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Most Memorable "Open" Endings in Cinema over 4 years ago

Taste of Cherry anyone?

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Best of Coming-Of-Age Cinema over 4 years ago

My Little Loves by Jean Eustache!

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Avant-Garde Your Favourite Film and Filmaker over 4 years ago

Len Lye is amazing. So is George Kuchar.

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Herzog, Welles, and Bergman on Godard over 4 years ago

“Some people in there doesn’t seems to realise the big differrence between Bergman, Fellini, Kurosawa, and Tarkovsky versus Godard, Welles or Hitchcock… I’m not talking about talent, they just have a very different vision of filmmaking…”

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FANTASY ARTHOUSE DOUBLE FEATURE over 4 years ago

the celebration/the idiots.

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Criterion junkies here? over 4 years ago

I am a Criterion Whore. Hopefully they’ll release the films of Jean Eustache. The Eclipse Kaurismaki box set is great. I am eagerly awaiting the release of Chungking Express. The cover art is gorgeous.

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Films that changed how you looked at cinema over 4 years ago

I’d have to say Breathless and The 400 blows. This was about the time I started crossing my legs, wearing berets and raising my brow.

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Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" over 4 years ago

Anyone know anything about this? Sounds epic

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Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" over 4 years ago

I can’t wait. I thought it was about the creation of the world. I remember reading it in a vanity fair article on him.

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Help make The Auteurs totally awesome over 4 years ago

Ermanno Olmi should be added to the list of Directors.

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Best title over 4 years ago

DAYS OF BEING WILD!

I know this is a book title but: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. that’s a fucking title.

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WHICH DIRECTORS...NOT...CURRENTLY REPRESENTED IN THE CRITERION COLLECTION DO YOU WANT TO SEE INCLUDED? over 4 years ago

JEAN EUSTACHE!!!!!!!!
Bela Tarr
Almodovar
Herzog
Satyajit Ray
Jean Vigo

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The most beautiful films? over 4 years ago

A documentary by Makoto Sato called Living on the River Agano. It is of the most beautiful kind; extremely moving.

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the hate corner over 4 years ago

There will be blood was booooorrrrriiiiinnnnnnnnggggggg. However, I do love Boogie Nights.

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The most beautiful films? over 4 years ago

L’ ATALANTE!
The Angkor Wat sequence in In The Mood For Love, is fucking beautiful. Quite possibly the greatest ending ever.

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Documentaries over 4 years ago

Living on the River Agano.
Hoop Dreams.

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Best title over 4 years ago

Winter Light. Even though it’s not the film’s real title. It’s beautiful.

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Best title over 4 years ago

Winter Light. Even though it’s not the film’s real title. It’s beautiful.

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Some Movies that always lifts You up are... over 4 years ago

Fuck yeah, Chungking Express. I can watch that film everyday for the rest of my life.
The White Mane.
I Fidanzati. Especially the shot on the beach at the end.
Anything with Parker Posey in it, even if it sucks.

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Do You Like Wes Anderson? over 4 years ago

He’s a good filmmaker. I like most of his films, but I bet he’s a big douchebag. And I’m going to have to disagree with the aforementioned post. The word “Best” should not go anywhere near PT Anderson. “Good” or “I loved Boogie Nights…” seem more compatible. Just my opinion, I seem to be a douchebag myself, appy-polly-logies.

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Favorite Cinematographer over 4 years ago

Nestor Almendros
Christopher Doyle
Sven Nykvist

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Favorite Cinematographer over 4 years ago

Raoul Coutard

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Favorite Cinematographer over 4 years ago

Yuuharu Atsuta

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What's your Top 10? over 4 years ago

Just off the top of my head, if I think to hard about this it will never happen.

Days of Being Wild
Fanny and Alexander
Woman in the Dunes
I Fidanzati
Pather Panchali
400 Blows
Mes Petites Amoureuses
Late Spring
Mamma Roma
Yi Yi

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Favorite Cinematographer over 4 years ago

Marcel Zyskind

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Best or Favorite Opening Sequence over 4 years ago

Hold Me While I’m Naked – George Kuchar
Days of Being Wild – Wong Kar-Wai (Leslie Cheung is too cool)

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Best or Favorite Opening Sequence over 4 years ago

RAGING BULL!

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Top 20 Best Gangster Movies over 4 years ago

I just watched Mobsters with Christian Slater and Patrick Dempsey on TV. Needless to say, it does not belong anywhere near the top 2 million gangster films.

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Movie's you just don't like. over 4 years ago

Blow Up. The troupe of mods get on my fucking nerves.
My Blueberry Nights. Sigh…Please Wong Kar-Wai, Please don’t make films in the US anymore unless it’s with Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung.

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breathless or contempt over 4 years ago

Why choose? These are two totally different films. Maybe, Godard’s early work vs his later work, in which both Breathless and Contempt can be winners.

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