Sweet Five Alive tidings, Hooo's Hooo at the Zooo, to play your wax paper kazoo to, chewin' on that kudzu...
I worked for newspapers. I worked for newspapers at a time when I was not competent to do so. I reported inaccurately. I failed to get all the facts. I misspelled names. I garbled figures. I wasted copy paper. I pretended I knew things I did not know. I pretended to understand things beyond my understanding. I oversimplified. I was superior to things I was inferior to. I misinterpreted things that took place before me. I over- and underinterpreted what took place before me. I suppressed news the management wanted suppressed. I invented news the management wanted invented. I faked stories. I failed to discover the truth. I colored the truth with fancy. I had no respect for the truth. I failed to heed the adage, you shall know truth and the truth shall set you free.
- Donald Barthelme, "Brain Damage"
The pool hall was important, especially on Sundays at noon, after church. I got kicked out of high school seventeen times.
- Nicholas Ray, I Was Interrupted
Crazed Fruit (Kō Nakahira, 1956)
Black Peter (Miloš Forman, 1964)
Warrendale (Allan King, 1967) 🇨🇦
La chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
Mes petites amoureuses (Jean Eustache, 1974)
The Traveler (Abbas Kiarostami, 1974)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (Nicolas Gessner, 1976) 🇨🇦
North Sea is Dead Sea (Hark Bohm, 1976)
Une vraie jeune fille (Catherine Breillat, 1976)
Passe ton bac d’abord... (Maurice Pialat, 1978)
Over the Edge (Jonathan Kaplan, 1979)
Navajeros (Eloy de la Iglesia, 1980)
Made in Britain (Alan Clarke, 1983)
O.C. and Stiggs (Robert Altman, 1985)
Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra, 1985)
De bruit et de fureur (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1988)
Pump Up the Volume (Allan Moyle, 1990)
The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi, 1995)
Kitchen Party (Gary Burns, 1997) 🇨🇦
Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997)
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trick Baby (Matthew Bright, 1999)
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004)
Detention (Joseph Kahn, 2017)
Jeanne (Bruno Dumont, 2019)
2 comments:
Considering that this is a list of unsung films by the man who was the internet before the internet, I'm sort of proud to announce that I have seen 14 of those (and 2 out of the 3 Canadian films!). I approve of the bold (yet entirely justified) Pialat double bill. Surprisingly I haven't seen 'Navajeros' (what kind of Spanish person am I?????).
One very curious aspect of your list is the start date (while it is true that teenagers did not figure a lot in classic cinema, I think I would have included some favourites with children from the 30s-40s—though, perhaps, the 'unsung' tag would have been debatable in those cases).
Oh, and I like that you put the Brisseau film in your list, but I absolutely love that you went with THE WHITE BALLOON. It is the sweetest choice. And this lady ADORED this film when she watched it in a videotape recorded from Canal+ in the 90s.
I saw THE WHITE BALLOON first run at the Plaza Theatre in Calgary when I was really, really young and I loved it soooooo much.
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