Close Encounters of the Third Kind
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
What a strange turn this thread has taken (Ben Rivers, 2019)
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
Wokemare should honestly be the title of Boots' second feature.
I did like Bodied.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
Armond is right about The Mule being better than Green Book
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
lmao that he went out of his way to dis Schrader twice
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
tbf Sharknado 7 is probably better than Green Book, in fact even no movie at all, just a blank void of nothingness is better than Green Book.
― calzino, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
preferring Vox Lux to A Star Is Born is like the most obvious contrarian move for someone bent on establishing that present-day culture is debased. undercutting his argument, Vox Lux was really stupid and superficial. the narration alone should disqualify it from discussion.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
Otm Vox lux was garbage
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
Vox Lux, unlike ASIB, is at least made by people who understand the role of pop music in people's, and it's also made by people who don't understand direction and writing.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link
or what pop music actually sounded like during any of the periods it depicts. and god portman was terrible. too OTT for it to serve any of the themes the film was clumsily gesturing at, but not OTT enough to be any fun. cassidy is a super promising actress, and law's absurd voice was fun to listen to but otherwise man that film pissed me off.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
i am sorry that i missed Bodied, eager for the disc
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
yeah I didn't get the praise for Portman. Her diner scene had me reaching for a spork.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
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― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
our finest wordsmith
― love craptually (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
Our finest turdsmith
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
Just realized I had been thinking Vox Lux was Her Smell, but that one is still on the way.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
[dumb rhyming gag redacted]
― love craptually (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
The way things have been going, I guess we should be glad DGA nominations don't include Bohemian Rhapsody.
Bradley Cooper, "A Star Is Born"Alfonso Cuarón, "Roma"Peter Farrelly, "Green Book"Spike Lee, "BlacKkKlansman"Adam McKay, "Vice"
― love craptually (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
yikes
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
WGA nominations announced
Adapted Screenplay"BlacKkKlansman""Black Panther""Can You Ever Forgive Me?""If Beale Street Could Talk""A Star Is Born"
Original Screenplay"Eighth Grade""Green Book""A Quiet Place""Roma""Vice"
― love craptually (Eric H.), Monday, January 7, 2019 10:31 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
as my sister observed, 21 writers here, one woman. (Holofcener on Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
lotsa fine foreign-lang scripts written by women this year, but Hollywood only sees one such film per year
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
xps give Spike Lee all the prizes, for gots sake
― love craptually (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
Starstruck!
... this one?
https://starstruck1982.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/9/3/37935411/1446857_orig.jpg
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
Detrius-adjacent ...
ASC picks the top 100 milestone films in 20th century cinematography:
https://theasc.com/news/asc-unveils-list-of-100-milestone-films-in-cinematography-of-the-20th-century
1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), shot by Freddie Young, BSC (Dir. David Lean)2. Blade Runner (1982), shot by Jordan Cronenweth, ASC (Dir. Ridley Scott)3. Apocalypse Now (1979), shot by Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)4. Citizen Kane (1941), shot by Gregg Toland, ASC (Dir. Orson Welles)5. The Godfather (1972), shot by Gordon Willis, ASC (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)6. Raging Bull (1980), shot by Michael Chapman, ASC (Dir. Martin Scorsese)7. The Conformist (1970), shot by Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)8. Days of Heaven (1978), shot by Néstor Almendros, ASC (Dir. Terrence Malick)9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), shot by Geoffrey Unsworth, BSC with additional photography by John Alcott, BSC (Dir. Stanley Kubrick)10. The French Connection (1971), shot by Owen Roizman, ASC (Dir. William Friedkin)
― love craptually (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
Nicolas Roeg snubbed for the #1
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
oh c'mon, he did second-unit on LoA
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
i see world cinema was included, which means citing Rotunno for All That Jazz and not his Italian work is moronic.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
Mom and Dad > Ready Player One / Isle of Dogs / The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
This is defensible, I don't mistrust anyone who disliked Scruggs
Vox Lux > A Star Is Born
A crazed failure of a path-to-stardom musical is inherently more interesting than a Bradley Cooper remake
Ray Meets Helen > If Beale Street Could Talk
this would seem probable if not for Armond's race-focused ranting in the blurn
Loveless > Crazy Rich Asians
seems a fairly inoffensive proposition
The Mule > Green Book
almost certainly true
Uncle Drew > Black Panther
Uncle Drew looked terrible but also like it would exactly please its intended audience, which puts it ahead of Black Panther, which is the same except that the intended audience is "everyone, hopefully"
Double Lover> Mary Poppins Returns
there's no way this isn't true
Chappaquiddick > Vice / On the Basis of Sex
who could possibly care
How to Talk to Girls at Parties > Eighth Grade / Mid-90s
lol absolutely not re Eighth Grade, but I could see the weird failures and never-not-vivacious approach of Talk beating the instagram-filtered earnestness that Mid-90s' trailer suggested
The 15:17 to Paris > A Quiet Place
another one that would seem plausible as a personal opinion if not for Armond's insane political ranting in the blurb
The House That Jack Built > First Reformed / BlacKkKlansman
anyone who tends to like LvT could hold this position 9 times before breakfast on aesthetics alone
Museo > Roma
remaking The Help as a Latin American turdscape.
The Misandrists > The Favourite / Suspiria
again, this one could run on aesthetics alone
Bodied > Sorry to Bother You / BlacKkKlansman
seems unlikely re SBTY
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc > First Reformed
sure, why not
At Eternity’s Gate > Bohemian Rhapsody
most likely
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
8 out of that top 10 is from the same 14 year stretch. Baby Boomers need to get out of cultural criticism.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
Presumably these are all working cinematographers (who may or may not be boomers).
― love craptually (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:33 (five years ago) link
AW musta had a bad Schrader experience at a Paulette party
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
Conrad Hall was fine, but really Searching for Bobby Fischer? when The Leopard among many others is left off?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
“Blurn” is a good unintended coinage, sic
Blurb burn
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
I'm going to be charitable and just assume that many of the voting members of the ASC thought they were supposed to stick with American films.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
oh c'mon, he did second-unit on LoA― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 8, 2019 2:23 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 8, 2019 2:23 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wasn't that the one he got fired from?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:40 (five years ago) link
they do have Jack Cardiff twice for Archers films, but Caleb Deschanel 5x for films made in '79-84 (The Natural!?).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
oh nvm he was the cinematographer for Doctor Zhivago (and got fired & didn't get the Oscar he deserved) xp
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
Roeg had never been a DP on a feature in '62; there's no way he was ever in line for LoA, over Freddie Young who had a ton of credits
xp
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
Didn't know Alan Rudolph had a new movie (Ray Meets Helen), so thanks to Armond for that.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
I like Rudolph and I saw it last summer; it's amiable and has some good scenes, but not so hot.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
(Sondra Locke's last film)
@ sic: yes, gillian armstrong's starstruck. it's delightful!
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 20:40 (five years ago) link
I remember it being a MASSIVE cultural presence when I was a kid but have never seen it
― sans lep (sic), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
I want to believe
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 8 January 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link
Is Armond White mixing up Peter and Bobby Farrelly a deliberate troll?
― Alba, Wednesday, 9 January 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
I'm sure he'll say it was if you asked.
― forrest drumpf (Eric H.), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
We regret to inform the 11 Offenses of 2018 are here. https://t.co/a12a2tlfmO— Reverse Shot (@reverse_shot) January 12, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 January 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
(haven't seen any of those, consider myself warned)
Full Sight and Sound poll results now online
https://stories.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2018-full-poll/?fbclid=IwAR2IL2eFutIVMzFkTlzubPTFk8FQRog0lnSZpo3bh8USKLxsb1cMqbm1aBk
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 January 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
fuckin hell
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 January 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link