>Agony by agony, Silence imitates the classic films about religious intolerance and spiritual doubt: Father Rodrigues and Father Garupe hide in tall ferns from avenging warlords, evoking Sternberg’s Anatahan (1953); their witnessing of enslavement recollects Mizoguchi’s Sansho the Bailiff (1954); their surprise at the Japanese converts’ devotion recalls Borzage’s The Big Fisherman (1959); Rodrigues’s questioning by a devious old samurai (Issey Ogata) is a twist on Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest (1951); a recurring Judas figure representing abject mankind brings to mind Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert (1965); an icon of enduring faith references Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (1987); even Neeson’s appearance unfortunately brings to mind Batman Begins (2005). Yet none of these references ultimately increases our understanding of today’s spiritual and cultural crisis; these scenes are inscrutable, as though a movie buff were citing a mixed-up catechism.
>Silence takes a juvenile approach to what Ingmar Bergman already explored in his Sixties “Silence of God” trilogy: Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1963), and The Silence (1963). Those films, famous at one time on the long-gone art-movie circuit, depicted the spiritual agony of Christians in the modern, secular world. But Scorsese, belonging to the draft-dodging generation of movie-brat auteurs (Coppola, Spielberg, DePalma), seems to have lost touch with the cultural basis of Bergman’s spiritual questioning, as well as Fellini’s, Rossellini’s, and the subversive Buñuel’s.
>That legislated gun control answers a spiritual and aesthetic crisis? >"conservative" wants gun control Fucking DROPPED
Jordan Peterson
Fuck me, I swear this place is getting dumber every day. Reread that part.
Colton Adams
He's right.
Nathan Thompson
>tfw alt-right and I love Armond despite him being a homosexual nigger
You can't get past his great writing.
Nicholas Allen
Yikes. This is really cringe. >typical_Armond_White_fan.jpg
Camden Collins
You're a pleb if you don't like Armond.
Logan Lopez
>supports gun control >gay nigger >Jack and Jill was his favorite movie of 2011 >likes BvS >likes Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull >his fans are actual racists and sexists >writes like a college drop-out
Oliver Wilson
Was there ever a time when shitposting wasn't just posting blatantly retarded shit for the satisfaction of other anons calling you retarded or was this place always this terrible?
Carson Harris
This would be a perfect homemade video if we could see the girl's face while she was riding on him.
Ryan Flores
>complaining about shitposts in a shitpost thread Hmm really activates my neurons
Ian Johnson
>film critics have to agree with me or else I don't like them
This is why film criticism is garbage, because people bully film critics into pandering to the tastes of the majority. If you can't read a critique of something without getting triggered you shouldn't be partaking in the arts.
Juan Moore
It's not really a shitposting thread unless the OP is a shitpost or someone starts posting porn.
Landon Scott
Who is your favourite film critic then user? Some AV Club fat chick progressive?
Ayden Brooks
>Armond White, a film critic, writes about movies for National Review Online and received the American Book Award’s Anti-Censorship prize. He is the author of The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World and the forthcoming What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about the Movies.
So this book has been forthcoming for a long time, when is it coming out? I need my hand held printed kino.
Levi Lewis
I don't like him because he's a conman and it's very obvious to anyone who's read a few of his reviews critically.
Logan Nguyen
I am a fan of those intelligent people at RLM and Channel Awesome.
Connor Rogers
>makes statement >lacks proofs
The same could be said about your posts.
Gabriel Green
Based Alt-Right, fighting the vile forces of the people who want to destroy the West and turn USA into a 3rd world shithole.
Stay strong.
Charles Wood
wow you sure showed Armond White, share more intelagent thoughts with us pls
Hudson Martinez
Thanks bruder
Connor Hill
You're so desperate for someone validating your opinions, you go for the most renown troll in the business. You're mentally deficient.
