/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11913522]

Post a film get a book recommendation

[Anonymous No.11913544]

film; rebels of the neon god

[Anonymous No.11914042]

>>11913522
really hoping to get some good book recommendations from this

[Anonymous No.11914112]

This is a tough one. No generic war memoirs.

[Anonymous No.11914133]

>>11913522
Unironically Hemingway

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[Anonymous No.11914149]

>>11913522
My favorite movie of all time

[Anonymous No.11914169]

A literary equivalent to this would be quite spicy

[Anonymous No.11914199]

>>11914169
That movie was inspired by Rene Daumal's Mount Analogue.

[Anonymous No.11914357]

>>11914199
Good to know. Is the ending similar?

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[Anonymous No.11914525]

>>11914042

Dhalgren
Finnegans Wake
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.11914575]

>>11913522
Tree of Life

[Anonymous No.11914578]

>>11913522
fallen angels

[Anonymous No.11914600]

Any Eric Rohmer

[Anonymous No.11914613]

>>11913522
Dream of Red Chambers by Cao Xueqin, Edward Yang's films clearly drew inspiration from that novel. By that same token, watch his film "A Brighter Summer Day." It's one of the best movies I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.11914728]

(Other than the book it is adapted from)

[Anonymous No.11914738]

>>11913522
Where the Wild Things Are
>>11914042
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
>>11914112
Charlotte's Web
>>11914133
Goodnight Moon
>>11914144
The Giving Tree
>>11914149
The Cat in the Hat
>>11914169
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
>>11914199
Green Eggs and Ham
>>11914368
A Wrinkle in Time
>>11914575
Where the Sidewalk Ends
>>11914578
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
>>11914728
Matilda

[Anonymous No.11914794]

>>11913522
>>11913544
Taiwanese kino

Hou hsiao hsien is still better tho

[Anonymous No.11914805]

[Anonymous No.11914815]

Hard mode: no Mishima.

[Anonymous No.11914831]

>>11914728
Are Germanbros as rare around you as they are around me? I don't even bring him up because I've only heard one person mention him

[Anonymous No.11914841]

>>11913522
Awesome movie, I felt tears run down my face when the kid reads at the end. Great cinematography too, and overall a really touching story. I don't know anything too similar but Kokoro by Soseki and The Setting Sun by Dazai come to mind. Both are much more bleak however, but they do deal with some of the same stuff thematically

[Anonymous No.11914912]

this masterpiece right here

[Anonymous No.11914923]

bump

[Anonymous No.11914927]

>>11914912
I have mixed feeling son this. It never did anything for me but my hometown is featured in the movie

[Anonymous No.11915056]

Help me with this /lit/, non-fiction recommendation would be awesome too.

[Anonymous No.11915059]

>>11915056
This and The Look of Silence absolutely BTFO’s Dosto and Raskolnikov.

[Anonymous No.11915079]

>>11914112
The True Story of Ah Q. Not on a war theme, but IMO the sardonic tone of that film is straight out of Lu Xun's work.

[Anonymous No.11915084]

>>11914613
>By that same token, watch his film "A Brighter Summer Day." It's one of the best movies I've ever seen
This is correct. Also The Terrorizers.

[Anonymous No.11915085]

>>11914805
Throne of Games

[Anonymous No.11915109]

>>11914112
...oh, and Catch-22, obviously.

[Anonymous No.11915119]

>>11914831
Yup. It’s a lonely world for a Germanbro.

[Anonymous No.11915181]

I really like cult-related stuff

[Anonymous No.11915183]

>>11915181
Death in Venice. Also Dream Novella kinda sucks.

[Anonymous No.11915204]

[Anonymous No.11915281]

Hardmode: Can't pick Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates or anything about Jeffrey Dahmer.

[Anonymous No.11915364]

>>11914368
that part where the movie just breaks into a cool polka marching band man oh man I bloody love it

[Anonymous No.11915367]

>>11915056
>>11915059
not to brag ok to brag a bit I actually met Joshua Oppenheimer at a film festival (got his autograph) and I couldn't help but spaghetti myself

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[Anonymous No.11915379]

>>11913522
How is Yi Yi? Been meaning to watch that and Brighter Summer Day.

[Anonymous No.11915396]

>>11915281
this looks well gay

[Anonymous No.11915397]

>>11915379

Watch both, 2 of the best movies to come out from asia hands down.

Shame he died and never made another movie after yi yi.

It's hard to imagine a movie from any society capturing its youth so perfectly at a particular time and place like Brighter summer day did btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7PVWziS-1w

[Anonymous No.11915409]

>>11915181
Crowley’s Book of Lies
>>11915204
Heidegger’s Being and Time

[Anonymous No.11915424]

>>11915397
Yeah, I heard Edward Yang died old. We currently only have Yi Yi and Brighter Summer Day available in the UK thanks to Criterion but I hope they manage to acquire some more of his films because they do sound engaging.

I definitely plan on watching them both sometime, I just need to find the time to watch them as they're both a little longer than I can fit into my schedule at the moment.

[Anonymous No.11915431]

>>11915379
Both brilliant. His other stuff is great too, in a different vein.

[Anonymous No.11915443]

>>11915424
* young, not old, I dunno why I typed Old

[Anonymous No.11915449]

Please recommend me books similar to Life is Sweet.

If you haven't seen it, then it's a sort of gentle comedy about a dysfunctional family: a father who's a chef who wants to open a snack truck (popular in the UK); a mother who's a dance teacher; an older daughter who has a plumbing apprenticeship and a younger sister who doesn't do anything other than spouts political buzzwords, suffers from depression and bulimia (and has gross sex with a skinny shit from the neighbourhood).

The further the film goes along, the more uncomfortable it gets. The younger sister reveals more about her depression, her mother expresses grave concern but also anger that her youngest daughter doesn't appreciate the sacrifices that the mother and father have had to make to have children; a family friend opening up a disgusting restaurant fails on his opening day and becomes publicly drunk and violently harassing; the father breaks his leg; etc etc. If you haven't watch a Mike Leigh film, this is a good place to start.

[Anonymous No.11915479]

>>11914794
>Hou hsiao hsien is still better tho
Yes. but he has never done anything as good as A Brighter Summer Day.

[Anonymous No.11915482]

>>11915396
Other horror movies released the same year (2009):
>13B: Fear Has a New Address, 9 Miles Down, After.Life, Agyaat, Albino Farm, Amer, Anacondas: Trail of Blood, The Angels' Melancholia, Antichrist, Blood: The Last Vampire, Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet, Book of Blood, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, Carriers, Case 39, Chain Letter, Children of the Corn, The Collector, Crush, Deadline, Dead Snow, The Descent: Part 2, The Devil’s Tomb, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Doghouse, Don't Look Back, Drag Me to Hell, Dread, Evil Things, Fear Island, The Final Destination, Forget Me Not, The Fourth Kind, Friday the 13th, Giallo, Grace, Grotesque, The Grudge 3, Halloween II, The Haunting, The Haunting in Connecticut , Heartless, High Lane, The Hills Run Red, Hit and Run, Homecoming, The Horde, The House of the Devil, The Human Centipede (First Sequence), Infestation, It's Alive, Jennifer’s Body, Kill Theory, King of Thorn, Laid to Rest, The Last House of the Left, The Last Resort, Lesbian Vampire Killers, Lo, The Lodger, Macabre II, Malibu Shark Attack, The Meatgrinder, My Bloody Valentine, My Super Psycho Sweet 16, Necromentia, The New Daughter, Night of the Demons, Night Train, Not Forgotten, Offspring, Orphan, Pandorum, Penance, Perkins' 14, Phobia 2, Porn Star Zombies, [REC] 2, Red Sands, The Revenant, Run! Bitch Run!, Saw VI, Smash Cut, Sorority Row, Spirit Camp, Splice, Stan Helsing, Summer's Moon, Survival of the Dead, Tell Tale, The Thaw, Thirst, Tormented, Trash Humpers, The Unborn, The Uninvited, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, Wake Wood, Walled In, Whiteout, Wolvesbayne, ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, Zombieland
+ another 700 shitty movies I'm not adding. Exactly THREE of these are on par with The Loved Ones.

[Anonymous No.11915504]

>>11915482
the only good one there is antichrist

[Anonymous No.11915525]

>>11915504
Well, really The Loved Ones was the best movie to come out of that year, but I say on par so as not to discount pleasant surprises like Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, the second best disco horror to be made. Also it had a great intro.

[Anonymous No.11915529]

>>11914169
The Vorrh

[Anonymous No.11915543]

Which poet most closely resemblesbles Brakhage stylistically either in regard to his painted film stuff or dog star man

[Anonymous No.11915593]

Anything with unicorns in it that's good, thank you.

[Anonymous No.11915602]

>>11915593
Michael Morpurgo's I Believe In Unicorns if you're up for a drama about a boy's experience in war-torn Europe with the only escape being discovering books and stories about unicorns. More along the lines like War Horse rather than fantasy wizards and shit so maybe it's not exactly what you want but it's pretty good

[Anonymous No.11915618]

surrealist horror

[Anonymous No.11915621]

>>11915543
Eugene Gomringer

[Anonymous No.11915629]

>>11914575
Rilke - Book of Hours

[Anonymous No.11915632]

>>11915618
A Night of Serious Drinking by René Daumal.

[Anonymous No.11915637]

>>11915618
Deep Red > Suspiria (both great though)

ok you might really like House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson. I'd imagine if it was adapted into a film it'd be just as colourful as Suspiria. It's a vibrant, weird tale that cuts the fucking breaks halfway through and doesn't stop. It really surprised me how far that book took it to try and weird out the reader. It's also very short too so you could finish it in a weekend.

(also have you seen the Suspiria remake? Is it good?)

[Anonymous No.11915709]

>>11914357
The book is unfinished iirc

[Anonymous No.11915753]

>>11915424
There’s rips of Taipei Story and The Terrorizers

[Anonymous No.11915760]

[Anonymous No.11916477]

>>11915204
Simulacra and simulation

[Anonymous No.11916561]

[Anonymous No.11916597]

Inb4 Donnie Darko

[Anonymous No.11916632]

I don’t watch movies and I refuse to go to /tv/ pls suggest some like this

[Anonymous No.11916634]

>>11916632
dispatches by herr obviousy

[Anonymous No.11916649]

>>11916597
This is my dad's favorite movie. You'd probably like James Thurber, Library of America has a good edition of his works.

[Anonymous No.11917339]

Any rec based on Has' works is sufficient.

[Anonymous No.11917433]

>>11916597
Based anon, Jimmy Stewart is one of my favourite actors and Harvey is wonderful.

[Anonymous No.11917447]

>>11917339
Never see anyone mention Has. Can you tell me what The Hourglass Sanatorium means because I've seen it three times and it always leaves me dumbfounded.

[Anonymous No.11917606]

>>11914112
Is this film worth watching or is it highly rated because it's an "important" film?

[Anonymous No.11917650]

[Anonymous No.11917659]

>>11914042
Atrocity Exhibition

[Anonymous No.11917665]

>>11917650
Literal kino

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[Anonymous No.11917713]

>>11915056
Great taste.

[Anonymous No.11917752]

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[Anonymous No.11918938]

>>11917752
Already a book

[Anonymous No.11918941]

>>11917770
movie fuckin sucks so probably harry potter if you like magic so much you stupid bitch

[Anonymous No.11918954]

>>11915397
>when that one kid recorded a tape telling the protagonist Elvis sent him a ring.
Truly moving, I need to watch this movie again

[Anonymous No.11918957]

Inb4 read the book. It's a completely different story from what I've heard.

[Anonymous No.11918965]

>>11918957
movie fuckin sucks so probably the handmaids tale if you like shitty dystopian fiction you stupid bitch

[Anonymous No.11919044]

>>11916561
>>11917676
bump for these

[Anonymous No.11919049]

>>11917676
Stoner

[Anonymous No.11919050]

>>11918965
That movie is excellent, shut the fuck up you tasteless sparrowfart.

[Anonymous No.11919164]

Really want to read something similar to my favorite movie <3

[Anonymous No.11919180]

>>11916649
I wasn't expecting any replies, thanks.
>>11917433
Its a great film. The old women were on point too.

[Anonymous No.11919203]

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[Anonymous No.11919206]

>>11914133
better never to have been

[Anonymous No.11919217]

>>11914600
Unironically John Green

[Anonymous No.11919226]

[Anonymous No.11919251]

>>11919203
I have an inkling you would like Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

[Anonymous No.11919253]

>>11916632
the short timers

[Anonymous No.11919262]

>>11919206
Visions of Excess by Bataille. That's all I could think of when I saw Akerman's masterpiece.

Also watched the Bresson last night because of this thread. Definitely not my favorite by him, but still good.

[Anonymous No.11919288]

>>11919206
I watched that movie last weekend. It definitely is a great work of art, but I felt it was too cold on the treatment of its subject. Too clinical. Grand filmmaking though, not quite like anything I had seen before and very clear on its ideas. Do you recommend anything else from Akerman? This was my first by her.

[Anonymous No.11919323]

>>11919251
oh gee oh my, thats a grand suggestion friend

[Anonymous No.11919613]

>>11919288
Yes, it's definitely clinical, cold, mechanical, objective, etc. That's exactly "it", that's the entire movie. It wasn't "too cold", because the subject is the coldness itself. It's a metaphyiscal depiction of life, in that it reduces all meaning to math, patterns, and determinism. A lot of people derive feminist understanding from it, but I don't think it applies as much, because it's not so as much about "her" as it is about "us" and humanity at large - forms trapped in a box. You don't have to enjoy all of that, but you may have a hard time liking her other films if you're not too interested on how direct/structural she is. I've also seen La Chambre, Hotel Monterey, News from Home, D'est, and Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles, of which the first 4 are a sort of progression of radical structural films that go from her small NY room, to a bigger room in NY, to the streets of NY, to a country that is a proposed opposite of NY. I enjoyed all minus News from Home because it's the one that allows the least personal interjection out of including a context of independence via letters that her mother sends her, which she reads out-loud as she slowly ventures more and more into the city. Portrait is apparently really beloved by those who see it, but I found it to be just an alright/traditional coming-of-age movie of youth in 60s France. I say give her another go with D'est.
>>11919262
Super! This seems interesting, thanks. Only read Story of the Eye, which I mostly did out of duty for the "trangressive" canon. I didn't get much out of it, but his non-fiction stuff entices me still.
You mean The Devil, Probably? What did you make of it? I saw it months ago, and I felt like it's one of those movies that just surpassed me. I answered the guy because no one else had, and really I only grasped on to the few things I gathered (young man seeking answers to existence via religion/political movements finds himself at face with the "truth" mass death is inevitable destiny, therefore suicide must also be). Coincidentally I also saw a Bresson last night - A Man Escaped. By far the one I've liked the most.

[Anonymous No.11919638]

[Anonymous No.11919731]

>>11919226
Big bump just watched it. Breathtaking but also very confusing.

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[Anonymous No.11919787]

>>11919638
>>11919638
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>>11919638
Well?! Will anyone give me a suggestion?

[Anonymous No.11919809]

>>11919288
>>11919613
Seconding D'est
Also, the lack of critical attention that No Home Movie recieved shocked me, that film will break your heart

[Anonymous No.11919815]

Imagine if we had an actual film board

[Anonymous No.11919861]

>>11914042
Less Than Zero

[Anonymous No.11919867]

>>11915281
fuck this movie sucked

[Anonymous No.11919913]

>>11917713
Well I'm an Indonesian diaspora and the movie is not that uncommon within the community, only watched it because I saw Herzog talked about it in an interview.

[Anonymous No.11919948]

I know it's a book adaptation in the first place but any others?

[Anonymous No.11919958]

>>11919815
>he doesn't like /tv/

[Anonymous No.11919991]

>>11917606
It's pretty long but a good film it's mostly surreal and a dark comedy at times especially in the second half

[Anonymous No.11919998]

>>11914575
Nothing can compare to this film

[Anonymous No.11920010]

>>11917606
It's a really good, entertaining film. I don't think it's particularly 'important' and I'm not sure where you'd get that idea from.

>>11914112
Jiang Wen is great. See also In The Heat of the Sun and The Sun Also Rises (nothing to do with Hemmmingway)

[Anonymous No.11920096]

>>11915449
bumping because i'd really like a recc based on Life is Sweet please anons help me here

[Anonymous No.11920100]

>>11919815
yeah it's a shame we don't have a real film board but i'm glad /tv/ got deleted what a cesspit

[Anonymous No.11920108]

>>11919180
Yeah, I remember thinking the sister of James Stewart in that film was hilarious. Loved the cynical orderly too.

I watched Anatomy of a Murder recently and Jimmy was great in that too, loved the parts where he just started playing some jazz record and someone asked him "should lawyers really listen to this kind of thing" and he just responds that it's what he likes. Impossible to not be charmed by that guy.

[Anonymous No.11920114]

>>11918965
You're a fucking idiot, Children of Men is brilliant.

[Anonymous No.11920115]

>>11914738
>Evil Dead
>Not Witches

[Anonymous No.11920118]

>>11919206
god I hope this film comes out in the UK now Criterion is doing there thing over here

[Anonymous No.11920122]

>>11916597
Fight Club

[Anonymous No.11920127]

>>11919164
Enjoy ;-)

[Anonymous No.11920130]

>>11919638
>>11919787

[Anonymous No.11920237]

>>11919948
The book of disquiet, Fernando Pessoa

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[Anonymous No.11920333]

basically anything about eastern European jews facing hard times and/or facing changing times

God, I love Topol in this movie.