LoathedVermin72, out of curiousity, are there any, not counting not having been released, movies you really want to see but haven't? you are a living film encyclopedia and it's quite impressive

Thanks. I wouldn't call myself that, but I'm trying.

Anyway, yes. There are many, many, many. I need to see more Fellini (especially La Strada and Nights of Cabiria), Truffaut, Godard (I'm ashamed of not having seen Breathless, and I'm dying to see Contempt.), Bergman (Through a Glass Darkly and The Virgin Spring are the big ones), and Antonioni (Blow-Up and The Passenger, especially). I adore Polanski, and thanks to crappy US releasing companies, I have not been able to see Repulsion, Che?, or Cul-de-sac. There are many French Poetic Realist films I'm dying to see (especially by Marcel Carne), but again, they haven't been released in the US.

Random titles...
The Scarlet Empress (Which I'll be buying soon.)
The Sword of Doom
Le Notti Bianche (This too.)
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Picnic At Hanging Rock (This is my next Netflix rental...)
The Player (...and then this.)
Grand Illusion
Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy
Brief Encounter
Love and Death
Schizopolis
Cannibal Ferox
A Canterbury Tale (I'm buying this very soon...)
Children of Paradise (...and this.)
Amarcord
Bad Taste

I could go on and on and on...but I won't.

Bad Taste is a must.

But really though, no matter how many movies you see, there's always going to be more that you want or need to see. No one who loves movies is going to just sit back one day and say "yep, I've seen it all now".

Exactly. I could sit here and list 500 films I'm dying to see, but...yeah.

let me ask you about 2 movies i absolutely loved and are quite rare for anyone to have heard of so i'll try it with you

Final (2001) w Hope Davis and Denis Leary
City Of Ghosts (2003 i think) Matt Dillon, Gerard Deperadieu, Stellan Skarsgård.

i love both, but can't talk to anyone about it. have you seen those? if so what do you think?

Nope, I haven't seen those. Sorry.

so much for than huh?

Well, I don't know why you'd do that in the first place. I just watch a lot of movies that look good to me.

seriously though you knowledge is impressive

L knows more about movies then me. there is no ! is Apocolypse Now.

Hey, I was just sayin'...

I have a couple of comments on the movies you HAVEN'T seen.



Must see. Working with Guiletta Masina was the best thing Fellini ever did, sans 8 1/2. Both of these movies are heartbreaking, Masina makes you feel more with her facial expressions than anyone else. Ever.

Don't even bother with Amarcord. I'd rather watch Fellini masturbate. Oh wait, I just did. Way too long, way too happy.



Pretty much quintessential Godard. This is like the root his body of work grew out of. I watched this one first, and I saw pieces of it in every movie of his, and every French New Wave film, I saw after.

I really need to see Pierrot Le Fou. God damn netflix.



Okay, I've seen everything by Bergman. I own quite a few of his films. If you haven't seen many, then I definitely wouldn't start with these. Very somber movies, with very few scenes and some very long shots (holy shit if the scene inside the ship isn't stunningly beautiful, melancholy, in TaGD). Through a Glass Darkly is definitely my favorite, and the father is the best performance Gunnar Bjornstrand ever gave for Bergman. And that's saying alot.



Good, but I think English Antonioni loses a little of the punch that Italian Antonioni had. (The Night is my favorite of his italian works)




Probably the most visually stunning samurai flick Ive seen, and definitely some of the best battle sequences. If you can get over the (lack of) ending...



I caught this on IFC when I was incredibly stoned once. I don't remember much of it, but I remember liking it. Visconti's Leopard is next on my netflix queue, I hear it's quite a bore, heavens if Claudia Cardinale isn't the most beautiful woman to ever walk this planet though...



Similiar plot (and conclusion) as L'Avventura. Decidedly different take on it, though. I saw your atmospheric films thread.....I think you'll love this....God, what the fuck happened to Peter Weir?




I assume you're talking about the Woody Allen movie. If so, hi-larious! I've never laughed more at one of his movies, and he had some kneeslappers in the seventies.

i need to get out more....i havent heard of basically almost all of those

i'd say its the other way around

ps LoathedVermin72 that wasnt an attack on you

Have you seen Etre et Avoir (To Be and To Have), that little doco about the rural French school?

No, I haven't. I'm generally not too big on documentaries.



Haha, I know - if you hadn't, I would have said the exact same thing.