Favorite Films

Jake Aesthete · **Joined:** Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:14 am **Posts:** 2

1. Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman)

"Why am I crying? Because I've never felt about anybody the way I feel about you. And I want to fuck you until we merge into a Camure, a mythical beast of
penis and vagina, internally fused, two pairs of eyes that look only at each other, and lips, never touching, and one voice that whispers to itself."

2. Sans soleil (1983, Chris Marker)

"He showed me the clashes of the sixties treated by his synthesizer: pictures that are less deceptive he says—with the conviction of a fanatic—than those you
see on television. At least they proclaim themselves to be what they are: images, not the portable and compact form of an already inaccessible reality."

3. Surviving Desire (1991, Hal Hartley)
also: Trust (1990), Amateur (1994), Henry Fool (1997)

"Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love."

4. Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1971, Robert Bresson)

"In the park we walk together, hand in hand, hoping, losing hope..."

5. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997, Guy Maddin)
also: Careful! (1992)

"This might have been the day we first knew we loved each other. And my kissing you now would not have meant goodbye."

6. A Zed & Two Noughts (1985, Peter Greenaway)
also: The Droughtsman's Contract (1982), Drowning By Numbers (1988)

"Do you think a zebra is a white animal with black stripes, or a black animal with white stripes?"

7. L'Eclisse (1962, Michelangelo Antonioni)

"Two people shouldn't know each other too well if they want to fall in love. But, then, maybe they shouldn't fall in love at all?"

8. 2046 (2004), Wong Kar-wai)
also: Duo luo tian shi (1995), Cheun gwong cha sit (1997), Chung Hing sam lam (1994)

"Love is all a matter of timing."

9. Local Color (1977, Mark Rappaport)
also: The Scenic Route (1978), Chain Letters (1985)

10. Another Girl, Another Planet (1992, Michael Almereyda)

"I wasn't used to being happy, it was somehow exhausting."

11. Liquid Sky (1982, Slava Tsukerman)

"Oh shit. This pussy has teeth, no one should fuck me ever."

12. Metropolitan (1990, Whit Stillman)
also: The Last Days of Disco (1998)

13. Blood for Dracula (1974, Paul Morrissey)
also: Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

"The blood of these whores is killing me!"

14. Katzelmacher (1969, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

"Everyone needs a bit of love."

15. Laitakaupungin valot (2006, Aki Kaurismäki)

16. Prénom Carmen (1983, Jean-Luc Godard)

"Beauty is only the beginning of bearable terror."

17. Wittgenstein (1993, Derek Jarman)
also: Jubilee (1978), The Last of England (1988)

18. Performance (1970, Nicholas Roeg and David Cammell)
also: Bad Timing (1980), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

19. The Adjuster (1991, Atom Egoyan)
also: The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

20. Mauvais sang (1986, Leos Carax)
also: Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Boy Meets Girl (1984)

DG · **Joined:** Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:17 pm **Posts:** 307

never thought i'd see the day a greenaway film made your top 10, absolutely ridiculous.

Allison Almodovar · **Joined:** Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:46 pm **Posts:** 465

Woot.

Benny Profane · **Joined:** Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:16 am **Posts:** 2

So I used to hang around here a lot and have only recently started winding my way back. I'm curious to hear about this 180 you've done regarding that intellectual/formal stuff of which Greenaway is perhaps emblematic. How did this come about?

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