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Would you like to partake in a civil discussion about the arts?

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THAT'S THE MANLADY!

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THAT'S THE CUTELADY!

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My first introduction to this as well as the opening you posted a few threads ago. Not quite certain how I feel about this just yet Bruce.

when is emily going to kill all the jews

who /legitimateart/ here?

Are you a new guy here?

That bedcover is more artistic than the things on it

I posted like a hundred times in the last thread as user

I was a little disappointed by Ms. Kael's reaction to the movie. I started reading her New Yorker reviews in my school library when I was in 10th grade, and her books were always my guide for finding the right movies to watch and learning about filmmakers. I'd gone to great lengths to arrive at this moment. ''I genuinely don't know what to make of this movie,'' she said, and I felt she meant it.

haven't seen days of heaven, is it any good?

It's what Malick would've been remembered for if he never came back to direct The Tree of Life

Is the first time you've been here? In these threads specifically?

>a musical with bad music
what an accomplishment

The score is pretty spellbinding considering it's by an amateur.

In that other thread, yes. I usually ignore letterbox threads because the concept of scoring and classifying film makes people perceive watching classic works as something they have to achieve, rather than enjoy. It gamifies movie-watching.

>spellbinding
Better than breathtaking. Try better next time.

Shut up, slave.

Bruce is LEARNING

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Requiem for a Dream 2000

man oh man i'm never doing drugs

Dare an air an off ski

I won a blu-ray for The Whales of August starring Betty David & Lillian Fish in a raffle.

How surreal

>don't watch a movie
>call it kino anyway

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looks like kino is back on the menu bros

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Thanks for showing me the major plot points, i don't need to see the film now, well done modern trailer cutters.

you just don't watch the whole trailer dum dum

An inadequacy of language yet more embarrassing attaches to the whole group of terms which express aesthetic quality and aesthetic feeling. I have used, for instance, the word 'beauty' on the title-page: and the word 'pleasure' constantly recurs in the text. But works of literature or art may have admirable aesthetic quality and yet not be 'beautiful' in the everyday meaning of that expression, while 'pleasure' is but a poor, and (what is worse) ambiguous, name for what is valuable in aesthetic feeling. If this were a treatise instead of a lecture, these and other important questions of definition and nomenclature would have to be dealt with at length. As it is, I must throw myself on the indulgence of readers who will probably incline to mercy in proportion as their own experience has shown them the difficulty of expressing semi-philosophic arguments in familiar language.

From prehistoric times men have occupied themselves in producing works of Art: since the time of Aristotle they have spent learned energy in commenting on them. How much are we the wiser? What real insight do the commentaries give us into the qualities which produce aesthetic pleasure, or into the marks which distinguish good art from bad?

Any man desirous of obtaining answers to questions like these would naturally turn in the first place to the history of criticism, and if he did so he would certainly be well rewarded. It may be doubted, however, whether the reward would consist in the satisfaction of his curiosity. For in proportion as criticism has endeavoured to establish principles of composition, to lay down laws of Beauty, to fix criterions of excellence, so it seems to me to have failed: its triumphs, and they are great, have been won on a different field. The critics who have dealt most successfully with theory have dealt with it destructively. They have demolished the dogmas of their predecessors, but have advanced few dogmas of their own. So that, after some twenty-three centuries of aesthetic speculation, we are still without any accepted body of aesthetic doctrine.

Critical theory is that which flourished so luxuriantly immediately after the revival of learning. It professed to base itself on experience. Accepting the classical masterpieces as supreme models of excellence, it asked how they were made. To examine minutely the procedure of the great classical writers, to embody their example in rules, to standardize their practice, seemed the obvious method of enabling the moderns to attain some tincture of the literary merits so ardently admired in the ancients: and the method was applied with a conservative consistency. If you would rival antiquity, said the critics, imitate it. If you would imitate it, note well its methods. When these have been thoroughly mastered, it should be as easy to frame recipes for writing an epic, as for compounding a plum-pudding:—and they framed them accordingly

A movie adaptation of the kind of Broadway play that drives you to the movies. Full of forced, unnaturally fast quips that one might, in a state of extreme exhaustion, find fairly funny. With Walter Matthau as a dentist, Ingrid Bergman as his assistant, and Goldie Hawn, whom God must have sent to us. But why didn't He provide her with better material? (She plays the dentist's mistress.) Also with Jack Weston and Irene Hervey. Directed by Gene Saks, from I.A.L. Diamond's script, based on Abe Burrows' play, which was adapted from a French play. Columbia.

I REMEMBER WHEN YOU POSTED THIS BEFORE YOU SAW IT

I posted it exactly 300 TIMES.

Pauline :)

hippe kino

Why is Cars so hated?

hated by who? this is a movie for kids, just like Lilo and Stitch, Finding Nemo and Star Wars

>hated by who?
reddit

by whom*
t.third worlder
I loved Cars, but hated Cars 2

The themes of detrimental societal progress and communal engagement must have been too much for them to handle.

in hindsight the premise of Cars was sorta stupid.

Easter?

What did Bruce think of the 60s academy run?

70s > 30s > 60s > 40s > 50s > 80s

That's not how the order was last time. And you didn't tell me what you thought

Much improved over the 1950s. Greater lineup, and more consistently good years throughout. A transformative decade indeed.

Favorite year: 1967
Least favorite year: No bad year, however 1960 was the most "alright" one, and 1963 is pretty controversial among others.

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2017 marked the 6th year in a row I unofficially beat the old Guinness Book of Records entry of most feature films in a calender year! 1302 features and 737 short films in 2017 = a total of 2039 films seen. As I start 2018 I've rated 22,267 films.

Not sure what kind of year 2018 is going to be. I will at a minimum keep up with new finds from 1941 and back. Should probable take a deep dip into 1942, not so much modern films. Doubt films will be as dominant in my life as it's been the past few years, but we'll see.

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HANDS OFF!

Glee star Mark Salling 'commits suicide' as he awaits sentencing on child pornography charges.

>1302 features
>2 hours per feature
>2604 hours / 365 days
>over 7 hours of movie watching per day
You expect us to believe you?

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Hey guys, I'm here

theres rooney

what if emeilee & roony were to have lesbian sex

=o

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You whore you whore
You whore you whore

i could write the LONGEST book in the world about how much i love emly jean emma stone, but that would take up MORE than 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 milleniums to write down everything that i love about her
i'll just say that she's a princess and that she's a darling and that she's an angel and i love her more than there are atoms in the universe and my love for her is so HUUUUGE it would take a JILLION MILLION BILLION TRILLION of our own universe to make up the space of even 1/10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 of 1/100000000000000000 of my love bubble of emily jean.
she is so pretty and gorgeous and lovely and stunning, humans existed just for emily jean stone. i must do everything in my power to make her happier than happy can get and that no one gives her any problems at any time EVER because she deserves every single drop of love that humanity as a whole can possibly give to each other. no one deserves love but the freaking GODDESS that is known as Emily Jean "Emma" Stone. Her greatness is indescribable to mortals, we are like a drop of water in the HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE sea that is emma stone's intellect, she has never once been incapable of moving planets and shifting tectonic plates. emily jean always been above everyone around her whether they realized it (in)directly or chose not to. she is absolute, ultimate perfection. i shall worship her for my entire life. everyone else shall do the same.

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My dic got crushed by watching this! Never saw Emeiley kissing other girl! Very hot im saving this on my harddrive!

why can't emnily go nude like her pal roonie

Is this a copypasta

hnnnnnng. HNNNNNNNNNNGGG. PLEASE STOP EMMA, YOU ARE TOO MUCH FOR ME TO HANDLE!!!! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!! Emily Jean, your divinity, your beauty, your PERFECTION, THE HUMAN BODY IS NOT CAPABLE OF EXPELLING THE LEVEL OF ASTONISHMENT AS I AM WHEN I LOOK AT YOU!!! I just want to embrace you, I just want to kiss you, I just want to live a long and happy life with you, I want to expound EVERY SINGLE MICRO-OUNCE OF LOVE THAT I HAVE FOR YOU INSIDE ME, AND IT WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH!!! I AM SO COMPLETELY UTTERLY ENAMORED BY YOU. You and your perfect face, body, hands, legs, feet, EVERY SINGLE PLANCK OF YOU IS WORTH 100000000000000 OF EVERY OTHER WOMAN IN THE WORLD COMBINED!!! YOU ARE GOD, YOU ARE THE EPITOMY OF BEAUTIFUL, MY HEART BEATS SO QUICK AT THE THOUGHT OF YOU I LOSE CONTROL OF MY HANDS AND ARMS, YOU CRIPPLE ME, I STARE SLACK JAWED AT YOUR GLAMOUR, PLEASE TAKE ME!!! I WOULD GIVE EVERYTHING TO BE WITH YOU, TAKE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How does one make over 500 works and not a single bad one?

some of them are lost

How is Sunrise a "tone poem" if there's no cynical, sarcastic tone?

How do you make over 500 posts and not a single good one?

Art has always been political.
Music has always been political.
Movies have always been political.
Books have always been political.
Keep your “Keep your politics out of my BLANK” bs outta my face.

You mock, but life and language is political. Language is always motivated and is therefore always an argument

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Lefty politics are wrong thus lefty film is wrong

How art is interpreted and synthesized is political. Art itself can be purely aesthetic.

Bull
shit

Politics is the post hoc interpretive prism we view art through. Art can exist as a thing in itself, separate from the political realm.

Fabulous fashionista!

don't mind me, just bringing kino to your life and winning an oscar in the meantime

ron howerd is the best dorector of all time.

So you crave entertainment and fashion

I CRAVE LANGUAGE AND IDEAS, ADVANCEMENT

>used to be mad at people like Ron Howard winning directing nominations
>now we get people like Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig nominated purely for being born a particular way
I'M SORRY RONALD

Did Griffith ever make this gesture?

You crave pamphlets and after-school specials.

in the heart of the sea goat

You crave crayons and make-believe

Yeah, so?

Back to kindergarten

Megan, we already know that films aren't as great as sunplays, can't people just enjoy them as FILMS though?

>Megan
That's lovely Bruce.

You crave twitter hashtags and Vox articles.

gay