amateurist, i have a question,

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.

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Least favorite:
Donnie Darko
The Santa Clause
Mulholland Dr.
Ruby
Harlem Nights
The Fan
Kundun
Mission To Mars
Jerry Springer - Ringmaster
The Sting

like one where he plays antonio gaudi?

the buildings in the 'fountainhead' movie are gloriously ugly, though.

x-post

1. the santa clause - judge reinhold is a big needledick and tim allen clowns his sweater

2. die hard 2 - when bruce willis figures out that dude from good times was firing blanks at the terrorists, also willis vs sipowicz, also dude from law & order as the frog-like air traffic controller

3. scream - all the movie horror nerd stuff and also the fonz saying 'your havoc-inducing, thieving, whoring generation disgusts me'

4. 8mm - ok this one is kinda bad but cmon lots of good stuff- funny dialogue, its well filmed, joaquin phoenix and tony soprano and nic cage bein squirmy, i will watch any nicolas cage movie and especially shitty fake noir ones

5. mission to mars - gary sinise astronaut bbq

My list remains the same I think:

8 1/2
2001: A Space Odyssey
In The Mood for Love
It's a Wonderful Life
Last Year at Marienbad
Top Secret!
The Night Porter
West Side Story
Deuce Bigelow: Male Gigolo
Apocalypse Now

1. nic cage
2. jeff goldblum
3. martin lawrence

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.