Tarkovsky

luka

luka

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it took me 3 or 4 goes to get into 2001 i couldnt beleive how boring that film was but i did manage to sit through it years later, and then i think i even started to enjoy. im pretty sure ive sat through it and enjoyed it since.. but solaris is another level again. its the ultimate test of being bored.
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

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luka said:
it took me 3 or 4 goes to get into 2001 i couldnt beleive how boring that film was but i did manage to sit through it years later, and then i think i even started to enjoy. im pretty sure ive sat through it and enjoyed it since.. but solaris is another level again. its the ultimate test of being bored.
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have you seen jeanne dielman quai de commerce or whatever its called? it's absolutely brilliant and incredibly, deliberately boring
 
C

catalog

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It's good, not a lot happens. It's just following a bored woman doing boring things. At one point she makes some chicken escalopes in real time. I use that method now if I ever do the same.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
shakahislop said:
somehow the metrograph audience still, even in solaris, found one opportunity to do a metrolaugh. its such a weird quirk. i remember my english teacher telling me that people in england do that when they go to see shakespeare, make laughing noises so that everyone knows that they get the old english jokes
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Yeah saw Romeo and Juliet at The Globe and you could barely hear the actors cos everyone was competitively laughing.
 
version

version

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luka said:
it took me 3 or 4 goes to get into 2001 i couldnt beleive how boring that film was but i did manage to sit through it years later, and then i think i even started to enjoy. im pretty sure ive sat through it and enjoyed it since.. but solaris is another level again. its the ultimate test of being bored.
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When I first watched it, my brother came in right near the start and was like "Why are you watching this boring shit?" then ended up watching the whole thing with me.
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

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i'm gonna have to move on from the lad tarkovsky i think coz i've seen all the ones i'm likely to see at the cinema. time to branch out. you're quite often disappointed but going in a bit blind to some new kinds of cinema can sometimes lead to revelations for me. it's been great coz i hardly watched any films for years and years and never watched the classics. digging through everything is a luxury pursuit. in the last year or two i've seen films do things i never believed were possible it's been brilliant. i stopped going to art galleries coz films have totally replaced them. you can only do it once in a lifetime. going into it and navigating, understanding, slowly eating it up, new corridors and corners
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

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the ones that were highlights things that have taken my consiousness to another level: tarkovsky, memoria, jeanne dialmann, gasoline rainbow, aftersun, eyes wide shut. all of those did something intense on the affective level for me like they gave me new eyes
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
This film is so filthy and grimy, these pseudo-medieval savages just wallowing in mud and blood... I wanted to take a shower afterwards but at the same time it's very beautiful



Based on a book by the guys who wrote Roadside Picnic which was adapted as Stalker.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
With Paradjanov I really like The Legend of Surnam Fortress which is not his most celebrated but it's (slightly) more narrative driven than some of his more famous ones

 
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