I like your movie reviews a lot Dog Star Man ! I've seen you in a couple of movie forums and ive finally tracked you down here! What is it that attracts you to b & w classic movies?
As far as attraction to older films, I think it has to do with the fact that much of the Avant-Garde realm is limited to Great Britain now, (not saying there isn't an Avant-Garde elsewhere, but it's much harder to obtain the films in question as they many are limited to college Film Art groups, don't get wide distribution, and many of these Film Art directors move on to more conventional means of film making... which is all fine and good, but there is a desire to see them push the cinematic boundaries with me). Also, I don't much like contemporary cinema, for the most part, because it comes across as a blatant factory manufactured by product with little heart or intellectual concept. Another factor, (with the Tarantino, Noe, Roth, Rodrigez, etc. etc. generations), is that films seems to have become increasingly more nihilistic. Showing things like rape, violence, etc. I don't like it. To me it's a cheap hook to grab the audiences attention, and I personally just can't take that bait. I'm more into things like Romanticism, Love, and Humanism, than anything else.
And seeing your review of Faster Pussycat! and tetsuo makes me want to check them out ! Currently, im just working on my top 30 favourite movie list! i think 100 will crack my brains!
Cheers to you my good mate!
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Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
-Stan Brakhage
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
-Stan Brakhage