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Vague enough title to hopefully allow for a broader discussion, which films made you sit and think, either about the content or the commentary that it creates?

Pic related elephant man, ie Joseph Merrick sparked my interest in historical treatment of "freaks" that are suffering medical conditions, it is a difficult one because his finances relied upon people coming to see him to fulfil their curiosities but when Britain became too sensitive for that he had to travel abroad to find work and suffered for it
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Is there anything like nobodytm or randy prozac now? Absurdist videos that are critical of modernity rather than worshiping it? I really liked some of nobody's work in particular.
Burden didn't do it for me.
>>755
good share. straight from the ether
Well, if i may meddle, for me the films that made me think and change permanently were Miike's Ichi the Killer and KWWong's Ashes of Time.
Not because of their plot, ideas or content but because they bend and invent their own rules in terms of cinematography and visuals. In this case it's more of a meta thing that made me thunk.
Miike is a mixture of knowledge in unorthodox photography and wing-it on-the-fly attitude in solutions to his busy filming schedule, while Wong uses many sequences based on old ideas and even ripped off at times (moving backgrounds, dynamic lighting, spinning cage from Macario) but teaming up with a sophisticated character like Mark Lee or a maverick savant like Christopher Doyle really potentiated said ideas into overdrive. 
Ichi was my first exposure to this kind of camera work while Ashes was a heavily-condensed single dose of it.
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>>795
Mine was TRAIN TO BUSAN.
>>755
Pandorum, especially the ending

the bit about the stars having died off hit me because I struggle with keeping track of time and I hate being taken off guard, so when I imagined sleeping untill the universe went cold and dark felt a bit lonely

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Because cinema needs this type of character. All suggestions are welcome.
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>>3382
>he's part spanish i think 
Might as well count half latin america in that case. He's a pretty decent actor but his roles are very usually immersed in stories which are retarded given the known context, particularly Sicario which is dumb as rocks, a canadian director trying to tell a story about seasoned american operatives vs. paramilitary cartel members roaming a compact city unknown to the former party in which everything unfolds nothing like logic and history would suppose.
Traffic is also retarded, Del Toro is usually one of the high points in the stuff he appears tho, no doubt about it.
>>3382
>anyone who disagrees with my retardation must be a kike
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>>3384
>my retardation
lmao
nobody considers kikes to be white wake up from your foreskin blood inebriation moshe
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>>3387
Clear case of the pot calling the kettle a nigger considering kikes have elevated rates of mental illness.
This thread is a firm example of how /pol/ ruins everything it touches.

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The Russians are great at art. This is a thread for their crafts, mainly films/tv, but other interesting forms of art are welcome too.
The Criterion's restoration of War and Peace is simply gorgeous.
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The only part of Days of Eclipse that worked for me was the transcendental final 15 minutes or so. Other that it was a frustrating film, the most tedious Strugatsky adaptation, yet it seems to be a well-regarded effort from Sokurov with a fair amount of glowing reviews.
I'm open to other Sokurov recs. I've seen Russian Ark obviously but nothing else.
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Watched this recently. Good Russian war movie with a very small bit of the supernatural mixed in.
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>>3312
I love this one
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This crazy monologue when your girl denies you sex.
Man, I love Russian movies.
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 THE FALL OF OTRAR new restoration premieres Oct 12 at NYFF

>Ardak Amirkulov’s staggering historical epic (co-written by Aleksei German) concerns the intrigues and turmoil preceding Genghis Khan’s systematic destruction of the lost East Asian civilization of Otrar. The movie that spurred the extraordinary wave of great Kazakh films in the 1990s, The Fall of Otrar is hallucinatory, visually resplendent, and ferociously energetic, packed with eye-catching (and gouging) detail and traversing an endless variety of parched, epic landscapes and ornate palaces. But this is also one of the most astute historical films ever made, its high quotient of gore grounded in the bedrock realities of realpolitik: when the Kharkhan of Otrar is finally brought before the Ruler of the World, he could be facing Stalin or, for that matter, any number of latter-day CEOs. A movie that has everything, from state-of-the-art 13th-century warfare to perfumed sex, The Fall of Otrar is truly a one-of-a-kind experience.

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Hello anons, what were your top flicks of the year 2022?
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>>3297
I don't think so (but I'm not on there much myself)
>>3309
>>3310
2023 r5 c3 is Lubo (Giorgio Diritti)
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>>3331
thank you.
>>3309
2018 C1 R5 is 13 Summers Underwater (Wiktoria Szymańska)
https://pelnasala.pl/nh-2017/
https://imdb.com/title/tt5824684/

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Welcome to the new board
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>>3343
I'm also here but I stopped watching films a few years ago so I have nothing to post
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>I'm not film-educated enough to write a long review of any film
A couple who used the board 10 years ago weren't either, as long as you are sincere i don't think anyone will bat an eye, anything that expands our view is good.

I am starting to get an idea to device a small post format so anyone can very quickly report back anything they've seen/read related to us, like a data sheet/bok report form, but kinda makes things a bit more mechanized/dumbed down which is against the whole idea... still i think it can also wake a bit more curiosity from some of us as long as we don't replace or force our actual long-winded ideas within that.
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>>3346
I think it could be a good idea, having a sort of form for interesting points to note from a film. Of course people can always elaborate more in the post if they want. If a film is not interesting enough they could just talk without filling the "form".
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>>3346
>A couple who used the board 10 years ago weren't either
Care to share? You piqued my curiosity. 

What movie is that screenshot from?
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>>3348
>If a film is not interesting enough they could just talk without filling the "form".
I mean if someone doesn't want to talk extensively about something they didn't like that much or don't have the time they can just fill a quick form about the thing they saw, on the contrary if they liked it i suppose they can always elaborate more as you mentioned.
The form is like those small card synopsis one saw in libraries to very quickly check the inventory without having to see book by book.
Am i old enough to say i visited libraries with old school systems? it wasn't that long ago i swear

>>3349
>Care to share?
I suppose it can be seen in some threads from one of the /film/ shelters that migrated old stuff, i think we still have one of those around. Checking a bit there's the first "comment on last film seen" thread post-4cham located in the mummy of the old site, may allah forgive me for daring to utter this name, 8kun. 
Saying they weren't educated enough is being unfair, anons probably are better back then than me today, their brevity and straight to the point emphasis is notable hence my intention to say you don't need long-winded texts if you don't want to do them, discovering new things and feedback is the intention.

>What movie is that screenshot from?
Just a silly idiosyncratic music video, 1984's Hyperactive by Thomas Dolby and Daniel Kleinman aka CGI director for James Bond intros.
Started seeing/listening again to Dolby recently because he's being blacklisted for wrongthink again and i remembered he had some really interesting ideas behind his bitching tracks. 
I like that his cultivated image by the media of being a real nerd pop star got trashed and forgotten the day he started voicing scientists/researchers were overly dogmatic and not open-minded enough for research work to begin with. I don't know why he got so much heat, after all his most famous song shows scientists as either conmen, deranged or lobotomized by their peers.
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Who are your favorite film composers and which film has the best score in your opinion?
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>>2121
Turns out it was Trovajoli :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sraOlGlxNJE
>>2743
 I was wondering where it had went - I thought you took it down yourself! Damn copyright is crazy nowadays, If you reupload it will it be on the same channel or a different one?
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>>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
https://mega.nz/file/XoQy3BiZ#pTQhFxW76-_uPd9ZVG-qXJFMWKJjdHrt8zUeI4iubr8

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

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Film ist a Girl & a Gun

Let's focus a bit on the first part
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>>3034
Here is Johnny Depp's wife in Noce blanche

I don't know the other one offhand
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>I don't know the other one offhand
Betty Blue.

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Hello /film/. Are you/have you watched any good horror films for the Halloween season? Any good recs? Thoughts on the genre of horror? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QcBfL3Dnps
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I started watching Tokyo Gore Police but it was more disgusting than I expected. 

So instead I watched The City of the Dead, a tale of a remote New England village called Whitewood with a history of burning witches. Professor Christopher Lee advises his female student to go to Whitewood in order to research the practice of witchcraft and its societal fallout. The young girl agrees, traveling alone to the village on a foggy night to stay at the local inn. From there the story is mostly predictable -- there are better options for horror.

I need to find something better for tonight. I started watching a questionable giallo about a man who witnesses a murderer dumping a body off a pier, so he confronts and blackmails the murderer into killing his wife. Meh.
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>>3086
I'm gonna watch When Evil Lurks, it's a new film.
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My horror recommendation is The Territory by Raoul Ruiz
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It was awful. People have incredibly shit taste for liking this dumpster fire of a movie.
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Does any visitors of /film/ know of good lolita /film/s?

Discuss films that generated controversy, art and cultural taboos, censorship and legality, the search for youth and beauty, and any other thoughts you have on this topic
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>>2714
>Open 
>>2714
>Open
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>>2714
>Jean Séria
She married the director? Kek
She was actually pretty old when filming those movies.
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What are some essential religious/spiritual /film/s? Doesn't have to be Christianity.
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>>1756
Indeed. 'Orda' in Russian, came out in 2012.
>>1687
Anonymous, thank you so much for this recommendation.
It sparkled a interest in animation again in a former anime fan.
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Ive actually been meaning to watch classic Christian themed cinema while diving back into medieval philosophy and Christian related literature. Im going to check out some of the stuff here, but are there any charts related to christian film? I love charts and lists. Thanks anons.
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Most "Christian" film lists are far too broad because they simply praise the spiritual aspect of films that everyone already knows about. That said, one resource is Steven Greydanus who reviews for the National Catholic Register.
https://decentfilms.com/blog/2011-arts-faith-top-100

I can't come up with a list of 100 but here are some more titles for consideration

Atti degli apostoli AKA The Acts of the Apostles (1969)
Legenda o knyagine Olge AKA The Legend of Princess Olga (1984)
Les camisards AKA The French Calvinists (1972)
Maestà (2015)
Luther and his Legacy (2017)
Inokinya AKA The Nun (2010)
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>>3235
Thanks so much, anon. The reference to the Vatican film list reminded me of finding it from an anon years ago! Both of these lists, vatican and the one you've shown me films i'll definitely check out!

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