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Re: 100 Plus 10

Weepingsam — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:14:42 -0000

I suppose this is as good a spot as any to make some general comments. Like - the dividing by zero moment on the 97 list was been rectified - The General is on the list. And Nashville, and Astaire and Rogers, and Sturges - all pretty much required. On the other hand - still only one Howard Hawks film? His Girl Friday being an obvious candidate, but so is The Big Sleep, Scarface, Red River, and god knows how many others. And Frankenstein dropping off is almost as bad as not having Keaton last time. The Third Man is more American than Lawrence of Arabia - that can't be the excuse can it?

Re: Bergman: The Last of the Great Ones

Weepingsam — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:00:12 -0000

I have to take exception to the idea that Bergman was the "last of the great ones" though. He was certainly great (as was Antonioni), and artists of that caliber are unique - but they were not the only filmmakers of that quality, by a long shot. Godard, Rivette, Rohmer, Oshima, Herzog - they're every one as thrilling and powerful, and influential and historically important as Antonioni or Bergman. And those are just my favorites - a similar case could be probably be made for Resnais, Marker, Chabrol, Wiseman, de Oliveira, at least... a magnificent crop of filmmakers emerged between 1945-60.... And the generation after that - Lynch and Hou and Kiarostami and Scorsese, etc, - has a nice body of work as well...

Re: Bergman: The Last of the Great Ones

Weepingsam — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:38:10 -0000

"Has Oshima made anything since Taboo?"

I think he had a serious stroke in the early 00s, and has been in very bad health... it's notable how many of the filmmakers of that generation, in their late 70s and 80s, are still active - Godard, Resnais, Chabrol, Rivette, Rohmer, Marker - all putting out films in the last year or two... de Oliveira keeps them coming; Kon Ichikawa, well into his 90s, is still making films...

Re: Antonioni and Bergman Bite the Dust

Weepingsam — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:43:21 -0000

I am curious - did Jon Swift make a bet that he could come up with an even stupider take on Bergman and Antonioni's deaths than John Podhoretz? Cause I think you might have done it. I'm not sure which was the cheaper shot - linking that online film poll to Podhoretz ("coincidentally" of course), or linking to a 4 year old Terry Teachout post about how he doesn't love Bergman as much as he used to. I'm all for mocking the likes of J-Pod, but really.... trying to score political points off other people's taste for culture is lame no matter what your politics or taste might be.

Re: Best of the Decade Derby POLL: Best English language film from 2000

Weepingsam — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:37:34 -0000

Of that group, I'd vote for George Washington. But I'd rather write in O Brother Where Art Thou.