@ grizzleb: la quatro volte sounds interesting, will have to check that out. I saw another film that reminded me of paradjanov, but that was more because it in some ways was the direct opposite: Raoul Ruiz' Time Regained, based on Proust. It's just almost as removed from the iconography of Paradjanov as can be, instead everything is just always changing, plastic, fluid. Very interesting. I wonder how much of it one would understand if one has never heard of Proust. I knew the fundamentals, and I was still completely lost at times.
And I just had a 48 hour train ride, so I watched a bunch of movies. Glauber Rochas Antonio das Mortes might be the film I can remember, which most corresponds to the books of the literary boom, we discussed in the book-thread some time ago. Magic, myth, religion, folktales, all mixed up in a recognizably modern world. And western inspiration, this time from westerns, which unfortunately are imitated rather badly. As in laughably poor. That was really funny...
Kalatozov's The Cranes are Flying was OK. Some good scenes, poor ending with boring tagged-on moral. Some of it might have inspired Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood, then again, they do kinda take place on the same front.
And speaking of Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice was rather poor and boring. Don't know if it was as boring as Stalker, will have to reflect on that some more, but I didn't really like it.
+ I watched Mizoguchi's Chikamatsu Monogatari and Kurosawa's Rashomon. They were fine, but not really that special. Rashomon is a fantastic premise, but I don't know if I think it was handed specially well.