Forum / Bruno Dumont is the Greatest Living Filmmaker

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    Chris Okum
    Mar 30, 07:01am

    And Juliette Binoche's monologue at around the 32:00 mark of Dumont's CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 is the single best piece of acting I have ever seen. That is all I wanted to say. Carry on.

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Mar 30, 07:24pm

    Camille Claudel 1915 's on Netflix. Will check it out. Thanks.

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    whatwouldbukowskido
    Mar 30, 07:52pm

    glad (surprised) to see it is.

    (been in love with Juliette since The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

    ((just watched MUD, another good one--though not in the same genre))

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    Sam Rasnake
    Mar 31, 03:30am

    A great performance.

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    Smiley McGrouchpants, Jr-Esq-III
    Apr 14, 10:56pm

    Is not.

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    whatwouldbukowskido
    Apr 14, 11:07pm

    Didn't care for it...

    ;-)

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Apr 15, 01:13am

    Mud was good. Only missed the mark at the end with a shootout that reminded me of old Lash Larue and Roy Rogers movies. Cinematic overkill. One or two bad guys would have been better. Suspension of disbelief required. Otherwise, it would have been up there with the best.

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    whatwouldbukowskido
    Apr 15, 01:31am

    yep

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    Chris Okum
    Apr 15, 03:14pm

    Oh well.

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    whatwouldbukowskido
    Apr 15, 09:13pm

    Here are some of me Netflix faves (not all stream)

    The Saddest Music in the World
    Terribly Happy
    Tuvalu
    The Violin
    Santa Sangre
    Following
    As it is in Heaven
    Sin Nombre
    Bad Day to Go Fishing
    The Law 1960
    Fear and Trembling
    Buffalo '66
    Trees lounge
    Hour of the Wolf
    In the Realms of the Unreal
    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    An Awfully Big Adventure
    Tom & Viv
    The Machinist
    Faces
    Matinee
    Crazy
    Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Apr 17, 02:05am

    Going through the list in the Netflix directory, I came across one that I remember that's not included, not on streaming... The Red Violin. If you haven't seen that one, you must.

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    Misti Rainwater-Lites
    Apr 17, 12:10pm

    The single best piece of acting I have ever seen is Cloris Leachman in the last scene of "The Last Picture Show." Cannot remember the actor's name, the actor who portrayed Sonny. His acting in that scene was also phenomenal.

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    Misti Rainwater-Lites
    Apr 17, 12:12pm

    Timothy Bottoms as Sonny Crawford. Yessir. That is how it's done.

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    Misti Rainwater-Lites
    Apr 17, 12:13pm

    http://youtu.be/__T3WJVmBY8

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    Mark Reep
    Apr 19, 07:02pm

    Greta Gerwig's 'Frances Ha' is the best thing we've seen on Netflix this year. Just kickass.

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    Smiley McGrouchpants, Jr-Esq-III
    Apr 21, 08:06pm

    Try Cate Blanchett vs. Cate Blanchett as two DIFFERENT cousins in Jim Jarmusch's "Cousins" short, as collected in his "Coffee and Cigarettes" film-piece. State of the art!

    (You can see why she won the Oscar. ALSO: Seems to me, a little bit, Woody Allen took a page from the premise/expanded upon it for his "Blue Jasmine" screenplay! "Worlds colliding," and all!)

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    Chris Okum
    Apr 21, 09:23pm

    Don't like Cof. & Cig. I like Jarmusch but not that one. To me it's all his worst tendencies wrapped up into one giant ball of self-indulgence.

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    Matthew Robinson
    Apr 22, 07:22am

    Give me Ghost Dog over Coffee & Cigarettes any day.

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    James Lloyd Davis
    Apr 22, 12:00pm

    Ghost Dog is worthy!

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