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Thread #103095   Message #2096614
Posted By: autolycus
07-Jul-07 - 06:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: The 100 greatest movies of all time
Subject: RE: BS: The 100 greatest movies of all time
Describing non-American films as "off-shore" films - well, I wouldn't have been able to make that up. Makes it sound like all films that aren't American are made in the sea.


And the US film industry, with its impossibly rich budgets, 'stars', directors and pretty thorough grip on the world's cinemas and TVs needs interest in it 'drummed up' ? I mean, if that IS the reason, then we must be close to the heart of human insecurity. Here, security is, in two words, im possible.


It's non-American films that need interest in them drummed up. Alas.


Just to stop, back on track,

Battleship Potemkin (Russian 1925) - knocks most modern films into a cocked hat on the technical front simply because it demonstrates so many possibilities for using, really using, film-making techniques themselves. Rather than reliance on script and actors. And not the same thing as special effects.

The Children of Paradise (France 1945) - the most beautiful film in the world?

The Lady with the Little Dog (Russia 1960) - the most tender love story in the world?

Little Murders (US 1971/2) - the 'little murders' being those we all commit daily without realising it.

Cyrano de Bergerac (Fr.1990) - a great film for encouraging the feeling that it might be great to be alive.

Russian Ark (Rus. 2002) - had me on the edge of my seat , waiting for an error, since I sat down to it knowing that the whole 90 minute thing was shot in one take. Just one. Amazing. Jaw-dropping.






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