CookieJon wrote:

Fallible wrote:

Jumbo wrote:

Sityl wrote:Just watched Mullholland Drive. Man, that was the craziest movie. It was awesome.

I might have posted this elsewhere but thats one of my favorite movies ever.

I have the dvd edition with the bunch of postcards inside which is meant to give away the plot and meaning behind the movie...... it doesn't at all!

Damn it all to hell! Will its mysteries never be revealed to me??

She's dying and it's all a dream of what might have been.

Next!

Must I be doomed to forever wander the earth thinking it's just a really beautifully executed excuse for some girl-on-girl action?

Jumbo wrote:

CookieJon wrote:

Fallible wrote:

Jumbo wrote:
I might have posted this elsewhere but thats one of my favorite movies ever.

I have the dvd edition with the bunch of postcards inside which is meant to give away the plot and meaning behind the movie...... it doesn't at all!

Damn it all to hell! Will its mysteries never be revealed to me??

She's dying and it's all a dream of what might have been.

Next!

Thats one of the theories hinted at by the postcards. IIRC its not the only one.

Though what meaning there is in the movie might be a bit illusory because it was not begun or entirely filmed as a movie. It was going to be the pilot for a tv series but the funding didn't work out. If that was the plot it would be hard to drag out over a whole series.

Must I be doomed to forever wander the earth thinking it's just a really beautifully executed excuse for some girl-on-girl action?

My other half is on holiday so i have been having movie night each night. I think tonights selection has just been made for me!

Jumbo wrote:

CookieJon wrote:

Fallible wrote:

Jumbo wrote:
I might have posted this elsewhere but thats one of my favorite movies ever.

I have the dvd edition with the bunch of postcards inside which is meant to give away the plot and meaning behind the movie...... it doesn't at all!

Damn it all to hell! Will its mysteries never be revealed to me??

She's dying and it's all a dream of what might have been.

Next!

Thats one of the theories hinted at by the postcards. IIRC its not the only one.

Though what meaning there is in the movie might be a bit illusory because it was not begun or entirely filmed as a movie. It was going to be the pilot for a tv series but the funding didn't work out. If that was the plot it would be hard to drag out over a whole series.

SafeAsMilk wrote:And what a beautiful bit of nothing it was

CookieJon wrote:

punter18 wrote:Vertigo is a masterpiece. Rear Window is a close second. All other films directed by Hitchcock, especially the more 'acclaimed' ones will find themselves among the list of other great films (and do); but they can never touch the genius of Vertigo. It's sublime, its cinematography and the use of dark color to emphasize sorrow was very unique. The slow, but taut, script helped carry the eeriness right till the end. It played the perfect foil to the climax. The film itself inspired dozens of individuals to take up film-making as a career. Its legacy may be overstated, but its influence cannot be denied.

I deny it has the influence you claim.

North by Northwest is, objectively, the best Hitchcock.

Evolving wrote:No!

Actually the greatest film is Once upon a time in the West.

Beatrice wrote:

paceetrate wrote:I've seen Vertigo. It was very good, but I don't know that I'd call it the "Greatest Movie Ever" (that would probably go to something by Akira Kurosawa on my list. )

When I say "greatest movie" ever, I mean "my favourite movie". I don't think I have any authority to decide what movie is the greatest, I just know what I like (same for any form of art really.)
Kurosawa, Lynch, Scorsese, Kubrick, Welles, Coppola, have made some of the greatest, bestest/most favouritest movies out there.

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hoopy frood wrote:

SafeAsMilk wrote:

hoopy frood wrote:

He was ok in Wild at Heart I suppose, but then, he and Laura Dern both played fairly narrow stereotypes in that film, so ...
I don't doubt that largely played into his selection for the role

And in Laura Dern's selection too methinks...though she did play the 'hot n wild' thang pretty well...


Let's just say I managed to suspend disbelief for those parts

Haven't seen anything she did before that...I thought she was great in Inland Empire.

Blip wrote:The Seventh Seal is one of the all-time greats and haunts me still, many, many years after first watching; OH, being asked, suggested Zulu as one of his favourites. Me, I've always loved Room With a View, but I'm a Forsterian and I enjoy Merchant Ivory.

hadespussercats wrote:

CookieJon wrote:

punter18 wrote:Vertigo is a masterpiece. Rear Window is a close second. All other films directed by Hitchcock, especially the more 'acclaimed' ones will find themselves among the list of other great films (and do); but they can never touch the genius of Vertigo. It's sublime, its cinematography and the use of dark color to emphasize sorrow was very unique. The slow, but taut, script helped carry the eeriness right till the end. It played the perfect foil to the climax. The film itself inspired dozens of individuals to take up film-making as a career. Its legacy may be overstated, but its influence cannot be denied.

I deny it has the influence you claim.

North by Northwest is, objectively, the best Hitchcock.

No way. Notorious! wins that title, any day.

virphen wrote:Superb in lots of ways, but they date, oh do they date.

CookieJon wrote:

virphen wrote:Superb in lots of ways, but they date, oh do they date.

North by Northwest is timeless.

virphen wrote:

CookieJon wrote:

virphen wrote:Superb in lots of ways, but they date, oh do they date.

North by Northwest is timeless.

You have to admit, it has a plot hole or two. For instance, you want to kill a guy... and you have a way of getting him wherever you want him. So naturally, you get him out all on his own on a highway... so far so good... and attack him with a ... a... crop duster? WTF?

virphen wrote:
You have to admit, it has a plot hole or two. For instance, you want to kill a guy... and you have a way of getting him wherever you want him. So naturally, you get him out all on his own on a highway... so far so good... and attack him with a ... a... crop duster? WTF?

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SafeAsMilk wrote:And what a beautiful bit of nothing it was

+1. Loved it. And it stands up well; I just watched some episodes a few months ago. Fresh and strange as when they first breathed the scent of pine in that air.

Oh I don't know... Twin Peaks lasted for two series and a movie on absolutely nothing!

OH, being asked, suggested Zulu as one of his favourites.