What are you saying about : The Elephant Man, Chinatown, Farewell, my concubine, Master and Commander, The Bicycle Thief…..? I am not sure what kind of thing you are trying to define. This all seems a little Aspergers to me. Who is the authority on this so called CANON of CANONICAL directors? MOMA? Theauteurs.com…? Sense of Cinema? This all seems a bit wanky and I would stick to top 10 lists if I were you.
I would ask : should old retirees be allowed to be film critics (such as David Stratton) who give Wendy and Lucy Gomorrah and Dancer in the Dark all 1 star because they don’t appreciate a) modern structures or b) postmodernism.
Like any GREAT auteur — Tarantino has a top 15 list that bolsters and justifies his very particular autistic brand of aesthetic.
He is not God’s auteur, just a populist auteur that relies on violence, pulp, witty dialogue and visceral brechtian thrills to please both audience and critics enough.
I’d be more interested to see Ang Lee’s Top 15, or Apichatpong Weersethakul or Tsai Ming Liang or Lucrecia Martel’s Top 15………
My top 15 as an artist would be:
1. Three Women (ROBERT ALTMAN)
2. Day of the Locust (JOHN SCHLESINGER)
3. Women in Love (KEN RUSSELL)
4. Stalker (ANDREI TARKOVSKY)
5. Through a Glass Darkly (INGMAR BERGMAN)
6. Pandora’s Box (GW Pabst)
7. Scarlett Empress (VON STERNBERG)
8. Letter to an Unknown Woman (MAX OPHULS)
9. The Piano Teacher (MICHAEL HANEKE)
10. In the Mood for Love (WONG KAR WAI)
11. Umbrellas of Cherbourg (JACQUES DEMY)
12. Lulu (MAURICE PIALAT)
13. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weersethakul)
14. LA CIENAGA (Lucrecia Martel)
15. The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura)
THE PIANO TEACHER
FAST FOOD FAST WOMEN
40 shades of BLUE
GOMORRAH
WENDY AND LUCY
UN CONTE DE NOEL
DEAD MAN
BROKEN FLOWERS
THE NEON BIBLE
ED WOOD
ESTHER KAHN
BLISSFULLY YOURS
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE
SAVAGE GRACE
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
UZAK
MYSTIC RIVER
WE OWN THE NIGHT
THE STRAIGHT STORY
Cronenbergs CRASH
THE HOLE
CLAIRE DOLAN
HENRY FOOL
TEN
THE RIVER
PAUL AND HIS BROTHER
LA CIENAGA
EYES WIDE SHUT
PARANOID PARK
SECRET SUNSHINE
POISON
THE ICE STORM
LE FILMEUR (Alain Cavalier)
BREAKING THE WAVES
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
SIN CITY
LAST DAYS
CARO DIARIO
EXOTICA
SCHASTYE MOE (MY JOY)
CHLOE
Um. Mike Leigh is contemptuous. BUT IS FILM TECHNIQUE (Dialogue, performance, Camera, choice of point of view, characterization) is impeccable.
He is from upper middle class. Goes in… makes a critical success of doing basically what Catherine Tate does with better character development, cinematography and a dismal existential dilemma that never moves past itself….. So does that matter? I’m not sure.
Do his films offer us something? What about HIGH HOPES, ABIGAILS PARTY or SECRETS AND LIES?
There was a bit of tension in HAPPY GO LUCKY — Thank God… He was almost parodying himself in the drivers teacher. I felt sorry for the poor bugger. But he still couldn’t help but paint our protagonist in her final scenes as someone without any purpose or gravity for living. Someone who didn’t have time for the likes of poor Mike.
I understand its hard being depressed. But I wish he made films about boring upper middle class existentially and physically depressed men like him….than with his troupe of well paid actors - pillage the soap opera and real economic struggles of the working class for his stories. Give me FISHTANK and ANDREA ARNOLD any day. Even though they feel somewhat full of their own social/artistic importance.
Canonical Films by Non-canonical Directors over 2 years ago
What are you saying about : The Elephant Man, Chinatown, Farewell, my concubine, Master and Commander, The Bicycle Thief…..? I am not sure what kind of thing you are trying to define. This all seems a little Aspergers to me. Who is the authority on this so called CANON of CANONICAL directors? MOMA? Theauteurs.com…? Sense of Cinema? This all seems a bit wanky and I would stick to top 10 lists if I were you.
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Canonical Films by Non-canonical Directors over 2 years ago
There is no cinema god who decides what is CANONICAL and WHAT IS NOT. This is a waste of time. Cinema is subjective. End of story.
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STOP THE LISTS! about 2 years ago
Write me a script that is amazing Alberto, and I’ll see that it gets made.
Do you want a topic?
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STOP THE LISTS! about 2 years ago
Write me a script that is amazing Alberto, and I’ll see that it gets made.
Do you want a topic?
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STOP THE LISTS! about 2 years ago
Write me a script that is amazing Alberto, and I’ll see that it gets made.
Do you want a topic?
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STOP THE LISTS! about 2 years ago
Write me a script that is amazing Alberto, and I’ll see that it gets made.
Do you want a topic?
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STOP THE LISTS! about 2 years ago
Write me a script that is amazing Alberto, and I’ll see that it gets made.
Do you want a topic?
www.scriptorama.com
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STOP THE LISTS! about 2 years ago
Write me a script that is amazing Alberto, and I’ll see that it gets made.
Do you want a topic?
www.scriptorama.com
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should 17-24 year olds be allowed to be film critics and are they ruining film choices by directors? about 2 years ago
I would ask : should old retirees be allowed to be film critics (such as David Stratton) who give Wendy and Lucy Gomorrah and Dancer in the Dark all 1 star because they don’t appreciate a) modern structures or b) postmodernism.
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Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 films of the past 17 years almost 2 years ago
Like any GREAT auteur — Tarantino has a top 15 list that bolsters and justifies his very particular autistic brand of aesthetic.
He is not God’s auteur, just a populist auteur that relies on violence, pulp, witty dialogue and visceral brechtian thrills to please both audience and critics enough.
I’d be more interested to see Ang Lee’s Top 15, or Apichatpong Weersethakul or Tsai Ming Liang or Lucrecia Martel’s Top 15………
My top 15 as an artist would be:
1. Three Women (ROBERT ALTMAN)
2. Day of the Locust (JOHN SCHLESINGER)
3. Women in Love (KEN RUSSELL)
4. Stalker (ANDREI TARKOVSKY)
5. Through a Glass Darkly (INGMAR BERGMAN)
6. Pandora’s Box (GW Pabst)
7. Scarlett Empress (VON STERNBERG)
8. Letter to an Unknown Woman (MAX OPHULS)
9. The Piano Teacher (MICHAEL HANEKE)
10. In the Mood for Love (WONG KAR WAI)
11. Umbrellas of Cherbourg (JACQUES DEMY)
12. Lulu (MAURICE PIALAT)
13. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weersethakul)
14. LA CIENAGA (Lucrecia Martel)
15. The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura)
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Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 films of the past 17 years almost 2 years ago
Oh past 17 years… shit. That’s easier.
THE PIANO TEACHER
FAST FOOD FAST WOMEN
40 shades of BLUE
GOMORRAH
WENDY AND LUCY
UN CONTE DE NOEL
DEAD MAN
BROKEN FLOWERS
THE NEON BIBLE
ED WOOD
ESTHER KAHN
BLISSFULLY YOURS
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE
SAVAGE GRACE
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
UZAK
MYSTIC RIVER
WE OWN THE NIGHT
THE STRAIGHT STORY
Cronenbergs CRASH
THE HOLE
CLAIRE DOLAN
HENRY FOOL
TEN
THE RIVER
PAUL AND HIS BROTHER
LA CIENAGA
EYES WIDE SHUT
PARANOID PARK
SECRET SUNSHINE
POISON
THE ICE STORM
LE FILMEUR (Alain Cavalier)
BREAKING THE WAVES
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
SIN CITY
LAST DAYS
CARO DIARIO
EXOTICA
SCHASTYE MOE (MY JOY)
CHLOE
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Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 films of the past 17 years almost 2 years ago
i also LOOOOVEVVEED CHLOE! Maybe for the wrong reasons… time will tell.
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Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 films of the past 17 years almost 2 years ago
Um. Mike Leigh is contemptuous. BUT IS FILM TECHNIQUE (Dialogue, performance, Camera, choice of point of view, characterization) is impeccable.
He is from upper middle class. Goes in… makes a critical success of doing basically what Catherine Tate does with better character development, cinematography and a dismal existential dilemma that never moves past itself….. So does that matter? I’m not sure.
Do his films offer us something? What about HIGH HOPES, ABIGAILS PARTY or SECRETS AND LIES?
There was a bit of tension in HAPPY GO LUCKY — Thank God… He was almost parodying himself in the drivers teacher. I felt sorry for the poor bugger. But he still couldn’t help but paint our protagonist in her final scenes as someone without any purpose or gravity for living. Someone who didn’t have time for the likes of poor Mike.
I understand its hard being depressed. But I wish he made films about boring upper middle class existentially and physically depressed men like him….than with his troupe of well paid actors
-pillage the soap opera and real economic struggles of the working class for his stories. Give me FISHTANK and ANDREA ARNOLD any day. Even though they feel somewhat full of their own social/artistic importance.Go to Comment