I'm afraid there's no set guidelines for my ratings other than my own subjective views. I'd be happy to elaborate my views on certain films if there's something you're interested in hearing my opinion on though. :D
It's amazing how often regional releases are ruined by companies deciding to change certain aspects of the film. DVDBeaver.com has compiled a whole list of comparisons of films and their differences between regions: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/compare.htm
Joel Coen - The Big Lebowski
Wes Anderson - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Hal Ashby - Harold and Maude is all I've seen and I hated it
Kevin Smith - Clerks.
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
Stanley Kubrick - The Killing
P.T. Anderson - Boogie Nights
Errol Morris - The Fog of War is all I've seen and I thought it was okay
David Lynch - Eraserhead
The point was that Satyricon isn't a likely candidate that someone might list as best film ever. And the Scaruffi crowd all have a similar list of unexpected candidates.
Let's say my 5 favorite albums are (I really love these albums, but they're not necessarily my top 5.. just first to come to mind):
Burzum - Filosofem
Ulver - Themes from William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
Agalloch - The Mantle
Negura Bunget - OM
Triarii - Pièce Héroique
I would be rather surprised to come across one other person that lists these same albums in their top 10. But the Scaruffi crowd have similar top lists of unusual choices, which simply comes across as quite unusual and suspicious.
Not really. Welles and Hitchcock are fairly mainstream, conventional filmmakers. It's like music critics listing The Beatles as a top band, and that's not what this Scaruffi-ism is all about.
Imagine if a film critic showed up and said, the best film ever made is Fellini's Satyricon followed by all these other unusual, avant-garde films. Then, after saying this, a group of people show up saying that indeed Satyricon is the best film ever made along with a similar list of unusual, avant-garde films following it. And they stated that this objectively so, and if you don't recognize the brilliance that is Satyricon, you just have to watch it a couple hundred more times to appreciate its beauty and emotion. This is what Scaruffi-ism looks like to me, and it all seems most peculiar.
Those two incidents do indeed happen in the film, along with a number of other scenes that will leave you rolling your eyes.
I think Champion's criticism is valid, but only to a certain extent. He clearly doesn't like the current brand of quirky indie films, so it's no surprise he takes issue with Juno, as the dialogue in Juno comes across as artifically quirky at times. No teenager talks the way Juno does and it's obvious with the name-dropping that Diablo Cody is injecting herself into the script. No teenager would reference bloody Thundercats, someone old enough to have seen it as a kid (like Cody) might.
The screenwriting is somewhat of a cheese-fest, but the film is somewhat entertaining. It's not nearly as 'wizard' as many are claiming it to be, however.
Indeed, haven't seen any Hal Hartley. It's a name I've seen pop up a couple times but haven't had the chance to catch any yet. I'll have to correct that sometime.
Haven't seen Zombie and the Ghost Train. The other one I've seen by Mika is The Clan: Tale of the Frogs, which is okay but instantly forgettable.
Hard to say about their difference in styles. From what I've seen of both, some of Jim Jarmusch's work springs to mind as being somewhat similar to both of them, and they've both worked with him, so that seems like a fitting comparison. Though if you haven't seen a few of Jarmusch's films, I imagine that doesn't help you at all, heh.
Ah, missed this comment as this list is way down at the bottom of my page and I don't get emails when I get comments (I should fix that sometime).
Thursday, I've seen. I recall thinking it was 2nd-rate Tarantino worship and gave it a 5/10. Amateur does look interesting. Don't know that I'll see it anytime soon as I have a big backlog of stuff to watch, but recommendation noted. :)
That's actually the first Aki Kaurismäki film I've seen (I'll defintely be checking out more sometime in the future), though I've seen a couple films by his brother Mika Kaurismäki (according to IMDB, these two brothers make up one-fifth of Finland's total cinematic output since the early 80's). Of the two films I've seen by Mika, I'd highly recommend Rosso (1985), but it may be rather hard to find.
The first film that springs to mind with that description is Ki-duk Kim's The Bow (2005, Korean). There's very little dialogue, it involves two people meeting on a fishing boat, however, they both don't play an instrument. There is an instrument played during the film, and the music is rather good, but it's not played by either of the two people that meet, if I remember correctly.
If the movie you're thinking of is more of a musical, then this isn't it. Another stab at guessing: The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005, French). I'm drawing a blank on 2006 films with instrument playing though.
I'm afraid there's no set guidelines for my ratings other than my own subjective views. I'd be happy to elaborate my views on certain films if there's something you're interested in hearing my opinion on though. :D
It's amazing how often regional releases are ruined by companies deciding to change certain aspects of the film. DVDBeaver.com has compiled a whole list of comparisons of films and their differences between regions: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/compare.htm
I'll join once again, though I'll probably be near the bottom again. List here
Joel Coen - The Big Lebowski
Wes Anderson - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Hal Ashby - Harold and Maude is all I've seen and I hated it
Kevin Smith - Clerks.
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
Stanley Kubrick - The Killing
P.T. Anderson - Boogie Nights
Errol Morris - The Fog of War is all I've seen and I thought it was okay
David Lynch - Eraserhead
Keep praying, you'll eventually find God. Keep listening, you'll eventually find Scaruffi.
I prefer goats over sheep.
The point was that Satyricon isn't a likely candidate that someone might list as best film ever. And the Scaruffi crowd all have a similar list of unexpected candidates.
Let's say my 5 favorite albums are (I really love these albums, but they're not necessarily my top 5.. just first to come to mind):
Burzum - Filosofem
Ulver - Themes from William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
Agalloch - The Mantle
Negura Bunget - OM
Triarii - Pièce Héroique
I would be rather surprised to come across one other person that lists these same albums in their top 10. But the Scaruffi crowd have similar top lists of unusual choices, which simply comes across as quite unusual and suspicious.
Not really. Welles and Hitchcock are fairly mainstream, conventional filmmakers. It's like music critics listing The Beatles as a top band, and that's not what this Scaruffi-ism is all about.
Imagine if a film critic showed up and said, the best film ever made is Fellini's Satyricon followed by all these other unusual, avant-garde films. Then, after saying this, a group of people show up saying that indeed Satyricon is the best film ever made along with a similar list of unusual, avant-garde films following it. And they stated that this objectively so, and if you don't recognize the brilliance that is Satyricon, you just have to watch it a couple hundred more times to appreciate its beauty and emotion. This is what Scaruffi-ism looks like to me, and it all seems most peculiar.
Those two incidents do indeed happen in the film, along with a number of other scenes that will leave you rolling your eyes.
I think Champion's criticism is valid, but only to a certain extent. He clearly doesn't like the current brand of quirky indie films, so it's no surprise he takes issue with Juno, as the dialogue in Juno comes across as artifically quirky at times. No teenager talks the way Juno does and it's obvious with the name-dropping that Diablo Cody is injecting herself into the script. No teenager would reference bloody Thundercats, someone old enough to have seen it as a kid (like Cody) might.
The screenwriting is somewhat of a cheese-fest, but the film is somewhat entertaining. It's not nearly as 'wizard' as many are claiming it to be, however.
Indeed, haven't seen any Hal Hartley. It's a name I've seen pop up a couple times but haven't had the chance to catch any yet. I'll have to correct that sometime.
Haven't seen Zombie and the Ghost Train. The other one I've seen by Mika is The Clan: Tale of the Frogs, which is okay but instantly forgettable.
Hard to say about their difference in styles. From what I've seen of both, some of Jim Jarmusch's work springs to mind as being somewhat similar to both of them, and they've both worked with him, so that seems like a fitting comparison. Though if you haven't seen a few of Jarmusch's films, I imagine that doesn't help you at all, heh.
Ah, missed this comment as this list is way down at the bottom of my page and I don't get emails when I get comments (I should fix that sometime).
Thursday, I've seen. I recall thinking it was 2nd-rate Tarantino worship and gave it a 5/10. Amateur does look interesting. Don't know that I'll see it anytime soon as I have a big backlog of stuff to watch, but recommendation noted. :)
That's actually the first Aki Kaurismäki film I've seen (I'll defintely be checking out more sometime in the future), though I've seen a couple films by his brother Mika Kaurismäki (according to IMDB, these two brothers make up one-fifth of Finland's total cinematic output since the early 80's). Of the two films I've seen by Mika, I'd highly recommend Rosso (1985), but it may be rather hard to find.
I'll join in again, though I expect to place even lower than last year. List here.
The first film that springs to mind with that description is Ki-duk Kim's The Bow (2005, Korean). There's very little dialogue, it involves two people meeting on a fishing boat, however, they both don't play an instrument. There is an instrument played during the film, and the music is rather good, but it's not played by either of the two people that meet, if I remember correctly.
If the movie you're thinking of is more of a musical, then this isn't it. Another stab at guessing: The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005, French). I'm drawing a blank on 2006 films with instrument playing though.
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