No.4046
So how did you enter the world of non-mainstream cinema? Did you make a deliberate push to watch more alternative films, for example? And when?
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No.4051
I liked Hitchcock as a kid. When I was older I'd try to rent "great" films but I didn't know too much. Often I stumbled across interesting stuff on IFC before that channel went to shit. But overall I was pretty casual about it.
I got into rare films in a big way because of music. I was bored with rock so I moved on to sample-based electronic/hip hop. Then I realized the samples were the best part so I got into 60s/70s vinyl … and eventually gravitated toward obscure euro soundtracks. It wasn't far to go from obscure euro soundtracks to obscure euro films, which to my delight were newly available by the metric ton on the internet.
So I watched a lot of those, expanding my preference to include all sorts of unusual films.
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No.4057
I have very specific fetishes.
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No.4067
Was a high consumer of mainstreamfilm but lost interest in didn't watch anything for a long time.
After along time of not watching anything I decided to watch some old black and white movie and remember thinking "wow, this is something else"
After that I was hooked
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No.4111
>>4046I was always attracted to the weird stuff, used to watch a lot of weird animated things but actually got into non-mainstream by watching a lot of horror. Then some low budget horror that still appealed to me.
After I saw Drive I understood a lot better what the appeal of good cinema was but didn't really get into it because my movie buddy was still satisfied with horror and mainstream cinema. I was already very interested but rarely got the chance.
When I broke my knee I was bedridden for half a year and decided it was time to catch up to a lot of stuff so I did. Seventh Seal and Seven Samurai got me pretty good and I've been expanding ever since. I did make a deliberate push more recently into some experimental (i.e. Decasia) and more classical cinema (i.e. Caligari) as well as a bit of nature 'documentary' (i.e. Microcosmos, Oceans).
What movies changed your views on cinema?
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No.4123
Growing up, I always watched a lot of the great films with my mom.
I spent my lunchs in the library senior year, and one day I just picked up a book on Film Theory just by chance. It started with essays by Eisenstein and I didn't understand too much of the jargon at first. I ended up turning it in prematurely but I took out a intro to film book and it just took off from there.
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No.4185
it started when i watched 2001:a space odessy then i fell down the kuberik tunnel now i can barely even consider going to the cinema and watching something normal
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No.5990
>>4046
you know this is a pretty good question and all i did was watched "The Cook, The Thief, The Wife and Her Lover." and then i googled art house films and the studies of it and found it amazing and i had found the film through micheal nyman music my parents listened to and it caught on to me.
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No.5994
Over time I began to take more interest in a film's visual composition than the plot itself, and most mainstream cinema doesn't really scratch that itch.
The main problem is that I've never taken film classes or anything like that so I can't really explain why I enjoy certain shots over others aside from some vague mumbo-jumbo. Maybe learning more about filmmaking would help, dunno what books I'd start with though since I've heard Setting Up Your Shots isn't that great.
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No.5997
my dad had/has a big ass collection of dvds, i started just going on imdb and 'top movie' lists and watching the ones my dad had in his collection. some of them really stuck with me like The Fountain, Kagemusha/Ran, Kubrick in general, Lawrence of Arabia. kept scratching that itch, eventually i was looking through one of those lists and david lynch came up. dad didn't have any of his movies, but i found twin peaks on netflix. after seeing the first dream sequence in that it fully hit me how much i loved the medium and the possibilities therein. my love of lynch led to websites with more 'sophisticated' lists (think TSPDT v. imdb top 500) and more esoteric ones, that's basically it. don't remember how i got into really truly considering the elements of film, but it happened somewhere in there and now i literally can't enjoy modern mainstream cinema because the visuals and everything else are so distasteful to me
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No.5999
I always loved movies but only watched children's films, Disney, The Goonies or whatever. I'd go see the new superhero movie or whatever was coming out.
Then around early high school I start wanting to watch more serious movies. Like every 15 year old I got started on Tarantino, Fincher, what have you. I started watching what my favorite directors like and that broadens things up into foreign film territory. I started browsing boards like this and seeing patrician infographics and I was like, I wanna be like that.
It's pretty much been like that ever since. I find out about a director, a style of film, a movement, an important period, and I want to get a taste of it. And if I like it I want to see more.
I think the first real art house film I saw was Eraserhead. I didn't really "like" it at the time, per se, but I was fascinated.
It didn't really incite my interest in art house but it did stick with me. I think that was my first exposure to something totally different and surreal.
Most cinephiles develop that way, I think. It's just a gradual desire to see new things and be more informed. There's definitely a competitive feeling for me. I don't like the feeling of having to tell someone I haven't seen something. And there's still a ton of classic films I've not seen yet and I try desperately to conceal that.
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No.6002
>>4051
How old are you and have you ever fucked a real woman without paying her?
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No.8850
I've always liked a large variety of movies. My parents had a pretty big laser disc, vhs, and dvd collection that I started looking through when I was an infant. The first art house film that I remember seeing was Little Otik aka Greedy Guts on Sundance, and this was when I was very young but I did enjoy it and it definitely made an impression on me. I of course went through the artsy mainstream director phase around late middle school to mid high school. I'm 19 now and I only recently got more into films on the more obscure side, like 500 or less ratings on IMDB.
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