/lit/ - Literature

>>2442268
That's The Head of Vitus Bering by Konrad Bayer it's a really interesting work. He uses the life of Vitus Bering to form a historic basis for his work, then juxtaposes it with scientific writings on shamanism and other things creating a literary collage which transcends various places and time periods but still makes an interesting narrative.

>>2442039
Great collection you have there.

>>2442063
I am really jealous of your library.

>>2068091
>You can't seriously like this shit?
I can

>lords years ago just decided they should like it because no one else did and made it their thing, and now you want to fit in because you feel you're ithe intellectual upper class

This sounds like the mad ramblings of someone who feels incredibly insecure.

>>2068070
Ignorance is not an excuse for stupidity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm70fMM3JAk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vetSYKychwI&feature=related

>>2058147
From what I've seen of that list they're all great films and should be watched regardless, but my personal choices would be.

Marienbad
Aguirre
L'Avventura
Au hasard Balthazar
Pather Panchali

As for order to be watched, just watch what you feel you'll like best

>>2058050
Also Ben-Hur is a decent film but i wouldn't call its cinematography great, Sure it's technically sufficient, but that's all really. It leaves nothing to the imagination, it feels like you're watching a screen, not immersing yourself in a visual feast.

>>2058050
Beach? that's clearly open plains. I'm not sure how i could explain why i find it beautiful, maybe you'd need to watch the whole film to properly resonate with that particular scene.

Heres another example of great cinematography.

Heroic Purgatory - Yoshishige Yoshida

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiOnETIFQCY

What films do you guys find to be the beautifully shot that you've seen?

For me its gotta be František Vláčil's Marketa Lazarova.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zscnjMtTvSc

Also Tarkovsky, Tarr, Mizoguchi Parajanov and Yoshishige Yoshida all have really amazing cinematography in their films.

>>2057321
The people who defend these books do. They may claim for the sake of argument that its all "cheap entertainment" but they are of the same ilk that wants video games to be classed as art, they demand that nothing be taken seriously but they themselves want nothing more than to be taken seriously.

>>2057300
But nobody said that.

>>2057293
They do, it's called /tg/

>>2053245
Barbey d'Aurevilly - Les Diaboliques
Georges Rodenbach - Bruges-la-Morte
Octave Mirbeau - Torture Garden
Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam - L'eve future

>>2053203
Georges Rodenbach and Barbey d'Aurevilly, a lot of authors get name dropped in Against Nature so it's a good place to start.

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>>2053137
Oh god that scene from satantango, i heard somewhere the the actors where actually drunk during the filming.

Also the scene with the kid and the cat in that film really unnerved me, I've seen a lot of twisted stuff in films but that left quite a mark on my mind.

>>2052931
Kubrick had great technical ability with his films, but they do come off rather cold. I always preferred his more awe inspiring films like Barry Lyndon and 2001 where that coldness doesn't seem so unnatural.

>>2052914
Have you seen Wenders latest film Pina? i saw it a few months back in 3D and it really works, i had always been skeptical of 3D until then.

My favourite Tarkovsky film is The Mirror, the dreamlike almost personal shots of the everyday and the surreal make for a very emotive and almost intense viewing, as a film it can only really be compared to Sharunas Bartas film The House.

I also have a soft spot for Andrei Rublev i watched it first back before i had seen many films and during the making of the bell scene I'd been pretty much convinced that film was something i should pursue.

>>2052771
No need to be so aggressive, i simply favour certain styles and film movements. Sure some might be considered obscure but not everyone's taste is identical.

He pretty much stands on his own as a director, the closest i can think would be films made by the Zanzibar group (Garrel, Deval, etc.)

As for his films well they're pretty mysterious at first view, it usually takes some time to truly understand their nature. He also employs lots of recurring themes throughout his oeuvre, sadomasochism, the breaking of glass and the use of the colour red.

I'd probably recommend Successive Slidings of Pleasure as a first film and then maybe Eden and After.

>>2052271
Actually I'm more like this.

Sharunas Bartas
Shûji Terayama
František Vláčil
Philippe Grandrieux
Béla Tarr
Andrei Tarkvosky
Frans Zwartjes
Sergei Parajanov
Carl Th. Dreyer
Kurt Kren
Stan Brakhage
Kenji Mizoguchi
Alain Robbe-Grillet