The first few films I saw in the theater must have been CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, THE LOVE BUG, and THE STING. I worked for three years in Madison at Four Star Fiction and Video, the best video store I’ve ever been in, outside of FACETS in Chicago. They had over 10,000 VHS tapes of the most obscure stuff I could imagine. All the employees were cineastes. At the same time I was working at an arthouse theater, The Majestic, so all I did was watch films. I remember watching 14 Hitchcock movies one weekend. Sure wish I could go back to those times.
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what an intense experience. I don't think I've seen this since film club days back at UWis, and I'm as stunned sitting here now as I was then. A diamond-perfect film that I'll be watching again soon.Favorite Films
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Musycks
13Mar09
Stalker stays with you... I've been chewing on it a bit, and I'm sure it's no blinding insight but I found I read it as Stalker was the Priest, the Zone was the realm of the invisible that the clerical classes help the punters navigate through, and the room was heaven/nirvana. In the attack on religion from science (The Professor) and godless media (The Writer) Stalker decries them destroying hope, even if he knows no-one has been made happy once in the room. So even if heaven is a lie, isn't false hope better than no hope? I'll be digesting it for a while yet though... and the fact he made it twice because they stuffed up the developing of the negative print makes the film even more remarkable. The Mirror and Ivan's Childhood are both in the box set I have so I'll explore those when I'm next in a Russian mood. thanks for the insights.
Musycks
12Mar09
Sorted Stalker... the default setting was enlish voice over, but I was able to change that and get subtitles in the set up option... which I should have looked for first. D'oh! As to the film, it's wonderful... starts brilliantly and gets a little flabby in the middle though I felt... but pretty spellbinding. I'd currently rate it after Andrei Rublev and Solaris... but it's a keeper. Mirror next.
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The Sacrifice
I absolutely love Tarkovsky’s work, and have all the others on dvd, but for some reason this movie doesn’t move me like the others. I’ve seen it multiple times, but it seems to be a comedown after… read review
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