How has Dogma 95 affected American film?

[lissener]

@tagos

Not at all I hope. All About Love has got to be one of the worst films of all time. Ninety seven hours (subjective time) of pointless, plotless, stupidity.

And this “Not al all” is in response to which of the 19 posts above it?

[elfkin477]

@VCO3

The American director Harmony Korine’s Julien Donkey Boy was a certified Dogme 95 film (Dogme #6). It was the first non-European Dogme film.

Not to be a thread-pooper, but have you seen a Dogme film? It’s kind of hilarious to insinuate that something like Sideways is in any way similar to one in any way. Go watch “The Idiots,” “The Celebration,” and “Julien Donkey Boy.” Different universes, man.

Heh. My first thought upon reading the thread title was “Is it okay if we said it hasn’t?” I didn’t like Sideways or Ghostworld either, but I’d love to see parallels drawn between them and Julien Donkey Boy.

Dogme is an ambitious idea, but all the rules make it into the cinimatic equivilent of a sestina.

[tagos]

@lissener

And this “Not al all” is in response to which of the 19 posts above it?

Do you want to try for - ‘the thread title question’?

[MrDibble]

I think the fact that all the Dogme films I’ve heard of include “confessions” about how they broke the rules say more to me about the manifesto than the rules themselves. *Has *there ever been a pure (no rule-breaking) Dogme film?