btw I hafta go outta town and miss a party that the Shtetl Husband would be attending. :(
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 November 2009 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I have to think about why the usual Coen Bros misanthropy worked better in this context than any other. This is one of the best of the year.
― I yanked that sucker hard, and work it did. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 November 2009 05:39 (fourteen years ago) link
if I am on the tenure track and suffer from tenure-process-related-paranoia, should I avoid this movie? Will it aggravate my symptoms?
― twice boiled cabbage is death, Saturday, 7 November 2009 06:31 (fourteen years ago) link
hard to say
― iatee, Saturday, 7 November 2009 06:36 (fourteen years ago) link
not unless yr husband leaves you for a serious man. :)
(given the Halloween photos, I'd say unlikely)
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 November 2009 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Do you take advantage of the new freedoms?
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
this was aight. the uncle with the suction tube was so disgusting
― luol deng (am0n), Monday, 9 November 2009 07:16 (fourteen years ago) link
*sigh*
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 November 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
what r u sighing at
― luol deng (am0n), Monday, 9 November 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
times done changed
― how rad bandit (gbx), Monday, 9 November 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
the Richard Kind character enters like a walking cheapshot but he's rather heartbreaking, not "disgusting."
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 November 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
he's kind of both to be honest morbsy
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Monday, 9 November 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
every character is designed to be a huge problem for larry (do you see what happens, larry!?) but they all remained somehow warm and human, to me. trapped and blinkered and absolutely irritating, but not evil. this was way less misanthropic than burn after reading. very similar theological terrain to no country, too.
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
"a walking cheapshot" against who?
the infirm
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Monday, 9 November 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
the loud suctioning of fluid from his neck late at night was far from heartbreaking
― luol deng (am0n), Monday, 9 November 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
"heartbreaking"
"scarequoting"
― luol deng (am0n), Monday, 9 November 2009 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Some of the weakest sequences here are, predictably, pot-related
Pot mitzvah made me laugh.
― cough syrup in coke cans (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
And I literally forgot there was such a thing as Red Owl. I think I saw a few in Bloomington as they were dying off.
― cough syrup in coke cans (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
used to live a few blocks away from one that is now a kowalskis
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
my friend pointed out the use of some "stoner-cam" in this movie which i hadnt really remembered but sort of denigrates in my eyes, in retrospect
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Loved this. I don't think I've ever seen a film that so effectively captured American synagogues - the detail was just incredible. And the stoned bar mitzvah was amazing - it really captures what a bar mitzvah FEELS like - you get shoved up onto stage, a metal pointer gets pushed into your hand, and a few minutes later you're uncomfortably parading past all of these old, wrinkled faces that you have no idea how to react to and a strange sense of being judged in a way you don't understand.
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Sunday, 15 November 2009 04:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I also liked the almost zen parable feeling of the goy's teeth scene - though the person I was with took it as critical of rabbis, it actually reminded me of all the things I like about the Jewish tradition - the kind of shrugging, comic unknowingness of it.
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think it was full on "stoner cam," just an extremely shallow depth of field.
― cough syrup in coke cans (Eric H.), Sunday, 15 November 2009 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I heard some behind-the-scenes stories from the Sht3tl Husb4nd on Thursday night! Nothing scandalous, obv he was thrilled w/ the role.
Also, a friend tested for the Coens for the Richard Kind part!
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 November 2009 07:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought the megaracist next door was a little silly, and I had a few other minor quibbles, but otherwise I liked this quite a bit.
― windy = white, carl = black (polyphonic), Sunday, 15 November 2009 09:10 (fourteen years ago) link
that neighbor was great tho. "is this guy bothering you?"
― luol deng (am0n), Sunday, 15 November 2009 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I realized after the film that the neighbor WASN'T actually a megaracist. He had a realistic degree of xenophobia, but the more horrific elements were just in Gopnik's mind (the jew-hunting dream, etc.). I think this ties in to the "perception" theme.
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Sunday, 15 November 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
they really didnt get each other
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 15 November 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Lousy limited release in the UK for this - only 27 screens nationwide by the look of it, despite five star reviews from nearly all quarters. Means a drive over to the other side of town for me, or a trip to the (rubbish) arthouse cinema. Broken Britain indeed.
― Bill A, Friday, 20 November 2009 10:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Going tonight...
― viagra falls (suzy), Friday, 20 November 2009 10:33 (fourteen years ago) link
OK so I was totally verklempt. I don't want to spoil it for anyone but remembering the to-and-fro about the goyim neighbours, they may not have been friendly 24/7 but they did challenge the cops who came to hassle the Gopniks - and in one tiny scene you get my town, in a nutshell.
― viagra falls (suzy), Saturday, 21 November 2009 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
last scene so good
― "I get through more mojitos.." (bear, bear, bear), Saturday, 21 November 2009 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
School friend who went to film with me lived next door to the Meshbeshers, so we were in LOL heaven. Many of our town's stories end with a bill from that lawyer.
― viagra falls (suzy), Saturday, 21 November 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
haven't seen but black comedy by coens bros. zzzz
― moullet, Saturday, 21 November 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ morbius acolyte?
― 311 is a joek (s1ocki), Saturday, 21 November 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
it may be a black comedy, but it's about as far removed from Big Lebowski as I can imagine
― Xiffy Pup (Eric H.), Saturday, 21 November 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ slocki - hoping to get to see this tomorrow, if the one decent screen round here has tickets.
― Bill A, Sunday, 22 November 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ssshhh u guys moullet is sleeping, all tuckered out from not watching the movie
― luol deng (am0n), Sunday, 22 November 2009 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
uh, I like SEVERAL black comedies by the Coens including this one. And dislike others.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 November 2009 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
thought this was pretty great. that ella taylor article was O_o
― ice cr?m hand job (deej), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 07:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I think this might have held a lot more resonance for me had I been Jewish, but I loved how the youngest rabbi turned out to be the least inept of all of them.
I do think I totally missed the significance of the opening scene though. Very funny throughout though.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 09:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Matt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk
― The BFD (suzy), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 09:46 (fourteen years ago) link
still need to see this---my friend hated it but couldn't articulate why
― crazy farting throwback jersey (gbx), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
The friend who I saw it with hated it too - he said 'I feel like I've seen that shit a thousand times before', which I don't really understand, said it was boring with which I don't agree at all, and took issue with the ending, which I can comprehend at least. I think he was in a bad mood. I enjoyed it quite a lot, found it very immersive in fact.
― Communi-Bear Silo State (chap), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
aside from the usual slapstick nihilism of recent coen, i didn't really get much out of this beside trying to show up sam mendes and all those other goys who specialize in suburban hell movies. ella taylor's article was over the top, but I definitely felt a little queasy with the film's wallowing, though my jewish future-father-in-law from michigan was very "finally, a movie for me" about it.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
lol mendes is half-jewish apparently
― da croupier, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
this is not remotely nihilist.
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
like you'd notice
― da croupier, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link