I really like arthouse films both out of an emotional and intellectual stimulation. More often than not they are playing with the technical aspect of cinema. The narrative isn't always that clear cut, so you can often dive into the same movie and discover new things. Some of my favorite movies ill often have an urge to revisit it, just after that i have seen it. Sometimes because i don't fully understand it.
I love artistic films but i also enjoy more conventional films which are mostly plot driven. For instance on a danish forum they disregard Hitchcock completely because he is too conventional. I really love seeing good plotdriven films of the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Hitchcock.
I've always seen the movies of Carl Theodor Dreyer. His basically canonized here in Denmark. But the real venture into art house movies was when i saw Caché by Michael Haneke, Werckmeister Harmonies by Bela Tarr and The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky. Before that i was really in love with horror movies, but also slightly surrelist horror movies like Santa Sangre, Un Chien Andalou, Videodrome and Eraserhead. Werner Herzog with Stroszek, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Nosferatu and Even Dwarfs Started Small have also been an influence on me.
Im not quite sure what you are into but i would try some different directors, namely those i have already mentioned. But you could also venture into the territory of Jim Jarmusch or for instance Ingmar Bergman.
Of newer discoveries i think Kiarostami, Lopushansky, Hou and Satayit Ray are the most important for me.
I love artistic films but i also enjoy more conventional films which are mostly plot driven. For instance on a danish forum they disregard Hitchcock completely because he is too conventional. I really love seeing good plotdriven films of the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Hitchcock.
I've always seen the movies of Carl Theodor Dreyer. His basically canonized here in Denmark. But the real venture into art house movies was when i saw Caché by Michael Haneke, Werckmeister Harmonies by Bela Tarr and The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky. Before that i was really in love with horror movies, but also slightly surrelist horror movies like Santa Sangre, Un Chien Andalou, Videodrome and Eraserhead. Werner Herzog with Stroszek, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Nosferatu and Even Dwarfs Started Small have also been an influence on me.
Im not quite sure what you are into but i would try some different directors, namely those i have already mentioned. But you could also venture into the territory of Jim Jarmusch or for instance Ingmar Bergman.
Of newer discoveries i think Kiarostami, Lopushansky, Hou and Satayit Ray are the most important for me.
I liked Werckmeister Harmonies, need to watch that again soon. I also have Satantango ready to be watched, but not sure when I'll get around to that marathon of a film. Will probably watch it in chunks.
As for Bergman, I've only Persona so far, but plan on checking out Fanny & Alexander in prep for the 80s list. For those who've seen it, would you recommend the five hour cut over the theatrical? If so, that's another I'll probably be chunking.
And Jarmusch, yeah, I've been meaning to get more into his films for years now. Don't know why it's taking me so long to be honest. This is something I need to remedy.
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