I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney
No, seriously. Ben Affleck’s funny debut as a director.
Yes it is a sad story for people living outside North America.
I wonder if there’s gonna be a online-streaming platform and download-on-demand for Europe (etc.)?
“You want auteurs? OK, I’m gonna be such a fuckin’ auteur I’m gonna make Andrej Tarkovsky look like James fuckin’ Cameron.
And you know what else? I’m gonna put the blow-job right at the end so you sit through the whole fuckin’ movie.”
- Vincent Gallo
The final sequence in Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux)
The running scene with Denis Lavant in Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax)
The knife throwing scene in La Fille sur le pont (Patrice Leconte)
The dancing scene in Les Amants Reguliers (Philippe Garrel)
Laurent Terzieff (in Le Révélateur, La Prisonnière)
Franco Citti (in Accattone, Ostia)
Terence Stamp (in Teorema, Histoires extraordinaires Segment)
Udo Kier (in Egomania, Riget)
Klaus Kinski (in Der Rote Rausch, Aguirre)
Harvey Keitel (in Bad Lieutenant, Ulysses’ Gaze)
James Spader (in Crash, Secretary)
Sir Ben Kingsley (in Gandhi, Death and the Maiden)
Kang-sheng Lee (in Vive L’Amour, Bu san)
Denis Lavant (in Mauvais sang, Tuvalu)
Michel Piccoli (in Dillinger è morto, Themroc)
Tadanobu Asano (in Maborosi, Vital)
Timothy Carey (in The World’s Greatest Sinner, Head)
Marlene Dietrich (in The Scarlet Empress, Morocco)
Samantha Morton (in Under the Skin, Morvern Caller)
Tilda Swinton (in The War Zone, Stephanie Daley)
Anne Wiazemsky (in Au hasard Balthazar, La Chinoise)
Liv Ullmann (in Persona, Passion)
Louise Brooks (in Beggars of Life, Tagebuch einer Verlorenen)
Jean Seberg (in À bout de souffle, Les Hautes solitudes)
Katrin Cartlidge (in Naked, Claire Dolan)
Lili Taylor (in Arizona Dream, I Shot Andy Warhol)
Sophia Loren (in La Ciociara, Boccaccio ’70)
Élodie Bouchez (in La Vie rêvée des anges, Lovers)
Sissy Spacek (in ’night Mother, 3 Women)
Sandrine Bonnaire (in À nos amours, Sans toit ni loi)
Anybody mentioned Pin Bing Lee? He is one of the greatest cinematographer and defintely on par with Christopher Doyle imho. Especially his work with Hsiao-hsien Hou: Flowers of Shanghai, Goodbye South, Goodbye, Millennium Mambo (!), etc. He was also cinematographer on In the Mood for Love (Kar Wai Wong), and Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran).
Lots and lots of movies from my favorite directors to watch at the cinemas:
King Shot (Alejandro Jodorowsky) The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick) On the Road (Walter Salles) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog) The Dust of Time (Theodoros Angelopoulos) The Man from London (Béla Tarr) The Rum Diary (Bruce Robinson) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam) Interrupted (Philip Kaufman) Untitled (Todd Solondz) Mammoth (Lukas Moodysson) Antichrist (Lars von Trier) Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola) Visages (Ming-liang Tsai) The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch) Palermo Shooting (Wim Wenders) Adoration (Atom Egoyan)
“Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. Later on they do claim remembrance when they show their scars.”
- La Jetée (1962)
Juliana Kelly: “Thirty seconds after you’re born you have a past and sixty seconds after that you begin to lie to yourself about it.”
- The Brood (1979)
Tony Wilson: “I’m a minor player in my own life story.”
- 24 Hour Party People (2002)
Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: [to one of the stone gargoyles] “Why was I not made of stone – like thee?”
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Agent Cooper: “Oh, one other thing, Diane, never drink coffee that has been anywhere near a fish.”
- Twin Peaks (1990)
Hedwig: “I got kicked out of university after delivering a brilliant lecture on the aggressive influence of German philosophy on rock and roll entitled: You, Kant, Always Get What You Want”.
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
David Dobel: "I broke up with this girl, and they put me with a psychiatrist who said, “Why did you get so depressed, and do all those things you did?” I said, “I wanted this girl and she left me.” And he said, “Well, we have to look into that.” And I said, “There’s nothing to look into. I wanted her and she left me.” And he said, “Well, why are you feeling so intense?” And I said, “Cause I want the girl.” And he said, “What’s underneath it?” And I said, “Nothing.” He said, “I’ll have to give you medication.” I said, “I don’t want medication. I want the girl.” And he said, “We have to work this through.” So, at that point, I took a fire extinguisher from the casement and struck him across the back of his neck."
- Anything Else (2003)
Jareth: “I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave.”
- Labyrinth (1986)
Enid : “We need to find a place where you can go to meet women who share your interests.”
Seymour : “Maybe I don’t want to meet someone who shares my interests. I hate my interests.”
- Ghost World (2001)
Ben: “Look, maybe we could do something else together. Mrs. Robinson, would you like to go to a movie?”
- The Graduate (1967)
Justin Bond: “I used to want to change the world. Now I just want to leave the room with a little dignity.”
- Shortbus (2006)
Dr. Moreau: “What is the law?”
Sayer of the Law: “Not to eat meat, that is the law. Are we not men?”
Beasts (in unison): “Are we not men?”
Dr. Moreau: “What is the law?”
Sayer of the Law: “Not to go on all fours, that is the law. Are we not men?”
Beasts (in unison): “Are we not men?”
Dr. Moreau: “What is the law?”
Sayer of the Law: “Not to spill blood, that is the law. Are we not men?”
Beasts (in unison): “Are we not men?”
- Island of Lost Souls (1932) (brilliantly quoted later in Devo’s song Jocko Homo)
- A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
- A City of Sadness (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
- The Travelling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
- Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica)
- Themroc (Claude Faraldo)
- Taking Off (Milos Forman)
- Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
- Prospero’s Books (Peter Greenaway)
- The Tulse Luper Suitcases Boxset (Peter Greenaway)
- La Cicatrice intérieure (Philippe Garrel)
- La Vérité (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
- La Maman et la putain (Jean Eustache)
- La Ciociara (Vittorio De Sica)
- Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
- El Sur (Víctor Erice)
- Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi)
- Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton)
- Der Gang in die Nacht (FW Murnau)
- The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein)
- The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
- Der Müde Tod (Fritz Lang)
- Sir Arne’s Treasure (Mauritz Stiller)
- Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (Wim Wenders)
- Welt am Draht (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Acht Stunden sind kein Tag Boxset (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Eclipse Set of all Mikio Naruse films that aren’t available otherwise
- Eclipse Set of Jacques Rivette films: Celine and Julie Go Boating/Noroît/Duelle/Histoire de Marie et Julien
- Eclipse Set of Early Ming-liang Tsai: Rebels of the Neon God/Vive L’Amour/The River/The Hole
- Eclipse Set of a Lisandro Alonso Trilogy: La Libertad/Los Muertos/Fantasma
- Eclipse Set of Cao Guimarães Documentaries: Drifter/Accident/The Soul of the Bone
- Eclipse Set of Early Alain Robbe-Grillet: L’Immortelle/Trans-Europ-Express/L’Homme qui ment/L’Éden et après
- Eclipse Set of some Zanzibar Films: La Lit de la vierge/Le Révélateur/Acephale/Deux Fois
- Eclipse Set of some No Wave Films: Unmade Beds/The Foreigner/Underground U.S.A./Rome ’78
The Wind (or any other Victor Sjöström)
Sir Arne’s Treasure (or any other Mauritz Stiller_)
Der Müde Tod (Fritz Lang_)
Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang_)
The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim_)
The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
Der Gang in die Nacht (FW Murnau)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein)
Best title over 3 years ago
I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney
No, seriously. Ben Affleck’s funny debut as a director.
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SONGS (MUSIC ) ABOUT ACTORS OR FILMMAKERS over 3 years ago
My Morning Jacket: “Butch Cassidy”
Cat Power: “Mr. Gallo”
Casper and the Cookies: “Duchamp’s Camera”
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VILLAINS. over 3 years ago
Klaus Kinski in Il Grande silenzio
Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death
Arno Frisch in Funny Games
Oh my!
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Top Albums of the Year (aka What rocks your ipod) 2008 over 3 years ago
Charles de Goal ~ Restructuration (LP)
John & Jehn ~ John & Jehn (LP)
Lili Z. ~ The Two Of Us (LP)
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Sven Nykvist over 3 years ago
You should really check out Louis Malle’s Black Moon. A highly underrated gem!
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A PLEA FROM SOMEONE ACROSS THE POND over 3 years ago
Yes it is a sad story for people living outside North America.
I wonder if there’s gonna be a online-streaming platform and download-on-demand for Europe (etc.)?
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WHAT MOVIE WILL YOU BE WATCHING THIS NEW YEAR'S EVE? over 3 years ago
Most likely it will be The Gold Rush (1925).
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Two countries - two directors - two films over 3 years ago
Thailand
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Sud sanaeha (2002) … aka Blissfully Yours
Sang sattawat (2006) … aka Syndromes and a Century
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Ruang rak noi nid mahasan (2003) … aka Last Life in the Universe
Invisible Waves (2006)
Greece
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Thiasos, O (1975) … aka The Travelling Players
Topio stin omichli (1988) … aka Landscape in the Mist
Mihalis Kakogiannis
To Teleftaio psema, (1957) … aka A Matter of Dignity
Stella (1955)
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FORGOTTEN, BUT NOT GONE over 3 years ago
THE SWIMMER is widely available on R2 (and cheap too: 6 GBP at amazon.co.uk at the moment).
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Writer's Block & Cinema over 3 years ago
The most obvious has to be
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Why I cannot see watch any of the free films? over 3 years ago
@Rob Frenay : Too bad I can only watch a couple of seconds of these films – guess it’s only free for North America. :(
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Best Films of the 80's? over 3 years ago
Fanny And Alexander (1982)
Sans Soleil (1983)
Vagabond (1985)
The Decalogue (1989)
Tetsuo (1989)
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989)
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Quote - Unquote over 3 years ago
“You want auteurs? OK, I’m gonna be such a fuckin’ auteur I’m gonna make Andrej Tarkovsky look like James fuckin’ Cameron.
And you know what else? I’m gonna put the blow-job right at the end so you sit through the whole fuckin’ movie.”
- Vincent Gallo
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Russian Film over 3 years ago
These are all really great films:
Urga (probably Nikita Mikhalkov’s best film)
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
Wings + The Ascent (by Larisa Shepitko)
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People against the seven samurai remake over 3 years ago
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Favorite use of a song in a film. over 3 years ago
Just to throw in some french movies:
The final sequence in Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux)
The running scene with Denis Lavant in Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax)
The knife throwing scene in La Fille sur le pont (Patrice Leconte)
The dancing scene in Les Amants Reguliers (Philippe Garrel)
Oh, sweet melancholia…
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My Top 25 Performances of All Time over 3 years ago
Laurent Terzieff (in Le Révélateur, La Prisonnière)
Franco Citti (in Accattone, Ostia)
Terence Stamp (in Teorema, Histoires extraordinaires Segment)
Udo Kier (in Egomania, Riget)
Klaus Kinski (in Der Rote Rausch, Aguirre)
Harvey Keitel (in Bad Lieutenant, Ulysses’ Gaze)
James Spader (in Crash, Secretary)
Sir Ben Kingsley (in Gandhi, Death and the Maiden)
Kang-sheng Lee (in Vive L’Amour, Bu san)
Denis Lavant (in Mauvais sang, Tuvalu)
Michel Piccoli (in Dillinger è morto, Themroc)
Tadanobu Asano (in Maborosi, Vital)
Timothy Carey (in The World’s Greatest Sinner, Head)
Marlene Dietrich (in The Scarlet Empress, Morocco)
Samantha Morton (in Under the Skin, Morvern Caller)
Tilda Swinton (in The War Zone, Stephanie Daley)
Anne Wiazemsky (in Au hasard Balthazar, La Chinoise)
Liv Ullmann (in Persona, Passion)
Louise Brooks (in Beggars of Life, Tagebuch einer Verlorenen)
Jean Seberg (in À bout de souffle, Les Hautes solitudes)
Katrin Cartlidge (in Naked, Claire Dolan)
Lili Taylor (in Arizona Dream, I Shot Andy Warhol)
Sophia Loren (in La Ciociara, Boccaccio ’70)
Élodie Bouchez (in La Vie rêvée des anges, Lovers)
Sissy Spacek (in ’night Mother, 3 Women)
Sandrine Bonnaire (in À nos amours, Sans toit ni loi)
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Best shot movie(s) and its cinematographer over 3 years ago
Anybody mentioned Pin Bing Lee? He is one of the greatest cinematographer and defintely on par with Christopher Doyle imho. Especially his work with Hsiao-hsien Hou: Flowers of Shanghai, Goodbye South, Goodbye, Millennium Mambo (!), etc. He was also cinematographer on In the Mood for Love (Kar Wai Wong), and Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran).
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"FIERROT LE POU" over 3 years ago
Trust me, it’s not really worth seeing.
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"FIERROT LE POU" over 3 years ago
Oh, someone was faster. I wasn’t sure if it’s ok to post the link to youtube. See for yourself then :)
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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER? over 3 years ago
Jean Seberg, for me anyway.
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Coming soon... over 3 years ago
Lots and lots of movies from my favorite directors to watch at the cinemas:
King Shot (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
On the Road (Walter Salles)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
The Dust of Time (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
The Man from London (Béla Tarr)
The Rum Diary (Bruce Robinson)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam)
Interrupted (Philip Kaufman)
Untitled (Todd Solondz)
Mammoth (Lukas Moodysson)
Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola)
Visages (Ming-liang Tsai)
The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch)
Palermo Shooting (Wim Wenders)
Adoration (Atom Egoyan)
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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER? over 3 years ago
@Matthew Griffiths: Tricia Vessey!! Oh yes.
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too obscure for dvd? over 3 years ago
@Alex: Cronenbergs M. Butterfly is announced for R1 in May 2009 (it’s widely available on R2 though).
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Favorite Movie Trailers over 3 years ago
That’s just a few good ones I can think of:
Götter der Pest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Julien Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine)
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
Masculine, Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
Dillinger Is Dead (Marco Ferreri)
Help Me Eros (Kang-sheng Lee) not work safe
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WHAT WAS THE FIRST FILM YOU EVER SAW, IN A THEATRE? over 3 years ago
It was either E.T., TRON or The Last Unicorn back in ‘82. Thinking of it, I’m still very fond of TRON (such an underrated movie!).
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Film quotes you love over 3 years ago
“Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. Later on they do claim remembrance when they show their scars.”
- La Jetée (1962)
Juliana Kelly: “Thirty seconds after you’re born you have a past and sixty seconds after that you begin to lie to yourself about it.”
- The Brood (1979)
Tony Wilson: “I’m a minor player in my own life story.”
- 24 Hour Party People (2002)
Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: [to one of the stone gargoyles] “Why was I not made of stone – like thee?”
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Agent Cooper: “Oh, one other thing, Diane, never drink coffee that has been anywhere near a fish.”
- Twin Peaks (1990)
Hedwig: “I got kicked out of university after delivering a brilliant lecture on the aggressive influence of German philosophy on rock and roll entitled: You, Kant, Always Get What You Want”.
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
David Dobel: "I broke up with this girl, and they put me with a psychiatrist who said, “Why did you get so depressed, and do all those things you did?” I said, “I wanted this girl and she left me.” And he said, “Well, we have to look into that.” And I said, “There’s nothing to look into. I wanted her and she left me.” And he said, “Well, why are you feeling so intense?” And I said, “Cause I want the girl.” And he said, “What’s underneath it?” And I said, “Nothing.” He said, “I’ll have to give you medication.” I said, “I don’t want medication. I want the girl.” And he said, “We have to work this through.” So, at that point, I took a fire extinguisher from the casement and struck him across the back of his neck."
- Anything Else (2003)
Jareth: “I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave.”
- Labyrinth (1986)
Enid : “We need to find a place where you can go to meet women who share your interests.”
Seymour : “Maybe I don’t want to meet someone who shares my interests. I hate my interests.”
- Ghost World (2001)
Ben: “Look, maybe we could do something else together. Mrs. Robinson, would you like to go to a movie?”
- The Graduate (1967)
Justin Bond: “I used to want to change the world. Now I just want to leave the room with a little dignity.”
- Shortbus (2006)
Dr. Moreau: “What is the law?”
Sayer of the Law: “Not to eat meat, that is the law. Are we not men?”
Beasts (in unison): “Are we not men?”
Dr. Moreau: “What is the law?”
Sayer of the Law: “Not to go on all fours, that is the law. Are we not men?”
Beasts (in unison): “Are we not men?”
Dr. Moreau: “What is the law?”
Sayer of the Law: “Not to spill blood, that is the law. Are we not men?”
Beasts (in unison): “Are we not men?”
- Island of Lost Souls (1932) (brilliantly quoted later in Devo’s song Jocko Homo)
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection over 3 years ago
My dream releases would be:
- A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
- A City of Sadness (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
- The Travelling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
- Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica)
- Themroc (Claude Faraldo)
- Taking Off (Milos Forman)
- Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
- Prospero’s Books (Peter Greenaway)
- The Tulse Luper Suitcases Boxset (Peter Greenaway)
- La Cicatrice intérieure (Philippe Garrel)
- La Vérité (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
- La Maman et la putain (Jean Eustache)
- La Ciociara (Vittorio De Sica)
- Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
- El Sur (Víctor Erice)
- Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi)
- Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton)
- Der Gang in die Nacht (FW Murnau)
- The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein)
- The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
- Der Müde Tod (Fritz Lang)
- Sir Arne’s Treasure (Mauritz Stiller)
- Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (Wim Wenders)
- Welt am Draht (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Acht Stunden sind kein Tag Boxset (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Eclipse Set of all Mikio Naruse films that aren’t available otherwise
- Eclipse Set of Jacques Rivette films: Celine and Julie Go Boating/Noroît/Duelle/Histoire de Marie et Julien
- Eclipse Set of Early Ming-liang Tsai: Rebels of the Neon God/Vive L’Amour/The River/The Hole
- Eclipse Set of a Lisandro Alonso Trilogy: La Libertad/Los Muertos/Fantasma
- Eclipse Set of Cao Guimarães Documentaries: Drifter/Accident/The Soul of the Bone
- Eclipse Set of Early Alain Robbe-Grillet: L’Immortelle/Trans-Europ-Express/L’Homme qui ment/L’Éden et après
- Eclipse Set of some Zanzibar Films: La Lit de la vierge/Le Révélateur/Acephale/Deux Fois
- Eclipse Set of some No Wave Films: Unmade Beds/The Foreigner/Underground U.S.A./Rome ’78
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Best Film About Film? over 3 years ago
Wender’s Der Stand der Dinge und Fassbinder’s Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte are my favs.
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silent films that deserve to be on Criterion. over 3 years ago
The Wind (or any other Victor Sjöström)
Sir Arne’s Treasure (or any other Mauritz Stiller_)
Der Müde Tod (Fritz Lang_)
Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang_)
The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim_)
The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
Der Gang in die Nacht (FW Murnau)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein)
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