i tried to see naked man but i could not find it. i heard it w
asnt too great but it looked curious. i forgot:

time bandits
brazil
barron von (spelling)?
amelie
city of lost children
delicatessan
all spike jonze stuff
dawn of the dead (indeed)

oh and rivers edge. very good

Dawn of the Dead = Great !!!!

but Amelie , 'la cité des ennfants perdu' and 'delicatessen' are a piece of shit!!!! (truly no offense Larry Bird)
...
as antidote to this fantasy nonsense, i strongly recommend all by John Sayles (in a row?)

I'm being very un canon here, but i'm sure i don't like Fellini (i'm not trying to piss anyone of here!), nor Antonioni (the big ant!) nor Rossellini.
Some of Dario Argento's films are enjoyable though (Profondo Rosso and Tenebre).

Reqium for a dream was also a real drag. I kinda like Hubert Selby's writing, so i guess Aranofsky messed that one up. (no offense again...uh everyone)

Where's comedy (except for the - above mentioned - Coen brothers ) ?

ciao,

cstof

no offense taken. also here are some more movies

being there, very funny and good
dead alive (brain dead)
romper stomper
deep red
re-animator
unbreakable ( i actually liked this a lot)
paths of glory
wages of fear (has anyone seen this?)

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Some of Dario Argento's films are enjoyable though (Profondo Rosso and Tenebre).[quote]

Suspiria is probably the most artsy movies ever made, plus a soundtrack by the godblins. I read somewhere that the color pallet they used for that movie was made spefically for Argento (this could be wrong), and could never be used again. Either way, that is a true one-of-a-kind art flick.

You should really look for "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" by Bunel.

Also, I can see where you come from on the Requim opinion. I have alot of disdain for indie-turned-hollywood movies (ex. The Virgin Suicide, Ghost World, ect). There was a time when the Sundance label on a movie meant it was something to be seen, now they'll put their name on anything.

bah.

"Wings of Desire" - Win Wenders

So good.

You should really look for "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" by Bunuel.

I did see that and was really dissapointed by it.
I actually owned the criterion double-dvd of it; it featured some footage of bunuel mixing a Martini ( = his way of NOT being bourgeois, i guess).
Always found the bourgoisie = evil discourse a little ironic (and frankly boring).

and yes, Argento is pretty fucking arty! hehe
I really like Goblin's soundtrack for Profondo Rosso. There's a scene where David Hemmings tries to climb up to the window and it just takes him forever. The music on this scene is this awful psych/synth-jazz 'jam' which goes nowhere.
That shit is funny!

I Saw Kill Bill yesterday. There's so much there to hate and like.
But i like the whole japanese part where he goes really pop (wich he got from Godard's Alphaville or Suzuki Seijun's Branded To Kill; both fine films).
The first half hour is a real drag though.

cheers,

Cstof

danm

we have very much the same taste in movies it appears

i think _rushmore_ is a modern american classic, along w/_mulholland dr._, which you sorta downgraded, but we agree on those among other things you mentioned

so i will dare to say that you might love _don't look now_, for which you are looking

it's in my top ten ever, i think, along w/a couple of others off the top of my head, which are very high on my list:

_l'avventura_ by michelangelo antonioni--a classic which you can read about elsewhere to your heart's content

_the flowers of shanghai_ by hou hsaio-hsien--probably the most intoxicating thing i have ever seen. a really wonderfully made movie--funny, sad, passionate. again, others have written eloquently about it, so you might search out those reviews. i think it was j hoberman of village voice who wrote a big-ass thing about the director, whose name i won't try to type out again.

_contempt_. i'm not a big godard fan in general, but i very much like _contempt_. it is very perceptive about m/f relationships, business relationships, the processes of degrading oneself and others in both arenas. plus you get bbardot's rear end in technicolor.

i will stop there lest i blather too much

oh, i will say i totally loved _lost in translation_, among brand new things

i know a few people who really did not like it, but it has stuck with me for a long time. the acting is essentially perfect. i think if it was b+w and made by an italian in the early 60s, many of its detractors would feel much differently about it.

Takeshi Kitano. Fireworks is my favorite, Boiling Point and Sonatine are also good. Scene at the Sea is a very odd film.

Amos

hi
I come a little late on this topic ... but I'm do not suprise to see lynch and cronenberg on the same league . I like them both a lot .
my taste seems quite similar than yours too !

I like a lot : ( in no particular order )

battle royal ( with kitano )
tetsuo I,II( iron man , body hammer ) by shinya tsukamoto .
lot of japanese thing .....
cronenberg : all (special mention to : rabids,videodrome , scanners crash )
lynch : all ( exept maybe dune , special mention to eraserhead )
blier : all ( french director )

etc ....

Some good ones this year...

'Lost in Translation', of course...just recently saw 'The Station Agent' and 'Shattered Glass' which were both good/great

Although I don't wholly agree with a previous post about indie-to-Hollywood, I can see your point. I would say that 'Ghost World' is a peculiar choice for this assertion, however. WTF? Did you see 'Ghost World'? I'll watch anything with Scarlet Johannsen in it now.

'Capturing the Friedmans' was a very arresting doc...but 'City of God' certainly takes the prize as one of the most mind-blowing films I've seen in a very long time

Harmony Korine, there are tons who loathe/detest, piss and spit on his films (see: Janet Maslin's NY Times review of 'Gummo') but I admire, if not totally enjoy his films, for their bravery and just total 'what the fuck?-ness