― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 January 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 3 January 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 4 January 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 4 January 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)
Not long after, I saw a documentary on the making of Star Wars' special effects. This coincided with my introduction to computers, and so from then on, my sights were pretty much on making special effects a career.
The more I studied filmmaking, however, the more I became interested in acting and directing. I started writing screenplays and when I entered high school, I took a drama class. It was around this time when I started to realize that if I seriously wanted to get into making movies, I ought to start watching some movies other than Star Wars. This is when my real Cinephilia began.
At first, I was really into science fiction, and I eventually stumbled onto A Clockwork Orange. This introduced me to Kubrick, whose work really altered my perception of what filmmaking was all about. I was also highly influenced by Apocalypse Now. For a long time, I didn't entirely understand it, but the more I watched it, the more I was drawn into it, and even to this day, I consider Apocalypse Now to possibly be my personal favorite film of all time.
And the rest, as they say, was history....
― Anthony (Anthony F), Sunday, 4 January 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)
Blade Runner (first turned me on to "artistic" films)Psycho (taught me my first major lessons on film style)Annie Hall (taught me how to write)Taxi Driver (the first film I ever saw that had a major impact on me personally)Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (my first foreign language film)Citizen Kane (you know...)Blue Velvet (left me speechless for twenty mintutes)Pulp Fiction (also taught me how to write)The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (the movie that made me love westerns)The Bicycle Thief (my first foreign "art film")8 1/2 (put a smile on my face for the rest of the day)Dog Day Afternoon (sparked my Pacino obsession)Rashomon (my introduction to Kurosawa, who has since become one of my favorite filmmakers)M (so practically flawless, I wanted to cry)Night of the Living Dead (it scared me, it made me think, the ultimate horror film)
And most recently...Kill Bill vol. 1 (reminded me how fun movies can be)
― Anthony (Anthony F), Sunday, 4 January 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 4 January 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 5 January 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)
I shamble around with foreign/art flicks and remain on the whole cold to what I see until finding ILX, whose simultaneous populism and obscurism shame me into realizing that I was never the film geek I professed to being, and in a way I give up on film.
That is until the GRIPPING TOUR-DE-FORCE
― Leee Smith (Leee), Monday, 5 January 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)
Anyway, I still consider myself a neophyte, especially in comparison to the rest of yall.
― Leee Smith (Leee), Monday, 5 January 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)
1967 or '68 / My first movie: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which I saw at the drive-in. I was about four years old. My mom put her hand over my eyes during the unsuitable parts. Needless to say, I hardly remember seeing any of it. I have never watched it since.
1974 / My first movie in a movie theater: Young Frankenstein at the grand Tennessee Theatre, complete with short subject and a "mighty Wurlitzer" organ recital beforehand. Both inspired me and ruined me forever.
1976-1979 / After my parents divorced, my dad and I went to the movies together, in retrospect probably because there was no talking required. We went to the movies A LOT.
1982 / Intro to Film, University of Georgia: The Great Train Robbery, Battleship Potemkin, Persona, Andrei Rubilev, and The Marriage of Maria Braun, just to name a few. In retrospect, I think maybe the prof was trying to make our heads explode.
1992 / Convincing my editor at the time that what the alt-weekly I was working for really needed was a video review column, thereby taking my obsession semi-pro.
― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)
Poltergeist
Jubilee
Wild At Heart
Trust
Rear Window
Emak Bakia
Ariel
Heat
The Enigma Of Kasper Hauser
George Washington
Charlie's Angels:Full Throttle
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 8 January 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)
And maybe Tirez Sur Le Pianiste after Emak Bakia.
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 8 January 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― PVC (peeveecee), Sunday, 11 January 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― PVC (peeveecee), Sunday, 11 January 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)
Apocalypse Now kicked my ass pretty hard, too. It's a guy thing. (Mostly... it was on TV yesterday, and my girlfriend said incredulously, "How can they show this without letterboxing?" I fell in love with her all over again.)
Woody Allen was and is huge with me. Question: is Manhattan better than Annie Hall? I think it might be.
And then there's Bergman. Ah, Bergman. Persona was a revelation. Cries and Whispers is one of the most truly disturbing movies I've ever seen. And on, and on.
For what seems like a very long time now, this has been my most indispensable movie guide. Thanks, Unca Rog.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)