@oneaprilday: Only 4x Campion? You showed restraint. Also love the 3x Ramsay and Denis, even if I don't yet share the enthusiasm for L'intrus. Will take a closer look at the list when I have more time.
Decided restraint.
Wish I could fit every Campion in the list! Ramsay and Denis - I realized I had to put all three Ramsay features on there, and when I catch up with more Denis, I wonder what will happen . . . ??
How beautiful your list is, OAD! There are so many I want to see! Your #1 is perfect. Well, so is your #2.
Thank-you, Sandy.
I can't imagine my #1 - or #2 - ever leaving that spot - they're too embedded in my psyche and my sense of self, I think, to leave.
OAD:
1. Rebecca and Rear Window, but no Vertigo ... Love it
2. Birth and The Yards ... Wow, you've been having much better luck with recent watches than me.
3. Your screencap makes The Wicker Man look positively fun!
4. Screencaps to We Need to Talk About Kevin and In the Mood for Love look earily similar?
I had
Vertigo on there for a bit but . . . I just couldn't do it. It's marvelous, but there are others I just love more - and
Rear Window and
Rebecca felt right somehow. It links back to seeing them when I was young, I think.
Vertigo was a later experience. * Yes! Hurrah for unexpectedly good recent watches! * I think the
Wicker Man is sort of fun - in an unsettling way. Seeing it on the big screen in this past year was an awesome experience. * Interesting note about
WNtTAK and
ItMfL - they do!
oad-- I love how your choices are more about the poetry of humanity, and not mostly focused on plot or thrills:
The Son
Poetry
There's Something Wrong With Kevin
It's a wonderful Life
Morvern Callar
Margaret
Sunrise
Near the top of your list are more solid entertainments, but as I drift down there is more that communicates something unique about the human condition. I love that.
Thanks, oldkid
And I like your way of describing that. It's not that plot driven films aren't about our humanity - all film is, surely, at some level (I'm sure you agree) - but yes, many of my choices, you've made me realize, tend toward a more poetic, less-straightforward (plot-wise) approach. (Your alternate title here, "There's Something Wrong With Kevin," made me laugh, btw.
Intentional re-wording or unconscious slip?)
So many great things! Lovely list, oad!
Thanks, Martin!