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Started by Duck Sauce, February 01, 2003, 08:29:30 PM

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cowboykurtis

Quote from: ebeaman69
Quote from: cowboykurtisALPHAVILLE -- I LOVE YOU

Saw that on Sundance awhile ago -- LOVED IT! Can't wait to buy it.

Contempt is on my netflix list...doesn't  the Casino soundtrack have an excerpt from it's score??? If it does, I'm renting it next...anything Scorsese likes is cool.

i love contempt SO much. jack palance is fucking hilarious in it. the criterion disc is definately worth the cash.
...your excuses are your own...

tpfkabi

yes, i believe that is right about the Scorsese using the score......he also put up his own cash to help get the film restored.

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mixing the hitchcock thread with this one for you ebeaman. scorsese loves Vertigo. i remember reading a forward by him in one of the books on it. see that. it is my favorite film.
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MacGuffin

Quote from: bigideasscorsese loves Vertigo. i remember reading a forward by him in one of the books on it.
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Victor

the score for contempt is one of my favorite scores. it just gets in your grill and doesnt let go.
are you gonna eat with us too?

Gold Trumpet

I really didn't care much for Alphaville at all. Minimal work by Godard that plays out like bad science fiction in having limited imagination and just repeating a general scientific idea like the difference between a society of freedom and one of not. It ran its course in showing how the world was not open and all, when it could have identified that in the first 5 minutes and realized talking about it so generally is not interesting. Anna Karina, just even looking at her face, is worth while though.

~rougerum

cowboykurtis

Quote from: The Gold TrumpetI really didn't care much for Alphaville at all. Minimal work by Godard that plays out like bad science fiction in having limited imagination and just repeating a general scientific idea like the difference between a society of freedom and one of not. It ran its course in showing how the world was not open and all, when it could have identified that in the first 5 minutes and realized talking about it so generally is not interesting. Anna Karina, just even looking at her face, is worth while though.

~rougerum

i liked it for the very reason you disliked it -- i think the whole feeling of "bad science fiction" was intentional and is what made it soo fun. the interesting part of it is you have this hard boiled detective character thrown into a science fiction plot -- i fucking love it.
...your excuses are your own...

Gold Trumpet

If it was intential, then I would have liked to see the movie have more fun with the idea instead of trying to play it serious. Playing serious just makes the material believe the quality of what it is showing. Band of Outsiders also seemed to be adapting bad literature, but played with it in a great different way in making it much like a silent film with moments of pure freedom and dealing with a kind of realism in the sloppiness of things humans do that can't really be drawn out in most novels, because they do seemed planned out. I didn't feel anything new or exciting to Alphaville to make it stand out in such a refreshing way in juncture with bad literature.


~rougerum

Ernie

Quote from: cowboykurtis
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetI really didn't care much for Alphaville at all. Minimal work by Godard that plays out like bad science fiction in having limited imagination and just repeating a general scientific idea like the difference between a society of freedom and one of not. It ran its course in showing how the world was not open and all, when it could have identified that in the first 5 minutes and realized talking about it so generally is not interesting. Anna Karina, just even looking at her face, is worth while though.

~rougerum

i liked it for the very reason you disliked it -- i think the whole feeling of "bad science fiction" was intentional and is what made it soo fun. the interesting part of it is you have this hard boiled detective character thrown into a science fiction plot -- i fucking love it.

This is exactly what I thought too...I'm not saying that just to side with anybody on the matter. This really was exactly what I thought from the first time I saw it. There's no way some of the stuff in that movie was meant to be taken seriously...but it's all fucking awesome.

Ernie

Quote from: bigideasyes, i believe that is right about the Scorsese using the score......he also put up his own cash to help get the film restored.

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mixing the hitchcock thread with this one for you ebeaman. scorsese loves Vertigo. i remember reading a forward by him in one of the books on it. see that. it is my favorite film.

Oh, cool man, thanks. I've always wanted to see that, now more than ever cause of Scorsese's name even being in the same sentence as the movie...I'm going to blind buy Contempt now.

tpfkabi

i meant that Vertigo was my favorite movie. i bought the Contempt Criterion and it's pretty cool. you may want to rent Contempt first(if possible) since it'll be close to 40 bucks though.
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modage

just watched My Life To Live.  i did not like it at all.  how the hell did this make the top 15 over Amelie or Big Lebowski?
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

cine

Quote from: themodernage02just watched My Life To Live.  i did not like it at all.  how the hell did this make the top 15 over Amelie or Big Lebowski?
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Pubrick

Quote from: themodernage02just watched My Life To Live.  i did not like it at all.  how the hell did this make the top 15 over Amelie or Big Lebowski?
i havn't seen it.

i assumed it was the godard film of the moment to be watching in film schools across the nation.
under the paving stones.

SHAFTR

Quote from: themodernage02just watched My Life To Live.  i did not like it at all.  how the hell did this make the top 15 over Amelie or Big Lebowski?

b/c it's better.
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modage

Quote from: SHAFTRb/c it's better.
how?  what is better about it?  what is even good about it?
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.