Ingmar Bergman was a director, whose name probably (subjectivity holds) could be put on the same stratum with directors whose works were known, bred by time, and thus, had made themselves a legend. Among of them were names like Akira Kurosawa (deceased), Alfred Hitchcock (deceased), and Stanley Kubrick (deceased). Not a coincidence, that most of the directors listed on the stratum were retired, or well, deceased. As, by nature, you'd never missed something till its really gone. And once the director had put his mind off the shelf and call it a day, people who had loved the movies he / she had made would unconsciously and unanimously grant his / her the title 'legend'. But that of course depend on the movies he / she had made during his / her golden days. It would be hillarious, for example, to imagine that there were actually movie-goers who would grant Uwe Boll - the worst director ever lived, so bad that it would be better for the sake of humanity to banish him out to the corner of Galaxy, wherever that is - a legend, even when he finally realized what he had done wrong and thrown in some decent movies on his CV.
Ingmar Bergman, well, i wouldn't boast myself by saying that i had love his works. Ummm... no. His only movies that i ever had a chance to screened was 'Fanny and Alexander'. And imagine this, 5 hours! you read it right. 5 hours, of a depth study on humanity, phsyicology (i believe i spelled it wrongly, my bad) as it observed from the angle of relationship between two human-being, and their position in society, et cetera, et cetera. It was a mind-numbing experience. If i was a physcology (again, spelled wrongly, perhaps) teacher, i would gave an assignment or a final-test to my students to write an essay about the film. But, i was a computer-science student, and human physcology (again, well, you know the drill) was among the subjects that earned a little from my pool of curiosity. But anyway, he has been faithful to his subject, his style and shots were also reflected his mind's subtlety, that even if i hadn't enjoyed his movie, i wouldn't argue if somebody had said that Ingmar Bergman was the best director that ever lived.
Why, out of sudden, i talked about Ingmar anyway? As i had stated earlier, i just read his interview not a week ago. And from it, i had learned that Ingmar had a strict way of enjoying movie. Every Sunday, he would decides 5 movies that he's about to watch on the following week. One movie every working-days, always at 3 on the afternoon. And he would sent out his schedules to relatives and friends, by means of invitation. Taking by his steps, i had recently built a simple software which listed all of my collections (all the titles, its availabilities, and so forth), and also able to generate 5 random titles which i scheduled to see in the following week. I would then posted my schedule here, every Saturday or Sunday, what would i expected from them, and in the following week, i would posted my review on the movie i screened the day before (that would means, i would post my review of Monday's movie on Tuesday afternoon, and so forth). But of course, if i had a really pleasant mood, i would go to cinemas, and that, of course, went un-planned.
And now, without further ado here's the 5 movies that would be on the Screening Log list of this week. It is a shame though, since unlike Bergman, i had no home-theater stuffs (yet) which enabled me to invite you guys. But, all come in a good time.
 Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - MondayThis movie won an Oscar for the Best Original Screenplay, with Al Pacino (whose always been my favourite) plays as a ferocious and fed-up bank robbers, i should expect the better of this movie. Too bad, that i'm pretty sure that i would again see Mr.Pacino scream his lungs out as most of his other movies (i really wanted to see a movie where Mr.Pacino didn't scream). |
 Out of Season (2004) - TuesdayMental note, i really should reconsider my picking method whenever i bought a movie. Not like this, obviously, where i blindly put everything i haven't seen on my basket. Out of Season is one of those direct-to-video kind of movie, a B-class of movie, that i think watching it would be a waste of my time.. ah, well... |
 Hotel Rwanda (2004) - WednesdayOne of the movie that receives a buzz on the Oscar night, everybody i know who had watched this movie, says that it was good, even better than the winner of the award night, Million Dollar Baby. With Don Cheadle, and Djimon Honsou on the roles, i should expect no less than they are. |
 Birth (2004) - ThursdayNicole Kidman certainly - it seems - had made more movies than any other actresses, while that was not a very bad thing for her fans (such as i), it also arouses a question on term of her movies' quality. Some of them were extraordinary, though, but more of them were mediocre or even worse than it. Birth is something that i would expect to be on the mediocre ones. |
 Miller's Crossing (1990) - FridayEthan and Joel Coen was two brothers whose works has been something considered by many as a cult (meaning, that their works weren't that popular but to those who loved it, they loving it to death, even as far as founding a religion based on their works.. sick!). The way i see it, Coen Brothers were able to made a movie that so unique, you'd most likely to remember it for its originality, its sickness, its sickness (yes, twice), and its satiric stuff. With Steve Buscemi as their favourite supporting actors (Mr.Buscemi has been casted for five Coen Brothers' movies, and killed in three), i think that this movie would be the best among others that i scheduled to see this week. |