<p>My bad. And BHL apparently is now seeing Daphnie Guiness. According to Paris Match. Inquiring minds like to know 
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<p>I love Truffaut. The only film of his that I’ve seen and disliked was Two English Girls, which is on my short list of most disappointing films. The 400 Blows, Jules et Jim, Stolen Kisses, Day for Night, The Last Metro, The Soft Skin, Small Change…each one wonderful.</p>
<p>Kubrick, more of a mixed bag. Paths of Glory, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove: great. Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon, not.</p>
<p>^You forgot Eyes Wide Shut - horrible movie!</p>
<p>LOVED Sideways. DDs and I often quote lines from it. </p>
<p>“What’s with the hositlity, man? I know you’re frustrated with your life right now, but you CAN choose to be less hostile.” LOL, love that one.</p>
<p>I did not like Sideways at all. I never got what people liked about it. It was a real disappointment when I saw it, because I was late to the party, and people had been talking about it a lot. I thought it was just another stupid road trip movie with characters I hated, slightly classed up.</p>
<p>Kubrick – what variation! That the same person who made Dr. Strangelove also made Eyes Wide Shut! I don’t actually like 2001, but it’s full of interesting ideas. Basically, I think Kubrick got worse with age and status. He seems to have taken himself very seriously. (And perhaps making films with Sean Penn or Tom Cruise reinforced the problem of taking oneself too seriously.)</p>
<p>The other director who has that kind of weird range for me is Bertolucci. Over 40 years since I first saw it, The Conformist remains one of my absolute favorite films, and I have never been disappointed watching it again. I like The Last Emperor almost as much, and I really enjoyed The Dreamers a few years ago. Spider Strategem and Before The Revolution are great. But Last Tango is unwatchable, I have never stayed awake through 1900, and Stealing Beauty has to be one of the dumbest films ever. Other films are neither so good or so bad. </p>
<p>Apparently I have only seen Bertolucci’s bad movies! I sure didn’t get what the fuss with Last Tango was about. It certainly belongs in this thread!</p>
<p>I agree about Bertolucci; and I downright dislike Jean-Luc Goddard. As for Kubrick, I loved Barry Lyndon when it came out, but I was young then And I forgive him for a lot of misses just because of “Dr Strangelove” and Lolita. </p>
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<li>Lost in Translation</li>
<li>Fault in our Stars</li>
<li>Michael Clayton</li>
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<p>I disliked Sideways from the get-go because of the “I have to get laid with a stranger before I get married”. And the scene in the winery with him drinking from the spit out buckets was disgusting but I admit, a very compelling piece of acting. I guess I just didn’t get it. Yes, it’s when I first noticed Sandra Oh as well.</p>
<p>I was way too young and naive and sheltered etc. to have seen A Clockwork Orange when it came out. It was horrifying to me. </p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange was my ex-H’s favorite movie. It should have been a warning to me…</p>
<p>@mathmom There’s no way in hell I was going to pay to see Eyes Wide Shut. I can’t stand Tom Cruise. The Cruise+Kubrick double whammy? No way. </p>
<p>Last Tango was a bad movie. Except the “marriage pop” sequence. One thing I recall vividly: Bertolucci was asked why he hadn’t shown Brando as naked as Maria Schneider, and he said that it made him feel too vulnerable. Sheesh! Apparently not for a nanosecond did it occur to him to wonder how WOMEN felt when they saw female nudity of that type!!</p>
<p>Maybe you had to read the book to see A Clokwork Orange dispassionately. I think I liked the creativity, while disliking the violence. Lost in Translation was meaningless to me.</p>
<p>First worst film as a younger person was Lenny Bruce, (the documentary made in '67, I think.) With my mother. Come to think of it, saw Last Tango with her, too. And some Andy Warhol movie starring Diva. (All this was due to some art cinema in DC.)</p>
<p>@consolation I can’t stand Tom Cruise or Nicole Kidman. For some reason dh wanted to see it…</p>
<p>I saw the 1974 Lenny starring Dustin Hoffman, it was pretty good, but depressing.</p>
<p>I’ve always wanted to see A Clockwork Orange, but dh won’t see it again, so I have to remember to watch it sometime when he’s away.</p>
<p>I like Lost in Translation. I had originally wanted to see Sideways, and then read a review saying it was basically two unlikable alcoholics having a road trip and it seemed less appealing.</p>
<p>The only sequence I remember liking in Last Tango is a shot in the metro station where the characters are on opposite platforms and their view of each other gets blocked by trains and then there’s an empty platform and one of them is gone.</p>
<p>I liked Lost In Translation. I thought Bill Murray was great, and I wasn’t sick of Scarlett Johansson yet. I was very favorably predisposed to Sophia Coppola because I had really loved The Virgin Suicides, and I hadn’t seen Marie Antoinette yet (because it hadn’t been made yet). There was no meaningful narrative, but Murray was an interesting character, and the visuals (including both the Shinjuku district and Johansson) were lovely. I thought the movie subverted more than reinforced the Hollywood cliche of romance between a very young woman and a 50-something male star, and produced something like a believable relationship.</p>
<p>Clockwork Orange: I remember really liking it, but I haven’t seen it since college. I liked the language Burgess created and the arresting aesthetics. It was one of the movies my mother loved because it was about teenage boys (she spent a lot of her career teaching teenage boys) and expressed an existentialist ethical stance not unlike her own. (In roughly the same category for her were If . . . . and, although I can’t quite explain why, Cries and Whispers. For a few years she arranged private showings of Cries and Whispers every year for the philosophy and literature classes she taught.</p>
<p>Ooh, I hated Cries and Whispers. Bergman is hit or miss for me–liked Seventh Seal, liked Persona OK, loved Magic Flute–but Cries and Whispers–yuck.</p>
<p>I also liked Lost in Translation. It’s funny–I couldn’t stand Bill Murray when he first appeared on Saturday Night Live, but he’s definitely grown on me over the years.</p>
<p>The Big Lebowski left me cold. </p>
<p>I also disliked Sideways. Paul Giamatti’s character was unappealing. I could not understand why I was supposed to care about his self-imposed unhappiness. </p>
<p>Oh, If… was one of my favorite movies for ages. I also liked O Lucky Man, but not as much.</p>
<p>I actually saw Lost in Translation for the first time in the last few months, after I had already come to abhor Scarlet J. But I liked her in it, and agree with JHS about its virtues.</p>
<p>Cries and Whispers is not my favorite Bergman. Favorites are The Seventh Seal, Persona, The Hour of the Wolf, and Smiles of a Summer Night.</p>
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<p>Only one alcoholic. The other one was addicted to women and romance.</p>
<p>There sure are a lot of " Tope rated movies " that I have never heard of ;)</p>