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Sigmaoctanus
Profile Joined April 2010
42 Posts
December 30 2010 02:43 GMT
#241
Black Swan, It just came out really good. In fact any darren aronofsky film is just amazing.
Also any film by Danny Boyle. I recommend Sunshine,
Donnie Darko
2001 a space odyssey
Oh any film by Shane Meadows.
The big Lebowski,
Big Fish
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
12 Monkeys
The Machinist
Moon
American History X
The Usual Suspects
2046
Special
Trainspotting.

Thats enough for now.
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MrProphylactic
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
296 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-30 03:04:16
December 30 2010 02:55 GMT
#242
yeah " The Prestige " was pretty good . The cast was stellar
"The Beauty of a move is not in its appearance, but the thought behind it" Nimzovitch
shaunnn
Profile Joined October 2010
Ireland1230 Posts
December 30 2010 02:57 GMT
#243
Dunno if it was mentioned but primer is v good
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MrProphylactic
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
296 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-30 03:01:44
December 30 2010 02:58 GMT
#244
On December 30 2010 11:38 MarCoon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 30 2010 11:24 MrProphylactic wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On December 30 2010 11:15 MarCoon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 30 2010 10:59 MrProphylactic wrote:
" Rashomon " is a must if you want movies based on different perception as it is THE classic version of this theme , as well as made by the master of film-craft himself, Akira Kurosawa , as a matter of fact it spawned the term " a Rashomon effect "


edit : interesting little trivial tidbit ><


edit , to throw another obvious Kurosawa film out there " Ran" although it may not be a
pure " intellectual film" Its cinematography is unparalleled .
surprised no one has got to Kurosawa yet , or lynch by the time I had a few pages back ...


Not many people would watch Kurosawa movies nowadays, because they seem "old" so I guess that's why no one mentioned him and when it comes to Lynch then you gotta admit that his movies get more weird over the years but indeed is a good director.


Yeah Kurosawa would not be currently mainstream, I didn't think that was the requisite of the OP .
Any serious film buff most certainty would be well aware of him . Or anyone that is a film appreciator, or even a novice just getting started should want to be made aware of these directors which started it all . which is what I thought this thread was for .
Anyone educated in film would name him among the first 50 best filmmakers EVER and most likely top 10 . He was voted as high as the 6th greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly numerous times . Just found it odd movies like inception are making the grade , but some of the best films in history are being left out .
Well also perception became one of the "subset" intellectual themes people were identifying with the last few pages ,. When it comes to perception " Rashomon" is THE ORIGINAL film


I totally agree with you that he is one of the Top Directors of all time, but if you're not a film enthusiast you don't know about movies and Directors like that. You know about the guys from your "generation" that made movies resembling that style, but not the guys that actually invented something like this.
Directors that come to mind that used similar techniques are Nolan and Noe from the top of my head and only one of those went on to "feature" films so people that see one of his feature films may also watch some of his older work.

Inception gets such a great grade because it is for example one of the newer movies that are good and thus is more publicly accepted and is accessible to a broader audience right now.

You can bring up so many names that revolutionized cinema and many people have no idea who they are since they wouldn't like to watch they're "old" stuff. That's just how people are nowadays and it is kinda sad :/



True that


Edit , I keep hearing Primer was good , need to watch that .
I saw the "Repomen " recently, and enjoyed it, of course the book it is based on is way better...
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MarCoon
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Germany493 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-30 03:12:31
December 30 2010 03:11 GMT
#245
To recommend a really beautiful movie and also kinda "intellectual" then watch this one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485947/
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Hydrolisko
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
Vanuatu1659 Posts
December 30 2010 03:14 GMT
#246
can't go wrong with french films
three off the top of my head

man on train
crossed tracks
tell no one
Dr_Strange
Profile Joined April 2009
United States80 Posts
December 30 2010 03:15 GMT
#247
House of Games is pretty good.
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Redunzl
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
862 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-30 03:33:15
December 30 2010 03:24 GMT
#248
Fellini, Kubrick, W. Allen, Jean Luc Goddard...all top drawer directors

In terms of style, scope, and influence Citizen Kane is still the greatest film ever made. It also happens to be a "thinking film"
Cirn9
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
1117 Posts
December 30 2010 03:27 GMT
#249
Idiocracy
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niTsEn
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany86 Posts
December 30 2010 03:32 GMT
#250
Don`t know if it has been mentioned yet but "Oldboy" by Park Chan-wook was/is really good.
Siretu
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
151 Posts
December 30 2010 03:37 GMT
#251
The man from earth is what I'd call intellectual.
kaisr
Profile Joined October 2007
Canada715 Posts
December 30 2010 03:40 GMT
#252
On December 30 2010 12:32 niTsEn wrote:
Don`t know if it has been mentioned yet but "Oldboy" by Park Chan-wook was/is really good.


not intellectual, not good.

Primer seems to be complicated for the sake of being complicated, but I enjoyed it.
gongryong
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Korea (South)1430 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-30 11:19:59
December 30 2010 04:26 GMT
#253
TBH Stay away from mainstream hollywood. They'll only make you feel good by the end.
Try these:

Diva
Pi
Tarnation
(exception to hollywood) Kaufman's: Eternal Sunshine
Being John Malkovich
Synecdoche New York

anything:
Godard
Aranofsky
Wong Kar Wai
Lynch
Miyazaki
Mizuguchi (Kurosawa is more of a form artist)
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ZapRoffo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5544 Posts
December 30 2010 05:26 GMT
#254
I don't agree with 90% of the listings, they can hardly be called seriously intellectual.

Agree with Pi, anything David Lynch
Barton Fink by the Coen Brothers, I call it a movie of intellectual horror.
2001

Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now are a couple that are not of a real intellectual focus but provoke dense thought.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion man
HalfnHalf
Profile Joined May 2010
United States90 Posts
December 30 2010 06:03 GMT
#255

Inception?
On_Slaught
Profile Joined August 2008
United States12190 Posts
December 30 2010 06:04 GMT
#256
Minority Report. If it was just like the book for sure but since they changed a few key things it's half way there. Even with a simplified plot and Tom Cruise the ideas it deals with are still "intellectual."

Agree with many of the others in this thread (especially 2001).
phosphorylation
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2935 Posts
December 30 2010 06:05 GMT
#257
Aronofsky is just sooo overrated. Brain tease for the pseudo-intellectuals maybe.
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WniO
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2706 Posts
December 30 2010 06:08 GMT
#258
On December 30 2010 15:05 phosphorylation wrote:
Aronofsky is just sooo overrated. Brain tease for the pseudo-intellectuals maybe.

yep. although the wrestler was good. - requiem is probably the most repetitive movie ive ever seen. the first time its like wow this is really really good, and then its like fuck that. havent seen black swan but it seems pretentious like his other films.
W.O.L.F.Y.
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany98 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-30 06:36:34
December 30 2010 06:23 GMT
#259
On December 30 2010 12:11 MarCoon wrote:
To recommend a really beautiful movie and also kinda "intellectual" then watch this one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485947/



Man...this movie is SO underrated, you got a good taste. Mr. Nobody changed my view on films..

Beside that i got some usual suspects for you (hehe, that film is GREAT too) :

Fight Club
Clockwork Orange
Cidade de Deus
Inception (its new school but its gold)
Oldboy (really good korean movie)
The departed (leonardo di caprio is not so bad after all)
Shutter Island ( like i said, leonardos recent acting carreer is quite promising)
American Psycho
Lock stock and two smoking barrels (must see)
Snatch (must see)
Once upon a time in America (most underrated sergio leone movie...its just an epos, really good movie)
Casino
12 Monkeys
Leon the Professional (astonishing)
Trainspotting
Truman Show
Gran Torino
In Bruges (great european movie)
Magnolia
The painted veil (really enjoyable movie)
La Haine
Interview with the Vampire
Head-on (good german-turkish movie)
Good bye Lenin! (funny and good German movie about the last days/weeks and the aftermath of the DDR)
Annie Hall
Whatever works

and nearly all Kurosawa movies


and last but not least: Taxi Driver (not that french taxi movie, the 1970 Robert de niro movie)
I probably forgot many many movie jewels but thats my list

Recommendation: Watch them if you didnt see them!
And i consider all movies on the list as "intellectual", some of them might not seem like the classical intellectual movie, but they are, more than so many many pseudo intellectual movies.
One of the reason why they are so intellectual, is , that they will be/are movie history at its best, they will be watched by generations and generations after us as their time describing movies.
When you fall, fall forward. At least you'll see what you're falling on.
Tufas
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Austria2259 Posts
December 30 2010 06:39 GMT
#260
I need to reflect more to post better movies, that is what I am going to do now. Another list incoming in the next days

Doctor Zhivago (READ BOOK ASAP !)

Pink Floyd The Wall (I would recommend watching the movie a couple of times, be amazed of what your head remembers each time)

Dobrý voják Svejk (also if you can, read the book - first world war, all the strange encounters .. very satiric)

Le Voie Lactee (Buñuel, about life haha .. still the best movie)

Kuhle Wampe Oder Wem Gehoert Die Welt
(classic Bertolt Brecht [although only one of the writers] working class struggle in the 30s, socialist/communist)

The Watchman
(there is much more to this movie than it seems, for me at least)




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