Amazing filmmaker Ra??l Ruiz 1941 - 2011

[bassie]

The NYT did a great piece on him at the end of July.
Probably too late now for TIFF, for a proper one anyway, but his retrospective would be nothing short of mind-blowing.

Ra??l Ruiz 1941 - 2011

 

[Sebastian Haff]

What's a good movie of his to start with?

 

[bassie]

I have not seen all of them - I don't know if I will be alive long enough or well-traveled enough for that!


What I have seen, they are all very different from each other.





The first one I saw by him, The Golden Boat, I have watched over 20 times.


On Top of The Whale and Three Lives and Only One Death are amazing, too.





I have no idea what your taste is, but the NYT does a pretty good job at illustrating what the experience might be like.

 

[pcmr]

any opinions on klimt?

 

[SPlDEY]

RIP





You should check out Mysteries of Lisbon or Klimt. I like Three Crowns of the Sailor and Tres tristes tigres.





I'm not a big fan of his films, but i'm probably biased because my favorite surrealist chilean film maker is Alejandro Jodorowsky.





bassie said:I have not seen all of them - I don't know if I will be alive long enough or well-traveled enough for that.




Alot of his better films are available on Karagarga.





- spidey

 

[SPlDEY]

pcmr said:any opinions on klimt?




John Malkovich cracks me the fuck up. He's like Christopher Walken to me. I can't take these guys serious in anything. Movie's interesting, but it's anything but a literal take on Klimt's life.





- spidey

 

[fauxteur]

imdb hasn't even updated his page yet

His first great European success came with L'hypoth??se du tableau vol?? (1979); a puzzling black-and-white film adapted from a novel by Pierre Klossowski, constructed in a tableaux vivants style that tells the enigmatic story of a missing 19th-century painting.

Interesting film on art interpretation. The philosophical voiceover can be ponderous, so it feels a bit like reading a textbook through subtitles. But, if you can handle something different, it's worth watching for the interesting concepts with stunning B&W photography.





La vocation suspendue is more of an endurance test. I didn't much care for it.

 

[dwyhajlo]

This sucks.





For those looking for a good movie of his, I really liked his Proust adaptation. YEAH.

 

[Sebastian Haff]

bassie said:I have not seen all of them - I don't know if I will be alive long enough or well-traveled enough for that!


What I have seen, they are all very different from each other.





The first one I saw by him, The Golden Boat, I have watched over 20 times.


On Top of The Whale and Three Lives and Only One Death are amazing, too.





I have no idea what your taste is, but the NYT does a pretty good job at illustrating what the experience might be like.




Thanks for the reply. I've just looked on LoveFilm (UK version of Netflix) and there's a grand total of two Ra??l Ruiz movies to choose from; Comedie De L'Innocence and Time Regained. I guess that makes things easier. I'll check them both out.

 

[SIRUS]

i've only seen three crowns but it was interesting enough to make me seek out more of his work. rip.