Shakespeare was Scottish?
Throne my favourite
I mean Macbeth in which they called it the Scottish Play
Its not lol
Put it on while you’re f***ing a b**** and maybe you’ll come around to it
I just watched Dancer in the Dark a week ago and while it solidified my view of him as a GREAT director, it feels impossible to praise too much given Björk’s comments on her behind the scenes abuse. Especially when her performance is so central to my love for the movie…
With that being said, I wonder how many director’s have gotten as many singular performances from individual actresses for different movies compared to him?
• Björk in Dancer in the Dark
• Charlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist
• Nicole Kidman in Dogville
• Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves
• Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia
I still need to see Nymphomaniacs & The Idiots but that is a stellar top 5 for film performances that can probably compete w any other list of director-actress listings (except for perhaps Bergman, but I feel like Björk and Gainsboroug enter another realm of performance)
I was editing my post to add to what happened to Björk on the DitD set, but the France-Poland game heated up.
You're absolutely right about von Trier. I can't think of anyone else getting masterful performances like that.
Perhaps I'd put him over Bergman, considering that Bergman was practically together with all of his leading actresses at one point or another, which unevens playing field if you were to compare the two, although Bergman the director and Bergman the husband/boyfriend were different people kind of from what I've read.
I mean Macbeth in which they called it the Scottish Play
he only did one set it Scotland?
Holiday which was made by the closest thing to an openly gay director at the time who was basically one of the gals vs Vertigo made by creepy svengali who would terrorize his actresses
though we were living in the Jeanne Dielman era
LOL I still gotta watch Holiday myself! once I’m finished with everything I haven’t seen from the BFI
he only did one set it Scotland?
yep only set in Scotland.
Personal fave Kurosawa is Red Beard, couldn't believe when Tarantino slandered it
I’m a Rashoman & Yojimbo guy, but RAN can get it too. Probably my favorite Shakespeare-related movie
I’m a Rashoman & Yojimbo guy, but RAN can get it too. Probably my favorite Shakespeare-related movie
problematic polanski had a masterpiece with his macbeth as well
I really don't care for Rashomon that much really 
happy to see it drop a bit on the list
throne of blood, hidden fortress and sanjuro (yes, I put this above yojimbo and I put fistful of dollars over yojimbo, come get these hands if you wanna talk about it)
problematic polanski had a masterpiece with his macbeth as well
the absolute best macbeth adaptation, I haven't seen the coens' yet though
the swordplay is excellent even with that limited research they had in the 70s
he only did one set it Scotland?
'The Scottish play' comes from a superstition that it's bad luck to say the play's name in a playhouse
I had macbeth as my 2nd favorite polanski, but after seeing bitter moon I literally couldn't believe that polanski cranked out such a masterpiece in the 90s. so the top 3 is chinatown, bitter moon, macbeth
'The Scottish play' comes from a superstition that it's bad luck to say the play's name in a playhouse
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I had macbeth as my 2nd favorite polanski, but after seeing bitter moon I literally couldn't believe that polanski cranked out such a masterpiece in the 90s. so the top 3 is chinatown, bitter moon, macbeth
dang checking out bitter moon
'The Scottish play' comes from a superstition that it's bad luck to say the play's name in a playhouse
Yep. Learned that in high school.
the absolute best macbeth adaptation, I haven't seen the coens' yet though
the swordplay is excellent even with that limited research they had in the 70s
coens was amazing but i still think im giving it to roman. they shifted all the evil onto macbeth instead of sharing it with lady macbeth as usual which felt weird.
amazing choreography i thought it was Bob Anderson but i guess not