Wie jedes Jahr hat der unvergleichliche John Waters für Artforum seine – wie ich finde: diesmal etwas befremdlichen – Lieblingsfilme aufgelistet, mit aber natürlich exquisiten Begründungen:
1. The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies) – The agony and passion of obsessive love and a broken heart are so well wrought here that you’ll wish you were suicidal over someone who didn’t love you back.
2. Paradies: Glaube (Ulrich Seidl) – Fassbinder died, so God gave us Ulrich Seidl. I laughed uproariously throughout this horrifying portrait of a religious fanatic, and if there’s something the matter with you, you will, too.
3. Paradies: Liebe (Ulrich Seidl) – Middle-aged women sex tourists can be just as piggish as their male counterparts. But when the sexually exploited begin to exploit back, who’s the victim? The audience, that’s who, and we deserve it.
4. Liebe (Michael Haneke) – Misery is really in this year. “Hurts! Hurts! Hurts!” yells out the dying elderly wife to her longtime-caretaker husband, and ticket buyers will agree. Makes Saw seem like a romantic comedy.
5. Killer Joe (William Friedkin) – The best Russ Meyer film of the year—only it’s not directed by him. Gina Gershon, you shocked me raw!
- Jet Strajker •
- Dezember 13th, 2012 •
- 5 Kommentare
- Schlagwörter: Jahresrückblick, John Waters, JohnWaters
For me, a chair is a chair. Werner Herzog nimmt die Dinge für das, was sie sind. Deshalb erkenne er auch keine Schwulen, sagt er. Und so habe er erst jetzt – nach 35 Jahren Bekanntschaft – herausgefunden, dass John Waters (!!!) schwul ist. Wahnsinn! Unbedingt anschauen.
- Jet Strajker •
- April 18th, 2012 •
- 3 Kommentare
- Schlagwörter: John Waters, JohnWaters, Werner Herzog, WernerHerzog
John Waters nennt bei Artforum seine Lieblingsfilme 2011. Wie immer die einzig ernstzunehmende Jahresliste weit und breit:
1 The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar) – A dark, twisted, beautiful, and, yes, funny shocker from the greatest director in the world. God bless you, Pedro Almodóvar!
2 Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes) – This elegantly shot, pitch-perfect made-for-TV melodrama makes everyone who watches secretly yearn to be a woman with issues. The best period film in decades—period.
3 Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (Jon M. Chu) – I’m not kidding. A well-made doc that proves the Bieb was a child prodigy. Wait until you see Justin stick his head into the audience and shake his hair in 3-D. I screamed.
4 Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont) – In this grim, fiercely uncommercial movie, a fanatical Catholic young lady from a rich family hooks up with a handsome male Muslim terrorist, and together they blow up a commuter train. Love is strange, especially when God is involved.
5 Kaboom (Gregg Araki) – A sexy, well-written, end-of-the-world comedy that succeeds beyond all expectation. Doomsday never looked so hot.
6 If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman) – This sad documentary debates the regrets of radicalism as a pack of lunatic-kid tree huggers get caught up in frenzied activism and are suddenly accused by the government of terrorism.
7 The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick) – You’d think I’d hate this film, and I almost did—until I realized it’s the best New Age, heterosexual, Christian movie of the year.
8 I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive (Claude and Nathan Miller) – This beautifully acted French film is a tragic, harrowing warning to all adoptees: Finding your real-life birth parents isn’t always such a good idea.
- Jet Strajker •
- Dezember 3rd, 2011 •
- 10 Kommentare
- Schlagwörter: John Waters, JohnWaters
Vor wenigen Tagen wurde auf YouTube ein über 20 Jahre altes und wenig bekanntes Interview mit dem besten Regisseur aller Zeiten, John Waters, hochgeladen. Kurz nachdem er mit “Hairspray” und bevor er mit “Cry Baby” erste Ausflüge in Mainstreamgefilde wagte, war Waters bei Clive James’ Show Saturday Night Clive zu Gast und präsentierte sich in absoluter Topform, u.a. über Hollywood und Modeverbrechen witzelnd. Etwa zur selben Zeit erschien seine Anekdotensammlung “Crackpot: My Obsessions”, das zu den witzigsten Büchern zählt, die ich jemals gelesen habe.
I like murderers, I actually made good friends. Because if you can forget their one bad night, they’re very loyal.
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- Jet Strajker •
- November 24th, 2011 •
- 3 Kommentare
- Schlagwörter: John Waters, JohnWaters
John Waters hat, wie jedes Jahr, seine 10 bzw. 11 Lieblingsfilme des Jahres bei Artforum aufgelistet:
1- Sorry, it’s a tie: (A) Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen) Does anybody not think this is the best American movie of the year (even though it was made in Spain)? Come on, it’s got a great script, the actors look like real movie stars, and Woody Allen films Scarlett Johansson with the same obsession Paul Morrissey had for Joe Dallesandro. Gives heterosexuality a good name! (B) Love Songs (Christophe Honoré) I may be the only person who would pick this as the best foreign-language movie of the year, but what do I care if you don’t like this hipper-than-thou bisexual French musical? When the sexy, smart-ass characters burst into songs about brain tumors, saliva, and human sandwiches, I get all teary inside and realize that this is the only romantic comedy I’ve ever really loved.
- Jet Strajker •
- Dezember 2nd, 2008 •
- 30 Kommentare
- Schlagwörter: JohnWaters
