27 April 2013

three stacks of movies

today i was curious about my self and wondering which movies i'm glad to own. i went through my collection and made three stacks of movies, and these are lists for the stacks. this event occurred quickly and i can't think of a reason to describe it, k

stack 1 (three cardboard dvd cases):
two-lane blacktop by monte hellman
vampyr by carl dreyer
the docks of new york by josef von sternberg

stack 2 (dvds):
sparrow by johnnie to
time and tide by tsui hark
the goodtimes kid by azazel jacobs
devil's island by fridrik thor fridrikkson
2 or 3 things i know about her by jean-luc godard
band of outsiders by jean-luc godard
what have i done to deserve this? by pedro almodovar
grey gardens by albert and david maysles
spirited away by hayao miyazaki
paranoid park by gus van sant
pather panchali by satyajit ray
aloha bobby and rose by floyd mutrux
hysterical blindness by mira nair
over the edge by jonathan kaplan
the brown bunny by vincent gallo
24 hour party people by michael winterbottom
rebels of the neon god by tsai ming-liang
goodbye south goodbye by hou hsiao-hsien
melvin and howard by jonathan demme
l'avventura by michangelo antonioni

(the only quote i remember taping to a wall, back in ohio, was from antonioni about his movie l'avventura:
and here we witness the crumbling of a myth, which proclaims it is enough for us to know, to be critically conscious of ourselves, to analyze ourselves, in all our complexities and in every facet of our personality. the fact that matters is that such an examination is not enough.
)

stack 3 (blu-rays)(a timebased list? i wonder):
amarcord by federico fellini
vivre sa vie by jean-luc godard
tokyo! by michel gondry, leos carax, and bong joon-ho
prince / purple rain by someone
the postman always rings twice by tay garnett
speed racer by the wachowski brothers
the adventures of robin hood by michael curtiz
3 women by robert altman
chungking express by wong kar-wai
fallen angels by wong kar-wai
red desert by michalangelo antonioni
risky business with tom cruise by someone
wings of desire by wim wenders
kes by ken loach
trainspotting by danny boyle
lost in translation by sofia coppola
detention by joseph kahn
milk by gus van sant
akira by katsuhiro otomo
the leopard by luchino visconti
fish tank by andrea arnold

k