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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Gilly on January 16, 2008, 09:45:27 PM
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So, I'm lost when looking at the screencaps in the other thread. I thought I knew a lot about movies but obviously I don't and a lot of those movies look really interesting. In fact, I added most of them to my queue. Any other recommendations for movies that I probably haven't seen? It's insane how much knowledge you guys have about the arts.
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have you seen Soy Cuba?
I watched for the first time recently and it really blew me away.
as for other suggestions...
what have you seen? what do you like? give us a better idea of where to start
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Well, I'm trying to broaden my horizons. I hadn't even heard of anything being mentioned in the other thread but a lot of it sounded interesting. I've watched everything that's considered essential by every critic in the world for the most part and I like most of that stuff. I guess I'm looking for lost classics or niche stuff. Especially old 60's and 70's films which I have never really tried to dive into. I kind of meant to be vague so I wouldn't just be asking for movies that I would like.
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Alright, how about this I list some movies and you give an opinion?
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
The Yellow Teddybears
Putney Swope
Myra Breckinridge
Daughters of Darkness
El Topo
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Alright, how about this I list some movies and you give an opinion?
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - classic!
The Yellow Teddybears - never seen, looks interesting
Putney Swope - amazing
Myra Breckinridge - I dunno, never saw it
Daughters of Darkness - Imdb says "An erotic nightmare of vampire lust " get's my vote!
El Topo - probably in my top 10, one of my favorite films ever made
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Well, I'm trying to broaden my horizons. I hadn't even heard of anything being mentioned in the other thread but a lot of it sounded interesting. I've watched everything that's considered essential by every critic in the world for the most part and I like most of that stuff. I guess I'm looking for lost classics or niche stuff. Especially old 60's and 70's films which I have never really tried to dive into. I kind of meant to be vague so I wouldn't just be asking for movies that I would like.
um some suggestion off the top of my head...
rent the films of Kenneth Anger volumes 1 and 2, Out of the Blue, Cockfighter and I Am Cuba
those are kind of all over the place but you'll get a broad spectrum of interesting stuff that i think is pretty brilliant.
also as for 60's and 70's those are some great decades for cinema. pretty much across the board any genre, any country, throw a rock and you'll hit a great film. just start picking things up, find director whose work you like but don't know that much abotu and start exploring.
also, when it comes to genre flicks the Italians always do it better.
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You should see the following:
Independence Day
The Fugitive
Armageddon
Gladiator
MI: III
And for a really obscure one, Little Miss Sunshine.
Stay away from mainstream movies such as Stroszek.
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Thanks Colin.
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Definitely check out the Jodorowsky, Kenneth Anger and Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep) stuff that was all released on dvd last year, most of which is pretty essential. In fact, Killer of Sheep is making its tv debut on TCM this Monday, along with one other Burnett film and a bunch of shorts. Highly recommended for fans of John Cassavetes and Jim Jarmusch (hey, that's my 2nd Cassavetes reference today. How about a seperate board?).
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Gilly, do you use Netflix? If you do, you can become friends with a bunch of us FOT's. Chris L in particular writes some good notes on things he just watched, and you can see what's in our queueueue and what we've rated. It's nice.
Here is the url to become friends with me.
http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/PicvUOdwkJvB7j5vs2kV (http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/PicvUOdwkJvB7j5vs2kV)
You'll be able to see that I currently have at home Fantastic Four, Murderball, and Rollerball (starring James Caan). Yeah, then again, maybe you don't want to be my netflix friend.
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I don't think I ever actually posted my url. Here it be:
http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/PB1U4fjYmJi9mL5aCElR
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have you seen Soy Cuba?
I watched for the first time recently and it really blew me away.
It's amazing. Did you happen to buy the incredible-looking "cigar box" set from Milestone? I just ordered mine directly from their web shop.
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Alright, how about this I list some movies and you give an opinion?
Putney Swope - awesome
Daughters of Darkness - demented and great, like Last Year at Marienbad with vampires (also with Delphine Seyrig!)
El Topo - masterpiece
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Here's my link:
http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/P8ooTTZ49PJuRFluV2rq
You might be surprised to find that I only gave Stroszek 4 stars. I'm pretty stingy with 5 star ratings. Also, I've only rated movies I've gotten through Netflix, not all the movies I've seen. It's still a pretty good list, though, with over 300 ratings.
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I used to have a Netflix account so maybe I can log in and still look at your lists...nope. I'm probably going to switch from Blockbuster at the end of this billing month. I went to Blockbuster because I could do in-store rentals and they never had long waits on movies (when I used it a couple years ago) but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Also, it used to be I could get unlimited in-store rentals and mail-in rentals for 20 bucks- now it's only unlimited mail-in and 5 in-store rentals a month. It costs a lot more for unlimited in-store.
How bad is Netflix these days in regard to actually having the movies you want? It used to be terrible...also do they still throttle?
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There are so many lines from "Putney Swope" that I should have nominated for the movies quotes contest. One of my favorites of all-time.
Um...have you seen C.H.U.D.? That's pretty awesome.
If you're in the mood for fare that's slightly more highbrow, check out Kielsowski's "Decalogues;" I'm a big fan.
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If you're in the mood for fare that's slightly more highbrow, check out Kielsowski's "Decalogues;" I'm a big fan.
After reading the synopsis, I'm intrigued.
Thanks to everyone and keep them coming if you think of anything else. After going through the Criterion Collection and these posts I've bumped my list from 8 to about 60.
What are your opinions on these?
Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute- I love the opera. It's the only classical work I listen to a lot. I never knew Bergman made a film though.
Fat Girl
John Watters movies
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Fat Girl - don't care for Catherine Breillat
John Waters - love his films, everything up til Cry-Baby especially. Personal favs: Desperate Living, Polyester, Female Trouble.
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If you're in the mood for fare that's slightly more highbrow, check out Kielsowski's "Decalogues;" I'm a big fan.
After reading the synopsis, I'm intrigued.
Thanks to everyone and keep them coming if you think of anything else. After going through the Criterion Collection and these posts I've bumped my list from 8 to about 60.
What are your opinions on these?
Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute- I love the opera. It's the only classical work I listen to a lot. I never knew Bergman made a film though.
Fat Girl
John Watters movies
- The Decalogues: Amazing!
- Love Bergman (Winter Light might be my fave) but haven't seen The Magic Flute yet
- John Waters: Never could get through Pink Flamingos but Desperate Living, Female Trouble and Polyester are great. Don't bother with anything after Cry Baby.
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If you're in the mood for fare that's slightly more highbrow, check out Kielsowski's "Decalogues;" I'm a big fan.
After reading the synopsis, I'm intrigued.
Thanks to everyone and keep them coming if you think of anything else. After going through the Criterion Collection and these posts I've bumped my list from 8 to about 60.
What are your opinions on these?
Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute- I love the opera. It's the only classical work I listen to a lot. I never knew Bergman made a film though.
Fat Girl
John Watters movies
- The Decalogues: Amazing!
- Love Bergman (Winter Light might be my fave) but haven't seen The Magic Flute yet
- John Waters: Never could get through Pink Flamingos but Desperate Living, Female Trouble and Polyester are great. Don't bother with anything after Cry Baby.
Yeah, The Decalogue rules.
And for the FOTFlix crowd, Malcolm McDowell's pre-Clockwork flick If... is now available from them. It's on my dining room table now and I am going to watch that a few times before I return it.
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If you watch If, of course you must go on to watch O Lucky Man and Britannia Hospital, the second and final installments in Anderson's trilogy.
I've seen Bergman's Magic Flute several times, though not for years. In fact, I liked it so much the first time I saw it, I went back and saw it again the very next day. I remember being so exhilarated the first time that I walked home thirty or so blocks (I was living in NY at the time).
So, I liked it when I was eighteen. My mother, more musical than I, did not like it as much. But I think you'll find a great deal to enjoy: it's a very bright, childlike, charming movie. Sort of like a panto set to really good music.
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How was The Magic Flute filmed? What kind of style? The only time I've seen it performed is on PBS and in English! It was the performance the Met did (last year I think). Otherwise I have just listened to various CD's.
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Those questions are too fancy for me. I seem to recall that it was a filmed stage production, but with lots of camera work and I think eventually some shifting to broader sets, so it's not static the way some filmed shows can be. But it was a long, long time ago that I saw it, so my memory may be faulty. I just know I loved it at the time. I already liked opera, but the movie was magical. On the walk home, I saw fairy dust in the sparkles in the dirty cement of the sidewalk.
As I said, I was eighteen at the time.
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Cool. I wouldn't know how to explain it either but that's exactly what I wanted to hear.
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Two Polanski films I like are Knife in the Water (his first feature film) and The Tenant. And I think I've enjoyed every Bunuel Film I've seen.
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I'm afraid to watch Irreversible.
I gots a weak stomach.
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Definitely check out the Jodorowsky, Kenneth Anger and Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep) stuff that was all released on dvd last year, most of which is pretty essential. In fact, Killer of Sheep is making its tv debut on TCM this Monday, along with one other Burnett film and a bunch of shorts. Highly recommended for fans of John Cassavetes and Jim Jarmusch (hey, that's my 2nd Cassavetes reference today. How about a seperate board?).
Just want to remind everyone about Killer of Sheep on TCM tonight. In many respects (the acting, the budget) you can tell it was a student film, but it's compelling and dreamlike in its own way. I haven't seen My Brother's Wedding yet either so I'll be checking that out @ 10:00.
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Just want to remind everyone about Killer of Sheep on TCM tonight.
Yes, do not miss this if you haven't seen it. I was lucky enough to catch a special showing of this at the arthouse theatre in my town a couple months ago, and was completely blown away. I was a huge fan of the film "George Washington" by David Gordon Green from like 2001, which I saw for the first time last year. When I was raving about it to my friend, he informed me - correctly, as it turned out - that as good as "GW" is, "Killer of Sheep" did it first, and did it better. Good times.
...Myself, I'll be watching "The Lobotomist" on my local PBS tonight, a documentary on Walter Freeman, the icepick-wielding neurologist who invented the lobotomy back in the day. I'm thinking there's about a 90% chance Spike will show up in this movie somehow.
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Why is Caged Heat a cult classic? I remember seeing it on USA Up All Night when I in middle school but I never considered it to be great... but I haven't seen it since then. Just the pure exploitation?
I have Killer of Sheep in my queue. I don't have cable so I'll be missing it tonight.
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Has anybody seen Jubilee? I watched it last night and I thought it was ok but now today all of the scenes are running through my head and I'm finding that I liked it a lot more than I thought I did. But, maybe it's because I'm not thinking about the time traveling Queen Elizabeth parts.
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whatever you see, don't see Atonement. biggest load of crap ever.
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My friend who manages one of the art theatres in my town was telling me how 'Atonement' is inexplicably smashing all of the box office records there. We were baffled, just thinking of all the movies, why 'Atonement'?
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I have no idea why. It was crowded when I went too (& on a week night), I actually would have left about 1/2 way through because I was so bored, but I wasn't sitting with my friend (no two seats together) so I just stayed till the end.
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I would never see Atonement. I don't understand why the foreign press has a hard on for Keira Knightley. She's wooden and acts with her rather prominent jaw. Some -- okay, I -- would say she has a lantern jaw and also a lamprey mouth.
My mom saw Atonement and thought she stunk. She also said she gets has a little boy's figure and is as flat as a board. We are catty bitches.
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well, i went b/c i felt like seeing a romance, and i really liked her in Pride & Prejudice, but her acting was flat in this one. oh well.
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I haven't seen Pride and Prejudice, but I have seen all three Pirates of the Caribbean. In theory, Johnny Depp could have chemistry with a plank of wood, which is great since Keira has the body and gravitas of a plank of wood. It didn't work out so well in practice.
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They* don't call her Ikea Knightley for nothing!
* Mark Kermode
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That nest of endtables comparison was priceless, nay?
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I haven't seen Pride and Prejudice, but I have seen all three Pirates of the Caribbean. In theory, Johnny Depp could have chemistry with a plank of wood, which is great since Keira has the body and gravitas of a plank of wood. It didn't work out so well in practice.
Ha. i forgot she was in Pirates.
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I haven't seen Pride and Prejudice, but I have seen all three Pirates of the Caribbean. In theory, Johnny Depp could have chemistry with a plank of wood, which is great since Keira has the body and gravitas of a plank of wood. It didn't work out so well in practice.
Sounds like somebody's jealous...
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I watched Night of the Hunter last night and it was so good. So, so good.
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I watched Night of the Hunter last night and it was so good. So, so good.
Yes! Still waiting for the Ultimate DVD containing the new print and all those mouth-watering extras that was paraded around film festivals a few years ago.
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I finally got around to watching Two Lane Blacktop last night since I finally got it from Netflix. I liked a lot but the pedophilia was kind of weird. Or was she supposed to be 18? It was still kind of creepy that it wasn't ever even noted how much younger she looked. Then again, not many things were mentioned and that's part of the charm. It seems like I've seen a lot of highly acclaimed movies dealing with underage realtionships...
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I'm watching "Wild at Heart," one of the Lynch ones I haven't seen. So far, it's regular mid-period Lynch, which is to say insane but not insanely insane.
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I'm watching "Wild at Heart," one of the Lynch ones I haven't seen. So far, it's regular mid-period Lynch, which is to say insane but not insanely insane.
Have you got to the "chipmunk voice" scene yet?
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"Ahhhhhhh! I'm making my lunch!"
-Cousin Del