Happy 90th, Resnais!
Hiroshima mon amour, Alain Resnais, 1959.
I haven’t seen any of these. And I called myself a cinephile.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ten favorite films:
1. The Damned (dir. Luchino Visconti)
2. The Naked and the Dead (dir. Raoul Walsh)
3. Lola Montès (dir. Max Ophüls)
4. Flamingo Road (dir. Michael Curtiz)
5. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)
6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (dir. Howard Hawks)
7. Agent X27 (dir. Josef von Sternberg)
8. The Night of the Hunter (dir. Charles Laughton)
9. Johnny Guitar (dir. Nicholas Ray)
10. The Red Snowball Tree (dir. Vasily Shukshin)
Two of the greats.
When I worked for Harmony as his personal assistant on the ABOVE THE BELOW project, he expressed to me his admiration for Lovers on the Bridge cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier,who also did Gummo. He told me Escoffier (had) recently died while sitting in his living room, watching the…
(via speakingparts)
Yeah, it does that.
Not even half way done with the movie and I’m already in love with it.