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Eh, I'll be a defender of The Birth Of A Nation. I gave it a 6/10 because of its racist content, however, I think that it wasn't just the fact that the film's techniques were new, they are just applied really well, and I'd say that the film has some very beautiful shots and for me it was...

I Graduated, But... directed by Yasujiro Ozu - 7/10 A very entertaining surviving fragment of a lost Ozu film, it is really good and I think it possibly could have been a masterpiece as it has great cinematography and an interesting simple story. A Straightforward Boy directed by Yasujiro Ozu -...

I didn't mean the music, I meant the names, a lot of my friends don't know him by name even though they know the Funeral March. In any case, I don't know anyone that doesn't know Charlie Chaplin or Mickey Mouse, both products of cinema. And yeah, if we get picky about language we should just...

Well for me it's simple, if I like the film then I'll praise it and say it's good, great, or a masterpiece according to how much I liked it (and if I have reasons to back it up). I like Citizen Kane a lot more than I like Slumdog Millionaire and Forrest Gump, the brilliant images, the emotion...

Thanks, yeah I have to get more into anime. I know Miyazaki, Takahata, Kon, Mamoru Hosoda, the Akira film, and now Makoto Shinkai but there is so much from anime! I saw a few episodes of Paranoia Agent and I loved them, I just didn't finish watching it because I got kinda busy at the time, but...

Okay you make many good points, and I'll concede that yes the older art forms are more popular than cinema, but all I was saying was that classic cinema will survive for niche audiences in a similar manner as these other older art forms have survived. I never talked about the niche audiences...

Ani*Kuri15 directed by various anime directors - 6/10 This is a short that's roughly fifteen minutes as it includes fifteen different anime shorts by fifteen of the most prominent anime directors (it also has an intro and a concluding video), each short is one minute long. There is nothing...

Well when I said preserved, I didn't literally mean individual aficionados nor did I mean literal preservation, part of "preserving" a work to me is to show how the work is continually relevant (this is done by critics, lovers of the medium, and artists, all of whom I'd categorize as...

Paprika directed by Satoshi Kon - 9/10 I finally finished watching Satoshi Kon's filmography (of feature films) and I have to say this one left me very confused. On one hand, it is one of the greatest sensory experiences I've had with any feature film, but on the other, I didn't feel like I...

Yeah but the thing is that when most of us say "film" we are referring to a motion picture or a movie, not necessarily film stock. I think that motion pictures will live on among cinephiles and critics, but they will play a lesser role within popular culture and mainstream entertainment than...

Oh yeah, I'm definitely aware of some interesting things happening in the video game medium, I just think that it will grow even more and become more significant (I mean film was always art but it wasn't until many years later until we had auteurist critics show how artistic commercial cinema...

Game Of Death directed by Robert Clouse, Bruce Lee (uncredited), and Sammo Hung (uncredited) - 2/10 This is easily the worst martial arts film I've ever seen and one of the worst films in general I've seen in my life. The only good parts are the 15 or so minutes of Bruce Lee fighting. I never...

Tokyo Godfathers directed by Satoshi Kon - 9/10 Leave it to Satoshi Kon to make a really crazy Christmas film with quirky characters, a crazy plot filled with twists, and an incredible visual/editing/narrative style that leaves behind most popular postmodern directors. I've always praised Kon as...

I know what you mean, I'm just saying that either way they are both completely different experiences, and I think I would still prefer watching cinema to more interactive forms of media (just as I prefer films to video games).

Yes I would, and even though I'm not a huge fan of The Birth Of A Nation, I still think I'd prefer it to an interactive Star Trek style game. I think that cinema as an art form will continue to live but it won't be the dominant medium of this century (already I don't think it's the dominant...

The Story Of A Discharged Prisoner directed by Patrick Lung Kong - 8/10 This is the film that inspired John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (which is a loose remake of this film) and was one of Lung Kong's many achievements in Cantonese cinema. Today the film holds up as an entertaining socially...

Island Of Fire directed by Chu Yen-ping - 6/10 This is a decent martial arts comedy film starring Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, and Andy Lau. It has the typical episodic narrative structure of most Hong Kong films and it mixes broad comedy with martial arts to appeal to its...

First Blood directed by Ted Kotcheff; starring Sylvester Stallone - 8/10 As awful as many of his films are, I'll always defend the early work of Sylvester Stallone. The first film in the Rambo series actually isn't a mindless action film, it's a great action-thriller with psychological elements...

The Moon Has Risen directed by Kinuyo Tanaka; written by Yasujiro Ozu - 6/10 This is an interesting family drama that very few people know about. I was hoping it would be a little bit better but it doesn't reach its potential. The film has three sisters that all get involved in relationships...

St. Elmo's Fire directed by Joel Schumacher - 4/10 This is one of the worst of the 80's coming of age films, which really gives this film no excuse because I feel like the 80's was a good decade for this kind of film. The film gives us characters and situations that can potentially be...