The Machinist (2004) – Brad Anderson
Very painful feelbad film but excellent nonetheless. Stuart Husband has more on “feelbad films”
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World cinema classics #10
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My Mother (2004) – Christophe Honoré
This trailer features “So Happy Together” by the Turtles.
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The perfect human
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Andy Warhol by Jørgen Leth in 66 Scenes from America (1982)
“My name is Andy Warhol and I just finished eating a hamburger.”
Hjort: Some of your documentary films experiment interestingly with the relation between word and image. I’m thinking, for example, of “66 Scenes from America”, which presents a series of almost hyper-real, postcard-like images of America, that are identified, in a series of significantly delayed, laconic and minimalist comments. The longest sequence is that of Andy Warhol fastidiously eating a hamburger. Having completed this exercise, Warhol delivers the following line: ‘My name is Andy Warhol and I just finished eating a hamburger.’ What, exactly, is the purpose of the intentionally strained and awkward relation between images and words in “66 Scenes from America”? —Jørgen Leth interviewed by Mette Hjort & Ib Bondebjerg, September 2002
World cinema classics #8
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Jour de fête (1949) – Jacques Tati
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World cinema classics #7
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Funny Games (1997) Michael Haneke
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Polish naïve
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Nowy Janko muzykant (1961) – Jan Lenica
Lenica worked on many early animations with Borowczyk, and is famous for his fantastic poster designs. The cut-out animations remind me of Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python animations. Not necessarily of this one, but of this one and this one. Enjoy.
Lips and fingers
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Immoral Tales (1974) Walerian Borowczyk
One does not enter mirrors
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The Blood of a Poet (1930) – Jean Cocteau
World cinema classics #4
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Bitter Moon is a 1992 film directed by Roman Polanski based on a novel by French author Pascal Bruckner. It’s a classic story of sadism and masochism and the war of the sexes.
Powder of fear
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Eden and Afterwards (1970) – Alain Robbe-Grillet
Via sedmikrasky.
More Catherine Jourdan. Grillet’s (who turned 85 last Saturday) new novel Un roman sentimental will be published next month.
