Vast of Night 2019, Directed by Andrew Patterson. Set in the late 1950's, it's a trip. I think Patterson has a bright future. Eraserhead 1977, Directed by David Lynch. Hey, it's directed by David Lynch! Rashomon 1950, Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Truly a classic, and very influential.
HBO Max has an impressive collection of classic films, recently showed the wife a couple of Kurosawa's films and the French film Eyes without a Face....
Marvel Boss Reveals Why the MCU Has So Many Indie Directors https://thedirect.com/article/marvel-kevin-feige-mcu-directors-list
That’s funny in the context of this thread. That said, these indie directors need action scene oversight. Some of the movie/show action is terrible when compared to professional action director films.
I like them better than Marvel movies, anyway. Just about the first movie my future wife asked me to watch with her was Eraserhead. We somehow overcame that disaster and ultimately married anyway. I still bring it up sometimes to keep her humble. No shade on Lynch. I like other stuff he's done. But my god what a horrendously annoying film that was.
Eyes without a Face is such a weird film. Especially when you are singing Billy Idol to yourself during it.
Tres Magnifique! ..und sehr Gluchlich! ..и сука блять (OK, not appropriate, but only russian I know) ...discuss among yourselves. Unfiltered cigarettes, black turtlenecks, and berets all around!
I've tried to get the wife to Solaris and Stalker from Tarkovsky but she's passed out an hour in on both.....it's a hellva sleeping aide for her...
Can I give this thread a 100 stars? I hear ya, Gary, I bemoan the lack of good movies all the time. And I mean a movie that is like a work of art aka art house pictures.
Do you are or did read comic books growing up? Are you a SciFi Fan? Or do you prefer other genres? Most of those are older films but I was looking more for the contemporaries to Marvel That Said. I detest the way put down Marvel Movies in Specific and Superhero/SciFi in General It's not like we have not had literally 5 decades of RomComs - with the same basic premise Most Action movies can be reduced down to generic and Comedies that rely on same or similar jokes Many see these "art house films" as different but they aren't very different than most other films . . . like all genres the Top Ones stand out The others are as generic and ordinary as . . . generic and ordinary scifi films I have tried some Art House Films Esp in the Horror Category . . . but I get lost in the sauce on some of them because they try to be soooooo vague and clever Some are distinct to their own circle that if you not a part of it . .. you won't "get it" Others are obvious overly self important That said. . . I came here looking for recommendations more than anything I try not to poo poo genres totally. .. . mainly specific films but it does get bothersome to hear "Film Snobs" trying to poo poo genres because it is not 'their genre" Rocket River Not saying that is the purpose of the thread . . . . Rocket River
In answer to your query, I read loads of comic books during the 1950's and early '60's back when they cost a dime. I was an avid science fiction fan, as well as fantasy, and quickly got into reading SF magazines more than the comics (although I didn't quit reading comics, just not as often), magazines like Worlds of if Science Fiction (not the best known, but one of the best SF magazines), Fantasy and Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, Galaxy Science Fiction, Astounding Science Fiction (later Analog Science Fiction and Fact). Most were .35 cents, later .40 -.50 cents. Expensive back then when a dollar was a dollar. Heck, a paperback SF novel could cost about the same. About one of the films I listed? The Vast of Night, which came out in 2019, isn't generic or ordinary. It's not a horror film. Most might describe it as science fiction, but it doesn't fit into a neat box there, either. It's a unique thriller that takes place in the late '50's, but could have taken place in the '60's or '70's - pre-cell phone era. Had it been set later, we would have missed out on the crazy late 1950's small town vibe. I consider it an "art house" film. Directed by an unknown doing, I think, his first film on a budget of $700,000. Nothing in today's production world.
