8chan Top 250 Films
Here we go! Submit your favorite /film/s for the 8chan Top 250. We'll use this thread to discuss films that should and should not be included. Generally we want the list to reflect the nature of this board, so let's try to avoid mainstream titles. If you liked a recommendation from an old thread, or if you have a new suggestion to add to the list, now is the time to speak up.
https://letterboxd.com/8chanfilm/list/8chan-top-250-films/
https://letterboxd.com/8chanfilm/list/8chan-favorite-shorts/
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/film/ request
Does anyone know where I can watch La nuit fantastique? It isn't on thepiratebay and I really want to see it.Donkey Kong
Enjoy the classic arcade game Donkey Kong. The princess has been kidnapped. Play as Mario - the hero who overcomes challenges to rescue her. https://donkey-kong.io
Leaving this place
I have relocated the board over at https://anon.cafe/film/
Come join there if you're sick of pictures getting deleted for no reason at all
Where to even get these tings
Where the freak are you supposed to get really rare movies? I want to find Percevel le Gallois (1978) but I don't want to become famous first so they'll let me in the criterion closet. Where do you get your silly art movies if you can't get them from 1337, rarbg, kickass, the lot? And certainly not from physical media. Have you got it?
Any advice?
Hey /film/, Anyone in the same spot here?
>be 23 year old me
>Bussiness Developpment Manager at family owned consulting firm
>Good pay, get to boss around customers and be a lazy cunt
>boost the company's revenue
>father is ecstatic, wants to give me the commands in 10 years
>don't want to be shitty industrial managment consultant
>father gets GOAT idea and offers to pay more studies
>always pais studies on my own
>insists and wants me to chose, hoping for industrial managment shit
>gonna go for Ecole de la Cite Cinema et Television instead
Opinions /film/,do i let a bright future slip away and spend my last days in a ragged apartment just to do what i want or follow father's will and forget my selfish dream?
LOVE
so what do you guys think of this? did anyone see in in 3D?
i'm probably gonna watch it this week. gaspar is my one of favourite degenerate filmmakers. but i hope it's more than cheap sex scenes.
the LOVE poster reminds me of marilyn minter, a very cool artist. either she designed it or they ripped off her style.
http://camh.org/exhibitions/marilyn-minter-prettydirty#.VlTn5narSM8
What are movies that they're shoot with 3-strip color camera before 1955?
Well say, If films are shot on a three-strip color camera, It's credited as Technicolor, or Photographed in Tecnicolor, etc. or if it's used by another color camera it'll be credited as Print by Technicolor.
/meta/ - future of this board
I've been thinking about the purpose of this board. What is your opinion:Lost and Unobtainable Films
Excluding new releases, which films do you want to watch but cannot find?Hey, /tv/
Does anyone here know how I can find the book of concept art for Mad Max: Fury Road without ordering it over amazon? I've really wanted to get my hands on this book, but haven't found a single torrent with it. Anyone have a link to a torrent site that has it? Anyone got it uploaded?
The art looks really amazing, can't wait to read it.
250 QUINTESSENTIAL NOIR FILMS
The list is helpful to get started on NOIR with plenty of great titles waiting. I've been working through the 250 films on and off for a few years, so why not discuss it here? I hope I'm not the only one interested in this style of filmmaking.Alt board
8kun has restored our board, but there are still plenty of problems here. It is slow and difficult to use. Many images are missing. I cannot change board settings. I can hardly even post.
Hopefully things will improve, but in the meantime we have an alternative. For the past few months https://julay.world/film/ has been the home for /film/. It's been a more stable place to use, so have a look if you didn't know about it.
R.I.P.
Chantal Akerman has passed away. I've only seen News from Home and Hotel Monterey but I appreciated her unique style, even if it required patience.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/arts/chantal-akerman-belgian-filmmaker-dies-65.html
What's interesting about her personality is how she rejected the title of feminist film maker even though everyone wanted to put her in that box. Most obits you'll read today are quick to include that label in their descriptions of her. I remember hearing that she did not like doing "women's film festivals" and preferred regular festivals instead.
> I won't say I'm a feminist film-maker ... I'm not making women's films, I'm making Chantal Akerman's films. (London, 1979)
Watch my short film
I made a short with my friends for the 48 hour film challenge (come up with an idea for a film and shoot it in 48 hours). And I want to know what you think./fringe/ films
looking for films including matters pertaining to; Magic : Philosophy : Paranormal : Dreams : Religion : Occult : Symbolism : Aliens : Demons & Angels : Metaphysics : Conspiracy : Secret Societies : Mind Control : Morality & Ethics : Mysticism : Qualia : Psychic Abilities – Anything that is fringe in some respectITT: Questions that don't deserve their own thread.
I thought this might be a good idea so that we don't crowd the catalog and that threads of a higher quality can remain more accessible for longer. I'll start... and I apologize because I know how vague this is going to be. A couple months back (and I think it was on this board) I saw a recommendation for a French film that was made in the last five years. It's most obvious characteristic was the intense, unusual camerawork; holding on strange angles and shaking violently at times. I saw a scene and all I remember is that it took place in the woods, with two characters maybe? That's all I have...
/film/ Resource Library
Since we have the ability at 8chan to upload pdfs, here's a thread for sharing interesting books, magazines, and articles related to film.New Releases
This thread should serve the purpose of the sharing and discussing of new and upcoming films. I'll start with the film November.
>In a Medieval Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.
Decadence, corruption, immorality
I'm in the mood of films that depict a decadent world with no morals, full of crooks and scumbags working only for self-benefit, the dregs of society, backstabbers, rotten apples, whores and maybe a few uncorrupted individuals dealing with the corrupted world around them. Have any recs?
Favorite Letterboxd lists? https://letterboxd.com/kailasha/list/oneiric-cinema/
Stream Shill Thread
/nacht/ closes, then opens for /grim/, October 24
First, I'll run another Afterparty movie for the next session. While dependent on any delays in the /grim/ program, the 15 minute break should start around 0742 UTC (or 12:42 am Pacific), which puts the movie start at 0757 UTC (or 12:57 am Pacific). This movie will be Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
Because hardly anyone showed up for the first warm-up movie this week, I'm only running two this Saturday afternoon. I have a special feature in store for the last (handoff) bumper though!
All times UTC:
• 2200 - Music begins
• 2226 - The Shining (1980)
• 0105 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• 0245 - Souper Spoopy Speshul Feeture!
including 15 minute breaks between all films.
Where:
When:
Saturday, 2015/10/24 at 2200 UTC (3 pm Pacific, 6 pm Eastern).
Why:
This is just the opening act for >>>/grim/ and their Slasher Films presentation. You are highly encouraged to join them after we're done here.
Filling the chat with MST3K-style riffing and snarking about the films is not only allowed, it is expected.
Official threads at >>>/nacht/184 and >>>/grim/320
This is the >>>/grim/ announced line-up (with 15 minute breaks included):
Streams at: http://connectcast.tv/n1x_
1960/70's Counter Culture: 10/23/15
(no /nacht/ opener)
• Night of The Living Dead - 20:00 PST (03:00)
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 21:40 PST (UTC 04:40)
• Shivers - 23:15 PST (UTC 06:15)
Slasher Films: 10/24/15
This is the show /nacht/ is opening for.
• Halloween - 20:00 PST (03:00)
• Friday the 13th - 22:40 PST (UTC 05:40)
• Nightmare on Elm Street - 23:30 PST (UTC 06:30)
It was requested that I break this thread off from >>4180 and start new, so here goes.
Beautiful actresses pre 1980
How about top 10 actresses from films before 1980? I got a thing for Swede blondes but I did include a few black haired beauties. It all started when I was talking with a friend about how much more brautiful women were casted to bring works to life and capture our hearts and really make them classics. But after googling some women I remember fondly I found them to be pretty rat faced and disgusting. Also bonus points are seeing them at 80-90 years old and how sometimes beauty never fades or how plastic surgery and drugs really affects the elite. Anyways heres mine in order.
Bibi anderrson wild strawberries
Brigitte bardot Viva Maria
Claudia cardinale 8 1/2
Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at tiffanys
Ursula andress dr no
Britt ekland get carter
Claudette colbert it happenned one night
Katharine ross the graduate
Inger stevens hang em high
Julie christie Dr Zhivago
/criterion/
Surprised there's no Criterion thread yet.Hey, /film/, thought I would start a thread on independent film makers that browse here. Just finished my fantasy film two years in the making, working on some final music selections (very minimalist).
We wanted to make a basic fantasy film that is more like Conan The Barbarian and Dark Souls, with some cinematography similar to what you would see in Samurai Jack at times. 13th Warrior was also a big inspiration. The plot isn't complicated, but it is more about the shots and the atmosphere of the film. We shot this over the course of two years for about 5000.
The film is called Spriggan. Looking to release it in about a week or so to Amazon, etc. Take it to some festivals as well.
What are some projects you are working on, or roadblocks that you are running into making your film?
Here are a few stills.
film re-distribution
A thread to share some films that were forgotten by time and deserve much more love (and distribution) in modern times.
Me and my friend just started a film revival company and we recently got the 35mm print of Madness Gli Occhi Della Luna of Cesare Rau to possibly re-distribute the film on dvd/blu-ray or just a straight up magnet, its the first one of many we plan to restore so I guess this is also a thread for possible restorations, if you're all interested in a specific film, and/or have any info we'll be glad to help. I'll be posting the films that we will possibly restore in the near future and updates from the current run.
campfire thread
Lets discuss/make some fan edits
Share ideas, films, whatever you feel should be edited, last thread we turned American Graffiti into a schizo short and concocted a redux version of THX https://8ch.net/tv/res/2060812.html
I've been posting on /tv/ like a dummy but I see clearly now that film is better discussed here, at least when it comes to serious, non-meme edits.
VHS
Is anyone into VHS collecting? I've noticed it gaining popularity lately. Just enough time has passed for a nostalgia appeal.
What are the best movies shot on VHS? Do you even have the patience to watch a full production shot on VHS?
I will recommend the shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark:_The_Adaptation
Советский и русский фильм
I think Soviet/Russian cinema is sometimes overlooked compared to countries like France and Italy. How about a dedicated thread here at /film/?
Russia has more to offer than the dozen titles that everyone knows about. Talk about your faves here, but also the films below the radar in the West. New releases and former Soviet states are welcome too.
A couple links to get the ball rolling…
Russian Guild Top Films: https://mubi.com/lists/russian-guild-of-film-critics-100-best-russian-films-1908-2000
Mosfilm on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Mosfilm
Silent Films
I've only recently gotten into the silent era. Over time I found myself watching older and older films. Now I'm close to the beginning. Is anyone else interested in silents?How about FAVORITE directors?
-Terrence Malick is the best filmmaker so far IMO. His recent work is really in it's own territory. Knight of Cups is something special.
-David Fincher is just the best example of a technically air tight film constructor. Never seen something from him that wasn't extremely well constructed. Very clinical.
Sometimes the scripts he chooses seem beneath him though.
-George Lucas appeals to me personally, as I identify with him and the themes of his six films (Growing up and letting go vs. failure to do so. His first three films deal with characters being able to move on, and his last three deal with someone who can't, and who is consumed by his fear instead of overcoming it.)
He is a technically poor/uneven filmmaker, but he is like Grant Morrison for me, where his concepts excite me so much that the execution is of secondary concern. If that makes any sense.
And yes, I am aware that these men are "entry level", not euro, etc.
But unlike other boards, I would expect this place to nonetheless respect that the people i've listed have made great films (before you shout about Lucas, watch THX 1138), no matter how popular they are.
Cinematography
I'm really interested in learning about it but don't know where to start. Are there any good resources for understanding film workflow? All the aesthetic related things like negative stocks, film stocks, color grading, lookup tables, and how they all fit together. How "warm"/"cool"/"washed out" palettes are made and all that.
Pic related, some red that I like.
Rural, Contemporary Americana
I love films set in those forgotten places of the United States, wacky towns with wacky people in the middle of the country, stillness, comfyness. It just seems like a parallel dimension where nothing happens and at the same time everything can happen. I've never been in the US but my mind often gets lost in those landscapes from film, remembering memorable fictional people. I love westerns too but let's keep them out the discussion and discuss contemporary (post WW2 till now) settings. What are your favorite films with a distinct American setting? what are your favorite stills, places, characters from those works? Do you have real-life anecdotes of those places? if you live in metropolitan areas, how do you feel about rural America?
Post the most кино film you've ever seen.
Wait hear me out before you accuse me of shit posting, I want to actually hear what you think are the best films, in the sense that they encompass life through cinema. I've asked /tv/ and /television/ and both have failed me, I'm hoping this being the last bastion of taste on the internet can give me actual good films, the only good suggestions from the /tv/ thread were from a guy from here.
No Tarkovsky. Too easy. That is all.
Nocturnal, colorful, 80s aesthetic
I'm looking for movies with a certain aesthetic, see pics related. Basically an 80s photography feel with vibrant and sharp colors, lots of lights, neons, night-time, a certain dream-like quality. Wish I could express myself better but I'm bad at English, hopefully you understand what I'm looking for by looking at the images. Doesn't have to be necessarily an 80s movie (as you can see, I included some Eyes Wide Shut screencaps), just this type of aesthetic. I already seen most of Wong Kar Wai films which would be an easy suggestion. Throw at me everything that comes to your mind. Also discuss any aesthetics in film that you like/reminds you of the 80s (not only the type I requested), just for the sake of discussion
Recommendations Thread
Post your ten favourite films and others in the thread give you recs based upon that list.
In no particular order:
>Nostalghia
>Parsifal (Syberberg)
>Nostos: The Return
>A Canterbury Tale
>The Leopard
>Die Nibelungen
>The Plea
>Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
>Picnic at Hanging Rock
>Marketa Lazarova
Music and film
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 then be in turn related to the aesthetics of film. Music that can be best met with a match or easily painted pictures besides concept albums and initial prog 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 or 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 this one replaced was a 9-reply thread on Inherent Vice.
city movies
I've been watching old "city movies" recently, by which I mean movies (preferably documentary) that focus on the daily life of a city. Some favorites so far have been Duoro Faina Fluvial, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, and A Propos de Nice. Any recommendations of similar films would be appreciated, maybe we could even work on a city-core chartChinese Cinema
I've seen dozens of Japanese films but very few from China. It seems like Chinese films are not as widely known, especially if you don't count Hong Kong.shorts
Dumping links to some of my favorite shorts, feel free to add yours.
> Winner of the Acadamy Award for Best Animated Short Film and Short Film Palme d'Or in 1987, this is a charming animated masterpiece about a man who devotes his life to planting trees.
> Directed by Frederick Back and edited by Norbert Pickering, this is the full English language version translated by Jean Roberts and narrated by Christopher Plummer (the orginal version is in French language narrated by Philippe Noiret).
> Jean Giono, the author of the short story upon which the movie is based, wrote the story after American editors in 1953 asked him to write a few pages about an unforgettable character. They intended him to write about a real unforgettable character, but he created the fictional Elezeard Bouffier. When the editors objected that no Bouffier had died in Banon, he donated the story to all humanity. It was soon after published by Vogue in 1954. Many people have assumed that Bouffier is a real person.
Why does this board hate Gotard so much?
I don't like the guy myself beside some brief strokes of interesting formal and stylistic choices, but I'm interested in your opinion because I don't feel like I'm able to put it into words.
His movies strike as more interesting to explain than to watch and are all more commentaries on film (hypocritical, dishonest and short handed at that) than actual film. There is 0 beside some formal choices (at best) or some gimmicks (at worst). Also the guy was a fucking cunt eveyone hated him.
Yet while I understand why he was loved and so trendy in the 60-70 (now he's just irrelevant altrough I much prefer late video Gotard than early)I don't understand why he's still loved now.
>Realizes he has no ambition left and or the current state of capitalism is making it exceedingly difficult to make what he wants
>Actually has the balls to quit
>meanwhile "masters" like Herzog and Bertolucci are still putting out forgettable film after forgettable film.
Is he our guy?
The Mountain (1956)
Thoughts on this film? I enjoyed it, and thought it was both enjoyable to watch and also had deeper storytelling elements that I enjoyed. I thought the ending was powerful, and I appreciated that some of the climbing was done actually on a mountain (I think).Top 100
1. Dni Zatmeniya (Aleksandr Sokurov)
1. Juventude Em Marcha (Pedro Costa)
1. L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
6. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
6. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6. Caché (Michael Haneke)
6. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
6. Damnation (Béla Tarr)
6. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
6. Memorias del subdesarrollo (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
6. Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
6. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
6. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6. L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
6. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
6. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
6. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
6. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
6. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
6. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
6. The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó)
6. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
6. The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
6. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
6. The Weeping Meadow (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
6. O Thiasos (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
6. Ulysses' Gaze (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
6. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
37. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
37. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
37. Baraka (Ron Fricke)
37. Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel)
37. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
37. Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)
37. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
37. The Dust of Time (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
37. Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman)
37. Few of Us (Sharunas Bartas)
37. The Fire Within (Louis Malle)
37. The Firemen's Ball (Milos Forman)
37. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
37. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
37. The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)
37. I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noé)
37. Im Lauf der Zeit (Wim Wenders)
37. L'Immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
37. L'Important c'est d'aimer (Andrzej Zulawski)
37. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
37. Meteoro vima tou pelargou, To (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
37. My Way Home (Miklós Jancsó)
37. Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
37. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
37. The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
37. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
37. Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)
37. The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó)
37. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
37. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
37. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
37. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
37. Summer (Eric Rohmer)
37. El Sur (Victor Erice)
37. The Swimmer (Frank Perry)
37. Vremena goda (Artavazd Peleshian)
37. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
37. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
37. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
76. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke)
76. Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
76. Alice in den Städten (Wim Wenders)
76. The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
76. The Beekeeper (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
76. Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
76. Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
76. The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)
76. Cremator (Juraj Herz)
76. Eternity and a Day (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
76. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
76. The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
76. Film (Alan Schneider)
76. From the Life of the Marionettes (Ingmar Bergman)
76. Hayat var (Reha Erdem)
76. L'homme qui ment (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
76. Lunacy (Jan Svankmajer)
76. Nun va Goldoon (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
76. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
76. Ossos (Pedro Costa)
76. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
76. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
76. Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (Chantal Akerman)
76. Una Giornata particolare (Ettore Scola)
76. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
/film/ moments you love and hate.
>Film starts
>Earrape instantly starts blaring into my ears
>Just sit there in pain slowly lowering the volume in an awkward fashion
It hurt but I have to respect the film makers audacity to earrape me at the literal start of the film, few would do that. In retrospect it was great.
What moments do you both hate and love in movies /film/?
Top 25 Space films
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Alien
3. Star Wars
4. Empire Strikes Back
5. Close Encounters
6. Revenge of the Sith
7. Prometheus
8. Moon
9. The Last Jedi
10. The one movie you think was left out from this list
11. Alien Covenant
12. The Phantom Menace
13. Solaris (2002)
14. Armageddon
15. The Fifth Element
16. Alien3
17. Return of the Jedi
18. Contact
29. Attack of the Clones
20. Sunshine
21. Gravity
22. Interstellar
23. Starship Troopers
24. Total Recall
25. Aliens
what is the common thing between those directors?
Tarkovsky - Bresson - Tarr - Mizoguchi - Ozu - Resnais - Pasolini - Bergman - Dreyer - Brakhage - Rivette - Duras - Akerman - Straub/Huilett - Antonioni - Reis/Cordeiro - Gotard - Bartas - Yoshida - Eustache - Teshigahara - Snow - Marker - Kirsanoff - Fassbinder - Benning - Monteiro - Sokurov - Paradjanov - Vigo - Deren - Ray - Debord - Mekas - Oliveira - Weerasethakul - etc.
Serials, Mini-Series, Extra Long Films
Let's have a thread specifically for longer content.
I don't watch television series since I'd prefer spend that time on, say, 10 completely different films. But I'm open to watching mini-series, a format situated between regular feature films and TV series. (It's just rare that I actually do it.)
Has /film/ seen any good mini-series (or old serials)? What long films have you seen, did you watch them in one day, and were they worth the time?
Tried asking this on the other chan a couple times in vain, but I've always wondered about this line in Daisies - “This film is dedicated to those whose sole source of indignation is a messed-up trifle.” What exactly does this mean? What was it referring to? And how would you interpret the film as a whole? Also, post Czech new wave
/film/ Has Migrated to Infinity Next
8chan migration is nearly 2/3 complete. Once migration has finished, we will begin using the new site. You can monitor the progress at https://twitter.com/8ntech/ and >>>/next/3556
Posts on /film/ after No. 6502 will not be on the new site when we switch, so you might want to hold off on posting for about a day. That said, we will try to manually recreate whatever gets posted in the interim and feel free to ask questions here if you have any.
What streaming services do you use?
Because surprisingly Netflix does not have a monopoly on this shit yet.
I know a lot of folks that have subscriptions to different anime services. Cinema however i don't see as much love.
Personally the only one i'm using for my 'when i'm away from my collection' service is 'SHUDDER'. Its pretty small but lately they got some nice wins like all the Hammer Horror and Universal Monster Movies as well as some exclusives like Sadako vs Kayako -which is surprisingly not dogshit for whats basically Shaun of the Dead for J Horror- and contracted original shorts written by folks like Alan Moore.
Doesn't seem popular in the mainstream but its pretty cheap and i've gotten a lot of good views out of it.
Personally i just wish they expanded their documentary section. Though ROOM 237 is an unintentional comedy i recommend watching if only to question what the fuck makes people like that.
Are there any other movie services you use now the days of the mom and pop video rental store are a thing of the past?
Cinematographers - Past and Present
Whose visual style is most appealing to you (and why)?"Spartan" thread
Movies that take place in few if not one location and are driven by the characters, I'd like to find more movies of the genre. Don't think this genre has any specific name but this is what I heard it called and it comes from how 8 Spartans lived in a single housing in the barracks putting up with each other.
This place is no better than reddit
By which I mean that you guys are disrespectful and ignorant to this art as much as the next redditor.
Both of you treat Film as a consumer identity as a football hooligan by choosing a "tribe" and avoiding intellectual discussion, constructive criticism or simple confrontation in favour of primitive and destructive bashing of each others favorite brands.
Both of you are more interested in quantity and respecting over emotionally understanding and absorbing the craft of this art.
Both of you are highly illiterate and pander to the lowest common understanding and effect of this art this being "empathy".
Both of you are anti film and victims of the current methods of distribution that make film something trivial and inferior to television, advertising and videoclip.
Both of you can name more films than any of the great Auteurs in history yet you will never be on the same level of even the lowest of the mass produced confectioners because you treat this art as a flag and as a choice instead of being organically part of your being. This not only is valid for cinema but for everything else and sadly not just on the internet but this malaise of yours is leaking in real life (or maybe viceversa).
Pasolini once said that "what authoritarianism was unable to do with his solemn retoric television did with the opposite". Since television and film do have deep down a blood relation and in a ceratain sense use the same language it's your fault if the world it's in shit.
Instead of being the only sense of reason and the only art form who can still make a difference you guys as the rest of the "cinephile" choose balkanization and hooliganism.
Gimmick flicks
Is pic related the ultimate example of a gimmick flick?
Literally the only thing anyone went on about when it was released was the pretense of being one continuous shot. Any criticism at all was deflected by "dude one take lmao" in the minds of the plebs who raved about it.
Thought the plot was thin and predictable? But dude it was all like one take. Casting a bit weak? Dude it was one take. Compositions lacking any artistic merit or visual language leading to massive blocks of dialogue? Dude it was all one take.
Post other gimmick flicks and your reasons.
>According to Wiazemsky's 2007 novel Jeune Fille, she and Bresson developed a close relationship during the shooting of the film, although it was not consummated. On location they stayed in adjoining rooms and Wiazemsky said that "at first, he would content himself by holding my arm, or stroking my cheek. But then came the disagreeable moment when he would try to kiss me ... I would push him away and he wouldn't insist, but he looked so unhappy that I always felt guilty." Later Wiazemsky lost her virginity to a member of the film's crew, which she says gave her the courage to reject Bresson
>During the 1966 filming of Au Hasard Balthazar, director Robert Bresson proposed to her several times, though she refused.[9] In 1967, she married Jean-Luc Godard, and subsequently starred in several of his films; the marriage officially ended in divorce in 1979,[9] though the couple had already separated as early as 1970.[10]
Film Club #14 - Concerning Violence (Göran Olsson, 2014)
Our next Film Club features the newest film so far; it's come off the festival circuit for a wider release only a few months ago. Concerning Violence is also the first documentary to be featured for Film Club.
> Combining Swedish archival footage and audiovisual extracts from Frantz Fanon’s combustible 1962 tome, this is a sobering nine-part account of Africa’s struggle to emerge from the yoke of colonial oppression. Uncompromising, demanding and potently illuminating. ~~ David Parkinson, Empire
> It's a confrontational, direct and challenging piece of film-making; an illustrated lecture that muses on the legacy of European colonial rule in Africa and elsewhere and poses questions about cycles of power abuse and neo-colonialism. ~~ Wendy Idle, The Times
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3263690/reference
http://www.filmquarterly.org/2014/10/preface-to-concerning-violence/
Your suggestions and opinions for upcoming Film Club selections are always welcome. Either comment here or in the proper thread: >>3564
Just watched this for the 3rd time and im going to watch it for a 4th time in a couple of days. Its been the first film in years that has made me feel emotions for the characters on screen, absolute genious and one of Pixar's greatest works. Heres to a sequel since i believe the can work with the concept a lot more if Disney dosent choke them on an pg only rating. Who else watched and liked/disliked it?
Genius
What directors, writers, actors, etc. do you consider to be geniuses? Pics related are the only two I can think of in this area. Also, what are "arguments" for the claim of someone being a genius? I can't rationally explain why I think or feel these two fit into this category, possibly because I'm going off a feeling more than an actual thought that has been poured over and meditated upon.
Another element to consider... I consider these two to be artistic geniuses, not necessarily "actual" geniuses, unless the two are the same?
Sorry for the blogpost style here and mix of thoughts. Ultimately, what do you think?
Grad school
Hi /film/, haven't been on here in a while but I'm glad to see the board still seems to be alive. I finished undergrad earlier this year and have had a pretty miserable experience looking for jobs since then, it seems like the good jobs are inaccessible and even the shit jobs require 2-4 years of experience. I've been giving more thought to grad school, probably in something film related (whether it be and MA or MFA). I don't really know where to start looking on which programs would be best, just on a quick glance it seems like Columbia, UCLA, UChicago, and AFI might be good choices for different sorts of film stuff. Does anyone have experience with film-related grad school?
I made a chart to post in a 3x3 thread on 4chan but it turns out my IP has been banned, so I will just leave it here.
Feel free to comment, recommend and post yours
if you want to make one, you can do it here: https://bighugelabs.com/mosaic.php
Peter Greenaway
Why isn't Peter Greenaway discussed more often? I think he is one of the best filmmakers to ever live. He takes Lynchian surrealism to an extremely cerebral level.
What's your favorite film by him? What do you or don't you like about him? General discussion thread
How to get into /film/?
How do I get into watching cinema (without film school)? It seems really hard to get into and understand. Recently I have been watching some films by Refn, P.T.A, Harmony Korine, Kubrick etc. I am well aware this is not the lofty heights of cinema but it has at least cracked open the door for me in wanting to see films with a more artistic bent. However whenever I try and look for more stuff to watch, the recommendations are the same A24 releases that I don't really care for. I tried to find one of those "must watch" lists also and it was basically just a bunch of pop culture meme movies like "The Goonies" and "Ghostbusters" that everyone and their grandma has seen.
So, how do I do it? How does somebody get into truly appreciating film? Pic related is probably the closest thing i've seen to "real cinema" and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Also looking for some starter recommendations of what I should watch first. Also I know >spoonfeeding but I figured you guys wouldn't mind considering this isn't a huge board.
Alternate Transfers
Anyone want to share alternate transfers for movies they like?
For instance, the Attack of The Clones Blu Ray is a hot mess, but the HDTV capture on MySpleen is a lot better, bitrate aside.
We could also make this a thread about best available transfers.
For example, David Fincher has one film not on Blu Ray (Panic Room) but it is on Superbit DVD.
Hollywood Babylon
I've been reading Kenneth Anger's infamous book on the lurid history of Hollywood. What do people here think of it?
I don't know Anger's own biography. But I'm surprised an experimental filmmaker would be so obsessed by celebrity culture. Granted he's gay...
As for the book itself, it's more a collection of popular folklore than a rigorous investigation of facts. Fresh-faced starlets are said to live dark private lives of drugs, sex, and death. Often the stories do not ring true, but IMHO they still resonate because of peoples' desire to project cinematic fantasy into reality.
Anyway here's a couple links if you want to take a look. The book is pretty cheap on Amazon too.
Original book: https://1fichier.com/?6agrfb533n
Part II: http://monoskop.org/File:Anger_Kenneth_Hollywood_Babylon_II.pdf
(Post your obscure scandals, rumors, any other strange tidbits)
Guess the Film Still
So I'm in this fb group that posts film stills and the lets people guess what it's from. I thought this would be a fun thing to start on this board.
Rules:
- Film stills in this situation are excerpts DIRECTLY from the movie. No production stills, no behind the scenes footage, NO CROPPING (ratio is important) and no posters or similar material.
- GIFs are encouraged, OC GIFs even more.
- Please post films only. No series, music videos or youtube stuffs.
- Of course you can google but that takes the fun out of it so please don't.
- Hints can be given in any form. Extra stills, music, release date etc.
- Please try to wait with posting a new still until the previous one is guessed. Let's do one at a time to keep it organised.
- When you post a still, keep track of it and let us know when it had been guessed. I suggest we post imdb links along with the 'you guessed right!' post so it is easy to find out wether a still has been guessed right or not.
- Please link correctly and add 'Hint' to your post when you post a hint.
Tips:
1. Make your own stills in VLC or anything similar, they have a direct screenshot option in VLC so you don't have to printsceen your movies, printscreening results in worse quality most of the time. This also prevents reverse image searching and stuff.
2. It's a lot of fun to post well known movies with unrecognizable stills.
3. Watch out for filenames!
I guess that's it. I suggest harder stills than the one I'm posting now but let's start off easy.
World’s Oldest Director, Manoel de Oliveira, Dies at 106
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/manoel-de-oliveira-dead-oldest-filmmaker-dies-at-106-1201465173/Crowdfunding
What's your impression of the crowdfunded projects you watched? Amateurish or shades of greatness?you know
so I'm real into the tarkovsky and the 1920s experimental animation and i use meshes of the afternoon as a moving wallpaper and all that, i'm into the high art questioning reality, screen is a reflection kind of stuff you are.
but Napoleon Dynamite has the best casting of all time. they knew exactly what they wanted to do in this film, and by God they did it so impeccably. name one film with better casting, i dare you. documentaries/movies where people play themselves don't count. i don't think i need to say that but i'll throw it in there because the thought that if i saw this thread posted i might make some snarky post like that where everyone plays themselves
Thinking vs. Feeling
(I'm going to post this on /lit/ too because it's equally applicable there)
When someone creates a great work of art, how much of it is through rational thought processes, and how much of it is simply due to instinct; emotion?
I should begin by saying that I am, or rather was, firmly of the belief that it is an unconscious (I shan't go as far as to say spiritual) force that drives successful works. However, of the people that I have discussed this with, the majority seem to believe the opposite—that it is, at least in part, a methodical process. Not to say that it is in any way clinical or formulaic, but that the artist is fully aware of what they are doing and why.
Having read more analyses of famous authors and directors I think I understand why this view is common; if it is possible to dissect a work of art from merely having read/seen it, it isn't difficult to imagine that the person who actually made the damn thing knew exactly what they were doing. However, I still cannot shake the feeling that inspection of this kind simply describes why a piece works, and not necessarily the thought process of the creator.
Are there any authors/directors/whatever who have talked about this? The closest I have come to is Tarkovsky's comments on symbolism, but even that isn't really what I'm talking about. (funnily enough I love Tarkovsky's films. If I wanted to be a big homo I'd say they speak to me)
pic unrelated
FMJ
So I'm watching Full Metal Jacket for the first time since High school when I was in ROTC and about the join the military. Several years later, a few of my friends have died in service and I have rewatched the film. Holy shit, I always thought this was Kubricks most "normal" film and had the least occult symbolism going on but I was very wrong. I never noticed the Vietcong flag draped in the corners like this, the red and black, the inverted pentagram and the flames flickering beneath. anyone else notice shit in this film that I haven't ? I know theres one scene where a Vietnamese billboard translates to english: To continuously serve Satan, your excellency, but I havent noticed much else.
Film Club #7 - Guizi lai le AKA Devils on the Doorstep (Wen Jiang, 2000)
This month Film Club features a pair of films set during the winter holidays. First up is this Chinese wartime black comedy, which won the Cannes Grand Prize of the Jury in 2000.Robert Altman
what are your thoughts on Robert Altman?Discord Film club
A discord film club
for cinephiles
if you like
Bresson, Godard, Antonioni, Rossellini, Varda, Pasolini, Bing,Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Lav Diaz, Iosseliani, Tarr, Dreyer, Visconti, Rousseau, Farocki, Piavoli, Grillet, Rohmer, Kiarostami, Akerman, Sembene, Sokurov, Nemec, etc
you'll like the group
comfy people no trolling and deviant behaviour
People who got lucky
So I'd like to do a thread of people I feel like got lucky. Either it was being in the right place at the right time, or being surrounded by talented people who fixed up their work and made them look a bit better.
So post a film maker who you feel got lucky. Explain why.
George lucas. While having the vision to create some things that a bunch of people loved, we all know that the original cut of star wars was a mess. Over and over again, through the countless efforts of great people he surrounded himself with, lucas reaped the benefits and by casual movie lovers, is considered a visionary. The truth of the matter is that I believe dearly, and truly that no one else managed to get nearly as lucky as lucas did.
But who else did? I know that there are more.
Samurai Cinema
What are your favorite Samurai films, /film/? I'm a huge fan of the genre, Harakiri is my favorite. I also like the Zatoichi series, all of the Kurosawa ones, Lone Wolf and Cub, and Sword of Doom. I'm looking for lesser known Samurai flick recommendations, so let me know what you guys's favorites areFAMU/Film School
Hey,/film/, I'm thinking about applying for this international program (http://international.famu.cz/page.php?page=38) at FAMU, does anyone here have any experience with FAMU at all? I've heard good things but it would be nice to hear some personal experiences if anyone has any. Or experience with film school in generalGOD YUUU TEKEEM LAEEF BLOONG MIIIII
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Blade Runner
Help me understand why Blade Runner i held in such high praises, please. I watched it recently and there are a few points that I question "why would someone even consider this to be good?". Overall, it seems like a decent movie but I can't see anything there to make it stand the test of time at all, other than possibly having little competition in it's particular genre.
On the contrary, I actually got irked by a lot of details in it's world and how the story was told, the kind of details I'd expect fans of cyberpunk to really have a problem with.
I've been told that, in terms of cinematography it's a very well shot movie and the visuals are amazing for it's characterization of the world and the characters. I'll agree here and this is definitely a good enough reason to see the movie, but this doesn't make up for these 2 problems:
1-Replicants make no sense in any way
Replicants seem to be biological to a great degree, considering they can bleed and the whole "rapid degradation" part of the plot, plus their need to eat or drink.
But this places them closer to synthetic humans than machines, despite being treated by the movie was androids. The ethics here are entirely different but the distinction isn't ever made properly.
Machines can indeed be treated as machines, they lack actual sentience.
Clones or synthetic humans are indeed humans and it's morally and ethically wrong to handle them like machines.
And yet, despite refering to Replicants as machines the whole movie, it seems that the idea is to think of them like synthetic humans instead, which makes little to no sense.
Even if they were handled as cyborgs, that's still an enhanced human and therefore still can't be handled as a machine.
Then there's the "implanted memory" bits. If there's the ability to implant fake memories in Replicants, what does this mean for their brain? Is it organic or synthetic? If its organic, the same technology could be used to implant memories in humans but this doesn't seem to be even considered in the movie, but if their brains are synthetic, then how do they interface with a biological body and why would their body matter at all for the "burning out" plot point if their mind will endure anyway?
It's not consistent at all with the idea of implanted memories at all and to make it worse, the movie barely does anything with it.
Spooktober Suggestions
Hey /film/ I'm gathering a bunch of movies for October. I stream them on a chat site and am aiming for less populists films that a general audience may have not seen. I should probably add a few crowd-pleasers but what do you think thus far and what would you add?
Here's the link to the spreadsheet, all the movies are hyperlinked to their letterboxd profiles.
ITT: Actual opinions you have that gets you labelled a hipster by your friends
>I will watch 80's and 90's J-Horror on DVD because the Blu Ray releases clean up too much of the grain and that kind of ruins it for me.
>Because i'm the only Film grad in my circle of friends they assume its a snob thing they always give me shit for.
>But every one of them is an audio quality autist.
I just like grain in old horror, it feels more authentic and i know it makes me sound like a goddamn chode but its honestly how i feel about them.
Hello! I'm not exactly certain how alive this board is, but hopefully you can help. I'm looking for depressing films. Some films I think might be considered depressing (or in some way dealing with depression)that I enjoyed: The seventh continent, wild strawberries, taxi driver, eraserhead, and The Seventh Seal.
If any of you guys could recommend something to me, I would be very grateful. Thank you!
Managed to see this for the first time at a Manga Entertainment limited showing last night and a day later i'm still thinking about this.
On face value it is essentially a "what were the people not in the giant robots doing during the first angel attack in Eva" kind of story. 80% of the film is just politicians and scientists in a room talking. But i fucking loved it. It was the first time in a very long time i have seen a film in a mainstream cinema and thought it was good. Not competant. Not 'okay for an advert' but genuinely good. It is a thoughtful, methodical yet unpretentious commentary on the Japanese governments dealings with Fukushima. Its on the nose as far as asian cinema goes, but its not the barebones you would get from a western film. Theres no 'its coming because it got lured by nuclear reactors, truly the worst monster was man' bunkum. The film starts assuming its a volcanic disaster, the only change once Gojira shows up is the sentiment that its a disaster with no precedent, can they mobilise the JSDF or is this breaking the WWII surrender agreements.
Its not a pacific rim style love letter, its taking the base idea of Godzilla as a natural disaster brought on by nuclear catastrophe rather than a heroic sentai style giant monster fighting hero and using it as a completely serious discussion on how japan has so few infrastructures in place for disasters which in real world terms is strange when they are on the most violent fault lines on earth the 'ring of fire' that circles the pacific ocean.
The soundtrack ranges from Godzilla to heavy Evangelion inspiration. The acting ranges from rare but still there 'is this guy trying to be comedic?' japanese acting to solid performances from the older actors in particular but the lead while not excellent is believable as a character rather than an actor going through the motions of the script. Where the film stood out though -and it surprised me- was the cinematography. To sell the movie we were mostly shown trailers using static, wide shots but the majority of the movie uses some genuinely beautiful, subtle techniques that was a sign of a cinematographer in love with his work going far above what he had to do to bring what he wanted to the shots. Lingering tracking shots that use mise-en-scene to create sillouettes and a use of semiotics to add layers of depth and scale to the piece without it looking like typical 'birds for scale' style monster movie techniques.
It has its flaws, japanese cgi remains a good 15 years behind things from groups like Weta and Industrial Light and Magic and there are a few times where the practical suit felt out of place -though in part this is due to the stark design change where this new gojira resembles a corpse burnt out by nuclear fire.
The film ends with an ominous, lingering shot that feels more like an 'end of part one' than a traditional sequel bait teaser. I left extremely entertained and the film has been on my mind all day today.
I genuinely feel sorry for the people that resorted to pirating a camrip when it released almost 2 years ago. This is a beautiful, lovingly crafted movie in a genre that has largely been a joke since before slasher movies became one.
If you enjoyed Neon Genesis Rebuild 1.11 or The Host i absolutely recommend the recent Blu Ray release. I know i am gushing but holy shit it was so refreshing to see a film that didnt meet my expectations but exceed them. I sincerely cannot remember the last time that happened.
anyone else get to a showing?
Plasma TV vs IPS monitor for kino viewing
I am deciding between these two:
27" (or a bit larger) IPS monitor 1080p or higher.
50" (or a bit larger) Plasma TV 1080p.
I will be watching most content in 1080p.
The IPS monitor would be connected to my PC.
The Plasma TV would be in the family room and have movies transferred to it via SD card.
Which is going to have the best picture quality/features/viewing experience?
I already have audio equipment so the built in speakers of the plasma is irrelevant.
I cannot afford both; I need to pick one or the other.
Film Club - Les Bas-fonds AKA The Lower Depths
Jean Renoir won by the majority of the votes in the French poetic realism poll (surprise, surprise). The Lower Depths based on the play with the same title by a soviet writer Maxim Gorky are a fairly good example of a quite underrated, yet very watchable film from Renoir's filmography that at the same time encapsulates most of the most common themes of the movement rather well."I'll tell you why Rivette is important. After finishing Paris belongs to us, he declares: "The intellectual nothingness of the films of Louis Malle", and it is printed. Today in Italy nobody would print that, not even the Manifesto, I swear to you. Today, if someone said, "The intellectual nothingness of the films of Rosi", it would be put ... in safety. That's what's changed. At the time, the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, of which Rivette was the editor-in-chief, was a review of combat, struggle, and war. Because they destroyed Delannoy which is a glory of French cinema. It's like saying ... What is the name of the beautiful story of Bellocchio? Which we saw 1 / 2h to Buti under the stars. The Ora di Religion. It's vomiting, you have to have the courage to say it. And Rivette at the time in his magazine had the courage to say it. He was also able to say that the Taviani are sentimental dunces and that there is not the slightest emotion in these films, nor in those of Bellocchio; There is only a sauce, a soup to vomit useless images that do not exist, that do not hold, that are not there, there is nothing on the screen. At the time the Cahiers were doing this work. They were able to say, "The intellectual nothingness of Louis Malle's films," it was a terrible thing at the time. Truffaut wrote pages and pages in Arts against Delannoy, to defend Bresson. It was always to defend something."
/film/s you wished they didn't exist
Prove me wrong that KR2000 was absolute shit and it shouldn't exist, /film/
>KIFT looks like trash
>KITT is a tomato on wheels instead
>they killed Devon off who ironically died in real life, 6 years later
>No RC3 (even though he's a complete dingus in Season 4)
>no Semi
>no Bonnie
>some hotheaded faggot is the new director of FLAG
Can you guys recommend me some tactical films? Either army or SWAT, paramilitary or whatever. I hate cheesy acting which makes it a little different. Lot's of killing, whites win preferably. I liked American Sniper, Zero Dark Thirty, 13 hours, Hurt Locker, Six, Generation Kill, Lone Survivor, Shooter. What else is good? LOTS of killing plz. Hook me up. I'm so drunk.
Let's talk about some films with troubled/interesting/long production histories.
Bonus points if they actually turned out good.
I think A.i. is a great film, but Dune is a different story.
I love its visual style and tone, but the effects are ass, and Lynch clearly had issues condensing the story.
This was good, and followed up on one of the two big questions from Prometheus.
If the third film answers the other one, then this movie is an excellent middle chapter.
If the third movie blows it, then this movie was still good, but not the sequel to Prometheus that it should have been.
When all the bottomfeeders on /tv/ hate it, you know it's doing something right.
Help me out, /film/. I can't think of any really great "American cinema". By that I mean films that show something of the "American spirit", and American history. Something you would watch and make you damn proud to be an American; either because of the quality of the film making, or the presentation of the subject matter, or both. I'm mainly looking for films that take place before 1900. One or two that already come to mind:
- Young Mr. Lincoln (by John Ford, not sure if that's the title)
- Birth of a Nation
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (although I'm not teally looking for Westerns, and I'd prefer historical subject matter)
Bonus points for an actual quality film about Andrew Jackson. pic kind of maybe not related
ALIEN SEQUEL CONFIRMED
As if the franchise hadn't already been dragged through the mud already, they're gonna give it another go!Is filmmaking discussion welcome here?
So, I'm about to buy my first entry-level professional camera. I can't decide between getting a Panasonic GH2, hacking it and buying some lenses or getting a GH4 with a single lens.
People online worship the hacked GH2, and I've seen some amazing results with it (Upstream Color by Shane Carruth being a hell of an example), however it seems that the GH4 truly is the future of DLSR entry-level cameras, with my only problem being the $600 difference in price.
What do?
How to find new films?
ITT: Post some of your personal favorites and anons recommend some you may like
Also, include your process for finding new movies, because it's exhausting for me, personally. where's the rateyourmusic for films?
Anyhow, some of favorites:
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Like visual poetry. Non stop beautiful shots, interesting sets and background.
Persona
wicked plot
Face of Another
wicked plot, very creative and aesthetic scenes (especially the doctors room)
Dreams (Yume)
GOAT material, big messages and takeaways, very poetic
Child of God
another GOAT
We're finally back online.
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I'm disappointed that many flags are gone. Country flags have been part of the character of this board since the beginning. Unfortunately there's not much I can do about that either.
Perhaps you visited the endchan bunker during the downtime: https://endchan.xyz/film/ . We also own https://8ch.pl/film/ . For now these boards are backup options just in case things don't work out here.
OK that's it. Welcome back everyone. I hope we haven't lost too many people.
Hey /film/ I got a question for you.
What is the best way to get normies to not just like cape shit or whatever is popular for the decade.
Most people into cinema I talk to tend to have had parents who showed them alternative and world cinema and were exposed at a young age.
How do I convince soccer mom who's favourite film is titanic to check out someone like Kubrick?
George Lucas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB3fbtUYgRE
Here's his most famous student film. It would become the basis of his first feature film.
And here is an interesting article about the Star Wars prequels.
What do you guys think of this man?
Personally, I think that he's the most misunderstood person to ever direct a movie.
Every single film he's made has been worthy of study and interest.
From his earliest student films to Revenge Of The Sith.
"Bad Films"
I watch many films that most people would consider bad. I do not mean overproduced films that critics hate, like Transformers, but just movies that most people dislike for objective reasons. I think watching movies that are of lower quality really inspires me and keeps my brain engaged, thinking of ways to improve the movie, what the director could be thinking and why things turned out the way they did.Film questions
ITT: Ask questions you have about particular films. Be respectful and spoiler (at least seemingly) important elements to the film.Coming up with an infallible rating system
So I'm a really fucking bored autist with literally nothing better to do. Pic related shows how an older version of the rating system ranked a portion of the 200 or so I ran through it.
Currently, the system I have in place works on a 400 point scale that I then turn into a 0 - 100% overall rating:
>Viewer Score (IMDb - mostly unbiased)
>Critic Score (RT - slight bias)
>Return on Investment (The Numbers/Box Office Mojo - occasional bias with some films needing to resort to a default figure if no information can be found)
>Mistakes (IMDb's Goofs section - occasionally biased against more popular films but works well against others such as Superman IV or the earlier Fas'n'Fury installments)
But before I go into it full time for about an hour each day, I need to know if there's anything else I should consider adding. I contemplated separating Ebert's scores from the rest of the critics but that would have been too time consuming and he doesn't review things on a 100 or even 10 point scale, so it would be locked at certain values. I also considered the J-Dar, but then realized it had shut down with the lights on but no-one in, not to mention the severe bias it would have and the incorrect information it sometimes possesses.
What movements of cinema are your favorites & why? OP is a faggot and doesn't start
>British New Wave (late 1950s - late 1960s) ...
>Scandinavian Revival (1940s - 1950s) ...
>Japan's Golden Age of Cinema (1950s) ...
>New Queer Cinema (early 1990s) ...
>Third Cinema (1960s - 1970s) ...
>Neorealism (1944–1952) ...
>German Expressionism (1910s - 1930s) ...
>Soviet Montage (1920s - 1930s)
>French New Wave
>Left Bank
etc.
Really looking for some films that have a sense of catharsis, a strong emotional drive to it. Films that are known to have a lot of heart, or handle something in a way to draw out emotion. I'm sorry if I'm not exactly clear, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Abel Gance - Napoleon (1927)
So did any of you guys get to see Napoleon when it played in San Francisco or London?
Seems like it would have been an amazing experience. I've never even seen a silent film with a live orchestra. I'm holding off watching this film just in case I get the chance to attend one of these screenings someday.
Semiotics
I've been reading a lot about semiotics lately and I'm hoping to watch some films that deal with semiotics in one way or another, I feel like film as a medium is uniquely suited to tackle it. I'm sure there are a ton of films that do so but I'm not really sure where to start, mid-period Godard (70s and 80s) looks promising... It seems like academic-type films would probably be ripe with this stuff. Anyone have any recs?
Recently I stopped watching films and started reading instead. Now that I want to return I find myself more picky with the films I watch. My favourite director used to be Kieslowski because of his humanity. Then I read David Foster Wallace and were underwhelmed by Kieslowskis philosophy.
I'm trying to ask for some names of directors/ films that goes beyond aesthetics and deeply studies characters and learn important life lessons through the philosophy of the film. Any ideas?
Motion in cuts
Can we talk about instances of motion in a particular direction continuing through a cut?
For instance, I was watching Revenge of The Sith and this scene caught my eye.
The starfighter crashes toward the screen, followed by a cut to Grievous motioning in the same direction + slow camera zoom in.
It's just a really effective little technique IMO and i'd like to talk about uses of it in film.
Post examples you've noticed if you'd like.
I was rewatching The Shining just now, and noticed a discrepancy that doesnt seem to have been explained. When Jack enters the Gold Room in a past party, Midnight, The Stars and You is playing. The end of the movie with the portrait dates those events at the 4th of July, 1921, which couldn't have been possible because Midnight the stars and you was written in 1934. Was this intentional to show how arbitrary the passing of time is from a viewpoint in the present, or was it an oversight?
Let's Expand Our Internet Presence
One way to advertise /film/ is to create profiles on movie websites. I made an account on letterpleb with some of the lists from this board:
http://letterboxd.com/8chanfilm/
I used favorites from >>8357 and added films that people had mentioned here previously (not comprehensive). The profile still looks empty without reviews and ratings. It might be best to add some reviews for obscure films. Then we'll get noticed when people search for them.
EDIT: I changed my mind. Obscure is good, but we'll have limited impact if that's all we post. So contribute whatever you want.
If you guys want to help you can:
- Give some quick film ratings.
- Find reviews to add, maybe one you posted here in the past. It doesn't have to be a Film Comment essay. In fact if you're funny or subversive it helps us stand out.
- Suggest other lists. We talked about doing a poll of everyone's favorites to create a toplist.
- Follow the account and "like" the content to boost the numbers.
- Offer any other suggestions for improvement
After we get this profile up and running, I will move on to other sites and duplicate what I can.
Hello, /film/
This board is probably infinitely more dedicated to watching rather than making films, but it is the closest thing, this chan has to offer,
so I'm going to ask anyways.
on /mu/, we're having this long running project, called "Autistic Rage Festival", which is a not too serious collab of anons making music.
It will not take much listening time to pinpoint the effort in the entire discography, but it would nevertheless be fucking fantastic,
if someone could make a music video for basicly ANY track. There are no expectations to it, and therefor no limits either. As mentioned,
the whole ARF project is not too serious, in case anyone is determined to make a video, and said person should really not put too much ambition or time into to it, but anyways.
also sorry, if this post is a duplicate
Art without limitations?
"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art."
With the continued slide of what's acceptable on screen I feel that we've lost an important caveat to film making. The more brash and uncensored film making becomes, the more that I see it losing some of its basic creativity. Where as directors and writers had to pick and choose where they could put a bit of scandilous content, now they take it for granted. Violence, and dramatic moments in some newer films lack the bombastic impact that they did in the golden era.
This isn't an all new films are bad thread, cause that'd be a lie. What I'm saying is that the restrictions placed so that films couldn't constantly show what they wanted, forced film makers to get creative in ways that they wouldn't now. And it also gives moments that would have zero impact in one of today's films, a stronger hit, a real sense of feeling.
What those who haven't watched the earlier era of cinema tend to forget is how much weight little things can carry. How drastic the swing can be from moments that would never even touch the audiences heart in a film full of extravagant moments. In a way, we get further from an artistic purity as we get closer to seeing everything on screen.
How do you feel about this /film/?
Where do you download?
What torrent sites do you recommend for films?
With Kick Ass Torrents dead I'm at a loss for more commercial, art house or classic stuff.
Also, http://horrorcharnel.org/signup.php is now open for sign ups. Great place for horror, though the place is in need of a revamp.
ITT: Academic /film/ related stories
I assume i wasn't the only person who was lucky enough to study Film/Motion Pictures in the pre SJW times. Did you ever experience anything interesting or have stories to tell?
e.g:
>When it came to auteur theory aside from the mandatory goth chick writing about Tim Burton i was the only person in the class that didn't write about Quentin Tarantino.
>When being shown jurassic Park during a period on the history of SFX a student who was a self professed fundamentalist Christian left in outrage at this "moral degeneracy", 4 months later he would be removed from the course for attempting to rape a Lesbian girl on campus to "fix here"
>One of the final exam live study films was The Happiness of the Katakuris and one student handed in a single piece of paper with "I DONT GET IT I JUST LOVE FUCKING STAR WARS" on it. Surprisingly he was not Rich Evans.
>More than half the class fell asleep during Citzen Kane.
>The surprise hit was Perfect Blue by Satoshi Kon.
>When moving onto practical work and placement in the industry health and safety forms had to be signed swearing there was no chance of meteor strike, volcanic eruption of nearby nuclear conflict.
>Started 130 in year one, down to 5 in year 4, was one of 2 that graduated.
What was your film school time like?
If it's okay for me to just beg here, what are some films involving alien space? I might be okay with their being a bit lowbrow - perhaps I can't expect every recommendation to be Stalker or Solaris, but then I'm not exactly looking for something of a human philosophical space, anyway: The thing is that I wish to see a world fundamentally unlike our own (or fundamentally unlike what we would see to have made our own, anyway) rendered as vividly - as coherently - as possible. Think cosmic horror, perhaps.
Melodramas
I've been really obsessed with Douglas Sirk and the lineage of directors he influenced. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pedro Almodóvar and Todd Haynes specifically. Could someone recommend some modern or classic melodramas or comedies with strong colors, aesthetics similar to 50's Hollywood and central female characters? This can also be gen. discussion thread for Sirk and his style.Film Club #17 - The King of Kings (Cecil B. DeMille, 1927) and Religious Films
With Easter and Passover this week, it's an opportune time to think about cinematic depictions of faith and religion. The film to spur the discussion is Cecil B. DeMille's silent account of the adult life of Jesus Christ.Film request
ITT: Request certain premises, concepts and etc. that you'd like to see in a film, and others will suggest films fitting, or similar to, those ideas.How to stream?
I'm trying to get a friend of mine into patrician films, I told him we'd watch Werckmeister Harmonies but I want him to see it in good quality and he doesn't have a KG account or anything... I remember we streamed a couple of films back in the film club days, can anyone tell me how to do that? What's a good site? ty
Film Blog
Hi /film/. I've been thinking about starting a film blog, which I've done a few times before but I always give up on it. This time I'm going to try to be more committed to it, and as most people here seem to watch good movies and have interesting thoughts on them, I thought it might be kind of cool to reach out to you guys and see if anyone was interested in contributing some film writing.
I don't have any specific angle in mind, I was probably just going to write a few hundred words on whatever movies I've been watching recently, but I would be open to more structured ideas for recurring columns (i.e. a column covering all the Zatoichi movies or films of a certain director or country, whatever). I would also be open to making the whole thing more focused if anyone would be interested, one potential idea I had was covering "New Waves" of various countries. But I'll see what everyone wants to do.
As long as the writing is thoughtful and interesting I don't really care what the movies are, only restriction would be none of the really mainstream Hollywood stuff like Star Wars and Superhero movies, but I doubt anyone would want to write about that anyway. I don't expect this to go anywhere but I think it could be fun. If any of you are interested, let me know, I'm flexible and open to suggestions. Here's the initial site I made, subject to change: https://moviesfilmscinemablog.wordpress.com/
2016 Sundance Film Festival
Anyone on /tv/ attending? I was thinking about going this year, but decided next year would be better so my buddy can come with.
Which movies are you most excited about? Which movies are getting positive buzz? Which one will be the crown jewel?
Discuss all things Sundance and Robert Redford.
The ones I'm interested in so far:
>Goat (frat-hazing drama featuring Nick Jonas)
>Other People (black comedy featuring Jesse Plemmons and Molly Shannon)
>Manchester by the Sea (community/family drama featuring my boy Kyle Chandler; also Casey Affleck)
>Christine (Rebecca Hall plays an anchor who an heroes on a live broadcast)
I'm really rooting for Rebecca Hall. She's a very underrated actress who has never relied on looks to get a role. Then again, I'll always root for a movie to be good—it's a win for the fans of the medium.
watch my short
Hey, /film/, this is basically the only internet community on film that I enjoy visiting, maybe you guys can give me feedback on the short film I made recently. It was made with zero budget and I was the only crew, so don't expect too much. But I'm reasonably happy with how it turned out, other than not having a tripod/steadicam.
Here it is: https://vimeo.com/138888895
Eiseinstein in Guanajuato
Anyone seen this?
>Venerated filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (Elmer Bäck) travels to Mexico to shoot his new film after being shunned by Hollywood. There he has a sensual experience that becomes a significant turning point in his life and career.
>Dir. by Peter Greenaway
Daily reminder
Cinema's most important aspect is the aesthetics.
It's the logical axiom of cinema, the first and therefore absolute truth to the medium. Meaning that, in a rough manner, sounds and storyline coherence are secondary to the will of aesthetic.
Following the systematic distribution of categories within cinema, it's logical to affirm that the diegetic structure of the mimesis is what matters the most, as it's closely vinculated to the roots of the medium itself.
Films with similar aesthetic to Chungking Express?
>The film uses slower speed frame rates with the camera shutter open more (to show the “flashes of light”) to create a dream-like motion with all the blurriness.
I'm looking for films that make use of this same technique but in a more throughout manner. Thank you.
L' Atalante (1934)
I thought it was aesthetically efficient. I liked the offbeat tone and the disregard to standard filmic narrative. I also liked the combination of a sterile and gritty dreamlike Paris (devoid of any charm and magic) habited by marginal and borderline grotesque characters, going opposite to what is often being promoted by the media. But at the end of the film I realized it was nothing to write home about. A very simplistic and carefully constructed story done with occasional doses of flare and passion, surprisingly never losing the diegetic ground for unconvenient mistakes that might've prejudiced viewing immersion. A precise film.
I'd like to hear what you folks thought about this one.
Outdated film tecniques
For me, is the fade away. It is useless. Other than expressing a relation of brief temporal/spatial shift between a two determined events (A and B) it is succintly limited and archaic as a form of communicating ideas.
A fade away inside the current filmic system is bound to failure. A modern hollywood film averages 2000-3000 cuts. In this case a fade might even break a film's diegetic reality.
A filmmaker that indulges with this technique is deriding the medium, attempting to prove something by asserting a domain of montage which he clearly does not retain. Thus the use of this technique should be energetically disencouraged.
Film Club Suggestions
At /film/ we have an ongoing Film Club which features titles suggested by the board. Usually there's a different theme each month. The tentative plan for March was to start Concerning Violence in a few days while choosing two other films for later in the month.Shows
Has there ever been a good movie based on a TV show or a good movie that spawned a TV show? If so, what?
Also really sorry for shilling but I'm running >>>/tele/ for people who want to talk about shows/movies/cartoons/etc. without all the braindead shitposting on /tv/
Screenwriting
Does anybody here have an interest in screenwriting? Or experience selling their script(s)?
I'm thinking of banging out 3 or 4 ideas I've had bouncing around my head, but considering that I'm an American (not film) student living in Europe with no funds for a trip to LA–how fucked am I?
>That guy whos absolutely desperate to be seen as a 'patrician' and wants everyone to know he has seen a film or two based on YMS's recommendations
>Treats none english cinema as something weird or strange hoping he gets seen as 'quirky' or worldly
>Acts like a snob about other peoples tastes
>Doesnt understand anything about the art of cinema including basic shit like mise en scene, framing and colour theory
>Acts as a judge of peoples tastes because he bought two japanese horror movies from HMV's world cinema section
>Doesnt understand world cinema is just cinema, not showing at your local theatre doesnt imbibe it with a special cred.
>Wants everyone to know his tastes and how 'patrician he is compared to mainstream plebs'
>That
>Guy
Do you know That Guy?