On Hitchcock
>I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. They're all lit like television shows. I think he was senile a long time before he died. I saw one of the worst movies I've ever seen the other night – Rear Window. Everything is stupid about it. Complete insensitivity to what a story about voyeurism could be. Vertigo is even worse.
On Woody Allen
>I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. Oh, yes. I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the Chaplin disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.
On Chaplin
>He wasn't effeminate, just totally female as a performer. There was no masculine element there. And he was like that as a man, too, terribly female as a man. I never thought he was funny. I thought he was sinister.
On Bergman
>There’s an awful lot of Bergman that I’d rather be dead than sit through. For myself, unless a film is hallucinatory, unless it becomes that kind of an experience, it doesn’t come alive. I know that directors find serious and sensitive audiences for films where people sit around peeling potatoes in the peasant houses – but I can’t read that kind of novel either.
On Godard
>I just can't take him very seriously as a thinker – and that's where we seem to differ, because he does. His message is what he cares about these days, and, like most movie messages, it could be written on the head of a pin.
On Antonioni
>According to a young American critic, one of the great discoveries of our age is the value of boredom as an artistic subject. If that is so, Antonioni deserves to be counted as a pioneer and founding father.
On John Landis
>You know, the asshole from Animal House, a real shit. Won’t leave me alone. Keeps phoning me and giving me advice on how to make the movie, in a very patronizing way. Everything he says is dumb!
On Hitchcock
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On John Ford
>I like the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford. With Ford at his best, you get a sense of what the earth is made of.
On Kubrick
>Among those whom I would call "the youth generation", Kubrick appears to me to be a giant. I believe that Kubrick can do everything. What I see in him is a talent not possessed by the great directors of the generation immediately preceding his – Nicholas Ray, Robert Aldrich, etc. Perhaps this is because his temperament comes closer to mine.
On Griffith
>I suppose he created influence on anybody who's ever made a movie. There is almost nothing in the entire vocabulary of the cinema that you won't find in Intolerance. It was a bit too complicated for the 1916 audiences – maybe it's too complicated for an audience today.
On John Wayne
>I really loved John Wayne. He had some of the best manners of almost any actor I've ever met in Hollywood. I never had any trouble with extreme right-wingers. I've always found them tremendously likeable in every respect, except their politics. They're usually nicer than left-wingers.
Here Orson, have a Snickers
What is his assessment on the French?
on the french
>(drunkenly) ahhh the french
why do i care what vincent d'nofrio thinks about a bunch of washed up hacks?
how could one man have ever been so based
in the depths of his ignorance
>ywn be this patrician
Why even live bros?
On Tarkovsky
>fucking hack, fuck off!
Does Stalker have some deeper meaning or is it just pretentious?
I agree with all of these.
Still like Hitchcock but recognize it as middlebrow entertainment.
On Keane Reevese
>WHOLESOME!!!
dunno who half the ppl are but the ones i know are described so poignant ill assume he is spot on on those as well
Stalker is only pretentious if you're a literal brainlet desu
his attacks are great, reminds me of fredrick rolfe
On David Lynch
>What a fag!
this is excellent bait
how does one remedy the woody allen like behavior?
Damn...based as fuck.
by curbing your ego
Wells and Brando are the two patron saints of Yas Forums
Literally shits on everyone in the industry, then wonders why no one wants to work with him or let him do his stupid shit
Bite the hand that feeds type of shot. If he came into the game with this mentality I doubt Kane would have even gotten made.
or your enthusiasm
Stop being a pussy.
On Jackie Chan
>That little chink will leap at everything except getting me my drink.
He doesn't shit on everyone. It seems he has the highest regard for Ford and Kubrick.
could you be more specific
thank you. not being sarcastic
On Paul Mason
>He doesn't do anything
No Spielberg?
he died before jaws was even made brotha
Measure them!
What's funny is Hitchcock made Psycho with a TV crew and equipment from his TV show
>>I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. Oh, yes. I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the Chaplin disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.
On Paul Masson beverages
>mmmmWWWWAAAAAAhhhhh...the...FRENSCHHH...chamPAGNE....
this reminds me of those nabokov quotes
corncobby!
Having an inflated ego can go both ways, it can make you boastful and arrogant like most people imagine, but it can also cause extreme timidity like in Allen's case (according to Welles) since you still feel like you are just too above others to bother exerting yourself.
I wonder if Landis was telling him to direct a movie or how to get money so he could actually get a movie made.
(Welles often had a hard time getting the money together for a film)
Based, rear window sucks. The bad guy acts like Frankenstein when those camera flashes hit him. There’s a random sped up shot of some lady. He always has things that are meant to be stylish that are just goofy.
"Pretentious" is a meaningless term in discussion of art. Anyone who doesnt understand or otherwise care for a work of art thinks they can just call it pretentious and that makes them superior to its creator.
I am superior to all russian directors
Based
Based
Orson was absolute based
Which is fair because symbolism is absurd and non sensical. Pretentious pretty much means I dont like your use of symbolism in relation to what you're telling with it
>I never had any trouble with extreme right-wingers. I've always found them tremendously likeable in every respect, except their politics. They're usually nicer than left-wingers.
Do you have a source for that, it seems made up. the terms right-left/wingers certainly existed but wasn't used like that. It would surprise me if if it was an actual quote and if it is I'm curious of it's context.
He meant left/right wing Hegelian
The quote is from a book called: My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles
I believe they were discussing John Wayne when the quote came up. Wayne was well known for being extremely right wing.
Except it's generally not absurd and non-sensical because the good ones usually evoke a general consensus on what meant what. If it was an absolutely meaningless slew of images and sounds few people would glean any meaning from it, let alone a consensus. The people who call art they dont understand "pretentious" are just mad because they feel like they're missing out on the big party and feel stupid because of it. Otherwise they'd just say "eh, I didn't care for it" or "I didnt get it, what do you think it meant?"
>The quote is from a book called: My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles
Thanks! I'll check it out.
Is it known what Welles thought of Tarkovsky? Or Tarkovsky of Welles?
But how exactly does this consensus come about? Is it a group of people who congregate together and come to a similar critique or an individual experience that coincidentally happen to bare the similarities? I imagine there have been a lot of 'critically acclaimed' films that many critics themselves don't exactly and simply need something to cater to specific audiences. I don't disagree with what you said though.
>that hatred for Woody Allen and Chaplin as a 'type'
Based closet anti-semite.
Chaplin wasn't jewish
Any red blooded man hates guys like that though. Girly little fags, weak little fuckers. It's why I hate indians
>Still like Hitchcock but recognize it as middlebrow entertainment.
elaborate
On Paul Dano
>Yeah I'm thinking classic.
>dunno who half the ppl are
I really hope this is fucking bait.
>John Landis?
>Kill him
>woahhh look how cultured i am
fuck off