/film/ - Film

hard to say really, i can only speak to my own biases.
i used to prefer the 60s and 70s, but currently my favorite period is probably the 40s. maybe i've just gotten more cynical, which often comes up in the postwar era.
historians who watch loads of films seem to prefer even earlier. i know one guy who says the nickelodeon era is his favorite, which seems crazy…but i admittedly haven't seen much of anything from that period.

>>2771
Your friend sounds kinda nuts, but I'd be interested in hearing why he prefers the 1900's era.
I tend to find pre 60's movies (especially Hollywood ones) a lot more formulaic, given the heavy censorship and restrictions of the time. I'm sure my mind will change over that sooner or later though. Disregarding the classics, I haven't really watched a lot of 40's movies.

>>2766
I don't think I will ever understand that Parajanov hype.

>>2777
heh, it's actually someone with a film podcast
i don't know if he likes the extreme raw aspect of very early stuff, or he's gotten bored with "normal" cinema so much that he needs to go off the wayside to maintain a sense of novelty.
perhaps like me he has a sort of nostalgia for an unknown (and slightly imaginary) past that comes out of watching the films of a particular era.

The 60's really were a period of transformative change for cinema. Studio excess began to collapse under it's own weight. Cameras became smaller and cheaper, giving rise to independent and documentary filmmaking. The Hayes Code finally bit the dust, allowing for more honesty on screen. Culturally, just look how things like rock music evolved from 1960 to 1970. Throw in all the political chaos of the 1960's and it's truly a remarkable decade.