/film/ - FILM

>DW Griffith
I love Birth Of A Nation and Orphans Of The Storm, but diden't care for anything else. lot of it is just feminist melodrama, a moral tale or some sort of complex for 'Birth' (politically or artistic wise) 
>Charlie Chaplin
I think the idea that comedy needs some sort of pathos is overrated and Chaplin's filmography is an example of that. all pathos is directed towards his 'tramp' character which is himself. he wants the camera to focus on how soft and delicate and morally he is, which he uses this image to compensate his true degenerate self. I also find his slapstick too nuanced to be humorous as compared to contemporary physical comedians like Max Linder and Buster Keaton
>Robert Eggers
I like his first two movies (especially the lighthouse) but I fear he's coming an adult Tim Burton; where his entire oeuvre is a goth gimmick. Northman was boring and felt like a sedated Conan The Barbarian for quirky whyte bois who obsesses over modern depiction of vikings. Nosferatu is interesting for use of superstition vs Science (which is a theme that occurs alot in early gothic literature) but I didn't care for the cuck thing it has going (which isn't too surprising for a Dracula adaptation)

>>3665
I could never consider DW Griffith to be anywhere near my least favorite directors but Eggers is fucking terrible and I’d be much harsher on his movies than you are. Nosferatu was pure fucking shit, probably one of the worst movies I’ve seen in the past few months. Seems that most people simply forgot how to correctly use a camera.

>>3665
>DW Griffith
It's hard to take on the guy because he was a pioneer in many senses, it's like criticizing the gait of a baby who learned how to walk yesterday.
For what he tried to do and the systems he made on the run i think he was pretty good.

>>1816
>I plan on watching Starman at some point, but there's a good chance I'll be let down by that too.
Looks like I was right. I watched it a while ago and thought it stunk.
>>3665
I like Griffith, but his movies admittedly feel pretty creaky and aren't really the kind of thing you'd want to watch on a whim. The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance are my favorites among his movies I've seen. I'd still like to see America and a better restoration of Orphans of the Storm than the one I watched.

I agree about Chaplin. The "pathos" is pretty tiresome. I really like The Kid and all, but I'd take Buster Keaton any day. I might even pick Safety Last! over anything Chaplin's done.

>>1846
Agree on Lanthimos. I think he's the biggest hack of our day. His movies have a particular self-satisfying urge to them, like everything is delivered with a stupid, jackoff, shit eating smirk, like "heh... I'm so funny... and so edgy!" and so forth, which make his films all seem like vapid, trend-hopping cash grabs. Bugonia was so stupid and Poor Things was even worse, that one just felt like a shitpost trying to pose as arthouse or something. Bugonia's attempt at political commentary fell totally flat; it refused to make any kind of argument other than "shit sucks LOL" which made for a boring idiot chud film

Interesting that you also mention Jodorowsky, because (although I admittedly enjoy his movies, maybe out of the nostalgia of watching them as a high-school stoner) the two directors share a similar quality of self-insistence, the kind of pretentiousness that can only come from an actual lack of material to offer

>>3665
Eggers is okay, I've only seen Lighthouse and Nosferatu I think, and I honestly liked Lighthouse quite a bit. It's a fun and funny movie with a lot of good jokes, and has a pretty unique visual language as well (even if he's blatantly aping stuff like Dreyer or Murnau), although the Freud stuff is all pretty heavy handed. Nosferatu was shit though, really annoying and ugly movie which let me down severely. I remember se

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>>3758 (OP) 
What is row 4 middle column?

>>3758 (OP) 
tfw thought about it and realised the only film I saw last year was Warfare

>>3758 (OP) 
are you the same anon who has done these charts in the past? I recall that you liked Aggro Dr1ft, what did you think of Baby Invasion?

>>3762
>Baby Invasion
Not that guy but I see Harmony Korine's perpetually declining mental health has reached a new low. Man and I thought Trash Humpers was absolute garbage (no pun intended)

>>3759
Dry Leaf dir. Koberidze | ? | Resurrection dir. Gan
? | ? | Fiume o morte! dir. Bezinović
The Blue Trail dir. Mascaro | Magellan dir. Diaz | ?
Sand City dir. Hasan | Sermon to the Void dir. Baydarov | The Lake dir. Aragno
? | Better Go Mad in the Wild dir. Remo | Pompei: Below the Clouds dir. Rosi
? | ? | ?
Good Valley Stories dir. Guerin | Al Oeste, En Zapata dir. Bim | Barrio Triste dir. Stillz

What is row 1 column 2?

>>3763
He's always been insane. He was a terrible drug addict in his formative years. I thought the movie was interesting but I couldn't call it good or anything like that. I really enjoyed this older film called Los Bastardos, which strangely reminded me of Korine's movies, but I thought that film was significantly better. 
This seemed like a very strong year for film in general. 
I frequented the theater this year and saw some pretty bad movies that were fun for a night out.

no 2025?

>>3752
Be the change you want to see in the board anon.

>>3753
I don't go to festivals as the other person did. I learned from their film posts. It's unfortunate that they stopped posting their grids. They were a unique aspect of this board that  I do not want to and literally cannot embody for the time being.

Architecton dir. Kossakovsky | ? | Talking with Rivers dir. Makhmalbaf
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass dir. Brothers Quay | Sermon to the Birds dir. Baydarov | Afternoons of Solitude dir. Serra
The Wolves Always Come at Night dir. Brady | ? | ?
? | Grand Tour dir. Gomes | Scenarios dir. Godard
Pepe dir. Arias | Lolo & Sosaku: The Western Archive dir. Caballero | ?
Abiding Nowhere dir. Ming-liang | ? | ?
The Garden Cadences dir. Komljen | Journey of Shadows dir. Netzhammer | Tristan und Isolde dir. Grandrieux

>>3754
Film festivals are for rich art snobs with lots of free time

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Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, conscripted arab in Cannes turned guerrilla turned prominent algerian director turned part-time actor, called it quits recently and it's a good occasion to remind some people about his 1975 movie Chronique des Annees de Braise, not because it made the french clench their teeth hard or because it was awarded the Cannes' Palm d'Or after a strong debate among the jury, making it also the only arab/african film to be given such honour. 
It is worth mentioning because i think it's pretty good, forms a great part in the unofficial Algerian War trilogy alongside The Day of the Jackal and La Battaglia di Algeri. Might be quite slow or somewhat inert at times but those moments function as exposition for a context not explored often in western sensibilities.

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>>3599
More and more I'm getting pushed toward piracy, but I still haven't found a cracked version of Resolve without a bunch of comments complaining that it's buggy. I question whether the free and cracked versions could peacefully co-exist on one machine (or that I have room for both). So I continue working around the limitations.

Man it is tough to make subtitles for movies you didn't enjoy much or downright dislike.

>>3750
Whatever possesses you to do that?

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At some point recently archive.org excluded all 8ch.net related links
Here is a still existing archive of the old board: https://archive.fo/07wKl#selection-1953.0-1953.12
It's unfortunate that a lot of those images were lost, especially from the shots/stills thread. Does anyone have a working archive of the old board, possibly with images? I still liked going back to it once every several months and finding something new. I miss the collages.
There is also this but it is only stills: https://web.archive.org/web/20200728024531/https://julay.world/film/res/108.html
As I was looking through this stuff I found that this url still exists: https://8ch.net/film/ 
I didn't know that 8kun reacquired it.

The 3x3 threads on halfchan are not interesting. 
I never made my own collages but posted screenshots a long time ago. Did people just throw screen caps in a mosaic maker or did they actually take time to photoshop everything?

>>643
>but because they are unorthodox for the board's theme (aka not really classy stuff, Shaw Bros iron flag related)
My current tastes (American classics and ultra-low budget trash) don't really seem like appropriate discussion material. And yeah, I don't have much to say. 

It's fine lurking and just reading other posts every now and then. 
In terms of other sites, no I don't really visit any except a couple private trackers, IMDB and I still sometimes scroll through Letterboxd lists even though I don't have an account.

>>646
You should keep pursuing other companies. The world always needs more archivists. It's a bummer when I watch a great film that hasn't seen any other release other than some shit VHS.

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Only tvch

>>3735
Same.

>>3735
I went on there after seeing this and I hadn't been to anything /tv/ related for a decade. Amazing how it's the exact same as /tv/ was on infinitychan.

>>3733
It's some other British comedy based around a horror or mystery situation in a large house with guests arriving. I happened to see part of it on TV and thought the dialogue was hilarious. There are a number of films in this vein but I haven't found the right one.

I'm looking for a clay stop-motion film in monochrome (it was either light green and black, or just black and white), which I remember very little about, other than the detail that it was about living objects, like toys, which scared me shitless in my younger years, anyone know?

>>3742
you should try to "reverse-engineer" the search looking at similar stop-motion films like for example The Mascot from 1933

>>3743
NTA. Sounds like good advice. I had a quick search but didn't find anything that seemed similar.

>>3745
>NTA
Get out

>>2908
I'll probably upload an enhanced version since I found better footage of some of the live sequences, but to avoid copyright I'll upload the whole thing elsewhere

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Any good OSTs from the past year or two?
Here's what I found

Augustus Muller - My Animal
https://invidious.private.coffee/watch?v=I4qVK71AqrI
https://mega.nz/file/Ppp2wJ7D#8w0FZlzfsfZU3o2vjKZ_6QGnA7vrDfCttPwUsnDK3to

Johnny Jewel - Holly
https://invidious.private.coffee/watch?v=nEtM7hR-QvM
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Amon Tobin - Hole in the Ground
https://invidious.private.coffee/watch?v=X9Is3pc86gI
https://mega.nz/file/X1xHRI4A#mW0xghl5Kd3gaOFdPdvcz5TBWCrJ5VvJ-LBagI3pMto

>>3271
I've watched some Serbian movies recently and found this composer Aleksandar Ranđelović. I like his soundtracks, they sound very Balkan and interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YfxMN-Qp4w&list=PLurukp0WO0gF_EPCQES6WxL2yzeTtSYrp&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFEon4jnqXs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yJ5oAcEoPg
The latter one might sound more modern, but I like the incorporation of folk sounds in it

Also, some Japanese soundtracks I've been enjoying:
Goro Yasukawa - The Blood of Wolves OST (I love the 2 movies as well!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV9sl5x1hJM

Masamichi Shigeno - Snakes and Earrings
https://andmusic.jp/streaming/hebipi2.wma

>>2925
working on this right now, although I'll only do it for posterity's sake until I manage to (hopefully) get access to the Rai Teche archives so I can replace the shitty live videos with a better resolution

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>>2908
>>2925
>>3741
I'll definitely not be able to include the full RAI broadcasts since they're extremely aggressive with the copyright so I had to trim the TEATRO 10 section, you can still see it unedited in one of the links in the description

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTJmKWyQGew

>>3736 (OP) 
What does 'a group' for /film/ mean?

>>3737
A group for /FILM/

>>3738
Lol, no kidding!?  :D

Can the uninitiate grasp the practical meaning of it?

>>3739
No comment

>>3674
>And yes, it comes across as a vanity project
>Most successful directors are extremely egotistical and vain
I think usually most artists when having full control will attempt to create something entirely out of their minds, that by itself is individual so it is intrinsically egotistical as it tries to fulfill a vanity desire.
>I think that the simple-minded protagonist is extremely uninteresting. I also acknowledge that I do not care for French humor, nor do I care for mimes
I think it is obvious then that Tati is simply not someone who did stuff for your particular tastes, obviously nothing wrong with that but saying it fails at its objectives in harsh.
>This is too much of a spook
Oh boy i remember you now, IIRC you do have a strong conception and ideal of your preferred cinema so i cannot blame you for not liking some stuff that go fully into certain territories which may go opposite.
>logic and pure meaning
The idea of exploiting the fortes of the medium, which is movement and dynamism, so in Tati's mind it means showing intention by character movements involving their own presence and the interactions with their environments, which are represented by the urban living quarters in Mon Oncle, the futurist house and the main character's apartment building are characters themselves.
>Also, what old books are you talking about?
On top of my head i recall Tarkovsky's Sculpting Time referencing that idea, IIRC also one from Eisenstein.
>It's part of being a director. 
In many industries a director is merely a technician in charge of organizing other specialists, he does not care that much in the source other than moving pieces so all people involved walk in the same direction. Being a real auteur is a rare instance because the context in which artists situate themselves does not let them have all the power.
>I will almost always very soon after watch other films by the director.

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>>3679
>Oh boy i remember you now
I think we communicated on a schlock thread (pic related). Yes, I am admittedly extremely autistic in my taste but it does not deter me from watching tons of films outside of what I would consider to be great. Hope life is well for you, inconnu.

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>In the Dark
Film adaption from 2000 of the Richard Laymon novel of the same name, one of those campy thrillers that lives in the waiting room of a laundromat or boondocks barbershop.  A bored university student librarian receives money and a letter in a mysterious envelope pulling her along to complete benign tasks for exponentially-increasing funds which in truth are being committed by an unknowable BDSM club that become increasingly aggressive.  This is the first movie I've seen to follow the French New Wave ethos of cutting out unnecessary actions that overtly occur in the plot but don't bother filming to keep the events focused and moving so every minute of the runtime isn't wasted which shouldn't be as rare as it is.  And despite being a shot-on-video the actors and production took it seriously instead of feeling like making a quality movie would be daunting given their limitations which aids in making a fresh aesthetic.  The only bad thing I got to say is that the actress is ugly.
>2002 adaption of Carrie
A present-day though more faithful adaption to the book than the classic that got maligned for the CGI which wasn't terrible for TV and the ending which is deserved as it was made as a backdoor pilot.  Aside from that maybe because of the trends of the time that were old=better because even though the original is more compelling and charismatic this isn't bad.  Carrie is portrayed neither as the na

After rewatching both Carries I have to admit I'm biased towards girls like that (I even may be biased in this revision) and I'm unbothered by tack so maybe you will think of this movie as poorly as everyone else did, in which the one thing that was praised was the portrayal of her.

In 2 hours a lot doesn't happen, scenes are clunkily adhered together by showcasing visual information about the plot rather than a continuous narrative that builds weight with each scene until the climax; each scene a platter to portray the idea of who Carrie is rather than everything substantially implied and shown within 90-120 minutes.  As this was meant to be a pilot we likely would have gotten flashbacks and implications about her life before the movie starts, and for being a TV movie supposed to turn into a TV show it makes sense as that style of pacing is meant for multiple (half-)hour-length narratives but as it stands she's a caricature compared to the original by the emotion Spacek had put in.

Also the prom scene in the original is quite decent and my disappointment with it was the lack of gore which knowing would've been too far for the 70s still was taken into consideration anyway, 2002's is a drawn-out somewhat goofy spectacle with awkward acting to account for the CGI.

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>Just saw Miyazaki's How Do You Live/The Boy and the Heron in theaters.
WTF did I just watch? A wizard who created building out-of-time? A jewish bird? Baby-soul eating pelicans? A kingdom of giant, man-eating parakeets? Meeting ones' loli mother? A stone with a will? Characters getting shat on by birds?
I strongly feel this film had a central theme, metaphor, and/or allegory that I only maybe picked up on.
Miyazaki's son rejecting becoming his successor, and Miyazaki feeling that death will take him soon?
I don't know. A surprisingly surreal film from Miyazaki.
It reminded me of the wizard rejecting his magic at the end of Shakespeare's Tempest, and Tarkovsky's Mirror when its plot was at its loosest. Maybe I should read the book it was based on?