For me, travel has two dimensions: civilization and nature. As far as civilization goes, of note are the people and the history and structures. I find most people around the world to be fairly similar. I found more cultural differences between myself and the older generation in San Francisco’s China...

What happened to Jade? I was enjoying their contribution to this topic. :drinking: I’m not saying I have a busy life, but I don’t always make time for meaningful contributions. Like today: this post will not be meaningful! All I have to say is that someone listed the director of Attenberg as a 90s ...

https://i.imgur.com/56cc8xS.png politzeiruf 110: smoke on the water , dominik graf can't quite see this as the sex comedy that olaf moller described this as! but it's a very mean european crime thing, in the politicized post manchette mode, with graf's ability to push a scene with very specific/mea...

Yes, Lanthimos awful - just as awful as whatever filmmaker you love who was recycling ideas from an earlier era! Or, perhaps you don't even recognize the ideas he's working with. Or perhaps you don't like the way he presents his ideas because someone you do like presented those ideas first, or pres...

I never assumed that you were an idiot, what a strange continuation of the above conversation. I do apologize if it appeared I was talking down to you, but we still appears like we are having two very different conversations. Perhaps there has been a misunderstanding somewhere? I never said that th...

As for "discovering" filmmakers, there are at least two important things to say: 1. Consider a filmmaker like Schanelec: Her early films were well loved, but ignored, and savaged by the critics - even calling her the "poetess of emptiness". Her newer films, though, have been well...

Greg's argument ignores technology. In the past it often took 10 or more years for people to realise the 'greatness' of a film due to lack of access, not just distance (temporal). That is no longer a concern, and I'd say those examples are more the exception. L'avventura may have got a frosty recep...

Maybe we are talking about different stuff? Or you are misunderstanding me and I am misunderstanding you? I don't know exactly which is the case, cause I don't understand what you are trying to tell me with that mountain analogy and how any of my points is hard to understand... I'll try again, and ...

I think you missed the point of my list. This is only a selection of well-regarded names from 3 countries, and only focused on the youngest generation, essentially a gap of about 15 years. In other words, an attempt to show how just a minuscule fraction of 60s cinema could stand up to your list. Th...

Yes, we live in strange times, indeed! Of course one can say who cares about an average film? And I'm not interested in watching average films myself (I always try to see a film cause I think it will be potentially great, and if I myself choose to watch a film it's always in the hope of seeing a ne...

My stance and point is similar to WBA in that the number of obvious all-time Though of course, there is a big, big element of taste in this. Honestly the list is not particularly impressive to me, some all-time greats, a few possibly on the way there, and all notable and good directors, but it is n...

Yes, I think somewhat similar to St. Gloede, that with the internet and all those social media connected cinephiles around the globe, we should have heard of a lot more great talents and artists since the beginning of the new millenium, and whatnot with the digital technology and so many more peopl...

Well, mine wasn't really a counter-argument and as you said, you were talking about slightly different stuff, but still I was curious, though I maybe sound a bit like a nitpicking asshole. Maybe in this case I'm just curious, if you could come up with a list of say 20 or 30 great directors who made...

Still, I'm sure we aren't primarily talking about John Ford Alfred Hitchcock Abel Gance Henri-Georges Clouzot Tomu Uchida Mikio Naruse Heinosuke Gosho Masahiro Makino Helmut Käutner Charles Chaplin Michael Powell William Wyler Frank Wisbar Yasujiro Ozu David Lean Carl Theodor Dreyer Robert SIodmak ...

@Jade More than 60% of the filmmakers you list (and I'd agree that most are great and many are also personal favorites of mine) have been already making great films (and arguably even better and more groundbreaking ones) during the 20th century (some for 2 or even 3 decades!), and they have been th...

I'm afraid I just don't see what you see, though hopefully it really is a case of watching very different films. How many directors who have been active for, say, 10-20-30 or so years, can actually rival the 60s filmmakers when they were at the same point in their career? Many of the directors you ...

in my opinion what you're saying is true but doesn't negate the problem. There are many many fantastic filmmakers working today and therte are many great films being made and filmmaking is far from dead. BUT, and this is a huuuuuge but: I think when comparing decades or centuries and eras (if one c...

A great novel is a singular contained experience. It is not written on the fly to keep up with demand/popularity etc. Funny story: This is exactly how some "great novels" were written. Dickens published his novels chapter by chapter, and each chapter was designed just like TV Episodes tod...

A great novel is a singular contained experience. It is not written on the fly to keep up with demand/popularity etc. Funny story: This is exactly how some "great novels" were written. Dickens published his novels chapter by chapter, and each chapter was designed just like TV Episodes tod...

Here's my take: The most important question when we talk about 21st century films is: Do you even know what the 21st century has offered? Consider: There has been mention of the "Golden Era" of cinema, and the "New Wave/Auteur Era" as two major points of reference. Those are majo...