28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[dreamdead]

*remembers Emily Blunt*

I agree!

I keep confusing this title with that 5 hour, similarly titled film and retreating from the prospect of viewing it, but now that the Blunt connection has been jogged, I think it's time to queue this one up.

[balmakboor]

not sure how stringent you meant the music video bgs to be...but I typically think of these directors as new gen.

Rob Zombie

Yes. I find him very interesting. If I actually had time right now to write a director profile, he is who I would have chosen for that American Cinema Redux project.

[balmakboor]

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the rape sequence

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When I first came to Bergman I was experiencing a crisis of faith. I found his films barely survivable. Perhaps later in life they'll contain less potency.

Crisis of faith. That's one crisis I'll never have to face. I would think though that, if anything, Bergman's work would grow more potent later in life.

[balmakboor]

I love me my negative capability... I wish in Ordet... [

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she had been in a coma and not dead prior to the resurrection.

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I think Ordet leaves the door wide open for that very reading. Dreyer was struggling with his faith -- or so I've read anyway -- and crafted an ending that both believers and non-believers could appreciate.

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Keep in mind that medical science in those times even led to people being accidently buried alive.

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[Boner M]

Weekend:

Le Boucher
Suburbia (1984)
The Edge of Heaven
I Am Cuba

[Mysterious Dude]

Speaking as a non-believer, I couldn't appreciate Ordet's ending at all. I would have almost liked the movie without it.

[Philosophe_rouge]

Weekend
The Silence
Cries and Whispers
Mon Oncle
Lucifer Rising
Maybe something in theatres, probably Harold and Kumar 2, Iron man or Maman est chez le coiffeur

[Duncan]

I think you've got to be a pretty big fan of Fear and Trembling to like Ordet's ending. It makes a lot of sense in that context. At least, it does to me.

[Rowland]

Weekend:

Iron Man
Southland Tales
Sleuth (an acquaintance won't stop asking me about this, so she's basically forcing me to watch it just to shut her up)
Some of The Office (S2) and Golden Girls (S2)

[Melville]

I love me my negative capability... I wish in Ordet... [

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she had been in a coma and not dead prior to the resurrection.

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I've heard some bad ideas in my time, but that's the baddest idea that ever badded. The ending is already an exemplar of negative capability. Keats would have loved it, I'm sure.

I think you've got to be a pretty big fan of Fear and Trembling to like Ordet's ending. It makes a lot of sense in that context. At least, it does to me.

I hadn't read Fear and Trembling when I first saw and loved Ordet, but I agree that the two depict Christian faith in the same way: as absolute faith even in the face of the contradictory.

[balmakboor]

I've heard some bad ideas in my time, but that's the baddest idea that ever badded.

I disagree. It actually makes perfect sense. I imagine all so-called miracles have just such an explanation. To a believer, such a thing is a confirmation of faith. To a non-believer, it's something to laugh about. I think Dreyer was playing it both ways.

[Yxklyx]

Weekend:

El Dorado
Bus 174

[Spinal]

My weekend will consist of going to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland and seeing a few plays. Might watch Germany Year Zero today. I have The Golden Compass and Cloverfield on the way from Netflix, though I probably won't get to them until Sunday night or Monday.

[Watashi]

Weekend:

Iron Motherfucking Man

That is all.

[Sycophant]

The Savages... I liked it. Seems like most around here hated it.

::shrug::

Yeah, I wouldn't go so far as hate. There were parts of it I really liked, but ultimately found it pretty much shrug-worthy.

[balmakboor]

Weekend:

Iron Motherfucking Man

That is all.

Well, the reviews sure are good. Too bad I've never even heard of Iron Man -- the character that is. Is it some new Marvel character? Or some old as the hills Marvel character? Is it even a Marvel character? (If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm not much of a superhero/comicbook fan.)

[balmakboor]

The only incarnation of Batman that I truly enjoyed was the old TV series. I imagine this admission has truly painted me as a summer movie lost cause. I know I found what Nolan did to the character dreadfully boring. Maybe his next one will work for me.

[Sycophant]

I liked Batman Begins a great deal. But nevertheless.

Bale's Batman < West's Batman

[Watashi]

Well, the reviews sure are good. Too bad I've never even heard of Iron Man -- the character that is. Is it some new Marvel character? Or some old as the hills Marvel character? Is it even a Marvel character? (If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm not much of a superhero/comicbook fan.)

Iron Man has been around for a long time. Along with Spiderman and the Hulk, he's Marvel's most popular superhero.

[balmakboor]

I liked Batman Begins a great deal. But nevertheless.

Bale's Batman < West's Batman

When I was like 8 years old, my parents forbid me to watch Batman -- too violent they said. I'd always talk my sitter into letting me watch it and it really felt like I was getting away with something. My favorite episode now is when Batman goes surfing and all he changes is the shorts part of his costume into swim trunks.

[balmakboor]

Iron Man has been around for a long time. Along with Spiderman and the Hulk, he's Marvel's most popular superhero.

I'll have to check it out. I do like Spiderman a lot.

[origami_mustache]

Yes. I find him very interesting. If I actually had time right now to write a director profile, he is who I would have chosen for that American Cinema Redux project.

Yeah, I actually liked his version of Halloween, and I remember you mentioning you did as well. I think he is more interesting than a lot of people give him credit for.

Weekend:
Ulysses' Gaze
Umberto D

[MadMan]

Weekend:

TCM Viewings

*The Naked Spur(1953)
*Blacula(1972)

And that's pretty much it, seeing as studying for finals and last minute homework will occupy the rest of my time.

[Spinal]

I liked Batman Begins a great deal. But nevertheless.

Bale's Batman < West's Batman

Keaton's Batman > all. Never saw Clooney's.

[Spinal]

The Firemen's Ball (Forman, 1967) 43

You are out of your mind.