/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3185772]

My favorite directors are Godard, Tarkovsky, Bergman, Antonioni, Resnais, Melville, Fellini, Malle and Bresson.

Who are yours?

[Anonymous No.3185774]

Woody Allen :)

[Anonymous No.3185777]

>directors
>/lit/

am I missing something here?

[Anonymous No.3185778]

>>3185777
it's just sad existences trying to feel patrician, nothing to see here

[Anonymous No.3185779]

>>3185777
There have been some great cinema threads here.

[Bullkowski !!DDFKjfJhPl/ No.3185780]

Wiseau.

[Anonymous No.3185789]

>>3185777
/lit/ is probably the best board for discussing television and film
>>3185772
I've seen this image and this text before

anyway, the trinity for me is Hitchcock Kurosawa and Fellini

[Anonymous No.3185793]

>>3185780
oh, hi mark

[Anonymous No.3185796]

>>3185777

>being this new

[Anonymous No.3185798]

This copypasta has been posted on /tv/ everyday for the past 2 years.

Don't ask why.

[Anonymous No.3185803]

>>3185772
this list is pretty fucking entry level

pleb

[Anonymous No.3185805]

>>3185789
>Hitchcock
>Not Bergman

pleb.

[Rei !p8eYCadcMo No.3185806]

Kubrick

Kubrick

Kubrick

Kubrick

Kubrick

[Anonymous No.3185823]

Altman, Buneul and Melville

[Anonymous No.3185880]

Tao Lin
Megan Boyle

[Anonymous No.3185891]

Griffith, Kon, Coen Bros. Kurosawa and Hideaki Anno

[Anonymous No.3185893]

De Sica, Germi, Kurosawa, Malick, Herzog, Kaufman, Godard, Reggio

>>3185803
>Hurr I masturbate to Wavelength

[Anonymous No.3185908]

I know this is a copypasta but I don't know why it gets people riled up, those are genuinely good directors.

It's the external baggage isn't it.
It's the sense of undeserved self-accomplishment when somebody thinks recognising them as a serious filmmakers makes better isn't it.
It's the wearing of clothes that don't match but fuck it I don't care i'm being ironic attitude isn't it.
I wish I was Godard.
I think Anna Karina is hot.
I would definitely fuck Anna Karina.

[Anonymous No.3185916]

>>3185893

Also Kiarostami and Abdel-Salam

[Anonymous No.3185922]

>>3185908
>I think Anna Karina is hot.
>I would definitely fuck Anna Karina.

Thing about hot actresses in old movies... they're all either gross looking or dead nowadays.

[Anonymous No.3185948]

>>3185922
>Anna Karina
She's not that old.

[Anonymous No.3185957]

>>3185948
>72
Welp

[Anonymous No.3185959]

>>3185922
>Not wanting to fuck Greta Garbo.
You're the strange one here.
Pic related, it's Greta Garbo in a cage with a fucking lion.

[Anonymous No.3185964]

>>3185948

She's 72 bro. Le Petit Soldat, Bande à part, etc. are like 50 years old.

[Anonymous No.3185965]

>>3185964
>72
Again, not that old.

72 is not corpse tier.
I would still do her.

[Anonymous No.3185972]

>>3185965

Come give me a kiss big boy

[Anonymous No.3185976]

>>3185965
>>3185964
Holy shit this is like some sort of bizarro world /tv/ waifu thread

quick, someone post pictures of barbara bel geddes's feet

[Anonymous No.3186034]

>>3185922
Grace Slick

I seriously do not want to know what she looks like now.

[Anonymous No.3186040]

>>3185806
Fuck yeah Kubrick!

[Anonymous No.3186041]

>>3186034

[Anonymous No.3186064]

Wim Wenders, Whit Stillman, James Ivory, James Cameron.

[Anonymous No.3186120]

Wong Kar-Wai

[Anonymous No.3186133]

>>3185772
Bergman, Kurosawa, Wilder, Murnau, Fellini.

[Anonymous No.3186134]

>>3185806
I agree.

[Anonymous No.3186145]

>>3186120

I really like Wong Kar Wai but the that i've seen are all pretty similar. I have a hard time telling Chungking Express, Fallen Angels and Days of Being Wild (the three i've seen) apart in my memory. Chungking Express and Days of Being Wild were originally supposed to be part of the same film. Though this wouldn't stop me from saying he's a genuinely charming film-maker who makes romantic stories without the melodrama.

He reminds me of Murakami too. Themes of alienation, western/eastern culture blending together, unrealised love, mishaped youth and the focus on the small, almost insignificant moments, in crowded urban areas, reference to the metaphysical (space and time) seem prominent in both their work.

[Anonymous No.3186149]

Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Lars Von Trier, Darren Aronofsky, Andrei Tarkovsky, Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, Francis Ford Coppola

And more recent for me Nicholas Winding Refn, P.T. Anderson, Harmony Korine

[Anonymous No.3186157]

>>3186120

I really like Wong Kar Wai but films that i've seen are all pretty similar. I have a hard time telling Chungking Express, Fallen Angels and Days of Being Wild (the three i've seen) apart in my memory at times. Chungking Express and Days of Being Wild were originally supposed to be part of the same film IIRC. Though this wouldn't stop me from saying he's a good film-maker who makes charming stories about love (both romantic and kinship) without the melodrama.

He reminds me of Murakami too. Themes of alienation, western/eastern culture blending together, unrealised love, misshaped youth, the focus on the small almost insignificant moments in crowded urban areas and references to the metaphysical (space and time) seem prominent in both their work.

[Anonymous No.3186177]

>>3186149
>Tarantino
>Refn
>liking a thief and style-over-substance

Tsk, tsk.

[Anonymous No.3186198]

>>3186177

I'm quite a cynic of Tarantino but he does put a film together really, really well despite him being far too fond of pastiche. The main issue with his films is that there's no point to them. They don't actually stand for anything. They are as hollow as any formulaic major blockbuster movie they are supposedly the antithesis of. Post-JB at least.

Inb4 but they're supposed fun or something.

[Anonymous No.3186203]

>>3186177
Not that guy, but I've always prefereed style-over-substance to substance with no style. They're both equally vapid but one's entertaining and visually enticing whilst the other is masturbation (and alas not your own.)

Style and substance together is ideal of course.

[Anonymous No.3186208]

OP, GET THE FUCK OUT.

http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/?task=search&ghost=yes&search_text=Godard%2C+Tarkovsky%2C+Bergma
n

[Anonymous No.3186213]

Satyajit Ray, Peter Greenaway, Ross McElwee, Chris Marker, Víctor Erice, Mikio Naruse, Jacques Rivette, Allan King, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Kazuo Hara, Claire Denis, Wang Bing, John Cassavetes, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jonas Mekas, Frederick Wiseman

[Anonymous No.3186216]

>>3186208
This ones better. It has 18 of them:

http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/?task=search&ghost=yes&search_text=My+favorite+directors+are+God
ard%2C+Tarkovsky%2C+Bergman%2C+Antonioni%2C+Resnais%2C+Melville%2C+Fellini%2C+Malle+and+Bresson.

[Anonymous No.3186222]

ITT : People trying to sound cultivate

[Anonymous No.3186226]

>>3186208
>>3186216

Are you both retarded or just extremely new? This thread opening is established as a good starting point for actual movie discussions because /tv/ fails at that and they just keep on posting copypasta that leads nowhere whereas on /lit/ this threads get busy.

[Anonymous No.3186228]

>>3186203
Style-over-substance is only ideal if it's surrealistic/experimental or documentative [like Koyaanisqatsi, or any in that trilogy]. If the movie is story-driven, I consider it bad that the movie has to depend upon its visuals for its appeal rather than putting forth something compelling.

But, yes, style AND substance are what should be striven for.

[Anonymous No.3186233]

>>3186198
I will give Tarantino credit for putting together films well; same with directing. However, he lifts so much from other movies I can't grade him higher because it's regurgitation and lazy.

[Anonymous No.3186237]

>>3185772

Firstly, why do the trees have no shadows yet the people do? Secondly, which Spielberg movie is that from again?

[Anonymous No.3186238]

Wes Anderson, Woody Allen, Mike Leigh

>Implying someone can make those inspiring characters with a name that does not start with w.

also tao lin

[Anonymous No.3186243]

>>3186237
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Year_at_Marienbad

[Anonymous No.3186245]

Tarantino, Chan-wook Park hurr durr

[Anonymous No.3186250]

>>3186157
>IIRC

You don't remember correctly.

Fallen Angels is a spiritual sequel to Chungking Express.

Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love, and 2046 are all part of a loose trilogy of sorts.

[Anonymous No.3186251]

>>3186226
Why have you been spamming this same thread, with the directors listed in the same order, with the same picture for years?

[Anonymous No.3186260]

>>3186251

Did you just seriously imply I'm OP and that there's only one person who makes these threads? Wow, you really are retarded.

[Anonymous No.3186269]

>>3185772
ITT entry level everything.

[Anonymous No.3186271]

Does anyone have a chart or website or some shit for director/movie recommendations?

[Anonymous No.3186279]

>>3186271

[Anonymous No.3186282]

>>3186260
Get the fuck out, you weirdo. Why would you continually post this same thread? It's creepy as shit. This is the wrong board for it anyway, but you probably post it on other boards too.

How many more threads do you routinely Ctrl+V here?

[Anonymous No.3186284]

>>3186279
Is this enough to become a patrician?

Where do you recommend I find these?

[Anonymous No.3186288]

>>3185798
i've posted this thread as well a couple times to /lit/

your advice is correct, not even i could tell you why i did it, it just felt right

[Anonymous No.3186289]

>>3186279
>Warhol
>level 5
Apparently sleeping and giving/getting head are 2deep4u

[Anonymous No.3186295]

>>3186228
> Koyaanisqatsi style over substance

[Anonymous No.3186298]

>>3186282

[Anonymous No.3186299]

>>3186284
That's not a recommendation chart, that's just a depth chart.

Here's some entry level art house essentials though.

[Anonymous No.3186301]

>mfw no kieslowski

dat dekalog

[Anonymous No.3186303]

>>3186295
Yeah, I said it. Any substance you derive from it is purely projected.

[Anonymous No.3186306]

>>3186213
>Greenaway
>Marker
>Dreyer

This nigger be my nigger

[Anonymous No.3186308]

>>3186299
why is it most well known films for most directors but wild at heart for lynch?

[Anonymous No.3186315]

>>3186308
I think it's assuming that you've already seen Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive and stuff.

[Anonymous No.3186362]

>>3186279

Most of the best stuff is concentrated around "level three" and toward "four". Past that point, most of it is either pure wankery (Warhol) or stuff significant for being experimental, but not necessarily a good viewing experience or worth spending much time on unless you're studying film (Snow, Brakhage, etc.)

[Anonymous No.3186379]

>>3186362

What do you think of Courant?

[Anonymous No.3186383]

Is Bordwell's Film Art: An Introduction a good book on film critique? If not, can someone recommend me something?

[Anonymous No.3186386]

>>3186279
>Refn and Malick on level 3
>implying they're not level 1-2
>Kubrick and Cronenberg nearing 3

This list; god, it needs some fixing.

[Anonymous No.3186395]

Rowling, Rand, Collins, Meyer, Martin.

Oh wait, those aren't directors they're authors. I forgot what board I was on.

[Anonymous No.3186400]

>>3186395

someone is mad that he has no knowledge of film

hide the thread if it makes you this uncomfortable

[Anonymous No.3186407]

>>3186379

I dunno. Cinématon is an interesting idea, I guess, but I don't really know how to assess it beyond that. I'm just a casual movie watcher myself.

[Anonymous No.3186418]

Stanley Kubrick
Paul Thomas Anderson
Max Ophuls
Powell & Pressburger

[Anonymous No.3186419]

>>3186386

Refn might be 2, but Malick on level 1-2? Surely you aren't that out of touch with the average moviegoer.

[Anonymous No.3186431]

>>3186418

>Powell & Pressburger

i like you

[Anonymous No.3186432]

>>3186383
I hate Bordwell so much, even just his general film books. I dislike him and the other post-theorists so much.

[Anonymous No.3186434]

>>3186400
>no knowledge of film
Or literature.

[Anonymous No.3186440]

>>3186432
So, uh, who do I read then to learn about film?

[Anonymous No.3186442]

woody allen, stanley kubrick, marcel carne are my three favorites.

i like pessimistic yet somehow life affirming movies with relatively interesting cinematography and realistic love stories.

antonioni and kurosawa are a couple other favorites. and i'll admit i like tarantino movies.

[Anonymous No.3186444]

>>3186395
4/10

combining rand and martin was a little too obvious, should have left it at either sci fi or rand for a better troll

[Anonymous No.3186457]

I prefer listing movies, not directors.

[Anonymous No.3186460]

Kubrick, Cuaron, Lean, Herzog, Boyle, Tarantino, Fellini, Resnais, Aronofsky.

[Anonymous No.3186478]

>>3186457

I bet you list songs instead of artists as well, huh, pleb?

[Anonymous No.3186487]

>>3186478
No, I list albums.

[Anonymous No.3186492]

James Incandenza

[Anonymous No.3186494]

Every time, every fucking time this thread works

You guys need to lurk the fuck more and not get trolled by babby's first troll thread

[Anonymous No.3186505]

>>3186494
have you considered that some are either counter-trolling or hopping on the troll-wagon to piss off people like you by pretending to take it seriously

[Anonymous No.3186513]

>>3186494
>>3186505

Some of us like to see others' taste in things, unironically. This is an ancient copypasta and it always goes off reasonably well.

[Anonymous No.3186527]

Kubrick, Jarmusch, Lynch

[Anonymous No.3186541]

The sad thing is you can post this on /tv/ and nobody would know who those guys are

[Anonymous No.3186542]

>>3186541
truer words have never been spoken.

[Anonymous No.3186543]

>>3186494

>Every time, every fucking time this thread works

People chat casually in it and then it goes away. It doesn't "work", we just don't really give a fuck. This is only 4chan.

[Anonymous No.3186550]

>>3186492

'Blood Sister: One Tough Nun' is in my top 5 films.

[Anonymous No.3186556]

I am so incredibly uneducated when it comes to films

Thank you for the recommendations

[Anonymous No.3186565]

>>3186541
/tv/ isn't about film. It's about "waifus".

I wish it was different.

As for directors, I like Ford, Bergman, and Truffaut.

[Anonymous No.3186574]

>>3186565

Waifus and Breaking Bad

Bergman, Allen, Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, The In the Mood for Love guy

[Anonymous No.3186588]

holy shit I love everyone here. What would I do without you?

[Anonymous No.3186592]

>>3185823
>>3185772
>Melville

AWWWWWHHHH YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH MOTHERFUCKERS.

I like Fritz Lang, Melville, and Kubrick a lot. Not sure is Laughton counts because he only made one film.

[Anonymous No.3186597]

>>3186592
but it was a great film

[Anonymous No.3186606]

watching movies alone makes me feel so lonely and i don't know why exactly ;_;

[Anonymous No.3186601]

>>3186597

Shit yes it was.

[Anonymous No.3186616]

>>3186606

Watching comedies do for me, albeit rarely.

Arthouse I prefer to watch alone though.

[Anonymous No.3186618]

>>3186597
>>3186601

I thought it was ok

[Anonymous No.3186620]

>>3186606
I prefer watching them alone.

Otherwise I feel responsible for the other person's enjoyment of the movie (moreso when I'm the one who picked it_

[Anonymous No.3186637]

>>3186618

dat mise en scene

bea-yyyu-tiii-fullll

[Anonymous No.3186678]

>>3186279
Why are Capra and Keaton so far down? In terms of older movies they're pretty accessible.

[Anonymous No.3186736]

>>3186678
Because it's a bad list.

[Anonymous No.3186845]

>>3186620
exactly. I always feel awkward while watching a movie with someone else, which seriously cuts down on my own personal enjoyment

[Anonymous No.3186896]

I go to screenings alone, like the experience so much more

[Anonymous No.3187017]

>>3186279
What a revolting way to think of art.

[Anonymous No.3187125]

tied between stanley kubrick/and david lynch.

right now i'm into lynch cause rewatching twin peaks/he has magnificent hair

[Anonymous No.3187133]

>>3186308
>>3186315
what about blue velvet?

[Anonymous No.3187199]

Does anyone know a legitimate site to watch any of these films on? I have found a select Pasolini films on YouTube and exhausted Netflix ages ago.

[Anonymous No.3187209]

>>3186279
Implying Kubrick was well received by critics with his later stuff.

[Anonymous No.3187231]

What a dick. Film 101 choices.

Satyajit Ray, Kar-Wai Wong, Ozu, Kieslowski, Lynch, Kaige, Ghatak, Malick, PTA, Eisenstein, Cocteau, Shokof, Guy Debord, Deren/Hammid and about half of Bergman.

People who are new to classic cinema are far too often overwhelmed by the medium's capacity for Formal beauty, but one mustn't forget Semiotics.

[America. No.3187245]

Wes Anderson
Woody Allen

[Anonymous No.3187253]

>>3185772
>Resnais
mahnigga.jpg
Last Year in Marienbad is one of my favorite films off time.

[Anonymous No.3187414]

Tarkovski

[Anonymous No.3187418]

>>3187231
>What a dick. Film 101 choices.
>Proceeds to list more Film 101 choices

[Anonymous No.3187424]

>>3187231
>about half of Bergman
Do you like the Seventh Seals and Virgin Springs, or the Personas and The Silence?

[Anonymous No.3187426]

STOP MAKING THIS FUCKING THREAD YOU CUNTS

I DONT MEAN THREADS ABOUT FILM, I MEAN THIS GOD-DAMNED THREAD

[Anonymous No.3187435]

>>3187426
I find your lack of amor fati disturbing.

[Anonymous No.3187953]

Do you even Renoir?
Do you even Kiarostami?
Do you even Vigo?

[Anonymous No.3188242]

These 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh5Zjm4kMus

[Anonymous No.3188280]

Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-Liang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Jafar Panahi, Abbas Kiarostami, Alexandr Sokurov, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Claire Denis

[Anonymous No.3188350]

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 and Youssef Chahine.

These threads are mostly name-dropping. Yet another outlet for /mu/tards in their never-ending quest to appear cultured.

[Anonymous No.3188352]

>>3187231
>Ritwik Ghatak
What does he do that Ray doesn't?

>Eisenstein
I bet you haven't even seen Unterwelt.

[Anonymous No.3188357]

What book was the woman reading?
Snapshot from Marienbad.

[Anonymous No.3188427]

>>3186303
Goes the same for everything else. But you imagine it to come from it and not from yourself for no reason other than you interpret your experience as something given from the film, intentions of director, etc. There is nothing that comes from it or from you alone, for the context itself is what brings forth emotions and thought that make the experience.

Two arguments I never approoved in terms of analysing art. First is this substance vs style or sometimes substance vs form. There is no real distinction between the two. There are no examples of substance without form and no examples of form without substance. Whether you perceive substance but not form or the other way around is irrelevant, for the very definition of these two things are created subjectively. Therefore, for whatever you consider them to be, one can only state the terms that separate them in each film before claiming it to miss one of them (which is impossible, really)

The other thing that bothers is me is any argument on "getting" films, 2deep4u, etc. It is impossible not to get a film, for even confusion or apathy are something we "get" from them. Where it concenrs on ambiguous or confusing plots that you feel you miss, to ask about it is no more than to ask for overlapping what you got (confusion) with something the other's get (their interpretation and so on).

[Anonymous No.3188487]

My favourites: Welles, Lang, Leone, Hitchcock, Herzog, Kubrick, Fellini, Bergman, Kurosawa, Lumet(I feel people always forget him...), Forman, Coppola, Chaplin etc. For the most recent ones, I'm in love anything the Coen bros. do. These are giants.

There are also directors who I think are completely underated due to certain contexts that their work are brought in. Mainly bad scripts or bad actors, low budget, etc. But their originality as directors is perceived in small moments and I believe they are giants of cinema just as those above: Peter Weir and Lasse Halstrom.

Woody Allen is also one of the directors I like the most, even though I don't like a lot of his films, while others I find to be great. His vision is always uplifting somehow.

I have soft spot for Tarantino. Can't hate the guy. I believe him to be a very intelligent man.

I hate Aronofsky, I hate Boyle. I don't like their work, I don't like what they say, I don't like how they say it, I don't like anything they do. I can't understand the praise. Fincher is good, but I wouldn't put him anywhere near the others I mentioned.

Other great guys I also like: Lynch, Altman, von Trier, Tarkovsky, Jarmusch...

PS: Dalton was best Bond. Anything Disney before Walt's death is beautiful. Marx Brothers are absolutely fantastic and you should watch them all.

[Anonymous No.3188492]

>>3186177
>style/substance dichotomy
>2012

oh lord

[Anonymous No.3188514]

>>3188357
it is german poem. with a look at the layout i'd say it is a (generic) book of poems

[Anonymous No.3188519]

>>3188487
sup

your now known as the guy w/ da most boring taste in film ever

[Anonymous No.3188526]

>>3188519
there's little range in film taste. too young a medium for your choice in favorites to really reflect your "tastes" as literature can do..

either you go for the classical canon [europe, balkans, america, mexico, japan] or you go reactionary and sink yourself into [almost always contemporary] asian cinema.

[Anonymous No.3188552]

Godard, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Melville, Noah Baumbach, Woody Allen, Wong Kar-Wai, Richard Linklater

[Anonymous No.3188555]

>>3188552
>Noah Baumbach
>Richard Linklater
mah nigga

[Anonymous No.3188576]

>>3188555
Greenberg is a special film. Baumbach should get more credit for making such a sincere film. I sometimes fear like I might end up similar to Greenberg. I just fucking hope that there will be a Florence Marr willing to put up with my shit.

[Anonymous No.3188587]

>>3188576
His next movie Frances Ha is supposed to be amazing. It's co-written by Greta Gerwig and stars her too.

Also see my list
>>3186457

[Anonymous No.3188628]

>>3186457

Well yeah so do I but that's the point of the OP. It's supposed to be a bit of a dig at people who feel they are saying a lot by merely listing directors they like when in truth they aren't saying much at all.

I thought people got that but this thread is showing otherwise.

[Anonymous No.3188662]

>>3188587
I saw that list on /tv/ before. Recently watched Rosemary's Baby and found it to be quite chilling.

[Anonymous No.3188794]

>>3186289
not the activities in and of themselves but finding worth in actually viewing these activities, yes.