Joanna Hogg, painterly, modernist Brit filmmaker utilizing static frames, uneasy vibes

johann's voice was probably my favourite thing about the film tbh

Mary Margaret O'Hara was singing a bit though. Still got it.

Hey, I didn't realise that Hogg was joining Laura Mulvey at the BFI 'visual pleasure' panel

Only about 5 seats left!

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.

http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/news/filmmaker-residence-joanna-hogg

cantabs ppl get to 'go the whole hogg' :)

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

Think I would've preferred her version of High Rise

had no idea abt her film w tilda.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/souvenir-review-arch-dramatist-joanna-hogg-returns-home-personal/

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/

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

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.

Superb Rebecca Mead feature.

No idea she directed the second (and bigger) of the videos for Johnny Hates Jazz's "Shattered Dreams."

👍

might go see this today, did we like it?

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

No idea she directed the second (and bigger) of the videos for Johnny Hates Jazz's "Shattered Dreams."

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WHATTTT

yep

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!

exhibition was pretty good too

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.

xp it's interesting and boring. I dunno if it's good. It's unique though.

I mean, I've seen Exhibition, not this new thing.

I don't get posh = bad or what makes Hogg posh. This is description, not criticism.

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.

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.

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.

best I've seen this year

and this is how the early '80s looked

sorry about being wasted upthread.

will have to see this

wau -- Morbs and I agree on a favorite of the year.

and this is how the early '80s looked

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius

yes, Anthony's endless cigarettes affected the film stock

best offkilter romance since Phantom Thread

most poignant use of Tilda Swinton too

I sensed a jape early on when she dropped "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" on the soundtrack

btw she's now shooting the sequel, and Robert Pattinson had to drop out bcz Batman etc

I read it earlier today. Maybe she can get Timothee Chalamet.

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

and I see now there's a part two being filmed? excuse me?

Swinton Byrne was a marvelous camera presence.

My review.

btw the iMdB is of no use here: what other films have used the Fall's "Totally Wired"?

Silence of the Lambs used "Hip Priest", could swear i've heard "TW" used before tho

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.

No, just napping.

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...

I liked the screen presence of the POC giving her advice.

/Silence of the Lambs/ used "Hip Priest", could swear i've heard "TW" used before tho

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."

Very few of us have the documentation of our early life that Hogg used to make this film.

from the New Yorker profile:

The night before the couple’s departure, the (Venice) trip was almost scuppered by an apparent robbery in Hogg’s apartment, in which her jewelry, her cameras, and other valuables were stolen. Hogg quickly realized that her lover had faked the theft, and had sold the items for drugs; nevertheless, the trip went ahead. “I had spent months planning, and didn’t want to give up on the plan,” Hogg said. “The show had to go on, and there was so much in the show—so much dreaming, all the ideas. It was creating a piece of work.”

The proximity of these scenes was confusing, to the degree where I wondered if the trip might not be a fantasy.