I can see why you'd feel that way about Alphaville. I like it, but I realize it's kind of dull...I think I just saw it for the first time at the perfect point to appreciate it and now I still have that regard for it even though I don't feel particularly motivated to rewatch it. I wonder if this might be the same list I looked at a while back when I was trying to improve my sf movie awareness--basically I realized I had seen lots of sf tv and not that many films. I saw Event Horizon during that period. It seemed like there was this whole genre of post-Solaris movies--Event Horizon, Sphere, etc.--none of which are very good. I still need to watch the Soderbergh Solaris, but I'm scared to since I like the Tarkovsky one and the novel so much I'd hate to be disappointed. But I digress.
maybe I should watch Solaris again -- I saw it I guess 15 or 20 years ago and didn't dig it much. But a few years ago, I saw Stalker, and I was completely engaged, all 6-1/2 hours of it. Well, it's not quite that long, but it is long. Didn't see the Soderbergh one.
was pleased to see sentimental favorites like Videodrome and Repo Man. and Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind? well, that one does Phildickian intergender bickering *perfectly*.
what would i like to see on the list? well, a movie that prolly post-dates it. A Serious Man, i mean. on the PKD scale, i'd have to cite VALIS, Maze of Death, Flow My Tears. from the AMAZING opening sequence (Yiddish, yo!) to the menacing Columbia Record Club rep *phoning from THE FUTURE* ..
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was pleased to see sentimental favorites like Videodrome and Repo Man. and Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind? well, that one does Phildickian intergender bickering *perfectly*.
what would i like to see on the list? well, a movie that prolly post-dates it. A Serious Man, i mean. on the PKD scale, i'd have to cite VALIS, Maze of Death, Flow My Tears. from the AMAZING opening sequence (Yiddish, yo!) to the menacing Columbia Record Club rep *phoning from THE FUTURE* ..
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