Continuing from
Random 10: Random Films for Comment - Week 6 (and what happened to Week 5?)2656. Ludwig's Cook, 1973 (dir. Hans-Jurgen Syberberg)
2799. Medea, 1969 (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)
1859. The Grand Maneuver, 1955 (dir. Rene Clair)
2712. Man Facing Southeast, 1986 (dir. Eliseo Subiela)
173. All Fall Down, 1962 (dir. John Frankenheimer)
1023. Cologne, 1939 (dir. Esther and Raymond Dowidat)
3295. A Phantasy, 1952 (dir. Norman McLaren)
3799. Shivers, 1975 (dir. David Cronenberg)
3604. A Room in Town, 1982 (dir. Jacques Demy)
1589. Fire Over England, 1937 (dir. William K. Howard)
Eh. Another 10!
2359. Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949 (dir. Robert Hamer)
3485. Reap the Wild Wind, 1942 (dir. Cecil B. DeMille)
647. Black Sin, 1989 (dir. Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet)
2252. J'Accuse, 1938 (dir. Abel Gance)
3580. Rocco and His Brothers, 1960 (dir. Luchino Visconti)
216. American Beauty, 1999 (dir. Sam Mendes)
1931. Hands Across the Table, 1935 (dir. Mitchell Leisen)
2554. The Little Island, 1958 (dir. Richard Williams)
3288. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, 1995 (dir. Martin Scorsese and Michael Henry Wilson)
4523. Walkabout, 1971 (dir. Nicolas Roeg)
Bettah!
The ILF Edition
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 26 September 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago)
I have seen two of these, girolamo. 'medea' and 'american beauty'. medea is...
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 26 September 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago)
Gah! I fucked up the formatting for both ILE and ILF editions this week. Damned close italics tag!
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 26 September 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago)
Recently saw
Kind Hearts and Coronets. It's a wonderful, dark Ealing comedy about class and murder. And any film that has Alec Guiness in seven? eight? roles is automatically great. I recently tried to book this for my film school, but it got pushed out by other scheduling priorities. In any case, if Doug Slocombe is still alive, I'm definitely gonna bring this 'um in soon.
I saw American Beauty in a sneak preview screening at my college the first week of freshman year. Everyone loved it, which I later found out happens there NEVER. (At least for the sneak previews). Despite what everyone says, I think it totally is great and deserved every award it got at the Oscars that year. In many ways I hate watching it b/c sometimes it hits a bit too close for home regarding my family life, which I like to think hovers between this film and (on a lighter note) Malcolm in the Middle.
A Personal Journey with... is a required viewing if you need to reinvigorate yourself into watching films, but unfortunately it suffers from the inevitable "I'm Martin Scorsese and I love films!" self-promotion that I fucking hate. Scorsese, Bogdanovich, et al - please stop trying to outshine each other. If you're an accomplished painter, you're expected to have some deep knowledge of art history - those guys don't spend time trying to show up their love for and knowledge of art, right? Why do film guys get this "my dick is bigger than yours" competitiveness for film? I'm happy about the byproducts of this, but as I've said before, when Quentin Tarantino's name appears on a Chungking Express VHS box bigger than Wong Kar-wai, maybe it's time to be a less conspicuous fanatic...
Walkabout is classic Roeg. It's a shame that many people only take note of it (or at least do so initially) b/c of the nude Agutter scene, but I think that this film is a great film to show to people who "don't like arty films". Gulpilil never gets enough props here either. Modern life as a wasteland.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 26 September 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago)
i saw shivers agian recently and i thikn the non-infected people are the bad guys in this movie. the parasites are all about free love and snogging and they kill only in self defense. whereas most of the normal people are cold and brutal and fukced in the head. the film is prety much the anti-bodysnathcers. i wonder if it was concieved that way.
― :| (....), Sunday, 26 September 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago)