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films and masterpieces
A colleague here at the university recently gave me a list of her favorite movies, in exchange for a list of mine.
Here's my list, in no particular order:
Slacker
After Life
My Dinner With Andre
2001
Wings of Desire
Delicatessen
Ran
Do the Right Thing
Vertigo
any by Hal Hartley but especially Amateur
any by David Cronenberg but especially Videodrome
any by Jim Jarmusch but especially Stranger than Paradise
any by David Lynch but especially Eraserhead
The "any but especially" directors are undoubtedly my favorite directors, but, strangely, I don't feel like any of them have made a "masterpiece": each film in their body of work has some fatal flaw in either design or execution. Or maybe it's less the "fatal flaw" problem and more that what I like about these directors is the way that their films work in conjunction with one another: the way particular themes recur from film to film, in new and surprising ways. There is no one film that could be said to succinctly stand in for the entire body of work, but, taken together, the entire body of work makes one vast masterpiece... |
Monday, September 15, 2003
1:26 PM
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