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In Reply to: Re: "2001's" place in film history posted by rico on September 8, 2005 at 08:52:36:
Citizen Kane, I think, would make anyone's list of all-time greats. It don't think it's quite as amibitious intellectually as "2001", or some of Kubrick's other great films. It might well be the most important of the "modern" films from a directorial standpoint, with its highly original lighting and camera work, and its revolutionary editing.Coppola's Apocolyse Now I would consider a more controversial choice -- mainly because it is such an uneven film. There are dazzlingly brilliant sequences, and then sequences that are considerably less than brilliant. The USO sequence comes to mind, and the intimate scenes between a few of the riverboat's crew and the girls also seems like an unneccesary diversion, and not particular well-integrated into the film. Coppola seems to meander at times, not sure where he is really heading. Yet, it shares with 2001 a sense of great intellectual ambition and almost heroic zeal to come to terms with the ultimate truth, however inscrutable it may be. Of course, the Wagnarian helicopter attack, with the copters looking like Beelzebub's infernal swarm of flies coming over the horizon is one of the greatest sequences of all time, and one of the most consumately realized cinematic visions ever put on film.
Kane, to it's credit, has a marvelously straight-forward, economical narrative structure (as does 2001) from which Welles develops a wonderful character study and a parable about what the business of one's life -- anyone's life -- should be. I think the great irony of CK is that here was a man who accomplished almost everything a man could, and yet, whose life was ultimately wasted. The tragedy, so subtly insinuated in the film, was that the poor bastard never had a chance.
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