Not really old enough, but if we're talking Madden shorts, I vote Sissy Boy Slap Fight.

This seems like a better way of getting to know the writers through their pop culture autobiography, High Fidelity style, while ATAVC is more about questions related to AV Club expertise.

Also, Maya Deren, although I don't know if any short film has the cult following of Hold Me While I'm Naked, whether its the most important or not.

That's a pessimistic approach, and a really good one I hadn't thought of. I don't know, when I watch this, it doesn't reek of existential pointlessness or post-hippie malaise, but rather of contentment to a life on the road, with no need for a past or future. I can absolutely see where your coming from though. I need…

Two-Lane Blacktop is a fucking great midnight movie. It not only totally disregards the traditional narrative conventions of Hollywood, but it laughs at it, making jokes. When I first saw this, I was totally set up to view this as a cross-country race, but its forgotten about… almost immediately. It's a cliche to say…

If short films were allowed…
Hold Me While I'm Naked, while not the best experimental/cult film, is definitely one of the most entertaining. It's like an even cultier, less successful (financially) version of Written on the Wind. Speaking of which, does popular melodrama qualify as cult? Anyway, I just wanted to get…

How'd they get Philip Glass?
Anyone else notice the Philip Glass style opening theme, and its awesomeness?

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I don't know if anything else was quiet as visceral as Cannibal Holocaust, but maybe that's because the first time I saw it, a part of me thought it might be real. That, and some of it was. Honestly, though, if your afraid of Cannibal Holocaust, AV Club Staff, I wouldn't be if you're able to watch Salo, the only film…

Peeping Tom, Being John Malkovich
I'm so glad that movie got a mention here. I saw it a couple years ago, and its easily one of the most creepy slasher films ever.
I think another movie that could be added to the film is Being John Malkovich. That's one that gives viewers a direct line into the eyes of another man,…

Cannibal Holocaust is totally worth watching. I'm curious, was this list made to coincide with the Salo DVD release?

sorry for not having a program to the film festival in toronto.

Claire Denis
You mentioned in the first post that Claire Denis had a new film here. Is there any chance that you'll be covering it, or is the schedule too packed?

I don't see it as a rule, if only because we'd never have Rocket Science, Ghost World or Bad Santa. Then again, we also wouldn't have Art School Confidential, sooo…

I think
in the second to last paragraph that he meant Seth/Summer scenes, as in the characters Seth and Summer, rather than Seth summertime.

Thoughts
Wow, great essay. I really have to watch this again. I saw it when I was fourteen, and it really informed the way I looked at documentaries and filmmaking after that. I may not remember a lot from the film, but the head bashing scene is one I could never forget.

Actually, I was commenting on the low ticket prices and general depression of the country adding up to higher ticket sales, not to mention a lack of television. But now that you mention it, I feel like some bread.

Cinematically,
I miss the thirties and forties. I wish movies were a nickel again.

Sunrise, Nosferatu and The Last Laugh
Man, Murnau is fucking great. He made less than two dozen films, and made them count. What amazes me is that his three famous classics are completely diverse from one another, each playing out in a more grand way than any talkie I can think of at the moment. I hate to go on about…

mmm…whatchya say?
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