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>>530
I watched this movie a few months ago and while it was an okay movie but i wouldnt call it the most beautiful movie ever made.infact i dont know any movies that could claim that title.however i do know a nominee for the most bittetsweet movie ever made and its kurosawas red beard (akahine).Its like a half ripe persimmon, bittersweet and tangy that leaves you with a weird taste in your mouth, in that once you are finished with it, you would never want to watch it ever again yet you will always remember it with a semblance of fondness.i have the same feeling towards grave of the fireflies and ano natsume.

>>531
>it was an okay movie
Maybe it's not the most beautiful movie ever made, but I really don't know how you can say one of Visconti's greatest movies is just 'okay'. Mind boggling.

>kurosawas red beard
I can definitely understand that, although I didn't find it as painful as your description makes it. I would love to watch it again some time. But I think Dersu Uzala has to be crowned as Kurosawa'ss most bittersweet movie.

>>625
Havent watched dersu uzala yet will def give it a watch soon and let you know.as for red beard it is a very impactful movie for people who have lost their way.(career wise)

As for visconti he is a great royal chef when it comes to umami but i simply prefer the peasant taste of licorice instead.and he doesnt have licorice.this doesnt devalue his art just that im a peasant with peasant tastes. :D

Have you watched anything with good cinematography that you would recommend? Like count of monte cristo or bladerunner?

>>669
I look forward to hearing about your response to Dersu Uzala. Because it's so unlike every other Kurosawa movie, not just because it's set in Russia and made by Russians, but also his directorial style is quite different.

Never thought about Red Beard that way, on the rewatch I'll see it through that lens. I might get more out of the movie with some of your life experience.

Kek about Visconti. He may create his meals at a very slow pace, but for me there is enough dynamism in the flavour to make up for it. Still, if you're not someone with much experience with the refined and cultivated palette of a pretentious arthouse fan, you have to slowly work your way up to Visconti. And I can think of no better starting place, with great cinematography, than Any Number Can Win. Again it's an Alain Delon film, because he was in so many classic European films in the 60s, but it's also a tense heist film.

>>676
I love alen delon, my grandmother was a big fan as he is very popular with the boomers in my country.all his movies were dubbed into my language and we even had a certain voice actor whose sole VA role was to only dub over alen delon in those movies.louis des funis was pretty popular as well.french cinema used to be really big here and our big directors and actors would study at sorbonne or other ecoles and would then come back to make their own great movies … but certain events changed everything and now our movie industry is filled to the brim with literal nepobabies and richkids who only care about tiktok fame and so make utter garbage instead.you wont believe the garbage they are showing in our cinemas.disney would blush.

As for red beard, its a very buddhist film.i think the movie tries to make a distinction between socially approved materialistic success and True buddha-like success(which in the medical profession is often called "social service" as it doesnt have money or fame).at the beginning of the movie the protagonist is a high achieving doctor with grand aspirations and even greater plans for his future but he loses everything due to an event outside of his control and joins a poor community clinic with great disdain thinking such a place to be full of quacks or loser doctors and therefore beneath him.he is proven wrong however and slowly understands that true success may not be materialistic.this is evident when the clinics probono worker tells his story on his deathbed (the landslide that happens is beasically symbolic in that the protags view of life has come crumbling down)
Red beard can best be understood by reading siddharta,as the movie's protag goes through the same phases as siddharta(not quiet but similar)
In a way he becomes a true human bean.

Im going to watch dersu uzala and any number can win and will probably have a lot to say about those as well.

Love this degenerate

>>679
Posting frogs is against the rules here friend.

>>678
That's really cool, and tragic, hearing about your country's cinema. I'd only vaguely heard of Louis des Funis before, so I'm going to check out his filmography now. What country, if you don't mind me asking, are you from? I'd like to watch some its movies.

The Buddhist backdrop to Kurosawa's movies has always interested me, because on the surface it seems like a typical (which is not to say bad) moral attitude in movies, but then you realise it is reinforced by a much deeper religious spirit. There is always something more forceful about Kurosawa's moral feelings, like a stern or prophetic injunction. Just think how he castigates Japanese society (and by extension the weaknesses of all human societies) in The Bad Sleep Well and High and Low. I can also think of the script he wrote that was adapted as Runaway Train, an exceedingly entertaining 80s movie. I wont spoil anything, but the Buddhist inspiration behind it is perhaps more on the nose than in most of the movies he actually directed.

The significance of the landslide in Red Beard completely went over my head. Can't quite remember the explicit plot points around it, but I do remember a lot going on and I probably just found it a bit 'over the top' at the time. Thank you for this description, I will give Red Beard a re-watch soon. I've also been intending to read some of Hesse's books for a long time, so I may just start with Siddharta.

>>700
The landslide is very subtle.in the scene red beard humbly admits that he used underhanded tactics to secure funding for the clinic and attributes it to his arrogance,he then instructs the main character to take care of the sick samaritan, the samaritan asks for water and as the protagonist gives him water there is a landslide that reveals a skeleton. In this scene a seemingly arrogant man is revealed to be humble ,an apathic man is revealed to be a caring individual ,and finally a good samaritan is revealed to be a blasphemer**(through no fault of his own).
This all highlights the duality of man ,yin and yang, which has a very eastern flavor(according to dr.jennifer milfi kek). **in buddhism all dead bodies have to be cremated or in the case of tibetan buddhism butchered for eagle consumption, burying the dead is blasphemy and always signals foul play.

The landslide signals that the protags worldview is about to crumble,that after this point onwards his beliefs will be challenged and he will no longer see people as black and white but shades of gray.That each person has a redeeming quality, this is further explained via the little thief boy-orpahn girl subplot.the thief boy turns out to be helping his family who despite being poor,commit suicide after finding out about his thievery and the orphan girl who seems rabid at first turns into a caring sister for the boy and the protag.it may sound weird but red beard is a very deep movie.its kurosawas masterpiece imo.(fuck tarantino for not liking it)

Im Iranian.we have a huge movie industry which is mostly closed to outsiders due to language barriers.some of our movies ( the ones worth watching) have english dubs or subs.some of our directors have long left the country and are making movies for other countries like makhmalbaf, others are dead (ali hatami) and others were outright murdered ( mehrjooyi and pourahmad) .im going to give you some of my favorite movies.word of caution, iranian movies be they art or slop, have a lot of symbolism in an attempt to circumvent censorship so ill provide some context with my recs and if you were bewildered at some point and found yourself scratching your head, you can always ask me to explain them to you.
Also most good movies were banned for a few years after release and only saw limited screenings after decades! Some are still banned kek.This makes them very rare and hard to watch or download. Russian websites like rutracker have a lot of iranian films and tv shows so thats a good place to start.ill give some recommendations in the next post.

>>700
The first movie is Hajji washington https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajji_Washington

Its a fictionalized tale of irans first ambassador to america. Its full of symbolism and jabs and insults at the state of our country during modern times. It depicts an uneducated buffoon ( symbol of iranian boomers) who due to his family conections with the king, is sent on a fools errand to establish relations with 19th century america, a country that up untill then had never heard of persia or cared about its existence. He is accompanied by a young man who soon abandons him and becomes a medical student at an american university thereby abandoning persia and embracing the west.(symbol of modern day iranian intellectuals who favor western thought over persian thought). The hajji is not accostomed to western values and civilization, he has an allergic reaction and slowly goes insane.(symbolizes the underlying reason for the revolution, iranians boomers had an allergic reaction to rapid westernization by the shah,cumulating into an uprising that led to the revolution,this is why this movie was banned for 20 years). There are alot of symbolism and even predictions so if you decide to watch it i can explain them to you. Its a very political movie and a cinematic masterpiece especialy the dialoge.