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Oh yes haha, Spirited Away is actually one of my top ten favorite movies! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I would like to point out that I think there is a lot more going on than the 'work harder' story, or even the coming of age story in the film, but these are elements that Miyazaki uses to draw the...

:yes: I was very impressed that this film wasn't really preachy or didactic, nor was it simplistic in its depiction of racism. Almost everyone's anger is justified if it were simply anger, but the racism that was behind the anger is intolerable. At the same time, can we blame anyone on that...

Do The Right Thing directed by Spike Lee - 10/10 Oh yes, this is what I was hoping for! After seeing School Daze and absolutely loving it, I was excited to watch this film. What makes this film so great for me is that it does a great job at drawing out its world, I really felt like a part of...

No, but in that case you are talking about functional objects and not art. I don't think that cinema has to be viewed in a commercial movie theater to be cinema, you clearly do. That's why we disagree. I'll honestly say that I don't know for sure what I mean by "cinematic form" however I do...

Well it was your answer to my question about extremely low budget foreign films that made me bring this up. Actually now I see quite clearly that we strongly disagree on this point. "Videos" with cinematic form that are screened at any cinema (including festivals or arthouses) are cinema. How...

Well no, because we just talked about arthouse cinemas and you told me that these didn't quite have the same standards as films that are designed to be screened in commercial cinemas, which is why I mentioned this in the first place. Arthouse films are not videos, they are films meant to be...

That's true, it really is difficult to get a film made without a good producer to make the project intended possible. Ah I see. Yes the reason I asked is because I know that Kiarostami in particular was working with less than $100,000 with his films before the 2000's, these films were...

Definitely, I agree with this. But then again, I don't see why this should be a problem for a person that wants to make a professional production, it should be a given that a filmmaker trying to make a professional film should get professionals in every technical and artistic aspect of cinema. I...

Taipei Story directed by Edward Yang - 10/10 Okay, so Edward Yang has blown me away again. First I saw his debut feature That Day, On The Beach, an underseen masterpiece that seems to only exist in poor video quality on online copies, since watching that film I promised myself to wait for better...

It isn't that the editing is 'bad' or 'good,' it's just different. For the most part the differences in editing probably can be seen in the average shot lengths. Even someone like Tarantino tends to have a longer average shot length than most Hollywood blockbusters. There are obviously much...

I just get the feeling that people who want indie films get access to them quite easily. The problem is that most audience goers aren't interested in seeing indie films, they prefer studio pictures that give them what they want. Even the indie films that gain popularity among most movie goers...

Good Men, Good Women directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien - 10/10 Now this is my kind of Hou! The film just has so much going on with at least three plot lines, set in two different time periods, and yet one of those time periods has flashbacks within that time period, and then there's the "film within...

Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang - 10/10 I love this film even more now than when I saw it two years ago. Back then it was one of the very first silent films I had seen, and I didn't actually see the complete version, but now I feel like the film isn't just a masterpiece to me because it's...

I agree with this, and obviously it isn't just about the tools that we're using but how you use them. Even if somehow nonfilmmakers were given the budget to make a film and all of the equipment, if the equipment isn't used properly then they won't succeed in making the film. These facets aren't...

That was actually something that led me to think about this, that almost everyone has their own interpretation of the vague word "mise-en-scene" and this has a lot to do with the way the term was even invented for the cinematic medium. I do admit that I was exaggerating, the word isn't so...

True lol. @Gonzo Yeah, I kinda just felt like complaining about the fact that this pretentious French term should really just be replaced by the word "visuals" which means basically the exact same thing except it isn't tied up to a historical context that suggests certain industrial types of...

Haha, here we could start another argument but I'd rather not. I don't intend to primarily make a career out of film analysis but I respect some who do.

Yeah I think you're right haha, I actually feel like I was being very dramatic because I'm already used to looking at all of these elements more individually that now that I'm forced to step back and look at 'mise-en-scene' as opposed to analyzing its components right away, I feel weird haha...

Okay haha after reflecting on these things, now I feel more confident about what I've learned. Mise-en-scene: all visual elements to be placed in front of the frame (however, this inherently affects composition so it does end up having to be linked with cinematography). Cinematography: all...

You said: "Mise-en-scene is the effort that goes into a film before recording it." That's why I mentioned this. That is definitely arguable, and good arguments can be made on both sides. For me choreography is a form of cinematic staging, and cinematic staging is inherently visual because it...