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Continuing from Random 10: Random Films for Comment - Week 17

1104. Cria!, 1976 (dir. Carlos Saura)
1659. The Forgotten Frontier, 1931 (dir. Marvin Breckinridge)
499. The Bartered Bride, 1932 (dir. Max Ophuls)
1065. Conquest of the Pole, 1912 (dir. Georges Melies)
2520. Life Classes, 1987 (dir. William D. MacGillivray)
1961. The Hawks and the Sparrows, 1966 (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)
3924. Sparrows, 1926 (dir. William Beaudine)
1640. Fog Over Frisco, 1934 (dir. William Dieterle)
3627. Rumble Fish, 1983 (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
1801. Glastonbury the Movie, 1995

Hmm.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 26 September 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, I have seen none of these. Is Rumble Fish the one with a young Matt Dillon?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 26 September 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago)

zilch! even though a few of these look interesting.

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 26 September 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)

nope, nothing i've seen.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago)

I bought a vhs of Costa-Gravas pro-Palestinian female melodrama "Hannah K." which has a cool ass trailer for "Rumble Fish" on it.
It makes me want to see the movie badly but I keep forgetting to rent it when I'm at the video store. It's in Black and White and entirely cut to bombastic rhythmic tribal drums with a few shock cuts to color. It sort of resembles a hong kong actioner about gangs in its energy and odd gravity defying moments and features a fight between Mickey Rourke and Matt Dillon on motorcycles. Supposedly this is Coppola's personal favorite of all of his films.

― herbert hebert (herbert hebert), Sunday, 26 September 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Rumble Fish is a thing of beauty. Man, Mickey Rourke is so fucking effortlessly cool in that.

― PVC (peeveecee), Thursday, 30 September 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Hawks and Sparrows is pretty good Pasolini ... it's got Toto, at least. PPP has never been hugely exciting to me save for Teorema and Gospel (ain't tried Salo yet).

About the best I can say for Rumble Fish is yeah, the b&w is real nice, and it's not quite as stupid as The Outsiders. And when I watched it at the St Marks Cinema ($2) in '83, some rummy in front of me turned round and belched "Izzz that Denniss Hopperr?"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 October 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago)

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