anna karina in vivre sa vie and bande a part
hanna shygulla in the marriage of maria braun
gunter lamprecht in berlin alexanderplatz
maria falconetti in passion de jeanne d’arc
juliette binoche in bleu, code inconnu
laura dern in inland empire
bruno ganz in eternity and a day
Carlos Reygadas’s Luz Silenciosa : Way too pretentious and “auteur like”.
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner: I jus’t don’t get it
Slumdog Millionaire: OH COME ON
Titanic… 12 oscars….
Ben Hur.. 12 oscars…
I have to agree with Innocence.. such a fantastic, hunting and mysterious movie. Funny thing, Lucile Hadzihalilovic is married with Gaspar Noé, who in my opinion is the “bluff master” of french cinema. How can a delicate, intriguing filmmaker can marry a manipulative sensationalist one is something I will never understand. Love, as experience shows, is really blind.
Egoyan’s The Adjuster, Larry Clark’s Kids, Godard’s Two or three things, A Married Woman, Masculin Femenin, Carmen, Detective, Les Carabiniers, Tout va Bien, Nolan’s Following, Desplechin’s My sex life… , Brackage’s An Antology (criterion) and The Early Films of Peter Greenaway.
Dazza & Kenyi: The first time I saw Irreversible, it struck me as a big methaphor of heaven and hell, like a Dante’s journey through the path that leads to enlightment. For Noe, I thought, perversity, violence, and moral decadence is portrayed in the Rectum Discotheque (thus being hell) and maternity, purity (and heaven) , is portrayed in the final scene with Beethoven 7th. That, for me, was enough to call the movie worth watching. But in subsequent revisions, I found this interpretation of mine to be a little forced, and the movie to be just a vessel for gratuitous scenes of sexual and non sexual violence, and (also gratuitous) camera and photography craftmanship. Was there really a need to portray this images for another reason than to “shock” the audience?. Sutil or suggested “violence” in some movies is much more disturbing than watching Monica Belluci being raped for I dunno how many minutes.
I have nothing against this kind of stuff, when is according to genre (Gore, Horror movies) or just really serves the film (like in Twentynine Palms) but I found the use of violence in this movie to be somewhat gratuitous. I would like though, to read your thoughts about this.
This being said, I love Trouble Everyday by Claire Denis. When a director is really talented and going somewhere, even cannibalism is justified lol.
Where are you from? about 3 years ago
Born in Lima Peru, about to live in Buenos Aires Argentina, to do a post graduate study in Cinema.
My “Daddy” is an Architect.
This website fucki ng ruls
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Which directors have you seen every feature from? about 3 years ago
Most directors with 2 or less movies he he…
Lisandro Alonso
Seen a lot of Godard, Fassbinder, Kieslowski, Bergman, Denis…
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Stalker/ Metropolis...Which one should I buy? about 3 years ago
Stalker baby!
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What is your most memorable film going experience? (Only one per post please!) about 3 years ago
Easy… when I first saw my two Tarkovski films, in a local indie cinema.
Nostalghia and Stalker… and my life was never the same.
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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER? about 3 years ago
Anna Karina
Hanna Shygulla
Katia Goluveba
Asia Argento
Juliette Binoche
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Meaningless Thread (Absmurdity) about 3 years ago
ROFL
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Your Favorite Godard Film? about 3 years ago
Only 5, and probably misspeled:
Vivre Sa Vie
Bande a Part
Histoires du Cinema
Passion
Une Femme est Une Femme
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Favorite Moment In A David Lynch Movie about 3 years ago
the dance scene in inland empire
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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER? about 3 years ago
Steve, please introduce me to her father lol….
I dunno, I just find her so damn sexy…
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WHO IS / WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM ACTRESS EVER? about 3 years ago
Joseph, DIVINE!!! hahaha…. great choice!
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YOUR OPINION OF THE ABSOLUTE BEST DIRECTORS WORKING TODAY about 3 years ago
Way too many names….
Denis
Ackerman
Bartas
Sokurov
Serra
Alonso
Gray
Dumont
Haneke
Tarr
Herzog
Cronenberg
and all of the JP BELMONDO list… and a few others
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French film this decade. about 3 years ago
dumont, desplechin, bozon, denis, contemporary resnais, garrel, cantet, chabrol, raoul ruiz, breillat… lot of talented filmmakers nowadays.
as movies goes…. 1 per filmmaker
humanite
un conte du noel
la france
l’intrus
coeurs
les amant reguliers
le emploi du temps
la ceremonie
ce jour la
une ville maitresse
and on and on and on…
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Last movie you saw and rate it about 3 years ago
- Un Conte de Noel (Desplechin) – 7.5/10
- La Scaphandre et la Papillion (Schnabel) – 6/10
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection about 3 years ago
FLAMING CREATURES by Jack Smith… overlooked masterpiece!!!
Some overlooked masters like Alexander Kluge and Koji Wakamatsu
I second the Sátántangó request also.
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection about 3 years ago
FLAMING CREATURES by Jack Smith… overlooked masterpiece!!!
Some overlooked masters like Alexander Kluge and Koji Wakamatsu
I second the Sátántangó request also.
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection about 3 years ago
FLAMING CREATURES by Jack Smith… overlooked masterpiece!!!
Some overlooked masters like Alexander Kluge and Koji Wakamatsu
I second the Sátántangó request also.
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Top performances of all time. about 3 years ago
mhm…. some I remember
anna karina in vivre sa vie and bande a part
hanna shygulla in the marriage of maria braun
gunter lamprecht in berlin alexanderplatz
maria falconetti in passion de jeanne d’arc
juliette binoche in bleu, code inconnu
laura dern in inland empire
bruno ganz in eternity and a day
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What's the greatest Western? about 3 years ago
Jodorowsky’s EL TOPO! a surreal masterpiece!
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5 Films you saw that are considered masterpieces that you thought were overated,horrible or you just "didnt like" about 3 years ago
Carlos Reygadas’s Luz Silenciosa : Way too pretentious and “auteur like”.
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner: I jus’t don’t get it
Slumdog Millionaire: OH COME ON
Titanic… 12 oscars….
Ben Hur.. 12 oscars…
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Last movie you saw and rate it about 3 years ago
atom egoyan’s the adjuster – 7/10
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French film this decade. about 3 years ago
I have to agree with Innocence.. such a fantastic, hunting and mysterious movie. Funny thing, Lucile Hadzihalilovic is married with Gaspar Noé, who in my opinion is the “bluff master” of french cinema. How can a delicate, intriguing filmmaker can marry a manipulative sensationalist one is something I will never understand. Love, as experience shows, is really blind.
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What Film Are You Most Looking Forward To In 2009? about 3 years ago
Bruno Dumont’s Hadewijcht, the new HH, Haneke, Godard….
How can anybody can be excited to watch the new Snyder movie??? He is such an overated director..
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Musicals? about 3 years ago
I think the only musical I really love is “Une femme est une femme”… but is it a musical, really?
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A lost boat drifting in the Ocean about 3 years ago
Then I agree, one of the most beautiful films ever made, yes.
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Which Film Critics Do You Read? about 3 years ago
Ebert is severly overated as a critic.
My picks are Rosembaum, Quintin, Mañu Yañez, Álvaro Arroba, Adrián Martin, Christoph Huber, Mark Peranson and Ferreira.
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French film this decade. about 3 years ago
i’m sorry buy what does this has to do with french cinema?
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The Greatest Movies Never Made... about 3 years ago
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s version of Dune
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Recent Acquisitions. about 3 years ago
My last Ebay craze:
Egoyan’s The Adjuster, Larry Clark’s Kids, Godard’s Two or three things, A Married Woman, Masculin Femenin, Carmen, Detective, Les Carabiniers, Tout va Bien, Nolan’s Following, Desplechin’s My sex life… , Brackage’s An Antology (criterion) and The Early Films of Peter Greenaway.
Now I can’t afford to eat…
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French film this decade. about 3 years ago
Dazza & Kenyi: The first time I saw Irreversible, it struck me as a big methaphor of heaven and hell, like a Dante’s journey through the path that leads to enlightment. For Noe, I thought, perversity, violence, and moral decadence is portrayed in the Rectum Discotheque (thus being hell) and maternity, purity (and heaven) , is portrayed in the final scene with Beethoven 7th. That, for me, was enough to call the movie worth watching. But in subsequent revisions, I found this interpretation of mine to be a little forced, and the movie to be just a vessel for gratuitous scenes of sexual and non sexual violence, and (also gratuitous) camera and photography craftmanship. Was there really a need to portray this images for another reason than to “shock” the audience?. Sutil or suggested “violence” in some movies is much more disturbing than watching Monica Belluci being raped for I dunno how many minutes.
I have nothing against this kind of stuff, when is according to genre (Gore, Horror movies) or just really serves the film (like in Twentynine Palms) but I found the use of violence in this movie to be somewhat gratuitous. I would like though, to read your thoughts about this.
This being said, I love Trouble Everyday by Claire Denis. When a director is really talented and going somewhere, even cannibalism is justified lol.
P.D. Sorry for the rusty english!
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OH MY GOD THAT WAS SO AMAZING I AM SO SPEECHLESS AHHHHHH about 3 years ago
That was my exact same reaction when I saw Stalker ha ha ha!.
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