Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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That said, I think the AFI gives it the No. 1 slot out of a knee-jerk response to its reputation
Oh, of course. It's been THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME OMG for so long that there would be public outcry if it were dethroned.
I haven't seen it again since I first saw it eight years ago. I ought to. Just to point out the pterodactyls.
I think I first saw
Casablanca
in that same film class, senior year. I believe I really liked it but spent the entire movie waiting for someone to say "Play it again, Sam."
Citizen Kane has an astoundingly interesting Rashomon-like structure. It's not a movie for kids.
I have mad love for Citizen Kane. Much like Casablanca, it made many innovations that are thought of as routine now, and the script is so nicely twisty.
One of the best courses I took in college was Film History - we went from the Lumiere Bros. all the way up to the present (then) day. Lots of movies, and the context that surrounded them. Shakespeare In Film rocked, as well.
I don't get why people refuse to watch black-and-white films (or, for that matter, foreign films as well). I grew up watching the cheesy horror flicks on Creature Feature, and the old musicals on late-night tv, so I just don't understand rejecting films because they're not in color.
Oh, and a super-seekrit response to Sean:
LIMPA BREAD RULZ!!!
The Spectral Bovine One speaks truth: Citizen Kane has an astoundingly interesting Rashomon-like structure. It's not a movie for kids. That said, I think the AFI gives it the No. 1 slot out of a knee-jerk response to its reputation, which is also how I think the criminally overrated Network maintains a slot on the list.
My heretical statement is that, much as I love KANE, and as groundbreaking as it was, I prefer TOUCH OF EVIL, lack of any definitive version and all.
I prefer TOUCH OF EVIL, lack of any definitive version and all.
I'm with you there, but I think we're pretty far outside of the typical AFI voter's response.
Citizen Kane
is one of those movies I always approach reluctantly, as if it were a spinach movie, and halfway through I'm dazzled and breathless and in love.
I still kinda like
Touch of Evil
just a bit more, but that's because somewhere deep inside me is a dirty dirty girl. But
Citizen Kane
is definitely the one I'd bring home to mama and marry.
eta: AH HA HA!!! Touch of Evil triple-cross-post!
My heretical statement is that, much as I love KANE, and as groundbreaking as it was, I prefer TOUCH OF EVIL, lack of any definitive version and all.
I'm with you, man.
One of the best courses I took in college was Film History - we went from the Lumiere Bros. all the way up to the present (then) day. Lots of movies, and the context that surrounded them.
I took History of Film in college, too! The film class I took in high school was also basically a film history course, since we went chronologically, for the most part.
Shakespeare In Film rocked, as well.
Yes, it did. Ian McKellan's
Richard III
FTW!
AH HA HA!!! Touch of Evil triple-cross-post!
I didn't care much for
Touch of Evil
! But then, there was this whole pages-long discussion about that after I saw it.
Touch of Evil triple-cross-post!
It's some kind of a movie. What does it matter what you say about cinema?
I can't even bear to try and make a top ## list. I always get near the end and suddenly start thinking of more movies than the number I'm trying to keep the list under.
Also, different movies mean more to me on different days (seeing the recent Criterion THE THIRD MAN with the commentary made me realize I'd let the movie slip down my list mentally when it's somewhere in the top 20, if not 10).
