said it before, say it again, DID is probably the most convincingly surreal American drama (as opposed to Lynchian horror) I've ever seen in my goddamned life
― veneer timber (imago), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
You say surreal drama, I say failed comedy
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 01:40 (ten years ago) link
Absolutely adored DID. A rare example of a movie that got better and better and better the more it went on, to the extent where I'm obsessing over it now. I see very few films that create and sustain their own reality like this - I would even describe it as one of the few genuinely surrealistic American films of recent years. A gentler, more polite, more naively prone to snobbery yes perhaps but more compassionate reality, where the impossibility of all the characters - the nobly dumb fratboys, the perpetually self-possessed (even in despair) damsels, especially Violet, whose brazen, luminous impossibility is allowed to tear through the fabric of our given reality by that glorious ending. So yes - a film with no obligation to fulfil any logic but its own.
― imago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:26 (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― veneer timber (imago), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 01:42 (ten years ago) link
it's a Bunuel college flick y'all
― veneer timber (imago), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
ok ok I'll watch it againreally different flavour than the realistic Frances Ha, though, which seems to be aimed at eliciting "I know, right"s out of creatives who've lived/worked in that city
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link
Damsels bizarre idea of comedy reminded me of Andie MacDowell in Hudson Hawk
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, November 18, 2013 8:34 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
Damsels rules so hard. I can see it not being to every taste though. You must have a high tolerance for silliness. I totally agree with it being one of the few films of recent memory that fully inhabits its own dream-like logic (Tree of Life is another).
― o. nate, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:47 (ten years ago) link
Plus it has Adam Brody saying he would be gay if only gay people were still like Oscar Wilde.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
Liked this a lot. Thought that the b/w actually helped as her life feels more and more uninhabited. Loved how the movie was broken up into just sets of addresses - could really relate to that.
Paris trip sequence terrific.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 2 December 2013 07:50 (ten years ago) link
This was astonishingly bad
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:03 (ten years ago) link
Just a warning to ppl out there who haven't seen the movie and read this thread
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:05 (ten years ago) link
This was astonishingly bad― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:03 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:03 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Gotta take it slow in your fast ride (calstars), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:34 (ten years ago) link
I was so in love with her roommate I didn't notice her.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:35 (ten years ago) link
Alumni party scene shot Vassar alumni house
― Gotta take it slow in your fast ride (calstars), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:42 (ten years ago) link
Shot at
― Gotta take it slow in your fast ride (calstars), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:43 (ten years ago) link
I thought this was much more enjoyable than it had any right to be. Definitely better than Greenberg.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 04:01 (ten years ago) link
i liked greenberg, even if it was a little too typically indie. i preferred squid and the whale. found frances ha affecting just for the life crisis/career crisis stuff, and felt empathic towards greta gerwig's character (but only after that dinner table scene, up to then, she was unbearably smug), but i also mostly just hate her (didnt mind her in damsels though, just because there i think she actually moved past her default mode a bit), and couldnt get past my hatred for how flat and 1D she is as an actress. i dont mind quirky, but shes just much too knowing. can she actually even act? her whole thing in so many films ive seen with her seems to be about how we are in on the act of her trying to act, like 'look at me acting!' good things about this film - its like an old 70s/80s new york film - the guys look like theyre from an old jim jarmusch movie. funny how we dont see actors (italian/european/'ethnic-white') who look like that anymore. but when will directors realise that making your film in black and white (esp DIGITAL B&W) does not instantly give your film profundity or depth.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 12:00 (ten years ago) link
"Squid and the Whale" remains the best Baumbach film by miles and miles.
― o. nate, Thursday, 12 December 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
OTM but Frances Ha would probably be No. 2 for me.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 12 December 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
Ditto. I watched K&S again a few months ago and could barely finish it.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 December 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
Squid and the Whale really is a great movie and seems way beyond his other work.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 December 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
I realize there's another thread for it, but am I missing out by not seeing Margot At The Wedding?
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
Margot is the only film of his I haven't liked.
― Noblesse J. Blige (jaymc), Thursday, 12 December 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
It's not bad but it made me feel pretty shitty. Maybe partially because I saw it at a matinee in an affluent suburb and it was me and about 10 senior citizens.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
It's awesome
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:16 (ten years ago) link
Margot was how I discovered Karen Dalton's "Something on Your Mind," and that would have been enough for me right there. There were other things I liked too--the kid's performance is one thing that comes to mind. Didn't affect me as much as The Squid and the Whale, though.
― clemenza, Friday, 13 December 2013 00:48 (ten years ago) link
I have this half-baked theory about Baumbach films that the divorce-damaged kids in Squid and the Whale are sympathetic because they're kids, but that Baumbach's other characters tend to be like kids from the same experience and milieu who are older but never really grew up, and they stop being as sympathetic.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, 13 December 2013 01:00 (ten years ago) link
Margot was how I discovered Karen Dalton's "Something on Your Mind,
Let Me Make You A Cool Mixtape direction
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Friday, 13 December 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
Well...throw in Kenneth Anger and the guy who made Mean Streets and Who's That Knocking at My Door, too.
― clemenza, Friday, 13 December 2013 02:53 (ten years ago) link
I think he's an indie "it" guy but this movie is the only place i can think of where he was dreamy. On Girls his character can be pretty dark at times, and is always a little "off" and not in a cute way.
― Treeship, Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:38 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
way late on this, but false^
also GG looks like nellie mckay
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Saturday, 14 December 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
gg got a gg nom
― jaymc, Sunday, 15 December 2013 08:10 (ten years ago) link
I'm sort of agnostic about Baumbach - his movies get really close to something I like/appreciate/get something out of, and I can't tell if that's ironically what makes them good or what makes them, you know, fall short - but his pile of glass gag in "Kicking and Screaming" is one of my all time favorite jokes.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 December 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Wasn't a dedicated Gerwig thread, so.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/greta-gerwig-star-cbs-how-679633
― Simon H., Wednesday, 12 February 2014 03:06 (ten years ago) link
ok i am gonna call that 'how i met greta gerwig' from now on, i don't care if that doesn't make sense
― j., Wednesday, 12 February 2014 03:10 (ten years ago) link
this movie sucked 1 butt
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 04:23 (ten years ago) link
Pretty, but aggravating. Something like the cinematic equivalent of what its prettiest (yet sill aggravating) character might call "undateable."
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Friday, 28 February 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
fantastic movie! i'm amazed this thread hasn't been revived for a year.
anyway check this if you liked the film, and avoid it like the plague if you didn't. Gerwig goes through *all 42* takes of the 28 seconds-long 'scene in the bathroom' (which she co-wrote) making notes on each one. in the end Baumbach went back and used 'Take 29' anyway, having made his actors go through a full hour of unnecessary re-takes. i don't think i've read a piece like it before, ever.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/magazine/one-scene-42-takes-and-2-hours-in-a-bathroom-stall.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
― piscesx, Saturday, 7 February 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
trailer for the new one seems really whit stillman (like, more so than usual) - quite excited
― gawker's psychotic monkeys (imago), Monday, 27 July 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
he doesn't sit about that lad.
― piscesx, Monday, 27 July 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
we can start a nu thread
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 July 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=TL-B8SdE6D0
god, this is stilted - I don't expect better of Gerwig, but Baumbach feels like he's regressing the more contact he has with mumblecore people
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 27 July 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
frances ha > while we're young > mistress america is a v good run of movies imo fyi
― johnny crunch, Monday, 31 August 2015 23:34 (eight years ago) link
baumbach is the closest thing to rohmer that currently exists and roughly no one presently cares but whatever i guess
― johnny crunch, Monday, 31 August 2015 23:36 (eight years ago) link
deserves its own thread
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 August 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
Clearly Hong Sang Soo is the modern Rohmer. And I care a lot about that being acknowledged!
― Frederik B, Monday, 31 August 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
NB not really anywhere close to ER
and yeah you ppl have to get less fucking lazy about starting threads
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 04:01 (eight years ago) link
what about greenberg
― nose, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 04:05 (eight years ago) link
noah baumbach is the closest thing to 2004 - 2007 woody allen that currently exists, kinda like late woody allen only with less visual finesse. frederik one trillion percent otm.
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 05:12 (eight years ago) link
noah baumbach is the closest thing to 2004 - 2007 woody allen that currently exists,
no need to be insulting
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 10:59 (eight years ago) link
I liked this movie. Baumbach and Gerwig push whimsy so far out that it's in danger of just drifting away yet it never does. Some of the best dialogue I've heard in an American movie too.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 September 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link