Leviathan (2014)

[infiniteCR]

I enjoyed some of the 'motion' in this motion picture, but otherwise way too slow for me. I'll bet I would have been fine with a book version of this one.

[malakaheso]

Originally Posted by mande2013

Not a massive fan of Zvyagintsev fan, although his last two films have their moments, Loveless especially. All the same, auteurists have been using the "literary" epithet to attack "art cinema" for the better part of the century and yet, a lot of these so-called "literary" art films by Tarkovsky, Antonioni, Bergman et al. have endured far better in collective 'film geek' imagination than auteurist pet filmmakers like, dare I say, Lubitsch or Fuller. Not that Lubitsch was a bad filmmaker. Where do we draw the line? Are Tarkovsky fan boys intellectually lazy about film history or is the 'literary' epithet a convenient short cut to deflect attention away from discussing something one doesn't fully understand, since Tarkovsky films don't feel "filmic" in the sort of "tactile" manner the auteurist paradigm allows for? I'm not convinced

Tarkovsky and Antonioni are not, and have never been, literary film makers. The closest T came to that was The Sacrifice.
I've never seen anyone refer to Antonioni as literary. That is absurd. Bergman I get, but not T or A.

[malakaheso]

Originally Posted by GRD43L

may get into the 'Making of' but I've got 9 more Zatoichi to watch! It's
Also, Birdman, Dunkirk, H8ful 8, Ida, Lincoln (one of my favourites), Mother (the Korean one?), ToL (one of my top 3), Uncle Boonmee (that's an obscure crazy one), Winter Sleep (one of my top 3), WoWS.

The Korean Mother was released in 2009