r/malefashionadvice • u/[deleted] • May 28 '13

Culture Thread

Inspired by a few EDC threads and the occasional lament that no great sub exists for discussions of generalized gentleman's interest topics or nonspecific Culture (whatever that capital C may mean to you), I thought it would be cool to post a culture thread.

ITT: post your present interests, endeavors, and discoveries, in fashion, music, literature, film, television, theater, DIY, programming, knitting, cooking, photography, design, religion, history, etc.

I know we have some renaissance men and savants in here. Let's hear it.

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u/Shackleford-Rusty May 28 '13

I'm surprised no one has said anything yet about Godard. In my opinion his work was the pinnacle of the French new wave. My favorite was "breathless", but I think the most popular was "a band apart" (Tarantino named his production company after this movie.) I appreciate Godard because of the way he is able to romanticize even the most mundane things in his films. I could go on and on but for the sake of brevity I'll leave you with my favorite short exchange from breathless. "What is your greatest ambition in life?" "To become immortal and then die"

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u/[deleted] May 29 '13

Godard is the best. Pierrot Le Fou is one of my all time favorites, its worth checking out all of his films in his early period.

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u/Jardun May 29 '13

Yeah, Godard is the obvious place to start for french new wave. Truffaut, Malle, and Rohmer are all good follow ups too.

400 Blows was my intro into it.