mark romanek's dvd wish list
by justin chang

12.05


"one hour photo" director mark romanek looks for films with the right combination of "daring and sincerity" when he's at the video store. unfortunately, many of his faves are still not available, most regrettably the "bill douglas trilogy," a trio of black-and-white films inspired by the writer-director's hard life growing up in a scottish mining village. "it's such a beautiful film," says romanek, whose music-video work has just been released on dvd, courtesy of palm pictures. "it's filmmaking that i call lall killer, no filler,' meaning every image, every single scene is stunning."


bill douglas trilogy (bill douglas)
  my childhood (1972)
  my ain folk (1973)
  my way home (1978)
the conformist (bernardo bertolucci, 1970)
the devils (ken russell, 1971)
edvard munch (peter watkins, 1974)
the day of the fight (stanley kubrick, 1951)
if...(lindsay anderson, 1968)
the passenger (michelangelo antonioni, 1975)
reds (warren beatty, 1981)
straight time (ulu grosbard, 1978)



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