Cohen just gave an intro.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
johann's voice was probably my favourite thing about the film tbh
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Mary Margaret O'Hara was singing a bit though. Still got it.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
Hey, I didn't realise that Hogg was joining Laura Mulvey at the BFI 'visual pleasure' panel
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 17 April 2015 10:51 (nine years ago) link
Only about 5 seats left!
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 April 2015 11:03 (nine years ago) link
Just watched Archipelago. I would love to see her movies on a big screen. Her composition is fantastic, but the quiet tones she likes get dulled out on a small screen. Even so, a gorgeous movie. Something I didn't realize to the end was the way the camera moved in closer to the characters over the course of the movie. At the beginning it's all medium to long shots, and body parts but no faces. So that by the time you can really see them close up, you already know them.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Monday, 4 January 2016 03:39 (eight years ago) link
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/news/filmmaker-residence-joanna-hogg
cantabs ppl get to 'go the whole hogg' :)
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I couldn't make the majority of the screenings as I'm just too swamped atm but I'm gonna try to get to Exhibition (+Q&A) tonight and maybe the early shorts if I get enough work done/think I can stay awake
― a mom shaped pom (wins), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 13:02 (eight years ago) link
Think I would've preferred her version of High Rise
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 08:12 (eight years ago) link
had no idea abt her film w tilda.
― 1st Amendment absolutist in favor of the unltd publication of sextapes (schlump), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/souvenir-review-arch-dramatist-joanna-hogg-returns-home-personal/
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 28 January 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
getting a ton of raves/coverage before its US opening next week, Honor Swinton Byrne 's performance in particular
https://www.filmcomment.com/article/i-know-where-im-going/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 May 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
WTF, not opening in the UK until August??
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/15/the-souvenir-joanna-hogg-humanises-middle-class-problems?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2IfaRsDcxO_9u7u4DZJwzIBE0XHHSYglx-jSIQtGaS6_RfqNEF0TssfMA
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:11 (five years ago) link
Yeah!
Hogg has written that one of her inspirations is Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy, saying, “I strive to create this degree of aliveness. I need to see this film often to understand what it is I am trying to do.” Most of our time in life is not spent in dramatic standoffs and cathartic breakdowns. Most of the time we are cooking and eating, taking walks, making phone calls, having deep conversations (or shallow), having sex, having arguments. Hogg clearly has a plan and knows what she wants to create, but within that plan she allows for extraordinary freedom. Perhaps the limits she imposes, by proceeding in chronological order, by keeping the camera in doorways or on the far side of a room, encourages the exhilarating sense of “aliveness” felt in Unrelated, Archipelago, Exhibition, and The Souvenir. Helle le Fevre has edited all of Hogg’s features, and her contribution is essential.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
Superb Rebecca Mead feature.
No idea she directed the second (and bigger) of the videos for Johnny Hates Jazz's "Shattered Dreams."
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 May 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
👍
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 May 2019 21:35 (five years ago) link
might go see this today, did we like it?
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 June 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
did like her previous stuff, mostly & found the background/build up articles intriguing but i could not get into this idk i felt like its a level of self-involvement too far & that somehow feels magnified by it being undramatic, etc
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, May 19, 2019 12:59 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
WHATTTT
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
yep
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
There's just something about the fact that the mother is played by Tilda Swinton and the daughter is played by Tilda Swinton's daughter that gets my back up. I know we are so used to this horrendous nepotism in the UK, maybe elsewhere, that we become inured to it and I also know that there exist think-pieces about how it's all perfectly normal and makes sense within the world she's portraying etc. but that makes it worse. She's a decent filmmaker with a singular vision who's made one good film so far (Archipelago) and she's being given huge leeway because she is fucking posh!
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
exhibition was pretty good too
― imago, Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
we need some kind of venn diagram that connects xyzzz and ward's politics to this sort of aristo masturbation fantasy.
I've not seen it. Also, I've just drunk a bottle of wine.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
xp it's interesting and boring. I dunno if it's good. It's unique though.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
I mean, I've seen Exhibition, not this new thing.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
I don't get posh = bad or what makes Hogg posh. This is description, not criticism.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
it's more to do with privilege and access rather than =ing bad. You don't have to ask why it equals that she's posh, she's posh, it's just a fact.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
This was excellent, almost a Taiwanese approach to character and exposition (less Tsai than Archipelago though). Major points for making Anthony a Tory prig to whom the audience never warms. Honor Swinton Byrne's un-actressy mannerisms are effective and affecting.
I laughed several times aloud. The old ladies in my audience were ready to pillory me.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 June 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
And, I must say, to watch film by a female director about a budding director should not feel as fucking refreshing as it does in 2019.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 June 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
best I've seen this year
and this is how the early '80s looked
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
sorry about being wasted upthread.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
will have to see this
― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
wau -- Morbs and I agree on a favorite of the year.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius
yes, Anthony's endless cigarettes affected the film stock
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
best offkilter romance since Phantom Thread
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:44 (four years ago) link
most poignant use of Tilda Swinton too
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:47 (four years ago) link
I sensed a jape early on when she dropped "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" on the soundtrack
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
btw she's now shooting the sequel, and Robert Pattinson had to drop out bcz Batman etc
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
I read it earlier today. Maybe she can get Timothee Chalamet.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:59 (four years ago) link
I thought The Souvenir was terrible, just interminable, Swinton Byrne was such a doormat and not a good actor at all, and just the most pallid color palette and boring, unpleasant people. Worse than Rocketman
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
and I see now there's a part two being filmed? excuse me?
Swinton Byrne was a marvelous camera presence.
My review.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
btw the iMdB is of no use here: what other films have used the Fall's "Totally Wired"?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
Silence of the Lambs used "Hip Priest", could swear i've heard "TW" used before tho
― Oy McVey (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
also, speaking of not spelling things out, especially for a non-British audience... I *almost* figured out what the repeated shots, and references to Julie's fondness for shopping at Harrods, was building up to. When the BOOM occurred, I knew what was up because I remember the event, but wonder how many younger Americans were puzzled.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
No, just napping.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Richard Ayoade (hilarious) will be back in the sequel as the "c*nt" filmmaker; I was wondering if he was based on anyone who had a career...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
I liked the screen presence of the POC giving her advice.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
/Silence of the Lambs/ used "Hip Priest", could swear i've heard "TW" used before tho
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
I had almost forgotten Ariane Labed in the van scene near the end, but I couldn't really understand a bloody thing she was saying.
iMdB only mentions "TW" being used in an episode of "Skins."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link