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megaautist is such a brainlet that he thinks photographic realism is the same thing as the aesthetic of Realism Sad!
Nathaniel Miller
you're such a brainlet that you can't even name a single formal innovation in cinema since the 30's. truly a sad pathetic soul you are
Easton Perez
i agreee
Zachary Miller
i can
Brody Williams
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Ryan Phillips
Name it then. Don't pee your pants out of anxiety.
Luke Kelly
emily jean
Easton Perez
1. Intolerance 1916 2. Tabu 1931 3. Nanook of the North 1922 4. Souls for Sale 1923 5. Applause 1929 6. Toll of the Sea 1922 7. Isn't Life Wonderful 1924 8. Dream Street 1921 9. The Struggle 1931 10. A propos de nice 1930 11. Abraham Lincoln 1930 12. The Greatest Question in Life 1919 13. The Italian 1914 14. Greed 1924 15. Manhatta 1921 16. Night World 1932 17. Male and Female 1919 18. Lady Windmere's Fan 1925 19. Conrad in Quest of His Youth 1920 20. Street Angel 1928
Name a me a good nongenre film that did anything better before or after these were made; Name me a good film that has done anything original formally after the 30s, film reached its pinnacle by 1939
Camden Parker
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Isaiah Gonzalez
>pinnacle If you are implying pinnacle as an ""art"" form, that's a blatant contradiction that deserves recorrection since film fundamentally cannot be art let alone high art. It can be a lowbrow pastiche of other superior art forms but nothing more.
Jason Richardson
Why did Jonas Mekas list Griffith in greatest films of all time, Griffith is shit
Brandon Scott
the precedence of the filmic apparatus' material quality in post-war avant-garde and structural cinema (in line with contemporary developments in the plastic arts; the Greenbergian "flattening of the picture plane") Griffiths did nothing of the sort no matter how far-reaching an argument you make read some film theory you absolute brainlet
Sebastian Ross
Citizen Kane
Brody Lopez
Better question: Why do you think Jonas Mekas is better than Stan Brakhage?
Josiah Davis
Not a single example mentioned just like I expected. Crawl on the floor babby. Doesn't matter what poststructuralist postmodern postwhatever mumbojumbo you spout. Not a single formal innovation. Film will never be art because it can't even progress beyond technical increments
Christopher Lee
>needs to be spoonfed examples >thinks anything I said was mumbo-jumbo not my fault you don't know basic avant-garde cinema and art theory, babby
Kayden Cooper
>women that's an odd way of spelling nigger babies
Oliver Hall
When asked about his opinions on Citizen Kane, DW Griffith responded:
"Oh I loved it alright. I loved everything it stole from me."
Nicholas Diaz
He was butt hurt Welles did it better
Lincoln Phillips
Citizen Kane is just Abraham Lincoln 1930 mixed with Power and the Glory 1934. Even has the same invisible cuts from each location as Lincoln does.
*yawn
Next
Ryan Robinson
explain how the works of Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton can be explained through the filmic vocabulary of Griffiths (they can't because they reside out of it and represent a formal departure from classical film language) stay pleb, babby
Nolan Nelson
>not my fault you don't know basic avant-garde cinema and art theory, babby What did any """art""" film do that wasn't already done by 1929
Jason Myers
can you read, babby? I said that post-war developments in avant-garde cinema, particularly in structural film, reside outside of classical film language and Modernist aesthetics altogether you have yet to refute this position
Grayson Martin
Ask pic-related
Oliver Parker
breathless
Henry Thompson
not an argument
Gavin Powell
>reside outside of classical film language Nope. Read pic-related if you can
>Modernist aesthetics >aesthetics Not even ging to respond to that one. You know you're retarded by now.
Christopher Lee
Persona
Ryder Long
I'm not referring to art-house or narrative cinema, you illiterate embryo >Not even ging to respond to that one. You know you're retarded by now. that was a correct and precise use the the term aesthetics. do you even know what that word means? probably not because you're a brainlet with no knowledge of film or art
Josiah Lopez
Handheld camerawork and on-location shooting already done in 1914 by Thomas Ince and Reginald Barker. You clearly don't know shit and it's actually pretty funny
Ryan Allen
>Bergman Pic-related
Jason Cook
Ince was a hack. Barker was fine. neither are anywhere near Godard. just because you did it first doesnt mean you did it best
Thomas Sanchez
early Bergman, sure. Persona stands alone.
Josiah Richardson
>I'm not referring to art-house or narrative cinema Yeah, you're referring to nothing except your little 30 second shorts 27amdi34. Sit the fuck nown, downy. Shorts are the anti-cinema.
>drawing on the frame We can go even further back to Melies
Zachary White
27amdi34 EXPOSED
Thomas Clark
Yeah, but you wouldn't consider Melies art film.
Evan Ward
not an argument many of the essential films in history are shorts there is nothing innate to the medium that constitutes a suitable length, only that which it draws from literature to establish proper narrative arcs (which are not relevant to non-narrative film) and Wavelength is 43 min long
Robert Nguyen
I've never posted in these threads, are they good?
Julian Nelson
>Shorts are the anti-cinema. Why?
Ryan Wright
>just because you did it first doesnt mean you did it best If you're not going to do anything original, might as well be a sequel. Sequels are always uninspired shit so that fits
Christian Bailey
Everyone with some variation of the 'shorts aren't film' mental block needs to read this post.
Jace Adams
There's nothing new under the sun motherfucker
James Martin
Ask Godard. You mentioned him in defense
Brody Foster
That was my first post in the thread.
Asher Allen
After the 30's they don't count because everything formally had already been done. The rest is just regurgitation
Camden Lee
What DW Griffith did was new. Nobody did this video specifically before him or really even since. youtube.com/watch?v=tej00K8Dwgg
Everything else is a pale imitation
Good for you, now this is your last. Fuck off, plebbit.
Lucas Hill
>non-narrative film The beauty of Griffith, the only poet of the screen. He did narrative and no narrative. It's why Bergman cites him as influence over his own kind.
Oliver Allen
letterboxd.com/albion
Ryan Ortiz
>film fundamentally cannot be art name ONE (1) other medium that explores the cinematic reality
Nolan James
The Steel Helmet is great. Makes good use of a low budget.
Eli Miller
the scene in which he puts his helmet on the officer's grave made me tear up, top movie
Brandon Johnson
stupid weeb
Julian Nelson
What's a single thing any of these films did that Griffith didn't already do better
Juan Moore
structuralism didn't expand filmic vocabulary at all; it's a deconstructivist style
William Cook
>What DW Griffith did was new. Nobody did this video specifically before him or really even since. fair, but with a static camera even with development in the frame composition is still drawn from painting, not that I want to summon "Film is not art" shitposters
Juan Williams
Theater, plebbit. But you wouldn't know anything about that. It's why Bergman majored in theater first and foremost. Only backwater hicks give a shit about flickies, aspie.
Wyatt James
>not watching films on nitrate
Wyatt Lewis
>tearing up over flickering images seek help. film is nonreality bubble incapable of even capturing real emotion or intellectual depth.
Levi Lewis
>Good for you, now this is your last. Fuck off, plebbit. It's funny how since you don't have any strong arguments all you can do is call people names and threaten them. Like the force of your invective and death threats are supposed to convince anyone of anything other than your lack of logic and psychopathy. Too funny.
Matthew Cook
Film isn't art. It's fundamentally impossible for it too be.
William Brooks
idk i've only seen judith of bethulia I will admit the action scenes in judith of bethulia are better than in the steel helmet though, no idea how he managed to stage those battles
Juan Gonzalez
define cinematic reality
film are fucking shit i haven't watched one in two years
Jose Torres
>no idea how he managed to stage those battles Because Griffith was the only poet of the screen.
Colton Martinez
I wonder how PUNQ's wife would react if she found out he loved another man more than her and had hundreds of pictures of nigger babies saved on his desktop
Brandon Collins
the funny thing? megaautist is actually correct even movies supposed to be examples of daring filmmaking like Tarr's Damnation and Satantango haven't developed new vocabulary. It's all fresh iterations of techniques developed several decades earlier
Ian Kelly
Greed>Satantango
Bela Tarr is for redditor pseuds like Amaranth
Brandon Russell
Stroheim's ULTRA-realist art films!
Sebastian Lopez
Erich von Stroheim on the legacy of DW Griffith:
"He was the first to bring poetry and beauty to an otherwise tawdry form of amusement. He made the first truly great pictures, the first to draw the intelligentsia from that of the theater. "
Now that I REALLY thought about this, I don't think there's any example of spitfire contemporary action movie editing in Griffith. the Bourne movies, for instance It's definitely an expressive use of technique instead of a contextual/deconstructive one, and the earliest instance I can think of is Sam Peckinpah's shootouts
Noah Rivera
If you prefer haphazard editing over duplicity in the frame, look to the Russians of the 20s. They explored the limits of editing
Joseph Perez
By the late twenties, the silent reached their peak.
By the late 30s, the talkies reached their peak. And the entire gamut of cinema was formally run dry.
Isaac Phillips
>Is James Healey better than Griffith? No clue who either of those people are.
Carter Cook
When asked about why movies about young people doing nothing aren't made more often, Godard responded:
"The Crowd had already been made in 1928."
Eli Davis
Griffith never made movies that explore hypnagogic vision.
Jace Scott
You: >D.W. Griffith, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Faultman >entry level pleb
Me: >Robert Beavers, Larry Gottheim, Sandra Davis >exit level patrician
David Stewart
I hate you all
Wyatt Garcia
except for his countless refusals to accept non-narrative (especially those less-than-feature-length) films as rebuttals to his argument
Jaxson Sanchez
Exposed as what? The only adult in the room? I could've told you that!
Grayson Myers
>adaptations nice shit taste retard
Ayden Roberts
I wonder how PUNQ's wife reacts when her wedding ring is shoved up the ass of PUNQ's nigger babies
Caleb Morales
redpill me on PUNQ
Grayson Stewart
PUNQ already watched and reviewed 8 feature films today. How about you, embryo?
Ian Adams
I wonder how PUNQ's wife reacts when she watches movies with him and he cant stop looking at his nigger babiesp
Nathaniel Nelson
>57 mins >58 mins >54 mins >56 mins >57 mins >57 mins >55 mins >57 mins >70 mins >65 mins
Justin Thompson
Look at his highest rated films. >The Revenant >Mad Max Fury Road >Swiss Army Man >12 Years a Slave >Antman
Jonathan Russell
I wonder how PUNQ's wife reacts when he frames photos of his nigger babies on the wall.
Sebastian Walker
taste is subjective his flight hours, on the other hand, are objectively superior to yours, mine and everyone on /lbg/
Carter Hall
what's wrong here.
Owen Perez
I wonder how PUNQ's wife reacts when she is awaken by his nigger babies crying as he rapes them
Julian Hill
you're not funny
Hudson Lewis
I wonder how PUNQ's wife reacts when he screams the names of his nigger babies when she has sex
Colton Wood
What a sad life you must live. Oh, your mom wants you to move the laundry along down there when you get a chance.