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The /film/ bunker is moving here because we must have a functional board. Endchan has had continuous problems since 8chan went down and they're currently stuck in upgrade limbo. I attempted to start a board on vch.moe (since /tv/ is there) but my request was ignored. So now we're here, a nice site that's part of a webring of 8chan bunkers.

If 8chan ever comes back I want to save/archive as much content from the board as possible. Most of /film/ had been saved on archive.org, but it looks like that site has purged 5+ years of 8chan images on a whim. They are no longer reliable.

For status updates during the downtime I have been using https://letterboxd.com/8chanfilm/ and the email film [at] tutamail [dot] com.

I am a retard and forgot that /film/ was on the list. I had copied over a backup just in case something like this happened, but the backup didn't have files (too large to fit in). Please use this thread to restore files to the board. How it works Dump the files that previously existed on the board. I'm writing a script to match up posts with a reference to the files and update their references. File limits? 5 files per post, 20MB max. To the BO I deleted your account too, sorry. Please contact me at admin at theГунтretort dot com or in #julayworld on Rizon and I can give you an account. Please do the same with volunteers as well.

There aren't many people here, but this bunker needs more content. Post something interesting that doesn't fit into other threads.

A thread to post and request good documentaries on the variety of subjects. I'll start with some choice docus on ancient Egypt. All are selected for quality of presentation, study of subject as well as absence of current year agendas, we wuz kangz niggers etc. Romer's Egypt (3 episodes; 1982) and Ancient Lives (4 episodes; 1984) – the finest and quintessential ancient Egypt presentation; a soothing, in-depth look into ancient Egypt’s life and culture. It has that unmistakable classy 80s look that elevates it above the rest. https://www.invidio.us/channel/UC4gF7P8JKlJ9xAz8MF6AhFw/videos https://www.invidio.us/user/xinistri/videos Egypt: Beyond the Pyramids (4 episodes; 2001) – somewhat similar to Romer’s; not as in-depth or classy but still an enjoyable watch. https://www.dailymotion.com/search/Egypt%3A%20Beyond%20the%20Pyramids The Robot, The Dentist and the Pyramid (1 episode; 2020) – an excellent amateur documentary about the latest attempt to explore the shaft of the Great Pyramid. https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=rhsddHgybTo Immortal Egypt (4 episodes; 2016) – despite being modern and hosted by a wommyn, it surprisingly manages to somehow avoid the current year pozz and is very much watchable. Probably the best HD series on the matter. https://www.invidio.us/playlist?list=PLhMDlPcDRBKSmMYcsJ_29dak29zvIm2pE Saving Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid (1 episode; 2013) – annoying modern American presentation but very interesting and unique look inside the Step Pyramid. https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=qvSbtf68AOg Nova’s experimental archaeology series – some of the largest experimental archaeology attempts put to film. The Pyramid (1997): https://biqle.org/watch/218310818_456239037 The Obelisk (1997): https://biqle.org/watch/247592695_456239754 The Obelisk (2000): https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=K4NNCEVtgj8 The Chariot: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=KIJvz7i0DdE Carl Sagan’s Cosmos (an extract from ep.12; 1980) – Sagan explains Rosetta stone and hieroglyphics. https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=V8B58n0XWY4 Building the Great Pyramid (1 episode; 2002) – perhaps the only good dramatization on the subject of ancient Egypt. May not be the most accurate but definitely the best attempt to bring Egypt to life on screen. https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=DzNXG4l0m6k

in good quality

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A special place for a small-format video field dedicated, once upon a time, to video technique experiments, unorthodox art directions and/or kinetic performances. As previously discussed this is a genre who has gotten a bit harsher to collect and research, there's some ways to start amassing a personal stash in a reliable way and check information regarding content creators, but in recent times these have gotten limited. The IMVDb site is a good place to start although it seems its staff activity has halted, at least considering that community entries have been on hold for a year now, so it should probably be taken as an introductory resource rather than a golden rule. Archive.org also features "small" batches of standard quality files, so it's also a most-see for new adventurers. Featured here is one of the early products made by the famous Ninja Tune label, as the founders of said company Coldcut made a collaboration with Hexstatic to create a small Audiovisual single that shows the very early and pioneering technology of their own real-time video manipulation software, something also called video scratching as it remixes and manipulates video as it were a vinyl on a disc jockey table, with audio included. Something that just very recently has been considered a normal mark in video sites, and mostly as an evolution of golden age Youtube Poop which is at its earliest around 2007; Coldcut made Timber in 1997. It also comes a decade after the same guys were already written in history with gold for popularizing and somewhat creating the standard of pausing cassettes, cutting the tape at that point, taping it over cheap copies of the same recording, doing it several times with several things and ending up with a frankenstein tape that basically invented the UK Garage scene along with the Big Beat scene, and by default the Remix style of musicianship, something that in a very short time would be refined and raised as an art by artists such as Todd Edwards. Highly criticized these days due to being seen as careless for the decline of the cult electronica label that was Ninja Tune, the Coldcut duo is somehow still underrated even when their influence has been omnipresent.

Iranian cinema warrants its own thread as the style of them and their directors are distinct enough to stand out and level up with Europeans. The 5 movies here are classics or well-known to start with. The Death of Yazdgerd recalls the kangaroo court upon a family of accusing the refuging last shah of the Sassanian dynasty. Where Is the Friend's Home details a child trying to give his friend his homework he took on accident lest his friend be expelled. Atom Heart Mother is some paranormal mystery thriller during the recession I didn't have subtitles for it. Ballad of Tara is about a women giving away her grandfather's possessions to her village as she can't keep them but finds no one who will accept his shamshir. The Night Bus is about an Iranian prisoner convoy of Arab POWs in 1983 during the Iran-Iraq War.

Post about movies that generated controversy. While I leave this thread open to controversial content such as graphic violence, sex, or political thought, I want to remind anons to consider controversial direction as well such as pic related.

Video Clips: Old and New

Well, did you like it? I know I'm echoing already existing criticism, but it really felt like a Scorsese imitator. Better than what capeshit deserves.

What's the consensus on fan re-edits? Like the Dune edit, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94d77kdmOvU I've been wanting to put my hands on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, maybe trim down the running time and move around some awkwardly placed T.V./Movies scenes? But I don't know if it's worth the time so, If you've seen the film before, let me know what you think, maybe share some things you would've liked to change/see in an edit?

Recently started to dig up some "forgotten" films that need love in order to restore or redistribute them. Let me know if you want me to look up a specific film you're interested in, right now we just finished a second try restoration for Madness by Cesare Rau https://youtube.com/watch?v=PI_wY7EUU_M and next we want to move onto Cerco de Terror and Appuntamento a Dallas. (The first edition of Madness had a bit of color correction problems, it was too fucking dark at times)

On 8chan someone requested Gillo Pontecorvo's La Grande Strada Azzurra, so we're currently working on that too.

Hello fellow kino enthusiasts, I'm the junior member of the Guntstream trio, the stream started by our benevolent mongolian overlord who created this humble imageboard.
Recently we have begun exploring doing other things with the stream then restreaming a fat drug abusing pedophile.

Last sunday we streamed Andrei Rubliev, probably before this board was even created.
Today at 22:00 UST (a bit over 16 hours from this post) we will be streaming Stalker, a movie so magnificent I'm sure most of you have already seen it, but you are nonetheless invited to watch it with the rest of us at https://cytu.be/r/Guntstream
I intend to make this a regular thing, and while times may change slightly I'll try to keep it around 22:00 UST to make it both accessible for european and american audiences.
The next couple of streams after this will probably go through some more of Tarkovsky's works, I intend to do Nostalgia and The Sacrifice next, but suggestions for future streams are welcome left to my own devices I will probably start doing some Herzog and Kurosawa movies after I feel like I've covered Tarkovsky enough.
We also do more random movie streams, been working through some Miike movies, I'll try to make a post here when they happen, but they're unfortunately not on a set schedule like Kino Sunday.

I saw this short by chance last night and really enjoyed it. Well-executed concept with a distinctive visual style.

>Thursday
>Dir: Matthias Hoegg / UK / 2010

https://invidio.us/watch?v=HQ1z0Zzqg5U

<An everyday love story set in the not so distant future sees blackbirds battling with technology, automatic palm readers and power cuts.

I looked for more content from Matthias Hoegg, but found that he's chosen a more profitable career as animator for hire. Still he's done interesting work for various corporate and non-profit clients.
https://vimeo.com/matthiashoegg

SoyuzMultfilm starter pack: >Russian Fairy tales •The Tale About the Dead Princess and the 7 Knights (1951; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=Rgp5h-59rIg •The Frog Princess (1954; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=EIsAwnot_RE •The Scarlet Flower (1952; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=q5gQFjr0QRk •The Master of the Mountain (1978; no subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=l5wJ541-b_g •The Childhood of Ratibor (1973; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=heR4PK4D0HY >Kawaii •A Kitten Named Woof (1976; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=b4Y1d4a4r-Q •Choonia (1968; no subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=SfugApJ6S9g •The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin (1988; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=tYFDU-Gwim4 >Mythology •Anatoly Petrov circle (english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/playlist?list=PLn5Aci4kkiv62mwG0CMLy7NIPU7hUs4L5 •Blotskaya-Simukov circle (english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/playlist?list=PLnuyqiYHMLP5hEgea1Kwal7dFl1S3zljc https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=_q7dypPYMAg >Adaptations of western spies •The Snow Queen (1957; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=P8jN0oOvYi0 •The enchanted boy (1955; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=wPHhYFt6uK4 •The Wild Swans (1959; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=HCDr8zfazA8 •Rudyard Kipling circle (english subtitles): The cat that walked by himself (1968; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=VmPz5gXxngA Rikki Tikki Tavi (1965; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=ku55vEVHvAE The Jungle Book (1967; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=bIOo6oKdLCQ •The Little Golden Feather (1960; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=OY0U-130AlA •The Little Mermaid (1960; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=pCYkE5ouI88 •Cinderella (1979; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=pcq_nzhgNRk •Cippolino (1961; english subtitles) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlJsqUk-k1k •Courageous Pak (1953; english subtitles) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcDLne13zc0 >Arthouse Кино •The Lion and the Bull (1983; no dialog) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=rMRL6mq7Chg •Hedgehog in the Fog (1975; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=xaWdPZafl0U •Butterfly (1972; no dialog) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=_FRr-_GABuU •Firing Range (1977; english subtitles) - https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=Yz3hFNS-Ew8 •The Return (1980; english subtitles) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvwTSp26jB0

Soundtracks and whatever else you like

I'm going to get things started here with the first of 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIUIh7dxlnI

I have recently watched a couple Nollywood films, and was curious what is /film/'s take on Nollywood? Personally, I love how enthusiastic they seem to be about making movies. I believe in a decade or two, they could begin going through a sort of "new wave", and start producing some real quality films.

Lately I've been watching nonfiction content from the silent era -- found footage, documentary, early fragments. This excellent video from the Museum of Modern Art captures a lot of what attracts me to these films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBNwiPgknn8
>It's not so much being seduced by a story, it's the thrill of seeing in itself.

I'm just disappointed that it's often difficult to find quality versions of this stuff. Watching anything potato quality youtube or even DVD doesn't do justice to the footage, and you lose the experience of time travel if you can't see clear details.

https://letterboxd.com/8chanfilm/ /film/ Top 250 https://letterboxd.com/8chanfilm/list/film-top-250/ /film/ Favorite Shorts https://letterboxd.com/8chanfilm/list/film-favorite-shorts/ I'm surprised this account hasn't been shadowbanned or deleted just yet. Will we continue adding films to the top 250?

What was the last thing you watched, and what did you think of it?

What would /film/ recommend for detective films?

Watch the film in the post below you. Give some good recs or make anons suffer.

A thread for bong media, both for bongs and for fags from elsewhere who want to see something non-pozed so expect the thread to be weighted towards older shows and films.

Starting with an absolute classic from the last decade before British culture started to disappear in the face of American cultural dominance. Also Michael Caine. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:E40A5E9641 8B1F77E22FF71A2DAC E9F31BA7FCB9 remove the spaces but I can't speak as to the quality of the torrent, if someone knows where to hunt for better ones with active seeders I'm all ears

There's a lot BD released out there with audio that is much inferior to older releases (most notably Laser Discs) but still with better video. Are there any ongoing projects of syncing/remuxing older audio tracks with the newer video? Looking into I see a lot of posts complaining about poor audio but nothing about syncing it with the better existing tracks.

I guess it's kinda off-topic but given the board is slow, I figured out you won't mind my asking.

Share your /film/-related literary picks!

Libgen is at http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

Growing up I always enjoyed watching films, but when I got older I started studying film and it tainted my movie-going experience permanently. It used to be that movies had a magical, escapist quality to them for me. But now when I watch a movie I can't help but criticize and analyse it in my mind. I can't stop myself from being taken out of immersion. It's no longer a fun past time, but a chore. It's very frustrating for me, because I just want to get absorbed into a story and forget about everything for 90 minutes, but I can't. Has anyone else here faced this problem?

>Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and then director. The Proletkult's director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, became a big influence on Eisenstein, introducing him to the concept of biomechanics, or conditioned spontaneity. Eisenstein furthered Meyerhold's theory with his own "montage of attractions"--a sequence of pictures whose total emotion effect is greater than the sum of its parts. He later theorized that this style of editing worked in a similar fashion to Marx's dialectic. Though Eisenstein wanted to make films for the common man, his intense use of symbolism and metaphor in what he called "intellectual montage" sometimes lost his audience. Though he made only seven films in his career, he and his theoretical writings demonstrated how film could move beyond its nineteenth-century predecessor--Victorian theatre-- to create abstract concepts with concrete images.

Eisenstein's completed feature films include:
Strike (1925)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928)
The General Line (1929)
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1945)

Incompleted films:
¡Que viva México! (A version was completed, edited, and released in 1979 by Eisenstein's co-director Grigori Aleksandrov)
Bezhin Meadow (lost, only exists as a slideshow now)
Ivan the Terrible, Part III (what was completed was destroyed)

Short films:
Glumov's Diary (1923)
Romance Sentimentale (1930)
El Desastre en Oaxaca (1931)

I believe most people are introduced to Sergei Eisenstein through Battleship Potemkin, which remains one of the most popular works of the 1920s and continues to be shown in film schools and film appreciation courses. Some of these classes might not show the entirety of Battleship Potemkin, but what they always show students is the massacre on the Odessa steps as this sequence remains an effective application of the montage, with the cuts set to a machine-like tempo between the Cossacks and government cavalry and the fleeing crowd of unarmed civilians. It's designed to push emotional buttons more than anything else, and for this reason I think that's why Battleship Potemkin never resonated with me, even after watching it a few times. Many of Eisenstein's other works were much more advanced than Battleship Potemkin, which makes me wonder why schools only teach Battleship Potemkin and usually skim over his later films. Perhaps it's simply because Battleship Potemkin is easier to get into?

Look at something like Strike, which released before Battleship Potemkin. The montage of the rioting workers at the end of the movie alternates with footage of a cow being slaughtered. You have these two seemingly unrelated scenes, but alternating between them gives the full sequence a whole new language and meaning, suggesting that the rioting workers are being slaughtered just like the helpless cow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWiDciPuSW4

Was 2001 A Space Odyssey jewish propaganda? I hate Also sprach Zarathustra. It's fucking loud.

Tarkovsky doesn't have shit on this man.

What does /film/ think about the films of Giuseppe Andrews?