Update: I found the bug that caused a false-positive on Black Swan. I re-ran the script one more time and it turns out it was the only one that was effected. This list *should* be accurate now.
Thanks for the help 1SO!
If anyone wants any other lists converted to Hulu or Netflix lists just message me.
@bdcortright makes a good point. Even if a film is 'bad' (and this one is), its still valuable to try and learn something from it and research it, finding out why it was important.
When I say this one is bad, I mean its not enjoyable to watch and I personally did not get anything out of it other than a nice introduction to Ballie and some interesting technical experimentation.
Yet another Stan Brakhage short. This one is truly short, at about 9 seconds. It has some colors. It apparently took Brakhage one year to produce. There are hidden images within the frames and you are supposed to interpret it's meaning. It was lost on me. I'm convinced most of Brackhage's work is a joke at the art world's expense.
One of the cool features of the groups is that you can see what the most checked movies are for the group as a whole. Since Filmspotting listeners are generally pretty cinema-savvy we have an impressive list of movies which all of us (19 as of now) have seen.
Then we get down to the ones where only one person among us hasn't seen it yet. What is your big embarrassment in that list? Which film are you the only one not to have seen?
I have several, but probably the biggest embarrassment would be Requiem for a Dream.
I saw this after it was featured on Reddit. It is amazingly informative. Now I know all about differential steering, something that I didn't think I ever needed to know. And I probably still don't need to know it, but its nice I do.
Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
Elmer Booth was so great in this short. He defines what the gangster character will be for the next hundred years with his swagger and charm in this D.W. Griffith classic.
@Eddyspeeder I really appreciate the effort you put into understanding this. It's so easy to write off a film as awful, but to really attempt to understand it is a lot more valuable.
That said, even after reading your very insightful interpretation, I still find this utter garbage.
Elmer Fudd vs. Bugs Bunny staged as a dramatic opera. It works great. The score, is actually quite good, and the atmosphere it sets is fantastic. The animation, voice work and music are all top notch. It's an intelligent spoof which is really holds up.
Charlie Chaplin stars as a trouble making pawnshop assistant, who is more trouble than he is worth. What follows is the usual slapstick fare, usually involving Chaplin fighting with his co-worker. The highlight of the movie comes when Chaplin has to assess the value of a customers alarm clock. He systematically dissects and demolishes the entire thing, as the customer looks on in horror, only to reject the clock and give it back in pieces. It's a great scene, in a fairy mediocre movie.
Absolutely one of the toughest movies to have to sit trough. This is a 45 minute short, with virtually no action. There is a single camera set up, fixed on three walls of a room. It gradually, very gradually, zooms in on a picture on the wall over the course of the run time. There are a couple times a person or two ventures into the room, but it is brief. To make this experience even more fun, is a buzz which is ever increasing in pitch. This ties in with the movies title. It is enough to drive a person insane. Every second of it is excruciating. 'Wavelength' may be hailed as one of the finest Avant Garde films ever made, and one of the first structuralist works ever produced, but its not enjoyable in any sense of the word.
Gertie was originally created for Winsor McCay's Vaudeville act, and later this film was made, which took the cartoon and put in live action bookends to the cartoon. The setup to the cartoon, is that there is a bet on whether or not McCay can make a dinosaur come to life. He wins this bet by hand drawing ten thousand frames, and creating one of the first animations. The cartoon itself is impressive for the time. It may be a simple line drawing, but there is some great attention to detail. When the dinosaur dances back and forth, its very fluid, with every part of the dinosaur moving naturally. It's more of a demo cartoon than anything. However, packaged with the live action, it makes for an interesting look at the beginnings of animation and is a true part of cinema history.
I liked Maya Deren's short 'At Land' quite a bit, so I was excited to see this one later in her career. Unfortunately, 'The Very Eye of Night' is in a completely different vein of filmmaking. There is no plot to speak of. Its a group of interpretative dancers performing in a celestial landscape. I've never been able to get anything out of this kind of dance, so the film was never going to work for me. The space effect was interesting, but this certainly left me wanting the earlier days of Daren.
This early Roman Polanski silent, black and white, short is a glimpse at his future brilliance. The short starts with two men walking out of the ocean with a wardrobe with which they are quite happy with. They proceed to parade around town with it, meeting increasingly more hostile people who don't share their same love for the wardrobe. This is apparent that this is a metaphor for intolerance. Intolerance to what, isn't explicitly clear. The reading I got out of it, was that the two men were homosexuals. They were 'out of the closet', and were being weighed down by this heavy burden in an un-accepting society. This is just my own interpretation, but the message of intolerance is strong, and the film manages to say a lot with this simple metaphor.
A collection of old educational videos spliced with other clips to the tune of a Devo song. This is a music video in the infancy of its medium. It's an interesting collage of clips and all, but not really something that holds up.
A documentary short about racism in the United States. It's a series of video clips and photographs set to music by Lena Horne. Aspiring to be a call to action to make changes "Now!", but with it's in your face delivery it loses it's impact. The images are stirring, but arranged in this way doesn't add much.
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@beeswax Sorry about that. I'll try to update the list soon.Toplist comment on 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die On Hulu Plus
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Ok, I have re-written the program which generates this. Please let me know of any errors!Movie comment on CM101MMXI Fundamentals
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I can't believe IMDB hasn't cleaned this trash up yet.Toplist comment on Quick Bits: All Short Films on ICM Under 10 Minutes
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Thanks Gershwin! Tabeta hito has been removed.Toplist comment on 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die On Hulu Plus
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Update: I found the bug that caused a false-positive on Black Swan. I re-ran the script one more time and it turns out it was the only one that was effected. This list *should* be accurate now.Thanks for the help 1SO!
If anyone wants any other lists converted to Hulu or Netflix lists just message me.
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I'm not sure how that one got on there.. I have removed it.Toplist comment on 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die On Hulu Plus
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Everything should be fixed now. Please let me know if you see any other errors!Toplist comment on 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die On Hulu Plus
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@1SO Hmm, I thought I fixed that bug. I will look into it. Thanks!Movie comment on Castro Street
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@bdcortright makes a good point. Even if a film is 'bad' (and this one is), its still valuable to try and learn something from it and research it, finding out why it was important.When I say this one is bad, I mean its not enjoyable to watch and I personally did not get anything out of it other than a nice introduction to Ballie and some interesting technical experimentation.
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Yet another Stan Brakhage short. This one is truly short, at about 9 seconds. It has some colors. It apparently took Brakhage one year to produce. There are hidden images within the frames and you are supposed to interpret it's meaning. It was lost on me. I'm convinced most of Brackhage's work is a joke at the art world's expense.Movie comment on With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia
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Does anyone know if this is available anywhere?Toplist comment on IMDB Top 1000 on Netflix Instant Watch
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@3eyes Glad its helpful! Keeping it up to date shouldn't be a problem. It's all done through a script.Group comment on Filmspotting
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One of the cool features of the groups is that you can see what the most checked movies are for the group as a whole. Since Filmspotting listeners are generally pretty cinema-savvy we have an impressive list of movies which all of us (19 as of now) have seen.Then we get down to the ones where only one person among us hasn't seen it yet. What is your big embarrassment in that list? Which film are you the only one not to have seen?
I have several, but probably the biggest embarrassment would be Requiem for a Dream.
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I saw this after it was featured on Reddit. It is amazingly informative. Now I know all about differential steering, something that I didn't think I ever needed to know. And I probably still don't need to know it, but its nice I do.Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
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Elmer Booth was so great in this short. He defines what the gangster character will be for the next hundred years with his swagger and charm in this D.W. Griffith classic.Movie comment on 15/67: TV
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@Eddyspeeder I really appreciate the effort you put into understanding this. It's so easy to write off a film as awful, but to really attempt to understand it is a lot more valuable.That said, even after reading your very insightful interpretation, I still find this utter garbage.
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How is the movie not on any lists?Movie comment on What's Opera, Doc?
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Elmer Fudd vs. Bugs Bunny staged as a dramatic opera. It works great. The score, is actually quite good, and the atmosphere it sets is fantastic. The animation, voice work and music are all top notch. It's an intelligent spoof which is really holds up.Movie comment on The Pawnshop
BlueVoid
Charlie Chaplin stars as a trouble making pawnshop assistant, who is more trouble than he is worth. What follows is the usual slapstick fare, usually involving Chaplin fighting with his co-worker. The highlight of the movie comes when Chaplin has to assess the value of a customers alarm clock. He systematically dissects and demolishes the entire thing, as the customer looks on in horror, only to reject the clock and give it back in pieces. It's a great scene, in a fairy mediocre movie.Movie comment on Wavelength
BlueVoid
Absolutely one of the toughest movies to have to sit trough. This is a 45 minute short, with virtually no action. There is a single camera set up, fixed on three walls of a room. It gradually, very gradually, zooms in on a picture on the wall over the course of the run time. There are a couple times a person or two ventures into the room, but it is brief. To make this experience even more fun, is a buzz which is ever increasing in pitch. This ties in with the movies title. It is enough to drive a person insane. Every second of it is excruciating. 'Wavelength' may be hailed as one of the finest Avant Garde films ever made, and one of the first structuralist works ever produced, but its not enjoyable in any sense of the word.Movie comment on Gertie the Dinosaur
BlueVoid
Gertie was originally created for Winsor McCay's Vaudeville act, and later this film was made, which took the cartoon and put in live action bookends to the cartoon. The setup to the cartoon, is that there is a bet on whether or not McCay can make a dinosaur come to life. He wins this bet by hand drawing ten thousand frames, and creating one of the first animations. The cartoon itself is impressive for the time. It may be a simple line drawing, but there is some great attention to detail. When the dinosaur dances back and forth, its very fluid, with every part of the dinosaur moving naturally. It's more of a demo cartoon than anything. However, packaged with the live action, it makes for an interesting look at the beginnings of animation and is a true part of cinema history.Movie comment on The Very Eye of Night
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I liked Maya Deren's short 'At Land' quite a bit, so I was excited to see this one later in her career. Unfortunately, 'The Very Eye of Night' is in a completely different vein of filmmaking. There is no plot to speak of. Its a group of interpretative dancers performing in a celestial landscape. I've never been able to get anything out of this kind of dance, so the film was never going to work for me. The space effect was interesting, but this certainly left me wanting the earlier days of Daren.Movie comment on Dwaj ludzie z szafa
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This early Roman Polanski silent, black and white, short is a glimpse at his future brilliance. The short starts with two men walking out of the ocean with a wardrobe with which they are quite happy with. They proceed to parade around town with it, meeting increasingly more hostile people who don't share their same love for the wardrobe. This is apparent that this is a metaphor for intolerance. Intolerance to what, isn't explicitly clear. The reading I got out of it, was that the two men were homosexuals. They were 'out of the closet', and were being weighed down by this heavy burden in an un-accepting society. This is just my own interpretation, but the message of intolerance is strong, and the film manages to say a lot with this simple metaphor.Movie comment on Devo: Mongoloid
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A collection of old educational videos spliced with other clips to the tune of a Devo song. This is a music video in the infancy of its medium. It's an interesting collage of clips and all, but not really something that holds up.Movie comment on Now
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A documentary short about racism in the United States. It's a series of video clips and photographs set to music by Lena Horne. Aspiring to be a call to action to make changes "Now!", but with it's in your face delivery it loses it's impact. The images are stirring, but arranged in this way doesn't add much.Showing items 1 – 25 of 49