No.10417
Hey /film/ !
In your opinion, what are the best (and worst) genre combinations ?
Say you are searching a large collection of films using genre tags alone....what tags will return the most interesting results ?
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No.10497
Documentary + Experimental
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No.10498
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No.10518
I really like science fiction + "arthouse". I remember a thread for that on this board somewhere.
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No.10523
>>10518
I couldn't find that thread, but could you give me some good scifi recs? The only ones that come to mind are Lopušanski's stuff, Solaris(and Stalker), Hard to Be a God and On the Silver Globe. I really liked all of those.
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No.10524
>>10523
not him but I found the thread >>8769
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No.10525
>>10524
Oh damn, thanks. I'm stupid and tried searching with "scifi" and "science fiction", not sci-fi.
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No.10528
>>10523
> sci-fi
Why do you think Lem and Strugatskies were so pissed off by those great films? Their directors didn't give a damn about science fiction content, and focused on their own quite different questions instead.
Do you understand that the only “real” part of Stalker is three men having conversation in a dirty bar? That's hardly a sci-fi plot.
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No.10530
>>10528
>Why do you think Lem and Strugatskies were so pissed off by those great films
I haven't read Solaris or Stalker but I would assume the plots werent 1:1 with the plots of the films.
>Their directors didn't give a damn about science fiction content
Film is a visual medium. I like the visually pleasing aspect of those sci-fi themed movies, not the "science fiction content".
>Do you understand that the only “real” part of Stalker is three men having conversation in a dirty bar? That's hardly a sci-fi plot.
What are you even saying..? The only "real" part? what
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No.10532
>>10528
>Why do you think Lem and Strugatskies were so pissed off by those great films?
Could you give a little more background, or links?
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No.10539
>>10532
I thought it was a common knowledge.
http://english.lem.pl/arround-lem/adaptations/qsolarisq-by-tarkovsky/176-lem-about-the-tarkovskys-adaptation
It's also not hard to see that Stalker the movie is as different from Roadside Picnic as Stalker the game. And Hard to be a God even shows a joking stance on the pathos of its source.
Sci-fi fans generally prefer discussing cheaper straightforward adaptations.
>>10530
>What are you even saying..?
Stalker is most accessible of all Tarkovsky's movies. He spelled almost everything out, and even made “that's what it all is about!” logical explanation for extra attentive viewers. We can even say that the Zone is canonically a metaphor from start to finish.
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No.10575
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Lately I'm digging found footage meaning that someone plunders a film archive to arrange disparate film clips into a flow of images
Combine that found footage with silent film and I'm thrilled. Silent film guarantees that the footage is very old, very disconnected from the current world, full of people 4-5 generations removed from me
Example: Mother Dao the Turtlelike
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No.10576
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No.10585
>>10576
any titles in particular?
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No.10586
>>10539
I don't see how that is relevant to the discussion. Stalker has visual sci-fi elements, regardless of the canon meaning of the zone and the film.
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No.11098
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No.13919
>>10575
>Combine that found footage with silent film and I'm thrilled.
Rose Hobart!
https://uloz.to/!XHBUPro21KpP/rose-hobart-joseph-cornell-1936-mkv
It must be one of the first examples of "found footage". An exotic film is transformed into a disorienting dream. Supposedly Dali became enraged and violent at a screening of it.
A note of caution: it's not as good as a lot of reviews make is sound. Guy madddin was particularly inspired by Rose Hobart to put on this showcase of wordsmithery:
Joseph Cornell’s Rose Hobart is an enigmatic, mischievous rearrangement of shots culled from George Melford's lush compost heap of tropical jungle-adventure tropes East of Borneo (1931). Perfervidly obsessed with the peculiar deciduous fineness of the movie's lead, actress manqué Hobart, Cornell slices out all obstructive plot from Borneo, and transforms it by the camera obscura of his famously boxed-up brain into a glorious parade of decontextualized portraits of his lissome fixation. By this method, virginal Cornell desired "to release unsuspected floods of music from the gaze of the human countenance in its prison of silver light." The boner quotient is indeed high in this primitive and loving ejaculation from America's most important basement boy. If not actually the very first found-footage film (Chaplin must have reconfigured some actress screen tests for personal use years earlier), Rose Hobart's wondrous brilliance has undeniably inspired thousands of filmmakers to try their hand at this sometimes fecund practice. (Guy Maddin, The Village Voice)
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No.13922
>>13919
Oh right I remember watching that film. It was boring as hell but the whole Dali thing made up for it, that autist.
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No.14622
War comedy is a genre that hasn't had any downright bad movies yet and not widely attempted. Pic is from the Cuckoo, a Finn deserter and Russian sent to be executed reside in a Lapp's house in which none of them understand each other, the camera work was better than expected. There was also a jewlywood movie starring Jonah Hill about an arms dealing company during the Iraq War, it was decent.
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No.14674
last night i watched Dark Star which is labeled frequently as a "sci-fi comedy" (one of the main reasons why i avoided watching it when i first heard of it), but to me it came across as a sci-fi movie with comedic elements, it wasn´t a full blown out comedy like Spaceballs which i found very pleasant
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No.14675
>>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
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No.14676
>>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..
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