SUICIDE RED'S FAVORITE FILMS
(in alphabetical order)
(Mulholland Drive image from www.filmcritic.com)
# 2046/ Wong Kar Wai
# A Clockwork Orange/ Stanley Kubrick (though the rape scenes and my feminist conscience can't be reconciled)
# Address Unknown/ Kim Ki Duk
# Amelie/ Jean-Pierre Jeunet
# Amores Perros/ Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu (enough said!)
# Bad Education/ Pedro Almodovar
# Blue Velvet/ David Lynch
# Bram Stoker’s Dracula/ Francis Ford Coppola (it’s bathed in red and black… and Gary Oldman is so dark) 
# Central Station du Brazil/ Fernanda Montenegro
# Closer/ Mike Nichols (ok… it’s so simple… but I just like the idea of questioning the truth as a fiction, a ‘simulacrum’)
# Cinema Paradiso/ Giuseppe Tornatore
# Crash/ David Cronenberg
# Dancer in the Dark/ Lars von Trier
# Gie/ Riri Riza
# Goodbye Lenin/ Wolfgang Becker
# Hero/ Zhang Yimou
# In the Mood for Love/ Wong Kar Wai
# Il Postino/ Michael Radford
# Jules and Jim/ Francois Truffaut (Jeanne Morreau plays one of the most fantastic female roles)
# La Pianiste/ Michael Hanneke (a haunting picture of female sexuality)
# La Vita e Bella/ Roberto Benigni
# Manhattan/ Woody Allen
# Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein/ Kenneth Brannagh
# Memento/ Chris Nolan
# Monsoon Wedding/ Mira Nair
# Mulholland Drive/ David Lynch
# Old Boy/ Park Chan Wook
# Pasir Berbisik/ Nan T. Achnas (my most analyzed film)
# Passion/ Jean Luc Godard
# Salaam Bombay/ Mira Nair
# Stanno Tutti Bene/ Giuseppe Tornatore
# Taxi Driver/ Martin Scorsese
# The Doors/ Oliver Stone (hmm… I don’t think I’m biased here)
# The Man with the Movie Camera/ Dziga Vertov
# The Last Emperor/ Bernardo Bertolucci
# The Lord of The Rings/ Peter Jackson
# The Night Porter/ Liliana Cavani# The Pianist/ Roman Polanski
# The Pillow Book/ Peter Greenaway (poetic idea about writing & body, sexualizing the text, textualizing the sex)
# The Seventh Seal/ Ingmar Bergman
# The Sixth Sense/ M. Night Shamalyan
# The Village/ M. Night Shamalyan (I love anything gothic… that’s the reason)
# Underground/ Emir Kusturica
# Y Tu Mama Tambien/ Alfonso Cuaron
# The Night Porter/ Liliana Cavani
# Y Tu Mama Tambien/ Alfonso Cuaron
# The Piano Teacher/ Michael Haneke
I’ve just discovered recently that most of my favorite films are highly sexual. I’m not only interested in eroticism per se, but how great films interweave sexuality with issues of power and politics. The Night Porter is a role reversal of victim-perpetrator relationship, playing out the sadomasochistic fantasies about the sexualized image of an S.S. officer. The raunchy sex fantasy of an older woman and a disturbing discovery of homoeroticism in Y Tu Mama Tambien serve as a metaphor for sociopolitical situations in Mexico. Finally, The Piano Teacher explores desire and madness in contrast to the rigid Law of the Father represented by the Vienna conservatorium.
2 comments:
have u seen "Noi (Albinoi)" by Dagur Kari? it's dark, funny, weird, depressing... i just loved it.
Looking forward to watching it! Thanks for letting me know about this interesting film from Iceland.
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