1. Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
2. District 9 (2009) dir. Neill Blomkamp
3. A Man Escaped (1956) dir. Robert Bresson
4. The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
5. Blow Out (1981) dir. Brian DePalma
6. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
7. Bigger Than Life (1956) dir. Nicholas Ray
8. Playtime (1967) dir. Jacques Tati
9. Suspiria (1977) dir. Dario Argento
10. In The Mood For Love (2000) Wong Kar Wai
I admit, I never watched any of these movies, and now I'll likely be spending my winter vacation tracking them all down. Reading the contents of the message, I can't help but feel that I would enjoy these movies.
What makes a story 'good' or 'bad', especially in visual media such as film, has suffered from the mass attention to fame and stardom. "While I have my own opinions about all of these matters, I strive to look beyond my personal tastes and to delve deeper and discover the director's intent in the decisions they've made. Roger Ebert once said quite eloquently that a film is not what it's about, it's how it's about what it's about."
I completely agree.
I have always been more of a writer and a reader than interested in film, but I feel that the same philosophy applies to all art - it is not the content alone that should be evaluated, but the presentation as well, and the active choices that were made.
I appreciate stories that linger with me. Sometimes movies that people deem 'great' or 'fantastic' leave me with nothing - it was a brief moment that fades too quickly to be memorable. The simplest comparison I can make is that some movies are like a piece of candy and another is like a cake. One leaves you filling more fulfilled.
Out of time; tbc
2. District 9 (2009) dir. Neill Blomkamp
3. A Man Escaped (1956) dir. Robert Bresson
4. The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
5. Blow Out (1981) dir. Brian DePalma
6. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
7. Bigger Than Life (1956) dir. Nicholas Ray
8. Playtime (1967) dir. Jacques Tati
9. Suspiria (1977) dir. Dario Argento
10. In The Mood For Love (2000) Wong Kar Wai
I admit, I never watched any of these movies, and now I'll likely be spending my winter vacation tracking them all down. Reading the contents of the message, I can't help but feel that I would enjoy these movies.
What makes a story 'good' or 'bad', especially in visual media such as film, has suffered from the mass attention to fame and stardom. "While I have my own opinions about all of these matters, I strive to look beyond my personal tastes and to delve deeper and discover the director's intent in the decisions they've made. Roger Ebert once said quite eloquently that a film is not what it's about, it's how it's about what it's about."
I completely agree.
I have always been more of a writer and a reader than interested in film, but I feel that the same philosophy applies to all art - it is not the content alone that should be evaluated, but the presentation as well, and the active choices that were made.
I appreciate stories that linger with me. Sometimes movies that people deem 'great' or 'fantastic' leave me with nothing - it was a brief moment that fades too quickly to be memorable. The simplest comparison I can make is that some movies are like a piece of candy and another is like a cake. One leaves you filling more fulfilled.
Out of time; tbc
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