Roy Andersson won top Venice prize btw
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-venice-2014-golden-lion
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 September 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Yeah! And The Look of Silence (which is a Danish-Norwegian co-production) won Grand Jury Prize. Great day for Scandinavian cinema. Quite oustanding year for Scandinavian cinema, actually.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 6 September 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
nice about roy andersson, though i don't think this is his best
still, some really wonderful stuff in it.
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 6 September 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
kinda loved eden despite its obv flaws
and im seeing the hong sang-soo tonight, excited
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 6 September 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
it is weird anticipating eden as a movie about french garage music because you forget it is gonna just be 1000% ... a mia hansen-love movie. i wish she'd figured it out visually a lil more - like has that thing about digital not being very good for rendering darkness ever been truer - because her lo-key naturalism didn't fit, sometimes, but the confident parts were really moving. also, wow, pauline ettiene, swoon.
― schlump, Sunday, 7 September 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
I got Pasolini & Turner. Others I wanted to see (inherent vice, godard) were already sold out.
What day are you doing Cronenberg, dr. M?
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 8 September 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Sunday 28th matinee
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 September 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
anyone seen this? surprising given Ichikawa film's greatness
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-toronto-2014-shinya-tsukamotos-fires-on-the-plain
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 September 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
http://blogs.indiewire.com/bent/the-problem-with-the-imitation-game-20140915
Yesterday the Toronto Film Festival announced that Morten Tyldum's "The Imitation Game" won their annual People's Choice Award, and a predictable trajectory begins: Toronto will very likely get to brag that for the third year in a row (and sixth time in seven years) their audiences chose an eventual best picture Oscar nominee. It's a very safe choice to continue that tradition -- and also a very safe movie in general. Particularly compared to last year's TIFF People's Choice Award winner, which like "The Imitation Game," was a biopic of an extraordinary man who was brutally persecuted: "12 Years a Slave." Except unlike "The Imitation Game," "12 Years a Slave" was actually a brutal film to watch, and one that largely did justice to the horrors faced by its persecuted protagonist.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Monday, 15 September 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
I'm already mixing up the Turing and Hawking biopics.
(maybe bcz i find Cumberbatch and Redmayne equivalently dreary)
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 September 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
No way ... one has an odd upsidedown squash-shaped head and the other one has succulent trout-lips for days.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Monday, 15 September 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
too androgynous a trout.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 September 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
Any port in a stream.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Monday, 15 September 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
Laura Poitras to premiere her Snowden doc at NYFF (Opens NY/LA late Oct)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2014/blog/laura-poitras-citizenfour-edward-snowden-nsa-nyff-world-premiere
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
Cumby has also played Hawking in a TV movie apparently
― Simon H., Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
some tix were just released, got em for Mr. Turner!
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
nice its a goody
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
The new Film Comment has a lovely one-page interview with Spall; I didn't know he'd had leukemia in the late '90s.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
an anticipated "2015 release" is the surprise screening, any guesses?
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2014/films/nyff52-surprise-screening
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
smartguy
"festival favorite"
Hou martial arts film?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
wow, imagine. it wasn't terribly long since production wrapped, afaict; it would be a real get.
― schlump, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
Oh, shit, if that is it, that would be incredible! But it could also be new Malick.
― Frederik B, Monday, 22 September 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
ach. these all feel to cannes-y, to me; isn't it more likely to be some small glossy state-funded european thing that'll be on VOD in march? i don't know who the nyff favs are.
― schlump, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
apparently it's Noah Baumbach‘s While We’re Young
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
it was always weird that that movie wasn't playing at NYFF considering where the climax takes place
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
too obvious?
anyway i must bypass in favor of Hou-produced A Borrowed Life out in Queens, which has scarcely ever shown.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
NYFF added encore screenings for Sunday (today it was Inherent Vice which quickly sold out); that's when I'm seeing the Hong Sang-soo. Otherwise unexpectedly impressed by Ferrara, pleased with Leigh, meh on Cronenberg.
also this Rod Serling-JL Makiewicz thing is free tomorrow, have always wanted to see:
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2014/films/a-carol-for-another-christmas
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 October 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
the Hong is p splendid, maybe his best since Tale of Cinema
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 October 2014 05:34 (nine years ago) link
haven't seen tale of cinema but hill of freedom is wonderful!, yeah, just a delight. have a bunch to write about its structural tricksiness that i will try to bleat at you here tomorrow.
― schlump, Monday, 13 October 2014 06:09 (nine years ago) link
i loved it too
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 13 October 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link