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Pretty respectable bout, but umbrellas only getting 46%. Does that mean we're out of musicals? Or is there one left? We must be. We must be. Well, that's just a crime. You can see all the round two results at film spotting madness dot com. Also have a link to the bracket there where you can see how everything is shaping up and we are down to the sweet 16. So just 8 matchups left and we are truly getting to the point Josh where all of these films could make a reasonable claim as the best of the 1960s as usual. We'll run through this where I'll give you some of my easiest and some of my toughest and we'll talk them through in real time. Sound good? Let's do it and I'm gonna vote. So I had of these 8 matchups, I only had three that really gave me fits. That doesn't mean any of them were super easy, but here are the ones that I didn't hesitate much on. The first easy pick, doctor strangelove, going up against Ingmar Bergman's persona. And this is where if I haven't said it already here in madness, I'm gonna say it one last time. I love Bergman and I haven't seen persona since the one time I saw it. As maybe a sophomore in college, which I am said to inform everyone was quite a while ago. And it was my first bergmann, Josh. So I wouldn't recommend that to anybody having now seen a fair amount of bergmann persona would be in the 5 to 7 range in terms of when you should see it. You gotta build up to persona. I was definitely not ready for persona. But even confessing that, I'm still gonna go with strange love. I can corroborate that because I just watched persona, believe it or not, for this tournament. And so yes, I'd seen a handful of bergmann before and I'm glad I did because it's a challenge. Yes. I mean, that makes it sound inscrutable, and I don't know if it's inscrutable, but just formally. It's a challenge. And recency bias may be a play here. I'm lower on strange love than most people, so that's also at play, though I do like it. I think I'm gonna go with persona on this one. No kidding. Yep. Okay. That formal audacity is certainly why it was a top 20 seat. Speaking of recency bias, as much as I do, love Paul Newman and cool hand Luke. We just revisited psycho. That's a pretty clear choice going without for Hitchcock there. Yeah, I mean, cool hand Luke in terms of just looking at star ratings where I give movies sometimes four to four or 5 to four for both of these, but that doesn't indicate that I agree. There's still a significant gap between these two films, psycho for me. La samurai, very good film. From Jean Pierre Melville, starring the incredible land a law. But his piercing eyes going up against Peter O'Toole's piercing eyes against the desert as David Lean depicts it. That's a pretty easy one for me, going Lawrence. And I'm voting against the samurai just because it took out hard day's night. So this is a punishment vote for me, as well as the fact that Lawrence of Arabia is amazing. So I love all four of these movies I'm about to mention. I actually love all of the movies I've mentioned so far. So I'll ten of these easy choices, even if I did admit I really badly need to revisit persona. But that doesn't mean these were as tough as some others for me. Because of how strongly I feel about the film that is the higher seed. 8 and a half in Bonnie and Clyde should be extremely hard. Except, I love 8 and a half so much that there's really only one or two or three, maybe at the most titles in the entire bracket that I'm gonna pick over 8 and a half. So sorry Bonnie and Clyde, you're just the next victim for that fellini film for me. So we're out of fellini if 8 and a half goes. Is that correct? That's correct. I don't like that. But I do like other fellini films better than 8 and a half. So I don't know if I can do just a save fellini vote here when it's up against something that we've talked about this, what represents the era better, not that 8 and a half doesn't, but in terms of the era and the transitions that were happening in American cinema at least and how Bonnie and Clyde stands for so much of that. So given that and my love for other fellini films more, I'm going to go by incline. You know how people in the 80s and you can still buy them, I think they made those save Ferris t-shirts. We'll make film spotting save fellini t-shirts. Okay, good. Thank you. 2001, the number one overall seed is going up against. Once upon a time in the west here, if you're going punishment, I know you're definitely going for 2001 since west took out the umbrellas of Cherbourg. Get love, love once upon a time in the west. But it's going down if it's facing Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece. Yeah, I mean, this is a clear one. 2001 has a chance of taking this whole thing and should have a chance of taking this whole thing. And maybe this will go into your next pairing, but I prefer the good, the bad and the ugly. I think it's the better film. And if there's going to be a Leone that proceeds, it should be this one. I love that you said that because I'll make another confession, which is, my gut, whenever once upon a time in the west, and the good, bad and the ugly are talked about, is to favor my instinct is to favor once upon a time in the west for some reason, even though I love that man with no name trilogy, and I love the good the bad and the ugly. I always, for some reason in my mind, put it slightly higher, even though I saw the films with a huge gap of time between them. I've never really been able to compare them right up against each other. But the good the bad and the ugly is for me, one of the three matchups in this sweet 16. They really gave me pause. It's going up against rosemary's baby. The Polanski thriller starting Mia Farrow, John cassavetes, one of my all time favorite horror films. And as much as I do appreciate that Leone western and as much as I'd love to see one of those Leone westerns advance, I'm voting against both of them. I just love that film too much. See, and this is where looking at the film's remaining as a whole is helping me out because I'm voting for the good the bad and the ugly then I'm going to look ahead and vote for night of the living dead as the horror. I just think it's the better film compared to rosemary's baby, which I do love a lot and here I'm arguing against myself in some ways because rosemary's baby very much of its time, right? In terms of the themes it's exploring. But as we talked about last show, so is night of the living dead and that one is in my top ten horror films of all time. So that's why clicking on good bad and the ugly. In this case and yeah, night of the living dead over the graduate. 60s film. The graduate. This is not easy at all. You see I've had to employ some tortured logic to get there. I think if you ask me which film I want to watch again, think about more, explore more deeply, actually between these two, it would be neither the living dead over the graduate, which I do love. It's my number one toughest matchup. It's the one I held off the longest in voting in, but you know me, Josh, up to this point, I have advanced both horror films every round. And I'm doing it again. I would have thought that impossible. Certainly before we talked about night of the living dead on the show a few years back when we gave it the sacred cow treatment, I want to say around Halloween. It was the Halloween special here on the show. They're both great films. I do love the graduate. But that a living dead is the more significant film. Music to my ears. My last one that was really hard. We're going to talk about a Japanese master here in a moment. One who has been overlooked for the most part over the past 60 years or so of cinema. Largely in favor of other Japanese masters, yasujiro ozu, and of course Akira Kurosawa, and Kurosawa was yojimbo, a film that of course feels nicely connected to some of those Leone films we talked about because it was the inspiration for the man with no name, trilogy, at least that first film, a fistful of dollars, explicitly, but

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