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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
THat William Lustig vibe is exactly what i look for in a film. I dunno if I ever mentioned this, but MANIAC was the first movie I ever bought on vhs, and then I got Maniac Cop 1-3! Haha. Those were my first 4 movies, all Lustig movies with "maniac" in the title (no kidding, by the end of that year, I had also bought 'Invisible Maniac" and John Waters' "Multiple Maniacs" too; something about "maniac" in the title). I ended up buying his "Relentless" and "Vigilante" too...
ANYWAY, that whole depressing, lonely vibe is exactly waht I look for in cinema, I guess I'd never thought of it before until you just mentioned that.. but films like Naked, Out of the Blue, Combat Shock, Taxi Driver, many of Kitano's films and all of Jost's films... many of Sidney Lumet's films (there's something insanely depressing about some of his films, for some reason... I think it has to do with the fact that he very rarely uses background music.. it's just so weird to not hear any background sound, it takes you out of your comfort zone in a way, since so many pictures are loaded with "atmospheric" soundtracks and so on, I never appreciated the art of silence until watching Lumet's films)... that's the kind of cinema that really makes me love movies.
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A lot of those movies you mentioned are the very ones that got me hooked, too. Maniac was a massively important film for me. It's great you mentioned Out of the Blue, which was another biggie for me. I remember watching it on TV and being gobsmacked by it. I'll admit to finding a lot of those films quite hard to watch now, though. That depressive angle finally catching up with me. It's the more joyous filmmakers I gravitate towards now; Fellini, people like that. Filmmakers who make you love life as much as they do movies. I watched Amarcord for the first time in years last night and it was like taking an E. lol.
Have you seen any Robert Bresson? If you haven't already, try and see Au Hasard Balthazar. Godard once described it as a life changing film and it may be the one thing Godard ever said that I actually agree with. There's a very obvious depressing angle to it but underneath it there's something almost indescribably beautiful. I'm sure its final scene will remain with me forever.