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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Satantango Hey there's maybe a pattern in the films I haven't seen. Oh how I envy you.
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penismightier posted:I saw Pickpocket a few years ago and didn't love it, partially because of that. I saw Diary of a Country Priest back in high school and loved it, so I guess my tastes have just changed. I have his Joan of Arc sitting on my to-watch pile. I was kind of disappointed in Pickpocket the first time around, though I still liked it, but the second time I loving loved it. May benefit from giving it another watch.
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bad movie knight posted:I would suggest you get your order in for a hat-shaped cake. I'm sure GBS can whip up a meathat of some kind.
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thegloaming posted:I split Godfather into two; a friend told me the best place to pause when Michael is in Italy, and I ate dinner and went for a walk. You guys are pussies, I accept no compromises. I watched Satantango in one sitting.  It cost me my entire Sunday but it was worth it.Also, I'd jump into this but the OP says to make your choice the next film you watch and I am incapable of keeping that promise.  If nobody minds me being a little late (I won't take two months like I did in the "Suggest a Movie to the Previous Poster" thread, I swear!) I'll toss together a list though.Also, I third that the theatrical of Scenes is superior. I watched the theatrical cuts of F&A and Scenes my first times through (I didn't even realize either was cut down from TV), and Scenes just knocked me on my rear end with its intensity. A lot of that is lost in the extra two hours, though it's still well worth watching and instructive to flesh out the relationship of Johan and Marianne.
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I have yet to see any more Fellini despite really enjoying La Dolce Vita and absolutely adoring 8 1/2. I really have no excuse, I've just never gotten the itch. :\
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Nroo, you get The New World. That movie is unbelievably beautiful (although, every movie on your list that I've seen is beautiful). Finally chipping in with my own list: 1) Nashville - Maybe the biggest American movie of the 1970s that I haven't seen - and considering how much I love the 1970s, that's pretty bad. I have this from the library right now. 2) I Am Cuba - I'm a huge sucker for tracking shots and great cinematography in general which means I'll probably love this. 3) Tokyo Story - I have no excuse to have not yet seen any Ozu. Actually, I kinda got turned off to seeing any because Roger Ebert would never shut up about him if he ever had a chance to mention him in passing which got annoying. 4) Napoleon - The only reason I haven't watched this is because of its length (5.5 hours). I have the next three days off, though, so I'll probably use that as an excuse to watch it. 5) The Cameraman - I love the Keaton I've seen and this is probably the biggest of his that I'm missing. It's also my friend's favorite Keaton. 6) A Streetcar Named Desire - One of those things I keep saying I'll get around to and never do. 7) In the Mood for Love - Chinese (and Asian cinema in general, but particularly outside of Japan) film in general is a huge weak spot for me. 8) Stalker - This has sat at or near the top of my to-see list forever, it's in that awkward area where I'd like to buy it but the DVD doesn't look that great (plus I can't bring myself to buy DVDs anymore) and I haven't bothered with renting. 9) The Exterminating Angel - I'm way overdue to see more Bunuel. All I've yet bothered with his Belle du Jour which I thought was good. 10) The Manchurian Candidate - I have no reason to not have seen this at all. Looks fantastic and right up my alley.
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Also, I absolutely love that somebody in this thread will be seeing Chinatown with no idea who the lead even is. Lucky bastard.
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Jul 4, 2010 11:46
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Watching in one sitting eh? That's how I did it. Anybody who doesn't isn't a real movie fan.
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Jul 5, 2010 20:03
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The theatrical is better anyway.
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FitFortDanga posted:Oh, you can go wrong with Bergman. You'd know better than I would but yeah, Crisis alone was proof enough of that. I need to see more Bergman. I mean, I've seen like 22 or 23 of his movies but it's been a while since i saw anything new by him.
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FitFortDanga posted:It's broken into episodes, so you can split it up. I wouldn't break it up too much though, there's a rhythm to it. You can, but if you do you're a loser. (I will try to actually watch my movie this week guys!)
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BisonDollah posted:I know it's going to be a slog, did you keep note of how many you got through? There's near 60 to see if I remember right. 59 according to Criticker. I've only seen 11.
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Treebeh posted:Taxi Driver If you're anywhere near an AMC theater, check their listings for Tuesday night, because they're showing a 4k digital restoration of Taxi Driver at 8 pm. They showed it last night, I would've caught it but I was at work. No sweat, I can wait till Tuesday (though honestly I may have caught both showings if possible).
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Electronico6 posted:It probably won't, but you never know. If it makes you feel any better, Lumet was adamant that the movie have no score at all but the producer Dino de Laurentiis insisted, so he put in the 15 minutes or so of music in Serpico just to shut up him up, more or less.
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Seaniqua, watch GoodFellas, the greatest movie of the 90s. Alright, I'm jumping back into the fray. I submitted a list way back when but never even got started; I had so many movies and so much free time that I'd never be able to convince myself to watch what was picked for me. Now that I have a job, my problem is the opposite: I have a hard time working up the energy after work to watch films, so I spend my time lazing on the internet. This should get me off my rear end. I'm going to pick stuff that's on my recent radar to alleviate the problem I had earlier, though. 1. Talk to Her/Volver - Pick one or the other. I've only seen Almodovar's All About My Mother, which was excellent, so I got these from Netflix afterwards...and they've been sitting on my shelf for three months. Whoops. 2. Curse of the Cat People - Just watched the original, which was a very solid old horror movie, so I'm interested to see how they followed it up. 3. The House is Black - An Iranian documentary about an honest-to-God leper colony? Oooh, boy, this sounds soul-crushing. I may have to wash this down with something light...thankfully it's only 20 minutes. 4. La Jetée - Speaking of short, I have no excuse to not have seen this yet. I've been intrigued by the idea of a film made from stills ever since I heard about it. 5. Macbeth - The 1984 Bela Tarr version. Considering I'm making a thread about his movies I should probably see this. What cineaste doesn't get hard at the idea of an hour-long tracking shot? Other than the female ones I guess. 6. Akira - My animé exposure is limited to Ghibli and Ghost in the Shell. I'm not terribly interested in the genre for the most part, but this does look pretty interesting and it's enough of a touchstone to grab my attention. 7. Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy - I totally bought the blu-ray box set of this during the last Criterion sale and totally have not even opened it. What is wrong with me? If you pick this I'll be watching them all in order if you wanna give me a triple dose. 8. Night Moves - I actually started this a couple months ago and in the middle the power went out for like half an hour. I'm kind of an anal-retentive Nazi about watching movies start-to-finish so that killed it for me at the time but I'm ready to start again. 9. Nosferatu the Vampyre - The only feature in that Anchor Bay Herzog/Kinski set I haven't watched yet. I was waiting to see the original first but I did that like two years ago so yeah uh. Better late than never. 10. Get Carter - The original. Michael Caine tearing poo poo up looks promising. Kinda lacking in British gangster movies as well.
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Oooh, man. I so badly want to give you Nashville, but I can't do it with Amadeus, which is pretty much the perfect synthesis of high art and entertainment, sitting there in front of me. Go forth and watch classical music. Get Carter was pretty drat cool. Michael Caine, as expected, was a straight-up poo poo-kicking badass, and watching him work his way through London's seedy underground, rarely losing control or the upper hand, was a lot of...well, I'm uncomfortable using the word "fun" here. Definitely very similar to Peckinpah (a comparison aided by the presence of a topless Britt Eklund), and in some ways even more nihilistic than Straw Dogs is. There's some absolutely vicious, cruelly ironic deaths in this movie. It's not a very sexy movie - nothing here that really gets my blood pumping - but it's a fun crime thriller with a very solid story and a killer lead. That's plenty good enough. 1. Talk to Her/Volver - Pick one or the other. I've only seen Almodovar's All About My Mother, which was excellent, so I got these from Netflix afterwards...and they've been sitting on my shelf for three months. Whoops. 2. Curse of the Cat People - Just watched the original, which was a very solid old horror movie, so I'm interested to see how they followed it up. 3. The House is Black - An Iranian documentary about an honest-to-God leper colony? Oooh, boy, this sounds soul-crushing. I may have to wash this down with something light...thankfully it's only 20 minutes. 4. La Jetée - Speaking of short, I have no excuse to not have seen this yet. I've been intrigued by the idea of a film made from stills ever since I heard about it. 5. Macbeth - The 1984 Bela Tarr version. Considering I'm making a thread about his movies I should probably see this. What cineaste doesn't get hard at the idea of an hour-long tracking shot? Other than the female ones I guess. 6. Akira - My animé exposure is limited to Ghibli and Ghost in the Shell. I'm not terribly interested in the genre for the most part, but this does look pretty interesting and it's enough of a touchstone to grab my attention. 7. Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy - I totally bought the blu-ray box set of this during the last Criterion sale and totally have not even opened it. What is wrong with me? If you pick this I'll be watching them all in order if you wanna give me a triple dose. 8. Night Moves - I actually started this a couple months ago and in the middle the power went out for like half an hour. I'm kind of an anal-retentive Nazi about watching movies start-to-finish so that killed it for me at the time but I'm ready to start again. 9. Nosferatu the Vampyre - The only feature in that Anchor Bay Herzog/Kinski set I haven't watched yet. I was waiting to see the original first but I did that like two years ago so yeah uh. Better late than never. NEW! 10. Underground - Time of the Gypsies was really good, so I followed up by never seeing anything else by Emir Kustirica. Man I'm lazy. Watched: Get Carter 7.5/10
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Go watch Woody Allen's most charming movie. La Jetée was every bit as awesome as I figured it'd be. There's something so serene and haunting about that combination of still photography, narration and low-key music. There should be way more movies made like this (are there? Tell me there are!), I'll certainly have to see more of Chris Marker's work. It took me entirely too long to pick up on the 12 Monkeys connection, I have to admit, but this is even better in a lot of ways than that really good film. 1. Talk to Her/Volver - Pick one or the other. I've only seen Almodovar's All About My Mother, which was excellent, so I got these from Netflix afterwards...and they've been sitting on my shelf for three months. Whoops. 2. Curse of the Cat People - Just watched the original, which was a very solid old horror movie, so I'm interested to see how they followed it up. 3. The House is Black - An Iranian documentary about an honest-to-God leper colony? Oooh, boy, this sounds soul-crushing. I may have to wash this down with something light...thankfully it's only 20 minutes. NEW! 4. The Red and the White - Everybody says this is awesome and I need to see some Hungarian directors not named Bela Tarr. Plus this is streaming on Netflix. 5. Macbeth - The 1984 Bela Tarr version. Considering I'm making a thread about his movies I should probably see this. What cineaste doesn't get hard at the idea of an hour-long tracking shot? Other than the female ones I guess. 6. Akira - My animé exposure is limited to Ghibli and Ghost in the Shell. I'm not terribly interested in the genre for the most part, but this does look pretty interesting and it's enough of a touchstone to grab my attention. 7. Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy - I totally bought the blu-ray box set of this during the last Criterion sale and totally have not even opened it. What is wrong with me? If you pick this I'll be watching them all in order if you wanna give me a triple dose. 8. Night Moves - I actually started this a couple months ago and in the middle the power went out for like half an hour. I'm kind of an anal-retentive Nazi about watching movies start-to-finish so that killed it for me at the time but I'm ready to start again. 9. Nosferatu the Vampyre - The only feature in that Anchor Bay Herzog/Kinski set I haven't watched yet. I was waiting to see the original first but I did that like two years ago so yeah uh. Better late than never. 10. Underground - Time of the Gypsies was really good, so I followed up by never seeing anything else by Emir Kustirica. Man I'm lazy. Watched: Get Carter 7.5/10, La Jetée 8.5/10 Criminal Minded fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Jan 5, 2012 |
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Bodnoirbabe posted:Like others have said, Taxi Driver. But defintely do put Casino on your list at some point. It is heads and tails better than Good Fellas and Good Fellas is amazing. Don't listen to this man who is clearly insane. But Casino is still awesome.
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Bodnoirbabe posted:I am a woman who is clearly insane. What's so horrible about Casino? I find it far more epic than Good Fellas and a lot more engrossing. I'm not saying Good Fellas is bad, because I love that movie. But Casino is better. Well, I just said it was "awesome."  I find it less engrossing because I find the leads far less empathetic. Henry Hill, because of the combination of Liotta's performance/narration and his status as a relative outsider in his own crew - rags-to-riches and all that, plus he's portrayed as more uncomfortable with all the murder and death than his cohorts - makes him a much easier character to relate to. You get that "kid-in-a-candy-shop" giddiness when he's a rising star, which makes his eventual crash-and-burn that much more intense and frenetic. Ace Rothstein and co. are all pros from day one, though. There are no outsiders, which makes the audience the outsiders. There's a different appeal to that, but it doesn't quite do as much for me.I will say, when I watched Casino for a second time a couple of months ago, my opinion of it shot up, largely because of how funny it is. GoodFellas is great black comedy, but Casino is straight-up ridiculous a lot of the time, and in a good way. It's the sleaziest soap-opera melodrama plunked into the middle of a brutal epic of mob life in the most garish city in America. I love the film now. Just not as much as GoodFellas, which is on some days my favorite film.
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I do think that Casino gets a bum rap, precisely because "It's not GoodFellas." I mean, sheesh, kind of a high bar to clear... There are a fair amount of critics who loooove it though. Like, best-thing-Scorsese-has-done love it. Same with The Age of Innocence, for that matter.
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fenix down posted:Why did you pick this one over MASH? Because it's way better.
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I like both, but McCabe is a lot closer to my sensibilities.
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poo poo, I just randomly dropped out of this a couple of years ago and still feel bad about it. I'm really bad about sticking to things. Gonna try it again, no harm no foul I suppose. New list: Short Cuts - I swear this is like my white whale. Ostensibly I really really really want to see it. I just...haven't. I got it from Netflix and let it sit for literally a year (I eventually cancelled my disc service because of poo poo like that). So. Somebody yell at me to watch it already. Tokyo Godfathers - I've seen very little anime, but all of Satoshi Kon's other films, and loved each of them. This is the only one left. Kieslowski's Three Colors - I love The Double Life of Veronique. I think The Decalogue is great. I own this trilogy on blu-ray. Why haven't I watched it? Your guess is as good as mine. Plus, if you pick this, three films for the price of one. Malcolm X - Admittedly, I've kind of meant to read The Autobiography of Malcolm X before seeing this, but I doubt watching this first would at all impede my enjoyment of the book later down the road. Gates of Heaven - I still haven't seen any Errol Morris, years and years after being exposed to him by Ebert's review of this film. Having just put down my cat of 17 years yesterday, there's probably no better time to watch this film. Blue - The Derek Jarman film. The conceit of this film alone fascinates me, though I imagine it's every bit as easy to hate as to love. Of Jarman's work, I've only seen Caravaggio, but it's excellent. Gomorrah - Pretty big fan of mob movies in general, and I've always wanted to know more about the actual Italian mafia (though, for the pedants, this is about the Camorra as distinct from the much more famous Cosa Nostra - the more you know!). Adaptation. - Nic Cage + Charlie Kaufman? Enticing. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - One of the more glaring holes in my lineup of unseen westerns. I actually started to watch this years ago but the DVD kept skipping, and I have yet to revisit it. United 93 - Seems hard to stomach, but I imagine it's rather essential. ----- Oh, and Seaniqua - go ahead and watch...Magnolia. Sunset Blvd. is impossibly perfect and it was hard to pass it up, but Magnolia just puts such a huge grin on my face.
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Watch The Killer, which is a masterpiece, and yes, better than Woo's American work (though I'll defend Face/Off all day). Adaptation - This managed to be somehow more and less self-reflexive than I expected. It never completely disappears up its own rear end and its metafiction never gets too abstract or abstruse, but the way Kaufman writes his fictional screenplay into the "real" events we're watching is very clever and breathes a lot of life into what otherwise could've been an absurdly indulgent exercise in whining about writer's block. Which isn't to say it's not indulgent, but it's never stuffy or self-serious about it, and Kaufman recognizes the absurdity and self-importance of the whole enterprise. Cage is great as both Kaufman and his more naive brother Charlie, and the insanely clichéd screenplay he works on throughout the film provides some of its funniest moments. (I also felt reflexively guilty for having read Robert McKee's Story, though Kaufman at least recognizes that his own writing principles are every bit as dogmatic and allows for different strokes.) The most pleasant surprise was Chris Cooper, who I wasn't even aware was in the film but provided what I felt was its strongest performance as the vulgar-yet-poetic botanist. An excellent film; I should make a point of seeing Being John Malkovich sometime soon. 8.5/10 I also watched Gommorah since I couldn't resist, and...bleh, what a disappointment. While I appreciate the film's aim to portray organized crime as a life of monotony punctuated by senseless violence, the structure (breaking the film into four stories that don't much overlap), while succeeding in stripping the lifestyle of any glamour, also greatly harms its ability to inspire any empathy at all for any characters but those minor civilians who barely get any screen time. And there's virtually no arc to speak of for most of the principals, with the exception of the young boy who joins up with a local faction and finds himself in way over his head. I was briefly affected by the death of the two brash hotheads who got killed for stealing guns at the very end, but by then it was too late to much make me care. I can respect what the film was going for, and the skillfullness with which it was made, but it left me cold. 6.5/10 New list: Short Cuts - I swear this is like my white whale. Ostensibly I really really really want to see it. I just...haven't. I got it from Netflix and let it sit for literally a year (I eventually cancelled my disc service because of poo poo like that). So. Somebody yell at me to watch it already. Tokyo Godfathers - I've seen very little anime, but all of Satoshi Kon's other films, and loved each of them. This is the only one left. Kieslowski's Three Colors - I love The Double Life of Veronique. I think The Decalogue is great. I own this trilogy on blu-ray. Why haven't I watched it? Your guess is as good as mine. Plus, if you pick this, three films for the price of one. Malcolm X - Admittedly, I've kind of meant to read The Autobiography of Malcolm X before seeing this, but I doubt watching this first would at all impede my enjoyment of the book later down the road. Gates of Heaven - I still haven't seen any Errol Morris, years and years after being exposed to him by Ebert's review of this film. Having just put down my cat of 17 years yesterday, there's probably no better time to watch this film. Blue - The Derek Jarman film. The conceit of this film alone fascinates me, though I imagine it's every bit as easy to hate as to love. Of Jarman's work, I've only seen Caravaggio, but it's excellent. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - One of the more glaring holes in my lineup of unseen westerns. I actually started to watch this years ago but the DVD kept skipping, and I have yet to revisit it. United 93 - Seems hard to stomach, but I imagine it's rather essential. NEW! Metropolitan - I've wanted to see this ever since hearing about the gag of a character who reads literary criticism but not literature. NEW! The Glass Shield - Long overdue to see more Charles Burnett.
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