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How to get into /film/? inconnu 06/13/18 (Wed) 13:16:29 No.12432

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.

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inconnu 06/13/18 (Wed) 14:41:04 No.12433

I didn't go to film school and I don't know if that makes much difference anyway. You can learn a lot just from the internet.

It sounds like you looked at the Reddit Top 250?

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inconnu 06/13/18 (Wed) 18:10:30 No.12434

>>12433

I know better than to trust Reddit's opinion on anything. It was a Top 100 films to see before you die list, but most of them were more like cultural touchstones than the best of the best. Films that are referenced a lot and remembered by lots of people rather than the greatest films ever made.

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inconnu 06/13/18 (Wed) 20:50:01 No.12435

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>>12434

OK, how about the Sight and Sound list? Their critics' poll from 2012 has a lot of the most popular/influential titles of the film canon, so it's a good introduction if you're just getting started.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time

1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)

4. La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939)

5. Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)

7. The Searchers (Ford, 1956)

8. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)

10. 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)

11. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)

12. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)

13. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

14. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

15. Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)

16. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)

17. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira, 1954)

17. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

19. Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974)

19. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1951)

21. L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)

21. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)

21. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)

24. Ordet (Carl Dreyer, 1955)

24. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)

26. Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira, 1950)

26. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)

28. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)

29. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

29. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)

31. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

31. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

33. Bicycle Thieves (Vittoria De Sica, 1948)

34. The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1926)

35. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)

35. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

35. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)

35. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)

39. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)

39. La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)

41. Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)

42. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)

42. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

42. Gertrud (Carl Dreyer, 1964)

42. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)

42. Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)

42. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)

48. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)

48. Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1998)

50. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)

50. Ugetsu monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953)

50. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

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inconnu 06/13/18 (Wed) 23:57:00 No.12436

>>12432

It isn't that difficult really. It takes time, patience, and work like anything else. A good way to start is to look for lists on letterboxd or imdb. Good luck.

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inconnu 06/17/18 (Sun) 10:03:45 No.12448

>>12434

https://mubi.com/lists/101-directors-essential-films

https://letterboxd.com/qpulm/list/essay-films/

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inconnu 06/17/18 (Sun) 14:43:27 No.12449

>>12448

The classic mubi list

Did someone named Kenji post on 4chan long ago?

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inconnu 06/18/18 (Mon) 17:53:07 No.12451

>>12435

>Shoah

Does that film have anything going for it other than the length?

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inconnu 06/18/18 (Mon) 23:00:48 No.12452

>>12451

I don't know I haven't seen it. But it seems out of place on that list. Does it really belong in the Top 50?

I've seen many more people raving about Dekalog than Shoah, so I'd say watch that instead.

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inconnu 06/19/18 (Tue) 16:15:34 No.12454

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>>12452

>Does it really belong in the Top 50?

I'd say no, but it's not as easy as it seems to make a top 50 list of entry level films. I found this chart from an old thread.

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