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05-02-2003, 07:27 PM
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I just saw Notorious, and thought it was a really good movie. I can't think well enough right now to go into detail because i am so tired, but i think i will give Notorious an A that raises my # to 61
Lew, FYI, i just saw Yojimbo also. i thought it was a great movie, and before watching it i seriously thought it was on this list. oh well. I still see things i don't like but this time, as was the case in Seven Samurai, it barely hampered it's acomplisment A
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05-02-2003, 08:14 PM
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I also saw Notorious(A) and Yojimbo(A) with John. Notorious was very entertaining and had some brilliant camera work. Yojimbo was pretty awesome. i love Kurosawa's rich dialogue in this one, as well as most of his others; and it certainly was better than the remake Last Man Standing(F-). I didn't think it was as good as Rashomon(A+), though. This brings me to 48.
S&S Greatest Films Club: 60 viewed. Last Viewed: L\'Avventura(B+)
in no particular order: my top 20
my DVD collection
\"\'Gentleman, you can\'t fight in here, this is the War Room!\'\" - Dr. Strangelove
\"\'You ever been in love, Mac?\' \'No, I\'ve been a bartender all my life\'\" - My Darling Clementine
\"\'If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.\" - The Godfather: Part II
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05-03-2003, 11:43 AM
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05-03-2003, 04:58 PM
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caught a couple Antonioni pictures, and finally Hitchcock's Psycho... never got into the Antonioni films, just too art influenced, too careless character->empathy for my tastes
anyhow, my count's at 95, expecting to watch some Bresson and Bunuel these upcoming weeks
later Pooh...
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05-04-2003, 01:19 PM
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Marnie brings my total to 93.
One of Hitchcock’s deeply disturbing studies of sexual power and dysfunction.
¡Time is not my master!
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05-04-2003, 05:56 PM
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Well I've just finished watching Dreyer's Ordet.
I was very impressed by the film all in all although frankly I did begin to find it dragging about half way through.
It picked up again though and I can see why it's rightly regarded as a cinematic masterpiece.
Certain scenes will doubtless remain indelibly printed upon my mind. For example the scene of the father crying out for his son on the dunes as well as pretty much every scene with the riveting Johannes in. He reminded me very much of Nosferatu in the classic B&W film of the same name, with many similar mannerisms and an almost equal sense of being alien to the world around him.
Ordet receives a straight A from me. Not quite an A+.
Once I feel a little less emotionally drained I shall tackle Gertrud or possibly Day of Wrath. (Thank you Criterion).
S&S Greatest Films Club: 116 seen. Last Film: Un Chien andalou
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05-05-2003, 01:00 AM
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139 was The Passion of Joan of Arc. This is a stunning film in almost any way I can think of. Most important of all is probably the performance of Maria Falconetti. So many of the shots are closeups on her face, and she seems to be both expressive and not so at the same time. I wonder how tiring it must have been to act emotionally so close to the camera.
The reaction shots to Falconetti are also superb. Outrage, anger, fear, calculation, admiration, and so on are all beautifully expressed. There are shots of flying birds during the finale, and it somehow captures the mood perfectly, too. I saw the film with the Voices of Light piece, very powerful.
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05-05-2003, 09:01 AM
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La Strada brings my total to 94.
Great movie—one which sets the stage for the masterpieces of Fellini’s middle period.
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05-06-2003, 09:20 AM
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Le Mépris or Contempt as it is better known in the States is Jean-Luc Godard’s single foray into mainstream (Hollywood) filmmaking.
The Criterion 2-disk DVD is well worth a purchase, with some choice extras: a discussion with Godard and Fritz Lang (who acts in the film) plus an informative interview with cinematographer Raoul Coutard.
And the best demonstration I’ve ever seen of the difference between a P&S and OAR format.
¡Time is not my master!
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05-06-2003, 03:02 PM
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But did you like it?
Watched Spirited Away again and will finally watch the Criterion Rashomon soon, but I think it will still be awhile before I watch anything I haven't already seen from the poll. I don't have anything coming from Netflix for a couple of months and Solaris and Contempt are near the bottom of my unwatched pile.
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2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 314 Last Watched: An Autumn Afternoon
Last 10 Films Watched:
Mon Oncle Antoine - B / Late Autumn - A-
Paranoid Park - B / An Autumn Afternoon - A
Forgetting Sarah Marshall - B / Run, Fatboy, Run - B
Get Smart - C- / Rendition - B-
Springtime in a Small Town - B+ / Evan Almighty - C
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05-07-2003, 07:03 AM
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#341 of 3734
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Watched Gertrud (Very nice I'll give her A-) & Day of Wrath (A+) both by Dreyer.
Funnily enough I came to the exact opposite conclusion to Arman in that I preferred the latter film.
There's clearly no accounting for taste. 
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