A Dangerous Method -- David Cronenberg/Viggo Mortensen's latest

seeing this on Tuesday

lol @ calling ADM a "foreign" film

its about foreigners

the artist from what i hear is basically kinda like good-natured semi-parody of silent films in a way, like the oss films are of spy thrillers? problem w/films that are "not bad" or "pretty good" getting huge critical acclaim is that then people feel the need to overcorrect and call them crimes against cinema or w/e, when if they'd just remained under the radar they wouldn't catch the vitriol w/o a doubt.

iMdB (which goes by where the production companies are based):

Country: UK | Germany | Canada | Switzerland

xxp

The Artist isn't even entertaining at a basic level. I kept watching and thinking, "When's this thing gonna start?"

"from what I hear"

the Ten Worst guy genuinely loathed The Artist before all the awards hoopla took off. Once in awhile you might believe people mean what they say, CYNICS.

financed entirely outside of the US = foreign for Hollywood's purposes

reminds me that the oscars, etc. really aren't about film, but about hollywood's perception of film

i probably shouldn't pass judgment on something b4 i see it, tru : /

financed entirely outside of the US = foreign for Hollywood's purposes

so Woody Allen makes foreign films now?

sort of! One of the production companies listed for Midnight in Paris are basically "his," it is US-based. All the others seem to be Spanish.

Gravier Productions
Mediapro
Pontchartrain Productions
Televisió de Catalunya (TV3)
Versátil Cinema

Sony distributes him only.

i probably shouldn't pass judgment on something b4 i see it, tru : /

― omar little, Friday, February 10, 2012 12:08 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and yet you're totally correct...

its hard to say with just financing tho, esp when so many movies are criss-crossing intl copros these days

then again, midnight in paris isnt even set in the US, so you may have a point

The Artist isn't even entertaining at a basic level. I kept watching and thinking, "When's this thing gonna start?"

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 10, 2012 12:02 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you hate delightful dogs

when youve seen them do the exact same stuff in entertaining comedies from the '20s and '30s, maybe.

Jung shd've had a cute dog, that wd've produced "buzz."

The Artist is one dog that's not delightful.

i do concur that ADM would have benefited from canine sidekicks for all three main characters

The Artist is one dog that's not delightful.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 10, 2012 12:23 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oof.

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn72/sampatchley/itstinks.gif

Hahaha

The Artist is one dog that's not delightful.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, February 10, 2012 12:23 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oof.

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Friday, February 10, 2012 12:24 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

I think you mean woof.

that dog won't hunt

really enjoyed ADM and didn't find it biopic-ey at all btw! loved the pacing here and the same goes for just about all of cronenberg's movies. they always seem to have a natural, gradual build and generally don't overstay their welcome.

re: his movies being concise or at least not rambling, according to Christopher Hampton, Croney likes his scripts to be exactly 97 pages long, without exception. (Hampton's last draft was something like 115, till Cronenberg got his hands on it, and got it down to...97.)

Frankly, what was happening btwn Freud and Jung was not going to change in America. Nothing to see there.

re: the 97 thing
lol Cronenberg the 5 percenter

cronenberg otm

97 page thing is hilarious

CW is a minute of film per page

wish more directors followed that rule

Cronenberg himself hasn't written an original script in age.

*ages

i want to live at the Jung's house

Jungs'

you'd end up a freudned jungster.

not at the same time as them obviously. I'd keep the boat though

peter sarsgaard was so hot in this

wait what

I missed him!

i'm pretty sure he wasn't in it

yeah he wasn't

following up from the screenplay thing - for the curious, recent Cronenberg runtimes:

ADM: 94
Eastern Promises: 100
History of Violence: 96
Spider: 98
eXistenZ: 97
Crash: 100/90 (depending on the cut)

also liked how sabina was the only character who wasn't reprehensible, the the movie didn't ask you to condone the boys' behavior, but you could empathize with them because shit is complicated

xp oh god i meant uhhh fassbender

he just couldn't cut a minute of that bathhouse fight

Mrs. Jung wasn't reprehensible. She wasn't much anything though (except v. pretty)

Yeah. She was very much in the Edith Wharton-Joseph Roth vein.

I see from imdb she's also playing the wife in Cosmopolis

dudes "foreign film" is code for "foreign language" film. that's why you don't see british heritage films in the foreign section at video stores.

as for the artist, it does kind of scuttle this classification scheme. which is probably one reason the weinstein's figured they could market it heavily -- it doesn't really present itself as "foreign" in the same was as even "girl w/ dragon tattoo" or whatever.