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that you'd consider a classic? My vote: Jackie Brown (and what the hell has happened to Quentin???).
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is for "Oh Brother Where Art Thou", which I found screamingly funny and filled with absolutely wonderful music. I think "Fargo" is a better film - but just by a whisper.Most of the films I see end up being disappointing. The so-called bomb, "The Postman", is loads better than crap like "XXX", but it's the crap that seems to make the most money.
I did think that "Harry Potter" was very good and "Lord of the Rings" even better. Don't consider either of them classics but maybe I will in five more years.
As for the new STAR WARS flicks - no way. I enjoyed them both but neither is, IMHO, nearly as good as Episodes 4, 5, and 6. Yes, the newer installments have better fx, but the story let me down compared to the older films. Just no compelling characters to carry the story past the fx. Jar Jar is no Han Solo!
"Spider Man"....and before that "Rush Hour 2".What's the use of going out for the movies, when, 1) theatrical releses are mainly "trailers" for home video release, and 2)DVD is the best way to enjoy a film...with all of the commentary and film presentation features, it's like going to film school without the dull, pendantic teacher.
A majority of my DVD purchases are foreign and "classic" films, that one would ordinarily view at special run theaters. Living in the NYC area, say, just twenty or so years ago, there were many of these theaters that catered to people who loved these classic and foreign films...in a big way. They have all been shut down and replaced with multi-plexes that sell garbage, first run films by the truck full!
It used to be a genuine social event to go out to the movies...now it's a big pain in the butt! And for what ? Nothing.
That there are large box office grosses, means to me, that people are THAT desperate for entertainment and they will endure the most vilest of garbage just to get out of the house...or wherever they spend most of their time sleeping.
I'd seriously have to consider "The Thin Red Line" by Terrance Malick or "Magnolia" by P.T. Anderson.1) Malick's cinematography. As a personal request to Mr. Malick, PLEASE put out another film.
2) The slow immersion into so many lives filled with regret in Anderson's film. The film's only characters without lingering regrets
are also the most lonely, John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
How I can still find this uplifting by the film's end I can never quite put my finger on, yet it never fails to inspire.
Hopefully Malick will make more films. I think his last one before TTRL was Days of Heaven. He seems to be even more a perfectionist than Kubrick, who made films more often than Malick does. I agree with you on the characters in PTA's films, but this goes to show that it's not the story that's so important in film, but how the story is told. It's the art of film that I find so uplifting. Same with music.
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...I was the only the only person on earth that saw that movie. Great flick. Not sure I'd call it a classic, but definitely worthy of the home library.
I don't share your enthusiasm about LULU. I thought it was a fake. At least the jazz music sequences. Paul Auster doesn't know jazz from yeehaw, imo.
Also, he really pissed me off with the 2nd half of the MOON PALACE book. What a crapper. And it started so good!
MUSIC OF CHANCE was a very good film, on the other hand. Haven't read the book. Just as well.
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