ok so here we have peter weir's picnic at hanging rock.




the music score and cinematography, and just atmospheric style in general, are amazing. This is the kind of movie i feel like i could have found as a 16mm print never watched before and locked away in some dusty old attic. Some of the acting could have been better in some areas.. but it kind of makes up for it by being kind of funny or maybe just like super melodramatic in this really eerie way.



blade runner, the perfect blend of sci-fi and film noir.




This.

is probably this most exciting thing ive come across in a while, other then that scene from "a day at the races", below.
This is by one of my favorite directors, Alan Clarke, who mostly did made-for-tv movies in Britain in the 80's for the BBC. This is Elephant and is just 40 minutes of nothing but senseless executions. And it was on tv!!! In the 80's!!! Actually most of his films were which is super exciting. And its all shot on steadicam, and has this amazing realness and fluidity to it. I really need to see this projected.. just like really huge and continuous.


And this is this fucking amazing scene from a day at the races that i was talking about. Its a marx brothers film, and it not a musical.. it just sort of randomly becomes one in this scene. Maybe you'd have to watch the whole movie, to understand how awesome it was to see this for the first time. I think i was like freaking out.. i also found this in some box by a water fountain at the local library so maybe that adds to it.




annnnnnnd this. Someone posted a poster of Funny Games a while back, which i thought was weird because i was just about to write about it. The only time i go to the 'movies' really is on boring sunday afternoons when i really need to see something projected, or when my friends get me super high and drag me to see some dumb horror movie. So we went to go see this and were all really fucked up just drinking some wine or whatever, and the opening scene caught my attention immediately. Its like this super long tracking shot aeriel view of a car, with some opera music, and all the audio from inside the car.. and it holds this shot for a while until we finally get to see the characters and i see Tim Roth as the dad (that director Alan Clarke cast him as the main character in another really awesome movie called Made in Britain.) And i was like 'holy shit.. is this gonna be like.. a good movie?' and then! The title comes up with this really loud fast music and the title 'funny games' appears.. and i was so excited. Then it all sort of went down hill.. like the whole clockwork orange thing.. like yeah i get it.. Teenage sociopathic gang wearing all white goes to torture some innocent family for fun. And i dont know, i just wasnt into the rest of it at all.

And then i found this little gem.


i hate hollywood.. seriously this was made in 1997, and is like shot for shot the same.