"Some guy said the OP was Reddit incarnate so we listen to him" Edition
Previous "Reddit incarnate" thread: >>84139745
>Not sure what letterboxd is all about?
The mission of /lbg/ is to promote the intelligent discussion of film as art by providing members with opportunities for intellectual discussion, by recognizing patrician taste through examinations and by calling out embryos as they arise.
>Directions for use
Post profiles and discuss what you have recently watched, if you dare.
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Anon impressed by movie posters >>84152973
Use >>>/tv/lbg as a link to find the /lbg/ thread.
Remember the following:
>Patricians occasionally read these generals and have posted here before.
>Patricians may pretend to be normal users asking for recommendations and when you recommend something, they laugh at you for your plebian taste
>This is a thread for patrician purposes only don't offer or expect frivolous discussion.
>QotT
Do you watch films on your fucking telephone?
First for only redditors like DW Griffith.
Second for only trannies like DW Griffith
Third for only problematic racists like DW Griffith
Fourth for only contrarians with unibrows like DW Griffith
Fifth for only ignorant avant-teens like DW Griffith
Reminder that only a sad person with nothing but Griffith in his life takes his films this seriously.
>>84178878
follow the fabs
>>84178904
:O
>>84178944
triggered
>>84179020
Amaranth WISHES she was Emily Meme!
Sixth for only patricians generally dislike DW Griffith
>>84179096
>6-8/10 equals dislike
Reminder tableau style is and will always be outdated. Making moving images meant to be hung on a wall is an entirely different medium. A shit one at that
>>84179125
Jimmy Timmy Power Hour > griffin
>>84179234
Suite Life of Zack and Cody = Malcolm in the Middle > Jimmy Timmy
>>84179196
David Lynch got into filming because he wanted to see his paintings move though.
Griffin is outdated
>>84179273
you only say that because young Emma had a cameo in those shows
>>84179314
Should've picked a different medium
>>84179395
He picked the right medium though.
DW Griffith > Qbrick + Malick
>>84179443
Films isn't supposed to be linked with other mediums. Jack Chambers > Lynch
>>84179604
Jack Chambers should be locked in a chamber.
>>84179635
New thread. Post your profile embryo
>>84179660
/OriginalName3
So are these threads stealth Emma Stone waifu threads or wh
PARTY ROCKERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT
>>84178467
>>Haven't got an account? Follow this link and sign up today!
Follow which link and sign up today?
>>84179692
>profile is kurosawa flick
>5 stars to Griffinshit
Ahoy, reddit!
>>84179827
actually I'm smoothhands king of kino
>>84179846
Smoothhands, you of all people should know film is supposed to be short-form and free of any connections to other mediums
>>84179888
i only watch kino
>>84179948
>only watches kino
>watches and gives high score to 2 hour biopic
>>84178467
I want to press my dick against her butt
>>84180043
her butte wood CRUSH your dicc if she sat on it lol
Reminder Algiers is one of the best movies ever made.
inb4 Pepe le Moko is better
>>84180312
but it is tho
What's some good films about welcoming death?
Architecture + Corporeal Mime > flickering images
What are some good architectural designs about welcoming death?
>>84180372
Seventh Seal
>>84180312
Battle of Algiers too! greate film!!
>>84180453
19th century gothic
>>84180470
Salvatore Giuliano > Batlle of Algiers
Get better taste, criterionbabbies
>>84180584
not an argument.
SG is one of the favorite films of Martin Scorsese, good film. But I prefer TBOA.
>>84180469
Death Takes a Holiday > Seventh Seal
Get better taste criterionbabbies
>>84180650
only because it's in criterion. get better taste
The Life Story of David Lloyd George >>>>>>>>>>> Salvatore Giuliano>>>>>>>>>>>Battle of Algiers
>>84180701
>only because it's in criterion.
Prove it.
tfw no amanarath gf
The Life of General Villa >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Salvatore Giuliano>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Battle of Algiers
>>84180789
You haven't even seen The Life of General Villa reddit. Give up, you'll always have shit taste. Learn to live with it instead of crying
>>84180858
So you can't prove, just like I thought.
me = 1
you = 0
>>84179522
really just one star for song to song? is THAT bad?
shit i wish that the girl that i invited to see citezen kane or el angel exterminador it would have said yes
>>84180896
You wouldn't have known about it if it weren't in Criterion. And I can prove you have shit taste. See here >>84180650
Me: Infinity
You: -1,000,000
>>84180923
>citizen kane
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
>>84180987
Not an argument. Come to the Auteurs if you want to have a discourse in a public forum. But you won't, you are scared.
If Citizen Kane's so good, how come it doesn't have a Criterion bluray release?
>>84181062
>If I'm so smart, why do I always ask such stupid things?
One of the great mysteries of life.
>>84181062
>If Citizen Kane's so good
it isn't
>>84181029
what? it was playing in a theater near by,and my first choice was el angel exterminador fag
>>84178467
i don't think i could evet stop kissing her if i were dating her
>>84181037
Not going to fight any of your battles for your literal who pleb collection forum, aspie. If someone's making fun of you, stand up for yourself and fuck off of /tv/, newfaggot
>>84181062
>>84181104
Unironically this. Othello > Citizen Kane
>>84181081
>thinking Citizen Kane is good
Yeah there's a retard here and it's not the gentleman of fine taste you're replying to
>>84181132
>spic
Reminder there is no bigger pleb filter than DW Griffith and Robert Flaherty
>so desperate to appear cutting-edge and ahead of the pack that he actively denies Kane's greatness
yawn
>>84181355
>aryan master race
>>84181500
That's not an Aryan. All true Aryans have Kekistan flags to celebrate their superior heritage.
>>84181287
Andre Bazinga is the retard.
>>84181566
bazinga
"You know, an awful much is written about literature and much too much literature is written about movies. And a lot of it is written about as is a whole sort of people that don't desrve it, people such as me. They give me credit for innovations I'm not responsible for and inventions I didn't invent. Then other people come along and say I don't deserve the credit, well I'm here to tell you I never claimed the credit. I mention all this because the movie we are about to see tonight deserves all the credit that can possibly be given to it. It was made just a year after I was born. And there's nothing in the entire vocabulary of the cinema that you won't find in this incredibly complex film."
-Orson Welles
>>84181411
>repeating something ad inifinitum makes it true
Good luck with that.
>>84181526
John c Reilly?
>>84181596
Why do plebs give low stars to Griffith and Flaherty's work? They can't handle it. Too slow, too boring, too complex.
https://letterboxd.com/OriginalName3/
>>84179827
im not a kurosawa flicc
>>84182380
Original name.
>>84182380
>one hour forty-seven minutes
Forget it.
>>84182380
>9 movies in one day
Maybe you should stop being a fucking NEET
>>84182491
And spend my time shitposting about DW Griffith 24/7 instead?
>>84182578
I only state facts. People cry when they don't like hearing them
>>84182608
You don't.
That's not how it goes
>>84182934
That's not how I remember it.
Then you have shit memory based on your shit genes
>>84181132
>paying for DCP
Stay pleb, Pablo.
Man, I haven't been to TIFF since '09 and I was considering going this year but if everything is DCP now what's even the point? Especially when tickets are north of $20 now.
I have good memory based on my Jeans' (3000+ pincters)
Every silent film is terrible.
>>84183515
>mfw Rostova is 4' 11 1/4"
Emily Jean is amazing <3
SMOL :3
She's so cute :3
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH
>>84183877
>Murnau
>6'11
Holy shit
Phantom > anything by your favorite director
>>84183898
Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe
>>84183988
God, this movie bored me to tears.
>>84184025
i hope slept is in the london ed sheeran concert
>be woman
>favorite films, chungking express, the double life of veronique, the red shoes, mulholland Dr.
>1000+ followers
>>84184025
>bored me to tears
Reminder DW Griffith, early Murnau, and Robert Flaherty are the biggest pleb filters known to man
Lupu Pick > Fritz Lang
>be man
>regrets it
>dress like a woman
>watch movies in angery
>writes reviews blaming men for everything
>2000+ followers
Reminder that nearly every one of Murnau's lesser-known movies are snoozefests and Thea Von Habou is a shit writer.
muh dick>lupu pick
>>84184456
>>be man
>>regrets it
>>84184461
>snoozefest
Found the pleb.
Emily Jean>Griffiths genes
"What's missing from cinema nowadays is the wind in the trees."
>>84184560
Wind in the trees is fucking boring
>>84184507
They are boring as fuck. There's a reason they are lesser-known and no one cares about them. Tabu, Sunrise, Nosferatu are all great but Phantom and the Burning Earth are on a much lower level. The only reasons I can imagine someone praising these movies is if they are being contrarian, have no taste, are fanatical Murnau fans or enjoy boring shit. You're welcome to them, I've got no use for them.
>>84184588
Found the pleb!
>>84184600
>the babby says as he watches slow cinema and pretends he's patrician
>>84184560
What does Griffith know about cinema nowadays if he's dead?
>>84184600
It's fine if you're looking for entertainment. Just say so
"You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damn red velvet cake!"
It's better that i watch the Brando movy on TCM but I'd much rather rewatch Zombieland on Syfy tbpf
>>84184656
where did you take that text from
>>84184710
I'm looking for something cinematically interesting and those lesser Murnaus aren't it. What's good about them?
Phantom is one of the greatest works ever made. Contemplative with elements that hearken back to the mighty Griffith's Dream Street released the prior year
>>84184925
>mfw there are anons who enlarge Megaautist's images
>>84184382
>early Murnau
You don't like city girl, faggot?
>>84184382
>early Murnau
worst Murnau
>>84184945
You're looking for flashes of empty technique every second to stimulate your eyes, you're not looking for quality.
>>84184983
Dream Street and Endless Street are better
>>84185033
>>84184955
More evidence you have no taste for cinema and anything you like that is actually good or great is entirely by chance and/or you like it for it's most uninteresting elements. Literally a more uninteresting machill to the power of 10, which I would have thought impossible until you showed up.
>>84185096
My ass
>>84185145
>mad cause he can't into subtlety and quality
Stay mad, pleb.
>early Murnau
>>84185226
dull & uninteresting != subtle and quality
Not surprising you are easily fooled.
>>84185226
Griffith had 0 subtlety
He was the 'baby' of cinema, and then cinema grew up to be a real 'man' with directors like Dreyer and Bresson
>>84185218
The Lady is better as well. Unfortunate you were born with shit genes otherwise you'd be able to see properly.
I never thought IMDB would surpassed as the headquarters of self-important "film buffs"
>>84185295
>Griffith had zero subtlety
See here. Transformation and vitality all in one take >>84181411 Lack of expression does not equal subtlety, neither does monotonous surface level tragedy
>>84185279
>dull
Not the works just go over your head.
>uninteresting
You're looking for flash in the pan technique rather and intelligent use of it. And your rejection of the works while praising the like of Tsai Mingalingding, kong war-hi, who sow sen, bela tarr, and so on only shows your incapable of watching silent for hours
>>84185750
>blah blah blah I love napcore
I already know, that's why I don't read most of your posts.
>>84185295
>Dreyer
>man
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHA>>84183877
>>84185295
>Dreyer
>man
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
>>84183877
>>84185849
t. plebbicus maximus
>>84185459
Only middlebrows dislike Michael Bay
>>84184761
she looks healthy
Why nobody speaks about that spooky birdo near the end of CK?
>>84185960
>>84185909
>Dreyer
>man
no, cinema = man
can you even read, you monggie
>>84186921
>defending manlets
AHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAAHHAAHHAH
Murnau > Dreyer
>>84183877
>>84187025
Prove that you're not a Manlet, shit-gened retard.
>>84187078
I can guarantee I'm taller than you.
Follow the papa
https://letterboxd.com/AlphaPapa/
>>84187025
>defending homos
honhonhonhonhon
>>84187305
Fuck the Papa
Watch the LaLa (land)
>>84187305
only if you follow me too
>>84187382
There's still one greater than them all
>>84187490
Yeah he's the biggest faggot of them all
>>84187610
Griffith was the biggest pimp of them all.
When asked to informally be called Bob by director Robert Altman while working on set, actress Lilian Gish responded "There's only one man I call by first name, and that is David Wark Griffith."
griffshit
>>84187932
upboat
>>84187932
reddit gold
>>84187870
That's funny, because Altman's films are infinitely better than Griffith's
What's a good book to help me understand film theory / color schemes used in films?
>>84187305
>Fan of film of all eras and genres
>hasn't seen a seen a single feature length motion picture from before 1933
>has only seen three movies from the 30s and seven in the 40s
hmmmmm
>>84188149
Jon Jost > Robert Altman
>>84188149
Did Griffith have autism?
>>84188553
That cat is not retarded
>>84183446
10 pesos, the dollar is like 17 pesos mate. Is cheap as fuck and comfy.
>>84187305
>1950s to 10s on the same page
hold me lads
dubs decide what should I watch next
https://letterboxd.com/dubs_decide/
>>84189200
Zombieland
>>84189200
a grown up man decided to put in the effort to create this *MAY-MAY* profile..
>>84189232
this
>>84189200
Throw Down (2004)
>>84189232
reroll
>>84189200
Iguana (1988)
>>84189232
best choice
>>84189232
this t.b.h.
>>84189232
re roll
>>84189200
Tokyo fist
>>84189200
Miami Vice (2006)
>>84189232
this
>>84189232
you should watch this one
>>84189200
Public Enemies (2009)
>>84189200
satantango
>>84189232
reroll
>>84189200
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
why didn't you post my profile griffithfag? I want to be with my friends
>>84189232
good choice anon
>>84189232
snake eyes
>>84189200
In Harm's Way (1965)
>>84189232
re rolling
>>84189200
Sparrow (2008)
>>84189232
Body double
>>84189200
Zombieland
>>84189644
reroll for Zombieland CONFIRMED
>>84189567
Who are you
>>84189644
>>84189686
I meant to reply to the post above. He will watch body double. The dubs have spoken.
>>84189200
28 Weeks Later
>>84189727
you did it wrong. he will watch Zombieland.
>>84189200
Okay fine, 28
>>84189688
It doesn't matter who I am. What matters is my plan.
Who else hype for /CG/ - Cinemos General on July 22?
>>84178467
go aawayy u like the worst emma
>>84189200
14 replies no dubs, hold me lads
>>84189200
Birth of a Nation
>>84189979
you responded to Zombieland, Body Double is disqualified
>>84189977
>>84190006
Wasn't me, I'm just here to clear things up.
>>84189977
>>84189979
dubs has spoken
>>84189200
What did you think of Kiss Me Deadly?
>>84190176
The Big Knife is better
84189863
Fuck off.
84190244
>picking one of Aldrich's worst movies, that is stagey with a terrible Clifford Odets script full of retarded lines like 'peronitis of the soul' over Aldrich's masterpiece
Gee, I wonder who could have made this post....
>>84190246
>84189863
Dumb non-reply poster
>>84190176
>>84190244
not me, was pretty good! and velma was lewd af
>>84190300
>>84190335
velda sorry
>>84190288
>stagy
>what is 12 Angry Men
nothing but garbage in criterion
>>84190369
What does this have to do with what I posted?
>>84190369
>>84190288
Forgot pic
>>84190428
I actively hated this movie while while watching it, mostly because of the obvious script with stupid lines like I pointed out. The Legend of Lylah Clare is the superior Aldrich movie about Hollywood.
>>84190487
>movie about Hollywood.
Shit was already done in the 40s.
>>84190395
You implied The Big Knife was stagey, and I pointed out that Criterion specializes in stage adaptations. See Gertrud and 12 Angry Men. Shouldn't have to spell things out if you were anything but illiterate.
>>84190526
>>84190487
Try 30's reddit
>>84190526
Not sure if actual Megaautist or parody....
https://letterboxd.com/machill54/
Has anyone been to an all-night movie thing at a cinema? Are they good or miserable? The Michael Mannothon and 80s summer camp slash-a-thon are both this weekend and I'm partly tempted to go
>>84190288
that's not me, I liked the movie
follow the dubs >>https://letterboxd.com/dubs_decide/
>>84190530
What does The Big Knife have to do with Criterion? Why are you obsessed with this label and shoehorn it into every post you can?
>>84190526
And it was perfected in 2016
>>84190573
wahoo!!!!!!!!!!
>>84190573
>he didn't see Joe Dante's The Movie Orgy on campus in the 60s
Hola plebbit!
>>84190589
It's the only reason you think Kiss Me Deadly is anything but his worst flick.
>>84190700
Prove it.
>>84190559
Shit was already done in the 70s.
>>84190640
>implying the original American Tarantino is goodCancer
>>84190713
You've already proven it for me. Your entire taste is centered around Criterion.
>>84190805
Prove it.
my first griffith hold me closer
>>84190822
Griffith isn't on here because he can't be mocked and is actually good
>84190862
Wrong.
>>84190831
A beautiful opening. The pan down to the unaware cat and the cut to Gish dressing up as they read the newspaper is the essence of Griffith
>>84190862
thoughts on Lucas?
You'll be around this part by now. Another integral scene
>>84190935
My little nephew likes Star Wars
>>84190822
Is the Hitchcock one talking about side angles and blocking
wahoo!!! House of Psychotic Women is a bad movie!!!
>>84190862
More like Griffith isn't there because he had no discernible method or trademark
>>84185459
Bay is good though. 13 Hours was the best film released in 2016.
>>84191204
he could have used the "A MILLION OF ME" gag for his deep focus thing
Richard Brody from the New Yorker writes in his review of Birth of a Nation: "The worst thing about Birth of a Nation is how good it is. 'Birth of a Nation wasn’t just a seminal commercial spectacle but also a decisively original work of art—in effect, the founding work of cinematic realism,"
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-worst-thing-about-birth-of-a-nation-is-how-good-it-is
>>84190822
idg the nolan 1
>>84191371
"it belongs in the trash" just like his movies lol
any movies with a similar atmosphere? btw this movie deserved better praise then it got
>>84191437
Phantom FW Murnau
MEGAAUTIST FUCKING LEAVE NO ONE FUCKING LIKES YOU
>TCM ad for "Orson Welles wine"
>>84190822
Benning
>>84191619
no one cares about him tho
>>84190828
Post your profile first :)
>>84191650
Powell or Aronofsky
Squidward gay porn
Bela Tarr
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ge9jS2XlzQc
>>84191734
Bergman
>>84191782
idgi
>>84191832
watch satantango
Griffith isn't mentioned because he can't be mocked and is actually good
>>84191782
kek
>>84191848
I don't have 7 hours. Is it because he's slow or there's a noise that plays thrughout
>watching Emily Jean movies
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEDY0-vPFR8
Rec plz
Mizoguchi
>>84191970
ashame you don't like silence, you'll surely enjoy the films starring Andrew Garfield's ex.
Scorsese
>>84191970
Birth of a Nation
>>84191970
watch kiss me deadly right now
Kobayashi (The Human Condition) or Kalatozov (Cranes Are Flying & Letter Never Sent)
Kar-wai Wong
>>84192011
I thought Silence was terrible one-dimensional hollywood schlock with a superficial treatment of a serious topic. Especially disappointed by it after hearing Sorsese say how much Bergman influenced him generally.
>>84192180
its a remake
Burton
>>84192180
I thought Winter Light was terrible one-dimensional pseudo-intellectual schlock with a superficial treatment of a serious topic. Especially disappointed by it after hearing Bergman say how much Griffith influenced him
>>84192236
GAAAAH!
GAAAAH!
GAAAAH!
Yang
De Palma
>>84191650
You do.
>>84192268
Yeah I don't rate Winter Light that highly. I don't think it was pseudo-intellectual, though. At least it was honest.
>>84192180
>>84192180
It was pretty weird to see how Garfield's character who wants to believe in God and hear God talk to him and wants to literally be Jesus finds his connection to god in a denial and torturing Christians for his living.
>>84192133
"Kiss Me Deadly" is the great iconic Hollywood film of the 1950s. There may be Hollywood films of that decade that are aesthetically greater, but none with more insight into America of the period.
I once showed it on a double bill with another apocalyptic end-of-the-world 50s masterpiece, Christopher Maclaine's "The End."
I remember the radio music scene. I'm sure critics are right about its connection to Hammer's "insight," but I'd like to consider it in a different context, that of the cultural references that occur throughout the film. For one thing, the Schubert "rhymes" with its negative other, namely the other Hammer-hears-classical-music scene in which Hammer breaks a rare Caruso record the opera singer owns as part of his interrogation technique. And, and this is important, his technique "works." He may "appreciate" music if it leads him to his goal, but in one of many signs that the film is about the total destruction of all values, cultural or otherwise, he is equally willing to destroy classical music if doing so also serves his goals. Not as brutal as those American directed naked pyramids at Abu Gharib, in the film it still comes as quite a shock, one of many little explosions, sudden eruptions, that prefigure the big explosion that ends us all. This pattern is enshrined quite literally in the film's script, when Nick the mechanic says "va-va-voom-POW," linking speed, sex and violence. "Va-va-voom" was a 50s expression that meant, roughly, "What an incredibly sexy-looking girl." Nick uses it to refer to the speed of a fast car, but at one point he also uses it with Hammer in connection with finding "a couple of Greek girls."
1/?
>>84192381
The Fugitive > Winter Light
>>84192474
The classical music reference also locates itself in the larger context of the film's references to past culture, particularly Soberin's invocation of mythology. These function as opposites to the film's twisted style, and opposites to William Mist's "Gallery of Modern Art," whose twisted paintings we see briefly. In the film, space is malleable, plastic, fluid, and is constantly consuming itself. We cut to high angles, to low angles, to images taken from behind bed frames, in a way that denies the imagery predictability and balance, and denies the viewer's feet firm ground. If in John Ford space is static and architectural, an old church building framed diagonally standing for the Euclidean lines that signal community and continuity, Aldrich's space here is utterly fluid and self-destroying. This quality is established in the very first shot, the credits sequence of a highway in which Hammer's car is perpetually consuming space that we can barely see, the highway's jagged white lines on black also prefiguring those black-and-white explosions (Hammer's use of thrown popcorn, for example) that occur throughout. Indeed, the whole use of black-white contrast, especially in night scenes, feels violent, and also leads us to the end, which is thus rooted in the "ordinary" settings of the film. Thus thematically cars are linked to violence too, which seems absolutely correct both for the film and for our nation as the last century: one vast and interconnected machine speeding toward its, and perhaps the world's, annihilation. Even minor characters at minor moments acknowledge impermanence. The man carrying furniture into someone's new home says something like, "House of my body, move in when I'm born, move out when I die."
2/?
>>84192390
It was so stupid. And having God literally talk to him, confirming all his beliefs, effectively negating the whole point of the movie. Plus it being stuck between wanting to be a serious movie and an orientalist action film. There was just so much that I didn't like about it. The only good scene I can think of is the second priest sacrificing himself trying to save the villagers from being drowned. Literally everything else was so tacky and showed how disconnected the director was from both the historical and thematic content of the movie.
>>84192511
This is also a pre-Interstate highway, pre-freeway film. A modern highway is multiple lanes, and designed with careful landscaping and well-planned curves to give the illusion of predictability and safety. Reflective posts on the side mark out the space, even at night. The two-laners of "Kiss Me Deadly" exist in a total void, bringing out the space-destroying nature of automobile travel just as modern Interstates try to convince one of the opposite.
The classic reference are mournful, elegiac. Nicholas Romano, we learn from the opera singer, was "sad for the way the world is" (quoted inexactly from memory). They are above all anachronistic: they signal a realm of learning and knowledge, of predictable and meaningful stories and symbolisms that the modern world has now passed by, just as it has passed by nineteenth century poetry and music. These things have been consumed by the annihilating speed of the cars that traverse our highways, spanning space and thus denying stability. Classical mythology and classical music and Romantic poetry are not Hammer's languages either, even if they may help him gain insight for a moment in a case he is pursuing for totally venal and self-serving ends. Hammer's language, instead, is that of physical violence. He even says that directly, something like "I like to speak a lot of languages so that...." with reference to some martial arts moves he used to floor an opponent.
3/?
>>84192497
I've not seen any Ford yet, I'll be sure to check it out.
>>84192559
go to the dealership and buy a Ford
>>84192548
This is also one of the greatest of sound films. It puts the few of today's "maximalist" exercises in sound design that I've seen, with their reliance on crude, almost pornographic swooshy stereo effects, to shame. The sound of the boxing club over Hammer's conversation, the sounds of car engines, contrast in a crucial way with the quiet scenes, such as Mike's conversations with Velma. And like the image the sound has its little prefiguring explosions too, such as the crooked autopsy doctor's screams when Hammer closes a door on his hand. All of this leads to the machine like whoosh, echoing that of car engines, that we hear the first time the "box" is opened briefly. Sound is also used to convey, I believe, a final betrayal. When Hammer is tied to a bed near the end, we hear on the radio the sound of a boxing match that suddenly reverses: is this not the boxing entrepreneur's new champ, the one he told Hammer to "bet your shirt" on, lying down and losing just as Hammer had predicted, reminding the entrepreneur that he would make more money with a crooked betting scheme in which the expected winner loses?
4/5
>>84192548
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>>84192474
A Face in the Crowd > Kiss Me Deadly
Refn
>>84192584
The absence of a firm geometry to the images is a sign of a world that has lost all its values. At a crucial moment in Hitchcock's great "Shadow of a Doubt," a tilted camera informs us of a character's guilt. It can do this because it has thus far presented the world in a consistent, non-tilted geography. In "Kiss Me Deadly," everything is "tilted." Like "The End," in a different way, it offers insight not only into the violence underlying the 50s but into today's American government, in which our President says "We do not torture" when torture is our official policy approved at the highest governmental levels; when he invades another country in a war based on lies with the claim that it will make us more secure when it actually was predicted to, and did, inspire more terrorism; when he says in opposing stem cell research that he doesn't want to destroy life to preserve it when that was the very logic of starting his illegal war. In the slogan of the totalitarian state in Orwell's "1984," "War is peace."
5/5
>>84192559
Griffith > Ford
>>84192646
I never saw a Griffith in the streets. European brand?
>>84192612
>>84192584
>>84192548
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>>84192474
While the City Sleeps > Kiss Me Deadly
A Face in the Crowd > Kiss Me Deadly
>>84192646
What Ford film would you recommend?
>>84192606
why you feel in the need to compare every movie? kinda weird if you think about it, maybe the lack of confidence?
screw you all
>>84192764
lack of confidence would be exclusively praising criterionshit
NEW THREAD: >>84192728
>>84192738
Scarlet Days
>>84192735
Andy Griffith>DW Griffith
FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>84192856
i prefer the movie Science Crazed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>84192815
Who does that?
>>84192921
You do. Only reason you think Kiss Me Deadly is better
>>84192954
Wrong.
>>84192986
>muh self-insert loner
Last for Bruce Melvin.