tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321218951926757521.post1949939561931241502..comments2022-12-31T10:09:30.939-08:00Comments on The One-Line Review Presents: Max ScharnbergUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321218951926757521.post-3078978789128763192012-08-29T11:20:12.759-07:002012-08-29T11:20:12.759-07:00A soldier tried for a dissertation sounds like the...A soldier tried for a dissertation sounds like the Inquisition or early Calvinism; is Losey ’64 flick about the Inquisition trials?<br /> What M. Scharnberg calls ‘emotional’ in the movies he has chosen, others would call ‘melodramatic’.<br /> I presume ‘intensive love’ means many intercourses; I have spotted none in Kalatozov’s elegy. <br /> I have found merit in one synopsis provided here—‘Two white men and no one else are living …’—an apposite introduction to Antonioni’s sparse surrealism. <br /> The ‘Bergmanian psychic dishonesty’ is a catchphrase to be cherished.<br /> The shorter DVD being ‘a great flaw’ is a compliment? <br /> It’s nice to know Iain Stott picked up his team of reviewers so attentively, but I wonder whether Dr. Scharnberg, Freud’s nemesis, really assumes these are the 50 greatest movies made till that year?! The thought itself proves a bit creepy. Anyway, he has a knack for making even worthy movies seem dumb. <br /> Kazan’s ‘Streetcar’ as the best American movie sounds either as a bad joke, or an extremely dismissive and caustic one. Have mercy on USA’s movie industry!<br /><br /> But do not assume I blame someone for his bad taste—when in fact only his bad faith is involved —I would almost certainly list movies such as ‘Guys and Dolls’, ‘Sayonara’, ‘One-Eyed Jacks’, ‘La Chiave’ by Brass, ‘Divina creatura’, or ‘Desiderando Giulia’, among my 50 favorite movies—but not among the … 50 greatest ever. I guess Scharnberg misinterpreted the poll’s bent and gave us a list of his 50 favorite movies, which is fine—but not what requested or expected. One’s favorite movies may not be among the ones he believes are the 50 best (--a hierarchy quickly saturated by the output of Antonioni, Welles, Ozu, Mizoguchi, Tarkovski, Rohmer, Buñuel, Bresson, Angelopoulos, S. Ray, and a few others …)—and vice versa—many of the movies he would judge as being in the 50 best are missing, however, from his list of favorites—i.e., those he enjoys most.Doctor Singularis et Invincibilishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07498947639761749290noreply@blogger.com