jonathan demme!

yeah seriously.

let's watch the ending shall we?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z8NSqlaTMM

that film is a beautiful representation of the 1980s. dated in the best possible way.

I want The Feelies to play my reunion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_9Vlh1OtB8

i wonder -- is she actually hitting on him or is she playing with him since she probably knows he's not actually married to lulu?

also: love the couple in the background.

Demme has a great feel for music in general, imo. His choice of Goodbye Horses for the dancing scene in SoL was fucking genius. (Feel free to crap on my head now Morbs)

hey slocki, since i got a lot of shit from you on the rgm thread for not digging the movie, i'm curious why you think you wouldn't like it now

― da croupier, Saturday, March 17, 2012 3:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good question, i don't have a specific answer beyond 'it hasnt really stuck with me' tbh

no I like the way JD has used music, often

cept Storefront Hitchcock is Robyn on an off night

lol

always felt that Into The Night was easily the best of the urban/yuppie nightamre sub-genre. actually were After Hours, Something Wild and Into The Night the ONLY films in this sub genre? hm. well anyway i was recently amazed to see that someone else thought Into The Night was amazing too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr-CGHH6Ys0

great genre

Suddenly realizing that a good number of movies I've long intended to see were Demme's. And also that several are streaming on Netflix! Stop Making Sense and Rachel Getting Married (FUCK THA HATERS) are fantastic.

after hours is my favorite scorsese movie i think. it is good.

does naked fit into this subgenre btw?

mike leigh's?

I keep avoiding Mike Leigh's Naked, for perhaps obvious reasons.

yes

xpost

also frankenheimer's seconds is like a weird cousin to this subgenre no?

I've always loved 'Naked'. Its been a while since I rewatched it, but for me it's THE Thewlis performance. He can only ever be THAT guy to me.

I watched it again recently and it is... kind of great and kind of totally weird and maybe dated in some ways. Don't see it as part of this genre tho

Naked could be seen as the British equivalent of those movies but it's a helluva lot grimier and more disturbing. Funny too of course

Music-wise, how do people feel about Demme having Q Lazzarus change the Talking Heads to "Heaven is a place where nothing can go wrong" in Philadelphia?

gonna go out on a limb and say that the feelies and robyn hitchcock songs in truth with charlie are also a little shoehorned

truth about charlie, i mean. haven't seen the manchurian candidate remake so i can't say whether the Go4, Mission Of Burma and Jah Wobble tracks imdb lists on its soundtrack work.

Literally the only thing about Manchurian that works is casting Robyn Hitchcock as a villain.

naked doesnt fit the bill at all, it's not about a straight/yuppie/uptight dude accidentally cast into urban chaos

yeah, he really is already a part of that world. If it was about the security guard...

always felt that Into The Night was easily the best of the urban/yuppie nightamre sub-genre. actually were After Hours, Something Wild and Into The Night the ONLY films in this sub genre?

miracle mile fits the bill, i think.

outlier

desperately seeking susan, definitely.

and on the margins (different margins) are risky business and romancing the stone, etc.

but the reason why i'm here:

what do y'all think of "philadelphia"? aside from the neil young song, which is beyond criticism IMO.

Well-meaning, some good performances, but clumsy and mawkish? Also seemed like an apologia after Silence of the Lambs. (Agree that "Philadelphia"'s really nice.)

You can't buy Citizen's Band/Handle with Care on DVD--not officially, anyway. I found one place selling a bootleg. That's terrible. This would be perfect for Criterion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS7s6YkVKEI

The Truth About Charlie--which I reflexively want to call The Trouble with Charlie--was worse than I thought it'd be (was hoping for something in the neighborhood of pointless but attractive). Almost felt sorry for Thandie Newton. There is a good Silence of the Lambs joke if you can last past the awful Charles Aznavour end-credit sequence, itself a variation on something Demme did so well in Married to the Mob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB__-cQ8LzM

"Out-Of-Print Criterion LaserDisc/DVD audio commentary by Jonathan Demme (director), Jodie Foster (Clarice), Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal), Ted Tally (writer), and FBI agent John Douglas.. "

Did anyone actually see Ricki and the Flash, or was the prospect of Streep + Diabo Cody far too frightening? Only wondering 'cause the clip that Sound Opinions recently played of Streep singing "American Girl" sounded fun.

I'm not really sure about it as a whole but there's a lot to like.

RIP

wow.

I saw him at the movies with his kids a couple times.

I could never tell if his career went off the rails or if Hollywood simply made it too hard for him to work; m I thought Beloved was a stiff at the time, then he followed it with two totally unnecessary remakes. Rachel Getting Married was I guess comeback and people liked Ricki and the Flash, but it often felt like his heart was in documentaries.

aw man :(

Perfect Kiss is one of my all-time favorite music videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3XW6NLILqo

RIP

yesssssssss

and i'm pretty much not a Talking Heads fan save for Stop Making Sense

just watched Stop Making Sense when we were doing the Talking Heads roll out, watched Silence of the Lambs a couple months ago. Films hold up really well, both classics. RIP

RIP director of New Order's the Perfect Kiss video, which is sublime. xpost

sad :( i watch Rachel Getting Married at least three times a year

I can't think of another director with such a cool relationship to cool music. I mean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_9Vlh1OtB8

Soundtrack to Married to the Mob is super hip, too.

omg i didn't realize he directed that!