Film recommendations

Martingale · Post by **Martingale** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 8:32 pm

Not because of the movie is about the story of a boilermaker? Wink

LongTheta · Post by **LongTheta** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 1:45 am

Good to hear from you, Mouse Big Smile How's life treating you? Are you doing good things or what?

Martingale · Post by **Martingale** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:30 pm

Hi Snowman, everything is fine, life is good (although could be better), I am trying to good things, at least try not to do bad things. Have you visited our Alma mater recently?

LongTheta · Post by **LongTheta** » Thu Oct 06, 2016 1:55 am

No, mouse. I think I've overstayed my welcome there.

PS When things are less than optimal, repeat `I`m not in Aleppo. I`m not in Aleppo`, and you will be fine. Okay?

granchio · Post by **granchio** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 2:57 am

Bertolucci is ok though am not a massive fan.

Italian 80's that I'd recommend ?

Once upon a time in America

Oci ciornie

More widelya, most of W Allen 80's were good or very good

pj · Post by pj » Fri Oct 07, 2016 6:46 am

WRT to Italians. You cannot get wrong with Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini.

Or Lucio Fulci ( which is somewhat special)

Bertolucci, I don't like him. At all.

LongTheta · Post by **LongTheta** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 7:25 am

I still prefer Clint Eastwood/Tom Hanks-type films where choices are morally clear, just as in real life.

Nonius · Post by **Nonius** » Sat Oct 08, 2016 9:28 am

Especially when the choice is America.

On Italians, I'm a big fan of Sergio Leone and not surprised Granch likes Once Upon a Time in America..... I like it when De Niro's character is stirring that cup of coffee with a spoon for a very very long time. Henry Fonda was the best baddie as "Frank" in the quasie-namesake Western.

How about Pasolini?

LongTheta · Post by **LongTheta** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:09 am

The way I see it, Pasolini was in deep, deep need of psychiatric help. To attract attention to this sad fact, he made a number of films that desperately make his mental sickness totally clear. Unfortunately for him, every time he made one of these sick films, film critics took it as a great work of art because in post-war Europe that was the cool thing to do, and poor Pasolini had to start all over again and make another film that's even sicker than the previous one.

The truth of the matter (in my low-brow, obviously uneducated opinion) is that there are no redeeming qualities in these films, and for graphic depictions of how men can be infinitely worse than animals, we only need to watch the network news coverage of the area from the Balkans to Yemen, and from Libya to Pakistan. That will take care of things.

pj · Post by pj » Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:30 am

>Pasolini sux rant

I have two questions:

Post which war? Vietnam?

What atrocities in what films?

(Must have watched wrong ones.)

A disclaimer, IMHO Pasolini's movies are great.

Just Salo hasn't aged well cause of

aforementioned mediatised events in Balkans and elsewhere.