"Pauline Kael said it was 'meditative', but I fell asleep."

Subtitles are impossible to read at least half the time. (Luckily, dialogue accounts for probably a collective 15 minutes of the three-hour-plus film.)

This is so great.

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.

...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.

its worthwhile, but not nearly my favorite of resnais'. hiroshima mon amour is so much better in my opinion.

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.

Oh, I see.

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

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.

Kiarostami
Koreeda

destroy: ulysses' gaze (which i couldn't get more than an hour into, though it did have some wonderful shots)

People above do not know what slow films are.

search: l'avventura, in the mood for love
destroy: fanny and alexander

one more to destroy: russian ark

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

there was everything, there was lyfe

i also like russian ark

Search: Seventh Continent (lots of Haneke actually)
Avoid: Inland Empire - unless you really like David Lynch, then you might like it.

what's that hungarian one that's like 8 hrs long

begins with an s......

destroy: ulysses' gaze (which i couldn't get more than an hour into, though it did have some wonderful shots)

― gear

oh man, i made it all the way to the end(over 3 hours iirc)
terrible

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.

netflix keeps recommending the Decalogue to me, is it worth seeing?

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

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.

(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

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.

i like the parts of decalogue i've seen, like 5-6. can you get it in parts?

yeah iirc the dvds have a couple parts on them each?

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.

Ashes of Time was pretty slow/good as I remember

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

I think I love most of the movies on this thread. I like to wrassle with unwieldy cinema.

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

i would actually attempt to watch it again, but not in one day

xxpost I especially like Satantango, Inland Empire and Jeanne Dielman.