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Hou Hsiao-hsien is one of the most celebrated contemporary arthouse filmmakers. He's one of the two leaders of the Taiwanese New Wave (Edward Yang is the other one), and as I said, he continues to secure funding for the films he makes and he has made a lot of films. He is definitely a successful...

Well does being successful in the film industry making studio films that make a lot of money? Or is it making films according to your vision that don't make as much money but gain critical appreciation and a strong following? I think that different people have different goals. I think Steven...

Haha well it is tempting for me to go for the shorter ones just because I'm not used to watching longer films, but if it was Jackson's original intention to have these extended versions I think I'm just going with them. And well, I've heard things about The Matrix, but I don't see anything...

Well then I think I'm gonna go with the extended cuts if they are closest to the original vision (even though I know this is not always best, but it's where I like to start). Thanks for all the information!

Haha well I've heard a lot of great things about Blade Runner and I've always wanted to watch it, and The Matrix as well. I've been getting into Richard Linklater recently so I'll definitely check out Waking Life. Haha well, idk I have trouble with really long movies unless they are really...

Anthropo-cynical Farce directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto - 5/10 Okay so I really didn't get this, partly because there was so much bad subtitles hitting at me in a fast pace, but also because I didn't see the point. If this is surreal experimental animation work, I still don't think it's that good...

I hate these lists of course because then I want to add ten more and ten more and ten more until I have about three hundred films on the list! But what I'll do here is put my top ten, but if a director has two films that would make it then I'll put them together on one spot. 1. Late Spring and...

Haha I know, I'm not well versed on sci-fi at all (aside from some of the major classics from the old days of Hollywood). I've only seen I Am Legend and even that film I saw when I was really young, I liked it back then but idk how it would suit my tastes today. Thanks for categorizing these...

Thanks for the list, also seems like a nice variety. I've heard of most of these films but haven't gotten around to them (in fact I've only seen one of the films listed here lol, and besides the Star Wars original trilogy and 2001: A Space Odyssey I haven't watched much sci-fi/fantasy that's not...

Cool, I love all of those, but also westerns and musicals, oh and horror too. I will admit though that I tend to watch a lot less fantasy and sci-fi films, and I don't know why even though I love some of them a lot.

Hanaori: Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto - 8/10 A nice short puppet animation film with a simple story. I love the way the story is told though, it's just very charming and funny at times. Although I do think it is a bit longer than it needs to be at 14 minutes...

Ah for me, my favorite films list is mostly made up of films that I give 8/10's or higher that spoke to me. There are some films that I have rated 8/10's that don't make it, and there are even two or three 7/10's on there. I think one reason I rate higher than you is because I give 7/10's which...

Yeah I mostly use Letterboxd but also MUBI. I rarely update my IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes. I think I've seen many masterpieces (on my favorite feature films list I have about 123 of them, about 45% of my favorite feature films list, so this isn't including anything else I've seen, if I include...

Well I saw the film before I was even a cinephile that was into classic films and I loved it. I don't love King Kong because it's classic cinema, I fell in love with classic cinema thanks to King Kong and a handful of films I started watching when I was 16 years old. In your opinion it is an...

Well yeah I understand that, but the way I look at it, there is no way that King Kong is an average movie and the majority of movies can't be compared to it favorably. But that's the thing, we have very different opinions on films! It's all good lol. Daughter Of The Nile directed by Hou...

Haha I noticed that you give such low ratings! My problem with today's genre films are that they take themselves too damn seriously! What I love about the original King Kong and all of these old kinds of films is that they were fun and they just let themselves be just a lot of well-made fun...

Haha ah well, I'll watch the 3 hour one when I have the chance, but there's a reason why this film was re-made, and that's because it is a great classic! And well lol, I guess I like nonsense in my films! :) Grand Illusion directed by Jean Renoir - no rating I don't even know what happened, I...

LOL you always seem to not really like some of my favorite movies. As far as I'm concerned this is a masterpiece! I actually saw this version first and haven't seen Peter Jackson's version, and I'm not compelled to because I don't why I would ever want to sit for three hours to watch such a...

The Unbelievers directed by Gus Holwerda - 5/10 OK not a bad film, but certainly not a very interesting one. It's just one of those atheistic/secularist propaganda documentaries that will basically only preach to the crowd. I wasn't bored by the film, but I did feel like I would much rather...

Haha that's good, I hope you both enjoy it! :)