Monday, September 10, 2007

Movie/ film recommendations, anyone?

To add to the list, naturally!
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here are some. Sorry did not check with your list for duplicates:

Guess who's coming to dinner?, 12 Angry Men, High Fidelity, The Godfather Trilogy, Pulp Fiction, Being Cyrus, Back to the future (I), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Chariots of Fire.

Loyally yours! :-)

September 11, 2007 at 11:26 AM
Shefaly Yogendra said...

more to the point:

http://moviesnooneshouldsee.wordpress.c

September 12, 2007 at 10:42 PM
siriusminor said...

These are excellent!

September 15, 2007 at 10:51 AM
Anonymous said...

Two good idie movies I just rented:

Happy Endings

The Squid and the Whale (I think you would particularily like the latter)

September 23, 2007 at 6:15 PM
Anonymous said...

Quite recently I have fallen in love with Pedro Almodovar. Just finished "Habla con Ella (Talk to Her)."

I've also seen "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" (in college Spanish class) and "Volver" (with you!). I'm now aiming to see "Bad Education" and "All About My Mother." I think the latter won some awards (no?).

He's all good things to me: dark and quirky, and possessing an original point-of-view on human relations, though it's difficult to pin this down exactly. I do know, however, that almost all of his characters arrive smelling very badly: of desperation.

I love his depictions of people's neuroses, once unleashed, hijacking intimate relationships, (all of them: romantic, friendly, familial).

He tends to take this theme to the extreme-- in fact, all of his films (that I've seen) feature relatively "normal" people who become victims of their own ballooning neuroses/vices (machismo and jealousy, e.g.).

These lives soon devolve into chaotic (and highly amusing) madness: to wit, humping a vegetable (you'll understand if you see the movie)!

I also think PA's especially great at probing the more unpredictable and unstable elements of certain stormy female psyches-- and in my opinion, he does so in a very un-machismo way. (And that's difficult to achieve.)

Indeed, it is darkly humorous (and somewhat gratifying) to witness this unraveling process, to pity people who are at least crazier than we like to think of ourselves. What good fun. You can leave the film self-pleased and thinking, "Wow, I'm pretty normal, relatively speaking."

But, on the other hand, I think PA shows how tenuously all of it-- our relationships, our sanity, our day-to-day existence-- is really tied to together by some stringy, fraying, loose threads. A notion that's a bit freaky to think about, if you ask me...

Maybe we are all nuts, all easily undone under the right circumstances??

Oh, and I also just like to hear the well-dressed Madrid ladies lisping and spitting away: that peculiar Castellano accent TH-ounds unlike anything el-TH.

Yes sir, sick people have lots of time for movies!

All the best,

A Friend of Poppy's

September 27, 2007 at 5:21 AM
siriusminor said...

Thank you for those comments, Poppy's friend! You are right, under the right (?!) circumstances perhaps we are all nuts?!

I saw Talk To Her too, and it was very striking...

September 29, 2007 at 11:25 AM

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