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Chase Ross
Jayden Hughes
>women in the OP
BASED
Gabriel Russell
I watched La Strada and Lang's M. La Strada was great. M was shit.
Angel Williams
M is a masterpiece
Retards like you never have any reasons either
Gavin Cox
Very erudite
Tyler Roberts
Third Man or M?
Kayden Collins
Is Derek Cianfrance any good?
He seems like a James Gray, who seems like an Andrea Arnold.
I only saw American honey out of the three of them and I disliked it a lot.
Liam Peterson
Pleb taste IMO, filtered by Lorre's acting.
Brody Mitchell
Definitely M
I’m not even sure Third Man is better than The Fallen Idol.
Grayson Adams
It was a boring bluckbusteresque film. It didn't have anything of value to say.
Justin White
>boring
>didn’t have anything of value to say
Ryder Ross
Gray is nothing like Arnold. Gray is in the tradition of 70s Hollywood cinema and more classical directors like Lean. Cianfrance is more cinema verite style. You won't like him. I read that his TV show was good though.
Jordan Hill
I remember liking Blue Valentine when I saw it years ago, not certain how much if would still like it if I rewatched it but its probably worth watching if you like Michelle Williams.
Carson James
Interesting I should check out Gray then.
Ayden Howard
Makes sense
Luke Ross
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, (1943) is a hidden gem... unknown to many these days, but a truly wonderful film.
It does the "life story as flashback" in a good way, and Deborah Kerr playing three different parts is not only done well, but is nearly essential to the overall themes
Xavier Baker
Yes it’s fantastic. Idk why I never think to watch more Powell
Luke Hall
Bresson
Hovering Over the Water (1986)
The Recognitions
Bachelard
none
Lucas Reyes
Is the rest of Herz' filmogaphy any good? Where should I go from the Cremator?
Kevin Thompson
For me, it's Mara Corday
Josiah Parker
Another great sleeper is "Things Change" (1988). The plot:
> low level mobster (Joe Mantegna) always in trouble with his bosses
> An old man (Don Ameche) who agrees to plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit, in exchange for money
> Trapped in a hotel room until Ameche can turn himself in to police, Mantegna decides to give him one last night on the town for him to remember.
Thomas Martin
>The Recognitions
JR is better.
Carson Mitchell
Beauty and the Beast
Morgiana
Justin Carter
What should I watch today? An English language movie preferably, I want to be distracted from my severe allergies
Isaiah Martin
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Dylan Gomez
Pick a topic and comedy/drama/etc. Too hard to just pick a film
Nolan Gonzalez
Morgiana
Beauty and the Beast (if you like it watch The Ninth Heart too)
Oil Lamps
Ferat Vampire
Sweet Worries
The Magpie in the Wisp
The Night Overtake Me
Fragile Relationships
Passage (Kafkaesque, underrated)
Juan Bailey
>Topic
Anything, I'm open minded
>Genre
I lean heavily towards drama and thrillers but I'm also adding comedy, atmospheric and body horror to the mix.
Chase Collins
If you want one that will make you think
> On the beach (1959)
If you want one that will prevent you from thinking
> Hell's angels (1930)
If you want to dance through life:
> 42nd Street (1933)
If you want to stop dancing and having a longer attention span
> The Good Shepherd (2006)
Kayden Sullivan
Bresson is boring
Jackson Edwards
filtered
Jeremiah Murphy
Seconding 42nd Street, especially if you have a taste for Tin Pan Alley/showtunes. I watched it recently and found it both entertaining on its own terms and interesting historically in that it was one of the major works created specifically to get peoples minds off the depression while still acknowledging that it was happening, and in that it really established the conventions and cliches of most subsequent showbiz musicals. Busby Berkeley was a visual titan.
Luis Murphy
In the passion of Anna, who was the one who killed the animals? I have a vague idea but dont want to spoil for other people
Daniel Myers
Another webmless thread
Nathan Gomez
he is boring
Jordan Powell
Being pre-code, the themes and language are FAR more adult than anything that would come out of hollywood for a while.
> show girls looking for a daddy, and the men who trade favors for sex
> anytime annie, "the only time she said no, she didn't understand the question"
> a fucking murder in the middle of a dance routine
Not to mention a movie line that went on to not only be a classic, but start an entire gendre of plot itself.
> listen... you're going out there a kid, but you've GOT to come back a STAR!"
As far as Berkeley, I'm convinced that he would make a great bio-pic, as long as it's done in a way large enough to capture him.
> opens with ants, they're walking in a line.
> as they move, they form intersecting patterns
> a child is watching
> he's bulled back by his mom, they're in NYC
> he's Buzz, and his mom is on the way to another audition.
Probably the only two who could pull it off would be Keven Spacy or Seth MacFarland (for different reasons)
Xavier Harris
I can't watch films anymore, I think i've capped out.
Liam Fisher
Have you finished Circe yet?
Jace Morales
Read a book, then? I would finish the films of directors, that you said you haven't seen much so far.