I started this thread in July, when I already had over a dozen films to discuss. I never got caught up. Anyway, here are the rest of the old films I watched in 2006 that I thought were special,...
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I started this thread in July, when I already had over a dozen films to discuss. I never got caught up. Anyway, here are the rest of the old films I watched in 2006 that I thought were special,...
Yes, they are able to remain silent and essentially reveal no feelings. To Werner that is. But the audience learns first-hand (from the Frenchman's voice-over narration) that his feelings towards...
Originally posted by Chris Knipp
To extrapolate what the French pair think or feel is otherwise somewhat futile, I think. You can speculate, but it's not in the story, or the film.
I agree...
Originally posted by Chris Knipp
The man and his niece's silence of course radiates hatred. You never know if they are at all won over by the German's well-meaning but naive good will; you tend...
Rich, delicious post, Chris. I have over a dozen films to post about in this thread. So I thought of doing brief paragraphs like your post for the London Film Festival. Now I'm glad I didn't cut...
LE SILENCE DE LA MER (France/1949)
Jean-Pierre Melville's first feature was independently produced, mostly self-financed. He had been denied a union card, and had neither a production permit nor...
I'm glad you provided the link to Anderson's review because it gives us an opportunity to discuss Bunuel. Actually, his comments specific to the Crusoe film are fine. But when writes about the man...
Not at all impressed with the Combustible Celluloid piece. I'm glad he gives Crusoe 3.5 out of 4 stars and calls it the "best Dafoe I've seen". Does the line you quote imply Bunuel would not have...
Good point. When I wrote the piece I intended to include the auteur's name on the title. Then I forgot to do so. Some readers will be surprised to read "Bunuel" in the last paragraph because they...
THE YOUNG ONE (USA-Mexico/1960)
A black clarinetist named Traver, fleeing for his life, arrives in a stolen boat at a game-preserve island off the Carolina coast. Miller (Zachary Scott), the game...
THE DAY THE SUN TURNED COLD (Hong Kong/1994)
Although nominally a Hong Kong production, The Day the Sun Turned Cold is set in the same wintry northern China territory as The Story of Qiu Ju....
I will check it out then.
Originally posted by Sano
Wow, you sound like you've just seen your first film by Straub/Huillet :-) I liked the film very much when I saw it for the first time this year on a Japanese DVD and...
Originally posted by Sano
You started a great thread Oscar. I had lots of fun reading through it, and I'd like to see some of the films you mention.
Thanks, Sano. Last year I had a thread in...
CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet/Germany-Italy/1968)
The European art film may have never come this close to being a non-movie—and to summoning the nascent...
I was surprised to learn Mason never won an Oscar or a Bafta. Then again he lost to Brando in On The Waterfront and O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.
Originally posted by Chris Knipp
One movie I remember very vividly seeing on television during the daytime at home as a graduate student when I was very high was Nicolas Ray's Bigger Than Life with...
I watched a lot of old movies on late-night TV in the 70s and early 80s, shown with commercial breaks of course. It was so far from ideal viewing circumstances, and besides I was probably high on...
CAMILLE (George Cukor/1936/USA)
La Dame Aux Camelias, a novel and play written by Alexander Dumas in 1852 has become a seminal love story. It has seen numerous incarnations as opera, play, film,...
I'm glad you find the thread worth reading. Some of these titles are obscure and I feel they shouldn't be. All but two (Naruse's Mother and Assayas' Cold Water) are available on dvd at major rental...
It's also one of those films with highly elaborate art direction and overstuffed images (streets teeming with people and vehicles, different concentric levels of gambling den) that can only be...
THE SHANGHAI GESTURE (Josef von Sternberg/1942/USA)
Josef von Sternberg once apologized to the mayor of Marrakech for the "accidental resemblance" of some sets in his Morocco to actual Marrakech...
For various reasons, I regularly refrain from labeling a movie as "depressing". Movies typically don't depress me, to begin with, and the rare ones that do are not the same movies anyone else calls...
THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke/1989/Austria)
The first theatrical feature by the director of Code Unknown, Funny Games and Cache is finally available. It was recently released on dvd by...
EDVARD MUNCH (Peter Watkins/1974/Norway-UK)
I picture the man who created the iconic Expressionist painting "The Scream" in art heaven. He's clearly proud to be the subject of perhaps the best...