/lit/ - Literature

>>12412586
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qz2D4sgZCM

>>12412609
3rd one is a genuinely good movie. 4th one was very comfy. The rest were garbage

>>12412586
There Will Be Blood
Inherent Vice
Pan's Labyrinth
Y Tu Mamá También
The Skin I Live In
Talk to Her
Andrei Rublev
Stalker
Ran
Throne of Blood
13 Assassins
Los Olvidados
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Army of Shadows

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

>>12412656
This guy gets it

Barry Lyndon
>>12412658
Based. Just watched Dr. Zhivago the other night, and although it's not nearly as great as Lawrence of Arabia, I loved it. Is the book better?

Home Alone

>>12412635
one and two are decent enough kids movies, otherwise you're right

>>12412799
People say the book is some boring ass melodramatic stuff that only an American could like. So if you're American, go ahead.

>Post movies that were much better than the book

The Shining

>>12413003
have you read crying of lot 49? if so, thoughts?

Rush Hour 1,2
Bad Boyz 1, 2
Gladiator
Blue Streak
Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift

Gayniggers from Outer Space

unironically

>>12413013
I'm South American, does it count?

>>12412666
nice satan trips. is 2049 also /lit/ approved?

>>12413030
Godfather

/lit/ approved? I guess that would be any serious cinema: Bergman, Godard, Tarkovsky

If, however, we're talking about literary cinema, that's a different question

>>12413054
I haven't read COL49 but I have read V., Gravity's Rainbow, Inherent Vice and Mason & Dixon and they were all very good.

>>12412586
Greatest story never told

Bresson, Ozu, Antonioni, the list goes on...

>>12413251
Not him but yes

>>12412666
he say you brade runnah

>>12412635
The third was easily the most creative, even if the script could have used some improvement.

>>12413030
>>12413257
Psycho

>>12413003
Absolute kino, watched it again the other night

>>12412586

>>12412989
The first one was especially good for kids

>>12412586
This week I watched
Hardware (really liked it)
Wake in Fright(a new favorite)
Ranpo Noir (~~~~~)
Duck Soup(was fun)

Plan to watch
Naked Lunch
Nosferatu (for the 9th time)
Ed Wood
Maybe some found footage

Also some episodes of The Twilight Zone

>>12412586
Would you accept English Patient?

>>12414926
Pleb detected.
>b-b-but it won Best Picture!!!
This movie sucks.

>>12414926
What did Nabokov say about it again?

Come and See

>>12414926

Don't feel, bad I liked it too. I'm a sucker for epic romances though.

>>12414955
I read the book and thought it was an alright portrayal. How about Atonement?

>>12412586
Is the book good? I saw it at a book fair and decided to buy it. Havent had a chance to read it.

>>12415020
everything by Tarkovsky before he left the USSR is kino

Man, this film is fuckin' revolting. Every actor in this kept spitting out huge balls of phlegm every five seconds that it became unbearable to watch. If you guys wanna get into a trance, though, watch this.

OZU
watch An Autumn Afternoon -> Floating Weeds -> Tokyo Story
they're a little melodramatic, but pretty incredible. Wish there were more books about his life.

it pretty obvious that it is just going to be any good art-film (aka any good film)

>>12415420
Yes but also any mainstream film that isn’t cucked

>>12415430
>Yes but also any mainstream film that isn’t cucked
mainstream films are never /lit/, unless it is mainstream and an art-film (taxi-driver), what you just said is zoomer talk - any film made post 2005 is automatically bad with a few exceptions. Not being a snob is the ultimate form of cuckoldry, you are limiting yourself by how others perceive you.

>>12414533
unironically

>>12414997
briany is me irl

>>12415489
Villeneuve, Iñárritu, Park Chan-wook, the Coen Brothers; there are still a few /lit/ directors in the mainstream

>>12415538
Add:
>Jeff Nichols
>Terrance Malick
>Mel Gibson

>>12415547
no

YORGOS LANTHIMOS

>>12415589
This and also pic rel

>>12413260
>>>Godard

>>12415060
It's written by Cormac McCarty, so obviously not. The movie is superior in every way.

>>12414969
Saw the new restoration on the big screen, fuck that was tight but absolutely nausiating

What do you reckon he reads, /lit/?

>>12415689
On Nature (Heraclitus)
Theaetetus
Parmenides
Metaphysics
New Essays on Human Understanding
Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
Discourse on Method
Meditations on First Philosophy
Finnegans Wake - Translated to Italian

>>12415556
>implying

>>12415169
Ozu’s movies remind me of Tolstoy. So much meaning in so little gestures and words.

>>12414892
do you even read?

>>12413003
One of the few movies I can watch over and over. It gets better every time

>>12413030

>>12415140
More like Hard to Watch. It’s good but it wears you down.

>>12415538
>this taste
absolutely appalling

>>12414837
Good shite, Oslo 31. August is alos p good but only tagentially /lit/ related

>>12416090
My first and only watch-through took me an entire year to do. I watched like ten minutes a week, give or take. It's really good, but I can't sit through more than 15 minutes without being inundated with information from that film. It's claustrophobic as hell.

>>12415140
How is the book? Roadside Picnic was pretty good.

It's like a Joyce book. No plot but peak aesthetics

>>12416019
I try.
Watching too many movies lately.

>>12416011
Late Spring is my fave. Ozu reminds me of Henry James in a way, in how he strips the story down to the minimum and focuses on the people

>>12413260
>serious cinema
>Godard

>>12414898
>>12418962
based

>>12415169
>Ozu
>watch one
You're done. You've seen all of them.

>>12415538
What did the Coens do to you to put them on such an awful list?

>>12412586
>put /lit/ on the OP
>suddenly it's fit for this board

>>12418993
faggot

>>12418977
should say "Young adult films"

>>12418977
Where is the Sneed film section?

>>12413260
Bergman and Godard are pretentious tripe

>>12419270
Bergman made some actually good films though, which Godard has not.

>>12419299
Contempt is better than anything Bergman did. I have no clue how he pulled it off though because everything else he did is complete trash.

>>12419270
People only diss Bergman because he is well known

>>12413030

Fight Club

>>12416011
>>12418913
it would seem Joyce was a major influence

>>12419357
Joyce is the Archetype

>>12419299
>>12419338
they are boring european arthouse films that people just pretend to like to look cultured, everybody knows it deep down

anyway directors are overrated, screenwriters are more important

>>12412666
is there anything that comes near BR?

>>12419366
Just because you don’t like him doesn’t mean everyone else doesn’t, some guy on /a/ made the same assumption about literature in general, I genuinely find Bergman to be an enjoyable experience.

>>12419383
I'm sure you do, you very much seem like the bourgeois type to venerate the director rather than the actual film

>>12419398
He is a director who made a bunch of good films, all of which I watched I liked

>>12419383
>I genuinely find Bergman to be an enjoyable experience
He's insightful when he's mundane but he's shallow when he tries to be deep.

>>12419366
Scriptwriters are nothing.

>>12419422
that's an ironic post to make on /lit/ of all places
>>12419402
yeah, bourgeois npc

This underrated masterpiece struck me as very /lit/

>>12418894
It's funny how many times I've watched this in film classes. Really remarkable for its time.

>>12412586
Everything by Paul Thomas Anderson and Wes Anderson.
Bladerunner 2049 unironically

>>12412586

Check this out:

https://letterboxd.com/momsaysitsok/list/r-truefilm-canon-1000-films/

>>12419434
I am probably poorer then you, I live in Essex

>>12419677
Noice

>>12418974
Villeneuve is great, watch Incendies. Iñárritu is probably the least /lit/ on the list but he is undoubtedly one of the most ambitious directors today. Park Chan-Wook is just fantastic, the Handmaid was one of the best movies of the last few years.

Not a movie, but still...

Nobody has mentioned Satantango? Sad!

>>12419792
I thought that was Sayonara Zetsobou Sensei at first glance.

>>12416100
they name drop knausgård and proust. that's pretty lit in my book

>>12418962
Highly underrated and incredibly disturbing.

>>12419488
based

Didn’t Aranofsky say that The Black Swan was originally conceived as an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Double?

>>12420005
the Black Swan and the Wrestler were originally written as one movie, and he split it into two; that's all I know

>>12419887
>who's 'Greenaway'??

>>12420005
More so originally conceived as a ripoff of Perfect Blue

>>12419703
10/10

>>12416019
no

>>12412586
I unironically like early Nolan films

>>12412586
it's spiritual

>>12415169
Late Spring > The only son > Tokyo story > There was a father > An autumn afternoon > Late Autumn

>they're a little melodramatic
How so? The cruel lack of extradiagetic music makes it difficult to call his movies melo-dramatic. Plus he always asked his actors to do precise and simple gestures, nothing overdramatic, quite the opposite actually.

>>12418971
>thinking that you gain nothing from watching the same object from various perspective
I bet you don't like Hiroshige, Monet, Hokusai or Cézanne either

I'm not one to rank my favourite, but this film might actually be number one. Wonderfully life-affirming.

>>12420207
one of the best Coen brothers movies, by far the most underrated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rru5jRWqj0c

>>12414969
this film is good but it's nowhere near as good as people claim it is

>>12421093
Idk man, it's one of the only war films i've seen that haven't made it an action movie spectacle.

>>12421117
Anon, I...

>>12412586
pic related most /lit/ movie, run time 7+ hours

>>12413249
No, not at all.

>>12419434
how tf is bergman bourgeois lol? also dont be so scared of class hierarchies you contrarian fuck. what, scared you too much of a dirty prole to make anything worthwhile?

>>12421117
obviously you need to watch more war films

Buñuel

>>12419488
>>12419703
>>12420207
>>12420509
>>12421134
>>12421174

fucking based

>>12421174

That’s one of his weakest films. Why wouldn’t you pick The Pillow Book, A Zed and two Naughts, or Prospero’s books? Hell, eve The Cook, The Thief, his wife and her Lover?

Stalker
A Woman Under the Influence
Hausu
Barry Lyndon
The 400 Blows
Death By Hanging

These are /lit/ but not necessarily the best

>>12421228
I've seen A Zed and two Naughts and The Cook, The Thief, his wife and her Lover, but I liked Belly of an Architect more. I think Greenaway makes great images but not great movies

>>12420259
Love it, but the pro-judaism anti-christianism thing makes me uneasy, like I'm participating in someone's self-hate.

Direktoren for det hele (Lars Von Trier, 2006)

Witty, that's all. (forgot the pic in the last post)

>>12421533

Fair Enough. Those long panning shots in The Cook, the Thief, His wife and her lover are gorgeous. I think they’re great films. He did start as a painter.

Anybody seen that new von Trier film?

>>12412586
Any fan of Dreyer and Ophüls in /lit/ ?

Anyone see The Looming Storm ?

>>12418952
Like it or not he's part of the serious film makers.

>>12419366
Fun thing, Hitchcock already complained about that kind of mentality in his time. People judging a film only by its script and assuming that makes them good critics.

THIS, Deleuze would love it with references to multiplicities. The only issue I have with it is how flat it was but what can you expect from a show that is reddit tier shit?

>>12414818
>PUNCH THE KEYS FOR GODS SAKE

>>12412799
Barry Lyndon: an utterly flat and non-engaging narrative and with equally boring performances. But the cinematography and mise en scene generally, are unparalleled. My experience with Eyes Wise Shut is similar. But there’s something he does in both which defies literary analysis and transports the viewer.

>>12414876
The most tedious 3 hours of my life.

>>12419699
Twin Peaks the Return is honestly the greatest cinematic work of the new millennium

>>12419699
Torturously boring. Lynch is hit and miss: everything but Mulholland Drive is a miss.

>>12421165
Truly a Masterpiece.

>>12415020

WHEN THEY'RE CRAWLING THREW THE MUCK AND YOU KNOW
>IT KILLS THEM IRL
AND ALL THE ABSOLUTELY FUCKING IRONIC DIALOGUE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE THING.

GOD THAT MOVIE WAS GOOD.


Pic related is pretty /lit/, so are these
>the quatsi trilogy
>baraka
>ashes and snow

>>12422376
Yeah it's ok

>>12412656
Just watched that last night. Amazing.

>>12419366
t. american

>>12422419
Saw Day of Wrath recently. It was very good

>>12420005
I dunno, but the actual movie based off of The Double starring Jesse Eisenburg is fantastic.

>>12421117
Watch Ivan’s Childhood.

>>12421228
The Cook, The Thief... is one of the greatest films i’ve seen. That young tenor’s voice is absolutely angelic.

>>12415636
In all fairness McCarthy might as well have written the script for the film because so much of the dialogue is the same so it’s not like the book didn’t have any merits. The dialogue is good at least.

McCarthy’s first five books are pretty good imo. The newer stuff that he’s more well-known for is rather mediocre, particularly when talking about his prose, which has gotten lazier over time.

>>12422765
British
>>12422429
you can't make a good movie without a good script

>>12418977
kek

>>12421663
exactly, Stephen Fry hates god and religion so much it's outrageous

>>12422945
I doubt there has never been a successful attempt to make a good movie out of improvised scenes. But even if I concede that, the same is even more true for actors and camera work, does that mean the cameraman or the actors are more important than the director ?

Ultimately a movie is made by a whole crew and the director is the captain. An excellent director could make something decent or good with a bad crew, and it takes one hell of a crew to do a good movies with an awful director.

Script is important, but judging a movie by its script only is at best ignorant.

Tombstone


Snatch


Just entertainment.

>>12422973

Fuck this movie. It’s one of the most depressing things I’ve ever experienced.

>>12423006

Mike Leigh and Ken Loach May have made good films without a script. I don’t know for sure though. Loach uses unprofessional actors and Leigh leans heavily on improvisation in His great film Naked.

>>12419792
good taste
>>12421165
for any reason, i prefer blue. But good taste
>>12421344
God-Tier
Johny got his gun and Ikiru are great movies too

>>12412586
/Lit/ and movies
literally, this

network has the best script for a movie ive ever seen

>>12413057
unironically a great list

>>12422840
you are an absolute retard if you think mccarthys newer books, especially the crossing, are any worse than his academically popular stuff

its clear you have no idea what you are talking about

>>12413030
Jurassic Park.

>>12414818
A movie I will only think of as "Ur the Man Now Gawg"

>>12414966
Something snarky?

>>12419024
Not even me, fascist.

>>12413003
Is this the scene with the Pynchon cameo?

>>12413003
Is the movie supposed to make sense on its own?

>>12422546
>18 episode miniseries
>film

>>12422546
Lynch's use of sound as a plot point is honestly what sets him apart

>>12423094
10/10
>>12419677
Thanks
>>12419703
Excellently directed film
>>12419792
one of my favorites too
>>12412656
Ahh, watching it was such an amazing experience.
Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress

>>12423094
10/10
>>12419677
Thanks
>>12419703
Excellently directed film
>>12419792
one of my favorites too
>>12412656
Ahh, watching it was such an amazing experience.
.
My pick is Satoshi Kon's masterpiece: Millennium Actress

>>12423094
10/10
>>12419677
Thanks
>>12419703
Excellently directed film
>>12419792
one of my favorites too
>>12412656
Ahh, watching it was such an amazing experience.
.
My pick is Satoshi Kon's masterpiece: Millennium Actress

Obligatory

>>12423166
Based Crossingbro. I say it all the time and I’ll say it again, The Crossing is McCarthys true masterpiece

>>12423822
pleb

>>12423822
>OLD ENOUGH TO BLEED, OLD ENOUGH TO BUTCHER
i liked it, too

>>12422542
Pleb

>>12419330
Contempt is nowhere near as good as Winter Light or Virgin Spring

>>12421663
It's not anti-christian at all, anon. The Bishop is, if anything, a stand-in for Bergman's notoriously strict father, who was a lutheran pastor in Stockholm, rather than a representative of Christianity as a whole. Fanny and Alexander was made at a time when he'd come to terms with his doubts; if you want films that are more critical of God, check out his output in the 60s.

Two versions of christianity are depicted in the film; the stark, cold, and strict christianity of Bishop Vergerus, and the familial, warm, inclusive, and slightly heretical christianity of Alexander's family (the whole first act is centered on the most brilliant Christmas party depicted in film). I don't see how it's offensive in the least, unless you're an avidly anti-semitic (of the sort that'd target regular jews) lutheran with an authoritarian streak. Furthermore, the Bishop is not depicted as evil. He's a man wholly convinced of his own goodness - I found the scene in which he explains that he never thought anyone could hate him very humanising.