Where's the Yea Forums recommended list of films? I recently started getting into them more like 2 years ago just building a backlog and watching literally whatever movie I thought might be good to watch somewhat randomly. Seen a lot of good shit but I know i'm probably missing out on a lot more stuff in my backlog.
Getting into Films
Adrian Rogers
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Dylan Edwards
If you like Japanese movies try A Page of Madness.
Kayden Gray
>mindlessly consuming films off of a "backlog" like checking items off a grocery list
a monkey watches; a man thinks. why do cinephiles not understand this?
Asher Turner
I’d recommend:
Das Boot
Der Untergang
Fantastic Planet
The Assassination Of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Thin Red Line
Ikiru
Connor Jones
Nah i'm more of a fan of westerns like what I put in the OP :^). Looks really interesting though, will definitely add it. I still have Tetsuo: The Iron Man and a couple of Akira Kurosawa films on my backlog.
>Implying I don't think about them
I just want a good way of knowing how to jump into films. If I like a director and/or writer I watch more by them even if their other films aren't on any "recommended" lists. If I purely wanted to consume i'd watch a film every night when I honestly only watch 1 a week if even that.
Thanks, I definitely want more international films. I saw Assassination of Jesse James roughly 4 months ago as a part of my entire western backlog, it wasn't a good "western" in my limited knowledge but it was still really great and I have ikiru on my backlog as well.
William Thomas
just watch whatever kino lorber or the criterion collection have in stock.
Liam Williams
I don't pay to watch stuff unless I really like it
Isaiah Brown
This list is a combination of all other (good) lists. Work your way down from 1. You won't understand how important the first 100 are until you hit around 1000, so when you get there feel free to start again.
Colton Martin
>You won't understand how important the first 100 are until you hit around 1000, so when you get there feel free to start again.
I appreciate it, i'll certainly use this to some extent but I don't think i'm gonna make it through that in 20 years
Evan Campbell
It was more a joke than anything. My only other advice is to no force yourself to watch shit from the '40s and earlier if you're not enjoying it. The outmoded technical quality of the films can often be quite jarring for young people (or so I find with my students). The '60s and '70s have a lot of "classics" that are really easy viewing, especially New Hollywood, and most young men tend to like those films (they're violent, masculine, action-packed), so I would start there. Do a few Scorsese's and Coppola's and then once you have a few of those down do some foreign films from a similar era. Do the French then Italian, then Japan and Hong Kong after that. Watch modern stuff when you can. Pay attention to Cannes and Berlin film fests.
Christopher Nelson
Here was my High school film studies list:
>Silent Films:
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Passion of Joan of Arc, Sunrise, Metropolis, City Lights, Battleship Potemkin
>1930s:
The Public Enemy, Gone With The Wind, Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Wizard of Oz, Angels With Dirty Faces, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, Stagecoach, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
>Foreign 1930s:
M, Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game
>1940s:
Mark of Zorro, The Thin Man, Out of the Past, Kiss Me Deadly, The Maltese Falcon, Gilda, Red River, Murder My Sweet, Citizen Kane, Magnificent Ambersons, Casablanca, Sunset Boulevard, Force of Evil, The Third Man
>Foreign 1940s:
The Bicycle Thief, Umberto D
>1950s:
Lady From Shanghai, A Streetcar Named Desire, Rear Window, Vertigo, Shane, Singing in the Rain, On The Waterfront, The Searchers, Rebel Without a Cause, Touch of Evil
>Foreign 1950s:
Breathless, 400 Blows, Seven Samurai, Tokyo Story, Rashomon, Hidden Fortress, Balthazar, 8 1/2, La Strada, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, The Seventh Seal, Ikiru
>1960s:
Dr. Strangelove, A Hard Day's Night, Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch, Seconds, Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Easy Rider, Planet of the Apes
>Foreign 1960s:
Weekend, Masculine Feminine, Le Samourai, Le Cercle rouge, Billy Liar, Saturday Night Sunday Morning
>1970s:
The Godfather, The Godfather II, Badlands, The Conversation, American Graffiti, Star Wars, Jaws, THX-1138, Barry Lyndon, Chinatown, Network
>1980s:
The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, First Blood, Blade Runner
>Foreign 1980s:
Dekalog
>1990s:
Magnolia, Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring
>2000s:
The Royal Tenenbaums (& other films by Wes Anderson)
Matthew Nguyen
The thing about jap film is that Toshiro Mifune was THE leading man and no one has come close to sniffing his kimono since his death. Just watch Tora! Tora! Tora! or Hell in the Pacific and tell me he couldn't share the stage with AHNULD or Jack or Brando. Hell, Lee Marvin only tricked him due to clever editing and Lee Marvin could trick Brando.
Cooper Wright
Would you like me to dump the charts I've amassed over the years?
Cameron Harris
>1980s on
Yikes.com
Connor Cox
Yeah I can kind of get it. I think the oldest thing I Managed to watch was Nosferatu but haven't watched much else like that. I'm just kinda watching whatever movies I think sound good at any random moment and it's worked out for the most part.
I've definitely enjoyed some of the '60s and '70s films though they were mostly westerns.
What a list, i'll definitely check it out thanks.
That's pretty much what I was expecting. Not actual post recommendations
Dylan Rogers
>Nah i'm more of a fan of westerns like what I put in the OP
Jaxson Rogers
>That's pretty much what I was expecting.
Ok
Eli Gray
Isaac Peterson
I agree, the 1980s part was him telling us about "the summer blockbuster" which was basically the tail-end of the class
Jaxson Powell
Alexander Long
Ayden Phillips
no one here actually watches good movies anymore
Isaac Ross
Adam Harris
IDK about that but it is hard to find discussion about non mainstream movies.
Either because they've been discussed to death and we late watchers are late for it, or not a lot of people have seen those movies to discuss it.
Dylan Hernandez
Zachary Green
Alexander Martinez
Eli Long
Westerns are inferior rip offs of samurai movies. Samurai Rebellion and Harakiri are some of the best movies ever made and make John Wayne flicks look like the children's movies they are.
Ryder James
Xavier Clark
Brayden Robinson
Hunter Young
Luis Russell
Elijah Bell
Without John Ford there would be no samurai flicks worth remembering at all.
Daniel Wilson
Blake James
Adrian Thomas
Owen Roberts
He thinks he's clever because Kurosawa highly respected and borrowed a lot from John Ford. Yojimbo is certainly structured much like a western, and was remade into one, but is unquestionably a samurai film. Kurosawa's second best samurai film (and third best movie) in my opinion. I absolutely love Yojimbo. Pure action/adventure kino.
Jace Gray
Luke Butler
Hunter Rogers
Mason Davis
huh weird wtf is that true?
Colton Martin
I see the value in both. I saw Yojimbo and Fistful of Dollars back to back. I prefer _____Yojimbo_____ but think both are kino
I'm just being epic
Liam Carter
Cameron Martin
Jeremiah Martin
Jaxon Harris
Grayson Kelly
Blake Edwards
Charles Moore
The fuck is this thread? We're a capeshit board.
Sneed
Isaac Turner
Luis Reyes
All these lists are shit.
Watch every film on this list instead
Leo Hill
Daniel White
Ryder Lewis
Ford's movies all praise bootlicking and subsuming oneself to the government and it's institutions. Movies like Samurai Rebellion and Harakiri are about sticking to one's personal morals and spitting in the face of the establishment if it's not worthy of you. Westerns are a celebration of the state. Chanbara films are a celebration of men. Note that no American ever killed a communist traitor like Otoya Yamaguchi did.
Connor Richardson
Jace Phillips
Logan Taylor
Julian Moore
Owen Hughes
...
Benjamin Martinez
pretty shit
John Green
Samuel Rodriguez
>all westerns are John Wayne flicks
John Morales
Samuel Gonzalez
David Adams
>Westerns are a celebration of the state.
what in the everloving fuck are you talking about
Jose Hernandez
This is so fucking gay, its like someone went to the IMDB top 250 and copy and pasted a bunch of random crap without formulating reasons or understanding as to why.
Ryan Cook
Hunter Cook
Evan Peterson
Colton Cruz
Fuck a list from this board. Only good list I've ever seen here is in Korean cinema threads, and that's mostly because it's a relatively small pool to draw from of like 50 relevant movies ever.
The best way I have found to grow my film knowledge is to go sub-genre by sub-genre for however long that specific one interests me. Over a period of years you'll slowly find yourself becoming a bit of an expert on genres that you end up sticking with. You'll never be an expert on everything, there's just too much out there at this point.
If you're into westerns or classic samurai films, or just specifically Kurosawa or Japanese cinema for now just stick with that until you feel like moving on. Whenever a specific type of film catches your interest just read online a list of what movies in that genre are considered the best and dive in. Keep going deeper down that rabbit home until you don't feel like it anymore. I've gotten real deep in some weird ones with this method. I owned an embarrassing amount of Italian cannibal exploitation movies on dvd before digital distribution really took off.
That was probably too much info for what is basically a "list your favorite movies" thread, but that's my honest advice for how to grow your film knowledge. Sorry for typos, I'm phone posting from bed.
Thomas Carter
Jaxson Brooks
Mason Long
Kevin Hall
Zachary Young
Jordan Evans
Alexander Collins
Lol nigga just do the top 250 IMDB.
Nathaniel Brooks
Carson Nguyen
Caleb Rogers
I don't necessarily care about being an expert on anything movie related I just wanna watch some good ass movies.
But yeah that's primarily what I have been doing though not to a big extent. If I get really invested into a genre i'll watch multiple in a short span but then i'll stop and just go back to watching whatever. I guess most of what i've seen other than westerns are considered "thrillers" but I feel like that genre is really broad in style and story.
Ian Harris
I feel like you wouldn't be expected to watch that many films in one high school course
Lucas Young
Julian Taylor
That's it. Hope you enjoy watching and find the kino that you want.
Hudson Peterson
thanks for the dump user
Kevin Rodriguez
I appreciate it user
Cooper Diaz
It's true that the average poster will never even watch half of what's been posted. Although I think it helps in a way to bring exposure to some movies they would otherwise not be able to know about had they not been exposed to it via charts/lists/etc. I, myself, have only got into movies recently and wouldn't have seen Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo if not for these kinds of threads and charts.