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Help make The Auteurs totally awesome about 2 years ago

this has probably been mentioned before, but…

half star ratings! so petites and pretty :)

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Who do you think the most overrated director is? about 2 years ago

Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton – great ideas, yes, turned into pretty bad movies. way too much praised.
Those are the first names that came to my mind.

Oh, and Antonioni! I can’t stand his movies, honestly :( even if the cinematography is stunning.

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Last movie you saw and rate it about 2 years ago

My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
8/10

i want my own big big big totoro and catbus so bad.

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Great Directors' Short films. about 2 years ago

no one has mentioned ménilmontant and maya deren’s meshes of the afternoon!?

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What is the one movie, if any in particular, that sparked your interest in film? about 2 years ago

kim ki duk and asian films. that’s where my interest was born.
i saw the ending of the isle and i was blown away.

but my very first love was jules et jim, by truffaut. it really made me realize how powerful a film can be.

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Last movie you saw and rate it about 2 years ago

Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010)
5.5 or 6/10 i can’t decide.

a totally disappointing cliché. even johnny depp got on my nerves.
alice in one on my favourite books. it was a great cast. great design ideas. how did burton ruined this?!

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Last movie you saw and rate it about 2 years ago

What time is it there? (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2001)

exquisite. the story was simple, really, but so capable of haunting you.
the alienation, the characters in search of a connection and, almost funny, so synchronized in their loneliness…
it was tender even in its sadness.

8/10

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3 Favourite Movies From 5 Favourite Directors about 2 years ago

Ernst Lubitsch
To be or not to be
Trouble in paradise
The shop around the corner

Charles Chaplin
The great dictator
City lights
Moder times

Wong Kar-wai
In the mood for love
Happy together
Chungking express

Carol Reed
The third man
Odd man out
The fallen idol

Fritz Lang
M
The big heat
Man hunt

I’ll leave out Kubrick and Hitchcock. I can’t list just three movies!

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All time Greatest Song Lyrics-Can only be 1 verse or 1 Chorus about 2 years ago

this is necessary:
you fixed yourself, you said, “well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music”
— chelsea hotel n.2, leonard cohen

nobody has to guess that baby can’t be blessed
till she sees finally that she’s like all the rest
with her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls.
— just like a woman, bob dylan

did you hear the news about edward?
on the back of his head he had another face
was it a woman’s face or a young girl?
they said to remove it would kill him
so poor edward was doomed

the face could laugh and cry
it was his devil twin
and at night she spoke to him
things heard only in hell
but they were impossible to separate
chained together for life

finally the bell tolled his doom
he took a suite of rooms
and hung himself and her from the balcony irons
some still believe he was freed from her
but i knew her too well
i say she drove him to suicide
and took poor edward to hell

— poor edward, tom waits

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All time Greatest Song Lyrics-Can only be 1 verse or 1 Chorus about 2 years ago

i know i know, one song. i’m sorry.
but this is tremendously beautiful and sad.

lay you head where
my heart used to be
hold the earth above me
lay down in the green grass
remember when you loved me

come closer don’t be shy
stand beneath a rainy sky
the moon is over the rise
think of me as a train goes by
clear the thistles and brambles
whistle didn’t he ramble
now there’s a bubble of me
and its floating in thee
stand in the shade of me
things are now made of me
the weather vane will say
it smells like rain today
god took the stars and he
tossed ‘em can’t tell
the birds from the blossoms
you’ll never be free of me
he’ll make a tree from me
don’t say good bye to me
describe the sky to me
and if the sky falls mark
my words – we’ll catch mocking birds

lay your head where
my heart used to be
hold the earth above me
lay down in the green grass
remember when you loved me.

— green grass, tom waits

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Last movie you saw and rate it about 2 years ago

some great and intense movies, these days:

A woman under the influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
8 or 9/10.

The crucified lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
8/10

Ensayo de un crimen (Luis Buñuel, 1955)
7/10

i’m jealous of your english. i can’t express myself and my thoughts correctly, it’s frustrating :/

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Last movie you saw and rate it about 2 years ago

Werckmeister Harmóniák (Béla Tarr, 2000)
9/10

perfect intercourse of sound and picture.

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which movie picks you up when you're down? about 2 years ago

Ernst Lubitsch. totally.
Frank Capra and Wilder have good ones too. they have a pretty positive atmosphere :)

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Last movie you saw and rate it about 2 years ago

Les Enfants du Paradis (Marcel Carné, 1945)
9/10 – 10/10?

three, perfect, hours.
une des plus belles histoires d’amour jamais vues au cinéma (L)

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Great performances that hardly ever get discussed about 2 years ago

I second Gena Rowlands in “a woman under the influence”. totally.

What about George C. Scott ?

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