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• Thanks again Victor....... - J0hnN 11:16:59 04/13/02 (1)
  In Reply to: Wow! posted by Victor Khomenko on April 13, 2002 at 06:27:08:

  Thanks for the comments.

  Yes, I do have Bicycle Thief. After first watching it I immediately had to run out and search for other early de Sica films….The Children are Watching Us….Miracle in Milan….Umberto D….Two Women. All excellent films.

  Pasolini…..These are only a few on dvd and the others on vhs are hard to find. I have Arabian Nights and Canterbury Tales. I recently watched a friend’s vhs copy of The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Any other recommendations?....

  Raggedy Rawney…..looks interesting, but I can’t find it for sale at any of the usual web sites...is it out on video?

  Knife in the Water… I have not seen this film..I understand that it will be released later this year on dvd so I was waiting for this.

  Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease….Yes, I saw a reference to this fim somewhere before, but have not been able to locate it……Perhaps because I had written it down erroneously as "Love as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease"….Any hidden meaning there..I wonder?

  Down and Dirty….looks worth searching for….we’ll see if it turns up.

  Woman in the Dunes…yes, another favourite since I first watched a friend’s vhs copy a few years ago(during my Japanese/Chinese film watching phase when I tried to catch up with all Kurosawa and all other classic Asian films). I bought the Woman in the Dunes dvd as soon as I realized it was available.

  Criterion Grand Illusion…yes this was one of the first half dozen dvds that I bought.. Excellent Renior film, that goes nicely with my region 2 version dvd of Rules of the Game.. By the way I just watched another great Renior…”La Chienne” a few weeks ago.

  By the way, today's shopping trip yielded a dvd of Fassbinder's Pioneers in Ingolstadt, which I will watch as a double feature with my friend's vhs of "The Marriage of Maria Braun" this evening.

  JohnN
  
  
  

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  • Re: Thanks again Victor....... - Victor Khomenko 15:07:37 04/13/02 (0)
    In Reply to: Thanks again Victor....... posted by J0hnN on April 13, 2002 at 11:16:59:

    I truly envy you John, you collection is great. I wish I started collecting films earlier... as it is I think I only got about 300 or so.

    But anyway, boy, I love to talk about good ones. I don't even know where to start.

    But OK, De Sica... try to find Il Boom, with Alberto Sodri - a must, a hilarious masterpiece (it will be hard to find). I am sure you know Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, another great one.

    Antonioni - if you don't have L'Avventura, get it, but also his perhaps best film: Profession: Reporter... Incredible.

    BTW, L'Atalante is considered by many the best film ever made.

    Win Wender's Alice and the Cities.

    Pasolini... I love most of his films, but Salo is a must, available on DVD... the shocker lover's shocker. Masterpiece. Decameron is great. There is also the biographical film that I can't recall the title, about his death... recommended.

    Bergman: one must have all his works, but things like Persona - timeless. I am not even going to mention people like Fellini... nuff said... all his films.

    Not in any order... but the original Scent of a Woman with Vittorio Gassman is well worth it, tons of style.

    All films by Bunuel. Any film with Bourvil, Fernandel, Gabin.

    When it comes to the films that touched me, I always mention the Forbidden Games - I think the best war film ever produced.

    If you like the Kanal, then definitely get Ladscape after Battle and Ashes and Diamonds. His Ashes I cautiously recommend, as it is not for everyone.

    Among the historical epic films, I loved Waterloo, by Bondarchuk.

    And of course, the Russian films deserve the whole separate shelf... and here I shall pause and perhaps let someone like Dmitry to take the lead. There are so many great ones my head would be spinning.

    Again, appologize as some of these you may already have - your list is quite long.

    All for now, need to get out to the rental place... that store we have here is incredible.

    
    
    
    

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• Another impossible to find one - Victor Khomenko 06:36:26 04/13/02 (1)
  In Reply to: Wow! posted by Victor Khomenko on April 13, 2002 at 06:27:08:

  "La Femme écarlate" has perhaps the most hilarious Monica Vitti. What a striking contrast with things like L'Avventura... man, what treats these two films.
  
  

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  • Re: Another impossible to find one - J0hnN 12:04:07 04/13/02 (0)
    In Reply to: Another impossible to find one posted by Victor Khomenko on April 13, 2002 at 06:36:26:

    As the saying goes....

    "The difficult we do at once...the impossible takes a bit longer"

    We will work on this.

    Thanks for the recommendation.

    J0hnN
    
    

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