http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2007/12/third-poll-which-is-your-most-favorite.html
--I didn’t know Richard Hamilton before. He seems interesting. I am particularly interested in his painting THE CITIZEN (1981-3), which is about the dirty protest of IRA prisoners who smeared the excrement on the wall of their cells. I never imagined that there could be such a protest like this.
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--I guess Marcel Duchamp is one of the most important artists of the last century. I first got interested in him after I knew that one of my most favorite films of all time—EDEN AND AFTER (1970, Alain Robbe-Grillet)—has a scene inspired by Duchamp’s painting NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE, NO.2 (1912).
--Speaking of Duchamp reminds me of a very funny short French film I saw at Alliance Francaise in February. The film is MARCEL! (2004, Jean Achache, A+) , and it is about two clueless guys who argue with a female aggressive curator about why Duchamp’s “readymades” can be considered “ART”. One of the most memorable scenes in the film is when the curator tries to kill the guys as an act of “ART” or something like that.
--Hahaha. I think my polls are just excuses for me to make lists of something I love—directors I love (first poll), Fred Kelemen (second poll), film endings I love (third poll). It would be great if I find that there’s someone who loves the same things as I. But though there’s nobody who shares my interests, I’m already satisfied that I have expressed my love for all those things.
As for my third poll, I want to put all the following films into the poll, too, but I guess many people haven’t seen them yet:
FILM ENDINGS I LOVE
11. THE STATE I AM IN (2000, Christian Petzold, Germany, A+)
12. FOTOGRAF (KAZIM OZ, Turkey, A+)
13.THE HUNGARIAN SERVANT (2004, Giorgio Molteni + Massimo Piesco, Italy, B+)
14.THE FAREWELL: BERTOLT BRECHT’S LAST SUMMER (2000, Jan Schuette, Germany, A+)
15.LUST, CAUTION (2007, Ang Lee, A+)
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