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Arthouse, classics and staging

leaving for a long time edition

>QOTD
No questions, no talking. Make the best cup of coffee you can and sit in silence for a moment.
>Bonus
Think about your past and then allow yourself to let go of it.

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Queen of /film/

King and Queen of /film/

German cinema is terrible. Every movie is about alcoholics, whores, WW2, or fags. Why can't they just make a normal movie

buckle up for another slowpoke rodriguez ahh thread

>>214532349
Weimar Germany dominated silent cinema

>>214532357
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>>214532435
i don't necessarily think it's a bad thing. i'd actually say that a sub-24hr thread is too speedy.

Always Be Pimpin.

>>214532405
France tho

>>214532593
Yeah, I've been loving the latest 48h threads. Now I'm finally able to keep up with the "discussions" without having that disrupting my daily activities.

All Michelangelo Antonioni 50s films are mediocre shit except Il Grido, and this is fact, he only git gud since the 60s

We're all mediocre shit here.

i have not seen nor will i see any films made by the italian director Michelangelo Antonioni. i hate italians, their language and customs.

>>214535099
Pre-filtered in real time.

Sarah Gadon is in New York today.

Thoughts /film/?

>>214535099
Based but also Not based

>>214535550
Why are you obsessed with her and why are devoting so much time and effort to discussing her? Not trying to be rude, just genuinely curious anon.

>>214535099
>i hate italians, their language and customs
Elaborate on that.

>>214535872
In other words; he'd rather watch Japanese nufilms and KDramas.

>>214535684
Everyone is obsessed with her. Sarah Gadon is the most beautiful and talented actress.

>>214536154
Freak status?

Sarah Gadon is obsessed with East-Asian men.

There's only one east Asian man for me

There's only one east Asian man for me

>>214536919
This is unironically true she has LITERALLY been getting R I C E D throughout her WHOLE career

>>214532349
>alcoholics, whores, WW2, or fags
W after W

Thinkin' about bleaching Nanako

>>214537277
She's walled now but fuck she used to look good

>>214537422
She’s still hot. But I agree when she was young she had a real cute factor.

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>>214537493
I can't believe that he actually won and got me to change my mind about her.

>>214538186
You mean he he actually won and got you to chang your mind about her.

is he the most fraudulent "filmmaker" in history?

>>214538388
What's his fraud, exactly?

>>214538424
Orientalist grift.

>>214538684
How so?

>>214538684
That's it? Then he certainly isn't the most fraudulent filmmaker in history.

>>214538841
The webm felt around the world.

>>214538841
The 98 second nap felt around the world.

>>214531871
dude, why does Letterboxd say MEKTOUB, MY LOVE: CANTO DUE is steaming on Tubi… lies lies and more lies ;(

>>214538841
The yawn heard around the world.

>>214538841
Another miracle of cinema from master Tsai.

>>214539646
Nice.

>>214538424
Slow cinema grift.

>>214538424
Putting sleeping pill companies out of business.

>>214538841
Asian "metaphysics" is infecting the Western mind. Time is teleological, it is not meaningless, endless duration. Everything we do in life matters. His films are without telos. This Buddhist baloney is the diabolical inversion of everything that is Good, True and Beautiful. Any modern man that had his disordered mind restored by being born anew in Christ Jesus cannot watch this modern farthouse garbage for it is poison to the soul.

>>214540352
Classical narrative films can get stale sometimes. There's nothing wrong with dabbling with modernist farthouse iterations. Alinear storytelling, contemplative cinema, etc. Chillax. Calm ye tits; etc.

>>214540352
Buddhism says time is neither meaningless or meaningful that is a construction of our own minds.
The baloney is also neither good nor bad. Like all things it is empty of essence and your reaction to it says more about you than the thing in itself, which Buddhism would say that it too is empty of any essential quality.

>>214540449
>contemplative cinema
What's that even supposed to mean, really? I'm seriously asking. Simply pointing the camera at something for a long time does not make something "contemplative."

I'm currently at 40% of all the films I want to watch to have seen something from every country around the world. It's been a while since I've posted an update, and I've only watched like 10 or so films since my last update, but there are really only three I want to post about today. The first is a film from the island nation of Vanuatu titled Tanna. It's essentially just a retelling of Romeo and Juliet, but set in the aforementioned island of Vanuatu and apparently somewhat inspired by real events that took place between the tribes back in the 80's. I went in expecting nothing special, because pretty much everything I've seen from a small island nation so far has been mediocre at best, but some of the cinematography here is fantastic, and while the story was pretty simple and straightforward, it had me interested enough to get invested in where it was going. While I obviously didn't understand the language, the acting seemed to be pretty good as well, which is surprising considering no one involved was an actual actor. Anyway, would recommend. 7/10

>>214540963
The second film I want to recommend is a film from Oman called The Falconer. Again this one was supposedly inspired by real events about two friends who stole animals from a zoo they worked at in order to sell them off to pay for one of the main character's sister's divorce, the main moneymaker being the titular falcon. While there is a story throughout, this one is much more of a slow-paced hangout film. Again there is some beautiful cinematography on display here and that coupled with the chill hangout vibes of the film almost makes me want to visit Oman, which is something I never thought I would say. Overall, I didn't like it quite as much as Tanna because I could really notice a lot of the stilted acting, as a majority of the film was in English, but still I would recommend it. 7/10

>>214540762
>construction of our own minds
You are thinking like a tranny. This is not Western classical metaphysics. Reality is real, it leads and out of it arise universals. We have the laws of logic. Time has a beginning and an end. Asia would still be living in their wooden mud huts without our logic and science, which were all made possible because we know the universe was created by an intelligent creator who imprinted his design in nature. This we call Empiricism. Come on home. If you want to see Asian metaphysics in action, spend a week in India. I dare you. Total chaos and disorder. Oh, it smells like poop. This is the power of Buddhism

>>214540979
The last film I want to post about today is also my favorite of the bunch. It's a film from Samoa titled The Orator. Immediately from the get-go, I was hesitant about this film because it seemed like it was going to be preachy festival-bait, seeing as it's about a midget from Samoa, but the film quickly won me over. You could replace the midget with a cowardly, weak man and nothing about the film would really change. It's not so much about him being a midget, but him being a coward who is afraid to fight to save his land and his family. While the other two were fairly slow films, this one has very little dialogue at all until the final speeches at the end, and that with again more gorgeous cinematography made for a very engaging watch for me. I could see some people being bored by it, but I really liked it, and felt it had a very satisfying end. 8/10

>>214541002
You sound like a bible thumping fanatic. I was arguing in good faith but you are both a nigger and a faggot.
Go back to Phil/101 class lil timtim

>>214540963
>>214540979
>>214541016
Thanks for the interesting posts. Never heard about any of these before. I think I'll at least check out The Orator. Midgets are inherently funny and the Samoan setting appeals to me greatly, so I'm sure I'll enjoy it to some degree.

>>214541115
All three of them are on Kanopy if you have access to that. If not, I'm imagining they shouldn't be TOO hard to find download links for. If you find midgets inherently funny, then there are definitely a few scenes in The Orator that will make you laugh, even if unintentional

>>214541002
>Reality is real
>wooden mud huts

>>214541070
You are low IQ, you cant into Thomas Aquinas AKA the greatest mind in human history. Sin darkens the intellect. You will never be able to use reason like a proper man. Go to India and discover yourself! Be effeminate! Be modern! Watch crap!

>>214541002
>If you want to see Asian metaphysics in action, spend a week in India. I dare you. Total chaos and disorder. Oh, it smells like poop. This is the power of Buddhism
There are very few Buddhists in India tho'.

>>214541169
>All three of them are on Kanopy if you have access to that.
Yeah I do actually. Thanks, friend.

>>214541070
You sound upset.

Hi film help me write a script what is the more menacing sounding name for my main villain

1. Jacques Frutte

2. Jacques Feete

>>214541204
So you are a 4chan weeb but you have never studied Asian metaphysics? Do you just wank to cartoons all day? In 9 out of 10 Asian metaphysics reality isnt real. ITS JUST AN ILLUSION BRO. WE THE MATRIX DAWG. You might know this as nominalism in the West (DOUBT.JPEG)

Interesting thread.

Ya Boy Finally Watched Da Mastajoint "Highest 2 Lowest" (H2L), A Genius Flick From Da Director Of Classics Spike Lee. In All Honesty, A Truly Underrated Flick That Took The Source Material From Master Kurosawa And Gave It A Modern BLACK! Spin. 3.5/5.

asian metaphysics = How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

I'm from the neighborhood, fruit.

>>214541300
It's weird that Spike cast her in such a tiny part. One short scene, maybe three lines. What was the point?

>>214541372
Gooning; I unironically thought "fuck man, Spike fucked that pussy a 100%, no cap", while watching, unironically. Other than that, I dunno, black culture (from like 2 years ago)?

>>214541295
I'm not a weeb and I don't have anything against western metaphysics. What I meme arrowed are things I found to be silly more in expression than content. "Reality is real" is a clumsy circular expression of some form of realism and "wooden mud huts" is a contradiction in terms.

>French people offering poisons at their restaurants
fucking weirdos

>>214541477
Nothing like some poisoned salmon for lunch. Exit level food.

>>214541449
Reality is real is literally how a realist would express this truth. There is nothing circular here. Today reality is not considered real by 95% people of people, we are literally dematerializing. Did you miss the tranny hype train the past few years, just one egregious example of this egregore, this postmodern mind virus. You failed theology class, innit

>>214541293
Both last names sound fruity af. I'd think alternatives.

>>214540449
I only watch trailers now, much faster and less stale than conventional narratives

sometimes I decide my opinion just with the TRAILER - STARTS - NOW bits