/film/ - FILM

So far I'd say Cosmos as it's the only new thing I've watched in a while

I will watch this for sure though. I'm wondering how is the execution? It's a novel idea but there's potential for it to seem gimmicky.

>>7663

>no Elle, Paterson, Manchester by the Sea, The Lost City of Z, Hell or High Water, Hacksaw Ridge, BFG.

[meh'ing intensifies]

Ten new favorites so far:

Opening Night - Cassavetes

Frost - Kelemen

Seopyeonje - Kwon-Taek

Love Streams - Cassavetes

A Story Written With Water - Yoshida

Field Niggas - Allah

Mademoiselle - Richardson

Goodbye CP - Hara

Hard To Be A God - German

Streetwise - Bell

>>7704

I've also seen The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, which I absolutely loved, too. Next on my to watch list are: A Dedicated Life and Extreme Private Eros. Too bad the guy only made a few films, really liking him so far.

>>7706

I've seen the Optimum release, which looks better than the MGM disc. The film deserves a BluRay release, though, the cinematography is godlike.

>>7704

Oh, forgot you asked about Yoshida, too. Films I have seen by him are:

Heroic Purgatory

Affair in the Snow

Flame and Women

The Affair

Confessions Among Actresses

A Story Written With Water

He is easily my favorite Japanese director of all time. I'm saving his most prized film "Eros Plus Massacre" for the very end.

>>7709

Yoshida is really special. I wish I'd started watching his stuff sooner.

I'll never understand left wing anarchism though

I've only seen The Neon Demon and Operation Avalanche and they were pretty good

I feel like Refn was trying too hard to create a Lynch-ian film though. But I guess the whole Hyper-Melodrama thing works with the theme

Operation avalanche was just straight up enjoyable and it celebrates the power of film making at the same time

Was The Handmaiden any good? It looked mint, plus I love the Japanese occupied Korea setting

>>7856

I see. That's surprisingly not much shorter than Cremaster 1-5, but this looks to have more going on

How would you compare this with Cremaster or other Barney films/art?

Cremaster is a slog and I think I only saw #3 at 8x speed

One of the central ideas is described here. I like this concept but not enough to watch the rest of them.

Bonus: Awkward silence included at the end

>>7922

I was sick of it 2/3 of the way through so I started experimenting with different playback speeds. 4x was still too slow!

I did the same thing with White Epilepsy, which moves even slower. Instead of spending an hour watching an image morph at an almost imperceptible rate, I spent roughly that amount of time troubleshooting an ffmpeg script to encode the whole thing at 64x speed. My version lasts one minute instead of an hour. That file should be on this board somewhere.

John Waters Top 10 of 2016

1 KRISHA (Trey Edward Shults) This hilariously harrowing portrait of a family reunion ruined by an alcoholic relative and too many dogs is told with verve and lunacy and features a top-notch performance by Krisha Fairchild, the director’s own aunt. Other people’s hell can sometimes be so much fun.

2 TICKLED (David Farrier and Dylan Reeve) Hahahahaha! First you’ll chuckle watching this exceptional piece of investigative reporting, but then, once the shocking plot twists begin, you’ll choke on that laughter.

3 EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater) The best accidentally gay movie ever made by a known heterosexual director features the most talented and sexy ensemble cast of the last decade.

4 ROAR (Noel Marshall) I finally got to see Tippi Hedren’s real-life snuff movie starring her entire family that was made in 1981 but not released in the US until 2015. Watch, slack-jawed, as Tippi is scalped and her daughter Melanie Griffith mauled by the wild-animal extras who turn out to be the real stars of this nutcase action film.

5 WIENER-DOG (Todd Solondz) The funniest dog movie since Godard’s Goodbye to Language. Nasty, blunt, rude, and full of hideous surprises.

6 ELLE (Paul Verhoeven) Do daughters of mass murderers like to get raped? In France they sometimes do, and only Isabelle Huppert could play this hetero-deviant, Claude-Chabrol-meets-Radley-Metzger character with feminist dignity. Isn’t she the best actress in the whole wide world?

7 JULIETA (Pedro Almodóvar) If Hitchcock had actually understood women, might he not have made this serious and absolutely stunning hellodrama about female longing and loneliness? Rossy de Palma is back, too. Yay!

8 LIKE CATTLE TOWARDS GLOW (Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley) Arty teenage death, Gallic rimming, and a maddening passion for punk penises make this Eric Rohmer–like porno a real French tickler for the fucked-up literary set.

9 VALLEY OF LOVE (Guillaume Nicloux) Yep, it’s her again. Isabelle Huppert and the fattest Gérard Depardieu you’ve ever seen team up as parents in Death Valley, searching for some kind of mystical message from their son who has just committed suicide. Even dead Pasolini would love this film.

10 A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies) The grim curse of Emily Dickinson’s poetic talent has never been shown with such depressing clarity. If you can’t enjoy suffering along with her, you should be dead too.

source: https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201610&id=64773

The 20 10 Best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2016

10 - American Horror Project: Vol. 1, Arrow Video

Arrow Video's American Horror Project Vol. 1 is likely to be among the most unheralded cinematic rescue efforts of 2016; pity, since it's one of the most important. The set contains three independent American horror films (Malatesta's Carnival of Blood, The Witch Who Came from the Sea, and The Premonition) and Arrow has gone to extensive restoration lengths to locate the “original film materials” in order to conduct each 2K transfer. Every phase of these films' preservation has been overseen by the Arrow crew—a fact that makes this set all the more commendable and amazing. Each film receives enough supplements to be worth of an entire box set unto itself and the set contains a 58-page booklet with four essays, one on each individual film and one about the collection as a whole. American Horror Project Vol. 1 is certainly a triumph of film-preservation efforts, but it's also the label's symbolic demand to unlock the auteurist prescriptions of many prestige, home-disc releases. Dillard

9 - The New World, The Criterion Collection

Released once before on Blu-ray, the extended cut of Terrence Malick's The New World nonetheless looks significantly improved thanks to Criterion's 4K restoration. Infamously shot around the whims of its maker's minutely obsessed eye, the film derives much of its power from nearly imperceptible fluctuations of light and color, and never before has a home-video release so thoroughly captured the way that sunlight reflects off of John Smith's (Colin Farrell) boiled leather jacket, or how multivalent the greens of swamp reeds and coniferous trees can be. Sound is also resplendent, plotting the film's rich soundtrack of geographically and temporally appropriate birdsong in an enveloping field. The inclusion of each cut of The New World, along with a stunning 4K restoration of the preferred extended cut and copious extras, marks this as the definitive home-video release of Malick's greatest film. Cole

8 - Films of Maurice Pialat Vol. 1, Cohen Media Group

Maurice Pialat remains one of the most unsung French auteurs from the latter half of the 20th century, perhaps because his films have remained largely unavailable on North American home disc for decades. Cohen Media helped to change that in 2016 with a superb set of transfers for three Pialat films made in the late '70s, including Loulou, starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu, who Andrew Sarris called “the sexiest couple in the history of cinema.” The set also contains more than a handful of interviews with cast and crew, including Huppert, and the 2007 feature-length documentary “Maurice Pialat: Love Exists.” Cohen Media also released Pialat's Under the Sun of Satan as a standalone disc, though unfortunately it runs the same price as this collection. Nevertheless, any release of Pialat's work will help to fortify his place alongside the titans of European cinema. Dillard

7 - Female Prisoner Scorpion: Complete Collection, Arrow Video

Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection, Arrow's thoroughly awesome Blu-ray set, is one of the year's most exciting releases. Following Matsu (Meiko Kaji), a women hell bent on revenge, across four films, the series boasts strange narrative turns and wonky camera angles, making it an enduring and still unusual bit of pulp that's been especially influential on the films of Quentin Tarantino. Arrow's efforts are most evident in Jailhouse 41, where a wild color palette of blue-heavy neon consistently informs the frame, whether across faces or in the entire mise-en-scène. Color rarely looks faded or dimmed, with pools of black often providing a contrast to the brighter shades. The package practically bursts at the seams with extras, with appreciations from critics and filmmakers, insights from historians, and even pair of video essays by Tom Mes, who thoroughly examines each film in the series along narrative and visual lines, while also looking at the entire career of Kaji in relation to Pinky Violence films and beyond. Dillard

6 - Pioneers of African-American Cinema, Kino Lorber

Kickstarter hasn't only helped independent filmmakers get their projects off the ground; it's also made previously impossible restoration efforts a distinct possibility. No home-disc offering from 2016 has spoken more favorably to these possibilities than Pioneers of African-American Cinema, Kino Lorber's five-disc Blu-ray collection that boasts 19 films spanning 1915 to 1946, and includes canonical works from Oscar Micheaux in addition to hidden gems like 1926's Ten Nights in a Bar Room. Kino raised $53,717 to help fund the set, which includes an 80-page booklet and musical scores for the films by DJ Spooky and Max Roach, among others. The term “essential” is often haphazardly tossed around when discussing restoration efforts, but this collection could be the textbook definition of the term. The films also look superb for their age. Let's just hope Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, Kino's next restoration baby, which has already raised $49,857, receives the same sort of care and comprehension. Dillard

5 - Blood and Black Lace, Arrow Video

Arrow Video's extraordinary package perfectly complements the bounty of sensory delights offered by Mario Bava's classic giallo thriller. Tim Lucas's audio commentary allows modern viewers to imagine the newness that Blood and Black Lace represented for the thriller genre at the time of its release, though it was a financial disappointment that gained cultural cache retrospectively. And Bava's astonishing use of color is honored by a gorgeous new 2K restoration of the original camera negative, which is one of the most beautiful transfers this critic has seen of a classic giallo. Colors are ripe and hallucinatory, most impressively and subtly the blacks, which are deep and well-differentiated. Flesh tones and textures are densely detailed, intensifying our impressions of the victims' vulnerabilities. Image clarity is revelatory, though grit and grain are still present and balanced in a pleasing and print-honoring fashion. This is indispensable catnip for the horror-minded cinephile. Bowen

4 - A Brighter Summer Day, The Criterion Collection

For years, Edward Yang's magnum opus A Brighter Summer Day could only be seen on horribly sourced bootlegs. Even a home-video release directly sourced from the film's negative, and without a single touch-up, would have been considered a major event, but Criterion's 4K restoration is revelatory. Gone are the smudges and compression artifacts that pockmarked so many of the film's VCD releases; in their place are warm, natural lighting schemes and a crisp palette of reds, ambers, and pale grays. Black levels are deep and textures sharp, so that even the long shots pop with clear detail well into the background. The mono track is a modest one but impressive in comparison to the muffled, crackling sounds that were abundant on the aforementioned bootlegs. Extras include a commentary track from Tony Rayns and copious interviews, but of greatest interest is a taped performance of one of Edward Yang's plays, Likely Consequence. Given the paucity of Yang's filmed output before his death from cancer in 2007, the chance to see some of his stage work offers an unexpected opportunity to explore a fuller range of his art. Cole

3 - Out 1, Carlotta Films

Out 1, Jacques Rivette's 13-hour opus, has been a cinephile's holy grail for decades, making its abrupt release on home video the most significant Blu-ray in years. The film's tactile 16mm photography has been buried in low-resolution VHS rips for ages, and to see it properly restored is thrilling. Both the color and monochrome sequences are crisp and as consistent as 16mm shot on location can be, and grain is healthy throughout. The mono soundtrack, previously buried so deeply under mountains of hiss as to be indecipherable, is clear and reveals a surprising level of dynamic design. For good measure, the set comes with Rivette's four-hour recut of the series Spectre, as well as a feature-length documentary. Those with a region-free player may want to opt for Arrow Video's release, which includes three of Rivette's masterworks in addition to the series, but Carlotta's edition is a vital presentation of one of cinema's greatest endurance tests. Cole

2 - The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast, Arrow Video

It would be easy to simply write off the works of schlockmeister Herschell Gordon Lewis as exercises in the ironic so-bad-they're-good aesthetics of camp. But that would be selling their cracked charms considerably short. Consumed in sufficient quantities, these films induce a state of cinematic delirium, with familiar faces and themes bleeding from one film to the next, as though they were only installments in one sprawling, mind-melting serial. Arrow's gargantuan 17-disc set The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast is spread across two hardcover volumes housed in a massive red-and-green slipcase with a HGL cut-out mask embossed on the back. All 14 films feature a brief introduction from Lewis, and most of them sport a commentary track as well. There's a heaping helping of featurettes, the odd short subject, hours of outtakes, and piles of promotional materials on every disc. The HGL Annual also tucked into the slipcase is loaded with film-specific games, promotional art, and technical specs for the entire set. Wilkins

1 - Dekalog, The Criterion Collection

Criterion's 4K restoration of Krzysztof Kieślowski's series maximizes texture and color, emphasizing aspects like the pale blue color timing of the first episode to the sickly yellows that suffuse scenes of the fifth. The enhanced detail also highlights the realism that grounds the filmmaker's expressionism, rendering faces and stark backgrounds with tactile depth and clarity. Audio is just as strong, rendering Zbigniew Preisner's previously compressed score in restored, lossless mono that presents the music in full force. Bolstered by the inclusion of restored copies of A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love as well as a slew of additional interviews with cast, crew, and film scholars, Dekalog is Criterion's release of the year, restoring the Polish director's magnum opus to all its visual glory. Cole

http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-20-best-dvd-and-blu-rays-of-2016/

>>8475

Bezbog Innocence of Memories Akher ayam el madina Chamissos Schatten Liliom ösvény Maesta, La passion du Christ Le fils de Joseph Rester vertical River of Fundament

La mort de Louis XIV Jia Rak ti Khon Kaen Homo sapiens Cosmos Baba Vanga The Sprawl: Propaganda About Propaganda La academia de las musas Mariupolis

not him but this has been around in 4chan's /tv/

>>8569

>>8569

>Those lists have the same 20 films in a slightly different order.

Senses of Cinema has a gigantic 2016 World Poll with plenty of variety

7 parts!!

http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/world-poll/world-poll-2016-part-1/

http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/world-poll/world-poll-2016-part-2/

http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/world-poll/world-poll-2016-part-3/

http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/world-poll/world-poll-2016-part-4/

http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/world-poll/world-poll-2016-part-5/

http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/world-poll/world-poll-2016-part-6/

http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/world-poll/world-poll-2016-part-7/

>>8622

> Nocturama

That looks like "The Burger King Kids Club Declares Jihad"

TSPDT's 25 Most Critically-Acclaimed Films of 2016 (based on 2016 end-of-year ballots only)

1. MOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins

2. TONI ERDMANN Maren Ade

3. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Kenneth Lonergan

4. LA LA LAND Damien Chazelle

5. ELLE Paul Verhoeven

6. PATERSON Jim Jarmusch

7. HELL OR HIGH WATER David Mackenzie

8. CERTAIN WOMEN Kelly Reichardt

9. THE HANDMAIDEN Park Chan-wook

10. O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA Ezra Edelman

11. AMERICAN HONEY Andrea Arnold

12. ARRIVAL Denis Villeneuve

13. I. DANIEL BLAKE Ken Loach

14. CAMERAPERSON Kirsten Johnson

15. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP Whit Stillman

16. EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! Richard Linklater

17. JACKIE Pablo Larraín

18. THINGS TO COME Mia Hansen-Løve

19. I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO Raoul Peck

20. THE WITCH Robert Eggers

21. JULIETA Pedro Almodóvar

22. THE LOBSTER Yorgos Lanthimos

23. SILENCE Martin Scorsese

24. 13TH Ava DuVernay

25. FIRE AT SEA Gianfranco Rosi

http://www.theyshootpictures.com/21stcentury.htm