Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

luka

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Gus and Wes and Ian Champion all said, unprompted, theyre way cleverer than you. Not saying its true. Just reporting what they said
 
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Slacker by linklater. Watched the first half and fell asleep. Then got stoned and watched the second half and thought it was brilliant, particularly the bit where the lad goes to rob this old guy but then they get chatting. Proper stoner film, I like the effortless pacing and how the conversations flow. You're not sure where it's going or who will get followed next. The lad who picks up the girls to go to a gig but then can't get it. It's a classic.
 
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DLaurent

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My current top 10 liable to change.

1) The Driver
2) Chinatown
3) Criss Cross
4) The Long Goodbye
5) The Parallax View
6) Basic Instinct
7) Light Sleeper
8) Escape from New York
9) To Live and Die in LA
10) Someone to Watch Over Me
 
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Sally Potter's Orlando

Never seen anything else by Potter but this adaptation feels as beautifully mannered & oriental, as temperamental and sensual, as its sourcetext.

The politics and parables are less subtle than in Woolf's original. You'll be sorry to hear very little about The Oak Tree (altho the opening & ending shots of Orlando, standing under its boughs, will nearly make up for it). You'll be sorry to miss the second encounter with Mr Green, now a famous Victorian critic, and the descriptions of 19th century damp, but her magical-realist dash through a misty maze will make up for it.
 
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DLaurent said:
My current top 10 liable to change.

1) The Driver
2) Chinatown
3) Criss Cross
4) The Long Goodbye
5) The Parallax View
6) Basic Instinct
7) Light Sleeper
8) Escape from New York
9) To Live and Die in LA
10) Someone to Watch Over Me
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Wild list. Top ten overall? All thrillers? Most Americana top-ten list I've ever seen. If it ain't LA or Nuhyawk I ain't havin it, says D-Lɔ.ʁɑ̃.

No love for Hitchcock's Vertigo, given Basic Instinct?

What do you make of the rest of Pakula's Paranoia Trilogy? (Klute, The President's Men)

I always thought Long Goodbye was the sleepiest Altman. Would take Nashville or Short Cuts, Three Women, Gosford Park, McCabe—and Brewster, who could forget Brewster—or even his late-career musical reviews over it, but I understand the appeal if you're steeped in noir—Gould's fresh breath etc.

Haven't familiarized myself with the noir tradition well enough, had a torrent of Maltese Falcon stewing for a while, this flight may be the time.
 
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I suppose, to almost answer in reverse order, it is down to the Noir tradition.

I've just got out of watching loads of old Noir on YouTube, then I watched Chinatown and just thought it was a masterpiece. The Long Goodbye is a very mellow film, but Elliot Gould is wonderful.

I don't want to say I'm particularly steeped in noir history, just that I watched them for a few years and it's the kind of film I like. I tried watching British ones including British Hitchcock films and didn't get very far compared to Vertigo or Rear Window or Psycho.

I need to rewatch the rest of the Paranoia trilogy, remembering Klute as a decent thriller and no memory at all of All The President's Men.

I rewatched Basic Instinct just after doing the impromptu list, and it was a lot more Sharon Stone saying "I liked to f*ck him" than I remember.

The main proper old noir I've put in there was Criss Cross... basically I remember it being one of Dan Duryea's darkest roles.
 
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