No.24
>>10>"Persepolis … was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Ratatouille."Why does anyone care about the Oscars when they're clearly a complete joke?
I recently watched Unfriended, I… don't recommend it. It's like someone thought "What if we crossed The Blair Witch Project with Cyberbu//y?" and decided to make it real.
No.29
>>24If the Oscars are still relevant is worth discussing but yeah that animation category is totally off.
No.60
>>26While i liked this movie, it was really a massive slog. It was quite interesting, but its just so fucking long, and seemingly without much development. I could definitely see the parallels with 1984, and it was an interesting take on those ideas.
No.61
>>19TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
No.62
Well, I just finished 71', which is a fucking good movie.
It can be hard to hear at times (might just be my TV), but its superb.
It's on Hulu Plus if anyone has that.
I'm thinking I'm going to start getting into some older japanese films, seeing as Hulu has so many available in their catalog.
No.64
>>59You actually liked that movie?
For me it was the slowest, most boring, unstructured and lacking any definite story I have ever seen.
I mean, sure, about half of the movie was these kids doing kids things and having some conflicts, but overall I perceived mostly random life scenes that everybody else on this planet goes through. And the rest was just scenes from nature or the big bang, and Sean Penn putting a sad face in an office building. What I mean is no narrative whatsoever
No.67
"it's Brahms you fucking idiot, what you don't like Brahms?"
No.68
>>10I love Dr. Strangelove, and most Kubrick films. Is eyes wide shut any good? It's one of the few i havent seen
No.72
>>68I remember not liking the movie that much. But I saw it ages ago on tv, I should rewatch it.
*is the only movie where I like Tom Cruise, tho :^)*
No.75
>>74Is there a new one?
Also the guy is hot
And Falken doesmlook like your usual nerd
No.390
Sunset Limited, maybe. I'm not much into live action.
No.394
>>389I just watched this for the first time a few days ago, I had no idea what I was in for. Croenenberg's more than just the body horror he's known for.
No.406
>>59Tree of Life is good. The Thin Red Line is also very good.
My favourite Malick film though is Knight Of Cups, which probably says more about where I am in life than anything else.
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring. Quiet, contemplative, beautifully shot.
Terry Gilliams' The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. The top of the heap of nostalgia films from my childhood including but not limited to The Gods Must Be Crazy, Willow, The Princess Bride, The Goonies, and The Adventures of Milo and Otis.
Three films will do.
>>68As a piece of cinematography, it is good. The story is nothing amazing. Cruise is bearable, Kidman is unbearable. Barry Lyndon is definitely underrated.
I used to really love 2001 but the "big picture" storyline has lost it charm on me over the years, contrast this with the very personal Knight Of Cups. I still own a segment of Kubrick's personal cut of 2001 that came with the first print run of The Stanley Kubrick Archives.
No.407
>>394I also watched it without having any idea about the plot, it really blew my mind.
No.408
>>406>Three films will do.or not. forgot Jim Jarmuschs' Broken Flowers
No.444
Electric Dragon 80,000v is a really great japanese indie film with a really great soundtrack. Would recomend to fans of tetsuo the iron man, noise guitar music or japanese pro wresting anouncers
No.623
Pretty much anything Mamoru Oshii. Particularly Talking Head.
No.730
>>444I recommand watching „a snake of June“.
It my favorite Shin’ya Tsukamoto film.
No.736
"Into the wild" is a great movie, based on a true story of Christopher McCandless who abandoned society and completely isolated himself from people. There are lessons to take from his life, especially for some hikkikomori sushi rolls.
One of my favourite movies was also Borat. It's probably the best comedy movie on this universe.
If you like plot twist mindfuck movies, Shutter Island was also amazing. Probably one of the sharpest plot twist.
>>11agree, based sushi roll.
>>26was on my watchlist,now i'm sure watching it today. thank you sushi roll :3
>related imgFound it on /pol/ long time ago, watched the ones with pepper icon i put.
"Lord of war" was an amazing movie, even only opening scene was enough for getting me.
I hated "Come and see","Apocalypse now" and "The wave", snoozefest shit. I don't recommend.
Watched downfall yesterday, fairly well movie.
No.737
Stalker. I didn't like any of the other Tarkovsky films I saw, but there's something about this one that's just enchanting. Every time I watch it I notice something new or find a new way to relate to it.
My favourite thing about it is that it doesn't have any 'real' meaning; it is what you make of it. Maybe its about faith. Maybe its about life under the communist regime. Maybe its just three men searching for a room.
oh yeah the soundtrack is beautiful as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJy5BxbmcVE No.738
>>26Movie was all boring. Visuals were good and enjoying but for a 1980s person. Ending was good tho
No.739
I honestly don't think I have one.
No.747
>>737Is that so? Tbh I watched this film some years ago and I found it to be really boring, which is a shame, it has always got my attention
It even made me skeptic to watch another movie from him (Ivan's Childhood, that one I really liked), but now that I see you mentioning it again I'd like to give it another shot
No.749
Not sure if I could pick a favorite. I like Blade Runner and the sequel a lot, as well as some silly stuff like the Princess Bride. But as you can probably tell I'm not really a movie person, most of the classics I have not seen, let alone all the well regarded artsy stuff everyone talks about online.
No.786
I've always been a sucker for a sweeping adventure like The Great Race (1965) or Jason and the Argonauts (1963). I think my favorite movie would be Gladiator. It's a bit formulaic, but that doesn't matter to me if the formula is done well. I personally can't wait for the comic book genre to become less dominant so that we can get back to butchering ancient history and myths.
I've also been watching a lot of Japanese horror recently, and just watched the first Ring film. I can definitely see why it became a classic, but it's fame raises the question of why Pulse (2001) had less staying power, despite being in my opinion superior. Is it simply that the message of the film, how the internet can erode social relationships and mental health, hadn't yet come to pass for the general populace?
>>749Princess Bride is a fine specimen of comfy.
No.881
>>737I watched this recently and while it didn't blow me away, I think it was good. It's tense all the way through in a way that's hard to describe. The only scene I didn't really like was that like 7 minute one where the main character sleeps next to a river and a camera pans through objects submerged in the water. Everything else was cool
No.934
>>882> I feel like a grumpy old man who doesn't understand the new world from time to time and Gran Torino, aside from just generally being good, pleases that part of meThe Mule.
Unsurprisingly also Clint Eastwood.
No.961
not really the right thread for this but i watched 120 days of sodomy recently and it was a huge redpill
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No.962
Also I tried watching The Blackcoat's Daughter and Irreversible (2002) but they were super boring . Also thinking of rewatching Nosso Lar and Sausage Party (Super Satanic Movie)…
No.979
I just finished "Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece" (Tintin et le mystère de la toison d'or), which I believe was the first original Tintin story not written by Hergé. This is not an objective review because the last time I read a full Tintin adventure was in 2014 and I had a few drinks when I watched the film, so bear with me.
I went in expecting to hate this film because I never liked the Tintin animated series and I was outright disgusted by Spielberg's 3D Tintin. The idea of Tintin with real actors sounded even worse than these animated versions, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. I noticed that the IMDB score was 6,0 and if I had read more Tintin in the past seven years or so I might be more negative, but it was so nice to see Tintin, Captain Hadock, Dupont et Dupond (Thomson and Thompson in English, I believe), and Professor Tournesol again that I thoroughly enjoyed the film. It felt like a classic Tintin adventure. There is something about the Mediterranean that works very well with Tintin, in my opinion, so it was nice to see an adventure that was limited to Istanbul and Greece.
I kind of lost the plot near the end, but in terms of gags the film was fantastic. The highlight for me was Dupont having a watch that was 90 minutes behind Dupond and both of them deciding to 'fix' their watches so that Dupond was 90 minutes ahead of Dupont instead. The musical theme for the film was honestly perfect and really captured the spirit of a good Tintin adventure. All in all a very enjoyable film, but not quite the same as just reading one of the original comics.
No.1005
>>389If you liked "Naked Lunch" you'll also like "Barfly".
Of all time, though? It's easily "Cats Don't Dance."
No.1028
>>1027yet again reminding me to rewatch it…
No.1135
The last episode of Power Corrupts was great and was a n excellent exploration of Christianity and the issues with heaven.
https://youtu.be/GxcyfEcn0fM No.1142
Talk Radio by Oliver Stone
Platoon by Oliver Stone
Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone
Nixon by Oliver Stone
No.1208
>>1192I completely get what you mean. It’s just… something about it. The way movies like this “feel” are special.
No.1411
>>1192You gotta watch the longer cut of the film, they left out a lot of good stuff out of the shorter cut, but also the longer cut as-swell, someone needs to make a new cut.
No.1414
https://youtu.be/HeedSt23l3E?si=hMAuNjai9uxYS-HPThe Leopard by Visconti
call me pseud all you like i don't care, it's a masterpiece
No.1529
>>1411I might have hallucinated this but I heard that Lynch had done something like that at one point and left it lying around mostly finished.
No.1532
The movie I return to rewatch the most is probably The Master from 2012. It just has this nice flow to it.
I also really like
>>443 and
>>389 too, though they're not ones I rewatch as often for differing reasons.
No.1538
Jodorosky's El Topo is a really cool movie about a magic gunslinger traveling through mexico to defeat 4 master duelists for a womans love.
Each scene is constructed with amazing composition, it almost feels like watching a really dedicated film adaption of a manga or comic book. Worth a watch if you like the "midnight movies" genre
No.1540
>>1539i watched the taste of tea with my fren! we had lots of fun. i liked the parts where she has big head and also the ending sequence with the song.
It's too big to upload coz i never had a good source, but i did rip a copy and put it on mediafire. maybe i'll find a nice modern copy and redo it with nice encode one day.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/0ae4iyybdjjoygv/Little_Tempo_-_Cha_no_Aji.mkv/file No.1546
>>1540So great to hear others enjoy it. And thank you for sharing! Can you give any recommendations for similar films that have a peaceful tone with surreal notes?
No.1626
>>1625>gay barsDropped it right there.
>I would say the film touches foremost on identity.Genuinely feel this a worn trope in cinema now. Its as overdone as muscleman action movies. Its really tiresome and the movies are all the same.
No.1627
>>1626lol. find me a piece of art that isn't the author's expression of identity. what else do you want to see - a bunch of nature photos rolling for 60 minutes..? it's like saying you don't like manga because it has too many pictures and makes you a little upset. aww. do the gay people scare you sushi roll?
No.1629
>>1627I typed out a long ass post as a reply but I'm just gonna say this. I'm not interested in an artist's identity or self-expression. The exploration of identity, self purpose, and the meaning of life are fatigued and worn out themes in literature and film. They have been done to death at this point. As for gay people, no I don't like them. I don't think movies about them are especially interesting because most revolve around those worn themes I mentioned. In an age where the idea of being closeted is functionally dead, we have to stage it in moving pictures to feed our egotistical need to be taboo and underground and it probably never was radical and underground to be gay back then anyway. Sure, I guess this is all a bit unfair to friendly lady about a movie I've never seen so I'll go ahead and watch it.
No.1630
>>1629> it probably never was radical and underground to be gay back then anywayacknowledging that you don't need to be closeted anymore but then saying it was never underground back then too. wtf is it then? friendly lady about a time you don't understand either, fucking lmbo
No.1631
>>1625I was dumb for writing this off. This movie is hilarious. There seems to be an fascination with artificiality, fakeness, masks etc. Even the Madame's flowers are artificial. Transvestites appear as warped characters but so does everyone else like that weirdo who larps as Che Guevara with his stick on beard and random quotes. The interviews were interesting in how the idea of being gay has changed. The ending really made me chuckle. It wasn't what I was expecting so I apologize for going ape shit over it. It's also interesting that they use English words for these terms, like "gay" and "homo."
>>1630Homosexuals need to reenact the myth of the closet and the myth of oppression for their identity to stay appealing and coherent. This passion play is staged over and over again in queer media with the endless slew of movies about coming to terms with your true identity blah blah blah. Gay people need stories about being oppressed and in the closet to convince themselves their identities are real. Movies like that are the equivalent of a Catholic passion play. Self-inflicted tragedy. Boring, lame, another movie about self-discovery? Been there, done that.
No.1634
>>1631this might sound cliche but of course just because society has agreed upon a certain label to label someone, in reality that does not automatically and accurately define all the characteristics of all individuals who may fall under that perceived label
No.1635
>>1631>I apologize for going ape shitLol its okay. My response was pretty bitter too. I think my description of the film was pretty poor and didn't convey what I was trying to say, so instead I said something easy like "uhhh self-discovery".
I understand your other points regarding sexuality, though. Take care.
No.1636
>>1634Labels don't obscure, they substitute the things they are tagged onto with the images carried by the label. Homosexuality is artificial and so is heterosexuality (its Siamese twin), both are tied together by narcissism. The average gay man is just a clone of a socially produced image larping his authentic self. His body is just a vessel for a grab bag of images, signs, feelings, and pop culture products circulated through mass media and the entertainment industry. Homosexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality etc. obliterate a person's uniqueness and replace it with something else.
Now I will shill this mediocre movie Cruising by William Friedkin released 1980. Its about an undercover cop investigating a serial killer who prowls NYC's seedy gay S&M underground. The film was denounced as homophobic by gay activists upon release. Friedkin thought the clubs were too tame so he ordered the production crew to amp up the dark and gritty look and replaced the club music with a rock/punk soundtrack. The movie's dark aesthetic, fashion, and music have since been copied by reproduction gay BDSM bars complete with patrons who mimic the film's extras, mausoleums to a world that probably never existed (at least not the way people imagine it).
Without spoiling anything, the straight cop's sexuality and sense of self blurs as he spends more time in the clubs but he never comes out as gay or leaves his gf. Is he a repressed homo or is he straight? It disturbs the dichotomy. That's probably what made the gay activists so mad.
No.1637
>>25Really loved Hana-bi at the time, really comfy
>>762 I wasn't a big fan of Mary and Max at the time because of the animation but i ended to really love the epistolary approach of the movie and all the fun anecdotes of Max's life
I don't have favorite movies but I recently liked Once were warriors, really good movie from New Zealand with a great direction
No.1638
>>1636I can't say I disagree with what you are saying, at least I can't say it is not true. There is certainly truth in that and it sounds reminiscent of what I have heard some sociologists say.
Also, the body is subject to one's biology of course. A person with COPD is not going to identify as a fervent jogger because they are limited by the fact that they don't have the lungs for it. That person could still say, "In the past, I was a jogger."
I will say that for the sake of truth, if the soul exists then there is more that constitutes the individual rather than just an amalgamation of external influences and learned behaviors. The existence of the soul does not negate sociology or materialism of course, since we are still stuck in the material universe seemingly. My personal persuasion on individuals tends towards the supremacy of the soul over the character that the world or your parents have made you. As in we have intrinsic being, despite nature or nurture.
Ahhhhhhh, great nostalgia I've actually seen that movie. Definitely a classic of hardcore masculine homosexuality, but I remember it being kinda dirty and grimey lol. Another good Al Pacino film of that ilk is Dog Day Afternoon. He's robbing a bank to pay for his transgender partner's sex change.
Concerning the philosophical nuance in that movie, I am not sure it is easily explained. Common sense says he very well just may be bisexual, but to truly analyze it would require behavioral biology and psychology and all that fun stuff.
No.1640
>>1638Thanks. Dog Day Afternoon is great. Much better than Cruising but a very different breed of film. Its absurd but doesn't descend into silliness, the lighthearted moments are set within a realist world that never loses that air of tension and desperation. Pacino's acting was stellar. His lead is bizarre but ultimately a banal and ordinary guy caught up events that snowball out of his control. He's a bank robber but doesn't like to hurt others. He's a Catholic with a wife and kids but has a transgender 'wife.' All of these are seen as contradictory by today's standards, but he clearly loves both his wives despite the relationship problems. He's somebody who's difficult to pin down. Cookie cutter LGBT slop isn't this nuanced. You wouldn't see a character written like this today. The gays would probably lynch you anyway.
Cruising is more surreal and experimental. It has this confusing dreamlike quality that undermines your sense of reality, especially the way Friedkin reuses the same actors in different roles or dubs over one character with the voice of another.
>Concerning the philosophical nuance in that movie, I am not sure it is easily explained. Common sense says he very well just may be bisexual, but to truly analyze it would require behavioral biology and psychology and all that fun stuff.It was accidental. It's pretty clear that Friedkin didn't have a clear direction for where the movie would go and wanted it to be ambiguous and vague purely for the aesthetic value. He presents these S&M bars without judgement and tries to shrink the distance between the patrons and the audience, basically they are just like us. That vagueness makes the main character's identity equally as vague and difficult to pin down. If a straight man like Burns can be drawn into the world of sadomasochistic homosexuality, then what's stopping us? The line between hetero and homo is washed away in the surf. If the difference between these sexualities is just a line in the sand, then the whole culture is radically challenged. Idk anything about bisexuality. Idk about that but the word wasn't commonly used when the film was released back in 1980.
No.1641
>>1640I highly doubt the concept of 'bisexual' (including the literal word) was not already part of public consciousness in 1980, including prior in history and well before the era of "lol-woke ideology-internet-trans mutilation-viral-tradwife" that we all get to hear about today on our smart phones and influencing platforms.
No.1643
>>1642>>1641Originally, sexologists borrowed the word bisexual from botany and used it for hermaphrodites. In the 60s and 70s, people attracted to multiple genders were not welcome in the gay movement so they began using the word bisexual for themselves with the support of the Quakers. At the time, bisexual was shunned by gays who saw them as homos in denial or degenerate straights trying to infiltrate the gay scene. It was only in the mid-80s with the rapid spread of AIDS that the word became commonly used in the media. You can see in Dog Day Afternoon, Pacino's bank robber is described as homosexual even though he's married to a woman and has two kids. Gay activists still saw bisexuals as fake posers and some even blamed them for spreading AIDS. Even 90s era queer theorists seemed to be lowkey hostile to it. Of course, now it has a convenient use. Whenever something challenges the line between straight and gay, bisexuality is wheeled out to paper over the cracks and keep the hype train rolling.
No.1644
>>1643My friend from the 60's says he doesn't quite remember hearing that term very often back then.
No.1645
Remember the McCarthy era was not only a Communist scare but also a gay scare because…..this is a strange story….well, for some reason the people hunting Communists came to the conclusion that Communism and homosexuality were somehow connected, so there was not only a campaign against Communists but a campaign against teh gays. For some reason, many of the people doing this campaign, it turned out that they themselves were gay in some form or fashion.
The Kinsey Scale came out post-WW2 but anyone who studies Nazi Germany knows that prior to the Nazi's, Germany was an epicenter of research into homosexuality and had no lack of what you might call a "proto-LGBT era culture". Ernst Röhm was one of the original Nazi higher-ups, a gay nymphomaniac it's said he was. The story goes that Hitler personally shot him after they decided to ban homosexuality.
No.1646
>>1645>for some reason the people hunting Communists came to the conclusion that Communism and homosexuality were somehow connectedIt wasn't because homosexuals were communists, but they were seen as vulnerable to seduction and manipulation by communist infiltrators and Soviet spies. Homosexuals had to be purged to safeguard society (and homos themselves) from communism. Fear of one group led to the suspicion of another.
>Germany was an epicenter of research into homosexuality and had no lack of what you might call a "proto-LGBT era culture".Magnus Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights. He was also a eugenicist and a believer in race science. Magnus believed homosexuals were like a race, a separate subspecies almost. Where his opponents disagreed was what to do with these sex races. The post-Stonewall gay movement took up the idea that homosexuals were a separate people from heterosexuals, who had oppressed them throughout history the way the French oppressed the Algerians (gay liberation front being inspired by Algeria's FLN). This created an inhospitable environment for people attracted to both sexes. They were cast inauthentically gay, they were sleeping with the enemy, and their existence challenged the idea that homos were biologically different from heteros. The hostility to transsexuals had a similar origin. Homophobes and LGBT activists are covert allies they love to hate each other but are joined at the hip.
I don't like this idea of proto this and proto that, as if every instance of two guys holding hands was LGBT culture in vitro. What's more interesting are the accidents, the weird twists of history, and the roads not taken.
Now what does this have to do with movies? Give me movie reccs dammit!
No.1647
>>1646words are different from thoughts. I think sexuality is plainly obvious that it is just what humans do, it doesn't have to be diced up into little categories and put on display by political influences.
No.1649
>>1648Shut up. Discussion of sexuality in cinema is movie discussion. Foolish mod.
(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) No.1651
>>735Second for The Grand Budapest Hotel.
No.1652
>>735I feel like this was the only Wes Anderson film I actually enjoyed. I liked Fantastic Mr. Fox because I appreciate the animation but man the rest of them were a struggle for me.
