I don’t get why people said United 93 was masochistic!
It was cinéma-verité at it’s naked principles.It’s also like calling Lilja 4-Ever,Bresson films or The Dardenne’s flicks masochistic.
My favorite masochistic films are Irreversible,I Stand Alone,Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom,Teorema,Sex and Fury or some Fulci films.I also admire Russ Meyers features and Shaw Bros.
I would say Von Trier’s filmography goes beyond masochism,into the core of the “good vs. evil” question/dilemma.Anti-Christ illustrates masochism perfectly,yet I haven’t seen it yet.It’s 1 on my priority list of must-sees.
Spielberg -Empire of the Sun
Mann -Thief
Gilliam – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fincher – Zodiac or The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Scorsese -Alice doesn’t Live Here Anymore or King of Comedy
Coppola -The Conversation
De Palma -The Casualties of War or Blow Out
Tarantino -Jackie Brown or Death Proof
Coens – Miller’s Crossing or Raising Arizona or even The Big Lebowski
P.T.Anderson -Magnolia
Demme – Rachel Getting Married or Neil Young:Heart of Gold
Cassavetes – Everything he has ever made,from Shadows to Love Streams,but if I should pick one, Opening Night
Reiner – This is Spinal Tap
Penny Marshall – Fuck Penny Marshall
Eastwood – Dirty Harry or Bird
Cameron -The Abyss or Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Wes Anderson – Rushmore or The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Jarmusch – Night on Earth or Dead Man
Bay – The Rock or The Island
D.G. Green – George Washington or All The Real Girls
Huston – The Asphalt Jungle or Fat City
Ivan Reitman -Fuck Ivan Reitman
Lumet – Network
Burton -Edward ScissorHands or Sweeney Todd
How would you dare call David Gordon Green,John Cassaveyes,Jim Jarmusch or Wes Anderson Hollywood directors?
This shows arrogance towards American cinema,for is it all glitz and money to you.
Ken Loach’s Kes
Practicaly every Errol Morris documentary
Chris Marker’s whole filmography including Sans Soleil
Mike Leigh’s Naked and Secret and Lies
Gus Van Sant’s Elepehant,Last Days and Gerry
Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice and Nostalghia
Lukas Moodysson’s Lilja 4-Ever
Shuji Terayama’s Throw Away your Books,Rallye in the Streets!
Alan Clarcke’s Elephant and Scum
The Dardennes’s Rosetta,L’Enfant or La Promesse
Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket,Au Hasard Balthazar and Journal d’un Curé de Campagne
Yasujiro Ozu’s filmography
Every single Cassavetes feature
Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence,Winter Light,Through a Glass Darkly,Cries and Whispers or Wild Strawberries
Werner Herzog’s Even Dwarves Started Small and Stroszek
Nagisa Oshima’s Furyo(Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
Philippe Garrel’s La Cicatrice Interieure and J’entends plus la Guitare
Jean Renoir’s whole filmography
Films that should be re-issued:
Ivan’s Childhood
Shock Corridor
Naked Lunch
Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus Trilogy
Cries and Whispers
Dreyer’s Ordet/Days of Wrath/Gertrud
Andrei Rublev
Winter Light
3 Women
La Strada
Films that should have a Criterion release:
Night of the Hunter
City of Women
Lilli Marleen
Throw away your Books,Rallye in the Streets!
Passion
Every single Philippe Garrel feature
Ebert’s Essential Movie list is the best in the US.
Still,he needs to open up to European and Asian cinema more.And his love for Fellini makes me mad sometimes.
André Bazin
Jacques Rivette
Mia Hansen-Love
Nicolas Schaller
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Michel Frodon are the French critics I admire.
Roger Ebert
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Graham Fuller are my favorite US critics.
I quite hate Veronique Le Bris,François Truffaut,Pauline Kael and especially Leonard Maltin.
Soderbergh’s projects are arrogant.They intend on having the critics on his side,when he knows he’s got the public after the succesful Ocean’s series.His only good films were his early ones: sex,lies and videotape,Schizopolis(which is masterful) and The Limey.
Fuck The Girlfriend Experience, it’s arty bullshit.It’s like having Darren Aronovsky direct a Winter Light remake.
The Mother and the Whore was hated by critics when it first came out.
And stop saying it’s pretentious, just because you didn’t understand it doesn’t mean you have to spit on the pseudo-intellectual concept.
Quentin Tarantino is one of the most overrated film directors of all times.
But his Death Proof is excellent.And with Jackie Brown,the only film I liked by him.
I think it would’ve been Luchino Visconti’s The Stranger(Less classicism,more avant-garde), Todd Hayne’s Poison(Even more weird than it is) or even Gus Van Sant’s Gerry(I would’ve used more existencial dialogue and color filters, New Wave style).
The American Friend is superior to Alice in the Cities,Paris Texas or even King of the Road.His masterpiece is undeniably Wings of Desire, but Wim Wenders isn’t a master filmmaker because he didn’t influence film directors or cinema students in any way, probably because he was too influenced himself by others.Some of his documentaries such as Room 666 or Nick’s Movie(Lightning Over Water) are masterpieces, so I guess I would call him a master documentarist like Errol Morris,Marcel Ophuls,Raymond Depardon or Werner Herzog(who’s much more than that actually),
The kid’s operesque singing during The Cook,The Thief,His Wife and Her Lover still haunts.I also love the use of Rammestein’s Mein Herz Brennt in the Lilya 4-Ever and Jess Franco’s sarcastic melanges in Venus in Fur and Vampiros Lesbos.
Jim Jarmusch,Wes Anderson and P.T. Anderson have excellent taste in music,and they showcase it in their films.Aimee Mann’s Save Me is great in Magnolia,so is practically any song in The Royal Tenenbaums and Coffee and Cigarettes,Dead Man or even Broken Flowers.
I’m not a big fan of scores,even though I would say my favorite composers are somewhere between Philipp Glass and Yann Tiersen.I find the whole John Williams-Danny Elfman-Ennio Morricone style to be quite annoying at times.Air were great when composing the less interesting movie of Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides.Godard used excellent music in Contempt and Made in the U.S.A. while Rivette made history with the score of his La Belle Noiseuse or Va Savoir.I also love Carlos Reygadas’ and Stanley Kubrick’s classical use of music.
Werner Herzog’s genius was mostly showcased in Woyzeck,Stroszek,Cobra Verde,Even Dwarfs Started Small,Fata Morgana and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.
He’s an excellent documentarist and a great filmmaker: His studies on male psychota have been influent till now and his character portrayals have been compared to Bergman’s and Bresson’s, even though they showcase ‘different’ persons on the ‘sane’ level.
I would say Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern and François Truffaut’s Les 400 Coups.
Also, Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II and Tarantino’s Jackie Brown/Death Proof.
Denys Arcand,Atom Egoyan,David Cronenberg,Andre Corrivaux,Kevin Doherty and Guy Maddin are all extraordinary filmmakers.
My top 5 Canadian films would go like this:
1.Exotica-Atom Egoyan
2.The Naked Lunch-David Cronenberg
3.Twilight of the Ice Nymphs-Guy Maddin
4.Jesus of Montreal-Denys Arcand
5.Deux Femmes en Or-Claude Fournier
I also love C.R.A.Z.Y. and Black Bridges quite a lot.
Berlin Alexandreplatz might be the longest movie I have seen, but not the longest movie I’ve ever sat through, because I have seen it in three parts, as well as Satantango(two parts).The longest films I’ve ever sat through were The Mother and The Whore,Yi Yi and Celine and Julie Go Boating.
The Devils-Ken Russell
Naked-Mike Leigh
Black Narcissus-Michael Powell and Emmerich Pressburger
Made in Britain-Alan Clarke
Looks and Smiles-Ken Loach
Performance-Nicolas Roeg
Distant Voices,Still Lives-Terence Davies
Jubilee-Derek Jarman
Blow Up-Michelangelo Antonioni
Late Ozu is the greatest of them all, followed by the Delirious Fictions of William Klein and and the new Eclipse, Dusan Makvejev’s Free Radical.I don’t like Rossellini’s set nor Mizoguchi’s.Early Bergman is very interesting, so is Kaurismaki’s trilogy and the Nikkatsu Noir.
Gena Rowland-A Woman Under the Influence and Opening Night
Taraji P.Henson-Hustle and Flow
Jack Nicholson and Maria Schreider-The Passenger
Ben Gazzara-The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Susanne Lothar-Funny Games
James Darren-Venus in Furs
Oksana Akinshina-Lilya 4-Ever
Jen Seberg-Les Hautes Solitudes
Eric Bogosian-Talk Radio
Samantha Eggar-The Brood
Willem Dafoe-To Live and Die in L.A. and The Last Temptation of the Christ
Isabelle Adjani-Possession
Diego Luna and Samantha Morton-Mister Lonely
Luis Migeul Cintra-The Cannibals(Os Canibais)
Anatoly Solonitsyn-Andrei Rublev
Nico-La Cicatrice Interieure
Monica Vitti-The Red Desert and L’Avventura
Laura Dern-Inland Empire and Wild at Heart
Michel Picolli-La Plage Noire
Robert Mitchum-Out of the Past
Jacques Dutronc-The Important Is To Love
Robert De Niro-King of Comedy
Sam Neil-In The Mouth of Madness
Isabelle Huppert-Sauve Qui Peut(La Vie)
Not talking enough about each one of these performances is a crime in itself.
Lucrecia Martel,Tsai Ming-Liang,Shuji Terayama,Apichtong Weerastakhul,Theo Angelopoulos,Werner Herzog,Alejandro Jodorowsky,Philippe Garrel,Marguerite Duras,Jean Eustache(The Mother and the Whore is crying for a Criterion release),Yoshishige Yoshida,Luc Moullet,Jacques Rivette,Emir Kusturica,Danielle Arbid,Sergei Paradjanov etc.
Zhang Yimou is mediocre because of his classic choices of narration,story-telling and shots.He’s uninteresting,uninspiring, and largely passive.A bad copy of Tsui Hark,I shall say.
Truffaut is a film director I always hated: His style and ways aren’t close at all to the spirit of the Nouvelle Vague.In fact,his ideology/ideas in his films is largely based on pleasing crowds.He never made a truly challenging psychological film, they all barely scratch the surface.
Les 400 Coups is the only film of his I enjoyed.
Tarantino is a stealer,not a film director.He never had an original idea and he’s better at recycling than filming, while I find Raimi’s career to be quite mediocre after the Evil Dead series: The Gift,The Quick and the Dead,Spider-Man…All crap to me,except for,maybe,Drag Me to Hell.
Are you a masochistic film lover? almost 3 years ago
I don’t get why people said United 93 was masochistic!
It was cinéma-verité at it’s naked principles.It’s also like calling Lilja 4-Ever,Bresson films or The Dardenne’s flicks masochistic.
My favorite masochistic films are Irreversible,I Stand Alone,Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom,Teorema,Sex and Fury or some Fulci films.I also admire Russ Meyers features and Shaw Bros.
I would say Von Trier’s filmography goes beyond masochism,into the core of the “good vs. evil” question/dilemma.Anti-Christ illustrates masochism perfectly,yet I haven’t seen it yet.It’s 1 on my priority list of must-sees.
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Best Film by Each of These Directors: Hollywood Style almost 3 years ago
Spielberg -Empire of the Sun
Mann -Thief
Gilliam – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fincher – Zodiac or The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Scorsese -Alice doesn’t Live Here Anymore or King of Comedy
Coppola -The Conversation
De Palma -The Casualties of War or Blow Out
Tarantino -Jackie Brown or Death Proof
Coens – Miller’s Crossing or Raising Arizona or even The Big Lebowski
P.T.Anderson -Magnolia
Demme – Rachel Getting Married or Neil Young:Heart of Gold
Cassavetes – Everything he has ever made,from Shadows to Love Streams,but if I should pick one, Opening Night
Reiner – This is Spinal Tap
Penny Marshall – Fuck Penny Marshall
Eastwood – Dirty Harry or Bird
Cameron -The Abyss or Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Wes Anderson – Rushmore or The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Jarmusch – Night on Earth or Dead Man
Bay – The Rock or The Island
D.G. Green – George Washington or All The Real Girls
Huston – The Asphalt Jungle or Fat City
Ivan Reitman -Fuck Ivan Reitman
Lumet – Network
Burton -Edward ScissorHands or Sweeney Todd
How would you dare call David Gordon Green,John Cassaveyes,Jim Jarmusch or Wes Anderson Hollywood directors?
This shows arrogance towards American cinema,for is it all glitz and money to you.
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Films for a better world almost 3 years ago
Ken Loach’s Kes
Practicaly every Errol Morris documentary
Chris Marker’s whole filmography including Sans Soleil
Mike Leigh’s Naked and Secret and Lies
Gus Van Sant’s Elepehant,Last Days and Gerry
Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice and Nostalghia
Lukas Moodysson’s Lilja 4-Ever
Shuji Terayama’s Throw Away your Books,Rallye in the Streets!
Alan Clarcke’s Elephant and Scum
The Dardennes’s Rosetta,L’Enfant or La Promesse
Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket,Au Hasard Balthazar and Journal d’un Curé de Campagne
Yasujiro Ozu’s filmography
Every single Cassavetes feature
Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence,Winter Light,Through a Glass Darkly,Cries and Whispers or Wild Strawberries
Werner Herzog’s Even Dwarves Started Small and Stroszek
Nagisa Oshima’s Furyo(Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
Philippe Garrel’s La Cicatrice Interieure and J’entends plus la Guitare
Jean Renoir’s whole filmography
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what titles does criterion nees to re-issue? almost 3 years ago
Films that should be re-issued:
Ivan’s Childhood
Shock Corridor
Naked Lunch
Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus Trilogy
Cries and Whispers
Dreyer’s Ordet/Days of Wrath/Gertrud
Andrei Rublev
Winter Light
3 Women
La Strada
Films that should have a Criterion release:
Night of the Hunter
City of Women
Lilli Marleen
Throw away your Books,Rallye in the Streets!
Passion
Every single Philippe Garrel feature
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what did you watch today? almost 3 years ago
I have just seen Leigh’s “Happy-Go-Lucky”.
I quite adored it.Also, Pedro Costa’s “Colossal Youth”.Simply colossal.
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Roger Ebert responds to people calling him 'Out of Touch' almost 3 years ago
Ebert’s Essential Movie list is the best in the US.
Still,he needs to open up to European and Asian cinema more.And his love for Fellini makes me mad sometimes.
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3 Favourite Movies From 5 Favourite Directors almost 3 years ago
It is difficult to choose only five, so here’s ten.
Philippe Garrel:
1.Les Hautes Solitudes
2.I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
3.Elle a Passée Tant D’heures Sous les Sunlights
John Cassavetes:
1.Opening Night
2.Faces
3.Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Andrei Tarkovsky:
1.The Mirror(Zerkalo)
2.Nostalghia
3.Andrei Rublev
Shuji Terayama:
1.Grass Labyrinth
2.Throw Away Your Books,Rallye in the Streets
3.Fruit of Passion
Carlos Reygadas:
1.Silent Light
2.Battle in Heaven
3.Japòn
Jean-Luc Godard:
1.Sauve Qui Peut(La Vie)
2.Je Vous Salue Marie
3.Notre Musique
Tsai Ming-Liang:
1.Rebels of the Neon God
2.The River
3.What Time is it There?
Michelangelo Antonioni:
1.The Red Desert
2.L’Avventura
3.The Passenger
Kiju Yoshida:
1.Eroica Purgatory
2.Aveux,Theories,Actrices
3.Eros+Massacre
Kenneth Anger:
1.Eaux D’artifices
2.Lucifer Rising
3.Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
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Which Film Critics Do You Read? almost 3 years ago
André Bazin
Jacques Rivette
Mia Hansen-Love
Nicolas Schaller
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Michel Frodon are the French critics I admire.
Roger Ebert
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Graham Fuller are my favorite US critics.
I quite hate Veronique Le Bris,François Truffaut,Pauline Kael and especially Leonard Maltin.
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Arty for the Sake of Being Arty – The Girlfriend Experience, and Film Narrative vs. Technique almost 3 years ago
Soderbergh’s projects are arrogant.They intend on having the critics on his side,when he knows he’s got the public after the succesful Ocean’s series.His only good films were his early ones: sex,lies and videotape,Schizopolis(which is masterful) and The Limey.
Fuck The Girlfriend Experience, it’s arty bullshit.It’s like having Darren Aronovsky direct a Winter Light remake.
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La maman et la putain. Ou, comment les cahiers du cinéma dirigent le "petit monde" pour créer de grands intellos... almost 3 years ago
The Mother and the Whore was hated by critics when it first came out.
And stop saying it’s pretentious, just because you didn’t understand it doesn’t mean you have to spit on the pseudo-intellectual concept.
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So what is your favorite QT? (please don't turn this into a fanboy thing, it's not) almost 3 years ago
Quentin Tarantino is one of the most overrated film directors of all times.
But his Death Proof is excellent.And with Jackie Brown,the only film I liked by him.
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What boxsets would you like to see the criterion release? almost 3 years ago
Some Shuji Terayama
Kenneth Anger or Maya Dern’s shorts and Morissey/Warhol’s trilogy with D’Allessandro(Trash/Heat/Flesh)
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The Auteurs' Fake Criterion Covers over 2 years ago
Did mine appear? I’m very new to this
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movies you think you have directed better ? over 2 years ago
I think it would’ve been Luchino Visconti’s The Stranger(Less classicism,more avant-garde), Todd Hayne’s Poison(Even more weird than it is) or even Gus Van Sant’s Gerry(I would’ve used more existencial dialogue and color filters, New Wave style).
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Wim Wenders a master Director ?!? over 2 years ago
The American Friend is superior to Alice in the Cities,Paris Texas or even King of the Road.His masterpiece is undeniably Wings of Desire, but Wim Wenders isn’t a master filmmaker because he didn’t influence film directors or cinema students in any way, probably because he was too influenced himself by others.Some of his documentaries such as Room 666 or Nick’s Movie(Lightning Over Water) are masterpieces, so I guess I would call him a master documentarist like Errol Morris,Marcel Ophuls,Raymond Depardon or Werner Herzog(who’s much more than that actually),
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The Auteurs' Fake Criterion Covers over 2 years ago
Aaahh I can’t do this…
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GREAT USE OF MUSIC IN FILMS over 2 years ago
The kid’s operesque singing during The Cook,The Thief,His Wife and Her Lover still haunts.I also love the use of Rammestein’s Mein Herz Brennt in the Lilya 4-Ever and Jess Franco’s sarcastic melanges in Venus in Fur and Vampiros Lesbos.
Jim Jarmusch,Wes Anderson and P.T. Anderson have excellent taste in music,and they showcase it in their films.Aimee Mann’s Save Me is great in Magnolia,so is practically any song in The Royal Tenenbaums and Coffee and Cigarettes,Dead Man or even Broken Flowers.
I’m not a big fan of scores,even though I would say my favorite composers are somewhere between Philipp Glass and Yann Tiersen.I find the whole John Williams-Danny Elfman-Ennio Morricone style to be quite annoying at times.Air were great when composing the less interesting movie of Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides.Godard used excellent music in Contempt and Made in the U.S.A. while Rivette made history with the score of his La Belle Noiseuse or Va Savoir.I also love Carlos Reygadas’ and Stanley Kubrick’s classical use of music.
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I can't get into Werner Herzog over 2 years ago
Werner Herzog’s genius was mostly showcased in Woyzeck,Stroszek,Cobra Verde,Even Dwarfs Started Small,Fata Morgana and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.
He’s an excellent documentarist and a great filmmaker: His studies on male psychota have been influent till now and his character portrayals have been compared to Bergman’s and Bresson’s, even though they showcase ‘different’ persons on the ‘sane’ level.
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Masterpieces By Mediocre Directors over 2 years ago
I would say Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern and François Truffaut’s Les 400 Coups.
Also, Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II and Tarantino’s Jackie Brown/Death Proof.
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WHICH DIRECTOR WOULD YOU WANT AS YOUR shrink? over 2 years ago
John Cassavetes,Philippe Garrel or Yoshishige Yoshida.
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The Best Canadian Films of all time? over 2 years ago
Denys Arcand,Atom Egoyan,David Cronenberg,Andre Corrivaux,Kevin Doherty and Guy Maddin are all extraordinary filmmakers.
My top 5 Canadian films would go like this:
1.Exotica-Atom Egoyan
2.The Naked Lunch-David Cronenberg
3.Twilight of the Ice Nymphs-Guy Maddin
4.Jesus of Montreal-Denys Arcand
5.Deux Femmes en Or-Claude Fournier
I also love C.R.A.Z.Y. and Black Bridges quite a lot.
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The longest movie you've ever sat through over 2 years ago
Berlin Alexandreplatz might be the longest movie I have seen, but not the longest movie I’ve ever sat through, because I have seen it in three parts, as well as Satantango(two parts).The longest films I’ve ever sat through were The Mother and The Whore,Yi Yi and Celine and Julie Go Boating.
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Does anyone know where i can find an english translation of Truffaut's essay "le cinema francais creve sous les fausses legendes" online? over 2 years ago
www.sightsandimages.blogspot.com.It’s the first thread,July 2009.
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Best British Film over 2 years ago
The Devils-Ken Russell
Naked-Mike Leigh
Black Narcissus-Michael Powell and Emmerich Pressburger
Made in Britain-Alan Clarke
Looks and Smiles-Ken Loach
Performance-Nicolas Roeg
Distant Voices,Still Lives-Terence Davies
Jubilee-Derek Jarman
Blow Up-Michelangelo Antonioni
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Best Eclipse Series so far over 2 years ago
Late Ozu is the greatest of them all, followed by the Delirious Fictions of William Klein and and the new Eclipse, Dusan Makvejev’s Free Radical.I don’t like Rossellini’s set nor Mizoguchi’s.Early Bergman is very interesting, so is Kaurismaki’s trilogy and the Nikkatsu Noir.
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Great performances that hardly ever get discussed over 2 years ago
Gena Rowland-A Woman Under the Influence and Opening Night
Taraji P.Henson-Hustle and Flow
Jack Nicholson and Maria Schreider-The Passenger
Ben Gazzara-The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Susanne Lothar-Funny Games
James Darren-Venus in Furs
Oksana Akinshina-Lilya 4-Ever
Jen Seberg-Les Hautes Solitudes
Eric Bogosian-Talk Radio
Samantha Eggar-The Brood
Willem Dafoe-To Live and Die in L.A. and The Last Temptation of the Christ
Isabelle Adjani-Possession
Diego Luna and Samantha Morton-Mister Lonely
Luis Migeul Cintra-The Cannibals(Os Canibais)
Anatoly Solonitsyn-Andrei Rublev
Nico-La Cicatrice Interieure
Monica Vitti-The Red Desert and L’Avventura
Laura Dern-Inland Empire and Wild at Heart
Michel Picolli-La Plage Noire
Robert Mitchum-Out of the Past
Jacques Dutronc-The Important Is To Love
Robert De Niro-King of Comedy
Sam Neil-In The Mouth of Madness
Isabelle Huppert-Sauve Qui Peut(La Vie)
Not talking enough about each one of these performances is a crime in itself.
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What's your favorite country (by cinematical standards) over 2 years ago
French Cinema and Japanese cinema have the most exciting list of film movements,critics and filmmakers.
They also have the best quality of films.
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GREEK CINEMA over 2 years ago
Theo Angelopoulos is the god of Greek cinema.
Contemplative at it’s best.
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WHICH DIRECTORS...NOT...CURRENTLY REPRESENTED IN THE CRITERION COLLECTION DO YOU WANT TO SEE INCLUDED? over 2 years ago
Lucrecia Martel,Tsai Ming-Liang,Shuji Terayama,Apichtong Weerastakhul,Theo Angelopoulos,Werner Herzog,Alejandro Jodorowsky,Philippe Garrel,Marguerite Duras,Jean Eustache(The Mother and the Whore is crying for a Criterion release),Yoshishige Yoshida,Luc Moullet,Jacques Rivette,Emir Kusturica,Danielle Arbid,Sergei Paradjanov etc.
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Masterpieces By Mediocre Directors over 2 years ago
Zhang Yimou is mediocre because of his classic choices of narration,story-telling and shots.He’s uninteresting,uninspiring, and largely passive.A bad copy of Tsui Hark,I shall say.
Truffaut is a film director I always hated: His style and ways aren’t close at all to the spirit of the Nouvelle Vague.In fact,his ideology/ideas in his films is largely based on pleasing crowds.He never made a truly challenging psychological film, they all barely scratch the surface.
Les 400 Coups is the only film of his I enjoyed.
Tarantino is a stealer,not a film director.He never had an original idea and he’s better at recycling than filming, while I find Raimi’s career to be quite mediocre after the Evil Dead series: The Gift,The Quick and the Dead,Spider-Man…All crap to me,except for,maybe,Drag Me to Hell.
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