/film/ - FILM

>>3640
Why shouldn’t it be involved in film? Your argument about painting and photography is barely applicable. Many artists take photos of their subjects and then copy the photos to their painting. AI is simply another tool that can be used or not used depending on how the filmmaker is making their movie. Anyone who believes in continually defining what movies actually are won’t outright dismiss a tool that’s in its infancy. And no, jackasses making AI slop and calling it a movie (like some of what’s been posted in this thread) is not at all what I am justifying or defending.

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I don't think AI is sophisticated enough to pull this off yet—generating 43 min. of lost footage for The Magnificent Ambersons. I suppose it's a marketing stunt for "Showrunner".

https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/lost-ending-orson-welles-magnificent-ambersons-ai-remake-1235148945/

The studios always get blamed for mangling this film but most of Orson's films had post-production problems. Clearly he put a low priority on properly finishing a project.

I'm skeptical that the original footage would have improved Ambersons very much, beyond the early single-take shot that was chopped down.

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I'm okay with this (AI expansion of OZ)

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>opens thread
>ctrl+f
>types "ethics"
>0 results
/film/ always was and forever will be shite, people don't even watch movies anymore. in addition to that, please elaborate on why /film/ is fond of AI art. there is a simple answer.

>>3714
>Ethics
Ever changing, particularly in these volatile times, so discussing them can be futile.
Also it's a tool, ambiguous in its results but a tool all the same, if we are going to discuss ethics we should start with the ones using it rather than the full range the developers give us. 
I haven't even touched the video editing software but i've met people who use AI and they hail it as God's gift mainly because they can replace tons of shit that would otherwise cost unholy amounts of money for independent creators outside the big money cities and regions.
In theory we could automate something around 5 to 10 minutes for free if we know how to edit and pull out a good script.

>>3633
Flow was fantastic and beautiful, one of the best non anime animated films I've seen in years. And it's always cool to see blender get more use. Also:
>No nig nogs
>No fat ugly women
>No race mixing
>No gays
>No cringe jokes that only exist to virtue single gay opinions and make libtards clap like seals 
>An adorable capybara I'd give my life for

>>3645
>>No nig nogs
>>No fat ugly women
>>No race mixing
>>No gays
>>No cringe jokes that only exist to virtue single gay opinions and make libtards clap like seals
This. I thought teh monke/kot dynamic was pretty good as well. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQElJP1AaS0&t=97s

>>3633
I’ve grown too cynical over the years to take this kind of news as anything but worthless. Either the academy was interested in changing things up (for renewed interest, credibility, and optics in general, appealing to “alternative” audiences), Blender had some sort of in with this whole ordeal and it somehow amounts to easy promotion, and/or the director is another wet towel who will be directing shit in a few years for big studios (most, if not all,  directors start low budget). The animation itself is ugly in general although the movements are interesting. Regardless, winning an academy award and attending that event sounds like a nightmare and it would be hard to respect the director or anyone involved or to take them seriously as artists. I can’t imagine this movie being good.

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>>892
This was a masterpiece. It's crazy how he managed to express what so many people think and feel without ever expressing it.

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I watched Krabat from Karel Zeman recently. I'm more into his work that combines animation with live-action filming and trick photography, but I think it's worth a watch. I'd like to watch his other feature-length cartoons from the final phase of his career, but I wish his work was more readily available. The guy was brilliant. He gets compared to Ray Harryhausen, but I think that his work was more versatile and artistically interesting despite his stop-motion skills not being on Harryhausen's level. He had a much bigger bag of tricks to incorporate into his work. Even a cutout animation film like Krabat has some interesting effects techniques other than raw cutout animation.

>>3703 (OP) 
I just love fauxteur 
I know of nothing else 
Only /film/
Kino is fake and gay

>>3703 (OP) 
Wasn't Dewaere a known sex pest back then?
>cannot imagine having "carnal vicinity" with a woman of less than 35 years of age
I cannot think of that actually happening to me but i sure can imagine it

>>3706
Young women are rapists, it's obvious isn't it.

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>be eva ionesco
>made a sodom and gomorrah tier international whore at age 10 by own mother
>fast forward 35 years
>writes and directs movie about how her mom made her a whore
>depicts mom with 0 sympathy with a cinematic portrait of a deranged and delusional proto art ho
>casts an 11 year old girl as her child self
>makes that 11 year old act out the whorish scenes of her past
>thus makes another prepubescent girl into an international whore
>thus turns into her mother
>NOOOO MY MOM IS BAD FOR MAKING ME A WHORE FOR HER FAKE ART BUT WHEN I DO IT ITS REAL ARTTTTTTTT AAAAHHHHH

whores beget whores. never forget bros

Hot

>>2619
> in this case "wind" is part of religious ritual in the south

Upon further review, the religious ritual counteracts the "wind of jinn" which supposedly scatters people around the world via "many emigrations". I don't know how this odd phenomenon developed, but perhaps it all makes sense in the documentary.

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>>1299
here's an upscale cause I couldn't find a better res out there

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>>2360

I finally watched Tall Shadows of the Wind. It's a real gut punch, even though I already knew the basic concept of the film.
The villagers aren't as superstitious as plot summaries make it sound, though. They're mostly reasonable until they're confronted by terrifying circumstances.

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>>1299
>>2654

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>>370
>A Separation
Just saw this mentionned a few days back and gave it a go, what actually blew me away is that it's not in the least trying to be impressive like many pretentious movies nowdays. It's just a simple, down to earth movie that fucking works. The last scene felt like a tribute to Nolan, or at least a reference to Inception.
Feels like I discovered a gold mine

>>3688
I just wish I read Cuddihy before watching Slums of Beverly Hills

🐇

>everything i doňt like is reddit

>>3688
>She's a kike
So what? Are you implying kikes can't make good movies?

>>3695
Women and jews are a dangerous combination and nowadays it's rare to find something decent in the medium from either of those groups, let alone a mixture.
Now if we talk about actors then that's a different thing.

>>3268
Can I get it in 1080p or 2160p?

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reviving this dead thread to see if anyone has What Happens to a Displaced Ant (Shirin Abushaqra)?

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I'm looking fore a bluray rip of Rienzi (2010), a rarely performed Wagner opera. I see the DVDs and also the remux but I didn't find a working link for a smaller HD version.

>>3684
Neat! I too would be interested in watching this.

>>3684
So you're asking for someone to make a smaller rip? That shouldn't be difficult to request, I'm also interested

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>>3660
FUCK i thought i had the real thing bookmarked, it was the book blog, goddamn and here i was thinking that his latest uploads were just books.
Amidst my panic i found another site that seems on the same vein and one that i used once upon a time to find softcore stuff which also uploads normal stuff, glad to see they are alive. Here they are if someone is interested to have another data bank for potential hits.
https://rarefilmm.com/film-index/
https://rarelust.com/movies-index/

ripip Hawk Man, at least the books are nice, also the music blog

>>3661
He’s done uploading.

>>3660
>>3661
I’m not caught up on this. Did he die or simply stop adding movies?

>>3664
AFAIK he had restarted the blog/site a couple of times due to copyright along with having to re-upload a ton of stuff again, hence why he devised that rule of no movies previous to a certain year and such, but last time that it got taken down he seems to have had enough and called it quits.
The book blog is still up, in theory that one should be much more of a shame if lost due to ripping books not being as easy as ripping a DVD or VHS, still his movie blog was gold due to having many titles that cannot be obtained unless you are in a specialized private tracker.
I think he's still very alive and somewhat active in other platforms in terms of presence but his film uploading days seem to have stopped.

>>3671
I see, thanks. I knew that the blog was restarted a couple of times, I actually believe that I made the qtddtot on this board a couple iterations back. I thought he may have finally followed through with his old nickname, heh.

>>3175
Sounds like it could be worth a watch.

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F-16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw4iROXxMMw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhhOin2p5Qs
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Exactly as I do!

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Project Grizzly (Peter Lynch, 1996) - Occupying the space between The Shimmering Beast, Grizzly Man and Robocop this NFB documentary profiles a Canuck backyard inventor developing a protective suit capable of withstanding a grizzly attack. He's motivated by a compelling story of a grizzly encounter in a forest meadow. He was knocked on his back by the animal, stared down, but left alone. He cannot understand why he was spared. He asked for insight from "medicine men and dream analysts"—making you wonder if his mythic story only happened in his imagination.
A news crew caught up with the inventor years after this documentary achieved cult status. He was bitter and disgruntled, forced to sell off his research space and exoskeletons due to the financial hardship of solving problems that no one cared about. And while he dedicated so much of his life to creating a protective shell around his body, testing his prototypes in a decidedly masochistic way, it's crazy that his life ended in a fiery highway collision with a gasoline truck.

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>>3638
That pic, especially from the thumbnail, looks for the world like if could have been from a Tokusatsu series from the 70's or early 80s..
>Peter Lynch
No relation, I presume?

>>3232
I refuse to watch it until they restore the 9+ hours version.

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I finished Napoleon and it's undoubtedly a monumental film, much better than J'accuse, but I was surprised that the essence of Napoleon's life - his conquest of Europe - is not even included. After 5 and a half hours, Napoleon finally takes his first step into Italy.

The End.

The impressionistic triptych is beautiful regardless. I suppose Waterloo is a better film for coverage of the Napoleonic Wars. I've also got the Sacha Guitry's Napoleon from 1956 but I've never seen anyone recommend that one.

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2024 Napoleon restoration from French television. I don't know if I'll watch this given the time investment, but I'm surprised to see this negative reaction on KG from someone who is very familiar with the film

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A review of a Paris screening. Is it common to have heavy security simply to enter a theatre or is that just part and parcel of living in a modern European city?

https://therealmofsilence.com/2024/07/11/napoleon-at-la-seine-musicale-2024/

>>3544
>Is it common to have heavy security simply to enter a theatre or is that just part and parcel of living in a modern European city?
Not a Euro-fag but I travel a lot. Heavy security is pretty common in most public places in large cities in both the US and Europe. Just another side affect of bringing a bunch of 3rd world niggers into a once nice society.

Most TV was completely disposable until recently - try watching a random episode of something produced in the sixties. Unbearable.
Even so, the emergence of television pulled audience away from theaters. The film industry responded by enhancing the moviegoing experience with new innovations like Cinerama, 3D and most importantly Cinemascope.
I could list some favorite TV content (and there are plenty of noteworthy miniseries and TV movies) but I was trying to think of people who developed a signature style working exclusively with television. There's Adam Curtis, Frederick Wiseman, but who else? These guys didn't just make downmarket versions of proper films, they took the TV format in a fresh direction. I suppose Ken Burns fits too, but he's a step below the other two.

>>3533
>try watching a random episode of something produced in the sixties. Unbearable.
I don't think all tv shows from that time period were necessarily like that. We still got some unique or influential stuff like the Prisoner and the original Star Trek. There was also this whole subgenre of sci-fi/mystery anthologies like Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits or Into the Unknown in the UK.

>(and there are plenty of noteworthy miniseries and TV movies)
Like what?

>>3534
>Into the Unknown
Out of the Unknown

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>>3529 (OP) 
I am fucking slow, was gonna make this thread 2 years ago

>The Prisoner
Vast majority of the hype back in the day and references are from the famous series Secret Agent Man, aka Danger Man, which starred the same protag doing what the title would suggest, despite using a lot of James Bond material as a reference the irony is that the 007 film series ripped tons of ideas from SAM.

Now, as far as i remember the trivia story is one day the actor didn't want to renew because his demands were not met and was seemingly unceremoniously laid off/forced to resign, so later some previous writers and he did a seemingly unrelated series called The Prisoner based on previous ideas and which ended up starring the man as a former secret agent, having the same code number which replaced his name, reflecting about the very similar experiences and being played around by the organization either previous employer or the enemy's, or were they the same? in a Fantasy Island setting turned crazy which interestingly enough is supposedly very similar to a place he raided in the series

As you might expect this was a fucking phenomenon and a quite explicit showdown against his former character/series, doesn't help it was released at the h

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>>3533
>Most TV was completely disposable until recently
>Unbearable.
Completely disagree but it is true that back in the day series were chuck filled with filler, which breaks a lot of narrative continuity. Although we can argue that's the entire reason for TV shows.
But like anon said we got the original Twilight Zone which is mostly very good.

One idea i had was separating the main plot from the filler in some series, The X-Files is famous for the fanbase doing that, with the so-called Mythology being 62 episodes compared to the 200 something the entire thing has.
For example The Fugitive is usually spouted as one of the most memorable series from back in the day but it's 120 episodes and all of them i saw on syndicated TV were filler, so that doesn't spell good news. 

My plan was to separate the main arc episodes from the "side quests" in series i was planning to see but ended up just watching other stuff not quite related to normal TV anime so i didn't do it, just watched a season of Renegade which was nostalgic as hell but certainly not very good and didn't really advance the plot from the pilot; a very decent time capsule of the 90's i admit, that's the only honor i would give it. 
Another idea i had was selecting what i would thi