Each week, I Luv Video will present nationally-renowned filmmakers, famous musicians, local celebs & self-styled smarties weighing in with their lists (exclusive to this website!) of FIVE MOVIES they'd require to live out the rest of their natural lives on a technologically advanced -- but strangely deserted -- island. We'll present two or three lists a week until we run out of victims...
THIS WEEK:
MATADOR RECORDS MAVEN (AND AUSTINITE) GERARD COSLOY
& AUSTIN FILMMAKER, ACTOR & SCREENWRITER (THE NEWTON BOYS, DAZED & CONFUSED, LEVELLAND) CLARK WALKER!
CLARK WALKER
Texan Walker served as a cameraman on Richard Linklater's Slacker, Dazed & Confused & Before Sunrise, as well as C. M. Talkington's Love and a .45 & Kim Henkel's The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He also wrote & produced the Richard Linklater film The Newton Boys & directed & wrote the suburban skateboard opus, Levelland.
The list starts off easy enough to compile:
THE GENERAL(Buster Keaton, 1927)
One has to figure that the natives would like this one, too.
ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks, 1939)
The prototypical Howard Hawks movie, with God's Jean Arthur, the greatest female a guy could ever wish was in love with him.
PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (Sam Peckinpah, 1973)
Rudy Wurlitzer's existential road trip film combines elements of all of Peckinpah's great works - the futile violence of WILD BUNCH, the Mexican despair of BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA, even the rodeo hijinks of JUNIOR BONNER, in glimpses, so perhaps it might suffice for a virtual compendium of the director's work.
BADLANDS (Terrence Malick, 1973)
Malick's film took years to edit. Maybe being on an island would give me time to fully digest it in a manner best suited to the slow beauty of the montage, and Sissy's vioceover.
now, there is only one slot left, and complete panic sets in. To include one means to exclude a dozen others.... so I pick this one, which I am commissioning as we speak. maybe Werner Herzog can direct it....
NAKED SUPERMODELS IN HOW TO BUILD A SHIP FROM DRIFTWOOD AND NAVIGATE IT INTO THE SHIPPING LANES (Instructional Video)
Five movies is not enough!
If that's not allowed, then I'd have to pick a screwball comedy and leave out GOODFELLAS, which is hard to stomach. Of course I'd be tempted to pick HIS GIRL FRIDAY but that would mean two Hawks films... hard to justify. Then I think, just pick one you love and i come up with RED RIVER. Another Hawks... what's the deal there? The mind reels... How about something perfect, so repeated viewings would be uniformly delightful? A Kubrick film? Citizen Kane? The Searchers? But then, in a whim I guess I'll settle for a Billy Wilder film to round it all out.
SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder, 1959)
Who wants to be on a deserted island without Marilyn, or a ukulele for that matter?
GERARD COSLOY
Displaced Yankee Cosloy ran Homestead Records in the 1980s, releasing seminal albums by Big Black, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Live Skull, Swans & Naked Raygun. He co-owns Matador Records (Pavement, Helium, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) with Chris Lombardi & currently lives in Austin, Texas where he runs the experimental label Parallelism & 12XU Records. He also writes a really entertaining sports blog called Can't Stop the Bleeding (www.cantstopthebleeding.com ).
5) The Boost(Harold Becker, 1988) - This film taught me everything I know about romance.
4)
Tuff Turf(Fritz Kiersch, 1985) - What kind of high school has the Jim Carroll Band
performing "People Who Died" at the prom? A VERY TUFF SCHOOL.
3)
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995) - They're barely on the screen at the same time, but it's pretty
rare to find two American cinematic titans in the same motion picture,
let alone one this multi-layered and brooding. But enough about Rollins
and Tom Sizemore, you get to see DeNiro, Pacino and Val Kilmer all
phone it in to varying degrees, too.
2) Tapeheads (Bill Fishman, 1988) - hit or
miss (the Jello / Nuge cameos aren't so hot) but Don Cornelius' turn as
shady label head Mo Fuzz is far more illuminating than Steve Coogan's
Tony Wilson impersonation.
1) (box set) Bring It On (2000),
Bring It On Again (2004), Bring It On: All Or Nothing(2006), Bring It
On: In It To Win It (2007) - You said Desert Island, right? Even if I'm not just being practical, it's not like there's anyone else around to impress.
