/lbg/- Letterboxd General

I only watch silent films if they are quirky and ironic so I can reblog them to all of my gen z friends on tumblr

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letterboxd.com/OriginalName3/

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>>83888610
Dogway Melody is a good time. Highly recommended.

https://letterboxd.com/DPIW73/

name a better upcoming movie

protip: you can't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDucF_6suis

>>83888833
transformers 5

>>83888802
Anything shot with a wide angle lens is good cinematography to me :3

>>83888930
pleb

just saw lala land and dear lord is emma stone not qt at all. so disappointing

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>>83888969
Yes I am.

letterboxd.com/OriginalName3/

>Citizen Kane higher than The Trial on Sight and Sound poll
plebs

>>83889143
>Citizen Kane not the greatest movie ever
pleb

>>83889024
god you're horrible, faggot. typical underage /tv/going shithead. standard-issue dumbfuck. another miserable pissant without the slightest clue as to what a blessing emily jean has been and is being upon the world. doesnt understand the indelibly cherished impact this gleaming, distinguished beautiful human being has had on the planet at large. of course garbage posters like this aren't keen to look into that, either. they're hard-wired to yak up the same old memes til they just aint funny no more, so their opinions are natural extensions of the omnipresent bought-out 4chan meme-machines latest propaganda efforts put forth to salvage scrap flesh from their increasingly irrelevant carcasses. like fucking clockwork. you LOSER ass, go to hell

>>83889178
you dont really mean that, do you anon?
;_;

Citizen Kane is no higher than a 2.

The Trial is no higher than half a 1

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>>83889232
I do.

>>83889237
t. Amaranth

>>83889254
ok well, my feelings are really hurt

>>83889166
Citizen Kane may be the greatest movie ever but Griffeth made the greatest sunplays

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>>83889100

>>83889327
haHA this is just like my fav movie where the guy kills himself

>>83888833
The Dogway Melody 2

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>>83889271
sry luv u im just rly in2 emley jean

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https://www.criterion.com/explore/216-paul-dano-s-top-10

>>83889550
'Sup, criterionbabby

How can Citizen Kane be good if it doesn't have a Criterion bluray release

>>>/r9k/37694511

>>83889595
Othello>Citizen Kane

>>83889627
Unironically THIS

>>83889659
Cancer

>>83889710
>thinking Citizen Kane is good
I remember when I was a freshman in film school

>>83889748
Citizen Kane is a fucking 2

>>83889621
just the type of retard to browse /r9k/

>>83889778
What about Citizen Kane 2?

>>83889778
>thinking Citizen Kane is a 2
Found the contrarian /tv/ poster

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>>83889790
D-delet this.

>>83889840
image cute

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/lbg/ memes I created:
>intelligent discussions
>retarded OPs
>embryo
>yikes
>Ah-bloo-bloo
>one (1)
>Emily Jean posting
>black twitter posting
>links to boring youtube videos
>Man i have such shit memory
>MY FUCKING NIGGER
>You do. I do
>2 passes to the akira kurosawa meet and greet
>previous/current thread linking
>shitting on synt
>WHAT'S UP FAGS
>D.W. Griffith
>go aawayy
>I wonder how PUNQ's wife reacts
>wahoo!!!
>dropout_gorro's discord circle-jerk
>tired of your crap pepes
>mega autism
>to my cis gender friends
>If Amaranth were
>screenshots of bad reviews
>cross board linking
>I rate art
>archive posting
>german forum anipodium
>D-delet this
and a thousand more I'm forgetting.

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Welles is a pretty shit director. Not only did he do nothing new, most of his filmography is complete shit that just gets worse as it goes on. Citizen Kane is alright but nothing special unless it's the first film you've ever seen. Nonlinear story structure was already done in DW Griffith's Intolerance, shadows and low angles in sound already done in John Ford's Arrowsmith, invisible cuts and whippans in DW Griffith's Abraham Lincoln, deep focus in William Wyler's stuff as well as Jean Renoir's, and Citizen Kane's script is literally Power and the Glory which Preston Sturges wrote. Power and the Glory honestly looks a lot like Kane visually and was directed by William K Howard, who is a far better director than Welles could ever hope to be. But really what makes Welles shit is he lacks any subtlety whatsoever. He makes use of long takes and multiple events happening in the frame well, but his mise en scene is turned up to 11. A lot of his shots look like they were done by a film school freshman shouting for attention (which he kind of was since he was schooled on film history before directing Kane). Really, he's just a name easily impressed plebs that don't know their history lap up. If you actually think anything directed by Orson Welles is good after seeing anything prior by superior directors, your taste is highly questionable and ought to be checked for early signs of down syndrome.

<<83889978
too bad you couldn't create good taste for yourself

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>>83890035
No coming back from that one

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AMDJEET BTFO

Ignorant avant-teen amdjeet BTFO

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Should I watch Ben (1972) tonight, /lbg/?

give me a movie with the CUTEST romance

>>83890320
Blind Beast

>>83890320
Annie Hall

>>83890312
>>83890320
>genreshit

>>83890400
Found the jew

>>83890199
>>83890243
DESTROYED

>>83890552
Post your profile. New thread

https://letterboxd.com/robertopancake/

>>83890719
/brotherdeacon

>>83890798
Doesn't post here. Post your profile

any jewish people here?
i really like jewish people! Go Israel!

>>83890719
Why do you prefer 2001 over Eyes Wide Shut?

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>>83890897

>>83890897
winstonne pls

>>83890932
2001 is more groundbreaking with more emphasis on visuals. Post your profile. New thread.

>>83890990
why are you being autistic friend?

>>83889443
we can only hope

>>83891031
I hardly think wanting you to post your profile in a general dedicated to it is autistic. It's a simple demand.

>>83891083
You're in no position to make demands, friend.

>>83891083
kill yourself namefag

>>83891121
Why are you afraid to post your profile? I think that would be more indicative of autistic behavior.

>>83891150
Nice original response

>>83891153
Whether it's indicative of autistic behaviour or not, I don't have any intention of posting my profile here. Live and learn, my friend.

>>83891207
t. megaautist

>>83891207
Why are you intentionally being so difficult? What are you afraid of?

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what romantic nouvelle vague film should I watch alone?

<<83891474
None

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Thanks to whoever lad that recommended this movie a while ago here. Comfy kino

>>83891508
why not?

why don't you reply me?

Anything that doesn't use non-actors can't be kino

>>83891508
dumb non-reply poster
>>83891648
dumb kinoposter

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never posted in one of these, but HERE GOES NOTHING

https://letterboxd.com/hacastillo/

Meant this >>83891676 for this anon >>83891512

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>>83891692
>no Edwardson
>no Dino
>no Wilkes
>no Lance
Holy plebbit!

Also Polly of the Circus>Nights of Cabiria

Closeup is pretty shit

>>83891934
don't really see how Nights of Cabiria and Polly of the Circus are comparable, but hey, man. dat's cool

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>>83892058
don't see how you haven't seen it and can determine whether they're not, but hey, man. dat's cool. keep watching TSPDTshit.

I wanna watch a movie that makes me happy to be a human being

>>83891512
DUDE TRAINS LMAO
DUDE OZU LMAO
DUDE VAPID CONTEMPLATION OF URBAN SCENARIOS DIEGETIC SOUND AND EMOTIONLESS GOOKS LMAO

>>83892144
Witchhammer

>>83892180
>sound
Film is a visual medium, plebbit

>>83892121
What I don't see is how you inferred that I disagreed when all I said was that I didn't see the comparison. (and didn't bother to ask how cuz muh condescension) I never said you were wrong to do so. Your projection is showing, my guy, but I guess that's what I get for posting on 4chan

>>83892253
You seem really level headed and cool

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>>83892215
then how come all good movies have sound?

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>>83892302
say, that's a nice bunny

>>83892301
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax25gfr5J98

>>83891512
From three days ago or much longer? Because that was me three days ago. Either way I'm glad you enjoyed it, the rest of HHH's films have good female leads if you're looking for another.

>>83892302
pound that thick bunny butt

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Lady of the Night>Nights of Cabiria

Looks like Bruce Melvin is mad at his gay Jewish boyfriend Winstonne because Winstonne is giving in to his lust towards animated animals

>>83892381
It might've been you then. I lose track of what people have recommended here and when they recommended it. I'm definitely planning on checking more of HHH's films but from what I hear, Cafe Lumiere is pretty different from his other films since this one was more of a tribute to Ozu.

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WOAH - sweet! CORN!

>>83892640
Name something HHH did formally new that wasn't already done by the Chinese in the 30s

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>>83892616
>animated

>>83891207
It's been an hour and 7 minutes since this post. You didn't reply to any of the next posts and you still haven't posted your profile

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one-a these ppl is him

>>83892640
It was and that style carries more through Yang's career but HHH still made great films. Millennium Mambo is a must see.

>>83892854
he dont have no lettterbaxd

>>83892887
>Millennium Mambo is a must see
t. synt. change those griffeth scores yet
http://archive.4plebs.org/tv/thread/83619556/#83627315

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rate my weekend fags

What's your favorite animated film, /lbg/?

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>>83893082
The Magician>A Page of Madness

>>83893096
la planete sauvage

yours?

>>83893162
Prince of Achmed

>>83893096
The Croods

what kind of movie it's OK to watch with a gurl on the cinema?

>>83893113
the magician looks pretty good too, but japan cinema > us cinema

>>83888833
>>83893203
Battle of the Sexes

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>>83893267
Sunplays>cinema

>>83893267
>>>/a/
>>>/v/

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>>83893275
Certainly Battle of the Sexes 1928

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Four Sons+Road to Yesterday>A City of Sadness

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>>83893329

Can somebody explain D.W. Griffith?

>>83893275
the mummy, wonder woman or pirates of the caribbean?

Emily Jean King > Jean Hersholt

>>83893294
Is this really his worst film?

>>83893309
no, only japanese films, not anime or videogames are a particular interest for me
>>83893294
looks more kino than intolerance and more short too.

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>>83893378
Pioneered closeups, visual rhyming, acting divorced from theatre, crosscutting, parallel montage, accelerated montage, montage-by-attraction, character-over plot, environmental storytelling, mise-en-scene, flashbacks, nonlinear storytelling, double exposures, shot-reverse-shot, 180 degree rule, jump cuts to elicit psychological state, tracking shots, camera movement to elicit psychological state, film essays, neorealism, non-actors, crowds, on-location shooting, sets, etc. He did everything and perfected it. Made over 500 works and not a single bad one.

>>83893485
also a racist

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>>83893451
>Wikipedia
Never gets old. No, that source is referring to contemporary press reception just like Intolerance wasn't glamorously received at release. Griffeth never made a bad film.

>>83893453
>more short too
depends on which version

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>>83893506
You don't have any verification for those claims

>>83893687
>The Birth of a Nation (1915)

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>>83893719
I don't see any explicitly racist thing about it. And the negative reception by NAACP is exaggerated. It was the highest grossing silent film and was voted one of the greatest at the World's Fair and 1952 sight and sound poll

Get an academic source to prove otherwise

>>83893829
>D W Griffith's film tells the story of America during the Civil War and Reconstruction. It depicts black men (white actors in black face) as violent, stupid and obsessed with interracial marriage. In contrast, it paints the Ku Klux Klan as heroes on a mission to protect the country.
The film has an "evil, deeply racist side," says Melvyn Stokes, a film professor at University College London and the author of In the Shadow of 'The Birth of a Nation': A Centennial Assessment of Griffith's film.

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>>83893918
>showing niggers as they trul are is somehow racist
>Birth of a Nation literally predicted the Obama administration and its effects
Nah, I'll trust Arthur Lennig over some Eurocuck.

>>83893918
To his credit it was also considered pretty groundbreaking at the time in terms of cinematography, but "I don't see any explicitly racist thing about it" speaks volumes about the kind of person you're talking to

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>>83894009
>pretty groundbreaking
It's better than any film in the past 50+ years

Where the hell do i even watch a Griffith film i good quality?

>>83894121
Private screening studios.

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is this any good?

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In response to an interview regarding DW Griffeth's filmography, Alfred Hitchcock responded

"A tad dusty, but it's certainly all there isn't it?"

>>83894148
wait some months ago you said you watched them at your library

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>>83894121
Right here ;^)

I'm searching for The Greatest Thing in Life but there's nothing

>>83894222
Find a quote or I can sue you for false accusation

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>megaautist keeps sucking Griffith's dick even though Ingeborg Holm was done before any of Griffith's flicks and was far more influential

makes you think

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>>83894235
>2-Disc's Edition

>>83894284
Only noted as a the first feature utilizing continuity editing. Features barely any of the techniques Griffeth pioneered. Already on the scene in 1908.

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>>83894269
>>83894206
I'm searching for everything megaautist has mentioned but not finding anything.

>white
>not racist
DW Griffith confirmed cultural Marxist cuck

>>83894434
but Im not joking, I cant find it

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>>83894434
Whirlpool>The Greatest Question
Also, Preminger>Griffith

>>83894555
Maybe try private screening studios. Either that or stop pretending you're a patrician.

>>83894594
Deadpool > Whirlpool

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>>83894594
I don't see any images in Whirlpool worth hanging on a wall. Also Vidor>Preminger

I hope that nigger slept was in that building fire

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>>83894596
>private screening studios

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>>83894685
Time to stop pretending you're patrician

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/lbg/ memes I created:
>intelligent discussions
>retarded OPs
>embryo
>yikes
>Ah-bloo-bloo
>one (1)
>Emily Jean posting
>black twitter posting
>links to boring youtube videos
>Man i have such shit memory
>MY FUCKING NIGGER
>You do. I do
>2 passes to the akira kurosawa meet and greet
>previous/current thread linking
>shitting on synt
>WHAT'S UP FAGS
>D.W. Griffith
>go aawayy
>I wonder how PUNQ's wife reacts
>wahoo!!!
>dropout_gorro's discord circle-jerk
>tired of your crap pepes
>mega autism
>to my cis gender friends
>If Amaranth were
>screenshots of bad reviews
>cross board linking
>I rate art
>archive posting
>german forum anipodium
>give me kino or give me death
>D-delet this
and a thousand more I'm forgetting.

>>83894715
but the movie basically don't exist on the internet

feels good to have better taste than megapedo

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>>83894855
He has no idea what is good and bad. Judging by all the garbage he thinks has value, If he likes something good it's only by accident.

>>83894826
Most of the greatest don't.

>>83894931
that's retarded

>>83894931
W R O N G
R
O
N
G

Looks like amdjeet is larping as Bruce Melvin to distract himself from the fact that he shits in streets like an animal again

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>>83894909
Cactus Flower is one of the greatest comedies ever made with great use of the entire frame. Plenty of peak-ins, clever uses of irises, soft focus, and depth for jokes to play out. And it executes flawlessly one of the hallmarks of good comedy, unpredictability under the guise of believability. It's a culmination of the entire history of cinematic comedy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9zDdawch3c

>>83894947
You're only mad because you don't have access to them like me

>>83894969
You don't even know what the greatest films are and never could because you genes prevent you.

>>83895447
I'm not mad, just pointing something retarded

>>83895514
Hard to say it's retarded when you've never seen them. Much easier to just infer that you have signs of birth defects.

>>83895605
why are you insulting me? did I ever offend you?

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Why did Patty Hitler say her favorite director was DW Griffeth

>>83895643
I'm not insulting. just pointing out birth defects

>>83895689
I don't know why are you acting like an asshole, really, go fuck yourself

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>still watching flickering images

>>83895785
If you're going to take 6 minutes to reply, at least spend some of it coming up with something original to say.

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David Wark Griffeth was a pioneer and master of the tableau style of cinematography. He constructed images worthy of being hung on a wall. Hardly something that can be claimed for most others.

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Now the accompanying comparison

DW Griffith never used real autopsy footage in any off his films

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David Wark Griffeth was a pioneer and master of the tableau style of cinematography. He constructed images worthy of being hung on a wall. Hardly something that can be claimed for most others

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Now the accompanying comparison.

Griffeth made a separate medium unto hisself.

Griffeth didn't use scripts. He had it all in his head.

Anyone got the chart for movies men will never understand?

Name one technique that wasn't invented by the Lumière brothers.

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>>83898516
Soft focus

Thomas Edison>Lumiere dodos

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letterboxd.com/albion

Penis boy

<<83899734
is shit

>>83892946
synt likes Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie, you're thinking of the other movie with an asian girl's face on it. You'd know that if you understood anything about films.

>>83900830
>hasn't checked his watched list

give me kino or give me death

>>83901050
>anyone who talks about Millennium Mambo must be synt

>>83901347
Not that many people in lbg/ have seen it, so it's easy to assume.

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>409 likes

Is this some kind of avant-garde irony? If not this site is cancer.

Everyday it's a new day with you.

>>83899332
i like you

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People that like filmmakers like Tsai Ming-Liang, Jia Zhang-ke, and Hou Hsiao-hsien tend to not like films from the 1910's because they can't associate and self-insert with people 100 years ago.

It all comes back to Griffeth. The funny thing is even if everybody downvoted Griffeth's works to oblivion, he could never be removed from the annals of history. His influence and breadth is far too strong.

>>83901905
what are some minimalist films from 1910 I should watch then
>>83901810
i like you more

>>83902234
L'enfant de Paris

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this is a fake amdi

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>>83902234
Pride of the Clan

>>83902234
What did you think of Citizen Kane, slept?

>>83902544
To criticize that film justly is a tough job. Usually, most of the critics simply state their opinion that a film is good, bad or indifferent, but they have not specific knowledge of what makes a film good or bad. It may be the story or only the continuity that is wrong. It may be the direction or the acting. Many times the director gets the blame for a bad story or continuity, although he had nothing to do with them, but had done the best anyone could have done with the material at hand. Actors are blamed for a bad performance when in fact they only did what they were ordered to do by their director. Although Welles did all these things himself, in criticizing his work one must specify in which be has failed.
I shall start (contrary to Welles's technic) at the beginning with the basic element of a film — the story. As a story proper "Citizen Kane" has much to criticize. It is neither big nor vital enough to justify the tremendous outlay of work, time and money which can easily be recognized even by a layman. It is just another story of an over-ambitious man; in this particular case a newspaper publisher, who incidentally aspires to become governor. A man who has built a vast newspaper empire only to see it crumble. A man who collects anything and everything from the four corners of the globe without being in the slightest interested in anything be collects. A man who deserts his wife and child only to be deserted in the end by the woman for whom be deserted. In a way he has ideals at the start, but he has not the necessary character to live up to them. Citizen Kane really cares for three things only; Kane, KANE and K A N E!
There is nothing particularly new in all that. It has happened thousands of times in real life, and it has been filmed many times. And the same mistake made in previous films has been repeated. The laboratory analysis — under the microscope — of Citizen Kane's heart and soul has been forgotten.

>>83902544
really enjoyed it, wish the ending wasn't constantly memed about though so I could have gone into it spoiler free
loved the framing, general aesthetic, lighting and pretty much everything about it

is this the part where you call me a plen for not watching whatever film preceded it?

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>>83902622
Welles is a pretty shit director. Not only did he do nothing new, most of his filmography is complete shit that just gets worse as it goes on. Citizen Kane is alright but nothing special unless it's the first film you've ever seen. Nonlinear story structure was already done in DW Griffith's Intolerance, shadows and low angles in sound already done in John Ford's Arrowsmith, invisible cuts and whippans in DW Griffith's Abraham Lincoln, deep focus in William Wyler's stuff as well as Jean Renoir's, and Citizen Kane's script is literally Power and the Glory which Preston Sturges wrote. Power and the Glory honestly looks a lot like Kane visually and was directed by William K Howard, who is a far better director than Welles could ever hope to be. But really what makes Welles shit is he lacks any subtlety whatsoever. He makes use of long takes and multiple events happening in the frame well, but his mise en scene is turned up to 11. A lot of his shots look like they were done by a film school freshman shouting for attention (which he kind of was since he was schooled on film history before directing Kane). Really, he's just a name easily impressed plebs that don't know their history lap up. If you actually think anything directed by Orson Welles is good after seeing anything prior by superior directors, your taste is highly questionable and ought to be checked for early signs of down syndrome.

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>>83902734
So he's shit because he used all the techniques that were invented prior to him filming citizen kane? Are you not supposed to build on experience in order to create the best thing you can, regardless of the work or form of art?

I agree with you about the mise en scene though but I do think it made the film quite striking which I enjoyed. Can I watch intolerance if i've only seen judith of bethulia?

>>83902833
>Are you not supposed to build on experience
Why didn't he invent anything new. Griffeth invented plenty of new things. He couldn't even come up with an original story

>>83902904
so you don't believe in standing on the shoulders of giants then
strange mindset to have

>>83902904
Griffith is shit faggot. He didn't do anything noteworthy let alone anything worth being considered the greatest

>>83902926
If you're going to be a formalist critic and historian, look for something new

>>83902939
You've never seen more than 5 Griffeth sunplays let alone 2000 films before 1939

slept, if you care so much about experimental films, why do you think Citizen Kane is good

>>83902926
>so you don't believe in standing on the shoulders of giants then
Boyhood is shit faggot. Filming over multiple years is nothing new.

>>83903053
Am I not allowed to enjoy both? Citizen Kane is a great narrative film, Level 5 is a great video essay.
I'm not gonna pick sides, this isn't footie.
A R S E N A L
>>83903091
Haven't seen it boyo

slept if you want to be a film historian, why are you working backwards. No one with any self-worth does that

slept if you want to be cultured, why are you watching flickering images

>>83903173
I don't wanna be a film historian but I am interested in avant-garde stuff so I guess I better brush up on the basics first
you'd be a nice person to chat to if you weren't so bitter all the time
yes I know this is the pot calling the kettle black
>>83903232
idk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFpPFywpK80

>>83903269
Tonal frequencies, banging bongos, and plucked strings are barely art. If they were any higher, then niggers wouldn't be barely human.

>I don't wanna be a historian but I am interested in avant-garde stuff
Definition of an avant-teen

>>83903342
what about girls that sing high pitched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D88fLHQh3NU
>>83903376
how can I be a teen at 23?
dumb anonymong

>>83903398
Terrible singing
This is far better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJEWLnblbzc

>>83903398
>how can I be a teen at 23?
Not an adult until you own your own home

>>83903686
not as good as this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfAqtFuGjWM
>>83903720
I guess I wont be an adult until I leave London then

>>83903757
Barely music. Try this, child. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcSPYrqZy-c

>>83903856
you're bad at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgZfownHnMY

>>83903940
Far better than you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhrilg7OHlM

>>83904101
le sigh
keep up grandad
this is unironically my fav song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WybSSagVvoU

>>83904169
Repeating the same beat with an echo effect on a computer doesn't take skill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1J4i2OdbuQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va2ue3geOVk

>>83889978
>MY FUCKING NIGGER
Confirmed full of shit, lad, I'm the one who created the "MY FUCKING NIGGER" meme, and it was by accident. I was delighted to see a guy with Mon Oncle in his Top 4, so I posted that, and someone (or more than one person) started copying me, and somehow it stuck and now it's present in every thread at least once.

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>>83904582
15 of those memes are mine
amdi is an attention slut

>>83904569
If you're going to post music from the 60's post actual god music, not nigger sounds

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

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>>83904762
please don't use that word

Looks like Bruce Melvin and his Jewish boyfriend Winstonne are having relationship problems again

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>>83904865
Bruce Melvin is totes patrician

>>83904912
Winston Smith, Winstonne, Bruce Melvin, Bruce_Melvin on reddit, checkem22 on steam, Randy Melvin, ThePrez, it's alllllll me AHAHAHA
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>>83904932
thxxxxxx ~

Looks like Bruce Melvin and his Jewish boyfriend Winstonne are having relationship problems again

>>83901347
True.

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If MUSIC is an art, and PICTURES is an art, why isn't SOUND an art ? ? ? ?
Artfags EXPOSED

>>83906262
>he's never heard of field recordings

absolute pleb

>>83906295
dw g.r.i.f.f.u.t.h did it first it's not art

Nobody has made better better pictures than Griffeth

too many betters

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brown bricks

>>83907223
t. 12 year old

>>83907446
t. post-ironic teenager

>>83902833
Slept how come megaautist asks you to watch a Griffin film and you watch it but I ask you to watch Julien Donkey Boy and tell me what you think of it but you don't do it?
Bad friend imo

>>83907622
t. Amazing

<<83907594
He knows I'm better than you

>>83907684
Dumb non-reply poster

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>>83907835
Dumb non-reply poster

Jason Schulman>Harmony Korine

If Emily Jean were a filmmaker she'd be better than everyone in history. Period.

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Why do people watch Criterionshit

>>83908020
Because they're good films.

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>>83908129
Sunplays>films

>>83908212
Like, your opinion.

>>83907594
I forgot
I'll watch it tomorrow

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>>83908241
Not an opinion. All Criterion flicks are objectively shit minus a rare few exceptions. Barely have any silent films in their catalog

>>83908020
juien donkey boy is not in the collection
>>83908306
thanks, best user

>>83908306
It's awful. Saved you the trouble.

Why isn't Harmony Korine on the Sight and Sound list? They must be plebs.

>>83908356
It's neither in mine.

>>83908392
because he only has one good film, also most critics are plebs
>>83908361
why dont you like it?

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>>83908422
t. furfaggot

>>83908422
Not the first film to use single photographs, not the first film to deal with schizophrenia. Unoriginal tripe.

>>83908490
not an argument

>>83908490
what? kek
>>83908512
yeah but you don't watch it for any of those insignificant reasons, you watch it because it's great
i doubt you've seen it you just hate it because its korine, which i understand

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>>83908572
Got a reason for why most critics are plebs

>>83908604
>you watch it because it's great
No I don't watch garbage nihilist teenagers that love Ayn Rand adore. I have taste.

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>>83908763
Watching flicks inherently means you watch garbage, downy.

>>83908607
if griffin is so great, how come critics agree that italian neorealism and soviet montage are superior to griffith and stroheim?

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>>83909275
Because they didn't know Griffeth did neorealism first. And this was before Bazinian theory of the long take-over-montage took off. And doubly before the theory of the instinctive cut took off. Each all Griffeth achieved masterfully, but since niggers got a political voice, his filmography has been subsequently downplayed since. But before, Griffeth was the king of all kings. A god among boys much akin to me.

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And Griffeth pioneered all elements of montage first. Eisenstein is merely thrown in due to the World's Fair. Griffeth did everything. He invented a medium unto itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tej00K8Dwgg

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Are you still here

>>83909772
Why is the Night Porter on there? Men don't understand Nazisploitation or porn?

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>>83909772
>no Lois Weber
>no Dorothy Arzner
>no Ida Lupino
>no Dorothy Davenport
>Fucking Leni Riefestahl of all people
Shit list

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>>83909772
When did Max Ophuls become a woman

Might as well put Gone With the Wind then

>>83909823
You missed the recurring theme

>>83909930
Who ever did it probably Google searched the book

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>>83909772
Nice list shame it forgot this one

>>83910274
>first WW I film in ages by Hollywood.
>It celebrates a jew.
rmyt.

myrm :3
myrmician :3

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Now I am become Megaautist, the destroyer of threads.

>>83910427
name one thing myrmician did that grantyb didn't do first

Kubrick > Griffith

>>83911270
>quoting breaking bad
mega autist confirmed shit taste

>>83911446
Found the redditor

>>83911567
not an argument

>>83911567
>everything I don't agree with it leddit
doesn't work like that

>>83911446
Kubrick will be to /lbg/ what Mozart is to /mu/'s classical general

>>83912143
and what is that

>>83912190
king among kings

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>>83912336
you mean like Emily Jean King

Imagine not being me. I don't know how you stand it.

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>>83912143
Kubrick is very self conscious, he's got lots of "structure" and metaphor and so on... But just having structure and metaphor doesn't make a great film, in my view. I've probably seen fewer Kubrick films than most everyone in this general, though from all his periods, but every one I have seen (possibly excepting the early and somewhat anomalous "Killer's Kiss") had what I would call a lack of visual structure. There are lots of ideas, and lots of visual tricks, but the spatial architecture, which in what I would call a great film consists of the way lines and surfaces and angles and light and movement combine to create the meaningful visual expression that I find in Ford and Hitchcock and Rossellini and Bresson and Brakhage and Kubelka, is lacking. His films have for me a curious visual "emptiness," a feeling that the imagery is a kind of vacant vessel for stylistic and thematic and plot flourishes ("redrum" and all that), and this is true from me from "The Killing" to "Full Metal Jacket" to "Eyes Wide Shut, to choose three I've seen in recent years. Their hollow core suggests "A. I." (which I also disliked) as his perfect subject, I suppose, as was HAL, but he doesn't do enough with that hollowness in his own films to make it an expression in itself.

As a war movie, "Full Metal Jacket" seemed rather predictable too -- I just *knew* it was the African-American who would get killed.

>>83911501
>breaking bad

Rec me obscure noir pls
Can be from any period or country.

>>83913359
A Colt Is My Passport 1967

>>83913359
Un flic

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>>83913750
Explain this meme to me.

Megaautist do you have a letterboxd account?

>>83913960
he made a joke acc because he was too pussy to make real one

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If you unironically think Emily Jean, Anna Kendrick, Emma Watson, or Daisy Riley are good you should just end it.

>>83914520
>he uses the term "unironically"
lol

>>83890320
a room with a view

>>83914520
Anna Karenina is a hack actress.

>>83914520
Anna Karina is the Zooey Deschanel of the 60s

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