Current Events > Filmmakers you have never heard of, but should watch at least one film by.

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CE should watch and will probably like and understand:

Ingmar Bergman
Lars von Trier
David Lynch
Stuff from Hammer Horror
Jaco van Dormael

CE should watch but will likely struggle with:

Hollis Frampton

I wish someone had told me about this kinda stuff a long time ago, Sadly, it was only 5 years ago I started to become a film buff, in 2013. There are so many things people would probably enjoy, but simply have never been exposed to. And then, there's stuff worth watching, just to try.

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Darren Aronofsky

There's a good amount though.

Also why is Lynch there, pretty much everyone knows his name.
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A lot of people know Twin Peaks, but still have never heard or seen the name David Lynch...which is strange, because I'm pretty sure it comes up at the beginning of every episode of Twin Peaks. That's the general public for you.

Also, I doubt they've seen ANY of his films.

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Watch The City of Lost Children.
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Pretty sure I've seen it. It's set in Brazil, about those poor kids, right?
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MeIon Bread posted...

CE should watch and will probably like and understand:

Ingmar Bergman
Lars von Trier
David Lynch
Stuff from Hammer Horror
Jaco van Dormael

CE should watch but will likely struggle with:

Hollis Frampton

I wish someone had told me about this kinda stuff a long time ago, Sadly, it was only 5 years ago I started to become a film buff, in 2013. There are so many things people would probably enjoy, but simply have never been exposed to. And then, there's stuff worth watching, just to try.

Yudu 1088
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MeIon Bread posted...

Pretty sure I've seen it. It's set in Brazil, about those poor kids, right?

I dont think so.


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Is that Dune? That film was just bad.
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Foppe posted...

MeIon Bread posted...

Pretty sure I've seen it. It's set in Brazil, about those poor kids, right?

I dont think so.

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Nobody should have to suffer through a Lars von Trier film.
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What's wrong with von Trier? His films are intelligent, very depressing, and sometimes experiemental. Sounds good to be. Oh, and he's got a new film out at the end of this year, The House That Jack Built.
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With the exception of Lynch, none of those names sound very American. Why should I expect a movie I can relate to?
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Some themes in live are universal. Besides, what's relating got to do with it? Don't you want a new experience, or to see how the other half live?
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You want people to watch more David Lynch and then you diss his Dune?
Patrick Stewart and Sting are great.
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Zeeak4444 posted...

Darren Aronofsky

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I'd add

Franois Truffaut
Federico Fellini
Akira Kurosawa
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But if you never heard of them, how can you name them?
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Jeremy Saulnier
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mulholland drive is one of the worst movies i've ever seen
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Michael Bay
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Gaspar No
Dario Argento
Masaki Kobayashi
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Zeeak4444 posted...

Darren Aronofsky

There's a good amount though.

Also why is Lynch there, pretty much everyone knows his name.

Id bet money Aronofskys films are more well-known than Lynchs these days

But I think David Lynchs name goes down as more of a "legend" than Aronofskys
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Lebronwon posted...

I'd add

Franois Truffaut
Federico Fellini
Akira Kurosawa

Anyone who hasn't heard of those should leave their hole in the marshes and move into civilisation. Or alternatively watch something else than just Avengers 12.

Andrei Tarkovsky
Pavel Loungine
Henri Verneuil (I know, a biggie too but then again I'm talking to Muricans)
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Wong Kar-Wai

Or is he getting the recognition he deserves in the western world these days?
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Zeeak4444 posted...

Darren Aronofsky

There's a good amount though.

Also why is Lynch there, pretty much everyone knows his name.

Are you fucking kidding me? Everyone fucking knows Aronofsky and you're gonna talk shit on including Lynch?

MeIon Bread posted...

Pretty sure I've seen it. It's set in Brazil, about those poor kids, right?

that's city of god
film buff harder bro
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DarthWendy posted...

Lebronwon posted...

I'd add

Franois Truffaut
Federico Fellini
Akira Kurosawa

Anyone who hasn't heard of those should leave their hole in the marshes and move into civilisation. Or alternatively watch something else than just Avengers 12.

Andrei Tarkovsky
Pavel Loungine
Henri Verneuil (I know, a biggie too but then again I'm talking to Muricans)

Have you seen TC's list he had David Lynch and Ingmar Bergman. Ingmar Bergman is on par with the three I mentioned and David Lynch is pretty well known.
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Decent list.

Ill add

Svankmeyer (little Otik)
Palfi (taxidermia)
Fellini (8 1/2)
Jodorowsky (El Topo)
uawski (Possession)
Tarkovsky (Stalker)
Rainer Sarnet (November 2017)
Seijin Suzuki (Tokyo drifter)
Heneke (white ribbon)
Almodovar (all about my mother/skin we live in)

Plenty of others out there.

Edit: really nice to see people with knowledge of the medium
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Every Scandinavian knows about Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier.
Go read some August Strindberg if you want to see what inspired Bergman.
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Lebronwon posted...

DarthWendy posted...

Lebronwon posted...

I'd add

Franois Truffaut
Federico Fellini
Akira Kurosawa

Anyone who hasn't heard of those should leave their hole in the marshes and move into civilisation. Or alternatively watch something else than just Avengers 12.

Andrei Tarkovsky
Pavel Loungine
Henri Verneuil (I know, a biggie too but then again I'm talking to Muricans)

Have you seen TC's list he had David Lynch and Ingmar Bergman. Ingmar Bergman is on par with the three I mentioned and David Lynch is pretty well known.

I know. It's just that the 3 you mentioned are really big. Like, MASSIVE. They built cinema. Sure Bergman too (maybe Lynch too a bit), but they aren't on the same level. Either way, pretty much ALL the directors mentioned are high end BIGGIES, someone who hasn't heard of them should etc etc.

And PLEASE, PEOPLE. Stop pulling out the Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Luc Besson, or Gaspard No card, as a respectable French person, I cannot stand those pretentious entitled bozos and their films aren't GOOD. Besson had its golden days, but they are WAY behind him, now he's trying to be Spielberg, minus the talent. Jeunet just makes the same film over and over, and No plain sucks (imho). Putting any of those 3 (there are more actually, thankfully you haven't heard of them lol) next to Truffault, Verneuil or Melville is insulting :(

Here's another MASSIVE one oblivious millenials have certainly not heard of, and this one is one of yours : Sam Peckinpah. Go watch The Getaway right now !
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Bela Tarr is a good one to know, the Turin Horse is really good and if you can make it through the 7 1/2 hours Satantango is phenomenal
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