Gonna watch Beau Travail in a proper theater next week -- my first non-DVD/streaming experience w/it!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 February 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link
While everyone's gearing up, a reasonably engaging quiz:
Try this quiz - https://t.co/yyLpPtjiKP pic.twitter.com/fdHFKTXEpL— DVDBeaver (@DVDBeaver) February 11, 2023
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Saturday, 11 February 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
66/100. I raced through it, probably wouldn't have done much better if I'd taken my time (I either knew it or guessed--though I would have gone back and changed a few guesses based on subsequent answers).
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 February 2023 18:11 (one year ago) link
more mainstream:https://www.cinenerdle2.app/
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 11 February 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
68/100. Projectionist but no professor. But what's wrong with being a projectionist?
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 February 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
Wtf, I'm boycotting this quiz
― Alba, Saturday, 11 February 2023 18:52 (one year ago) link
Reasoning?
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 February 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
Putting professors above projectionists!
― Alba, Saturday, 11 February 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link
Ah!
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 February 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link
96/100 and only because I accidentally put Jacques Rivette when I meant François Truffaut
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Saturday, 11 February 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
Check out the big brain on Brad!
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 February 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link
77/100 -- a couple of dumb mistakes on movies I've seen, a couple of lucky guesses on movies I haven't seen
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Saturday, 11 February 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
71, though at least half were guesses.
― jaymc, Saturday, 11 February 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
(Some of them informed guesses, though.)
76. About five films I did see and couldn't place grr
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 February 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
88. Nailed every one I knew, every guess I guessed wrong
― or something, Saturday, 11 February 2023 20:23 (one year ago) link
Oh and messed up Spike Lee . Just couldn't place that image in that film somehow
― or something, Saturday, 11 February 2023 20:28 (one year ago) link
84/100!
I guessed on most of the contemporary Asian stuff, which rarely payed off. And I got the Black female directors all switched around. The only film I've seen that I miscredited was Death of Mr. Lazarescu.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 11 February 2023 21:22 (one year ago) link
I just exchanged texts with my friend who actually is a projectionist but did not mention this quiz.
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 February 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link
I got 89. several of them were guesses based on what I know about the filmmakers’ visual aesthetics or the time periods from the images. I got several directors mixed up - Mizoguchi and Kobayashi, Kazan and Wyler, Etrice and Saura and others. I guessed Larisa Shepitko’s The Ascent correctly only because I have recently seen stills from it on twitter, but I haven’t watched it. Also still have yet to watch Djibril Diop Mambéty’s films, a few of which are on Kanopy, or Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman
― Dan S, Sunday, 12 February 2023 01:31 (one year ago) link
My projectionist friend told me about this yesterday:https://framed.wtf
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
oh, it's a one-per-day thing, like wordle
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 12 February 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
Yes. I only started doing it yesterday.
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
But I like, I like.
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
I love Framed but I get annoyed every time a Marvel movie zilches my overall record
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Sunday, 12 February 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
Will we be using this thread for discussion of films that are not on your list but are still, say, Morbius favorites?
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
Just the ones on the list, think there are several which wouldn't be there without his influence.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 12 February 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
just downloaded sherlock jr, which i think just sneaks in as public domain. only i seem to have an entirely silent one and i can her neighbours clanking around
― koogs, Sunday, 12 February 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
Looking through the list, some of my favourite directors, Louis Malle, Miloš Forman, Roy Andersson, Sidney Lumet, are either missing entirely or have a single entry, think this is probably A Good Thing on a personal level, more to explore, less so to those whose favourites are more well-represented I suppose, though otoh everyone likes talking about their favourites.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 12 February 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link
xp There are many different options for watching Sherlock Jr on YouTube with different soundtracks.
To your last post: that is sort of the whole good and bad of lists in a nutshell.
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
I've watched the first hundred.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
For those who have MUBI, try to catch The General over the next 3 days before it gets yanked
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
I really am going to be forced to watch Holiday on the Buses huh
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
Whose first place vote was that?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
Is Holiday on the Buses the same as Mexican Bus Ride?
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
Man those MUBI Leaving Soons are torture. I rewatched THE GENERAL recently and maybe still have it saved on my cable box so I think I will pass on that and watch a few others.
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
i never her.
finished Sherlock Jr as it was only 44 minutes long. (this was an archive.org download rather than youtube. ogg video in fact, only 100MB, 400x300 but perfectly watchable)
is that a recognised meaning of the work sheik?
yes -
2 usually sheik : a man supposed to be irresistibly attractive to romantic young women
lots of things that are now cliches, probably a lot different back in 1924. the suitcase jump kinda spoilt it - everything else was at least possible
― koogs, Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
THE GENERAL also avaiable in several other places, Amazon Prime, Criterion and... wait for it... Tubi. https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-general
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
Actually I have to be careful here as I have been fooled before. Oftentimes something will show up there as being on Amazon Prime but in fact it is only there with a subscription, a subscription to MUBI.
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
Is Holiday on the Buses the same as Mexican Bus Ride?― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:27 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― The Windows of the URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2023 17:27 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
I like to think so.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Sunday, 12 February 2023 19:04 (one year ago) link
As Mark S likes to tell me, the first On The Buses film was the highest grossing film at the box office that year.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Sunday, 12 February 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
Pfunkboy was Holiday on the Bus's #1 vote
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Sunday, 12 February 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
I knew it would be him, that wacky pfunkboy.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Sunday, 12 February 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
hes a menace
― mark s, Sunday, 12 February 2023 21:16 (one year ago) link
> I knew it would be him, that wacky pfunkboy.> ― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai)
letterboxd, the vexing and sometimes OK film logging website
― koogs, Sunday, 12 February 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link
Ok, close enough to Monday.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Sherlock_jr_poster.jpg
Sherlock, Jr., Buster Keaton 1924Morbies #480 Sight & Sound Critics #54Youtube link
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 12 February 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link
First time I'd seen this, I do have a complete Buster Keaton box set but am only halfway through it. Had to watch it twice as the story only made sense with the final scene (to be fair the fact that I had about 20 acupuncture needles stuck in me probably didn't help) - second viewing I found I could appreciate the whole thing, not just the astounding set-piece stunt scenes. Suppose the reason that this is the Keaton film of choice is not just the intricate plotting, the metafictionality of having the action take place on a cinema screen as a projection of the character's own life, represented as this grand, escapist drama is a brilliant conceit, and the final scene where he learns how to propose to his girlfriend by watching the couple on screen is just a great bit of cinema. Also recognised a few scenes from the 1980 documentary series "Hollywood" - including the water tower shot which broke Keaton's neck.
I loved it when I saw it in my 20s, just kind of drifted away.
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 February 2023 23:17 (one year ago) link
On the Keaton thread, I posted about how perplexing Bogdanovich's Keaton documentary was.
The samurai film genre is interesting because if you compare it to the western, even though Ford and Hawks and etc certainly had moments where they questioned the myths there are a few decades' worth of films that mostly celebrate those myths, and so when the revisionist western rolls around we know what it's revising. But the samurai film, for a western audience, only comes into vogue in the postwar era, and so it's a generation of writers and directors who grew up with the samurai sprit being part of govt wartime propaganda and so it's pretty much all revisionism, very few movies come to mind where bushido is seen as anything other than a sick joke. At some point it just becomes part of the trope.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 17 June 2024 16:00 (yesterday) link
Donald Richie's book on Kurosawa is essential reading, and not surprisingly the chapter on Seven Samurai is great. (It may have been his favorite Kurosawa film - he usually listed it as one of his favorite films, period.)
I think it's very compelling to look at how WWII impacted Japanese films and how Japanese films grappled with the aftermath, especially now in light of the current rise of nationalism in certain parts of the world (like ours). Generally speaking, I never found comparisons between Japanese period epics and American Westerns all that interesting, but comparing The Seven Samurai to the American films it inspired (not just The Magnificent Seven but also Saving Private Ryan) does seem edifying in highlighting the differences in history and culture. The Seven Samurai always seemed like a great war film to me - nine years isn't that far removed from the end of WWII, and I was left with the impression that a defeated country was far more likely to re-examine and interrogate the culture surrounding war in ways that a proud and jingoistic country would not like to do. The myriad class conflicts and moral hypocrisies are either watered down or stripped away in something like The Magnificent Seven (turning samurai/military officers into "gunfighters" will do that), but they're always there in The Seven Samurai.
― birdistheword, Monday, 17 June 2024 21:32 (yesterday) link
Kikuchiyo gun stealing scene the heart of this movie. Stunning end shot with the Katanas in the graves
― H.P, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 12:21 (six hours ago) link
The horses in this movie reminded me of the horse(s) in Andrei Rublev. Put me off, for what were some great scenes. hmph. I did eat stake for dinner though so I'm a bit of a simpleton in this way
― H.P, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 12:27 (six hours ago) link
I like my stake either well done or in the ground.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 12:29 (six hours ago) link
Rear window is a movie that I had seen so many parodies of that end at first reveal (most famously the Simpsons, but so many others), so the second part suddenly felt really disorienting!
the moment the man looks out of the screen at the audience is so crazy the first time you see it,
and the film is incredible in how it seems to surface filmic epistemologies in an instantly graspable way that can't be untangled from the film's dramatic dynamism! Sorry for the turgid way of phrasing that but I think its clear what I mean???
That said there's something that really 'wears off' about the effect that is very different from e.g. Vertigo, where it burrows down into your subconscious (why does she take the backdoor to the florist???). I think this one relies too much on a central trick or conceit, very A minus grade Hitchcock. There's also something about how its been parodied that gives it a flat, repackagable quality although that's not really its fault. Its a shame because its got so much good stuff in it (thelma ritter, wendell corey, Dior by Head and barbara bel geddes designing gravity defying bras etc) but i could probably never see it again and I wouldn't lose sleep.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 12:33 (six hours ago) link
seven samurai is so good and to me so obviously one of the best kurosawas so i'm curious what people who think this mid level would put ahead of it
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 12:34 (six hours ago) link
Vertigo wears me down at the hour mark. Acts I and III are strange and powerful
What I'd rank over Seven Samurai:
Red BeardThe Bad Sleep WellThrone of BloodStray DogHigh and Low
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 12:47 (six hours ago) link
lol high and low is fun but bad
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 13:56 (five hours ago) link
the scenes where they're all shouting at each other about shoes are really funny so i'll allow it
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 13:57 (five hours ago) link
so much melodrama for the sake of a shoe mogul!
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 13:57 (five hours ago) link
lol xpost
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 13:58 (five hours ago) link
The shoe business can be a great setting for tragedy: see Bastards by Claire Denis.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:08 (five hours ago) link
yeah i remember the shoe company stuff being kind of dull, but the police procedural half of the movie is excellent
― na (NA), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:13 (five hours ago) link
High & Low is my 2nd fave Kurosawa
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:25 (four hours ago) link
Ran and High & Low are my fave Kurosawa's
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 14:44 (four hours ago) link
High and Low and Ran are among my very favorite Kurosawa films too (along with The Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ikiru and maybe a couple of others. I have no desire to actually rank them, they're all great films doing very different things.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 15:17 (three hours ago) link
Ran's in my top ten.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 15:18 (three hours ago) link
It's in my top 10 ... of 1985
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 15:24 (three hours ago) link
I need to see "The Bad Sleep Well"
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 15:30 (three hours ago) link
FWIW, if there's ever a 35mm print of Ran playing at a repertory theater near you, it's definitely worth seeing. Obviously an epic is going to play better in a theater, but the current restoration that's being used in all DCP's, streaming and Blu-ray/UHD masters is marred by dubious color grading, something older film curators have pointed out given their familiarity with the oft-programmed film.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 15:34 (three hours ago) link