Here’s a tentative list under the theme: Evil
Prelude: ? (Any suggestion? )
1. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
2. M le maudit (Fritz Lang)
3. Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo)
4. The Chocolate War (Keith Gordon)
5. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
6. Throne of Blood (Kurosawa Akira)
THEME: Escape
1. Thelma and Louise
2. Catch Me if You Can
3. Into the Wild
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
5. Alice in Wonderland
6. Vagabond
THEME: Lust
1. The Pillow Book
2. L’Avventura
3. Hiroshima mon amour
4. 2046
5. Woman of the Dunes
6. In the Realm of the Senses
THEME: Coming of age
1. Spirit of the Beehive
2. Almost Famous
3. Battle Royale
4. Say Anything…
5. Yi Yi
6. the 400 Blows
THEME: Guilt
1. The Killer
2. Oldboy
3. The Third Man
4. Chinatown
5. Infernal Affairs
6. Rashomon
Sorry about the extra post, my internet is screwy :- (
I know I had one or two more films to fit in this, but I can’t recall them:
(1) The Face of Another
(2) Face/Off
(3) Eyes Without a Face
THEME: Lazy Sundays
( lazy (but still good) sunday movies to match your lazy sunday mood)
1. Paper Moon
2. The Graduate
3. The Life Aquatic
4. The Virgin Suicides
5. The Squid and the Whale
6. Evening
THEME: “Wow! Movies”
(i.e. movies that that are quite shocking)
1. Elephant
2. The Edukators
3. This is England
(NOTE: Theme could also be “E Movies” since all of these films coincedentally (kind of) start with the letter “E”)
THEME: Unforgettable Endings
1. Pierrot le Fou
2. If…
3. Jules and Jim
4. Vertigo
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Repulsion
I really like coming up with these lists…
THEME: Love
1. Lost in Translation
2. Chungking Express
3. Hiroshima mon amour
4. La Dolce Vita
5. Sid and Nancy
6. L’eclisse
This board topic is my go-to activity when I’m bored, which – as you can see – I am a lot.
THEME: Hearing voices, are you?
1. The Shining
2. Hasta el Viento Tiene Miedo (1968 version)
3. Ringu
4. Psycho
5. Donnie Darko
6. Rosemary’s Baby
(Showing select chapters of Tales from the Crypt, Twilight Zone (John litgow’s) and the Simpson’s Holloween specials in between screenings)
THEME: Theatre (including troupes, among other things) and Film
1. Platform
2. Floating Weeds
3. Story of Late Chrysanthemums
4. Melo
5. Any Rivette pretty much (I think Out 1 would fit, but I have yet to see it unfortunately)
6. The Travelling Players
THEME: Self-Reflexive Cinema
1. 8 1/2
2. Pastoral: To Die in the Country
3. Last Year at Marienbad
4. The Terrorizers
5. The Puppetmaster
6. Close-up
THEME: War
Prelude: Night and Fog
1. The Rules of the Game
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Army of Shadows
4. Ballad of a Soldier
5. Battle of Algiers
6. The Steel Helmet
There are some pretty awsome programmers around here…
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Gentle women taking care of us in the DARK…
-I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
-Rush (Lili Fini Zanuck, 1991)
-The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)
-Things We Lost in the Fire (Susanne Bier, 2007)
-The Others (Alejandro Amenabar, 2001)
Time:
-Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppolla, 2007)
-Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
-Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
-48 Hours (Walter Hill, 1982)
-Oblomov (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1979)
-Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
-Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995)
-Mistery Train (Jim Jarmusch, 1989)
Classic selection of greatest love of all time:
Love Story (1970)
Doctor Zhivako (1965)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Sunflower (Girasoli, I) (1970)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Theme: Larger Than Life
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Ben-Hur (1959)
King Kong (2005)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Theme: L.O.V.E.
1. El Amor: Primera parte
2. The End of the Affair
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. The Graduate
5. Cont d’ete
6. Año Uña
Theme: Burn Hollywood, Burn
Presuming that I’ve got access to the projection room and the reels themselves,
my cinematheque exhibition is as follows:
Cut-up and splice the following films together randomly, break them into 5 reels and replace the soundtracks with the screaming of eviscerated pigs in an abattoir, the sound of nails scratching down a blackboard, and the grunting of porn actors.
1. Rocky IV
2. Charlie’s Angels
3. Body Double
4. When Harry met Sally
5. American Pie
In all cases, in the last few minutes put fingers directly onto the reel in the projector and slow the feed until the machine chokes and the cells begin to burn out.
Then show
6. Titanic
Nothing needs to be done to this film, the horror is already unspeakable.
OK, seriously.
Theme: The Real Objective Of A War Is Murder
1. Johnny Got His Gun
2. Grave of the Fireflies
3. Hiroshima Mon Amour
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. The Fog of War
6. Grand Illusion
Theme: Vandalism
1. Stations of the Elevated
2. Style Wars
3. Les Mains Negatives
4. Pure Hate
5. Citizen Art
6. Kings Destroy
Theme:Death
1.Wild strawberries
2.Fires on the plain
3.Ikiru
4.Pitfall
5.The passion of Jeanne of arc
6.The seventh seal
Theme: surrealism
Prelude: Un chien andalou
1.Stalker
2.Persona
3.The third part of the night
4.The Holy Mountain
5.L’Âge d’or
Nice topic!
The movies speak the unspeakable heaviness:
1/The Hours ( Stephen Daldry )
2/Mirror ( Andrei Tarkovsky )
3/Los amantes del círculo polar/Lovers of the Arctic Circle ( Julio Medem )
4/Hiroshima Mon Amour ( Alain Renais )
5/My Life to live ( Godard )
6/Le Fils/The Son ( Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne )
7/Trois couleurs: Bleu ( Krzysztof Kieslowski )
Nice topic!
The movies speak the unspeakable heaviness:
1/The Hours ( Stephen Daldry )
2/Mirror ( Andrei Tarkovsky )
3/Los amantes del círculo polar/Lovers of the Arctic Circle ( Julio Medem )
4/Hiroshima Mon Amour ( Alain Renais )
5/My Life to live ( Godard )
6/Le Fils/The Son ( Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne )
7/Trois couleurs: Bleu ( Krzysztof Kieslowski )
Theme: America
Prelude:Motorcycle Diaries
1.Brazil-City of god
2.Chile-Machucca
3.Mexico-Amores Perros
4.Canada-Mon oncle Antoine
5.USA-Days of Heaven
Shh! Silent Classics:
1. Pandora’s Box – Pabst
2. Metropolis – Lang
3. The General – Keaton
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc – Dreyer
5. Battleship Potemkin – Eisenstein
6. Sunrise – Murnau
Nice list
You should add Un chien Andalou as a prelude…
Juan C.P.
Otra. If you had to create a film cycle, exhibition, or playlist at an awsome cinamatheque.
What would your theme be, and which 6 titles would you pick?
THEME: Futurism
Prelude: La Jetee
1. Brazil
2. Stalker
3. Blade Runner
4. Back to the Future Part 2
4. Alphaville
5. Childen of Men
[UPDATE]
I’m adding The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy as a BONUS TRACK.