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Post by nostromo on Jun 3, 2019 13:48:28 GMT
I have not seen Kobayashi's 'The Human Condition' trilogy. It's about 10 hours in all, but I will watch one day.
Out of the Director's I have seen, I would put these forward as good examples of films / directors that really convey human nature well, make the viewer question their own actions and also make the viewer think about life, death and existentialism in general:
Hirokazu Kore-eda - most of his films are about family. So the nature of companionship and unconditional love is raised alot. I'd recommend 'Like Father and Son' and 'Shoplifters'
Ruben Ostlund - 'Force Majeure' - who really delves deep into the decision making of humans and looks set to have an amazing career.
Ki-Duk-Kim - Spring, Summer, Winter, Autumn and Spring' or 'Time'
Terrence Mallick films are very good at scratching the surface of humanism. As are Jonathan Glazer's (Under the Skin), Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain) and From what I've seen of Fatih Akin, he might also be a candidate. I need to see more Ozu, Bunel and Bresson - as they appear to be worth a mention here.
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Post by maya55555 on Jun 3, 2019 17:05:29 GMT
Fellini & de Sica.
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Post by tommyrockarolla on Jun 3, 2019 17:20:51 GMT
What a great question, and even still, better responses.
For his time, I think Fritz Lang was pretty good at exposing what can turn a good man to bad behaviors.
Also, and I'd expect some disagreement on this pick? I like Terence Malick. He cuts through narratives to find birds eye views of the spiritual human condition.
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Post by bd74 on Jun 3, 2019 17:26:25 GMT
Luis Bunuel understood that most people are sheep, cannot be bothered to think for themselves and that religion serves as a panacea for many. He really seemed to enjoy skewering the upper middle class particularly, whom he looked upon as simple and simplistic, amoral (not immoral) and hypocritical without much capacity for autonomy. Buñuel would be my choice as well. He was able to see right through the BS of certain frameworks of society (religion, class structure, etc).
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Post by dirtypillows on Jun 4, 2019 6:37:55 GMT
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Post by dirtypillows on Jun 4, 2019 7:04:01 GMT
John Cassavetes has a precocious, though near talentless, underclassmen's, sophisticated ideas of what drove human nature. He has his characters really respond and react and react some more in really, big, over the top ways in response to colorless, shabby every day events; and this was to endow the scene with entirely misplaced scenes of verisimilitude. His movies have as about to do with how people in the same way that carry on in the daytime soap operas. Cassavetes has very childish notions of how adults speak and act and behave and it is childish and embrassing and, least of all, very pretentious. I am not in thee last bit impressed by John Cassavetes, though I do like his wife, Gena Rowlands, who is so superior, and warmer, to him in almost every conceivable way.. Life is full of "over-the-top" stuff. Then again, there are two different worlds; some live a tough life, and some live sheltered with no problems at all. He's showing a side I'm more familiar than some middle-class cliched manufactured emotions. It just always seemed like the director Cassavetes was play acting. All that tough guy posturing. But I know some people who like his style, so to each his own...  I thought he was perfectly cast as the scheming, narcissistic husband in "Rosemary's Baby". He was excellent in the role.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Jun 4, 2019 12:22:58 GMT
Life is full of "over-the-top" stuff. Then again, there are two different worlds; some live a tough life, and some live sheltered with no problems at all. He's showing a side I'm more familiar than some middle-class cliched manufactured emotions. It just always seemed like the director Cassavetes was play acting. All that tough guy posturing. But I know some people who like his style, so to each his own... I thought he was perfectly cast as the scheming, narcissistic husband in "Rosemary's Baby". He was excellent in the role.
He didn't direct "Rosemary's Baby" and didn't direct most of the movies he was in, except "Husbands" "Opening Night" "Love Streams" (after Jon Voigt couldn't do it after the play) and he does play a few minutes in "Minnie and Moskowitz"
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Post by mecano04 on Jun 4, 2019 18:30:15 GMT
John Hughes?
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Post by dirtypillows on Jun 4, 2019 21:04:59 GMT
It just always seemed like the director Cassavetes was play acting. All that tough guy posturing. But I know some people who like his style, so to each his own... I thought he was perfectly cast as the scheming, narcissistic husband in "Rosemary's Baby". He was excellent in the role.
He didn't direct "Rosemary's Baby" and didn't direct most of the movies he was in, except "Husbands" "Opening Night" "Love Streams" (after Jon Voigt couldn't do it after the play) and he does play a few minutes in "Minnie and Moskowitz"
Yes, Roman Polanski directed "Rosemary's Baby" and John Cassavetes was cast in the role of Guy Woodhouse. I thought JC did a very good in that role. And Roman Polanski is one of my favorite directors. Cassavetes directing style just doesn't appeal to me.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Jun 4, 2019 22:37:37 GMT
I have not seen Kobayashi's 'The Human Condition' trilogy. It's about 10 hours in all, but I will watch one day. I liked the first one, watched the next ones, but can't remember much, but rated them somewhere around 7/10.... It didn't seem like 10 hours - which I consider a good sign.
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I thought he was perfectly cast as the scheming, narcissistic husband in "Rosemary's Baby". He was excellent in the role.
