Cool. I once came across a Top 10 favourite movies according to Stanley Kubrick and William Wellman's Roxie Hart was on there, which is hilarious...

a wonderful recent documentary on Tonino Guerra

Have you seen Tiny Furniture yet dreww? I'm just curious on it cuz Lena Dunham, whose work I havent seen yet I think, is probably the most hated person right now in cinephilia.

No I haven't but I plan to get around to it eventually. I've watched most of Girls and liked it. Not exceptionally brilliant or anything, not doing anything new, basically keeping all the worst things about mumblecore (20-something self-involved aimlessness) and getting rid of everything that's interesting about the best of it (close attention to gesture and the nuances behavior) and replacing it with fairly standard classical storytelling. Most of the criticisms I've read of Girls (it takes place in Brooklyn but there are no major black characters so it's racist) are dumb, and most of the criticisms of Tiny Furniture (she is privileged, uses unflattering shots of herself to be faux-"realistic", just because you can make a movie doesn't mean you should) sound superficial to me.

Waith what? I never heard of her until you said this. I saw her act in Mildred Pierce, which was not anything spectacular but I've seen far worse than this.
Why is he so hated?

The movies she's actually directed.

They're supposed to be terrible according to the cinephile crowd, you mean? Why does the cinephile crowd give a shit about her films? I just ask because I never heard of her among my irl movie dawgs.

Well some cinephiles like her work, otherwise there wouldn't be a problem. This is all basically because Tiny Furniture got a Criterion release and a lot of Criterion nerds like to bash cheaply made movies by twentysomething hipsters.

I recently went through a couple of "greatest film" lists and came up with this. These are the only films that appeared on every list I checked (unfortunately I did not keep track of where I went, probably should have done that, but I know I used DDD, RYM, Weshootfilms or something like that, Empire, and IMDB) and their average position on the lists. Anyway...

1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather II
3. Seven Samurai
4. Citizen Kane
5. Apocalypse Now
6. Casablanca
7. Once Upon a Time in the West
8. Psycho
9. Taxi Driver
10. Vertigo
11. 2001: A Space Odyssey
12. Sunset Boulevard
13. A Clockwork Orange
14. Raging Bull
15. Chinatown
16. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
17. North by Northwest

This is probably against the rules, but does anybody here know any good sites where I can torrent older films? Lately I've found that it's mostly new releases that have the most seeds/leeches, and then after a few months, nada. Basically I'm wondering is this true for all of the net or are there torrent sites out there dedicated specifically to older films and if so, perhaps one of you could PM me the link?

What if you just google the name of the film you're looking for and add "torrent" to the search query?

I do that with "rapidshare" whenever I can't find what I'm looking for on warez-bb. Nowadays RS links get removed very rapidly and less and less films get uploaded to it, so I'm starting to use torrents again. Unfortunately it is a private community and I don't have a good enough U/D ratio to invite anyone...

I don't bother with direct downloads from Rapidshare and the like because they're usually split into various parts. And I have Googled a film I'm looking for and added "torrents" to the end, but usually it's a torrent with hardly any seeds.

pirate bay normally works for me

http://torrentz.eu/ does a search of all the major public torrent sites I know of. Obviously there's also Karagarga but you have to have an invite and I don't have one.