Criterion Closet Picks zóna
„Oh, Betty Blue. My favorite soundtrack. Just beautiful.”
„Polyester. I have a lot of John Waters DVDs. This is the one I’m missing.”
Kapcsolódó filmek: Otthonom, Idaho (1991) · Egy hatás alatt álló nő (1974) · Poliészter (1981) · Betty Blue (1986) · Videodrome (1983) · Elátkozott generáció (1995) · Arcok (1968) · A gyógyszertári cowboy (1989) · Mildred Pierce (1945) · Premier (1977) · Egy kínai bukméker meggyilkolása (1976) · New York árnyai (1959) · Elkülönítve (1995) · Vörös sivatag (1964) · Nyomtalanul (1988) · Út a pokolba (1997) · Totally Fucked Up (1993)
„This is Kuroszava Akira’s Dreams. And I would get every Kurosawa movie in here if I could, …”
„Okay, and here we have by Stan Brakhage, and this is an Anthology. This is Anthology: Volume Two. I just– I love someone who’s going to take a…take a roll of film, shoot on it, and then scrape it up and draw on it and freak it around. Very punk rock to me, Stan Brakhage.”
Kapcsolódó filmek: A bárányok hallgatnak (1991) · Godzilla a Mechagodzilla ellen (1974) · 8 és 1/2 (1963) · Álmok (1990) · Gojira, Minira, Gabara: Ooru Kaijuu Daishingeki (1969) · Szabad (2011) · Gojira (1954) · Persian Series (1999–) · Gojira no Gyakushuu (1955) · Mosura tai Gojira (1964) · San Daikaijuu: Chikyuu Saidai no Kessen (1964) · Kaiju Daisenso (1965) · Gojira, Ebira, Mosura: Nankai no Daiketto (1966) · Kaijûtô no Nessen: Gojira no Musuko (1967) · Kaijuu Soushingeki (1968) · Gojira tai Hedora (1971) · Chikyu Kogeki Meirei: Gojira tai Gaigan (1972) · Gojira tai Megaro (1973) · Mekagojira no Gyakushu (1975) · The Wonder Ring (1959) · The Dead (1960) · Two: Creeley/McClure (1965) · 23rd Psalm Branch (1968) · Scenes from Under Childhood Section #1 (1967) · The Machine of Eden (1970) · Star Garden (1974) · Desert (1976) · The Process (1972) · Burial Path (1978) · Duplicity III (1980) · The Domain of the Moment (1977) · Murder Psalm (1980) · Arabic Numeral Series 12 (1981) · Visions in Meditation #1 (1989) · Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde (1989) · Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave (1990) · Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence (1990) · Unconscious London Strata (1981) · Boulder Blues and Pearls and… (1992) · The Mammals of Victoria (1994) · First Hymn to the Night – Novalis (1994) · I Take These Truths (1994) · The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm (1997) · Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars in the Human Mind (1997) · …Reel Five (1999) · Persian Series #2 (1999) · Persian Series #3 (1999) · Chinese Series (2003) · La noire de… (1966) · Texas elveszett szüzessége (1986) · King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
„The 39 Steps
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There’s a helicopter in it, and one of the worst special effects I’ve ever seen is the helicopter flying overhead. And that’s another Alfred Hitchcock trademark, in my opinion, is to have some very fake-looking shot somewhere in his movies. I don’t know why, but he seemed to like that.”
„In Which We Serve you might not have seen, but is magnificent. Noel Coward is in it. I believe he hated making it and decided he didn’t want to do movies anymore after that. He said, “I’m going back to the theater.””
„And this is The Cameraman, which is Buster Keaton. And I think this is one of his best ones, one of his most…It’s not like episodes of stunts. It’s like a real good story and a good character, and…I saw it at a movie theater with a live band and the audience was dying laughing. It’s funny to watch these movies in…with other people and realize that they’re still funny, which after a hundred years or ninety years is kind of amazing.”
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This Happy Breed (1944) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037367/
Kapcsolódó filmek: Gyilkos vagyok (1944) · 39 lépcsőfok (1935) · Godfrey, a lakáj (1936) · A filmoperatőr (1928) · Lady Eve (1941) · Rendületlenül (1942) · Késői találkozás (1945) · Utazás a múltból (1942) · Vidám kísértet (1945)
„I wanted to pick a David Lynch as a tribute to David, who we sadly lost recently. I got to meet him at the Paramount 100th anniversary photograph. And he was so sweet and so nice and so normal, so not the guy that you thought would come up with stuff like Blue Velvet, which is an insanely disturbing movie. I showed this to my daughter the other day and she hated it. But she hated it for exactly the reasons that David Lynch wanted you to hate it. This really, really, unnerving exploration of Middle America, the seedy underworld that exists just under the surface. What I love about Lynch is that he just leaves so much to you. He throws stuff out there, which is kind of indecipherable, but it’s your job to decipher it, it’s your job to apply your interpretations to what he’s saying. And they’re always there. And…I was delighted that Tilly hated it because she talked about it nonstop that night and then the next day. And I said, “Sometimes entertainment is an overrated function of art. Sometimes being made uncomfortable is the point. Sometimes being repulsed by something is the point. And I think David Lynch knew that better than most. So I’m putting Blue Velvet in my bag.”
Kapcsolódó filmek: Kék bársony (1986) · Az élőhalottak éjszakája (1968) · Kutyasors (1985) · Kvadrofónia (1979)
„ …Election is one of my all-time favorites.
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And then one of my favorite scenes is his younger sister also campaigns to be class president and has an amazing speech. That speech in the auditorium I could watch again and again and again.”
„So this is Vanya on 42nd Street. This movie is really remarkable because, if you haven’t seen it, basically they shoot it in a dilapidated theater and it is, I think, one of the best portrayals of Anton Pavlovics Csehov’s work…”
Kapcsolódó filmek: Aranyoskám (1982) · Gimiboszi (1999) · Traffic (2000) · A John Malkovich menet (1999) · Ványa a 42. utcában (1994)
„Streetwise/Tiny. These documentaries by the brilliant Mary Ellen Mark tell the story of runaways who are making it on the mean streets of the Pacific Northwest in the ’70s and ’80s. These kids’ speaking is better than anything adults could ever write, and Mary Ellen has the most tender, sensitive gaze on their lives. You will laugh. You will cry. These movies are unbelievably special. Trivia fact for you: after his first movie got into Cannes, I got Josh Safdie the biggest Streetwise poster in the world, framed it for him in yellow, and it’s still in his office. So if you didn’t think it was cool, it is cool.”
Town Bloody Hall (1979) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217853/
Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell (2016) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3505094/
Defending Your Life (1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101698/
Kapcsolódó filmek: Éjszaka a Földön (1991) · Nem adok kosarat! (2000) · Okja (2017) · Ragyogó karrierem (1979) · Streetwise (1984) · Kiruccanók (1996) · Girlfriends (1978)
„So one very particular and interesting film for me was this film: Federico Fellini’s La strada. And the reason that it had a special meaning for me was that in Toronto – we’re talking about the 1940s, 1950s – every Saturday there would be a…like a swarm of lemmings, there were children who would come to a particular cinema called the Pylon. And one day I came out of that cinema, having seen the traditional kind of what for us were kids’ movies, and across the street from the Pylon was a new theater, a very small one called the Studio, and it only showed Italian films in Italian, there were people coming out of a screening that had happened at the Studio, and it was adults only, no children, and they were coming out onto the street and there were weeping, men and women sobbing, crying. Across the street to see what the film was that had that effect on these people and it was La strada. And so, of course, many years later I saw La strada and then I was crying on the street myself and I thought that was the moment that I realized that film had that kind of power. It made a difference to me and my entire film career. So, La strada.”
"Ingmar Bergman also was one of the greats for anybody who felt that film was art. And, in particular, Hour of the Wolf, a very, very dark, depressing film, which was great, had a special meaning for me because, when I was making my film The Fly, there was a moment when the Jeff Goldblum character, who has now sort of fused with the fly DNA and has strange physical capabilities, could climb up onto a wall and hang from a ceiling. And I remembered that Bergman had done that in Hour of the Wolf, a scene with a man who is experiencing such anguish that his anguish allows him to walk up a wall and onto a ceiling. And I was wondering, “How did he do that physically?” because now I was going to do the same thing in a science-fiction movie with quite a different tone. And so I watched Hour of the Wolf again. And so I felt a kinship with Bergman and I think John Landis told me
when he went to Bergman’s house on his island, his special Swedish island, that amongst his collection of DVDs there was a DVD of The Fly. So I thought, “Okay, Bergman and I, we are…we are blood brothers. We are connected.”
Kapcsolódó filmek: A hetedik pecsét (1957) · A nap vége (1957) · Tükör által homályosan (1961) · Úrvacsora (1963) · A csend (1963) · Persona (1966) · Szégyen (1968) · Szenvedély (1969) · Országúton (1954) · Suttogások és sikolyok (1972) · Egy nyári éj mosolya (1955) · Fanny és Alexander (1982) · Jelenetek egy házasságból (1973–1973) · Radírfej (1977) · Őszi szonáta (1978) · Nyári közjáték (1951) · Szűzforrás (1960) · Jelenetek egy házasságból 2. – Saraband (2003) · Rítus (1969) · Kígyótojás (1977) · Farkasok órája (1968) · Jelenetek a bábuk életéből (1980) · Fűrészpor és ragyogás (1953) · Próba után (1984) · Egy ember lemarad (1947) · A varázsfuvola (1975) · Egy nyár Mónikával (1953) · Közel az élethez (1958) · Az ördög szeme (1960) · Arc (1958) · Érintés (1971) · Szerelmi lecke (1954) · Asszonyi álmok (1955) · Válság (1946) · Hajóval Indiába (1947) · Hamnstad (1948) · Törst (1949) · Till glädje (1950) · Várakozó nők (1952) · Valamennyi asszony (1964) · Fårö dokument (1970) · Dokumentumfilm a Fårö-szigetről (1979) · Fanny és Alexander (1983–1983)
„By the way, I should mention that, “What’s your favorite movie?” that sort of irritates me. I mean, is there really any one movie that tops them all? I would rather people not ask me what my favorite movie is. But if you want to know, my favorite movie is A harmadik ember (1949).”
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Slow Motion/Every Man for Himself/ (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079854/
This Happy Breed (1944) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037367/
Kapcsolódó filmek: Philadelphiai történet (1940) · Hatosfogat (1939) · Férjek (1970) · Rendületlenül (1942) · Késői találkozás (1945) · Csak az angyaloknak van szárnyuk (1939) · Egy ember lemarad (1947) · Vidám kísértet (1945)
„Okay, so The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. There’s a lack of color to this film, which is…Well, it’s black-and-white, but…I mean in the way it’s rendered, it’s…it leans into that monochromatic world that we imagined the Cold War to be in. There’s a speech in this film that Richard Burton gives, which is, I think, the best speech he gave as an actor, about what spies are. It’s the counterargument to James Bond. It’s a John le Carré…Based on the John le Carré book, of course, and really…really it’s worth watching just for that speech.”
Kapcsolódó filmek: Tizenkét dühös ember (1957) · Londoni randevú (1938) · Klute (1971) · A pénteki barátnő (1940) · Diadalmas szerelem (1946) · A kém, aki a hidegből jött (1965) · A szolga (1963)
„You know, who doesn’t love Stanley Kubrick, admire Kubrick? It’s not a matter of love, it’s a matter of admiration.”
„Roman Polanski’s Macbeth. I think so many filmmakers tried to adapt Shakespeare on screen and it doesn’t always work really well. And Polanski did it. Because he’s one of the greatest.”
„L’argent by Robert Bresson. A pénz (1983) by Bresson, like, whenever I’m trying to make the demonstration that all filmmakers are musicians and that all films are music, even if there’s no music in the film, L’argent is my best example.”
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Vive le tour (1962) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056662/
Calcutta (1969) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062773/
Phantom India, L'Inde fantôme (1969) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063914/
Humain, trop humain (1973) https://www.criterion.com/films/671-humain-trop-humain
Place de la République (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071999/
God's Country (1985) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091125/
…And the Pursuit of Happiness (1986) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092561/
Kapcsolódó filmek: A vihar kapujában (1950) · Exotica (1994) · Gyilkosság (1956) · Az őrület határán (1998) · Othello, a velencei mór tragédiája (1952) · A pénz (1983) · Rövidre vágva (1993) · Boldog karácsonyt, Mr. Lawrence! (1983) · Macbeth (1971)
