Comments on: The best films of all time? http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:56:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Paul Burns http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69780 Paul Burns Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:27:00 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69780 I've always been a fan of Frankenstein's monster, so here I go (again) contributing to its growth. Animation. The fish movie was Finding Nemo. The Ice Age 1 & 2 - how could I forget them. As you may have gueseed I'm a bit of a fan of old Disney cartoon features. But, I found Bambi scary as a kid, teary as an adult. And thought the quality of the cartoon drawing went down hill from about Pooh or 1001 Dalmations - but that's a subjective view. When I saw Fantasia the Night on Bald Mountain sequence scared the bejeezus out of me. I actually had a panic attack and my mother had to take me out of the theatre. For an explanation of this reaction refer to Joyce's novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Saw Capote on DVD last night. Loved it. I’ve always been a fan of Frankenstein’s monster, so here I go (again) contributing to its growth.
Animation.
The fish movie was Finding Nemo.
The Ice Age 1 & 2 – how could I forget them. As you may have gueseed I’m a bit of a fan of old Disney cartoon features. But, I found Bambi scary as a kid, teary as an adult. And thought the quality of the cartoon drawing went down hill from about Pooh or 1001 Dalmations – but that’s a subjective view.
When I saw Fantasia the Night on Bald Mountain sequence scared the bejeezus out of me. I actually had a panic attack and my mother had to take me out of the theatre. For an explanation of this reaction refer to Joyce’s novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Saw Capote on DVD last night. Loved it.

]]> By: Graham Bell http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69779 Graham Bell Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:15:10 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69779 Darlene: Is it too late to add "Fahrenheit 451". especially its textless credits, and "Fame" and "Zardoz"? "Battleship Potemkin" was pioneering as well as interesting; same goes for "Triumph Of The Will" .... and "Wizard of Oz" too. Speaking of "Schindler's List": Thomas K was interviewed Tuesday morning's ABC RN "Life Matters" about how he wrote the book [don't know if the interview is podcast]. Darlene:
Is it too late to add “Fahrenheit 451″. especially its textless credits, and “Fame” and “Zardoz”?

“Battleship Potemkin” was pioneering as well as interesting; same goes for “Triumph Of The Will” …. and “Wizard of Oz” too.

Speaking of “Schindler’s List”: Thomas K was interviewed Tuesday morning’s ABC RN “Life Matters” about how he wrote the book [don't know if the interview is podcast].

]]> By: Darlene http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69778 Darlene Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:22:36 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69778 That's a very interesting idea about the 9/11 films. I have tended to avoid them (except for United 93). Will check the video store. That’s a very interesting idea about the 9/11 films. I have tended to avoid them (except for United 93). Will check the video store.

]]> By: nasking http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69777 nasking Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:42:36 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69777 Graham Bell said: "You did include â??The Last Of The Mohicansâ?? [the latest one, I trust]. " yep...i love the pacing, cinematography, soundtrack & raw emotion expressed...& thinking of Daniel Day Lewis, i should've added 'My Beautiful Laundrette'...& of course those Brit films that stuck w/ this lad from semi-Pommy background: All or Nothing High Hopes Life is Sweet Naked Look Back in Anger Saturday Night and Sunday Morning The Dresser The Duellists Kes The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Sleuth Kind Hearts and Coronets Trainspotting The Long Good Friday Local Hero The Italian Job Dr. No A Taste of Honey Educating Rita Remains of the Day Women in Love A Man for All Seasons and as was mentioned: The Mission and The Exorcist...can't believe i forgot it. some excellent films jinmaro...I even like The Razorâ??s Edge w/ Bill Murray in it...:) Darlene, yer welcome...as for Donnie Darko, it touched that part of me that doubts the 'reality' as it is explained to us in school etc...that which queries the descriptions of the material world & physical laws that we use to make sense of our world...but sometimes just "don't seem quite right"...it expressed the inexpressable...bit of a mystical journey i guess. Perhaps Darlene you could examine one weekend the post 9/11 films & see if there has been any significant change in tone, self-censorship, quality, reliance on technology, budget etc?...just a thought. Graham Bell said:

“You did include â??The Last Of The Mohicansâ?? [the latest one, I trust]. ”

yep…i love the pacing, cinematography, soundtrack & raw emotion expressed…& thinking of Daniel Day Lewis, i should’ve added ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’…& of course those Brit films that stuck w/ this lad from semi-Pommy background:

All or Nothing
High Hopes
Life is Sweet
Naked
Look Back in Anger
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The Dresser
The Duellists
Kes
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Sleuth
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Trainspotting
The Long Good Friday
Local Hero
The Italian Job
Dr. No
A Taste of Honey
Educating Rita
Remains of the Day
Women in Love
A Man for All Seasons

and as was mentioned: The Mission

and The Exorcist…can’t believe i forgot it.

some excellent films jinmaro…I even like The Razorâ??s Edge w/ Bill Murray in it…:)

Darlene, yer welcome…as for Donnie Darko, it touched that part of me that doubts the ‘reality’ as it is explained to us in school etc…that which queries the descriptions of the material world & physical laws that we use to make sense of our world…but sometimes just “don’t seem quite right”…it expressed the inexpressable…bit of a mystical journey i guess.

Perhaps Darlene you could examine one weekend the post 9/11 films & see if there has been any significant change in tone, self-censorship, quality, reliance on technology, budget etc?…just a thought.

]]> By: Darlene http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69776 Darlene Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:27:39 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69776 "Darlene: And the drama â??The Missionâ??. And for music AND comedy â??A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forumâ?? Over 150 posts and rising â?¦. Darlene, you have created a Frankensteinâ??s Monster here." Sure The Mission years ago. Beautiful soundtrack. Interesting, I don't think anyone's mentioned Schindler's List. A fine fim that I could only watch once (again the soundtrack was wonderful). Ahh, it's a good monster though. I think people like talking about these things, as well as the more directly political stuff. "Rebecca (Hitchcock)". Wonderful. How much fun would it have been to have played the part of Mrs Danvers. Heavenly Creatures was Ms Winslet's first film, I think. Battleship Pometkin is probably more interesting from an historical perspective more than anything else (bit like Griffith's notorious Birth of a Nation). “Darlene:
And the drama â??The Missionâ??.

And for music AND comedy â??A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forumâ??

Over 150 posts and rising â?¦. Darlene, you have created a Frankensteinâ??s Monster here.”

Sure The Mission years ago. Beautiful soundtrack. Interesting, I don’t think anyone’s mentioned Schindler’s List. A fine fim that I could only watch once (again the soundtrack was wonderful).

Ahh, it’s a good monster though. I think people like talking about these things, as well as the more directly political stuff.

“Rebecca (Hitchcock)”. Wonderful. How much fun would it have been to have played the part of Mrs Danvers. Heavenly Creatures was Ms Winslet’s first film, I think.

Battleship Pometkin is probably more interesting from an historical perspective more than anything else (bit like Griffith’s notorious Birth of a Nation).

]]> By: Graham Bell http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69775 Graham Bell Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:00:01 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69775 Nasking: You did include "The Last Of The Mohicans" [the latest one, I trust]. I was about to accuse everyone of ignoring that brilliant, multifaceted and timeless story. Nasking:
You did include “The Last Of The Mohicans” [the latest one, I trust]. I was about to accuse everyone of ignoring that brilliant, multifaceted and timeless story.

]]> By: j_p_z http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69774 j_p_z Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:26:02 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69774 for Lefty E -- for you Lusophiles (is that the right word?), there appears to be a Portuguese translation online of the great and hilarious Frank O'Hara poem, "To the Film Industry in Crisis," which compasses much of what this whole thread is about. You can see it by Googling "estudos avancados" along with "to the film industry in crisis." Since I don't know any Portuguese, I can't tell if it captures successfully what makes the poem so hilarious and moving. "In time of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love. And give credit where it's due..." for Lefty E –

for you Lusophiles (is that the right word?), there appears to be a Portuguese translation online of the great and hilarious Frank O’Hara poem, “To the Film Industry in Crisis,” which compasses much of what this whole thread is about. You can see it by Googling “estudos avancados” along with “to the film industry in crisis.” Since I don’t know any Portuguese, I can’t tell if it captures successfully what makes the poem so hilarious and moving.

“In time of crisis, we must all decide
again and again whom we love.
And give credit where it’s due…”

]]> By: Graham Bell http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69773 Graham Bell Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:11:46 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69773 Jinmaro: There have been some outstanding Russian films. You mentioned "Burnt By the Sun"; add to that "The Barber Of Siberia" [a coproduction; don't think it was released in Australia], "Siberiade", an epic to rival "How The West Was Won" and of course, all those biting satires of the 'Nineties like "Stary Kluchy"[a musical about three ladies who had been ripped off by a businessman]. Jinmaro:
There have been some outstanding Russian films. You mentioned “Burnt By the Sun”; add to that “The Barber Of Siberia” [a coproduction; don't think it was released in Australia], “Siberiade”, an epic to rival “How The West Was Won” and of course, all those biting satires of the ‘Nineties like “Stary Kluchy”[a musical about three ladies who had been ripped off by a businessman].

]]> By: Ambigulous http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69772 Ambigulous Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:12:51 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69772 films - better than politics!! "Wake in Fright" - very good, saw it in a cinema; stunning. Filmed near Broken Hill? Yes: "Dr Strangelove" was a documentary, and quite worrying. Peter Sellers, all the actors outstanding, Vera Lynn over closing "credits". Still find "Citizen Kane" marvellous, EVEN THOUGH it and "Battleship Potemkin" were overly praised in an old Pelican paperback from 1940's (??) on cinema. R o s e b u d..... films – better than politics!!
“Wake in Fright” – very good, saw it in a cinema; stunning. Filmed near Broken Hill?
Yes: “Dr Strangelove” was a documentary, and quite worrying. Peter Sellers, all the actors outstanding, Vera Lynn over closing “credits”.
Still find “Citizen Kane” marvellous, EVEN THOUGH it and “Battleship Potemkin” were overly praised in an old Pelican paperback from 1940′s (??) on cinema.
R o s e b u d…..

]]> By: jinmaro http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69771 jinmaro Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:08:58 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/10/04/the-best-films-of-all-time/#comment-69771 More absolutely essential films:- Y Tu Mama Tambien (Gael Garcia Bernal) The Birds (Hitchcock) The Leopard (Visconti) Burnt by the Sun (Nikita Mikhalkov) Laura (Otto Preminger) Easter Parade (Garland/Astaire) Rebecca (Hitchcock) Pride and Prejudice (Olivier/Garson) The Razor's Edge (Power/Tierney) Camille (Garbo) All About Eve (Bette Davis) Atlantic City (Sarandon/Lancaster) King Lear (Olivier) Hamlet (Branagh) Plenty (Streep) Heavenly Creatures (Kate Winslet) The Night of the Iguana (Huston) African Queen (Huston) Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco) Alien (Ridley Scott) Guilty pleasures: bios of film actors. The best: Sarah Miles's 3-volume memoirs: A Right Royal Bastard, Serves Me Right, Bolt from the Blue Laurence Olivier - Donald Spoto The Life of Richard Burton - Melvyn Bragg Charlie Chaplin - Autobiography More absolutely essential films:-

Y Tu Mama Tambien (Gael Garcia Bernal)
The Birds (Hitchcock)
The Leopard (Visconti)
Burnt by the Sun (Nikita Mikhalkov)
Laura (Otto Preminger)
Easter Parade (Garland/Astaire)
Rebecca (Hitchcock)
Pride and Prejudice (Olivier/Garson)
The Razor’s Edge (Power/Tierney)
Camille (Garbo)
All About Eve (Bette Davis)
Atlantic City (Sarandon/Lancaster)
King Lear (Olivier)
Hamlet (Branagh)
Plenty (Streep)
Heavenly Creatures (Kate Winslet)
The Night of the Iguana (Huston)
African Queen (Huston)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco)
Alien (Ridley Scott)

Guilty pleasures: bios of film actors.

The best:

Sarah Miles’s 3-volume memoirs: A Right Royal Bastard, Serves Me Right, Bolt from the Blue

Laurence Olivier – Donald Spoto

The Life of Richard Burton – Melvyn Bragg

Charlie Chaplin – Autobiography

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