Previous thread: >Not sure what letterboxd is all about? The mission of /lbg/ is to promote the intelligent discussion of film as art by providing members with opportunities for intellectual discussion, by recognizing patrician taste through examinations and by calling out embryos as they arise.
>Directions for use Post profiles and discuss what you have recently watched, if you dare.
>Haven't got an account? Follow this link and sign up today! letterboxd.com
>News Anons share phone backgrounds: user lays it out: user memes: Use as a link to find the /lbg/ thread.
Remember the following: >Patricians occasionally read these generals and have posted here before. >Patricians may pretend to be normal users asking for recommendations and when you recommend something, they laugh at you for your plebian taste >This is a thread for patrician purposes only don't offer or expect frivolous discussion.
>QotT What do you think about filmmakers who release multiple cuts of their films?
>What do you think about filmmakers who release multiple cuts of their films? depends on the context. when it's someone like Michael Mann, who genuinely just likes to tinker with his work even after release, i'm fine with it. even like it, actually, because it can be fun to compare the different cuts. but when a director's film is chopped up by the studio and they're forced to (maybe) release their intended version as a director's cut? not so much.
Parker Richardson
>What do you think about filmmakers who release multiple cuts of their films? Like Ridley "7 cuts are not a lot" Scott? Fuck that guy! But as this guy says, sometimes it's not even the filmmaker's fault, just the studio fucking things up. Even Welles had problems with that.
Mr. Chinese Doggy gives The Lady from Shanghai a 2 star rating
Adrian Turner
Why haven't you watched Intolerance yet?
Colton Price
he'd rather watch cartoons
Benjamin Wood
i fucked that chick
Joseph White
...
Ayden Mitchell
wow she legit looks like a frog in this pic get a better waifu which one do I get? the kino version has the longest runtime so i'm assuming that one right?
Who is this tripfag and why should anyone care about his or her posts?
Lincoln Sanchez
>rates Orson Welles film a 2/5 >loves mass effect series, favorite game is Andromeda (this is not a lie)
David Cox
...
Noah Hughes
ut-oh, steak is catching up with my film count my only saving grace in plebness is slowly vanishing
Sebastian Williams
>Citizen Kane 4 stars I tend to see this as a recurring trait among /lbg/. I've seen it with Emma Fogarty, PTABro, DPIW, and Amaranth. Pic-related says its because it didn't invent anything new, so why is megaautist dismissed for his mode of thinking?
Sebastian Hernandez
more like emily jean who the fuck is emma fogarty bitch nobody cares about your wafu, faggot
Michael Powell
>Friend doxxes my Letterboxd account after I casually mention using it in passing >Gets massively butthurt over the fact that I have seen more films than him, watch more films than him regularly and watch far more classic and arthouse stuff than he does despite the fact that he's a film studies major >Tries to make fun of me and calls me a pretentious weirdo who watches films to appear intelligent >I say he's being an insecure bitch and he needs to get over himself >He blocks me on normiebook
Why are plebs so insecure? Why do they feel the need to lash out at others over their own shortcomings?
Joseph Butler
you called him a bitch, fire doesn't tame a fire m'man next time use the latin word for generosity.
Nathaniel Peterson
You do.
Parker Gonzalez
>28 year old >works as a code monkey >only hobby is film
What should I watch tonight lads?
Asher Harris
I do.
Jack Long
Easy A
Nathaniel Parker
Contempt
Joseph Martin
wtf this is me in a few years...
Jacob Sullivan
Honestly it's because Welles is a pretty shit director. Not only did he do nothing new, most of his filmography is complete shit that just gets worse as it goes on. Citizen Kane is alright but nothing special unless it's the first film you've ever seen. Nonlinear story structure was already done in DW Griffith's Intolerance, shadows and low angles in sound already done in John Ford's Arrowsmith, invisible cuts and whippans in DW Griffith's Abraham Lincoln, deep focus in William Wyler's stuff as well as Jean Renoir's, and Citizen Kane's script is literally Power and the Glory which Preston Sturges wrote. Power and the Glory honestly looks a lot like Kane visually and was directed by William K Howard, who is a far better director than Welles could ever hope to be. But really what makes Welles shit is he lacks any subtlety whatsoever. He makes use of long takes and multiple events happening in the frame well, but his mise en scene is turned up to 11. A lot of his shots look like they were done by a film school freshman shouting for attention (which he kind of was since he was schooled on film history before directing Kane). Really, he's just a name easily impressed plebs that don't know their history lap up.
Jaxson Smith
>20 year old >studies to be codemonkey >only hobby is film how's life treating you?
Andrew Hill
It must suck that you dedicate all your time to looking at a screen. You must watch movies since you don't get any longform social interaction otherwise. This is why film will never be art. The self-described "patricians" don't even know what life is firsthand.
Kayden White
Link are you alive?
Wyatt Nelson
>it's not about what looks good visually it's about who did it first even if it looks bad Use a tripcode pls
Camden King
Steakbro knows Citizen Kane and Orson Welles are shit He's got Jeanne Dielmanne and Certain Women in his favorites because he prefers subtlety and complexity over flashy overexpressive images.
Kevin Robinson
Oh don't worry about that, my social interactions are fine. Your argument is shit.
Eli Russell
>John Ford is shit and Orson Welles is good sup reddit
Jason Morales
If your social interactions were anything decent, your only hobby wouldn't be watching flickering images on a screen (not even a hobby to begin with let alone an art)
Nathan Ortiz
not an argument
Aaron Davis
Explain what makes Citizen Kane or anything by Orson Welles beyond decent because it's not. Most of his flicks are trash. Magnificent Ambersons and Citizen Kane are probably a 2/5.
Kevin Cook
>flicks >trash Why explain anything to a minor
Camden Kelly
And that's saying Magnificent Ambersons and Citizen are his best but as already stated that's not saying much
Cameron James
I don't need a hobby to share with other people. I have friends if I want to interact. Your argument continues to be shit and is based solely on the fact you call film an inferior art form, which subjective, and irrelevant. But yeah, go on repeat art is inferior and therefore I have no friends.
Camden Cruz
If you're gonna cry that I called your favorite director a hack, just come out and say it don't beat around the bush
Jaxson Lewis
strawman
Justin Phillips
>film an inferior art form Should've stopped there. It's not even an art form to begin with
Jack Hernandez
Tell me why you think Citizen Kane is anything above a 2/5. Tell me why anything directed by Orson Welles is anything above a 2/5
Isaac Nelson
There's not point in watching films when cavemen's paintings did it first and better thousands of years ago.
Landon Harris
Ahh no arguments again. I figured so.
Carson Ortiz
There's no point in watching flickering images when theatre, opera, and corporeal mime already exist.
Chase Williams
Bought any good coffrets lately lads?
Julian Murphy
...
Aaron Clark
Why would you buy any of that garbage when you could have spent that money on actual art adornments for your home or going camping
Austin Taylor
Andy Warhol>Walerian Borowczyk
Not saying much though since they're both shit
Josiah Powell
Hi, I'm new to /lbg/. I just saw this movie for the first time. I wanted to ask is there one more complex than it and if so, what is it
Blake Wilson
Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Noah Hill
Croatian cinema>Polish cinema
Alexander Rodriguez
Do you have a letterboxd account? Post it
Lucas Clark
Sorry, I don't watch toy commercials. I meant an actual adult film. And when you suggest it make sure to explain why
Evan Long
You post yours so I can follow you
Camden Scott
3 is rated PG-13
Lucas Lopez
Sorry, I don't watch toy commercials. I meant an actual adult film. And when you suggest it make sure to explain why.
Kevin Butler
>there's a blackhat directors cut
Guess I know what I'll be watching for tonight
Landon Ortiz
No, the cinema equation was basically solved at this time and later attempts have tried to ape it unsuccessfuly
Bentley Brown
3 is rated PG-13
Kayden Wood
People like Mann and other VA's for their formal reasons. What did they formally do new
Lucas Evans
DINGDINGDINGDINGDING! Correct!
Adrian Lee
Would you say cinema is a stinted medium compared to theatre and painting then?
Sorry, I don't watch toy commercials. I meant an actual adult film. And when you suggest it make sure to explain why.
Easton Price
What's a socially acceptable hobby for 30 somethings that is not bourgeoisie as fuck?
Ryan Ross
carpenting and mechanics
Parker Price
talking to yourself in an anonymous japanese cartoon board
Logan Rivera
they're fucking hipsters, that's why
Robert Ward
>tfw you realized your a 30 year old kid >tfw it don't get easier >tfw love and art are lies >tfw the bourgeoisie has won
Jace Smith
Does anyboy know why Amaranth gave Intolerance 4 stars
Does anyone know why she gave a Manoel Oliveira flick 5 stars but hasn't seen Isn't Life Wonderful
Is Amaranth Wikipedia and get her watchlist off of the "Essential Soviet" list on letterboxd? Does anyone know if she is well-versed in historical film theory?
Evan Morris
If they were hipsters, they wouldn't give high ratings to any canonized films apart of historical movements or on lists. If they were hipsters, they'd be megaautist
Matthew Green
>If they were hipsters, they'd be megaautist I'm not a hipster, I just have taste.
Benjamin Brown
taste is not an argument
Ethan Martinez
BTFO
Hudson Edwards
>Nothing by Orson Welles is above a 2/5
Luis Jackson
You accidently made that factual statement a greentext.
Jacob Long
I hate it when people use movies as a political platform so I was holding back on seeing Wonder Woman but now I'm so bored at home and there is nothing else to see. Should I just go see?
Easton Rivera
Manoel de Oliveira > Griffith slept, have some dignity
Kevin Wright
giving a high but not so high score to movies like citizen kane is very indicative of hipsterdom
a low score would out you as a straight up contrarian or cinematically illiterate very high or perfect score is the expected rating for "the best movie ever made" what does the self-conscious hipster do? a high but not so high score meanwhile focusing specifically on the drawbacks of the movie it's insincere and meant to provoke a reaction (it works). check out the kind of innocuous trash those users award 5 stars and lmao with me at their pretense
Xavier Price
Seek help
Nathaniel Hall
Watch Godard
Nolan Gutierrez
I don't mean political in that way. Anyway, I just want to go out....
Bentley Davis
You meant to write that on your to-do list
Adrian Anderson
Why do people that hateee hollywood love Godard. Always seems contradictory to me. Have they ever read any of his theoretical writings?
Nolan Bell
What's the significance of Manoel Oliveira
Griffith already did neorealism, Robert Flaherty already did poetic documentaries
Also there are far better Portuguese and Brazilian directors in the 20's, wikipediababby
Juan Martin
DUDE FRENCH QTIES COFFEE MAOISM AND JUMPCUTS B&W SO COOL 350 REBLOGS LMAO
Xavier Parker
>lso there are far better Portuguese and Brazilian directors in the 20's, wikipediababby Brazilian cinema was basically inexistent until the 60s
Cameron Bailey
Griffith already did jump cuts. And there were plenty of jump cuts and conscious breaking of 30 degree rule in James Whale and Rouben Mamoulian's stuff in the 30s
Dylan Ramirez
Maoism?
Liam Campbell
>Brazilian cinema was basically inexistent until the 60s That's how I know you never got a degree
