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We can all agree they're reddit right?
Had two normalfags in class bring it up in their project, Part of me even wanted to step out of my comfort zone and go "Haha EPIC I too have seen films that are part of the Criterion Collection!" but thankfully didn't. 
In addition to the fact that towards the end of 2020 when they dropped a physical release bomb or something dozens of people made exposure videos that all got hundreds of thousands of views, we can all agree that as of 2020, they are officially Reddit right? Maybe in the 2010's they were obscure enough to be relegated to only cuckchan tier but now that normalfags jump up in excitement at the name, we can just confirm that it's reddit right?
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>>3688
I just wish I read Cuddihy before watching Slums of Beverly Hills
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>everything i doňt like is reddit
>>3688
>She's a kike
So what? Are you implying kikes can't make good movies?
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>>3695
Women and jews are a dangerous combination and nowadays it's rare to find something decent in the medium from either of those groups, let alone a mixture.
Now if we talk about actors then that's a different thing.

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Friendly link exchange
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>>3268
Can I get it in 1080p or 2160p?
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reviving this dead thread to see if anyone has What Happens to a Displaced Ant (Shirin Abushaqra)?
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I'm looking fore a bluray rip of Rienzi (2010), a rarely performed Wagner opera. I see the DVDs and also the remux but I didn't find a working link for a smaller HD version.
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>>3684
Neat! I too would be interested in watching this.
>>3684
So you're asking for someone to make a smaller rip? That shouldn't be difficult to request, I'm also interested

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Does the community on Cinematik or Cinemageddon actively discuss cinema ? I am on secret-cinema but I do not see them discussing , maybe their discussion forum thread is locked for higher class user, Moreover is Cinematik or Cinemageddon recruiting ?
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>>3660
FUCK i thought i had the real thing bookmarked, it was the book blog, goddamn and here i was thinking that his latest uploads were just books.
Amidst my panic i found another site that seems on the same vein and one that i used once upon a time to find softcore stuff which also uploads normal stuff, glad to see they are alive. Here they are if someone is interested to have another data bank for potential hits.
https://rarefilmm.com/film-index/
https://rarelust.com/movies-index/

ripip Hawk Man, at least the books are nice, also the music blog
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>>3661
He’s done uploading.
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>>3661
I’m not caught up on this. Did he die or simply stop adding movies?
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>>3664
AFAIK he had restarted the blog/site a couple of times due to copyright along with having to re-upload a ton of stuff again, hence why he devised that rule of no movies previous to a certain year and such, but last time that it got taken down he seems to have had enough and called it quits.
The book blog is still up, in theory that one should be much more of a shame if lost due to ripping books not being as easy as ripping a DVD or VHS, still his movie blog was gold due to having many titles that cannot be obtained unless you are in a specialized private tracker.
I think he's still very alive and somewhat active in other platforms in terms of presence but his film uploading days seem to have stopped.
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>>3671
I see, thanks. I knew that the blog was restarted a couple of times, I actually believe that I made the qtddtot on this board a couple iterations back. I thought he may have finally followed through with his old nickname, heh.

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I recreate this thread from the old site. Post directors that you dislike. There are ones whose works are considered "great" by some but don't appeal to you for some reason or you think are overrated; there are also directors who are inept at their job and make awful films. Controversial opinions are welcome.
I think these two are overrated. Lars von Tryhard is an edgy kike and so are his movies. Taratino is underwhelming to me, his films are riddled with pointless, shitty humor (or the films are the pointless, humor themselves), typical of underwhelming "American independent cinema".
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>>1986
I actually like him for that. His movies, albeit political, are subtler than the "left-wing" counterparts for sure.
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>>1987
Yes, they aren't horrible and function better than anything Hollywood puts out but it feels like virtue signaling and playing the role of the token conservative.  A good portion of his directorials are self-serving personal projects for the sake of himself wanting to make a film for fun and not for "high art", and not that there's anything loathsome or narcissistic with having the money to make your own movies and star in them because you can, but it doesn't make for a good or relevant film so-to-say.
>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)
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>>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.

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Hello anons, what were your top flicks of the year 2024?
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>>3577
I downloaded the thing and shamefur dispray, i can't see the A24 logo and the shot i recall the most wasn't near as interesting as i remembered it, first vid here from 0:19 to end: I recall the zoom out transition from backg to foreg was way faster and covered more distance, i also don't recall the focus pull being that slow, i don't know why i remembered it was already in focus when the zoom finished. I guess all this was because i saw it on the big screen and was quite close it, hence feeling a bit more drastic and my eye movement forgiving some speed details. I apologize.

Also second vid for those who might be remotely interested in this topic: This is what i mean when the movie goes to cartoonish lengths to explain a message or intent, here being the ruthless nature of producers which was shown a minute with 30 seconds before by the same character being overly rude and cold when discussing a business decision, so the director chose to do this to explain further that the guy was quite rude.

Third vid is to support an opinion using fourth vid as genre reference (which is itself another concept failure story): If this shit was worked as a comedy, an absurdist one that doesn't take itself seriously at any point other than plot coherency (and only remotely), it would've worked a bit more interestingly, for example in this third vid w
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Architecton dir. Kossakovsky | ? | ?
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass dir. Brothers Quay | ? | Afternoons of Solitude dir. Serra
The Wolves Always Come at Night dir. Brady | ? | ?
? | Grand Tour dir. Gomes | Scenarios dir. Godard
Pepe dir. Arias | ? | ?
Abiding Nowhere dir. Ming-liang | ? | ?
? | Journey of Shadows dir. Netzhammer | Tristan und Isolde dir. Grandrieux
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>>3575
Secondary is a series of films and multi-media installations. I saw commencement, Astroturf and all in a gallery. Can’t help with a link. Drawing Restraint is an entirely different installation.
>>3579
Architecton dir. Kossakovsky | ? | ?
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass dir. Brothers Quay | ? | 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
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>>3582
anyone watch any of these yet? are they worth watching?

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A thread to post and request good documentaries on the variety of subjects.


I'll start with some choice docus on ancient Egypt. All are selected for quality of presentation, study of subject as well as absence of current year agendas, we wuz kangz niggers etc.

Romer's Egypt (3 episodes; 1982) and Ancient Lives (4 episodes; 1984) – the finest and quintessential ancient Egypt presentation; a soothing, in-depth look into ancient Egypt’s life and culture. It has that unmistakable classy 80s look that elevates it above the rest.
https://www.invidio.us/channel/UC4gF7P8JKlJ9xAz8MF6AhFw/videos
https://www.invidio.us/user/xinistri/videos

Egypt: Beyond the Pyramids (4 episodes; 2001) – somewhat similar to Romer’s; not as in-depth or classy but still an enjoyable watch.
https://www.dailymotion.com/search/Egypt%3A%20Beyond%20the%20Pyramids

The Robot, The Dentist and the Pyramid (1 episode; 2020) – an excellent amateur documentary about the latest attempt to explore the shaft of the Great Pyramid.
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=rhsddHgybTo
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>>3175
Sounds like it could be worth a watch.
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Exactly as I do!
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Project Grizzly (Peter Lynch, 1996) - Occupying the space between The Shimmering Beast, Grizzly Man and Robocop this NFB documentary profiles a Canuck backyard inventor developing a protective suit capable of withstanding a grizzly attack. He's motivated by a compelling story of a grizzly encounter in a forest meadow. He was knocked on his back by the animal, stared down, but left alone. He cannot understand why he was spared. He asked for insight from "medicine men and dream analysts"—making you wonder if his mythic story only happened in his imagination.
A news crew caught up with the inventor years after this documentary achieved cult status. He was bitter and disgruntled, forced to sell off his research space and exoskeletons due to the financial hardship of solving problems that no one cared about. And while he dedicated so much of his life to creating a protective shell around his body, testing his prototypes in a decidedly masochistic way, it's crazy that his life ended in a fiery highway collision with a gasoline truck.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=i6eNK1O-RWw
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>>3638
That pic, especially from the thumbnail, looks for the world like if could have been from a Tokusatsu series from the 70's or early 80s..
>Peter Lynch
No relation, I presume?

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Lately I've been watching nonfiction content from the silent era -- found footage, documentary, early fragments. This excellent video from the Museum of Modern Art captures a lot of what attracts me to these films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBNwiPgknn8
>It's not so much being seduced by a story, it's the thrill of seeing in itself.

I'm just disappointed that it's often difficult to find quality versions of this stuff. Watching anything potato quality youtube or even DVD doesn't do justice to the footage, and you lose the experience of time travel if you can't see clear details.
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>>3232
I refuse to watch it until they restore the 9+ hours version.
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I finished Napoleon and it's undoubtedly a monumental film, much better than J'accuse, but I was surprised that the essence of Napoleon's life - his conquest of Europe - is not even included. After 5 and a half hours, Napoleon finally takes his first step into Italy.

The End.

The impressionistic triptych is beautiful regardless. I suppose Waterloo is a better film for coverage of the Napoleonic Wars. I've also got the Sacha Guitry's Napoleon from 1956 but I've never seen anyone recommend that one.
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2024 Napoleon restoration from French television. I don't know if I'll watch this given the time investment, but I'm surprised to see this negative reaction on KG from someone who is very familiar with the film

https://gofile.io/d/2EbQqx

A review of a Paris screening. Is it common to have heavy security simply to enter a theatre or is that just part and parcel of living in a modern European city?

https://therealmofsilence.com/2024/07/11/napoleon-at-la-seine-musicale-2024/
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>Is it common to have heavy security simply to enter a theatre or is that just part and parcel of living in a modern European city?
Not a Euro-fag but I travel a lot. Heavy security is pretty common in most public places in large cities in both the US and Europe. Just another side affect of bringing a bunch of 3rd world niggers into a once nice society.

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 A lot of people tend to look down on television as disposable slop for nigger cattle, which a lot of it is. That said, I do enjoy seeing a story being told over a series of interconnected episodes as opposed to a single standalone feature. It allows a lot more time for the characters and plotline to develop, and makes a great vehicle for sci-fi/fantasy worldbuilding. 

The last show I saw was the Prisoner from 1968. It's about a retired glowie who gets kidnapped by a shadowy organization and made to live in a bizarre little town that runs on its own set of rules while they interrogate him about his past and play psychological tricks on him to get him to give away the information they want.

What are some other TV shows worth watching that make the most of what the medium has to offer?
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Most TV was completely disposable until recently - try watching a random episode of something produced in the sixties. Unbearable.
Even so, the emergence of television pulled audience away from theaters. The film industry responded by enhancing the moviegoing experience with new innovations like Cinerama, 3D and most importantly Cinemascope.
I could list some favorite TV content (and there are plenty of noteworthy miniseries and TV movies) but I was trying to think of people who developed a signature style working exclusively with television. There's Adam Curtis, Frederick Wiseman, but who else? These guys didn't just make downmarket versions of proper films, they took the TV format in a fresh direction. I suppose Ken Burns fits too, but he's a step below the other two.
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>>3533
>try watching a random episode of something produced in the sixties. Unbearable.
I don't think all tv shows from that time period were necessarily like that. We still got some unique or influential stuff like the Prisoner and the original Star Trek. There was also this whole subgenre of sci-fi/mystery anthologies like Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits or Into the Unknown in the UK.

>(and there are plenty of noteworthy miniseries and TV movies)
Like what?
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>>3534
>Into the Unknown
Out of the Unknown
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>>3529 (OP) 
I am fucking slow, was gonna make this thread 2 years ago

>The Prisoner
Vast majority of the hype back in the day and references are from the famous series Secret Agent Man, aka Danger Man, which starred the same protag doing what the title would suggest, despite using a lot of James Bond material as a reference the irony is that the 007 film series ripped tons of ideas from SAM.

Now, as far as i remember the trivia story is one day the actor didn't want to renew because his demands were not met and was seemingly unceremoniously laid off/forced to resign, so later some previous writers and he did a seemingly unrelated series called The Prisoner based on previous ideas and which ended up starring the man as a former secret agent, having the same code number which replaced his name, reflecting about the very similar experiences and being played around by the organization either previous employer or the enemy's, or were they the same? in a Fantasy Island setting turned crazy which interestingly enough is supposedly very similar to a place he raided in the series

As you might expect this was a fucking phenomenon and a quite explicit showdown against his former character/series, doesn't help it was released at the h
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>>3533
>Most TV was completely disposable until recently
>Unbearable.
Completely disagree but it is true that back in the day series were chuck filled with filler, which breaks a lot of narrative continuity. Although we can argue that's the entire reason for TV shows.
But like anon said we got the original Twilight Zone which is mostly very good.

One idea i had was separating the main plot from the filler in some series, The X-Files is famous for the fanbase doing that, with the so-called Mythology being 62 episodes compared to the 200 something the entire thing has.
For example The Fugitive is usually spouted as one of the most memorable series from back in the day but it's 120 episodes and all of them i saw on syndicated TV were filler, so that doesn't spell good news. 

My plan was to separate the main arc episodes from the "side quests" in series i was planning to see but ended up just watching other stuff not quite related to normal TV anime so i didn't do it, just watched a season of Renegade which was nostalgic as hell but certainly not very good and didn't really advance the plot from the pilot; a very decent time capsule of the 90's i admit, that's the only honor i would give it. 
Another idea i had was selecting what i would thi
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I think charts are pretty great
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We take ownership of every /film/ reference right
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>>3527
Sure seems so to me here, Anon.
I see you downloaded all the charts from the mega I posted on 4chan. I appreciate that you like the charts, but 99% of these have nothing to do with this board
Thanks to whichever one of you collected all of these. A few of my creations are in the mix but I haven't made any for a while. I had ideas for more but I'm going to have to review the collection to see what's already been done.

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So I'm a big fan of the genre, trying to gather the best examples.

Indiana Jones trilogy as well as Young Indiana Jones chronicles – goes without saying these are the best.

The Mummy 1, 2 – probably the next best thing. Just all around well made wholesome entertainment.

Armor of God 2 – so Jackie Chan wanted to make his version of Indiana Jones and I have to say he succeeded.  It's great both as a Jackie film and a treasure seeking film. The first Armor of God is also alright but it's always been a bit too dry and boring for me, especially in comparison to the sequel.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – I was actually surprised how decent this was for what it is. Surprisingly well-made. Peak Jolie too. The sequel is kinda crap and what you'd actually expect from something like this, and the NuBoot should be avoided like plague.

The Adventures of Tintin – despite being obnoxious in-your-face 3D, it eventually grows on you and definitely scratches that globe-trotting treasure-hunting itch real good. I wish this was made earlier when Spilerberg was still a real director.

National treasure – it's kinda silly and derivative, being a Yidsney movie for younger audiences, but the first film just about passes as enjoyable and well enough made which was still a thing in 2004.
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One of the primary inspirations for Raiders of the Lost Ark was Otto Rahn, a folklorist author turned SS officer who believed he could find the Holy Grail

https://web.archive.org/web/20110516164742/http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/5407/raiders_of_the_lost_grail.html

Richard Stanley made a documentary on Otto Rahn entitled The Secret Glory

https://inv.riverside.rocks/watch?v=r0YOeuxMOww
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>>2273
TL;DR on this?
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>>1918 (OP) 
>wholesome



Agreed, it's very wholesome and soulful, poggers!
>>2278
Literature should be mandatory for film buffs.
Otto Rhan was fascinated with 'Holy Grail' lore (it's just a cup a carpenter would use!  Probably ceramic and broken by now!).  He wrote about and spent all his money searching for it.  In the 1930's Himmler gave him a paid job to look for it - he accepted, but suicided years later after failing to find it and the SS were closing in on his secrets:  he was a poofter Jew... in the SS!

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