cult flicks, your favorites

Eraserhead. Probably because I knew Jack Nance.
This film by any measure did things no other film had done before. But I don’t think I can be objective.

As far as major visual and sequential impact, Pulp Fiction was and original masterpiece and is still peerless.

I found his first film online, or the part that didn’t ‘accidentally catch fire’.

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This film, I watched years after I first heard of it, which was during a psychedelic trip, where Sauwelios told me the plot to keep us both from burning out like lightbulbs in a thunderstorm.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18YS-9nQWeU[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j4wV1Ttd3E[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1CCup5QRJw[/youtube]

Anyone seen this?

The Killer Inside Me

“This noir thriller from British director Michael Winterbottom, is sickeningly violent but undoubtedly well made. This is a seriously intentioned movie, which addresses and confronts the question of male hate and male violence. The movie conjures up the era and locale of 1950s Texas, and creates a film observantly derived from Hitchcock’s Psycho and Capote’s In Cold Blood, and perhaps the Coens’ Blood Simple and No Country for Old Men, with touches of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks”.

Be warned: this really is a very violent movie, but superbly acted.

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Female Trouble with Divine. A particularly disgusting film with the late star of Hairspray.

I dunno if you can get this online. It’s very profound.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djk12JJsVV0[/youtube]

Is that Faust in there?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga4ZO1hND7k[/youtube]

American Dream……… Wow and Wow.

That place would squeeze the heart till it stops beating.

Jakob this is the kind of vid you excel at, (I remember your Israeli vid for different reasons) captured the desolation and hopelessness that most of us who have never been there, never get to see.

and the background music.

Perfect for each shot.

Just got my breath back now……

Wow and wow.

Maiden - you have an eye for these things! It is a very labored video with a lot of time thinking about every shot, and the same goes for the Israel video. Thanks. I am happy this video found an audience, I gave up on there existing one for it quite soon after I made it.

If there is a ‘market’ for this style that would be interesting for me. It is extremely interesting to experience in this way, every transition is a value-assessment, an ‘appraisal’ of one shot by another. To keep that buildup going requires much of the viewer as well.

Im hijacking this thread but one more thing; I do not unequivocally share the sentiment of despair about it, but it is probably true that my instincts wish to convey this state, because it is an existential norm; I try to evoke the closeness to non-existence of existence, thereby making its effective ‘apparitions’ stranger and more alive; the apparition is always between two shots. The deer above the flag, that was a pivot from despair to hope - not intended but experienced as such. A simple soul I am, I like to follow my own story.

Girl on a bridge, Vanessa Paradis and Daniel Auteuil

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This scene packed with symbolism, a beguiling movie. Loved it.

Jakob, this part of you I understand and ‘get’.

I am probably at my most communicative when I deal with surprises and the unknown.
This is why I can only have geniuses and mad persons as friends. In love this gets violent.

That’s another thing very badly done in film.
Is there even a single good sex scene that is not pornographic?

Some exceptions. I’ve seen one, I must assume there are more. But in general I flinch and think I hope to god this is not how they do it in real life; The directors want to hide but don’t know what; they do not yet know how to put together a scene in the way a woman dresses. (except maybe John Woo)
Sex is still too dangerous for visual storytelling - it is still presented in a bearskin.

Jakob wrote:

I am interested to know which one it was.

The weird thing is I don’t even remember the movie. I think the movie was probably forgettable, despite having a good sexual scene. I remember wanting to write it down.

The spirit that is usually missing from the usual scene - although I am realizing now that this too might be an aspect that is improving - is the opposite of the ‘meant to be’ spirit. Any interesting and human sex, when it is a new bond (that would be in a movie) has a lot of confusion and blindness to it; because it is in sex that we set out to discover what we are usually to afraid to encounter; our own unconditioned drives; good sex is a de-conditioning, a release of the drives, and there is a lot of very cool and surprising, often shocking psychology that is released with that.

The ‘profound’ movie love-making with the oh my god I am fainting this is heaven’ face is really obscene. You can see, in that transfixed gaze, the puritanical panic trying to push out every real thing that comes up. Either that or it’s already an over the top werewolf-frenzy from the get-go.

You can’t blame them, as whatever passion they can muster for their co-actor, it is bizarre to release all this before a filmcrew; still, I’d prefer it if the scenes were omitted in absence of convincing enactment. It’s too important to the characters and the story to screw up.

To start off with:

Cube
Betty Blue
Mindwarp
Auntie Danielle
Mindwalk (filmed at my favorite location in France is the 'why")
Homer and Eddie

The Hunger
Vibes

Drop Dead Fred :laughing:
Strange Brew :beer:

Where The Heart Is (1990) The tromp l’oeil calendar artwork borders an orgasmic crescendo.
Parenthood(1989) Best screenwriter’s for character development of a huge cast.

Lost Boys
Gattaca
The Island
Count Of Monte Cristo
Three Musketeers
1984
THX 1138
Bladerunner
Dark City
The Crow
2001 Space Odyssey
Dr. Zhivago
Planet Of The Apes
Soylent Green
Omega Man
Logan’s Run
Repo Men
Minority Report
Sherlock Holmes
Brave New World
Lord Of The Flies
The Matrix
The Man In The Iron Mask
Quills
The Strange Island Of Dr. Monroe
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest