movies i wannna watch (again) - whats your favourite?

(maybe i should have left Cache out, cause it will probably win as a default)

We have a 10-80 out here, a truck on fire, we have a man on the lift. We are unable to find the switch to turn the lift off, can't stop the dancing chickens. Send an electrician, we're standing by.

herzog?

ya, stroszek

I'd probably go for Aguirre

Aguirre

In fact this is the only one of these I want to watch again.

Strange list: lots of shootouts, sex, capers, and one-liners.

Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, I guess. Maybe Pickpocket.

Skip all of 'em and watch Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights instead.

"Strange list: lots of shootouts, sex, capers, and one-liners"

?!

are you kidding?
a terrible movie.
the original Swayze one is so much better
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Stroszek

are you kidding?

Possibly.

aguirre,wrath of god

or write in:

Clash of the Titans

Ha -- I was joking (xxxpost)

It's not a very...fun list.

Couldn't be bothered finishing 'Cache'. It bites. (And decapitates.)

I really want to see Werckmeister Harmonies, and can't find the DVD at Blockbuster.

The artsy movie I can watch over and over again is Killer of Sheep.

Aguirre to me is just really accessible and endlessly watcheable. I suppose it is very bleak, but even when the existential dread doesn't jive with you the landscapes do. And there's just something utterly awe inspiring about a world where diferent civilizations were still making first contact, you know?

I liked Pickpocket a lot too even though I'm not entirely sure I "got" it; Fear Eats The Soul is one of the less obnoxious Fassbinder films I've seen and Magnificent Obsession is just fucking weird, that speech about insulation and all. Haven't seen the others.

"It's not a very...fun list."

the Sirk movie is fun, depends how you look at it (as a grotesque,extreme molodrama that is)
so is Strosek,in parts...

Aguirre has Klaus Kinski and monkeys = endlessly watchable.

I love Werkmeister Harmonies, but I don't think I ever would've make it all the way through on dvd.

have to say i really want to see Sirk' Tarnished Angels (best Faulkner adaptation ever,so does the man himself said,and arguabky Sirk best movie,though i'd choose Written In The Wind) but it's difficult to find

yeah,it's def. a theatre-only movie.
so much is lost in dvd

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"Aguirre has Klaus Kinski and monkeys = endlessly watchable."
"Strosek has Bruno S. and chickens = endlessly watchable."

:)

Werckmeister and Stalker are both really slow ... they're total recovering from dental surgery movies.

"liked Pickpocket a lot too even though I'm not entirely sure I "got" it"

Pickpocket is one if Bresson finest excercise in accurate,minimalist, movie making,where action has the same meaning as word (or even more).
as always, it deals with issues of moral and faith in modern world.
the hero, is an existentialist character, in the style of Cammus "The Stranger" - a strong individual,who tries to create his own philosophy in a post WW2 world where all old philosophies had failed.
he tries to justify his "sin" (pickpocketing) throughout the movie, but---spoiler--- only in the end he understands that you can't live happily without love and compession.

i watched stroszek for the second time recently and enjoyed it way more than the first. herzog commentary track is also great.

Obviously the Herzogs will win, but I put my vote to the other new German cinema guy.

(maybe i should have left Cache out, cause it will probably win as a default)

What? Haven't seen "Fear Eats the Soul" in a while, so that

what i meant is that i think it will win, cause it's the most popular in my list, plus it's great.haneke only great movie imo.(didnt see the latest winner of Cannes of course)

cinema guy or gay?
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Stroszek is my favourite on that list, then Stalker. I might have to see Magnificent Obsession, i think I only saw 1 Sirk (Imitation of Life) (which is pretty good)

cinema guy or gay?

both?

(didn't know herzog was gay, though; bet he'd give great pillow talk)

i can't believe i have Cache rated as a 7/10 on imdb, right now i am thinking it starts awesome and creepy, but then gets boring. (but i hate downrating it's unfair!)

he meant Fassbinder...
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"Your laahv hass aoupened ahp a warled ahf advenshore and excitmaent."

btw,whats new with the david lynch/herzog project?
a justified collabration.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cannes_film_festival_2008/news/1728190/cannes_2008_david_lynch_and_werner_herzog_plan_horror_film

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