jonathan demme!

am: no, and by your personal definition that seemingly applies only to me instead of the other one-line "trolls" on this goddamn shithole of a "community," yes.

please leave, then.

i dug rachel getting married but i dont know if i would if i re-screened it.

however i think rachel getting married to the mob would be a pretty amazing movie.

think about it.

i dug rachel getting married but i dont know if i would if i re-screened it.

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Saturday, March 17, 2012 10:58 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

picturing you in a roger ebert-like basement screening room with big plush seating and a 35mm projector. "roll film, please!"

"roll film, mother!"

i dug rachel getting married but i dont know if i would if i re-screened it

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Saturday, March 17, 2012 10:58 AM

wow, dr morbs, your littl thread-bombs are transcendently irritating. would you ever care to actually explain, the first time out, any of your devastating contraventions of conventional wisdom? or is trolling just, you know, your thing?

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 17 March 2012 15:11 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this movie

― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:12 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

formerly known as lol this guy

― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:26 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this guy

― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Sunday, 15 November 2009 03:15 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this guy

― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Saturday, November 14, 2009 9:15 PM

like i said

― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Thursday, 31 December 2009 19:49 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this guy

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 22 October 2011 00:10 (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amplify?

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 October 2011 00:28 (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he made Storefront Hitchcock so he'll always be alright by me. Plus he was super nice the one time I met him.

!

Are we still talking about Morbs

Haven't met Morbs. And I doubt his Storefront Hitchcock would be about Robyn.

hey did anybody see the pilot of that Patrick Wilson "Doctor Who Sees Ghosts" show that Demme directed? Rough, clumsy stuff.

lol this movie

― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:12 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

formerly known as lol this guy

― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:26 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this guy

― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Sunday, 15 November 2009 03:15 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this guy

― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Saturday, November 14, 2009 9:15 PM

like i said

― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Thursday, 31 December 2009 19:49 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this guy

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 22 October 2011 00:10 (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amplify?

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 October 2011 00:28 (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, March 17, 2012 3:01 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://i.imgur.com/xnbty.gif

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

I've gotten some blowback on recommending Something Wild to people lately. Even if people admit the movie does more with the manic pixie dream girl archetype than most, they're still not glad they saw a movie where Melanie Griffith is a manic pixie dream girl.

I love Something Wild. Mr Veg made me watch it a fews ago, I love how it turns into a whole other movie

*a few years*

yeah i had be like "no, no, there's a tonal shift! just wait!" around the hotel scene

yeah I was NOT excited about it at all at first, lol

Difference is Griffith actually feels like a genuinely nutty and endearing character, not the random assemblage of indie quirks that made up later iterations of the form. She's more of a screwball heroine than anything

^^^

I think people are skeptical because Melanie Griffith has basically become a manic aging pixie.

Working Girl and Something Wild are maybe the only 2 movies I've really enjoyed her in, where I haven't wanted to stab myself in the eye.

She's amazing here. Demme gives her a closeup after Charlie unwittingly reveals how much she means to him that's devastating.

wow, dr morbs, your littl thread-bombs are transcendently irritating. would you ever care to actually explain, the first time out, any of your devastating contraventions of conventional wisdom? or is trolling just, you know, your thing?

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 17 March 2012 15:11 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this movie

― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:12 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

formerly known as lol this guy

― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:26 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this guy

― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Sunday, 15 November 2009 03:15 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this guy

― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Saturday, November 14, 2009 9:15 PM

like i said

― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Thursday, 31 December 2009 19:49 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this guy

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 22 October 2011 00:10 (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amplify?

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 October 2011 00:28 (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, March 17, 2012 2:01 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this guy

Difference is Griffith actually feels like a genuinely nutty and endearing character, not the random assemblage of indie quirks that made up later iterations of the form. She's more of a screwball heroine than anything

― Number None, Saturday, March 17, 2012 2:49 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, March 17, 2012 2:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

btw SW has my favorite use of music -- as commentary, found objects, counterpoint -- in a movie ever.

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

Is it just me, or is their version of "Fame" in this supposed to be cringingly bad?

They cue to The Feelies own music right about the time Liotta enters the picture. Seems like the lighting gets a little dimmer then too.

I love those little bicentennial top hats they wear at the reunion.

In addition to Blue Velvet, another movie of the same era that I have always compared it to is Betty Blue, which had a similar "first half-madcap, second half-dark" vibe.

Hey, fancy new edition of Married to the Mob incoming

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage-partner-labels/products/married-to-the-mob-fun-city-editions

I finally saw Something Wild and loved it. I had always mixed this movie up with Wild at Heart (which I haven't seen either) until recently. The casting is superb - roles each of the three main actors seem born to play. I saw Melanie Griffith in an episode of Miami Vice a few months back and she was terrible, but here her awkwardness works for a character that is also acting by putting up a tough exterior. The dual reveals that Audrey and Charlie have been lying to each other and the tonal shift were really well done to me. Something about the movies' (and Melanie Griffith's) early energy prepares you for it.

Ray Liotta is so gorgeous and scary.

As a hardcore Lynch fan, I have to say that Something Wild >>>>>>>>>>>> Wild At Heart

It's pretty perfect, love the soundtrack. Is this the best Melanie Griffith movie?

That's Cherry 2000

Yeah, soundtrack is very good and Feelies are so good in the reunion scenes.

"Wild Thing" used really well in three different versions (including original).

Inspired cameos as well, John Waters, Su Tissue, John Sayles, etc. Probably my first exposure to both the Feelies and the Go-Betweens.

First time I heard the original version of New Order's "Temptation" was in Something Wild -- from a passing car, no?

Yes, I believe it was a car passing in front of Audrey's mom's house when they first arrived there.

"Something Wild" has maybe my favorite romantic exchange, when Audrey/Lulu finally unlocks the handcuff that Charlie has been wearing as a bracelet:

"What are you doing"
"Setting you free."
"Maybe I don't want to be."
"May-be you're not."