Friday 2 November 2007

Films that make you happy

I came across this interesting list and comments. I think that Amelie is one of the most blantantly manipulative cold hearted films which is one of the recommendations in the comments. However black hearted Delicatessen is hilarious. And one of the few other French films I like Life is a long quiet river has a savagery about social class at its core. As for shorts which really stick in the mind an animation called Dog Brain I saw at the Annecy Film Festival a million years ago. And shorts by Derek Jarman (sublime Super 8) and Margaret Tait (oh I do have a terrible weakness for the avant garde) Home by Morag Mackinnon and one also by her which I can't remember the title about a group of Jews on a train.

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