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    I feel like you've been having a lot more disappointments than loves with this challenge.
    Numerically I can see how that’d be the perception, but I’m actually enjoying it a lot, especially since I’m knocking stuff off my watchlist.

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    19. The Great Beauty (2013) - Looks nice and has some ideas about ~life~ but damn in the end, this is shallow nothingness. 5/10
    Celebrity > La grande bellezza
    Just because...
    The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
    Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
    The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild

    The last book I read was...
    The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain


    The (New) World

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    Numerically I can see how that’d be the perception, but I’m actually enjoying it a lot, especially since I’m knocking stuff off my watchlist.
    Oh well I'm glad you're enjoying the challenge!

    Jen and I have been slacking on it just because I've been so tired from work this last while, I rarely want to watch something that requires much thought.
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    Question for baby doll...

    Criterion has a Fassbinder set with The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, and Lola.

    Thoughts on any / all of these?
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    Question for baby doll...

    Criterion has a Fassbinder set with The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, and Lola.

    Thoughts on any / all of these?
    Die Ehe der Maria Braun is probably a top ten movie for me, and the rare case where a director's most accessible and commercial movie is also their best. Lola is great to look at, and no movie with Barbara Sukowa is a complete waste of time, but it's not as compelling dramatically. Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss is great.
    Just because...
    The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
    Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
    The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild

    The last book I read was...
    The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain


    The (New) World

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    Die Ehe der Maria Braun is probably a top ten movie for me, and the rare case where a director's most accessible and commercial movie is also their best. Lola is great to look at, and no movie with Barbara Sukowa is a complete waste of time, but it's not as compelling dramatically. Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss is great.
    Thank you, bd!

    Would you recommend these as a starting point for Fassbinder?
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    Crawling along here.

    Week 3: Godard - Breathless
    I've only previously seen A Woman is a Woman out of the gigantic collection that is Godard, and thought that was decent, but otherwise relatively unmemorable. Breathless is a step up from that, I think, but also had some of the same hang-ups as the prior, and that was the multitude of jump cuts. I read that that was in effort to keep the story as whole as possible, but cut the run time, and I can appreciate that. Overall, I appreciate the film, and mostly enjoyed it, but nothing that I feel will have a lasting impact down the road.
    *coming soon*

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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    Thank you, bd!

    Would you recommend these as a starting point for Fassbinder?
    Yes, those are good starting points along with Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. After those I'd watch The Merchant of Four Seasons, Beware of a Holy Whore, Fox and His Friends, .. he made like 3 movies a year during the 70s!

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    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul was the first Fassbinder I saw. Then jumped right into Berlin Alexanderplatz... that was a lot. BRD trilogy is fantastic.

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    Thanks for all the info everyone!

    Sorry, what is the BRD trilogy Mal?

    And jeez...he died at 37. Horrible.
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    “Criterion has a Fassbinder set with The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, and Lola.”
    This is known as the BRD Trilogy (Bundesrepublik Deutschland).

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    Quote Quoting Mal (view post)
    “Criterion has a Fassbinder set with The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss, and Lola.”
    This is known as the BRD Trilogy (Bundesrepublik Deutschland).
    Oh, I didn't realize that set was a trilogy of films.

    Very cool.

    Edit: just looked at the cover art again and saw it is literally called the BRD TRILOGY in gigantic red letters.

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    Haven't finished it, but it's part of the Criterion Channel and pretty good. Sidney Poitier's directed "Buck and the Preacher" is a Black Western that has him and Harry Belafonte fighting off Southern Racists while they head West after the Emancipation Proclamation.

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    Oh, I didn't realize that set was a trilogy of films.

    Very cool.

    Edit: just looked at the cover art again and saw it is literally called the BRD TRILOGY in gigantic red letters.

    Sorry I am the way I am.
    Don't ever change. This conversation has made me realize that I can't remember seeing Veronika Voss or Lola, although The Marriage of Maria Braun is fantastic and hugely formative for me. Fassbinder is someone who I've been captivated by for over a decade, but his oevure is so large for living such a short time. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is probably still my favorite. As part of this challenge, I watched the Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and it was depressing. I really liked it, but let me tell ya': the tears did not disappoint.
    Stuff I've Watched out of *****

    The Last Duel - ***
    Only Murders in the Building: **
    Squid Games: **.5

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    I also strongly recommend "Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?" but it doesn't seem to be on Criterion so might be hard to track down. I watched it via Netflix DVD back in the day - they had pretty much his entire filmography at one point.

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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
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    And jeez...he died at 37. Horrible.
    From what I've read, he died from a drug overdose but not because he wanted to get high but because he was a workaholic and wanted to keep writing/directing lots and lots of movies/shows/plays - and the drugs helped him do that, like how athletes take steroids to improve their performance.

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    Continuing my trial of Criterionchannel streaming, which I never thought I'd be able to use here, so there's a real chance I may finish this challenge after all (if I can stay motivated, as I just don't sit and watch movies/tv like i use to when I was younger and kid-less).

    We'll skip to week 9, as I know I've got some silent films to tackle, and would rather not put them back to back as going week to week in order would lead me to do. I decide for the "silent" film take to knock out a short, and avoid Chaplin and Keaton, which I know are inevitable on this list, and I've already viewed a few from each. So I run with:

    The Marathon
    Alfred Goulding's single reel is pretty standard slapstick fare from a silent film. Fall downs, slaps, mistaken identity, mirror image are all included in these 14 minutes. After all is said and done it felt pretty average, and exited on a pseudo cliff-hanger, so maybe there's a sequel reel 2 where the stakes are even greater, before a part 3 wraps it all up neatly? (that's a joke, by the way). Quick and enjoyable, but really nothing exciting, so average rating overall.
    *coming soon*

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    Week 33: Buck and the Preacher
    *Criterion Channel selection, but not on the Collection.

    The premise is interesting, but the execution is unfortunately kind of boring. Poitier/Belafonte/Ruby Dee give it their all though, and fans of Classic Westerns should enjoy this.

    Belafonte's Preacher is a character that I would've liked to see other stories abou, especially with those teeth.

    Also, not many scores on the Jew's Harp.

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    20. Black Panthers (1970) - Agnes Varda's short documentary about the Black Panthers and Huey P. Newton's conviction. Essential viewing here, definitely watch. Unfortunately not much has changed since this moment in time.

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    21. Ten Minutes to Live (1932) - Oscar Micheaux tale of intrigue with a glimpse into the nightlife in Harlem. This is very early filmmaking, so to view it with modern eyes might be a difficult task. Its nevertheless interesting and easy to watch, despite some problems.

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    I really want to see some stuff from Agnes Varda. Nearly bought a box set for Jen.
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    Loads of Varda on the channel! Shorts, interviews, and features.

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    Horror... Maybe the worst genre for Criterion. Let's see what I come up with

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    1. 1984 - watch a film released the year of Criterion's inception
    UNDER THE VOLCANO

    2. Directed by Akira Kurosawa
    SEVEN SAMURAI

    3. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
    VIVRE SA VIE (My Life to Live)

    15. 1970’s
    THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI

    24. Any film on The Criterion Channel
    THE BIG GUNDOWN

    33. Buck and the Preacher (Criterion Channel)

    45. Directed by Ingmar Bergman
    FANNY AND ALEXANDER

    51. Watch a film featured in "Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits"
    THE BIG BOSS
    FIST OF FURY

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    Bones and All - ***
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    Yes there is not nearly enough horror present in Criterion.
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    Yeah, for horror week I watched Kwaidan. I suppose it is horror... technically. More so just ghost stories. Great movie regardless.

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