The Syndicate

thellama73 wrote:I wouldn't worry about the head. If I know Piper (and I think I do) he has long since eaten the head as a trophy.

Hells bells, I hadn't even thought of that. Do you really think he could have?

The bird head was not in my friend's bag.

Night 1 Poll:

Favorite PT Anderson Film? (NPs/Mods/Deadies are welcome to vote for any option).
Poll ended at Wed Jan 28, 2015 6:47:18 pm

Hard Eight
1
Roxy (15) 5%
Boogie Nights
2
Bass_the_Clever (18), S~V~S (20) 10%
Magnolia
6
A Person (6), thellama73 (7), MovingPictures07 (10), zeek (12), Black Rock (16), FZ. (19) 30%
Punch Drunk Love
3
Mongoose (1), Turnip Head (11), Spacedaisy (14) 15%
There Will Be Blood
8
timmer (2), Vompatti (3), birdwithteeth11 (4), nijuukyugou (5), Long Con (8), Dom (9), Ricochet (13), DFaraday (17) 40%
The Master
0
No votes
Inherent Vice
0
No votes
Total votes : 20

A Person wrote:
Mongoose wrote:Guys, I will be right with you with the night post.

I came home to find a headless bird corpse in the middle of my floor. Using avian CSI techniques, I deduced that the bird had not recently perished. Endlessly, I have looked over this house for the bird's head.

I had a guest here 2 weeks ago and had to send him a message that said "Did you by any chance find a severed bird head in your bag?"

That's probably the weirdest query I've ever had to shoot past someone.

and hells bells there might be a random bird head somewhere in my house, gross.
i would follow pipey around to see if he's stashed it somewhere

Pipecleaner is a legit birder cat. This is the first time he's done this since I've been in Tally.

Guys, I will be right with you with the night post.

I came home to find a headless bird corpse in the middle of my floor. Using avian CSI techniques, I deduced that the bird had not recently perished. Endlessly, I have looked over this house for the bird's head.

I had a guest here 2 weeks ago and had to send him a message that said "Did you by any chance find a severed bird head in your bag?"

That's probably the weirdest query I've ever had to shoot past someone.

and hells bells there might be a random bird head somewhere in my house, gross.

MovingPictures07 wrote:
Mongoose wrote:
MovingPictures07 wrote:I haven't seen any of these.
Oh crap, I hadn't anticipated that. So sorry!
I'm a film fail.

Nah, you are here as an eager learner, and that makes you a winner winner chicken dinner.

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

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

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.

Night Poll is up.

Day 1 Poll (Do-Over)

Who put the junk in the trunk?
Poll ended at Tue Jan 27, 2015 3:43:52 pm

A Person
5
birdwithteeth11 (5), Long Con (8), Roxy (13), S~V~S (17), Canucklehead (19) 23%
Bass the Clever
0
No votes
BirdWithTeeth11
0
No votes
BlackRock
1
MovingPictures07 (16) 5%
Canucklehead
0
No votes
DFaraday
1
DFaraday (22) 5%
Dom
1
Vompatti (12) 5%
FZ.
1
Made (6) 5%
Lizzy
0
No votes
Long Con
1
Metalmarsh89 (15) 5%
Made
0
No votes
MetalMarsh
1
Bass_the_Clever (18) 5%
MovingPictures07
3
timmer (9), Dom (10), Turnip Head (21) 14%
Ninjablooper
0
No votes
Ricochet
0
No votes
Roxy
0
No votes
sabie12
0
No votes
SpaceDaisy
1
Spacedaisy (11) 5%
S~V~S
0
No votes
thellama73
1
Ricochet (4) 5%
Timmer
0
No votes
TurnipHead
0
No votes
Vompatti
3
nijuukyugou (3), thellama73 (7), FZ. (14) 14%
Edward G. Robinson (Host/Mod/NPs/etc).
3
Mongoose (1), zeek (2), Epignosis (20) 14%
Total votes : 22

Day 1, Redux (Once More With Feeling):

"I feel like everything is a fantasy," said Vompatti.

"You wish," said A Person.

"Did you know that Frederico Fellini was a master of ethereal fantasy meets grounded reality?" said Timmer.

"What does that even mean?" asked Metalmarsh.

"Let's watch this girl dance," said Ricochet.

So they did.

"She was beautiful, and I'm sad she's dead," said Roxy.

"My teeth hurt," said Vompatti.

"If you like circus films, Fellini did La Strada," Bass helpfully offered.

"Oh, I should check out that documentary about Fellini himself," said Dom.

"Oh no, the decadence has killed A Person!" Long Con shouted.

"Is this what they meant by requiem for a dream?" asked SVS.

A Person has been lynched.

He was Darren Aronofsky.

It is Night 1. You have 24 hours to send in your PMs and vote in the (optional) night poll.

I'm home, post in 2 licks.

Hello my sweets.

Has anyone else been voraciously following the news outta Sundance (besides Timmer, obv)?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/sund ... -festival/

A lot of good documentaries coming out of this fest. Can't wait to see them all. Last year's breakout hits were Whiplash and Boyhood, so let's home for features at least that strong.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

*Hugs*

Event: Where's Scorsese?

Optional Game: Simply PM the host with your guess of where Scorsese is at the moment! If you are right, you get a prize!

A.
The Citizen Kane Lot

B.
The Olympia

C.
Cannes Film Festival

Hawks will not learn who has what powers when he steals them.

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!

It is now Day 1.

You have 48 hours to determine who put the junk in the trunk.

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.

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/

Day 1: John Huston, We Have a Problem

Chances are if you've ever seen Treasure of the Sierra Madre, it changed your life. Directing his own father and Bogart to cinematic success, John Huston proved yet again that he was an impressario of the silver screen.

Try: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157864 to learn more about this Hollywood magnate. He directed his own daughter Anjelica to a heavily-lauded performance in The Dead.

"Wait, that's not true!" shouted BirdWithTeeth11.

"But it's right there in the textbook!" replied Made.

"I don't like this," said A Person.

Llama said something intentionally provocative. No one listened.

"Well, let's rewind the reel and hear that part again," said BirdWithTeeth.

He put his hand over the projector to stop it, but his sleeve got caught and it yanked his arm at the socket. As Birdy was bleeding to death, he wondered if Devin Townsend had ever directed anything.

BirdWithTeeth has been lynched. He was Howard Hawks.

It is now Night 1. You have 24 hours to send in your PMs/night actions and vote in the night poll.

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

Epignosis wrote:Voted Herschel Savage.

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

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!

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).

My recommendation for everyone from cinema aficionados to those have only seen one film:

For Your Consideration:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2044056/combined

It's available to stream on Netflix, and a lot of libraries have the collection in their A/V sections.

Updated: Main Player List on Page 1 (alphabetized), per player request

FYI - I no longer need a replacement. Thanks!

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.

Happy Saturday, players!

Ingmar must send in the request to remove a player before the night period ends, like any other night action -- good question.

Truf&Godard cannot out themselves to each other.

Glad everyone seems to be having fun!

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.

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.

Anyone seen the controversial foreign film I Am Curious (Yellow)?

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.

Who is your favorite director? (This is just a check-in poll and has no bearing on the game).

Paul Thomas Anderson
2
Mongoose (1), A Person (7) 9%
Wes Anderson
0
No votes
Sam Peckinpah
0
No votes
David Lynch
0
No votes
John Huston
0
No votes
Clint Eastwood
0
No votes
Opie
0
No votes
Susanne Bier
1
Canucklehead (4) 4%
Lars von Trier
0
No votes
Alfonso Cuaron
0
No votes
Mike Leigh
0
No votes
Mike Nichols
1
Ricochet (8) 4%
Catherine Bigelow
0
No votes
James Cameron
1
Long Con (14) 4%
George Lucas
1
birdwithteeth11 (18) 4%
Steven Spielberg
1
nijuukyugou (20) 4%
JJ Abrams
1
Spacedaisy (23) 4%
Christopher Nolan
2
MovingPictures07 (2), Lizzy (21) 9%
Sam Raimi
0
No votes
Oliver Stone
0
No votes
Nora Ephron
1
Dom (3) 4%
Tyler Perry
0
No votes
Roman Polanski
0
No votes
Francis Ford Coppola
0
No votes
Sofia Coppola
0
No votes
Woody Allen
1
FZ. (17) 4%
Robert Zemeckis
1
Metalmarsh89 (5) 4%
Martin Scorsese
2
Bass_the_Clever (6), S~V~S (10) 9%
David Fincher
1
thellama73 (13) 4%
Sergio Leone
0
No votes
Tim Burton
0
No votes
Peter Jackson
2
DFaraday (15), sabie12 (19) 9%
Ridley Scott
0
No votes
Wolfgang Peterson
0
No votes
Terrence Malick
0
No votes
Frank Capra
0
No votes
William Wyler
0
No votes
Andrei Tarkovsky
1
Vompatti (11) 4%
Brian de Palma
0
No votes
Spike Lee
0
No votes
Werner Herzog
0
No votes
Steven Soderbergh
1
Turnip Head (16) 4%
David Cronenberg
0
No votes
Terry Gilliam
0
No votes
Elia Kazan
0
No votes
Mel Brooks
1
Roxy (12) 4%
Richard Linklater
0
No votes
Frederico Fellini
1
timmer (9) 4%
Akira Kurosawa
0
No votes
Yasujirō Ozu
1
Made (22) 4%
Total votes : 23

Day 1: A Piece of Cake.

There were so many directors to learn about! How would they make it through all of them? Would they discuss the use of color in films like Punch Drunk Love? What about the use of light in the 1932 version of Scarface? Or the use of sound in Dassin's Naked City? It was an almost overwhelming ordeal.

Someone walked forward into profile. A corpulent, yet dignified gentleman. He cleared his throat.

"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake," he said.

He pointed to a trunk.

"I believe in that trunk may lie a corpse of dubious origin," he said in a mid-Atlantic accent.

"Well, this got real quick," said Metalmarsh.

"No one hurt a kitty, did they?" asked A Person.

He said: "For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."

It is now Day 1. You have 48 hours to determine who put the junk in the trunk.

I'm home from work sick again today but I have to shimmy away for the landlord to show a prospective buyer the unit.

I'll have the Day 1 post up by 6pm EST. After that, we'll be on a more regular schedule. Thank you for your patience, and for joining in on the discussion. It should be a real fun time.

Remember to poke me with any questions and to poke Epi with any concerns. Have a wonderful day.

I'm looking for a replacement; here is your chance to get your friend in on the action.

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.

I'm staying home sick from work today.

Enjoy yourselves, and try not to trash the place.

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.

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

What IS your personal top 100?

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.

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.

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).

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