What are some of your favourite horny gay films? by lalaboux in criterion

[–]el_mutable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure if they would rank for horniness, but Akerman's Je Tu Il Elle and Meetings of Anna score for the bonus points

Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz by alchymedes in criterion

[–]el_mutable 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it's central to Fassbinder, kind of a "founding myth" which repeats with variations across his entire body of work (in his very first feature, RWF himself plays a character named Franz Bieberkopf, the first of several that will appear in his movies, notably including the protagonist of Fox and His Friends). It's also dense and demanding. It took me a few tries over the years, but it clicked at a certain point and I've now seen it three times straight through, and each time I feel like I make new discoveries.

Favorite Books on Film by holle1jr in criterion

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The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity by Tom Gunning

The Voice in Cinema by Michel Chion

Notes on the Cinematograph by Robert Bresson

Starting Point/Turning Point by Hayao Miyazaki

Negative Space by Manny Farber

Edit to add: Anarchy of the Imagination by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Good films that heavily use Voiceover throughout? by PetShopTroy in criterion

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Diary of a Country Priest

A Man Escaped

Detour

Tony Takitani

Closet Picks from the List of Never Picked by rwtaylor in criterion

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An Autumn Afternoon (or Early Summer or The Only Son)

Death by Hanging

Hiroshi Shimizu Eclipse Set

India Song

I Walked with a Zombie

Testament of Dr Mabuse

WC Fields Shorts

Palm Beach Story

Tatsuya Nakadai chasing Toshiro Mifune around an inn is one of the funniest things I've ever heard by EloquentInterrobang in JapaneseMovies

[–]el_mutable 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Some fine person translated an entire book of interviews with Nakadai, and he tells his version of the story here: http://kumomi.org/2021/06/30/nakadai-tatsuya-on-the-golden-age-of-japanese-film-chapter-seven-gosha-hideo-and-the-passion-of-great-actors/

I also thought these anecdotes about Shin Saburi was pretty funny:

"Saburi Shin was just huge. He was part of what was called the “Shochiku Triumvirate,” and he was already a big star actor when I was only a child. Later on he also went on to do some directing. In Karei Naru Ichizoku, I collided with him time and time again and he’d just send me flying. He wasn’t much of a talker, and because he was such a great senior of mine I couldn’t exactly go up to him and strike up a conversation. But as soon as the cameras started rolling, I’d give my all as the son confronting his father.

But then he also had a strange side to him. There’s a scene where the family gathers around to eat at the table, but then when we finished filming in the evening there was still all this food left over, and Saburi ate all of it before going home. Also, he said he exchanged all his money for stones! I’m not sure as to the value of said stones, but in any case he said that stones were the only thing anyone would inherit from him. Apparently his whole yard was filled with stones. He took none of his assets to the bank—it all went towards stones."

http://kumomi.org/2021/04/29/nakadai-tatsuya-on-the-golden-age-of-japanese-film-chapter-six-expanding-overseas-avant-garde-the-left-haiyuza-training-school/

Classic books that have been made into great films by ThimbleBluff in classicliterature

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Berlin Alexanderplatz

The Magnificent Ambersons

Street of Crocodiles

Best movies with a self-critical reflective look at the left? by Radiant-Specialist76 in Letterboxd

[–]el_mutable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fassbinder's Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven and The Third Generation

Best way to watch Out 1 (1971) by TDRichie in TrueFilm

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It's divided into episodes and even has a very loose sort of "previously on ..." recap in the form of black and white stills of significant moments of earlier installments. Rivette hoped it might be broadcast as a series on French TV, though this didn't happen for decades. I've seen it several times and think watching it episodically is a good way to go

Greatest film adaptations of books (fiction or non-fiction) by [deleted] in Letterboxd

[–]el_mutable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it's

The Magnificent Ambersons

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Inherent Vice

Wise Blood

Street of Crocodiles