Thought Hugo was pretty boring with the sniffly-nose kid's giant head taking up the screen for an hour and a half. I liked seeing the Méliès films in 3d though.
― tanuki, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
caught 'margaret' the other day. a terrific mess.
― silvana mangano, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
works by Ford, Kuchar, Chaplin, Hawks, Pixar and the Nicholas Bros added to the National Film Registry:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/daily-briefing-25-titles-added-to-the-national-film-registry
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
I love the Kuchar short ('I, An Actress'), a fitting epitaph to throw in there. Short of his whole part at the end of 'Thundercrack!' I can't think of a better dialogue heavy bit to introduce someone to the spirit of Kuchar.
― ineloquentwow, Thursday, 29 December 2011 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
watched Sans Soleil last night
― tanuki, Thursday, 29 December 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
George Kuchar retro in NYC, Feb 10-12 (PDF, page 7):
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/AFA123_2012CalCompletes.pdf
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
man, i've only seen a handful of those! jealous that y'all will see an actual print of 'eclipse of the sun virgin'
― silvana mangano, Friday, 30 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
Tanaki - did u like Sans Soleil? It was my first Marker after La Jetee and I was really underwhelmed. Was a few years ago so I want to revisit.
― xyzz, Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
Been screening a few African/Third world cinema films: Mambety's Hyenes and Cisse's Yeelen are really great, as is Pereira dos Santos' Rio, 40 Degrees.
― xyzz, Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
Loved it — even more than La jetée
― tanuki, Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEWir5844nE
― Hongro4AS (nakhchivan), Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
I guess this is the most applicable thread, although I'm not sure how cineaste it is: I finally found some time to finish posting a Facebook countdown of my favourite movies I did a few months ago onto my homepage.
http://phildellio.tripod.com/movies.html
(Be forewarned: James L. Brooks places more films than Carl T. Dreyer and Rainer W. Fassbinder combined.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
Clemenza, you're dead to me now. When you go over to our mother's house for New Year's Eve let me know ahead of time so I don't have to see you
― P-Moose (Wants To Get Moosed Up) (James Redd), Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
I was just being strong for all of us the way Papa was.
― clemenza, Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
Or watch Dinner For One with you
― P-Moose (Wants To Get Moosed Up) (James Redd), Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
j/jk I just narrowly renewed my own Film Snob bona fides by going to see Marienbad and The Gold Rush at the FF last week
― P-Moose (Wants To Get Moosed Up) (James Redd), Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
I've always felt like I've had a foot in both worlds. (Last two films at home: Prince of the City and L'Avventura. I think they're both overrated.) We had a lot of back and forth in the comments about the relationship between these kinds of lists and the official canon 9or whatever you want to call it0.
― clemenza, Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Shift up, shift down...
― clemenza, Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
Which means that 2012 will be the Year of Apatow and Rogen for me
― P-Moose (Wants To Get Moosed Up) (James Redd), Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
I've got Dreyer but no Fassbender or Brooks in my canon, as per Mubi:
ELECTROCUTING AN ELEPHANT (Edison, 1903)M (Lang, 1931)GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (LeRoy, 1933)THE SCARLET EMPRESS (von Sternberg, 1934)MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (McCarey, 1937)HELLZAPOPPIN' (Potter, 1941)FIREWORKS (Anger, 1947)UN CHANT D'AMOUR (Genet, 1950)GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Hawks, 1953)THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Laughton, 1955)GERTRUD (Dreyer, 1964)SIMON OF THE DESERT (Buñuel, 1965)BREAKAWAY (Conner, 1966)WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (Nichols, 1966)WEEKEND (Godard, 1967)NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (Romero, 1968)BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (Meyer, 1970)PINK NARCISSUS (Bidgood, 1971)WOMEN IN REVOLT (Morrissey, 1971)THE WICKER MAN (Hardy, 1973)FEMALE TROUBLE (Waters, 1974)SCORE (Metzger, 1974)THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (Hooper, 1974)BARRY LYNDON (Kubrick, 1975)NASHVILLE (Altman, 1975)CARRIE (De Palma, 1976)GREY GARDENS (Maysles, Mayles, Hovde, 1976)THE TENANT (Polanski, 1976)ALL THAT JAZZ (Fosse, 1979)THE WARRIORS (Hill, 1979)MOMMIE DEAREST (Perry, 1981)MS. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)TANGO (Rybczynski, 1981)TENEBRAE (Argento, 1982)SANS SOLEIL (Marker, 1983)SLEEPAWAY CAMP (Hiltzik, 1983)CRIME WAVE (Paizs, 1985)DO THE RIGHT THING (Lee, 1989)PARIS IS BURNING (Livingston, 1990)SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Tarr, 1994)SHOWGIRLS (Verhoeven, 1995)DOGVILLE (von Trier, 2003)MUNICH (Spielberg, 2005)INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch, 2006)THE TREE OF LIFE (Malick, 2011)
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 31 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
Criterion shared part of their New Year's cartoon today on fb. Look forward to Weekend, Quadrophenia, and Harold & Maude amongst others.
― Tumblr Whites Off Earth Now!! (Sandbox Grisso-McCain), Saturday, 31 December 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Have you ever read Hoberman & Rosenbaum's Midnight Movies, Eric? Excellent book--it came to mind when I looked at your list. A friend of mine once listed Crime Wave as one of his ten favourite films. Haven't seen it.
― clemenza, Saturday, 31 December 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Yep. Pretty great tho could've benefitted from a more humorous approach.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 31 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link