April 1, 2014

The Last Ten Movies I Saw

By michaelgloversmith

1. The Amazing Catfish (Sainte-Luce)
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles)
4. Chinatown (Polanski)
5. Under the Skin (Glazer)
6. Amer (Cattet/Forzani)
7. Melancholia (Von Trier)
8. The Freshman (Newmeyer/Taylor)
9. Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 (Von Trier)
10. Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)

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About michaelgloversmith

Filmmaker, author and Film Studies instructor. View all posts by michaelgloversmith

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 1st, 2014 at 1:42 pm and posted in The Last Ten Movies I Saw. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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7 responses to “The Last Ten Movies I Saw”

• Mitchell
  April 1st, 2014 at 3:01 pm

  I wonder what you would say to this article on Von Trier and Nymphomania:
  http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/167406/lars-von-trier-nymphomaniac?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=43f21bda46-3_27_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-43f21bda46-20705019

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  • michaelgloversmith
    April 1st, 2014 at 3:24 pm

    Well, that’s a damned interesting review. I agree with the author about the film’s brilliance. However, calling it a repudiation of St. Paul and basing one’s entire review around the notion that it’s a dialogue between Judaism and Christianity is, I think, a bit much. Yeah, there’s talk of religion in the film but there’s also a lot of talk about sex, fly fishing, trees, Bach, Edgar Allan Poe, the DTs, etc. My own perspective on the film is that it’s really “about” storytelling, finding patterns in the universe and the need the human mind has need to impose order and meaning. I don’t like all of Lars Von Trier’s work but this strikes me as one of his best.

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• John Charet
  April 1st, 2014 at 8:24 pm

  First things first:) I have seen numbers 2,3,4,7,8,9 and 10. I gave numbers 3,4,8 and 10 * * * * stars. Note: You labeled Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman as number 7 but you put it below 8 which would make Melancholia number 7. I gave Melancholia * * * 1/2 out of * * * * stars. I gave the same grade to numbers 2 and 9. I have not seen numbers 1,5 and 6 yet. I will be seeing number 5 this weekend though. Anyway, here is a link below to a revised version of My Favorite Films by Director John Ford. P.S. you will love what is on number 1 this time:) Here is the link below:

  http://cinematiccoffee.com/2013/09/23/my-favorite-john-ford-films-final-revision/

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  • michaelgloversmith
    April 1st, 2014 at 8:41 pm

    I predict you will love UNDER THE SKIN, which is my favorite film of the year so far. I will check out your Ford list now.

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• John Charet
  April 1st, 2014 at 9:29 pm

  Thank you for the kind reply:) Your preference of Fort Apache over Yellow Ribbon is akin to iconoclastic filmmaker Alex Cox’s opinion. Here are two links in which he talks about westerns. P.S. in part 2, he gives interesting thoughts on the highly underrated Wagon Master. Here are the two links below:

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• Annie Oakley
  May 30th, 2014 at 11:19 am

  I loved melancholia……..I had a similar depression for 9 years and the conveyed the state melancholia quite accurately. I am glad that it’s mostly gone now. It was a really hard time.

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• Annie Oakley
  May 30th, 2014 at 11:21 am

  *film

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