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Continuing from Random 10: Random Films for Comment - Week 27

1075. Close My Eyes, 1991 (dir. Stephen Poliakoff)
2431. It's a Gift, 1934 (dir. Norman Z. McLeod)
239. The American Soldier, 1970 (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1990. Good Morning, Boys!, 1937 (dir. Marcel Varnel)
656. The Birth of Love, 1993 (dir. Philippe Garrel)
1692. The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967 (dir. Roman Polanski)
2849. The Love of Jeanne Ney, 1927 (dir. Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
3394. Of Human Bondage, 1934 (dir. John Cromwell)
2844. A Love in Germany, 1983 (dir. Andrzej Wajda)
5078. Without Anaesthesia, 1979 (dir. Andrzej Wajda)

Don't forget your nominations, dear.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 27 March 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

ILE to those of you with the nasty pip stains

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 27 March 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen Fassbinder's "The American Soldier" since high school, but the high-contrast images of fat men under overhead lights & the "ballet of death" finale still stick in my mind. I have to watch it again soon.

I haven't seen either of the Wajda films mentioned, but they're on my list. I'm looking forward to the Wajda Criterion set.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Sunday, 27 March 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

I've seen nothing from this list...yet.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 27 March 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

1692. The Fearless Vampire Killers, 1967 (dir. Roman Polanski)

I have only seen it once and remember thinking that its absolutely alien sense of pacing turned what was obviously a comedy (a proto-Mel Brooksian type deal) back towards the realm of unease and almost horror. The gay vampire was a nice touch.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 27 March 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

It's a Gift is a scream, a Fields masterwork.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 March 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

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Random 10: Random Films for Comment - Week 28