Random 10: Random Films for Comment - Week 21

big lebowski is one of my favorite comedies ever, and it also makes me cry for some reason. its just a great, great film

closely watched trains- i love eastern european film. classic soviet criticism.

It's frustrating that all of the cinema related items are going to ILE. I prefer having a cinema forum to avoid the smart ass hipsters who get their kicks posting links to subjects that have already been discussed. Must be nice to have ILE be your full-time job...

no smart ass hipsters here sir

Sure...

Wow, that's sad--twenty films & I've only seen one of them--The Big Lebowski. I know at least three people who watch this movie religiously (100+ times a year). It's bizarre; there's a really strange cult following to this film where overly stimulated youth (typically philosophy majors/minors) seem to find allegories to every mode of thought & event in the history of humankind.

I really love this film, but not on that kind of level. I think "The Dude" is a great Zen like character, a true "dissociation is not apathy" kind of guy who's just trying to get by. The character development in this film is huge, and often overlooked. Quite possibly my favorite John Goodman performance, and the soundtrack is amazing.

let's all get back on the ILF boat.

i'd like ILF to succeed, but i just don't have the posting stamina to keep it going myself. at the moment it just has no separate reason (not even a personality) to exist so it's basically redundant.

Closely Watched Trains is one of those movies that ends and you think "that's it?" but eventually realize that the entire movie has stuck in your head for some unknown reason. lots of quiet and really wonderful moments in that film.

Merry Widow, charming close-to-peak Lubitsch (and Chevalier).

Laughton never funnier than in Ruggles, and McCarey was one of the best comedy directors. (The Bob Hope remake, Fancy Pants, is splendid too.)

Naked Kiss... prime nutso Fuller. "I have legs!"

Errol Flynn looks pretty damn hot in Gentleman Jim.

Haven't seen My Fair Lady in eons. The show's the thing, but likely a dinosaur cinematically.

Aside from a fun Bridges perf, Big L is another pointless Coen curiosity.

Thanks for your support PVC.

ryan, I'd like to hear your reasoning for this site being "redundant". If anything, it's the other way around--the film postings on "I Love Everything" are redundant. It's essentially the same as calling "I Love Music" unnecessary. My main argument for keeping this site alive is so that film fans don't have to search through the enormous number of random posts about buying new shoes & views of the Cosby show in order to find a good film discussion.

It's a nice forum to have. If people aren't into it, that's fine, but I think it would be nice to keep ILF moving.