La Notte his highest rated and second most popular on Letterboxd
Figured Blow Up would be his highest rated as well as most popular
Had to watch alot of boring Wim Wenders before I got to Wings Of Desire and Paris Texas.
Had to watch alot of boring Bresson before I found Dairy Of A Country Priest.
Had to watch alot of ok Rossellini before I found mastapiece Flowers Of St. Francis.
It's happens
Do you watch everything in order? Even then The American Friend is great and Bresson didn't make that many movies. Diary of a Country Priest is one of the two movies I've seen by him
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Memento shouldn't be unpopular and actually used to be a popular pick. By far and away his best movie
Edward Yang: That Day On The Beach
Andrei Tarkovsky: Nostalghia (tied with Mirror tho)
Park Chan-wook: Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (Oldboy is fantastic but Handmaiden is kinda between good and mid. Decision To Leave was quite the return to form)
Francis For Coppola: The Conversation
Denis Villeneuve: Enemy
Elia Kazan: Splendor In The Grass
Peter Jackson: Braindead
Jean-Luc Godard: Weekend
Richard Kelly: Southland Tales (Donnie Darko overrated af. Poor man's Lost Highway)
Jim Jarmusch: Paterson
Aki Kaurismäki: Calamari Union
Christian Petzold: Die innere Sicherheit
Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Dance Of Reality
Charlie Kaufman: I'm Thinking of ending things
Lars von Trier: Riget or Europa
Steven Spielberg: Duel
Brian De Palma: Body Double
Sam Peckinpah: Convoy
Vittorio De Sica: Miracle in Milan
La Notte his highest rated and second most popular on Letterboxd
Figured Blow Up would be his highest rated as well as most popular
Blow Up is also his best. But he’s got such a good filmog, everything from L’Avventura to Passenger would be a popular pick imo
La Notte his highest rated and second most popular on Letterboxd
Figured Blow Up would be his highest rated as well as most popular
La Notte is way more accessible than Blow Up tbh.
Do you watch everything in order? Even then The American Friend is great and Bresson didn't make that many movies. Diary of a Country Priest is one of the two movies I've seen by him
Usually. Did with Wenders and Rossellini but not Bresson. I don't hate Man Escaped, Pickpocket, Balthazar and Mouchette etc but Diary hits so much harder.
Did not enjoy American Friends
unfortunately. Love those actors.
La Notte is way more accessible than Blow Up tbh.
It's been so long since I've watched some Antonioni that I don't even have most of them logged so I'm too rusty to have a strong opinion tbh. I loved them all up till Passenger which I remember being a bit of a snooze. Again, unfortunate cause Jack the goat.
Memento shouldn't be unpopular and actually used to be a popular pick. By far and away his best movie
Really creative concept and storytelling. But I gotta go with Inception as his best
He took concepts universal to dreams like time dilation, waking up when you're realising you're dreaming, that trip feeling that makes you wake up etc and used them all brilliantly for this movie
It's been so long since I've watched some Antonioni that I don't even have most of them logged so I'm too rusty to have a strong opinion tbh. I loved them all up till Passenger which I remember being a bit of a snooze. Again, unfortunate cause Jack the goat.
yea The Passenger felt a little off at times but I still liked it. Jack did great in this one tbh.
Blow Up is also his best. But he’s got such a good filmog, everything from L’Avventura to Passenger would be a popular pick imo
Blow Up lacked the mystique of his Italian stuff but I'm such a swinging 60s england stan that it was awesome for other reasons.
I know Ant originally wanted The Who for the concert scene but capturing the brief peak of the Jeff Back led Yardbirds is
legendary
yea The Passenger felt a little off at times but I still liked it. Jack did great in this one tbh.
Jack was untouchable in the 70s sorry DeNiro, Pacino, Hoffman whoever
Really creative concept and storytelling. But I gotta go with Inception as his best
He took concepts universal to dreams like time dilation, waking up when you're realising you're dreaming, that trip feeling that makes you wake up etc and used them all brilliantly for this movie
idk I like Inception but Memento is more radical in it's approach. At the end of the day it completely attacks the certainty of our own memories and therefore the justification of our own judgements and actions. This, however, fantastically expressed via it's structure. and omg I love that score and the general mood.
Blow Up lacked the mystique of his Italian stuff but I'm such a swinging 60s england stan that it was awesome for other reasons.
I know Ant originally wanted The Who for the concert scene but capturing the brief peak of the Jeff Back led Yardbirds is
legendary
It’s a bit more literal but less mystique is probably just because the ppl are speaking English instead of Italian lol. Love that movie so much, still think of it every time I hear leaves rustle in the wind.
Nobody ever translated Heideggerian themes better to film than Antonioni
Edward Yang: That Day On The Beach
Andrei Tarkovsky: Nostalghia (tied with Mirror tho)
Park Chan-wook: Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (Oldboy is fantastic but Handmaiden is kinda between good and mid. Decision To Leave was quite the return to form)
Francis For Coppola: The Conversation
Denis Villeneuve: Enemy
Elia Kazan: Splendor In The Grass
Peter Jackson: Braindead
Jean-Luc Godard: Weekend
Richard Kelly: Southland Tales (Donnie Darko overrated af. Poor man's Lost Highway)
Jim Jarmusch: Paterson
Aki Kaurismäki: Calamari Union
Christian Petzold: Die innere Sicherheit
Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Dance Of Reality
Charlie Kaufman: I'm Thinking of ending things
Lars von Trier: Riget or Europa
Steven Spielberg: Duel
Brian De Palma: Body Double
Sam Peckinpah: Convoy
Vittorio De Sica: Miracle in Milan
Have you seen No Other Choice yet?
Have you seen No Other Choice yet?
no. probably beginning of February. heard good things
I had saved watching Lyndon for years and years. Finally cashed it in to start this year.
Pretty clear Kubrick had better ideas about a Napoleon movie he couldn't get made. He wanted to use that research to direct Thackeray's Vanity Fair but it became a TV show. So he settled for a different Thackeray novel. Ryan O'Neal had and gave nothing. Kubrick knew it as well and resented him for it. I don't understand the contrarianism tbh.
Impeccably shot and pushed the technology forward but I don't think it's anywhere close to his best movies. I watched Eyes Wide Shut 24 hours earlier. Night and day. The Killing is my underrated Kubrick.
wasn't Kubrick very proud of it?