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List your favorite Westerns of all time (and why they are)
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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...
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General Movie Discussion
1 week ago
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Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
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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...
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1 week ago
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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...
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Intermission: Miscellaneous Chat
1 week ago
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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...
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General Movie Discussion
2 weeks ago
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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...
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Intermission: Miscellaneous Chat
2 weeks ago
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Favorite Songs Of Your Favorite Bands
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Tyler1
Re: Favorite Songs Of Your Favorite Bands
Autechre
Bike
Eggshell
Slip
Nine
Garbagemx
Bronchusevenmx
Clipper
Eutow
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Intermission: Miscellaneous Chat
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Favorite Songs Of Your Favorite Bands
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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...
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General Movie Discussion
2 weeks ago
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What are the best Mikio Naruse films?
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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.
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General Movie Discussion
4 weeks ago
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Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
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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...
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General Movie Discussion
4 weeks ago
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Introducing non-cinephiles to film
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Tyler1
Re: Introducing non-cinephiles to film
Three words. Sansho the Bailiff.
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General Movie Discussion
05-04-24
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I don't know how to hate films
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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...
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Movie Reviews
05-04-24
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John Carpenter's The Thing
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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...
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Movie Reviews
03-11-24
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Thinking About Film
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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....
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General Movie Discussion
02-19-24
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229
Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
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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...
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General Movie Discussion
02-19-24
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The Zone of Interest (2023)
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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...
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General Movie Discussion
02-19-24
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The Zone of Interest (2023)
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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...
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General Movie Discussion
02-19-24
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Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
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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...
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Movie Reviews
08-10-23
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Thinking About Film
Posted By
Tyler1
Film #9: Possession (Żuławski, 1981) ...
Film #9: Possession (Żuławski, 1981)
https://www.moxiecinema.com/uploads/films/_cover/Possession-poster-mb.jpeg
The body as the site where forces of chaos (random chance) clash with the ideal...
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General Movie Discussion
08-02-23
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Understanding New Wave Films
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Tyler1
Re: Understanding New Wave Films
You may wish to read up on the two volumes of Deleuze's cinema books. What we now refer to as New Wave cinema, as Mr Minio has rightfully pointed out was not a movement with a singular manifesto...
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General Movie Discussion
08-01-23
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Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
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Tyler1
Re: Minio's Ramblings on Cinema
Great review. Chris Marker and Alain Resnais are two directors whom I have the most appreciation for - no surprise, both were radical visionaries who made full use of cinema by pushing it farther...
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General Movie Discussion
07-31-23
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Science Fiction You Dearly Wish Someone Would Make Into a Movie
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Tyler1
Re: Science Fiction You Dearly Wish Someone Would Make Into a Movie
Anything written by Greg Egan. Moreso than any other sci-fi writer that I've read, his style of writing is characterized by speed, acceleration, aggregates, infinitives, curves, points of inflexion,...
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Upcoming Movies & Sequels
07-30-23
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195
Oppenheimer
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Tyler1
Re: Oppenheimer
Leave it to Nolan, the director who can be handed the keys to everything, to produce a 3hr film which is of such breakneck speed but says absolutely nothing. Not only is it visually unremarkable, it...
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Movie Reviews
07-28-23
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Thinking About Film
Posted By
Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film
Film #7: Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Vertigomovie_restoration.jpg
The precession of the simulacra where images dizzy the subject and drive it...
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Movie Reviews
07-28-23
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Thinking About Film
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Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film
Film #5: The Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1969)
https://images.mubicdn.net/images/film/1505/cache-47258-1657111574/image-w1280.jpg
The Color of Pomegranates is a radical film because it...
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Movie Reviews
07-28-23
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10
Thinking About Film
Posted By
Tyler1
Re: Thinking About Film
Film #4: Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
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Analyze the...
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