Episode 192: The Phantasmagorias of Raúl Ruiz

==Show Notes==
: We discuss the hallucinatory career of Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz and his filmography of 100+ films! In an attempt to keep a few shreds of our sanity intact, we limit ourselves to discussing his mind benders CITY OF PIRATES, THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING and TIME REGAINED.
==Films Discussed==
* Directed by Raúl Ruiz
** Tres Triste Tigres (1968)
** The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1979)
** The Territory (1981)
** City of Pirates (1983)
** Manoel and the Island of Marvels (1985) (TV miniseries)
** The Golden Boat (1990)
** Poetics of Cinema (1995) (book)
** Shattered Image (1998)
** Time Regained (1999)
** Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
** Klimt (2006)
** Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
* J'accuse (1919) Dir. Abel Gance
* Un Chien Andalou (1929) Dir. Luis Buñuel
* Mr. Arkadin (1955) Dir. Orson Welles
* Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Dir. Alain Resnais
* The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) Dir. Wojciech Jerzy Has
* Boom! (1968) Dir. Joseph Losey
* The Hot Nights of Linda (1973) Dir. Jess Franco
* F For Fake (1973) Dir. Orson Welles
* The Mirror (1975) Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
== Discussion Notes ==
* Another month of the International Cinema Club!
* Raúl Ruiz: an impossible filmmaker with a particular style - it's all kind of a joke to him
** 100+ feature films to his name, plus shorts and documentaries, and unfinished pieces
** Wrote 100 plays thanks to a Rockefeller grant between 1956-1962 in Chile
** Exiled from Chile to France, where he worked in Paris public television
** His style allows viewers to fill in the gaps in his films, making each different for each person
** Johnathan Rosenbaum is a key source for all things Ruiz
* Our hosts opinions on difficult dreamlike movies
** Will - Not understanding a film can be deeply frustrating
** Justin - If anything can happen, why should you care?
* City of Pirates 
** No pirates! 
** Lots of split diopter shots
** Argento-esque colors and a Hitchcockian score
* The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
** Will - "It's Last Year at Marienbad meets F for Fake"
** Fourth-wall breaking, dense with literary allusions
** Justin - "it is almost the thesis of his movies - you will never be able to solve them"
* Time Regained
** Our hosts were impressed by John Malkovich's French
** Will - the film has "a Masterpiece Theatre look to it"
** Justin - "It looks expensive!"
==Listener Letters==
* No letters this week
== Post-Outro Discussion ==
*Top Ten lists for the year and the decade
**Will - Maybe you shouldn't work that hard on it?
***It won't be, and shouldn't be, definitive
**Justin - Lists are better as delivery mechanisms for unheard-of movies, since you already know the hits
*Our hosts strategy for picks - What have you thought about the most? What has changed how you think about movies?
*The ICC (mostly sarcastic) list of movies that defined the years 2000-2019
**The Mask (1994) Dir. Chuck Russell
**Monsters Ball (2001) Dir. Marc Forster
**Monster (2003) Dir. Patty Jenkins
**Zodiac (2007) Dir. David Fincher
**No Country for Old Men (2007) Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
**The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) Dir. David Fincher
**The Master (2012) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
**All is Lost (2013) Dir. J.C. Chandow
**American Sniper (2014) Dir. Clint Eastwood
**Mad Max Fury Road (2015) Dir. George Miller
**Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) Dir. J. J. Abrams
**Toni Erdmann (2016) Dir. Maren Ade
**Phantom Thread (2017) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
**The Old Man and the Gun (2018) Dir. David Lowery
**Personal Problems (2018) Dir. Bill Gunn
**The Other Side of the Wind (2018) Dir. Orson Welles
**15:17 to Paris (2018) Dir. Clint Eastwood
**The Mule (2018) Dir. Clint Eastwood
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