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Continuing from Random 10: Random Films for Comment - Week 11

290. Anne Trister, 1986 (dir. Lea Pool)
229. Amistad, 1997 (dir. Steven Spielberg)
575. La bete humaine, 1938 (dir. Jean Renoir)
2363. King Lear, 1971 (dir. Peter Brook)
2365. The King of Comedy, 1983 (dir. Martin Scorsese)
4665. Witness for the Prosecution, 1957 (dir. Billy Wilder)
1709. From the Clouds to the Resistance, 1979 (dir. Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet)
2396. Kochiyama soshun, 1936 (dir. Sadao Yamanaka)
1470. Eternity and a Day, 1998 (dir. Theo Angelopoulos)
1651. Forbidden Fruit, 1952 (dir. Henri Verneuil)

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Funnily enough, Kochiyama soshun ended up making both lists this week. Nice coincidence.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 31 October 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Like all Spielberg films, Amistad is intermitently gripping and technically superb. And like almost all Spielberg films it throws away all the good will it's fostered with an ending of supreme mawkishness.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 31 October 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Eternity and a Day - extremely slow and eloborate shots, as par for the course with Angelopoulos. It's somewhat intriguing, but there are times when you just want to fall asleep. Luckily, the great moments tend to cancel that out. The whole film is haunted with a ghostly air which transcends description. Three and a half stars out of five, only because the perfection is lined with the insufferably plodding. Angelopoulos wouldn't care, though.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 31 October 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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Random 10: Random Films for Comment - Week 12