Re: 25 greatest films ever. and some super favorites.

How can I argue with your persuasive comments:) Sorry, I am not into
"surrealism" in the movies myself, with the possible exception of some
comedy spoofs such as Airplane and some Monty Python sketches. And the
mother of all spoofs Voltaire's Candide (which has never been made into a
good movie). I don't think my exceptions really count as surrealism anyway.


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On Aug 4, 9:16 pm, "Michael" <michaelwy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I no one would argue with Kurazawa and Hitch being on the list. I don't
> understand what Eraserhead is doing there though. That was an absolutely
> awfully pretentious, crappy movie in my opinion. If you must have a
> surrealist film I would prefer Brazil myself. Also, I wonder if any one
> shares my fondness of To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck. I would
> have
> included that, although some might find it a bit sentimental. But there
> are
> many good films on your list.
>

what are you, a morgon?  eraserhead is great because it is so utterly
unpretentious. it is less surrealism than subterraneanism. lynch,
though inspired by past artists, really struck off on his own.
bergman's attempt at surrealism in Wild Strawberries was striking and
powerful... but pretentious--and relying on obvious symbolism.

eraserhead really delves into the muckish, bilious, dark, jismic
cesspool sewage of human body and consciousness. i don't think any
film explored inner reality with as much power, daring, insight.
only the dream scene in Los Olvidados comes close. lynch shows how
muckish fluids turn into our bodies and shows how our solid body--
especially the brain--burn and scatter into eraser dust which is
consciousness itself.  it shows that even a humdrum person is an
emperor--as well as a captive--of a vast inland empire.
it is a great movie.

as for brazil, that is the woist. it is fellini--and not even the best
fellini--for potheads.  it is sesame street on acid.  it's comic book
as (f)arthouse mooie. it is pompous, bogus, indulgent, and insipid.
gilliam is a vulture who feeds on the carcass of old cinema.  and, his
'visionary' posturing is bogus. he's just a hotair balloon, all
inflated ego, an emperor-with-no-clothes.   his films are sorryass
remakes of Yellow Submarine. I wouldn't even call his films surreal.
they surry-ass.
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