Joe Gibson is a Very Serious Cinephile living in Austin, T. He can be found on twitter @Karatloz and on Letterboxd(a highly recommended follow) here: http://letterboxd.com/zoltarak/.
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At the request of friend @bobfreelander, I have at great expense compiled a list my favorite pre-2000 features I watched for the first time during 2012 (shorts are being mercifully excluded). I guess people (or, person, anyway) are interested in this?
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Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip 1982
Seen on a double bill with Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, and it made me realize just how much of a genius Pryor really was. Many of the same incidents are relayed in both this stand-up film and that fictionalized narrative, but in the stand-up they're unbelievably warm and dimensionalized portrayals with almost equal parts humor and insight - the implication is clear: Pryor is a born genius of stand-up comedy, but a mere mortal filmmaker.
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Dune 1984
I went in knowing nothing of the books and having 0 expectations of a conventionally entertaining space opera, and guess what I found? A movie almost as unsettling and unique as David Lynch's best movies. If he'd come up with all of this on his own as some kind of bizarre riff on Star Wars, it would be heralded as a masterpiece.
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The Man with a Movie Camera 1929
It's like having cinema mainlined directly into your brain.
3 comments:
Some great choices! "That Obscure Object of Desire" is probably in my top 10 films of all time. The way he cinematically solved the "two-faced woman" problem was genius.
A COLT IS MY PASSPORT was my favorite in the Eclipse Nikkatsu Noir series by a longshot when I picked that up a few years ago. The progression of the form from the earlier films in that package to COLT (the latest film in the box, IIRC) was eye-opening to me.
A few years ago I watched a bunch of Japanese Yakuza movies in a row when I'd never seen one, and A Colt is My Passport was my favorite. http://www.retrohound.com/short-reviews-of-6-japanese-yakuza-films/
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