Frederik B, a good portions of those films you are listing are closer to the concept of 'masterpiece' than 'classic'. I agree for Leviathan, Melancholia, Holy Motors and Turin Horse but not for a film like Anatolia, which is one my favorite films these past years don't get me wrong.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 24 August 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
I am interested to see how much the Matrix's classic rep is going to be damamged by the sequels.
Hee hee
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 24 August 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
basically, i think that movies that can fit into people's facile narratives about cultural trends tend to make their way into the canon.
What's disorienting though is that one generation's facile narrative about their cultural trends can be completely upended by the next generation's facile etc.
― cardamon, Saturday, 24 August 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah, absolutely. that's why i think spring breakers is interesting... there was a whole new inquiry pdf issue about it, and it definitely seems like the kind of thing writers feel compelled to write about, but the discourse about this movie has nevertheless been eclectic and mixed, and critics haven't really settled on their pet reductionist explanation for what it is supposed to *mean* yet. idk. "the graduate" is interesting in this way because it is a very different movie today than in 1967 owing to the fact that the "youth" movement it apparently was seen to champion no longer exists, and that generation today is seen to have a conflicted, rather than purely emancipatory legacy.
― Treeship, Sunday, 25 August 2013 08:13 (ten years ago) link
i think a serious man is a classic
― one yankee sympathizer masquerading as a historian (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 25 August 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
Superbad is a total classic.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 30 August 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link