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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jan 30, 2020 1:05:06 GMT
...couldn't get into it at all.
Now sort of watching Solaris
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Post by tory on Jan 30, 2020 9:44:18 GMT
Read Geoff Dyer on Stalker.
I would also recommend reading in general about any Tarkovsky film before watching them. There's a lot of hidden context to take in, particularly with Mirror and the later films.
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Post by hippopotamus on Jan 30, 2020 14:10:11 GMT
...according to 358 filmmakers: 1. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu (1953) = 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick (1968) = 2. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles (1941) 4. 8 ½ - Federico Fellini (1963) 5. Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese (1976) 6. Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979) = 7. The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola (1972) = 7. Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock (1958) 9. Mirror – Andrei Tarkovsky (1974) 10. Bicycle Thieves – Vittorio De Sica (1949) which have you seen? which would you recommend? which would you like to see? which have you no interest in? I've only seen about 6. Most of the ones I've seen I appreciated but didn't ENJOY and wouldn't make any sort of list of mine. They are undeniably Gendered, though, aren't they?
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toomanyhatz
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I've met him/her. He/she's great!!
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Post by toomanyhatz on Feb 1, 2020 1:34:37 GMT
Seen them all except Ozu and Tarkovsky, which I must get on.
The rest are all excellent to great, though I go with "flawed masterpiece" on Apocalypse. It certainly drags in spots (though I've only seen it on TV, never on the big screen, so that may play into it).
Lots of the directors here are not represented by my favorites - prefer "Miracle in Milan" (and maybe "Umberto D") to Bicycle...definitely "Touch of Evil" to Kane. And "Raging Bull" (and maybe "Mean Streets") to Taxi.
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Post by quaco on Feb 1, 2020 6:37:14 GMT
How do we define "great"? Sometimes, a film completely accomplishes what it does, but it's not the type of subject or aim that I want to define as great. Maybe Taxi Driver is like that.
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Post by tory on Feb 1, 2020 9:10:17 GMT
To me, great means that the film transcends the genre in a number of ways, be it storytelling, use of metaphor, acting and particularly with Tarkovsky, technical ability. He for one was a master of the shot, framing, editing and more than anything else, making the mundane transcendent. His films are so slow, so still and yet burst with life.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2020 9:24:40 GMT
Read Geoff Dyer on Stalker. I would also recommend reading in general about any Tarkovsky film before watching them. There's a lot of hidden context to take in, particularly with Mirror and the later films.
I hated Dyer's book on Stalker. A witless, rambling bore and he doesn't understand the ending.
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Post by tory on Feb 1, 2020 9:51:46 GMT
Good for you.
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Post by DarknessFish on Feb 1, 2020 18:34:20 GMT
Toby absolutely hates it if someone has read something he mentions!
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 1, 2020 18:52:02 GMT
We're chipping away at THE TOBES
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Post by fearlessfreap on Feb 3, 2020 1:31:32 GMT
Seen all, none are as good as Ernest Goes To a Bathhouse
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