/lit/ - Literature

hesse, bukowski, foster wallace, murakami, von Stuckrad-Barre, Bolano, Bret Easton Ellis, Kant

I've posted mine here:

>>>/v/

my favorite directors are also film studies 101.

Kubrick, Scott, Nolan, Raimi, Coen, Coen

>>2316346

Well, that was supposed to be

>>>/tv/

Aren't I silly?

I like Uwe Boll. He's probably my all-time favorite.

so it is a copypasta thread

huh

anyway, the first four and melville, then my top favorite is chris marker. i also like lang, von trier, allen, penn, french bunuel, and kieslowski.

really can't stand italians though. or bresson.

anyway, the first four and melville, chris marker (yay), fremnc

I'll just get it out of the way you plebs. It's brakhage

>>2316357
>so it is a copypasta thread
Its the monthly /lit/ cinema thread. Are you new here? They usually last for days and get hundred of replies.

>>2316369
it doesn't make it not copypasta though

Godard, Tarkovsky, Bergman, Aronofsky, Adam Curtis, Kubrick, Masaki Kobayashi, Bertolucci

Bergman, Jarmunsch, Resnais, Marker, Kieslowski, Venders, Jarman, Greenaway, Nolan, Fincher, Coen bros, Inarritu, Kubrick, Leigh, Lumet, di Palma, Carpenter, Hitchcock, Ben Affleck, Kurosawa, Polanski, Vertov, Altman,

Only seen one Godard, loved it. Only seen one Fellini, liked it. Only seen one Malle, liked it. Only seen one Tarkovsky loved it. Only seen one Antonioni, meh...

Takeshi Miike.

I forgot Aronovsky, Herzog, Fassbinder, Egoyan, Cronenberg, Girard, Polley, Korine, and my new favourite Gas-Donnelly

I like Wong Kar Wai

>>2316359
No, it's Jack Chambers.

Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hithcock, Coen Brothers. Possibly that rancid paedophile Roman Polanski too.

Ed Wood motherfuckers.

/thread

Scorsese

>>2316371
doesnt make it not worthwhile though

Herzog
Fincher
Wenders
Zwigoff
Ashby
Park Chan-wook
Bong Joon-ho
Coen(s)
Kurosawa
Miyazaki
Miike
Anderson (Wes)
Anderson (P.T.)
Wai
Spielberg
Refn
Vaughn
Johnson (Rian)
Del Toro
Soderbergh
Aronovsky
Schreiber (Liev)
Hitchcock
(among others)

>>>/tv/

movies are not literature

sam pekinpah

>>2316463
LOL

>>2316456
Wow, that list has great directors, good directors and shit directors in the most arbitrary way. You clearly don't know shit.

>>2316477

>>2316357 here I'm assuming you're putting rian johnson in the shit part, I just wanted to say I disagree and I think he's potentially significant.

Darren Aronofsky
Alfred Hitchcock
Martin Scorsese

>People regurgitating long lists of the same directors over and over
>no one says Haneke

>Aronofsky

eat a fucking dick.

>>2316486

shit yeah son

dat seventh continent

>>2316486
Benny's Video>Funny Games>Time of the Wolf>Caché>Funny Games US>Code Unknown>Seventh Continent>71 Fragments>Pianiste>White Ribbon

Kobayashi, Bertolucci, Altman, Lang, Kubrick

>>2316515

no no no no no no. no. no, no. no. no.

I just know this thread is going to get 200x more replies than any literature related thread.

>>2316516
fuck forgot altman

how good was the long goodbye

srsly

Bergman, Fellini, Cassavetes, some Antonioni, some Tarkovsky.

>>2316535

i like when the dude lights a match off the freezer cases at the grocery store

3 women is amazing altman but i may be a little biased b/c shelley duvall <3

started watching quintet last night but was on nyquil for a cold and it broke my brain

This thread makes me exhausted just to think about it.

Think about this: there is no other place on earth other than on places like here (4chan) where people post lists of favourite things and then throw shit at one another for it. Of course, I dislike a lot of the directors chosen here, and I love a bunch of others. So I have three choices:

- List my favourite directos and not give a fuck. But then, what's the point? Everyone posts, no one reads. We end up not learning or enjoying anything.

- Talk shit about the hacks posted here and say "OMG I LUV THAT GUY" about those I like. Again, what's the point? I don't want to get trapped in a discussion like "your tastes suck" "no you" "oh you don't know shit about film" "no you", etc.

- Talk about ALL of them. Which is not realistic. I can't choose one of them to talk about deeper because that is against my nature, it's like I'm ignoring other greats or ignoring a bad one I have something to say about, and that is hard to do.

As I said, only here this type of things happends. In real life, people will either ask one on one about favourite directors, or come up with a director and ask for recommendations on similar things, etc.

Fuck, I'll go against what I said in the last item and cite Orson Welles. And then I raise you this interview at the point he talks about meeting Hemmingway, just to keep it /lit/ related (re/lit/ed?):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VVlukLi32vs#t=905s

The entire interview is great though, I recommend it.

Kubrick, Altman, Aronovsky it sure is pleb tuesday

>>2316559

we don't use that word here

.

>>2316524
>I just know this thread is going to get 200x more replies than any literature related thread.
We're talking about great artists, auteurs
Film scripts belong on /lit/ just like theatre plays

>>2316594
We are not talking about scripts though.

>>2316594
But they don't, though.

>>2316594
except you're not talking about scripts, you're talking about directors and movies.

Oh hurr durr, I guess video games are now literature because they have words in them.

Music is also literature because they have lyrics.

Cars are now literature because they come with manuals.

Facebook is now literature because statuses have words.

Animated gifs are now literature because they're from television shows and movies which came from scripts.

Porn is now literature because they have scripts.

>>2316557
>2003
>comparing IRL to internet

>>2316610

what a bad goddamn post

Cinema is pleb tier.

>>2316610
post-modernism

>>2316615
Why is my asshole like a writing desk?

De Sica

and instead of whining about how this isn't /lit related why don't you MAKE it lit related by stating which director you would trust to make a film based on your favourite book that hasn't yet been adapted.

Sorry OP. I just suggested hijacking your thread.

>>2316621
because it always produces shit?

>>2316594
>>2316594
Stop talking please

> mfw no mention of Dreyer

http://rateyourmusic.com/film_collection/AntiWarhol/r5.0

>>2316755
>thai/korean cinema

taste invalidated

that pic and this thread are posted all the time

>mfw this thread is annoyingly repetitive and fruitless
>mfw i have no face

I'm not too well versed in film, but I love Hitchcock.

sage for not literature related.

Brian De Palma. Not even kidding either.

Bay, Bruckheimer, Cameron, Spielberg.

Shinya Tsukamoto
Takashi Miike
Takashi Shimizu
Kubrick
Jarmusch
Cronenberg
Lynch
Polanski
Hitchcock
Von Trier

Working today we have people like Zack Snyder, who is a great visionary, truly pushing the boundaries of visual movie making, blending green screen with CGI and going for a great videogame feel.

Pic is my favourite watchman

Kubrick, Van Sant, and Arronofsky.

>>2317064
What do you guys reccomend? I really like Elephant, Pi, and A Clockwork Orange.

>name-dropping all over the fucking place
>this fuckin thread
You should be talking about good films, not directors.

>>2317073
But the copypasta asked for directors. We're just following instructions here.

Good films would be better, at least the thread would go places rather then the same people dropping their same favorite directors.

>>2317086
plus individual directors is kinda more fitting when discussing film

each film is like an entry in a poetry collection rather than just a single standalone work

imo anyway

disappointingly pleb taste, /lit/. This is babby's first art directors: the thread

Films it is, then.

I'm not sure how you guys feel about Japanese film, but Shinya Tsukamoto's "Vital" is one of my favourites. It's about a med-school student who inadvertently kills his girlfriend in a car crash, and his struggle when she ends up on the dissecting table in his classes. I won't spoil any more, but you should watch it.

>>2317105
>pleb

/mu/, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

>films

>>2316760

>Sang-soo Hong
>Apichatpong Weerasethakul
>taste invalidated

uh, no. Weerasethakul in particular is one of the most significant directors of this century.

>>2317103
>each film is like an entry in a poetry collection rather than just a single standalone work

I disagree with this. Yeah, saying you like a director says more about you than going for a particular film, but films stand alone just as much as books.

Also, to judge directors you have to learn what they did to the movie. Movies can be good or bad for a variety of reasons, just like good actors had bad roles and bad actors had good roles.

I love Blade Runner, is definitely one of my favourite films, but I don't think Scott is a great director. I hate John Ford movies, but I think he is a suberb director.

bob le flambeur is a perfect crime film.

la voie lactee is one of the few surrealist works than isn't shit.

chris marker is cool as balls.

>>2317105
I like when people do this but don't list any of their favorite directors since they don't actually watch films but read articles about films instead.

Russ Meyer
John Waters
Roger Corman

>>2317067
bump

Mekas, Akerman and Brakhage.

I see Lynch is the too-obvious/pleb answer here.

I love how this board is more appropriate than /tv/ for any discussion on good filmmakers.

Making such lists is an exercise in futility when you've aged more than 15 years. What person living in a modern society hasn't already been exposed to thousands of films by that point? Anyone able to form their own opinions, and who has good taste (therefore seeks out good cinema), would find themselves unable to come up with a definitive list.

Having said that, I highly recommend watching all the films by Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, two British filmmakers who have been making socially relevant films is in the verite style for decades. The only reason I mention them in particular is because recently I've been re-watching their entire libraries.

Also, seems awfully mainstream itt... and why hardly any mention of documentary filmmakers?

ALSO, sage for non-lit.

For some reason the italian neo-realist are missing.
Would add all of them to any list.

>>2317371

>What person living in a modern society hasn't already been exposed to thousands of films by that point?

Most people

A hipster.

>>2316336
Michael Bay, David Lynch, Tarintino, Goerge Lucas, the guy that did E.T and Uwe Boll.

John Huston, Orson Welles, Visconti

Just finished watching Last Tango in Paris. What did you guys think about it? I, honestly, didn't like it very much; despite the acting, which was great, and the sex scenes, which were fantastic (to fap to) it felt like a pretty bland, uninteresting movie. Let's talk about it, and Bertolluci in general.

Also, amazing trivia for those who don't know:

>According to Maria Schneider, the famous "butter scene" was never in the script and improvised at the last minute by Marlon Brando and Bernardo Bertolucci without consulting her. Though the sodomy act was faked, her real tears in the film clearly testify her state of shock.

>While filming, Bernardo Bertolucci tried to explain the point of the film to Marlon Brando, suggesting that his character was Bertolucci's "manhood" and that Maria Schneider's character was his "dream girl". Brando later maintained that he had absolutely no idea of what Bertolucci was suggesting or even talking about.

Let's add some newblood

*Sydney LUMET (12 angry men, masterfuckingpiece )
*Shane CARRUTH ( Primer, best movie evah, i even doubt /sci/ would understand it )
*David FINCHER ( 7 )
*Charlie CHAPLIN ( no one mentioned him wtf? )
*Terry GILLIAM ( monty python )
* Quentin Dupieux ( rubber, what a surprise )
* Armando Iannucci (in the loop + the thick of it )

plus the usual suspects (see what i did there? ;) aka tarentino, guy ritchie, (revolver!), cohen bros, kubrick, nolan, welles.. and then some
So there's new directors and some movies names, amidoinitrite?
pic related: find what the movie is!

>>2317909
I fucking loved how primer told the story, that unforgiving, No Quarter Given style should be more abundant. The characters themselves were shit.

>Also, seems awfully mainstream itt...

Spoken like a true hipster.

>>2317909
First of all, it's the Coen brothers, not Cohen brothers.

Secondly, if you think Revolver is a good movie, then I have some serious doubts about your taste in film

Jacques Tati, John Carpenter

Shit I don't know if I can trust you guys but I just copied a bunch of names and I will start downloading films tomorrow to enter in this dreamy world of film...

How fucked am I?

>>2317928
it would have nice if mr mathematician had resolved the paradox better than OMG THEY FAINT

>>2317119
>10 years into the century

lol someone wins a palm d'or and suddenly they're the second coming of welles

I had to think of my five favourite films the other day, and I was a bit surprised to realise that two of them were by Darren Aaronofsky, I didn't know I liked him so much.

I saw Melancholia recently, and I thought it was a return to form for von trier, but not everyone agreed with me.

Listen I'm going to say this right here. I don't believe in saying a director is shit or not, or badmouthing directors. It's useless and doesn't do anything.

I don't get mad at the director because someone is preaching to me about how my tastes are shit and that their directors are better, no I get mad at that person.

My whole view on it is that each director had a goal and set out to make the film they wanted, and you know what, I have a lot of respect for a director to be able to get whatever vision they wanted up on the screen, regardless if I liked the film or not. Filmmaking is a hard thing and to be able to bring all those elements together with other hardworking people demand a lot of respect.

My tastes in films are always changing but if I had to choose now, these would be the people in my opinion I love:

Kenji Mizoguchi
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Stanley Kubrick
The Coen Brothers.
Toshiaki Toyoda
Fritz Lang
V.I. Pudovkin
Sergei Einstein
Sam Fuller
G.W Pabst
Orson Welles
Max Ophuls(THOSE LONG TAKES)
David Lynch
Jean Pierre Melville
Steve Rodney Mcqueen(Pending, but fuck, best films I've seen so far this decade have come from this man)

NOTE: These are the directors I love, I'm not telling you they are the best.

Also on a last note, I don't like the idea of directors being compared as the next Kubrick, Spielberg, or whatever. Every director is himself and he or she should get recognition for that.

>>2319059
>Jacques Tati

FUCK YEAH INTERNET BROFIST
Mon Oncle is in my top five of all time

Billy Wilder + I.A.L Diamond / Raymond Chandler
Absolutely love the Wilder-Diamond writing duo--Some Like it Hot and The Apartment are two of my favorite films. Wilder and Chandler put out Double Indemnity, probably one of the great noirs out there.

Sweet Smell of Success has some pretty stylish dialogue as well, courtesy of Ernest Lehman, and rewritten by Cliff Odets.

Godard is pretty cool too. At least pre-May 1968 Godard. Basically, an intelligent cinephile. It's crazy to think he'd just write up the script for the day on the spot for Breathless. His film criticism is interesting and his writing style is very good.

Malick is another I like. Always starting and ending with invocations. Lots of introspection, lots of questions.

Tarantino, though "pleb" it is to like him, has some crazy ass but, what I find, hilarious ramblings. I like his films. Although they're barely substance, there's quite a lot of style to entertain.

Fei Mu
Tian Zhuangzhuang
Li Shaohong
Peter Chan
Lu Yue
Jia Zhangke
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Edward Yang
I-Chen Ko
Tsai Ming-liang
Yim Ho
Clarence Fok Yiu-leung
Wong Kar-wai
Stanley Kwan
Im Kwon-taek
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Yasujiro Ozu
Kenji Mizoguchi
Yasuzo Masumura
Nagisa Oshima
Shinsuke Ogawa
Juzo Itami
Takeshi Kitano
Seijun Suzuki
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Satyajit Ray
Ritwik Ghatak
Forugh Farrokhzad
Ebrahim Golestan
Parviz Kimiavi
Abbas Kiarostami
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Samira Makhmalbaf
Reza Mirkarimi
Marziyeh Meshkini
Jafar Panahi
Yaky Yosha
Amos Gitai
Ziad Doueiri
Youssef Chahine

>>2319744
ma nigga

>>2319744
>not a single westerner

can you be any more pretentious

>>2319744
lol

No one's mentioned Powell and Pressburger?
Some of my other favourites include Tarkovsky, Kieslowski, Haneke, de Sica, Hitchcock, Coen brothers.
I haven't yet watched any Nouvelle Vague, which I've been meaning to do for ages. Might start this weekend.
Also, is Bela Tarr worth watching? I'd like to practise my Hungarian..

Ctrl+F no Akira Kurasawa

/lit/ you disappoint me more than my son

>>2320890
It's spelt "Kurosawa", idiot.

>>2316456
>>2316400

>>2317875
this is how a real man looks like, boys

>>2320890
>>2320915
oh god, lol

JLG, Kubrick, Herzog, Hitchcock, Meadows, Larry Clark, and some movies of Tarantino(though not all)

Ken Loach is my #1
Also Dreyer, Kubrick, Ozu

>>2320931
>liking visconti
>a real man
Choose one

>>2322489
I'll pick both thank you

Ken Russell and Jacques Tourneur are great, great, great directors and I don't think they've been mentioned here.

Anyone who doubts that Paul Thomas Anderson is the greatest living artist, period, is in denial or will be proven HOPELESSLY wrong in a few years.

you couldn't just be pompous assbags about what fucking books you read you also have to put on airs about the movies you watch.

What a fucking circle jerk. no wonder why /lit/ gets labeled as pretentious.

>>2322472
what are your top 3 ken loach films?

>>2322650
1)Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
2)Dude Where's My Car?
3)The Nutty Professor 2

>>2322650
kes
land & freedom
my name is joe

>>2323935
kes is such a beautiful, loving, sad film. are those two anywhere near as great?

what did you think of family life?

i've only seen kes and family life

Orwells, I love citizen cane