amateurist, i have a question,

>5. The Wind & the Lion (Houston, 1975)<

Sorry that's John Milius. (ie Huston lobotomized!)

so my "least favorite" films that i can think of: dancer in the dark, elephant, in the company of men

i would like him here to tell me his 10 favourite movies and his ten least favourite.

other people can do this

What the hell.

Ten favorite:

1.The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
2.Robocop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987)
3.Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
4.Waiting For Guffman (Christopher Guest, 1996)
5.Wise Blood (John Huston, 1979)
6.The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
7.Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990)
8.Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
9.The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Joseph Sargent, 1974)
10.Une Femme Est Une Femme (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)

I'm not gonna bother wtih least favorite.

top ten not in order:
hiroshima mon amour (resnais, 1959)
vivre sa vie (godard, 1961)
tokyo story (ozu)
nashville (altman)
through a glass darkly (bergman)
rules of the game (renoir)
spirit of the beehive (erice)
once upon a time in the west (leone)
ordet (dreyer)
day of wrath (dreyer)

10 least favorite:
irreversible
juliet of the spirits
win a date with tad hamilton
the dreamers
boondock saints
the texas chainsaw massacre remake

i cant think of many more

Honorable mention on dislikes: The Big Lebowski and the films of Christopher Guest.

Ten favorites, kind of:
Gates of Heaven (Morris, 1978)
The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971)
Dazed & Confused (Linklater, 1993)
25th Hour (Lee, 2002)
Love & Death (Allen, 1975)
Umberto D. (de Sica, 1952)
The Bicycle Thief (de Sica, 1947)
Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich, 1956)
Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987)

some favorites include carmen jones, a canterbury tale, the thin red line, miss oyu, my darling clementine, a scene at the sea, and lots of melodramas like leave her to heaven, stella dallas, imitation of life, etc.

Therefore, top 10 movies I first saw in the past month or two:

La Dolce Vita
Yi Yi
Punch-Drunk Love
Tarnation
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Rodrigo D: No Future
Boogie Nights
Kids
Survive Style 5+
American Psycho

Lamest movie seen recently: The Grudge

my ten favorite movies:
falstaff (chimes at midnight) (welles, 1966)
rules of the game (renoir, 1939)
grand illusion (renoir, 1937)
kiki's delivery service (miyazaki, 1989)
the manchurian candidate (frankenheimer, 1962)
meet john doe (capra, 1941)
the lady eve (sturges, 1941)
vertigo (hitchcock, 1958)
bande a parte (godard, 1964)
a taste of honey (richardson, 1961)

it's weird that 4 of my choices are from the '60s, since i never thought that was a very good decade for movies. anyway, i don't have a lot of least favorites, but american beauty, the dreamers and stardust memories come to mind.

Most of mine I saw almost blind or on minimal reviews - given five or ten years space (or 30 or 40) with the all the criticism and discussion that come with time, I wouldn't go to Garden State or Lost In Translation.

or i guess you might think portman is so hot that you'd like it despite that guy and all the standing on a dumpster or whatever it was, yelling in the rain, and whatnot

Faves
1. After Hours (Scorcese, 1985)
2. Blow-Up (Antonioni, 1966)
3. Local Hero (Forsyth, 1983)
4. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975)
5. The Wind & the Lion (Houston, 1975)
6. The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
7. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
8. Mystery Train (Jarmusch, 1989)
9. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
10. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Weir, 1975)
11. Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)

..and I could do about twenty-five more.

Least Faves/Most Loathed
1.Dead Again (Branagh, 1991)
2. Platoon (Stone, 1986)
3. Scream (Craven, 1996)
4. Weekend at Bernie's (Kotcheff, 1989)
5. Mystic Pizza (Petrie, 1988)
6. Pushing Tin (Newell, 1999)
7. Die Hard 2 (Harlin, 1990)
8. In Good Company (Weitz, 2004)
9. Love, Actually (Curtis, 2003)
10. Serendipity (Chelsom, 2001)

Aw, it's cool, dude.

Favourite

1. Human Resources (Cantet, 1999)
2. Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)
3. Farewell My Concubine (Kaige, 1993)
4. Down by Law (Jarmusch, 1986)
5. Street of Shame (Mizoguchi, 1956)
6. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
7. Stalker (Tarkovksky, 1979)
8. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, 1987)
9. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
10. Mary Poppins (Stevenson, 1964)

Least favourite

1. Bio-Dome (Bloom, 1996)
2. Best of the Best 2 (Radler, 1993)
3. Police Academy 6 (Bonerz[!], 1989)
4. Home Alone 2 (Columbus, 1992)
5. Friday the 13th Part VI (McLoughlin, 1986)
6. Cobra (Cosmatos, 1986)
7. Rocky IV (Stallone, 1985)
8. Turner & Hooch (Spottiswoode, 1989)
9. Cannonball Run II (Needham, 1984)
10. Hook (Spielberg, 1991)

1. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader, 1985)
2. L'Age d'Or (Bunuel, 1930)
3. The Big Sleep (Hawks, 1946)
4. M (Lang, 1931)
5. Du bi quan wang da po xue di zi (The One-Armed Boxer II) (Yu Wang,

(Yu Wang, 1975)
6. The Godfather, Parts I and II (damn straight I'm cheating) (Coppola, 1972, 1974)]
7. North by Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
8. Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai) (Kurosawa, 1954)
9. For A Few Dollars More (Leone, 1965)
10. Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger, 1947)

1 Film I loathe:

1. 8mm (Schumacher, 1999)

Some are just sentimal picks - fe Room With A View - and some are just random picks (by a director I admire).

And a ton of others, whover started the Godard thread, thanks btw, been digging Alphaville greatly and am delving further.

1. Spirited Away
2. Donnie Darko
3. ID
4. Fellowship of the Ring
5. Naked Blood
6. Office Space
7. Napoleon Dynamite
8. Amelie
9. Kill Bill vol 1
10. The Grudge

Least favourite:
Unbreakable
Essex Boys

My mind is blank, wtf?!

But I won't say that because "just don't get" is a difficult accusation to substantiate.

Maybe I'll say that I get the impression people are too quick to dismiss it and/or view it very cynically.

But maybe I'm wrong!

re. caterbury tale: the powell & pressburger one from...er...1943? 1942?

re. carmen jones: based on the hammerstein black-cast musical which was based on bizet's opera (which was based on merimee's short story). starring dorothy dandridge and harry belafonte (both beautiful), directed by otto preminger. for some lucid thoughts on this movie see v.f. perkins, 'film as film.' (though it hasn't received much more critical notice.)

re. melodramas: i don't know, i like big outsized emotions put across with integrity. i like to cry at the movies. re. leave her to heaven, i like john stahl's strange hard-edged lighting, rusty colors, and deep focus. also gene tierney. creepy implied incest subplots are always good. see also: preminger's angel face w/jean simmons and robert mitchum.

i actually have no idea where i failed to "leave mordy alone." i don't think i engage with, or criticize, him any more than anyone else. i'm a bit mystified but i guess i'll consider it more in the future.

oh, i guess i did call you 'snotty' since you were mocking the idea that a communications professor would write about 'twilight.' i guess i think that is a little snotty. it doesn't seem like a particularly merciless putdown and i don't mean any real ill will.

ok no worries. normally i wouldn't notice but you wrote these two posts within a week of each other and snotty is the kind of thing you don't get called very often (tho ironically i do have a very strong high school memory in reference to being called snotty so i was susceptible to it standing out).

I wish you princes of the internet every happiness.

well now that i found the posts you reference, the other time i called you "snotty" is when you made a very snarky blanket dismissal of folks who support BDS. i'm actually not sure where i sit in relation to BDS, and i can see the points on both sides, but i think your caricature of people who would support BDS was, indeed, rather snotty.

so i guess this comes down to us having disagreements and me calling you names, for which i'm sorry. but that's pretty par for the course on ILX, and in context it doesn't seem like the strongest insult, really.

i dunno.

1. zizek has sriracha'ed

2. donno if its pass-agg or the art of pretend forgetfulness but i like how you each started this exchange by declaring that you are only vaguely aware of each other. you are both awful so count yourselves lucky, how i wish i could forget ;-)

i remember flopson. he's mopson and cotton tails brother.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Tag_Team_-_Whoomp!_(There_It_Is).jpg

Is Zizek mordy's Perrin?

when did the "affecting not to know who flopson is" meme start?

lol @ "are you a crank?" do you say shit like that to strangers irl?

actually never mind, that's too meta trivia even for me xp

I don't know. His former name made me hungrier though.

chepa food, wrote this on thread Your secret mental list of chain restaurants that you will not frequent on board I Love Everything on 05-Apr-2005

ok all the mcd's haters still need to at least recognize the brilliance of the dollar menu. i mean you can get like a double cheeseburger, mcchicken sandwich, side salad, fruit and yogurt parfait and 2 apple pies for like not even 6 bucks! which is like the price of ONE hardees burger w/ fries. (1 monster burger alone tops 6 bucks i think)

otm

i really don't know what's going on, i don't mean any ill will toward anyone, sorry if i offended anyone etc. etc.

don't apologize, this revive was totally weird! public trial or some shit

In fact, let me take this opportunity to apologize for the dickish posts I've made towards you in the semi-recent past.

see, i wouldn't even have remembered that. no need to apologize.

Cuntishness itt. leave the lads to clear it out. Two good posters obv.

aye lads, just popped in for a meanie meanie coz i saw the opportunity, meant nothin by it ocourse

the single mean post is only slightly less cuddlestein than the rest of this revive

amateuris, i asked you a questiont: WHAT TIME IS LOVE?

i thought mordy was being noticeably polite considering he's talking to this board's grandpa simpson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28w2LVzxVkU&noredirect=1

I've always appreciated am's posts, especially in the movie threads, where he consistently makes unexpected insights.

funny how opinions can differ

I realize I've been mixing up Aimless and Amateurist for years, something that won't happen again after Aimless' tragically stupid sci-fi thread

how on earth can you mix those two up??? i mean, unless you're bad with names that start with "a"

xp- say "tragically stupid sci-fi thread" out loud

it's the latter. prior to that scifi thread I hadn't really noticed Aimless' pedantic schoolmarm charm

xp

amateuris, i asked you a questiont: WHAT TIME IS LOVE?

― Operating Thetan III (monster mash), Monday, November 16, 2015 4:28 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

4:38 PM IIRC.

also , mattresslessness, are you a jason lescalleet fan, or perhaps jason lescalleet himself?

no to the latter

amaeuturist: we don't know each other. i appreciate your presence, though! :D lol. i always enjoy your posts. but, mordy's the man. if he has an issue, i have an issue, sir!

did you sleep last night? I've seen in several updated threads in the last few hours.

no, i've been very stressed lately and can't sleep! which is bad because i have to get up ("get up") to cook thanksgiving dinner for arriving family.

didn't want to keep my partner awake so just casting about for some kind of 'interaction' here i suppose

Hope it is all going well

Amateurist

Was this ever sorted out?

ILX -- post when you're manic, but please be polite, for fuck's sake.

eh?

What's going on at the beginning of this thread?

IIRC anthony easton asked me to start a thread where he could ask me for advice!

i know. it was a long time ago!

back to cooking...

I think some time stamps got messed up - I remember this coming up when searching for "earliest mentions of..." when some things were mentioned before it was possible (e.g. people talking about bands that hadn't formed yet).

But then, I thought that happened with whole threads, not just some posts, so I dunno. It all seems a bit strange.

also i'm kind of embarrassed when this thread is revived and i apologize for it (it wasn't me!) :) :(

At least you have a thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzbDhE5_YbM

Sorry. I abandoned that post and thought I had just closed the tab, hadn't realized I had posted it. There is no content behind it.