Father Son Film Festival (FSFF)
The FSFF is confined to what is in my collection which began in 2005, it is to present a comprehensive overview of the best of what was collected with a selection of the minor things in it, there has to be a blend of things dad will like along with more challenging to him stuff.
It is important to paint this picture adequately to in part explain why this is happening:
1. He had a fall on the ice a while ago, and is in constant back pain, which makes his bed upstairs too uncomfortable to sleep in, so he's in the living room where our TV is.
2. I've been estranged from my collection for over 2 years, I sold some of the highlights in it too
3. The main thing driving me clinically insane is hearing him talk, oh I will not try to describe it, because it is like hearing it again, but my hope is that with a no-talk time period ie: with films, there can be some sanity injections. And it's imaginable for me that these films can indirectly teach him how to grow as a human being, and for me too, to grow as a human being, film doing what non-fiction books are designed to do.
On this page my plan is to give a Table of Contents kind of reportage of what is being shown, fashioned after Dark Shadows, the show that in part ruined my cinephilia, a bit at a time.
This day is around the 3rd in this exceptionally experimental manner of consuming audio visual entertainment.
For each successive day I will do a comment to this original post, comments from others are ok, but keep in mind that I do not stream movies and shows, and I will not be purchasing anything until a) I prove to myself that this can work, that dad will keep quiet while they play, and 2) I will be prioritizing what I get to what I want to get, not just because someone on the internet said it was good to see.
I own the films and shows in my collection, they are to be things I will watch over and over again.
Some things i've collected weren't good enough to buy, as far as i'm concerned at this moment.
Today, March 24, 2025
1. An episode of Dark Shadows ... the evil Quentin has David in another time, and Barnabas, Maggie, and the gang have to find him, this shall be going into one of the shows great time jumps back, I'm picking the collection volumes at random, I forsake the idea of beginning at the beginning to the end, because if I were to do that, i'd never get to the later volumes.
2. Continuing The Circle by Jafar Panahi, I like this as it shows Tehran from 2000. I used to have a beloved friend from there.
3. continuation of The Turin Hourse, Bela Tarr's last film, oh I love the gloomy Mihaly Vig score. The idea of this film is to tell the story of the horse Nietzsche hugged just before he went insane.
4. continuation of Umberto D, Vittorio de Sica's masterful film about an elderly man and his dog, this is something dad should find something to value.
5. Ugetsu, one of the finest Japanese classics from Kenji Mizoguchi
6. Godard's Soft and Hard, a delicious film essay from the mid 80's. In this part of his career JLG was working with a lady, and in this we the viewers are treated to some dialogue they had for the creative process, what it all means to be making film art, with some criticism of television, perfect for our hour break into the doldrums of tv.
there will be an hour break for dad's favorite show Bull, a show where this guy and a team pick out jurists on court cases. He likes the guy playing the not so tall lawyer, i'm therefore tempted to show him an HBO program he started in as a funeral home person. The catch would be dad's feelings about homosexuality and swearing and stuff would be brought to the forefront, so if we progress well enough, he might be able to handle that, and then I could catch the finale finally, that I keep hearing is such a great thing. ... haha he's flapping his gums while Bull is on.
If all goes well, you dear people will have a taste of what is in my collection, what makes film as an art form for me, what makes it part of the Trinity of interests for me, no small feat I dare to say, this is a very delicate procedure, chances of success are small.
After the hour break the film festival shall continue till sunrise, after midnight they will be played on a lower volume to help him fall asleep if that comes, he does have a sort of insomnia.
7. Requiem for a Dream
8. I Wish
9. Edward Scissorhands
10. The Clowns
11. Berlin Alexanderplatz
12. The Docks of New York -- Josef von Sternberg's shimmering 1928 film of a waifish little lass and the sailor guy who saved her life.
13. Unforgiven
14. The Deadly Assassin
14. The Venture Bros. -- the season 1 finale, gosh i loved how there's homage after homage in it.
15. Taxi Driver
16. Baal
17. The Return
18. Lola -- Fassbinder's technicolor extravanganza, when Barbara Sukowa sings her first number that when dad made his comment that sent me into a seething rage inside and helped me come up with the key rule.
19. The Sawmill from 1922 -- the last film in The Vitagraph Comedies collection, a fun package that was among my 2nd last silent era purchases, and let me tell you that silent film is my numero uno part in all of cinema. I LOVED this, great stunt work, and the score was wonderful.
20. The Wailing
21. Scenes from a Marriage
22. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
23. Heart of Glass
24. Blood and Black Lace
25. Claire's Knee
It is important to paint this picture adequately to in part explain why this is happening:
1. He had a fall on the ice a while ago, and is in constant back pain, which makes his bed upstairs too uncomfortable to sleep in, so he's in the living room where our TV is.
2. I've been estranged from my collection for over 2 years, I sold some of the highlights in it too
3. The main thing driving me clinically insane is hearing him talk, oh I will not try to describe it, because it is like hearing it again, but my hope is that with a no-talk time period ie: with films, there can be some sanity injections. And it's imaginable for me that these films can indirectly teach him how to grow as a human being, and for me too, to grow as a human being, film doing what non-fiction books are designed to do.
On this page my plan is to give a Table of Contents kind of reportage of what is being shown, fashioned after Dark Shadows, the show that in part ruined my cinephilia, a bit at a time.
This day is around the 3rd in this exceptionally experimental manner of consuming audio visual entertainment.
For each successive day I will do a comment to this original post, comments from others are ok, but keep in mind that I do not stream movies and shows, and I will not be purchasing anything until a) I prove to myself that this can work, that dad will keep quiet while they play, and 2) I will be prioritizing what I get to what I want to get, not just because someone on the internet said it was good to see.
I own the films and shows in my collection, they are to be things I will watch over and over again.
Some things i've collected weren't good enough to buy, as far as i'm concerned at this moment.
Today, March 24, 2025
1. An episode of Dark Shadows ... the evil Quentin has David in another time, and Barnabas, Maggie, and the gang have to find him, this shall be going into one of the shows great time jumps back, I'm picking the collection volumes at random, I forsake the idea of beginning at the beginning to the end, because if I were to do that, i'd never get to the later volumes.
2. Continuing The Circle by Jafar Panahi, I like this as it shows Tehran from 2000. I used to have a beloved friend from there.
3. continuation of The Turin Hourse, Bela Tarr's last film, oh I love the gloomy Mihaly Vig score. The idea of this film is to tell the story of the horse Nietzsche hugged just before he went insane.
4. continuation of Umberto D, Vittorio de Sica's masterful film about an elderly man and his dog, this is something dad should find something to value.
5. Ugetsu, one of the finest Japanese classics from Kenji Mizoguchi
6. Godard's Soft and Hard, a delicious film essay from the mid 80's. In this part of his career JLG was working with a lady, and in this we the viewers are treated to some dialogue they had for the creative process, what it all means to be making film art, with some criticism of television, perfect for our hour break into the doldrums of tv.
there will be an hour break for dad's favorite show Bull, a show where this guy and a team pick out jurists on court cases. He likes the guy playing the not so tall lawyer, i'm therefore tempted to show him an HBO program he started in as a funeral home person. The catch would be dad's feelings about homosexuality and swearing and stuff would be brought to the forefront, so if we progress well enough, he might be able to handle that, and then I could catch the finale finally, that I keep hearing is such a great thing. ... haha he's flapping his gums while Bull is on.
If all goes well, you dear people will have a taste of what is in my collection, what makes film as an art form for me, what makes it part of the Trinity of interests for me, no small feat I dare to say, this is a very delicate procedure, chances of success are small.
After the hour break the film festival shall continue till sunrise, after midnight they will be played on a lower volume to help him fall asleep if that comes, he does have a sort of insomnia.
7. Requiem for a Dream
8. I Wish
9. Edward Scissorhands
10. The Clowns
11. Berlin Alexanderplatz
12. The Docks of New York -- Josef von Sternberg's shimmering 1928 film of a waifish little lass and the sailor guy who saved her life.
13. Unforgiven
14. The Deadly Assassin
14. The Venture Bros. -- the season 1 finale, gosh i loved how there's homage after homage in it.
15. Taxi Driver
16. Baal
17. The Return
18. Lola -- Fassbinder's technicolor extravanganza, when Barbara Sukowa sings her first number that when dad made his comment that sent me into a seething rage inside and helped me come up with the key rule.
19. The Sawmill from 1922 -- the last film in The Vitagraph Comedies collection, a fun package that was among my 2nd last silent era purchases, and let me tell you that silent film is my numero uno part in all of cinema. I LOVED this, great stunt work, and the score was wonderful.
20. The Wailing
21. Scenes from a Marriage
22. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
23. Heart of Glass
24. Blood and Black Lace
25. Claire's Knee
46-50, M