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RE: foreign film.

>===== Original Message From Jaharnish2 at aol_com =====
>In a message dated 10/9/99 6:28:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>franny_glass1 at hotmail_com writes:
>
>> ummmmmm foreign and art cinema are my faves.........
>> greeaway being my fave but films by: wim wenders,
>> jean-claude lauzon, zheng yimou (''raise the red
>> lantern'), films like: 'the scent of green papaya', blue,
>> red and white,
>> 'street of crocidiles' by the quay brothers,
>> norman mclaren--anything, the city of lost children, etc........
>
>yes, debby!
>
>interesting i should spend last night watching
>City of Lost Children with my beloved, only to
>see now that you had spoken of it the night previous.
>this was at least my third (and best) viewing
>of this genious french film.
>there's another film by the same makers,
>with the same cast... the name escapes me
>at present, but it is also along genious status.
>
>
>it is when i watch this film, or so many other
>foreign films that i love, when i realize there's
>no american movie that captures an experience
>quite the same way. the filming, scripting,
>cerebral wittiness, the wild imagination and play
>on beauty and ugliness...
>
>i find that my favorites tend to be european in origin,
>i find hispanic films (like water for chocolate, jamon jamon)
>to be rediculously superstitious, amusing during
>the serious moments, and absurdly adulterous
>just for sake of the "excitement" of it all...
>in short, naive.
>not always, but usually.
>
>
>(by the way, i also loved Scent of Green Papaya.)
>
>
>and you mention Wim Wenders.
>one of my other favourites is Wings of Desire.
>i first watched it for the Nick Cave appearance
>and music, then found it to be one of the most
>beautiful experiences on film.
>
>an excerpt from Wings of Desire,
>Song of Being A Child:
>
>When the child was a child
>it was enough to live on apples and bread.
>And it's still that way.
>When the child was a child berries fell
>only like berries into it's hand.
>And still do.
>The fresh walnuts made it's tongue raw.
>And still do.
>Atop each mountain it craved
>yet a higher mountain.
>And in each city it craved yet a bigger city.
>And still does.
>Reach for the cherries in the treetop
>as elated as it still is today
>Was shy in front of strangers.
>And still is.
>It waited for the first snow.
>And still waits that way.
>When the child was a child
>it waited restlessly each day for the return of the loved one
>and still waits that way.
>When the child was a child
>it hurled a stick like a lance into a tree
>and it's still quivering there today.
>
>
>my favorite era of film:
>early German, 1920s - 1930s.
>Metropolis, the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Nosferatu, etc.
>
>i have a unique specialty if anyone is interested...
>some people cook exceptionally, some juggle,
>i offer amazing showings of Metroplis.
>it is obviously a silent film, and i have developed
>the perfect mixed soundtrack for it. i take two
>stereos and weave my industrial/ambient/?
>collection thru the viewer at distinct points of the film.
>machine sounds in time with the film from the front,
>sweeping ambient sculptures from behind.
>chanting and small bits of terror mixed in for good measure.
>...all shrouded by the gilded glow of candlelight
>and thick scent of nag champa.
>
>i'm not opposed to openly saying that this is
>one of the most unique experiences available.
>
>
>foreign film has a way of showing the ordinary
>as extraorinary, always brings out the places
>in myself i like to visit more frequently than i do.
>
>
>good day,
>
>edward jay
>
>
Jay, have you seen "Delicatessin"? It's by the same guy who made "City of Lost 
Children". I don't consider it quite as good, but it's still worth seeing.
scott
>NP: einsturzende neubauten mp3's
>
>The machine does not isolate man from the great problems
>of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
>-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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