Page 1 of 40
12Last »


Search Results
Showing results 1 to 25 of 1000
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 1 week ago
Replies: 27
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They - 2013
Posted By Tyler1
Do check out my updated review of it:...

Do check out my updated review of it: https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=2399433#post2399433

Sleepwalking is certainly the apt term used to describe this film, as it...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 1 week ago
Replies: 27
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They - 2013
Posted By Tyler1
Honestly I'm very intrigued and baffled by your...

Honestly I'm very intrigued and baffled by your choices to replace the aforementioned films with the ones you are suggesting. Because right off the bat, I'm not seeing how Ran is a more significant...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 1 week ago
Replies: 27
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They - 2013
Posted By Tyler1
With all due respect, I don't consider narrative...

With all due respect, I don't consider narrative and storytelling to be necessary for a film to be called film. These are, alongside cinematography and performance, elements that are sufficient to...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 1 week ago
Replies: 292
Users you miss
Posted By Tyler1
I still drop by from time to time, even though I...

I still drop by from time to time, even though I rarely watch anything new these days. Also, I realize I was most actively posting on this forum pre-2015. Mostly rewatching films I've seen many years...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 12
Thinking About Film
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film

Also posting an older review of one of my favorite films because it deserves a more in-depth appraisal than usual.

Film #13: Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr, 2000)
...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 1 week ago
Replies: 27
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They - 2013
Posted By Tyler1
Re: They Shoot Pictures, Don't They - 2013

Latest edition: https://letterboxd.com/thisisdrew/list/they-shoot-pictures-dont-they-1000-greatest-5/

Generally, not too much shake-up in the rankings. Gosh, time flies... (why am i still lurking...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 week ago
Replies: 12
Thinking About Film
Posted By Tyler1
Film #12: Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961) ...

Film #12: Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)

https://cdn.posteritati.com/posters/000/000/064/234/last-year-at-marienbad-md-web.jpg

"It's as if the world were scarcely older than the art of...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 2 weeks ago
Replies: 87
Yasujiro Ozu
Posted By Tyler1
What makes Ozu unique, which directors from...

What makes Ozu unique, which directors from Koreeda to Yang are indebted to, is that his films aren't just slice-of-life, quotidian observations. Quite the contrary, theres always something dramatic...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 weeks ago
Replies: 44
List your favorite Westerns of all time (and why they are)
Posted By Tyler1
Re: List your favorite Westerns of all time (and why they are)

Not a fan of the genre. My current favourite is The Gunfighter (1950). Kind of reminds me a noir-ish Out of the Past (1947). Something about fate, and a profound sense of melancholy, appeals to me as...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 4 weeks ago
Replies: 237
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema

Every word has a multiplicity of senses. That's how they can spark debate - when people disagree as to how its used and its context. Claiming that words have a strict one-to-one...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 4 weeks ago
Replies: 237
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Tyler1
Exactly. You couldn't have phrased it better. By...

Exactly. You couldn't have phrased it better. By claiming that cinema is, and should be, apolitical is in itself the attempt to turn people into passive consumers with little regard for the material...
Replies: 33
Favorite Songs Of Your Favorite Bands
Posted By Tyler1
I always refer to the duo as sound artists, who...

I always refer to the duo as sound artists, who carve out sonic landscapes which are texturally resonant using electronic tools like a professional craftsman. Music is about the combination of tones...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-25-24
Replies: 237
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema

Conventional art is un-problematic. I understand the critique that Ridley Scott's brand of cinema is fascism, when I look at films whose core revolves around the good and the bad - as in Alien or...
Replies: 33
Favorite Songs Of Your Favorite Bands
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Favorite Songs Of Your Favorite Bands

Autechre

Bike
Eggshell
Slip
Nine
Garbagemx
Bronchusevenmx
Clipper
Eutow
Replies: 33
Favorite Songs Of Your Favorite Bands
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Favorite Songs Of Your Favorite Bands

Dead Can Dance

In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated
Advent
Anywhere Out of the World
Summoning of the Muse
Persephone (The Gathering of Flowers)
Severance
Fortune Presents Gifts Not...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-20-24
Replies: 3
What are the best Mikio Naruse films?
Posted By Tyler1
Re: What are the best Mikio Naruse films?

These are my favourites:

Sound of the Mountain
Lightning
Yearning
Flowing

But if I were to pick one, then Sound of the Mountain. Read the Kawabata novel as well.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-06-24
Replies: 237
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Tyler1
On the contrary, I believe one has to be...

On the contrary, I believe one has to be masochist in order to make films for oneself and not for others. To know one's lineage, one's (national) cinema, one's socio-political environment - aren't...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-06-24
Replies: 238
Introducing non-cinephiles to film
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Introducing non-cinephiles to film

Three words. Sansho the Bailiff.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 05-04-24
Replies: 89
I don't know how to hate films
Posted By Tyler1
Re: I don't know how to hate films

I'm always on the side of articulating one's thoughts about the films one watches. This notion that concrete thought robs/impoverishes pure feelings is unfortunately, still a very prevalent IDEA held...
Forum: Movie Reviews 05-04-24
Replies: 91
John Carpenter's The Thing
Posted By Tyler1
This line of interpretation is itself the crux of...

This line of interpretation is itself the crux of the film. It doesn't so much deny the possibility of an answer, as it leaves open every possibility without foreclosing any one of them. It is akin...
Forum: Movie Reviews 03-11-24
Replies: 12
Thinking About Film
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film

Film #11: Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)

https://screenanarchy.com/assets_c/2012/09/sans_soleil_resize-thumb-430xauto-25120.jpg

When we recall the "past", we also actively re-create reality....
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-19-24
Replies: 237
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Tyler1
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema

Pasolini's Salo has Horkheimer written all over it. Clever move, as minio noted, by Pasolini at drawing in the audience but withholding the explicit material which thankfully meant that his film does...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-19-24
Replies: 101
The Zone of Interest (2023)
Posted By Tyler1
I'm also rather lukewarm towards Glazer's film....

I'm also rather lukewarm towards Glazer's film. The last truly important piece of documentation about the holocaust was Shoah (1985), tackling the tricky issue of collaborators and complicit...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-19-24
Replies: 101
The Zone of Interest (2023)
Posted By Tyler1
Re: The Zone of Interest (2023)

I notice similarities with another film about the holocaust Son of Saul (2015), most notably the idea that Evil exists on the margins/periphery. Notice how in Son of Saul, the protagonist can only...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-19-24
Replies: 237
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Posted By Tyler1
Any analysis of Pasolini's Salo has to be...

Any analysis of Pasolini's Salo has to be political in nature as the film represented his thesis on power and tyranny, one that explicates the same arguments made by the Frankfurt/Marxist school of...

Page 1 of 40
12Last »