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[proximoception]

Suggestions for a 2nd film club film welcome, especially from people who didn't nominate anything last time. If there's nothing you've been meaning to get to for a while this can still be an opportunity to push people to watch and talk about something you love.

(Posts or comments about Stalker still welcome too; hard to run out of things to say about that one.)

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[wolodymyr.livejournal.com]

fwiw, things in my queue, some of which it might be rough to watch alone:
La Haine
Three Women
The White Ribbon

But I've also seen no Ozu. (I can imagine absolution gasping - a mock and pleasant gasp - now.)

[absolution.livejournal.com]

i keep meaning to watch La Haine too. and ah no, i wouldn't, promise. (: hardly anyone i know here has watched Ozu; Robert and one of his bandmates are the only ones. and he's definitely not for everybody (i tried gifting Late Spring to my dad one year for father's day with a loooong letter explaining why and he loved the letter but could never get through the thing, and i understand why).

if you decide to jump in, watch Late Spring first. his entire body of work is very, very consistent--something that gets mocked by many (along with the sentimentalism), Oshima for example, and R recently said something like "i wouldn't want every movie to be an Ozu movie, that's for sure...would you?!"--but everything else i've seen (and eee, i've seen a lot...i went a bit overboard after loving Late Spring so much) is the same, just less perfectly realized. Tokyo Story is more famous and almost as good, but i've often scratched my head wondering why it's The One popular consensus-wise.

but honestly, i'd personally love it if you watched Three Women, probably a little more even, because reading what you have to say about it would be like christmas for me. ;)

yay movies! have never heard of The White Ribbon, should check it out...

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

White Ribbon's loathsome. I'm an admirer of Tokyo Story and Three Women if that adds any weight to the warning.

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

I'm up for any and all of these.