hey, anyone know of any good solid academic writing on John Waters?? Specially on Female Trouble??
please advise.
thanks

John P. Shields
Scott Andrew Hutchins wrote:

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> Subject: Re: [surrealmovies] Your favourite films and directors
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> If some of you are still deciding which 10 films to pick, take a look at what some of the great filmmakers picked in their top 10s, along with some film critics' choices.
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> http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/faves.shtml
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> Here's a taster from some surrealist directors:
>
> Lindsay Anderson
> L'Age D'Or (1930)
> Diary for Timothy (1945)
> Earth (1930)
> A Generation (1954)
> If... (1968)
> The Maltese Falcon (1941)
> Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
> They Were Expendable (1945)
> Tokyo Story (1953)
> Zero for Conduct (1933)
>
> Luis Buñuel
> 1. Underworld (1927)
> 2. The Gold Rush (1925)
> 3. The Bicycle Thief (1949)
> 4. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
> 5. Portrait of Jennie (1948)
> 6. Cavalcade (1933)
> 7. White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
> 8. Dead of Night (1945)
> 9. L'Age d'Or (1930)
> 10. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
>
> Runners up...
> Destiny (1921)
> Die Nibelungen (1924)
> Fellini's Roma (1972)
> Forbidden Games (1951)
> The Last Laugh (1924)
> L'Atalante (1934)
> La Dolce Vita (1960)
> La Strada (1954)
> Manon (1949)
> Metropolis (1925)
> Nights of Cabiria (1957)
> Paths of Glory (1957)
> Persona (1966)
> Shoeshine (1946)
> The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
> Umberto D (1952)
>
> The Coen Brothers
>       Ethan Coen 1. Brother's Keeper (1992)
>       2. Il Bidone (1955)
>       3. Salesman (1968)
>       4. The Bad News Bears (1976)
>       5. The Fortune (1975)
>       Joel Coen 6. The Fortune (1975)
>       7. High and Low (1963)
>       8. Dames (1934)
>       9. Separate Tables (1958)
>       10. Where Eagles Dare(1968)
>
> Federico Fellini
> 1. The Circus (1928)
> (tie) City Lights (1931)
> (tie) Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
> 2. Stagecoach (1939)
> 3. any Marx Brothers or Laurel & Hardy
> 4. Rashomon (1950)
> 5. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
> 6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
> 7. Paisan (1946)
> 8. The Birds (1963)
> 9. Wild Strawberries (1957)
> 10. 8 1/2 (1963)
>
> Terry Gilliam
> 1. Citizen Kane (1941)
> 2. The Seven Samurai (1954)
> 3. The Seventh Seal (1956)
> 4. 8 1/2 (1963)
> 5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
> 6. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
> 7. Pinocchio (1940)
> 8. Children of Paradise (1945)
> 9. One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
> 10. The Apartment (1960)
>
> Jean-Luc Godard
> Top 10 American Sound Films
> 1. Scarface (1932)
> 2. The Great Dictator (1940)
> 3. Vertigo (1958)
> 4. The Searchers (1956)
> 5. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
> 6. The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
> 7. Bigger Than Life (1956)
> 8. Angel Face (1953)
> 9. To Be or Not To Be (1942)
> 10. Dishonoured (1931)
>
> Top 6 French Films Since the Liberation
>
> 1. Le Plaisir (1951)
> 2. La Pyramide humaine (1961)
> 3. The Testament of Orpheus (1960)
> 4. Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (1961)
> 5. Pickpocket (1959)
> 6. Les Godelureaux (1961)
>
> Peter Greenaway
> 1. Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
> 2. Breathless (1959)
> 3. La Notte (1961)
> 4. The Rules of the Game (1939)
> 5. The Seventh Seal (1956)
> 6. Strike (1924)
> 7. Throne of Blood (1958)
> 8. Fellini's Casanova (1976)
> 9. 8 1/2 (1963)
> 10. The Marquise Von O... (1976)
>
> Jacques Rivette
> 1. The Life of Oharu (1952)
> 2. Germany Year Zero (1947)
> 3. True Heart Susie (1919)
> 4. Sunrise (1927)
> 5. The River (1951)
> 6. Ivan the Terrible (1943)
> 7. L'Atalante (1934)
> 8. Day of Wrath (1943)
> 9. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
> 10. Confidential Report (1955)
>
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> "Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether." - Luis Buñuel
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