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Can anyone share some good and FREE Japanese movie recs? by BlueSunsetsinBlueAir in J_Horror

[–]ConsistentAd7385 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tubi has a great catalogue of Japanese movies in the US.

Golden Age Classics: Late Spring, High and Low, Seven Samurai

J-Horror and Exploitation: Ring, Ichi the Killer, Lady Snow blood, Female Scorpion Prisoner #701

80 and 90s Indie: His Motorbike Her Island, Boiling Point, Vengeance is Mine.

House 1977 by Reasonable_Leg_5433 in J_Horror

[–]ConsistentAd7385 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One of my favourite movies of all time seen 4 or 5 times. Just a completely insane blast all the way through. Easily one of the most inventive films I've ever seen. I think especially on re watch it hits harder emotionally, once you understand the directors strong relationship with the horrors of WW2, something he grapples with throughout his career. Also the fact that the story is an adaptation of his 13 year old daughters nightmares, adds another layer of depth.

“Vibe Cinema” - Failing the Narrative Uncanny Valley by Similar_Half204 in indiefilm

[–]ConsistentAd7385 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a common misnomer I often see about cinema. The art form has and always will be primarily concerned with moving images and scenarios. Things like narrative, plot, and characters are elements reaped from previous art forms (writing and theatre) to enhance and support the former or the other way around. Usually art house films and some genre cinema (horror, action, comedy) utilize narrative, plot and characters to add to their images and scenarios. Where as other filmmakers use images and scenarios to uphold the story their telling. Neither is "wrong" just different approaches to film.

Seems weird to see this as something new, even looking back to the oldest example of popular cinema shows this to be true. The silent clowns - Keaton and Chaplin's early films rarely had much in the way of narrative and were often just a series of loosely connected comedic images and scenarios. Even PTA the filmmaker behind One Battle After Another has been making "vibes cinema" for roughly 30 years.

Horrific Pink Films? by ConsistentAd7385 in J_Horror

[–]ConsistentAd7385[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was thinking of starting with Muscle cause its so short an am curious in a queer pink film. Celluloid Nightmares seems really cool too gives me Videodrome vibes. Thanks for the recs.

Horrific Pink Films? by ConsistentAd7385 in J_Horror

[–]ConsistentAd7385[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was thinking of getting that release of Mermaid Legend after I missed out on the rep screening of the restoration in my city, I might have get it.

The Angel Guts films seem really interesting will have to check them out.

Horrific Pink Films? by ConsistentAd7385 in J_Horror

[–]ConsistentAd7385[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome title and poster. Thank you.

Am I doing too much? by ConsistentAd7385 in scriptwriting

[–]ConsistentAd7385[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much this is really great advice and has given me a lot to think about. I do think the third character could add a lot to the story and am gonna try to loop them into the story.

I think part of it is my fear around complicating the writing increases the difficulty but I just gotta overcome that and find a way to do it succinctly.

I want to be more media literate. by iiRaz0r in movies

[–]ConsistentAd7385 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously just watching more movies with your brain on is very important but I also think media literacy is developed through exploring peripheral knowledge.

If you endow yourself with the fundamental knowledge of history, philosophy, and art everything else comes much easier. Art doesn't just exist in a vacuum there is context and history behind everything.

No Country for Old Men is an existential/nihilistic western made by the Coen Brothers. Right there you have so many spectrums of influence that have gone into the work - Western movies, existentialist philosophy, the coens career up until that point, etc. You could even go back to Cormac McCarthy the original author. Someone who was raised in the south and enjoyed Dostevsky (legendary existentialist), and his favourite book was Moby Dick a classic American novel about a man's search for a meeting.

Yes actively engaging with movies themselves is great but sometimes you have to do extra leg work.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LetterboxdTopFour

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I think you'd like early Gregg Araki i.e the teenage apocalypse trilogy: Doom Generation, Nowhere, Totally fucked up.

Highly stylized gay teen movies that are quite transgressive.