Film, movies.

[A Hard Rain]

Okay. About film. My three favorite mediums of art are literature, films, and photography.

I wish I could talk with some people.
I want you to talk with me.

If you haven't seen very many acclaimed films or movies, a good place to look is the American Film Institues top 100 films.
http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/100yearslist.aspx
This is a subjective list, just a place to start.

As I grew up, my older brother had a friend, he now makes films. He is well-read. More than anyone i know. I admire him.

Tell me what you like.

P.S. About literature and filim, i feel that film at times may lack the intimacy that the reader has with his story. There is only one atticus finch in to kill a mockingbird the film. For every reader, there is a different atticus finch. A different scout. A different pocketwatch waiting in the tree placed by boo. And a different Charles Baker Harris(Dill). And a different brawl between Gem and some outside force, while we sit inside the costume of a ham, imagining what must be happening.

[subterranean]

Some of my favs which are in the list of 250 nominated film scores:

AMERICAN BEAUTY
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
BATMAN
BEN-HUR
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
BRAVEHEART
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
GANDHI
THE HOURS
THE LORD OF THE RINGS:THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
SCHINDLER’S LIST
TAXI DRIVER


I see that Citizen Kane sits on the 1st place in the 100 movie list. I have the DVD at home, but I fell asleep watching it sometime ago. Maybe I should try it again...

[Mark F.]

Citizen Kane is good, revolutionnary but not my favorite.

I'll try and write some kind of top ten:

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
The Big Lebowsky
Apocalypse Now
Ran
Night of the Hunter
Down by Law
Reservoir Dogs
Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Assault on Precinct 13 (original)
Conan the Barbarian

[A Hard Rain]

Now lets talk independant films.

[Mark F.]

Jarmusch is my favorite indy director.

[A Hard Rain]

i just saw 'y tu mama tambien' and 'run lola run,' both foreign films. I preferred 'mama.' RLR was neat also. Amelie got some recognition a few years ago. A good movie, along with the triplets of bellville, i enjoyed.

Jarmusch did the new one with Bill murray right, 'Broken Flowers.' I saw it. I was like in deep meditation for the next hour after that movie. It was good, but I can't really say why. And when people ask me my opinion i say i liked it, but i can't tell them why. Deep.

The only thing that rubbed me awkward was when Murray's character gives his philosophy for the kid. It seemed so banal or hackneyed. Although it's hard to express that as a theme of the movie without coming out and saying it.

What else has Jarmusch done that you like?

[Logos]

What else has Jarmusch done that you like?

Down By Law

[Mark F.]

Down By Law

Waits, Benigni and Lurie are excellent. I strongly recommend Stranger Than Paradise and Mystery Train to anyone who liked Down by Law.

He's most accessible piece is Night on Earth which has more mainstream humour than his other films but keeps some of the usual, cynical stuff.

Ghost Dog is good but very different...in fact all of his films are very different.

Dead Man is a great film, Neil Young's score is really impressive especially as he recorded it while watching an unfinished version, just reacting to what he saw.

Coffee and Cigarettes and Permanent Vacation are harder to get into, I just love all his movies.

[A Hard Rain]

funny... i own coffee and cigarettes and never noticed it was by him 0.o
i shall investigate!

[starrwriter]

The Big Lebowski
Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Two bizarrely funny films, also on my favorite list.

I think "Lebowski" is the Coen brothers best film. Jeff Bridges said they must have spied on his personal life to write the screenplay.

The first time I saw "Strangelove" was in a drive-in theater. At the end of the film the audience drove away muttering to themselves. I was laughing so hard I had muscle spasms and my wife thought I had finally gone off the deep end.