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Post by RNL on Nov 6, 2006 1:44:30 GMT
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Post by Capo on Nov 24, 2007 18:22:48 GMT
1. Songs From the Second Floor 2000 2. You, the Living 2007
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Post by Capo on Feb 15, 2008 1:53:13 GMT
Are wetdog and I the only two familiar with this guy? I've just watched You, the Living, and it's absolutely hilarious. Talk about gorgeous composition, deadpan visual gags, haunting pace and surreal tone.
I couldn't stop laughing when the guy pulls the table cloth from under the china and cutlery, to reveal the swastikas on the table underneath. Other highlights: the Louisiana Brass Band jamming session, with the thunderstorm outside; the pickpocket in the restaurant; the sex scene and economic desperation revealed to camera; the encounter in the barber shop (major, unstoppable laughter from my end when the barber finally takes the clippers to the customer's head); the guy checking in at the station, trying to beat the queues; and that dream at the end, with the house moving like a train, is as spellbinding and miraculous and visually inventive as anything I've ever seen.
For me, Roy Andersson is the most visually distinctive filmmaker currently working.
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Post by Kino on Feb 15, 2008 9:54:45 GMT
Haven't seen any of his stuff yet. Songs From the Second Floor is the only one I have access to.
A Swedish Love Story is probably in my Top Ten Most Wanted list. Regarded as a masterpiece.
I've read that Bergman thought the world of him and called his tv commercials the best in the world and Andersson the greatest filmmaker alive.
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Post by Capo on Feb 21, 2008 11:26:44 GMT
For sheer visual composition and lighting, fans of Edward Hopper's paintings are in for a treat, too. Figures with pale skin sit and stand in interiors comprising blocks of light and shadow, solid colours trapping them in some sort of fragmented loneliness; other people in the same frame are obscured by doorframes and other wall openings. Meanwhile, outside, the faintest of gestures towards a barren cityscape, at once real and artificial, appealing and grim. It's caught in a perpetual pergatory.
The absurdity of urban life never seemed so appealing. Songs from the Second Floor is available on R1; You, The Living is on eMule.
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Post by RNL on Aug 16, 2008 1:27:48 GMT
Features 1. Songs from the Second Floor (2000) ***** 2. You, the Living (2007) *****
Shorts 1. World of Glory (1991) ***** 2. Something Has Happened (1987) *****
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Post by RNL on Sept 26, 2008 20:56:39 GMT
I've read that Bergman thought the world of him and called his tv commercials the best in the world and Andersson the greatest filmmaker alive. Apparently not reciprocal: I wanted to ask you briefly about Ingmar Bergman. Were you affected by his death? Of course in my opinion he’s – it’s hard to say – but in my opinion he’s a little overrated. He made in the beginning of the ’60s I think there were four movies that are excellent, brilliant, good art and cinematography, but there are so many bad movies he made. And he was also very right wing politically. He was almost a fascist, he was a Nazi sympathiser, and when he grew up he was very coloured by fascistic values. He never left that himself, and it also coloured his person. He was not a nice person. He was a so-called inspector of the film school that I attended, and each term we were called and we had to go to his office and he gave some advice, or even some threats, and he said, ‘If you don’t stop making left wing movie…’ because a lot of the students were left wing at the time, Vietnam and so on… “if you continue with that you will never have the possibility to make features. I will influence the board to stop you.”
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Post by Capo on Sept 26, 2008 21:39:24 GMT
Ha!
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Post by Anasazie on Oct 21, 2008 9:47:22 GMT
Features:
1. Songs From the Second Floor (2000) 9/10 2. You, the Living (2007) 8/10 3. Saturday October 5th (1969) 5/10
Shorts:
1. World of Glory (1991) 9.5/10 2. Something Happened (1987) 8/10 3. Visiting One’s Son (1967) 7/10 4. To Fetch a Bike (1968) 6/10
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Post by quentincompson on Feb 20, 2009 22:50:21 GMT
1.Songs from the Second Floor 8/10
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Post by theundergroundman on Jun 4, 2009 15:48:18 GMT
1. Songs From the Second Floor (2000) - [blue]7/10[/blue]
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Post by jarmic6 on Jul 23, 2009 20:06:16 GMT
1. Songs from the Second Floor 10/10 2. You, the Living 9/10 3. A Swedish Love Story 8/10
also:
World of Glory (short) 10/10
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