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A list of my ‘favorite’ films, now and past, in no particular order (other than the tiers)

 

 

 

first tier

 

Woman in the Dunes – Hiroshi Teshigahara

 

Stalker, Solaris, Andrei Rublev, The Sacrifice – Andrei Tarkovsky

 

The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Face to Face, Scenes From A Marriage – Ingmar Bergman

 

La Dolce Vita, 8 ½, Satyricon – Federico Fellini

 

Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) – Satyajit Ray

 

Fitzcarraldo, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser – Werner Herzog

 

Red Desert – Michelangelo Antonioni

 

the best of Woody Allen’s oeuvre collectively (especially Take the Money and Run, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Deconstructing Harry)

 

Terrence Malick’s oeuvre collectively from Badlands to The New World 

 

The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vampyr – Carl Dreyer

 

The Trial – Orson Welles

 

That Obscure Object of Desire – Luis Bunuel

 

The Grand Illusion – Jean Renoir

 

The Blue Angel – Josef von Sternberg

 

Faces – John Cassavetes

 

Ikiru – Akira Kurosawa

 

Brother Sun, Sister Moon – Franco Zefirelli

 

A Zed and Two Noughts – Peter Greenaway

 

Last Tango in Paris – Bernardo Bertolucci

 

The Holy Mountain – Alejandro Jodorowsky

 

Three Women – Robert Altman

 

 

second tier

 

Casablanca – Michael Curtiz

 

Gattaca – Andrew Niccol

 

Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesigner

 

The Graduate – Mike Nichols

 

Defending Your Life – Albert Brooks

 

Groundhog Day – Harold Ramis

 

The Wall – Alan Parker

 

Interview with the Vampire – Neil Jordan

 

Lolita – Adrian Lyne

 

The Abyss – James Cameron

 

Phantom of the Paradise – Brian De Palma

 

Enter The Void – Gaspar Noé

 

Idiocracy – Mike Judge

 
Freddy Got Fingered – Tom Green

 

The Room – Tommy Wiseau

 

 

third tier

 

These are films that made a big impression, equally meritable as the above,
and which I feel like I ought to mention, but for whatever idiosyncratic reasons
did not quite become personal favorites, more like ‘runners up.’ 

 

Celine and Julie Go Boating – Jacques Rivette

 

The Color of Pomegranates – Sergei Parajanov

 

Bad Boy Bubby – Rolf De Heer

 

Sátántangó – Bela Tarr

 

Playtime – Jacques Tati

 

Ashes and Diamonds – Andrzej Wajda

 

Umberto D, Sunflower – Vittoria De Sica

 

A Dangerous Method – David Cronenberg

 

Blue – Krzysztof Kieslowski

 

 

 





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Just for fun. . . a short film about the autobahn.

 





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Hey everyone – Last night I was at a literary reading, and before each reader came up, the host would read their ‘author’s bio’ to the audience. It made me realize that I need one myself. So I’ve been working on one today for a little while. Here’s what I’ve got so far. What do you think? Too modest? Not modest enough? 

  


 

 

Jason Bentsman is a writer of tremendous powers, who suffers from his terrible clarity. He has written 4,387 novels, 1,602 short story collections, 1,072 volumes of poetry, sixteen dozen philosophical treatises, fourscore plays, 132 screenplays (136 of which have been turned into films), over one hundred canonical religious and spiritual texts (six of which have spawned major world religions), 92 historical exegeses, 144 seminal papers on physics (reconciling quantum physics with the standard model), 13 memoirs, 16 cookbooks, 4 dictionaries, an encyclopedia, two love manuals, a Driver’s Education instruction manual, a Unix and Linux System Administration handbook, a pamphlet on holistic menstruation, and a partridge in a pear tree— among countless other works in an unparalleled variety of genres. 

 

Sir Bentsman has received innumerable awards and accolades, far far too numerous to mention here— not only for his writings, but also for his contributions in the areas of music, thespianism, dance, puppetry, commerce, ecology, forestry, philanthropy, aeronautics, neuroscience, internet technology, dentistry, equestrianism, mixology, pickling, pyrotechnics, neo-shamanism, tai chi and mixed martial arts, mysticism, spelunking, geocaching, deep-sea diving, curling, and underwater basket weaving. Some of these include the Nobel Prize (three for literature, and one each for physics, chemistry, economics, and peace), the Oscar (for his riveting performance as Little Angelo in Baz Luhrmann’s remake of Oliver Twist), the Tony, the Grammy, the Fields Medal, the Lasker Award, the Turner Prize, the Stockholm Water Prize, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and the MTV Moon Man. 

 

He is consummately considered to be extremely important, influential, hip, cutting-edge, renowned, distinguished, and selfless. His writing has been translated into every language in the Universe, and some others. His latest book, “History— Whose Fault Is It?,” is being published in 2015 by Yahweh: the only book since The Bible to be published by God himself. In his spare time, he enjoys romantic candle-lit evenings, long dewy glances, and short walks on the beach. He is also the inventor of the Gluten-free Workout.

 

For more information about Sir Bentsman, please see his 137 page entry on Wikipedia.

 

 

* This internet session might have been recorded for quality assurance purposes.  





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The Universe is getting off on experiencing itself as me, as you, as the squirrel on the nearby tree, as the nearby tree, as the bacteria on the tree, and as everything supposedly finite and personal.





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All our speculations about ourselves and existence are but smoke on the water.





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When it comes to life, I can safely say that I understand nothing whatsoever. And the older I get, the less I understand. Which is to say, nothing divided by nothing equals nothing. So I continue to understand: nothing whatsoever.





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