what film would you have played at your funeral?
Yes Ralch. Yes! Sans Soleil!
I want a 5 lbs. size red Folger’s coffee can placed on the floor near my coffin with a loop of the Big Lebowski scene with the scattered ashes blowing back into the Dude’s face. Dialogue off—Chet Baker albums on.
I was gonna say 8 1/2, but I’d rather watch that if I was about to die and that was the last movie I got to see. I don’t know if I’d want to make people watch a movie, but if I did it would be funny and relatively short. Maybe Hannah and Her Sisters.
The song I’d have played is “Days” by the Kinks.
Whoever said Salo, I agree with that. That way people will stop saying fake nice things about me and leave remembering me for the a-hole I really am most of the time.
What’s good about this thread is it can’t easily be translated into “what’s your favorite film” the way so many of them can.
Love Streams – Cassavetes
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.
IKIRU
I love the celebratory atmosphere in the last part of the funeral scene. I want everybody to have fun and enjoy a good movie.
Dellamorte Dellamore, i think.
Or something funny, like The Hangover. I hope, there will be booze at my funeral. I won’t go to my funeral, if there won’t be booze.
It’d have to be something that most people attending the funeral could ‘enjoy’. So I’d have to keep mine english language – I think I’d go for ‘A matter of Life and Death’ cos that’d give people hope too!
Anything by Tarkovsky, But If I had to to chose one It would be The Sacrifice.
The Seventh Seal of course.
Rat Fink a Boo-Boo
Start with a Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon to get everyone into the right mood:
Followed by the (awful) Three Stooges film Have Rocket, Will Travel as my ashes are hurled into space.
In all seriousness, it would probably be Synecdoche, because of it’s celebratory look at existence (although I’m rather optimistic about that film, whereas it could be misconstrude as a pessimistic film), Winter Light, or Waking Life.
Now, though, if I was to cover my life in a film, well, that would have to be 8 1/2; that, or Day for Night, just because those two films cover my favorite topic in life, the difficulties of it, and everything that’s encompassed. Really, though, I couldn’t tell you what would be playing at my funeral. Who knows?
Or, if it came down to it, I’d just have them play the film that made me what I am today: Sin City. There’s an effing funeral for you.
Savvy
The Naked Prey.
Soybean – Actually the title of the thread isn’t in the past tense. Well, it could be read that way but it’s not what I meant. The meaning I was intending was in the sense of ‘to have someone do something for you’, rather than in the sense of ‘something having happened’. I realised after I’d posted it that it could also be interpreted the way you did, but that wasn’t my intention.
The Sacrifice, for sure.
What a morbid question, haha. Definitely a cheerful film. Maybe like It’s A Wonderful Life or somewhere along those lines.
Harold and Maude
Teen Wolf.
Ah, Winter Light, that’s a good one too. I think I’d have two screening rooms, one showing Winter Light the other showing The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and people can pick their poison.
Brakage’s The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes
Something Weird released a DVD of some indie zombie-Christian-nudist-turkey monster-antidrug film (the name of which escapes me at the moment) – either that, or the Filipino nurse/zombie abuduction/mad scientist thing they released more recently. One of those.
It would be nice to entertain people, in deference to the excruciating, misreable trauma and anxiety they must be feeling, what with my untimely demise and all. And what’s more entertaining than beautifully baffling bullshit?
I love Something Weird, about as much as I love Criterion. They are putting out some serious treasures.
The music video to “I Want Your Sex” by George Michael.
C-C-C-C-COME ON
Hope folks have a good time and remember how much I liked silent comedy and eary sound slapstick.
Make it a Keaton/Chaplin/Lloyd/Laurel & Hardy/Fields festival.
Refreshments are on me.
DVAERGEN
Either La Jetee or Pandora’s Box. Can’t decide.
Both at the same time, muted with Sigur Ros playing in the background.
This is a morbid topic. Love it.
I’ll be playing Kore-eda’s “After Life” for my former buddies. Expect they will already have forgotten me on the way home, so this will keep them tuned in to the situation.
Know what will be on my tombstone. I saw this line in a newspaper one day. Think it was a quote from a cynic or a comedian (or both!).
…. "I KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN!
My Uncle
House of Leaves
Something with a good beat.
I don’t want a funeral—I want a wake.