/film/ - FILM

>>14808

Ok, but whats your point?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

>>14948

>OP wanted Nocturnal, colorful, 80s aesthetic

>Give him a movie thats not 80s and mostly set in daytime

The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)

Set in Seattle, it's a movie that challenges the suburban daytime married with kids lifestyle with a nocturnal urban arts lifestyle of single adults. Ultimately it's a life of loneliness and frustration but it still has its charms. It's my favorite Michelle Peiffer movie

doomer is the worst meme i've seen in years

>>15087

Thanks for saying it, no clue why anyone would willingly wallow in despair instead of trying to improve themselves. Even if the rest of the world is pure trash never compromise and join them.

>>15088

>improve

No, that's the worst meme. Reddit memes seem based compared to that. There's literally nothing screaming more "I'm retard born slave, without any talents, chinese tryhard". Woke bullshit. Fuck off back to factory.

>>15087

yeah it is quite trash and lazy but same goes for any wojak/pepe version 5000

>>15088

OK, fuckers. tbh some brainlet takes were over here, but whatever. Doomer and bloomer are pure memes and just stand for positive and negative outlooks for life. Most of world religions and philosophies rather focus on the nature of overcoming and understanding the negative aspects of our world and being able to have happiness in this dark place. I think portrayals of both approaches in the media are fine, and to be honest if something gets people to watch more good movies/read more then whatever I don't give a shit if they are total dumb-asses about it. They at least got something.

>>15084

Of positive and negative apporaches as he understood the falsity of the dichotomy (I am the dude who made the list).

>>15096

>quite trash and lazy but same goes for any wojak/pepe version 5000

Goes for pretty much all memes I guess.

>dark place

World is unironically paradise.

>second paragraph

Why did you state the obvious? Nobody even asked.

>life-affirming

I don't know anon, I find all emotions and impressions life-affirming, given they are not conveyed prosaicly. The only films that kill life in me are those that I'm indifferent to or mediocre, boring, vulgar, ugly and so on.

i'm having difficulties understanding the original post. i've slightly reformatted it to be what i think the original poster most likely meant. i removed some redundancies, added commas and pronomials. i cannot be sure whether what i think the original post meant is what the original poster meant it to mean, so i'm including it here so that the original poster can verify or clarify. despite my syntaxic efforts, the meaning of the sentence that i enbracketed eludes me.

"Have any of you thought about some music being powerful enough to being an equivalent to film, reaching the status of a quasi/pseudo-film? Even if not as vividly articulated, music always paints pictures in the mind, which can be, in turn, related to the aesthetics of film. [Music that can be best met with a match, or with easily painted pictures, besides concept albums; and initial progressive rock is music with texture, and sonic landscapes like kosmischeklang, early post-rock, and some post-punk/no-wave, but I'd also like to hear the genres that paint a film in your head.] I'm not saying the two mediums are interchangeable, nor trying to break the boundaries of art, but it'd be nice to discuss and break up the monotony of the threads on the front pages.

The thread that this one replaced was a 9-reply thread on Inherent Vice."

>>10973

Mein negger.

Vid related has to be one of the most beautiful yet haunting pieces of music i've ever heard.

>>14406

Think it's fairly obvious what the OP meant to say

>>14411

>Think it's fairly obvious what the OP meant to say

Why should he think that? It's quite obvious that he doesn't know what OP meant to say if he made that post. Hell, even I don't understand the sentence he enclosed in brackets.

<inb4 thread is about the relation between film and music.

That's obvious, but if you think that it's not important to have your meaning exactly understood, nor to exactly understand others' meanings, then you are either antisocial (then, why are you here, why are you wasting your precious time writing to us, reading what we wrote? Hm?), or an idiot (the goal of communication is, well, communication, if people are not exactly understanding each other, they are not communicating well).

>>12229

I really like that one. I'm surprised at the low imdb rating though (5.9/10!). I guess it rates poorly because of the way it unrealistically maligns cities like New York.

I submit Genoa - More Than This as of the best short city movies. Tell me if you agree.

The director says

<Genoa is one of the most underrated cities in Europe. City reveals its charm if you decide to explore it. Here's a short visual poem exposing my memories that left with me after my short stay there. Place that is free of crowds and chaos you may observe all around.

Montreal By Night (1947)

Look at Life - Down London River, 1959

A trip down the Thames tothe Port of London and "2000 acres of docks".

Interesting comment section about the ways London has changed -- some negative comments about immigration as you might expect, also people noticing how prominent buildings were filthy from pollution back then. The London docks no longer exist as they could not facilitate large vessels carrying shipping containers.

>>14912

>The Purge

I would label the series as "dystopian horror" which is kind of unusual. I can't think of anything else in that category. Typically dystopian movies are in the sci-fi genre with less violence.

Two regular horror movies similar to The Purge are Ils (2006) and The Strangers (2008). But, your mileage may vary because they don't have the "Extreme alternate culture timeline" aspect.

The Purge ripped off an old Star Trek episode called "The Return of the Archons"

https://mega.nz/#!uhZnVACD!Pu4ixhmmGEayW2qIUE7J-aWsAXHDPehe9-UZxyFbHic

>>14133

>>14144

The clip at 3:48.

>>14909

official trailer out 3 days ago

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

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.