My memory of it is that it's borderline boomer hagiography territory, tho understandably so
The movie's against hagiography of any sort.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
They're rascals in it for the fame and the dough.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
Dimes!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 19:54 (one year ago) link
LOL, it really has been a long time then
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
Apollo 13 is the conservative reaction.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
Well, Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager is as cool as just about any man has been in a film.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
Especially compared to Tom Hanks as, well, anyone
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
Also, no one in The Right Stuff is a boomer, though they like to think so.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
Kaufman's wise enough to let Shepard do his nuclear glow on the side lines.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
― Chris L,
Its audience, alas...
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
I haven’t seen many of the films on this list, but THE KING OF COMEDY is one of my 5 favorite of all time, so I feel pretty comfortable voting for it. it’s aged like fine wine
like more Scorsese than I dislike, but I fucking loathe King of Comedy. Its influence has been absolutely pernicious in the culture
did it influence the culture, or anticipate it?
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 2 May 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
Still the best moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjaKdtYbTto
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
terms
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 20:53 (one year ago) link
Tender Mercies is a sentimental favorite; certainly one of Duvall's best roles.
Videdrome is notable mostly for Debbie Harry, but that is almost enough.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
I've come to love King of Comedy, but I totally understand hating it (my initial reaction in 1983, in fact). As I've posted about other films: when someone make something truly experimental, or intentionally alienating, or as an exercise in complete provocation, why wouldn't some people hate it? That's basically what the filmmaker (or writer, or band, or artist, or whatever) set out to do.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 21:05 (one year ago) link
Yes, a film that is intentionally off-putting. I've always loved it (I almost said "enjoyed," but that's not the right word).
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 21:06 (one year ago) link
I didn't see Sans Soleil until a year or so ago. I'm sure I wouldn't have appreciated it at the time it was released, but it narrates a fascinating, searching look at the world with a quest for understanding, with ideas and images that flow together almost too fast to comprehend in one viewing.
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link
I rewatched Sans Soleil this weekend, coincidentally.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link
I'd like to write in Trading Places, but I suspect that has aged badly.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link
besides Videodrome I thought The Dead Zone was one of the most interesting early Cronenberg films
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I re-watched The Dead Zone less than a year ago and it was really good. Walken seemed almost human, except in the one or two scenes where he was called upon to smile.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 23:58 (one year ago) link
:)
― Dan S, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:00 (one year ago) link
Long Live the new flesh
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:09 (one year ago) link
Trump = President Stillson
I've seen half of the top list and I'm voting Nostalghia.
I consider Prénom Carmen to be Godard's worst "big" film, a real failure of spirit (but kudos to Jacques Villeret as "L'homme qui mange du yaourt" in the bathroom scene). Pialat often leaves me wondering "what was that about", including here; El Sur is fine but the weakest of Erice's three features. The Bresson and Marker films are perfect in their way but I don't love them.
Best film from the bottom list: In the White City, a beautiful mood piece with Bruno Ganz as a sailor in Portugal.
Best film ranked even lower: The Makioka Sisters.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:10 (one year ago) link
I can never remember if it was Prenom Carmen or Passion I’ve seen but whichever it was I didn’t like it
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:39 (one year ago) link
Passion had paintings turned into tableaux vivants, plus a KISS pinball machine.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:51 (one year ago) link
oh I missed The Makioka Sisters: put that one in my top five.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:54 (one year ago) link
tableaux vivants, ugh
― Dan S, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link
Fuck these lists and their attitude that comedy doesn’t exist. I cast a write-in vote for National Lampoon’s Vacation.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 08:23 (one year ago) link
This list literally has the KING of COMEDY
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 11:30 (one year ago) link
I didn't realise there was a movie of The Makioka Sisters so I need to see that
Thread might prompt me to rewatch Sans Soleil this weekend which I voted for with not much hesitation
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 12:09 (one year ago) link
Love King of Comedy, Local Hero, Sans Soleil, El Sur and Three Crowns of the Sailor but voting L'Argent for being the perfect distillation of Bresson's style and the most economical film critique of western capitalism I can think of, without being as dry as that sounds
― or something, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
My students responded as well to L'Argent last summer as they did to Pickpocket.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
The ATM skimming scene gives me mega ASMR
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, May 2, 2023 12:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
it's crucially and trickily also not against the idea that these guys were exceptionally brave dudes. it engages in some iconography obv but it feels earned after a lot of time spent showing them as these flawed and vulnerable individuals. the focus on their wives, the love and support between them all, the occasional strife and domestic issues, was pretty key to this film as well. even more crucially it's a massively entertaining film imo.
― omar little, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
OTM. The scenes between Glenn and his wife are some of the decade's quietest and sultriest.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 16:15 (one year ago) link
Read that as "the scenes between Glenn (Close) and his wife"
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 May 2023 01:49 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CpRCd8X.gif
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 May 2023 02:19 (one year ago) link
Terms of Endearment is one of the few Oscar best pictures I'd characterize as underrated, at this point
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
Shirley is amazing in ToE but that movie is glorified hallmark trash
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
Jack is p good too even though he plays that role up to and past as good as it gets
Winger's even better.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link
Ugh, that movie made me sob and I don't even really like it
― jmm, Friday, 5 May 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
Do it for him https://t.co/98QN5FLjmR pic.twitter.com/scmaZGY3iX— 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 (@oldfilmsflicker) May 8, 2023
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, 8 May 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 18 May 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 19 May 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
LOL Zelig, a one-joke film stretched to an interminable 75 minutes or whatever
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 May 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link
Rightest winner in any of this series so far
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 19 May 2023 12:40 (one year ago) link
1963's Best Movies: 60 Years Later
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 18:31 (eleven months ago) link