Do "novelistic" films exist?

do you think she looks good in that top? what colour is it?

the colour of reddit

>Stranger Than Paradise is a 1984 American absurdist/deadpan comedy film, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and starring jazz musician John Lurie, former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson, and Hungarian-born actress Eszter Balint. The film features a minimalist plot in which the main character, Willie, has a cousin from Hungary named Eva. Eva stays with him for ten days before going to Cleveland. Willie and his friend Eddie eventually go to Cleveland to visit Eva. This film is shot entirely in single long takes with no standard coverage.

Considering what I said, I reckon you could start at Jarmusch and then make your way from there. If you want to go back even earlier then John Cassavetes is like the mac daddy of American independent cinema.

Yeah, figured that calling an essay film literary was pushing it. Whatever the OP is trying to communicate with the term doesn't come across clearly. I feel it has to be something more than films that would translate well to writing, but maybe it's not worth putting to much thought into, with film and literature being, obviously, such different media. The question could be instead how a visual medium can be structured around the influence of novels. Film affected the way novels were written, like with Joyce and Döblin, but I wonder how well it works the other way around.

And I know its wrong, but I like to think of Godard as literary. I am a philistine though.

>If you read what everyone else reads you end up thinking like everyone else thinks

Movie > Beatle song > Novel

Midori > Naoko