If you had to watch one film again before you died, what would it be?
 

I teach film studies and often wonder about this. As a result of being a poncified academic sentimentalist, I'd probably say Bicycle Thieves.

Not for any reason other than the film makes me smile every time, The Royal Tenenbaums.

this is an interesting question because it wouldn't be my fave flicks (Brazil, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Alien, Spirited Away) it'd probably be something like:

Amelie

MANHATTAN

My favorite movie is Stroszek, but if I knew I was going to die I'd probably want to watch Cool Hand Luke or something like that. Yeah, just about any good Paul Newman movie.

Annie Hall could be one of mine.

I'll post a definite answer later.

Harold and Maude

Dawn of the Dead

Amistad

love actually


















yes, really

A true story about Amistad. I watched it in a cinema where I'm sure I was the only white guy in the audience. I'd been in the pub beforehand and during the trial scene became absolutely desperate for a pee. I was getting really frantic but couldn't leave incase the people around me thought I was walking out in protest at the film's anti-slavery message - they were shouting things like "fuck yeah" at the screen! I've never been more relieved to see a film end in my entire life.

Amistad is one of the few films that has really actually moved me. I was angry and sad at the end of it. I think it's because I live in the south and I am surrounded by racists.

Hahahaha, what the fuck is wrong with you?

Forrest Gump or Pulp Fiction

since there is the matter of facing death, i'd choose the wonderful "the barbarian invasions" by denys arcand



i was pondering if this or kurosawa's "ikiru" would be best... a boring bureucrat gets diagnosed w/ stomach cancer...




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but then, just for pleasure, just to go out in a blast of glory??

then i would need much laughter...

john waters's "desperate living"



or... hm...


this, the more i watch, the more i laugh

Let me get this right, you're about to die, you want to see something that has some profound meaning for the way you've lived your life, or perhaps wish you had...so you choose...Pulp fucking Fiction?

awww i love that movieee
its so sweet and cute!

I don't know, Brazil?

!@$#96i, Ikiru AND Desperate Living! Whether your male, female, animal, vegetable or mineral, I love you!

if i knew i was going to die i probably wouldn't be thinking about watching a film, plus i can't really think of a film that would put me in a good frame of mind to prepare for my voyage into the after life.

although if pushed i'd choose maybe choose star wars or something japanese (perhaps sonatine, or dersu uzala). or maybe dead man.

No, let me get this straight: you were given two movies to criticize, one being Forrest Gump and the other being Pulp Fiction, and you choose to take issue with Pulp Fiction? Really?

When did you turn into a 50-year-old woman?

Forrest Gump is actually a film that I hate more than most others, but at least I HATE it...Pulp Fiction is just one of those films I can't even be bothered to have an emotional response to.

you're so hot when you get all feisty

1991: the Year Punk Broke

--or--

Opening Night

ha ha i think my face turned a little red

the super kool girls club membership is strictly honorary. im very much a male but im also an honorary super kool girl. for which i'm grateful!

well yeah desperate living is so insane, it's even funnier than pink flamingos i guess. ive been know on occasion to call my wife "princes coo-coo".

my favorite movie is perhaps la dolce vita, i didn't pick it for blastoff because it's more of a cautionary tale, and what would be the point?

At least it's amusing, you know? I mean, maybe it's lost its luster after the 10 billion times it's appeared on cable, but there's more to it than there is to Forrest Gump, that much is for sure.

Rowr.

it's a really cute heart-warming movie, damnit...


















COME ON!


but if my copy of love actually was scratched, i'd watch...



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or

So long as she doesn't pull a Queen Carlotta on you and start shouting "GET IT!" during certain more intimate moments.

i LOVE la dolce vita

but i like amarcord better.

oh, shit, wild stawberries & the seveth seal, of course!!!

nothing like facing death with visions of bibi andersson.

my favorite character in 7th seal is the squire. hurray!

Bananas, hilarious

I remember showing the whole of Persona to a class a few years back. The tangible hatred I received from students afterwards lead me to conclude that Bergman may not be the most popular of filmmakers with today's yoof.

yeah amarcord is sweet & has some nice scenes but it's a little too disjointed, you know, like scenes + scences, i don't know. i'll take 8 1/2 too over amarcord. not only is the story great but those scenes with la saraghina (had to look up for the spelling) are almost mythical.

are you serious? what a bunch of stupid fucks.

next time this is what you do to them:

The same happened with Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest. "Pearls before Swine", I say.

hm see there i had a problem, i did not like that movie, too catholic for me, i don't know, it was just irritating, perhaps for subconsious reasons.

au hasard balthazar, on the other hand-- sublime!

Don't do this to me !@#$96i, Diary... is maybe the most beautiful film ever. The scene where the girl dismisses the priest outside the church is just incredible. I understand that you respect Bresson (Au hazard balthazar) so I don't include you in this, but I really believe that an age that generally can't see anything in his work has become too cynical to care about.

well i saw this movie at a time when my feelings about christian morality were getting more vitriolic, so perhaps this made me see the priest as some sort of fucking no-balls human worm torturing himself with his stupid fasts... like why should i care about this asshole? i think i didnt even finish the movie... now, this is very important: i was raised catholic, & have rejected the whole deal, in successive & ever more thorough waves, staring when i was 11 & recurring cyclically. and so that's why i said "maybe i hated it for subconscious reasons".

on the subject of bresson, a man escaped is fucking extraordinary and perhaps my favorite, and lancelot du lac stands out as one of the most bizarre movies i've ever seen. pickpocket was good too. all of bresson! oh and his adaptation of dostoevsky.. une femme douce? /edit: and mouchette!! /but this one, you're going to have to give me a get out of jail free card s'il-vous plaitez...