dear motw board, i drew this:

[tar]

ok my favorite director is Terrence Malick. but i also really like spielberg (only his latest two movies). i always feel funny saying i like him now because saving private ryan is teh most awful movie of all time.


ps. i knew exactly what i was doing with this thread! i am glad it worked right.

 

[minxnim]

ET altered my childhood so yea, i mean, gotta give him credit!

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

plus, Jaws, ya know? Jaws. So much more than a horror movie.

ok I deleted my michael bay crack so as not to imply that I can't be serious here.

 

[avi]

I really think Lars Von Trier is capable of great, great work, but then he goes and does something like The Idiots which I just have no inclination to see.
I'm curious about Vinterberg's (another Dogme alumni - The Celebration) upcoming English movie.
I like Bergman a lot. It goes without saying. A lot his appeal comes from Sven Nquist (sic), his cinemetographer.

Hitchcock is another one of my absolute faves.

another: Roman Polanski. Rosemary's Baby is amazing.

 

[xfer]

as well as "Chinatown". Have you seen "The Pianist" yet? it's freakin' RAD. It's Polanski's first Holocaust movie, and he's a Holocaust survivor, correct?

although: I really couldn't get into "Fearless Vampire Killers", despite the Roman Polanski thing and the Bad Brains thing and everything else.

 

[avi]

I have a hard time watching most Holocaust movies, so i'm not sure I'll be able to see it. Maybe on DVD.

 

[goatschool]

Originally posted by avi
another Dogme alumni - The Celebration

this film was really something

 

[avi]

ooh, and another newer director I have high hopes for is Lukas Moodysson who has done Show Me Love (Fucking Åmal) and Together (Tillsammans)

 

[xfer]

well, there were REALLY brutal parts of "The Pianist", not like gory-for-the-sake-of-gory, but just, like, people are talking and then the Nazi just pulls out a gun and BANG, dead jew, with no emphasis on the killing, as if it's just part of life...one part where they tear the guy away from his family and put everyone in the boxcars is pretty intense...and the whole first half of the movie, these silly Polacks are complaining "This is horrible! We can only keep $2000 zlotys in our home at once now?" and you can only keep thinking DUDES YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW BAD IT'S GONNA GET!

avi--is Moodysson the guy who's supposedly really misogynistic?

 

[avi]

Moodysson is not a misogynist as far as I know. Show Me Love is basically a HS lesbian love story, so I doubt it.

As for Ingmar Bergman, yeah he's pretty piggish.

 

[tar]

i can tell you one thing, i hate dogme 95! that's so like the opposite of what makes a film appealing to me.

 

[tar]

even though Nashville is one of my favorite favorite movies.

 

[avi]

I have a love/hate relationship with Dogme films. I def like the lack of a soundtrack and the subsequent use of silence. I appreciate the way it forces directors to use ambient light differently and how they need to arrange sets around that. Overall, the ideas are important I think, but the whole 'stick only to the rules' thing is stupid.