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Well I wasn't going to mention every title I liked and for that matter, I'm not a huge fan of the title. Better than OIl! though.
PTA's titles are good but not the absolute best.

Of course when one talks TWBB we must talk about No Country For Old Men. One title from Cormac McCarthy which is absolutely brilliant.
Taken from friendzoned talent Yeats.
Sailing to Byzantium

That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
– Those dying generations – at their song,
The salmon‐falls, the mackerel‐crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing‐masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.

Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
Other great titles:
Syndromes and a Century
The Conversation
Raiders of the Lost Ark
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In regards to von Trier, his three best are comfortably Europa, Dancer in the Dark, and Dogville. I'm not fussed with this current phase he's in, not at all.
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ArmandFancypants wrote:In regards to von Trier, his three best are comfortably Europa, Dancer in the Dark, and Dogville. I'm not fussed with this current phase he's in, not at all.
Thoughts on Breaking the Waves?£
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Master Virgo wrote:
ArmandFancypants wrote:In regards to von Trier, his three best are comfortably Europa, Dancer in the Dark, and Dogville. I'm not fussed with this current phase he's in, not at all.
Thoughts on Breaking the Waves?£
Same question, since it's my favorite.
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Okay, does anyone want to volunteer for the 2014 Nolanfans Awards? I know it will take a month or so for the folks here to get around to watching everything so it can wait a little but it would be cool to get it underway soonish (the results thread was posted in early March). The 2013 Awards was a test-run that worked rather well. Now that we've worked out the issues, it would be cool to stick with the format from the voting process to the categories down to how the final awards were presented. For consistency and stuff.
so apparently Alejandro Jodorowsky released a movie last year any no one told me. and it looks awesome. anyone wanna talk about that?

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Master Virgo wrote:
ArmandFancypants wrote:In regards to von Trier, his three best are comfortably Europa, Dancer in the Dark, and Dogville. I'm not fussed with this current phase he's in, not at all.
Thoughts on Breaking the Waves?£
Terrific, but just a shade below those other three.
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mchekhov 2: Chek Harder wrote:so apparently Alejandro Jodorowsky released a movie last year any no one told me. and it looks awesome. anyone wanna talk about that?
It's just doesn't look the same. I should probably give an actual try before I make any comments though.

This looks cool though:



Also, folks:
jibran wrote:Okay, does anyone want to volunteer for the 2014 Nolanfans Awards? I know it will take a month or so for the folks here to get around to watching everything so it can wait a little but it would be cool to get it underway soonish (the results thread was posted in early March). The 2013 Awards was a test-run that worked rather well. Now that we've worked out the issues, it would be cool to stick with the format from the voting process to the categories down to how the final awards were presented. For consistency and stuff.
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Go for it, dude. :thumbup:
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Head honchos on LvT:

Quentin Tarantino called Trier's Dogville the perfect manuscript, if it had been written for stage it would have won a Pulitzer.
Martin Scorsese has Breaking the Waves on his top 10 list.
Spielberg has supposedly begged Von Trier to come work in the US for 20 years.
Johnny Depp has said he would back out of any film he was doing if Von Trier called.
Paul Thomas Anderson has said I would carry his luggage anywhere.
And let's not forget Ingmar Bergman: As for Lars von Trier, he's a genius.

Checking Europa pretty soon:



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jibran wrote:
jibran wrote:Okay, does anyone want to volunteer for the 2014 Nolanfans Awards? I know it will take a month or so for the folks here to get around to watching everything so it can wait a little but it would be cool to get it underway soonish (the results thread was posted in early March). The 2013 Awards was a test-run that worked rather well. Now that we've worked out the issues, it would be cool to stick with the format from the voting process to the categories down to how the final awards were presented. For consistency and stuff.
It's a big job, man, if anyone can do it properly - it's you. So go for it, as soon as possible, I'm sure everyone will back you up.

As for Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune project documentary, it should be out soon I think - can't wait to see it, man is a genius.
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