What films are the closest to good literature?

Film is a craft not an art.

No, Craft is a film

Not Woody Allen.

wtf I hate film now

silent films

Either In Bruges or Toy Story.

Bergman's trilogy
Kielsowski's Blue and Red
Yang's A Brighter Summer Day and Yi Yi
Hou's The Puppetmaster and City of Sadness
Tarr's Santantango and Werckmester Harmonies

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None, film is a new medium full of contrasting ideals as to what is truly good.

Most "great films" try too hard to be like literature and don't recognize the benefits and possibilities of the visual elements of the medium.

Tarkovsky and Kurosawa are perhaps the best well known "autuer" directors as far as their artistic scope and influence for their own medium.

But it is foolish to ask a literature board about film. You will get too many early college hipsters swooning over shit like Jordowsky

>But it is foolish to ask a literature board about film
nah, this is the only board you can ask about good films.
>You will get too many early college hipsters swooning over shit like Jordowsky
and i think most people on Veeky Forums recognize that that Jodorowsky is the equivalent to someone writing "2deep4u" shit without any real substance. And he doesn't do anything special at all with his medium, so his films are (like all blockbusters, ironically) just representation of text.

You would be wrong m8, there was a similar thread months ago where I was arguing with 4 other people that Jordowsky is shallow surrealism and perhaps wanna-be esotericism. It was really frustrating, because those same people probably think they are cultured and elitist in literature.

Veeky Forums has very entry level taste in film simply because they haven't taken the lengths to study deeper than a reddit "artfilm" list. Probably cause mentioning a couple of artfilms off the top of your head lands you some sweet pussy.

>Enter the Void

Anyways, it's a settled fact that film is fundamentally not literature and never can be. Tarkovsky determined this like 40 years ago, so, uh, get with the times

Is this a meme now?

That's weird, i have never seen anything but universal contempt for The Holy Mountain whenever it's been brought up on Veeky Forums.

The Holy Mountain is controversial in film circles, some thinking it is a masterpiece while other think it i style over substance and fails to convey any deeper than surface-level message.

I don't personally like Jodorwosky all that much though I think The Holy Mountain is interesting for imagery alone, but I think dismissing him out of hand as 2deep4u is unfair to his work.

The biggest problem i have with him (besides his ridiculous use of symbolism) is that there are no interesting shots whatsoever in his THM, it plays just like a normal hollywood film.
Although i did like scene with the toads.

None. They are foundationally different mediums.

If you are interested in imagery alone I highly recommend you start researching photography and realize that even the lesser of the great photographers shit all over the imagery of most films including many art films.

Bresson

got any recs?

I certainly don't think he is amazing or particularly insightful or groundbreaking.

I do like that scene as well as some of the stills to be found throughout such as pic related.

I actually have recently been trying to get more into photography. Especially african portrait photography. Including Seydou Keita.

Brassai

Bill Brandt

John Thompson

just completely off the top of my head

announcing reports is against the rules

reported

>Gaspar "It's not pornography!" Noe
>capable of producing anything good

Amelie is pretty nice

Cronenberg

The films made by authors themselves.

Stalker
The mirror
Ikiru
Wild strawberries
In the mood for love (this one specially)
The conformist

Why are they though?

>trying to compare film with literature

The only right answer

What about flipbooks

except that the plural of medium is media