>tv raves about it
>watch it
>most boring thing I've ever seen
is there really nothing there or did I just get filtered?

>>212811675 (OP)
it insists upon itself.
it eventually disappears up its own asshole

>>212811675 (OP)
Both. It's literally all style, no substance (and that's a good thing)

>>212811675 (OP)
>>212811987
>>212812001
filtered

I fell asleep watching it, woke up hours later and it was STILL going on.

>>212811675 (OP)
Nyle sacrifices his entire life to this cult, volunteering himself for a ritual to "bring back the motherload" when he was younger. In return he got nothing. His spiritual mentor became a decrepit, senile man with nothing to his name. No family, no fruits for his labor. When Nyle sees the state Arboria is in and thinks back to what he went through-- how he was stripped of his humanity, how he saw hell, how he touched God and was punished for it he decides to say FUCK IT and accepts himself as a monster. His boss is dead, he hates his wife, he's not satisfied with the Elena research so fuck it. He stops taking his medication, stops pretending to be human by revealing his deformities and has the singular goal of destroying the only thing with power over him, Elena. She went through the same ritual but remains pure-of-heart, she wasn't traumatized in the same way because she was but a newborn. Elena also came out of the ritual with far stronger psychic powers than Nyle. He feels like she's just too pure for the power she holds to continue existing. She has a physical and mental chokehold over him (rent free). At the end of the film he finds two teenagers who he believes to have raped Elena "you fucked her" and it infuriates him not because he cares about the girl, but because he views it as another power move over HIM. It's removing HIS agency, HE wants to kill her, HE wants her to be pure so HE can take it. It's completely unbridled vengeance. In the end, Barry Nyle dies because of that lack of restraint. Elena simply uses her psychic powers to suspend his ankles, but he tries moving towards her anyway and this causes him to trip.
It's a character study on Barry, rewatch the movie think about it through that lens. You don't have poor taste for finding it boring initially, just gotta work to dig into what it's trying to say. Watch Mandy too, by the same director and has similar themes in a more digestible script

It's a style movie mostly, it looks fucking amazing

>>212811675 (OP)
>*click*
Yeah this is going in my cringe collection
#SHREKED

i like when the music goes bwwwaaaaaarrrrrrrrrr

>>212811675 (OP)
>did I just get filtered?
Yes.

>>212812027
Did you accidentaly hit the pause key as your waterbrain head hit the keyboard on the desk and then unpaused it after you regained consiousness from your diabetic food coma and lifted your gargantuan swollen head again anon?

This fat nigger cosmatos takes 10 years to make the most boring movies in existence. At least nic cage somewhat saved mandy

>>212812327
Sold. I will now watch this film.

>>212814080
he's working on 2 at once right now and was also a director for Miley Cyrus' new visual album

>>212812327
im not trying to be contrarian but i thought it looked like ass outside of brief glimpses of the female leads feet

>>212814211
So I’m gonna have to watch a pop music video now. Great.

i love the scene where barry goes home and can't hide the utter disdain he has for his sleepy wife

i thought that was his mom since she looked so old

>>212815535
if that was his mom he would be literally me

>>212812001
It's definitely a vibe, and one I liked a lot more than Mandy. Mandy tried to hard to have a story, and Cage and Riseborough pull focus from the atmosphere. Cult leader was okay. Maybe Cosmos should just focus on baddies and trippy shit, which is the same thing I appreciate Ben Wheatley for.

>>212811675 (OP)
How did they not sue Stranger Things? It's like 90% Beyond the Black Rainbow + 10% goonies

>>212817176
I need to watch a field in England and in the earth still.

>>212812286
>it's actually a character study of a faggot loser
okay?

>>212817455
Field in England is one of my trippiest faves. In the Earth has a great hook but feels a little hampered by Covid restrictions.

>>212814632
I will now watch this film

This nigga didn't like The Adventures of Barry through the Sex Dimension, what a pleb.

>>212811675 (OP)
its a style and dreamlike ethereal movie if you dont like these things dont watch panos cosmatos

>>212811675 (OP)
It's up it's own ass but creative enough to have kept me around to finish it and not regret seeing it. Still my favorite piece of information about it is the director financed it off DVD sale residuals from Tombstone.

I liked the cool robot but was pissed that it only showed up for like 30 seconds

>>212812286
cringe.
should be 10 hours of the woman being raped.

>>212818460
I’ll make it a point to watch it this week. It’s one of those movies I’ve put off for too long waiting to be in the right mood.

I actually love the story described here >>212812286 it's a well written movie and really not as pretentious as people describe, pacing works for me because the visuals are so captivating

>>212814632
seeing as youre a low IQ coombrained retard, thats not really surprising.

>>212811675 (OP)
it's a hangover movie

Valhalla Rising and The Beyond are two other favorites

>>212812286
Based post. Have any similar write ups about Mandy?

>>212812286
You've got it twisted. If elena was supposed to be the perfect pure being she could only be tested by her true opposite, which is barrys final form.
He is a dark reflection (also pay attention to any scene with him and a mirror).

I miss this era of /tv/ indie movies were actually recommended

I kind of get you OP. I watched Mandy and absolutely loved it.
Then I watched this trailer for BTBR
https://youtu.be/nWF0bBKhe6o
and I thought it would be my favorite movie ever, I couldn't wait to watch it.
Then when I actually watched it, I thought it was a total mess. Full of absolute cinematic genius and amazingly well done in some ways, but still a total mess.
I still have a lot of love for it because of the sheer CRAFT and several hyperkino moments sprinkled in between messy pacing and the slightly lukewarm lead performance, but I wouldn't judge anyone for not enjoying it. It's hard to enjoy.

>>212817176
He should just hire a writer or do adaptations. Though I suspect he's waited so long between films that his aesthetic is out of style. One thing that surprises me is how BTBR didn't launch the career of the cinematographer. He's back to being a camera operator. That was undeniably a 10/10 element of the film. In fact, both the production designer and costume designer exclusively make Hallmark Christmas movies now. Hollywood is odd sometimes.

>>212817359
Because Beyond The Black Rainbow cribs from the same sources.

>>212822257
Once upon a time capeshit would get laughed off the board.

>>212818460
A field in england is a movie i watched when i was sick as shit and on a heroic dose of nyquil and I was phasing in and out of consciousness.
It was weird and im afraid to rewatch it because I dont want to know how much was my fever dream and how much was the director's.

>>212822212
I never looked at them as mirror images,I mean you can but there isn't a lot to go off of. Berry was just overtaken by his shadow while someone like Elena ended up as a better person because of it. It's a movie about trauma and control.

Any more kino like this? Mandy and neon demon (sorta) are the closest I've seen. Watched lost river but it was shit, enjoyable but shit. Next on my list is suspiria from 1977. And now that I think of it angel's egg also matches this vibe

>>212811675 (OP)
Long in the tooth past a point. But it's visuallly nuts to an insane degree given the budget.

>>212811675 (OP)
Where is Necrocosm

>>212812286
>MKULTRA and remote viewing tropes
>gnostic boomer demiurge, prescient moonchild Sophia ...

Riffing off the cultist b-horror and scifi elements was done well. Probably could lose 15 minutes, but at least it's immersive visual practical effects spectacle.

>>212818460
That Day Trippers or whatever from him was very similar to House that Jack Built, do recommend.

anyone remember this kino

>>212822704
Depends what you mean. This is a modern film distilling a previous eras aesthetics. Suspiria IS the previous era. Phase IV was a big influence on Rainbow. I've never seen the "proper" version with the psychadelic ending. Other shit from that era which kind of have a similar vibe would be early Cronenberg like Scanners. Some other stuff like World On A Wire also works.

>>212823002
Yes. I saw their first movie at a festival. I still think Spring is their best though. I was hoping after they made Marvel and Netflix slop they could get enough money to make a real film again, but doesn't seem the case.

>>212823008
I also wonder if World On A Wire had any influence on Rainbow

>>212823002
of course. I watch every movie from them

>>212823072
Something in the Dirt was good

>>212811675 (OP)
The pace is absolutely glacial. It feels like there’s maybe 20 minutes of pure kino stretched out over 2 hours.
It was almost a masterpiece.

>>212823002
>>212823072
I always feel like I should like their movies but there's always something that makes me hate them.
Didn't even watch the last one about conspiracies or whatever because their time travel movie was one of the most disappointing I've seen in the genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjLTQg1Ft5M

>>212823192
Pretty amazing for a first movie. Mandy was also great. Wonder what he will pull with his new ones.

>>212823208
I really liked Spring. Endless was good. Resolution was good too. But their last two felt sort of scrapped together. Now they are just part of the Marvel machine, so I don't have much hope. That said - Loki funnily enough looked great and utilized the same late 70's/early 80's retro futurism of BTBR.

>>212811675 (OP)
Spooky stuff in your imagination is better so they just left you to do the heavy lifting.

Panos is a genius and one of the greatest living filmmakers unironically but he's 50 years old so I hope he ramps up his production so he isn't forgotten. He's made two C-movies that both flopped. If he plays his cards right I think he could be remembered as a great.

>>212823380
Can someone give me a qrd on this series? I have no idea what this is or whether I should even care

Somebody post a gif of Barry driving and being encouraged by another Barry sitting in the passenger seat.

One of those rare moments where you are compelled to get up and scream KINOOOOOOOOOOOO

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCHXpSEtOU&pp=ygUYYmV5b25kIHRoZSBibGFjayByYWluYm93

>>212823650
You should watch their first three movies.
Going in blank is the right way to go.
They're not the most amazing films ever made, but they wont upset you or make you feel like you wasted your time.

>>212823891
Do you have to watch in order? I wanted to check out Endless.

>>212823725

Reminder Barry eats Arboria after killing him

>>212824265
that scene in Mandy is genuinely really sad

>>212824151
As long as you watch Resolution before The Endless, you can watch their stuff out of order.

>>212824199
My nigga.

>>212824265
Significance?

>>212824497
>it will be significant

>>212824199
Looks like and AIDS version of Christian Bale
>>212824497
Director trademark

>>212824301
You would've had better luck with your gay internet theories trying to convince people that he ate his sentient beef-jerky of a wife than Arboria

>>212825312
That shot happens right after he kills Arboria though
Also his wife was still alive

>>212811675 (OP)
The recommendations on here are almost universally shit.
Always do the opposite of what (((/tv/))) says.

>>212826634
Same with /g/ and /v/

>>212822624
The whole point of the arboria institute was creating an apotheosis.
Its like the tng episode skin of evil (the one where tasha dies). The oil monster was the left over shittyness of a people evolving into higher lifeforms, you have to shed those things before you can ascend.
And barrys whole trip scene where hes sucked into blank ink goo is him accepting that side of the equation.
Its like the biblical satan, hes less of a malicious entity and more of the prosecutor for the state trying to give people opportunity to show they're unworthy.
And when i say pay attention to him and mirrors wasn't so much an an argumeng for that, but that there's something very deliberate being done but i can't puzzle it out.

>80 posts in a black rainbow thread
what year is it

>>212822704
>>212823008

It's true how slow it is but kubrick would have watched it

>>212831334
Bunker thread from capeshit and sam hyde shill threads

>>212811675 (OP)
>film is an audio-visual medium
>this film is an audio-visual masterpiece
Probably just a plotfag.
The director said his intent was to make a Reagan era feverdream and I think thats a good cipher.
The movie feels to me like a dream you had when you ate a bunch of trash and fell asleep watching some bad late night horror movie. The end of the movie just being tv static through a suburban window is like waking up. Probably should have been a test pattern or station sign-off/in with the national anthem.
https://youtu.be/vRmsMyiBN8k?si=5823JfK9bbb6DuVl

>>212811675 (OP)
You got filtered
Sorry op