Still photo from Lars Von Trier's "Melancholia"
For 10 days I have been doing a 10-day films challenge on Facebook. Some people have said to me that they cannot figure out the title of the film just by the picture or by my depictions and explanations of what it meant to me. So I will reveal them here now.
Day 1 - Westworld Season 3 (2020)
WESTWORLD Season 3 Trailer (2020)
Day 2 - Ugetsu 雨月物語 (1951年 －溝口健二）
Day 3 - Hideous Kinky 『グッバイ・モロッコ』(based on Esther Freud's semi-autobiographical novel. ) A 1998 movie directed by Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon. The actress Kate Winslet began to champion a lot of independent arthouse cinema as soon as she got the fame and position to do so from her acting in 1998's "Titanic". There are many films that could have never seen the light or achieved the recognition it did without the participation and encouragement of Kate Winslet. Such films include "Revolutionary Road" and this one. The photography in this film is so beautiful, you can get lost in it. It is about a woman of the hippie generation, who goes to Morrocco with her two children without a plan or strategy, hoping for a non-Western spiritual enlightenment. She discovers Sufism and a handsome man played by Said Taghmaoui, but also a life of hardships. This is a film about self-discovery. In the end, she comes to realize that home is the best place. The music is wonderful. It features Moroccan traditional music including a Sufi trance dance and music by Nick Drake, The Incredible String Band, Richie Havens, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
Hideous Kinky Trailer 1998
Day 4 - Easy Rider (directed by Dennis Hopper, starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper)
Day 5 - Double Suicide (心中天網島, Shinjū: Ten no Amijima) is a 1969 film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. (篠田 正浩).
Day 6 - The Face of Another (Japanese: 他人の顔, (Tanin no kao)) - 1966 Japanese New Wave film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and based on the novel of the same name written by Kōbō Abe, starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyō, and Kyōko Kishida. Music by Toru Takemitsu. 勅使河原宏 監督、安部公房原作、武満徹音楽。仲代達矢、京マチ子、岸田今日子主演映画。
Day 7 - Melancholia (2011 film)『メランコリア』 - A 2011 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Kiefer Sutherland, with Charlotte Rampling and John Hurt.
Day 8 - Ginger and Fred - 『ジンジャーとフレッド』 1986 comedy/drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina.
Day 9 - Savage Messiah 『狂えるメサイア』- A 1972 film directed and produced by Ken Russell, starring Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren, and Lindsay Kemp.
Day 10 - Okja 『オクジャ』 - 2017 South Korean-American film about a girl who raises a genetically modified super pig. Directed by Bong Joon-ho and co-written by Bong and Jon Ronson, starring Ahn Seo-hyun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins, and Choi Woo-shik. The film was released on Netflix on June 28, 2017.
Honorable mentions are the following:
Woman of the Dunes 『砂の女』(1964)directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and based on the novel of the same name written by Kōbō Abe.
Steppenwolf －A 1974 film adaptation of Hermann Hesse's 1927 novel Steppenwolf, starring Dominique Sanda and Max von Sydow.
Mulholland Drive - A film by David Lynch
Phantom of the Paradise 『ファントム・オブ・パラダイス』- A film by Brian De Palmer
Solaris - A film by Steven Soderbergh. A different version from the one by Andrei Tarkovsky.
1984 - A 1984 film directed by Michael Radford, starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, and Suzanna Hamilton.
Death in the Country / Den'en ni Shisu (田園に死す) also known as Pastoral Hide and Seek. A 1974 Japanese drama film directed by Shūji Terayama.
Arabian Nights - A 1974 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
A Passage to India 『インドへの道』 - A 1984 written, directed, and edited by David Lean. based on the novel by E. M. Forster.
The Company of Wolves 『狼の血族』- A 1984 British Gothic fantasy horror film directed by Neil Jordan, written by Angela Carter and Neil Jordan.
David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers" 『戦慄の絆』
Shanghai Blues (Chinese:上海之夜) is a 1984 Hong Kong film directed and produced by Tsui Hark.
『Animal Crackers』A 1930 film featuring The Marx Brothers.
Eddie Murphy's "Raw".
Rock films including "Woodstock" and "Gimme Shelter".
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