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In Reply to: RE: A probing question... posted by Beejai on April 29, 2008 at 19:11:45

..a film MUST connect on an emotional level before any critical appraisal deserves be made.

Having said that, several come to mind. Antonioni's "Il Grido" and Glauber's "Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol really stay with me. Really, anything by Antonioni resonates powerfully.

Also l just rewatched "The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. An instant classic, I believe. Casey Affleck's performance is a tour de force. This is full of great performances and really captures the melancholic, lantern-lit atmosphere of that American time.

Speaking of westerns, I'll top this off with "Unforgiven". Or "Open Range". Or....."Missouri Breaks".

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For me yes and no... - EBerlin 17:46:33 04/30/08 (1)
...I would say that the best films are nutritious both itellectually and emotionally. But I can also appreciate a film that leans strongly in an intellectual direction as long as it has some kind of conceptual intensity and hold its ideas together well. I've found that I can have a visceral reaction to films that really come at me hard intellectually. It's like lhe intensity of their thought itself causes an emotional reaction due to their directness and lack of dilution with which the ideas are delivered. Alain Resnais' "Mon Oncle D'amerique" and some of Greenaway's films are useful examples of this.
- 1941 - phatty 12:13:11 05/06/08 (0)
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