It's ok, when it's on TV I will watch an hour of it.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 January 2023 09:06 (one year ago) link
depending on the day it would be de jeu, searchers or dielman. today it's renoir.
― devvvine, Sunday, 8 January 2023 09:07 (one year ago) link
Might vote for Cléo to be annoying
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 8 January 2023 09:11 (one year ago) link
It's not as annoying as not watching Seven Samurai because you've been traumatised by film bro polls.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 January 2023 09:14 (one year ago) link
tbf it's not the best Kurosawa or the best samurai movie even
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 January 2023 09:15 (one year ago) link
It wouldn't be in my top 20 or my favourite Kurosawa, but it's so much more fun than watching Americans go on about Apocalypse now as a Vietnam War 'statement'.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 January 2023 09:18 (one year ago) link
as i say AN to me is the most ridiculous entry - maybe the only ridiculous entry - in the list. how many 18 year old boys vote in this thing?
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 January 2023 09:21 (one year ago) link
Twenty-one-year-old film bros are worse than 18-year-olds.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 January 2023 10:28 (one year ago) link
it's all a long distant memory to me
― Wyverns and gulls rule my world (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 January 2023 10:34 (one year ago) link
I prefer yojimbo and hidden fortress to seven samurai but that doesn't make it anything close to mediocrity
― calzino, Sunday, 8 January 2023 10:49 (one year ago) link
I think Ikiru should be the consensus pick, less of the trad masc concerns and also a better intro as not four hours long. That said I do love SS and if this was a best ever director poll I think Kurosawa would be my guy.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 8 January 2023 11:03 (one year ago) link
I'm terrible with Kurusawa, usually I always rewatch his samurai movies that I've seen umpteen times already rather than his more subtle masterpieces, but his samurai movies rule so much!
― calzino, Sunday, 8 January 2023 11:15 (one year ago) link
We all love Kurosawa. It's settled! *bangs gavel*
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 January 2023 12:50 (one year ago) link
Finally managed to score a copy of the mag, a single solitary copy in McColl's in Govan! Citizen Kane cover - of course I wanted the Jeanne Dielman, but the mag does reproduce this amazing pic as a full page:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGMdzURWwAErD7r.jpg
They give a selection of the director ballots only, no critics. Good lists - by which I mean, introduced me to films I'd not heard of before - from Khalik Allah, Radu Jude, Alexandre Koberidze, Alice Rohrwacher, Peter Strickland, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. An all-French list from Wes Anderson with some interesting choices. Fun list from Terence Davies, including two Doris Day films. Wouldn't have expected Peter Greenaway to choose Blade Runner.
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 8 January 2023 13:01 (one year ago) link
Nice! Love that picture!
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2023 13:22 (one year ago) link
Really want to vote for something that includes jokes, which narrows things down pretty severely
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Sunday, 8 January 2023 13:44 (one year ago) link
seven samurai it is
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 January 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
Ikiru is pish, Dersu Uzala is my kurosawa joint
― or something, Sunday, 8 January 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
I haven't seen that one, and of his late stuff only seen Kagemusha and Ran - so some serious gaps there.
― calzino, Sunday, 8 January 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
I like Dreams too, only seen 6 or 7 myself
― or something, Sunday, 8 January 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
there was a feature on bbc radio about the Rashomon influence on modern tv drama, it had the opposite effect of interesting me in watching any of this stuff or even the original again!
― calzino, Sunday, 8 January 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
They're doing the complete Kurosawa at the BFI right now. I caught One Wonderful Sunday - Kurosawa does Capra kinda, doesn't entirely work but there's some good stuff in there. At one point the female protagonist breaks the fourth wall and starts begging the viewers to clap for her husband and for all the young couples trying to make a living in postwar Japan, they need the help. No cunt clapped.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 8 January 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
all clapped out in the UK
― calzino, Sunday, 8 January 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link
every time someone types "influence" mark s gets his wings
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 January 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 January 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
Ope sorry, my gavel broke
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
Study, study, screen, screen, or bonk bonk on the head!
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
Lol, Alfred.
Really curious about Terence Davies’s list, especially the two Doris Days.
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:19 (one year ago) link
I voted Vertigo. My relationship to it was pretty organic thankfully. Bought a vhs tape at around 17 without ever having seen it before, or very many classic movies at all, and became obsessed without totally understanding why. Probably almost wore out that tape. Only later did I discover becoming obsessed with Vertigo was practically a cliche. But that’s where my love of movies started and it’s pretty much the experience I’m always hoping to have again every time I go to a movie.
I’ll go to bat for Apocalypse Now! I mean, in that I think it’s great, not top 20 of all time great though.
2001 probably one of the funnier options here?
― ryan, Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
I use the first 10 minutes of Apocalypse Now because the match cuts, fades, sound design, and POV storytelling lend themselves to that sort of context.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
Use them in class, that is.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
When I talk or think about Kubrick I almost place 2001 in mental brackets, it’s so, ahem, monolithic, that I unconsciously shunt it off to the side when contemplating the killing, the shining, paths of glory, eyes wide shut, etc. But I do love it. I’m sorry but HALs death is an astonishing moment, dancing spaceships, the light show, the star child, it’s just a fun fucking movie.
― ryan, Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
I watched the end of In the Mood for Love (another movie I’ve watched too many times) and I’ll be damned if the ending sequence didn’t fucking floor me for the first time in years.
― ryan, Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:31 (one year ago) link
I'm digging your posts, ryan.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
I took my mom to lunch yesterday and talked about these moves. There’s a famous story in my family that my dad took my mom to see 2001 on their first anniversary. She hates it to this day.
I described Jeanne Dielman to her and she immediately went home and watched it. Got some amusing text messages.
― ryan, Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
Every time I think I'm skeptical of 2001 I watch it again and it's always great. Most recently watched it with the kids, who — despite being raised on MCU/new Star Wars/etc — were totally engrossed. It's not a personal favorite or a movie that does much for me emotionally, but it is a stellar (ha) piece of filmmaking.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
Makes me wish for his Napoleon movie
― ryan, Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
Maybe part of the issue is that with almost all his other movies you can kinda have this personal relationship to it, your own take, etc….but 2001 belongs to everyone, for better or worse. I can’t imagine it being anyone’s “favorite” movie, or even favorite Kubrick.
― ryan, Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
I'm going to hold off on trying it again until I can see it on the big screen.
One of the repertory theatres near here is showing Jeanne Dielman in a few weeks. Gonna be lit.
― jmm, Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
Anyone doubtful of Seven Samurai should just watch the final battle. There’s this one long tracking shot looking outward from inside some buildings that’s just exhilarating.
― ryan, Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
Also, the totally deflated feeling afterwards at what should be their moment of triumph seems to come from a very deep place in Kurosawa.
― ryan, Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
I'm part of this and am excited.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 January 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
A guy at a screening of Beau Travail burst out laughing at the dancing in the final scene, otherwise you might want to stick to Singin' in the Rain.
Just multiply Barry Lyndon by Eyes Wide Shut and add Pacino.
Godard only appears here in his silent-film cameo in the Varda film; I suspect this is Fate punishing him for not answering the door when she came to visit him in Faces Places.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 8 January 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
But I do love it. I’m sorry but HALs death is an astonishing moment, dancing spaceships, the light show, the star child, it’s just a fun fucking movie.
― ryan, Sunday, 8 January 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Not the movie I watched.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 January 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
"They're doing the complete Kurosawa at the BFI right now."
Definitely looking forward to seeing a couple more of them on the big screen.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 January 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
Do you like other Kubrick movies?
― ryan, Sunday, 8 January 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
I went to see Dielman today at the cinema. I feel different. I'm not sure how. I don't drink by my own. I don't drink on Sundays as a general rule. I had to drink afterwards.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Sunday, 8 January 2023 22:04 (one year ago) link
Beau Travail for me, not a tough pick but I love a lot of these.
― omar little, Sunday, 8 January 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link
And Mizoguchi bangs gavelAnd Ozu bangs gavelAnd Naruse bangs gavelAnd Kiyoshi Kurosawa bangs gavel― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Sunday, January 8, 2023
don't forget Imamura
still haven't seen a Naruse film
― Dan S, Sunday, 8 January 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link