1. Die Büchse der Pandora (1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst),
2. La bête humaine (1938, Jean Renoir),
3. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939, John Ford),
4. The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch),
5. Nagaya shinshiroku (1947, Yasujiro Ozu),
6. Viaggio in Italia (1954, Roberto Rossellini),
7. Angst essen Seele auf (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder),
8. Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992, John Carpenter),
9. The Bridges of Madison County (1995, Clint Eastwood),
10. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000, Agnès Varda)
The Prom Queen/King scene in “Carrie”,
The Halloween sequence in “Meet Me in St. Louis”,
The last 20 minutes of “Some came running”,
The reunion in “Sunrise”,
The ghostly voices in empty spaces at the end of “Mortal Storm”,
The ending of “An Affair to remember” (or of two or three other McCarey movies),
The diving scene in “L’Atalante”,
The beginning of “La Bête Humaine” and “M”,
Any shower scene in a De Palma movie,
Almost any picture in Ozu.
1. Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, (1919, D.W. Griffith),
2. Black Narcissus, (1947, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger),
3. Nijushi no hitomi, (1954, Keisuke Kinoshita),
4. Strangers When We Meet, (1960, Richard Quine),
5. Duelle (une quarantaine), (1976, Jacques Rivette),
6. Radio Days, (1987, Woody Allen),
7. 3-4 x jûgatsu, (1990, Takeshi Kitano),
8. Showgirls, (1995, Paul Verhoeven),
9. Batoru rowaiaru, (2000, Kinji Fukasaku),
10. Marie Antoinette, (2006, Sofia Coppola).
The Merchant of Four Seasons,
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,
Fox and His Friends,
… are quite similar in their genrestructure to Ali (Sirk influenced circle of melodramas, TBToPvK an adaptation of his own theatrepiece),
In a Year with Thirteen Moons,
… one of my personal Fassbinder favourites – extremely personal filmmaking (→ in effect: the artist coping with the loss and responsibility for the suicide of his then new ex-boyfriend),
The third generation,
… may still be the most intelligent film on terrorism in western socities and terrorism in general,
Berlin Alexanderplatz,
… watched in one (, two or three) sessions – one of the most exhaustive, exhausting and rewarding filmviewing experiences possible.
I prefer Wes Craven’s debut “The Last House on the Left” to Ingmar Bergman’s “Jungfrukällan” – maybe I like their differences from another best (It’s not an official remake but an actual one).
I would start with the 1999 films: Where a good man goes, Running out of time, and, the Mission. So you get a pretty good picture of his strength and weaknesses.
Breaking News, Exiled and especially PTU are very entertaining treats as well. Both parts of Election in one viewing if possible. Sparrow and Mad Detective of course and Triangle, which may be unique in its ability to show three different director’s styles in one feature (To comes of pretty strong with his McGuffin-style changed props again as in PTU and Mad Detective for example). Fulltime Killer and Running on Karma seem both rather weak for my tastes, their tones are very mixed – and by far not as good as in some of his stronger works (PTU, BN, MD).
And if you can get a hold of them, watch some of his romance/comedies as well:
Love on a Diet, Turn left, Turn right, which may seem light and strange but show his assured and fluid style.
Blind Husbands (1919 / von Stroheim),
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919 / Griffith),
Orphans of the Storm (1921 / Griffith),
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried / Kriemhild’s Rache (1924 / Lang),
7th Heaven (1927 / Borzage),
Potomok Chingis-Khana (1928 / Pudovkin),
La chute de la maison Usher (1928 / Epstein),
Asphalt (1929 / May),
Piccadilly (1929 / Dupont),
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931 / Murnau),
WESTERNS
The Iron Horse (1924 / Ford),
Wagon Master (1950 / Ford),
Rio Grande (1950 / Ford),
The Furies (1950 / Mann),
The Naked Spur (1953 / Mann),
Man of the West (1958 / Mann),
Colorado Territory (1949 / Walsh)
The Tall Men (1955 / Walsh),
The Big Sky (1952 / Hawks),
El Dorado (1966 / Hawks)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976 / Eastwood),
Bronco Billy (1980 / Eastwood)
John Ford,
Yasujiro Ozu,
Kenji Mizoguchi,
Jean Renoir,
Max Ophüls,
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Clint Eastwood,
Frank Borzage,
Leo McCarey,
Roberto Rossellini
The Navigator (Keaton),
7th heaven, The River (by Frank Borzage),
anything silent by Fritz Lang,
Pandora’s Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, The White Hell of Pitz Palu (G. W. Pabst),
The Last Laugh, Faust, Tabu (F.W.Murnau),
Eldorado, L’inhumaine (Marcel L’Herbier),
The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein),
Johan (Mauritz Stiller) / Juha (A. Kaurismäki),
Körkarlen aka
- The Phantom Carriage
- The Phantom Chariot
- The Stroke of Midnight
- Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness (Victor Sjöström)
Make Way for Tomorrow (9/10)
The Palm Beach Story (7,5/10)
Bye Bye Birdie (3/10)
Desperate Living (4/10)
For Love of the Game (5/10)
The House of Mirth (8/10)
1) Ali: Fear Eats Soul (Fassbinder),
2) Celine et Julie Go Boating (Rivette),
3) Alice in the Cities (Wenders),
3) Fontane – Effi Briest (Fassbinder),
5) Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (Visconti),
6) Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait (Schroeder),
7) Phantom of the Paradise (De Palma),
8) Hearts and Minds (Davis),
9) Il fiore delle mille e una notte (Pasolini),
9) A Woman under the Influence (Cassavetes)
→ neither Masaki Kobayashi, nor Nagisa Oshima, nor Akira Kurosawa, nor Shôhei Imamura, nor Hiroshi Teshigahara had a film made in this year, the ones of Kaneto Shindô, Shuji Terayama and Masahiro Shinoda I don’t know yet.
What films do you always catch shit for for not liking? over 3 years ago
Anything by Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl (except Import/Export), Michel Gondry
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Films you expected to be great but were terrible about 3 years ago
A.I. – Lolita – I vitelloni – Giulietta degli spiriti – …pretty anything by Danny Boyle.
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What does it take for a director to be considered a master? about 3 years ago
Brian De Palma
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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER? about 3 years ago
Louise Brooks
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10 GREATEST FILMS IN YOUR OPINION!!!(in order) about 3 years ago
Today, in no special order:
1. Die Büchse der Pandora (1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst),
2. La bête humaine (1938, Jean Renoir),
3. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939, John Ford),
4. The Shop Around the Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch),
5. Nagaya shinshiroku (1947, Yasujiro Ozu),
6. Viaggio in Italia (1954, Roberto Rossellini),
7. Angst essen Seele auf (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder),
8. Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992, John Carpenter),
9. The Bridges of Madison County (1995, Clint Eastwood),
10. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000, Agnès Varda)
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BEST SEQUENCE OR SCENE FROM ANY FILM(CAN BE AN OPENING OR ANYTHING ELSE) about 3 years ago
The Prom Queen/King scene in “Carrie”,
The Halloween sequence in “Meet Me in St. Louis”,
The last 20 minutes of “Some came running”,
The reunion in “Sunrise”,
The ghostly voices in empty spaces at the end of “Mortal Storm”,
The ending of “An Affair to remember” (or of two or three other McCarey movies),
The diving scene in “L’Atalante”,
The beginning of “La Bête Humaine” and “M”,
Any shower scene in a De Palma movie,
Almost any picture in Ozu.
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Greatest Single Cut about 3 years ago
Many a cut in “Don’t Look Now”
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10 GREATEST FILMS IN YOUR OPINION!!!(in order) almost 3 years ago
Today in no special order:
1. Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, (1919, D.W. Griffith),
2. Black Narcissus, (1947, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger),
3. Nijushi no hitomi, (1954, Keisuke Kinoshita),
4. Strangers When We Meet, (1960, Richard Quine),
5. Duelle (une quarantaine), (1976, Jacques Rivette),
6. Radio Days, (1987, Woody Allen),
7. 3-4 x jûgatsu, (1990, Takeshi Kitano),
8. Showgirls, (1995, Paul Verhoeven),
9. Batoru rowaiaru, (2000, Kinji Fukasaku),
10. Marie Antoinette, (2006, Sofia Coppola).
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Recommend me some more Fassbinder almost 3 years ago
The Merchant of Four Seasons,
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,
Fox and His Friends,
… are quite similar in their genrestructure to Ali (Sirk influenced circle of melodramas, TBToPvK an adaptation of his own theatrepiece),
In a Year with Thirteen Moons,
… one of my personal Fassbinder favourites – extremely personal filmmaking (→ in effect: the artist coping with the loss and responsibility for the suicide of his then new ex-boyfriend),
The third generation,
… may still be the most intelligent film on terrorism in western socities and terrorism in general,
Berlin Alexanderplatz,
… watched in one (, two or three) sessions – one of the most exhaustive, exhausting and rewarding filmviewing experiences possible.
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Are there any remakes that are better than the original film? almost 3 years ago
I prefer Wes Craven’s debut “The Last House on the Left” to Ingmar Bergman’s “Jungfrukällan” – maybe I like their differences from another best (It’s not an official remake but an actual one).
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What's the greatest Western? almost 3 years ago
My Darling Clementine,
Wagon Master,
The Big Sky,
The Tall Men,
Once upon a Time in the West.
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Are there any remakes that are better than the original film? almost 3 years ago
I would say NO!
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Which Movies Have You Walked Out On? almost 3 years ago
Terminator Salvation,
Australia,
The Terminal,
Matrix Reloaded,
Vanilla Sky,
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Johnnie To - What to Watch? over 2 years ago
I would start with the 1999 films: Where a good man goes, Running out of time, and, the Mission. So you get a pretty good picture of his strength and weaknesses.
Breaking News, Exiled and especially PTU are very entertaining treats as well. Both parts of Election in one viewing if possible. Sparrow and Mad Detective of course and Triangle, which may be unique in its ability to show three different director’s styles in one feature (To comes of pretty strong with his McGuffin-style changed props again as in PTU and Mad Detective for example). Fulltime Killer and Running on Karma seem both rather weak for my tastes, their tones are very mixed – and by far not as good as in some of his stronger works (PTU, BN, MD).
And if you can get a hold of them, watch some of his romance/comedies as well:
Love on a Diet, Turn left, Turn right, which may seem light and strange but show his assured and fluid style.
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Dante and Landis, the ultimate 80's satirists? over 2 years ago
Like to hear your opinions…
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what did you watch today? over 2 years ago
La chambre verte (Truffaut),
Matinee (Dante)
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what did you watch today? over 2 years ago
La Concejala Antropofaga,
Los Abrazos Rotos,
- but I’d rather watch “Magnificent Obsession” again.
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Last movie you saw and rate it over 2 years ago
Los abrazos rotos – 2/5
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Personal All-Time 25 over 2 years ago
Thinkthink!
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SILENT FILMS & WESTERN FILMS SUGGESTIONS over 2 years ago
SILENTS
Blind Husbands (1919 / von Stroheim),
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919 / Griffith),
Orphans of the Storm (1921 / Griffith),
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried / Kriemhild’s Rache (1924 / Lang),
7th Heaven (1927 / Borzage),
Potomok Chingis-Khana (1928 / Pudovkin),
La chute de la maison Usher (1928 / Epstein),
Asphalt (1929 / May),
Piccadilly (1929 / Dupont),
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931 / Murnau),
WESTERNS
The Iron Horse (1924 / Ford),
Wagon Master (1950 / Ford),
Rio Grande (1950 / Ford),
The Furies (1950 / Mann),
The Naked Spur (1953 / Mann),
Man of the West (1958 / Mann),
Colorado Territory (1949 / Walsh)
The Tall Men (1955 / Walsh),
The Big Sky (1952 / Hawks),
El Dorado (1966 / Hawks)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976 / Eastwood),
Bronco Billy (1980 / Eastwood)
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Top 10 Directors. over 2 years ago
John Ford,
Yasujiro Ozu,
Kenji Mizoguchi,
Jean Renoir,
Max Ophüls,
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Clint Eastwood,
Frank Borzage,
Leo McCarey,
Roberto Rossellini
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what did you watch today? over 2 years ago
The Fountainhead, King Vidor
and I’ll watch student films
the following two days from 9am to 6 pm:
http://www.zhdk.ch/index.php?id=film
http://www.xenix.ch/0_home/index.php
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any good sherlock holmes? over 2 years ago
Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a marvel.
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Any suggestions on introducing myself with Silent Pictures. over 2 years ago
The Navigator (Keaton),
7th heaven, The River (by Frank Borzage),
anything silent by Fritz Lang,
Pandora’s Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, The White Hell of Pitz Palu (G. W. Pabst),
The Last Laugh, Faust, Tabu (F.W.Murnau),
Eldorado, L’inhumaine (Marcel L’Herbier),
The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein),
Johan (Mauritz Stiller) / Juha (A. Kaurismäki),
Körkarlen aka
- The Phantom Carriage
- The Phantom Chariot
- The Stroke of Midnight
- Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness (Victor Sjöström)
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Last movie you saw and rate it over 2 years ago
Make Way for Tomorrow (9/10)
The Palm Beach Story (7,5/10)
Bye Bye Birdie (3/10)
Desperate Living (4/10)
For Love of the Game (5/10)
The House of Mirth (8/10)
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Top 10 - 1974 over 2 years ago
1) Ali: Fear Eats Soul (Fassbinder),
2) Celine et Julie Go Boating (Rivette),
3) Alice in the Cities (Wenders),
3) Fontane – Effi Briest (Fassbinder),
5) Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (Visconti),
6) Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait (Schroeder),
7) Phantom of the Paradise (De Palma),
8) Hearts and Minds (Davis),
9) Il fiore delle mille e una notte (Pasolini),
9) A Woman under the Influence (Cassavetes)
→ neither Masaki Kobayashi, nor Nagisa Oshima, nor Akira Kurosawa, nor Shôhei Imamura, nor Hiroshi Teshigahara had a film made in this year, the ones of Kaneto Shindô, Shuji Terayama and Masahiro Shinoda I don’t know yet.
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Favorite Werner Herzog Film over 2 years ago
Fata Morgana,
Grizzly Man,
… mostly the documentaries.
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What is the greatest film title ever? 9 months ago
Kühe, vom Nebel geschwängert,
Drop Out – Nippelsuse schlägt zurück,
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What is the greatest film title ever? 9 months ago
Sprich zu mir wie der Regen
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Is the career of Mike Figgis official dead? 9 months ago
Why would anybody in their right minds want to become a Hollywood director nowadays?
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