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Talking bout Practice, Ep 03: Cinema Therapy
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What would possess a person to watch 800 movies in one year? Let's ask Billy Ray Stupendous.
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What would possess a person to watch 800 movies in one year? Let's ask Billy Ray Stupendous.
Table of contents:
00:00 "The Movies" by th Statler Bros
02:59 Th tale of a livejournal movie discussion community
06:33 Billy Ray's project parameters / a cinematic canon
08:55 Kaylie's story / a post-suicide coping strategy
11:16 A movie a day
12:33 Billy's #1 movie: Sátántangó (Béla Tarr 1994)
15:20 "Hungary is linguistically isolated"
16:59 Suicide scenes in two films (Sátántangó, 47 Ronin)
19:06 Kaylie's story / "... to enjoy life again"
22:06 Kaylie's story / "... a muse quality to our relationship"
24:21 Kaylie's story / "... bus to Seattle"
27:00 Kaylie's story / a prediction of doom
28:16 Kaylie's story / "... into a park that turned out to be owned by the NSA"
29:49 Plunging into something wholly engrossing
34:58 Ringo Starr
39:55 From passivity to engagement (Rear Window, Red Beard, Jeanne Dielman)
41:33 "There are a lot of long movies on yr list" / long takes
47:10 "When I worked at the Prytania Theater ..."
48:33 http://letterboxd.com/glazomaniac/list/aov/
50:27 L'ange (Patrick Bokanowski 1983)
54:07 Billy talks smack bout Buñuel & shouts out lesser-known avant-gardists
56:53 "How would you describe yr relationship to film before th project started?"
58:40 "You hate child actors, right?" / Ten (Abbas Kiarostami 2002) / Iranian cinema
1:03:37 Billy admires political filmmaking & does not love Jess Franco or anal porn
1:07:00 Skimming th list
1:08:33 Top 5 directors
1:11:24 Distinguishing features of this list
1:12:24 "What's yr favourite Hitchcock?"
1:13:47 Billy's favourites that aren't on th list
1:15:50 "Have you seen a lot of film noir?" / armchair feminist
1:19:49 "What have you discovered about yrself from watching 1,000 movies in a year?"
1:24:24 Political lens versus non-political lens
1:25:42 To be continued?
1:27:42 "Bubamara" by Goran Bregović
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