check that, it was Middle of Nowhere I saw.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
oh boy, Tim Roth and Tom Wilkinson play George Wallace and LBJ in Selma. Get-a ready fer some Brit thespian/good ol' boy scenery CHEWIN'!
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
Oh, yeah, I'ma guess the crix awards are probably gonna be pretty much a Boyhood lovefest.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 12 November 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
Nick Davis and N@thaniel think Whiplash is assured of a Best Pic nod. Maybe. Def for Supporting Actor.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
you're talking about OSCAR NODS in DETRIUS again...
Pretty vocal minority calling bullshit on Whiplash
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
I misread the title.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
i always forget that tom wilkinson is british, he's a very convincing american
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
Every alternative to Boyhood has a pretty solid core of detractors (moreso than Boyhood, I mean). I don't think there will be a major rally on behalf of Wes Anderson this time around, but who knows. Still trying to guess which foreign actress no one has heard of LAFCA will select for their prize this year.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Agata Trzebuchowska.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
uh god is boyhood gonna win a bunch of prizes?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
as sure as Mason grows up
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, November 12, 2014 5:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― schlump, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/10/36/65/2223429/5/628x471.jpg
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:45 (nine years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511D7X3M13L.jpg
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
more doc love for Poitras
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION FEATURE FILMMAKING
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s 20,000 Days on Earth.
Steve James‘s Life Itself.
Jesse Moss’s The Overnighters.
Laura Poitras‘s Citizenfour.
Orlando von Einsiedel’s Virunga.
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION
Nick Broomfield for Tales of the Grim Sleeper.
Robert Greene for Actress.
Steve James for Life Itself.
Jesse Moss for The Overnighters.
Laura Poitras for Citizenfour.
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-cinema-eye-honors-2015-nominations
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 November 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
And more love for Roger Ebert, for that matter.
― Eric H., Thursday, 13 November 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
Just got home from seeing Actress. It's quite good. Both Robert Greene and Brandy Burre were there, talked a lot afterwards, they are pretty talkative people. Ne me Quitte Pas, which has gotten a few nominations, is worth checking out as well.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 13 November 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
so did I! Was very wary of the subject matter, and was impressed with the permission it gave you to consider that BB was a huge fucking mess/asshole much of the time. Probably my favorite doc of the year so far along with Naked Room and Fifi.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 November 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
A pretty fun moment at the Q&A when she talked about her thoughts on when she should tell her documentarian that she was having an affair...
― Frederik B, Friday, 14 November 2014 03:49 (nine years ago) link
is she using the doc as her "reel"?
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 November 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link
He, that was a good scene wasn't it? 'Oh that's the sex scene, don't think we need to see that...' I don't know if she uses it as reel, but she said it changed her life, and apparantly she is working with people in New York. Oh, she was in Listen Up Philip, which Robert Greene also edited, wonder if she thought we would know that.
― Frederik B, Friday, 14 November 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
lol of course i just missed a week of listen up philip at the afi, p sure that wasn't on the calendar a week ago
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 14 November 2014 04:46 (nine years ago) link
could see he who gets slapped with live accompaniment tho! if i had $15 to spare!
I saw them in the wrong order, i don't remember her in LUP (which i quite disliked)
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 November 2014 04:51 (nine years ago) link
oh shit, now i do. one of its worst scenes.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 November 2014 04:52 (nine years ago) link
Hong Sang-soo’s Hill of Freedom has been named the best Korean film of the year by the Korean Association of Film Critics’ Awards. “Korean-Chinese director Zhang Lu was named best director for his Gyeongju, with the best actor award going to Choi Min-sik of Roaring Currents, and Chun Woo-hee of Han Gong-ju named best actress.”
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/hill-of-freedom-wins-korean-critics-award-1201355423/
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
not holding out much hope for Imitation Game tnite, but Matthew Goode will be appearing afterward, hotcha
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
Independent Spirit Award nominations:http://variety.com/2014/film/news/birdman-tops-spirit-awards-nominations-full-list-1201364588/
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) - IMDbwww.imdb.com/title/tt3263614/
A jaded Japanese woman discovers a hidden copy of Fargo (1996) on VHS, believing it to be a treasure map indicating the location of a large case of money.
I just...
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
yeah, that came to the festival here. it looks dreadful.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Minnesotans loved it, I guess.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
BEST FEMALE LEADMarion Cotillard, The ImmigrantRinko Kikuchi, Kumiko, The Treasure HunterJulianne Moore, Still AliceJenny Slate, Obvious ChildTilda Swinton, Only Lovers Left Alive
OK, that's a pretty cool slate as far as these things go.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
wow – that's an estimable list.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
(haven't seen Kumiko or Moore though)
Obvious Child trailer made me kinda sick.
Cotillard, fine....oh hey Eric, look what's at the top of Sicinski's poll-eligible list now:
http://academichack.net/notasteforaccounting.htm
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
i just caught up w/ only lovers left alive this past weekend. i enjoyed it, though i think it ran out of a lot of steam after mia wasikowska (sp?) left. not because her character necessarily enlivened the film so much as i think it just ran out of whatever slight narrative momentum it had built up, and the visual inventiveness flagged a bit too. maybe "inventiveness" is too strong a word for jarmusch mostly running through his favored poses.
i do think the idea of ageless vampires as the ultimate hipsters is a really funny and surprisingly rich one, at least as far as ideas in jarmusch films go. the film did about as much with that as i would have hoped in the first half of the film, then it began spinning its wheels. the last sequence was pretty great, though something about the framing of the final image felt off to me.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
i really liked the visually disorienting opening shots
even more than his other films the film felt like an amused semi-autobiography. jarmusch is the ultimate hipster gadfly, carefully maintaining his cred through generational and other shifts. he probably feels a little bit like the main characters of his film by now.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
It ran out of steam for me too but it was by far the wittiest and most engaged Jarmusch I've seen in years, maybe ever. Ideal fusion of subject + form.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it's about record collectors. The damned, truly.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:44 (nine years ago) link
In the Indies' queer ghetto I prefer Test to Ira Sachs' Make Way for Old Married Gays in Sweaters.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
OK, Armond.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
it was the first decent jarmusch since parts of "ghost dog." actually i think i liked it better than anything since "mystery train," but i haven't revisited "dead man" or "night on earth" in a long long time so that's not a judgment i'd stake anything on.
ultimately i think all of films after "stranger than paradise" are basically redundant, but that doesn't mean they don't have their pleasures.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
all of HIS films, i mean
it'd be funny if i thought that "stranger than paradise" was truly the end point of cinema.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Given so much of Sic's list matches my own, and given Cotillard's participation, I'll give that one a shot.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 25 November 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius)
A facile comparison. Except for a mildly craven dream sequence, Test is first-rate; it has nothing to do with Sachs' movie except in how well it shows gay life unfolding. I would've thought Test's white San Fran dancers would irk you just as much.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) - IMDbwww.imdb.com/title/tt3263614//A jaded Japanese woman discovers a hidden copy of Fargo (1996) on VHS, believing it to be a treasure map indicating the location of a large case of money./I just...
/A jaded Japanese woman discovers a hidden copy of Fargo (1996) on VHS, believing it to be a treasure map indicating the location of a large case of money./
Idk I enjoyed it. Rinko Kikuchi is pretty wonderful.
― ambergris shmambergris (silby), Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:53 (nine years ago) link
Facile comparisons are the only ones worth making.
I gen don't have problems with gays in period pieces. I've never seen a film use its last shot in publicity/media photos as much as Test does, tho.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Gay movies in using bare pecs as promotional material shocker.
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
there were options besides a spoiler!
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
FC readers poll
http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/film-comment-readers-poll-2014
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 February 2015 09:25 (nine years ago) link
Should probably have linked here earlier. In the midst of the ILX 2014 Film Poll rollout here: People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical ILX 2014 Film Poll Thread - Voting closes Friday, Feb. 21st at Midnight EST.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Just saw Imitation Game -- terrible film saved by an inherently interesting story and decent acting. Script is awful. Putting that tagline "Sometimes the individuals you least expect...[or whatever]" in the mouths of characters THREE different times is beyond the ordinary hacky biopic garbage. Way too little time spent actually trying to convey how Engima worked and/or how they solved it. Lots of unbelievable conceits (literally the first attack they have the ability to stop just happens to be on one of the codebreakers' own brother's ship) Director had obviously seen "The Fog Of War" and tried but failed to lend gravitas with similar math/carnage overlays.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Sunday, 1 March 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
I really like Amalric's The Blue Room, esp that blase-like-a-fox magistrate.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 June 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link
I did too. As an exercise in swank economy, The Blue Room is the kind of movie hard to screw up. It’s content to stay on the surface, registering as nothing more than an adaptation of Simenon. I saw only one howler: a cut from a closeup of Esther’s vagina to Julien’s daughter.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 June 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
I'm too upset by any shot of a vagina to notice what follows.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 June 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
i've seen many movies "like" that screwed up, if we're talking erotic thrillers. Louis Malle's Damage? Terrible.
(tho phaps that was sold on the sexy more than a Simenon adap wd be)
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 June 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
Oh I love Damage. It's genuinely weird.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Sunday, 21 June 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link
"Damaghed peeeple are dahnjerou peeple. That's how we surbive."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 June 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link
Haha
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 22 June 2015 00:04 (eight years ago) link
A lovely, winsome Blythe Danner performance and Sam Elliot's sexy rumble are at the heart of I'll See You In My Dreams, a snappier than usual Hallmark Channel movie (and in the eighties James Garner would've starred).
Watched Spotlight: good, with a couple impressive moments. Not as effective as Zodiac cuz visually it's dead (Fincher would have at least shown Boston's insularity by showing how close the Globe building is to Michael Keaton's high school earlier and more gracefully).
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 November 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
oops -- wrong detrius