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hmm.
i am a geek.
i like films that are kinda like reading a book in 2 hours.
so films that catch something of my worldview(s):
andrei tarkovsky: solaris
......................: stalker [[everything. except the cosmic speeches. you know, the Important Thematic Statements. every time a character in a tarkovky film starts telling me what the Point is, i cringe. but these films are not so much plagued with that. both are amazing...]]
for the reversal of sound/visual priorities:
György Pálfi: hukkle
for the exploration of the effects of showing a single image for a hour or more and gradually altering it and then following that with a great film:
alexandr sokurov: spiritual voices
on why most genre rules are stupid and should be broken and are only legitimate insofar as they exist so they can be broken:
godard: alphaville (more than you could possibly know)
self image now:
the big lebowski
self image then:
napoleon dynamite
the adventures of the reverse image of my present self:
Henning Carlsen: hunger (sult)
looking and looking until everything stops moving:
resnais: last year at marienbad
cheap collage paranoia:
craig baldwin: spectres of the spectrum
what history should look like:
peter delpeut: lyrical nitrate
as a sailor story: forbidden quest
to a slightly lesser extent: bill morrison, decasia
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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