Orson Welles: "You can make a wonderful film about nothing. Look at Fellini." 

i mean it's not like he wasted it playing chess or whatever

Do you know where I can watch the full interview from?

What’re the first 2 important things? The camera and the edit?

In my opinion: 3. The script/story 2. The music/sound 1. The visual/image

@@AltanirvesTeokwitlaoselotl The director is responsible for image and sound

@@feelemotionsapp The DP is responsible for the image, the sound editor and/or music composer is responsible for the sound/music. And we're talking about What makes a good movie, not Who.

@@AltanirvesTeokwitlaoselotl People make movies. And the director is responsible for everything and everyone involved. It is his vision and everything starts and ends with him.

@@feelemotionsapp Umm, no it doesn't. And people making movies doesn't change the difference between what and who.

Everyone was influenced by him.

Lynch visited Fellini in the hospital before he died; he talks about it in Room to Dream.

Nah, Lynch doesn't understand Fellini

why wouldn't he?@@peterkelnerxd7009

@@peterkelnerxd7009 Has nothing to do with being influenced by someone.

Seinfeld really does have a connection to Fellini!

Jajajajaja!

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What’re the first 2 important things? The camera and the edit?

​​@@gianni206 now nobody knows the first two things because welles didn't say, i'm frustrated....

@@user-yourselves47 image and sound

The story doesn’t so much matter as the storyteller.

And yet he told amazing stories by working with amazing scripts. I guess Psycho is 90 minutes of a shot of a house, right? Great filmmakers often give the worst advice.

Cinema Sins always sucked

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@@trinex3332 Yes it did. But you're telling me that still exists?

Whats that

​@icyjaam It warms my heart to read someone ask that. To think, they might be falling into obscurity. In the 2010s, CinemaSins was a youtube channel that created cynical and pedantic videos pointing out flaws in movies. This would range from "I see a crew member in the background of this shot" to the far less reasonable "the entire plot of this movie does not make sense because x plot detail was not explained". Trouble being that sometimes those plot details were explained, and the creator would either not have noticed or would claim otherwise just to pad out the video. Putting aside such film criticisms as "no lapdance in this scene," the channel had no love for film as a craft, nor any want to deconstruct it as a product. The humor was cheap, hollow, and low-brow. This would have been fine, if they hadn't been popular and shaped the conversation around movies for my high school friend group. Say what you will about video essay culture, at least it promotes discussion.

- ..champagne... has always been celebrated for its excellence...

MWAH... the frencsh

It's vintage, dated

"Ulala where's my wine, i need wine to sleep and my old stinky cheese"

I understood that reference

the director, his/her voice

Learn every crew member’s name

And first?

Led Zeppelin directly stole the songs, they didn't even write them

@@gabrielegagliardi3956 Go back to school.

@@jh2245I touched your heroes and now you are butthurt, led Zeppelin are for boomers, we are in2024, upgrade.

@@gabrielegagliardi3956 Lol, you're pathetic. Get some sleep, you need to get to school, badly!

​@@gabrielegagliardi3956 esagerato. Perlomeno avevano un sound nuovo,che nel rock è praticamente l'unica cosa che conta

Fear and surprise.

I'd guess that he would say directing and acting. But I disagree.

Money and money

Imagination and money

direction and meaning/depth

I was wondering the same thing

Image and music/sound. Cinema is an audiovisual art.

Sex and drugs

It's kinda the same with Seinfeld..only in a show sitcom format..

Beckett done it twee keer.

I think he is referring to his every film

That's not true. Woody Allen has twice as many Oscar nominations for writing than Fellini does.

Bogdanovich and Welles were great friends and also collaborators.

@@Fordham1969 I knew that, I just wasn't sure who that was in the rightmost part.

@@beckoning-chasm Oh ok, that's funny I took your comment a completely different way than you intended. I thought you were slyly implying that Bogdanovich didn't deserve to be in the frame with the two other giants.

@@Fordham1969 No, nothing like that at all. I just didn't know who it was. It kind of looks like Willem Dafoe but I knew it couldn't be, so I guessed. No offense taken, bro.

Not at all. I was having a conversation with someone who thought that Everything Everywhere All At Once was an "unbelievable" script. That's how I've always felt about Citizen Kane. It's disingenuous for people to only praise the look of Kane. Every aspect of that film is masterful. Perhaps the greatest cast ever put to film, and maybe the greatest screenplay. Roger Ebert put it best by saying "on the surface, it's as fun as any film ever made; its depths surpass understanding."

@@FirstPlace97 I guess i have to re-watch it. It was more then 25 years ago (in my twenties) maybe I was not mature enough

I do not disagree with your opinion! On this film . Thx .

lacks substance? it is about a man who wants everything and loses his soul trying to attain it

You must a profoundly shallow person to watch "Citizen Kane" and find no substance. That's so laughable, I hope you're joking.

Here it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jKlI8zNl_xk.html

Try looking up @ghost ramen's ass.

I think 8 1/2, which is about a director lacking of inspiration for a film (but it turns out to be a powerful work of art about the beauty of life!)

It's a great film but hardly about nothing, the story structure is the standard as are the story beats. It plays with that fact and people's expectations of a plot while toying with the idea of it being about nothing but if you watch a Felini or a Godard, you'll see the difference.

@@curiositytax9360 thanks for reminding me that I need to watch that

@@curiositytax9360 I love The Long Goodbye and I agree it's a better movie, but Lebowski ripping it off? I don't see it. Influenced by it in some ways, sure, but rip off is a bit much.

@@curiositytax9360 Yeah I see what you're saying, I'm sure it does owe its existence to it. That's how cinema is, a long trail of directors influencing and building upon each other. And PTA certainly owes a lot to Altman. Anyway, yeah, TLG is amazing, I love it to death. Glad to hear you do too. The theme plays in my head often. And I think it has actually exploded in popularity over the past few years. I noticed it on Letterboxd. I'm pretty sure it has orders of magnitude more people now that have it listed as one of their favorites than there were a few years back.

@@curiositytax9360 I like movies from that era, especially film noir, so it won't be much of an adjustment for me, but thanks for the heads up

definitely praising

Hollywood film in that particular era depends on traditional storytelling (act- act-2 act-3)..... filmmaker like jean luc godard or fellini film doesn't rely on traditional narrative....they made masterpiece about dream, imagination,satire without proper storytelling structure...

@@sameerahmed-gx8js yes...they broke the rules and made something new... very similer to what Joyce or other modernist maestros did in Literature

no one can make films like Fellini, they are milestones.

Well he did call it a 'great' film, so I would say he is praising him.

You're right but Seinfeld is not good, at all. It succeeded just because at that time there was nothing else which was interesting.

@@heric_ wrong

@@heric_ _"You're right but Seinfeld is not good, at all."_ Then why is it consistently ranked amongst the top TV shows of all? _"It succeeded just because at that time there was nothing else which was interesting."_ Then why is it still popular more than 25 years after it's been off the air?

Shocker.

@@BookClubDisaster would've been surprised to hear him sober

MUAHHHAHAHAHA the French

That's true. Even so, in my opinion, "l'état français" will always be the land of auteurs - Haneke, Noé, Denis, Sciamma, etc. I am still hopeful that French cinema will have another Renaissance.

@@antoinepetrov i believe so too, and it's true there are some genuine creative voices in spite of the constraints. As a French film school drop out I'm a bit more cynical, you'll have to forgive me for that

"Literature is not good because I only know 3 books" good to know

@@ghostramen3768 "i have no reading comprehension" fascinating

Godard was a communist

He can't hear you he's dead

He's not talking about bad scripts, he's saying that you can make a good movie based on a plot of a man staring at a window. Also, watch Drive. Bad script, great movie.

How do you know a script is bad? You can't read it! As part of the audience, you only get the "processed" part of the script: the lines are being said by an actor and the scenes are being executed by a director. And those two things can make a terrible script look like a masterpiece.

What is a bad script? Filmmaking is fluid. Unless you are Tarantino.

@ I'm not sure I'd go as far as a masterpiece since a masterpiece would need great everything to qualify, including dialogue which is an integral part to a script so it'd need to be good too.