Originally posted by wormwoodgo on seriously.
'before the rain' from the same vein. and the soviet classic, 'come and see', the greatest war movie ever made.
chan-wook park: oldboy
tarkovski: andrei rublev
takeshi kitano: sonatine
wong kar-wai: chungking express
fellini: 8½
darren aronofsky: pi
shinya tsukamoto: tetsuo
robin hardy: the wicker man
kinji fukasaku: battle royale
kurosawa: seve ...[text shortened]... in smith: desk clerks
john schlesinger: midnight cowboy
gus van sant: my own private idaho
these are just anagrams of well known household cleaners aren't they!?
Originally posted by caissad4I think I remember that one, is that the one where he pulls back the sheets from a hospital patient's bed and it's the head of a man that has been transplanted onto a cow's (or other farmyard animal) body?
O Lucky Man!
starring a young Malcolm McDowell
Originally posted by Palynkaflesh turning into machine, industrial urban society transforming man, manifesting itself as an involuntary physical change. what happens when the airconditioned nightmare, the molok that urban cities have become, start affecting us physically? I just think it's very interesting. the movie is also crude, fast, loud and powerful. primal instincts, raw nerve. like a runaway freight train running over a porcelain shop. what could be better?
Great list, apart from Tetsuo.
What do you like about it? I never quite saw what so many people like about it.
Originally posted by Phlabibit[/i]Zardoz: The gun is good.
Zardoz.
Exterminators: The gun is good.
Zardoz: The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill! [/i]
great film, the best sean connery ever made. you just can't top a homicidal man with a moustache and red speedos flying in a giant head made of stone! 🙂
Originally posted by wormwoodI love the concept (although a bit ripped off Akira), don't get me wrong. But the execution is just too overdone, in my opinion. Mmmm, maybe it's time to give it another go, I guess.
flesh turning into machine, industrial urban society transforming man, manifesting itself as an involuntary physical change. what happens when the airconditioned nightmare, the molok that urban cities have become, start affecting us physically? I just think it's very interesting. the movie is also crude, fast, loud and powerful. primal instincts, raw nerve. like a runaway freight train running over a porcelain shop. what could be better?