Random 10: Random Films for Comment - Week 1 (The ILE Edition!)

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DISCLAIMER: Before I get accused of selling out ILF: I'm not giving up on ILF. I'm just expanding things a bit. And before I get accused of duplicating a thread - I'm not. This is a totally different and new randomly generated sequence.

OK!

The premise is as follows:

1) Once a week I pull up ten randomly generated films from a list.
2) You talk about them in any way you want.

And away we go:
2757. Marketa Lazarova, 1967 (dir. Frantisek Vlacil)
1777. The Getaway, 1972 (dir. Sam Peckinpah)
594. Big Business, 1929 (dir. James W. Horne and Leo McCarey)
2437. The Land, 1969 (dir. Youssef Chahine)
4526. Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out, 1991 (dir. Nick Park)
1959. Hate, 1995 (dir. Mathieu Kassovitz)
1832. Golgotha, 1935 (dir. Julien Duvivier)
2969. The Music Room, 1958 (dir. Satyajit Ray)
4095. Sword of Doom, 1966 (dir. Kihachi Okamoto)
3326. Piranha, 1978 (dir. Joe Dante)

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 16 August 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Me being me, I've only seen A Grand Day Out -- for making an actual moon made of cheese alone, I salute the man. But also for including thirties-style skiing travelogues.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen Peckinpah's The Getaway, but I'm not ashamed of the fact that I've only seen the Basinger/Baldwin remake. Which seemed pretty cool when I saw it. Shit, James Woods in a role on autopilot straight from The Specialist, Michael Madsen with long hair making Jennifer Tilly his cock slave in front of her husband (who seemed to remind me of Kelsey Grammer), plus David Morse, Richard Farnsworth, and Philip Seymour Hoffman! Sheer fun.

I've also only seen A Grand Day Out, and it left me wanting more Park. Strangely, though, I never did follow up on it, despite ample opportunity. Oh well.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 16 August 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't think much of Hate when it came out; I'd be curious to see it again now, especially since so many people involved went on to do some pretty impressive stuff.

Of the rest, I've seen The Getaway, Piranha, and, I think, the Wallace and Gromit. I don't remember much about any of them off the top my head except that The Getaway stars Steve McQueen and I think Piranha stars Bradford Dillman.

― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 16 August 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the list you're pulling these from, Girolamo? I've always wondered.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 August 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Golgotha, 1935 (dir. Julien Duvivier)

this is v. good

― amateur!!!st, Monday, 16 August 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

John Sayles wrote the screenplay for Piranha, didn't he?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 16 August 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen Hate, which I remember liking, but the only scene I actually recall involved someone putting a radio next to a window to play loud French hip-hop into a courtyard. And I saw A Grand Day Out for the first time a few months ago. It's pretty good, but I prefer The Wrong Trousers.

― na (Nick A.), Monday, 16 August 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

John Sayles wrote the screenplay for Piranha, didn't he?

I think so.

― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 16 August 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i suggest that if you want to open it out a bit you choose films people are fairly likely to have seen.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 16 August 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Then they wouldn't be random, would they?

― na (Nick A.), Monday, 16 August 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

true but that isnt really the key element of this, is it?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 16 August 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe a random selection from a list of commonly-seen movies? The only one I've seen on this list is the Wallace and Gromit, and I just generally love Wallace and Gromit...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 16 August 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

My view on the point of all this is to have both films that are in decent circulation as well as a fair amount of rarer titles. The more well-known films will stoke up some good conversations and debates, and that's good. But even better will be the occasional comments on the rarer films. Like Golgotha - I figured that no one would comment on that. That makes me happy. If you look at the Random 10's from the ILF board, there are usually at least one or two films on every list that are generally well-known. Sometimes even more.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 16 August 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the only thigns i remember about the getway right now is the grating girl who keeps screaming "ruuudyyyy" throughout the showdown and steve mcqueen doing the worst recoil acting ever when he shoots al letieri for the first time. im pretty sure the movie didnt suck though. i think the guy who plays the cowboy in dr srangelove shows up in the final scene and does some manly explaining about the instituiton of mariage. how can it be bad with a scene like that.

― :|, Monday, 16 August 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Piranha was one of those first horror movies I remember seeing on my grandmother's HBO. My first impression of cable came from movies like that, they seemed so bad and evil. Blood and sex right there on the same televison set that showed Mary Tyler Moore!

Those scenes where the piranha start nipping and nipping.... whoa.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too. The early to mid-'80s were a special time to be watching HBO. They showed some great foreign films (I saw The Last Metro and The Tin Drum for the first time on the channel) alongside pretty much every single slasher/horror movie of the then-burgeoning boom in such.

― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 16 August 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

> 1959. Hate, 1995 (dir. Mathieu Kassovitz)

ah, this was usually called 'La Haine' on this side of the ocean. i have seen it but the only thing i remember about it is that Laetitia from stereolab reviewed it for one of the newspapers. it's also subject to a 10th anniversary deluxe DVD release sometime soon.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah it's a pretty great flick.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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