Will do, thanks! For me it's À l'intérieur (Inside), but fair warning: it's gnarly. Gotta give a shout out to The Children (2008), too. A far too rare example of a director actually making kids seem frightening on screen.
Anyway, a pretty big name long time movie reviewer is a friend of a friend of the family. Luckily he loves to talk about movies, at least to this lucky pede. We were geeking out about Excalibur one time, and he told me a story about the filming of Hell in the Pacific told to him by John Boorman himself. Mifune was very difficult to work with, and they butted heads the entire production. They got way behind schedule and over budget, and the studio sent some execs to location to replace Boorman. Mifune told them that if they fired Boorman, he'd quit too. Fucking bad ass.
And thought I mentioned this in another comment, but be sure to check out Yôji Yamada's Samurai Trilogy. The first two, especially, are the kinds of films that make me lean forward in order to better absorb the beauty of celluloid.
Will do, thanks! For me it's À l'intérieur (Inside), but fair warning: it's gnarly. Gotta give a shout out to The Children (2008), too. A far too rare example of a director actually making kids seem frightening on screen.
Anyway, a pretty big name long time movie reviewer is a friend of a friend of the family. Luckily he loves to talk about movies, at least to this lucky pede. We were geeking out about Excalibur one time, and he told me a story about the filming of Hell in the Pacific told to him by John Boorman himself. Mifune was very difficult to work with, and they butted heads the entire production. They got way behind schedule and over budget, and the studio sent some execs to location to replace Boorman. Mifune told them that if they fired Boorman, he'd quit too. Fucking bad ass.
And thought I mentioned this in another comment, but be sure to check out Yôji Yamada's Samurai Trilogy. The first two, especially, are the kinds of films that make me lean forward in order to better absorb the beauty of celluloid.