March 20, 2013

The Last Ten Movies I Saw

By michaelgloversmith

1. Rear Window (Hitchcock)
2. The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Bailey/Barbato)
3. Lady of Burlesque (Wellman)
4. The Pornographers (Imamura)
5. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (Resnais)
6. Barbara (Petzold)
7. Tristana (Bunuel)
8. Woman of the Year (Stevens)
9. Citizen Kane (Welles)
10. The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)

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7 responses to “The Last Ten Movies I Saw”

  • Omar Pineda
    March 20th, 2013 at 4:10 pm

    Last Ten Movies I Saw
    1. The Delinquents (Altman)
    2. Poultrygeist (Kaufman)
    3. The Emperor’s New Groove (Dindal)
    4. Puss in Boots (Miller)
    5. Black Sabbath (Bava)
    6. The Ten (Wain)
    7. Child’s Play (Holland)
    8. Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker (Sori)
    9. Soylent Green (Fleischer)
    10. Brain Damage (Henenlotter)

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  • Omar Pineda
    March 21st, 2013 at 12:20 pm

    I liked it a lot. Very funny, lots of dark humor. I met the director at a screening of the movie at the Portage theater.

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  • Mitchell
    March 21st, 2013 at 8:35 pm

    Tristana is pretty baffling, no?

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    • michaelgloversmith
      March 22nd, 2013 at 6:53 am

      I don’t know if it’s any more baffling than any of Bunuel’s other work. I would say, however, that it might be his most quintessentially Spanish film. I think the genesis of it must have been him wondering what would’ve happened if the Fernando Rey character in Viridiana hadn’t committed suicide. The character dynamics are very similar in both.

      There’s a gorgeous new Blu-ray of it from a new distributor named Cohen Media Group. I can’t wait to watch it again with the audio commentary (by Deneuve and, my favorite living American critic, Kent Jones).

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      • Mitchell
        April 2nd, 2013 at 8:33 pm

        Very interesting. I need to see both Viridiana and Tristana again soon. Recently watched The Exterminating Angel and Simon Of The Desert and was baffled but supremely entertained by both. The one that means the most to me is The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – hence the name of my blog!

      • michaelgloversmith
        April 4th, 2013 at 7:57 am

        Discreet Charm is probably my second favorite (after Viridiana). That man made more great films than you can shake a stick at though.

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