I was going to mention Out 1! Maybe also L’amour fou? How about The Hart of London? Taipei Story would be great (especially if found in a passable print), so would other Yang films! Maybe City of Sadness?
Also, I’ve heard that many of Lino Brocka’s films are very good and I can’t find them anywhere. I know Manila: In the Claws of Neon is supposed to be one of his best. Heh, maybe even some Lav Diaz?
There was a retrospective a few weeks ago at the Cinematheque Ontario (yet of course I happened to be out of town for most of it!), and at there were some thank-yous at the bottom of the description:
“Cinematheque Ontario would like to thank Li Yang for her generous assistance in the preparation of this series.
We would also like to thank the following individuals: Timothy Chang, Central Motion Picture Corporation (Taipei); Teresa Huang, Chinese Taipei Film Archive (Taipei); Chang Chuti, 3H Productions (Taipei); and Mimi Brody, UCLA Film & Television Archive (Los Angeles). Programme notes written by Steve Gravestock and George Kaltsounakis. "
I still imagine that it would be very hard to get the rights for them. I was luckily still able to see A Brighter Summer Day and Mahjong and the prints were not in very good shape.
José Luis Guerín (In the City of Sylvia, En construcción , Tren de sombras ) – have not actually seen any of them but I’ve heard that they are very good!
I second Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, which I have yet to see.
Silent Light, which I also have not seen.
Wen Jiang (In the Heat of the Sun)
Four Nights of a Dreamer
India Song
Maybe Weerasethakul shorts (or features for that matter)?
Rossellini
Angelopoulos
Victor Erice (El Sur, Quince Tree Light)
Well, you can find it over eBay and for download in a pretty poor print and that’s how I first saw it. I saw it around two weeks ago at the cinematheque here and even though the print wasn’t in exactly excellent condition it was still a revelation. I really wish that a DVD of it would come out sooner or later but it does not seem like that’ll happen, and it’s even more unfortunate considering how visually accomplished the film is.
How about some Von Sternberg? I think the majority of his films are unavailable and Anatahan is only available in awful prints. I saw it a few days ago at the cinematheque here, and it was awesome.
I heard about that – there must’ve been some sort of mistake. On the TCM website they said the print they were supposed to show was “letter-boxed”. Someone should email them to find out what happened.
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
I think I can only really do this by mentioning directors where I don’t know if I have a particular favourite. In no order:
Tarkovsky (Andrei Rublev or Nostalghia)
Mizoguchi (Sansho the Bailiff or Story of Late Chrysanthemums)
Hou (City of Sadness or The Puppetmaster)
Ozu (Tokyo Story, The End of Summer or Early Spring)
Renoir (The Grand Illusion, or The Rules of the Game)
Chronological order for some other films that I love:
The Man with a Movie Camera
M
Ivan the Terrible
Rome: Open City
Diary of a Country Priest
Anatahan
Muriel
Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors
Chimes at Midnight
The Travelling Players
Kings of the Road
Berlin Alexanderplatz
El Sur
A Brighter Summer Day (However, Taipei Story, Yi Yi, and The Terrorizers do just trail behind…)
Satantango
Platform
Origin of the 21st Century
Colossal Youth
Syndromes and a Century
This may seem trivial but I think it would be nice to have. For the top list, if someone could change the order of the films on it (instead of removing the films and then having to add them again) or if the list was somehow automatically ordered chronologically, or alphabetically.
I’m around 1 hour through Edward Yang’s That Day, On the Beach. I started it yesterday and won’t be able to continue until tomorrow probably. I liked what I saw, but the copy that I have is really awful. It’s dubbed (not in English) and some parts don’t even have subtitles…
“One way or another, when we select the Palme d’Or winner, I think we are going to feel very confident that the film-maker who made the film is very aware of the times in which he or she lives.” —-Sounds like Jia to me. One disappointing thing I heard recently was apparently in 2006 there were rumours that Colossal Youth was going to get it. I think that would’ve been a much better choice than The Wind that Shakes the Barley. Also, big audiences watching it because it won the Palme would be hilarious.
I’m hoping that some of these (the Kurosawa, Jia, Garrel, and Ashes of Time redux definitely) will be at TIFF so I can have the opportunity to see them.
Staub/Huillet’s Sicilia! My first by the pair, and I think I loved it, but I don’t really know what to make of that last line.
Hou’s A Time to Live and a Time to Die is another Hou masterpiece.
All I have to say about Nicholas Ray’s Bigger than Life is, “God was wrong.”
I really like both Naruse films that I’ve seen (Flowing and A Woman..). I’ll definitely see more sometime in the future.
Shuji Terayama – I’ve only seen Pastoral: To Die in the Country, but that’s enough for me to call him a visionary.
Tomu Uchida – A Fugitive from the Past and A Bloody Spear on Mt. Fuji are great.
Edward Yang (other than Yi Yi) – He’s one of my ten or so favourite filmmakers. The lack of availability of his films is extremely unfortunate, considering I think that A Brighter Summer Day, Taipei Story, and The Terrorizers are all masterpieces. Yi Yi is also great but it is easily attainable.
The compositions and voices just blew my mind! I would love to read your review, but because of that damn propagator of Hollywood/mainstream cinema hacker I couldn’t do so. What did you think of the last line?
I recognized the shot from Parajanov’s Colour of Pomegranates. Even though I have a very limited understanding of French, I think I understood a good chunk of it. Clearly, the history and a reflection of cinema is his focus here, but I’m not too sure of this – it may also be about some sort of rebirth of cinema.
I also missed it when it came to Toronto a few months ago, but I only partly blame myself. If only it wasn’t shown on a wednesday! I have listened to the music on their MySpace page and it is really great. I wonder what they’ll do next in the “project series”.
Which movies would you like to see on The Auteurs? about 5 years ago
I was going to mention Out 1! Maybe also L’amour fou? How about The Hart of London? Taipei Story would be great (especially if found in a passable print), so would other Yang films! Maybe City of Sadness?
Also, I’ve heard that many of Lino Brocka’s films are very good and I can’t find them anywhere. I know Manila: In the Claws of Neon is supposed to be one of his best. Heh, maybe even some Lav Diaz?
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Which movies would you like to see on The Auteurs? about 5 years ago
There was a retrospective a few weeks ago at the Cinematheque Ontario (yet of course I happened to be out of town for most of it!), and at there were some thank-yous at the bottom of the description:
“Cinematheque Ontario would like to thank Li Yang for her generous assistance in the preparation of this series.
We would also like to thank the following individuals: Timothy Chang, Central Motion Picture Corporation (Taipei); Teresa Huang, Chinese Taipei Film Archive (Taipei); Chang Chuti, 3H Productions (Taipei); and Mimi Brody, UCLA Film & Television Archive (Los Angeles). Programme notes written by Steve Gravestock and George Kaltsounakis. "
I still imagine that it would be very hard to get the rights for them. I was luckily still able to see A Brighter Summer Day and Mahjong and the prints were not in very good shape.
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Best of Recent Asian Cinema about 5 years ago
From 06:
Still Life
Syndromes and a Century
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
From 07:
Secret Sunshine
The Sun Also Rises
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How do you take away a rating? about 5 years ago
I accidentally rated a film that I have not yet seen. Is there any way for me to take away the rating?
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Your Favorite Godard Film? about 5 years ago
I have seen barely anything, but right now my favourite is Origin of the 21st Century (it’s a short).
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Which movies would you like to see on The Auteurs? about 5 years ago
Some more suggestions:
José Luis Guerín (In the City of Sylvia, En construcción , Tren de sombras ) – have not actually seen any of them but I’ve heard that they are very good!
I second Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, which I have yet to see.
Silent Light, which I also have not seen.
Wen Jiang (In the Heat of the Sun)
Four Nights of a Dreamer
India Song
Maybe Weerasethakul shorts (or features for that matter)?
Rossellini
Angelopoulos
Victor Erice (El Sur, Quince Tree Light)
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What to look forward in 2008? about 5 years ago
The Dust of Time (Angelopoulos)
Salome (Tsai)
Utopia (Weerasethakul) (?)
Frontière de l’aube (Garrel)
Age of Tattoo (Jia)
Herbes folles (Resnais)
That’s all I can seem to remember right now.
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Best of Coming-Of-Age Cinema about 5 years ago
Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day.
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Best of Coming-Of-Age Cinema about 5 years ago
Well, you can find it over eBay and for download in a pretty poor print and that’s how I first saw it. I saw it around two weeks ago at the cinematheque here and even though the print wasn’t in exactly excellent condition it was still a revelation. I really wish that a DVD of it would come out sooner or later but it does not seem like that’ll happen, and it’s even more unfortunate considering how visually accomplished the film is.
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Which movies would you like to see on The Auteurs? about 5 years ago
How about some Von Sternberg? I think the majority of his films are unavailable and Anatahan is only available in awful prints. I saw it a few days ago at the cinematheque here, and it was awesome.
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Which movies would you like to see on The Auteurs? about 5 years ago
Unfortunately not – I only had the time to attend both Scarlet Empress and Anatahan.
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Your Favorite Godard Film? about 5 years ago
I heard about that – there must’ve been some sort of mistake. On the TCM website they said the print they were supposed to show was “letter-boxed”. Someone should email them to find out what happened.
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D.I.Y. Film Playlist about 5 years ago
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
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favorite films? about 5 years ago
I think I can only really do this by mentioning directors where I don’t know if I have a particular favourite. In no order:
Tarkovsky (Andrei Rublev or Nostalghia)
Mizoguchi (Sansho the Bailiff or Story of Late Chrysanthemums)
Hou (City of Sadness or The Puppetmaster)
Ozu (Tokyo Story, The End of Summer or Early Spring)
Renoir (The Grand Illusion, or The Rules of the Game)
Chronological order for some other films that I love:
The Man with a Movie Camera
M
Ivan the Terrible
Rome: Open City
Diary of a Country Priest
Anatahan
Muriel
Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors
Chimes at Midnight
The Travelling Players
Kings of the Road
Berlin Alexanderplatz
El Sur
A Brighter Summer Day (However, Taipei Story, Yi Yi, and The Terrorizers do just trail behind…)
Satantango
Platform
Origin of the 21st Century
Colossal Youth
Syndromes and a Century
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Best Biopics about 5 years ago
Edvard Munch!
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Good Bad Films about 5 years ago
Troll 2 is a masterpiece.
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Feedback about 5 years ago
This may seem trivial but I think it would be nice to have. For the top list, if someone could change the order of the films on it (instead of removing the films and then having to add them again) or if the list was somehow automatically ordered chronologically, or alphabetically.
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What are you watching now? about 5 years ago
I’m around 1 hour through Edward Yang’s That Day, On the Beach. I started it yesterday and won’t be able to continue until tomorrow probably. I liked what I saw, but the copy that I have is really awful. It’s dubbed (not in English) and some parts don’t even have subtitles…
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CANNES Line-up about 5 years ago
Can’t wait to see Jia’s newest when it comes to Toronto. Hopefully, he’ll also have Age of Tattoo done by then. I’ve heard that Adoration is good.
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What are you watching now? about 5 years ago
Beau Travail. What an ending! What a film!
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My Top 20 Movies of All Time about 5 years ago
You could have always posted this in the “favourites” thread.
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CANNES Line-up almost 5 years ago
“One way or another, when we select the Palme d’Or winner, I think we are going to feel very confident that the film-maker who made the film is very aware of the times in which he or she lives.” —-Sounds like Jia to me. One disappointing thing I heard recently was apparently in 2006 there were rumours that Colossal Youth was going to get it. I think that would’ve been a much better choice than The Wind that Shakes the Barley. Also, big audiences watching it because it won the Palme would be hilarious.
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CANNES Line-up almost 5 years ago
What do you think deserved the different awards?
I’m hoping that some of these (the Kurosawa, Jia, Garrel, and Ashes of Time redux definitely) will be at TIFF so I can have the opportunity to see them.
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What are you watching now? almost 5 years ago
Bresson’s Lancelot du Lac. It was amazing.
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What are you watching now? almost 5 years ago
Staub/Huillet’s Sicilia! My first by the pair, and I think I loved it, but I don’t really know what to make of that last line.
Hou’s A Time to Live and a Time to Die is another Hou masterpiece.
All I have to say about Nicholas Ray’s Bigger than Life is, “God was wrong.”
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Favorite underseen/unknown directors almost 5 years ago
I really like both Naruse films that I’ve seen (Flowing and A Woman..). I’ll definitely see more sometime in the future.
Shuji Terayama – I’ve only seen Pastoral: To Die in the Country, but that’s enough for me to call him a visionary.
Tomu Uchida – A Fugitive from the Past and A Bloody Spear on Mt. Fuji are great.
Edward Yang (other than Yi Yi) – He’s one of my ten or so favourite filmmakers. The lack of availability of his films is extremely unfortunate, considering I think that A Brighter Summer Day, Taipei Story, and The Terrorizers are all masterpieces. Yi Yi is also great but it is easily attainable.
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What are you watching now? almost 5 years ago
The compositions and voices just blew my mind! I would love to read your review, but because of that damn propagator of Hollywood/mainstream cinema hacker I couldn’t do so. What did you think of the last line?
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New Godard short film almost 5 years ago
I recognized the shot from Parajanov’s Colour of Pomegranates. Even though I have a very limited understanding of French, I think I understood a good chunk of it. Clearly, the history and a reflection of cinema is his focus here, but I’m not too sure of this – it may also be about some sort of rebirth of cinema.
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Favorite underseen/unknown directors almost 5 years ago
I also missed it when it came to Toronto a few months ago, but I only partly blame myself. If only it wasn’t shown on a wednesday! I have listened to the music on their MySpace page and it is really great. I wonder what they’ll do next in the “project series”.
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FANTASY ARTHOUSE DOUBLE FEATURE almost 5 years ago
Sternberg’s Anatahan followed by Rossellini’s India: Matri Bhumi
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