What’s the best movie you’ve seen, that I haven’t?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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I need the list of movies you’ve seen. But, I’ll take a wild guess. Have you seen “Waiting for Guffman,” a Christopher Guest movie? It never fails to make me roar with laughter.
but I haven’t seen it.
As goofy as the people are in the movie — and in Guest’s other movies — there’s an underlying sweetness that is heart-warming.
The scene in the Chinese restaurant is priceless.
(And it reminded me of musicals in small towns. In high school, I played the French horn in the orchestra for our small-town musicals.)
I still think Guest’s best is Best in Show, followed closely by Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman.
A must see! Two enthusiastic mini-stonehenges up.
Greatest line EVER:
“There’s such a fine line between clever and stupid.”
When Spinal Tap came out on DVD we were so happy! (‘course that was back in the day when we could afford to buy things like DVDs! Good thing we have so many ‘toys” left over from better times!)
You’ll love “Cane Toads: an Unnatural History”
Being There with Peter Sellers.
but also one of my favorite all-time movies 🙂
Waiting for Gufman and Being There are two of my all time favorite movies.
How about “Harold and Maude”, an old cult classic, or “Pi”, a newer cult classic.
“Baraka” is an amazing short documentary type film. No words, just shots of interesting things, people, religions, etc. from around the world set to music.
I have Pi (by accident). I started watching it but couldn’t get into it at the time. So, it’s worth seeing?
Hmm…Obviously, I love Pi, or I wouldn’t have mentioned it. But, it is a strange movie. I think of this as kind of a weird geek film. The main character is obsessed with math, and not just any math, but the math involved in chaos theory. But, in order to pursue his path, he must fall into greater and greater depths of psychosis. It is both a gift and a curse.
It also involves practitioners of Hebrew Kabala, who believe that he may hold the secret to Jehova. Kabala has many references to sacred numbers.
So, as both a geek into chaos theory and an occultist into the Kabala, I loved the movie. Others without these bizarre interests can also like the movie because of its intense cimetography and warped plot line.
I trust the above is not too much of a spoiler. I liken the movie to “Eraserhead”. You can explain what it is about, but one really has to watch it to get the whole picture.
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
I kid you not. Even a radical feminist such as myself loved it.
http://www.sffa.com/fotl/fotl_archives/loop044.html
My favorite quote: Women, so radical, so left of center, that they actually eat their men.
Harold and Maude?
Love and Human Remains?
Soylent Green? [everyone has probably seen that one…]
Mindmaze? (I’m pretty sure that’s the title, though it may be Mindwalk, now that I think about it…)
LOL…great minds think alike! I’ve seen Harold and Maude maybe a dozen times, though not recently.
how about
The Big Lebowski (appropos of EVERYTHING)
Casablanca
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Being There
and, most of all…
To Kill a Mockingbird
I loved it. It’s about people in the intensity of Los
Angeles, how they interact, how they break down, how
they need each other, how racism and stereotypes break
down in the grip of that basic need.
77% on rottentomatoes.com.
http://www.crashfilm.com/
Oh. I thought you were talking about this Crash movie. Saw it on the teevee last week. Truly bizarre – had so much potential to be something more…
The Crash with James Spader, I did not like.
It was about some self-destructive perversion.
Some say there were socially redeeming comments
in it but I couldn’t watch it.
CRASH (2004) would cheer you up Catnip.
Jack Nicholson, 1973.
I’ve only seen it once, when it was contemporary, but I think it’s worth a serious look. I’ve been meaning to get a copy.
BooFolk!!!
how much cool would be too cool for your guys?!?!?!
I must thank you for a place to come to…so, thanks
for YOU guys…dammit
Thanks for the correction…and don’t call him ‘dammit”. 🙂
Well I just have to say it Booman, you are kinda cute and boogal is really cute.
I must say you do not look like I imagined you, but I have seen the pics. you posted recently and it’s nice to be able to see what you look like.
I think he’s cute but I wonder what that growth is on the right side of his head.
his OTHER right (not the very pretty boogal, of course)…
a shadow and not a tooomaaah
There’s a movie line that’s stuck in my head too. lol
Hmmm…..
The World of Henry Orient? (speaking of Peter Sellers)
The Fisher King?
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams?
Solaris? (Tarkovsky, not Soderbergh!)
I’ll enthusiastically second Waiting for Guffman – and I like A Mighty Wind even better.
Another one of my favourites. “Can I miss her now?”
That last pic reminded me of this ridiculous story. 🙂
substitute the mighty Giants from the Steelers.
But, from the look on my face it looks like the Giants were not having a good day.
Wow. Who knew booman was such a cutie? Am I allowed to say that?
And he looks like Ernesto Guevara in that second pic! And he obviously likes beer!
My favorite directors are the Belgian Dardenne brothers. La promesse and Le fils (The Son) are two of my most favorite movies. I’m sure Booman is too busy looking like Che to have watched them. 😉
Booman, you missed your chance at Hollywood stardom when they made that Motorcycle Diaries movie… 😀
Best you haven’t seen? Hmmm…
Ones you may have seen, but that deserve mention:
The Grand Illusion
400 Blows
The Seven Samauri
Top Hat
Ninouchka
The Great Dictator
King of Hearts
Ones you may not have seen, but that deserve viewing:
Nights of Cabiria
The Rules of the Game
The Pirate
City Lights
The Big Combo
Now Voyager
Along Came Jones
I’m not saying these are the best ever, or anything like that. Just that they are worth watching.
Here is the link to the Eurotrib Diary Here is the BooMan Diary with links to articles.
Waking Life.
You’re so young Boo!
BTW, I assume someone doing a London bomb story for frontpage attention.
Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor). In the simplest of terms, a Russian movie about vampires and the struggle to maintain the balance between Dark and Light. One of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time.
Documentaries:
On Any Sunday (the classic)
Faster
Dust to Glory (gee, can you tell what the main hobby in our family is?)
The Kingdom I and II by Lars von Trier.
Twin Peaks meets Chicago Hope in two four-hour long movies, shot with handheld camera and touched by absolute freaking genius in the script, acting, and direction.
Well, a little more mainstream as it just came out but just saw “Cinderella Man” with Russell Crowe. Crowe was unbelievably good. Story is excellent and as usual Ron Howard did another amazing job at directing. It depicted so well how bad it really was during the depression. Not enough is in the histiry books for sure. Loved this movie.
Seeing Red. Documentary by Jim Kline & Julia Reichert of Newday Films. Described as a companion piece to “Union Maids”.
Scene when they interviewed a writer about his experiences documenting evicted sharecroppers alone is worth the view.
Almost Elvis
It’s been comming on Trio I think. I was at the premier a couple of years ago (maybe last year?). It’s really, really interesting. It’s a documentary about Elvis impersonators.
I’m a big docu fan, and I KNOW you can’t have seen this.
NOT THE REMAKE! If you’re a sci-fi fan….
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands. Brazil, with Sonia Braga.
My all time favorites:
The Graduate
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
King of Hearts
The Red Balloon