How is Full Body Massage? Does it look like like a “Roeg” film? Would it be too embarrassing for Criterion to release it? I know Mimi Rogers is topless in it. I like the Witches, but it’s less a “Roeg” film than Eureka, Man Who Fell to Earth, Walkabout, etc.
He was great, and echo that the idea of his work is more powerful than witnessing it….
The films that Paul Morrisey did that were marketed under Warhol’s name are great movies though, specifically Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula. I’ve seen Trash, and need to see Flesh and Heat.
I watched it with my mom too, and she poo’poo’ed it. It’s one of the big cult films that I waited a long time to see, so long that my expectations went stale, but wow! The first half or so is hilarious, but then it fades into tragedy. I can’t say to much about it though cause I only saw it once and it’s something to see a million times to appreciate.
I think Herschel Gordon Lewis’ Gore Gore Girls is his most violent (and worthwhile) film. He directed Blood Feast 2, which is ok, John Waters is in it….
Slacker
Irreversible – groundbreaking cinema,
Breaking the Waves
A woman Under the Influence and Mean Creek the performances in these films are sooo real, brought me right into the film
It’s probably irrelevant for film students to see old films. Film historians/critics are the ones who have seen all this stuff, of all the people at this forum, do you think the majority of us are interested in making films, or consuming/analyzing them?
This is tough for me to figure out, but I love thinking about this subject.
Recording people having sex doesn’t make something pornographic, maybe just graphic? Recording with the intent to arose and get off sexually is what I think best defines porn, and it is (still) an art form (but what isn’t? nothing I say). Someone intends something else, it’s something else, but that doesn’t mean that I/you will read it the way the author desires. So porn is never really porn, nothing else is really ever what it is defined to be either, things blur into other things at the edge of their territory. People masturbate, with or without porn, I started masturbating to regular movies before finding porn… This has already been said, cool,
Mr. Lonely is just like his other films, only difference is the style here is more pop polish and not dogme-ish. That surprised me, I liked the film as mch as his others, overall very pleasing, there’s parts that bore and parts that were astonishing (just seeing Herzog is astonishing). Um, it’s a cool film, I need to see it again to get it on a symbolic level, I just took it at first as an absurd story.
I need some help digging out my thoughts on the film, I thought it was tremendously good, a great allegory for us, and a great representation of a real human being’s existence. It could just be me, but I saw that it was not about professional wrestling, that was used to symbolize what we all go through, we all wrestle with life, don’t we? I am projecting that, though. I loved the look of the film, great colors, the handheld cameras didn’t just put Rourke in the moment, it put me there too, like Being John Malkovich…. it’s as close to a masterpiece as anything else that can be seen as such…
Things are bad. If you had a story, if there was a story, that needed to be told to help people (wake up), how do you tell it? Big budget films, with explosions, and merchandise, best way to get it out there. What I mean or want to say is that art films (everything is art but YOU know), are seen by a few, The Matrix is great cause it is a big action movie that just so happens to carry an important message…but I don’t know…we are all Neo(s)
“No big budget action film can be honestly anti-consumerist”
I think you could, or there could be, I don’t think of the Matrix in terms of it’s message being anti-consumerist though. But if it is, imagine it has to do what it does to get the audience who is totally into consumerism to see beyond it, that’s it. And about the film not being original, nothing new, not sure if anything can be new, but that stuff has to be told again and again, in new forms to appeal to new generations, I don’t know….
every/anyone can be considered an auteur, these guys are good, so they are good auteurs to me. I need to see Cannibal the Musical, how cool is it? I know Stan Brakhage is in it….that’s the main thing reminding me to see it….
A Woman Under the Influence and the Wrestler! Eddie Presley, Mean Creek, Naked, Slacker, and Get on the Bus…Clerks too..but the Wrestler is where it’s at…the film is about being next to this guy who meets life at all points.
wha, Trier is one of the best alive working now..I say see Dancer in the Dark first, I saw Breaking the Waves first then Dancer right after. I was disappointed when Dancer looked like it was going to be just like Breaking the Waves, look-aesthetic-wise, I didn’t get why they were shot the way they were shot till I saw Dancer which makes it more obvious. Anyways, I didn’t enjoy Breaking the Waves, and I don’t want to see it again, but I should cause it is good, just really dreary. Dancer in the Dark is more mainstream, more American anyways..his early/first work I don’t get yet, Epidemic, Element of Crime, they were really cool but I didn’t follow what was what. Dogville is great and I’m in-between Manderlay (that’s the sequel), which so far is pretty cool.
I’m a fan of his because he takes his work serious enough to question the movie-making medium and constantly/consistently experiment with it, and to me he’s been very successful with it.
Check out the Boss of it All if you want a light comedy..
I thought it was awesome, really surprised since the Brothers Grimm, though I get why it was what it was..(it was kinda cool still)…was so typical, i kinda didn’t think this would be as “Gilliam” as Gilliam’s greatest…eh, definitely see it if you know of it and have some interest in seeing it…just see what you think you want to see, then make a thread discussing it, whether it was bad or good, threads like this can’t get too deep..I would rather discuss the movie
Good movie, great director. I don’t think the guy was dumb…the film suggested his death wish, also that hanging out with bears hurts the bears more, well people too..Herzog puts everything in there (hyperbole), I appreciated him interjecting his thoughts on nature and what Timothy was doing, it seemed like a no-no at first, but he just did it and didn’t let/make it interfere with the other opinions given.
WHICH DIRECTORS...NOT...CURRENTLY REPRESENTED IN THE CRITERION COLLECTION DO YOU WANT TO SEE INCLUDED? over 3 years ago
John Waters (early films boxset maybe?), Hal Hartley, Greg Araki (Nowhere),
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Opinions of Van Sant? over 3 years ago
I liked Even Cowgirls, it’s like a slapstick version of My Own Private Idaho. It also has Crispin Glover in it.
Milk will probably be a nice movie, but I think this guy would be a better Harvey Milk; http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0664727/
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Who's looking for eachother? over 3 years ago
I want to make some movies, I’m on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MrPixies&view=videos
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Who's looking for eachother? over 3 years ago
I want to make some movies, I’m on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MrPixies&view=videos
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Nicolas Roeg over 3 years ago
How is Full Body Massage? Does it look like like a “Roeg” film? Would it be too embarrassing for Criterion to release it? I know Mimi Rogers is topless in it. I like the Witches, but it’s less a “Roeg” film than Eureka, Man Who Fell to Earth, Walkabout, etc.
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So now that we're here. Is there anyone who wants to make a movie? over 3 years ago
I want to make something with people, right now I am playing around with youtube videos to make a mashup film.
here’s an animation short that I like, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXvStbmQmaY
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Andy Warhol over 3 years ago
He was great, and echo that the idea of his work is more powerful than witnessing it….
The films that Paul Morrisey did that were marketed under Warhol’s name are great movies though, specifically Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula. I’ve seen Trash, and need to see Flesh and Heat.
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New to The Auteurs? You Belong Here over 3 years ago
yo, I’m a 24 year old aspiring artist (movies/video, sculpture, painting), who needs to catch up on watching movies….
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Eraserhead over 3 years ago
I watched it with my mom too, and she poo’poo’ed it. It’s one of the big cult films that I waited a long time to see, so long that my expectations went stale, but wow! The first half or so is hilarious, but then it fades into tragedy. I can’t say to much about it though cause I only saw it once and it’s something to see a million times to appreciate.
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Most violent films you've seen over 3 years ago
I think Herschel Gordon Lewis’ Gore Gore Girls is his most violent (and worthwhile) film. He directed Blood Feast 2, which is ok, John Waters is in it….
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Most violent films you've seen over 3 years ago
’I’m gonna say Schramm for the nails-in-dick scene. Other than that the violence isn’t too over the top for its genre."
I for got about this and the two Nekromantik films, as films I loved those two..part two in particular.
Something like Boyz in the Hood signifies violence more than Irreversible. I’d like to discuss Irreversible, but not on the focus of film violence.
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Films that changed how you looked at cinema over 3 years ago
Slacker
Irreversible – groundbreaking cinema,
Breaking the Waves
A woman Under the Influence and Mean Creek the performances in these films are sooo real, brought me right into the film
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FORGOTTEN, BUT NOT GONE over 3 years ago
It’s probably irrelevant for film students to see old films. Film historians/critics are the ones who have seen all this stuff, of all the people at this forum, do you think the majority of us are interested in making films, or consuming/analyzing them?
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IF WE IGNORE 81/2 AND DOLCE VITA, WHAT'D BE THE BEST FELLINI MOVIE? over 3 years ago
I want to hug Juliet of the Spirits, and it’s later American remake Drop Dead Fred. Satyricon is really cool too.
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Julian Schnabel on 60 Minutes over 3 years ago
I felt like the OP until I saw this interview, now I think he’s awesome, Schnabel’s last word was tight. I like his Twombly-esque paintings.
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John Waters over 3 years ago
I have heard two by her, and found them again for you, http://crudcrud.blogspot.com/2008/09/big-girls-dont-cry.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/7814498.stm
I love him, more than his movies, but those are all soo great too….
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Non-Simulated Sex in Film vs. Pornography over 3 years ago
This is tough for me to figure out, but I love thinking about this subject.
Recording people having sex doesn’t make something pornographic, maybe just graphic? Recording with the intent to arose and get off sexually is what I think best defines porn, and it is (still) an art form (but what isn’t? nothing I say). Someone intends something else, it’s something else, but that doesn’t mean that I/you will read it the way the author desires. So porn is never really porn, nothing else is really ever what it is defined to be either, things blur into other things at the edge of their territory. People masturbate, with or without porn, I started masturbating to regular movies before finding porn… This has already been said, cool,
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Is Mister Lonely a good Korine film? over 3 years ago
Mr. Lonely is just like his other films, only difference is the style here is more pop polish and not dogme-ish. That surprised me, I liked the film as mch as his others, overall very pleasing, there’s parts that bore and parts that were astonishing (just seeing Herzog is astonishing). Um, it’s a cool film, I need to see it again to get it on a symbolic level, I just took it at first as an absurd story.
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John Waters over 3 years ago
gosh! that’s funny, you could rent Blood Feast 2, he plays a priest/father at a wedding.
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The Wrestler over 3 years ago
I need some help digging out my thoughts on the film, I thought it was tremendously good, a great allegory for us, and a great representation of a real human being’s existence. It could just be me, but I saw that it was not about professional wrestling, that was used to symbolize what we all go through, we all wrestle with life, don’t we? I am projecting that, though. I loved the look of the film, great colors, the handheld cameras didn’t just put Rourke in the moment, it put me there too, like Being John Malkovich…. it’s as close to a masterpiece as anything else that can be seen as such…
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Love Themed Criterions for Valentine's Day over 3 years ago
Sólo con tu pareja and That Obscure Object of Desire
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The Matrix over 3 years ago
Things are bad. If you had a story, if there was a story, that needed to be told to help people (wake up), how do you tell it? Big budget films, with explosions, and merchandise, best way to get it out there. What I mean or want to say is that art films (everything is art but YOU know), are seen by a few, The Matrix is great cause it is a big action movie that just so happens to carry an important message…but I don’t know…we are all Neo(s)
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The Matrix over 3 years ago
“No big budget action film can be honestly anti-consumerist”
I think you could, or there could be, I don’t think of the Matrix in terms of it’s message being anti-consumerist though. But if it is, imagine it has to do what it does to get the audience who is totally into consumerism to see beyond it, that’s it. And about the film not being original, nothing new, not sure if anything can be new, but that stuff has to be told again and again, in new forms to appeal to new generations, I don’t know….
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I was just on IMDB over 3 years ago
I respect IMDB very much, good place to find similar thoughts on films, lots of junk around that, but it’s the same everywhere…
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who is the greatest living filmmaker? over 3 years ago
Werner Herzog and Lloyd Kaufman
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Matt Stone and Trey Parker Auteurs? over 3 years ago
every/anyone can be considered an auteur, these guys are good, so they are good auteurs to me. I need to see Cannibal the Musical, how cool is it? I know Stan Brakhage is in it….that’s the main thing reminding me to see it….
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Films about life. about 3 years ago
A Woman Under the Influence and the Wrestler! Eddie Presley, Mean Creek, Naked, Slacker, and Get on the Bus…Clerks too..but the Wrestler is where it’s at…the film is about being next to this guy who meets life at all points.
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What Do You Think, and Where Do I Start? about 3 years ago
wha, Trier is one of the best alive working now..I say see Dancer in the Dark first, I saw Breaking the Waves first then Dancer right after. I was disappointed when Dancer looked like it was going to be just like Breaking the Waves, look-aesthetic-wise, I didn’t get why they were shot the way they were shot till I saw Dancer which makes it more obvious. Anyways, I didn’t enjoy Breaking the Waves, and I don’t want to see it again, but I should cause it is good, just really dreary. Dancer in the Dark is more mainstream, more American anyways..his early/first work I don’t get yet, Epidemic, Element of Crime, they were really cool but I didn’t follow what was what. Dogville is great and I’m in-between Manderlay (that’s the sequel), which so far is pretty cool.
I’m a fan of his because he takes his work serious enough to question the movie-making medium and constantly/consistently experiment with it, and to me he’s been very successful with it.
Check out the Boss of it All if you want a light comedy..
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should i rent gilliam;s tideland? about 3 years ago
I thought it was awesome, really surprised since the Brothers Grimm, though I get why it was what it was..(it was kinda cool still)…was so typical, i kinda didn’t think this would be as “Gilliam” as Gilliam’s greatest…eh, definitely see it if you know of it and have some interest in seeing it…just see what you think you want to see, then make a thread discussing it, whether it was bad or good, threads like this can’t get too deep..I would rather discuss the movie
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Thoughts on "Grizzly Man" about 3 years ago
Good movie, great director. I don’t think the guy was dumb…the film suggested his death wish, also that hanging out with bears hurts the bears more, well people too..Herzog puts everything in there (hyperbole), I appreciated him interjecting his thoughts on nature and what Timothy was doing, it seemed like a no-no at first, but he just did it and didn’t let/make it interfere with the other opinions given.
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