thank you a million for the recommendations. those i have not seen i shall seek out very soon.
full metal jacket is fabulous, and could easily have been included. but i decided to limit the list to one film per director. otherwise, there would have been no diversity in it; the 50 would have been clodded with a mere handful of names. and i guess i chose a clockwork orange over kubrick's other masterpieces simply because i think it means more to me personally.
films, books and the whole dam thing...dreaded_dragonFebruary 1 2006, 16:37:33 UTC
I'm incredibly impressed that you have seen all these films and read all those books, and they're only your favourites !..... I'm also intrigued by the way you have chosen them by director.
thank you, mrs. thompson, but it's not quite the accomplishment it seems. actually, it's more a testament to the fact i have no life! hahaha
as for choosing the films by director, i did so because it seemed the easiest way of refining such an incredibly diverse body of material. if i had gone by actual movies for example, the list would have been filled with all the works of some of my absolute favourite directors - like Buenuel, or Solondz, or Bertolucci. what are some of your favourite films?
i like lists really because they seem so impossible; i mean, they involve this kind of head-on collision of the subjective selection and the objective form. expect more of them in the future.
please David, call me Sharon - I have enjoyed many many films, but not alot stand out in my memory (albeit fading ever into Al's territiory). Ryan's Daughter (David Lean) Quite a few of Peter Greenaway's, he definitely has an incredibly art centered way of filming, I"ve enjoyed many of Ingmar Bergman's films also, as I was your age when they were being made, and they too had quite an effect. Loved Fargo, was confronted by A Clockwork Orange and 8 and a half - In the past few decades (it seems to me)we have been assaulted by the "Hollywood" version of books and social commentary, and therefore many films that have been made have been extraordinarily bland and/or violent to no real effect on the message of the film. However, this is just another aging person lamenting many aspects of our "culture" being engulfed .....
i agree with you on the 'Hollywoodization' of books and social commentary. and i think the worst thing at the moment is the way that arthouse films themselves are becoming a mainstream commercial product. right now, there are a species of movies emerging (think American Beauty say or Life as a House) that present themselves as art but which really have very little worth in them. i mean, i dont want to sound a culture snob because movies like that are fascinating in their way. but i do think many times that they are eating up the place of more serious work.
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full metal jacket is fabulous, and could easily have been included. but i decided to limit the list to one film per director. otherwise, there would have been no diversity in it; the 50 would have been clodded with a mere handful of names. and i guess i chose a clockwork orange over kubrick's other masterpieces simply because i think it means more to me personally.
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I'm also intrigued by the way you have chosen them by director.
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as for choosing the films by director, i did so because it seemed the easiest way of refining such an incredibly diverse body of material. if i had gone by actual movies for example, the list would have been filled with all the works of some of my absolute favourite directors - like Buenuel, or Solondz, or Bertolucci. what are some of your favourite films?
i like lists really because they seem so impossible; i mean, they involve this kind of head-on collision of the subjective selection and the objective form. expect more of them in the future.
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Ryan's Daughter (David Lean)
Quite a few of Peter Greenaway's, he definitely has an incredibly art centered way of filming,
I"ve enjoyed many of Ingmar Bergman's films also, as I was your age when they were being made, and they too had quite an effect.
Loved Fargo, was confronted by A Clockwork Orange and 8 and a half -
In the past few decades (it seems to me)we have been assaulted by the "Hollywood" version of books and social commentary, and therefore many films that have been made have been extraordinarily bland and/or violent to no real effect on the message of the film.
However, this is just another aging person lamenting many aspects of our "culture" being engulfed .....
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