Terence Davies, C/D. S/D

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house of mirth had a lot of amazing stuff but i would point to it as an example of the dangers of miscasting. anderson was fine, but the rest of the cast was kind of a mess.

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 20 May 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link

i thought eric stotz was good although not exactly sheldon as i see him but anderson is not the lily bart i see either, or that anyone saw other than davis.

i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Monday, 20 May 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link

Dan Akroyd threw me out of the movie when he talked like his character in My Stepmother is an Alien.

A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 May 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link

eight months pass...

The Long Day Closes is coming out on Criterion

http://www.criterion.com/films/27984-the-long-day-closes

good to see that the 1992 episode of The South Bank Show is included in this. hopefully Distant Voices, Still Lives will be next.

piscesx, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link

FINALLY

Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link

and he very likely has 2 new films coming out in the next 2 years....

eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link

seven months pass...

excerpt from Michael Koresky's imminent book:

“Being gay has ruined my life. I hate it. I’ll go to my grave hating it.”

http://brooklynrail.org/2014/09/film/queerness-and-melancholia-an-excerpt-from-terence-davies

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 September 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link

you can watch TLDC on YouTube for those who can't wait:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w12UaW6sqI

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 September 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link

don't do it!

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 September 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link

Its his best film.

The appearance of the book explains why this is being shown at the ICA, with a Q&A too:

https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/long-day-closes-qa

xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 September 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link

signing w/ DV,SL in NY on Sept 28

http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2014/09/28/detail/distant-voices-still-lives

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 September 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link

The actress who plays the big-boned, jokey friend of the older sister in DV,SL is brilliant, yet she seems to have no other film credits.

That's Debi Jones, she's a bit of a local celeb in Liverpool, had a radio show, column for the local paper, does a bit of panto. Oh and stood as a Conservative candidate in a local election. I had a moment of cognitive dissonance when I saw her in the film.

ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 15 September 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link

wasn't she in brookie for a good while though?

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 15 September 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link

Honestly don't remember her on It? Wasn't an avid fan tbf, only watched it round my nan's, my dad wouldn't have it on in ours.

ewar woowar (or something), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link

well a quick google says i'm wrong. could have sworn...

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 00:11 (ten years ago) link

eleven months pass...

cautiously optimistic

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link

Same. He's the director whose star has fallen furthest I think. Actually it's fallen so far that it makes me wonder if the towering greatness of DV,SL (all time top 5, for me) was an accident.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link

Nah. I watched The Long Day Closes Blu-ray a few months ago and fell in love again.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link

last one was his best in awhile

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link

So was the documentary, in which that querulous voice craps on pop culture since the Beatles.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link

Yeah I've seen them both. I've seen everything.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link

makes me wonder if the towering greatness of DV,SL (all time top 5, for me) was an accident.

Bcz he followed it with The Long Day Closes its no accident, and Deep Blue Sea had its moments.

Following Deyn with Weisz is pretty exciting.

Friend of mine read that book by Lewis Grassic Gibbon earlier this year. She hasn't been doing great and I really hope to take her to this.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...

Watched this w/her and she says only one of the three Gibbon bks were filmed.

Anyway this was a disappointment. Slow-cinema over-used (especially in the switchover to WWI France sequence, but also the one in the church), Deyn stretched at some points but that face has potential. I think its equally true the film stretched the material and everybody involved.

Looked great but one for ppl who recognise all the themes - working-class life and song, the woman's lot, brutal patriarchs, and I liked Davies' re-use of these themes in a new setting.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 23:34 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

I remain apprehensive of Sunset Song, mainly cus of its regional relevance to me, I went to The Other primary school but I have slept with eh Persons from Redmyre school, which is across the main road from me, and is where the Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre is (no thread on him? For shame...) I think they filmed parts of the 70's TV version in this village, slightly before I was borned, the old dudes still talk of the dirt they laid up the High Street for it. I heard they got the accents all wrong, no Doric? Still, I will no doubt catch this eventually, on DVD or whatever. But really I'm just looking for reassuarance that this isn't a travesty, cus I love Terrence Davies, albeit from a 2 generation remove from Liverpool, which may make all the difference. But (in the absence of a LGG thread) y'all should read A Scot's Quair. That's as close as my people come to A Great Work Of Literature, and objectively I think it may be. It's like Ulysses to us, and while the ILB people (who intimidate me) might find that comparison offensive I'll throw down for that.

Jonathan Hellion Mumble, Friday, 29 January 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link

i feel pretty confident that this movie will be a travesty. davies just seems plum out of inspriation and has fallen back on the 'heritage cinema' model. none of films since 'long day closes' have had more than a fraction of the power of that or the ones before it. 'the neon bible,' which davies considers a complete failure, at least retained his unusual, striking, planimetric composition sense. 'the house of mirth' was, by contrast, just a middling --and greivously (sp?) miscast--prestige literary adaptation.

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 January 2016 22:39 (eight years ago) link

We'll have to disagree really HOM.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:32 (eight years ago) link

That's as close as my people come to A Great Work Of Literature, and objectively I think it may be. It's like Ulysses to us, and while the ILB people (who intimidate me) might find that comparison offensive I'll throw down for that.

― Jonathan Hellion Mumble

I would contend that there are a number of Scottish works that rank highly in the history of letters but of course I would.

The best Scottish comparison to Ulysses is a A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle by Hugh McDiarmid imo.

-Thread derail ends-

Absence of Doric consistent with the book in a way surely? Seem to remember Grassic-Gibbon mainly renders the dialogue in Standard English orthography. Though I may be mistaken.

Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:36 (eight years ago) link

"HOM"?

wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:51 (eight years ago) link

Autocorrect, "Re: The House of Mirth", I guess.

pastoral fantasy (jed_), Saturday, 30 January 2016 01:15 (eight years ago) link

I like the House of Mirth. think it has a few amazing moments and is v interestingly cast, fwiw.

pastoral fantasy (jed_), Saturday, 30 January 2016 01:18 (eight years ago) link

i didn't think Gillian Anderson was as miscast as a Wharton 'heroine' as Michelle Pfeiffer was in Age of Innocence... still, it didn't quite work. Deep Blue Sea is the best one since '92 imho.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 January 2016 05:06 (eight years ago) link

anderson wasn't the worst bit of casting in that film by any means. actually, i think she was fine. it was the secondary and tertiary parts that were dreadfully miscast: eric stoltz, dan aykroyd (!)... even anthony lapaglia and laura linney seemed off (i'm not a huge linney fan anyhow). i think jodhi may in her brief role probably came across most convincingly.

wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 02:53 (eight years ago) link

Selden is a callow lawyer, and Stolz is a callow actor, so

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 02:56 (eight years ago) link

didn't mind Linney; she's good at assholery (and she wasn't in it long enough to bother me). Akyroyd though stumbles out of a Carol Burnett skit.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 02:57 (eight years ago) link

hm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI5HhhpidD8

pastoral fantasy (jed_), Friday, 12 February 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link

Arguably Terence Davies’ most profoundly personal film since Of Time and the City

:-|

pastoral fantasy (jed_), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 23:56 (eight years ago) link

since the film he made two films ago.

pastoral fantasy (jed_), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link

which is terrible.

pastoral fantasy (jed_), Tuesday, 16 February 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link

I would honestly love this to be good but that clip...

And that review!

"...tableaux-like compositions (at times reminiscent of American painting)"

pastoral fantasy (jed_), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 00:12 (eight years ago) link

three months pass...

Sunset Song feels too long and foreshortened at the same time. I preferred the squalor and rural violence of the first act, although New Film Boy Crush Kevin Guthrie is adorable and believable as Chris' husband in the second.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 May 2016 13:38 (eight years ago) link

xyzzzz otm more or less

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 May 2016 13:41 (eight years ago) link

New Film Boy Crush Kevin Guthrie

hands off!

pastoral fantasy (jed_), Sunday, 29 May 2016 20:05 (eight years ago) link

old bastard has made his best film in 25 years, i think!

a pleasant antidote to US Memorial Day

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 June 2016 02:28 (eight years ago) link

pleasant in quotes, of course

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 June 2016 02:28 (eight years ago) link

did not recognize Peter Mullan as the nightmare dad (which was TD's way in to the story i suppose)

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 June 2016 02:29 (eight years ago) link

yes, especially when he sings

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 June 2016 02:40 (eight years ago) link

This is the sort of film whose annoyances may recede when recollecting the thing in tranquility in December. I have no problem with his wanting to adapt works of lit when they're this lived in; on this one he chewed on the project too long.

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 June 2016 02:42 (eight years ago) link

Disagree strongly, fastest 135 minutes in eons. Loved the use of the trad Scot songs since he couldn't use any movie clips...

omg Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson is imminent

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 June 2016 02:43 (eight years ago) link


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