I think he is lazy and owns a dozen black baseball caps tbh
I heard an interview w/ the tech consultant for vampire baseball in Twilight, and he said Pattinson was by far the least athletic cast member involved. Chain-smokin' away...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
I should have said baseball-style caps, they're just all black without logos
― mh, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
sorry for false deployment of the baseball signal
i understand, just cuz he played a guy from Queens for the Safdies i didn't expect logos
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
i really hate that High Life is being called a "masterpiece." Insane.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
can't wait to see Stuart and the boys play the Osc*rs next year
― Simon H., Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
Staples has directed a film that opens here shortly
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
goin to the Angelika screening tonite
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 April 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Friday, 12 April 2019 04:04 (five years ago) link
I would reverse that opinion lol, no idea what the appeal of LTSI was meant to be and am utterly mystified by its following
― Simon H., Friday, 12 April 2019 04:19 (five years ago) link
Woodshock in Space
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 12 April 2019 04:33 (five years ago) link
To my surprise, a success, albeit a limited and uncharming one. The translated English sounds like translated English; if I feel generous in my review, I'll say this works coming out of the mouths of people who've been in space too long and have forgotten the rhythms of their own language.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 April 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
the dialogue struck me as considerably less awkward than some other first English features I've seen tbh
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 April 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
It's fascinating how the Twilight stars made their first films with French directors who also wrote stilted scripts for'em.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 April 2019 23:54 (five years ago) link
their first films for Assayas and Denis, if it's not clear.
I'm almost sad that Pattinson is going to be in the new Nolan opus, he made so many Twilight fans sit through so much arthouse fare over the last few years in an unbroken streak
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 April 2019 23:57 (five years ago) link
High Life isn’t her first film in English, at least half of Trouble Every Day is too
― flappy bird, Sunday, 21 April 2019 01:22 (five years ago) link
Oh, come on. TED was, iirc, broadly marketed, produced, and consumed as a French feature -- to the extent that it got swept up in that whole New French Extreme horror wave of the period.
― Simon H., Sunday, 21 April 2019 03:33 (five years ago) link
ok but what does that have to do with Denis making a movie in English
― flappy bird, Sunday, 21 April 2019 04:45 (five years ago) link
"he made so many Twilight fans sit through so much arthouse fare over the last few years in an unbroken streak"
This is good not bad.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 21 April 2019 08:46 (five years ago) link
I agree!!!
― Simon H., Sunday, 21 April 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
He sounded like he was speaking a different take on English in Cosmopolis, but that was just DeLillo dialogue that made it intact from book to script
― mh, Sunday, 21 April 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
When I asked Claire Denis why the bodies in space fall "down" even though there's no gravity she said, "you don't have an engine in your ass!" https://t.co/IiaK9yI8lz— Cameron Scheetz (@cameronscheetz) April 22, 2019
I have no idea what this means but it's hilarious
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 April 2019 02:52 (five years ago) link
should've been the tagline
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 03:13 (five years ago) link
There was a line about the ship constantly accelerating to create the illusion of gravity but this film was never about accurate physics. I don't have an engine in my ass.
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 07:30 (five years ago) link
A good film imo.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 11:21 (five years ago) link
I sorta figured maybe the idea was they were close enough in proximity to a black hole at the time that it might be pulling them down. But clearly I overthought things.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 April 2019 11:51 (five years ago) link
Loved this conversation: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/movies/claire-denis-barry-jenkins.html
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 07:11 (five years ago) link
JIZZINSPAAAAAACE
IN
SPAAAAAACE
IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU COME.
So "dystopian" is barely adequate to describe this world. I had thought Let The Sunshine In slight and unworthy of Denis and Binoche. (The only other Denis film I had seen was 35 Rhums.) Unquestionably both women have considerable depths.
As for the interview on the train, I'll accept it as a window into what people on Earth (civilians and insiders) know about Ship 7 (and presumably other ships in the program). I know throughout I was wondering about 1) the technology that could create that vessel and 2) the political setting that would allow prisoners to "volunteer" for this mission, and let Binoche conduct her "research" program. Any institution review board worthy of the name would recoil from what we see here.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 5 May 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
I saw High Life a few weeks ago in NY at the Angelika, it's been on my mind ever since
― Dan S, Friday, 10 May 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link
I had a hard time not comparing this to 2001, my above-every-other-film favorite, but it had so many beautiful scenes I felt like it came within shouting distance
― Dan S, Friday, 10 May 2019 01:21 (five years ago) link
the score by Stuart Staples was great I thought
― Dan S, Friday, 10 May 2019 01:24 (five years ago) link
Having not seen the film yet, I just read a review and is this film really about convicts in space with a dildo in a box?!?
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Friday, 10 May 2019 02:28 (five years ago) link
the body horror in this film was something
― Dan S, Friday, 10 May 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
xp there's some other stuff but more or less yea
― flappy bird, Friday, 10 May 2019 04:55 (five years ago) link
I was surprised when someone that works at the one theater showing this here that there have been a notable number of pissed walkouts & refunds, mostly older people obviously
― flappy bird, Friday, 10 May 2019 04:57 (five years ago) link
oscar voters, no doubt
― mh, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
they should give em passes to An Elephant Sitting Still
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
that there have been a notable number of pissed walkouts & refunds, mostly older people obviously
oh i'm absolutely dreading showing this, believe me.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 10 May 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
these people got pissed about gloria bell.
why is this a surprise, flappy? I was the only one at my screening ("And you might be the last one," the ticket person said).
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
It didn't seem that graphic to me, and one would think - or hope - that MOR art house audiences could go with some weird sex shit
― flappy bird, Saturday, 11 May 2019 05:25 (five years ago) link
it's not reactions to the sex i'm dreading (tho someone did try and get their money back from me for the favourite lol). it's people saying the following: "that was COMPLETELY POINTLESS!"
haven't seen the movie; haven't read that much about it; just get the distinct vibe that it's gonna be COMPLETELY POINTLESS
will report tho
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 11 May 2019 06:18 (five years ago) link
Saw the trailer last night, can't wait
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 11 May 2019 06:43 (five years ago) link
There were walkouts at my relatively full showing during the attempted rape scene which then made me feel especially self-conscious sitting there in the dark watching it.
― ryan, Saturday, 11 May 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
so long as you stayed dressed
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 May 2019 14:57 (five years ago) link
what is zadie smiths involvement in this?
― flopson, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
she left over "creative differences"
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/10/high-life-claire-denis-zadie-smith-left-robert-pattinson-1202009125/
― Dan S, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
nice
― flopson, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
there were a couple of insanely bad scenes in this (j binoche in the sex box...rofl ) but overall it was pretty and fun to think about
― flopson, Saturday, 11 May 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link