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  • deleuze
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2007
    • 418

    #16
    Yeah I've never thought of Cassavettes as overrated, Shadows would be pretty close to making my top 10. Spielberg is definitely overrated, although I did find Schindler's List mediocre which is more than I can say for any of Tarantino's films.

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    • swami
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2008
      • 809

      #17
      here is my Pleb list :

      Bottle Rocket (Wes Andersen)
      In the mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)
      To Live (Zhang Yimou)
      Head On (Fatih Akin)
      Muriels Wedding (Hogan)
      Betty Blue (Beineix)
      Princess & Warrior (Tykwer)
      E Sunshine o/t Spotless Mind (Gondry)
      Damage (Malle)
      Blue (Kieslowski)

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      • AKA*NYC
        Senior Member
        • Nov 2007
        • 3007

        #18
        Originally posted by mass View Post
        coincidentally i think spielberg is one of the most overrated filmmakers ever. what's wrong with cassavettes?
        is spielberg even considered a filmmaker?

        i find cassavettes' early more famous films boring and devoid of rigor although i sort of like his later crime dramas. to me robert downey sr. and samuel fuller are far more interesting. but i'm not suggesting cassavettes is bad, just disproportionately lionized.
        LOVE THE SHIRST... HOW much?

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        • almroth
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2008
          • 324

          #19
          Originally posted by AKA*NYC View Post
          try - dennis cooper
          I've read almost everything from dennis cooper except try - will order soon. nice to see someone on SZ reading dennis cooper!

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          • beardown
            rekoner
            • Feb 2009
            • 1418

            #20
            Originally posted by Faust View Post
            (Work in process)

            Top 10 books

            The Fall - Camus
            This is undoubtedly in the top 5 for me. I know a few people who claim to be Camus fans who don't like the monologue approach to it but I think it definitely adds to the intense character development.

            When I read it back in college, it taught me a very valuable lesson almost immediately: You learn a lot more about people by listening to them than talking to them.
            If you listen, they'll tell you everything. Even things you don't want to know.
            Amazing book though.
            'A Happy Death' is number one on my list even though many people felt it was a failure when it was released (I guess as a first novel compared to his more celebrated works).
            But even as a study for 'The Stranger,' as a first novel it was life changing for me.
            And I had a huge conversation tonight about 'The Plague' in regard to the spreading of the Swine Flu.

            Here's mine:

            1. A Happy Death - Camus
            2. Nausea - Sartre
            3. The Fall - Camus
            4. As I Lay Dying - Faulkner
            5. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
            6. Secret History - Tartt
            7. Crum - Lee Maynard
            8. White Nights - Dostoevsky (short story)
            9. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake - Breece D'J Pancake
            10. Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde (prefer his short stories but for the sake of lists)

            For casual reading, I prefer stuff with a lot of local color, dialect and things of that nature. I grew up in a small appalachian town so I can relate to shit like that.
            Oh, and to be honest, some of my favorite stuff I've read have been excerpts from diaries, journals, letters and short stories.
            Originally posted by mizzar
            Sorry for being kind of a dick to you.

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            • BeauIXI
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2008
              • 1272

              #21
              Fuuma: I'm glad you included Mythologies in your list. Quelle aventure semiologique!
              Originally posted by philip nod
              somebody should kop this. this is forever.

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              • Faust
                kitsch killer
                • Sep 2006
                • 37852

                #22
                Beardown, I concur. I think it's his best work.
                Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                • Classique
                  Senior Member
                  • Apr 2008
                  • 126

                  #23
                  10 Films

                  1. Oldboy
                  2. Sansho The Bailiff
                  3. Amores Perros
                  4. Pierrot Le Fou
                  5. Ikiru
                  6. Taxi Driver
                  7. 8 1/2
                  8. The seventh Seal
                  9. Woman In The Dunes
                  10. Annie Hall
                  Last edited by Classique; 04-30-2009, 04:17 AM.

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                  • Vikeid
                    Senior Member
                    • Feb 2009
                    • 270

                    #24
                    i think my top 10 films would go something like this..

                    1. once upon a time in the west
                    2. 2001 - a space odyssey
                    3. phantom of the opera
                    5. the lion king
                    5. barry lyndon
                    6. blade runner
                    7. suspiria
                    8. persona
                    9. high and low
                    10. the big lebowski

                    but it changes like everytime you write it down.

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                    • Brother Stasi
                      Senior Member
                      • Feb 2008
                      • 120

                      #25
                      Top 10 things I wish I had

                      1)A life sized Bellmer-style doll
                      2)the ability to make said doll
                      3)the time to make said doll with said abilities
                      4)the ability to write interesting and/or compelling things in this forum and/or my justifiably unread blog (that I myself am so bored with that I never use)
                      5)100 interesting SZ posts so I can sell all the clothing I am too fat for...
                      6)the ability to not be so fat that I am forced to sell my favorite clothing that I was never even been able to wear
                      7)more fabric to make fat man clothing for myself
                      8)a job (that I like would be nice)
                      9)a girlfriend
                      10) a better top 10 list

                      edit:
                      top 10 goal #5 came 50% true so I now feel the urge to update it...
                      5) that all 100 of my first SZ posts (under the current moniker) were interesting!

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                      • justine
                        Senior Member
                        • Jan 2007
                        • 672

                        #26
                        Is this top10 about books and films only? I thought it was random things top10....my number top10 looks retarded in there...anyway, here's 10 books in no order:
                        Artificial Paradises & Journals, Baudelaire
                        The 120 Days of Sodom, Sade
                        The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Poe
                        Ubu The Kind, Jarry
                        Politics of Ecstasy, Leary
                        Siddarta, Hesse
                        Gravity and Grace, Weil
                        Los Capricios, Goya
                        The Songs of Maldoror, Lautreamont

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                        • justine
                          Senior Member
                          • Jan 2007
                          • 672

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Brother Stasi View Post
                          Top 10 things I wish I had
                          fun idea...

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                          • Classique
                            Senior Member
                            • Apr 2008
                            • 126

                            #28
                            Top 10 "Things I wish I had."

                            1. A 'British shorthair,' cat.



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                            2. Appropriate gear + money to produce and direct a feature film.
                            3. A "Standard," $100,00 home studio.
                            4. A meridian audiophile 2.0 system.
                            5. Tickets for all Mexico 'World Cup' 2010 games.
                            6. Atelier as my walk in; Personal closet.
                            7. To have been born at a different age: Attend Shakespeare's theater live during the Renaissance, a Shostakovich Concert, etc...
                            8. Original, multi-million dollar works of art, adorning my apartment.
                            9...
                            10...

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                            • Diego
                              Senior Member
                              • Aug 2007
                              • 1111

                              #29
                              Right now (film):

                              1- Scott's Blade runner (1982)


                              2- Lynch's Blue velvet (1986)


                              3- Jodorowsky's The holy mountain (1973)


                              4- Kurosawa's Kagemusha (1980)
                              5- Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983)
                              6- Belvaux's Man bites dog (1992)
                              7- Polanski's The tenant (1976)
                              8- Chan-wook's Lady vengeance (2005)
                              9- Bergman's Persona (1966)
                              10- Jackson's Braindead (1992)

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                              • Jorge Hache
                                Senior Member
                                • Sep 2006
                                • 457

                                #30
                                Nice selection Diego, very nice

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