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Critics' picks serieses (your choices); topic titles not long enough, kemosabe
Topic Started: Mar 4 2005, 07:58 PM (1,576 Views)
Russ
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Great stuff, Conty and Dirt!

Discreet Charm and Pumping Iron are inspired choices. :fresh:
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Mister Jiggy, Esq.
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Dirt,Sep 21 2016
11:27 PM
6. How editing can really tell the story

I think I know what Russ will pick for this one...
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vornporn
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A Ryan Seacrest type.
1. Direction: sleight-of-hand - Las Hurdes
2. I might not care for sports, but I kinda liked this film… - This Sporting Life
3. A significant injustice - The Thin Blue Line
4. A preponderance of semiotics - the Three Colors Trilogy
5. This is why I love road movies - Cannonball Run
6. How editing can really tell the story - La Jetee
7. Performances: against type - Harrison Ford in Mosquito Coast]
8. Musicals for people that don’t like musicals - The Singing Detective
9. Best use of a wordsmith Force of Evil
10. Films that require multiple viewing(s) - Airplane!
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TBickle
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1. Direction: sleight-of-hand - Playtime (Tati, 1967)
2. I might not care for sports, but I kinda liked this film… - Dazed and Confused (Linklater, 1993)
3. A significant injustice - Nostalgia for the Light (Guzman, 2011)
4. A preponderance of semiotics - Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
5. This is why I love road movies - One Way Passage (Garnett, 1932)...even though it's on water.
6. How editing can really tell the story - Violence at High Noon (Oshima, 1966)
7. Performances: against type - Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West
8. Musicals for people that don’t like musicals - French Cancan (Renoir, 1954)
9. Best use of a wordsmith - Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick, 1957)
10. Films that require multiple viewing(s) - Badlands (Malick, 1973)
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Mister Jiggy, Esq.
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1. Direction: sleight-of-hand - Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)

2. I might not care for sports, but I kinda liked this film… - Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller, 2014)

3. A significant injustice - Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)

4. A preponderance of semiotics - The Silence (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)

5. This is why I love road movies - Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)

6. How editing can really tell the story - Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (György Pálfi, 2012)

7. Performances: against type - Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)

8. Musicals for people that don’t like musicals - Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)

9. Best use of a wordsmith - My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle, 1981)

10. Films that require multiple viewing(s) - The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has, 1965)
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TBickle,Sep 22 2016
01:16 PM
7. Performances: against type - Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West

Beat me to it....I'll throw another one out

Robin Williams in One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek, 2002)
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Russ
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Continental Op,Sep 22 2016
12:24 AM
4. A preponderance of semiotics
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist...I had to look up the word "semiotics", and I'm still confused.  But, the band uses symbols (see below) to get people to their secret shows.  And there's more than one instance.  And it kinda drives the story.  Did I do it?!

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How to Analyse Movies: Signs, Codes & Conventions (Semiotic Analysis)

I particularly like vorn's choice of The Three Colors trilogy. I'm thinking a certain Kurosawa film or two might also be apropos.
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Karim Amir
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My day job involves the teaching of rhetoric, and I try not to take my job home with me. So, the semiotics one is tough for me. As you all also know, I'm a meat and potatoes movie gal. I leave the analysis up to my hubby.

I'll post my contribution soon.
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Karim Amir
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1. Direction: sleight-of-hand - Road to Perdition
2. I might not care for sports, but I kinda liked this film - I love sports, but not soccer, so I'll go with Bend It Like Beckham
3. A significant injustice - 30 for 30: Judging Jewell
4. A preponderance of semiotics - Of Gods and Men
5. This is why I love road movies - Jump Tomorrow
6. How editing can really tell the story - The Conversation
7. Performances: against type - Guy Pearce in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
8. Musicals for people that don’t like musicals - Passing Strange
9. Best use of a wordsmith - Henry Fool
10. Films that require multiple viewing(s) - Gosford Park
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1. Direction: sleight-of-hand - Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972)

2. I might not care for sports, but I kinda liked this film… Easy Living (Jacques Tourneur, 1949)

3. A significant injustice - Boy Slaves (P. J. Wolfson, 1939)

4. A preponderance of semiotics - The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) -- the "Xs" cribbed from Scarface; and that friggin' rat at the end.

5. This is why I love road movies - Lost in America (Albert Brooks, 1985) -- obvious choice, I guess, but whatever.

6. How editing can really tell the story - Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock, 1936) -- with editor Charles Frend

7. Performances: against type - Tab Hunter (Gunman's Walk, Phil Karlson, 1958)

8. Musicals for people that don’t like musicals - The First Nudie Musical (Mark Haggard, Bruce Kimmel, 1976)

9. Best use of a wordsmith - Roxanne (Fred Schepisi, 1987)

10. Films that require multiple viewing(s) - Marketa Lazarova (František Vláčil, 1967) -- an assumption based on a single viewing
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Continental Op
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I particularly like vorn's choice of The Three Colors trilogy. I'm thinking a certain Kurosawa film or two might also be apropos.


So, I went too literal :P I was actually thinking about White Zombie (1932) and Christianity vs Voodoo/Non Christianity symbolism, because I wrote a college paper on it, and changed my mind. Anyway, thanks for the link!
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1. Direction: sleight-of-hand - F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)
2. I might not care for sports, but I kinda liked this film… - Diggstown (Michael Ritchie, 1992)
3. A significant injustice - Tearoom (William E. Jones, 1962/2007)
4. A preponderance of semiotics - The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2013)
5. This is why I love road movies - Rubin and Ed (Trent Harris, 1991)
6. How editing can really tell the story - L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
7. Performances: against type - Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
8. Musicals for people that don’t like musicals - Mama Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd, 2008)
9. Best use of a wordsmith - The Spanish Prisoner (David Mamet, 1997)
10. Films that require multiple viewing(s) - Thought about going with Villeneuve's Enemy, or Lanthimos's The Lobster (because of TBickle's illuminating thoughts), but ultimately decided on...

Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam, 2013). C'mon, people, we've gotta get more than two votes in the database for this one!

Jan Bijvoet is brilliant in Borgman.

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Karim Amir,Sep 22 2016
10:54 PM
9. Best use of a wordsmith - Henry Fool

Heh. I quietly predicted this to myself before you even posted. :)
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YancySkancy,Sep 22 2016
11:41 PM
8. Musicals for people that don’t like musicals - The First Nudie Musical (Mark Haggard, Bruce Kimmel, 1976)

Excellent choice. Wish I had thought of it.
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Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam, 2013). C'mon, people, we've gotta get more than two votes in the database for this one!

Jan Bijvoet is brilliant in Borgman.


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