Brazil 3-disc box set
Breathless
Chungking Expresses
Do The Right Thing
DOwn by Law
High and Low
Life Aquatic
3 film by Louis Malle : Murmur of the Heart, Lacombe Lucien, Au Revoir les Enfants
Mon Oncle Antoine
Night on Earth
The Royal Tenenbaums
Le Samourai
Samourai Trilogy — Hiroshi Inagaki
Seven Samurai 3 disc set
Stranger than Paradise
Videodrome
His bourgeoisie trilogy his amazing, as well as l’âge d’or (and of course Un Chien Andalou). I enjoy also Viridiana and Tristania. AN obscur object of desire was great but minor in my opinion and Belle de Jour is, althought not a bad movie, the one I enjoy the less.
I have start calculating about 18 months ago. In the first year, I watched about 380 standart feature film total. But in the last 6 month, I have been less productive, with like 25 a month.
I would consider Hitchcock an auteur and I think the answer is a big yes to all of your 3 questions, altought limiting yourself to this specific Sarris definition of what an auteur is is somehow simple. Truffaut’s view will focus more on the recurrent theme in a director movie, which apply easily to Hitchcock too. I think his body of work, both technically and the subject he takes, are somehow pretty coherent and although he isn’t a writer, in his 50s and 60s period, he choose the subject he was working on and the view on communism, manhood, woman, crime and so on are pretty coherent in every film.
I would consider Hitchcock an auteur and I think the answer is a big yes to all of your 3 questions, altought limiting yourself to this specific Sarris definition of what an auteur is is somehow simple. Truffaut’s view will focus more on the recurrent theme in a director movie, which apply easily to Hitchcock too. I think his body of work, both technically and the subject he takes, are somehow pretty coherent and although he isn’t a writer, in his 50s and 60s period, he choose the subject he was working on and the view on communism, manhood, woman, crime and so on are pretty coherent in every film.
WE WANT A RELEASED OF THIS AMAZING MOVIE! It seriously need a decent released. The american is barely available as well as the region 2 version. After, 2 or 3 things and Made in USA, I think that a La CHinoise/Week-ENd maoïste/revolutionnary combination will be AWESOME.
1. Belle de Jour
2. Cet Obscure Objet du Désir
3. Viridiana
4. The Milky Way
5. Viridiana
6. Simon of the Desert
7. LE Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
8. Le Fantôme de la liberté
9. L’âge d’or
10. Un Chien Andalou
I have tried and tried but I simply can’t. I owned to the coen my love of cinema. Barton Fink and Blood SImple are two of my favourites movies, hudsucker, big lebowski and even O’Brother are pretty funny but I can’t stand Raising Arizona. After 4 viewings, I just don’t laugh. The only one of their I like less than this one is Ladykillers. Is there anybody in the same spot as me since this is generally their more acclaimed comedy along with Big Lebowski.
It’s sometimes hard to obtain the released contract for dvds. Elephant was kind of big critically aclaimed back in 2003 so maybe when the contract will come to an end, they’ll be able to grab it up. Anyway the region 1 dvd of Elephant is pretty lame…
The one I’d say i’m the most disappointed with is Diabolique. Don’T get me wrong, this is one of my favourite movie. But the criterion edition as no extras except a 3 pages booklet. Since in Quebec theres a regular dvd of the movie for like 1/3 of the price, I hope criterion will make a decent rereleased loaded with extras!
I just watched Short Cuts and I think I got something wrong with Robert Altman until now. I first watch M*A*S*H after hearing about it a lot and frankly, I didn’t enjoy it. I then watch McCabe & Miss Miller that I find more interesting but still, there was something missing I thought. And now I watch Short Cuts and boy was it good. Outplayed Magnolia all the way imo. Pretty good storyline, character and everything.
Knowing this, could you suggest one or two movies from Altman I should watch right now? I was looking forward to The Player.
Hit : Shivers, Videodrome!!!!, Dead Rigers!!!!, Crash, Eastern Promises
Miss : Rage, Fast Compagny, Spider, History of VIolence,
In between : Naked Lunch
I just read this thread and I kinda agree with Antoine. Haneke has always been a sucker for reflexivity/auto-reflexivity and we can see in the first shot that the viewer attention and implication is implicated in that picture (when you realize we are seeing a videotape instead of a movie). Shot like this one and others in the movie are reenforcing your position I think and it seems rather possible and coherent with Haneke’s body of work that he wanted the film to be like that. As we see in movies like Funny Games, Haneke make the director interfere in the traditional narration of the film and that’s why him sending the tapes seems indeed a pretty plausible theory.
Porcupine Tree
Rush
Red Hot Chili Peppers (first 4)
Yes
Immortal Technique
Iron Maiden
Millencolin
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Dream Theater
Jaco Pastorius/Weather Report
I like Roger very much. And I’m totally next to him when he defend the 4 star system and relative comparison between movie. I think it’s much more clever that way.
I love the film, but a lot less than any other critics who praised him as best movie of the year. As its moment and refreshing, but it clearly don’t make a 2009 top ten for me.
Director : Denys Arcand
Cast : Dominique Michel, Louise Portal, Remi Girard, Pierre Curzi, Yves Jacques
Screenwriter : Denys Arcand
Producer : Denise Robert
A rousing “he said/she said” endeavor, The Decline of the American Empire begins by separating the boys from the girls. Preparing a gourmet dinner, four male intellectuals begin trading stories of their sexual experiences. At the same time, four well-read women, all working out in a gym, exchange their own tales from the love front. The film is set in the lofty circles of academia, a world well known to Canadian director Denys Arcand. The anecdotes related herein are based on actual events in the lives of Arcand’s professorial friends. There’s nothing bookish, however, about the subject matter of the stories themselves, which ranges from mild philandering to S & M. The Decline of the American Empire was the winner of eight Canadian Genie awards (that’s the above-the-border equivalent of the Oscar), including Best Picture.
I respect him very much. He isn’T my favorite director of the decade or close, but he deserve recognition. Having made an 4h30 biopic about Che Guevara that made him probably 12000$ in the Us, with a indie no-budbet gem like Girlfriend Experience and a pretty decent mainstream movie (the informant) show us how he stick to his opinions and style. He has done this since he started from sex lies to ocean’s series, with traffic, bubble or erin.
I think it is 60s hands down…. Just look at the work of Godard, Bergman, Truffaut, Fellini, Antonioni, Polanski, Kurosawa, Malle and a lot more…. Cinema was brutally transforming!
Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection over 2 years ago
Week-End
L’Âge d’or/Un Chien Andalou
Happiness
Paris, Texas
More Hitchcock and Kubrick
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The Best Canadian Films of all time? over 2 years ago
1- Le Déclin de l’Empire américain – Arcand
2- Exotica – Egoyan
3- Videodrome – Cronenberg
4- Mon Oncle Antoine – Jutras
5- Les Ordres -Brault
With a special mention to Pour La Suite du Monde from Perrault and Brault, a wonderful movie in the direct tradition.
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List/Order all Criterions you own over 2 years ago
Brazil 3-disc box set
Breathless
Chungking Expresses
Do The Right Thing
DOwn by Law
High and Low
Life Aquatic
3 film by Louis Malle : Murmur of the Heart, Lacombe Lucien, Au Revoir les Enfants
Mon Oncle Antoine
Night on Earth
The Royal Tenenbaums
Le Samourai
Samourai Trilogy — Hiroshi Inagaki
Seven Samurai 3 disc set
Stranger than Paradise
Videodrome
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Essential over 2 years ago
I’d suggest for a start these essential in this order in my opinion :
Truffaut’s 400 blows
Kurosawa’s rashomon
Bergman’s Virgin Spring
Godard’s Breathless
Fellini’s Dolce Vita
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On Luis Bunuel over 2 years ago
His bourgeoisie trilogy his amazing, as well as l’âge d’or (and of course Un Chien Andalou). I enjoy also Viridiana and Tristania. AN obscur object of desire was great but minor in my opinion and Belle de Jour is, althought not a bad movie, the one I enjoy the less.
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How many movies do you watch in a week/month? over 2 years ago
I have start calculating about 18 months ago. In the first year, I watched about 380 standart feature film total. But in the last 6 month, I have been less productive, with like 25 a month.
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Who do you think the most overrated director is? over 2 years ago
Danny Boyle
Christopher Nolan
Quentin Tarentino
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Movies you hated that everyone else loves over 2 years ago
Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting and Boyle’s film…
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Alfred Hitchcock - a true Auteur? over 2 years ago
I would consider Hitchcock an auteur and I think the answer is a big yes to all of your 3 questions, altought limiting yourself to this specific Sarris definition of what an auteur is is somehow simple. Truffaut’s view will focus more on the recurrent theme in a director movie, which apply easily to Hitchcock too. I think his body of work, both technically and the subject he takes, are somehow pretty coherent and although he isn’t a writer, in his 50s and 60s period, he choose the subject he was working on and the view on communism, manhood, woman, crime and so on are pretty coherent in every film.
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Alfred Hitchcock - a true Auteur? over 2 years ago
I would consider Hitchcock an auteur and I think the answer is a big yes to all of your 3 questions, altought limiting yourself to this specific Sarris definition of what an auteur is is somehow simple. Truffaut’s view will focus more on the recurrent theme in a director movie, which apply easily to Hitchcock too. I think his body of work, both technically and the subject he takes, are somehow pretty coherent and although he isn’t a writer, in his 50s and 60s period, he choose the subject he was working on and the view on communism, manhood, woman, crime and so on are pretty coherent in every film.
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Criterion if you read this.... over 2 years ago
WE WANT A RELEASED OF THIS AMAZING MOVIE! It seriously need a decent released. The american is barely available as well as the region 2 version. After, 2 or 3 things and Made in USA, I think that a La CHinoise/Week-ENd maoïste/revolutionnary combination will be AWESOME.
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List Bunuel's films from least to most surreal over 2 years ago
i’ll go like this with those I’ve seen:
1. Belle de Jour
2. Cet Obscure Objet du Désir
3. Viridiana
4. The Milky Way
5. Viridiana
6. Simon of the Desert
7. LE Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
8. Le Fantôme de la liberté
9. L’âge d’or
10. Un Chien Andalou
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Big fan of the Coen but can't stand Raising Arizona over 2 years ago
I have tried and tried but I simply can’t. I owned to the coen my love of cinema. Barton Fink and Blood SImple are two of my favourites movies, hudsucker, big lebowski and even O’Brother are pretty funny but I can’t stand Raising Arizona. After 4 viewings, I just don’t laugh. The only one of their I like less than this one is Ladykillers. Is there anybody in the same spot as me since this is generally their more acclaimed comedy along with Big Lebowski.
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Your favorite films that *did* win best picture Oscar over 2 years ago
The Apartment
Annie Hall
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THE AUTEURS BEST OF THE DECADE: FILMS over 2 years ago
1- Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
2- Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
3- 3-Iron (Kim-Ki Duk, 2004)
4- Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
5- Les États Nordiques (Denis Côté, 2005)
6- The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006)
7- The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003)
8- Ararat (Atom Egoyan, 2002)
9- Hunger (Steve Macqueen, 2008)
10- The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001)
a mention to Mysterious Skin, my personal cult movie of the decade.
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Why aren't there more Gus Van Sant releases on criterion? over 2 years ago
It’s sometimes hard to obtain the released contract for dvds. Elephant was kind of big critically aclaimed back in 2003 so maybe when the contract will come to an end, they’ll be able to grab it up. Anyway the region 1 dvd of Elephant is pretty lame…
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Worst Criterion DVDs over 2 years ago
The one I’d say i’m the most disappointed with is Diabolique. Don’T get me wrong, this is one of my favourite movie. But the criterion edition as no extras except a 3 pages booklet. Since in Quebec theres a regular dvd of the movie for like 1/3 of the price, I hope criterion will make a decent rereleased loaded with extras!
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Robert Altman over 2 years ago
I just watched Short Cuts and I think I got something wrong with Robert Altman until now. I first watch M*A*S*H after hearing about it a lot and frankly, I didn’t enjoy it. I then watch McCabe & Miss Miller that I find more interesting but still, there was something missing I thought. And now I watch Short Cuts and boy was it good. Outplayed Magnolia all the way imo. Pretty good storyline, character and everything.
Knowing this, could you suggest one or two movies from Altman I should watch right now? I was looking forward to The Player.
Thanks
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Robert Altman over 2 years ago
Yeah I’ve checked Magnolia. Pretty good movie ; altought it’s clearly influenced by Short Curts.
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Hit or Miss? over 2 years ago
Haven’t seen it all but here are my thoughts :
Hit : Shivers, Videodrome!!!!, Dead Rigers!!!!, Crash, Eastern Promises
Miss : Rage, Fast Compagny, Spider, History of VIolence,
In between : Naked Lunch
Haven’t seen The Fly, M. Butterfly…
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(UN)HIDDEN CAMERA: THE "REAL" SENDER OF THE TAPES over 2 years ago
I just read this thread and I kinda agree with Antoine. Haneke has always been a sucker for reflexivity/auto-reflexivity and we can see in the first shot that the viewer attention and implication is implicated in that picture (when you realize we are seeing a videotape instead of a movie). Shot like this one and others in the movie are reenforcing your position I think and it seems rather possible and coherent with Haneke’s body of work that he wanted the film to be like that. As we see in movies like Funny Games, Haneke make the director interfere in the traditional narration of the film and that’s why him sending the tapes seems indeed a pretty plausible theory.
Thanks for this thoughtful analysis!
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Off Topic - Ten favorite bands / music artists over 2 years ago
Porcupine Tree
Rush
Red Hot Chili Peppers (first 4)
Yes
Immortal Technique
Iron Maiden
Millencolin
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Dream Theater
Jaco Pastorius/Weather Report
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Worst movie to watch on a first date over 2 years ago
Pink Flamingos
Visitor Q
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Roger Ebert/ Worst Critic EVER! over 2 years ago
I like Roger very much. And I’m totally next to him when he defend the 4 star system and relative comparison between movie. I think it’s much more clever that way.
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Up in the Air (2009) over 2 years ago
I love the film, but a lot less than any other critics who praised him as best movie of the year. As its moment and refreshing, but it clearly don’t make a 2009 top ten for me.
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Well, what Criterion DVDs did you get for Christmas? over 2 years ago
Got Fellini’S 8 1/2 and Kassovitz’s La Haine!
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(Temporary) Film database submission mechanism over 2 years ago
The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Director : Denys Arcand
Cast : Dominique Michel, Louise Portal, Remi Girard, Pierre Curzi, Yves Jacques
Screenwriter : Denys Arcand
Producer : Denise Robert
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/images/bizphotos/435×290/200902/06/46052.jpg
A rousing “he said/she said” endeavor, The Decline of the American Empire begins by separating the boys from the girls. Preparing a gourmet dinner, four male intellectuals begin trading stories of their sexual experiences. At the same time, four well-read women, all working out in a gym, exchange their own tales from the love front. The film is set in the lofty circles of academia, a world well known to Canadian director Denys Arcand. The anecdotes related herein are based on actual events in the lives of Arcand’s professorial friends. There’s nothing bookish, however, about the subject matter of the stories themselves, which ranges from mild philandering to S & M. The Decline of the American Empire was the winner of eight Canadian Genie awards (that’s the above-the-border equivalent of the Oscar), including Best Picture.
http://www.allmovie.com/work/the-decline-of-the-american-empire-13020
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Soderbergh's Decade over 2 years ago
I respect him very much. He isn’T my favorite director of the decade or close, but he deserve recognition. Having made an 4h30 biopic about Che Guevara that made him probably 12000$ in the Us, with a indie no-budbet gem like Girlfriend Experience and a pretty decent mainstream movie (the informant) show us how he stick to his opinions and style. He has done this since he started from sex lies to ocean’s series, with traffic, bubble or erin.
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Movies Teenagers Should Watch over 2 years ago
I’d go with :
KIDS
North by Northwest
Sanjuro
La Haine
Goodfellas
Au Revoir les Enfants
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What was the best decade for film? 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, or our present decade? over 2 years ago
I think it is 60s hands down…. Just look at the work of Godard, Bergman, Truffaut, Fellini, Antonioni, Polanski, Kurosawa, Malle and a lot more…. Cinema was brutally transforming!
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