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Maxwell Lord posted:Well, this is easily worse politically. Potemkin's sort of like Gone With The Wind, glorifying something while ignoring its problematic aspects, while Birth of a Nation straight up says "we shouldn't have given black people the vote." It's closer to Triumph of the Will. But you're right, that is that important. SubG posted:I assume that this didn't happen with Eistenstein largely because in that time period the Cold War was seen to be coming to an end---the Berlin Wall falling in 1989, the Soviet Union formally broken up in 1991, and so on---and so Bolshevik propaganda could suddenly be seen as quaint and dated instead of as a pernicious threat (as it had up to that point), unlike racism or Nazism. penismightier posted:That liberal guilt frustrates me because ignoring those two is more dangerous than studying them, because it's important to learn how much audiences can be led astray by stirring images and a nice sappy story.
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penismightier posted:I get this, though personally I think Intolerance is hardly more artistically significant than Birth of a Nation (it is so loving BORING). Isn't it hard to separate the two concepts, though? Of course any further discussion would require contextualizing the film and you'd have to mention BoaN, but still.
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penismightier posted:Are any Catherine Breillat movies good, or are they just tittyful? Fat Girl is pretty good, haven't seen any others.
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penismightier posted:M (The Road Warrior) came out in 1981, so it looks like anything goes there. Why is M the second film and not the first which came out in 1979? Z is probably the sequel to Zulu, 1979's Zulu Dawn Peaceful Anarchy fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Jan 9, 2012 |
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What are U, V X and Y? I suppose X might be Foxy Brown but that seems like cheating. It seems the guy did some for the 60s, 80s, and 90s as well.
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BeigeJacket posted:E: Oh, and speaking of Allen, what's the consensus of what his last genuinely good film was? I've always had a soft spot for Everyone Says I Love You, but can appreciate it's a lightweight, but enjoyable, piece of fluff. Midnight in Paris is a top 3 Woody Allen movie to me.
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FrankeeFrankFrank posted:Is Thin Red Line the war movie? I think I liked that... never heard of the others and have no wish to. Badlands is a cool movie and unlike Tree of Life has a very coherent narrative driving the meditation on life aspects on the film, so you can enjoy it on both levels. You should give it a shot. I like Tree of Life a lot and I don't think familiarity with Malik's work is in any way a prerequisite, though it does give you a better idea of what to expect. Tree of Life really treads a fine line, and personally I found the dino segments worthless despite loving the rest of the film, so I can see why others might feel that way about the film as a whole.
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dexter6 posted:Please point me to the right thread if this isn't it, but I searched a bit and couldn't find anything...
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escape artist posted:Tell me about Jim Jarmusch and Eric Rohmer, and why I should watch their films. And where to start with them. Please
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CloseFriend posted:So then Billy counts as No. 1 as well as No. 7?
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NeuroticErotica posted:The films made like a teen drama, and it's supposed to be "about" teen depression,
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Jeff Wiiver posted:Much obliged.
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I've been meaning to grab it from Netflix but the idea of having to watch a 4-hour silent film first was preventing me.
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Busby Berkeley musicals like Gold Diggers of 1933 and 42nd Street are essential, as are Astaire and Rogers musicals like Swing Time and Top Hat. This list from a BFI book is pretty varied and probably covers most of the key points.
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live with fruit posted:Lists like this one always make me wonder when movie critics and historians are going to start looking at film from South America and Africa. By contrast Africa really gets the shaft. It's incredibly hard to get ahold of African cinema, there's very little promotion of it even within Africa from what I can tell and if you asked most people what they know about African film you'll either get a blank stare or some comment about those terrible Nigerian Video films shot in a day. It's really sad because there are some really wonderful films from the continent, and very diverse ones.
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live with fruit posted:Do you have a link for any of these? Cien años sin soledad: The Greatest Latin American Films of All Time Arcadia's Greatest Latin American Films This list includes Spanish films as well for some reason. The three big Latin American countries as far as cinema goes: Brazil Cuba Argentina I have another Brazilian list somewhere that I need to compile and put up when I get some time. As a counterpoint this: Guide to African Cinema is the only African film list worth a drat I've ever found and it's made by an outsider. It's still a decent introduction to the continent's cinema all things considered, but it's sad that there isn't something better or more comprehensive.
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Box of Frogs posted:Do films restored by the World Cinema Foundation eventually find their way to a DVD/Bluray release?
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regulargonzalez posted:It's technically correct, since 1.37:1 (aspect ratio he shot at) is wider than the disc's format of 1.33:1 (as per Amazon), so a tiny fraction of film was trimmed ... or panned and scanned.
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Otto von Ruthless posted:Is anyone familiar with this DVD edition of Yeelen? A lot of the information I can find about the release is less than inspiring, but it also seems to be the only way to see the film. Or alternatively does anyone know if there is better version of the movie available that I'm overlooking?
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:If you ever have to "prepare" for a movie, then the movie done hosed up.
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dokmo posted:Has there ever been a movie made entirely out of stock footage?
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504 posted:As opposed to.. not.. having them trained?
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veni veni veni posted:Corny Oscar controversy aside, is Green Book actually a good movie? Because I finally got around to watching a trailer for it and it looks stupid tbh.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Related fun fact about Buster Keaton's The General:
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Samuel Clemens posted:Why did the "default" aspect ratio for films change from 1.33:1 to 1.37:1 in the early 30s? I can't imagine it was for artistic reasons since the difference is so minor you generally won't notice unless you have a side-by-side comparison. Was it more cost-effective somehow? Sound is the reason they had to change something, but why they settled on 1.37 isn't clear from the wiki article.
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