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Oh, boy. My family is very generous. For Christmas, my brothers gave me the 25 by Kurosawa Criterion box set. That'll last my wife and me a while! Beautiful, beautiful presentation, including a nice hardcover booklet. Haven't started the films, though I've seen a few of them already.Recently watched a triple feature of the "wild west," including the fair Day of the Outlaw, starring the great Robert Ryan; Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller, one of my very favorite movies and certainly one of the greats of the 1970s, and the Maysles Brothers' Gimme Shelter!
McCabe gives me the chills every time I see it. Just a beautiful film.
I'm reminded of IN LIVING COLOR's skit lampooning Ted Turner, in which Turner is depicted flossing his teeth with old Hollywood film negatives. This was in response to colorization of b&w films.
Interesting piece in current Film Comment comparing Sam Fuller and Bresson.
I think she looks like a MILF.
Phillip, American Soldier is Fassbinder's seventh film. (Few directors were as prolific.) I haven't seen American Soldier, but his Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? from the same year is a brutal dark comedy. Agree re: his later work.
How did you feel about the films, Marc?
Yes, I did see that on Huffington Post.
We also watched AMERICAN PSYCHO for the first time Friday evening. I actually liked it a little more than I expected to -- not sure I expecting such biting satire -- though its message is a bit obvious, and some characters and elements were underutilized. Never read the book.
My wife and I watched Kurosawa's DRUNKEN ANGEL last night. It's a good but not great film: The metaphors and symbols, as many have noted, are really heavy and obvious. But Mifune is a force, as always, and the sets set a moody, atmospheric tone from the get-go.
OPEN WATER was done a shoestring budget, right? I remember the reviews saying it was very well done for its resources.
Finally watched the Criterion disc of Truffaut's great THE LAST METRO. A great picture; love love love the red-orange-brown autumnal color palette.
Facets was playing this when I first moved to Chicago in '06...really kicking myself for missing it!
Oh, and TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE!
DON'T LOOK NOW often gets plaudits. I rather enjoyed the on-the-stairs scene in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE...
Elaine, what are some examples of modern sex/erotic scenes that you dislike?
Looks like Archie Mayo directed.
It's with Bette Davis, Phillip.There were live television versions of PETRIFIED FOREST, evidently. One with Bogart, Davis, and Tom's favorite actor, Henry Fonda!
Yes, Bogart. Directed by Nicholas Ray. Gloria Grahame as the female lead.
I actually like the Coens, but I totally hear Tom on this one. I recently watched David Lean's SUMMERTIME, and the film has a few depictions of Americans -- specifically Midwesterners -- as philistines and goofs and rubes, or: Not Europeans. I couldn't shake the feeling that Lean was a bit of snob. I still enjoy Fargo purely for the narrative.
My wife and I watched the new Criterion disc of David Mamet's HOMICIDE. I'm lukewarm on Mamet because I often can't stand the staccato, terse, stylized dialogue, but that is toned down here. We dug it.
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