/film/ - FILM

How long before you're able to see these? Do you have a good local cinema?

I hate reading too much about films I can't see, because I don't want to know the plot summaries.

>>4622

>Kurosawa

I thought it was just Ran that was being shown?

>>4623

On a related note, what do you guys think the best cities for a ciniphile mainly regarding theaters and events?

>>4631

Los Angeles has a lot going for it, simply because it's been part of the industry for a century. I don't think they have a prestige event to match Cannes, but there are a lot of smaller festivals and revival houses. And it's easier to get random industry personalities for Q&As.

Cannes Official Livestream in English

>>4627

It sounds like people are disgusted and walking out of Gaspar Noe's movie.

I think the same thing happened with Irreversible at Cannes.

>>4623

I'm in LA, so we'll probably get some of them late this year, and most next year. But who knows, maybe we'll get lucky.

>>4627

I'm loving Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's Cannes reports at The AV Club (he's always great, even if AV Club is cancer).

>>4629

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's newest.

>>4631

New York is the best in the US, they get all the premiers and they have easily the best repertory scene in the US, and are really only rivaled by Paris for the best in the world. Chicago is okay, and LA is decent sometimes. San Fransisco is also okay.

>>4634

Some many of the rep houses here are kind of lame though (even if there are a lot of them). The access to the industry is pretty unparalleled, however.

>>4729

Can you expand a little on NY vs LA repertory theaters? What sorts of programming you prefer, why LA doesn't measure up, etc.

>>4729

> I'm loving Ignatiy Vishnevetsky's Cannes reports at The AV Club (he's always great, even if AV Club is cancer).

Thanks for the tip. What's been your (or his) assessment of the festival so far?

>>4735

NY has more theaters, and more adventurous programmers, and they tend to get traveling retrospectives first or in full, whereas LA gets them in truncated form, if we get the, at all. There are some pretty decent theaters here, but the quality of the programming is wildly inconsistent. In NY, there's pretty much always something interesting playing, but here we go through lulls where very few interesting things are playing followed by periods where a lot is playing.

I definitely prefer to watch something new that I've never heard of before than something I've seen a million times. Unfortunately for me, LA rep programming seems to air more often on the side of safe classics, although there are hidden gems here and there (for example, there was a small Harun Farocki retrospective playing here earlier this year).

I can't really talk as a real expert on either, but this has been my experience.

>>4741

Glad to help. It seems like he's having a pretty average time there, with most of the films registering as either good or average, with few standouts (I know he loved HHH's The Assassin) and a few films taht were really not very good (Dheepan, Youth, and Sea of Trees seem to be in the latter group).

As for me, I'm keeping an open mind. I wasn't particularly excited for the new Villeneuve or Lanthimos, but Ignaity seemed to like them, so I'll probably end up seeing them. I'm very excited for The Assassin, Cemetery of Splendor, and In the Shadow of Women in particular. How about you?

The prizes seem very disappointing this year. I haven't read anything particularly positive about Dheepan or Rams (which won the UCR prize, if I'm not mistaken).

>>4764

I'll definitely see The Assassin and Cemetery of Splendour, whenever I get a chance.

I only read a little of the coverage, but I'm not particularly interested in Dheepan either. I'm surprised that it won the Palme d'Or. I don't even care that much about Audiard…Un prophete seemed fairly average to me.

>>7157

That deserves a new threat.