Film Thread

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I really liked it, not sure why it didn't get a higher rating. It wasn't a very pandering film, I mean it just pretty much went straight for it. Maybe it flipped some people out too much. Luckily in Finland if an outbreak occurs, we can just all go to the forest where no one will find us.

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Essential cinema for higher conscious nourishment:

The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (Wojciech Jerzy Has)
π (Darren Aronofsky)
Aylaqruh:hurqalyA (Tawd Dorenfeld)

There's a few for a start, films which aren't just mere entertainment and distraction but which feed something deeper.
Some of the above directors have made some other similarly significant art... except for Kubrick.. I can't understand how he could make such a profound symbolic masterpiece as 2001 and then go on to make such utter throwaway crap as 'A Clockwork Orange'. Aronofsky is a mixed bag with always excellent execution; Has' previous film was excellent; Jodorowsky always works deep symbolism into his work and made the best horror film I ever saw (Santa Sangre) but the above film is his standout and says more in a single frame than most films do in hours, my first viewing of ' The Holy Mountain' was such a mindblow that it entirely changed how I looked at cinema. I've not seen Dorenfeld's other features but the animation mentioned above is quite profound and set to excellent music.

Apparently I should watch some Ingmar Bergman, so "The Seventh Seal" may be watched tonight whilst I have a private cinema to use. 
If anyone can point me towards other directors who make films which actually say something, even without words, then that would be great : I don't find much film that isn't just a waste of time and mind but there must be many hidden gems.

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Aylaqruh:hurqalyA

wtf never heard about that

The Hourglass Sanatorium

nor that

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Aylaqruh:hurqalyA

"A man takes the form of goat in order to find the meaning of Death in a world overwhelmed by its own ideologies."

Sounds appropriate.

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Batman v Superman
lololololol
wut the fuck was that

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Aylaqruh:hurqalyA

wtf never heard about that

The Hourglass Sanatorium

nor that

Two real masterpieces (I've not seen Batman vs Superman but I assume it doean't hit the same mark.)
Aylaqruh:hurqalyA is a stop motion animation about death and alchemical transformation, although it may all seem very obscure by the way it is made, set to a live soundtrack by Secret Chiefs 3. It was only available on the SC3 DVD but has just had a redux release and is avilable to buy or stream on Amazon US. It's worth it, may not make sense to many but it is an audio-visual treat either way. That las sentence also applies to The Hourglass Sanitorium, a supposed "surrealist" film from Poland which also has more to say than is seen on the surface. The director of the latter made another film named "The Saragossa Manuscript" which will also please anyone into deeper esoteric art.

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[anomynous]

https://twitter.com/DaveOshry/status/736...08/photo/1

[hugo]

https://twitter.com/DaveOshry/status/736...08/photo/1

Oh my...I couldn't even stomach the first one. The Hasselhoff video was more than enough for me.

[Doogz]

Watched "The Water Diviner" last night. I'd read a lot of reviews ragging on Crowes direction, but it's a pretty solid film. The acting and cinematography are spot on, and the story doesn't meander.

There's also been a lot made of the fact that it doesn't address the Armenian genocide (which happened during the same time period as this is set), but I don't think that it'd of made a relevant sub-plot here. It's an Australian story set in Turkey, covering Australian interests and as such only briefly mentions the division of the Ottoman Empire; anyone claiming that Crowe should have put some focus on the Armenian story can put their money where their mouth is and make their own film about it.

Also finally watched "Kung Fury"... wow. An amazingly intense cheesefest. Loved it.