March 28, 2012

The Last Ten Movies I Saw

By michaelgloversmith

1. Rear Window (Hitchcock)
2. Control Tower (Miki)
3. The Birds (Hitchcock)
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
5. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
6. Utamaro and His Five Women (Mizoguchi)
7. The Unscrupulous Ones (Guerra)
8. The Phantom Father (Georgescu)
9. Pickpocket (Bresson)
10. Memoirs of an Invisible Man (Carpenter)

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11 responses to “The Last Ten Movies I Saw”

  • david
    March 28th, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    I suppose half of them were watched in your classes?

    Reply
    • michaelgloversmith
      March 28th, 2012 at 8:50 pm

      Pickpocket, Bicycle Thieves, Liberty Valance and Rear Window were all screened in class. The Phantom Father and The Birds were seen in the theater. Everything else was DVD or blu-ray except for The Unscrupulous Ones, which was downloaded illegally!

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      • david
        March 28th, 2012 at 9:19 pm

        No wonder I have never heard of it!!
        How do you arrange the content of your class? I mean,in what order you are showing these films?

      • michaelgloversmith
        March 28th, 2012 at 10:05 pm

        Chronological order, mostly. We start in the silent era and work our way up to the present day. I think you should think about teaching cinema too!

      • david
        March 28th, 2012 at 11:05 pm

        It would be a great job but you have to be old enough to teach cinema in China,besides,I think your major should be related to cinema or teaching.So I think I can only influence people in other ways.

  • Bherz
    March 29th, 2012 at 1:35 pm

    Liberty Valence is the toughest man south of the picketwire, next to me.

    I’ve seen Pickpocket and Mouchette and in the mail is Au Hasurd Balthazar. I’m quiiite excited.

    Reply
    • michaelgloversmith
      March 29th, 2012 at 9:41 pm

      I have a feeling you will really love Balthazar. For a long time it was my favorite movie.

      I’m now on page 103 of CTRL-F to Find It.

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      • Bherz
        March 29th, 2012 at 10:40 pm

        Thanks!

        It’s actually probably a good thing I can’t download any Bresson movies anywhere. I actually watched Mouchette twice through; the second time I caught the way (I think it was) the coffin, or rectangular image, kind of shimmers in and out of the water; it’s also interesting the way the water itself (I don’t know if this was intentional) kind of ripples out, then reverses, then ripples out again.

  • Omar Pineda
    March 30th, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    Last Ten Movies I Saw
    1. Carnal Knowledge (Nichols)
    2. Bob Le Flambeur (Melville)
    3. Senorita Extraviada (Portillo)
    4. Silver City (Sayles)
    5. Edmond (Gordon)
    6. In the Mirror of Maya Deren (Kudlacek)
    7. Badlands (Malick)
    8. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Branagh)
    9. He Got Game (Lee)
    10. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)

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  • Omar Pineda
    March 30th, 2012 at 9:26 pm

    Definitely. If you haven’t seen Edmond, that’s an interesting watch if you like David Mamet’s stuff. I loved He Got Game. Any of the stuff on this list, if you haven’t seen should be worth checking out.

    Reply

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