Talking bout Practice, Ep 03: Cinema Therapy

download What would possess a person to watch 800 movies in one year? Let's ask Billy Ray Stupendous. Table of contents: 00:00  "The Movies" by th Statler Bros 02:59  Th tale of a livejournal movie discussion community 06:33  Billy Ray's project parameters / a cinematic canon 08:55  Kaylie's story / a post-suicide coping strategy 11:16  A movie a day 12:33  Billy's #1 movie: Sátántangó (Béla Tarr 1994) 15:20  "Hungary is linguistically isolated" 16:59  Suicide scenes in two films (Sátántangó, 47 Ronin) 19:06  Kaylie's story / "... to enjoy life again" 22:06  Kaylie's story / "... a muse quality to our relationship" 24:21  Kaylie's story / "... bus to Seattle" 27:00  Kaylie's story / a prediction of doom 28:16  Kaylie's story / "... into a park that turned out to be owned by the NSA" 29:49  Plunging into something wholly engrossing 34:58  Ringo Starr 39:55  From passivity to engagement (Rear Window, Red Beard, Jeanne Dielman) 41:33  "There are a lot of long movies on yr list" / long takes 47:10  "When I worked at the Prytania Theater ..." 48:33  http://letterboxd.com/glazomaniac/list/aov/ 50:27  L'ange (Patrick Bokanowski 1983) 54:07  Billy talks smack bout Buñuel & shouts out lesser-known avant-gardists 56:53  "How would you describe yr relationship to film before th project started?" 58:40  "You hate child actors, right?" / Ten (Abbas Kiarostami 2002) / Iranian cinema 1:03:37  Billy admires political filmmaking & does not love Jess Franco or anal porn 1:07:00  Skimming th list 1:08:33  Top 5 directors 1:11:24  Distinguishing features of this list 1:12:24  "What's yr favourite Hitchcock?" 1:13:47  Billy's favourites that aren't on th list 1:15:50  "Have you seen a lot of film noir?" / armchair feminist 1:19:49  "What have you discovered about yrself from watching 1,000 movies in a year?" 1:24:24  Political lens versus non-political lens 1:25:42  To be continued? 1:27:42  "Bubamara" by Goran Bregović