There does seem to be a pattern to the certain authors we all read. Anyway, when I’m not watching films or reading about them I like to read Buskowski, Fante, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Camus, William Gibson, Vonnegut, Celine, Kerouac, Burroughs, Cormac McCarthy, Hunter S. Thompson, Philip K. Dick, Asimov, Ballard, Huxley and I’m a huge fan of the Icelandic Saga’s too, especially Egil’s Saga and Njal’s Saga.
I know a cinephile usually achieves that title buy the sheer amount of films they have seen (and other things as well, I know) but surely you cannot be a cinephile if you havn’t seen certain important films. List 10 films you think should be essential viewing for a cinephile. I’m wondering how many I have/haven’t seen.. :)
Alva Noto – Unitxt
Asva – What You Don’t Know Is Frontier
Beyond Sensory Experience – No Lights In Our Eyes
Bochum Welt – R.O.B.
Boris – Smile
Byetone – Death Of A Typographer
Canvas Solaris – The Atomized Dream
Claro Intelecto – Metanarrative
Colour Haze – All
Do Make Say Think – The Whole Story Of Glory
Don Caballero – Punkgasm
Dozer – Beyond Colossal
Fanu & Bill Laswell – Lodge
Grails – Take Refuge In Clean Living
Grouper – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
Harvey Milk – Life… The Best Game In Town
Iota – Tales
Jacaszek – Treny
Lustmord – [Other]
Made Out Of Babies – The Ruiner
Max Richter – 24 Postcards In Full Colour
Melvins – Nude With Boots
Portion Control – Slug
Secret Chiefs 3 – Xaphan The Book of Angels Vol. 9
Somatic Responses – Digital Darkness
Sonic Youth – Hits Are For Squares
Sunn O))) – Domkirke
Venetian Snares – Detrimentalist
I hated Brown Bunny but I love Bela Tarr, well Damnation onwards anyway. I think a better comparison is Tarkovsky. Hmmm, it’s about time I watched Satantango again…
I’ve never ever fallen asleep in the cinema or even watching a film at home. A couple of times I have felt myself getting tired watching a film at home at 2 in the morning, at which point I either sit up and force myself to open my eyes or I turn the film off and watch the rest the next day. But I’ve never actually fallen asleep while the film was still running.
Just 10 films is really difficult but I’ll give it a go. This list could change at any give time though. (In no order…)
Bertolucci – The Conformist
Kurosawa – Dersu Uzala
David Lynch – Blue Velvet
Bresson – Mouchette
Cassavetes – Opening Night
Bergman – Persona
Tarkovsky – Stalker
Teshigahara – Woman in the Dunes
Herzog – Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Antonioni – L’Avventura
I wanted Kieslowski’s Dekalog in there, but that is 10 films in itself :(
I’ve only really seen Fassbinder’s later films (Veronika Voss, Lola, Marriage of Maria Braun, Berlin Alexanderplatz) the earliest one I’ve seen is Ali Fear eats Soul, and while I did enjoy it I think I prefer the others that I’ve seen. I love that colourful visual glow he used in the later films, where his Douglas Sirk visual flare really hit its peak I think. I want to wach more of his older films, but I’m concerned I won’t like them as much. I really wish I had started to watch Fassbinder in more of a chronoligical order, as opposed to the kind of backwards order I seem to be watching him.
Are there any particular earlier Fassbinder films anyone can recommend?
I want to post one I did but I can’t figure out how to link to an image I have on Imageshack. I also can’t find anywhere that tells you how to do this, and how to delete a post … help pls? :)
Favorite auteurs missing from the profile selection box. over 4 years ago
Melville and Teshigahara should definitely be in there.
Oh, and I think the Dardenne brothers have proved to be good enough Auteurs to be in there too.
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Who do you read? over 4 years ago
There does seem to be a pattern to the certain authors we all read. Anyway, when I’m not watching films or reading about them I like to read Buskowski, Fante, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Camus, William Gibson, Vonnegut, Celine, Kerouac, Burroughs, Cormac McCarthy, Hunter S. Thompson, Philip K. Dick, Asimov, Ballard, Huxley and I’m a huge fan of the Icelandic Saga’s too, especially Egil’s Saga and Njal’s Saga.
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10 films you MUST have seen to even be in with a chance of being a true Cinephile over 4 years ago
I know a cinephile usually achieves that title buy the sheer amount of films they have seen (and other things as well, I know) but surely you cannot be a cinephile if you havn’t seen certain important films. List 10 films you think should be essential viewing for a cinephile. I’m wondering how many I have/haven’t seen.. :)
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Top Albums of the Year (aka What rocks your ipod) 2008 over 4 years ago
Alva Noto – Unitxt
Asva – What You Don’t Know Is Frontier
Beyond Sensory Experience – No Lights In Our Eyes
Bochum Welt – R.O.B.
Boris – Smile
Byetone – Death Of A Typographer
Canvas Solaris – The Atomized Dream
Claro Intelecto – Metanarrative
Colour Haze – All
Do Make Say Think – The Whole Story Of Glory
Don Caballero – Punkgasm
Dozer – Beyond Colossal
Fanu & Bill Laswell – Lodge
Grails – Take Refuge In Clean Living
Grouper – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
Harvey Milk – Life… The Best Game In Town
Iota – Tales
Jacaszek – Treny
Lustmord – [Other]
Made Out Of Babies – The Ruiner
Max Richter – 24 Postcards In Full Colour
Melvins – Nude With Boots
Portion Control – Slug
Secret Chiefs 3 – Xaphan The Book of Angels Vol. 9
Somatic Responses – Digital Darkness
Sonic Youth – Hits Are For Squares
Sunn O))) – Domkirke
Venetian Snares – Detrimentalist
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10 films you MUST have seen to even be in with a chance of being a true Cinephile over 4 years ago
Well I’m doin’ ok so far then. I’ve seen a lot of films by all of them :)
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Rate The Last Film You Watched over 4 years ago
Truffaut’s The Bride Wore Black 7/10
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What about Bela Tarr over 4 years ago
I hated Brown Bunny but I love Bela Tarr, well Damnation onwards anyway. I think a better comparison is Tarkovsky. Hmmm, it’s about time I watched Satantango again…
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MOMENT OF TRUTH: HAVE YOU EVER GONE TO THE MOVIES AND FALLEN ASLEEP DURING THE FILM? over 4 years ago
I’ve never ever fallen asleep in the cinema or even watching a film at home. A couple of times I have felt myself getting tired watching a film at home at 2 in the morning, at which point I either sit up and force myself to open my eyes or I turn the film off and watch the rest the next day. But I’ve never actually fallen asleep while the film was still running.
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What do you feel when you watch a great film? over 4 years ago
Inspired.
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French Film over 4 years ago
The Dardenne’s are great, but you can’t talk about Belgian film in a lecture about French film.
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What's your Top 10? over 4 years ago
Just 10 films is really difficult but I’ll give it a go. This list could change at any give time though. (In no order…)
Bertolucci – The Conformist
Kurosawa – Dersu Uzala
David Lynch – Blue Velvet
Bresson – Mouchette
Cassavetes – Opening Night
Bergman – Persona
Tarkovsky – Stalker
Teshigahara – Woman in the Dunes
Herzog – Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Antonioni – L’Avventura
I wanted Kieslowski’s Dekalog in there, but that is 10 films in itself :(
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MOMENT OF TRUTH: HAVE YOU EVER GONE TO THE MOVIES AND FALLEN ASLEEP DURING THE FILM? over 4 years ago
Waseem – You couldn’t stay awake for La Binoche?? I know, film sucked but Binoche is always easy to watch :)
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Favorite auteurs missing from the profile selection box. over 4 years ago
Oshima!
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Fassbinder's earlier works over 4 years ago
I’ve only really seen Fassbinder’s later films (Veronika Voss, Lola, Marriage of Maria Braun, Berlin Alexanderplatz) the earliest one I’ve seen is Ali Fear eats Soul, and while I did enjoy it I think I prefer the others that I’ve seen. I love that colourful visual glow he used in the later films, where his Douglas Sirk visual flare really hit its peak I think. I want to wach more of his older films, but I’m concerned I won’t like them as much. I really wish I had started to watch Fassbinder in more of a chronoligical order, as opposed to the kind of backwards order I seem to be watching him.
Are there any particular earlier Fassbinder films anyone can recommend?
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Fassbinder's earlier works over 4 years ago
Thanks for the ideas guys, I’ll check Petra Von Kant next as I do like the sound of that one and then I’ll probably try Herr R.
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Eraserhead over 4 years ago
Andre – it was ’77, but began filming in ’73 I think.
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The Auteurs' Fake Criterion Covers over 2 years ago
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The Auteurs' Fake Criterion Covers over 2 years ago
I want to post one I did but I can’t figure out how to link to an image I have on Imageshack. I also can’t find anywhere that tells you how to do this, and how to delete a post … help pls? :)
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The Auteurs' Fake Criterion Covers over 2 years ago
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The Auteurs' Fake Criterion Covers over 2 years ago
Ah, that’s how you do it.
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Honorable film mentions in Paul Auster books over 2 years ago
He referenced Marcel Carne in his novel Invisible, but I forget which one.
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The Auteurs' Fake Criterion Covers over 2 years ago
Second go, a bit better I think
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Post a song you are currently listening to over 2 years ago
Thelonious Monk – Japanese Folk Song from Straight, No Chaser
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TOP 10 FILMS FROM YOUR "BIRTH YEAR" over 2 years ago
Can’t think of 10, but here’s some (from 1980):
Altered States
Bad Timing
The Last Metro
Slow Motion
The Elephant Man
The Fog
The Shining
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