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In Reply to: The Bambi B "I hope never to see again" annual Awards.. posted by Bambi B on November 29, 2004 at 16:31:37:
I mean, you've listed just about everything Hollywood bothers to produce!
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Mmm,That's a good question. In my old age**, just about everything that appears in the mainstream movie world produces a queasiness of dull repetition. I would forgive the excitement of deja vu, but just the same formulaic structures and themes has gotten me a bit depressed. Thats' when I look for some of my old favourites and a good Bunuel, Truffaut, Hitchcock, Wyler, Capra, Fleming helps.
** I'm so poor in maths I can't tell any longer if was born in 1965 or am 65 years old.
There have been movies in the recent past that break the mold in a refreshing way and even with their faults, the Coens "Hudsucker Proxy" and "Brother, where art thou" , Kaufman's "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation", and quirky things like "Lumiere et Co" are bright spots that help counteract the aesthetically delibilitating effects of "Matrix Reloaded".
When I get crochtety I begin to fantasize these action movies begin using live ammunition. All that violence without death is contrary to nature and the presentation is contrary to art.
On the other hand, the typical "Fluffy Bunnies in the Village of the Happy Idiots" is not a solution and I find my reactionary self putting too much trust in John Waters..
Hey Mish, what are you watching these days that stirs your spoon?
Cheers,
Bambi B
I've been exploring whatever foreign films happen into my local library, or perhaps a forgotten classic or two. I rarely go to the cinema anymore, mainly because I have two small kids---most of the viewing is on DVD/video...Let's see... The past couple of months I've watched
"La Strada"
"The Third Man"
"Battleship Potemkin"
"Bicycle Thief"
"A Day At The Races"And the only recent films:
"Once Upon A Time In Mexico", which I hated.
"Gangs Of New York", which was OK.
"Whale Rider" was pretty good.The last one I saw at the theater was "I, Robot" and it was awful. It was a highly sterile version of "Blade Runner" with no soul.
Mmm,Your local library has above average taste and you chose several favourites of mine too. For years I regarded "The Third Man" as one of the best movies ever made, one of those magic collisions of all the right elements. Likewise "LaStrada". "Battlehip Potenkim" is also I think an astounding one, like "Third Man" amazing photography. Besides Murnau's "Nosferatu", and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" "Potemkin" just amazes me in visual acuity, every little detail contributes to the overall effect.
I saw "Gangs" recently on the television machine. This one was a challenge for me as Dicaprio has the presence of a mud pie and his character is supposed to be having a Hamletian scale of inner conflicts. But Danial Day Lewis' character was simply charming. "The Butcher" was so intensely eccentric and yet rang true. Really violent movies bother me when the blood and guts is incidental, but in "Gangs" it is so extreme and relentless, the violence became abstract and a kind of game. The strange artificiality of the sets heightens this.
Some good ones!
Cheers,
Bambi B
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