I’m sorry but I find this question ridiculous in nature. Not only is cinema not dying but I believe that cinema is finally coming into an age where it can be considered a legitimate art form to even the harshest critic. Thanks to film makers like Andrei Tarkovsky who made it their goal to turn film into an art form as varied and respected as painting film across the world has an illustrious history. Filmmaking was born in this country at the turn of the century and in its first thirty years explored the concept of capturing motion. Directors of the silent era cried that film was dead when talkies first started coming out and then the art began to grow with more agile cameras and color. I feel saying cinema is dying now would be the equivalent of seeing Jackson Pollock or Andy Warhol’s work and saying painting is dead. We are at a point in film history where making films can be as inexpensive and effortless as taking out your cell phone and making a short. To those of you that say thats not art and thats not cinema you are turning your nose up at an art form that can finally be available to the average person. At this time of recession and world change we have many young artists who have the means to interpret the world around them with video art and then mass distribute it. Youtube famous can now be short hand in our culture for cult fandom. Look at what the legendary Sadie Benning did with Fisher-Price Pixel-vision camcorder. So to all of you bemoaning this pinnacle time in cinema history as the end, I say sit back shut up and let the rest of us who know the score seize the day and make the art we love and will neurosis till our time is done and the next generation is ready to innovate and expand.
Clash of the Titans. It has it all partial nudity, stop-go animation and a robotic owl that was somehow around in ancient Greek mythology. Oh and the Kraken any movie with a Kraken is a wonderful bit of cinema. Also if you enjoy outrageous kung fu movie please check out The Last Dragon. It has the Shogun master of Harlem known as Sho’ Nuf, you haven’t truly lived until you’ve seen this movie. And finally 2008’s Thia boxing smash hit Chocolate is about an Autistic girl who learns to fight by watching movies, eating chocolate and growing up next to a kick boxing studio. The no-strings-attached stunts are jaw dropping and the plot is riddled with trannies, Yakuza and toe chopping good times. The film took four years to shoot because it took four years to train the lead Jeeja Yanin to do all of the stunts so it also has the labor of love factor that endears any movie to me.
I would have to say Yojimbo because it’s short, sweet and to the point (hahaha… OK can someone on this forum make a better samurai pun then me… please). And it has Mifune in it who is a god among ants. Also Youth of the Beast, it has hilarious Japanese gangsters and Jo Shishido’s famous puffy cheeks. what’s not to love?
If you’ve seen 2005’s Hostage with Bruce Willis I think you will agree that movie has many horrifying scenes. The one I found most disturbing was the scene where one of the hostage takers kills the two brothers he has taken the hostages with. There is no build up or real reasoning behind this action and the thing I found most disturbing was the way it was presented by Florent Emilio Siri in such a nonchalant manor. It was a real mind fuck for me, to think the mainstream wasn’t even offended by that at all. I mean back in the day movies like Peeping Tom almost ended careers now people don’t even bat a lash at this demented unexplained violence. I mean I love Audition and Strange Circus two films I will admit are pretty fucked up but those directors respect their subject matter and use the extreme images for a purpose. Hostage seemed to be saying this was a logical bit of character development that didn’t need to be explained. I was also disturbed by this scene because when the deranged man threw the younger brother over a railing to brake his spine and killed him two twelve year olds sitting next to me in the theatre cheered.
1) The Royal Tenenbaums
2) Persona
3) Peeping Tom
4) Female Troubles
5) Audition
6) Blazing Saddles or An American Werewolf in London
7) Youth of the Beast
8) The Naked Kiss
9) Wall.e or Monoke-hime
10) Aliens or Old Boy
Sans Soleil, a movie that redefines the concept of the road film and visual essay. Chris Marker really blows your mind and makes you reconsider the idea of the narrative. I know I will never honestly understand this movie but I love it and will never stop trying to figure it out. Also Persona is one of my favorite films of all time and I still don’t think I can honestly say I completely understand it. But its Bergman so its beautiful and enchanting, the same thing goes for Nostalgia its Tarkovsky you have to be astounded by his living camera and his elemental style of shooting, anything else you take away from the film is a bonus.
Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! Kill! Foxy ladies, wicked cars and Karata chop action. Its wild, funny and has women drinking Paps Blue Ribbon while they plot a murder. But on the side of more positive messages I also think Juno, Harold and Maud and Rushmore are film that are easy to identify with and give a younger audience some unconventional young heros to rally behind. Also the soundtracks are really amazing in all of these films.
A Streetcare Named Marge: Maggie and the other babies are used to reference The Birds and you see Alfred Hitchcock walking his famous dog outside. Its frig’n sweet.
I agree with the Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anersons expression of death is so beautiful and delicate. Also i would agree that DL would make a good silent film but i think its wonderful as is. The soundtracks to his films are amazing as well.
Pink Flamingos needs to be there. John Waters was a ground breaking disciple of Russ Myer I also believe that Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! needs to be in there and it is just rude that they aren’t but two Micheal Bay movies are….KHAN Oh and Demon Lover. Just Watch it…. I wasn’t OK for a long time. It was amazing. And Sonic Youth does the soundtrack. You just can’t lose.
I have to say I think my favorite Hitchcock films are US Rebecca (the most amazing character development for a women we never see but feel for an entire film and it was filmed in the US as an English film. Hitchcock hates the film but I think its one of his best and should be in the CC but I bet the rights are a pain in the ass) and Rope (a openly gay drama set in a limited space with a hard boiled James Stewart so great)
Is Cinema dying? about 3 years ago
I’m sorry but I find this question ridiculous in nature. Not only is cinema not dying but I believe that cinema is finally coming into an age where it can be considered a legitimate art form to even the harshest critic. Thanks to film makers like Andrei Tarkovsky who made it their goal to turn film into an art form as varied and respected as painting film across the world has an illustrious history. Filmmaking was born in this country at the turn of the century and in its first thirty years explored the concept of capturing motion. Directors of the silent era cried that film was dead when talkies first started coming out and then the art began to grow with more agile cameras and color. I feel saying cinema is dying now would be the equivalent of seeing Jackson Pollock or Andy Warhol’s work and saying painting is dead. We are at a point in film history where making films can be as inexpensive and effortless as taking out your cell phone and making a short. To those of you that say thats not art and thats not cinema you are turning your nose up at an art form that can finally be available to the average person. At this time of recession and world change we have many young artists who have the means to interpret the world around them with video art and then mass distribute it. Youtube famous can now be short hand in our culture for cult fandom. Look at what the legendary Sadie Benning did with Fisher-Price Pixel-vision camcorder. So to all of you bemoaning this pinnacle time in cinema history as the end, I say sit back shut up and let the rest of us who know the score seize the day and make the art we love and will neurosis till our time is done and the next generation is ready to innovate and expand.
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Films that are so bad...you gotta love them about 3 years ago
Clash of the Titans. It has it all partial nudity, stop-go animation and a robotic owl that was somehow around in ancient Greek mythology. Oh and the Kraken any movie with a Kraken is a wonderful bit of cinema. Also if you enjoy outrageous kung fu movie please check out The Last Dragon. It has the Shogun master of Harlem known as Sho’ Nuf, you haven’t truly lived until you’ve seen this movie. And finally 2008’s Thia boxing smash hit Chocolate is about an Autistic girl who learns to fight by watching movies, eating chocolate and growing up next to a kick boxing studio. The no-strings-attached stunts are jaw dropping and the plot is riddled with trannies, Yakuza and toe chopping good times. The film took four years to shoot because it took four years to train the lead Jeeja Yanin to do all of the stunts so it also has the labor of love factor that endears any movie to me.
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Movies to get somemone into films. about 3 years ago
I would have to say Yojimbo because it’s short, sweet and to the point (hahaha… OK can someone on this forum make a better samurai pun then me… please). And it has Mifune in it who is a god among ants. Also Youth of the Beast, it has hilarious Japanese gangsters and Jo Shishido’s famous puffy cheeks. what’s not to love?
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very disturbing/surreal/frightening scene(s) you've seens about 3 years ago
If you’ve seen 2005’s Hostage with Bruce Willis I think you will agree that movie has many horrifying scenes. The one I found most disturbing was the scene where one of the hostage takers kills the two brothers he has taken the hostages with. There is no build up or real reasoning behind this action and the thing I found most disturbing was the way it was presented by Florent Emilio Siri in such a nonchalant manor. It was a real mind fuck for me, to think the mainstream wasn’t even offended by that at all. I mean back in the day movies like Peeping Tom almost ended careers now people don’t even bat a lash at this demented unexplained violence. I mean I love Audition and Strange Circus two films I will admit are pretty fucked up but those directors respect their subject matter and use the extreme images for a purpose. Hostage seemed to be saying this was a logical bit of character development that didn’t need to be explained. I was also disturbed by this scene because when the deranged man threw the younger brother over a railing to brake his spine and killed him two twelve year olds sitting next to me in the theatre cheered.
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What's your Top 10? about 3 years ago
1) The Royal Tenenbaums
2) Persona
3) Peeping Tom
4) Female Troubles
5) Audition
6) Blazing Saddles or An American Werewolf in London
7) Youth of the Beast
8) The Naked Kiss
9) Wall.e or Monoke-hime
10) Aliens or Old Boy
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Movies You Don't Understand But Love Anyway about 3 years ago
Sans Soleil, a movie that redefines the concept of the road film and visual essay. Chris Marker really blows your mind and makes you reconsider the idea of the narrative. I know I will never honestly understand this movie but I love it and will never stop trying to figure it out. Also Persona is one of my favorite films of all time and I still don’t think I can honestly say I completely understand it. But its Bergman so its beautiful and enchanting, the same thing goes for Nostalgia its Tarkovsky you have to be astounded by his living camera and his elemental style of shooting, anything else you take away from the film is a bonus.
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Movies Teenagers Should Watch about 3 years ago
Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! Kill! Foxy ladies, wicked cars and Karata chop action. Its wild, funny and has women drinking Paps Blue Ribbon while they plot a murder. But on the side of more positive messages I also think Juno, Harold and Maud and Rushmore are film that are easy to identify with and give a younger audience some unconventional young heros to rally behind. Also the soundtracks are really amazing in all of these films.
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Favorite Movie References In The Simpsons about 3 years ago
A Streetcare Named Marge: Maggie and the other babies are used to reference The Birds and you see Alfred Hitchcock walking his famous dog outside. Its frig’n sweet.
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Wes Anderson about 3 years ago
I agree with the Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anersons expression of death is so beautiful and delicate. Also i would agree that DL would make a good silent film but i think its wonderful as is. The soundtracks to his films are amazing as well.
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection about 3 years ago
Pink Flamingos needs to be there. John Waters was a ground breaking disciple of Russ Myer I also believe that Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! needs to be in there and it is just rude that they aren’t but two Micheal Bay movies are….KHAN Oh and Demon Lover. Just Watch it…. I wasn’t OK for a long time. It was amazing. And Sonic Youth does the soundtrack. You just can’t lose.
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US Hitchcock / UK Hitchcock about 3 years ago
I have to say I think my favorite Hitchcock films are US Rebecca (the most amazing character development for a women we never see but feel for an entire film and it was filmed in the US as an English film. Hitchcock hates the film but I think its one of his best and should be in the CC but I bet the rights are a pain in the ass) and Rope (a openly gay drama set in a limited space with a hard boiled James Stewart so great)
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