Good 30-min interview with Alec Baldwin:
http://www.wnyc.org/story/htt-william-friedkin/
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 02:39 (eight years ago) link
this is brilliant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmihQf9WmDk
― piscesx, Sunday, 22 November 2015 01:41 (eight years ago) link
Finally watched The Boys in the Band today, which I'd always assumed was one of those things that I should see more for historical reasons than anything else, and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. A time capsule, obviously, but one whose portrayal of queerness as a social, emotional and political state feels far more vital, to me, than something like the watchable but ultimately frivolous Looking (the first season, anyway; haven't seen the second). Only Kenneth Nelson's showy final act breakdown grates a bit.
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
on an emotional level. I think it's somewhat less of a time capsule than it appears on the surface; people still are trapped in forms of self-loathing... shameless archiving:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-boys-in-the-band
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
The Brink's Job is wildly uneven, but damn is Warren Oates great in his two big scenes.
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 July 2016 04:57 (seven years ago) link
Second watch of TLADILA is great value
So many....moments
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 October 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
Sorcerer on limited reissue in the Uk this weekend and out in a fancy pants 4K Blu in a week or 2. Some people go MENTAL for this film. Not ilx clearly tho..
― piscesx, Friday, 3 November 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
I love it. Bought the US Blu-Ray when it came out either last year or earlier this year.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 3 November 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
sorceror is fucking amazing
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 November 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
I finally watched Cruising; it is a mess o' shit
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 05:21 (six years ago) link
I suppose I'd find out in Friedkin's commentary track why he had multiple actors play the killer(s)?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 12:37 (six years ago) link
I do approve of using Willy DeVille and The Germs in the bar sequences instead of disco
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 December 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
perceptive essay imho
https://www.cineaste.com/fall2013/from-the-archives-cruising/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 December 2017 05:21 (six years ago) link
Sorcerer rules.
― Simon H., Saturday, 9 December 2017 05:22 (six years ago) link
I suppose I'd find out in Friedkin's commentary track why he had multiple actors play the killer(s)?― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius)
Because he was cheating?
I saw this for the second time - and first time on a big screen - last summer and it struck me as far more superficial than it seemed on first viewing. The ambiguity that pops up suddenly in the final scene is entirely unearned.
I never think dance club scenes in movies look authentic, and this film is no exception, even though the leather bar scenes were supposedly filled out with their real-life patrons. There was just too much going on at the same time, when in reality (I'm educatedly guessing) those places would be boring most of the time.
― Josefa, Saturday, 9 December 2017 07:41 (six years ago) link
well, drama is life w/ the dull bits excised etc
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 December 2017 09:20 (six years ago) link
tbf they go 'ambiguous' in Cruising way b4 final scene.
Friedkin also said Pacino wanted to get the 'fashionable gay haircut' of '79, and it turned out so badly they delayed production for a month. I'd like to see a still!
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
see, James Franco wouldn't make that mistake
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
he'd make others, tho possibly not as many as Friedkin did.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link
re ambiguity, supposedly the specific ambiguity you get full-on in the final shot is something that was better supported in the 40 minutes that had to be cut out of the film to avoid an X rating. Yeah, it's not hard to see where Friedkin was going wrt that idea much earlier on, but there's kind of a lack of hard evidence I'd say.
Wikipedia quotes Friedkin as saying the excised 40 minutes would have made the film both more and less ambiguous.
― Josefa, Thursday, 14 December 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqdlmJXZGsU
!!!
― motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
what the hell
― Simon H., Wednesday, 21 March 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
I caught Bug a few weeks ago and thought it was terrific. Shannon & Judd were an unholy mess.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
Thinking about Killer Joe still makes me smile.
I hope that in the future, when someone is talking about "The Church", a bystander's first assumption will be that you're talking about the rock band, but their second guess will be Thomas Hayden Church.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 30 November 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
i finally saw sorcerer last week. for a minute i'm like, why on earth do they launch this hare-brained scheme to retrieve this ancient nitro. they're an evil oil company, it can't be too hard for them to scare up something else to blow up the well with! and then i'm like, actually, that's exactly the kind of bone-stupid short-sighted greedy corner-cutting decision that an evil oil company would make - fair dos friedkin, fair dos
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
have you seen The Wages of Fear?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
i don't remember if Clouzot was more 'plausible'
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
i have! on a terrible .avi file downloaded from somewhere nefarious. i need to see it for real.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
― My Ital Rival (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 November 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat is going on in Sorcerer???
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
truckdriving iirc
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
the second hour was p cool, butWHO are these guys and WHY are they doing this and for WHAT???I haven't seen Wages of Fear
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
you better flap to it
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
they are desperate no-hopers
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
it's an insane, suicidal mission that makes no sense - exactly the sort of thing a rapacious oil company would extort its criminally underpaid workers to sign up for
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
read a little about Friedkin's plan to get an all star cast... I love Roy Scheider but this would've worked much better with McQueen/Mitchum and Mastroianni... the almost complete excision of exposition here would work with stars. but even the mission and who it's for and why is unclear
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
the first part of the movie lays out the backstories of each of the four to show how their unhealthy risk tolerance has landed them in Porvenir; driving nitro-laden trucks over impossible roads seems like the logical next step
Wages of Fear is the better film, but I prefer Sorcerer for the Tangerine Dream score
― Brad C., Wednesday, 25 September 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
which is really under-used - what little is left is awesome!
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
watched Sorcerer for the first time (thanks Criterion), pretty amazing movie. i like the whole cast but especially Scheider (obv) and Cremer (great face). looks great, score is incredible, all the location shooting is fantastic. my one quibble with it is the pacing/structure. him adding backstory intros for three of the characters means they don't get into the trucks until the second hour of the movie, it feels like it needs a little more in the trucks. i'd leave what he has but add another 20ish minutes of truck action. iirc more of Wages of Fear proportionally is devoted to the truck stuff
― na (NA), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 19:24 (one month ago) link