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Thunder Road, D Jim Cummings. (2018)

Just saw it at the cinema. Great little indy film. Cummings directed, wrote and starred in it. Looking forward to seeing what he does next.

The Mood For Love - Wong Kar-wai Fuckin love it unconditionally. I don't care if people no longer think it's cool to like Wong. Any of a few of his films could be my desert island film. Chungking Express, Happy Together, Fallen Angels, Days of Being Wild, even 2046 and The Grandmaster -- all wonder...

When SCFZ held a Best Films of the 21st Century poll in 2016 In the Mood for Love came in at number seventeen.

https://letterboxd.com/fliptrotsky/list ... scfz-poll/

of course, it's not the number one film of this century. first of all, that's goofy af. second of all, we're not even two decades into the century yet. third of all, i like itmfl. i think it gets roundly shit upon by some folks cuz they're now too kool to like some overly popular flick with a crite...

n The Mood For Love - Wong Kar-wai (2000)

TSPDT has it ranked as the number one film of this century. I disagree. But maybe I wasn't in the mood.

I didn''t pick it to win anything but Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the first Tarantino film I've been interested in since I don't know when. QT has a pretty good handle on late 60s early 70s Hollywood.

wba wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 1:41 pm This is NOT AT ALL what I would personally like to see win those prizes, but still:

What would you like to see win?

Palme: Pain & Glory (Almodovar)
GJP: Sybil ( Justine Triet F)
JP: Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yi' nan)
Dir: Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
Alt: Matthias and Maxime (Xavier Dolan)

Here's a take on the changes a-brewin' in tv/movie world that's a pretty good summary of the current moment in US mass media. http://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/avengers-mcu-and-the-content-endgame If the medium is the message what's the message? In order for a film to become a near universal phenomenon...

I followed it up with Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction. It's a 2014 documentary which turned out to be a good double with Lucky, because through watching it I discovered that parts of Lucky were autobiographical. Both films are on Google Play.

Just finished Harry Dean Stanton's last film Lucky. It's essential viewing. Better still David Lynch is in it too and the man can act.

https://youtu.be/2KLLkj84GAo

I have nothing further to add at this stage. But I just wanted to thank you guys for your comments. I've enjoyed reading them. Thanks.

What jumped out at me was the bit about how shorter shots and increasing cuts isn't a symptom of decreasing attention spans. Haven't read the article, but I'd think that has more to do with greater ability to process visual information than with shortening attention spans. You should read the artic...

Yah, more or less bullshit. Greg explained art (and art's appeal) much better and more precise with "the irresolvable tension from contradictory things being simultaneously true being a key example of art's power". Can you list some films that provide good examples of contradictory things...

Form not formula, eh?

What jumped out at me was the bit about how shorter shots and increasing cuts isn't a symptom of decreasing attention spans.

'Data from a century of cinema reveals how movies have evolved' https://www.wired.com/2014/09/cinema-is-evolving/ Temporal fractals in movies and mind: https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-018-0091-x http://www.cornell.edu/video/james-cutting-on-the-evolution-of-...

Just finished Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270 ... _Be_Lonely

Now I'm reading Insomniac City by Bill Hayes

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300 ... mniac-city

rischka wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:02 pm you guys forgot to guess the movie!!

He looks like Walter White in that shot.

@Brian & Joks, thanks for the recommendations.

'Where is the contemporary equivalent of Syberberg or Straub-Huillet?'

I looked up those directors and I'm interested in checking out some of the Staub-Huillet films. What would you recommend as an introduction to their work?

Agnes Varda has just died at age 90.

Her last interview: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thegua ... ll-my-life

My earliest memories are of my dad taking me to see Bruce Lee movies at the drive-in and I've watched films ever since. But it has changed over the years. The most significant change occurred when I moved to the city in my twenties and started going to arthouse cinemas That was when I moved further ...

"Groundbreaking" is a loaded word. Once the mechanics (including film-grammar, and theoretical considerations) of creating meaning through the manipulation of sounds and images arranged in sequence had been established, how much 'ground' remained to be 'broken'? To answer that I guess we'...

But shouldn't today's film makers have the advantage of standing on the shoulders of giants? not sure if i understand this. if they're looking for influence, then are they just making pastiches of the films of the "giants"? If the giants of the past made groundbreaking films then wouldn't...

But shouldn't today's film makers have the advantage of standing on the shoulders of giants?

But that's what I've seen. general comments about how films from this century aren''t as good as films from the last century with no further explanation. So I guess the purpose of this thread is to get more details like the ones WBA posted.

Most of the regulars on this site seem to think the movies of the 20th century are vastly superior to the films of this century.

What makes you come to that conclusion?

Cannes 2019 wishlist from Indiewire

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/03/canne ... 202052301/

In the Fade, d Fatih Akin (2017). Much better than the mixed reviews led me to beleive it would be and they nailed the ending.

What is it that makes beautiful cinematography juxtaposed with dark themes and violence so seductive?

Either Destroyer or Woman at War. I hear Jodie Foster is doing a remake of Woman at War.