/film/ - FILM

I'm fond of Farewell My Concubine. Also think it's very relevant for today.

>>14564

there's a weird trend lately where people who make interesting posts get attacked for bizarre reasons

The 20 year anniversary of Tiananmen Square is coming next week, so I looked for Chinese films or documentaries on the topic (even if made outside the country). I found this cool short with "Tiananmen Square" in the title. It recounts one man's perspective on the history of modern China using personal artwork, propaganda images, archival photos, patriotic songs, etc. Beautifully made. It's not exactly what I wanted but I'm glad to find it.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/sunrise_over_tiananmen_square/

<Shui-Bo Wang's feature documentary is a visual autobiography of an artist who grew up in China during the historic upheavals of the '60s, '70s and '80s. A rich collage of original artwork and family and archival photographs presents a personal perspective on the turbulent Cultural Revolution and the years that followed. For Shui-Bo Wang and others of his generation, Tiananmen Square was the central symbol of the new China -- a society to be based on equality and cooperation. This animated documentary artfully traces Shui-Bo's roots and his own life journey as he struggles to sort through ideology and arrive at truth.

>>14942

>The 20 year anniversary

i meant 30

>>13804

it was literally his worst film yet by a country mile. Why shill this on /film/ of all places?

>tfw you know it's all going to shit but everyone just laughs at you

>>14930

>Elephant

and here's the "original" -- very different but it still fits this thread nicely

>>14806

The first one is a brick through the window.

>>14921

Don't know the first one? rundown plox?

>>14930

First one looks good.

>>14728

anything new that has a black person, female as the lead role or a queer

>>12359

I watched mondomanila and Desaparadiso and i liked very much his style. The latter really struck me hard, since here in Argentina we had a similar experiencie with a Militar dictatorship taking """political prisoners""" and basically torturing them and then killing them, but selling the image that they were "missing", which is very psychotic, even worse than plain killing and telling the famillies what happened.

>>13514

>here in Argentina we had a similar experiencie with a Militar dictatorship

I didn't know that, I only knew about Chile and Brazil. Now I see you guys had two military coups. I'm surprised the US wasn't more involved with those, but I suppose there's some limit to how much foreign meddling they can manage at one time.

>>13530

>I'm surprised the US wasn't more involved in those.

It was. It was so involved that if it weren't for the fact that the us didn't want to lose the ""battle against communism"", we wouldn't have had the coups.

Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, all had dictatorships during the same time.

>>13530

The FMI had a key role too.

An all-time classic.

Amelia and the angel (1958).

If any of you have kids, show them this short. If you don't; enjoy the tenderness of it, and the amazing performance of the girl.

This is so beautiful.

Letting aside some mainstream shit, this is the best thread of the board.

>>14187

Damn, mirin

>>14704

I wonder what the point of it was since it's half the movie and he insufferably prattles on about it and maybe there was a point inside it until that itself was the point.

Andre is too high on spirit and will drive himself to insanity and obscurity because he has no ground to stand on and will become a lost delusional stagnant e.g. the hippies who never grew up and leftist boomers entrenched in pop esoterics. Also is this just another fad of his, does he really care about the serious topics he touched on or is it just a grand drama to him.

As for Wally he's weighted in material and cares for little beyond it, constantly worrying about money has sullied his spirit and now he clings to small and trite pleasures because he's been dejected so many times and lowered his expectations to a chemical stimuli level, practically no better than the stereotypical consumerist goy who's life is fine if he gets his pleasure. Never wondering about the benevolent spirit realm that can be reach in the material world.

>>14746

I wasn't sure where the story was going either, or why Wally had no real reaction to any of it (until much later). After sitting silently through 15 minutes of lunacy, his only response was something like "Gahhd, what else happened?" before going silent for another 15 minutes. That part felt like a monologue more than a conversation.

>>14749

Being polite and waiting for his turn to talk?

I noticed Andre can barely go 10 minutes without making some kind of Nazi reference. He mentions communism too, but only to scoff at a priest who badmouthed it. Typical attitude of his ilk, yet it annoys me every time. I'm not someone who thinks Hitler dindu nuffin, but if a person is obsessed with the big bad Nazis while giving a pass to commies (w/ a much higher body count), I can't take their views on the matter seriously.

>>11665

This seems pretty damn good. Certainly going to consult it more often in the future.

>>11707

I haven't read many of the reviews on letterboxd. I assume many of the reviews are amateurish because the userbase is mostly millennials.

A big part of Letterboxd is gaining followers. Since I don't care about followers, I prefer to use ICheckMovies for tracking my films. Status on ICM depends on how many films you've watched from major viewing lists. It's more about individual achievement than building a network.

....and I still miss the imdb forums ;_;

They mean virtually nothing after 2011 2012 and never mean anything for a superhero movie.

My favorites movies are usually those that have between 6 and 8 on IMDB.

Movies with a lower score are really bad, and those with an higher score are pretentious as fuck or are the standard hollywood oscar movie that everyone likes, which is ok but it never manages to fill my heart.

Rotten Tomato is basically leftists reviews, so I don't care about them.

>>12791

>What's the macgyver actor made for TV movie about the scepter.

I was thinking of that too. I think this is it.

>>12733

I like this longform article regarding Gunga Din vs. Indian Jones.

https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?sec_id=4171

The author says Gunga Din is the best adventure movie ever made. I disagree on that point, but I'm not sure what I would choose instead. Maybe something like Die Niebelungen if that qualifies.

And he is more negative on Indiana Jones than I am, but it's fun to read anyway.

Chris Marker's Sans Soleil and La Jetée are big classics.

Moon

New scifi film High Life from Claire Denis, her first in English

>>4496

>that love for Tarkovsky

Alright, I think it's time I start watching Diaz's films.

>>4496

Cool, my old account from The Auteurs still works

I need to log in more. Do they always have a lot of free movies to stream?

>>14745

Good post. Twin Peaks The Return was the best of 2017.

>>1208

It was alright.

>>1208

There's a plethora of short films worth a watch. One I can think off the top of my head are Cat Soup and Cencoroll. You'll find something good if you look for it, either or, you don't waste too much time anyways. Many of anime's quirks can be the most endearing condensed. And in its condensed form, you'll find somethings underground and untouched from modern trappings. Trappings that aren't necessarily bad if you like their novelty.

>>14736

Good taste, here's a documentary on the creator. That movie wasn't made by her by the way, she only made the shorts and manga AFAIK.

>>14736

>Many of anime's quirks can be the most endearing condensed

Interesting idea, and it kind of makes sense. The trailers often seem so much better than the features turn out to be.

I tried it yesterday, it was pretty good, so was the film, I'll try it later today as well if I'm still awake, or alive, hopefully neither.

>>11176

Jokes on you I'm behind a proxy.

>>11210

this

The only patrician thing to do is smoke while in kino.

I usually smoke when watching on tv too

>>14053

Wew

i prefer to not eat while watching a movie. i also always add subtitles so i can catch every word they are saying for the full experience.

you should eat in silence.

>>14619

why so hostile tho

>>14628

>just like the tool, it depends on the man behind them

In this case it doesn't I think when it comes to deconstructivism. Its very nature is outraging, even more to the target, the man-machine. The only problem is when it becomes mild or widespread, so that people get used to it, and then it's already not deconstructivism per se. Which may be a problem of today tho, that it has been weirdly incorporated into the Style without the important parts and with consenting architects and only serves as usually Style does, as a twisted catalyst for revolution.

>functionalist

I hate 'form follows function' and like 'I don't do function'. Even in more sane times when the world doesn't resemble panopticum, I would be opposed to it. People are useless. Our existence has no other function but to live. Functionalism seems to me like exposure-related superstition which, like all human-induced styles that speak of efficiency or ubermenschen or shit like that, fail because it was invented with mind set on such things; even the thought of it is failure.

Anyway, I'm too much influenced by anarchists to not at least think 'function follows form'.

Not to say that I live in post-communist country, so the cheap, bumbling functionalism is everywhere I can see.

>"Why can't I do it if I'm this project's god?"

Systemic godlessness is better than systemic, systematic and systematizing god.

>but the walling gets shafted due to the same irregularity thus having to place fake walls to create the optimal geometry for the acoustics

>some kind of alloy that blinds the shit out of you from the near highway and 2 street-level roads in most months not summer when the sun angle is not 80+

That's also purpose of deconstructivism in my eyes, to some extent, to ostensively not work.

>the music sheets... a mere touristic landmark

Showcase of capitalism I say, the absolute ugliness of shallowness. Even if it wasn't intended, it works against them.

>>6541

Probably because they're all in Hollywood.

>>13919

Oh right I remember watching that film. It was boring as hell but the whole Dali thing made up for it, that autist.

>>14674

I don't even like John Carpenter much but Dark Star is great. Maybe you noticed it's a lot like Alien.

Other Scifi Comedies I enjoy are Brazil and Kin-Dza-Dza

>>10417

i think you could combine found footage with many genres and it end up pretty good. i’d like to see a found footage crime drama someday..

>his movies strike as more interesting to explain than to watch and are all more commentaries on film

I consider his early works filmopedia.

>hypocritical, dishonest and short handed at that

Agree, but is there alternative? At least it's fun.

>loved

I don't know anybody who loves him. Most hate him and some acknowledge his work while hating him.

>>14663

And? This is pretty much what everyone should do if one were him. Breton would pat him on the back.

>>14235

>Why does this board hate Gotard so much?

alt-right board what the hell you expected anon

>>14665

alt-right never heard of such alien word like "art"

>>14665

>alt-right board

Not really. If you don't like someone's opinion, why not rebut instead of dismissing it

>>14665

>alt-right

I think "alt-right" only discuss about jews and interracial sex. Old movies? Nah.