postmodern suburban widow (or still married to a gay) gettin' some showdown poll: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS vs. FEAR EATS THE SOUL vs. FAR FROM HEAVEN

I haven't seen any of these, I don't think.

(Sorry for completely uninteresting post.)

Well, not Far From Heaven, obv.

(Sorry for completely uninteresting post.)

I know this poll isn't my best work ever, but I wouldn't call it a "completely uninteresting post" either.

My post! Not your post! To be honest I was only putting something to bump it for others. I do own Fear Eats the Soul in a Fassbinder boxset, actually.

(I was mocking myself for starting this poll.)

Voted All That Heaven Allows - my favourite Sirk, such beautiful autumnal colours, wonderful fifties decor/clothing and that hilarious scene with the brand new television set.

Watched Fear Eats the Soul fairly recently and found it a bit - obvious?

All That Heaven Allows is great but Fassbinder is my favourite director and Fear Eats the Soul was the first film of his that I saw and I would vote for it over just about anything. I've only ever seen about five minutes if Far from Heaven during the ad break of something I was watching on the other side, is it really that bad? I like Todd Haynes generally.

Missed thread title opportunity: Fear Eats the POLL!

POLL That Heaven Allows

Mod?

Fear Eats the Soul is currently avaliable in full on youtube if anyone is interested.

Rocker

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it's hard to poll a Haynes hommage against the Sirk original because without the Sirk, you wouldn't have the Haynes at all- cool curveball of including Fassbinder in here tho

shoulda called it Far From Interesting

cool curveball of including Fassbinder in here tho

The Fassbinder is also an homage to the Sirk, though. I voted for Fear. It's nowhere near my favorite Fassbinder, but Fassbinder is the best.

xp LOL

These are all beautiful. So i'll vote for none of em.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Sure, whatever.

i once watched Fear Eats the Soul with my rather conservative, not aesthetically adventurous parents--don't ask why i picked that movie--and found out a few weeks later that my dad was still consumed in thought over it, to the point of telling his golf buddies about it. so i retrospectively vote for that one.

They're all excellent.

(Rock reading Thoreau is, of course, hilarious, so FFH is a lil bit better)

FFH is basically the worst movie I've ever seen.

Just kidding, but it's fun to say it anyway.

I've realized lately you like being a silly provocateur. xo

Jane Wyman, c'est moi

http://hilarysdoubletake.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/tumblr_mjg8o9rlr01r4wvnko1_500.png?w=640

Except no one's holding your hand.

nurses, usually

FFH is basically the worst movie I've ever seen.

― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Monday, October 21, 2013 10:11 AM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just kidding, but it's fun to say it anyway.

― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.),

go watch some horror movies and put on Halloween costumes

I do one with gusto and the other never.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZTrOQL23XY&noredirect=1

Since we're bumping ... Double dip!

http://www.criterion.com/films/635-all-that-heaven-allows

http://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/release_boxshots/4256-a4dc49e0a808f9e157df537e07df3e7a/95_DF_box_348x490_original.jpg

Voted All That Heaven Allows - my favourite Sirk, such beautiful autumnal colours, wonderful fifties decor/clothing and that hilarious scene with the brand new television set.

Watched Fear Eats the Soul fairly recently and found it a bit - obvious?

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:41 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm! i always feel so alone in not really liking fear eats the soul. it felt so schematic, like once you 'get' the mirrored structure of the film and the point about racism and ignorance that there's nothing left to get out of it. except for that last scene in the hospital, which is one the best movie endings ever. so for that alone i guess i'd vote for it.

screening Saturday at Lincoln Center

All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk). 35mm. 1955. 89 min. 1:00 and 9:20 pm.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. 35mm. 1974. 93 min. 3:00 and 7:20 pm.
Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes). DCP. 2002. 107 min. 5:00 pm.

I just saw Far from Heaven again in a pristine 35mm print at MoMA. People were sniffling throughout the climactic conversation between Moore and Haysbert.

Haynes didn't get enough credit for making a pastiche of a very specific genre(/auteur) and also a triumphant example of same. It works on people who have no idea who Sirk is, eg, half of today's MoMA audience and ~95% of the 2003 Motion Picture Academy.

(ie if you detest it you are simply a monster)

I think I was AT this screening. (Only the second time I've seen it projected in 35mm after catching its original run in Illinois.)