― box of socks, Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes. (Have seen, that is.)
If so, would you consider the image quality at least adequate to drop $20 on the thing, or no?
No. It will impugn your memory of that fantastic-sounding viewing experience.
― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:16 (nineteen years ago) link
...All right, ONE more thing: has anyone ever seen Last Year at Marienbad? It's reportedly incredibly slow, and weirdly skewed w/r/t character and narrative, but also totally worthwhile.
― box of socks, Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link
its worthwhile, but not nearly my favorite of resnais'. hiroshima mon amour is so much better in my opinion.
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 21 May 2005 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Ha, Ken, I saw these the last two Tuesdays at the French Institute -- last night with John Waters discussing The Truck with Kent Jones of Film Comment! Hadn't seen any of hers (unless Hiroshima Mon Amour counts) before, and it'll be awhile before I try anymore. India Song really seems to stop time, but when Michel Lonsdale starts his 10-minute offscreen bellowing wail, omigod....Jeanne Dielman is paced like Run Lola Run by comparison.
Waters was funny ("They talk about the characters falling asleep! Very brave") and Jones suggested a US remake with Vin Diesel and Kathy Bates. And it was mentioned that Kael gave The Truck one of its few good NY reviews in '77.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh, I see.
― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
and also to test my own boredomometer -- which is capricious of course (AND THAT'S HOW I LIKE IT)
ie TS: bein aged and havin less TIME for this kind of thing vs. bein aged and apprecitatin a good long sit down and doze
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Actually-although I cleverly refrained from saying so in my first post- I love Le Camion. India Song I found a little tough-going, but, as with the corresponding moments in Fassbinder movies, I laughed along with the cruel godlike filmmaker at Lonsdale's embarrassing outburst.
― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
KiarostamiKoreeda
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
destroy: ulysses' gaze (which i couldn't get more than an hour into, though it did have some wonderful shots)
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― inert false cat (sleep), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link
People above do not know what slow films are.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link
search: l'avventura, in the mood for lovedestroy: fanny and alexander
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
one more to destroy: russian ark
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
fanny and alexander is one of those things i have forgotten so much of i start to wonder if i am having memory issues: it was six hours long, and there was a fire, and possibly a lesbian?
i liked russian ark, though
― thomp, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
there was everything, there was lyfe
― you know what, fuck you (Lamp), Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i also like russian ark
― velko, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Search: Seventh Continent (lots of Haneke actually)Avoid: Inland Empire - unless you really like David Lynch, then you might like it.
― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link
what's that hungarian one that's like 8 hrs long
― harbl, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
begins with an s......
― gear
oh man, i made it all the way to the end(over 3 hours iirc)terrible
― velko, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
bela tarr's satantango! i went to see it by accident once. i made it through 3 hours but i was too hungry to go on.
― harbl, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:36 (fourteen years ago) link
netflix keeps recommending the Decalogue to me, is it worth seeing?
― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
bela tarr's satantango! i went to see it by accident once
haha how can u wind up seeing something like this "by accident"??? were u looking for the other 8 hour hungarian epic that was playing and got the titles confused???
decalogue is enh
― you know what, fuck you (Lamp), Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i haven't seen it but i want to. but it's 10 parts, not one 10-hour thing, so maybe it would be ok.
― harbl, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
(xp)
well someone told me it was good, "but long" (lol) and i usually pay close attention to how long something is but for some reason i didn't even look before i went. i was like "that's weird that this starts at noon but ok" ughhhhhhhhhhh
― harbl, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
also the guy talking before it announced how many reels it was, so every time a reel was over i was like "ok only x reels left." it was impossible.
― harbl, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the parts of decalogue i've seen, like 5-6. can you get it in parts?
― velko, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah iirc the dvds have a couple parts on them each?
― harbl, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
at least you didn't have to see it for a class ... our college's film studies program - the intro classes anyway - were almost entirely about testing the students' patience. It was very effective at weeding out people that just liked movies. Probably the most excruciating were Wavelength and Laura Mulvey's Riddles of the Sphinx.
― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Ashes of Time was pretty slow/good as I remember
― Niles Caulder, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
the dvd set is set up like a tv on dvd thing - couple of episodes a disc pretty sure. also i mean obv its arresting and theres a lot there but its just pretty tedious and hard to invest in i think. and its kind of a trap because i think its a "better" to watch them all so u feel obligated but theyre pretty same-y too
― you know what, fuck you (Lamp), Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I love most of the movies on this thread. I like to wrassle with unwieldy cinema.
― bad crack (Eric H.), Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the guy said satantango has less than 100 cuts in the entire 7.5 hours too. so a lot of it is just like, watching it rain over a muddy field
― harbl, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i would actually attempt to watch it again, but not in one day
xxpost I especially like Satantango, Inland Empire and Jeanne Dielman.
― bad crack (Eric H.), Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
destroy: fanny and alexander
so wrong.
― circa1916, Sunday, 5 July 2009 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i really liked decalog and inland empire and andrei rublev too, f all u haters
― thomp, Sunday, 5 July 2009 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
former was pretentious 17 year old me's usual answer for "what's your favourite film". number of friends i made by doing this: none, ever
― thomp, Sunday, 5 July 2009 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I will echo the statement/s upthread about the bell maker sequence at the end of Andrei Rublev. The whole film is A+ fantastic, but that finale is near transcendent.
― circa1916, Sunday, 5 July 2009 03:01 (fourteen years ago) link