Interesting list. Never really thought of The Doors or The Velvet Underground as psychedelic groups before, though I suppose the subject matters they dealt with as well as some of their musical experiments could warrant their inclusion on this list. Parable of Arable Land would probably be my number 1.
Some other albums you might want to consider:
Fifth Dimension (The Byrds, 1966) Revolver (The Beatles, 1966) The Great San Bernardino Birthday (John Fahey, 1966) Younger Than Yesterday (The Byrds, 1967) The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (The Holy Modal Rounders, 1969) Mutantes (Os Mutantes, 1969) Unicorn (T. Rex, 1969) U.F.O. (Guru Guru, 1970) Satori (Flower Travellin Band, 1971) Satwa (Satwa, 1973)
Michelangelo Antonioni
Stan Brakhage
John Cassavetes
Maya Deren
Sergei Eisenstein
Jean-Luc Godard
D.W. Griffith
F.W. Murnau
Roberto Rossellini
Orson Welles
Good list so far. I definitely agree with Sad Eyed Lady being number one. Also nice to see The Dangling Conversation on here. It's nice little gem that doesn't get enough attention as it deserves. Here are a few suggestions for your list:
Wolfpack - Syd Barrett (1970)
Happiness is a Warm Gun - The Beatles (1968)
I Am the Walrus - The Beatles (1967)
Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles (1967)
Anonymous Proposition - Tim Buckley (1970)
Love From Room 109 At The Islander (On Pacific Coast Highway) - Tim Buckley (1968)
Barry Lyndon is absolutely a must-see film. I don't feel any shame declaring it as Kubrick's best (2001 would be a close runner-up). It's certainly his most somber and restrained.
I even have a reputation for being incredibly patient with films and enjoying many 3-5 hour movies, but that would try my limits, I fear...
A film of that length would only be endurable as a serial like Les Vampires or Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Anyway, the 42-reel version of Greed (roughly nine hours) was merely a rough cut and never intended to be publicly screened. Stroheim personally trimmed the film down to 24-reels (about 5 hours), with the intention of having the film released in two parts, with time for dinner in between. Subsequently later, he had his friend Rex Ingram cut it down to 18-reels (about 3 1/2 to 4 hours in length). It is perhaps this latter version that should be considered "definitive" and most lamented.
Nevertheless, Greed is still one of the most powerful films I've seen, even in its truncated form.
Interesting list. Never really thought of The Doors or The Velvet Underground as psychedelic groups before, though I suppose the subject matters they dealt with as well as some of their musical experiments could warrant their inclusion on this list. Parable of Arable Land would probably be my number 1.
Some other albums you might want to consider:
Fifth Dimension (The Byrds, 1966)
Revolver (The Beatles, 1966)
The Great San Bernardino Birthday (John Fahey, 1966)
Younger Than Yesterday (The Byrds, 1967)
The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (The Holy Modal Rounders, 1969)
Mutantes (Os Mutantes, 1969)
Unicorn (T. Rex, 1969)
U.F.O. (Guru Guru, 1970)
Satori (Flower Travellin Band, 1971)
Satwa (Satwa, 1973)
Michelangelo Antonioni
Stan Brakhage
John Cassavetes
Maya Deren
Sergei Eisenstein
Jean-Luc Godard
D.W. Griffith
F.W. Murnau
Roberto Rossellini
Orson Welles
Good list so far. I definitely agree with Sad Eyed Lady being number one. Also nice to see The Dangling Conversation on here. It's nice little gem that doesn't get enough attention as it deserves. Here are a few suggestions for your list:
Wolfpack - Syd Barrett (1970)
Happiness is a Warm Gun - The Beatles (1968)
I Am the Walrus - The Beatles (1967)
Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles (1967)
Anonymous Proposition - Tim Buckley (1970)
Love From Room 109 At The Islander (On Pacific Coast Highway) - Tim Buckley (1968)
The Crystal Ship - The Doors (1967)
The End - The Doors (1967)
Dead End Street - The Kinks (1966)
Shangri-La - The Kinks (1969)
You Set the Scene - Love (1967)
Overs - Simon & Garfunkel (1967)
Palm Desert - Van Dyke Parks (1968)
Heroin - The Velvet Underground (1967)
Barry Lyndon is absolutely a must-see film. I don't feel any shame declaring it as Kubrick's best (2001 would be a close runner-up). It's certainly his most somber and restrained.
I even have a reputation for being incredibly patient with films and enjoying many 3-5 hour movies, but that would try my limits, I fear...
A film of that length would only be endurable as a serial like Les Vampires or Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Anyway, the 42-reel version of Greed (roughly nine hours) was merely a rough cut and never intended to be publicly screened. Stroheim personally trimmed the film down to 24-reels (about 5 hours), with the intention of having the film released in two parts, with time for dinner in between. Subsequently later, he had his friend Rex Ingram cut it down to 18-reels (about 3 1/2 to 4 hours in length). It is perhaps this latter version that should be considered "definitive" and most lamented.
Nevertheless, Greed is still one of the most powerful films I've seen, even in its truncated form.
This is a very good list, though I probably prefer Jungle Fire over Lorca. What's your opinion of Otis Redding, Dusty Springfield, and Marc Bolan?
Nice list. It's good to see the opening of Ambersons included on here, as well as Death Valley from Greed. Here are some recommendations:
"Finale: Balthazar's Death" - Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
"Finale: Caribou Sacrifice" - Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
"Finale: Eclipse" - L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
"Finale: Locke's Death' - The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
"Finale: Come in Number 51, You're Time is Up" - Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970)
"Finale: Rosebud Up in Smoke" - Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
"A Story All Mixed Up: Escape From Marianne's Apartment" - Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
"Cosmos in a Coffee Cup" - Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
"Traffic Jam" - Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
"Interrogation of Sanchez" - Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
"The Battle of Shrewsbury" - Chimes At Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965)
"Finale: Fight on the Staircase" - Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)
"Projectionist Enters the Movie" - Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
"The Tornado/House Collapses on Buster Keaton" - Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner, 1928)
"Finale: The Tramp and His Girl Walk Down a Country Road' - Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936)