SloopJohn

I was little dissapointed by the it. It's certainly good, but by no means is it a classic. I think my problem with surrealist films is that they seem to largely operate on a completely intellectual level, and the excellent ones, which are few and far between, operate slightly on an emotional one. I think this is partially due to the directness of the meaning that has been injected into their various surrealist elements and because this red door symbolizes passion or this dream sequence is a mirror of this specific theme, the mind is ultimately too caught up in decoding the symbolism and meaning rather than experiencing the film. however. the film was beautifully created and an excellent satire. but cinema can offer so much more than these charming, and acute insights that Bunel makes regarding the French upper classes, and that's ultimately what I find disappointing about this film. It was also a tad predictable at times which is the last thing a surrealist film should be.

Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le - The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie [Luis Buñuel - 1972] 6.5 / 10

lyrical genius lollerskates.

i recommend seeing blow up. really recommend. now the real question is. when am i going to start watching Sátántangó...

meh not really. I've seen a few Neo Realism films (early Fellini, Bicycle Thieves) but from what I've seen I definitely prefer 60's Italian cinema to it's 50's counterpart. For me the latter works of Visconti, Antonioni etc. appeal much more to what I love about cinema than Neo Realism.

so over the last day i watched... Omohide Poro Poro - Only Yesterday [isao Takahata - 1991] 7/10 Journal D'un Curé De Campagne - Diary Of A Country Priest [Robert Bresson - 1950] 9/10

i'm not even going to dignify that post with a proper reply.

yeah that would of been the usual reply but seventeen pages in this thread needed some ending. so i tried. and failed. and what's the film you worked on? sounds interesting?

i'm academically about to finish my first but seeing as my course is a three year BA compressed into two years I can't really divide up my years. why?

the soft focus certainly helps as well.

that's fine. but then to argue about it in such a belligerent and petulant manner is another thing.

i was watching the sky sports build up to the CL Final, and they were rating Drogba and Ronaldo out of 10 in their respective talents. andy gray have Ronaldo a 10 for free kicks. i mean what the fuck. his conversation rate is so bad. probably about 1/10 he scores. i'd expect a conversation rate of 1/3 (like Pernambucano a few years back) to get rate a 10. what a fucking farce.

god marilyn monroe in that film. :) unreal. to be honest. i doubt whether she was actually ever alive she's so beautiful.

explain how Crazy Frog got to No. 1 ahead of Coldplay then. Crazy Frog must be better as it sold more records. right? taste has nothing to do with relativism. i'm sure everyone here is completely sincere with their tastes because it's easy to be found out if your not. popularity has never, ever, ever been a barometer for the value or virtue of an artistic medium - in fact - through the history of 20th Century art - the greatest artists, in their respective mediums (Tarkovsky / Bresson / Chaplin in Cinema, Dahli / Bacon in Art etc.) are the ones who have commercially unsuccessful because their philosophies regarding their approach to creation is so ahead of it's time that their work doesn't fit within the aesthetic criteria of their epoch. how you can argue Kid Rock has any value artistically, not COMMERCIALLY, is beyond me, and you've yet to do it. so go on. please.

he has a song called 'fuck off'. /end thread

tell me why. edit; a quick browse of his lyrics - A shimmy shimmy cocoa cocoa pu- pu - fuckin puffs bitch It's the K-K-Kid Rock with the K-K-Kid Rock shit I'm on top bitch and rock for tricks tell me how lyrics like this are of virtue and not narcissistic. jesus you just have to look at him to know he's narcissistic.

enough people have done that already.

seriously this thread is an utter train wreck. and big thompers is one of the worst boarders i've ever seen on any messageboard ever. his evocation of relativism only serves to hide how petulant, unformed and straight out bad his opinions are. it makes me kind of sad to think that people think listening to Kid Rock is justifiable when his work is clearly trite, soul less, market conscious, obviously narcissistic and lacking any sort of artistic virtue whatsoever. and this is precisely the reason why no one, of note, gives a shit about him anymore.

big thompers. your pathetic attempts to argue through the shallow avenues of relativism make me feel physically ill.

I was lucky enough to see City Lights [Charles Chaplin - 1931] at All Tommorows Parties over the weekend. completely wonderful. and I just watched Grave Of The Fireflies [isao Takahata - 1988], which is probably the strongest animation film i've seen but a little sentimental at times for me. still extremely powerful though.

yes but balotelli is completely different in terms of his total playing style. martins was all pace back then. balotelli has a lot lot more.

i dropped out of uni. best decision i've ever made.