Middlebrow taste for a middlebrow director? Color me surprised.
Joseph Rivera
>unique and sincere taste instead of Harold Bloom wannabe opinions that were handed down by somebody smarter than him
Robert Lopez
Decent. Didn't expect to see Minksky or Moravec on there but 2001 I guess
Brandon Price
and this is the difference between Veeky Forums and an actual artist and individual like Kubrick. His taste was upper middlerow, but it was also his own, and so he didn't try to hide it or feign a false sense of erudition through obscurity or difficulty or cultural prestige. Kubrick was a realized individual, not somebody who aspired to be a realized individual--a man who enjoyed reading for the sake of reading itself
Henry Martinez
>not recognizing that those opinions are my own and the irony of defending someone who could be accused of the same
Brayden Roberts
what are your highbrow directors? >inb4 Antonioni and Bergman
Brandon Butler
This. Godard > Kubrick any day of the week.
Samuel Kelly
>it was also his own, and so he didn't try to hide it or feign a false sense of erudition through obscurity or difficulty or cultural prestige. Kubrick was a realized individual, not somebody who aspired to be a realized individual--a man who enjoyed reading for the sake of reading itself damn son. you just succinctly captured an idea I'd been struggling with for a couple weeks. cheers
Brayden Lewis
>those opinions are my own lmao
yeah, you just read his most critically acclaimed and well-discussed books "on your own." It's your independent, text-based, and vacuum sealed opinion that they're better than the Faulkner books you haven't read or thought about like Pylon or Mosquitoes
you fucking pseud
Gavin Fisher
Literally commit suicide. Godard is a gimmicky hack on par with Gaspar Noe.
Easton Harris
Bokanowski, Bromberg, Carroll, Kovalyov, Selwood, Snow, Svankmajer...the list could in fact go on
Justin Cooper
The vast majority of those aren't middlebrow, dunno why the fags itt are claiming otherwise.
David Moore
You will always be miserable. You crave for more attention than the world could ever give you.
Kevin Watson
>Taste and opinions are relevant and not bourgeois escapism
William Mitchell
literally nothing in cinema has exceeded Barry Lyndon
Austin Perez
This. Other than Sagan and Clarke (they worked together, so he gets a pass for that), it seems like a pretty Veeky Forumscore list.
Cooper Rivera
I enjoy anal masturbation, but I think I’d rather just shit and let the poop act as a natural cock!
Cameron Carter
you don't understand, middlebrow taste is mostly composed of highbrow artists. Balzac is a highbrow artist, but enjoying the works of possibly the world's most well-known French novelist is middlebrow. Middlebrow is admiring and attempting to emulate highbrow
Parker Williams
So highbrows just ignore the work of other highbrow artists?
Benjamin Adams
embarrasing remember when Goethe liked the Iliad? fucking middlebrow hack
Anthony Hall
Sort of. Highbrow taste would feature other highbrows but also might feature, for sincere aesthetic reasons, undeniably low brow artists alongside obscurities, personal friends, and even some lucky middlebrows. Basically there would be a coherent and original aesthetic philosophy forming a definition from a diverse mixture
For most people () it's a pose, and thus middlebrow and mediocre. They're better off just being honest like Kubrick or taking the time to develop an aesthetic that's thoughtful and true.
Carter Phillips
>not a degenerate >Veeky Forumscore list >possibly more right-wing than he let on but not an extremist cuck >hung out with Nabakov
uhhhhh how is this not /ourguy/???
Nolan Jenkins
he is our guy desu
Adrian Hernandez
>Barry Lyndon Pretty good but I'd much rather watch something by Tarkovsky desu.
Blake Ward
shit taste
Jason Brooks
(you)'re pathetic, you silly fop.
Jayden Martin
>Godard Oh, my poor sides. Enjoy your cafe-tier platitudes
Xavier Long
This post triggered many insecure pedantic anons who get their film taste from Watch Mojo
Justin Edwards
amen
liking things you know are 'good taste' isn't the same as understanding why something tastes good!
i think the best measure of someones taste for books might be about how insightfully they can actually review them. any drooling idiot can find a reading list for them self that is 'patrician' taste, whats more impressive is someone who can appreciate the merits of books that aren't necessarily acclaimed
Jack Brooks
cont...
only reading the books of 'best taste' (and boasting about it) is like only ever eating cavier and truffle, while mocking everyone else for eating things youve never tried then boasting how much you know about food
Charles Cooper
Godard is patrician as fuck. Wretched cretins like you never present any good arguments as to why you hate him, probably either because you've never seen any of his films or made the effort to understand his work.
Jacob Brown
Where's Nabokov?
Carter Myers
no u
Oliver Harris
He's dead.
Eli Price
he's on the list dumbass
>Godard is patrician as fuck. kekerino
Connor Clark
He gave Kurosawa shit for reverse cultural appropriation (for caring about the Western tradition, rather than just eschewing it 'cause muh imperialism), which annoyed me to no end. Fuck him.
Logan Flores
>Godard is patrician as fuck kek >war is bad xD >im breaking le fourth wall
Jaxson Reed
>trying to prove something is really good by asking people to prove it isnt i smell fraudulent taste
Jason Sanders
daily reminder that middlebrow is a virgina woolf meme that no only cannot be clearly defined and applied in any way shape or form but heavily suggests the person labeling things middlebrow is a brainlet.
Levi Powell
>wahhh why can't his films have spoon fed themes and narratives that brainlets such as myself can enjoy :(((
why not judge him on the quality of his films instead of on some stupid remark he probably made years ago?
>thinking that trying to prove that something's really bad by not explaining why and insulting people is better
Luis Price
Wild Palms is my favourite Faulkner, come at me
Adam Bennett
HAHAHAHAHA
Henry Morris
>upper middlebrow
What does this even mean?
Daniel Phillips
That's pretty good. Better than what I'd expect of a "filmmaker."
Camden Sanders
his photography is top shit. he was way more than a filmmaker.
Colton Green
>having the same opinion as someone else means the only reason you have that opinion is because they made it publicly known Damn, I wish I intelligent enough to realize this for myself.
Jeremiah Young
t. soyboys
Leo Flores
Antonioni is patrician as fuck and all his movies are basically the visual embodiment of Civilization and its Discontents
