Comments on: Hidden Treasures – Guest Contributors for May

By: Dave Becker

Dave Becker — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:03:16 +0000

Rot: finally saw Summertime this weekend…it’s everything you say it is. What a beautiful film.

I also picked up an import copy of The King and the Clown. I’m hoping the subtitles measure up!

I’ve seen A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum numerous times…very funny movie, and Zero Mostel is great!

By: Kurt Halfyard

Kurt Halfyard — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:44:28 +0000

Dead Poets Society is sad a formulaic in a painful way. One of the worst of the Peter Weir films. Not a fan here.

Now, I brought up the original list (Comment #2) as sort of a state-of-the-row-three-nation after Summer Time was on the list above, just an observation really.

(I listed my personal list because I wasn’t sure if Dave thought I was listing my favourites or not.) And oops, I’d forgotten that I linked way back when to that Twitch-column…

By: Rusty James

Rusty James — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:14:27 +0000

@ “It felt like your ‘acknowledgement’ of what makes people talk was halfway indicting people for not talking about something ”

has it occured to you that maybe you compulsively feign personal offensive to comments that are both general and innocuous.

Facetious is a word you should learn. “playfully shallow” describes you to a T.

One of the first posts here was Kurt listing his favorite 5 directors. I think that thread contains Henrik’s first petulent response.

link

I hate Dead Poet Society too. I just saw it for the first time recently and I was all “seriously?!”

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:43:02 +0000

facetious means playfully shallow, provoke a reaction in jest, etc. So you’re on the right track, just not as ‘extreme’ or ‘de facto’-esque as your statements often are.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:25:28 +0000

Does facetious mean fake? I was being honest. It felt like your ‘acknowledgement’ of what makes people talk was halfway indicting people for not talking about something else (especially once you happened to mention your own favorite people), so I thought I’d just dismiss you with an unsupported opinion.

He really is the better director.

By: Kurt Halfyard

Kurt Halfyard — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:40:35 +0000

I don’t know whether such an unsupported statement is simply Henrik being facetious, but really all three of those are apples to oranges in terms of comparison, they all operate in different niches and have wholly different artistic aims.

I like ‘em all.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:31:04 +0000

Paul Verhoeven is a better director than David Lynch or Wong Kar Wai.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:21:32 +0000

This seems to be what gets people in these parts, commenters + contributors a-talking anyway..

(My personal 5 auteurs would be Shinya Tsukamoto, Wong Kar Wai, David Cronenberg, Guy Maddin, and David Lynch).

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:27:16 +0000

Not a bad list of auteurs there, Kurt (and I would include M. Night in that assertion as well).

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:12:48 +0000

So the resonating Auteurs here at Rowthree that get the most comments and discussion going are:

David Lean
Werner Herzog
David Lynch
Paul Verhoeven
P.T. Anderson

and of all folks,
M. Night Shyamalan

By: Colleeny

Colleeny — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:01:16 +0000

@rot Good pick. The closing shot of summertime is one of my favorite endings for a movie. David Lean was known for those long lingering shots. The opening of Lawrence of Arabia had the prolongued shot of Lawrence riding a motorcycle through the English country side. A very strange lead-in to an epic story set in the Middle East. Goond Choice