Good call. Something to do with a shared ironic melancholy for the vanished world of the stasi and solidarnosc.Quote:
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Good call. Something to do with a shared ironic melancholy for the vanished world of the stasi and solidarnosc.Quote:
Originally Posted by danthepoetman
All I can say is that I have been watching Kane for over 40 years and every time I see it I am impressed with its script, its editing, its story, its acting, the use of music -it is a multi-layered film with innovations in the use of deep focus- the whole conception is magical, as films often should be. You only need to see other attempts to make films within films, stories presented as a factual newsreel to see how thin they look next to Kane. There are also few films about political life which last beyond their age, yet you could easily see Kane in the context of Berlusconi, to a degree anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by RallyCola
As for classics that do nothing for me, I'm with Prospero on Chaplin, can't stand the man. I would also throw away all the Marx Bros films, but while in recent times the films of Gus van Sant are remarkable in being embarrasingly bad, nothing with a reputation is as vile as the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard. I think every one of his films stinks.
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That movie is supposedly about the Norwich State Mental Hospital, in Connecticut. It's about a 20 minute drive from me. It's been closed and abandoned for some time now. Pretty creepy place.
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OK, never mind what I said. I had heard it was about Norwich State a few times, but after looking into it, I see it's about a place in Massachusetts called Danvers State. I guess people in CT wanted to claim it as their own. Guess I should have found that out before making an ill-informed post. Norwich State is still creepy, though.
My father was exactly the same. He loved Horror but my mom hated it so he took me instead. By the time I was 9 or 10 I chose the films we saw. Saw The Exorcist at 6 years old in a theater.Quote:
Originally Posted by RallyCola
Just got back from Cronenberg's Cosmopolis. If DeLillo wanted to say the soulessness of the upper one percent infects us all, he could've have said it more succinctly.
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 2008)
Mistakenly described as a 'love song and eulogy' for the city of Liverpool, this film, mostly archive film with some contemporary footage, is a sour, misanthropic, sarcastic, and overwhelmingly self-indulgent piece of tosh from someone who seems to be incapable of believing he was born in the place -having abandoned it in the 1970s one wonders why he bothered to return.
Of Time and the City - Trailer - YouTube
I'll probably see that. I'm mainly into early Montreal Cronenberg but just about all of his stuff is consistently good. Keep meaning to see Eastern Promises again soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by trish
My favorite Vincent Price film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRfziUjNzEU
My second favorite Vincent Price film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5emdPYUXj8