Oh, I've seen LLV too. And they're right. I don't really want to again, though I liked it at the time.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
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erikaj - Nov 04, 2007 1:51:56 pm PST #2054 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
BigDuluth - Nov 04, 2007 7:57:49 pm PST #2055 of 10000
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
The one on the list I'm sure I saw was The Audition, and I've seen it twice. I'm probably not seeing it again because I remember it well enough to not have to--but if someone put it on while I was there I wouldn't leave or anything.
My brother and sil kept urging me to see Audition but I couldn't find it anywhere. Finally my friend gave it to me for Christmas 2 years ago. I've seen it once... just once. Like ita I wouldn't leave the room, but it'll be a while before I actively go to watch it.
I saw Requiem...wtf? (enough said)
Frankenbuddha - Nov 05, 2007 4:00:18 am PST #2056 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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].
Let me guess - the traffic jam?
Hayden - Nov 05, 2007 6:36:24 am PST #2057 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Yeah.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 05, 2007 7:29:15 am PST #2058 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I've seen Boys Don't Cry and Leaving Las Vegas. While Audition fascinates me by dint of its reputation, Million Dollar Baby is the only other film on the list that I have a real desire to see.
Glamcookie - Nov 05, 2007 9:01:26 am PST #2059 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I'd add Araki's Mysterious Skin to that list. Absolutely stunning movie. We even bought it. But we can't quite bring ourselves to watch it again...
Jars - Nov 05, 2007 9:03:20 am PST #2060 of 10000
When the Wind Blows scared the everloving shit out of me when I was a kid - I still can't watch it to this day. What they were doing showing it in a primary school, I do not know.
§ ita § - Nov 05, 2007 12:37:36 pm PST #2061 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When the Wind Blows scared the everloving shit out of me when I was a kid - I still can't watch it to this day. What they were doing showing it in a primary school, I do not know.
I'm thinking they showed it to us in high school. It's the only way to see it that makes sense for me.
Gutting.
-t - Nov 05, 2007 1:23:58 pm PST #2062 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've been trying to remember under what circumstances I saw it, and I can't. Must have been some kind of special showing. It's not the kind of thing I would have caught on Bargain Night at the multiplex.
JZ - Nov 05, 2007 2:14:54 pm PST #2063 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
On that list, I've seen The Passion of Joan of Arc, Safe and Boys Don't Cry, and I'd be very, very willing to see any of them again -- well, maybe only one "very" for JoA, since it was such a harrowing experience for the lead actress and I'm not particularly supportive of dickish directorial mindgame-playing. But the other two, oh my yes, anytime.
We have a borrowed copy of Grave of the Fireflies at home right now, but I'm beginning to think that I really shouldn't watch it.