Exemplary films
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belboid
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'Examplary', 'transcend any boundary'....tough categories, many of my favourite movies wouldn't pass those criteria, sometimes that falling just short in some ways is why makes it superb (eg Vertigo, its falls just short, imo, but is so brave and far-reaching in what it is trying to do that it still ranks as one of the world's greatest masterpieces), or sometimes there is a bit that just is crap, but you can ignore because of the other 95% of the movie (eg the ending of Come & See - sorry but all that backwards film stuff looks crap, and is crap).
There aren't many that are really truly that great, but here's five that haven't been mentioned already:
Life & Death of Colonel Blimp
A Matter of Life & Death
Black Narcissus
Red Shoes
Some Like It Hot
jbob- what did you think of the cum shot in ACT?
There aren't many that are really truly that great, but here's five that haven't been mentioned already:
Life & Death of Colonel Blimp
A Matter of Life & Death
Black Narcissus
Red Shoes
Some Like It Hot
jbob- what did you think of the cum shot in ACT?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
A friend of mine's Dad left his Mum after watcing that:gsv said:[American Beauty
For very similar, genre-surpassing reasons.
<awaits Dubversion's sticky-flame-of-death, wearing the vicar's nuclear-powered shades/>
to the max
Larry O'Hara
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How about...
Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal--wonderful recreation of medieval attitudes to life death & love
John Boorman's Excalibur--about youth, achievement, dreams, aging, magic, religion. Fantastic, esp. the way Merlin's character undergoes downward & upward mutation within the film. And (as with Seventh Seal) the way the thin membrane between this world & the next is represented: superb.
That said, there can be no ultimate agreement about genre-surpassing movies as such: everybody thinks their own favourites do that. Whatever films are chosen say as much about the poster's preoccupations as the films themselves. Mine included! For example, the way I relate to that scene at the end of Excalibur when the few remaining knights wonder what has happened, & how to rebuild, is by recalling William Morris' line about how socialists have to constantly refight for socialism under another name, in each generation (loose paraphrase). Also, my liking for films with a medieval aspect to them reflects my impatience (shared with the sublime Camille Paglia) with much post-Enlightenment Western thought. Thus, I personally, for all its flaws, would even rate the Kingdom of Heaven above (say) Watership Down.
Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal--wonderful recreation of medieval attitudes to life death & love
John Boorman's Excalibur--about youth, achievement, dreams, aging, magic, religion. Fantastic, esp. the way Merlin's character undergoes downward & upward mutation within the film. And (as with Seventh Seal) the way the thin membrane between this world & the next is represented: superb.
That said, there can be no ultimate agreement about genre-surpassing movies as such: everybody thinks their own favourites do that. Whatever films are chosen say as much about the poster's preoccupations as the films themselves. Mine included! For example, the way I relate to that scene at the end of Excalibur when the few remaining knights wonder what has happened, & how to rebuild, is by recalling William Morris' line about how socialists have to constantly refight for socialism under another name, in each generation (loose paraphrase). Also, my liking for films with a medieval aspect to them reflects my impatience (shared with the sublime Camille Paglia) with much post-Enlightenment Western thought. Thus, I personally, for all its flaws, would even rate the Kingdom of Heaven above (say) Watership Down.
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Larry O'Hara said:
Heretic!
Larry O'Hara
Well-Known Member
PacificOcean said:Heretic!
...only from a Lefebvrist point of view
Ich bin ein Mod
does his make up in his room
Can't pick between them so both are going in
M and Metropolis
M and Metropolis
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
Larry O'Hara said:...only from a Lefebvrist point of view
I won't even pretend to be clever enough to understand that
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Two Chinese picks:
Raise the Red Lantern - visually utterly stunning, but more importantly - a devastating film which shows you how and why oppressed groups of people (women, the poor, whatever) are brainwashed into collaborating with the abuse heaped upon them. One of the most feminist movies ever (and it's made by a man 
)
To Live - basically the entire history of China c.1930-1970, but seen through the eyes of a single family and always with a wealth of human detail and feeling you don't often get from history movies. Much less gory and more hopeful than Come and See, but just as direct in showing you how war wreaks havoc on human beings.
Raise the Red Lantern - visually utterly stunning, but more importantly - a devastating film which shows you how and why oppressed groups of people (women, the poor, whatever) are brainwashed into collaborating with the abuse heaped upon them. One of the most feminist movies ever (and it's made by a man
)To Live - basically the entire history of China c.1930-1970, but seen through the eyes of a single family and always with a wealth of human detail and feeling you don't often get from history movies. Much less gory and more hopeful than Come and See, but just as direct in showing you how war wreaks havoc on human beings.
I don't see why you are getting all worried for. You still haven't really discussed why you like the films you posted up in the original post. Just Idi I Smotri gets bandied around these boards as if it is some trendy thing to be into, or to appear to be into. I thought you could have gone into more detail that is all.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
A lot of people have seen it - get off your high horse, you silly sausage!
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