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Post by Dracula on Jan 19, 2015 19:32:21 GMT -5
The Man Who Knew Too Much is another of my honourable mentions. I have La Notte and Olivier's Henry V waiting on my PVR. Olivier's Henry V is also interesting, especially in its historical context, couldn't be more different from his Hamlet. Not a fan of his Richard III though, never before or since has a movie been so undermined by a bad wig. |
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Post by thebtskink on Jan 19, 2015 19:39:30 GMT -5
The Non Nobis Domine scene is one of my favorite scenes in film
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Post by Dracula on Jan 21, 2015 19:08:17 GMT -5
5. Contempt (1963): Watched on Blu-Ray via Netflix on 7/20/2014  Over the years I’ve been slowly working through Godard’s Golden Age work and I finally got to this, one of his more accessible films. Most French New Wave films are, at their hearts, films about filmmaking but this one is actually literally about the making of a film. It’s also about marriage to a certain extent and features a stand-out scene where the main character’s marriage more or less dissolves over the course of a thirty minute fight in his hotel room. 4. The Past (2013): Watched on Blu-Ray via Netflix on 5/11/2014  I missed Asghar Farhadi’s The Past when it came out in theaters, but I’m glad I caught up with it sooner rather than later. The movie feels like a cousin of sorts to his breakout film A Separation, and while I do like that film better I don’t know how much of that has to do with an actual slip in quality and how much of it is just a function of this being less of a surprise. This is another great movie about familial disputes and moral gray areas that has the audience constantly re-arranging their alliances and judgements. 3. Day of Wrath (1943): Watched on DVD via the library on 5/24/2014  For someone who made one of my all-time favorites (The Passion of Joan of Arc), you’d think I would have seen more of his work, but then again he wasn’t wildly prolific so I suppose that is to be expected. The movie is definitely in keeping with the gothic and spiritual themes that I’ve come to associate with him and I’m also beginning to understand how much influence the guy must have had on Ingmar Bergman. A moody, entertaining, and accessible arthouse classic.
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Post by Dracula on Jan 22, 2015 18:55:58 GMT -5
2. The Decalogue (1989): Watched on DVD via the library on 11/30/2014 through 12/16/2014  This one feels like a bit of a cheat, firstly because it’s technically a TV mini-series and secondly because it’s actually ten more or less stand-alone stories. Still it was made by a filmmaker and has largely been canonized as a movie so I think it’s fair to count it. The project consists of ten hour long episodes, each one of them a short story based on one of the ten commandments. Each episode finds a unique direction to come at its respective commandment and question the relevance of that commandment, and by extension traditional wisdom, in the modern world. It loses a little steam towards the end, but for the most part I found it to be a fascinating endeavor that managed to encompass a lot of the human experience while still managing to tell relatable stories. 1. The Short Films of Buster Keaton 1920-1923: Watched on Blu-Ray on 6/21/2014 through 7/5/2014  Yeah, it seems a bit strange to be topping my list with two straight cheats, but these were the two cinematic experiences that I found the most rewarding. This one was a series of short films that Buster Keaton made at the very beginning of his career and while part of the joy in watching them was seeing him develop as an artist, he actually seemed like a pretty well realized talent almost from the beginning. These films are filled with some very effective bits of slapstick and pantomime. Many of them also interestingly start to reflect his own disillusion as they were being made while his friend Fatty Arbuckle increasingly found himself in the midst of a career ending scandal.
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Post by Ramplate on Jan 22, 2015 19:35:02 GMT -5
Keaton was brilliant
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Post by PG Cooper on Jan 22, 2015 19:36:18 GMT -5
Interesting top two. I also really want to see Day of Wrath.
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