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>best novelist
>best director

>> No.12985690

>>12985684
>Melville
>Kubrick

>> No.12985702

>>12985684

>Tolstoy
>The guy on your pic

>>12985690

Good taste

>> No.12985715

>>12985702
>guy with only one good movie is best director of all time

>> No.12985717
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>Knut Hamsun
>Fellini

>>12985690
>Kubrick
Not even the best American.

>> No.12985726

>>12985684
Stendhal
Hitchcock

>> No.12985727

>>12985684
Melville and Pynchon
couldn't give a fuck about Directors

>> No.12985732

>>12985715
Chimes at Midnight, Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Magnificent Ambersons is 4 buddy

>> No.12985737

> Proust
> Fellini, Bunuel, and Hitchcock

>> No.12985753

>>12985684
Proust
Bergman

>>12985726
Also valid

>> No.12985766

>>12985753
what's your favorite bergman

>> No.12985772

>>12985732
also f for fake, othello and OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND

>> No.12985781

>>12985766
probably persona or wild strawberries

>> No.12985786

>>12985732
Magnificent Ambersons weren't liked by orson himself. Studio didn't keep his version of the film.
Also, citizen kane is a good film, but most of the credit for that is due to the strong crew.

>> No.12985788

>>12985781
really? im more partial to glass darkly. the scene where they do the little impromptu play was absolute magic.

>> No.12985790
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12985790

cervantes (OR, homer [the homer who wrote the odyssey aka nausicaa])
orson welles

if anyone says bergman, tarr, or tarkovsky i'm going to do violence

>> No.12985793

>>12985781
wild strawberries is my favorite

>> No.12985803

>>12985717
Who's best in America?

>> No.12985809

>>12985786
actually welles did like ambersons, he thought it was a better film than kane. almost all of welles' films were butchered by the studio they still make shattered masterpieces.

>Also, citizen kane is a good film, but most of the credit for that is due to the strong crew.
that idiot kael

>> No.12985811

>Melville
>Tarkovsky


>>12985790
>Homer is a novelist
kek

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12985813

>negarestani
>cronenberg

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Sterne
Kaneto Shindo, Dreyer, Nick Ray

>> No.12985828

>>12985803
John Ford, imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K8aLxXSyVY

>> No.12985829
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12985829

>nescio
>gallo

>> No.12985835

>>12985702
Based and artspilled

>> No.12985836

>>12985813
more like
>cronenberg
>korine

>> No.12985837

>>12985811
i must admit that was bait. classical scholars regard the odyssey as the first novel (for obvious reasons) & call homer the great novelist as well as the great epic poet

>> No.12985842

>>12985836
i absolutely fucking loathe korine

>> No.12985846

>Melville
>Bresson

>> No.12985847

>>12985829
>>gallo
pseud detected

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>>12985842
look at this lil pleb nigga

>> No.12985853

>>12985837
>i must admit that was bait. classical scholars regard the odyssey as the first novel (for obvious reasons) & call homer the great novelist as well as the great epic poet
not a single aspect of this post is true, shut the fuck up retard lmao

>> No.12985856

>>12985847
>gallo
>pseud
kys

>> No.12985858

>>12985788
Haven't seen it yet, but I'll remedy to this lacune promptly

>> No.12985859

Melville
Ford

>> No.12985863

>>12985684
>Balzac ?
>Werner Herzog for sure

>> No.12985864

>>12985856
>muh unsimulated oral sex, so brave, so transgressive

>> No.12985869

>>12985828
Yeah he's best American alright, and that's not a compliment

>> No.12985873

Since when do so many people think Melville is the best novelist? What the fuck is this?

>> No.12985874

>>12985684
>Ingmar Bergman
>Ingmar Bergman

or alternately

>Pasolini
>Pasolini

(The Street Kids is actually a very good read)

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>>12985853
course it is

>> No.12985878

>>12985869
i generally dislike all things american, but john ford was a genius, and he had class, so stfu

>> No.12985882

>>12985781
I liked Fanny and Alexander best

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>>12985828
Your opinion is wrong.

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>>12985878
>he had class
i love john ford, but this is exactly what he didn't have

>> No.12985892

>>12985828
Him or Howard Hawks for me

>> No.12985896

>>12985684
>Faulkner
>Jean Renoir, John ford, Edward Yang, Robert Altman, Ernst Lubitsch

>>12985790
I love u
>>12985813
Ur kinda cool i guess
>>12985819
>>12985828

Finally someone with taste

>> No.12985899

>Raymond Carver
>Krzysztof Kieślowski

>> No.12985902

>>12985876
It’s literally an epic poem. It can’t be a novel. A novel is by definition a work of long prose. Anyone calling the Odyssey a novel is trying too hard to have a hot take.

>> No.12985903

>>12985842
Same anon.
>>12985863
Aguirre is my favorite film, but what other movies has he made?

>> No.12985906

>>12985809
Research about the film mate. Orson knew jackshit about filming when he started to make CK. So the unconventionality came less from his genuis side, and more from his inexperienced side.
What he had is a strong, talented set of crew who perfected the 'creative touch' of his unconventionality.

>> No.12985909

>>12985890
he was known for putting up a front to intimidate people, but he was an extremely classy and sensitive dude. thats why his films are so melancholy

>> No.12985912

Pynchon
Jodorowsky

>> No.12985916

>>12985909
he was an irish drunk. i agree he was sensitive, he was a poet. just class isn't the word i'd choose.

>> No.12985925

there is serious pent up desire on this board to discuss movies. wish theyd let a few threads roll

>> No.12985926

>>12985869
I'm wondering how long it took our Europoor here to come up with this magnificent display of wit

>> No.12985927

>>12985912
Meme tag team

>> No.12985930

> Stephen King, JK Rowling, Elizabeth Strout, John Green, Ta-Nehsi Coates, Junot Diaz
> Brian DePalma, Brad Bird, Judd Apatow, Greta Gerwig, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Russo Brothers, Joss Whedon

>> No.12985934

>>12985786
>Also, citizen kane is a good film, but most of the credit for that is due to the strong crew.
lolno

>> No.12985937

>>12985925
especially since /TV is horrible for actual film fans

>> No.12985938

>I can't read
>Benning

>> No.12985942

>>12985896
You like Hsiao-hsien?

>> No.12985945

>Steinbeck
>Lynch

>> No.12985946

>Tolstoy
>Tarkovsky

Any other answer is objectively wrong.

>> No.12985952

>kurt vonnegut, thomas pynchon, franz kafka, alduous huxley
>the coen brothers, quentin tarantino, terry gilliam, yorgos lanthimos

>> No.12985964

>>12985938
>benning
patrician

>> No.12985965

>>12985952
reddit: the post

>> No.12985966

>>12985952
>Tarantino
Get off this board pleb. Yorgos is fucking terrible and tedious too

>> No.12985967

>>12985946
What's Tarkovsky's best work? Andrei Rublev?

>> No.12985975

>>12985967
In order
Andrei Rublev, Ivan's Childhood, Mirror, Solaris, Stalker, Nostalgia, Sacrifice

>> No.12985977

>>12985966
Tarantino is undoubtedly one of the best.
You still haven't got out of the 'it is mainstream so it is average by default' phase huh?

>> No.12985981

>>12985906
what you're saying is from an interview with orson. sheer ignorance was what gave orson (note that, not toland or mankiewicz) all those bold ideas. and this was his only film with that crew, yet they all share that je ne sais quoi

>> No.12985983

>>12985717
Based on both counts

>> No.12985989

>Ctrl+F
>no scorcesse

WHAT THE FUCK LIT?

>> No.12985997

>>12985938
>dude clouds lmao
jk i love benning

>> No.12986000

>>12985989
scorcese is a huge filter. if you like him theres no hope

>> No.12986007

>>12985977
>average
Tarantino’s flicks were so bad they devalued film as a medium.

>> No.12986009

>>12985977
Turbopleb detected

>> No.12986012

>>12985902
it's re it's novelistic structure, of the heighest degree of multiple narrators and shifts in time and perspective. it's much closer to a traditional novel than an epic poem in many ways

>> No.12986020

>>12985975
Andrei Rublev seems to be 3.5 hours, what the hell man
welp, hope this is as good as gone with the wind at holding attention for 4 hrs

>> No.12986023

>>12985989
Age of Innocence is his best movie, absolutely. Probably his only great film. Anyone who puts Taxi Driver or any of his gangster pictures above that masterpiece is a child.

>> No.12986030

>>12986000
If you don't like WWS, GF there's no hope for you either

>> No.12986038
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12986038

>ctrl+f
>no malick
/lit/ confirmed for not being pretentious turbohipsters

thank god

>> No.12986044

>>12986023
>if the public goes out of its way to lose its childhood faculties, if it pretends to be an incredulous grown-up unable to slip into that sphere where the unreal becomes matter-of-fact, if it insists on hardening itself against the euphoria it is being offered, i am no longer surprised when people complain that producers are inclined to make only films of the most lethal vulgarity
-cocteau

>> No.12986045

>>12986007
Inglorious and Django are up there with best films of recent times

>> No.12986048

>>12986045
kek, stop baiting them like this

>> No.12986050

>>12985926
just for you
>Steinbeck
>Terrence Malick
would also be a strong option, and all American

>> No.12986051

malick

>> No.12986052

>>12985967
I would say Solaris by far. I highly recommend it.

>> No.12986055

>>12986044
"At a low stage of intellectual development," then. I'll use only troglodyte, Cro-Magnon, mongoloid, American, etc. from now on.

>> No.12986056

>>12986050
>Malick
turbohipster detected

>> No.12986059

>>12986056
you got me

>> No.12986060

>>12986020
No! Watch Solaris first. Andrei Rublev is a drag.

>> No.12986064

>>12986060
AR is a lot more interesting than Solaris tbqh

>> No.12986065

>>12986052
i would recommend this film wholeheartedly to anyone wants to be 3 hours closer to christmas (at any cost)

>> No.12986067

>>12986060
should I read the novel first?

>> No.12986072

>>12986067
No it's completely different

>> No.12986074

>>12986055
>i would emphasise that this film is the contrary of an intellectual, or 'art' film. i should like to be able to say: 'i don't think, therefore i am.' all thought paralyzes action. and a film is a succession of acts. thought weights it down and embellishes it in an unbearable and pretentious manner. poetry is the opposite of 'poetic'. as soon as someone aspires to being a poet, that person ceases to be one and the poetry makes its escape. this is when people recognize its review view, and congratulate themselves for being subtle enough to understand it.

>> No.12986076

>>12986064
Not at all, Solaris moved me deeply and even turned me to an existentialist. Nostalghia is his most entertaining film, Andrei Rublev is his biggest drag, Solaris is his most profound, imo.

>> No.12986081

>>12986045
>Inglorious

A film that shows a kind of an innocent and naive fictional war, without any parallels with what was actually happening in Europe. The kind of thing a 12-year-old would create after seeing one or two shallow documentaries about World War II.

In addition: the Nazis are portrayed as comic book villains, with nothing of depth or humanity (I am not defending men, but the fact that humans, not monsters, were the architects of the holocaust is much more interesting and telling than the childish vision of Tarantino).

>> No.12986083

>>12986067
Nah, it has as much relation to Tarkovsky as King did to Kubrick’s Shining.

>> No.12986086

>>12986072
even the plot?
Its based on the book, how would the plot be different?

>> No.12986088

>>12985684
>Victor Hugo
>Sergio Leone

Fight me.

>all these Melvilles
Moby Dick might be a masterpiece, but he didn’t utterly master the novel as a format outside that one instance.

>> No.12986089

>>12986081
nazies didnt have any humanity to begin with

>> No.12986092

>>12985684
Melville
Melville
xD

(I'd actually pick Tarkovsky and Ilyenko, and maybe Tolstoy for the novelist too)

>>12985837
That's wrong as fuck. Calling Odyssey a novel is a bit of literary-theoretical flourish and wank, very few of its elements are comparable to proper novels of the 18th and 19th century.

>> No.12986094

>Umberto Eco
>Paolo sorrentino

>> No.12986096

>>12986045
What is great about them? They're simple revenge films filled with vulgarity and violence. Maybe if you're 13 and have no friends they're cool

>> No.12986097

>>12986074
But this anti-theoretical theory is still a theory. You can't have a theory-free work of art. And the thought/action dichotomy is bogus. Thinking is an act, action is a conceptual category.

>> No.12986100

>>12986088
>>all these Melvilles
>Moby Dick might be a masterpiece, but he didn’t utterly master the novel as a format outside that one instance.
That’s what i’m saying, very confusing seeing all these Melville GOAT posts, he’s not even top 10. It’s like I’m in the twilight zone

>> No.12986108

>>12986081
... that's what it's supposed to be. did you think tarantino was trying to make a film that resembled reality?

>the fact that humans, not monsters, were the architects of the holocaust is much more interesting
typical. bet you like psychological horrors

>> No.12986109

>>12986086
Read up on it. The author got pissed at Tarkovsky for completly changing the themes and ideas expressed

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12986111

Well since this is a literartue board and we're talking about film, has anyone else seen the Leopard. It's preddy gud

>> No.12986114

>>12986108
Yeah that doesn't mean it's good. It's frivolous, juvenile, and uninspiring. It's a typical film saying nazis are bad. Boo-hoo, we've seen that a million times. Plus the dialogue is shallow and pretentious and it's entirely too long

>> No.12986120

>>12986111
I'm dying to see that, but I have to study for a test. How good is it?

>> No.12986127

>>12986111
>>12986120
10/10

>> No.12986135

>>12986120
It's pretty nice, but read the book first. Also study for your fuckin test

>> No.12986139

>>12985684
kobo abe
jean-luc godard

>> No.12986145

>>12986135
I am, I'm taking a break lol

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12986148

>Marquez
>Ken Loach

>> No.12986150

>>12986139
Favorite Godard? Mine's Contempt

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>>12986092
>Calling Odyssey a novel is a bit of literary-theoretical flourish and wank, very few of its elements are comparable to proper novels of the 18th and 19th century.
have you read the odyssey? you'll never find a classical scholar, or any moderately intelligent person whose read it, argue that it isn't crucial to the novel and even the early history of the novel. and it stands at the beginning of the great 20th century novel

>> No.12986155

>>12986148
Kes is his only good film. He's such a pussy too

>> No.12986157

>>12986081
there has been countless wwii films that preserves authenticity, maybe he thought he would create something different.

Since we're on the topic, if you watched the opening of Inglorious, you shouldn't have any problem seeing the talent tarantino possess both as a filmmaker and a writer This combination is a rare one. Most directors/writers only have one of them.

>> No.12986161

>Fitzgerald
>Cassavetes

>> No.12986167

>>12986097
theorizing by it's etymology is idle

>> No.12986170

>ctrl-f eriksson
>0 results
give me one example of your "best" director celebrating autism WITHOUT prettifying it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKUChOwam_M

>> No.12986172

>>12986157
It literally is a terrible movie. You've probably never seen anything before 1990, so it's okay.

>> No.12986175

>>12986153
>Since Ulysses is a novel so is the Odyssey
Yikes

>> No.12986185

>>12985927
not very psychedelic of you anon

>> No.12986186

>>12986150
my favourites used to be two or three things i know about her and and pierrot le fou, but now my faves are weekend and number two
have you watched the image book yet? it's one of his best too

>> No.12986188

>>12986172
oh I thought you would engage into a more constructive discussion criticising the scene I've talked about. I guess I overestimated you.

>> No.12986196

Faulkner
Kurosawa

>> No.12986197

>>12986175
i think you must've got a little mixed up there

>> No.12986199

>>12986089

I suggest you read “The Nazy Doctors”, by Robert Jay Lifton. Things are not that simple. Any society and group of people in the world is hold in a civilized place by a small varnish of order that keeps the chaos with a leash. Sometimes the varnish melts.

>> No.12986206

>>12985717
>fellini
godlike

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>>12986206
holy shit even more than leo

>> No.12986224 [DELETED] 

>>12986114
nor does it mean it's bad, you can't reproach a fairy tale for being unrealistic.
>entirely too long
the most overused criticism in cinema history. 'a pair of scissors in his hand, each one of them discovers his vocation as a filmmaker. i find it despicable.' -truffaut
no question that there are soft spots in truffaut's film, but however little one may love cinema, there's more pleasure and profit to be had in that extra "half-hour" than in a whole film by von trier or burton

>> No.12986227

>>12985684
>James Joyce
>Shuji Terayama

>> No.12986228

>>12986188
There's nothing constructive about that movie. The opening shot is probably a blatant ripoff of a Louis Malle movie. It's aesthetics are forced and uninspiring. The dialogue and Hans Landa are whatever. The girl is supposed to be like Harmonica is Once Upon a Time in the West. It's just SJW propaganda. The whole point of the movie is nazis are bad. It's stylistically trite, it's score is decent, the characters are hardly developed. It's overall just irritating in every regard.

>> No.12986232

>>12986114
nor does it mean it's bad, you can't reproach a fairy tale for being unrealistic.
>entirely too long
the most overused criticism in cinema history. 'a pair of scissors in his hand, each one of them discovers his vocation as a filmmaker. i find it despicable.' -truffaut
no question that there are soft spots in tarantino's film, but however little one may love cinema, there's more pleasure and profit to be had in that extra "half-hour" than in a whole film by von trier or burton

>> No.12986237

>>12986153
>have you read the odyssey
Yeah, believe it or not.
>you'll never find a classical scholar, or any moderately intelligent person whose read it, argue that it isn't crucial to the novel and even the early history of the novel.
That doesn't make it a novel, you genius. Would writing a drama based off and influenced by a novel make the novel a drama? Also, do you have any proof of this crucial influence on Apuleius, Greek romances or Samuel Richardson, or whatever else you might consider to be the early history of the novel?

>> No.12986302

>>12986237
if you look at the earliest dramas. their similarities to what we consider dramas are much fewer than the odyssey's to what we consider novels. this is what t.e. lawrence, edith hall, robert graves, etc etc are getting at
>Also, do you have any proof of this crucial influence on Apuleius, Greek romances or Samuel Richardson, or whatever else you might consider to be the early history of the novel?
you don't really need me to point out the parallels between the golden ass and the odyssey

>> No.12986308

>>12985684
William Faulkner
Nicholas Ray

I'm a true American.

>> No.12986315

>>12986232
Not if it impedes on the film. Mother and the Whore: 4 hours long and was the perfect length, absolutely loved it. Inglorious was the same thing for 2 hours 45 minutes. DESU I generally prefer longer movies, but Inglorious dragged its feet. Of course, it's not nearly as bad as I am purporting it to be, but I still dislike the movie immensely especially compared to Tarantino's first 2.

>> No.12986395

>>12986302
You and whatever small circle of tryhard intellects are calling the Odyssey a novel can have at it, as long as you understand it’s an extremely obscure and silly take that is not shared at large and would be laughed at basically everywhere. I’m sure that makes you feel esoteric but I assure you it doesn’t make you look like it.

>> No.12986402

>>12986395
It's literally just a word. Who gives a fuck? The Odyssey, Iliad, Aeneid, Metamorphoses, DeCameron, Divine Comedy, and the Bible are still terrific works of literature in whatever form.

>> No.12986403

>>12986302
>if you look at the earliest dramas. their similarities to what we consider dramas are much fewer than the odyssey's to what we consider novels
Wouldn't say so. Both have formal differences and, obviously, massive differences in the worldview presented. Odyssey might have adventures and travels as novels do, but its voice is monologic, for example, style elevated and homogenous, its theme perhaps not as typically epic as the Iliad, but certainly far from unusual in its focus on the public matter, the monarch, and affirmation of the social and moral order.

>this is what t.e. lawrence, edith hall, robert graves, etc etc are getting at
Can't say I care much about some anglos, two of which aren't primarily literary scholars, explaining Homer.

>you don't really need me to point out the parallels between the golden ass and the odyssey
Guy has fantastic adventures, ok, that's a novel. Do you have any other examples beside this one that I don't even think had any substantial influence on the further development of the genre?

>> No.12986413

>>12985930
But DePalma is good.

>> No.12986417

>>12986395
where are you getting small circle from?

>> No.12986434

>>12986402
Lmao what a worthless comment, words have meaning retard, shut the fuck up. And nobody is disputing that great is literature is great. Words shape our reality, yeah let’s just apply the word “novel” to literally every work of literature since it’s just a word bro lmao, fucking idiot

>> No.12986442

>>12986417
probably from the fact that it’s ubiquitously called an epic poem. if it weren’t a small circle it would be ubiquitously called a novel. very complex, I know.

>> No.12986443

>>12986096
>What is good about Anna Karenina? It's just a simple book about a woman who gets her heart broken lol

>What is good about Lolita? It's just a simple book about a guy who abused a kid lol

>> No.12986478

>>12986167
Etymology isn't meaning. Idling is an act as well. The only human state that can't be considered an act is dying, and only specific kinds of dying.

>> No.12986502

>>12986196
true patrician

>> No.12986515

>George Welles
Like most others in the thread I agree with
>Orson Orwell

>> No.12986519

>>12986308
very good as well! What's your favorite Ray film? I have really liked alld that I have seen so far (Bigger than life, Rebel without a cause, Johnny Guitar, In a lonely place). What should I watch next?

>> No.12986526

>>12986519
They Live By Night most definitely

>> No.12986543

>>12986515
this post rattled me

>> No.12986575

>>12986413
Yeah, but he's a bit overrated because he doesn't fully formulate ideas in his movies. Scarface bites into all these deep ideas, but doesn't go all the way. Untouchables drags on. Carrie is probably his best film, but still ends wanting more. Carlito's way is terrible. I haven't seen Phantom of whatever, or the other one with Tavolta though

>> No.12986581

>>12986434
Read Wittgenstein you fucking moron. You're a dog, and an unwanted one at that. You're arguing a superficial and pedantic matter. "What's a game?" Go fuck yourself faggot

>> No.12986590

>>12986443
How could you compare literature to cinema. Clearly Anna Karina and Lolita transcend beyond that, while Inglorious falls well short. Not a single critic would say Inglorious is a great film and there's a reason for that. It's a SJW movie too, so dont give me that excuse.

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>>12986442
i wasn't saying it isn't an epic poem.
and of course the general non-classical public know very little about the actual texts. it's not ubiquitous among classicists, it's not even an argument. i think this whole discourse must've been based on some kind of misunderstanding, i don't see why anyone who knows the odyssey would disagree

>> No.12986653

>>12986632
are you pretending to be retarded or what?
>>12985837
>classical scholars regard the odyssey as the first novel (for obvious reasons) & call homer the great novelist

>> No.12986675

>>12986653
what? novelist & epic poet aren't mutually exclusive

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>Tolstoy, or if he counts- Cervantes
>Pic related is the only choice

>> No.12986702

>>12986157
His writing is gimmicky and without substance. His tedious elevation of schlock has dragged down the medium and created a a cinematic ecosystem where schlock of all sorts is regarded as a serious contribution to the medium.

Uwe Boll has more redeemable qualities as a filmmaker.

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>>12985790
>Homer
>A writer
Ah, plebs make the board whole.

>> No.12986766 [DELETED] 

>>12986403
>but its voice is monologic
it starts at the present, goes back into the past, returns to the present so the past is reconstructed very cleverly, spliced into the story sometimes straightforwardly sometimes deceitfully (demodocus), and at a certain point the narrator becomes first person. we don't come to homer until 4 books in (the first 4 being telemachus' story). aristotle in his poetics actually says most epics tell the story of one person or one war from start to finish
>style elevated
not in the odyssey. its very neat, close-knit, artful and various. never huge and terrible like the iliad is.
epic belonged to the early man. this homer lived too long after the heroic age to feel assured and large. there is more verbal felicity and less 'poetry'.
obviously the tale was the thing; and that explains the thin and accidental characterisation.
>Can't say I care much about some anglos, two of which aren't primarily literary scholars, explaining Homer.
not sure what to say to that.

>> No.12986780

>>12986403
>but its voice is monologic
we don't come to odysseus until 4 books in (the first 4 being telemachus' story). and it starts at the present, goes back into the past, returns to the present so the past is reconstructed very cleverly, spliced into the story sometimes straightforwardly sometimes deceitfully (demodocus), and at a certain point the narrator becomes first person. aristotle in his poetics actually says most epics tell the story of one person or one war from start to finish
>style elevated
not in the odyssey. its very neat, close-knit, artful and various. never huge and terrible like the iliad is.
epic belonged to the early man. this homer lived too long after the heroic age to feel assured and large. there is more verbal felicity and less 'poetry'.
obviously the tale was the thing; and that explains the thin and accidental characterisation.
>Can't say I care much about some anglos, two of which aren't primarily literary scholars, explaining Homer.
not sure what to say to that.

>> No.12986809

>>12985874
or alternately
>Cocteau
>Cocteau

>> No.12986810

>>12986575
Body Double is his best work.

>> No.12986829

>>1298568
mahaaa the french!

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>>12986675
>novelist
>noun | nov·el·ist | \ˈnäv-list, ˈnä-və-\
>: a person who writes novels

Your rape of logic and any sensible categorization is bordering on bait at this point.

>>12986766
>it starts at the present, goes back into the past, returns to the present so the past is reconstructed very cleverly, spliced into the story sometimes straightforwardly sometimes deceitfully (demodocus), and at a certain point the narrator becomes first person. we don't come to homer until 4 books in (the first 4 being telemachus' story)
Now this is fucking embarrassing.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bakhtin&ref=is_s

>aristotle in his poetics actually says most epics tell the story of one person or one war from start to finish
Perfectly irrelevant to the matter. And showing or not showing an entire war is certainly not what defines the epic or the novel.

>not in the odyssey. its very neat, close-knit, artful and various. never huge and terrible like the iliad is.
Elevated is not the same as huge and terrible... Stylistically it is not essentially different from Iliad (so - elevated, epic), though it is thematically (which is, for some, grounds for criticism, finding a contradiction in the text here). I'm basing this on what I've read from classical scholars, I have never heard it described as "neat, close-knit", nor would I describe it as such from my own reading. It is very much unlike the Golden Ass, for example.

>epic belonged to the early man. this homer lived too long after the heroic age to feel assured and large. there is more verbal felicity and less 'poetry'.
obviously the tale was the thing; and that explains the thin and accidental characterisation
Now you're just rambling. You have a horrible mess in your head. The epic being defined as a product of the "heroic age" is certainly a spectacular hot take.

>> No.12987343

>>12985684
>Dostoevsky
>Kubrick

>> No.12987355

>>12987343
this opinion is fine if you're fresh out of high school, otherwise it's time to grow up and develop your taste

>> No.12987372

>>12986114
>It's a typical film saying nazis are bad
Did you even watch it? The Nazi's are not portrayed as evil, mass murderers. The one that gets beaten to death with a baseball bat is displayed as courageous. The Americans are displayed as barbaric; they mercilessly kill and scalp their enemies. It is meant to criticize the 'nazi always bad' trope and show that we tolerate this violence against different ideologies.

>> No.12987384

>>12987355
I'm a sucker for grand displays. I have others I like and need to be in the right mood for these, but they have made an impact on my life I cannot ignore.

>> No.12987508

>>12987014
well you know defining 'novels' is considered a bit fuzzy, it's not a mathematical category which is going to be perfect. we can rule out the iliad as it's sort of a poetic history but the mythic tales of odysseus journey home...

>https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bakhtin&ref=is_s
how exactly do you mean?

>Perfectly irrelevant to the matter
not perfectly irrelevant i shouldn't think.

>Stylistically it is not essentially different from Iliad
it's very different in fact. the iliad has a proper semi-barbaric flavor, in the odyssey every big situation is burked and the writing is soft. graves said it's like comparing le morte d'arthur to bronte's the spell.

>which is, for some, grounds for criticism, finding a contradiction in the text here
what do you mean here?

>I have never heard it described as "neat, close-knit"
funnily, rieu (as well as lawrence) used the same term. i'll give him the last word: 'while the odyssey, with it's well-knit plot, its psychological interest and its interplay of character, is the true ancestor of the long line of novels that have followed it'

>> No.12987530

>>12985899
Who's the lit equivalent of kieslowski?

>> No.12987973

>>12985715
>Orson Welles
>One good movie
Is this the average /lit/tard talking about movies? Fucking embarrasing

>> No.12987977

>>12987372
That's obviously a false interpretation of that movie.

>> No.12987991

Flaubert
Malle

>> No.12987997

>>12985925
That's because we need a /film/ board.

>> No.12987999

well, at least no one said christopher nolan

>> No.12988007

>>12987508
>well you know defining 'novels' is considered a bit fuzzy, it's not a mathematical category which is going to be perfect
For most matters the "long narrative text in verse" definition is perfectly enough. But it was you who started muddling the waters, turning an epic into a novel with some very questionable reasoning.

>>https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bakhtin&ref=is_s
>how exactly do you mean?
I mean that you completely missed the point and seem unaware of Bakhtin's understanding of monologism, polyphony, the epic and the novel.

>not perfectly irrelevant i shouldn't think
The lost epics that Aristotle has read can be of little relevance to us today, who have only Homer from that era and more than two additional later millenia of narrative poetry that we ought to classify, hopefully into some relatively clear categories.

>what do you mean here?
Just underlining the point that the Odyssey is stylistically not a particularly various or un-epic text.

>i'll give him the last word: 'while the odyssey, with it's well-knit plot, its psychological interest and its interplay of character, is the true ancestor of the long line of novels that have followed it'
He describes the plot and characters, not the style here. And, again, calling the Odyssey the ancestor of the novel is, as far as I see, still theoretical flourish. "In some aspects it sort of deviates from the norm so it started an another genre" - even though, for now, you have only shown some tenuous connections of it with an ancient novel, and none with the proper modern novel of the 18th century and later.

>iliad has a proper semi-barbaric flavor, in the odyssey every big situation is burked and the writing is soft
I'd honestly be happy to see a comparative stylistic analysis that proves this. Because I see nearly none of it from what I have read.
You're basing all this upon people like Lawrence, Graves, Rieu, people who were recognizable characters, adventurers and poets, who would rather express a peculiar and pompous idea rather than a precise and less entertaining one. This only causes confusion, in the long run.

>> No.12988161

>Proust probably
>Either Bergman or Ozu

>>12985753
>>12985846
>>12985896
>>12985946
>>12986196
I like your taste

>>12985967
To me his three best movies are the Mirror (personal favourite), Andrei Rublev and Stalker.

>> No.12988334

>>12985903
Herzog has astounding range in directing. His films are as great as his documentaries. I liked Encounters at the End of the World and Burden of Dreams (although that wasn't Herzog. it was a documentary about his film, if that means anything).

>> No.12988344

>>12988334
>Burden of Dreams (although that wasn't Herzog. it was a documentary about his film, if that means anything).
Yeah, by Les Blank who a great documentary film maker. You should see his other Herzog docu (Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe) or his docu on garlic

>> No.12989009

>>12986590
I didn't compare. Just shown that anything can be narrowed down to simplistic terms to look meritless whether it actually has artistic merit or not.

>> No.12989125

McCarthy
Miyazaki

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>>12985965
Top kek

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Dosto
Vertov

Good night plebs.

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>>12986007
Cringe

>> No.12989703

>>12986170
Cuaron
https://youtu.be/9UgLnWJFGHQ

>> No.12989730

>>12989178
Vertov only made 3 good films.

>> No.12989738

>>12989703
Has Cuaron ever made anything even remotely worth watching?

>> No.12989746

>>12989703
not a celebration
eriksson's reign continues

>> No.12989970

>Mika Waltari
>D.W Griffith / Tarkovsky / Bresson or Lucile Hadzihalilovic

>> No.12989991

>>12986227
The only true patrician

>> No.12990013

>>12985684
ne never worte a novel you moron

>> No.12990021

>>12985813
very based my friend

>> No.12990153

>>12988007
>long narrative text in verse
you mean prose?
we have verse novels, you know.

>But it was you who started muddling the waters
certainly wasn't
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22odyssey%22+%22the+first+novel%22&oq=%22odyssey%22+%22the+first+novel%22&aqs=chrome..69i57.3783j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

>I mean that you completely missed the point and seem unaware of Bakhtin's understanding of monologism, polyphony, the epic and the novel.
in bakhtinian terms the odyssey is more of a dialogical novel than a monological epic. j. peradotto notes 'i would venture to say that close readers of homer are far more likely to recognize the odyssey in bakhtin's characterization of the novel than in his account of epic.'

whitmarsh said 'the odyssey, with its combination of travel adventures and marital reunion validated as a correct narrative destination, is the principal foundation-text of romance. to greater or lesser degree, and with varying degrees of specificity, all the novels are descants on the second homeric epic.' & surely the first 'proper modern novel' is don quixote, which is a close brother to the odyssey. & the creative reprocessing of the odyssey in ulysses. f. w. farrar declared that the odyssey was the best novel ever written. the odyssey is universally acknowledged as the ultimate model for the typical novelistic plot. the shape, like the scope, of the odyssean epic enforces its restless, exploratory character: ends are opened, questions raised, alternative voices let loose. the odyssey offered the paradigmatic founding text for tales of separation and travel and, with greater or less explicitness and with varying degrees of sophistication, all extant novels align themselves with this homeric tradition.

in the most fundamental sense, too, the contours of the action in the odyssey are distinctive. where the iliad takes place over a few weeks in one setting, the odyssey travels backwards and forwards in place and in time. if the iliad is ABC the odyssey is BAC, and a complicated sort of BAC too, where the A is the flashback in books ix–xii, and the B is the two separate sequences involving telemachus (i - iv) and odysseus (v - viii)

>peculiar and pompous idea rather than a precise and less entertaining one
odd choice of hill to die on. anyway that isn't the case, it's mentioned in the cambridge companion to homer as as 'the odyssey, the earliest and perhaps greatest of novels in the western legacy', j russo at yale says 'with subtle psychology of this kind the epic comes close to the novel, of which
it is one of the ancestors.'