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Joshua Baker
Why does /lbg/ vastly prefer Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette over actually good French New Wave directors like Claude Chabrol and Alexandre Astruc?
Eli Jackson
they're pretty much all the same. you have to be in a leisurely mood or else you won't get anything out of them.
Colton Thomas
Zinc.
Chase Young
...
David Peterson
Chabrol is pretty much a straight melodrama/thriller Hitchcock pastiche artist. He's entertaining but he did very little to advance the form.
Astruc I haven't seen. any recs?
Carson Sanders
>He's entertaining but he did very little to advance the form.
Joshua Roberts
>a straight melodrama/thriller Hitchcock pastiche artist You haven't seen his films.
Luis Bennett
prove me wrong. The Butcher is what I consider his best.
Hunter Ortiz
I haven't seen that many of his films, but Les Bonnes Femmes and Les Godelureaux are both great and not really thrillers. Le Boucher is great, too. And you don't have to advance the form to be great.
but if you're comparing him to the revolutionary "New Wave", you've got to embody the "new" somehow.
His early work like Wise Guys is pretty par for the course in terms of French cinema. I don't really know why anyone would elevate him on the same terms as the rest of the Cahiers crew
Noah Butler
Favourite dead user?
Cameron Taylor
Not him but Eric Rohmer didn't really do anything new.
Mason Cook
invented mumblecore.
Aiden Ramirez
The Delinquents already precedes him.
Ryan Perry
spookyface
Bentley Price
me
Nathaniel James
does anyone tho?
Samuel Barnes
>but if you're comparing him to the revolutionary "New Wave" I wasn't. He' better than Truffaut and Rohmer, though. And he even defended Robert Aldrich's late films, bless him.
>he even defended Robert Aldrich's late films Hustle>Claire's Knee
Henry Bell
This isn't a good movie. It was perverse of Chabrol to defend those films, is the point.
Jason Fisher
You mean invented WoodyAllencore
Oliver Smith
>This isn't a good movie Machill would disagree.
Angel Gomez
so would you say he was .... vulgar?
John Torres
Godard>your favorite director
Oliver Reed
the trailer for his new biopic is hilarious. they shouldn't make biopics of people who are still alive. it's a tad embarrassing.
Camden Thomas
Who was more right? Eisenstein or Bazin?
Asher Gutierrez
Agee
Austin Perez
>invented mumblecore That's already every French film.
Hudson Green
Amelie is cutecore.
Jackson Turner
city of stars are you shinin just for me
Luis Hughes
Why is she watching Don't Watch Griffith and giving his movies 5 stars?
Why is he/she
Jack Hughes
I'm not him, but I think we should all just take a moment and show our appreciation for smoothhands (The King of Kino).
Thank you.
Hunter Morris
>it basically had all the stereotypes I have in my head of a 1930s film, with really hammy theatrical acting Why does Maniac get derided but Satan's Slave gets a pass. And hammy acting is not true for 30's movies. Pic-related features no hammy acting
>and filmed in a really non-dynamic way and everything seems to happen so slowly What does that even mean? You mean no frenetic editing like Top Gun
Ayden Parker
>hammy acting
Ryan Phillips
>filmed in a non-dynamic way
Chase Gray
>filmed in a non-dynamic way.
Caleb Ward
especially about a butthurt hack fraud like badard
Xavier Reed
>hack How is Godard a hack fraud
Write an essay right now explaining why.
Jonathan Gonzalez
The clock is ticking, anti-Godard poster.
Camden Perez
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Asher Morales
Machill I need an answer
Hudson Miller
>filmed in a non-dynamic way WHAT does that mean?
Jason Powell
The 30's were the BEST decade for cinema, machill!
Adrian Perry
>There's no point in watching anything before the 60's other than an exercise in film history Who posted this!? I need answers!
Charles Stewart
You recommended 99 Women, machill.
They were already doing racy women's prison films in the 30's!!
Ryder Wright
Orson Welles even called the 30's the best decade for movies. He knows because he stole a lot of his tricks from the 30's
Wyatt Moore
but they were doing it worse
Ayden Moore
Thing is, hardly anyone writing about film today would maintain, for example, that Don't Watch Griffith was not an artist: yet, to me, he's the epitome of the nonartist, no matter how much he may have contributed to the technique of the film. And this, clearly, not because the film Birth of a Nation is morally objectionable, but because it is artistically and intellectually insufficient.
Brayden Miller
>not because the film Birth of a Nation is morally objectionable, but because it is artistically and intellectually insufficient. How is Birth of a Nation morally objectionable if it's being proven today! The niggers are going fucking crazy after they get a morsel of power! Griffith put more about philosophy and human nature in his films than any other filmmaker from his era. That's why Bergman cites him as an influence over his own fucking kind, Seastrom. You know why? Because Seastrom is nobody! All he did was take Griffith's flashbacks and multiply them sporadically. That's it! His acting is hammy and his shots are uninspired. Erich von Stroheim already said it. Griffith was the first to bring beauty and poetry to an otherwise tawdry form of amusement. In Griffith's greatest films, he understood the emphasis on story vs plot more than any other silent director. More than anybody for decades really.
99 Women did it worse? Yeah I know. That's what I already said. Keep up, 'tard.
Kayden Stewart
NOT because it was morally objectionable NOT learn to read you nigger
Owen Anderson
The clock's ticking, anti-Godard poster.
Gavin Nelson
>artistically and intellectually insufficient >story vs plot Learn to read film, pleb!
Aiden Butler
Griffith is to the art of cinema what Tatius was to the art of novel.
Nathaniel Sullivan
Nah the 30s
Ryan Cruz
/lbg/ did you know Griffith was the first to do films that take place in one night?
Griffith did everything!
Kevin Smith
I only like day films
Xavier Turner
Griffith doesn't make the cinematic equivalent of novels.
Griffith makes poetry
Cooper Jenkins
>I only like day films Why'd you watch Nosferatu then?
One Exciting Night>Nosferatu
Ian Hughes
Never seen it
Adrian Jackson
Sorrows of Satan>Faust
Dominic Allen
Is this machill? Answer my question posted here
Christopher Butler
retarded pedophiles be like: Oh you like x? Then explain y (completely unrelated) is z. Clock it ticking.
Charles Anderson
No
Wyatt Campbell
Let's see. Griffith was the first to do in film expressionism, unmotivated camera movement, social commentary, crosscutting, flashbacks, closeups to emphasize dramatic/romantic effect, neorealism, story vs plot, oblique camera angles, interwoven stories (a la rules of the game, Nashville, and Magnolia). What else did he do? Looks like everything.
Colton Smith
Everybody that came after him improved on him and now his films are obsolete.
Chase Richardson
First to make a propaganda anti-war film
Michael Butler
>1926 murnau and wiene did it first
John Garcia
>and now his films are obsolete. Why do the contrarians watch and highly rate other films that released around Griffith while giving his 3 stars then?
Hudson Robinson
>1914 Griffith did it first. He did everything first and b
Blake Murphy
Eisenstein because he actually put his money where is mouth was.
Connor Price
I didnt say his contemporaries were obsolete, only him
Luke Thompson
better
Colton Rivera
Because she likes Pickford but doesn't have the attention span to watch her better roles.
Dominic Ward
>Eisenstein because he actually put his money where is mouth was. Why does Sup Forums prefer Bazin's form of theory then?
Camden Wilson
Why were his contemporaries better than him?
Benjamin Garcia
fuck off if you don't think that this still wasn't inspired by german expressionistic film
Blake Robinson
You have already explained that for me earlier in the thread
Blake Hall
DeMille did it first as well. Guess "German" expressionism isn't really "German" after all
David Diaz
>Bazin over Eisenstein Because Sup Forums is filled with cinema nihilists
Grayson Garcia
fuck off if you don't think this gif didn't predate "german" expressionism
Xavier Phillips
can you follow the conversation? we were talking about griffith
Parker Wright
>Because Sup Forums is filled with cinema nihilists If you don't like my home then go back where you came from, /lbg/. Go back to R*ddit
Benjamin Baker
>one example >the whole board You can look to every popular film made within the past 50 years and see otherwise. Directors that film primarily in long takes tend to be very niche (Tsai Ming-liang, Lav Diaz, Bela Tarr, etc.)
Sup Forums is also populated by pants shitting contrarians such as...
Isaiah Perez
And Griffith predates expressionism, pleb.
William Anderson
>Directors that film primarily in long takes tend to be very niche Hmmm
Hudson Morris
You should really study other art forms before you say dumb shit.
Elijah Russell
Chalk another point up for America
Xavier Hill
>Griffith was the first to do in film expressionism You should learn to read.
Joseph Morgan
>my home cringe
Austin Bennett
Griffith made the cinematic equivalent of Ulysses before Ulysses, pleb.
Jaxon Allen
>not watching films on nitrate
Mason Ward
How do I get into Godard? Nothing from him has amazed me though I've seen very little.