My initial instinct was to make this a joke and put on movies like Layer Cake, Duck Soup and Milk which just have foods in their titles, but that wouldn’t have been fun after one of them, so you get a real list.
At first I thought I might not be able to do this, because my choices wouldn’t be interesting enough, but then I still made the list and turns out that while some are pretty predictable, I did come up with some from the left field as well.
I couldn’t find an official English title for this, but if I had to give a translation, I wouldn’t really be sure what would be the best way to go, because the word ‘taito’ can have very different connotations. It could be ‘The Art of Screaming’ or ‘The Ability to Scream’, but the most precise would probably be ‘The Faculty to Scream’, but that might be a bit clumsy. I don’t know. Not my field, really.
First, I was way too young when I first saw Nekromantik. I don’t remember exactly when it was, but it must have been around when I was 13 and met this guy who had access to a weirdly huge variety of movies, considering it was 1990. Some he got through his parents, but I doubt even they would have let their kid see a movie like this that young. Then again, you never know.
I really don’t like the last of those options. That’s just a pretty forced aspect of the movie.
The sequel no-one asked for, but it’s actually pretty good.
Ah, Japan. The home of Kurosawa and Ozu and Miyazaki and Koreeda and Shinkai and the weirdest shit you could ever imagine… or not imagine as it happens, because these movies are so far out of anything we have ever seen.
Europe. The Old World. The home of Guy, Bergman, Denis, Fellini, Bresson, Akerman, Sciamma, Dreyer, Murnau, Varda… The origin of all those obscure art movies which that one friend of yours always claims to have seen. You know, those thoughtful black and white pieces of cinema, light on plot and heavy on character. Well, none of that shit here.
This is partly a reminder that not all auteurs are directors. I would argue Tom Cruise is an auteur. He makes movies that fit his personal brand and he has a strong vision of how to present himself on the screen. Sure, he has at times moved away from this, but everyone knows he has a very specific way of approaching the movies he stars in.
I did not know of the existence of this streaming service until a few weeks ago, but there is something to be said for a service that has movies like Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek, The Return of Superman (Turkish Superman) and Wrasslin′ She-Babes Vol 07 right there on the front page. They also have a section of movies you can watch for free (you do have to register) and they seem to be pretty representative of what the service looks like on the whole, so you could actually try the service out first before paying (and the service is much cheaper than most streaming services).