Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Harmonia (A) on October 05, 2010 at 18:50:43

In Reply to: RE: Jesus... how many times should that film be discussed? 300? 500? posted by Victor Khomenko on October 05, 2010 at 17:23:50

Lighten up.

You got a peculiar idea of what constitutes a travesty. Posting a link to an interesting new article on an American classic ain't it.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of threads on this forum discussing foreign filmmakers. You want to discuss great directors from outside US?? Feel free.

Check my posts...I think you'll find my range of film interests to be fairly wide ranging.

Past to present, here's a few filmmakers I've mentioned on this forum:

Jean Renoir
Jean Cocteau
Carl Dreyer
Georg Pabst
Fritz Lang
Sergei Eisenstein
Jean Vigo
Jasujiru Ozu
Josef Von Sternberg
Akira Kurosawa
Kaneto Shindo
F.W. Murnau
Ingmar Bergman
Sajiit Ray
David Lean
Luis Bunuel
Bertrand Tavernier
Michael Powell
Carol Reed
Jean Luc Godard
Francois Truffaut
Jean Pierre Melville
Alain Resnais
Nic Roeg
Michelangelo Antonioni
Pier Pasolo Pasolini
Vittorio De Sica
Roberto Rosellini
Robert Bresson
Kon Ichikawa
Kenji Mizoguchi
Abbas Kiarostami
Andrei Tarkovsky
Lindsay Anderson
Yimou Zhang
Susanne Bier
Bent Hamer
Atom Egoyen
Wong Kar Wei
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Michael Winterbottom
Peter Weir
Peter Greenaway
Jane Campion
Michael Haneke
Danis Tanovic
Andrei Zvyagintsev
Alfonso Cuaron
Stephen Frears
Edward Yang
Pedro Almovodar
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
(to name but a few)

So...who ya wanna discuss? I love at least one film from each of the above. Pick one.

Or, how about an obscure but important (and highly influential) avante garde American, Stan Brakhage, and his new Criterion release? Wanna take that on?

As far as I'm concerned, no one here has to appease the culture police to discuss movies he/she liked, loved or hated, including genre films. Many of us here are Americans, so why shouldn't we discuss Scorsese and one of his best works? Or any American film/filmmaker for that matter? There are plenty of mediocre blockbusters and popular misses that I don't care for but that inmates want to discuss - they can go right ahead but I don't need to pee all over the thread on why I don't like The Dark Knight.

And we'll have fun with SF and comic movies too, if we want.

Meanwhile, the subject in this thread is Goodfellas.

Pffft!