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Re: The Top 100 Club (Episode III)
« Reply #420 on: September 05, 2017, 06:29:17 AM »
I have not seen 79 of Knocked Out Loaded's list. They are:

1   Trouble Every Day   Claire Denis   2001
2   Wings Of Desire   Wim Wenders   1987
3   Sympathy For The Devil   Jean-Luc Godard   1968
4   Dekalog   Krzysztof Kieslowski   1989
5   Russian Ark   Aleksandr Sokurov   2002
6   Tale Of Tales   Yuriy Norshteyn   1979
7   Time Regained   Raoul Ruiz   1999
8   Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes   Werner Herzog   1972
9   Grey Gardens   Albert & David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer   1975
10   One From The Heart   Francis Ford Coppola   1981
11   Man With A Movie Camera   Dziga Vertov   1929
12   Dogville   Lars von Trier   2003
13   Sombre   Philippe Grandrieux   1998
14   Cul-de-sac   Roman Polanski   1966
15   Brown Bunny   Vincent Gallo   2003
16   Le feu follet   Louis Malle   1963
17   The Swimmer   Frank Perry   1968
18   A Special Day   Ettore Scola   1977
19   La maman et la putain   Jean Eustache   1973
20   The Battle Of Algiers   Gillo Pontecorvo   1966
22   Touch Of Evil   Orson Welles   1958
23   Playtime   Jacques Tati   1967
24   The Long Goodbye   Robert Altman   1973
25   Good Bye, Dragon Inn   Tsai Ming-liang   2003
27   Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind   Michel Gondry   2004
28   A Summer's Tale   Eric Rohmer   1996
29   The Turin Horse   Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky   2011
30   Baby Doll   Elia Kazan   1956
31   Daisies   Vera Chytilová   1966
32   Unsere Afrikareise   Peter Kubelka   1966
33   Thérèse   Alain Cavalier   1986
34   La jetée   Chris Marker   1962
35   Le gamin au vélo   Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne   2011
36   Les 400 coups   François Truffaut   1959
37   The Piano   Jane Campion   1993
38   I'm Not There   Todd Haynes   2007
39   Killer Of Sheep   Charles Burnett   1978
40   The Piano Teacher   Michael Haneke   2001
42   The Women   George Cukor   1939
43   Pickpocket   Robert Bresson   1959
45   Don't Look Back   D.A. Pennebaker   1967
46   Little Fugitive   Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin   1953
48   The Night Of the Hunter   Charles Laughton   1955
50   Man On The Moon   Milos Forman   1999
54   The New Land   Jan Troell   1972
55   Los olvidados   Luis Buñuel   1950
56   Border Radio   Allison Anders, Dean Lent, Kurt Voss   1987
58   The Adventures Of Prince Achmed   Lotte Reiniger   1926
60   Brief Encounter   David Lean   1945
61   Gare du Nord    Jean Rouch   1965
62   Vagabond   Agnès Varda   1985
64   Le sang d'un poète   Jean Cocteau   1932
65   Breathless   Jim McBride   1983
66   Stop Making Sense   Jonathan Demme   1984
67   Upstream Color   Shane Carruth   2013
68   Saturday Night And Sunday Morning   Karel Reisz   1960
69   Gadjo Dilo   Tony Gatlif   1997
71   A.K.A. Serial Killer   Masao Adachi   1969
72   The King of Comedy   Martin Scorsese   1982
73   The Hours   Stephen Daldry   2002
74   In A Lonely Place   Nicholas Ray   1950
75   The Honeymoon Killers   Leonard Kastle   1970
76   Meshes Of The Afternoon   Maya Deren   1943
77   When We Were Kings   Leon Gast   1996
78   Broadway Danny Rose   Woody Allen   1984
79   A Woman Under The Influence   John Cassavetes   1974
80   To The Wonder   Terrence Malick   2012
82   Araya   Margot Benacerraf   1959
84   Skammen   Ingmar Bergman   1968
87   The Man Who Fell To Earth   Nicolas Roeg   1976
88   Roma città aperta   Roberto Rossellini   1945
89   Diva   Jean-Jacques Beineix   1981
90   Limite   Mario Peixoto   1931
91   The Fountain   Darren Aronofsky   2006
92   La cérémonie   Claude Chabrol   1995
93   The Draughtsman's Contract   Peter Greenaway   1982
94   Amour fou   Jessica Hausner   2014
98   Gomorra   Matteo Garrone   2008
100   Låt den rätte komma in   Tomas Alfredson   2008

I will try for
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
La Jetee

and I am not sure what else.

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Re: The Top 100 Club (Episode III)
« Reply #421 on: September 05, 2017, 06:34:50 AM »
Playtime is playing at a local theatre sometime this month...
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Re: The Top 100 Club (Episode III)
« Reply #422 on: September 05, 2017, 07:26:39 AM »
Ultimately I am going to try for:
Little Fugitive
Border Radio
Amour Fou
I know most of you here to little to make good prognostics, but I can imagine Amour fou being a good Bondo pick. Happy viewing!
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Re: The Top 100 Club (Episode III)
« Reply #423 on: September 05, 2017, 07:47:27 AM »
Playtime is playing at a local theatre sometime this month...

I found it unwatchable and turned it off halfway through. So should be a slam dunk winner for you!
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Re: The Top 100 Club (Episode III)
« Reply #424 on: September 05, 2017, 07:48:13 AM »
La Jetée – Chris Marker (1962)



This short film is the very essence of being, of self, of memories, of a search for purpose, of being inquisitive. It is wondrous while being fundamental. You employ the enduring consequence of time travel to subvert the very nature of the human, perishable and fragile. And you almost get away with it.

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Re: The Top 100 Club (Episode III)
« Reply #425 on: September 05, 2017, 07:56:55 AM »
I'm going to pick up Rashomon today and hopefully get to it tomorrow. Then I'll possibly do Paper Moon & Rome, Open City.

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Re: The Top 100 Club (Episode III)
« Reply #426 on: September 05, 2017, 08:13:31 AM »
I have not seen 79 of Knocked Out Loaded's list. [....]

I will try for
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
La Jetee

and I am not sure what else.
Thus there were plenty to choose from! Both of those two are movies that I have seen more than once, so I'd say they are solid choices. Good luck!
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Re: The Top 100 Club (Episode III)
« Reply #427 on: September 05, 2017, 08:15:21 AM »
Playtime is playing at a local theatre sometime this month...
If you are looking for my blessing to go, you have it. 😄
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Re: The Top 100 Club (Episode III)
« Reply #428 on: September 05, 2017, 10:44:03 AM »
Playtime is playing at a local theatre sometime this month...
Go see it. It's one of maybe 5 movies I'd pay an absurd amount of money to see on a big screen.

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Re: The Top 100 Club (Episode III)
« Reply #429 on: September 05, 2017, 03:33:27 PM »
Everyone walks the same, expecting me to step the narrow path they've laid. They claim to walk unafraid. I'll be clumsy instead.

I need to finish this up today so that I stop stepping on Knocked Out Loaded's month. Not sure I have the energy, but we'll see. I also have to get back to watching and writing about movies, especially since I revisited a film last night that I need to restore to my Top 100. I was partly distracted during that screening by the discussion between smirnoff, Sandy, and Knocked Out Loaded near the end of their In the Name of the Father chat about trends in my Top 100. I've not thought about myself being particularly drawn to "big moral/justice issues", and I'm stumped trying to figure out if there's really something to that. I think it's likely that I'm more just drawn to films with a documentary impulse (whether in fiction or non-fiction films), and there's a lot of overlap in that style with the aforementioned themes. Thematically, I'l probably drawn to (adolescent) coming-of-age stories above all else, but I don't think the story of Gerry Conlon quite fits into that bucket (despite maturation being a big part of his arc). Instead, In the Name of the Father fits the trend of my favorite films that are fully cinematic — that attack the spectrum of my senses with emotion and delight and humor and tension. It starts with a good story, like anything else, and then structure and characters. And then virtuoso performances and strong editing and perfect use of music. And finally ... moments. Those shots and scenes that affect me deeply and make my viewer's heart scream yes yes yes. In the Name of the Father has its fair share of those moments, highlighted most obviously by the last fifteen minutes, with Emma Thompson asking if you know this man and giving me chills down my spine that I'm feeling as I type this even though I haven't seen that scene in at least a year;

I got chills right then too! Yay Emma!

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and Daniel Day-Lewis, fantastic throughout, quoting the film's title in a way that makes me want to cry. (Reading back through the chat now and remembering the bits of flame outside the prison cells and getting more chills. Surprised to read that that reaction wasn't shared.) And now I'm laughing thinking about how the father/son relationship here makes for a perfect early-90s double-feature with Quiz Show ... only to remember Sandy's reaction to the latter.

Totally fine with a double feature -- I'll watch ItNotF again in a heartbeat. Quiz Show? Wake me when it's over. :D

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I probably agreed with you all about the final courtroom scene feeling rushed the first time I saw the movie, but on subsequent viewings it felt perfect, getting to the root of the arbitrariness of the justice on display (something which the film's structure taps into nicely, I think). The movie denies us that full sense of satisfaction at the end because we shouldn't be satisfied. We should feel cheated and inspired to action and change, which Gerry's speech on the steps brings home. (Postscript: I liked 12 Angry Men a good deal, but not quote Top 100 anymore; maybe with a little more documentary grittiness. And The Poseidon Adventure is fun, of course.)

aw, You saw this before I came to the forum! It's a movie that's more moving than it has any right to be. And yes about the bickering and Nonnie. Shaddup already!

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Sandy, you can argue, I think, that even lies are autobiographical truths. The story you choose to tell, even if embellished, still tells a story about you. Everything is autobiographical just like everything is political.

Yes, oh wise one, I agree with what you say here!

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My to-do list for today says to finish responding to Top 100 reviews and then to fix my life. Both remarked un-crossed off at present.

Maybe you'll want to break that down just a tad. :)

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My problems revolve around an unending war at the extremes between apathy and desire. That I haven't spent time in Eastern Europe is also a problem. I don't believe that a lack of desire would lead to an avoidance of unhappiness because I'd feel the lack. It's the age-old argument about having good without evil. I'll take the good and suffer the consequences. So, no, not a buddhist, but I did of course keep journals as a kid. Let's drink this rye and I'll read aloud from selected passages. We'll do a shot every time the embellishments seem more autobiographical than the facts.

:)) Please do!

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The idea of our having set points makes me sad, going back to that idea of lack of evolution. I suppose it can go both ways, though. You can reread those old journals and smile at the fact that you're still the same person; or you can react with horror that the script of your life was written long before you want to admit. There might well be ghosts and spirits and reincarnates around us, but they've been slow to introduce themselves to me. I met someone once who, based on my zodiac, quickly summed me up in unsettling fashion, providing the strongest argument for astrology I've encountered to date. If it was all was going to end today, we'd still talk about the possible tomorrows and the missed opportunities of yesterday.

Lovely answers, pixote. May I ask what your sign is? Super curious.


I was able to find all your songs but this one. Is it something you wrote yourself?

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You've been riding down the road, chasing nighttime, but you know, no matter how fast you go. I'll be grown up when you come home.