My favourite film is Stroszek.
Very strange film; the colours, the way they literally (if the hype is to believed) sleepwalk through it - it's as though it were filmed underwater. Dark, slow, mesmerising and then those weird and spectacular shots of the guy on the cliff at the end staring off the edge of the world. I don't know what it was about but it's a film unlike anything else I've seen and that has to be a recommendation in itself. It was surprisingly watchable as well despite a lack of action - unless you count scenes such as when he dances with the dead man or the demented serving wench stands on the table and starts taking off her clothes.
Anyone seen this? I've got a copy which I can't make work at the moment for some reason but part of me thinks or hopes it might be somewhat similar
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378661/
Bicycle Thief was amazing. found my brand - Italo Neorealism, what else then?
No, I agree, it's the strangeness without something being actually strange that makes it so weird. I mean, I haven't seen Les Revenants yet but I'm guessing it will be a different kind of strangeness. Perhaps I shouldn't speculate more until I've made the actual disc work and watched it though."that definitely looks interesting, but i think part of what makes heart of glass is that the premise itself is so strange and dreamlike. not that a whole town coming back from the dead isn't strange and dreamlike, but it's not quite as...i don't know exactly how to put it...uncanny? it feels like something i'd actually dream. that muddy darkness...i can't see much coming close."
Don't know much about it but Rome, Open City seems to be the big one. Can anyone explain why it's neo - was there an Italian Realism before that? If so, what was it?"Bicycle Thief was amazing. found my brand - Italo Neorealism, what else then?"
Why the fuck do they mess when they release soundtracks, I bet I could come up with a list of a hundred where they miss out the best track or have different versions or whatever. I mean Assault on Precinct 13 never came out on vinyl at all until a few years back.
Yeah, that's a really great film. You should check out Terence Davies 'Of Time and The City' if you haven't already. Can be billed as a companion piece. Pretty similar styles and themes..It's as though they deliberately intend to annoy...
Anyway, just enjoyed My Winnipeg. A weird (mainly) fake (I assume) psychogeographical paean to Winnipeg that comes across as something in-between London and Wisconsin Death Trip with a homo-erotic not-very-subtext and loads of humour. I liked "the one drama show produced in Winnipeg - Man On A Ledge" which went out every lunchtime for fifty years or so Guy Maddin would have us believe. The plot of each episode revolved around an overly sensitive man who on some perceived slight or piece of bad news climbs out of the window of his office onto a ledge overlooking the main street and threatens to kill himself. He is then talked in safely by his mother over the course of the show... only to repeat his actions the following day.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093842/
In beautiful black and white (mainly) with animations of freezing horses and rampaging buffalo thrown in for good measure.
Sometimes they have some of them I but not as a general rule. Unless they're made from a library lp I guess but that's not normally the case with a film with a decent budget."took me a few years before i understood soundtrack lps don't contain sound fx. i've always wanted to have records of just the FX."