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Who are your favorite film composers and which film has the best score in your opinion?
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I'll definitely not be able to include the full RAI broadcasts since they're extremely aggressive with the copyright so I had to trim the TEATRO 10 section, you can still see it unedited in one of the links in the description

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>and which film has the best score in your opinion?
Dragon Heart is one of my favorites
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In my recent dive on Soviet cinema i looked into a movie that had a seemingly famous composer on it, Sergey Kuryokhin. 
The score was pretty good but a song caught my attention from the rest, sadly it's not in the official score and also isn't on the discography of the composer so who knows its real creator but here it is anyways.
It is played when the movie goes into a calm nature setting, which is itself an oddity in an otherwise very interesting project that delves into obvious esoteric topics that would make most anons get an anti-virus alarm siren on their head at full volume perhaps more on that later
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holy shit man please do not ever link this modern smrd sloppa again 
if u want gypsified music there is plenty good one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZKAPsVYaTY&list=PLx_1rPHbWCrS1CMbMXjnBYKjKiCdk3_uW&index=3 
and this is example of actual serboid / balkan music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHk3y1Uiwb4&list=RDvHk3y1Uiwb4&start_radio=1 
so please brother
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>>3774
Shit music. Hitler was right. You're still illiterate and stick out like the fake white nigger that you are.

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I recreate this thread from the old site. Post directors that you dislike. There are ones whose works are considered "great" by some but don't appeal to you for some reason or you think are overrated; there are also directors who are inept at their job and make awful films. Controversial opinions are welcome.
I think these two are overrated. Lars von Tryhard is an edgy kike and so are his movies. Taratino is underwhelming to me, his films are riddled with pointless, shitty humor (or the films are the pointless, humor themselves), typical of underwhelming "American independent cinema".
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>>3771
I can't take half of what you said seriously. Your English is terrible as well and it makes you hard to understand.
>Corman
>good
Okay. I'll bite. 

Masque of the Red Death is technically the best movie he ever made. If you watch a movie like The Court Jester starring Danny Kaye, you will see that he was technically on par with a film of that caliber. He was better tbh but he was generally on par with other directors who were churning out movies back then. Another similar director would be Andre de Toth. Modern equivalents would be Brian Yuzna and Charlie Band particularly with his Puppet Master movies. I like these movies, but I can see the edges of the sets if that makes sense.
If Vincent Price wasn't in that movie, it would likely not be a cult classic and be somewhat neglected in retrospect.

IMO, to be considered a competent director you have to have a near technical mastery of the medium. At the end of the day, this is mostly what directors ultimately do. If you're an auteur on top of that and attuned to formal and philosophical depth, I'd say then that director could be considered a genius. 

I would say then that itt all competent directors are: Trier, Tarantino, Haneke, Fellini, Fincher, Scorcese, Petersen, Spielberg,  Godard, Eastwood, Griffith, Chaplin, Rodriguez.

The TECHNICALLY worst itt are Corman, Jodo, Landis (he's better known for his writing anyways and a good script can transform an otherwise mediocre movie), Anderson, Carpenter, Godard, Zahler 100 percent, Refn, Noe Iskanov, Lanthimos. A lot of these people literally make ugly movies with poor acting. Even if they have cult qualities or other appeals, I cannot honestly say that they are good directors.
An adjacent example would be outsider art. Some people find the art deeply interesting, yet often the art itself is not technically well done.
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>>3775
>Muh english
Stop sucking cock and get to it
>to be considered a competent director you have to have a near technical mastery of the medium
I think i get what you mean, you are seeing the director as the technical leader rather than the creator. It is a logical take on it and i respect it, but as you might've deduced most anons here see the director under the doctrine of the auteur, for better or for worse.
Also i do have to say many directors are neophytes and downright retards with some technical aspects, like Kar-Wai Wong with audio or Tarantino with lightning. In your definition i would like to see Tarantino trying to something with a low budget, he always brute forced his movies with actors, licensed soundtracks and set pieces lifted from other movies.
Corman managed to do competent projects in different genres, from old school noir (Machine Gun Kelly), drama (Intruder aka Rockwell Cpt. Kirk), horror (The Fall of the House of Usher) and sci-fi (X-Ray Eyes). Note my use of "competent", as in good enough for general release and with enough qualities to be remembered, like Machine Gun Kelly's aping 30's cinematography and using overloaded blank rounds.

>I cannot honestly say that they are good directors
Under your definition i would agree with the exception of Corman who worked with shoestrings, that is justifiable when he used a 1/10 of what others spent in the same market.
>Geniuses
I would add Griffith due to being the pioneer in several regards and Scorcese when he feels like it but it seems he made many projects for money rather than personal urges.
>I am not speaking on the merits of individual films 
You mean judging on overall careers? that makes them harder to judge but i can understand

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>>3776
>Stop sucking cock and get to it
What?
>i would like to see Tarantino trying to something with a low budget
Okay, well he already did. Numerous times.
>your technical-focused criteria makes sense but you are forgetting the important part of an audiovisual narrative product
No I am not. Read again dipshit.
>at the end of the day you are a pedestrian element fit for working on nigger productions at Starz TV rather than function as a creator
And you are so dumb you don't even understand what I am saying.
This conclusion on me doesn't even make any sense. Because I am essentially laying out what constitutes a COMPETENT director, you somehow are judging me as a crew person rather than an auteur. What the fuck is going on in your retarded fucking head guy? It sounds like you have serious psychological problems. I never even claimed to be a director or anything or want to be one? This is weird projecting.

The one thing I really don't miss about imageboards is the disproportionate amount of mentally ill and retarded people on them. I look forward to never speaking to your illiterate, dumbshit ass again.
Anyone with a sound mind would understand what I am saying. 

The fact that one of your takeaways is that I am rejecting or neglecting narrative demonstrates that you barely even read my other posts or you genuinely are borderline illiterate in English, which is evident.
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>>3777
>well he already did
5 million is not low budget, even in 90s/00s Hollywood
>No I am not
You are, amateur
>The one thing I really don't miss about imageboards
Feel free to fuck off and kill yourself then, you clearly stick out like a sore thumb who cannot understand basic posts and dismiss them with muh imperfect grammar arguments.
Buddy read the thread and realize you are in an entire different channel for all the wrong reasons. Nothing else to say, you can now enjoy my non-presence.
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>>3778
what a dumbass kek

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Questions/Comments that don't deserve their own thread.

>Previous thread bumplocked >>34
https://archive.is/wip/VtFwQ
https://web.archive.org/web/20231115214701/https://anon.cafe/film/res/34.html

Is Hawkmenblues completely gone? Don't want to scroll through his twitter account. hawkmenblues.net is no more.
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>>3599
More and more I'm getting pushed toward piracy, but I still haven't found a cracked version of Resolve without a bunch of comments complaining that it's buggy. I question whether the free and cracked versions could peacefully co-exist on one machine (or that I have room for both). So I continue working around the limitations.
Man it is tough to make subtitles for movies you didn't enjoy much or downright dislike.
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>>3750
Whatever possesses you to do that?
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At some point recently archive.org excluded all 8ch.net related links
Here is a still existing archive of the old board: https://archive.fo/07wKl#selection-1953.0-1953.12
It's unfortunate that a lot of those images were lost, especially from the shots/stills thread. Does anyone have a working archive of the old board, possibly with images? I still liked going back to it once every several months and finding something new. I miss the collages.
There is also this but it is only stills: https://web.archive.org/web/20200728024531/https://julay.world/film/res/108.html
As I was looking through this stuff I found that this url still exists: https://8ch.net/film/ 
I didn't know that 8kun reacquired it.

The 3x3 threads on halfchan are not interesting. 
I never made my own collages but posted screenshots a long time ago. Did people just throw screen caps in a mosaic maker or did they actually take time to photoshop everything?
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>>3755
>Did people just throw screen caps in a mosaic maker or did they actually take time to photoshop everything?
I used Photoshop but i also only made joke collages and joke still sheets only
>archive.org excluded all 8ch.net related links
8ch is nowadays considered an extremist/fascist legend of the internet, its name and presence getting political is normal even when we all know it was just a place to post about things.
It's a miracle tho that those old spammers and saboteurs aren't around anymore posting pizza or reporting the domains to fuck us up. We are at peace finally but almost dead, almost 7 years after the de-platforming.

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Hello anons, what were your top flicks of the year 2025?
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>>3758 (OP) 
What is row 4 middle column?
>>3758 (OP) 
tfw thought about it and realised the only film I saw last year was Warfare
>>3758 (OP) 
are you the same anon who has done these charts in the past? I recall that you liked Aggro Dr1ft, what did you think of Baby Invasion?
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>>3762
>Baby Invasion
Not that guy but I see Harmony Korine's perpetually declining mental health has reached a new low. Man and I thought Trash Humpers was absolute garbage (no pun intended)
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>>3759
Dry Leaf dir. Koberidze | ? | Resurrection dir. Gan
? | ? | Fiume o morte! dir. Bezinović
The Blue Trail dir. Mascaro | Magellan dir. Diaz | ?
Sand City dir. Hasan | Sermon to the Void dir. Baydarov | The Lake dir. Aragno
? | Better Go Mad in the Wild dir. Remo | Pompei: Below the Clouds dir. Rosi
? | ? | ?
Good Valley Stories dir. Guerin | Al Oeste, En Zapata dir. Bim | Barrio Triste dir. Stillz

What is row 1 column 2?

>>3763
He's always been insane. He was a terrible drug addict in his formative years. I thought the movie was interesting but I couldn't call it good or anything like that. I really enjoyed this older film called Los Bastardos, which strangely reminded me of Korine's movies, but I thought that film was significantly better. 
This seemed like a very strong year for film in general. 
I frequented the theater this year and saw some pretty bad movies that were fun for a night out.
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Hello anons, what were your top flicks of the year 2024?
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no 2025?
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>>3752
Be the change you want to see in the board anon.
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>>3753
I don't go to festivals as the other person did. I learned from their film posts. It's unfortunate that they stopped posting their grids. They were a unique aspect of this board that  I do not want to and literally cannot embody for the time being.
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Architecton dir. Kossakovsky | ? | Talking with Rivers dir. Makhmalbaf
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass dir. Brothers Quay | Sermon to the Birds dir. Baydarov | Afternoons of Solitude dir. Serra
The Wolves Always Come at Night dir. Brady | ? | ?
? | Grand Tour dir. Gomes | Scenarios dir. Godard
Pepe dir. Arias | Lolo & Sosaku: The Western Archive dir. Caballero | ?
Abiding Nowhere dir. Ming-liang | ? | ?
The Garden Cadences dir. Komljen | Journey of Shadows dir. Netzhammer | Tristan und Isolde dir. Grandrieux
>>3754
Film festivals are for rich art snobs with lots of free time

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[JW19 ~ 02/18/2020]
I guess it's kinda off-topic but given the board is slow, I figured out you won't mind my asking.
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>>643
>but because they are unorthodox for the board's theme (aka not really classy stuff, Shaw Bros iron flag related)
My current tastes (American classics and ultra-low budget trash) don't really seem like appropriate discussion material. And yeah, I don't have much to say. 

It's fine lurking and just reading other posts every now and then. 
In terms of other sites, no I don't really visit any except a couple private trackers, IMDB and I still sometimes scroll through Letterboxd lists even though I don't have an account.

>>646
You should keep pursuing other companies. The world always needs more archivists. It's a bummer when I watch a great film that hasn't seen any other release other than some shit VHS.
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Only tvch
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>>3735
Same.
>>3735
I went on there after seeing this and I hadn't been to anything /tv/ related for a decade. Amazing how it's the exact same as /tv/ was on infinitychan.

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Figured it would be good for others, I've been scratching my brain for hours (unhealthy?) trying to remember where the he'll I saw this scene: A man wearing a hat steps outside to smoke a cigarette, when a phantasmagorical hand appears from thin air and seems to bother his psyche...
The weirdest thing about this is that it felt like a silent film, but the elements like the man and his hat felt very noir-ish... And this might be the years of substance abuse catching up to me but I even remember the scene being purple tinted and the floating hand yellow tinted... Or was it the other way round! Am I losing it!
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>>3733
It's some other British comedy based around a horror or mystery situation in a large house with guests arriving. I happened to see part of it on TV and thought the dialogue was hilarious. There are a number of films in this vein but I haven't found the right one.
I'm looking for a clay stop-motion film in monochrome (it was either light green and black, or just black and white), which I remember very little about, other than the detail that it was about living objects, like toys, which scared me shitless in my younger years, anyone know?
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>>3742
you should try to "reverse-engineer" the search looking at similar stop-motion films like for example The Mascot from 1933
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>>3743
NTA. Sounds like good advice. I had a quick search but didn't find anything that seemed similar.
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>>3745
>NTA
Get out

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Anyone interested in joining?
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>>3736 (OP) 
What does 'a group' for /film/ mean?
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>>3737
A group for /FILM/
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>>3738
Lol, no kidding!?  :D

Can the uninitiate grasp the practical meaning of it?
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>>3739
No comment

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What was the last thing you watched, and what did you think of it?
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>>3674
>And yes, it comes across as a vanity project
>Most successful directors are extremely egotistical and vain
I think usually most artists when having full control will attempt to create something entirely out of their minds, that by itself is individual so it is intrinsically egotistical as it tries to fulfill a vanity desire.
>I think that the simple-minded protagonist is extremely uninteresting. I also acknowledge that I do not care for French humor, nor do I care for mimes
I think it is obvious then that Tati is simply not someone who did stuff for your particular tastes, obviously nothing wrong with that but saying it fails at its objectives in harsh.
>This is too much of a spook
Oh boy i remember you now, IIRC you do have a strong conception and ideal of your preferred cinema so i cannot blame you for not liking some stuff that go fully into certain territories which may go opposite.
>logic and pure meaning
The idea of exploiting the fortes of the medium, which is movement and dynamism, so in Tati's mind it means showing intention by character movements involving their own presence and the interactions with their environments, which are represented by the urban living quarters in Mon Oncle, the futurist house and the main character's apartment building are characters themselves.
>Also, what old books are you talking about?
On top of my head i recall Tarkovsky's Sculpting Time referencing that idea, IIRC also one from Eisenstein.
>It's part of being a director. 
In many industries a director is merely a technician in charge of organizing other specialists, he does not care that much in the source other than moving pieces so all people involved walk in the same direction. Being a real auteur is a rare instance because the context in which artists situate themselves does not let them have all the power.
>I will almost always very soon after watch other films by the director.
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>Oh boy i remember you now
I think we communicated on a schlock thread (pic related). Yes, I am admittedly extremely autistic in my taste but it does not deter me from watching tons of films outside of what I would consider to be great. Hope life is well for you, inconnu.
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>In the Dark
Film adaption from 2000 of the Richard Laymon novel of the same name, one of those campy thrillers that lives in the waiting room of a laundromat or boondocks barbershop.  A bored university student librarian receives money and a letter in a mysterious envelope pulling her along to complete benign tasks for exponentially-increasing funds which in truth are being committed by an unknowable BDSM club that become increasingly aggressive.  This is the first movie I've seen to follow the French New Wave ethos of cutting out unnecessary actions that overtly occur in the plot but don't bother filming to keep the events focused and moving so every minute of the runtime isn't wasted which shouldn't be as rare as it is.  And despite being a shot-on-video the actors and production took it seriously instead of feeling like making a quality movie would be daunting given their limitations which aids in making a fresh aesthetic.  The only bad thing I got to say is that the actress is ugly.
>2002 adaption of Carrie
A present-day though more faithful adaption to the book than the classic that got maligned for the CGI which wasn't terrible for TV and the ending which is deserved as it was made as a backdoor pilot.  Aside from that maybe because of the trends of the time that were old=better because even though the original is more compelling and charismatic this isn't bad.  Carrie is portrayed neither as the na
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After rewatching both Carries I have to admit I'm biased towards girls like that (I even may be biased in this revision) and I'm unbothered by tack so maybe you will think of this movie as poorly as everyone else did, in which the one thing that was praised was the portrayal of her.

In 2 hours a lot doesn't happen, scenes are clunkily adhered together by showcasing visual information about the plot rather than a continuous narrative that builds weight with each scene until the climax; each scene a platter to portray the idea of who Carrie is rather than everything substantially implied and shown within 90-120 minutes.  As this was meant to be a pilot we likely would have gotten flashbacks and implications about her life before the movie starts, and for being a TV movie supposed to turn into a TV show it makes sense as that style of pacing is meant for multiple (half-)hour-length narratives but as it stands she's a caricature compared to the original by the emotion Spacek had put in.

Also the prom scene in the original is quite decent and my disappointment with it was the lack of gore which knowing would've been too far for the 70s still was taken into consideration anyway, 2002's is a drawn-out somewhat goofy spectacle with awkward acting to account for the CGI.
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>Just saw Miyazaki's How Do You Live/The Boy and the Heron in theaters.
WTF did I just watch? A wizard who created building out-of-time? A jewish bird? Baby-soul eating pelicans? A kingdom of giant, man-eating parakeets? Meeting ones' loli mother? A stone with a will? Characters getting shat on by birds?
I strongly feel this film had a central theme, metaphor, and/or allegory that I only maybe picked up on.
Miyazaki's son rejecting becoming his successor, and Miyazaki feeling that death will take him soon?
I don't know. A surprisingly surreal film from Miyazaki.
It reminded me of the wizard rejecting his magic at the end of Shakespeare's Tempest, and Tarkovsky's Mirror when its plot was at its loosest. Maybe I should read the book it was based on?

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