Some I watched during the last weeks.
Polanski's
Rosemary's Baby, 7/10. Enjoyable movie, but I think would have rated it higher back in the days, as it basically changed the whole aesthetics of the horror film genre (the Devil, Antechrist, Black magic, ... all of that was revolutionary, before that we only used to make movies about vampires and werewolves), it basically led the path to The Exorcist/The Omen which released only few years after.
Tod Browning's
Freaks, 8/10. He did in 1932 something movie directors today will shy away from ; he used "real" peoples which would respect his movie's title, namely peoples with handicaps and deformities (dwarfs, some missing legs, ...) but the ending was as surprising as the cast... I honestly think that apart from the technical aspect, this movie remains "very 2013".
Godard's
À bout de souffle, 6/10. Released in 1960, it's the first feature film of one of French New Wave's main pillars. I gave it 6 because it was pretty "average" (apart from Jean Seberg, obviously) and the script didn't offer much, but like Hitchcock, you can't really understand how innovative (on technical aspects) he was if you're watching it now, especially playing with the camera angles (but then Hitchcock being into thrillers, his scripts are at aleast a-temporal.)
Jean Pierre Melville's
Le Samourai, 7/10. The French director is said to be Tarantino's main influence (something that he himself acknowledges) and this movie does remind of his "cold violence".
Does anybodby know the name of an Iranian film where a housemaid works for woman that suspects her husband to be cheating on her?
Faridi's
Fireworks Wednesday ?
A Separation was wonderful, rare and difficult to make a good drama movie (ask the French...).
Lol I don't even watch Bollywood but this made me crack up. Shades of Fellini or Bunuel I presume?
I uploaded Bunuel's
Un chien andalou in HD on Youtube few years ago, and got my account blocked because of that.
Still have to watch some Fellini though.
