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It's certainly sad and haunting so far, but not so compelling that I'll feel empty leaving it here.
I don't think I got anything more out of the last half of the film than the first, but I'm glad I saw it all the way through just to have done it. If I'd left it partway through I'd always have wondered what I missed.
Barry Lyndon is worth watching multiple times, but it does require you to set aside half a day to do it.
Huh. I'd throw pretty much any Von Trier, Haneke, or Miike on that list, plus most Bergman, but they have good choices on the AV Club list. I've seen Straw Dogs numerous times, though, for pretty much the same reason I've read Blood Meridian so many times: there's poetry in the bleakness and nothing is what it seems at first. There's a lot of movies on that list I'll never even watch once, though, because they don't seem to have much there there on the surface, and I'm not interested enough to investigate further.
Barry Lyndon is worth watching multiple times, but it does require you to set aside half a day to do it.
I hear you. My friend Scott says the same thing all the time, but I just can't see doing it. There's a lot of great movies I've never even seen once, if you follow me, so doing a repeat on something so utterly exhausting (like L'Avventura, too!) just isn't in the works for me at this point.
I did not enjoy the slog through Barry Lyndon but I must admit that it made seeing Love and Death ten times funnier.
15. Grave Of The Fireflies (1988)
Oh gods, I watched the video.
Allergies. Fucking allergies.
Movie I watched on the List: Sick. Nomination to Be On The List: Boys Don't Cry.
I just thought of one! Weekend is among the best movies I have ever seen in my life. It's fascinating, intellectually stimulating, and full of sequences that are tiny cinematic masterpieces. But I will never, ever watch the whole thing again, because once it hits the final third, the combination of brutality and boredom and Marxist prosyletizing made me want to pry my eyes out with a page from Cahiers du Cinema.
YouTube has an example of an early sequence from Weekend that's pretty much what provocative film is all about. Don't cheat, watch the whole thing: [link]
Is Gallipolli listed?
It should be. So should Pan's Labyrinth.