The Time Out NY Film Alt-Canon

A lot (if not most) of these are arguably canon, but let's look past that, et al.

seen only 8 of those (Booky and Lyndon are high on the list)
but from what i've seen The Long Goodbye, it's been a long time but can only remember good things about it (the loneliness, the ending, the harmonica)

what is the premise of this arbitrary fish fry?

ya this is bizarre

how iconoclastic to propose that a STANLEY KUBRICK film be canonized!!

ye gods, The Delta

finally somebody speaking up for bresson - the snobs will be furious

I think they just mean filmmakers TONY readers have never heard of, Kubrick and Altman aside

and about four others.

jeez, I don't like The Color Purple

if tony readers haven't heard of altman, jonathan demme, spielberg and peckinpah, they got some splaining to do.

thank god someones willing to canonize killing of a chinese bookie

the canonizing of a chinese bookie

more like it

I don't get yr irony, max, compared to all that horseshit w/ Gena Rowlands

Bewildering sequence:

Starship Troopers (Verhoeven, 1997)
14. The Color Purple (Spielberg, 1985)
15. The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973)
16. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah, 1974)

what is the premise of this arbitrary fish fry?

there's a link at the top of the thread to the original piece

I know, I thought I'd save time

Something Wild, The Big Heat, Pauline at the Beach the only ones I'd watch this second.

also, isn't Mulholland Dr. going to top every '00s poll in December, except for maybe People and EW?

Seriousness would be indicated by nominating Rohmer's Le Rayon Vert instead of the frothy and crowd-pleasing Pauline.

I don't care much for distinguishing between Rohmer films, especially his eighties films.

the diff btwn the great and the good

i havent seen half of these but from what i have seen, im torn between 'videodrome' and 'long goodbye'.

sans soleil because why the hell not

Clicked this thinking Time Out NY Film Alt-Canon meant movies about or shot in New York. Frankly I like my idea better.

2 peckinpahs cuz he's that obscure

there's like 5 films i really love on this but i'm not going to choose because the list is retarded

http://www.tamfi.org/

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missed a few of these but i HAVE seen 'men in war' and 'secret defence', which they've included to look clever. fucking lame. 'secret defence' is boring even by rivette's standards. 'men in war' is ok but... zzz. if you want to go non-western mann do one of his noirs.

01. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975) - NOT VERY ALT TBQH
02. Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001) - "
03. Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983) - "
04. Hellzapoppin' (Potter, 1941) - "
05. Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990) - "
06. Pauline at the Beach (Rohmer, 1983) - probably shit; most 80s rohmer is
07. The Big Heat (Lang, 1953) - NOT VERY ALT TBQH
08. The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975) - YAWN
09. Something Wild (Demme, 1986) - is this alt? really? maybe it's... demi-alt
10. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Peckinpah, 1973) - blah
11. Looney Tunes: Back in Action (Dante, 2003) - idk what this is. you win, tony.
12. I Could Go On Singing (Neame, 1963) - "
13. Starship Troopers (Verhoeven, 1997) - fucking rubbish leaden "satire"
14. The Color Purple (Spielberg, 1985) - ... can think of less well-known and better films
15. The Long Goodbye (Altman, 1973) - NOT VERY ALT TBQH
16. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah, 1974) - NOT VERY ALT TBQH
17. Secret Defense (Rivette, 1998) - zzzzzzzzzzz
18. The Delta (Sachs, 1996) - idk what this is. you win, tony.
19. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes, 1976) - really amazingly bad and dull and not even alt
20. Men in War (A. Mann, 1957) - good but not the 20th best little-known film ever
21. Sans soleil (Marker, 1982) - fail. surely they meant to pick one of his out-of-distribution 50s/60s films? this is pretty weak anyway.
22. Yearning (Naruse, 1964) - idk what this is but probably should.
23. Mouchette (Bresson, 1967) - NOT VERY ALT TBQH
24. Platform (Jia, 2000) - terrible
25. The Ghost Ship (Lewton, 1943) - why the hell not

21. Sans soleil (Marker, 1982) - fail. surely they meant to pick one of his out-of-distribution 50s/60s films? this is pretty weak anyway.

NRQ?

Anyway, I vote Color Purple for being the most likely to rub this list's target audience the wrong way.

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