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In Reply to: Is Tom DiCillo your favorite indie director? posted by Victor Khomenko on July 28, 2003 at 16:27:51:
I'm fond of Lars von Trier, Harmony Korine, David Cronenberg and Wong Kar Wai's films
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Korine - haven't seen any films. Cronenberg? Very cool.And I know you are *supposed* to love Wong, but I just can't bring myself to.
Would you consider Mike van Diem in that category? His Karakter was special.
i haven't seen any of mike van diem's films. will put him on my list. too many films, too little time.what i like about wong kar wai, lars von trier and cronenberg - and going back in time, filmmakers like herzog and fassbinder - is that their movies are about characters whom i wouldn't imagine i'd want to see a film about. (hollywood films tend to feature characters the little kid in me wants to see - aliens, robots, detectives, rock stars, cool people.) sometimes their films are little tough to sit through or get into, but i like the emotional punch at the end that these directors can deliver out of the material. i guess for me, movies are about hitting that emotional oomph in me.
what i liked about dancer in the dark is how lars presents to the viewer the inanely unbelievable that still got me emotionally. most stories, once you start disbelieveing the premise, lock you out of the emotional content. in dancer, i think he was trying to push this limit as far as he could and then some, while juicing up the cues that tell an audience, this is when you should cry. i kept thinking, "why am i moved by this? it is so stupid. i should be laughing." so i enjoyed the movie for how it maintains that tension.
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