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To those who say that film can never match literature in import, I say that intelligence and insight, like schlock, can be expressed in any medium. Who is to say that, had film existed in days past, some of history's best known writers, poets and playwrights would not have been film directors? The directors I admire most are (in no particular order) Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Lina Wertmuller, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roman Polanski, David Cronenberg, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Pedro Almodovar, Jean Renoir, Joel Coen, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francois Truffaut, Louis Malle, Stanley Kubrick, Marcel Ophuls, Woody Allen, John Waters, Atom Egoyan, Peter Greenaway, Luis Bunuel, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, Todd Haynes, Todd Solondz, David Lynch, Hal Hartley and Sylvester Stallone (kidding).
My favorite films are (in no particular order) La Strada, Persona, The Seventh Seal, Virgin Spring, From the Life of the Marionettes, Cabaret, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Eraserhead, The Bicycle Thief, Lies My Father Told Me, Night and Fog, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Last Tango In Paris, Let's Get Lost, Montenegro, Sling Blade, Diary of a Mad Housewife, Crumb, The Sorrow and the Pity, Repulsion, Fargo, Atlantic City, Vertical Features Remake, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Schvitz, The Last Klezmer, Gotham Fish Tales, The Quarrel, Naked, Trainspotting, Johnny Got His Gun, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, To Sir With Love, Harold and Maude, The Wansee Conference, Swept Away, Seven Beauties, The Sound of Music, Pressure Point, The Night Porter, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, This Is Spinal Tap, Poison, What Happened Was..., Tomorrow, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, The Graduate, Bark!, In the Realm of the Senses, Salo, Pink Flamingos, Happiness, Chuck & Buck, the Kieslowski trilogy of Blue, White and Red and Pulp Fiction (pictured above).
There was this fabulous film I saw recently cast only with parrots -- I can't recall its name but if the reader knows, please e-mail me. I also have this inexplicable thing for claymation (what is its appeal?). I am always on the lookout for exotic films -- of quality, whether straight or camp -- so if you have something you can highly recommend, tell me about it in an e-mail.
Featured link:
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
Hurry up, the show's starting....
Skinema
iFilm.net
Agony Booth
Classic Films
All Movie Guide
Drive-In Theater
B-Film Web Ring
Terrible Movie Index
American
Film Institute
Bizarre
Movie Reviewer
Classic Hunks Web Ring
Classic Dames Web Ring
At-A-Glance Film Reviews
Cranky Critic Movie Reviews
Why A Duck? (Marx Brothers)
Cult Film Site (Ronnie Cramer)
It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Movie
The Sync (streamed shorts, etc.)
Stomp Tokyo (B-movie reviews)
Little Golden Guy (Oscar database)
National Film Preservation Foundation
Attack of the 50-Foot Web Ring (cult films)
And on the small screen....
Sundance Channel
Turner Classic Movies
Independent
Film Channel
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