME!! My friend and I reenact that scene all the time!!!!
The nitrous scene was so so so so SO funny! I have a feeling that Bill and Kristin ad-libbed a lot of that.

My biggest regret in life is that I never have a twin brother. Logan's the closest I have to do that.

My second biggest regret is that I am not actually Kristin Wiig.

What was the very last film you saw?

Mine was Luis Buñuel's Tristana (based on the novel of the same name), starring the effervescent Catherine Deneuve (did anyone catch her in the recentish film Potiche? I freakin loved that).

You've probably seen his classic short film Un Chien Andalou, but have you seen L'Age d'Or? Whoamg.


Deneuve shines brightly in Tristana.

MovingPictures07 wrote:I haven't seen any of these.

Oh crap, I hadn't anticipated that. So sorry!