Director Dives With thebosma

[thebosma]

Hello pals


As previously stated I'm watching through TSPDT's top 1000 films.  It's a cool list if you wanted to check it out.

Anyways as a part of this I've noticed there's a bunch of directors I haven't seen a bunch of stuff from and have been going through systematically to see a bit more of their stuff. 

Over the course of this month I'll be watching a bunch of Luis Buñuel and Wong Kar-Wai films.  Have seen a few but these are the ones I'll be watching. If you would like to watch some of the films of either of these guys, let me know and I'd love to discuss them with you.  I've watched at least a few things from each of these guys in the past month or two so I'd be more than happy to talk about any of those, for a semi-comprehensive list of those my letterboxd is here.

Buñuel

The Young and the Damned
El
Tristana
The Phantom of Liberty
That Obscure Object of Desire

Wong Kar-Wai

Days of Being Wild
Happy Together
2046
Fallen Angels


Will probably be doing this over several weeks in July and any/everyone is welcome to join!

[Deleted]

is it only ones we/you haven't seen? i'm definitely up for both some rewatches and exploring ones i've been missing out on

[thebosma]

I've been getting into both of them, if people want to watch other films by these directors I would also discuss them, I just wouldn't rewatch since it's probably been a single digit number of weeks since I've seen them. For those purposes I'll make lists of those too.


Luis Buñuel

Viridiana
Un Chien Andalou
L'Age D'Or
The Exterminating Angel
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Belle de Jour
Land Without Bread
Nazarin


Wong Kar-Wai

In the Mood for Love (will be rewatching soon)
Chungking Express

[Deleted]

I'm going to guess access to Criterion Channel is required to watch any of these movies?

[thebosma]

Probably at least some of them but if access to the films is a barrier to entry for anyone let me know and I can provide some level of digital access as needed

[rango420]

Oh cool another thread for me to spam post director lists in

[Deleted]

Jul 8, 2020 11:01:26 GMT -6 scoots said:

I'm going to guess access to Criterion Channel is required to watch any of these movies?

iirc hbo max has a decent amount of overlap with criterion but im not sure how many of these specific titles are on there

[Deleted]

Good call.

Looks like In the Mood for Love and Belle de Jour are available on HBO Max.

[Deleted]

Also I just searched Belle de Jour again to add it my watch list and it for some reason also pulled up a John McCain documentary and now I'm triggered.

[krentist]

Jul 8, 2020 11:04:05 GMT -6 rango420 said:

Oh cool another thread for me to spam post director lists in

Final Uwe Boll rankings

[brainloading]

Russo Brothers

Lucky (Episodes "Pilot", "Up the Streaks")

Arrested Development (Both: "Pilot" Anthony only: "Top Banana", "Key Decisions", "The Immaculate Election", "Spring Breakout" Joe only: "Bringing Up Buster", "In God We Trust", "Pier Pressure", "Marta Complex", "Shock and Aww", "Missing Kitty", "Hand to God", "Motherboy XXX", "Meat the Veals" )

LAX (Episodes Both: "Pilot" Anthony only: "The Longest Day", "The Pictures to Prove It", "Mixed Signals" Joe only: "Finnegan Again, Begin Again", "Thanksgiving", "Senator's Daughter")

Community (Episodes Both: "Pilot" Anthony only: "Introduction to Film", "Social Psychology", "Home Economics", "The Politics of Human Sexuality", "Physical Education", "Beginner Pottery", "The Psychology of Letting Go", "Basic Rocket Science", "Asian Population Studies", "Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy", "Biology 101", "Competitive Ecology", "Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism" Joe only: "Spanish 101", "Advanced Criminal Law", "Football, Feminism and You", "Debate 109", "Investigative Journalism", "Romantic Expressionism", "Pascal's Triangle Revisited", "Anthropology 101", "Accounting for Lawyers", "Cooperative Calligraphy", "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons", "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking", "Competitive Wine Tasting", "A Fistful of Paintballs", "For a Few Paintballs More", "Geography of Global Conflict", "Advanced Gay", "Documentary Filmmaking: Redux", "Geothermal Escapism", "Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons")

Welcome to Collinwood

You, Me, and Dupree

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Captain America: Civil War

Avengers: Infinity War

Avengers: Endgame

[thebosma]

Gonna immediately regret this

[Deleted]

hey it almost lasted an hour. give yourself some credit

[brainloading]

I agree that we should probably look to do only the movies the brothers directed and not each one individually but that might open a huge can of worms.

[andrewvb]

Jul 8, 2020 10:31:30 GMT -6 thebosma said:

Wong Kar-Wai

Days of Being Wild
Happy Together
2046

did you already watch fallen angels? i need to watch that and days of being wild.

[thebosma]

Jul 8, 2020 12:34:23 GMT -6 andrewvb said:

Jul 8, 2020 10:31:30 GMT -6 thebosma said:

Wong Kar-Wai

Days of Being Wild
Happy Together
2046

did you already watch fallen angels? i need to watch that and days of being wild.

I haven’t but I’d be happy to add it

[mookie]

Let me know when we get to the only list that matters:

Savage Steve Holland
Better Off Dead
One Crazy Summer

[rango420]

Not too late to jump in the Sandler fire im on funny people its very long

[ultravisitor]

Jul 8, 2020 12:34:23 GMT -6 andrewvb said:

Jul 8, 2020 10:31:30 GMT -6 thebosma said:

Wong Kar-Wai

Days of Being Wild
Happy Together
2046

did you already watch fallen angels? i need to watch that and days of being wild.

Same here. Those are the only ones prior to 2046 that I haven't seen, though I do own them. I don't think I've seen anything after 2046.

[munkivelli]

Jul 8, 2020 12:39:51 GMT -6 mookie said:

Let me know when we get to the only list that matters:

Savage Steve Holland
Better Off Dead
One Crazy Summer

You left off How I Got Into College (and like a billion Disney and Nick shows)

[rango420]

I'm doing Joe Dante now as a lighter palate cleaner after Friedkin. Haven't seen alot of these ever/in awhile

[irvred]

Jul 8, 2020 12:39:51 GMT -6 mookie said:

Let me know when we get to the only list that matters:

Savage Steve Holland
Better Off Dead
One Crazy Summer

I did these both at the beginning of ‘tine as part of Cusackathon and both fuck but Better Off Dead.... is legit in my like top ten of ‘tine

[thebosma]

Started watching some stuff today, overall pretty happy with it.

Los Olvidados was great, a really interesting mix of the surreal Buńuel style that I didn't expect to see. For the most part it's pretty straightforward and the class commentary is really excellent.

El was good, I was really frustrated by the ending to it though because it seemed to contradict the entire story of the abusive relationship that was being told. Definitely in the "straightforward Buñuel" category vs the surreal stuff that largely came later (which I tend to prefer) but I have yet to really dislike anything of his.

WKW is a little difficult for me because his style takes getting used to. I've experienced this with the other two films of his I've seen but more so with Days of Being Wild than any other. Not entirely sure why that was but the last 45 minutes was really intense and well put together, and I have no doubt that I'll love it on another watch.

Happy Together was absolutely crushing but I loved it. Did not expect it to be as heartbreaking as it was.



Overall I really enjoyed these and I look forward to the others.

[thebosma]

More fantastic Buñuel. I look forward to seeing some good restorations of his in the next few years. I read somewhere that Guillermo Del Toro is working on acquiring original negatives for some of the stuff that's harder to find but I don't know how true that is.