Tell me an old and weird #movie or #film you think everyone should watch (and why).
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@Lime Bar Tarkovsky's movie version oft Stanislav Lems book Solaris.
It's amazingly teaching for the way cameras were telling a story by image, instead oft actors telling you what to - or how you should understand what to - see.
For the necessity of enough time in scenes, so not needing sped up editing, which would only usually cover up a lack of content.
For a whole other planet diving into the human psyche, digging out the buried, wordless, haunting and fascinating at the same time.
Amazing movie - while Soderberghs later version of Solaris isn't bad, but operates just too quick and formatted for such mind blowing content. -
@Lime Bar Tarkovsky's movie version oft Stanislav Lems book Solaris.
It's amazingly teaching for the way cameras were telling a story by image, instead oft actors telling you what to - or how you should understand what to - see.
For the necessity of enough time in scenes, so not needing sped up editing, which would only usually cover up a lack of content.
For a whole other planet diving into the human psyche, digging out the buried, wordless, haunting and fascinating at the same time.
Amazing movie - while Soderberghs later version of Solaris isn't bad, but operates just too quick and formatted for such mind blowing content.@jrp back in the 90s I used to put Solaris on as nightclub visuals, your point about visual storytelling is bang on, you could actually still follow the plot despite the soundtrack being Carl Cox having the time of his life.
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@limebar this thread is my jam. I’m going to nominate Robert Wise’s 1963 The Haunting - Wise understood way before anyone else that horror in the viewer’s imagination is always going to be scarier than anything you can put on screen. This idea was later perfected by Michael Hanneke with Funny Games - a truly horrific movie with absolutely no on-screen violence, originally released on video in the UK with a PG rating because it didn’t cross any of the BBFC’s guidelines.
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@limebar "Colossus: The Forbin Project" (1970) these days feels more prescient than ever....
(and I love the idea of it all coming from all those tape drives and valves and oscilloscopes locked away inside a radiation-proofed mountain)
Is it weird? Not sure...
(Weird soundtrack has to go to the Barron's "electronic tonalities" for Forbidden Planet of course. A true masterpiece in my view)
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@jrp back in the 90s I used to put Solaris on as nightclub visuals, your point about visual storytelling is bang on, you could actually still follow the plot despite the soundtrack being Carl Cox having the time of his life.
this one has been on my list for ages, time to watch !
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@limebar Eat the Rich: 1987 flawed political collision of sketch comedians, Motorhead and cannibalism starring Lanah Pelay (of Pistol in my Pocket). It's all nauseatingly relevant, and amazing.
wwhhaaat?!
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@paul_griffin
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wwhhaaat?!
@limebar exactly
