/lit/ - Literature

>>15757999
But why start the argument railing against a concept that you admit you don't understand? If you need the concept to be explained in the first place, then you can't actually argue against it. If you're not interested in reading, then why are you on this board?

Since nobody is actually giving recs, although admittedly what counts as a "literary film" is of course kind of nonsensical and arbitrary.

Carol Reed - The Third Man (1949), The Fallen idol (1948), both written by Graham Greene
Jean Renoir - Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), The Grand Illusion (1937), The Rules of the Game (1939)
David Lean - Brief Encounter (1945), Doctor Zhivago (1965), adapted from the novel by Boris Pasternak
Francois Truffaut - Jules & Jim (1962), adapted from the novel by Henri-Pierre Roché about his relationship with Franz Hessel
Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas (1984) and Wings of Desire (1987)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), adapted from the novel by Alfred Doblin
Guy Debord - Society of The Spectacle (1973), adapted from his philosophical treatise
Jean Cocteau - Blood of A Poet (1932), Beauty & The Beast (1946), Orpheus (1950)
Chris Marker - La Jetee (1962), Letter from Siberia (1957), One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (1999)
Max Ophüls - Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), La Ronde (1950)
Derek Jarman - Blue (1993)
Charles Laughton - Night of The Hunter (1955)
Orson Welles - F for Fake (1973) and Chimes At Midnight (1965)
Manoel de Oliveira - Doomed Love (1973)
Alexander Mackendrick - Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Éric Rohmer - like all of them