All of Kurasawa’s Shakespeare adaptations “Throne of Blood” (Macbeth), “Ran” (King Lear). Julie Taymor’s “Titus”, Gus Van Sant’s “My Own Private Idaho” (loosely based on Henry IV, Part 1). “Scotland, Pa.” while not great is humorous & is an adaption of “Macbeth”.
“Please Tony, don’t kill me. Please, give me one more chance. I give you $10 million. $10 million! All of it, you can have the whole $10 million. I give you $10 million. I give you all $10 million just to let me go. Come on, Tony, $10 million. Its in a vault in Spain, we get on a plane and its all yours. That’s $10 million just to spare me.” – Frank Lopez from Scarface
Terrence Malick
Akira Kurosawa
Chan-wook Park
PT Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Roman Polanski
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Stanley Kubrick
Wes Anderson
Sergio Leone (1 short – The Colossus of Rhodes)
Michael Haneke (1 short – The Seventh Continent)
Werner Herzog (2 short – Where the Green Ants Dream & Signs of Life)
Now that this has been brought to my attention, I am very close on completing Herzogs filmography, which would be a nice accomplishment. I’ll try to watch the 2 over the weekend.
Spoon – Gimmie Fiction
Microphones – The Glow, Pt. 2
Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica
Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People
The Arcade Fire – Funeral / Neon Bible
Langhorne Slim – When the Suns Gone Down
Lightningbolt – Wonderful Rainbow
Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
Dialogue-driven, witty, insightful, close friends who show honesty and humility between each other, take shots at each other. Sort of a group male-buddy comedies.
Who do you think the most overrated director is? over 3 years ago
Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, & Francis Ford Coppola
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Most Traumatic or Dramatic Film Endings over 3 years ago
Spoorloos aka “The Vanishing” has one of the most heartbreaking endings ive seen.
HM to La Haine
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What film scenes really make you cry? over 3 years ago
Wall-E had me teared up
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Best Shakespeare Adaptations over 3 years ago
All of Kurasawa’s Shakespeare adaptations “Throne of Blood” (Macbeth), “Ran” (King Lear). Julie Taymor’s “Titus”, Gus Van Sant’s “My Own Private Idaho” (loosely based on Henry IV, Part 1). “Scotland, Pa.” while not great is humorous & is an adaption of “Macbeth”.
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Best Westerns over 3 years ago
My top 5 (No Order)
1. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. Hud
4. The Proposition
5. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
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FEMALE DIRECTORS over 3 years ago
Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher is one of my favorite films, she followed the film with another good film Morvern Callar then kind of disappeared.
She is a very talented writer & director who is currently working on projects.
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Which film should I buy? over 3 years ago
I would save up more and buy BATTLE OF ALGIERS.
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Favorite Kurosawa lead actor? over 3 years ago
Toshiro Mifune no question
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MOVIES ABOUT HITMEN over 3 years ago
Check out Mathieu Kassovitz’s “Assassin(s)” if you can find it.
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Movies you hated that everyone else loves about 3 years ago
Videodrome. In fact most everything by David Cronenberg I have not liked. Can not see why people put this movie in their top 20.
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Our favourite paintings: the great Auteur Gallery about 3 years ago
How do you post an image?
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how can i get my friend to watch old films? please answer! about 3 years ago
Start with Lawrence of Arabia
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Last movie you saw and rate it about 3 years ago
Burden of Dreams 8/10
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Great performances that hardly ever get discussed almost 3 years ago
Ed O’Neill as Al Bundy in the TV Show Married With Children.
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CONVERSATE/COMMUNICATE - USING MOVIE "QUOTES" - I'LL START IT OFF almost 3 years ago
“Please Tony, don’t kill me. Please, give me one more chance. I give you $10 million. $10 million! All of it, you can have the whole $10 million. I give you $10 million. I give you all $10 million just to let me go. Come on, Tony, $10 million. Its in a vault in Spain, we get on a plane and its all yours. That’s $10 million just to spare me.” – Frank Lopez from Scarface
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Our favourite paintings: the great Auteur Gallery almost 3 years ago
Caravaggio: Amor Vincit Omnia
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What do you think is on Werner Herzog's Ipod? almost 3 years ago
Tuvan Throat Singing
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Which directors have you seen every feature from? over 2 years ago
Terrence Malick
Akira Kurosawa
Chan-wook Park
PT Anderson
Quentin Tarantino
Roman Polanski
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Stanley Kubrick
Wes Anderson
Sergio Leone (1 short – The Colossus of Rhodes)
Michael Haneke (1 short – The Seventh Continent)
Werner Herzog (2 short – Where the Green Ants Dream & Signs of Life)
Now that this has been brought to my attention, I am very close on completing Herzogs filmography, which would be a nice accomplishment. I’ll try to watch the 2 over the weekend.
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Best Albums 2000-2009 (so far) over 2 years ago
My favorites.
Spoon – Gimmie Fiction
Microphones – The Glow, Pt. 2
Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica
Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People
The Arcade Fire – Funeral / Neon Bible
Langhorne Slim – When the Suns Gone Down
Lightningbolt – Wonderful Rainbow
Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
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WHICH DIRECTOR WOULD YOU WANT AS YOUR shrink? over 2 years ago
Herzog for sure.
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Great films with terrible acting? over 2 years ago
Lord of the Flies (1963) comes to mind.
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Looking for similar movies to... about 2 years ago
Swingers, and somewhat similar to Diner.
Dialogue-driven, witty, insightful, close friends who show honesty and humility between each other, take shots at each other. Sort of a group male-buddy comedies.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
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Best Character Entrances... EVER. about 2 years ago
Stay Puff Marshmellowman in Ghostbusters
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Directors’ Cup Voting, Round 1, Match 5: David Lynch (Eraserhead) vs James Benning (Ten Skies) over 1 year ago
I am not a huge fan of Eraserhead, that being said my vote is for Eraserhead.
Ten Skies (0) vs Eraserhead (1)
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