/int/ - *Ominous shitposting in the distance*

>>13620
Frankly, the only reason I watched it less than years ago is because I randomly found it in a bargain bin at Media Markt, along with Manhunter and Demolition Man. Fucking plebs man...

Film archive reopened with bigger rooms and screens. Bliss

>Battleship Potemkin

Communist propaganda, extremely well-made.
Pushed exactly the right buttons at exactly the right time.
The only thing that made it relatively hard to watch was the horrible picture quality; for a version that used Shostakovich's music - i.e. something no earlier than 1940 - the picture was pretty bad. And I was surprised to hear "Unsterbliche Opfer", but then I found out that S. actually used it in his eleventh symphony.
The short appearance of the priest was hilarious, as was the dude calling for the extermination of jews who was then in turn exterminated himself.

>>13772
>Communist propaganda, extremely well-made.
Why did you even feel the need to point this out?

>>13864
Because it's a rather precise description of the film.

I read an article about the morality and entertainment censorship committee of the Vaud municipal police in the 1920s. It's amusing to note that censorship was the role of the cantons in Switzerland, then, according to the annual reports, the police relied on the judgment of the cinephile sections of the local newspapers for their work as censors.

A cool anecdote is the moment when the police prefect explains the non-censorship of a film in response to a citizen's complaint, explaining that the film's realism, particularly during a suicide scene, was part of the director's artistic will and visual identity. Censorship would therefore be inappropriate.

Skibidi toilet is the Sokal affair of Hollywood. With simple cinematographic tricks, catchy sound and Garry's mod you can outperform major franchise with billions spent on production and marketing.

Apocalypto
70% great movie and 30% Hollywood goyslop. Depiction of the jungle tribe/hunter-gatherers and Mayan city/Mayans are nice, mass sacrifices are epic, but chasing scenes are silly and fit the Benny hill theme.

>>14265
On the one hand, it's expected to like Apocalypto because it is indeed good, on the other hand I can't take anyone seriously who uses terms like "slop".
I am conflicted here.

Watching the TNG episode where Geordie finally meets Lea Brahms in person hits way too close to home. It's painful to watch.
Why did the writers hate my boy so much?

>>14266
Goyslop

>calling Christian fundamentalist film goyslop
Genius meta irony

>>14403
> Christian fundamentalist film
I mean, you're about as retarded as him, so...

I pity everyone who didn't get to watch Soviet cartoons growing up tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3yhBEQlH_Y

Just remembered this one and it's so perfect. Witty dialogue, incredible voiceover, cute animation

>>14404
I am convinced the movies ending is unironical. Fight me to death about it.

>>14462
>I am convinced the movies ending is unironical.
What is the "unironical" ending?

>>14463
Back then there was a dispute whether the way the arrival of the conquistadores was depicted meant to symbolize christians bringing civilisation to the barbaric maya culture with its human sacrifices.

>>14457
Where are you from? Nikita? :D
Yes, it's genuinely funny even for adult and the bear is drawn very cute.

>>14467
Yes, I know, and it was all problem hairs at a time when Gibson was a persona non grata in Hollywood anyway and it was hip hating on him.
For anyone with more than two brain cells (and who actually watched the film) it's clear that the europeans arriving as the last harbinger of the prophesized apocalypse were not presented as a good thing. It takes a special kind of brainfried culture warrior idiot to think that it was.
It's about the same tier or retardation as the other side calling LotR woke because Eowyn kills the Witch King of Angmar.

Just watched Wild at Heart. Haven't gotten LYNCHED this hard before, and I can't even tell why.

Watched this obscurity of an alternative history comedy in which the Chinese communists invade France, and the French ofc do their thing and give up. As the occupation goes on, the living conditions deteriorate, one of the French guys however ends up convincing the Chinese that they should let the French live in debauchery as a negative example to the rest of the world. That expectedly goes off the rails, and meanwhile some of the French become so convinced of communism themselves that they start a revolution against the Chinese occupants to establish *real* communism. Hilarity ensues as the Chinese can't handle the horniness of the French and flee.
I didn't find it all that funny as all the jokes are quite predictable and repetitive, but it has some nice sets and the French actress in one of the main roles is quite hot.

Oh yeah, there's also an extended parody of revolutionary ballet called *Carmeng* which was pretty memorable.

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Came into this one expecting silly dancing but it's actually a fairly gritty social drama about growing up and trying to escape a dead-end working class life. Travolta is eerily charismatic, it's visually fantastic at capturing urban New York and the insides of neon-lit discos, and the ending is unexpectedly original.

>>14726
Oh yeah, not to mention the soundtrack is pretty legendary, actually one of the best-selling albums of all time, not too surprising when the movie starts with a banger like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVEqy6K18Yo

Nice little documentary on 2021 LAPD fireworks explosion mishap. Appears to only be using public footage, but tells the story well. Runtime ~19 minutes.

When The LAPD Blows Up Your Neighborhood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n7Gx2Tr4Ag

>>14746
>LADP
Have they ever not fucked up.
And has there been a documentary about the cornered Dorner yet?

I watched Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies (2000). It is based on Krasznahorkai's novel The Melancholy of Resistance which I have not read.
It is shot quite beautifully, however It lacks the sprawling and raw qualities of Tarr's Satantango. Peter Fitz as the elderly reclusive musicologist arguing for a return to the natural scale in music gives a moving performance. A scene where the protagonist tucks him into bed comes to mind, he portrays the stubborn pride despite the frailty and vulnerability of an elderly man very well.
Overall though, I was fairly disappointed, the allegories seems a bit too on the nose (maybe because I have read another Krasznahorkai novel recently and it deals with very similar themes) and the end product feels like a parody of a European arthouse film.

FInally got around watching DUNC

Better than expected. Especially in the beginning when seemingly every shot showed another actor I've only seen in capeshit trailers lately and realized that I HATE modern hollywood actors I was pretty sceptical, but throughout its runtime, it grew on me.
It was less "spectacular" in the sense of the word than I expected and while the bombastic-for-bombasts-sake shots looked silly at times, as well as the "mass" battle scenes, at least the effects looked better than what I've seen in capeshit trailers.
The only thing that really bothered me is that Zendaya girl. She looks like an actual neanderthal and has that typical idiotic american conceited facial expression and is supposed to be what? His love interest? Not even with a rented dick. And it was a travesty that we got to see the boy's twink back but not Rebecca's (watch Mission Impossible 4 for that; you can thank me later).

If I can convince gf I would like to watch the second part too because I actually want to know what happens next. How are the books btw? I heard it's a lot of political thriller stuff.

>>15454
If Zendaya bothered you in the first one, the second one will make you write a manifesto

>>15455
I think I said all I had to say. If I can deal with the main actress in Hellraiser and Susanne Lothar, I can deal with this creature, too. Except if the film is bad, in that case I will write a polemic rant.

Do you know the filmmaker jia zhang-ke ? He’s apparently coming to Switzerland for a few projection as the invited to a documentary film festival. His movies seem to be the bomb. I already bought tickets months ago

>>15454
Do you mean DUNE?
You should watch the David Lynch movie.
It's way more fun.
And it has Captain Picard.

>>15454
Oh, I just planned to watch DUNC on this weekend.
I love Lynch's Dune. I accidentally saw its epic ending on TV when I was a child and was very impressed and thought about it for years until I found name of the movie as a teenager. But I don't like other Lynch's movies. And Lynch doesn't like his Dune.

>>15465
Wasn't available. I was a bit wary of it because it's shorter than this one with more things happening, and I didn't feel this one particularly slow or drawn-out (like e.g. The Hobbit).
It's certainly on my list because I usually enjoy Lynch films.

>>15460
Nice, hope you enjoy. I'm looking forward to his new movie that's going to premiere at Cannes.

GF is currently watching Monk. We're at season 4 right now. And while it's ok, I can't understand why it's so well-received among critics.

It's even more formulaic than Dr. House, which would be ok if it was at least tonally consistent.
But it's not and instead it's constantly flip-flopping between a tortured man hanging on to his past, some heartfelt dramatic moments, the humor arising from the premise up to right-out silly moments that you'd expect from something like Naked Gun (although better written). And those parts just don't fit together to form an endearing whole.
I must admit, I missed it during its initial run, so it might be some of "you have to have been there" thing, but just like with the Sopranos I just don't get the appeal.

>>15474
He was right next to me and I thought he was just a chinaman. I could’ve asked for pictures…

>>15588
"Chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

I liked the movie less than I though I would. It was still pretty good. "A touch of Sin", it was based on news items of Chinese people resorting to violence but a bit fictionalized. Four stories in total : I the first one a guy goes rogue and kills the responsible of a dubious case of privatization of a mine with a shotgun. The second is about a man that kills three teens who tried to rob him on the road, fills alive again from this act, goes back to his family, realizes he doesn’t feel anything and go kill two middle classes rob them and tries to flee China. Th third is a girl who gets mistreated by a bunch of people and cuts the throat of a guy who wanted her to pay her for sex. The final one is about a young man whose broke and flees his job to get a new one as a waiter in a brothel, falls in love with a prostitute, she rejects him and tells him she has a kid. He quits his job, has to tell to his mom his dubious financial status, her mom is mean with him, his coworkers find him back and hustle him a bit. He jumps and kys

I’d say that the movie presents violence as the last mean of self expression of an oppressed individual. Sometimes it’s heroic. Chinese taxi driver, the nuance is brought with the last case where violence is fled from by self infliction.

The interview with Jia Zhangke at the end was catastrophic. The Swiss film archive struggles already with English interviews. We barely got what the guy tried to say. Small man, very introverted looking, smol hands. I looked at him and he looked at me, I smiled.

Watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). Another Western masterpiece by John Ford, the guy just doesn't miss.

>>15588
Lmao

>>15597
>A Touch of Sin
Yeah, it's cool but not my favorite from him either, I think the Pickpocket/Platform/Unknown Pleasures trilogy of his early work is his best, a bit raw but more authentic and personal, more concerned with actually capturing the time & place than catering to an international arthouse audience.

>violence as the last mean of self expression of an oppressed individual. Sometimes it’s heroic.
That went over my head a bit when I've seen it, but it also connects to the jianghu tradition (basically righteous outlaws) in Chinese wuxia fiction. The English title is even a play on a classic wuxia film called A Touch of Zen (the Chinese titles bear no relation).

>Small man, very introverted looking, smol hands. I looked at him and he looked at me, I smiled.
That's the kind of details I like to hear, haha

>>15603
To ask him for a picture would’ve been distasteful, I remembered I had a big red sun on my t-shirt from the Japan Olympics.

>wuxia fiction
Yea it goes further, I think the movie is doted with plays about rightful outlaws

Worth a watch.

>Dragged Across Concrete

Bought the DVD on a whim some years ago, never got around watching it, but I did now.
The main menu and intro promise some criminal flick in the tradition of those classics like Dirty Harry, Bullitt or even Death Wish, but against this, Dirty Harry is straight-up uplifting. In fact, I am currently listening to Die Doofen to get in a bit lighter mood.
Basically every character in this story is crooked, bad or otherwise depraved, except for the kids and Vince Vaughn's character's girlfriend.
At times it tries too hard to be emotionally manipulative, like the episode with the bank teller's private life (which reminded me of a similar episode from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns), which then kinda falls flat because this director is no Spielberg. Some dialogues are also a bit too on-the-nose, but I guess it fits the assholish nature of the characters.
As for the action sequences, there's only a handful of them, but they are of a very high quality - brutal and intense, and I think they even used squibs here and there.
It's not some high-energy speedy undertaking - in fact it runs for over two and a half hours - but very slow, everything is deliberate, at times it's more like an episodic film that just shows different events that just happen to be connected.
And in the end, it's more of a downer one, depending on how you answer for yourself question of "did they deserve it?" and "were those sacrifices necessary?".
I certainly didn't feel the long runtime, but I also don't know if I would watch it again, it's just too "heavy" for me.

Watched a swedish mini-series on arte.tv over the weekend. It's marketed as "Dreaming of England" in Germany, but I think its original title is "Sommaren 85" and it is set during the summer of 1985, who would have thought.

Setting: The very close-knit fictitious small town of Braxinge. The spirit of Jante is still strong here. Main industry: a printing house that prints porn magazines. The local hockey team was successful during the early 70s/late 60s.

Personae Dramatis:

- Lena, a teenager dreaming of a language holiday in England, still plays with dolls with her best friend Sussie.
- Åsa, Lena's single mother, in her early thirties. Had sex with the entire hockey-team once. Known as the town-slut. Has not had sex in 15 years.
- Barbro, in her early sixties, Lena's grandmother, Åsa's overbearing mother. Organizer of town meetings, volunteers as a lunch lady at the high school cafeteria. Has not had sex in decades.
- Stickan, in his early sixties, Barbro's husband, Åsa's father, Lena's grandfather. Submissive to his wife, rejects her sexually.
- Sussi, a teenager, Lena's best friend, daughter of the owner of the printing house.
- Örjan, in his early thirties, gym-teacher, a closet homosexual, later a friend of Åsa. Very good-looking, charismatic, friendly and caring. Very sexually promiscuous
- Max, a teenager. An outsider, used by his communist mother to distribute communist propaganda.
- Bengt, in his mid thirties. A dentist. Lena's estranged father.
- Pimple-Magnus, Jonny-Dick, Sweet Malin: teenagers
- Ju-Anita, Janne, Svenne, etc: townspeople

What's inside:
Clichés, lots of them. Many jokes that have been played a few times too often. (lol, everyone thinks she's dating him, but he's homosex, lol woman wants sex but man doesn't, it's supposed to be the other way round, etc...)
Still treats its protagonists with empathy.
Sets and wardrobe work very well.
A love story for every generation.

What SVT may have been thinking when they greenlit this production:
Gen-Xers, nostalgic for your small-town-youth when the streets were full of saab 9000, volvo 240 and road-cycles? Back when there were no gang-shootings and gang-handgranades and gang-bombs? Tired of all the crisis and bad news? We will give you your nostalgia, but we will also show you that the 80s sucked, because single mothers were judged for letting the entire hockey-team fuck them, homosexuals were repressed beacause everyone was scared of AIDS, everyone was talking about everyone behind their back, and porn was distributed in magazines! Now, please don't go for the memberberries too hard, and please stop voting for SD!

Rating:
Rate 6/10. Slightly above regional TV Sunday evening tier.

Good movie, especially for teenagers. The visuals are great. Costumes, dragonfly vehicles, levitating Sardaukars ... wow. Harkonnens are less of cool badasses though.
Making two movies (compared to one Lynch's) allowed to make more subtle and in-depth view at the expense of epicness. But old movie is more aesthetically consistent or something. And has navigators!

>>15454
> She looks like an actual neanderthal
She is hot, especially for a mutt. Paul's mommy is hotter ofc.

> and has that typical idiotic american conceited facial expression
Yeah, she somewhat follows a Hollywood archetype of "strong and competent constantly butthurt woman"

>>15993
>neanderthal
It's not about her looks, rather her horrible, I might even say non-present acting skills, as if they couldn't find a better actress for the role. And, as you've mentioned, the unsatisfied, yet "I'm stronk" grunt on her face doesn't help

>>16016
Who's the best actress? The one that is best at sucking the correct dicks. They all willingly suck massive amounts of schlong, they swallow, and than, they say "thank you", the whores. Decades later, contribute dissonance over the massive amount of cock they sucked and the realization that all those cocks are now right years old folks them with disgust. They then decide that they must have been raped. No other way they would ever suck such an old farts disgusting shrimpled up duck right? (They forget that the old fart was decades younger back then, because like all women, they are too dumb for that.)

That's what happens when women are not kept in their place.

>>16118
You've overreacted a TINY bit. Yes, Hollywood mostly worked through dick sucking, so that even mediocre actresses like Scarlett Johansson can be main characters in multibillion franchises. It doesn't negate the fact that there's still positive selection going, and there's a variety of at least decent ones to choose from.