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>Previous thread bumplocked >>34
https://archive.is/wip/VtFwQ
https://web.archive.org/web/20231115214701/https://anon.cafe/film/res/34.html

Is Hawkmenblues completely gone? Don't want to scroll through his twitter account. hawkmenblues.net is no more.
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>>3547
>>3551
Here is the list:
The Fallow Field (2009)
Angel Mine (1978)
Dead Funny (1994)
White dwarf (1995)
Biohazard: The Alien Force (1994)
I'm the Elephant, U Are the Mouse (1994)
Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord (1989)
Eliza's Horoscope (1975)
Defenceless: A Blood Symphony (2004)
Kung Fu: The Movie (1986)
The House of Dies Drear (1984)
The Blue Light (2004)
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>>3641
How did you find it, or did you make the list yourself
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>>3642
The original anon reposted it on anon.cafe, thus it’s archived. I totally forgot that he reposted it after the original list was deleted.
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Welp, one of the few Hollywood establishment guys i liked to defend due to his outstanding acting roles, ""Val Kilmer"" has called it quits due to a short pulmonary problem consequence of throat AIDS.
Known for dating many good looking females and rumored to be a good shlorper, he has succumbed to Douglas' canceer which is ironic considering he was also well-regarded for his vocal skills, leading to him being one of the first actors to digitalize his voice for "AI" software before he had to use a box in his trachea and feeding tubes. 

Leaves behind a bunch of movies, akin to Welles' commandment that money is made on your way down it seems Kilmer made tons of Direct2Video stuff in his latter half of career but once in a while re-appeared in Hollywood stuff or independent flicks, to be fair a very varied catalogue. Some of his notable roles in decent movies are the neo-rockabilly singer Nick Rivers in the comedy Top Secret, a deranged version of Jim Morrison in The Doors, a swedish-injun mutt fed officer in Thunderheart, Doc Holiday in Tombstone, an erratic shooter in Heat, an undercover vigilante in The Salton Sea, John Holmes in Wonderland and a tough bunkie in Felon, among other supporting roles.
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>>3648
I liked him in Real Genius. His performance in Maverick was interesting, and all the moreso since apparently his condition in the movie was a real one.

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I saw this short by chance last night and really enjoyed it. Well-executed concept with a distinctive visual style. 
>Thursday
>Dir: Matthias Hoegg / UK / 2010

https://invidio.us/watch?v=HQ1z0Zzqg5U

<An everyday love story set in the not so distant future sees blackbirds battling with technology, automatic palm readers and power cuts.

I looked for more content from Matthias Hoegg, but found that he's chosen a more profitable career as animator for hire. Still he's done interesting work for various corporate and non-profit clients.
https://vimeo.com/matthiashoegg
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>>3633
Anime cats are cheating, people will love it no matter what. Just look at Stray, it's a literal walking simulator but people acted like it was some kind of gotyay and it has like 900 trillion sales.
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>>3634
Have you actually watched the film, Anon?
>>3633
Flow was fantastic and beautiful, one of the best non anime animated films I've seen in years. And it's always cool to see blender get more use. Also:
>No nig nogs
>No fat ugly women
>No race mixing
>No gays
>No cringe jokes that only exist to virtue single gay opinions and make libtards clap like seals 
>An adorable capybara I'd give my life for
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>>3645
>>No nig nogs
>>No fat ugly women
>>No race mixing
>>No gays
>>No cringe jokes that only exist to virtue single gay opinions and make libtards clap like seals
This. I thought teh monke/kot dynamic was pretty good as well. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQElJP1AaS0&t=97s[Embed]
>>3633
I’ve grown too cynical over the years to take this kind of news as anything but worthless. Either the academy was interested in changing things up (for renewed interest, credibility, and optics in general, appealing to “alternative” audiences), Blender had some sort of in with this whole ordeal and it somehow amounts to easy promotion, and/or the director is another wet towel who will be directing shit in a few years for big studios (most, if not all,  directors start low budget). The animation itself is ugly in general although the movements are interesting. Regardless, winning an academy award and attending that event sounds like a nightmare and it would be hard to respect the director or anyone involved or to take them seriously as artists. I can’t imagine this movie being good.

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What does /film/ think of AI video? Talk the future of it or lack thereof, filmmakers' perspectives, aesthetic criticism, etc.
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>>3631
This is Grok, first attempt
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Official concept trailer for the anime adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey"

>I tried AI for character animation, especially dialogue. Generated separately as green screens. The raft is CGI, as well as Poseidon and few other things. Most backgrounds generated with Midjourney, painted out the inconsistencies and layered with 2D/real vfx where needed.
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>>3636
This is remarkable for an amateur work, Anon.
What a time to be alive!
AI is fine, only idiots get uppity over it, but it's a new medium and shouldn't be involved in film or painting because it is distinct. You don't submit photos as paintings. 
>>3362
Fat bitch. Makes me almost wanna support ai even more.
Almost.
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>>3640
Why shouldn’t it be involved in film? Your argument about painting and photography is barely applicable. Many artists take photos of their subjects and then copy the photos to their painting. AI is simply another tool that can be used or not used depending on how the filmmaker is making their movie. Anyone who believes in continually defining what movies actually are won’t outright dismiss a tool that’s in its infancy. And no, jackasses making AI slop and calling it a movie (like some of what’s been posted in this thread) is not at all what I am justifying or defending.

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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw4iROXxMMw[Embed]
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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.

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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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>>3602
holy shit this guy's an idiot
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>randomly finding film dialogue used in a song but forgetting what song it was
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What was the last thing you watched, and what did you think of it?
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>>865
> If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

In this documentary it was interesting to see how the antifa left changed from the 00s until now. Previously they wanted to preserve old growth forests and stop globalism. Now they've cast all that aside in favor of negro worship and pervert maxxing. They have no qualms about tearing down forests to build jeetboxes all the way to the horizon, at best they blame LANDLORDS (kulaks) instead of people with real power. They are still violent nihilists, but instead of opposing the system they are shock troops in its service.

The documentary treats literal terrorists with sympathy. It even gets the US attorney (or whatever) to say kind words about them. With this in mind, are violent leftists more acceptable to the system than non-violent groups on the radical right? I've seen no evidence to the contrary in recent decades..
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This was an unexpectedly good movie because the shooter and victims are not portrayed as bully even if woobified and hapless innocents as many other films about mass shootings go, it lives up to its name by giving either side special treatment in the narrative. The shooter was not negatively maligned by building him up with hypocrisy and emotional immaturity as one would expect in case someone would sympathize with him and the people he kills are portrayed as petty though spry normalfags. I found it generally relatable the way he interacts: brooding in benevolent disdain clearly not fitting in, moral concerns towards the innocent albeit preachy and self-righteous, him relaxing a little and being honest only for it to be used against him, knowing you're unwanted but you keep staying a little longer thinking things will turn around. And the ravers aren't portrayed sympathetically as they're pretentious and apathetic falling somewhere between hipsters and wannabe wackos, cooking on drugs, and the Jap dyke having a little tantrum over her ex-girlfriend ties that aspect well; interacting with people who have the sensitivity of a lead block and can't match up to your conscience and values while at the same time yearning for somewhere to belong, and feeling the time to belong to a group of friends disintegrating. It's not a long movie at 80~ minutes so if you want a mass shooter film that doesn't moan about the people killed and have a main character that isn't an angsty brat this i
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>>3593
Very well-done review, Anon. Actually sounds very interesting now, thanks.
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*neither side
>>3594
A good review, discussion, opine, comes from caring for what you're talking about :-). It's a small movie too, it doesn't travel much anywhere beyond one night at a house party.
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This weird ass art film called Tusalava

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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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I like they are allowing Asian uploads. I was disabled for inactivity from http://asiancinema.me/
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Did the site also change ownership? I assume the random user I never heard of  who "improved" the design to resemble a generic nu-tracker was also promoted to admin.

As a testament to this new direction, Cinematik has been offline for a few days following vague drama amongst the mods
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>>3586
>random user I never heard of  who "improved" the design was also promoted to admin
Many such cases, i keep finding that hijacking projects is easier than making new ones. Should be obvious but the sheer shamelessness of it still strikes me, it's a lesson taken straight out of a subversion manual.
I didn't quite use it like i should've due to being somewhat hard to seed but it was a great site, particularly for hard to find DVD extras.
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>>3588
>i keep finding that hijacking projects is easier than making new ones.
Most non-autotrophic organisms on Earth are parasites and that's not even counting viruses. Creation and sovereignty are generally selected against by genetics, it's not entirely surprising that human activity would reflect this. The difference between genes and memes is that we can control selective pressures in human culture, so there is still hope for a future where hijacking projects is a net negative for everyone involved.
The site is back without any discussion of what happened. There's more discussion of the situation at HDBits—but in a thread about Blutopia...
The details are still unclear, but it sounds like people with overlapping staffing responsibilities on these three sites had a personality clash.

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Figured it would be good for others, I've been scratching my brain for hours (unhealthy?) trying to remember where the he'll I saw this scene: A man wearing a hat steps outside to smoke a cigarette, when a phantasmagorical hand appears from thin air and seems to bother his psyche...
The weirdest thing about this is that it felt like a silent film, but the elements like the man and his hat felt very noir-ish... And this might be the years of substance abuse catching up to me but I even remember the scene being purple tinted and the floating hand yellow tinted... Or was it the other way round! Am I losing it!
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>>3251
Maybe this? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070289/
film released between 2017 and 2019. stars an old man with a bolt action rifle and lots of scenes are notable because the audience sees through the scope of his rifle. he's a drifter or something i believe fighting/monkey wrenching with ecologically rooted motivations, definitely screened at film festivals. color scheme is somewhat de-saturated and I think it takes place in a desert
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>>3574
has to be this, rifle scope scenes
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2837574/
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>>3583
it's actually not this movie, i think it's lesser known and far more moody, i just remember a trailer for it.
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>>3584
well, fuck me side-ways and call me Sally then

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Hello anons, what were your top flicks of the year 2024?
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>I found the lighting to be terrible
I found it to be obviously overdone at times, notably in the bathroom where strong lighting appeared outside the lamp positions. 
>Most A24 movies are generally riddled with cinematography that looks good if you’ve never used cameras 
I am not fond of A24 cinematography but i've used cameras and it highly depends on the personal and particular palate of every person IMO, i've seen tons of stuff but i keep coming back to flashy complex camera movements which are considered pure trash and unnecessary by the few actual technicians i've met, their reasoning is that the camera should be discreet and pragmatic which in my opinion and recent experience ends with placing it stationary and not following the action at all, might as well put the gaffer to be the cinematographer if it is that simple.
But i also sadly consider those dear friends cattle-tier because they think the cinematography of Tarantino is good but John Woo bad despite both using the very same techniques often and for the same uses, so i don't know their full reasoning.
I recall The Substance overusing many placements quite fast, for example the contemporary audience zoomers by today's trendy vocabulary loves zenithal shots due to i don't know, food videos and overall product photography bombarded at them?, and in the first 10 minutes i think they used that placement 7 or 8 times, i even pointed it out to my friend so he could start planning how much money he would lose.
>lighting is truly the lost art form
Now i am retarded with light but perhaps the problem is the same? technicians going for the minimalistic approach and doing the bare minimum? and when they want to do something flashy they put more hardware quantity rather than quality design?
>don’t remember any standout shots
I don't want to defend that movie but i guess i will download it so i can find the examples i mentioned, they were 3 seconds at most but i recall smiling at the editing, remind me a lot of 90's action movies.

>The problem imo has less to do with the fact that a woman spearheaded the movie
My problem was that it took a very partisan view of the topic, it wanted to propose a serious theme about it but employed hyperboles that went into cartoonish lengths and didn't explore it meaningfully, didn't help that it was redundant at times, the messages were very obvious to read but it kept hammering them down. My problem is that writers and directors make stuff considering the audience is mentally stunted or downright retarded.
>so in effect they’re making things that essentially their 19 year old selves would have created
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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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>>3576
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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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.
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>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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