the spirit of the beehive-victor erice
a woman is a woman-jean luc godard
the palm beach story-preston sturgess
metropolitan,barcelona,the last days of disco-whit stillman (my version of the star wars trilogy)
exotica-atom egoyan
the philadelphia story-george cukor
naked-mike leigh
dazed and confused-richard linklater
the soft skin-francois truffaut
il posto-ermanno olmi
close up-abbas kirostami
loulou-maurice pialat
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"All the Real Girls" didn't even make the list? Weird... Odd... Confusion...
i watched it again like two days ago, and for some reason it just made me horribly sad as if all the magic i remember had been completely drained from it and all that was left was the residue of hope unfulfilled. it is still gorgeous and quite satisfying if you are in the mood for something akin to a poetic ode to golden days past. today i felt a bit more whimsical and a little playful, therefor it did not make the cut...today, perhaps next time down the line. i still think you should see it as it hints at why we love people despite the fact that they tend to dissapoint us.
Why top ten films?
Is there some extrinsic value we place on these opinions, that we can derive if you’re educated or a date rapist? Or maybe we are so pretentious that we think Steven Segal films are less art then an Agnès Varda film. The point is we are, conditioned with these stereo types and they tell us Dogs Playing Poker is low brow and Michelangelo is fine art. I say screw that if Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is your cup of tea then, “Party on dudes” and “Be excellent to each other”. I shouldn’t be ashamed that Eliminators is in my “top ten of all time”. I have my reasons why it should be there and that is all that matters, but when I tell people about this piece of American Cinema they laugh and ask what the hell that is. Of course, it could be the fact I call it American Cinema.
well zach...i would figure that with knowing me and all that you would realize that i value ponytails and wheelchairs of death just as much as cleos from the hours of 5 to 7. well maybe not ponytails(sorry stevie but my prediliction is toward jean claude, bloodsport anyone?) the top ten, urm twelve,fifteen list is just kind of a feeler so that the people can approximate where we at beer cannes stand in relation to the terra cinematica of our present day. anyone who knows me realizes that if crash davis and willy mays hayes hadnt beaten the shit out of each other in the preliminaries that one of them would have advanced to the final stages of the tournament and made it into the top10(15). unfortunately they both developed cauliflower ear and were disqualified allowing maurice pialat to an annointed victory much like kimbo slice. damn kimbo slice...although if he asks, you didnt hear it from me
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