Holy crap! I loved this! And I think I like it even better than Hana-bi! :eek:

It was totally the exact opposite of what I was expecting it was going to be, with that being said.. it was just another extremely well written and shot Beat film, maybe his most experimental. The focus being on two identical Takeshis, one being the real Kitano, and identical blonde convenience store worker trying to land some auditions in one of Kitano's new films. This other Takeshi with identical appearance expect blonde hair (which suits him sooo well) works his dead end job and try his luck to land roles, but everyone is downtrodden towards him and walks all over this poor guy. As he stands in silence as people mock and verbally assault his dignity, but soon he can't take anymore, and decides to take a page out of one his favourite actor's films and show the world he won't stand by idly as the world shits all over him time and time again.

Lots of laughs to be had in this too.

I bow before Beat-sama.

Ghost Dog
I don't like movies about killing people, so I more like the other movies of JJ, but this one slowly grows.

Limitless.

Saw it recently aswell..awesome movie!:)

Pretty alright. Definitely worth a viewing, though it could have gone farther with the "fantasy" neurology and psychology of it.

Red Sonja

+

The 'Burbs

Fucking classic.

Chilling to Michelangelo Antonioni's Italian 1960's dramas with Monica Vitti 4 life.

I LOVE this movie.

Classic. Great poster too.

Electra Glide in Blue

Beautiful; I can't understand why director JW Guercio didn't make antoher one.
Robert Blake is brilliant.
Somebody used some images here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRfVh...eature=related

Schindler's List.

Not sure it's one I could watch frequently, both due to topic and length.

I'd put L'Avventura at the very top of Antonioni's films.

I've not seen all his stuff but, of the stuff I have seen, I'd rank them:

1, L'Avventura
2. L'Eclisse
3. La Notte
4. Chronicle of a Love
5. The Red Desert
6. The Passenger
7. Zabriskie Point
8. Blow Up

Yes, L'Avventura is the first part of a kind of trilogy, although it's hard to really see how the other two films (La Notte and L'Eclisse) make it such.

There's a funny little story behind the making of Repulsion. Basically, the guy who financed it was a bit of a shady type, really only interested in the horror/sexploitation market and when he saw the completed Repulsion for the first time is alleged to have said "I ordered a Mini and I got a Rolls Royce!".

The Blue Dahlia (7/10)

My first impressions of this was that it was a bit nondescript, but I've since found myself watching it over and over again. I still wouldn't call it a masterpiece but it does have a strange addictive quality to it, at least for me. It's also a good example of a film where the supporting characters are far more fascinating than the main ones. Hollywood certainly missed a trick when promoting Veronica Lake over the infinitely more enjoyable Doris Dowling - surely one of the great unsung femme fatales in movie history, while VL was just an instantly recognisable hairdo.

Pretty good list, even if it's quite different from mine. Antonioni is one of my absolute favorite directors. His movies just have this certain feeling and mood that nothing else can touch.

1. Il deserto rosso
2. La Notte
3. L'Avventura
4. Identificazione di una Donna
5. L'Eclisse
6. Blow Up
7. Professione: reporter
8. Il Grido
9. Cronaca di un amore
10. Zabriskie Point

All those first seven movies are amazing, I really love Professione: Reporter, but the other movies are simply even better. Zabriskie Point is the only movie I've seen by him that I dislike, that one did nothing for me.

I forgot about Il Grido. Very good. Of all of them, though, I think Cronaca di un amore is his most underrated. There's something really hypnotic about it. It feels like a silent movie. I do have a soft spot for Zabriskie Point, without necessarily thinking it's very good.



Kiss Me Deadly (7/10)

I like this, but not as much as most people I know. It's all a bit too clever, made by someone who looks like they've watched too many German Expressionist and Orson Welles movies for their own good. Bits of it are undeniably brilliant but the excessive visuals eventually threaten to capsize the whole thing.

I watched The Fly yesterday, it's so fucking cool