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Alright filmfags, show me what you've got.
<S Tier - Timeless
>Tarkovsky: Stalker, Andrei Rublev, Solaris
>Klimov: Come and See
>Bela Tarr: Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango (all very demanding)
>Bergman: Persona, Seventh Seal
>Herzog: Aguirre (I love them all but this one stands apart)
>Kubrick: 2001
<A Tier - Food for the soul
>Visconti: The Leopard, Rocco and his Brothers
>Fellini: La Dolce Vita, Amarcord
>De Sica: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D.
>Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers
>Cocteau: Orpheus, Blood of a Poet
>Godard: Breathless, Band of Outsiders, The Little Soldier
>Kurosawa: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, Ran
>Mizoguchi: Sansho, Ugetsu
>Kobayashi: Seppuku, Human Condition
>Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis, M
>Bunuel: Discreet Charm, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel
>Kieslowski: Dekalog
>David Lynch: Anything, including Twin Peaks old and new.
>Ki-duk Kim: Spring, Summer…
>Gilliam: Brazil
>Kubrick (pt. 2): The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, FMJ
<A- Tier - Entertainment
>Cronenberg: Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers
>Billy Wilder: One, Two, Three, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution
>Becker: Le Trou, Touchez pas au Grisbi
>Melville: Army of Shadows, Le Cercle Rouge, Bob le Flambeur
>Clouzot: Diabolique, Wages of Fear (the ultimate languagefag film)
>Bresson: A Man Escaped, Pickpocket
>Renoir: The Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant, King of NY
>Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre
>Peckinpah: Straw Dogs, Alfredo Garcia
>Woody Allen: Annie Hall. All the other old-and-good ones too.
>Carpenter: The Thing, They Live
>Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
>Scorsese: Kind of Comedy, Taxi Driver. The rest can kinda fuck off.
>Hitchcock: Pretty much all of them.
Let's talk about movies, then. Don't have to be lefty films but obviously recommendations on that front are also welcome.
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No.16478
>>16477so what exactly is the movie about
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No.16479
>>16478Literally? Read the wikipedia synopsis.
Thematically? A satire of television corporate media in general, in particular profit-over-morals, media circus, media desensitization and dehumanization.
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No.16554
what is the ideology/story of citizen kane?
i've never watched it
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No.16590
>>16588who the fuck is this orange uhyga and why the fuck is he everywhere
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No.16856
https://twitter.com/johencho/status/1407076394652225549I don't get it
Why is everybody saying the boyfriend from Devil Wears Prada was bad and the villain?
From where I see it, He was the right one. She was becoming too bougie and he maturely left her
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No.17906
why do people like boogie nights
from the wikipedia film summary it sounds like just another story about rags to riches than to rags again because of sex and drugs story
is it the dialogue and acting that's good about it? because it sure doesn't sound the like the story is anything special.
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No.17908
>>16980No, should we ? what is it about ?
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No.17911
>>17906It was good / fresh for its time, but it aged like milk imo. Saw it when I was young and even back then I realized it's a shit film.
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No.17912
>>17911reading the letterboxd reviews made me think it was the greatest thing since sliced bread, i felt insane
somebody quoted a line from the movie and it was the goofiest shit imaginable. something out of cartoon. but they wrote up so much fluff on how great the movie is.
sometimes i feel like people just keep this long prank going on where they praise a thing because others are praising it too just to keep some random semblance of status quo going on
do you remember anything else about watching it in theatres? it's been a long while since i've been in one
recount anything if you can
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No.17934
2001 like most of Kubrick's work is overrated garbage
Some of my favorites:
> Chinatown> Solaris / (Mirror, Stalker)> Vertigo/ (Rear View, Psycho)> Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom> Akira>>16477Network is garbage and the director is a Proudhonist
and an actual Zionist - his Marxist hateboner is apparent too.
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No.17936
>>17934What's so bad about Kubrick
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No.17938
>>16472It's the same shit as every other "girlboss" movie coming out in the past decade - generic, ironically sexist to both men and women and disgustingly stupid.
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No.17941
>>17936I just think he's an overrated hack with above-average shots. Eyes Wide Shut is good, but I fucking hate everything else he's made especially 2001 - and its insulting to put him next to actual auteurs like Polanski/Tarkovsky/Ozu etc
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No.17942
>>15697Груз 200
Awful film (see >>10107 ) but made in such a way that it leaves you black inside - I only recommend if you like being suicidal.
>>15616А Зори Здесь Тихий
Отец Солдата
Они Срожались За Родину
В Бой Идут Одни Старики
Освобождение
Аты Баты Шли Солдаты
Жаворонок (1965)
>>13798 Try Archive.is, the site must have made itself PPV
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No.17945
>>17934The director is anarchist?
Why does he hate marxists
>>17936Speaking of Kubrick what did that furry oral sex in the Shining mean?
It's so fucking weird and confusing
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No.17946
>>16470why is my mans looking like dr.frasier claus
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No.17954
>>17951It was a garbage film but despite him being portrayed as an idiot, The Captain was the best character in the movie.
Also
>Tattooing "Karl Marx" on your knuckles is a weird thing to do even for a communist More than weird, it was something Prisoners would tattoo in the GULAG to mock communists.
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No.17958
>>17945Ah sry the screenwriter I meant,I actually like the director (mash is great which he also dirrcted) but the screenwriter was a Zionist socdem (his words) but his vision is essentially proudhonist if you watch the film.
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No.17964
>>17954>More than weird, it was something Prisoners would tattoo in the GULAG to mock communists.wtf how does that mock the communists
did they think they would escape out and beat the communists with their fists thus being ironic?
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No.18003
>>17951What film is that? I don't watch Marvel.
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No.18011
>>17964well yes that irony is a part of it, but frankly it' a bit hard to explain Russian prison life, myself being aware of it only through people I knew who were there. It's similar to people tattooing religious figures and other stuff on themselves in prison there, there is a double meaning within the criminal world, that only criminals really know, like the origins of their nicknames and such.
>>18003The Black Widow movies, basically it's that shitty Red Sparrow but less graphic and with bad humor thrown in.
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No.18361
Best Laid Plans is forgotten kino. IMHO
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No.18412
>>1660I watched Aguirre the other day; great film.
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No.18426
Anyone seen picrel? It has some pretty good reviews.
It's a chinese movie about communist spies that received training in the Soviet Union doing a job over at the puppet state of Manchuko.
Trailer:
https://youtu.be/dlQYk0O56HU>>
No.18493
>>18426 (me)
I've watched it, and it's a very good spy movie. At the beginning, we see one of the communists spilling out details about the operation to avoid being shot, but our four protagonists don't know about it. The operation is kaput from the start, which makes sure the movie is always tense. All of the spies are smart, making moves to withhold/extract information from others. This feels exactly like what a spy movie should feel.
Unfortunately, I can't say I enjoyed the movie to it's fullest. There were moments where I couldn't absorb new information fast enough. All the characters wear the same clothes, which did not make things easier, plus I find remembering their names quite hard. A character/event flowchart would be a welcome companion while watching it.
From what I've been able to research, this is actually a prequel to the 2012 tv show "悬崖" (Cliff) by the same writer, Quan Yongxian. In an interview (
https://inf.news/entertainment/bd5332246260958e06dc8ead644ec3da.html), he said that in 2015 he had written the script for this prequel as a 60-episode show.
If this had been a tv show – or even a book –, where things could flow in a more friendly pace, this would've been a absolute must watch. Overall, it is a very good movie, and I recommend anyone interested to watch it, even though you'll scratch your head sometimes and may wish to rewind a bit to understand what is happening (though I didn't, and was still able to enjoy it very much).
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No.18501
>>18429Everything I know about Soul Plane, I learned from The Boondocks.
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No.18538
Anyone seen L'An 01?
>The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions, beginning with "Let's stop everything," and the second "After a period of total stoppage, let's bring back — reluctantly — just the services and products we can't do without. Probably : water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the radio to say 'This is not the end of the world, this is Year 1, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics." The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 1. L'An 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.
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No.18540
Have no idea whether to watch the 90s Treasure Island movie first or read the book first
might also watch the 50s version and Muppets version after just out of curiousity
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No.18882
Ayy montecellos (New word I just invented)
Is Godzilla vs King Kong a fun movie fully to watch?
I don't mean like are there 2 minutes of good fights and comedy
Is the entire experience fun to watch?
Is it plagued by the same problems of the other monsterverse movies where the human characters are utterly boring?
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No.18883
>>18429I'll watch this
It looks like there'll be boobs innit
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No.18958
I hate the only theatres shit so much.
I want to pirate Free Guys and watch it when it comes out not 6 months after. I liked the forced digital shit HBO did
If we weren't living in capitalism. This wouldn't even be a problem. We would still have theatres for the culture without forcefully releasing first only on theatres for muh economy.
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No.18973
>>18958try Kinogo.la, thy have all the versions of nearly every film and tv series from all sorts of countries and can be downloaded
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No.18974
>>18882>Is Godzilla vs King Kong a fun movie fully to watchThere's a good review of the movie from a cinematographical perspective on the /m/ thread on
>>>/anime/ It's a fun, cheesy but generally silly movie, so maybe not to your tastes.
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No.18980
>>18973Thanks for the new piracy site
>>18974And Thanks for the review. I feel like I can enjoy this movie.
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No.18985
>>18980>I can enjoy this movieI certainly did, and I'm glad to help both with the review and the site.
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No.19080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Jd149IVSYThis vid got me thinking about background actors
Who is the best background actor? You will never know.
Because if you have a favourite background actor then haven't they jobs already? Their not supposed to take the attention away from the main characters but they did somehow. Standing out is bad if you're job is to blend in with the scenery and be background
We will never have an award for the best background actors because it'd be so hard to pick the best one
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No.19199
Why teh fuck is there an entire genere of italian films that's about "le savage cannibals, nudity and gore" as their main plot?
WTF was happening in italy in that time? Why does italian expolitation genre exist
is the wiki page to understand this good?
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No.19214
>>19213irl he was a gay communist gigachad
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No.19215
>>19213Have you watched salo? does the message of fascism bad really set it apart from the other disturbing borderline snuff films that salo is usually categorized with?
>>19214about that
why was he assassinated
was it differences in the Italian Communist Party, The religious fundamentalists who hated him for being gay and communist or some other mafia related reason
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No.19216
>>19215It's not really a snuff film and does pound for pound have real artistic merit
I don't know about his assassination or much about the italian communist party
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No.19217
>>19216This line of questioning is so pointless too, just watch Salo its on fucking rarbg you could finish it and have an opinion on it in two hours.
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No.19220
>>19217Why is it pointless?
I don't want to watch it but I want to understand it
Accidentally hearing some scenes from the movie in a youtube video as a child still disturbs me
I hate the word "manja" whenever I hear it because of the movie.