Happy Ramadan to our Muslims friends.....
Today, we look at the last ten films we've seen; this is an idea we originally got from "Film Comment" magazine, where Gavin Smith is the editor-in-chief.
The last ten films we've seen, include two that are in theatres ("Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl;" "The Overnight"). The earliest Hollywood film on the list is "The Brothers Karamazov" (bottom image) which is a 1958 film which marked the film debut of William Shatner (Captain Kirk on "Star Trek") and the earliest film overall is "Torment" from 1944, a Swedish film with a screeenplay from a young Ingmar Bergman.
The other two foreign-language films on the list are "Inside" (Yeralti) by Turkish director Zeki Demirkbuz and "Stray Dogs" (center image) from Taiwanese filmmaker Ming-ling Tsai.
It is not very often that we have a film from the 1990s, or the "Seinfeld" decade as we like to call it, on the list, but the very last film we saw on this survey is a strange spree killers road movie called "The Doom Generation" (top image: Courtney Love, we are using her symbolically as she is not in the film) which features a supporting character played by Parker Posey, who is one of the film's few highlights! (We agree with the late Roger Ebert who called it an awful film!).....
Here is the last ten:
1. "The Doom Generation." director: Gregg Araki. 1995.
2. Stray Dogs. Taiwan. dir: Ming-ling Tsai. 2013
3. The Dark Crystal. Jim Henson and Frank Oz. 1982.
4. Next Stop, Grenwich Village. Paul Mazursky. 1976.
5. Death Hunt. Peter R. Hunt. 1981 w/ Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin
6. The Brothers Karamazov. Richard Brooks. 1958.
7. The Overnight. Patrick Brice. 2015 w/Jason Schwatzman
8. Torment. Sweden. Alf Sjoberg. 1944
9. Me, Earl and the Dying Girl. Alfonso Gomez-Rejan. 2015
10. Inside. Turkey. Zeki Demirkubuz. 2012
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