Your favorite sublime, sacred & spiritual films?

Gospell is literally the story of Jesus.

For people of that faith, it doesn't get any more serious than that. Stop disrespecting religious expression that you don't understand.

Bresson’s films are very spiritual and transcendent. His films are more than just about animals and underaged girls. I guess reaching elite status doesn’t make you have possession of a sophisticated cinematic palette, after all.

Also, there’s irony in dismissing materialistic films while praising many Hong Kong films from the 80’s and 90’s which were quite often materialistic in their own right.

As told by a band of hippies, eh?

Sometimes it's okay to just accept your rude side instead of decoupling from it.

It's okay, it's something I made up.

It's just a caprice.

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San Franciscan lesbian dwarves and their tomato orgies.

Come on, it's not like he molested somebody.



OK, never mind.

Is A.I. really the masterpiece all the uncool film critics say it is? I don't think I ever watched it in my conscious life but just looking at the trailer gives off 1/5 Spielberg spiel vibes.

It's actually pretty funny how everyone of these threads that Minio creates all have the pretense of being about appreciating humanism and transcendence in films, but after a pretty cursory glance at them, they always reveal themselves as little more than the self perpetuation of one man's vanity. This isn't about films really at all, its about ego, which is pretty much the complete opposite of humanism or transcendence. And just so everyone is clear, no, there will be no discussion permitted in case this supposed superiority of his can ever can be called into question. Everyone should just get in line for judgement, and if your lucky, he might even consider one of your recommendations.

These days I put zero effort. I just navigate the forums and tell people off.

My desire to express myself is close to null, because I seek no recognition or attention.

I dunno but in old times I used to write nonsense all the time and everybody was fine with it because I pretended to be "polite".

Well duh, the only reason I'm still here is I still hope @resopamenic will return and agree to marry me.

No.

The characters in the movie are Jesus, Judas, and the apostles.

They are given a presentation that would have made it easier for young hip people in the early 70s to identify with.

Something that would be easy enough to understand if you could get past your egocentric elitism.

Any great 60s Eastern European movies on YouTube? I need a movie that will end by 4pm ET (2 hours and 8 minutes from now). That is all I can say. I'm basically a hostage right now.

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The first movie that came to my mind after reading your initial post was "Sult" (Hunger) from 1966,

A hostage? If you need help, blink twice.

Or you can just watch an Ilyenko. Crappy quality, but that's YouTube for you.



Not really, but at least it's a great film.

I should have clarified and said "contemporary".. I got a lot of "Psalms 23" vibes. I gave it 6 minutes. I'm not into silly. If it's an American movie with "Comedy" as it's sole genre, I'll probably dislike it, if not hate it. And for 60s Eastern European, I like the conversational movies that don't remind me of some other movie with the same cut-out caricatures. I just saw "The Calm" - 7.5/10. I cared about the characters and the relationships between each other. Whenever I'm in a movie rut (going months without seeing a movie), it's always an Eastern European movie that gets me out of it. I've been to Europe a handful of times, but not knowing the language, etc., gives it some extra edge.. It's added insight. It's probably also a way to vicariously travel, which I have been thinking about. There are thousands of movies on YouTube, and there's many bad ones, so I thought I'd ask.



"Sult" has it's own rhythm. So much of its greatness can't be explained. There's inside stuff between the character himself, and the audience is more of a voyeur than an audience (pandered to). His character is starving one minute, cheap the other, but then suddenly gives things away. Just like Bibi's character. The interaction with the cop, as if he summoned him to avoid the attention of possibly being a vagrant. Per is a fine actor, but from my random viewings, he's almost typecast as the silent-type who eventually does something extreme, but in this movie, he plays the character (of a novel by Knut Hamsun)


Unrelated, but I just noticed I'm listening to a Polish band, so here you go.
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Try Czech films, then. You probably watched most of the 101 stuff. For less known stuff, maybe Organ (1964)? Or something by Kahyna. I know you watched Ear. It's very good, but I think The High Wall, Coach to Vienna, The Nun's Night, and A Ridiculous Gentleman are all superior movies.

Yeah, every single Kieślowski is worth watching.

That's a common characteristic of many greatest films. It's hard to pinpoint what exactly makes them work as well. You watch one and you just feel it's great. You don't have to understand anything. There's no way the 16/17-yo me understood those masterpieces, but I felt them, alright.

Czech, not Polish. But cool.

Thanks I will check those out, but I have seen "Carriage to Vienna" and liked it very much. "Brrrrrrrr". I did like the lead actress in the movie, but to go into the unexplainable, a movie is a sure success if I "fall in love with her" on the screen. Again, tough to explain. Tough to also explain the kind of movies I like with only a few keywords. I don't need a lot of movement, and purely interested in the people and their relationships to each other, and in Kieslowski's movies, their relationship of the government, bureaucracy. I've seen almost all his feature films and a few short ones, but I always loved that he questioned and had a critique of the current "system", be it "communist" or "capitalist" later on. A true satirist, and a rare case where I actually like "style". "Yesterday Girl" (also 1966 along with "Sult"), although I remember you saying you hadn't seen it, and didn't care much for the one movie you did see by Alexandra Kluge.



My mistake on the music.. It had gone and left in my winamp player and I didn't even bother to look it up.. But yeah, I do notice my favorites constantly being Czech, some Polish, despite having been to Hungary, but of course "The Fifth Seal" is my kinda movie. The "getting into trouble" part is the last of my concern, getting caught routine in many movies.. Kinda like the expected relationship romance to take place. Let's just get it over and hopefully the director doesn't dissolve their way out of a scene, instead of writing it, because some are hard. I don't even remember much except the guys getting together and talking in this pub during hard times. "The Noose" was a movie I loved.

I couldn't find Kahyna anywhere. Odd... "The Organ" sounded real interesting, but I couldn't even find it on the rarest of streaming sites. And I stopped downloading from torrents in fear of ruining my last laptop. Can't find any unfortunately, which is why I usually hit up YouTube.. I can deal with bad video quality (just not bad quality movie-wise!). When I searched "Smesný pán", I got one result - Asian porn


I'll keep on searching. Thanks!

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As far as I remember, there are no animals or underaged girls in that one. Just one man brought face to face with his confinement in the world. In a way, quite sublime.

He meant Kachyna, I’m sure. Probably a misspelling

Yeah, I realized that and corrected it, but not in time

How do you feel about the films of Nikos (looks up how to properly spell his last name) Papatakis?
I’ve only seen Les Abysses, so far.

I've only seen Gloria Mundi but it wasn't too good. I have Thanos and Despina ready to watch but not in the mood for it.

Yep, an obvious reply. I've seen it twice. Other Malick films are great, too. Watch To the Wonder if you haven't.