Date: October 24th, 2025 8:05 PM Author: Hairraiser theater stage
Have you watched any of his other movies? I think Kieslowski is like the Steven Spielberg of arthouse cinema; he is sentimental and highly demonstrative. I'd strongly recommend him to someone who has mainly watched popular cinema and wants to branch out.
Date: October 24th, 2025 8:10 PM Author: MAGA's Prolapsed Anus (No Future)
I haven't, but I do like arthouse cinema in particulars
I don't like the sort of global 'arthouse cinema' monoculture that exists, but I can get a lot of entertainment out of unconventional and challenging movies (Herzog, Koyaanisqaatsi , various documentaries)
Date: October 24th, 2025 8:12 PM Author: Hairraiser theater stage
I share your concerns about the notion of a "arthouse" genre. For Kieslowski, the only stuff by him I've watched are Trois couleurs and Dekalog. Trois couleurs is definitely more accessible; I've watched it with gfs who weren't film buffs and they liked it.
Date: October 26th, 2025 3:20 PM Author: slate trip chad
(If you like this, you will love Yi Yi even more, bittersweet nostalgic soul searching with a sincerely playful yet fundamentally wholesome and uplifting sense of humor)
Date: October 26th, 2025 3:13 PM Author: slate trip chad
(Undeniably gorgeous-souled) Dunedain cowboy tp just introduced me to this modern master of magical realism, watched both of his movies yesterday and loved them, pure ethereal bliss:
Date: October 26th, 2025 3:34 PM Author: slate trip chad
Believe me my guy I'm appreciating my high school art hoe gf and my college engineering major but loved art movies gf, and heck even my "only watched Harry Potter movies on repeat" gf (primarily because of the lack of adult responsibilities in those days, to be honest, nothing but whimsical freedom, also I'm gay now in case the foregoing poast didn't make that clear)
Date: October 26th, 2025 3:49 PM Author: slate trip chad
Also I had no idea what a mommy gf was in those days as a concept, but there was an Australian-American girl whose Aussie MILF mom had married an American guy and moved home with him - I can still vividly remember the sheer overpowering friendly maternal WARMTH of her mom's welcome when we first met, and combined with the energy of the slightly dorky bubbly cute vaguely tomboy-ish daughter (had a huge Cranberries poster on her wall, yet refreshingly no art hoe pretensions like another girl I knew and loved around that time), I knew that somebody up there liked me that day...
Date: October 26th, 2025 3:55 PM Author: Vigorous native
Man I had a french art school gf and one night we watched fifth element and I slept with my head on her big clothed tits as a pillow, we didn't do any fucking or anything & I'd trade that night for any in my life, I slept better than ever in my life. I've done sex IRL and this was much better
Date: October 26th, 2025 3:59 PM Author: slate trip chad
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
had a few flirty french milf teachers over the years but TFW no french gf ever in my life, let alone an art school one, Ho Lee Cow.
That sounds Heavenly on all levels, and I know what you mean, the pure earnest 100% lost in the momentness of it that's almost impossible as an adult, no matter how good your life is
(different stages of life for learning different lessons and overcoming different challenges, as Tolkien would say: energy of youth, strength of adulthood, wisdom of age)
Date: October 24th, 2025 8:16 PM Author: slate trip chad
Very CR on all counts - once you start watching the first one (Blue) you'll be genuinely excited to watch the entire thing (White then Red) IMO.
I really think it's up there with Lord of the Rings and Narnia (those 3 Disney ones are great and capture the feeling of the books brilliantly and I went into them skeptically) and of course Mighty Ducks as great trilogy entertainment (along with great soul searching from a sincere religious director)
Date: October 26th, 2025 11:31 PM Author: Vigorous native
Getting on dating apps & telling zoomer girls I just copped the 3-disc Limited Edition set of István Szabó's Mitteleuropa Trilogy; Mephisto, Colonel Redl and Hanussen, all new 4K restorations