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Re: Ecce Homo -- Mel Gibson's Passion (more fluff, sorta...)
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Fri, 24 Oct 2003 19:18:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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David Lynch is a consistent source of quality films (well, let’s ignore Dune
for now)
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In no particular order and not limited by national boundries, I give you...
Thee List:
01. Prospero’s Books (Greenaway) -- There’s simply nothing else like it
02. Hamlet (Branagh) -- Closest film adaptation yet! Sorry, Mel -- not even
close...
03. Crash (Cronenberg, Ballard) -- Autoerotic with a twist!
04. The Hudsucker Proxy (Coen Bros.) -- You know, for kids!
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complaint with personnel. File a faulty complaint and they dock you!
05. Salome’s Last Dance (Russell) -- Merde!
06. Brideshead Revisited (Lindsay-Hogg) -- Either 13 hours of boredom, or
perfect bliss!
07. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (Attwood) --
Awoooo!
08. Fight Club (Fincher) -- I am Jack’s smirking revenge.
09. The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (Greenaway) -- Michael Nyman
scores!
10. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader) -- Glass scores! With
original voice over by Roy Scheider, not the new terrible one by Schrader
himself. Blech.
11. Dark City (Proyas) -- stylish, visually stunning
12. Four
Rooms (various) -- Combustible Edison scores, my nod to Tarantino & Rodriguez
13. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Mitchell) -- The origins of love, or The
Banquet!
14. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) -- Eyecandy everywhere you look
15. All
That Jazz (Fosse) -- Here’s an american for you
16. Akira (Otomo) -- Pretty
much the last of a breed
17. Titus (Taymor) -- Visually stunning
18. Equus (Lumet) -- “Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot
be created.“
19. Amadeus (Foreman) -- ” They’re all so beautiful. Why don’t I
have three heads?”
20. 1984 (Radford) -- With the original score please, not
this new DVD fake one.
21. The Great Train Robbery (Crichton) -- Lesley
Anne-Down, oh my heart be still
22. Bound (Wachowski Bros. and Susie Bright) --
Best lesbian film yet made
23. The Usual Suspects (Singer) -- “Keaton once
said, ‘I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of him.’ Well I believe in God,
and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.“
24. Dangerous Liaisons
(Frears) -- “You see, I have no plans to break down her morals. I WANT her to
believe in love and virtue and the sancitity of marriage, and still not be able
to stop herself. I want the pleasure of watching her betray everything that is
important to her.“
25. Latex (Ninn) -- no list is complete without some high
production value pornography
Honorable mention:
The Grifters (Frears)
Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)
Wild at Heart (Lynch)
-- Hop-Frog
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