Yeah, i think it was one of our easier games, sorry to say. I saw Vianden (without remembering the name) on the French TV programme La Chasse a Trésor a couple of years before, so was surprised to find myself there (simply by acting on impulse at a junction which of 3 signs to follow in ignorance; just how life works- pure destiny)- had a lift from a Portuguese truck-driver into the town, then a delicious meal! Good old Luxemburg, eh?
Yes, anyone else reading this; don't miss Luxemburg.
Very interesting, mainly cos for some reason (o.k, it's small), Luxemburg gets overlooked. I hitch-hiked (randomly) through there in the Autumn of 1981, when living for a year at Verdun in France. Beautiful with the woods in colour. Pretty countryside + clean pleasant towns; i liked Vianden (nice little restaurant by a bridge) and Esternach (on the German border, though i didn't realise it when i arrived), Luxemburg city was also worth seeing. Oh and i played against Luxemburg at Rugby!
Of the films, Une Liaison Pornographique is good- Nathalie Baye lovely-, Girl with a Pearl Earring worthwhile too (not especially deep or convincing in its plot but the performances and tone are likeable and the lighting, recreations well done). I fancy seeing the early quite obscure Ophuls: he was a great director who should be much better known. Yet to see The Merchant of Venice- i presume it wasn't all shot in Luxemburg?
I've now done a list here of the MovieMail 100- more to follow in due course. Oh, and you might like to ask "Senses of Cinema" (excellent website) for their full current top 100, not just top 10 overall, in their ongoing poll
Seen them all. A pity World Cinema is poorly represented cos the selections have an (Anglo-)American/ Hollywood bias. How about: MovieMail top 100 (2000), Time Out (1995), Romanian critics' top 100 (1995), Time Out readers (1998), Time Out readers (2004), "Editorial Jaguar" (Spain) 100 films of the Century (2000), Sight and Sound top 100 (2002). There was also the poll of top 100 European films by the Cinemateca Portuguesa in 1995. Other polls in Germany, Russia and France (eg "Positif") i don't have a full 100 on, just the overall top 10-25.
I think Dream of the Rarebit Fiend should be in the partial animation category. And is it long enough? What's the cut-off point?
Do add Tale of the Fox (Starewicz). Another film by him, The Mascot, is a masterpiece, as are shorts like Street of Crocodiles (Quay twins) and Tale of Tales (Norstein).
Conspirators of Pleasure (Svankmajer) is a feature-length partially animated Czech film.
All very highly rated classics, for sure. And do take a look at "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?" website list, according to various polls (can't remember if you've already seen it).
The best TV comedy ever. My favourites are The Psychiatrist, Communication Problems (Que? Si! What? K.C.WATT- priceless), Gourmet Night and A Touch of Class.
Madame Bovary- Flaubert
In Search of Lost Time- Proust
Slaughterhouse 5- Vonnegut
Pride and Prejudice- Austen
Great Expectations- Dickens
The Rainbow- D.H.Lawrence
Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky
War and Peace- Tolstein
Anna Karenina- Tolstein
The Master and Margarita- Bulgakov
Tom Jones- Fielding
The House of the Spirits- Allende
Lord of the Rings- Tolkein
Little Women- Alcott
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Marquez
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck
The Tin Drum- Grass
Jacques the Fatalist- Diderot
Jude the Obscure- Hardy
Middlemarch- George Eliot
Don Quixote- Cervantes
Gulliver's Travels- Swift
Well i've not read enough by the contenders to make a proper judgment. Shakespeare may be the greatest and hats off to Homer for longevity. I've long had great respect for Diderot (glad to find him here). St Exupéry is a pleasant surprise. Lots of excellent choices in the selection. Did i miss Racine, Marquez, Yeats, Goethe, Milton, Virgil, Pushkin, Tennyson, Keats? I'd have liked to see a few from the Far East, e.g Chinese T'ang dynasty poets Li Po and Tu Fu and Japanese Nobel-winning novelist Kawabata.
Yeah, i think it was one of our easier games, sorry to say. I saw Vianden (without remembering the name) on the French TV programme La Chasse a Trésor a couple of years before, so was surprised to find myself there (simply by acting on impulse at a junction which of 3 signs to follow in ignorance; just how life works- pure destiny)- had a lift from a Portuguese truck-driver into the town, then a delicious meal! Good old Luxemburg, eh?
Yes, anyone else reading this; don't miss Luxemburg.
Very interesting, mainly cos for some reason (o.k, it's small), Luxemburg gets overlooked. I hitch-hiked (randomly) through there in the Autumn of 1981, when living for a year at Verdun in France. Beautiful with the woods in colour. Pretty countryside + clean pleasant towns; i liked Vianden (nice little restaurant by a bridge) and Esternach (on the German border, though i didn't realise it when i arrived), Luxemburg city was also worth seeing. Oh and i played against Luxemburg at Rugby!
Of the films, Une Liaison Pornographique is good- Nathalie Baye lovely-, Girl with a Pearl Earring worthwhile too (not especially deep or convincing in its plot but the performances and tone are likeable and the lighting, recreations well done). I fancy seeing the early quite obscure Ophuls: he was a great director who should be much better known. Yet to see The Merchant of Venice- i presume it wasn't all shot in Luxemburg?
I've now done a list here of the MovieMail 100- more to follow in due course. Oh, and you might like to ask "Senses of Cinema" (excellent website) for their full current top 100, not just top 10 overall, in their ongoing poll
Seen them all. A pity World Cinema is poorly represented cos the selections have an (Anglo-)American/ Hollywood bias. How about: MovieMail top 100 (2000), Time Out (1995), Romanian critics' top 100 (1995), Time Out readers (1998), Time Out readers (2004), "Editorial Jaguar" (Spain) 100 films of the Century (2000), Sight and Sound top 100 (2002). There was also the poll of top 100 European films by the Cinemateca Portuguesa in 1995. Other polls in Germany, Russia and France (eg "Positif") i don't have a full 100 on, just the overall top 10-25.
I think Dream of the Rarebit Fiend should be in the partial animation category. And is it long enough? What's the cut-off point?
Do add Tale of the Fox (Starewicz). Another film by him, The Mascot, is a masterpiece, as are shorts like Street of Crocodiles (Quay twins) and Tale of Tales (Norstein).
Conspirators of Pleasure (Svankmajer) is a feature-length partially animated Czech film.
All very highly rated classics, for sure. And do take a look at "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?" website list, according to various polls (can't remember if you've already seen it).
The best TV comedy ever. My favourites are The Psychiatrist, Communication Problems (Que? Si! What? K.C.WATT- priceless), Gourmet Night and A Touch of Class.
Some (mainly objective) suggestions:
Madame Bovary- Flaubert
In Search of Lost Time- Proust
Slaughterhouse 5- Vonnegut
Pride and Prejudice- Austen
Great Expectations- Dickens
The Rainbow- D.H.Lawrence
Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky
War and Peace- Tolstein
Anna Karenina- Tolstein
The Master and Margarita- Bulgakov
Tom Jones- Fielding
The House of the Spirits- Allende
Lord of the Rings- Tolkein
Little Women- Alcott
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Marquez
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck
The Tin Drum- Grass
Jacques the Fatalist- Diderot
Jude the Obscure- Hardy
Middlemarch- George Eliot
Don Quixote- Cervantes
Gulliver's Travels- Swift
Well i've not read enough by the contenders to make a proper judgment. Shakespeare may be the greatest and hats off to Homer for longevity. I've long had great respect for Diderot (glad to find him here). St Exupéry is a pleasant surprise. Lots of excellent choices in the selection. Did i miss Racine, Marquez, Yeats, Goethe, Milton, Virgil, Pushkin, Tennyson, Keats? I'd have liked to see a few from the Far East, e.g Chinese T'ang dynasty poets Li Po and Tu Fu and Japanese Nobel-winning novelist Kawabata.