A fun project for the weekend. We’ve started a list identifying the films used in Jess de Gruyter’s 2004 collage video Telefon, inspired by the Charles Bronson film of the same name. You can watch de Gruyter’s Telefon at the link.
Looking forward to testing the community’s knowledge!
This is the first in an ongoing series of Film Lists on MUBI – which will be taken from (or created by) a variety of different sources on all topics related to cinema – with the intention of igniting a dialogue between all you passionate users in the forums.
In addition to the omissions, which of the 50 didn’t belong there? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory over Willy Wonka (perhaps some of the readers mistakenly wrote the Tim Burton version down)? Or which surprised you? American Psycho certainly wasn’t expected, nor Jan Švankmajer’s Alice, though I was rather pleased to see that particular one on the list. What about Get Shorty over Jackie Brown? And should Sin City really be above Jaws?
What does one consider when thinking of the best film adaptations of novels? How good the book was? How faithful the director/screenwriter was to the material? The level of difficulty it took to bring the novel to the screen (think Naked Lunch in terms of content or The Lord of the Rings films in terms of scale)?
Give us your take on the list, or just the subject in general. Looking forward to your responses. –Joe
We’re working on creating a list of the best Turkish films of all time and could use your valued input! We’re still deciding how we’re going to present the list, but in the meantime, feel free to suggest as many films as you can think of below!
Telefon about 1 year ago
Hey everyone!
A fun project for the weekend. We’ve started a list identifying the films used in Jess de Gruyter’s 2004 collage video Telefon, inspired by the Charles Bronson film of the same name. You can watch de Gruyter’s Telefon at the link.
Looking forward to testing the community’s knowledge!
Best of luck!
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Telefon about 1 year ago
AMPIR – Sokurov
L’AMORE – Rossellini
Were those really included? Just double-checking! So far so good! Let’s keep it rollin’. :)
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The Guardian's 50 Greatest Literary Adaptations about 1 year ago
This is the first in an ongoing series of Film Lists on MUBI – which will be taken from (or created by) a variety of different sources on all topics related to cinema – with the intention of igniting a dialogue between all you passionate users in the forums.
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With Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin premiering at Cannes earlier this month and another adaptation of Jane Eyre hitting theatres earlier this year, we here at MUBI were wondering, “What exactly are the best book-to-film adaptations?” In browsing the web, we came across a few different lists, but chose the one from The Guardian for both its inclusion of the readers and its length (the more titles, the bigger the dispute!). As the list was compiled by The Guardian‘s readers in summer of 2006, you should note that films like No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Children of Men, Winter’s Bone or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly weren’t in the running. Bearing that in mind, what were some of the glaring omissions from their list? Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard, Philip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter, Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-up (Hey, if they included Brokeback Mountain, we can include this one), Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, David Lean’s Great Expectations, David Cronenberg’s Crash, Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady, Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs, Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar, Jacques Rivette’s Wuthering Heights or even Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park?
In addition to the omissions, which of the 50 didn’t belong there? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory over Willy Wonka (perhaps some of the readers mistakenly wrote the Tim Burton version down)? Or which surprised you? American Psycho certainly wasn’t expected, nor Jan Švankmajer’s Alice, though I was rather pleased to see that particular one on the list. What about Get Shorty over Jackie Brown? And should Sin City really be above Jaws?
What does one consider when thinking of the best film adaptations of novels? How good the book was? How faithful the director/screenwriter was to the material? The level of difficulty it took to bring the novel to the screen (think Naked Lunch in terms of content or The Lord of the Rings films in terms of scale)?
Give us your take on the list, or just the subject in general. Looking forward to your responses. –Joe
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The Best Turkish Films of All Time? 8 months ago
Hello users,
We’re working on creating a list of the best Turkish films of all time and could use your valued input! We’re still deciding how we’re going to present the list, but in the meantime, feel free to suggest as many films as you can think of below!
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Discussion: Academy Award Documentary Feature Short List, 2012 6 months ago
The Academy has officially narrowed down the list of eligible Documentary Features to fifteen before announcing the five nominees on January 24th. Once again, Werner Herzog‘s name is absent, and he looks to be in good company. Other big names you won’t find on the short list include Frederick Wiseman, Crazy Horse; Jonathan Demme, I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful; Morgan Spurlock, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold; Mika Kaurismäki, Mama Africa; Michael Glawogger, Whores’ Glory; Steve James, The Interrupters; and the biggest snub belonging to past winner Alex Gibney who didn’t see a single one of his three 2011 films make the cut. Festival favorites like Marie Losier’s The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Asif Kapadia’s Senna, Matthew Bate’s Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, Michael Rappaport’s Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, Andrew Rossi’s Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times, Göran Hugo Olsson’s The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 and Peter D. Richardson’s How to Die in Oregon were just a few of the omissions. So we ask you… Which of the fifteen do you think should have been left off? What do you think is the best documentary of 2011? How do you feel about the Academy’s recent track record in this category? [Hint, the past five winners: Charles H. Ferguson and Audrey Marrs’ Inside Job, Louie Psihoyos’ The Cove, Simon Chinn and James Marsh’s Man on Wire, Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side and Davis Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth].
–Joe
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