Comments | bonniegeorge: Addison's Favourite Films

bonniegeorge

Addison's Favourite Films

Jan 15, 2006 22:34

Right. I was watching bits of "Andrei Rublev" this evening, and realised just how incredibly stunning the film truly was, and how much I wanted certain individuals to view certain scenes. Perhaps that's just because three-and-one-half-hour Russian movies fill me with an unbearably ugly sort of smugness - I don't know. Or perhaps I was just basking ( Read more... )

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bonniegeorge January 16 2006, 06:41:01 UTC

"Alice is left to understand his feelings for her and come to terms with them, which all sounds rather unimpressive but actually somehow happens to be so even in spite of what you'd think."

Hah. It IS an impressive film. That's what I meant to say! Damn my intrepid devil-may-care post-away before reading-over attitude.

secretive_bus January 16 2006, 09:37:26 UTC

Well, you can edit your posts, y'know. Go to "Manage" at the top blue bar, "Entries" and sort it out from there!

secretive_bus January 16 2006, 09:36:33 UTC

Well, here's a bit of Secretive Bus trivia mongering - it's spelt "Alastair Sim". ;-)

Don't you go much on Kubrick's version of "Lolita"? Must say that that's one of my own personal favourite films, though why that is I can't quite say (certainly the subject matter doesn't exactly appeal to me).

bonniegeorge January 16 2006, 18:21:40 UTC

Bugger. I knew that as well, y'know. Bloody late hours.

While I like "Lolita" well enough, I have to say that I have somewhat mixed feelings concerning it. It's not so much the film itself that I have my doubts about as it is Kubrick's own style. I'd still have to say that "Lolita" and "Paths of Glory" are both fine films in their own right, and to be fair it is probably Stanley's later period that I have my trouble with - "2001", "Clockwork Orange", "The Shining", and the like. Perhaps it's because I'm a prude, or something rather like that.

At any rate, give "Barry Lyndon" a try, if only for the sake of the camp butler from "Jonathan Creek".

(Though I think the one you'd appreciate most is "Monsignor Quixote".)

secretive_bus January 16 2006, 19:30:44 UTC

Nah, you don't like "A Clockwork Orange" because it's rubbish.

Good man.

bonniegeorge January 16 2006, 19:36:03 UTC

I think you have a very valid point there, yes.

anonymous January 17 2006, 02:09:06 UTC

Hrmm. I'm interested in seeing the rest of your rankings.

Ah, the Ladykillers is wonderful. If I were less exhausted, I would start on Sir Alec's box set right now.

zenblends January 17 2006, 02:10:02 UTC

And that was me, Nada. Damned faulty cookies.