A thread for recommending films to our fellow ILFers, based on individual tastes

Hell, might as well just own up:
http://www.criterionco.com/asp/connections.asp?id=40

Here's some more:

Skipped Parts
Fucking Åmål (or Show Me Love for you English-speakers)
Donnie Darko
Glory Daze
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

I'm not sure whether you'd like them, however, since none of them are particularly cheesy, they're mostly good films. Still, Fucking Åmål must be the best coming-of-age-in-a-small-town, finding-your-(homo)sexual-identity flick I've ever seen.

That, and it's second-nature to recommend it with Dazed and Confused.

And it's good to see Glory Daze get some love. Chris Moore in the house!

At first I thought that was a fake until I realized that his latest film is about Castro.

http://www.wga.org/WrittenBy/1000/stone1.JPG

One of the two oft-cited Oliver Stone in Vietnam pics.

chris marker - sans soleil
aoyama shinji - eureka
pj hogan - muriel's wedding
todd haynes - superstar
blake edwards - experiment in terror

recommend away (pref. on DVD).

John Waters - Cecil B. Demented

Any Atom Egoyan film that you haven't already seen?

First go here:
http://www.savonarolamustburn.com/Movie%20List.xls

As it's a spreadsheet, every entry should have a number.

Then go here:
http://www.random.org/

And pick randomized sequences from the middle column. Then enter your smallest value as 2 and your largest as the number of the last row in the spreadsheet. Hit the button and you have a nice randomized list of the entries in the list, which you can then start to go down until you find something sufficiently unwatched and obscure. I'm certain it shouldn't take more than ten to fifteen at the most.

maybe next month, i'm going out of town for this weekend and next. i'm currently submerging myself in the two towers expanded edition.

but of that excellent list, i have seen one in the theater if you can believe that. of course, it's also the most accessible of the lot: daytrippers.

there is an embedded random function in excel which generates a random number between 0 and 1.

=rnd()

there are 4119 rows on your sheet.

=rnd()*4119

voila.

!!!!

Why are some people being so hard on Moodysson since Lilja?

Breaking Away (1979, Peter Yates) (wistful coming-of-age drama, set in a long, hot, idyllic Indiana summer... excellent sense of real lives, family, friendship dynamics, 'class' difference and a delight in the small.)

Bight Night (1995, Stanley Tucci) (expatriate Italian brothers running a restaurant in New Jersey and trying to balance the real world concerns of commerce with the artistry of making wonderful food... a sense of fighting to hold on to what matters in life... a low-key, unorthodox romance of a film.)

Les Vacances de M. Hulot (1953, Jacques Tati) (melodious comedy of precious, polaroid detail... timeless yet timed-out, hushed joy; the serenity of a south of France summer holiday in the early 1950s.)

From very differing eras I know, but I'd like people to recommend some films which are as poignantly evocative of *place* as these. And of that poignant feeling of the temporal nature of life; good times can be had, but not necessarily for much longer. Enjoy them while they last... a real melancholia is in these films, which do actually manage to convey a beautiful happiness: in community and individualism reconciled, in food and in love, and in a summer holiday, respectively.
There's a clear sense that individualism can only go so far, and the perceptions of having *made a difference* to others' lives, comes across very subtly in these films. The wonderfully aloof Hulot does seem to take satisfaction from developments; yet we can't quite put the finger on how and why... he adds a balletic element of chaos into a sun-scorched, drifting idyll.
I guess I see these films as possessing a profoundly different pace to most other films; languid, attentive to mise-en-scene, the camera keeping a respectful distance from events.

It is perhaps a very personally felt mood that I see running through these three films, yet I hope I communicate what this means; I'd be very interested indeed to hear any ideas about films that could be added to this current trilogy of mine...?

it's a trendy film about parisian meeja twentysomethings starring mathieu amalric (of 'ma vie sexualle' -- a similar film) and the divine virginie ledoyen.