Re: cult films/svankmajer
You can definitely count me in as a fan of svankmajer. I've seen them all, and would add that my favorites are by far four or five short films that he did very early in his career. I dont know if they are available anymore or not, but at one time you could find them on vhs under the titel "Tales of the Surreal" or something of that sort. They were much, much more political in nature than any of his later stuff, and pretty overt too, I remember being pretty surprised that he was able to make them in czechoslovakia at the time. I do know that they have released a compilation (2 volume set) of his stuff on dvd sometime in the past year- I would check to see if the tales of the surreal shorts are on either of those. As far as other cult foreign movies, I've probably too many to think of off hand, but would start with all of the Tarkovsky films, which are some of the only ones i've revisited numerous times. (don't know if they are of cult status though- anyone who is a fan of the original Solaris happen to see the remake/comments?)
At 15:40 -0400 4/08/03, ericksna@umich.edu wrote:
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As far as other cult foreign movies, I've probably too many to think of off hand, but would start with all of the Tarkovsky films, which are some of the only ones i've revisited numerous times. (don't know if they are of cult status though- anyone who is a fan of the original Solaris happen to see the remake/comments?)
I saw soderbergh's solaris when it was released in france as i was very curious about what this director would do with the tarkovsky movie. Solaris was tarkovski's response to kubrick's 2001 and is a long and often (imo) boring yet poetic movie. * i personaly would favor "stalker" or andrei roublev" by tarkovsky * Soderbergh's cover is mostly of a psycho-drama framed on george clooney's character with an awful sci-fi like score - could have been entitled "g.clooney in space" ;-) This said, i quite enjoyed soderbergh's solaris although i thought it missed the point that would have made it a 'classic'. Worth watching on dvd
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For me those films are as cult as movies can get. Haven't seen the new version, but the old one is one of my fave films ever (despite the fact that neither Tarkovsky nor Lem liked it) Marcin ----- Original Message ----- From: <ericksna@umich.edu>
As far as other cult foreign movies, I've probably too many to think of off hand, but would start with all of the Tarkovsky films, which are some of the only ones i've revisited numerous times. (don't know if they are of cult status though-
Hi, A great movie I saw last summer was "CELEBRATION" (originally FESTEN), a Danish film shooted under the Dogma-95 rules -which Trier forgot about really quick!-. It was directed by Thomas Vinterberg, from whom I haven't heard since then. The film is basically about perversion, hipocrisy, rotten bourgeoises, imposed incest (a pederast father), long-hidden restenment, guilt, death and so much more. All in all, a great mixture of drama and black humor, somehow reminiscent of Buñuel's surrealistic efforts. Best, Efrén del Valle n.p: The Beach Boys "Smiley Smile" (Capitol) ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es
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