more on film...
Sep. 28th, 2005 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dweniusLet's revisit that films of joy post. Like I said, I don't watch a lot of film, which means that I'm likely missing out on many things that I would like if I knew about them. So if you start with Charlie Kaufman, Miyazaki, Svenkmajer, the Marx Brothers, Jeunet and Caro (the five primary sources of joy in my original list), then add in Terry Gilliam (yes, every film including Baron Munchausen) and quirky cult films like Harold and Maude or Being There, plus obvious geek pleasers like LotR and CTHD...where do you, oh great video store master, send me next? Help me, Lazyweb!
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Date: 2005-09-28 07:52 pm (UTC)Pi - Darren Aronofsky wrote and directed this movie in a nice gritty black and white. It's about a mathematician who believes patterns exist in everything. He sees them everywhere - including the stock market. He is trying to find a secret 216 digit number in Pi that will unlock the pattern that runs through everything, not just individual pieces of nature. He slides deeper into paranoia as he gets closer and everyone else who wants it is after him.
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Date: 2005-09-30 09:35 pm (UTC)Tim Burton?
Date: 2005-09-28 08:23 pm (UTC)Re: Tim Burton?
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Date: 2005-09-28 08:42 pm (UTC)- House of Flying Daggers (2004)
- Hero (2002)
These are both wuxia style movies; if you liked CTHD you will like these.
- The Road Home (1999)
- Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
- Ju Dou (1990)
These star the incomparable Gong Li, who is one of the most beautiful women in the world.
Peter Greenaway. His films are tight intellectual puzzles, with a beating heart of fire. I haven't seen enough of his work.
Kieslowski. Blue, White, Red.
Where are you on the Coen brothers? Have you seen The Man Who Wasn't There, O Brother Where Art Thou, Barton Fink, etc.?
Wes Anderson. Funny, strange; get into his headspace and they're the most hilarious films. It's all in the details. Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums. I didn't much like The Life Aquatic but some did.
Paul Thomas Anderson (no relation). Magnolia. Punch-Drunk Love is pretty interesting too.
Atom Egoyan. Literary stories that will torture your emotions. Felicia's Journey, The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica.
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Date: 2005-09-28 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-28 11:37 pm (UTC)also The Big Lebowski - one of my two favorite movies of all time and one which, if combined with Hamlet and Young Frankenstein, contains an encoded solution to any crisis you're going to encounter at any point in your life.
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Date: 2005-09-30 09:51 pm (UTC)Greenaway: I haven't seen anything but Prospero's Books, which was very well done.
I am ignorant of Kieslowski, Coen Bros., and both Andersons, altough the Jon Brion connection to PTA did register. Ditto Egoyan, despite
Thanks for the tips and reminders.
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Date: 2005-09-28 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-09-28 10:57 pm (UTC)So, trying to be more organized based on the above, and not particularly restricted to movies in the last five years since you didn't say...
quirky: Amelie, Local Hero, Shaolin Soccer, Diva ("C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."), Better Off Dead, Go
mainstream comedies: Groundhog Day, All of Me, Ruthless People
Coen brothers: Fargo, Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou
geek pleasers: Fight Club, Run Lola Run, the Kevin Smith oeuvre (primarily Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma)
If you've already seen some of these and like them, make a note and I'll see if I can find more-like-that.
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Date: 2005-09-30 09:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-28 11:47 pm (UTC)Zoolander.
I Huckabees
any of the Busby Berkeley movies, but particularly Gold Diggers of 1933
really. highly recommend all of these to you particularly. give me a day to consult with my associate and I'll come up with a few more.
Re: Oldboy
Date: 2005-09-30 10:17 pm (UTC)Oldboy
Date: 2005-09-29 01:39 am (UTC)Re: Oldboy
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Date: 2005-09-29 04:42 am (UTC)I second The Quiet Earth, but it did not stand up to a second watching, for whatever reason.
My favorite film few have seen is "Intacto".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220580/
I cannot figure out the low IMDB rating. It has great theory and exection.
If you want a series to consume, you could do much worse than finding out if Hal Hartley films are your thing (suggested: Flirt, Simple Men, Trust). Much cast overlap + similar dialogue style = the Hartley headspace.
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Date: 2005-09-30 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-29 01:51 pm (UTC)Please tell me you've seen:
Miller's Crossing (beautiful gangster movie with Gabriel Byrne)
The Thin Man movies -- a series of 5 wise cracking 40s movies
with William Powell and Myrna Loy. Snappy and amusing. LOTS of booze and cigarettes.
Random things I've seen that were worth a second look, but are not seminal:
The Scent of Green Papaya -- Vietnamese movie I saw ages ago. I scarcely remember the plot but the affect of the film was like being there. It was gorgeous.
The Station Agent -- solitary man with dwarfism and a fixation on trains inherits and moves into an old train depot. Meets locals. Personal attachments ensue.
Jump Tomorrow -- quirky African man living in the US trying to decide whether to show up for his arranged marriage. Road tripping and hijinks.
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Date: 2005-09-30 10:05 pm (UTC)Other customers who watched your favorites also enjoyed...
Date: 2005-09-29 04:27 pm (UTC)Durn Kludge. I swear, that man is responsible for more people misquoting Diva than...grumble, grumble, grumble. :)
hugs and blinky movie-eyes,
mary
Re: Other customers who watched your favorites also enjoyed...
Date: 2005-09-29 05:27 pm (UTC)File under: "How could I forget?"
Date: 2005-09-29 06:02 pm (UTC)mary
Re: Other customers who watched your favorites also enjoyed...
Date: 2005-09-30 10:07 pm (UTC)Amadeus...one of these days I have to go back and watch Amadeus again. The first time I saw it, I was Watching Some Other Movie at the time, and well, that was part of the sequence of events that deposited me in California.
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Date: 2005-09-29 05:35 pm (UTC)Pandaemonium (2000) - Wordsworth, Coleridge et al as you've never seen them before
Phenomena (1985) - horror/thriller with Jennifer Connelly (just pre-Labyrinth) - she can communicate with bugs telepathically but this has nothing to do with the plot - it's just a weird mcguffin
The Saddest Music in the World - Guy Maddin movie - one of the more unearthly pictures you're ever gonna see. Isabella Rosellini plays a beer heiress with two artificial glass legs which she keeps filled with beer.
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Date: 2005-09-29 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-30 10:12 pm (UTC)"My mistake. Four coffins."
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