Hi,
I am new to this forum. I am a passionate cinema lover. I love, as well as you do, big auteurs’ movies. I am always thinking, as I do for music, that big auteurs are disappearing, suffocated by the blind men that lead the industry. Is money ruining everything? Are we going to see new Kubricks, new Fellinis, new Antonionis, new Herzogs or not? I think that the digital revolution that gave to all of us the technical instruments to do at a cheap expense what once was only to medium budgets fullfill the world with too many proposals… too many sometimes mean none. Are the new auteurs lost within this sea of mediocrity? Are still there great auteurs? Are they unable to emerge, to get noticed? Is it their fault of it’s all due to the producers that don’t want to risk?
Is this mediocrity omologation due to cultural downfall? Too many informations, too many stimuli brings us inevitabily to less concentration. We have too much so we don’t really have useful needs, our lives are sucked into work and our lives are more and more monotonous… is this one of the reason for which we don’t really have so much to say? Did past people have much rich and interest lives?
I am saying this because I hardly found big contemporary movies, they are of course all well done but no masterpieces!
If I am looking for a masterpiece, a movie that give me much more than I expect, that enrich me deeply, I mostly have to look at movies from the past, of 10, 20, 30 yaears ago.
What do you think about it?
yes, probably you’re all right. We have to search them out. But they are really hidden. I mean, when a Kubrick movie got out to cinemas it got out world wide. So it was for many big names, from Fellini to Truffaut. Now I have the feeling that the big distribution is less interested in delivering good movies, so you have only the internet, the festivals and some specialized magazine to spot out what’s happening in the world. It’s harder to spot them out. We don’t have the auteurs on the big distribution anymore, not so many. Or maybe great cinema has always been a thing to be searched out.
I am sorry, I realized now that I used an all-mine-english version of an italian word :D
You have to be patience, I am not english. :)
For “omologation” I intended the trend that, by business, everything is all flattened, everything looks the same, everything has to be within some common standards, just to not take any risk. It happens in cinema as well as in music. There are a thousands rock bands around but there are no “new” Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd, there are thounsands pop bands and artists but no “new” Michael Jackson or Depeche Mode. There are thousands of similar artists but you can’t give them the same value that you gave to the big auteurs of the past.
The same in cinema: there are a lot of movies out every year but you see only few interesting one every couple of years…talking of main distribution.
One of the point of my disappointment is that of course you have to spot ‘em out but some years ago it wasn’t like this… good movies, good directors, good music, too, were within the main distribution. There were always many auteurs less known but there were also lot of them that were “mainstream”.
I hope I managed a decent explanation :D
Of course this site, netflix or other internet resources, as well as DVDs, are great tools, but movies are meant to be seen at theaters!!!
I am one of those who are convinced that it’s not the same experience! The Big screen is the big screen.
I know you have projectors and HD is a wonderful quality… but not everybody can buy a 4k projector! And again projected movies at home are not the same as going to the theater.
Director’s cut is relevant when it represents the director’s chance to get what he really intended to have on screen ad he was forced by producers or others to modify for commercial reasons. All other uses should be banned.
It is true, as Akira said, that many director’s cut now are driven by the will of selling more DVDs. Producers or other responsibles have only changed their tools: when the movie is released they force cuts to respect timings just to have more projections per day or cuts to avoid to disappoint the public’s established (by them) expectations. When the movie is released to DVD they force cuts to sell different versions of the same movie, often without any other reason than making money and not respecting the director’s vision.
I think trailers are pieces of art, sometimes so good that they are far better than the whole movies (look at Episode I trailers and look at the movie!!!).
They are a concentrate of rythm, suspance, adventure, love and very often they are masters of communications.
When do you listen to your favorite film scores? almost 3 years ago
I usually listen to soundtracks when I am working.
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ARE THERE STILL GREAT AUTEURS? OR IS CINEMA ALREADY DRAWNED INTO OMOLOGATION? almost 3 years ago
Hi,
I am new to this forum. I am a passionate cinema lover. I love, as well as you do, big auteurs’ movies. I am always thinking, as I do for music, that big auteurs are disappearing, suffocated by the blind men that lead the industry. Is money ruining everything? Are we going to see new Kubricks, new Fellinis, new Antonionis, new Herzogs or not? I think that the digital revolution that gave to all of us the technical instruments to do at a cheap expense what once was only to medium budgets fullfill the world with too many proposals… too many sometimes mean none. Are the new auteurs lost within this sea of mediocrity? Are still there great auteurs? Are they unable to emerge, to get noticed? Is it their fault of it’s all due to the producers that don’t want to risk?
Is this mediocrity omologation due to cultural downfall? Too many informations, too many stimuli brings us inevitabily to less concentration. We have too much so we don’t really have useful needs, our lives are sucked into work and our lives are more and more monotonous… is this one of the reason for which we don’t really have so much to say? Did past people have much rich and interest lives?
I am saying this because I hardly found big contemporary movies, they are of course all well done but no masterpieces!
If I am looking for a masterpiece, a movie that give me much more than I expect, that enrich me deeply, I mostly have to look at movies from the past, of 10, 20, 30 yaears ago.
What do you think about it?
ginuz
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ARE THERE STILL GREAT AUTEURS? OR IS CINEMA ALREADY DRAWNED INTO OMOLOGATION? almost 3 years ago
yes, probably you’re all right. We have to search them out. But they are really hidden. I mean, when a Kubrick movie got out to cinemas it got out world wide. So it was for many big names, from Fellini to Truffaut. Now I have the feeling that the big distribution is less interested in delivering good movies, so you have only the internet, the festivals and some specialized magazine to spot out what’s happening in the world. It’s harder to spot them out. We don’t have the auteurs on the big distribution anymore, not so many. Or maybe great cinema has always been a thing to be searched out.
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ARE THERE STILL GREAT AUTEURS? OR IS CINEMA ALREADY DRAWNED INTO OMOLOGATION? almost 3 years ago
I am sorry, I realized now that I used an all-mine-english version of an italian word :D
You have to be patience, I am not english. :)
For “omologation” I intended the trend that, by business, everything is all flattened, everything looks the same, everything has to be within some common standards, just to not take any risk. It happens in cinema as well as in music. There are a thousands rock bands around but there are no “new” Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd, there are thounsands pop bands and artists but no “new” Michael Jackson or Depeche Mode. There are thousands of similar artists but you can’t give them the same value that you gave to the big auteurs of the past.
The same in cinema: there are a lot of movies out every year but you see only few interesting one every couple of years…talking of main distribution.
One of the point of my disappointment is that of course you have to spot ‘em out but some years ago it wasn’t like this… good movies, good directors, good music, too, were within the main distribution. There were always many auteurs less known but there were also lot of them that were “mainstream”.
I hope I managed a decent explanation :D
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ARE THERE STILL GREAT AUTEURS? OR IS CINEMA ALREADY DRAWNED INTO OMOLOGATION? almost 3 years ago
Of course this site, netflix or other internet resources, as well as DVDs, are great tools, but movies are meant to be seen at theaters!!!
I am one of those who are convinced that it’s not the same experience! The Big screen is the big screen.
I know you have projectors and HD is a wonderful quality… but not everybody can buy a 4k projector! And again projected movies at home are not the same as going to the theater.
Go to Comment
What directors cut of a film has had the most impact on you? almost 3 years ago
Director’s cut is relevant when it represents the director’s chance to get what he really intended to have on screen ad he was forced by producers or others to modify for commercial reasons. All other uses should be banned.
It is true, as Akira said, that many director’s cut now are driven by the will of selling more DVDs. Producers or other responsibles have only changed their tools: when the movie is released they force cuts to respect timings just to have more projections per day or cuts to avoid to disappoint the public’s established (by them) expectations. When the movie is released to DVD they force cuts to sell different versions of the same movie, often without any other reason than making money and not respecting the director’s vision.
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Can film trailers be an art themselves? almost 3 years ago
I think trailers are pieces of art, sometimes so good that they are far better than the whole movies (look at Episode I trailers and look at the movie!!!).
They are a concentrate of rythm, suspance, adventure, love and very often they are masters of communications.
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Where are you from? almost 3 years ago
Bergamo, Italy (near Milan)
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Unproduced Films almost 3 years ago
Kubrick’s Napoleon!
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criterion predictions almost 3 years ago
I’d love to see a Criterion edition of Zabriskie Point
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