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The Critic (1963)
Better than all today's critics
I just turned 71 last week, I got a right to be loud. I agree with everyone here. This short is a must for today's audiences.
The schmucks with their two-thumps up -- what? and their five stars must be blocking its release. What is this? Schmucks not spelled right? The schmucks at Winipedia won't even tell you where the word comes from. One should consult a moyel to know what to do with their opinions.
It could be IMDb blocking its release to cover all the messugass comments on the site.
Then they say, you got to write a 1000 words. I'm 71, I don't remember that many words. Nem zich a vaneh! Like a truth can't be expressed in less. Try E=MC2. What machines, won't even give me a little 2 for squared. You call this progress. Let people see the Critic!
Put it on a DVD. It will sell better than Pauline.
Elégia (1966)
One of the most stunningly beautiful films ever.
I had a 16mm print until it was stolen. I watched the film hundreds of times and it never stopped amazing me. The birds in the night light flying through the bare branches is just an awesome image.
As an elegy to the horse it beats Seabiscuit by three lengths. In carefully layered sequences, Zoltan Huszarik shows the evolution of man's relationship with the horse, from fellow worker, to provider of diversion, to a discarded relic of earlier times. The slaying of the former companion echoes Artaud for the truth that confronts the viewer about man's indifference to everything and the human economics of Hungarian life under the Soviets. It remains one the most stunningly beautiful films ever.
El Topo (1970)
It is a crime against movie lovers that El Topo is not available.
In the seventies, I watched this film dozens of times. I have a book which contains its script and stills from the production. I was fascinated by the director's visual approach to the masters consulted on the road to the protagonist's development.
El Topo was like an onion which you peeled away at, each layer richer than the previous in metaphor, mysticism, and the zen of movie making. Yet every attempt to find a clean copy is frustrated by those who own the rights, but do not want to share it. I have been offered pirated copies sub-titled in Japanese, but, for obvious reasons, not accepted.
Get it back on the market (in dvd).