14 Movies to see before you die

[calmeilles (imported)]

Do you prefer the English or Italian version of The Leopard? Odd that I've read the novel without seeing the movie.

I think I've seen the English language version only once on TV, possible the first time I saw it and before I read the book. The DVD I have is the Italian version with subtitles (optional, but I need them).

I've got to confess I dislike most Godard, except for his early films. He's turned into a bore of "progressive" anti-Americanism, and art which springs from a meretricious ideology rather than from life is poisoned at the source.

Le Petit Soldat was his second, so that counts as early I suppose. I had to study the films of Jean-Luc Goddard and François Truffaut - the Nouvelle Vague - as part of my A-level (at 18 years, pre-university) exams. Le Petit Soldat is the only one that's really remained with me. I watched it again last night after writing that list.

[bobover3 (imported)]

I assumed you preferred the Italian version of the Leopard. That's what I've ordered from Netflix.

I don't remember Le Petit Soldat, so I might chance a viewing. I used to like Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Pierrot le Fou, and Le Week-End. There've been recent NYC retrospectives of A Woman Is A Woman, My Life to Live, Contempt, and Masculine-Feminine. With his 92nd film now in production, Godard has long ago ceased to be an artist, and is now an antiquarian pamphleteer working in a 1960s idiom.

[Free to be ME (imported)]

I've seen Fellini's "Satyricon" and I didn't get it. It put me to sleep twice. Then again, maybe it was edited? It came from Columbia House.

Yeah the Columbia House edit blows. It leaves out all the good stuff castration s&m and just leaves the hints in ragged that way.

[Free to be ME (imported)]

Here's a few more special films -

Also unmissable are the strange and beautiful animated films by Hayao Miyazaki, especially Spirited Away (available dubbed and in Japanese with titles - see both), Howl's Moving Castle, and My Neighbor Totoro.

That's all for now.

Has anyone seen any of these films, or the others listed in this thread?

Oh hell yes Howl is a riot with Billy Crystal as Calcifer. The list would be huge if I included the anime I collect and love.

series GantZ

Wicked City (a must see!)

series Blue Gender

series La blue girl

series Starship Girl Yamamoto Yhoko

series and film Ah my goddess

Series Area 88

films Golgo 13

And many more!

[chilliwilli (imported)]

Just saw a really good scary movie. It's called REC. It was the winner of a bunch of awards in europe!

chilli-

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Yeah the Columbia House edit blows. It leaves out all the good stuff castration s&m and just leaves the hints in ragged that way.

Well then, which version should we look for?

[bobover3 (imported)]

MGM World Films has a DVD of Satyricon. I think that's the same DVD that Columbia House markets. I've only seen the film in theaters, so I hadn't known there was anything missing. If so, it's a scandal.

[Paolo]

I "borrowed" an AVI version from BitTorrent...anyone know a time index to look for, so I can tell if I got the right one? Thanks.

[Riverwind (imported)]

There are some days I feel old and others when I know it.

P, what did you just say?????

DAMN,

River