Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Bambi B on December 02, 2004 at 08:42:51

In Reply to: Re: "Fluffy Bunnies in the Village of the Happy Idiots" posted by mishmashmusic on December 2, 2004 at 06:36:49:

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