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DOUBLE BILLS

By: Kenji


All That Heaven Allows


Far from Heaven

Many of these are only to be expected, i need to think laterally for some more.

Persona and Vertigo might match Mulholland Dr well, Portrait of Jennie is a fore-runner of Vertigo, Eternity and a Day could join with Alice in the Cities and Central Station, seeing Don’t Look Now after Petulia might be instructive, Our Beloved Month of August might pair well with Separado. Outcast of the Islands would fit with Apocalypse Now and Aguirre Wrath of God, Of Time and the City might suit Jarman’s Blue, which could also be paired with Herzog’s Land of Silence and Darkness to the latter’s detriment. Marketa Lazarova would go with Andrei Rublev and Seventh Seal; Gun Crazy with Bonnie and Clyde and Badlands; Fear Eats the Soul with All that Heaven Allows and Far from Heaven. …and Street Angel would make a great Janet Gaynor triple bill with Sunrise or Seventh Heaven. I’ve paired Le Quattro Volte with an Italian short A Day in Barbagia by De Seta, though a more obvious choice, with its tree ceremony, is the De Seta’s I Dimenticati. Celine and Julie go Boating would suit Two Girls from Zeeland in Zandvoort and Daisies.

I’m now pairing the short Amelia and the Angel with The White Balloon,which could also accompany another Iranian film The Apple. La Cienaga or Gosford Park would suit Rules of the Game, while a film i picked to pair the Renoir, Bunuel’s L’Age d’Or, would pair well with Monty Python, e.g Life of Brian or The Meaning of Life; the Cuban masterpiece Lucia with Black Shack Alley and Daughters of the Dust, or its first segment with the harrowing Come and See. Citizen Kane or another Welles film Immortal Story, or maybe F for Fake would, like Lady of Shanghai, go well with Three Crowns of the Sailor, as Ruiz too enjoyed play with storytelling and reality, and like the great whale Welles was a wandering creature of the oceans.

As antitheses, High Noon v Rio Bravo (i dislike the latter, so am inverting their order), Listen to Britain (threatened idyll) v The Last of England (paradise lost). Groundhog Day of course is its own double or triple bill.

Suggestions welcome

 

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Ronald

4Jan12

I'm thinking Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project and We Need to Talk about Kevin.

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    Kenji

    4Jan12

    Thanks. I've not seen either yet though i was already intending to see Kevin

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    Ronald

    4Jan12

    Tender Son by Kornel Mundruczo has not really been picked up yet by critics or audiences and that's a shame. Even though they apparently love the filmmaker in Cannes. The film has its flaws but it's also a wonderfully layered piece on creating monsters by indifferent parents, that even reflects on the filmmaking process itself and maybe even on larger political phenomena.

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    Ronald

    4Jan12

    Just saying... if you get the chance...

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Mister Dob

27Dec09

I always thought Ikiru and Wild Strawberries would be an awesome/heartbreaking double bill.

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Kenji

20Nov09

I like Miss Oyu a lot but it's not quite in the same class as Sunrise, but then very few films are! This reminds me i left Sunrise off my Directors around Mizoguchi list

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Mono No Aware

20Nov09

Great stuff. I'm gonna do Sunrise and Oyu-sama this weekend.

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