/lbg/- Letterboxd General

>>84940563
We have to take our frog back with poo and pee.

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>>84940563
>>84940625
>>84940066
http://www.tcj.com/pepe-in-the-court-of-law-an-interview-with-kimberley-motley/
>The alt-right is trying to make him a new-age swastika and it’s not right. By the Anti-Defamation League putting Pepe in the database, I think that encourages them even more.

Is she /ourgril/

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https://letterboxd.com/creamy/

Patrician

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Are you an admirer of Nicolas Winding Refn’s work?

>Not particularly, but he’s been to my house a couple of times. He came over here and gave me the old story about how much he admires my movies and all that stuff. He came over twice, sat around and drank and ate hors d’oeuvres. We treated him very nicely, but if you ask Nicolas Winding Refn for anything, you never hear back from him. It’s the same old story again, you know?

What did you ask of him?

>I asked him to read something that I had written, and he claimed he was just too busy. What can you say? You know, he’s just not very pleasant. He asked me to write a scene for Drive, which was the picture he was directing at the time we met, but he didn’t use the scene. He said that he didn’t have time to shoot it. I can’t go into details about what the scene was about, but it was rather superfluous. I’m sure it’s true; he probably didn’t have the time to do it. What I don’t understand is why he was bothering me to write it for him in the first place. I was gracious enough to create something for him— for nothing! That’s just the way it usually is with people in this business. They want something from you, but they offer you nothing in return.

It’s my understanding that Winding Refn is indeed a big fan of your work.

>Well, maybe he is. I can’t stop him from being a fan. I don’t judge people and tell them they can or can’t be a fan of my movies. It’s just the way they behave when they meet you that concerns me. Somebody may be a big admirer of your work, but that doesn’t guarantee that they will always treat you with courtesy. But I really do want him to make the picture. I have no problem with them doing the remake. I’m glad they are doing it and I’m glad they have raised the money. I hope they make a good film.

https://youtu.be/MOcdhQ9KfJA?t=2m3s

>>84942702
>look up pic
>she cleaned the vandalized star of Trump
>people mock her for cleaning
kek
Amerifats truly are disgusting people who will prefer to live in vandalized urban areas like they are all used to as they are all niggers like that anyway who trash up their neighborhood.

>>84942260
Fucking christcucks I swear to Allah

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RIP

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Stone : Who are you?
Emma : Emma stone
Stone : No, I am a stone.

I hope Slept is falsly accused of murder and gets testified & found guilty

Dr Pepper is bomb af and goes great with Froot Loops. Europoors will NEVER know how great this cuisine is

Nothing goes over my head, I have great reflexes.

Emily Bean

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Happy birthday to Sid the most based actor of literally all time

>>84942803
calm down Shrimp

>>84950184
Who the fuck names themself Shrimp

>>84950292
tiny dicked euros

>>>/pol/133631812
>>>/pol/133632005

>>84942702
lol what a cuck

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https://letterboxd.com/machill54/

ummm hello hehe

>>84952562
wahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can someone tell me how worthless i am and bully me based on my favorite movies? https://letterboxd.com/nazzer/

>>84953013
you are worthless and your favourites are bad

Based on your favourites it is clear that you are underage, or if not you are 18+ and extremely dumb

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>>84953324
Im 19. And thank you buddy, i needed that.

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https://letterboxd.com/OriginalName3/

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>>84953865
>>84953919
why in the thumbnails he always looks like he saw someones dick or something lol

>>84954254
why is he looking back, looks like hes ready to take it in the butt lol

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hey lbg how come double exposure died after the silent era?

I know my taste is shit but I've only been into film for a brief time: https://letterboxd.com/ambedo/

Gibe reccomendations that I might like plz

Recently got into film, and now I want to make them. Might as well keep track of the ones I watch along the way!

I'm always on the hunt for something that'll captivate me or scratch my curiosity itch. Up for discussing anything and everything about movies, regardless if you think I'm right or wrong. I want to learn!

My favorite directors are:

-Andrei Tarkovsky
-Hayao Miyazaki
-Terrence Malick
-Krzysztof Kieslowski
-Wes Anderson
-Anything Charlie Kaufman has done
-Werner Herzog

Prove you have better taste than Kurosawa

https://mubi.com/lists/akira-kurosawas-top-100-films

>>84954995
https://letterboxd.com/machill54/list/100-top-films-in-the-opinion-of-me-machill54/

czechmate bitch

>>84955080
>not a single Griffith movie

Trashed.

>>84955143
the dw, it stands for "don't watch", I saw it on wikipedia

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making more friends!

https://letterboxd.com/dubs_decide/

>>84954322
Sounds like you don't watch avant-garde film.

>avant garde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbCt-iXIXlQ

https://letterboxd.com/AnomalyOne/

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What are some meme flicks?

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WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT GREAT MOTION PICTURES YOU WILL TALK ABOUT THIS ONE!

>>84959690
tree of life

That Day, on the Beach re-released today (in Taiwan).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTAgIwVk89o

>>84954844
Is this bait?

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>when you realize Michael Mann is making a Viet Nam war miniseries to take his white male asian female fetish to it's logical conclusion

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https://letterboxd.com/Hussain/

Watched Love and Mercy, have no opinion because I was so distracted by John Cusack looking NOTHING like Brian Wilson...or Paul Dano.

Spider-Man Homecoming is so hip and down with the kids it features fresh tunes like Blitzkrieg Bop and Can't You Hear Me Knocking.

I can't believe I have two new favorite films in two days and they're both comic book movies. Am I just that easy?

https://letterboxd.com/film/bad-liar/

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I can continue the baking. I had one in the oven but I'l keep it on standby. I didn't realize there were a bunch of grandmas here

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>mfw 8 people

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How did we let this happen bros?

>>84954844
Yikes

>>84962642
I wonder if this guy knows he is a meme.

>>84962642
Yeah, he does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go_Oe6XbDTc

>>84964251
was meant for
>>84964186

It's been a while since I deleted my Letterboxd account. I'm guessing nothing's changed and the community remains a toxic cesspool?

>>84964301
Yes, still movies-as-identity-politics business as usual.

>>84964360
It's kind of depressing. It was one of my most visited sites to catalog movies that I've seen.

>>84964301
just stop frequenting lbg

the site improves tenfold when you don't associate accounts with internet characters and just use it as a catalog/source of recommendations

https://letterboxd.com/b21/

Why do people watch New Hollywoodshit?

https://letterboxd.com/film/yee/

519

>>84966554

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Say hi /lbg/

Megaautist is there a Griffith forum you frequent or own

Films are meant to be entertaining. That is their primary purpose. A film that is not entertaining misses the point of why films exist. If your film appeals exclusive to filmmakers and film critics, it's not a "good" film. This, more than anything else, is why I mostly detest indie and arthouse films.
I reject the term "cinephile". I watch hundreds of films and enjoy or dislike many. But I will not be assimilated into the pretentious world of wannabe critics who try to shame everyone into conforming viewpoints. Film tastes are subjective and nobody has objectively good or bad tastes. If you can't fathom why someone may dislike a film you like (or like a film you dislike), you have a narcissism issue and should attempt to pull your head out your ass.

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Who are you talking to

>>84968267
Is that what Trump supporters look like?

>>84968821
hehe drumpfsters btfo!!! real socialism has never been tried right bros?

where do I start with Borowczyk? I don't want to end up on an fbi watchlist

One remembers, too, a particularly moving passage from Richard Schickel's D. W. Griffith: An American Life, the definitive biography. Shortly before his death in 1948, Griffith granted one last interview that took -- how could it not? -- a nostalgic turn. Schickel comments that

"(Griffith) missed a certain beauty he thought had disappeared from film, from the way people saw life -- 'the beauty of the moving wind in the trees, the little movement in a beautiful blowing on the blossoms in the trees. That they have forgotten entirely. . . We have lost beauty.' On that note, Griffith fell silent. On that note, if one were directing the scene, one would begin a slow pullback. Whatever had become of him, whatever had become (or would become) of the medium that he had been the first to conceive of as an art, that fragile essence of his sensibility, at its best, and of one of cinema's potentials at its most generous, he had now fleetingly evoked one last time. . . .

"The problem was not merely that pictures now talked. Or that they had become big business. Or that a new age of anxiety was upon the movies as television . . . destroyed everyone's confidence. No, it was more than that. It was, really, that everyone had now arrived where Griffith had arrived perhaps two decades earlier -- at a place where innocence was lost, and with it the capacity to wonder at the miracle of a medium that could, if it would, show us, in the flicker of a ten-frame cut, something of our inward life, or, if you will, find in the trembling of a leaf, the symbol of an unknown yearning, an unspoken dream. In all the long years of wandering and confusion, in all the long years when his own peculiar demons drove him down strange paths, in all the long years when, being the product of his bustling times and this often vulgar place, he had lost touch with his best self, his best and simplest hopes for this thing he had made. But now, at the end, he remembered." (Schickel, p. 603)

Schickel's appraisal of this final summing up (Griffith's "dying fall," he terms it) makes one see afresh not only the rightness of this burial spot, but also the way that Griffith's work may best endear itself to future generations. His reputation is a diminished thing in these days of political correctness, for the unfortunate portrayals of African-Americans in his films, "The Birth of a Nation," in particular, have clouded his name.

If film students and aficionados learn their Griffith at all today, they are most likely to see the clips most associated with him: the awe-inspiring crane shot of Belshazzar's Feast from "Intolerance" or the last-minute rescue of Lillian Gish on the ice floes from "Way Down East."

But even these clips, I think, are muted, at least when shorn of the carefully structured framework of Griffith's best films: one might as well show students of architecture a portal without stepping back to view the entire building. And we now see spectacle and hair-raising rescues all the time.

No, if Griffith is to be experienced with immediacy and without apologia (for both the world and we who sit before the screen have changed beyond measure in the century since Griffith's earliest work for Biograph), we must return not to the overfamiliar clips, not to the racial attitudinizing that pins Griffith to his time and place, but to the simple sequences that must have seemed throwaways to earlier generations of filmgoers for whom the pastoral was an understood form of art, for whom a closeness to the land and to family was more often a given than it is today. Consider, and revisit, these central moments in Griffith:

-- Elsie Stoneman and The Little Colonel's shy kiss after stroking a dove in "The Birth of a Nation."

-- The lovely pan shot of field, river, and trees that opens "A Romance of Happy Valley."

-- David Bartlett's proposal to Anna Moore in the midst of a field of sunflowers in "Way Down East"; or the single shot of a kitten falling asleep between a little boy's legs as he dozes on the front porch of a general store; or Anna's tending to David's parents as they rest by their well; or the sleigh ride; or David's waltzing his mother around their living room.

-- Lucy Butler's wistful, heartbreaking gaze at the geranium she will never be able to afford in "Broken Blossoms."

-- A poor German family's joy when their hen starts laying in "Isn't Life Wonderful?", or their touching thankfulness when they dine on potatoes.

-- The extended shots of a farmer sowing his fields in "A Corner in Wheat."

There are scores of these miniatures across the canvas of Griffith's work, and doubtless you have your own favorites. And of course there is so much more to Griffith than individual sequences or shots. But one quickly comes to notice how Griffith lingers on these miniatures, rather in the way we might linger over a favorite photograph or keepsake from the past; the image before us suddenly takes on a warmth and humanity as fresh as the day it was caught on film. To put the point another way: in viewing Griffith's work from the early Biographs to the romances and great symphonies of the 1910's and 1920's, one marvels at his skill in marshaling his resources to create (as Orson Welles termed it) the very language of motion pictures. But in these quiet, glowing moments, one senses Griffith's love; and here the medium of film takes on its greatest power -- not to excite, not to hold in suspense, but to speak with directness to the heart. Few directors have understood this power as well as the Kentuckian who discovered it.

How appropriate, then, that Griffith rests far from the industry, and even the West Coast city, that he helped create; how fitting that he is surrounded by farmland, shady trees nudged by the wind, and rolling streams, to which iconic images he aimed Billy Bitzer's camera with the surety of a master painter laying his brush on canvas. In his films, in his life and death, he knew where to return.

The Devil's Backbone is fucking shit. I thought Criterion collection was supposed to consist of films regarded by most as good.

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/swimmingpool

I liked war, I'll watch The Mission now

>>84968865
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>>84969164
Griffith is shit faggot. Stay mad

>>84941032
/eeffoc
is triple agent really not taht great?

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>>84969275
A master of the epic and intimate, a master of all known techniques. Griffith not only came first but he is also better than everyone else.

>>84969180
it has historical significance. basically u r too pleb

>>84969388
>Mexican nigger
>significance
If Criterion cared about quality they'd have Griffith in their catalog

Griffith was a master of the instinctive cut. He would linger when a scene permitted it and dynamically edit on momentum and psychological state for vice versa.

Does this guy do this all the time?

>>84959923
Money can't buy knives

>>84969725
Should've been a 2 for The Apartment. Fuck that jew

The primitive filmmaking of DW Griffith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP0o7Jf2rQw

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>>84969884
What's primitive about it? Irises?

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I genuinely want to know what's primitive about DW Griffith's pictures.

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I've seen irises used in films from the late 30s. Ah but I see. When Godard uses an iris it's state of the art. When Hou Hsiao Hsien has a static long shot it's state of the art

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Erich von Stroheim>Bela Tar

"With his closeup, Griffith could bestow up the poor man what the rich man could see with his opera glasses on the legitimate stage - as well as those in nigger heaven."

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"The producers laughed. Who would want to see feet without legs or hands without arms attached to them? It is now after his successful triumphs that his closeup is used in every motion picture since."

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There is no director with a more consistent career. 500+ works and not a single bad one. Meanwhile john Ford had up the river the same year Abraham Lincoln came out

how do i slam dunk at 5'8"?

>>84970941
check the NBA there have been players that short

then a few of them could probably dunk

/link_gorro

inb4 shitty useless fake memes

>>84970863
ok but who gives a shit? he died poor and miserable and he's only remember for birth of a nation (which most normies hate)
meanwhile kevin fiege will die a hundred times richer than every silent film director combined
the sooner you accept this the sooner will you fuck off of this general

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>>84968915
start with this coffret of course

>>84970941
white boys can't jump lmao

>>84971234
>muh money
as long as cinema lives, people will talk about griffith
feige's toy commercials will be forgotten very very soon

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Eye_Shaking_King/central-asian-cinema/

>>84972808
Thanks.

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>>84940066
I do.

>>84973935
you do?

>>84960395
No it's from my letterboxed profile (which I should change) , I just haven't seen enough films to have much of a taste. What's wrong with it?

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>>84974256
Based Emma

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>>84974272
>implying any of those flicks are worth 5 stars
>Greed only 4

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This is why Griffith, Flaherty, Stroheim, and early Murnau are the biggest pleb filters known to man

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The biggest

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pleb filters

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known to man

>>84974576

>missing a love that never was

any movie for this feeling?

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>>84971459
I bet I'm taller than you nigger

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Your first mistake was existing, /lbg/. Your second mistake was thinking you know more than me. I'm here to correct both of those mistakes. No matter how much time it takes, from now until the end of time, I'll be here to prove you wrong and destroy you. Give up, /lbg/, you can't win. I will always outmatch you physically, mentally, genetically and sexually. I never tire, I choose to sleep. I never hunger, I choose to eat. I can prove anything. I choose not to. Now get off my board and go back to plebbit. This is your warning.

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>>84954322
>>84957345
Oops

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megapedo get a fucking life

Well, that happened.

>>84976207
how can be sure?

>>84976299
You can't.

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Why is it so underrated?

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This is how Jimmy Smits looks now.

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Is this an art film, /lbg/?

FUCK YOU

>>84978505
Is it?

>>84974682
wow! one film did it after the silent era?!

pingis pongis

Emily Bean > Pingis Pongis

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God, you "people" have terrible taste in film. I need to find a more intelligent site.

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its all bad

https://letterboxd.com/FutureDays/

>>84978505
Don't you mean overrated?

>>84984338
Shut up bitch
I'll murder you
Collateral owns

>>84984489
collateral brain damage

Recommend me some good mystery films. And not it was all in my head type stuff please.

>>84986082
Spongebob's Mystery with a Twistery

Dw Griffith was too serious. He overestimated the audience and that became his downfall

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>>84986120

>>84986694
she's so cute :3