If you like the high school/college coming of age comedy, then it is a masterpiece. It is really great for an American teenager, which is when I saw it and it has stuck with me like only A Day at the Races has. Enjoy!
Well, here is 10, though my top 30ish is as solid as my top 10 and they are are fairly interchangeable on the right day.
1. Michel Gondry: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
2. Alfred Hitchcock: North By Northwest (1959)
3. Richard Linklater: Dazed And Confused (1993)
4. Orson Welles: Touch Of Evil (1958)
5. Ingmar Bergman: Persona (1966)
6. Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
7. Woody Allen: Annie Hall (1977)
8. The Marx Brothers: A Day at the Races (1935)
9. Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
10. Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru [To Live] (1952)
Only for Varese because I know the specific release, the others I forgot to put on there when I originally listed them and now I don't know them. If I know of a particular performance, I do list it (there are a few in my music log--though I forgot the one for Liszt's S139). Also, I rarely listen to multiple performances of a work, so I wouldn't have a preference. I assumed SupremeTaste would know by listing so many works without a primary release by the artist.
All of them. Anything that does not have a definitive, singular, recording. There is no need wasting time listening to bad/lesser versions of anything.
Do you think Synechdoche, NY is depressing or (cleverly) optimistic? I thought it was depressing the first time I watched it. A friend of mine said the opposite. I watched it again and thought it was even more depressing and liked it more, but not because it was depressing. I (obviously) prefer Eternal Sunshine. Frank or Francis cannot be released soon enough....
Keaton falls because of celebrity. Chaplin has the outfit and "the Hitler" mustache and Keaton has his stone face. It doesn't help that people do not like old films, let alone b&w films, aned then you add silent to it all...there is only room for so much.
Honey, Story of the last chrysanthemums: I will try to check them out, but I am too slow to movie suggestions. I have loads of films that I have been suggested over the years that I have never gotten to though they are on my computer, or I have rented them (right now, Europa & Breaking the Waves, going on 3 weeks...then there are the Bergman films and the Angelopoulos films).
I won't watch that anytime soon, or ever. As you can see, thriller/horror films are not the type I value, or watch, but through the psychotic scenes of Possession a great film shined.
There probably is more to Amelie and Black Narcissus--I was being an ass. I saw Amelie so long ago, and Black Narcissus was not the movie for me at the time. I watched Frost/Nixon instead and I was not impressed with that, so I was just not in the mood.
If you like the high school/college coming of age comedy, then it is a masterpiece. It is really great for an American teenager, which is when I saw it and it has stuck with me like only A Day at the Races has. Enjoy!
Well, here is 10, though my top 30ish is as solid as my top 10 and they are are fairly interchangeable on the right day.
1. Michel Gondry: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
2. Alfred Hitchcock: North By Northwest (1959)
3. Richard Linklater: Dazed And Confused (1993)
4. Orson Welles: Touch Of Evil (1958)
5. Ingmar Bergman: Persona (1966)
6. Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
7. Woody Allen: Annie Hall (1977)
8. The Marx Brothers: A Day at the Races (1935)
9. Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
10. Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru [To Live] (1952)
Borges's On Exactitude of Science (and Carroll) reminds me of the film's expansion paradox. Any others?
That sucks. Based on how Mollom is described we should earn respect/privileges...oh well.
wow, captcha triggers need to change. I plead ignorance, is there any way to get rid of it for the particular users?
Only for Varese because I know the specific release, the others I forgot to put on there when I originally listed them and now I don't know them. If I know of a particular performance, I do list it (there are a few in my music log--though I forgot the one for Liszt's S139). Also, I rarely listen to multiple performances of a work, so I wouldn't have a preference. I assumed SupremeTaste would know by listing so many works without a primary release by the artist.
I don't get depressed from it either. I thought it was a overwhelmingly depressing film and didn't see any profound joy/happiness/optimism etc. in it.
No, but if you have a preference, you should.
Those are fine, but you should list what you think the best version of each composition is if you know.
All of them. Anything that does not have a definitive, singular, recording. There is no need wasting time listening to bad/lesser versions of anything.
Do you think Synechdoche, NY is depressing or (cleverly) optimistic? I thought it was depressing the first time I watched it. A friend of mine said the opposite. I watched it again and thought it was even more depressing and liked it more, but not because it was depressing. I (obviously) prefer Eternal Sunshine. Frank or Francis cannot be released soon enough....
Do you have particular recordings in mind for the older compositions?
Keaton falls because of celebrity. Chaplin has the outfit and "the Hitler" mustache and Keaton has his stone face. It doesn't help that people do not like old films, let alone b&w films, aned then you add silent to it all...there is only room for so much.
Honey, Story of the last chrysanthemums: I will try to check them out, but I am too slow to movie suggestions. I have loads of films that I have been suggested over the years that I have never gotten to though they are on my computer, or I have rented them (right now, Europa & Breaking the Waves, going on 3 weeks...then there are the Bergman films and the Angelopoulos films).
I won't watch that anytime soon, or ever. As you can see, thriller/horror films are not the type I value, or watch, but through the psychotic scenes of Possession a great film shined.
Ooooooo, you gotta watch Keaton. Even if it is only one film and you hate it, you have to watch it. Chaplin and Keaton are the two biggest stars of the silent era. THIS is a good starter list for the best silent films, though blasphemy to you. Keaton is awesome.
There probably is more to Amelie and Black Narcissus--I was being an ass. I saw Amelie so long ago, and Black Narcissus was not the movie for me at the time. I watched Frost/Nixon instead and I was not impressed with that, so I was just not in the mood.