/lit/ - Literature

>>17337273
>The court disagrees with Sony’s characterization of Requiem as being “relatively obscure”. Nothing in the Yoknapatawpha canon is obscure. Having viewed the two works at issue in this case, the court is convinced that one is timeless, the other temporal.

That said I did enjoy that movie.

>>17337273
barton fink.

>>17337273
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

>>17337273
pic related

>>17337608
truly captivating
>>17337273
Wonder Boys
Tuesdays with Morrie
Paterson

The fall 2006

thanks fellas

>>17337314
just watched, great flick. I liked how it drove the wedge between the literati and "the common man" they work themselves into a frenzy trying to be

>>17337273
Slacker

>>17337273
Not a film, but The Affair is excellent. Just watch the Noah bits. You see him being an English teacher struggling to write at the start of the show, watch him piece together his first draft, get in contact with an agent, get his first advance and book deal, finish his novel and have it blow up, watch him deal with the fame, etc etc. Seasons 1 and 2 are the best, you can stop after that.

In terms of films, The Wife was terrific. Transit has literary elements but they're less significant.

In a Lonely Place is a pretty good.

Sweet Smell of Success is great.

Shakespeare in love
End of the tour

>>17337286
>I did enjoy that movie.

How the fuck could you enjoy a shit splatter like fucking "Midnight in Paris." The caricatures (not characterizations) of everyone in it was repugnant to fuck and back. An ENTIRE FUCKING PLOT LINE (of the investigator) was dismissed in a 3 second scene and just like that. I've never seen such shoddy work, and I imagine people just "enjoyed" it because they're plebicus maximuses who pat themselves on their back for knowing who Buñel was (even though he has nothing to do with the story and was just thrown in for no reason) for a 3-second gag or somehow imagining the blather coming out of Hemingway's mouth is anything like any of the shit he actually said.

Disgraceful.

>>17338023
i'm a fan of the era and it's amusing to see it in live action. remove stick from ass

>>17338023
Yes, you have it right anon. I enjoyed it because I am a midwit. I also enjoy Woody Allen's other movies. Sorry about existing.

>>17338035
Fuck that noise. It's emetic that you guys just swallow this shit unthinkingly.
>>17338039
Interiors is a masterpiece. This isn't about Woody Allen. It's about this grunt sculpture of a movie.

>>17338052
What do you want, anon? I already admitted I'm a midwit.

>>17338060
I WANT YOU TO STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE REEEE

>>17338052
it's an amusing visual supplement to Moveable Feast, that's all. relax

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>>17337273
God woody allen is so distinctly kikish

>>17338206
Cringe.

>>17337273
>not having posted Nocturnal Animals yet
Shamefull

anything by Takeshi Kitano

>>17337273
it's not a film, but The Wire is about as literary as it gets.

>>17338285
i always thought (as far as hourlong dramas went) Mad Men was extremely /lit/ as well

wonder boys

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>>17338299
Deadwood is more /lit/ than either of those.

"Quills" about the Marquis de Sade is kino and Keyed AF

>>17337273
La Notte

>>17337273
Certified Copy

>>17338285
Boats and tides and all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKlGQfvj5_g

woody allen is very /lit/ in the sense that he likes talking a lot about art but is incapable of producing it

>>17338285
I remember enjoying the first season but then season two with the dockers was kind of slow and I stopped watching.

>>17338285
LOL

The Wire is so garbage. David Simon mentioned reading Euripides and everyone thought wow genius.

>>17338622
you got pleb filtered mate

>>17338336
based

>>17338637
no, I'm pretty sure the five quality seasons of writing are the reason people think he's a genius (well, season 5 is kind of weak because of the Mcnulty arc, but it still has a lot of merit)

>>17338638
Yes, because TV shows are patrician..

>>17338655
>quality.

you need to read more.

>>17338354
A huge faggot wrote this trash.

Veritably Shakespearean.

Brideshead Revisited is better than any film

>>17338789
damn is that a young jeremy irons?

Anonymous (2011)

>>17338413
Based, easily my favorite Antonioni film

>>17338764
>Veritably Shakespearean.

The writing, most def. Not so sure about the acting, lol!

>>17337608
An underrated film.

>>17337273

>>17337957
First season is definitely worth watching, but this
>Just watch the Noah bits
would completely undermine what's good about it.

>>17338804
yeah. jesus christ this dude was handsome (no homo)

>>17339339
for real. he's like sexy dracula

I'm not a huge film buff but this is my take:

Blade Runner is unironically the most literary sci fi movie ever made and the most fitting tribute to PDK. Certainly it is the cinematic masterpiece of the sci fi genre, and the better a movie is the more it approaches a book imo.

The revisionist western Unforgiven is the closest we'll get to Blood Meridian in film.

Seventh Seal has literary allegorical properties. Bergman in general. This was partly because Bergman was an excellent writer in his own right

It's a bit Reddit but Ari Aster's movies have a literary feel too

The Witch is similar. Has an allegorical feel, has the balls to make a movie about 1600s pilgrims in the modern film market.

Ikiru by Kurosawa. Boring as hell not going to lie but a penetrating window into the existentialism of a self-aware post-war Japanese salaryman facing death and wondering what his well behaved dedication to corporatism was all for.

>>17339409
not what the thread is about

>>17337273
Stranger than Fiction.

Don't tell me I'm the only one who knows and likes it.

Brown Bunny is probably the most /lit/ film of the century. Saw an anon shill this on /tv/ a while back and it always stuck with me: https://youtu.be/p4FOzZcqS5c

>>17339474
A lot of people are anti-it, because of Will Farrell, but it's a relatively unique movie and very underrated.

>>17338764
BASED

The Ninth Gate

>>17337273

Pastoral To Die in the Country (1974)

>>17337273
Perfect blue

>>17340216
Good answer.

Starting Out in the Evening is good

Peeps always recommend this one but its too nihilist for my liking

>>17337273
The Great Beauty
Nostalghia

>>17337314
American average midbrow movie with no value

>>17337915
American indipendent movie on par with european intellectual achievements

>>17338206
>>17337915
>>17337314
>>17338940
I used to be an undergrad too

>>17337273
I don't know if A River Runs Through It counts since it's a film adaption of the book. But it's semi autobiographical so the author (English professor) is in it

>>17342295
Both are terribly cringe, great beauty especially. Gep is wrong on almost everything he says. He bullies Talia Concept for no reason at all beside being a smug asshole, and on a closer look, she, being an artist, doesn't have to explain shit. That's his work as a critic - but gep has never worked in his life, so he wouldn't know that. Beside that, he spends his time claiming to be desperate while spending most of his tie drinking a being well-dressed on a balcony from which you can admire the fucking colosseum. It is the fakest, cringiest, most kitsch depiction of art, literature and Italy which has ever been produced. Sorrentino is the stupid's man smart man. He has done nothing of value and the fact that he has received any kind of acknowledgement makes me want to scream in despair for how low cinema has got.

First two Shrek movies and Spiderman movies with Toby Macguire.

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>>17338870
Lucas really did a number on himself by not hiring more classically trained actors.

>>17342419
https://vimeo.com/189876347

>>17338023
Shut the fuck up you pretentious pseud.

The investigator plotline ending like that was a crease, not everything needs to be extrapolated out to the point of tedium for the benefit of dunces like you.

It's not War and Peace, it's a Woody Allen film, what were you expecting????

>>17338035
You are correct

>>17342582

>>17342625

>>17342930

His Girl Friday, which is the best movie version of The Front Page.

>>17338558
He’s lit in the sense that he married his Asian stepdaughter

>>17342603
I dub thee king pleb. Eat shit, fag.

The Bad and the Beautiful is an excellent film about the filmmaking process, with a screenwriter being one of the main characters.

In The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance the journalists, both in present-day and remembered Shinbone, are crucial characters.

Most famously, the present-day journalist lays down the dictum "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

>>17342394
I understand your point. But still, in my opinion you have to see it an homage/heavily influenced movie of Fellini's Dolce Vita. It's not something that has never been seen before, and the themes, of course, are really similar to the ones of Fellini's movie. In my opinion it is still a good movie, also because Sorrentino is really good in writing scenes, choosing adeguate soundtrack, using a particulary style, etc, more than putting interesting or innovative themes in his movies.

>>17343489
was shocked by how good this movie is.

>>17338721
Lol. U mad
Its A great movie

>>17343827
One of the worst movies I've ever seen by far. I'm surprised to even see it here because I'd hoped that everyone had forgotten it and that I would never need to think about it again.

Last Year at Marienbad

>>17343858
He probably didn't even see it and is just posting it because McCarthy wrote it.

>>17339409
Aster is a fucking hack

Pathetic, why even have such a basic bitch thread.

Majority of these films are radical, insofar as they are contained within neo-liberalism.

Woody fucking Allen and The Wire, kek.

>>17337273
Meh

>>17337314
Trash

>>17337630
Paterson is comfy, but Jarmusch is a fraud

>>17337915
Based, although weakest linklater (aside from his high budget films like last flag flying)

>>17337960
Both kino

>>17338009
End of the tour was comfy, but they fucked it up so badly with the ending

>>17338023
Allen is a hack

>>17338206
Good

>>17338285
Kek what a joke

>>17338327
No

>>17338413
Yes

>>17338427
Yes

>>17338558
Based

>>17338764
No, Lynch’s Dune is the kino clunky blockbuster

>>17338940
I’ve been apprehensive, I like Jarmusch, but think he’s waiting to disappoint me

>>17339409
Sokurov ones, man who fell to earth, Lynch’s dune, think herzog made one, Cold Heaven, Demon Seed, etc.

Unforgiven is meh, Ford and Anthony Mann much better. Meek’s Cutoff is best revisionist western

Yes seventh seal is good

Aster rips off Roeg, Von Trier, and Lynch.

Witch is good, so is Kurosawa.

>>17339487
It’s good, yes, very underrated

>>17340239
Yes

>>17342295
No
Best tark

>>17342407
No

>>17342603
Vidor’s War and Peace is kino

>>17343401
Yes

>>17343489
No

>>17343858
Haven’t seen, like Scott, elaborate. Seems to be polarizing

>>17343859
Yes

>>17344205
what about this? >>17340216

>>17344253
Yes

>>17337273
I don't know but I know who does!
>>>/tv/
Now delete this thread faggot.

>>17344271
The problem with the thread is that there are too many posts that fail to satisfy the OP's criteria: films about literature itself, or about literary figures.

Thus, Berlin Alexanderplatz is a brilliant piece of work, but it's merely an adaptation; it's not about literature, or literary figures.

Likewise, Waking Life, Blade Runner, etc.

>>17342582
The Miracle Worker

>>17337273
The Miracle Worker

>>17343570
Sorry but no - Sorrentino is terrible at writing scenes and this movie proves it. In terms of visual language, it looks like a series of disconnected camera pans with slow movements. In terms of dialogue, rarely I have cringed as much as with the pretentious characters of this movie. Characters either speak in short, hard-trying-to-be-impactful philosophical sentences which read as if they were reading a high-school quotation book, or go on and on in long-winding monologues on total platitudes.
Fellini's Dolce Vita is, first of all, based in the reality of its time - which Great Beauty is not, because no one who has published ONE book, in Italy, can live like Gep Gambardella, also literally everyone who lives in Rome, rich and poor, can confirm that no parties like those in the movies ever take place, ESPECIALLY with people quoting Ammaniti, Proust, and trying to write theater - and, second, it's an actual good movie which never degenerates into banal philosophical drivel. "Roots are important".. How cringy can it get? A fucking nun telling you that roots are important. A guy getting epiphanies about seeing boobs when he was a teenager. Are you fucking kidding me? Is this supposed to be deep? Am I supposed to be moved at a rich old man walking around Rome doing fucking nothing but thinking about an old love? This is a teenager look at what being old looks.
Sorrentino manages to look smart because he has a two hour window into which he can fit some shit choirs screaming OOOOOH OOOOOOH LOOK HE'S ABOUT TO GET AN EPIPHANY OH GOOD HE'S ABOUT TO GET IT to tell you the most banal, soap-opera cliched cringe things you can fit in that time slot. Look at the Young Pope if you to see him totally showing how fucking childish, cringe and fake everything he does is. This is the formula:
>old nostalgic aristocrat/intellectual
>random quotations
>a beautiful naked woman, possibly a milf, representing beauty
>a beautiful woman dressed in white or light, or a nun, representing purity
>religious music / profane imagery or vice versa
>catholic moral dressed up as deep philosophy

>>17342394
>Gep is wrong on almost everything he says
he's a miserable faggot. that's the point, you fucking midwit.

>>17344595
Where do you see yourself on the political spectrum?

>>17344784
The fact that you need to put a political sticker on my opinions to determine whether they are good or bad shows how poor your understanding of the topic is - so I'm going to leave you there seething, knowing that I am right, despite of whatever my political inclinations are.
I have no problems with none of the themes of the great beauty - as I do not have any problems with any themes of any other piece of art. I don't "disagree" with thematic choices, because pieces of art are not statements. I can -philosophically- disagree with the themes of a piece of art and still enjoying it. Nostalgia, going back to your roots, and even a religious view of beauty are not, in themselves, bad themes. I have no problem with how they are treated in many other movies. The Greaty Beaut is not bad because it talks about this stuff, but because it does in the cringiest, most mid-brow way conceivable in a movie. If you have a different opinion, read more and watch more (good) movies. Fellini alone should already give you a sense of how cringe and mid-brow this is, compared to what he did. "Homage" my ass. It's like the cinepanettone version of La Dolce Vita

>>17342365
grow a brain

>>17342370
you weren't obnoxious idiot too? you are now sweetie.

>>17344916
Okay, leftoid. Figured as much.

>>17344205
authentic cringe

Surprised to see so many supporters of kike pedophelia

>>17344635
Nope. Let's take two very memorable interactions he has.
>vs Talia Concept
He goes to a conceptual artist and asks here "what is the meaning of what you do". Now anyone who has a high-school level knowledge of history of art, knows that this is a stupid question to ask after the 1900s to any kind of visual and conceptual artist. If you could explain yourself, you'd explain yourself, not do art. Modern art is not about instatiating messages: any modern critic of art should know this. But Gep is not presented as a bad critic, but as a witty old man dominating a stupid, vapid artist in a conversation.
This is how the conversation would have played out in real life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjoMEw2RYlA
In real life, an artist doesn't have to explain jackshit to you, nor does he need to have any conceptual background to do anything he does. If you think he should, then you are probably one of those people who think modern art is "degenerate" and who has no knowledge of art past the 1800s - so, a bad critic, or an uncultured person trying to look smart, like Sorrentino. The scene with the kid painting is also another take on art which confirms this "modern art bad, old art gud" troglodite take on art. "Look greek statues good, abstract painting bad, but then kid makes it less abstract, so gud". And of course the italian public sucks his fucking dick because we can never get enough of being told how IMPORTANT our culture is, how GREAT the classics were (which they were, don't get me wrong, but there's ton of good, innovative, interesting stuff out there right now. Only, Sorrentino is too busy ruminating about saturday-school catechism to get educated and do something which is fucking new and complex and challenging to see).

>vs Stefania
Again we have a BASED GEP DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS scenario: not only the whole scene is cringe because he completely blasts a person for no apparent reason beside her being "hypocritical", but also, closing that whole monologue with "we are all desperate" while drinking wine on a balcony in Rome with the coloseum in the background does not sound very convincing to me. This whole "old rich guy with an existential crisis" trope has been done a million time, and a million time better, by other filmmakers. It's just not believable. First because nobody invites you to drink on his balcony just to destroy you as soon as you try to say something cool about yourself - especially if you have known Stefania for like a million years, yet you keep inviting her over and then snap at her for no reason. How many times do you think they must have had that conversation already? Is Gep really THAT SMART for saying to a 50 year old rich woman that she's hypocritical when talking about herself?

>>17344916
I feel like Gep is just the guy in a group of total idiots, just like Sorrentino must be when hanging out with the idiots he probably hangs out in some neapolitan bar, who as attempted reading Proust (and clearly never finished) and goes on and on telling others how they are stupider than him and hypocritical and everything, and sometimes quotes Proust - and the great beauty is just this giganting wishful thinking porn where Sorrentino imagines that, when "destroying" people with bland philosophical drivel, someone ACTUALLY CARES, when nobody does, in real life. Nobody literally gives a shit. There is no scenario in which you interview an artist, asks for an explanation, and when he says he's not going to give you one, he cries. There is no scenario when you say to a 50 year old woman, who is supposedly your friend, and has enough life experience, "you are hypocritical" and she doesn't just laugh in your face and says "no shit, Sherlock!"

>>17345122
He's right about both. Postmodern art is trash and Stefania is a pretentious whore. Geb is a self-loathing faggot none the less. Now dilate.

>>17337273
The Mirror by Tarkovsky is about as good as cinema can get. Stalker is also very good. Both are on youtube, free to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYZhXm02kN0

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

>>17344918
If you weight Linklater against the Cohens you are in for some ass-whooping, my boy

>>17344205
Your opinions are garbage and you should feel bad.

>>17339409
What are your favorite westerns?

>>17342370
What's non-lit about Only Lovers Left Alive?

>>17337663
Aside from the stunning visuals I found the plot lacking in this.

Anything by Peter Greenaway fits, but The Pillow Book is probably the most "/lit/"

>>17345225
and this is why you are as midbrow as him

>>17337273
midnight in paris is by far woodie allen's best film
the rest is pretty fucking shit, even Manhattan.

>>17345466
dialogue is twilight-tier

>>17345555
>implying pretentious dialogue is non-/lit/

>>17345479
your favorite movie is avengers endgame?

>>17338023
lol brother I'm with you. That movie was probably the most cringe inducing attempt at character depth I've ever seen. Reminded me of how Star Wars regularly shoves in old characters/plot devices/objects into their newer series to appeal to nostalgia. I was seriously so offended by how formulaic the entire movie was.
>Owen Wilson enters scene
>Some famous artist enters
>Owen: "Wow is that pretentious psedu from the 30s?"
>Pretentious psedu from the 30s: [something """characteristic"""]
>Owen: "Wow yes"

And then the ENDING? like WHAT? Just like that? These things make me angry

>>17345586
You know that is one of the most common criticisms of that film right? It's not a bad film, it just has a weak plot.

>>17345978
And weak writing, and weak characters, and weak everything. The only thing it does well is the CGI, and that’s the same for every major motion picture. You’re actually mentally deficient if you think any of the superhero movies are quality, or even decent.

>>17338854
gtfo david

>>17345978
yeah and liking avengers is the most common standpoint toward it.
why are you proving me right suddenly?

>>17346046
"Super" was good.

>>17345497
Okay, tranny.

>>17339409
>The revisionist western Unforgiven is the closest we'll get to Blood Meridian in film.

I’d say The Proposition is much closer, but you do you.

>>17346053
I haven't even seen any of the marvel flicks.

>>17345494
Prospero's Books I would say

>>17337663
>The fall 2006
The writer of the original Bulgarian film from 1981 is actually a writer and a poet. A pretty cool guy.

>>17346379
>the original Bulgarian film from 1981
elaborate

>>17346393
The Fall is a remake of a Bulgarian film from 1981. That's it. In the original the kid is a boy and he has imaginary pirate adventures instead of fantasy stuff like in The Fall. It's called Yo-ho-ho and it's a pretty comfy and emotional movie, but I'm not sure anyone, especially a foreigner, would enjoy it that much nowadays.

>>17345494
Does anyone know if the original 5 hour cut for the draughtsman's contract is available? I remember hearing somewhere or another had produced it

Midnight in Paris is one of the comfiest movies I've ever seen, right up there with Porco Rosso. All the criticisms of it in this thread are spot-on, even I cringe at how absolutely base level the references are and the film could have been an easy 10/10 if it was written adequately but I don't care about any of that.

It depicts Paris as it should be not the hellhole it's become, that in of itself is enough to make it worth watching. It's almost like it portrays the world we would have had if we didn't switch timelines to this dystopia

>>17346652
1920s paris was not a good place to be for the vast majority of parisians working in factories and struggling to survive.

>>17346667
I'm talking about the 2010s paris. I've read a Moveable Feast 1920s paris was a shit show

>>17346652
>I don't care if it's shit, I just love snacking on this turd!

Go away.

>>17346652
Pro-tip: Paris was always a shithole. Just because it's filled with Africans doesn't mean it was some fairy tale place.

>>17346804
I'm pretty sure Paris was pretty damn nice and chill between ~1950-1980. I was just reading an interview with John Ashbery from the 80s where he talked about how Paris had fallen into disarray since he had lived there in the 60s

>>17346883
>pretty damn nice and chill between ~1950-1980
did somebody forget about 68

>>17347368
digits

ctrl-f "Withnail" zero results

>>17347368
May 68 in Paris was just for show. Only a timid nod to the much bloodier and more significant riots of earlier regimes.

>>17347368
>These digits

>>17337330
Nice.
>would you rather betray your ethics or your friend?

I've been going through a steve mcqueen phase. Just watched the getaway, the great escape, and papillon (always been a big bullit fan). I also have been into prison escape films and highly recommend midnight express to all of you. The french connection was my most recent watch, it was pretty linear but the chase scene was a fucking masterpiece and completely unexpected. None of these are /lit/, I'm just a film enthusiast.

>>17342394
>>17344595
>>17345122
For your own sake, I hope that deep down, in your heart of hearts, you know that "cringe", "it's not realistic" and "been done before" are not valid criticisms.
Otherwise, holy fuck, how do you write this nonsense with zero self awareness.

>>17338789
This x10000000.
I always liked Cool Hand Luke, and Picnic at Hanging Rock, too. Almost funny that they're planning on fucking up both Picnic at Hanging Rock with a TV show, AND Brideshead with yet another shitty remake, this time by the Suspiria/Call me by your name director.

>>17344205
The Great Beauty is better than every movie on your top 5

>>17342394
Great bait lol

>>17338789
Watched this after some guy recommended here, very good indeed

>>17344954
That guy is obviously baiting but Sorrentino is a leftist

>>17345122
This is the most amazing bait I've ever seen.

>>17349062
You’re a no taste retard that only likes and watches what the critics tell you to like. Only an infantile buffoon like yourself would have a concrete top 5. This is your last (you), rodent

>>17349100
You don't have a top 5 because you are scared people are going to make fun of you for having bad taste

>>17349104
Yes I’m afraid of one-word comic strip retorts from retards like you who rely on critics and other people to form your own taste. How fucking delusional do you sound? It’s like you carefully constructed a top 5 that is socially acceptable to share.
You also samefagged 3 times with your great beauty bait thing. Grow up, I don’t care about that film, I haven’t even seen it, as it looks like fag shit for midwits like yourself.

>>17343840
Great if you're a faggot.

>>17338413
>Life would be almost tolerable were it not for its pleasures

>>17338354
You know, Quills is full of delightful performances, but it never gives a fair hearing to the "other side" of the argument. The only fun characters are in favor of unbridled vulgarity, and the characters who want to restrict freedom of expression are stupid, annoying hypocrites on par with the uptight school administrator in a 1980s college sex comedy. If your movie's going to center on a debate between ideas X and Y, you should treat both positions with at least some seriousness. "Reds" does this very well. It doesn't strike a neutral position, but it at least gives the opposing viewpoint a compelling advocate in the form of Jack Nicholson's character.

Geoffrey Rush is marvelously charismatic, though; that makes up for a lot.

>>17349202
Movies often reduce ideas, as there’s only so much to be contained within the beginning and end of two intervals of time. That is why I prefer a parabolic interpretation to films, focusing on sentiment. Think Ray Chandler, the form is already set, but the details are what gives it meaning, so the subtext/aesthetic decisions within two intervals of time, complimented by the form. I like movies that subvert the established form especially.

>>17344095
Agreed, minus the swearing. I saw Hereditary and nearly stopped after a *certain* scene that I won't spoil here, because I felt the director was only capable of cheap shock value and had nothing to say beyond it. Watched till the end, but didn't gain anything from doing so. Baffles me that critics were so lavish in their praise towards the work, and the rest of his filmography that I simply doubt could be much better given how close in time a film like Midsommar was made to Hereditary. Maybe he'll improve in time, but for now I had many issues with Hereditary that make me think he's merely been overrated by the establishment and is no way a boon to modern cinema.

>>17345122
Hey anon, it's been a few years since I saw the film and I can't remember it too well but I appreciate you leaving your thoughts here even if I lack the information to agree or disagree with them. It's nice to see someone writing out their opinions in such detail rather than merely using tired immature buzzwords like "cringe" or "based" in relation to something posted either by them or someone else. So thanks for that and don't worry if others here aren't receptive to your post, keep being honest about your opinions regardless. In my view, it's less about there being "one exact correct position" on something as it is about someone engaging with a work as sincerely and earnestly as they possibly can, and being completely honest in their reception of it rather than basing their assessment on how they imagine it will make them look to other people.

>>17345555
It’s Jarmusch-tier.

>>17338023
Its meant to be caricatures because ultimately its all in his head. Its a way of coping with his wife cheating and not following his dreams, etc. Which he is in denial about

Ur dense

>>17337273
Favorite films I've seen are the unique ones that really couldn't be books - like Man With A Movie Camera and The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie

>>17349880
Really lame interpretation. You're grunting and straining so hard to salvage it, you're gonna get a hemorrhoid or two.

>>17350053
"Midnight in Paris" is such a frustrating film because there are some moments of real wit and originality mixed in with elements that are lazy and cheap. If it were better I could love it; if it were worse I would forget it.

>>17350053
>really lame interpretation
Better than yours:
>literally everything that happens is true

>>17346567
It's not and I doubt it ever will be.

About a fictional author so it's definitely literary. I'm also genuinely shocked nobody has said Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters yet.

>>17338275
Underrated post. This thread is filled with plebs.

>watching movies
shiggy

>>17339487
One of the worst movies I have ever seen.

>>17338558
Based. The west is full of woody allen npcs

flim faggots trying to larp as lit fags
nice try but watching obscure films doesn't mean shit.

>>17351854
it's literally jewish. Every single day I see a film related thread sneaking it's way into the board.

>>17337273
Pierrot le Fou
Any Tarkovsky and Bergman
Tree of life
Throw away your books, rally in the streets

>>17345122
I'm the guy who you have responded to at first. I can't respond, because you're clearly more expert on the subject. When I will rewatch that movie, I'll think about you, whenever I will change my mind or not.

>>17338206
yuck

>>17340239
This is not a film but a Tv series. Also, it makes me feel claustrophobic. And it is based on a novel. So all in all a 2/10 response, anon. STFU next time.

>>17350515
Many better films than Kitano's have been poster. Seems like you are the pleb here.

>>17351854
you're probably the faggot complaining when a cambridge educated professor puts films on his syllabus.
fuck off and diversify your interests

>>17353087
Erm. No offense, but films don't belong on a literature course's syllabus unless the course is something like "Literature and Film: Adaptation and You" or some similar bullshit easy-A course.

>>17351865
It wouldn't be so bad if everyone stuck to the OP criteria.

Speaking of which: Sullivan's Travels (a screenwriter goes on the road seeking inspiration)

>>17353122
sure thing Anonymous, Vice-President of Academic Affairs

>>17353122
What about a documentary about a particular book? What about a film featuring interviews with an author?

>>17353087
>>17353144
>>17353161
Zoomies with attention spans of gnats.

>>17338206
fuck the faggots talking shit about this, at least it had a sliver of intellectual thought unlike the arty gay fag shit the rest of you see

>>17340957
Watched that film yesterday, I speak french so it helped, but this is intense nihilist all long.

>/lit/ films
>films about literature itself or about literary figures
thats so fucked up, has to be a psyop

>>17338023
Yep, I am a fan of Woody Allen and have watched all his films and this one is the worst (closely followed by To Rome With Love). When it won an Oscar I finally realized what a shitshow the Oscars have become.

>>17353272
Waking Life was so pretentious I thought it was all some kind of huge joke. It was too desperate to make abstract philosophical points relevant to domestic, human life which is kind of a fool's errand anyway, but they went about it the lamest way imaginable.

>Yesterday, my boyfriend was fucking me in the ass and I started thinking about the ineluctable modality of the visible!

Give me a fat fucking break.

>>17353656
So you unironically got filtered by Linklater and thought it was anything more than stoner philosophy depicting a mood. Linklater makes hangout movies, the ideas are non-existent/irrelevant. He’s playing a tough game, as if the film does not work on a superficial level, like Last Flag Flying, there’s not any subtext to make it interesting on a secondary level like other maligned directors that npcs won’t find value in, where even if they’re structurally bad/unconventional, the film is still very good/great because of the sentiments evinced. This is a different conversation though.

Yes, have you read Ulysses? He’s just quoting the book and poking fun at the obscenity and Joyce’s letters.
I think Ulysses is a piece of shit, but that’s a different story.

>>17353639
>Yep, I am a fan of Woody Allen and have watched all his films and this one is the worst
There's no way you've seen "Scoop" if you think that.

>>17353174
What, you never watch interviews with authors?

>>17353272
>>17353656
>>17353785
a scanner darkly is his best film, waking life is subpar comparatively

>>17353925
I haven’t seen a few of his films, and A scanner darkly is one of them.
Although, I think everything I’ve seen from his is very good, including Tape and Me and Orson Welles, aside from Last flag flying, I think Before Midnight, Boyhood, and Everybody Wants Some are a step up from the rest of his filmography.
I’ll do A scanner darkly soon.

Some pretty great stuff here, I'd add a handful of Ruiz's movies:
>The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
>Three Crowns of the Sailor
>Three Lives and Only One Death
>Mysteries of Lisbon
>Love Torn in a Dream

Zazie at the Metro is certified /lit/
Louis Malle's stuff in general is

>>17354708
Why?

>>17354717
Atlantic City is a masterpiece.
If you like Malle, check out Bill Forsyth.

>>17354797
Thanks for the rec, based anon

The "movie" titled: "Magic Magic", perfectly reflects the feeling of gradually intensifying dread resulting from consistent deprivation of solitude.