Movies I haven't seen

[Susannah]

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.

[Gilly]

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

[Martin]

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.

[Chris L]

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.

[Tim K in DC]

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.

[Sarah]

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.

[Gilly]

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.

[Sarah]

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.

[Gilly]

Cool. I wouldn't know how to explain it either but that's exactly what I wanted to hear.

[jane]

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.

[Oogie]

I'm afraid to watch Irreversible.

I gots a weak stomach.

[Chris L]

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.

[Pat K]

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.

[Gilly]

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.

[Gilly]

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.