'Lessons'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.
Upon some reflection (but not much), I think Dogville would be a better example of Von Trier's particular brand of evil genius than Dancer In The Dark.
Nomination to Be On The List: Boys Don't Cry.
It is on the list.
So should Pan's Labyrinth.
Really? I would watch that one again.