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!@#$%! · 01.10.2017, 11:03 AM

@ rob - aaaa haaa haaa haaaa! thanks to sev's explanation now i get it. wonder if it's modeled after the original... prolly something

@ sev - ha ha hah ha. well. self awareness is a great thing-- so is growing up ha ha

@ demon - that one is amazing. another to have on a continuous loop on the wall. all cocteau's movies really-- the orpheus ones holy shit-- esp the last one

@ the dom - lvt is great. a true filmmaker, with a great visual style. is he a sadist who often tortures his characters and the audience with depictions of great suffering? yes, sure. but he's very good at it. he's had several phases, all of them interesting i think. the early one goes prolly from the element of crime to europa (i don't remember all the movies). then he was one of the dogme 95 people. then he did his american movies where women encounter charitable gringos (dogtown, dancer in the dark). later he did his depression trilogy (antichrist, melancholia, nymphomaniac I & II). i'm being very choppy here, missing a bunch of movies & themes. but his work is extensive. seeing it chronologically might be good cuz the element of crime was a pretty great debut.

re: medea, it's almost a silent movie as i recall. instead of a greek setting it looks european low medieval/viking. and the visuals pay a huge homage to carl theodor dreyer. was originally shot for tv so it's low resolution/bad transfer. worth the look for me though. oh, another great thing he did was KINGDOM. which later was remade in the us as "kingdom hospital", but fuck that. the original kingdom was a great fucking tv series. great.

01.10.2017, 11:03 AM	#20447
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,731	@ rob - aaaa haaa haaa haaaa! thanks to sev's explanation now i get it. wonder if it's modeled after the original... prolly something @ sev - ha ha hah ha. well. self awareness is a great thing-- so is growing up ha ha @ demon - that one is amazing. another to have on a continuous loop on the wall. all cocteau's movies really-- the orpheus ones holy shit-- esp the last one @ the dom - lvt is great. a true filmmaker, with a great visual style. is he a sadist who often tortures his characters and the audience with depictions of great suffering? yes, sure. but he's very good at it. he's had several phases, all of them interesting i think. the early one goes prolly from the element of crime to europa (i don't remember all the movies). then he was one of the dogme 95 people. then he did his american movies where women encounter charitable gringos (dogtown, dancer in the dark). later he did his depression trilogy (antichrist, melancholia, nymphomaniac I & II). i'm being very choppy here, missing a bunch of movies & themes. but his work is extensive. seeing it chronologically might be good cuz the element of crime was a pretty great debut. re: medea, it's almost a silent movie as i recall. instead of a greek setting it looks european low medieval/viking. and the visuals pay a huge homage to carl theodor dreyer. was originally shot for tv so it's low resolution/bad transfer. worth the look for me though. oh, another great thing he did was KINGDOM. which later was remade in the us as "kingdom hospital", but fuck that. the original kingdom was a great fucking tv series. great.
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