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proximoceptionStill mulling the reading, but I've been pining for art films and have decided to watch everything I've hitherto missed off the 2012 Sight and Sound Directors' Poll (more my speed than the Critics' list, and they only take it up to 100 total, so easier to get through).
So if I can get my hands on them I'll watch: Mirror, Ordet, Au Hasard Balthazar, Sunrise, The Battle of Algiers, Stalker, Amarcord, Come and See, Close-Up, A Man Escaped, Viridiana, Once Upon a Time in the West, Man with a Movie Camera, Shoah, L'eclisse, Pather Panchali, Gertrud, A Woman Under the Influence, Journey to Italy, Vivre sa Vie, Hidden, Fear Eats the Soul, Kes, Husbands, Los Olvidados, Pierre le Fou, Opening Night, La Maman et la Putain, Beau Travail, and L'argent.
Pretty much all movies that I either avoided back in my allwatching days because I assumed I'd find them unpleasant (silent, Christiany, atrocity-focused, avant gardes of armies unlikely to show), or stopped partway through because I in fact did, or in a handful of cases they never seemed to be available. I assume I'll enjoy very few of these, in fact (the Tarkovskys and Bunuels almost definitely excepted). But at least one of those thirty will stick. Probably not the Haneke, but he gets this one last shot.
So if I can get my hands on them I'll watch: Mirror, Ordet, Au Hasard Balthazar, Sunrise, The Battle of Algiers, Stalker, Amarcord, Come and See, Close-Up, A Man Escaped, Viridiana, Once Upon a Time in the West, Man with a Movie Camera, Shoah, L'eclisse, Pather Panchali, Gertrud, A Woman Under the Influence, Journey to Italy, Vivre sa Vie, Hidden, Fear Eats the Soul, Kes, Husbands, Los Olvidados, Pierre le Fou, Opening Night, La Maman et la Putain, Beau Travail, and L'argent.
Pretty much all movies that I either avoided back in my allwatching days because I assumed I'd find them unpleasant (silent, Christiany, atrocity-focused, avant gardes of armies unlikely to show), or stopped partway through because I in fact did, or in a handful of cases they never seemed to be available. I assume I'll enjoy very few of these, in fact (the Tarkovskys and Bunuels almost definitely excepted). But at least one of those thirty will stick. Probably not the Haneke, but he gets this one last shot.
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Date: 2012-12-24 05:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-26 04:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-29 02:53 pm (UTC)Tarkovsky is glacial / Stalker frustrated me while Watching, but is something i *remember* well, sure !
Once Upon a Time is *fantastic* / gets to the .. bedrock and play of forces associated with "the Western" as well as anything,
Ali: Feat Eats the Soul - people can be utter shits (see also - i dunno - Fox and His Friends ..)
Husbands - this one will make you crazy. but see it once. just to see how crazy you can be made !
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Date: 2012-12-29 04:09 pm (UTC)I think John Crowley said something similar about Stalker on his journal. The pacing hurt Solaris, for me, but it somehow made Andrei Rublev hypnotic, like a fall through liquid oxygen.
Once Upon a Time I've gotten halfway through twice. I think I'll just start at the middle.
Cassavetes always does me in after ten or twenty minutes.