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   Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 13:26:46 JST Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr

   Name a film you've seen that left you with the thought, "This is art." If you want to explain why it made you feel that way, that would be pretty cool of you.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 13:26:44 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @Okanogen @RickiTarr Oh most definitely with Lawrence of Arabia. It's one of the first things I watched on my projection wall. It's one of those flicks that scales to the size of the screen.

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     okanogen TheEnemyFromWithin (okanogen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 13:26:45 JST okanogen TheEnemyFromWithin

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     So many movies (most mentioned) have given me that feeling. Many have already been named here:
     3 that haven't:
     Lawrence of Arabia - The full movie, in a theater with full wide screen Cinemascope, is a life altering experience
     Sanjuro - the sequel is more nuanced than Yojimbo & more powerful, exploring the nature of good/evil, honor/betrayal, self-knowledge/self-deception, I could watch this movie a 1000 times
     Stranger Than Paradise - can't put in words.... it has soul, a broken one

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 13:31:54 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @RickiTarr Casablanca -- it's hard to point to any one thing... it could have been a very ordinary film but everyone in it carries the vibe so well.

     My Neighbor Totoro -- it's just so charming, so atmospheric, and explores the relationships between imagination, animism, and life in the countryside

     The City Of Lost Children -- pause at any time and the frame is a painting dripping with menace

     Any Spuderverse movie -- total sensory overwhelm. Find a big screen and loud speakers.

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     Michael Gemar (michaelgemar@mstdn.ca)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 15:14:38 JST Michael Gemar

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     @roadriverrail @RickiTarr Casablanca is Hollywood alchemy at its finest.

     And yes! City of Lost Children! What a trippy film!

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 15:14:38 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • Michael Gemar

     @michaelgemar @RickiTarr "alchemy" really is the right term. On paper, everything should be extremely average. The story is a standard MacGuffin flick with a face turn twist, the actors are great but they didn't do anything but turn in good work. The cinematography is straightforward. The sets are great but it's not really a destination film.

     Somehow, this adds up to something incredibly special, with characters I never want to see anywhere else, and with dialog that never wears out.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 03:00:15 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @sbuzzard @Okanogen @RickiTarr If you don't make Judas a hero, or at least a necessary heel, you've failed in a Gospel story. That's a hill I'll die on again and again and again.

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     Steve Buzzard (sbuzzard@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 03:00:16 JST Steve Buzzard

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     @Okanogen @roadriverrail @RickiTarr That's an interesting double bill. I love Last Temptation. Harvey Keitel's Judas as the real hero of the story. David Bowie as Pilate. Dafoe playing Jesus as a cross-building carpenter. Not one of Scorese's better known films but if I were Christian this would be my bible.

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     okanogen TheEnemyFromWithin (okanogen@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 03:00:17 JST okanogen TheEnemyFromWithin

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     I saw the Director's Cut 70mm revival in the Cooper Twin theater in Minneapolis (the largest screen in the state at that time), It toured North America in the spring/summer of 1989. I recall it as a double bill with The Last Temptation of Christ, but maybe not? That was a long time to sit in a theater! I remember I fell asleep through part of LTOC.
     http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f1/t012188.html

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 03:02:49 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @Okanogen @RickiTarr That is an excellent double feature. Those are film meant to be seen in the largest, most atmospheric way possible.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 03:17:07 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • Steve Buzzard

     @sbuzzard @Okanogen @RickiTarr Bingo, friend. Bingo. And at least one apocryphal Gospel says Judas didn't "betray" Jesus. He "handed him over". And the 30 shekels were just the bounty. He's a complex character. He deserves at least some sympathy. He didn't create the cosmic conditions he fulfilled.

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     Steve Buzzard (sbuzzard@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 03:17:08 JST Steve Buzzard

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail @Okanogen @RickiTarr - very true. No Judas type, no crucifiction, no crucifiction, no resurrection. In Last Temptation, he's the only one who seems to realize this.