All decent shouts I’d say. Camille Claudel is brilliant but not massively representative of him as a whole.

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Cry Baby isn’t massively representative of Waters either but a gentle place to start before the mad shit

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alright here’s mine:

Kiyoshi “The Other” Kurosawa is best known for horror but more accurately his schtick is taking existing genres and subverting them in oddball ways (admittedly with sometimes mixed results.) His most well known films are Pulse and Cure, his takes on J-Horror and sort of American cop thrillers (a la Se7en) but Tokyo Sonata is his version of a family drama. It won the jury prize at Cannes so it’s probably his most successful film. Don’t wanna give the plot away but it’s a sort of hyperreal, black comedy about the nuclear family coming apart. Highly recommended.

N.B. please do not watch the trailers on youtube, they will ruin it.

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I’mma watch this man. I’ve just found it on YouTube but I won’t post a link because it’s 720p.

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Gonna watch it across a number of days on the tube on my phone.

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No headphones.

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In a priority seat.

while eating a curry burrito

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My local cinema is doing a showing of Agnes Vardy’s final film :thinking:

Yer boy Todd Haynes is on 6 music now talking about music/films etc.

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aki kaurismaki’s most recent film, that he’s apparently said is his final one, the other side of hope is on iplayer for about a month. is super, a 90 minuter…

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ooh thanks, haven’t watched a Kaurismaki for years, might stick this on

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Mamoru Oshii, director of the original Ghost in the Shell and the first two Patlabor films (of which the second is my favourite film). Known for mecha/tech stuff, but also philosophical tone, expressed through nice montage scenes with a Kenji Kawai score:

He also loves basset hounds - this gbod is all over GitS 2: Innocence:

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and flocks of birds, which are all over Patlabor 2, in foreground and background

I’ve been loading up the ol’ hard drive with major blank spots I have from this list and I am looking forward to seeing those films.

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  • I have watched a film as a result of this thread
  • I have not, but plan to
  • I have not, and will not, fuck you Joke

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I’ve learnt about films I’d like to watch due to this thread, thanks @AQOS

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This thread made me realise there is a big Fellini shaped hole in my knowledge, so I watched La Dolce Vita yesterday. Good, innit?

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This thread really did it for me. I’ve watched like 5 films a week since. I was averaging less than 1 before.

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Fresh movies day - these were both added to the list thanks to this thread

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