Gerry, I've Loved You So Long, Yella, 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days, demonlover, Werckmeister Harmonies, The Queen, Away from Her, Good Night and Good Luck, Hotel Rwanda, The Aviator, Black Book, The Man Who Wasn't There, Munich, Lust Caution, Two Lovers, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Up the Yangtze, East-West, The Gleaners and I, No Man's Land, etc.
Those are the ones you haven't seen that I posted before your comment.
Black Book might also go on my list. As well as Away from Her and I've Loved You So Long. Doing this just makes me want to watch all these movies over again.
Dancer in the Dark Lost in Translation Ghost World Zodiac
And I definitely agree with you on these these choices. My husband said that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is really good, but I haven't gotten a chance to see it yet.
You mentioned "A Mighty Wind" and "Best in Show" but, no "For Your Consideration"? Disappointing...I'm always so pressed to find someone that loves FYC as much as I do.
I *hated* "Marie Antoinette" with a passion - I could hardly sit through it... in fact, "Lost in Translation", too... but "The Virgin Suicides" still leaves me lingering with hope for Sofia Coppola. Why "Swimming Pool"? I saw it at a very young age, but I remember being indifferent to it - should I rewatch?
"Friends With Money" is very underrated, IMO, so I'm very glad to see it featured in your brainstorming, "Happy-Go-Lucky" also (I think Poppy is hands-down one of the most fascinating characters of all-time, I absolutely love her). :) "Frozen River", yes yes yes. Melissa Leo was robbed of an Academy Award. "Iron Jawed Angels", "8 Women", "Downfall", "Sophie Scholl", "Aimme & Jaguar", "Irreversible", "Synecdoche, New York", "A History of Violence" and "Science of Sleep" -- great picks
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I guess For Your Consideration just didn't seem very funny to me. I remember sitting in the theater feeling awkward and disappointed. I remember liking Jennifer Coolidge in it but I've been wanting to see it again.
I thought both Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette were beautiful. I've heard all kinds of reasons about how they were bad movies but I don't buy any of it. Especially the latter. I thought it was a sort of magical transposition of the reality of youthful exuberance over the realities of history. I really thought all the color and the anachronistic music worked. I thought it was fabulous. I thought Lost in Translation summed up the Zeitgeist of my generation: the hunger and the loneliness and the sense of displacement.
As far as The Swimming Pool, I love Francois Ozon and I think I've loved everything I've ever seen that he's done, except for some of his short films, perhaps. I like mystery type movies, first of all, but I also felt that this movie did what David Lynch movies do: activate a part of your
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Those are the ones you haven't seen that I posted before your comment.
Black Book might also go on my list. As well as Away from Her and I've Loved You So Long.
Doing this just makes me want to watch all these movies over again.
I can't believe you ain't never seen demonlover.
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Dancer in the Dark
Lost in Translation
Ghost World
Zodiac
And I definitely agree with you on these these choices. My husband said that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is really good, but I haven't gotten a chance to see it yet.
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I *hated* "Marie Antoinette" with a passion - I could hardly sit through it... in fact, "Lost in Translation", too... but "The Virgin Suicides" still leaves me lingering with hope for Sofia Coppola. Why "Swimming Pool"? I saw it at a very young age, but I remember being indifferent to it - should I rewatch?
"Friends With Money" is very underrated, IMO, so I'm very glad to see it featured in your brainstorming, "Happy-Go-Lucky" also (I think Poppy is hands-down one of the most fascinating characters of all-time, I absolutely love her). :) "Frozen River", yes yes yes. Melissa Leo was robbed of an Academy Award. "Iron Jawed Angels", "8 Women", "Downfall", "Sophie Scholl", "Aimme & Jaguar", "Irreversible", "Synecdoche, New York", "A History of Violence" and "Science of Sleep" -- great picks ( ... )
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I thought both Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette were beautiful. I've heard all kinds of reasons about how they were bad movies but I don't buy any of it. Especially the latter. I thought it was a sort of magical transposition of the reality of youthful exuberance over the realities of history. I really thought all the color and the anachronistic music worked. I thought it was fabulous. I thought Lost in Translation summed up the Zeitgeist of my generation: the hunger and the loneliness and the sense of displacement.
As far as The Swimming Pool, I love Francois Ozon and I think I've loved everything I've ever seen that he's done, except for some of his short films, perhaps. I like mystery type movies, first of all, but I also felt that this movie did what David Lynch movies do: activate a part of your ( ... )
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