Emir Kusturika (classic says me)

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I loved the Time of the Gypsies/Underground and Black Cat White Cat and the Soundtracks are some of my favorites. Do you like? What else has he done, if anything. I can't get enough.

― H, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Our dog Paco loves the soudtrack to the Underground. It makes him spin in circles.

― Samantha, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It makes me spin in circles too! Kusturica was too-briefly discussed at the last meetup. All I've seen is "Underground" which I thought without precedent. Takes all "magic realism" crapola and takes it as a starting point, not just some pleasant frill on a wistful plot. I'll never forget the opening shot, Blackie and friend parading victoriously through town, a brass band trailing giddily behind them, Blackie shooting his gun in the air, friend drunkenly throwing money at the revellers.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK ARSE FUCK FUCK. Underground was on and Isabel and I forgot to video it and this thread has reminded me. FUCK.

Black Cat White Cat is one of my favourite films, anyway. This is I think one of the few times I actually stand up and disagree with expert Pete, who thought it was trite. I thought it was beautiful. And yeah after a lot of searching I found the soundtrack and gave it to Isabel Christmas before last. PITBULL! Terr-i-ah!

― Tom, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Awesome! Yes, the Band following Blackie around was definitely my favorite part of the film.

― Hank, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What I find weird, does anyone else read Black Cat / White Cat as a feel-good *remix* of Underground and ToTG?

I mean it has all the same scenes, just in a different order, and with a sort of happy rather than "everythings gonna turn out fucked" vibe.

― phil, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He created UNZA UNZA!!!

― Chupa-Cabras, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kusturica was discussed only briefly, Tracer, because me and Ramon are tired of talking about him. I have a cousin majoring in Eastern European Literature/Balkan Studies at Yale who dated a Serb once and has been obsessed since with Kusturica (she even speaks Serbo-Croatian!). The first half of Time of the Gypsies is good, first half of Underground is excellent, and Black Cat White Cat is charming and funny. Arizona Dream, w/Johnny Depp and Jerry Lewis talking to a fish, is terrible. I haven't seen Father Goes Away On Business. Kusturica did a good job acting in Widow of Ste. Pierre.

― Otis Wheeler, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Arizona Dream was brilliant. Vincent Gallo doing Cary Grant getting chased by the cropduster at the local talent show was so good it almost made me like him.

― Tracer hand, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emir Kusturica is God. GOD, I tell you.

If anyone has "Do you remember Dolly Bell?" on vid/DVD/8 track whatever, please let me know, it's the one I haven't seen.

New film..."The nose" apparently in pre-production, according to imdb.

― Tag, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

What is he up to?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

He is good, but...just a little overrated?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.osnabrueck-net.de/splitscreen/Bilder/Emir_Kusturica_The_Good_Thief1.gif

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

You enjoyed The Good Thief, didn't you? I thought it was good enough. As the only two Shield fans on this board, we must stick together.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah it was my favorite from '03.

We shall form an alliance.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I have an original SHIELD shooting script! maybe this is not exciting to you as you live in LA and work in television.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

dude Walton Goggins gets me coffee out here

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i need to see arizona dream again. i'm amazed that it got made. i don't actually recall liking it too much, though.

his new done really looks like "kusturica's grtst hits": absurd violence/farm animals/loud brassy music/lead characters with strange physionogmies (sp?)/in the midst of war and oppression. since i already was sort of wary of this around the time of black cat, white cat, i wonder what my reaction will be this time out. certainly it didn't make a big splash at the cannes festival.

i used to have a HUGE (like 5' x 6') poster for black cat, white cat on my wall (in boston). it was of the guy who is hung from the railway-crossing gate.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I like that poster.

I was not keen on Arizona Dream at all.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the good thief was him? i forgot i'd seen that. good movie! i hold out hope that when i'm a 50 year old romantic derelict i'll find a russian waif with a daddy complex too...

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the good thief was neil jordan!! you'd know a kusturica film when you saw one (for better and for worse).

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"Underground" improved a lot on a second viewing but I've long equated his style with the kind of cutesy quality that reminds me of my aversion to Fellini.
I liked "Arizona Dream" when I saw it when it was 1st released on video. I did think it was overlong. This was before I got way into Jerry Lewis though so I should probably see it again. I'm glad this thread reminded me of that film's existence.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

he's totally felliniesque exc. with more filmmaking energy than all but a few fellini films.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Kino Lorber has put out Underground (incl the longer TV cut on the DVDs)

https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/underground

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 20:20 (eight years ago)

Released on DVD/Blu-Ray by the BFI in 2016 (also w/ the TV version.) Here's an intriguing list of other films from the Balkans:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/10-great-films-balkans

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 12:30 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

on Arizona Dream

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/present-tense-arizona-dream/

This appears to be the original cut (7 minutes short, but I understand that uploads are sometimes sped up):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btWgL0zv1Ok

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:06 (five years ago)

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