It's been a crazy ride. As you know, there are only a few films on your list I haven't seen, none of them are appealing on their surface, most look like those choices that give your list personal charm and I really wanted to return with something positive.
I started with Amour fou, which turned out to be my least favorite of the bunch. Just couldn't get into it. Can't point out anything it was doing wrong, just a brick wall around my brain, similar to Love & Friendship (2016) and most Italian neorealism.
Next was Araya, which is my 2nd favorite of the group but still not something I was excited to write about. The film's fine, but I can't figure its inclusion in a Top 100. It's also a little funny how tightly it focuses in on salt. Seriously, don't take a drink every time somebody says "salt". (According to my subtitles the count is 92, which is more than once a minute.)
The Crazy Stranger was next. Similar to the first two, it was okay but I never got involved and couldn't think of anything to say about it.
Along comes Border Radio, and considering it's my favorite of the group I was surprised to read how much it's not liked, especially by The Criterion Forum. This is a group that doesn't have a problem with Slacker, Clerks, early Jim Jarmusch, Jubilee and the work of Hollis Frampton. Like those titles (only replace Frampton with Wim Wenders), what it lacks in plot it makes up for with an attitude. Not 'attitude' as in bluster and chutzpah, but an attitude as in the capturing of a specific time and place. Possibly not even a real time and place, but one that's filtered through the filmmakers' interpretation. I don't even know what you would call this specific music scene - alt punk with a western flair - but it forms the veins that pumps blood through the experience. Easily dismissed as messy and amateurish, but if you're here for acting and plot you've come to the wrong film. It's not even hiding that it's asking you to evaluate it on different criteria.
Looks like I get to save Time Regained for the next round.