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I don't know if I'd call Love & Death Woody Allen's BEST movie, but I usually laugh the most at it. It's the perfect balance between erudition and shamelessly goofy slapstick. I watched Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. The sequences in the Beast's castle lived up to the hype, and the camera-work definitely added to the dreamy, detached feeling of those scenes. There's one shot in particular that's sticking with me-- when you think the Beast is being shot against an empty black background when suddenly he ducks behind a corner. Just such a lovely, sudden effect. Mostly I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the domestic intrigues as well. You never hear critics talk about them much, which is a shame, because, while broad, they're genuinely funny and charming. The guy who played Belle's brother Ludovic was a riot. My revised list: 1.) Fantomas- I'm not familiar with this era of silent serials, and there's a new set of these out. I love Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse so the genesis of that sort of criminal mastermind genre is also interesting to me. 2.) Sweet Movie- I like Makavejev but I'm sort of squeamish about scatological imagery. I've been putting this one off for sort of a long time. 3.) Cria Cuevos- I really liked Ana Torrent in The Spirit of the Beehive. I've heard good things about this too, and Spanish film is kind of a lacunae in my education. 4.) Short Cuts- Actually anything by Robert Altman. I love Raymond Carver, but not necessarily enough to sit and stare at his whole business for three hours. 5.) Late Spring- I just recently have begun getting familiar with Ozu. I still find his style sort of forbiddingly austere, but I want to keep exploring. 6.) Z- Or any Costa-Gavras. Army of Shadows sort of put me in the mood for political thrillers. 11.) The Earrings of Madame de...- I've just never seen anything by Max Ophuls. I recall reading about him in one of Pauline Kael's books. Sounds like somebody I should know, I guess. 13.) Stranger Than Paradise- I've been watching a lot of Jim Jarmusch lately, but haven't seen this. 14.) The Magician- I like Bergman, but I don't know too much about this one. Supposedly sort of a dark comedy? 15.) Blood of a Poet- I loved Beauty and the Beast and I'm ready to watch more Cocteau. Watched: If..., Paris, Texas, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Modern TImes, Beauty & the Beast
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Archyduke, once again, haven't seen any of yours, so you get... Short Cuts. Man, Annie Hall really blindsided me. I ended up loving it. I was really impressed by the unconventional ways Allen conveyed the story. He took all the painful-to-watch parts of a relationship and made them interesting. He also made it very easy to identify with a character who was kind of a dick. I have to admit that I went in expecting to hate this movie, but I was completely wrong. I kind of regret watching this movie after going through a recent breakup in real life, though.  Amarcord: The only Fellini I've seen is La Dolce Vita. I've heard the best things about this one. American Graffiti: I always wanted to see George Lucas' work before his Star Wars success made him all fat and happy. Plus, there's something about Mort Drucker's poster that makes me 2-3 times as interested in it. Au Revoir Les Enfants: I've heard a lot of good things about this movie, but I don't know much about it except the basic plot. Carlito's Way: I've seen as many mob movies as any self-respecting 20-something American male, but not only have I not seen this one, but somehow I managed not to know anything about this movie except that it stars Pacino. Casino: I've been meaning to watch this movie forever; never got around to it. Léon/The Professional: I'm a big fan of Jean Reno—and indies—and this appears to be an extremely highly-regarded movie. I'm actually not as big a Natalie Portman fan as most of the rest of the Internet, but everything else about this movie sounds really interesting. The Natural: I always hear the greatest things about Redford, but I haven't seen much stuff with him in it. Levinson's hit-or-miss with me. Paris, Texas: I don't know a drat thing about this movie, except that I always confuse it with Happy, Texas. Apparently they aren't the same movie. Serpico: Another Pacino movie I feel like I should have seen by now. Where Eagles Dare: The thing that stuck with me about Inglourious Basterds is that I felt like Tarantino was assuming the viewer knows a lot about war movies that I didn't. So I went on a World War II binge, but I didn't get to this movie.
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Welp. Harakiri might be my new favorite samurai movie. I was interested to see whether Kobayashi could retain the humanism that was so central to The Human Condition in a period piece, and he really amazed me with the depth and maturity of his vision. I've never seen another piece in this genre that loathes death as much as this one. The violent scenes are painful to watch - downright grim - and the more the plot unfolded the more I felt for everyone in this horrible little affair. The camerawork was magnificent, as well. Majestic and understated at the same time. CloseFriend, Paris, Texas New List: Soldier of Orange The length sort of keeps me away from it, but I've always been interested. Veronika Voss Been too long away from Fassbinder. Portrait of Jennie Love that Joe Cotton The Docks of New York More like the cocks of New York, right guys? Vivre sa vie I just really like the DVD cover. I really like some Godard and want to straight-up murder him other times (Made in USA). Yesterday Girl Kluge is my biggest gap in the German New Wave. The American Friend I've never gone deep enough into the Wenders catalog. Late Spring Love that Ozu Little Fugitive I've seen bits of it, but never got around to the whole thing. It's charming and kinda sorta invented American independent cinema, so I guess I should get up on it. Zelig Don't much like Woody Allen, but don't much dislike him either. Finished from this thread: Au Hasard Balthazar (8/10), In the Mood for Love (8.5/10), La Dolce Vita (6.5/10), Anatomy of Murder (9/10), The Grand Illusion (9/10), Ben-Hur (8.5/10), Gone with the Wind (9/10), Black Orpheus (8/10), The Departed (4/10), Midnight Cowboy (5/10), The Red Shoes (9.5/10), Harvey (8.5/10), M. Hulot's Holiday (7.5/10), Trouble in Paradise (8/10), Ugetsu Monogatari (8/10), All That Heaven Allows (9.5/10), Blow-Up (8/10), If... (8/10), The Bad & The Beautiful (7.5/10). Autumn Sonata (9/10), Harold and Maude (3.5/10), L'Atalante (8/10), Anticipation of the Night (8.5/10), Cleo from 5 to 7 (8/10), Wavelength (7/10), Saddle the Wind (7/10), Partie de campagne (7.5/10), My Neighbor Totoro (7/10), Shadows (8/10), Odd Man Out (8/10), Don't Look Now (8/10), Dead Ringers (7.5/10), Written on the Wind (8.5/10), My Winnipeg (8/10), On Dangerous Ground (8.5/10), The King of Comedy (8.5/10), Berlin Express (7/10), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (8.5/10), 3 Women (8.5/10). Harakiri (9.5/10)
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penismightier, Zelig is worth watching, get to it. The Devil and Daniel Webster provoked a rather interesting reaction. The most obvious stuff in the film is pretty hokey and mediocre. The story is a rather blunt moral allegory which was surprisingly dull and uninteresting and the lead is a 3rd rate Henry Fonda wannabe who can't emote and fails miserably at that down to earth charm. But, while those things are the ones that hit you in the face, there's such greatness everywhere else in the film that I was completely sucked in. Walter Huston is especially amazing, every scene he's in is gold and Simone Simon gets a ton of mileage out of a tertiary character. The film is also fantastically shot, for all the lack of subtlety in the script the mood setting is phenomenal and there are some amazing shots with shadows and light and moments that capture the the underlying conflicts really well. Really nice effects too, when they're called for. So, all in all I liked it a lot once I got past the rough edges. Updated list: Babette's Feast Not sure what this is about, but I've heard it referenced enough to feel the need to check it out. Tales of Hoffman After my second viewing of The Red Shoes I was really excited to watch this but I quit after 5 minutes when I realized I just wasn't ready for cinematic opera, no matter how well shot. I think maybe now, a couple of years later, I might be willing to give this another shot. Sans toit ni loi I bought the Criterion Varda boxset the week it came out, all excited after loving Cleo from 5 to 7 and then proceeded to not watch any of it. Vidas Secas Another highly regarded film I keep putting off because I fear it's really depressing. Ryan's Daughter I love Lean, but this film's reputation , combined with its length aren't particularly enticing. On the other hand I liked Heaven's gate so who knows. Underworld (1927) This is considered a pretty seminal crime film and von Sternberg's direction is always enjoyable. Ballad of Narayama Imamura, another director I've seen shamefully little from. This Sporting Life Only seen If... from Lindsay Anderson, liked it quite a bit. The Saragossa Manuscript I hear this is really good. Basic Instinct I think I saw bits and pieces of this as a teenager looking for tits on cable but I don't remember much beyond it being kind of messed up. For the hell of it, here's what I've seen so far: Last Tango In Paris 7.5/10 , Lola Montes 8.5/10 , First Blood 8.5/10 , Lolita 8.5/10 , The New World 8.5/10 , The Decalogue 9.5/10 , Neotpravlennoye pismo 10/10 , A Passage to India 8.5/10 , Yi-Yi 8.5/10 , The Last Emperor 7.5/10 , In a Year with 13 Moons 8.5/10 , The Big Red One 8.5/10 , Les Vampires 9.5/10 , Ballad of a Soldier 9.5/10 , Chelsea Girls 7.5/10 , Kin-Dza-Dza 9/10 , My Life as a Dog 8/10 , The Man who Fell to Earth 8/10 , Red Beard 8.5/10 , Satantango 9/10 , Napoleon 10/10 , Faces 9/10 , Godzilla 7/10, Olympia I 9.5/10 II 8.5/10 , Bad Day at Black Rock 9/10, Soy Cuba 9.5/10, Ossessione 8/10, Greed 10/10, Hoop Dreams 9.5/10, The Burmese Harp 9.5/10 , Éloge de l'amour 6.5/10 , Woodstock 7.5/10 , Die Nibelungen Siegfried 9/10 Kriemhild 8.5/10, Ceddo 10/10 , Wrath of Khan - 7/10 , Shoah 9/10 , City of Sadness 8.5/10, Fires on the Plain 9/10 , Berlin Alexanderplatz 9/10 , Heima 6.5/10 , Angels with Dirty Faces 8.5/10 , Juliet of the Spirits 7/10 Kings of the Road 8.5/10 , Farewell My Concubine 7.5/10 , Dodesukaden 10/10 , The Shootist 7/10 , Goodbye Lenin 9.5/10 , La hora de los hornos 9/10 , The Traveling Players 5/10 , Reds 9/10 , Werckmeister Harmonies 9/10 , Five Fingers of Death 8/10 , Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 9/10 , Ong-bak 7.5/10 , The Devils 8.5/10 , Nostalghia 8/10 , Killer's Kiss 8.5/10 , Koyaanisqatsi 8.5/10 , Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo 9.5/10 , The Cove 9/10 , America, America 8.5/10 , Pour la suite du monde 5/10 , Lilja 4-ever 9/10 , The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 7/10 , Burma VJ 8.5/10 , The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 8.5/10 , Europa '51 9/10 , The Killers 9/10 , The Killers 7/10 , Pursued 8.5/10 , Pelle the Conqueror 8/10 , Brink of Life 9/10 , Fear and Desire 4/10 , The Naked Spur 6/10 , Stroszek 8.5/10 , Beau Travail 8/10 , Kanal 9/10 Field of Dreams 6/10 , Mishima 7/10 , Novecento 7/10 , A Face in the Crowd 9/10 , Floating Weeds 8.5/10, Heaven's Gate 8.5/10 , Days and Nights in the Forest 9/10 The War of The Worlds 6.5/10 , Fallen Angels 9/10 , The Crucified Lovers 8.5/10 , Sanxia haoren 8.5/10 , Fantomas 8.5/10 , The Ballad of Cable Hogue 9.5/10 , <---> 6/10 , The Devil and Daniel Webster 8.5/10
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Rafifi vs. Le Cercle Rouge: Raffifi's heist scene just edges it, but Le Cercle Rouge was an amazing, and much more interesting film overall I think. Peaceful Anarchy posted:Basic Instinct I think I saw bits and pieces of this as a teenager looking for tits on cable but I don't remember much beyond it being kind of messed up. Everyone should experience Michael Douglas in a sweater in a club once in their life! Enjoy! Last Year in Marienbad. Wow, just wow. This grew and grew and grew. I loved the framing, the studied shots, the dreamlike repetitiveness that slowly gave way to a more (but still not quite) traditional narrative. I have to watch this again. My list becomes ... 1. Singing in the Rain Urgh, musicals are just not my thing, but maybe now's the time. 2. King Kong The original monster flick. 3. Johnny Guitar My experience of Western is really Wayne plus post-Wild Bunch. 4. Eight and a half. Fellini. 5. Pickpocket. French cinema is pretty cool. 6. Tokyo Story. Because I should. 7. Cry of the City. Recommended Noir. 8. Bicycle thieves. Neorealist. 9. Peeping Tom. Apparently it’s informed British cinema since. 10. Rules of the Game Early classic.
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knees of putty, haven't seen any of yours. (Why does this keep happening? It's not like I've never seen a movie before!) d10 says... Rules of the Game. (I agree with you about Le Cercle Rouge being awesome, incidentally.) I just finished Paris, Texas. That was one of the best movies I have ever seen. I gave that poo poo a 99 on Criticker. Every shot in the movie was stunningly beautiful. I absolutely loved the opening shot, with Harry Dean Stanton walking out of seemingly nowhere in the towering mesas. The rest of it was so beautifully photographed that even the weirdness (like the German desert doctor speaking in a dialect that sounded written for a trucker) fit in. The whole film was poignant, mysterious, unpredictable, suspenseful, well-acted... I can't think of a positive word to use on a film that doesn't apply to this one! Well, it was obviously slow-paced and very very long, but that plus Ry Cooder's score really helped the movie achieve an emotional honesty that just wouldn't have been there if everything was a rush. I kind of wish the ending was happier, but having the characters try to recreate the past wouldn't have really accomplished anything, and it's that realization that makes the film even more lifelike. Overall, the film was not at all what I was expecting, and it completely destroyed all the apprehension I've always had about watching art films. Amarcord: The only Fellini I've seen is La Dolce Vita. I've heard the best things about this one. American Graffiti: I always wanted to see George Lucas' work before his Star Wars success made him all fat and happy. Plus, there's something about Mort Drucker's poster that makes me 2-3 times as interested in it. Au Revoir Les Enfants: I've heard a lot of good things about this movie, but I don't know much about it except the basic plot. Carlito's Way: I've seen as many mob movies as any self-respecting 20-something American male, but not only have I not seen this one, but somehow I managed not to know anything about this movie except that it stars Pacino. Casino: I've been meaning to watch this movie forever; never got around to it. Kagemusha: Kurosawa wins my heart more with every film. I've seen 8, which for his filmography is just getting started. Léon/The Professional: I'm a big fan of Jean Reno—and indies—and this appears to be an extremely highly-regarded movie. I'm actually not as big a Natalie Portman fan as most of the rest of the Internet, but everything else about this movie sounds really interesting. The Natural: I always hear the greatest things about Redford, but I haven't seen much stuff with him in it. Levinson's hit-or-miss with me. Serpico: Another Pacino movie I feel like I should have seen by now. Where Eagles Dare: The thing that stuck with me about Inglourious Basterds is that I felt like Tarantino was assuming the viewer knows a lot about war movies that I didn't. So I went on a World War II binge, but I didn't get to this movie.
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I like Ebert's observation that Paris, Texas is a film in which you have no idea about what is going to happen.
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knees of putty posted:that slowly gave way to a more (but still not quite) traditional narrative. I have to watch this again. Haha, where did you get that from Last Year at Marienbad? I'm not trying to be a dick; the film is so dynamic that I'm sure your reasoning is justified. I'd just like to know more of what you thought.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Haha, where did you get that from Last Year at Marienbad? Well it's a good question. I can't really offer a fully formed view of it after one viewing, more of a sense. In the beginning it felt like a cubist movie, with rapidly changing viewpoints and backdrops, with a frequent flatness to the image. Initially there was NO narrative, just a series of refrains with the main characters introduced (albeit in a radically untraditional way). Over the course of the movie we get a sense that these are lovers, and finally we understand that the third is the husband and there is three way battle of wills. In the final section, the film becomes less ambiguous and strongly settles on the departure of the wife with the first gentleman. Now, I see that it's more complex than that, with a sense that this is a movie that's presenting differing possibilities, and I felt at the end that it worked beautifully as a cubist metaphor for a tangled affair. It felt like Resnais was channelling Borges, and like Borges, there was a tangible solidity to it in the end. I'd really love to hear what others think of it.
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CloseFriend posted:Amarcord: The only Fellini I've seen is La Dolce Vita. I've heard the best things about this one. Amarcord is a little over-long and slack, but worth it for a few absolutely incredible images. I watched Short Cuts, right on the heels of A Serious Man, to the detriment of the former. Both dealt with characters sort of overturned by the vicissitudes of chance, and both climaxed in a sudden natural disaster, but the Coen brother's movie felt a lot more harrowing and intimate and true. I'm sure part of that is just the nature of each project-- A Serious Man was obviously able to benefit from focusing on one character, while Altman juggled close to a dozen. Still, I couldn't help but feel that it suffered a little from a lack of direction. I'm a huge admirer of Raymond Carver, so it was a pleasure to see his style translated to the screen. The aesthetic of the movie was actually a really cool compromise between adhering to Carver's sort of muscular, ruthless economy and Altman's own stylistic hallmarks. And of course, many of the individual performances were excellent. I'd pick out Lily Tomlin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jack Lemmon as standouts. Still, I can't shake my dissatisfaction with the ending. I shouldn't, but I'll compare it to A Serious Man again. In that movie, the interference of nature felt inevitable, a suitable semiotic overflow of the entire movie up to that point. In Short Cuts it just felt sort of glib and self-conscious. And yeah, three hours was a little much. My revised list: 1.) Fantomas- I'm not familiar with this era of silent serials, and there's a new set of these out. I love Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse so the genesis of that sort of criminal mastermind genre is also interesting to me. 2.) Sweet Movie- I like Makavejev but I'm sort of squeamish about scatological imagery. I've been putting this one off for sort of a long time. 3.) Cria Cuevos- I really liked Ana Torrent in The Spirit of the Beehive. I've heard good things about this too, and Spanish film is kind of a lacunae in my education. 5.) Late Spring- I just recently have begun getting familiar with Ozu. I still find his style sort of forbiddingly austere, but I want to keep exploring. 6.) Z- Or any Costa-Gavras. Army of Shadows sort of put me in the mood for political thrillers. 11.) The Earrings of Madame de...- I've just never seen anything by Max Ophuls. I recall reading about him in one of Pauline Kael's books. Sounds like somebody I should know, I guess. 13.) Stranger Than Paradise- I've been watching a lot of Jim Jarmusch lately, but haven't seen this. 14.) The Magician- I like Bergman, but I don't know too much about this one. Supposedly sort of a dark comedy? 15.) Blood of a Poet- I loved Beauty and the Beast and I'm ready to watch more Cocteau. 16.) Solo Con tu Pareja- Alfonso Cuaron is really hit or miss with me, but somebody recommended this. I don't know, it looks fun. Watched: If..., Paris, Texas, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Modern TImes, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Beauty & the Beast, Short Cuts How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Nov 28, 2010 |
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Zelig was good. The filmmaking was wonderfully skillful. As good as Forrest Gump, so many years later. I liked Farrow and was all right with Allen. I dunno, it was sorta slight. Cute. I don't have much to say about it. Archyduke, Sweet Movie, because I loved WR and want to know if this is worth checking out. New List: Soldier of Orange The length sort of keeps me away from it, but I've always been interested. Veronika Voss Been too long away from Fassbinder. Portrait of Jennie Love that Joe Cotton The Docks of New York More like the cocks of New York, right guys? Vivre sa vie I just really like the DVD cover. I really like some Godard and want to straight-up murder him other times (Made in USA). Yesterday Girl Kluge is my biggest gap in the German New Wave. The American Friend I've never gone deep enough into the Wenders catalog. Late Spring Love that Ozu Little Fugitive I've seen bits of it, but never got around to the whole thing. It's charming and kinda sorta invented American independent cinema, so I guess I should get up on it. The Endless Summer This oughta keep me warm this winter. Finished from this thread: Au Hasard Balthazar (8/10), In the Mood for Love (8.5/10), La Dolce Vita (6.5/10), Anatomy of Murder (9/10), The Grand Illusion (9/10), Ben-Hur (8.5/10), Gone with the Wind (9/10), Black Orpheus (8/10), The Departed (4/10), Midnight Cowboy (5/10), The Red Shoes (9.5/10), Harvey (8.5/10), M. Hulot's Holiday (7.5/10), Trouble in Paradise (8/10), Ugetsu Monogatari (8/10), All That Heaven Allows (9.5/10), Blow-Up (8/10), If... (8/10), The Bad & The Beautiful (7.5/10). Autumn Sonata (9/10), Harold and Maude (3.5/10), L'Atalante (8/10), Anticipation of the Night (8.5/10), Cleo from 5 to 7 (8/10), Wavelength (7/10), Saddle the Wind (7/10), Partie de campagne (7.5/10), My Neighbor Totoro (7/10), Shadows (8/10), Odd Man Out (8/10), Don't Look Now (8/10), Dead Ringers (7.5/10), Written on the Wind (8.5/10), My Winnipeg (8/10), On Dangerous Ground (8.5/10), The King of Comedy (8.5/10), Berlin Express (7/10), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (8.5/10), 3 Women (8.5/10). Harakiri (9.5/10), Zelig (7.5/10) penismightier fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Nov 28, 2010 |
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penismightier, I haven't seen any of yours so you get Veronika Voss more or less at random. Figures I'd get Lawrence of Arabia just when things started getting really busy and I had absolutely no time to watch it until just now. Incredible movie, incredible soundtrack, amazing shots, I can't really say anything about the movie that hasn't been said before and better but it absolutely deserves the praise it gets. I only wish I had been able to see it on Blu-ray or on the big screen. Here's the updated list: 1. Annie Hall: I know I will get some flak for saying this, but I have never seen anything by Woody Allen that I have liked at all. I figure I need to watch this one to see if I've just been watching the wrong Allen movies or if I really just don't like him. 2. All Quiet on the Western Front: When I was in high school I went through classic war movie phase but never got around to this one. 3.Trainspotting: I like a lot of the Danny Boyle movies I've seen but haven't seen this one yet aside from a couple of the more famous scenes. 4. A Few Good Men: Always thought it seemed ridiculous and forgettable because people kept quoting that one line but I keep hearing people saying that it's great. 5. Solaris: Saw the Clooney remake and thought it was terrible so I never saw the original, even though it's apparently great. 6. Dr. Zhivago: I'm ashamed to say that I don't even know what it's about. I just know it's one of those movies you're supposed to watch. 7.The Elephant Man I had this on my list when I first posted but Netflix didn't seem to have it available. Now it does seem to be available and I still want to see it. 8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Just never grabbed my interest despite having seen it referenced approximately 1 billion times. 9. Oldboy: I've seen this recommended a lot on these forums and it seems like the sort of dark psychological movie that I'd find interesting. 10. 8 1/2: I've been kind of interested ever since it was referred to in Ghost World, but never enough to actually pick it up. Also never seen any Fellini and apparently you are supposed to. Watched: Jacob's Ladder (7/10), Eraserhead (8/10), Lawrence of Arabia (10/10) Sinfjotli fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Nov 28, 2010 |
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Sinfjotli, you get 8 1/2, because you are indeed apparently supposed to. (I sound snarky here, but it's one of my absolute favourites) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp was good, very very good, there's barely a flaw to be seen. Unfortunately I was fighting boredom for a lot of its run, and I'm not really sure why. It may be that I just don't much like stiff upper-lip characters, because I always find them oddly... phoney. And yeah, I realise that's actually to an extent the entire point of the film, but I felt oddly disconnected regardless. Entirely my personal problems here. Anyway - 01. Harvey - One of those "you haven't seen this?!" type of films, I think. 02. Scarface (Howard Hawks version) - I felt the remake was kinda overrated and boring, so I want to see how the original fares against it. 03. Red Psalm - A while ago I became hugely interested in Jancso and grabbed about five of his films but I've only watched one of them since. I am a fool. 04. I Know Where I'm Going! - Powell & Pressburger rule. (mostly) 05. Damnation - Swappin' Almanac out for another Tarr. 06. La Chienne - There's a load of Renoirs that I haven't seen, embarrassingly enough. No real excuse either. 07. Orpheus - Slightly wary because Cocteau seems a bit of a git, but I did really like La Belle et la Bete so who knows? 08. The Wild Bunch - Never seen a Peckinpah. 09. Z - I tried to watch this once with a headache, stupidly. I still don't have one now so the time may be right to try it again. 10. Day for Night - There's a load of Truffauts I haven't seen that I feel guilty about, but this is the biggest one. Seen: Almanac of Fall, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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Schmuck of Ages, Z is a must. Basic Instinct is both exactly what I expected and a surprise. Events unfold pretty conventionally, even with all the twists, and Douglas plays the same character he's done in like a dozen other movies, protagonist on edge getting manipulated by a woman. The music is extremely obnoxious, not because it's bad but because it constantly forces itself into center stage, and it actually reminded me that I haven't seen a film with a score like this in a while. On the other hand Sharon Stone is not only smoking hot but also gives an incredible performance, the cinematography is really great and I did not expect the film to have such a strong neo-noir vibe. I started off pretty dismissive of the film but as it progressed the good parts won me over and I've come to think it's really good, if imperfect. Updated list: Babette's Feast Not sure what this is about, but I've heard it referenced enough to feel the need to check it out. Tales of Hoffman After my second viewing of The Red Shoes I was really excited to watch this but I quit after 5 minutes when I realized I just wasn't ready for cinematic opera, no matter how well shot. I think maybe now, a couple of years later, I might be willing to give this another shot. Sans toit ni loi I bought the Criterion Varda boxset the week it came out, all excited after loving Cleo from 5 to 7 and then proceeded to not watch any of it. Vidas Secas Another highly regarded film I keep putting off because I fear it's really depressing. Ryan's Daughter I love Lean, but this film's reputation , combined with its length aren't particularly enticing. On the other hand I liked Heaven's gate so who knows. Underworld (1927) This is considered a pretty seminal crime film and von Sternberg's direction is always enjoyable. Ballad of Narayama Imamura, another director I've seen shamefully little from. This Sporting Life Only seen If... from Lindsay Anderson, liked it quite a bit. The Saragossa Manuscript I hear this is really good. Flesh and the Devil I need some more Garbo in my life. For the hell of it, here's what I've seen so far: Last Tango In Paris 7.5/10 , Lola Montes 8.5/10 , First Blood 8.5/10 , Lolita 8.5/10 , The New World 8.5/10 , The Decalogue 9.5/10 , Neotpravlennoye pismo 10/10 , A Passage to India 8.5/10 , Yi-Yi 8.5/10 , The Last Emperor 7.5/10 , In a Year with 13 Moons 8.5/10 , The Big Red One 8.5/10 , Les Vampires 9.5/10 , Ballad of a Soldier 9.5/10 , Chelsea Girls 7.5/10 , Kin-Dza-Dza 9/10 , My Life as a Dog 8/10 , The Man who Fell to Earth 8/10 , Red Beard 8.5/10 , Satantango 9/10 , Napoleon 10/10 , Faces 9/10 , Godzilla 7/10, Olympia I 9.5/10 II 8.5/10 , Bad Day at Black Rock 9/10, Soy Cuba 9.5/10, Ossessione 8/10, Greed 10/10, Hoop Dreams 9.5/10, The Burmese Harp 9.5/10 , Éloge de l'amour 6.5/10 , Woodstock 7.5/10 , Die Nibelungen Siegfried 9/10 Kriemhild 8.5/10, Ceddo 10/10 , Wrath of Khan - 7/10 , Shoah 9/10 , City of Sadness 8.5/10, Fires on the Plain 9/10 , Berlin Alexanderplatz 9/10 , Heima 6.5/10 , Angels with Dirty Faces 8.5/10 , Juliet of the Spirits 7/10 Kings of the Road 8.5/10 , Farewell My Concubine 7.5/10 , Dodesukaden 10/10 , The Shootist 7/10 , Goodbye Lenin 9.5/10 , La hora de los hornos 9/10 , The Traveling Players 5/10 , Reds 9/10 , Werckmeister Harmonies 9/10 , Five Fingers of Death 8/10 , Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 9/10 , Ong-bak 7.5/10 , The Devils 8.5/10 , Nostalghia 8/10 , Killer's Kiss 8.5/10 , Koyaanisqatsi 8.5/10 , Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo 9.5/10 , The Cove 9/10 , America, America 8.5/10 , Pour la suite du monde 5/10 , Lilja 4-ever 9/10 , The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 7/10 , Burma VJ 8.5/10 , The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 8.5/10 , Europa '51 9/10 , The Killers 9/10 , The Killers 7/10 , Pursued 8.5/10 , Pelle the Conqueror 8/10 , Brink of Life 9/10 , Fear and Desire 4/10 , The Naked Spur 6/10 , Stroszek 8.5/10 , Beau Travail 8/10 , Kanal 9/10 Field of Dreams 6/10 , Mishima 7/10 , Novecento 7/10 , A Face in the Crowd 9/10 , Floating Weeds 8.5/10, Heaven's Gate 8.5/10 , Days and Nights in the Forest 9/10 The War of The Worlds 6.5/10 , Fallen Angels 9/10 , The Crucified Lovers 8.5/10 , Sanxia haoren 8.5/10 , Fantomas 8.5/10 , The Ballad of Cable Hogue 9.5/10 , <---> 6/10 , The Devil and Daniel Webster 8.5/10 , Basic Instinct 8/10
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Babette's Feast for you, Peaceful Anarchy. Wild Strawberries was excellent, and I'm completely sold on Bergman. I don't know that I'll always like his films, but I'm more than willing to watch anything with his name attached to it. New List: Sunrise Just recently found out about this movie, and it has not yet made it up my Netflix. La Dolce Vita Fellini is becoming one of my favorite directors. The Gold Rush Continuing my Chaplin journey. Ordet Excited to watch this after having recently seen The Passion of Joan of Arc. L'Avventura I've never seen any Antonioni, but I'm finding I really like Italian film from this period. Contempt Never had any interest in Godard until recently. Intolerance I guess I just haven't gotten around to it yet? North by Northwest I've seen parts of this before, and know the basic story. The Apartment I'm a fan of most of the people involved in this one, not sure why I haven't watched it yet. Au Hasard Balthazar A movie about a donkey? I'm hesitant to say the least. Finally watched: Lawrence of Arabia, Annie Hall, Vertigo, Braveheart, Battleship Potemkin, It's a Wonderful Life, Tokyo Story, The Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, Night of the Hunter, La Grande Illusion, City Lights, The Grapes of Wrath, The General, Les Enfants Du Paradis, Dr. Strangelove, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Seven Samurai, Breathless, Apocalypse Now, The 400 Blows, The African Queen, A Fistful of Dollars, The Seventh Seal, The Rules of the Game, Andrei Rublev, The Conformist, Ugetsu, The Wild Bunch, Jules et Jim, Modern Times, L'Atalante, La Strada, Persona, Rio Bravo, Wild Strawberries
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I hope it's okay that I haven't been participating until now. tokillthesunflower I choose Ordet because I unabashedly love Carl Th. Dreyer. Okay, here are not only 10 films that I'm ashamed I haven't seen but I actually own them all so that makes it worse. I blind buy a lot and my buying/watching ratio got out of whack long ago and I fear I'll never really catch up. 1.The Bicycle Thief - This is on several "greatest films of all time" lists . I bought it during a one of the criterion sales. I often make random blind buys during the sales to "broaden my horizons". 2.Grand Illusion - See above, plus it was going out of print. 3.Late Spring - I love Ozu, I have a few of his movies but for whatever reason I never watched this one. 4.The Red Shoes - See no.1, I passed it up several times because I thought a movie about ballet wouldn't interest me, but everyone says it's wonderful. The Barnes & Noble employee kind of talked me into it during the last sale. 5.Fanny & Alexander - I love Bergman, just got this during the last sale. It just seems daunting at 5 hours. 6.Lawrence of Arabia - Bought this after I saw Bridge on the River Kwai for the first time I just had to get more of David Lean's classics. But I never got around to watching it. 7.Cape Fear - Bought this because I love Night of the Hunter and Robert Mitchum. 8.Force of Evil - I love noir and this was highly recommended by people on this board as well as on some "best noir" lists. 9.Woman in the Dunes - I watched Pitfall and Face of Another and I really liked them. This is supposed to be Teshigaharas masterpiece and it's the only one in the box I didn't watch. I'm not sure why. 10.Amelie - Heard wonderful things about this for a long time, I love City of Lost Children and Delicatessen. Just haven't gotten around to watching this.
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GonzoIsKing, you get Woman in the Dunes because it's another great Teshigahara. Z was great. I was sold from the opening disclaimer and it remained consistently awesome throughout. The right-wingers all seemed to be either arseholes or perverts or both, but this is the only possible simplification I can think of - everything else was complex and impeccably-paced. The flashbacks and quick transitions between scenes were especially fantastic - I'm thinking in particular of the seamless cut between I-forget-his-name-but-he-testifies-against-Yago being seen in hospital by the General and then by the Examining Magistrate. Also, I didn't have a headache this time, hooray etc 01. Harvey - One of those "you haven't seen this?!" type of films, I think. 02. Scarface (Howard Hawks version) - I felt the remake was kinda overrated and boring, so I want to see how the original fares against it. 03. Red Psalm - A while ago I became hugely interested in Jancso and grabbed about five of his films but I've only watched one of them since. I am a fool. 04. I Know Where I'm Going! - Powell & Pressburger rule. (mostly) 05. Damnation - Swappin' Almanac out for another Tarr. 06. La Chienne - There's a load of Renoirs that I haven't seen, embarrassingly enough. No real excuse either. 07. Orpheus - Slightly wary because Cocteau seems a bit of a git, but I did really like La Belle et la Bete so who knows? 08. The Wild Bunch - Never seen a Peckinpah. 09. Foolish Wives - Never seen a Stroheim. This is very shameful now that I think about it. 10. Day for Night - There's a load of Truffauts I haven't seen that I feel guilty about, but this is the biggest one. Seen: Almanac of Fall, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Z
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The Wild Bunch for Schmuck. Not quite sure what to think about Last Year at Marienbad. Someone earlier mentioned Borges, and I could not stop thinking about his Garden of Forking Paths. The garden is an obvious repeated image in Last Year, and the man even mentions paths, and the paths people take to reach each other. I kept thinking that Last Year is what would have happened if two paths in the garden crossed but did not converge, or perhaps converged at the wrong time (The Garden of Forking Paths is basically an infinitely long and complex Choose Your Own Adventure book, with a choice for every instant in time. It is difficult to give this movie a rating after having only seen it once, but unfortunately it was just too boring for me to want to watch again. It has me thinking at least, so I give it a tentative 3/5. 1. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu: I saw bits of this a few years ago, and have been wanting to see the whole thing for a while. 2. Grizzly Man Another doc that's supposed to be good, but the guy just seems really annoying. It's Herzog so I'm sure I'll like it. 3. Stolen Kisses Time to continue the Antoine Doinel adventures. 4. M: Peter Lorre is always interesting to listen to. 5. Lost Highway: I love Mulholland Drive, but I've heard that this isn't nearly as good. 6. Das Boot: Don't know too much about it, other than that there are multiple versions/cuts. Which version is best to watch? 7. Downfall: Just haven't gotten around to it. 8. A Shot in the Dark: I didn't like The Pink Panther, but I've heard that this is much, much better. 9. La Dolce Vita I like 8 1/2, but I'm not sure if this would be worth the running time. 10. Europa: I've seen almost all of Lars von Trier's work besides The Idiots (unfortunately not available on Netflix) and this. Not ashamed anymore: Lawrence of Arabia 4.5/5, The Battle of Algiers 2/5, Toy Story 2 3.5/5, Sherman's March 3.5/5, His Girl Friday 4/5, Last Year at Marienbad 3/5
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TenSpadesBeTrump posted:4. M: This thread allowed me the inclination to eventually watch this & I have to "pass it on". It Happened One Night was enjoyable for a screwball comedy, very easy to overlook it's flaws & just soak it in. I don't think it's necessarily romantic nor was it really funny but it was charming & now best of all Spaceballs makes so much sense. 1. Intolerence (1916, D.W. Griffith) I've recently become really interested in early-cinema and although I don't have the patience to deal with Birth of a Nation I realise that D.W. Griffith was pretty important to the development of cinema and would like to see at least one of his films, Intolerance seems to have a message which is the polar opposite of Birth of a Nation so it seems to be a natural choice. 2. Destiny (1921, Fritz Lang) I like the synopsis of the story and want to see as much Lang as I can. 4. Gone With the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming) Until very recently I had this and Casablanca lumped into the same "old romantic film I don't really need to see" box in my head - after watching the greatness that is Casablanca I fear that this may not actually be worth my time. It's like the Danny DeVito to the Arnold Schwarzenegger in Twins... or is it? 10. Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler) I just feel that Ben-Hur is one of those big-budget classic movies that anyone and everyone should have seen. 14. Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin) (1925, Sergei M. Eisenstein) I'm not sure if I'm going to enjoy it if what I read is correct but I'm more than willing to give it a chance considering how highly regarded it is. 15. Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock) I mean to watch every Hitchcock film. 16. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F.W. Murnau) I've only ever seen Nosferatu from Murnau but I'm well aware that he is considered as one of cinemas greatest directors & it seems like this is the obvious choice to see some more of his work. 18. The Public Enemy (1931, William A. Wellman) I've never sat through an old Warner Brothers gangster movie & I think it's fair to say I've been missing out. 20. The Thin Man (1934, W.S. Van Dyke) It just sounds entertaining as hell. 22. Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922, Benjamin Christensen) Seems a very interesting film, some creepy screen-caps have been about all I know of it's imagery but it's definitely strange to me that a film about the history of witchcraft was made at this time. Seen: 7. Rashômon - 8/10, 3. The 39 Steps - 8/10, 9. The Killing - 9/10, 6. Citizen Kane - 8/10, 11. Gojira (Godzilla) - 7/10, 8. A Streetcar Named Desire - 9/10. 5. The Grapes of Wrath - 9/10, 13. La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) - 8/10 17. Stagecoach - 7/10 19. Sullivan's Travels - 5/10 12. Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) - 8/10 21. It Happened One Night - 6/10
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BisonDollah posted:This thread allowed me the inclination to eventually watch this & I have to "pass it on". It's online in HD
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BisonDollah posted:10. Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler) I saw this when I was very young and don't remember much about it except thinking that it had to be the longest movie ever made. Oldboy - I was happy to see that this was on netflix instant but then I noticed that it was dubbed. That's one thing I hope netflix changes in the future..the ability to change between language tracks and widescreen/fullscreen and potentially unrated/rated versions. So I waited for the DVD. Anyway I liked segments of the movie (particularly the side-scrolling fight which seemed like it was taken from a video game) but when viewed in the 2 full hours it grossed me out on a few different levels. Tooth extractions and tongue cutting make me  and the multifaceted incest plot was unsettling as well.The villain dressing like Mr. Rogers was just the icing on the cake. New IMDb List: #20 Toy Story 3 The final frontier. This is now on DVD and is the only one I haven't seen in the top 50. I saw the first two in theaters and liked both of them. I also recall watching the first one again in high school on a big screen in a computer art class. There were a lot of naysayers saying "not this stupid kids movie" but by the end everyone was into it. #73 The Prestige - I heard about this being good but I've developed a jaded skepticism over the years about most highly rated new movies because frankly they usually don't deliver. Maybe if it's reached this high it's worth a look. #78 Cinema Paradiso - Seen it cutdown a lot in this thread. I've been saving this for a rainy day. #89 The Great Dictator - I think I read about this in a textbook once. #96 The Maltese Falcon - I saw some of this on TV long ago and the ending was spoiled for me. I know it has some famous quotes. #102 Rebecca - Probably the first I've posted that I know 0% about and can't even remember hearing about it. #106 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Never felt like watching this one. Is this a "feel good" political movie? #112 Slumdog Millionaire - Seems to be lauded. Plot really didn't pique my interest. #113 Hotel Rwanda - Another one I didn't get around to watching. #114 Princess Mononoke - This could be good. I like this kind of animation these days.
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Zogo posted:#102 Rebecca - Probably the first I've posted that I know 0% about and can't even remember hearing about it. Haven't seen anything on your list, picked this randomly. Aguirre: The Wrath of God was great. It had an amazing combination of haunting music and beautiful shots. Klaus Kinski was pretty terrifying as the title character. He really carried the movie. 1. Amadeus - Sounds great but the story and setting doesn't really pique my interest. 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - Only seen parts of it on TV. Seems weird that I've never seen it in full. 3. 8 1/2 - I know nothing about this except that it is highly regarded. 4. Ikiru - All 3 Kurosawa movies that I've seen so far have been excellent. I would like to see more. 5. The Wild Bunch - I do like violent westerns... 6. Boogie Nights - Supposed to be a great Scorseseish movie, it sounds like something I would enjoy. 7. The General - Apparently one of Buster Keaton's best, this would also be the oldest movie that I will have seen. 8. The Lady Vanishes - More Hitchcock. 9. M - It has a very compact title, doesn't it? 10. Pickpocket - Another French movie that I don't know much about. Watched: The Seventh Seal, Moon, Barton Fink, The Thin Blue Line, Cool Hand Luke, Citizen Kane, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Goodfellas, Casablanca, City Lights, Seven Samurai, The Bicycle Thief, Do the Right Thing, The Battle of Algiers, On the Waterfront, Wild Strawberries, The Trial, Adaptation, Unforgiven, Annie Hall, The 400 Blows, Diabolique, Mulholland Dr., Dirty Harry, The 39 Steps, Aguirre: The Wrath of God
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Atheistdeals.com posted:3. 8 1/2 - I know nothing about this except that it is highly regarded. Irreversible was really good. The camera work was completely unique and constantly quite astonishing. The structure of the film worked perfectly for the subject matter, and the little prod at the audience right at the end worked very well. Overall, 4/5 stars. 1. The King of Comedy - I love Scorsese, but this gem has always eluded me. 2. City of God - I don't actually know all that much about it, other than apparently: GRITTY. 3. Grave of the Fireflies - I love Studio Ghibli, but I've heard that SAD! 4. The Kid - Not the Disney one, the Charlie Chaplin one. I love the man, but I haven't really seen a lot of his works. 5. Umberto D. - The only De Sica film I've seen is Bicycle Thieves and I love it. In fact, I really haven't seen all that many Italian Neorealist films at all. 6. Run Lola Run - I know nothing about this film. My guess is it has something to do with a girl named Lola running. 7. Stalker - I actually haven't seen any Tarkovsky. 8. Boys Don't Cry - RAAAAAAAAPE!! Though I do quite like Hilary Swank. 9. Glengarry Glen Ross - I've only seen that once scene with Alec Baldwin. I love Mamet. What is wrong with me? 10. Peeping Tom - Apparently very controversial and I like Michael Powell, but I've only seen The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus, which were both co-directed with Emeric Pressburger.
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Glengarry Glen Ross is amazing. I watched Sweet Movie. Where to start. First of all, I guess, it's as bad as I thought it would in terms of visceral grossness, and worse. There were times when I wanted to just turn off the DVD and walk away. But it also had moments of indescribable sweetness, and was occasionally very funny. Death is very strange in it. People die in horrible, painful, humiliating ways, and come back. The final shot is beautiful and almost heartbreaking in its weird grace. The actual coprophilia is less pronounced than I had heard, but the scenes surrounding it make up for it in sensory ickiness. Right before it, here's an extended series of shots cutting back and forth between people using food in the most disgusting ways, smearing it all over their faces, regurgitating into each others mouths, vomiting onto their plates, and the lead actress (Carole Laure-- astoundingly attractive and creepily stoic/catatonic) serenely nuzzling a limp penis, shot so that her cheek is practically glowing a gentle gold in contrast to the sputum going on around her. And on the other side, a long vignette of a grown man being pampered like a baby, that is, powdered, changed, etc., while being slapped around and induced to vomit. For all that, the most uncomfortable scene for me came shortly before that, as the protagonist of the film's secondary plot, a sort of faux-Marxist female Willy Wonka, seduces and murders a group of prepubescent boys in a galley full of candy and sugar. For all that though, the movie is never exactly bleak. It has a sense of humor. I don't always get the sense of humor, but it's always there, and it's always aggressively challenging how far the audience is willing to grant it the benefit of the doubt. It gets you to laugh, then pushes the schtick past the point where you start to question what exactly you were laughing at, and why. It needles the commercial sense of the "sex comedy" to an extent and with a boldness I've never seen before. It isn't afraid to implicate itself, which is a stance that's often exciting to hear about but rarely coherent in practice. What strikes me the most is how unusually shot it was. I don't mean it does anything unorthodox with the basic grammar of film-making, but how it works stylistically. It's overwhelmingly tactile. Shots don't establish narrative or mood so much as they do texture, everything from Makavejev's go-to raw eggs to sugar to chocolate to blood. And the movie is, probably overall, about touch, about the way we think about and experience touch. It problematizes a lot about how movies teach the audience to feel sex and violence, and it proposes new models that are radical and maybe unsuccessful. It's sexy, hilarious, disgusting, irritating, it's a totally pointless failure and probably the most beautiful movie I've seen in awhile. I recommend it, but only to people who've seen a few of Makavejev's movies already and are unwilling to go through a deeply unpleasant experience for the sake of art. I don't know. My revised list: 1.) Fantomas- I'm not familiar with this era of silent serials, and there's a new set of these out. I love Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse so the genesis of that sort of criminal mastermind genre is also interesting to me. 3.) Cria Cuevos- I really liked Ana Torrent in The Spirit of the Beehive. I've heard good things about this too, and Spanish film is kind of a lacunae in my education. 5.) Late Spring- I just recently have begun getting familiar with Ozu. I still find his style sort of forbiddingly austere, but I want to keep exploring. 6.) Z- Or any Costa-Gavras. Army of Shadows sort of put me in the mood for political thrillers. 11.) The Earrings of Madame de...- I've just never seen anything by Max Ophuls. I recall reading about him in one of Pauline Kael's books. Sounds like somebody I should know, I guess. 13.) Stranger Than Paradise- I've been watching a lot of Jim Jarmusch lately, but haven't seen this. 14.) The Magician- I like Bergman, but I don't know too much about this one. Supposedly sort of a dark comedy? 15.) Blood of a Poet- I loved Beauty and the Beast and I'm ready to watch more Cocteau. 16.) Solo Con tu Pareja- Alfonso Cuaron is really hit or miss with me, but somebody recommended this. I don't know, it looks fun. 17.) Peeping Tom- I like P&P but this movie seems like a pretty big departure. I'm usually into "career destroying" movies. Watched: If..., Paris, Texas, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Modern TImes, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Beauty & the Beast, Short Cuts, Sweet Movie How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 10:01 on Nov 30, 2010 |
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Archyduke I select Peeping Tom for you. Woman in the Dunes was magnificent, it was full of incredible imagery and just wonderful to digest. I love it. I love Teshigahara, I don't know why I put off watching this for so long. I wish Teshigahara had made more movies. btw, I love this thread, it's forcing me to watch stuff I've been meaning to for a long time... Here's my updated list: 1.The Bicycle Thief - This is on several "greatest films of all time" lists . I bought it during a one of the criterion sales. I often make random blind buys during the sales to "broaden my horizons". 2.Grand Illusion - See above, plus it was going out of print. 3.Late Spring - I love Ozu, I have a few of his movies but for whatever reason I never watched this one. 4.The Red Shoes - See no.1, I passed it up several times because I thought a movie about ballet wouldn't interest me, but everyone says it's wonderful. The Barnes & Noble employee kind of talked me into it during the last sale. 5.Fanny & Alexander - I love Bergman, just got this during the last sale. It just seems daunting at 5 hours. 6.Lawrence of Arabia - Bought this after I saw Bridge on the River Kwai for the first time I just had to get more of David Lean's classics. But I never got around to watching it. 7.Cape Fear - Bought this because I love Night of the Hunter and Robert Mitchum. 8.Force of Evil - I love noir and this was highly recommended by people on this board as well as on some "best noir" lists. 10.Amelie - Heard wonderful things about this for a long time, I love City of Lost Children and Delicatessen. Just haven't gotten around to watching this. 11.Double Life of Veronique - Another Criterion blind buy, Kieślowski sounds like a director whose work I would enjoy. And I figured I couldn't go wrong for a first exposure than the only one of this films that was released by Criterion.
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GonzoIsKing, I select The Bicycle Thief. Touch of Evil was drat near perfect, not that I have to point that out. Fantastic style, camerawork, acting, gripping story... terrific. The very first sequence in particular really set it up nicely in terms of style and plot, so it hooked me. Also love the ending. I'll round it up slightly to an even 5/5. 1. Requiem for a Dream - I need to see more of the recent "classics" 2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Should really get to this eventually 3. Spartacus - One of the last Kubrick films I haven't seen 4. Hiroshima Mon Amour - Apparently next to Breathless and The 400 Blows in starting the New Wave, and I've seen the other two and enjoyed them 5. Masculin, féminin - Love Godard, this is a random one I haven't seen 6. sex, lies, and videotape - Probably an important film to watch 7. Once Upon a Time in the West - I love Leone but I'm not sure if I'm never in the mood for this, maybe I will be once I start to watch it 8. Notorious - I'm definitely a Hitchcock fan/I'm definitely a Cary Grant fan 9. Boogie Nights - I guess I'm just really bad with films after 1990 10. Easy Rider - Really should have seen this by now Watched: Dawn of the Dead - 3.5/5; Adaptation - 4/5; Sullivan's Travels - 3.5/5; Touch of Evil - 5/5
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PDMChubby, give Once Upon a Time in the West a shot. The Wild Bunch was very very masculine, but in a way that was actually a virtue. There's something poetically nasty about the violence and the uselessness of its macho values. I wouldn't call it a thoughtful film so much as highly impressionistic and clever. I liked it a lot. 01. Harvey - One of those "you haven't seen this?!" type of films, I think. 02. Scarface (Howard Hawks version) - I felt the remake was kinda overrated and boring, so I want to see how the original fares against it. 03. Red Psalm - A while ago I became hugely interested in Jancso and grabbed about five of his films but I've only watched one of them since. I am a fool. 04. I Know Where I'm Going! - Powell & Pressburger rule. (mostly) 05. Damnation - Swappin' Almanac out for another Tarr. 06. La Chienne - There's a load of Renoirs that I haven't seen, embarrassingly enough. No real excuse either. 07. Orpheus - Slightly wary because Cocteau seems a bit of a git, but I did really like La Belle et la Bete so who knows? 08. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kidd - I'm ready for another Peckinpah! 09. Foolish Wives - Never seen a Stroheim. This is very shameful now that I think about it. 10. Day for Night - There's a load of Truffauts I haven't seen that I feel guilty about, but this is the biggest one. Seen: Almanac of Fall, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Z, The Wild Bunch
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Veronika Voss was pretty gorgeous and touching, but one of those weird movies that when it's done I just have nothing to say about. Nice to get back to Fassbinder, he's got this interesting tension between the still meticulousness of his product and the frantic coke-fury behind it. Schmuck of Ages - Scarface. It's not my favorite on your list, but I really hate the remake and think Hawks deserves more recognition for the original. New List: Soldier of Orange The length sort of keeps me away from it, but I've always been interested. Two-Lane Blacktop This is supposed to be like a drive-in classic, right? I like those. Portrait of Jennie Love that Joe Cotton The Docks of New York More like the cocks of New York, right guys? Vivre sa vie I just really like the DVD cover. I really like some Godard and want to straight-up murder him other times (Made in USA). Yesterday Girl Kluge is my biggest gap in the German New Wave. The American Friend I've never gone deep enough into the Wenders catalog. Late Spring Love that Ozu Little Fugitive I've seen bits of it, but never got around to the whole thing. It's charming and kinda sorta invented American independent cinema, so I guess I should get up on it. The Endless Summer This oughta keep me warm this winter. Finished from this thread: Au Hasard Balthazar (8/10), In the Mood for Love (8.5/10), La Dolce Vita (6.5/10), Anatomy of Murder (9/10), The Grand Illusion (9/10), Ben-Hur (8.5/10), Gone with the Wind (9/10), Black Orpheus (8/10), The Departed (4/10), Midnight Cowboy (5/10), The Red Shoes (9.5/10), Harvey (8.5/10), M. Hulot's Holiday (7.5/10), Trouble in Paradise (8/10), Ugetsu Monogatari (8/10), All That Heaven Allows (9.5/10), Blow-Up (8/10), If... (8/10), The Bad & The Beautiful (7.5/10). Autumn Sonata (9/10), Harold and Maude (3.5/10), L'Atalante (8/10), Anticipation of the Night (8.5/10), Cleo from 5 to 7 (8/10), Wavelength (7/10), Saddle the Wind (7/10), Partie de campagne (7.5/10), My Neighbor Totoro (7/10), Shadows (8/10), Odd Man Out (8/10), Don't Look Now (8/10), Dead Ringers (7.5/10), Written on the Wind (8.5/10), My Winnipeg (8/10), On Dangerous Ground (8.5/10), The King of Comedy (8.5/10), Berlin Express (7/10), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (8.5/10), 3 Women (8.5/10). Harakiri (9.5/10), Zelig (7.5/10), Veronika Voss (7.5/10)
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penismightier posted:Late Spring I just finished that this morning and haven't seen any of the others in your list. At least I don't think so. Dirty Harry - Liked it a lot. It was the first blu-ray I played on the PS3 I bought last week for my theater room. Can't have just one  1. Satya - I know absolutely nothing about this, other than it's Indian. 2. King Kong remake - I never had an interest in watching this. It always seemed like it would be long and boring. But I have it and haven't seen it. 3. Grease - Never really seemed like my kind of thing. 4. Coraline - I bought this on blu-ray when it came out. I've seen a little bit here and there from when the kids watched it but never sat down with it. 5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - No clue about this movie. 6. Bullitt - Bought the blu-ray last year, I think, and there it sits next to me since it came home with me. 7. Walk The Line - Never got excited to see this even though I heard it's good. 8. Hannah and Her Sisters - Based on the title, I never had an interest in watching it as a kid but picked it up with a Woody Allen box set I found at Big Lots. 9. Point Blank - I used to talk with the guy that made Reflections of Evil and since my last name is Walker, he always signed the email "Lee Marvin is Walker, in Point Blank. So I eventually tracked it down to watch. That was years ago. 10. The Last Emperor - I think I saw part of this a long time ago and wanted to come back and watch it in full Seen: The Wrestler, Witness for the Prosecution, White Heat, The Kid, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), Pushpak, Juno, The Right Stuff, Anatomy of A Murder, Sophie's Choice, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Broken Blossoms, Dirty Harry
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chemosh check out The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, its pretty good. M was good. A bit longer than it needed to be, but it kept getting better as it went along, and the "trial" a the end was great. 4/5 I also watched Stolen Kisses. Unfortunately, I watched it directly after The 400 Blows and Antoine et Colette, which were both far superior. If I had given some more time in between I may not have been holding it up to the standard of The 400 Blows, but for now it gets a 3/5 1. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu: I saw bits of this a few years ago, and have been wanting to see the whole thing for a while. 2. Grizzly Man Another doc that's supposed to be good, but the guy just seems really annoying. It's Herzog so I'm sure I'll like it. 3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Never seen a Powell/Pressburger, I need to start a marathon. 4. Gates of Heaven First Errol Morris doc, need to see it. 5. Lost Highway: I love Mulholland Drive, but I've heard that this isn't nearly as good. 6. Das Boot: Don't know too much about it, other than that there are multiple versions/cuts. Which version is best to watch? 7. Downfall: Just haven't gotten around to it. 8. A Shot in the Dark: I didn't like The Pink Panther, but I've heard that this is much, much better. 9. La Dolce Vita I like 8 1/2, but I'm not sure if this would be worth the running time. 10. Europa: I've seen almost all of Lars von Trier's work besides The Idiots (unfortunately not available on Netflix) and this. Not ashamed anymore: Lawrence of Arabia 4.5/5, The Battle of Algiers 2/5, Toy Story 2 3.5/5, Sherman's March 3.5/5, His Girl Friday 4/5, Last Year at Marienbad 3/5, M 4/5, Stolen Kisses 3/5
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TenSpadesBeTrump posted:3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Powell and Pressburger are cool. Get into them. I watched Peeping Tom. I have to say I think I was negatively influenced by the hype. If I'd just approached this as a b-movie 60's horror piece, I would have been very impressed. However, that patina of masterpiece surrounding it kind of made the campier aspects stick out. Some of it wasn't too egregious-- for example, the broad comedy on the set of the movie-within-the-movie was charming enough and provided an interesting counterpoint to Mark Lewis' more sordid and Lacanian relationship to film. But that gratuitous dance scene in the middle... come on. It felt totally out of place, and Moira Shearer certainly looked a little worse for the wear. Even the protagonists murder weapon, while rightfully famous as a potent if somewhat heavy-handed symbol of the power of gaze, is pretty goofy when you stop and think about it. If approached as a prima facie canonized artifact, then, the whole product is just a little too ragged and uneven to make sense. I found that if I allowed myself to look at it in the context of it's actual genre though, its idiosyncracies and quirks took on new life. I think Peeping Tom functions better if the normal laws of psychological thrillers are allowed to lapse, and be replaced by the movie's own sort of lurid, Grand Guignol grammar (I feel the same way about Night of the Hunter, but I'm less ambiguous about it). Even Powell's creepily lush, feverish palette seems to bear this out. In that sense it was a lot closer in tone to something like Tales of Hoffmann or The Red Shoes than I'd expected, just as keyed into the gothic and the grotesque side of the British psyche despite it's somewhat gritty veneer. Karl Boehm is terrific, tremendously creepy and childlike, with just the right wavering hint of an Austrian accent. He veers from sinister to pathetic with convincing and disconcerting fluidity, and his death scene is superbly acted. I was less of a fan of Anna Massey. She reminded me a bit of the teenaged girl from Strangers on a Train- sort of obligated to shift from stupendously obtuse to hyper-intuitive as the plot demands. ---- I also watched Stranger Than Paradise. I liked it a lot, I liked the strange anachronistic setting, I liked the dry performances, and I especially liked the peculiar Ozu-meets-Cassavetes cinematography. Jarmusch sure seems to have a thing for wringing some fun out of the way foreign speakers adapt to English, it seems like, between Stranger Than Paradise's Eve, Roberto Benigni in Down By Law, the Japanese tourists in Mystery Train and the Ethiopian neighbor in Broken Flowers. Oh well. My revised list: 1.) Fantomas- I'm not familiar with this era of silent serials, and there's a new set of these out. I love Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse so the genesis of that sort of criminal mastermind genre is also interesting to me. 3.) Cria Cuevos- I really liked Ana Torrent in The Spirit of the Beehive. I've heard good things about this too, and Spanish film is kind of a lacunae in my education. 5.) Late Spring- I just recently have begun getting familiar with Ozu. I still find his style sort of forbiddingly austere, but I want to keep exploring. 6.) Z- Or any Costa-Gavras. Army of Shadows sort of put me in the mood for political thrillers. 11.) The Earrings of Madame de...- I've just never seen anything by Max Ophuls. I recall reading about him in one of Pauline Kael's books. Sounds like somebody I should know, I guess. 14.) The Magician- I like Bergman, but I don't know too much about this one. Supposedly sort of a dark comedy? 15.) Blood of a Poet- I loved Beauty and the Beast and I'm ready to watch more Cocteau. 16.) Solo Con tu Pareja- Alfonso Cuaron is really hit or miss with me, but somebody recommended this. I don't know, it looks fun. 18.) The Wizard of Oz- This thread is, after all, supposed to be about movies that you're embarrassed to never have seen. I'm not sure how I missed this. I mean, I was a child, I had a TV. I don't know what happened. 19.) Shoot the Piano Player- I saw the first half hour or so of this in school, but had to leave in the middle. I had enjoyed what I'd seen, but for whatever reason never got around to finishing it. Watched: If..., Paris, Texas, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Modern TImes, Beauty & the Beast, Short Cuts, Sweet Movie, Stranger Than Paradise, Peeping Tom How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Dec 3, 2010 |
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Archyduke posted:18.) The Wizard of Oz- This thread is, after all, supposed to be about movies that you're embarrassed to never have seen. I'm not sure how I missed this. I mean, I was a child, I had a TV. I don't know what happened. This one's a lot of fun and the blu ray is gorgeous. Ikiru - Wow, this one was much more uplifting than I expected. So much of the movie being about bureaucracy was a bit of a surprise but I really enjoyed the structure of the last act. I also managed to knock A Woman is a Woman off the list. As I started watching it I remembered a lot of the scenes, but I couldn't place where or when I'd seen it or recall where the movie went. It was definitely worth the re-watch though. Anna Karina is fantastic and I could see how the self-awareness might be a bit much for some I found it to be a very fun film. Updated list: L'Age D'Or - I've seen quite a bit of Bunuel, but not this. Caught Un Chien Andalou on Netflix Instant the other day and enjoyed it so this made the list. Wild Strawberries - I need more Bergman in my life. Faces - Having only seen A Woman Under the Influence, I'm interested in watching more Cassavetes Hoop Dreams - I should keep a slot on here for documentaries and this one was first on my netflix queue. Battleship Potemkin - I need to watch more silents. The Trial - Haven't seen too much of Welles and this one really interests me as I've read the book. Tokyo Story - I've been meaning to check out some Ozu for a while. Inland Empire - I like Lynch quite a bit, but I've been putting this one off for a while. Last Year at Marienbad - Lately I've been doing really well at avoiding questionable blind buys, but during the last B&N sale this one managed to find its way onto my shelf. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes were both fantastic, I need to see more Powell & Pressburger. Finally Watched: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Raging Bull, Ben-Hur(1959), Taxi Driver, Andrei Rublev, Breathless, 8 1/2, The Third Man, Ikiru
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FancyMike I select Tokyo Story for you. Bicycle Thief was beautiful and incredibly engrossing. I find my favorite films are the ones I get completely lost in, the ones where while in the process of watching becomes my whole world. This is definitely one of those movies. It was very sad but also very beautiful. A very human story. It was absolutely sublime. Here's my updated list: 2.Grand Illusion - I bought it during a one of the criterion sales. I often make random blind buys during the sales to "broaden my horizons". also it was going out of print. 3.Late Spring - I love Ozu, I have a few of his movies but for whatever reason I never watched this one. 4.The Red Shoes - See no.2, I passed it up several times because I thought a movie about ballet wouldn't interest me, but everyone says it's wonderful. The Barnes & Noble employee kind of talked me into it during the last sale. 5.Fanny & Alexander - I love Bergman, just got this during the last sale. It just seems daunting at 5 hours. 6.Lawrence of Arabia - Bought this after I saw Bridge on the River Kwai for the first time I just had to get more of David Lean's classics. But I never got around to watching it. 7.Cape Fear - Bought this because I love Night of the Hunter and Robert Mitchum. 8.Force of Evil - I love noir and this was highly recommended by people on this board as well as on some "best noir" lists. 10.Amelie - Heard wonderful things about this for a long time, I love City of Lost Children and Delicatessen. Just haven't gotten around to watching this. 11.Double Life of Veronique - Another Criterion blind buy, Kieslowski sounds like a director whose work I would enjoy. And I figured I couldn't go wrong for a first exposure than the only one of this films that was released by Criterion. 12.Paths of Glory - I love Kubrick as well as Kirk Douglas, Seemed like a no-brainer as a blind buy goes. Watched So Far: Woman in the Dunes, The Bicycle Thief
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GonzoIsKing posted:10.Amelie - Heard wonderful things about this for a long time, I love City of Lost Children and Delicatessen. Just haven't gotten around to watching this. You'll like it. It's charming to say the least. After far too long, I finally watching Vertigo. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't what I was expecting. I thought it would a straight crime mystery. Jimmy Stewart was wonderful and it was interesting seeing him as he was during the last quarter of the film, since I've only ever seen him as the nice guy. He does creepy very well. The only problem I had was the unresolved story line of Midge and John. Midge obviously had something for John, but it was never explored, nor was it ever resolved. Kind of irksome. Here's my updated list: 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Another film I've fallen asleep attempting to watch several times. Always right around the space part starts. I've seen the ending, but have no idea how it connects with the movie. The whole thing just seems boring. 2. The Usual Suspects. I've never seen this movie, but I do know how it ends, and since it's one of those that the ending is a surprise, I feel that watching the movie would be moot. 3. Raging Bull. Going into this one blind. Don't even know who plays the main character. It's about boxing, right? 4. Tombstone. Not a fan of westerns, but I've realized this only applies to old westerns, like...pre 1970's where it was all about being a macho man. I think I should give this one a shot. 5. The Deer Hunter. Don't know a lot about this one, just that it has a young Christopher Walken in it and there is an intense Russian roulette scene. But I hear it's good, so I'm adding it to the list. 6. The Kite Runner. I've heard nothing but amazement over this movie, but I really don't like the Middle East wars and I think this would just make me unable to appreciate the movie? I hope I'm wrong. 7. Lawrence of Arabia. Never even really heard much about this movie. I know it's a classic, but up until this thread, I never thought it was something I had to see. Here's hoping it's as good as everyone says it is and worth the time to watch it. 8. Grosse Point Blank This movie I've tried to watch, but always got distracted. I have a feeling it's going to be hard to keep concentrating on, but I want to finish it. Plus, I like John Cussack. 9. Rabbit Proof Fence. My dad has been trying to get me to see this one since he saw it, saying it's fantastic. Just never got around to it. 10. It Happened One Night. Heard it's a very good early romantic comedy? Also, I've only ever seen Mr. Gable in Gone With the Wind, so it would be nice to have more exposure to his other movies. Finished movies: Die Hard; Dr. Strangelove.; Chinatown; Citizen Kane; There Will Be Blood; Do The Right Thing; The Graduate; Rocky; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; A Streetcar Named Desire; Apocalypse Now; Children of a Lesser God; City of God; The Pianist; The Red Shoes; Eraserhead; Vertigo Bodnoirbabe fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Dec 4, 2010 |
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Watch Raging Bull it's a Scorsese classic. By the way the main character is played by Robert Deniro. 1. Platoon - Watched the first half already. 2. Triumph Of The Will - Looks interesting. 3. Seven Samurai - Never seen a Kurosawa movie. 4. Once Upon A Time In The West - Supposed to be better then TGTB&TU? 5. City Of God - Watched the first 30 minutes, can't remember why I didn't finish it. 6. Paths Of Glory - One of the few Kubrick movies I still haven't seen. 7. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button - Tried watching this once, got bored during the really slow dialogue from the old women. 8. City Lights - Never watched a silent film before. 9. Pan's Labyrinth - No excuse I should have watched this by now. 10. 8 1/2 WATCHED: The Third Man.
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JohnnyDavidson posted:Watch Raging Bull it's a Scorsese classic. By the way the main character is played by Robert Deniro. Okay, will do. JohnnyDavidson posted:WATCHED: The Third Man. Part of the point of this thread is to come back and tell us your opinion on the movie after you've seen it. Did it meet your expectations? What did you like? What did you dislike? Was there anything that stood out for you? That kind of stuff. Write a short review.
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Ugh, I missed two chances to recommend Lawrence of Arabia. JohnnyDavidson you get Seven Samurai. Babette's Feast: How the hell does this get so much praise. Other than some great makeup work in aging the actors there's nothing even remotely interesting here. It's slow and mundane, but that's not really the issue so much as the complete unwillingness to explore anything at all. We're presented with at least four quasi leads about whom we learn absolutely nothing but some superficial traits, in a time and place that has absolutely no bearing on anything and a plot, if you can even call it that, which is simplistic and predictable but still told in the most convoluted manner possible. About 10 minutes in I knew there was little chance I'd like this but still I kept hoping something interesting would come out of this. Maybe some good dialogue, some surprises, some good photography anything at all to save me from this tedious poo poo. It's right there with The Travelling Players and Fear and Desire as the worst I've seen for this thread. Updated list: Tales of Hoffman After my second viewing of The Red Shoes I was really excited to watch this but I quit after 5 minutes when I realized I just wasn't ready for cinematic opera, no matter how well shot. I think maybe now, a couple of years later, I might be willing to give this another shot. Sans toit ni loi I bought the Criterion Varda boxset the week it came out, all excited after loving Cleo from 5 to 7 and then proceeded to not watch any of it. Vidas Secas Another highly regarded film I keep putting off because I fear it's really depressing. Ryan's Daughter I love Lean, but this film's reputation , combined with its length aren't particularly enticing. On the other hand I liked Heaven's gate so who knows. Underworld (1927) This is considered a pretty seminal crime film and von Sternberg's direction is always enjoyable. Ballad of Narayama Imamura, another director I've seen shamefully little from. This Sporting Life Only seen If... from Lindsay Anderson, liked it quite a bit. The Saragossa Manuscript I hear this is really good. Flesh and the Devil I need some more Garbo in my life. Wuthering Heights 1939 There's only two films I haven't seen from the original AFI list, this is one of them. I generally like classic Hollywood so this should be good. For the hell of it, here's what I've seen so far: Last Tango In Paris 7.5/10 , Lola Montes 8.5/10 , First Blood 8.5/10 , Lolita 8.5/10 , The New World 8.5/10 , The Decalogue 9.5/10 , Neotpravlennoye pismo 10/10 , A Passage to India 8.5/10 , Yi-Yi 8.5/10 , The Last Emperor 7.5/10 , In a Year with 13 Moons 8.5/10 , The Big Red One 8.5/10 , Les Vampires 9.5/10 , Ballad of a Soldier 9.5/10 , Chelsea Girls 7.5/10 , Kin-Dza-Dza 9/10 , My Life as a Dog 8/10 , The Man who Fell to Earth 8/10 , Red Beard 8.5/10 , Satantango 9/10 , Napoleon 10/10 , Faces 9/10 , Godzilla 7/10, Olympia I 9.5/10 II 8.5/10 , Bad Day at Black Rock 9/10, Soy Cuba 9.5/10, Ossessione 8/10, Greed 10/10, Hoop Dreams 9.5/10, The Burmese Harp 9.5/10 , Éloge de l'amour 6.5/10 , Woodstock 7.5/10 , Die Nibelungen Siegfried 9/10 Kriemhild 8.5/10, Ceddo 10/10 , Wrath of Khan - 7/10 , Shoah 9/10 , City of Sadness 8.5/10, Fires on the Plain 9/10 , Berlin Alexanderplatz 9/10 , Heima 6.5/10 , Angels with Dirty Faces 8.5/10 , Juliet of the Spirits 7/10 Kings of the Road 8.5/10 , Farewell My Concubine 7.5/10 , Dodesukaden 10/10 , The Shootist 7/10 , Goodbye Lenin 9.5/10 , La hora de los hornos 9/10 , The Traveling Players 5/10 , Reds 9/10 , Werckmeister Harmonies 9/10 , Five Fingers of Death 8/10 , Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 9/10 , Ong-bak 7.5/10 , The Devils 8.5/10 , Nostalghia 8/10 , Killer's Kiss 8.5/10 , Koyaanisqatsi 8.5/10 , Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo 9.5/10 , The Cove 9/10 , America, America 8.5/10 , Pour la suite du monde 5/10 , Lilja 4-ever 9/10 , The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 7/10 , Burma VJ 8.5/10 , The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 8.5/10 , Europa '51 9/10 , The Killers 9/10 , The Killers 7/10 , Pursued 8.5/10 , Pelle the Conqueror 8/10 , Brink of Life 9/10 , Fear and Desire 4/10 , The Naked Spur 6/10 , Stroszek 8.5/10 , Beau Travail 8/10 , Kanal 9/10 Field of Dreams 6/10 , Mishima 7/10 , Novecento 7/10 , A Face in the Crowd 9/10 , Floating Weeds 8.5/10, Heaven's Gate 8.5/10 , Days and Nights in the Forest 9/10 The War of The Worlds 6.5/10 , Fallen Angels 9/10 , The Crucified Lovers 8.5/10 , Sanxia haoren 8.5/10 , Fantomas 8.5/10 , The Ballad of Cable Hogue 9.5/10 , <---> 6/10 , The Devil and Daniel Webster 8.5/10 , Basic Instinct 8/10, Babette's Feast 5/10
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Oh thank god, I thought I was the only one who didn't go gaga over Babette's Feast.
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Peaceful Anarchy - you get Wuthering Heights. So I actually watched The Godfather: Part II a couple of weeks ago but didn't get around to posting until now. Definitely lives up to the first movie and really adds quite a bit of depth to the whole thing. Updated list: Scarlet Street - NOIRVEMBER Vivre sa vie - gonna throw another Godard on here. This one in particular, because the blu-ray for it is sitting in my apartment. Bad Education - I like the Almodovars I've seen and I've been meaning to see this one for a while, but I just never got around to it. The Haunting - I've seen a few Wise films and this one's pretty well regarded, plus it fits the whole horror film criteria I've got going. Intolerance - Have to see if Griffith managed to redeem himself at all. Stagecoach - I'm a bit lacking when it comes to westerns, or John Ford for that matter. Destiny - old Lang silent I've been meaning to see for a few years. It's on Netflix Instant, though, so I can finally get around to it. Faust - Murnau's silent. I've seen a few other Murnaus and this one has appealed to me for a while, but the length has kept me away from it. Stray Dog - Probably the most major Kurosawa I haven't seen. The Brood - I love Cronenberg but this one has eluded me so far. Seen - Breathless, Pink Flamingos, Do the Right Thing, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Downfall, Fitzcarraldo, Z, Spartacus, The Elephant Man, Scenes from a Marriage, Audition, Three Colors Trilogy, Stalker, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, El Topo, Belle de jour, The Piano Teacher, Apocalypse Now, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Babel, Shoot the Piano Player, La dolce vita, The Birth of a Nation, Man with a Movie Camera, L'age d'or, The Rules of the Game, Stroszek, Rosemary's Baby, Through a Glass Darkly, Bride of Frankenstein, The Thin Blue Line, Even Dwarfs Started Small, The Godfather, The Idiots, The Godfather Part II
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dotCommunism, you get Stray Dog. I really want to see that movie, so I'm sending you in ahead of me once again. I just watched Amarcord and actually I really liked it. As with La Dolce Vita it took me a while to get into Fellini's rhythm. I'm not used to films that are "plotted" like his. I definitely felt the nostalgia that the film was trying to communicate, though, as well as the sense of community. It really was overlong and it really did drag in places. The enjoyable parts about balanced it out, though. I particularly liked the fourth wall breakages and the daydreams. Also, as with La Dolce Vita, the setting helped make the film. I'd call it good but not great. Also, is it wrong that I actually seriously thought Maria Antonietta Beluzzi was a knockout? Before that, I also watched Léon/The Professional. I felt the same way about that film: good but not great. Except for a lot of close-ups and low-key lighting at the very beginning and end, I didn't feel a lot of variance in the cinematography. The film was almost consistently high-key lit, and I think it was to the detriment of its emotional impact. That aspect also made the film feel a little more direct-to-video than it should have. Still, it's action-packed and unpredictable. Jean Reno and Gary Oldman both brought their A-games. This to me was Besson warming up for Taken, which I liked much better. 8½: I've seen La Dolce Vita and Amarcord now. I've heard some really, really high praise for this one. But will it live up?! American Graffiti: I always wanted to see George Lucas' work before his Star Wars success made him all fat and happy. Plus, there's something about Mort Drucker's poster that makes me 2-3 times as interested in it. Au Revoir Les Enfants: I've heard a lot of good things about this movie, but I don't know much about it except the basic plot. Carlito's Way: I've seen as many mob movies as any self-respecting 20-something American male, but not only have I not seen this one, but somehow I managed not to know anything about this movie except that it stars Pacino. Casino: I've been meaning to watch this movie forever; never got around to it. Do the Right Thing: The only Spike Lee film I've seen is Inside Man. I did love that movie on the surface level, but I had a big problem with it... I thought the way he handled anti-Arab racism in that movie was a total cockup. That's a pretty big strike against a director who fancies himself on the forefront of contemporary race issues. Still, as with Woody Allen, I think he's one of those guys where once I see the "right" movie of his I'll love him. Kagemusha: Kurosawa wins my heart more with every film. I've seen 8, which for his filmography is just getting started. The Natural: I always hear the greatest things about Redford, but I haven't seen much stuff with him in it. Levinson's hit-or-miss with me. Serpico: Another Pacino movie I feel like I should have seen by now. Where Eagles Dare: The thing that stuck with me about Inglourious Basterds is that I felt like Tarantino was assuming the viewer knows a lot about war movies that I didn't. So I went on a World War II binge, but I didn't get to this movie.
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