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What’s the most pretentious movie ever made?
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I’m having a hard time deciding between “American Beauty” and “Crash.”
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The “third sequel” to Cocteau’s Orpheus, Testament of Orpheus. It’s an amazing film maker being completely self-indulgent and just talking to himself and his buddies, including Picasso: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_of_Orpheus
Although, late Godard “the loveable burnout” has a cornucopia of visual insularity from which to choose.
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Whatever Terrence Malick releases next.
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Heh. My first thought was “Whatever Sam Mendes releases next,” but his new one is James Bond, so maybe that’ll reign him in?
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Take your pick from anything made in the seventies with Robert Redford in it.
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Can’t let a commentsthread like this one go by without mentions of Bergman, Tarkovsky and Angelopolous.
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Saragossa Manuscript. Or maybe it was just the audience I saw it with that was pretentious.
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The Matrix
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The most pretentious movie I’ve seen recently:
Drive.
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I loved Drive. But then, I love The Matrix too. And Bergman. Guess we know what this says about me.
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Nothing automatically wrong with pretentious, is there? Don’t we all have our pretentious faves?
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No “Last Year at Marienbad”? That one usually places high in these lists. . .
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Derek Lowe, one of my favorite pretentious movies is Last Year at Marienbad. I really enjoy it! And I do love the score by Francis Seyrig, brother of Delphine. I’ve been wondering why I enjoy the pretentiousness of Last Year at Marienbad and not the pretentiousness of Peter Greenaway or Lars von Trier which I don’t enjoy. Maybe it’s the over the topness of Last Year at Marienbad, the nouveau-roman-gone-insane quality of it.
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Man, how could I forget Von Trier?
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Invictus is one of the more recent pretentious movies.
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