Films

[INNIT]

watched haneke's "code unknown"

excellent exploration of biopower/barelife

any other films like this people could recommend? specifically interested in the way the scenes cut with no real transitions and how the intensity/affects of each scene carried through to the next despite there often being a temporal/spacial disjuncture.


like how the movie was jarringly fragmented yet the intensity of each scene seemed to carry through; that's what i'm after (definitely not trying to trick care-tags into finding films for me to write about in my dissertation)

bonus points if it's avant garde, french (or german), or allows me to shittalk capitalism in some way

ermm, what buzzwords/jargon did you feel i used?

[talkin2snakes]

i havent seen that film and generally find haneke quite hard to sit through (late malick too). but from what you're describing, in pure cinematic terms maybe tony scott's 'domino', or olivier assayas' 'boarding gate'?

[talkin2snakes]

re above, doesnt surprise me that someone immersed in theory would note the agamben motifs, and if so why not say? (that said i work in the art world and get like 73 agamben references a day).
also, perhaps cowboys comment might intentionally or not raise the question fo 'hermeneutic slippage'. any properly philosophical reading of film needs to be careful to avoid reading through or as some kind of philosophical meta-language and missing the cinematic 'thing itself' (to adapt a heideggerian term) and just becoming a kind of bad philosophy. and this is a problem for me with film-makers like haneke who almost seem to present portentous thematics from the outset ,even better example would be that godawful boring handmaids tale adaptation .

[INNIT]

[Cowboy]

sorry deadkitty is right I'm just dumb


but to be honest it feels like academic criticism and theory has been captured in its own language not for the sake of clarifying concepts and identifying them but to prove that the person at hand is up to date with all the hot hip words.

Affect/Intensity could just as easily been called emotion really, and giving the statement "Affect" without any context presupposes the reader at hand understands what has become a rapidly popular statement in the overarching field. This means that the only way to understand is to be part of this institutional education, which I think can take a lot away, seeing as the hopes to change the world through study find themselves in the masses being able to actually understand what study proposes. It's also not even remotely accessible to populations subordinate to the institutions we so readily criticize.

Study here just stands for theory/institutional criticism

So when I say jargon it isn't that it's a nonsense abstraction (which I'm not entirely against being true) but that the portrayal makes it so that to anyone who reads this shit it goes way over their head if they aren't familiar, thus making it nonsense to the common reader. Let's not act like anywhere near a sizeable bit of the population has the remotest of ideas of who Foucault/Agamben are and can even go so far as to discuss what they say RE: barelife.

when you say that digesting information, specifically philosophical education, is akin to digesting capital I honestly have to laugh. That's ridiculously self serving. IDK how much depth I'd have to go in to explain why chomsky isn't actually totally wrong here.

When you have the option to discuss something in a small, casual forum, and you coat it in a esoteric vocabulary, I struggle to believe you actually care to discuss with the forum at large rather than just prove to the other people who understand it that you can keep up/know ur stuff.

Maybe I'm just a reductionist and anything outside of these terms can't actually capture their essence
(like emotion can't capture affect), But i say at least give a bit of a nod to the persons who don't have the background you do. It's a fine line I guess but *shrug*

I initially only put the first line cuz I was being sassy and deadkitty is annoying but I tried to engage with the rest

Also I don't think caretags threads are the places to hit the deep end of the philosophical pool, and I'm sure it's best if we just keep things to film as they're meant to be. Feel free to pm me if you want to discuss this further, but I'm not posting here with this tangent further

Also none of this is meant to be personal! You're obviously immensely intelligent and capable, and I'm sure at the end of the day this is me just saying "hey don't be so smart" haha

[INNIT]

alright raise your hands who knows what barelife is

just kidding, fair enough , thanks for responding

[thephfactor]

[INNIT]

has anyone ever seen la vie nouvelle? what the fuck did i just watch, i have never been so disturbed in my life. went wayyyy too far down the rabbit hole of experimental film, back to novels

[oucho]

I just watched the face of another which seems really clairvoyant and relevant to 'facelessness' on social media now and the collapse of our ability to enforce moral codes that accompanies that as predicted by dr hira in the film

I think Teshigahara is a really great director

[surfdude69]

I just recently watched Dogtooth and was pretty much blown away, a really really beautiful film. Are there any other excellent Greek films anyone would recommend?

[GeorgeT]

My fav one id Me before you! Guys, just check it later.

[Northwest]

So no one is talking about American Animals but it ruled. Highly recommend, saw at second run theater for 4 bucks might end up being my favorite of the year.

Mission Impossible: Fallout is also incredible. Saw it in IMAX for $9, again highly recommend. Some of the best action screenwriting of the year.


Missed Leave No Trace like a dummy. I should have seen that in theaters. Re-watching Winter's Bone as penance. Same director, took her 8 years (?) to make another movie, that movie being...you guessed it, Leave No Trace. Premise is a girl on the cusp of adulthood lives with her survivalist father in a park outside Portland, Oregon. Should have gone just to practice location spotting out of context.

Best action sequence of the year for me is in Incredibles 2, if you've seen it you know the one.

Blackkklansman this morning to get that matinee pricing (yee yee yee).

ALSO:

[fun_yunchables]

i just watched to all the boys i loved on netflix because of #asianrepresentation

and I feel like representation took two steps back...
its more like “to all the white boys (+ one token minority for diversity*) i’ve loved before”
which just reinforces the white beauty hegemony (at least for males) which in itself is problematic
I cant believe AA people are actually stanning this kinda crap

hopefully crazy rich asians is more well balanced... goign to watch it v soon. if its just as bad representationally i’m just gonna stick my head in the sand and go back to watching hk new cinema art films

*there’s one black guy. upon further research, this guy was originally white in the novel (making all of them white in the source material) and the race was changed in casting

[CheerUpBrokeBoy]

rewatching boogie nights and i'm still blown away by how well PTA writes characters and their struggles – i suppose it's no surprise that everyone can relate to characters in a film focused around desire, because everyone desires something, but it almost physically hurts to see some of these characters go through it the way they do

julianne moore, william h. macy, and philip seymour hoffman's characters especially have these desires and struggles that are so viscerally real; small in scope but still unbearably sad. successful romances always feel good to watch but there's something about unrequited desire/love/devotion that's so poignant and painful to watch

[rjbman]

bumping an old thread for these trying times (everyone who had that phrase on their bingo card, take a shot). what have yall been watching?

mostly been rewatching old movies i love: snowpiercer, the other guys, life acquatic...

I did watch Bacarau on 's recommendation and enjoyed it

[jylt]

"sweet bean" by naomi kawase was incredible for me
"shoplifters" and "our little sister" by koreeda hirokazu are both very good too

[fun_yunchables]

go to town on criterion channel tbh

im currently revisiting edward yang

[106-2]

definitely recommend both of these! https://now-instant.la/screen and massive shoutout to for unearthing them

also saw Southland Tales last night - Richard Kelly's next film after Donnie Darko - total hot mess but really fun and honestly fairly prescient in kind of absurd ways. Wouldn't recommend too highly under normal circumstances but it's not like any of us have better things to be doing rn ahaha

[thephfactor]

Portrait of a Lady on Fire was very good. Was one of the last films I saw in theaters before that all came to an end, and it's now on Hulu. Sciamma's back catalog is well worth exploring too.

[bels]

I really liked southland tales, I saw it roughly when it came out and rewatched recently after I read this essay which claims its a masterpiece:

http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=611

If you're weak of mind, like me, and believe everything you read, like me, it may convince you it's actually brilliant.

[mooncorp]

i watched all about lily chou-chou recently, it was a very very sweet and beautiful film. if you liked shoplifters you'll probably like this, they have a similar atmosphere

aside from that im going through some graff docs on youtube haha i don't know if anyone wants to talk about that, i watched pixo and next i'm watching piece by piece, then up here kids

[JewTurk]

I watched Columbus and really enjoyed it! Definitely pulling from Ozu which I enjoyed. I think I'm gonna rewatch some Ozu because of it. I just like that slower 'pace'.

[jylt]

where should i start if i'm trying to get into hou hsiao hsien?

[popcorn]

[INNIT]

my reader made me watch "dogville". i don't get it. can someone find me an essay explaining why it is earth shatteringly brilliant

[jylt]

watched "the wild goose lake" which was directed by diao yinan. i enjoyed it. apparently some people like diao's "black coal, thin ice" more.

this might be a mundane observation, but i've gotten more relaxed about my movie watching. i used to have these two types that i'd sort all of the movies i'd watch into: (1) entertainment movies that are only about my pleasure without close attention, (2) serious movies that i must dedicate my close and unwavering attention to formally, thematically, etc.

loosening up about category 2 movies feels similar to the loosening up that i experienced with my reading practice. i think i learned skimming as a mode of engagement with different ends/means than the mode of close reading. both are enriching in different ways.

gonna try to do more relaxed movie watching

[alby]

watched prisoners from 2013 it was really good i had clammy hands most of the time would recommend