I Can Hear the Guitar: Olivier Assayas Presents

List creator: tboot Created on: August 25, 2004 - 6:23 PM PDT Description: A new BAM series programmed by Assayas. Can't make it to New York? Rent the DVDs...

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
'70s horror: The cinematic equivalent of punk music...
	The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
...genre movies made on a shoestring...
	Last House on the Left (1972)			Not Rated
with an anger, intensity, and sense of transgressive freedom.
	Videodrome (Criterion Collection) (1982)			Not Rated
"the most important film of this generation. Time has only reinforced its audacity."
	Videodrome (Criterion Collection) (Bonus Disc) (1982)			Not Rated
	Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
"Captures the fever pitch of that era, and it's also a rare attempt at bringing together European left-wing politics and the rebellious ferment of rock music."
	Gummo (1997)
	Casino (1995)
"His own personal juke-box, in a kind of continuous commentary on the images."
	Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
"At the time, American cinema believed in a lightness of spirit and not in money or seriousness...
	Vanishing Point (1971)
"It dreamed of losing itself in big open spaces; it traveled the country in search of itself."
	Blue Velvet (1986)
"Few filmmakers have had such a profound influence on the use of sound."
	Downtown 81 (2000)
	Irma Vep (Special Edition) (1996)			Not Rated
"When I began making films, I was inspired in part by the desire to share what I feel when I listen to rock music."
	Demonlover (2002)
"Sonic Youth composed the bulk of the soundtrack?the melodies and also the rumbles and frequencies that would be integrated into the sound montage."