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Continuing from Random 10: Random Films for Comment - Week 25

514. Le Battant, 1983 (dir. Alain Delon)
4134. Superman II, 1980 (dir. Richard Lester)
4715. Wild Boys of the Road, 1933 (dir. William A. Wellman)
1742. From the Clouds to the Resistance, 1979 (dir. Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet)
2917. Mississippi Burning, 1988 (dir. Alan Parker)
2001. He Walked by Night, 1948 (dir. Alfred L. Werker)
3008. Muriel, 1963 (dir. Alain Resnais)
101. The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938 (dir. Michael Curtiz)
1201. Dawn, 1933 (dir. Gustav Ucicky and Vernon Sewell)
1844. The Go-Between, 1970 (dir. Joseph Losey)

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 16 January 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

Come and get the ILE edition, too.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 16 January 2005 08:27 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I don't think I've seen anything on this list, with the exception of Superman II, which was when I was six so I don't remember much about it. I have to watch the Superman films again though because apparently the "fortress of solitude" scenes were inspired by Stan Brakhage and involved painting directly on the film.

I've still have never seen any Straub/Huillet films, although they are high on my list.

Interesting irony that Mississippi Burning came up, seeing as the murderer in the incident that inspired the film is now on trial.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Sunday, 16 January 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Superman II is the best of its ilk, esp for Hackman and Stamp.

Muriel is an odd, dense film, maybe Resnais' best.

The Go-Between is primo Christie-Bates-Losey, but alas I only saw a faded print a couple years back. Pinter adapted it.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

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