Hello. Just wanted to say that this was an excellent video (as was your Hong Sang Soo video) that you had made Jack. I'd love to see you continue making more content like this one.
Incredible list I dont see many youtubers like this so thanks much. Edit: When you said Jeanne Dielman i actively yelled yes!!! what an incredible film. In my opnion that might be the best movie ever made.
While I’ve heard of all of these films before, the only one I have seen so far is An Elephant Sitting Still, which truly a bonafide masterpiece. I was completely sucked into it and I had a good cry when it was over. Hit home really hard. Thanks for the other recommendations!
I must say that I think your spirited and articulated narration work here is really good! I also like your sensibility here a lot too! I’ve only seen 4 of the 5 films and I’ve never heard of the Man who Sleeps. I feel like I’ve just been watching popular films and older horror with my dad for several months. I watched Life, and Nothing More to break the spell. And it worked. I like feeling that impression of having visited somewhere, like I’ve gone on vacation to a place I liked. I feel a sort of calmness during and after.
Also Letterboxd has some of the weirdest rankings, there’s movies that clearly wouldn’t be liked by a certain graph of people yet there’s almost no low ratings for “those” films. It’s like regular people don’t exist on that site and that clearly isn’t the case if you read ANY review on that site.
Your comments about A Dog's Will really frame it the wrong way. There are other Brazilian titles on the list like Central Station, City of God or The Given Word that do not attract these kinds of comments, in fact I've heard nothing but praise for them. There are 6 Brazilian films on there, compared to for exaple 3 German ones and the most highly regarded film by Brazilian critics do not even make the list like the films of Glauber Rocha, Limite, Pixote, Barren Lives, The Red Light Bandit, etc. Has it occured to you that maybe people just thought it wasn't a good film? You make it sound like it's because it's a Brazilian film and like people have a disdain for Brazilian cinema because somehow it's inferior but that's really not it. If the 90's live action Asterix and Obelix with Gerard Depardieu was on there it would attract excactly the same kind of comments or Bully Herbig's der Schuh des Manitu (these films were big hits in respectively France and Germany mind you). Louis de Funes isn't on there either, Budd Spencer and Terrence Hill aren't either, etc. I mean there's a gazillion of silly mainstream French comedies but none of them makes the list. The reason A Dog's Will is on there is really demographics, it's disproportionately been seen and rated by the people that would like it. At the end of the day it's just a list on the internet, it's pretty whatever and in its nature works a bit like a circlejerk but it almost seems like you intentionally misframe it to make your point. It doesn't seem to me like a vocal minority even. It seems to me like the majority of non-Brazilian people who've seen the film didn't think it was all that great or special. A Dog's Will stands out not because it's Brazillian but because it's a bit like if Dumb and Dumber would be on there and only US-Americans found it profoundly funny while the rest of the world would be bewildered. I mean fair enough, whatever floats peoples boat but there's certainly no imperialist structures at play here, at best just a bit of film snobbery or maybe simply people finding the film boring and not funny. It's not so much to make an argument here. I think there's a virtue in making the case for silly comedies but your line of reasoning here itself sounds profoundly snobbish. It's dialectics really, you sound just like what you attempt to criticise (you don't even really make the case for the film, you just speak about it's detractors). For what it's worth my personal favourite from Brazil is "Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica", a road-movie about a prostitute and a trucker traversing the Rodovia Transamazônica.
completely agree with this comment. Comedy, for a lot of countries, is hard to translate, especially when you are doing references to more culturally specific topics. I don't even mind it being on the list, I just hate a lot of the pretentiousness surrounding the film. Pretty much more than half of the criticism that the film receives gets comments from Brazilians like "you're just a dumb gringo, you wouldn't get it" or "it's not made for you, you're just racist". The film is not some outstanding technical achievement, so I don't get people being mad at someone not enjoying the film if the comedy doesn't work for them. It has nothing to do with "not liking small foreign cinema".
Couldn't agree more with "you sound just like what you attempt to criticise (you don't even really make the case for the film, you just speak about it's detractors)." I hated the movie. Yes, perhaps not getting all the jokes/references... but it wasn't me, a snob from Europe hating a non-European cinema, I've equally hated some locally made comedies.
Yeah I didn't really like the film either. Some of that could be because the humor didn't translate well (I kind of doubt that), but in ways movies transcend language, such as the editing and cinematography, it was quite bad. The movie is edited in such a way that it moves at 100 mph. No establishing shots, no time to catch your breath and get your bearings. No interesting shots from the camera. It just feels really amateurish.
Thank you so much!! I've been searching to find this kind of list . Most of the time, the list are similar and repetitive. I've watched most of the top 10 and I'm eager to experience more.
I think that Werckmeister Harmonies is definitely Tarr's most "accessible" film. It strikes a fine balance between intellectual concepts and human feelings, and condensing everything into two hours instead of seven gives it a rare power. Not that Satantango is boring - once you settle into its rhythm it becomes hypnotically compelling, and when it ends it leaves you in a kind of trance - but if we need to weigh time commitment against impact then Werckmeister Harmonies is the better choice, particularly for initiating a newcomer to Tarr's cinema. If they don't like Werckmeister Harmonies, they're not going to like any of his other films, and they won't even consider giving a chance to Satantango.
So, I haven't seen any of these movies, I haven't even heard of one these, but thanks for the recommendation. I'm definitely gonna check (some of) these out, hopefully soon
I got absolutely filtered by Jeanne Dielman, but at least I could replicate your experience with Out 1 by giving it 3 stars after sitting through an interminable 202 minutes! Definitely want to check out a lot of the other films you highlighted so thanks for the recs.
Great List! I just watched Big City.... And and The Confession of Costa Gravas and Turin Horse of Tarr. I tried the Brazilian Film, but the subs were to fast for my German-School -English🥴 (+17 years ago) Think I try it another time again.
I'll definitely watch these. Since you loved Big City,. I recommend watching all of his films (especially Kanchanjangha, The Hero, Charulata, The Middleman, Company Limited, and The Expedition ). And also Subarnarekha by Ritwik Ghatak, which is another masterpiece of Bengali cinema.
The meta-commentary here is offputting. Please just tell us why the films are worth watching, not how people are elitist hypocrites. An Elephant Sitting Still is a great recommendation. It's one of those that creates a unique feeling in the viewer. I'd say it's also probably the angriest film I've ever seen. I didn't know the director killed himself when I watched it, but I remember that spirit of impotent fury at the world emanating from it. Not enjoyable exactly, but compelling.
"cultural elitism"? I suspect that by including A Dog's Will Stephen wanted to come across as this woke "see, I'm no elitist" cinephile. Why does he think that people disliked it just because it was Brazilian, or non-European/non-US? I have as much dislike for some French or Italian movies, for that matter, as for A Dog's Will.
@@lh3842 I just couldn't get into it, the plot seemed so scarce and uninteresting, there was a long scene of a guy telling a story to the other's I thought could have been cut and worsened pacing a lot etc, and High & Low is my favourite.
@@Mr.Goodkat OK, I get it. Althou in my opinion the slow pacing worked in favor of the movie, making it more episodical and showing the time the young doctor works there. To be honest Red Beard is my favorite Kurosawa too, I found 7 samurai somewhat to long.
dude you need to up your audio game. at times i can´t understand a word you are saying. stats for nerds shows me your content´s loudness is 15.5 db below youtube´s loudness target. thanks mate!
Also less sharp intake of breaths and such. The breath intake thing is a nervous habit a lot of people don't realise they're doing, but if you're trying to make money from narration it's something you've really gotta avoid.
@@YodasPapa nowadays you can easily deal with sibilants, frickatives and plosives while speaking. just slam a friggin deesser on your vox channel strip, followed by some healthy compression and a final limiter. boom. i really appreciate jack´s content, i´d just love to have it more audible.
All of the use is in the last few seconds, but it only works if you watch all of it up until then. There’s a code, you see. But the use is incredibly useful.
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Hello. Just wanted to say that this was an excellent video (as was your Hong Sang Soo video) that you had made Jack. I'd love to see you continue making more content like this one.
Thank you for the kind words! We have multiple videos in the works, stay tuned
Jeanne Dielman is a masterclass in cinematic tension, performance, expression, and making all the small things feel so loud.
Yeah its a good one
Good, sir. I don't know how I stumbled upon this video, but you had earned my subscription after two minutes.
Incredible list I dont see many youtubers like this so thanks much.
Edit: When you said Jeanne Dielman i actively yelled yes!!! what an incredible film. In my opnion that might be the best movie ever made.
Thanks so much! Jeanne Dielman is really something else.
Yeah it was a rough watch but then that ending happens and the way my jaw dropped its nuts.
While I’ve heard of all of these films before, the only one I have seen so far is An Elephant Sitting Still, which truly a bonafide masterpiece. I was completely sucked into it and I had a good cry when it was over. Hit home really hard. Thanks for the other recommendations!
Haven't seen any of these films, but can't wait to check some of them out - thanks man!
All of these are superb films. My favourite of these being A Dogs Will, which enters my top 10. Also love seeing some Bela Tarr in here. 😃
I must say that I think your spirited and articulated narration work here is really good! I also like your sensibility here a lot too! I’ve only seen 4 of the 5 films and I’ve never heard of the Man who Sleeps. I feel like I’ve just been watching popular films and older horror with my dad for several months. I watched Life, and Nothing More to break the spell. And it worked. I like feeling that impression of having visited somewhere, like I’ve gone on vacation to a place I liked. I feel a sort of calmness during and after.
Where Is My Friend’s House?, Ikiru, Nights of Cabiria, and the Apu Trilogy are magnificent.
Also Letterboxd has some of the weirdest rankings, there’s movies that clearly wouldn’t be liked by a certain graph of people yet there’s almost no low ratings for “those” films. It’s like regular people don’t exist on that site and that clearly isn’t the case if you read ANY review on that site.
It's because regular people aren't watching those films to begin with
Your comments about A Dog's Will really frame it the wrong way. There are other Brazilian titles on the list like Central Station, City of God or The Given Word that do not attract these kinds of comments, in fact I've heard nothing but praise for them. There are 6 Brazilian films on there, compared to for exaple 3 German ones and the most highly regarded film by Brazilian critics do not even make the list like the films of Glauber Rocha, Limite, Pixote, Barren Lives, The Red Light Bandit, etc. Has it occured to you that maybe people just thought it wasn't a good film? You make it sound like it's because it's a Brazilian film and like people have a disdain for Brazilian cinema because somehow it's inferior but that's really not it. If the 90's live action Asterix and Obelix with Gerard Depardieu was on there it would attract excactly the same kind of comments or Bully Herbig's der Schuh des Manitu (these films were big hits in respectively France and Germany mind you). Louis de Funes isn't on there either, Budd Spencer and Terrence Hill aren't either, etc. I mean there's a gazillion of silly mainstream French comedies but none of them makes the list. The reason A Dog's Will is on there is really demographics, it's disproportionately been seen and rated by the people that would like it.
At the end of the day it's just a list on the internet, it's pretty whatever and in its nature works a bit like a circlejerk but it almost seems like you intentionally misframe it to make your point. It doesn't seem to me like a vocal minority even. It seems to me like the majority of non-Brazilian people who've seen the film didn't think it was all that great or special. A Dog's Will stands out not because it's Brazillian but because it's a bit like if Dumb and Dumber would be on there and only US-Americans found it profoundly funny while the rest of the world would be bewildered. I mean fair enough, whatever floats peoples boat but there's certainly no imperialist structures at play here, at best just a bit of film snobbery or maybe simply people finding the film boring and not funny. It's not so much to make an argument here. I think there's a virtue in making the case for silly comedies but your line of reasoning here itself sounds profoundly snobbish. It's dialectics really, you sound just like what you attempt to criticise (you don't even really make the case for the film, you just speak about it's detractors).
For what it's worth my personal favourite from Brazil is "Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica", a road-movie about a prostitute and a trucker traversing the Rodovia Transamazônica.
completely agree with this comment.
Comedy, for a lot of countries, is hard to translate, especially when you are doing references to more culturally specific topics. I don't even mind it being on the list, I just hate a lot of the pretentiousness surrounding the film. Pretty much more than half of the criticism that the film receives gets comments from Brazilians like "you're just a dumb gringo, you wouldn't get it" or "it's not made for you, you're just racist".
The film is not some outstanding technical achievement, so I don't get people being mad at someone not enjoying the film if the comedy doesn't work for them. It has nothing to do with "not liking small foreign cinema".
Couldn't agree more with "you sound just like what you attempt to criticise (you don't even really make the case for the film, you just speak about it's detractors)."
I hated the movie. Yes, perhaps not getting all the jokes/references... but it wasn't me, a snob from Europe hating a non-European cinema, I've equally hated some locally made comedies.
Yeah I didn't really like the film either. Some of that could be because the humor didn't translate well (I kind of doubt that), but in ways movies transcend language, such as the editing and cinematography, it was quite bad. The movie is edited in such a way that it moves at 100 mph. No establishing shots, no time to catch your breath and get your bearings. No interesting shots from the camera. It just feels really amateurish.
yes the framing that because it was "brazillian" people didn't like it was very strange
yes 100% agreed, that part really gives of 'white liberal' energy
Thank you so much!! I've been searching to find this kind of list . Most of the time, the list are similar and repetitive. I've watched most of the top 10 and I'm eager to experience more.
Let us know what you think about the movies if you check any out… and if you have any recs for us :)
I think that Werckmeister Harmonies is definitely Tarr's most "accessible" film. It strikes a fine balance between intellectual concepts and human feelings, and condensing everything into two hours instead of seven gives it a rare power. Not that Satantango is boring - once you settle into its rhythm it becomes hypnotically compelling, and when it ends it leaves you in a kind of trance - but if we need to weigh time commitment against impact then Werckmeister Harmonies is the better choice, particularly for initiating a newcomer to Tarr's cinema. If they don't like Werckmeister Harmonies, they're not going to like any of his other films, and they won't even consider giving a chance to Satantango.
Amazing video. Thank you for this.
So, I haven't seen any of these movies, I haven't even heard of one these, but thanks for the recommendation. I'm definitely gonna check (some of) these out, hopefully soon
All You Need Is Kurosawa
I got absolutely filtered by Jeanne Dielman, but at least I could replicate your experience with Out 1 by giving it 3 stars after sitting through an interminable 202 minutes! Definitely want to check out a lot of the other films you highlighted so thanks for the recs.
i watched all of Histoire(s) du cinéma, hated it gave it 1 1/2 stars
Thanks for the list, I’ll definitely be checking them out
Nice video Jack, love your activity in the Letterboxd community.
Thanks for sharing, really enjoyed the format!
I love An Elephant Sitting Still. The tracking shots are excellent
Gr8 list! Most of these films I didn't see
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Really Rad video! Please make more, I subbed
Great List! I just watched Big City.... And and The Confession of Costa Gravas and Turin Horse of Tarr. I tried the Brazilian Film, but the subs were to fast for my German-School -English🥴 (+17 years ago) Think I try it another time again.
Watched other movies by some of these directors. But not these ones. Must check it out.
Você provavelmente foi o único gringo da história que defendeu O Auto da Compadecida kkkkk ❤
Just saw Z; absolutely fantastic film, gonna check out a couple more from this list soon!
Awesome, hope you enjoy!
I'll definitely watch these. Since you loved Big City,. I recommend watching all of his films (especially Kanchanjangha, The Hero, Charulata, The Middleman, Company Limited, and The Expedition ). And also Subarnarekha by Ritwik Ghatak, which is another masterpiece of Bengali cinema.
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Good picks, imo.
REMARKABLE LIST.
good taste
7:13 ah, the Lav Diaz experience
I love Red Beard
One of the best movies of the 90s is "Man Bites Dog" which goes oddly forgotten these days
The meta-commentary here is offputting. Please just tell us why the films are worth watching, not how people are elitist hypocrites.
An Elephant Sitting Still is a great recommendation. It's one of those that creates a unique feeling in the viewer. I'd say it's also probably the angriest film I've ever seen. I didn't know the director killed himself when I watched it, but I remember that spirit of impotent fury at the world emanating from it. Not enjoyable exactly, but compelling.
i have heard a lot that fake accounts are responsible for a dog's will being so high on the 250, but i dont know if its true.
I’d be interested in watching a video on the films in the list that you hate
"cultural elitism"? I suspect that by including A Dog's Will Stephen wanted to come across as this woke "see, I'm no elitist" cinephile.
Why does he think that people disliked it just because it was Brazilian, or non-European/non-US? I have as much dislike for some French or Italian movies, for that matter, as for A Dog's Will.
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Red Beard is my least favourite Kurosawa and I have seen about 16 or 17 of his movies, I tried but I just could not care about any of it.
How come? Which was your favorite?
@@lh3842 I just couldn't get into it, the plot seemed so scarce and uninteresting, there was a long scene of a guy telling a story to the other's I thought could have been cut and worsened pacing a lot etc, and High & Low is my favourite.
@@Mr.Goodkat OK, I get it. Althou in my opinion the slow pacing worked in favor of the movie, making it more episodical and showing the time the young doctor works there. To be honest Red Beard is my favorite Kurosawa too, I found 7 samurai somewhat to long.
@@Mr.Goodkat High & Low FTW!
dude you need to up your audio game. at times i can´t understand a word you are saying. stats for nerds shows me your content´s loudness is 15.5 db below youtube´s loudness target. thanks mate!
Also less sharp intake of breaths and such. The breath intake thing is a nervous habit a lot of people don't realise they're doing, but if you're trying to make money from narration it's something you've really gotta avoid.
@@YodasPapa nowadays you can easily deal with sibilants, frickatives and plosives while speaking. just slam a friggin deesser on your vox channel strip, followed by some healthy compression and a final limiter. boom. i really appreciate jack´s content, i´d just love to have it more audible.
@@ec1665 Izotope RX ftw
Honestly the ascent does nothing for me
Need better sound quality homie
Can you please speak louder
these are some of the worst actually
2 mins in, no usable info. Click away.
All of the use is in the last few seconds, but it only works if you watch all of it up until then. There’s a code, you see. But the use is incredibly useful.
You’re audio is terrible.
It's a weird site. Some very woke and bizarre posters on Letterboxd.