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
But what did he think of the French?
What a fag lel
those are some girly hands
AAAAAAHHHH THE FRENCH
>Bashes Charlie Chaplin
>City Lights is his favorite film
The man was impossible.
Absolutely based. You literally can't name a more based director.
>be filmmaker, doesn't matter who
>criticize other filmmakers, doesn't matter who
>Yas Forums calls you based
>posing with a pipe like that to try and look cool
What a fag.
what did he think of that hack david lynch?
>I don't smoke my pipe at least once a week.
I pity you.
>That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.
based
It's not the pipe, it's the gay face and posture. I hate anybody who sends out "look at me look at me" vibes.
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.
He made To Catch a Thief, TO CATCH A THIEF
>let me act all deep and condescending because I made some great films
Being a good director isn't an excuse to be a cunt.
It is, though
You strive to be great so you are allowed to be a cunt
Oh, I think I can
It's a young Jimmy Carr
I bet if he was alive today he'd be making obscure comic book movies that nobody besides him read.
>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.
Take that, leftists in entertainment industry.
>secretly recording private conversations and then publishing them years later without his estates consent
Why is Henry Jaglom such a Jew?
Welles was a leftist
He supported FDR on the campaign trail
He worked in the Negro Theatre Unit of the WPAs Federal Theatre Project
He was involved in early Civil Rights campaigns in the 1940s
>tfw no El Arte De Volar kino made by Orson Welles
I WANT TO LIVE IN THAT TIMELINE!
DELET
dated a bunch of Mexican and African American ladies back in the 1930s and '40s too
>I never had any trouble with extreme right wingers. I've always found them extremely likeable in every respect, except their politics. They are usually nicer people than left-wingers.
Not being a racist doesn't make him a leftist, you retarded amerimutt.
you've been duped, mate. he's a charlatan.
>I've always found them extremely likeable in every respect, except their politics.
>except their politics.
>except their politics.
>except their politics.
>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.
Hello, based department?
Nothing wrong with any of that, in the 30s and 40s
Latin and jungle fever episode, totally natural.
My interpretation was that he disliked blatant political message in the cinema. Which is modern progressive movies are all about.
that opinion of his doesn't even make sense
>Nothing wrong with any of that, in the 30s and 40s
why then but now now?
>My interpretation was that he disliked blatant political message in the cinema. Which is modern progressive movies are all about.
The only "political" film maker criticised in the quotes is Antonioni and his films are just hot air and pretense
> I hate Jews physically, I dislike that kind of men. Oh, yes. I can hardly bear to talk to them. They have the Chaplin disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.
Makes perfect sense to me. He is simply saying he disagrees with righties but even the most extreme ones are polite and likeable as people. By contrast the people he agrees with are all losers.
>polite and likable
>someones philosophical and political stances matter less to me than if they lick my asshole
Ah, so he's a narcissist then.
>trump
>extreme right wing
>extreme
Donald is a deregulation guy with a tough (lol not really) stance on immigration. He is about as moderate as you can get. He could easily have run as a democrat 20 years ago when standing up to illegal immigration wasnt anathema to the democratic party.
He never says they matter less. He said he is able to have a conversation with them. The quote might even suggest this comes as a great surprise to him.
he's a liberal that's got everyone fooled
Sounds pretty based to me.
>In the "Magnificent Seven" everything is built according to canons that cannot be destroyed. Everything is already known in advance. The audience knows what is going to happen, but still watches as it all neatly resolves in typical Western manner. This is not art. This is a commercial enterprise, no matter what marvelous ideas you embellish it with. Everything is false and absurd.
>In Venice I saw the Anglo-American film "Lolita", a tale about the love between a forty-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl. The film is empty from beginning to end, and I didn't feel anything but sadness and disgust as I watched it. The cinema of the future must certainly move away from this abyss.
>For some reason, in all the science-fiction films I have seen, the filmmakers force the viewer to examine the details of the material structure of the future. More than that, sometimes, like Kubrick, they call their own films premonitions. It's unbelievable! "2001: A Space Odyssey" is phony on many points, even for specialists – an intricate 'examination' of the technological processes of the future which transforms the emotional foundation of a film, as a work of art, into a lifeless schema with only pretensions to truth.
>All actors are excellent in it, but "The Godfather" seems to me, in general, to be boring, unoriginal, and extremely unimaginative in its means of expression.
>I watched Coppola's "Apocalypse Now". Very weak lead actor and a misguided dramaturgy, like a cartoon.
>We attempted to watch "Manhattan". I left in the middle. Monstrous boredom and a totally unglamourous actor [Woody Allen] who tries too hard to be charming.
>I watched the much talked about "The Exorcist". Scary stuff, with Von Sydow as one of the leads. Very good.
>The brutality and low acting skills in "Terminator" are unfortunate, but, as a vision of the future and the relation between man and his destiny, the film pushes the frontiers of cinema as an art form.
People pretending Citizen Kane was the best film ever made was a mistake and the last thing he needed
Trump is definitely more likeable than any left wing politicians today, he also seems like a polite and reasonable man in person. He only attacks people that he has personal or political feuds with.
>>In Venice I saw the Anglo-American film "Lolita", a tale about the love between a forty-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl. The film is empty from beginning to end, and I didn't feel anything but sadness and disgust as I watched it. The cinema of the future must certainly move away from this abyss
The movie is a satire, its not serious. That he took it seriously says a lot about him.
>The movie is a satire, its not serious
>the pathetic excuses and manipulations of a pedo is satire.
>polite and reasonable man in person
cultist's brains are fascinating
Hitchcock's movies have TV lighting because he hired a TV crew instead of a film one. Welles has good eyes though, noticing something like that.
An alpha reminding a beta of his place. What's the problem here, cuck?
>Welles has good eyes though, noticing something like that.
I noticed that shit when I watched The Birds for the first time at 14. It's baffling to me how more people don't say anything about the terrible lighting in Hitchcock's later movies
right
>polite and reasonable
those 3,000 lawsuits from contractors not being paid when building his gaudy hotels are all fake news/contractors love to sue rich people just for shit and giggles, amirite
>caring this much
retard
>"alpha male"
>puts on orange make up because he's an insecure little bitch
t_d was a mistake
>>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.
based
yurobetas being reminded of their place. they talk shit across the ocean the entire time and when in person recoil like the cowards they are
>cultist's brains are fascinating
yeah, learned all about them during the obama years. they are still completely broken
europoors are so fucking stupid, did you even read that post?
On Tarantino
>Vile man, making insipid and derivative tripe to fuel his fetish of the female foot. A creepy fellow in person, the kind of man you wouldn't want to leave near small children.
On Nolan
>I cannot abide a faux-intellectual. His pathetic work mainly consists of a dull attempt at "realism" with a nonsensical or irritatingly incomprehensible plot. To claim that, that nonsense with the masked man was comparable with real artistry is outlandish and borderline insulting.
On Peele
>A rather mediocre mulatto director, who uses his shallow obsession with racial identity to mask the vapidity of his horror schlock.
underage pls go
What is his opinion on Marvel cinematic universe?
1. Francois Truffaut on Michelangelo Antonioni:
“Antonioni is the only important director I have nothing good to say about. He bores me; he’s so solemn and humorless.”
2. Ingmar Bergman on Michelangelo Antonioni:
“Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.”
3. Ingmar Berman on Orson Welles:
“For me he’s just a hoax. It’s empty. It’s not interesting. It’s dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of — is all the critics’ darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it’s a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie’s got is absolutely unbelievable.”
4. Ingmar Bergman on Jean-Luc Godard:
“I’ve never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual, and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He’s made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, Féminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly boring.”
5. Orson Welles on Jean-Luc Godard:
“His gifts as a director are enormous. 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.”
6. Werner Herzog on Jean-Luc Godard:
“Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung-fu film.”
A society which idolises tight wearing cretins prancing around a fake set for a two hour toy commercial, is one that has devolved into infancy.
Only drooling manchildren can claim to enjoy this garbage.
>For me he’s just a hoax. It’s empty. It’s not interesting. It’s dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of — is all the critics’ darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it’s a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie’s got is absolutely unbelievable
SEETHING
7. Jean-Luc Godard on Quentin Tarantino:
“Tarantino named his production company after one of my films. He’d have done better to give me some money.”
8. Harmony Korine on Quentin Tarantino:
“Quentin Tarantino seems to be too concerned with other films. I mean, about appropriating other movies, like in a blender. I think it’s, like, really funny at the time I’m seeing it, but then, I don’t know, there’s a void there. Some of the references are flat, just pop culture.”
9. Nick Broomfield on Quentin Tarantino:
“It’s like watching a schoolboy’s fantasy of violence and sex, which normally Quentin Tarantino would be wanking alone to in his bedroom while this mother is making his baked beans downstairs. Only this time he’s got Harvey Weinstein behind him and it’s on at a million screens.”
10. Spike Lee on Quentin Tarantino (and the “n-word” in his scripts):
“I’m not against the word, and I use it, but not excessively. And some people speak that way. But, Quentin is infatuated with that word. What does he want to be made — an honorary black man?”
11. Spike Lee on Tyler Perry:
“We got a black president, and we going back to Mantan Moreland and Sleep ‘n’ Eat?”
12. Tyler Perry on Spike Lee
“Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that… Spike needs to shut the hell up!”
13. Clint Eastwood on Spike Lee:
“A guy like him should shut his face.”
14. Jacques Rivette on Stanley Kubrick:
“Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it’s great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.”
15. Jacques Rivette on James Cameron (and Steven Spielberg):
“Cameron isn’t evil, he’s not an asshole like Spielberg. He wants to be the new De Mille. Unfortunately, he can’t direct his way out of a paper bag. “
16. Jean-Luc Godard on Steven Spielberg:
“I don’t know him personally. I don’t think his films are very good.”
>manchildren
Welles (and people that aren't manchildren) would never use that term
17. Alex Cox on Steven Spielberg:
“Spielberg isn’t a filmmaker, he’s a confectioner.”
18. Tim Burton on Kevin Smith (after Smith jokingly accused Burton of stealing the ending of Planet of the Apes from a Smith comic book):
“Anyone who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I would especially never read anything created by Kevin Smith.”
19. Kevin Smith on Tim Burton (in response to “I would never read a comic book”):
“Which, to me, explains fucking Batman.”
20. Kevin Smith on Paul Thomas Anderson (specifically, Magnolia):
“I’ll never watch it again, but I will keep it. I’ll keep it right on my desk, as a constant reminder that a bloated sense of self-importance is the most unattractive quality in a person or their work.”
21. David Gordon Green on Kevin Smith:
“He kind of created a Special Olympics for film. They just kind of lowered the standard. I’m sure their parents are proud; it’s just nothing I care to buy a ticket for.”
22. Vincent Gallo on Spike Jonze:
“He’s the biggest fraud out there. If you bring him to a party he’s the least interesting person at the party, he’s the person who doesn’t know anything. He’s the person who doesn’t say anything funny, interesting, intelligent… He’s a pig piece of shit.”
23. Vincent Gallo on Martin Scorsese:
“I wouldn’t work for Martin Scorsese for $10 million. He hasn’t made a good film in 25 years. I would never work with an egomaniac has-been.”
24. Vincent Gallo on Sofia (and Francis Ford) Coppola:
“Sofia Coppola likes any guy who has what she wants. If she wants to be a photographer she’ll fuck a photographer. If she wants to be a filmmaker, she’ll fuck a filmmaker. She’s a parasite just like her fat, pig father was.”
25. Vincent Gallo on Abel Ferrara:
“Abel Ferrara was on so much crack when I did The Funeral, he was never on set. He was in my room trying to pick-pocket me.”
26. Werner Herzog on Abel Ferrara:
“I have no idea who Abel Ferrara is. But let him fight the windmills… I’ve never seen a film by him. I have no idea who he is. Is he Italian? Is he French? Who is he?”
27. David Cronenberg on M. Night Shymalan:
“I HATE that guy! Next question.”
28. Alan Parker on Peter Greenaway (specifically The Draughtsman’s Contact):
“A load of posturing poo-poo.”
29. Ken Russell on Sir Richard Attenborough:
“Sir Richard (‘I’m-going-to-attack-the-Establishment-fifty-years-after-it’s-dead’) Attenborough is guilty of caricature, a sense of righteous self-satisfaction, and repetition which all undermine the impact of the film.”
30. Uwe Boll on Michael Bay:
“I’m not a fucking retard like Michael Bay.”