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27. Monrovia, Indiana d: Frederick Wiseman (doco) US 2018 digital121 points, 4 votes, 1 #1
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
Monrovia, Indiana is straight out of a Faulkner novel. Tribulation and death in every scene.― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, October 28, 2018
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, October 28, 2018
haven't seen this yet. that's a beautiful image
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
A hair less wonderful than Wiseman's recent run, but it made my top 15.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
besides Monrovia - which I will definitely see - of the films on this list I haven't seen yet, the ones I'm most looking forward to are Ash Is Purest White, Elephant Sitting Still, The Wild Pear Tree, The Image Book, Dead Souls. I liked Frederik’s descriptions of the last three. After a somewhat traumatic experience with Berlin Alexanderplatz I'm approaching Eight Hours Don't Make a Day with trepidation.
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
one more today?
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
I'm up for it, but am surprised by how little attended this is. Wish people would post more here. Anything would do
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 02:00 (four years ago) link
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26. Free Solo d: Elizabeth Chai Vasarelyi, Jimmy ChinUS 2018 digital 4K123 points, 6 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
(doco)
I liked this a lot, but maybe not as much as The Dawn Wall from 2017, which shared one of its protagonists
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 02:29 (four years ago) link
that's a great still, but there were so many thrilling images from this film
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
I found it kind of nerve-wracking to watch
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 02:51 (four years ago) link
It’s not at the end of the day a great film, but did I or anyone else care while actually watching it? Hell no.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
wish I had that kind of courage
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
just saw "free solo" last night. for me, watching it was an emotional experience. i was intensely into climbing at one point in my life, decades ago, when 'sport climbing' was not a thing yet, rock gyms were a rumored curiosity, and shoe selection involved a choice between just two or three brands.my climbing was mostly done with two good friends. we lived in montreal, so spent most of our time in the adirondacks. all granite. climbing was the first sport in which my gangly body felt gifted and graceful. i had a lot of difficult things going on my head in those days, self-hatred, terror, stuff that has taken me decades to get on top of, but the slow vertical dance on those vast granite faces, the rhythm of crack climbing, the controlled exhilaration i felt when leading a pitch, the feeling of setting up secure anchors for my partners, ...purified me deeply, and after topping out, the sense of feeling, not just okay, but exalted, was incomparable.some years into this, i had a bad accident. not climbing: a car accident. i emerged with nerve damage in my left hand. could no longer oppose the thumb (i'm only half human now!), grip strength rendered negligible. i've continued climbing, but nowhere near at the same level. mostly bouldering, some indoor stuff.for me the star of "free solo" was el capitan. i couldn't take my eyes off it. like many climbers who haven't even climbed the big wall i suspect, the profile of el cap, the great crack systems, flakes and roofs -- much of it is imprinted in our mind, from simply looking at so many photographs, topos, and whatnot. hell i went twice to the ansel adams exhibit that recently closed at the museum of fine arts, just to stand in front of those exposures and feel the storm clearing out of the Valley. i don't know, i just love granite. and el cap in "free solo" presented so many facets. massive and terrifying, yes. but on a small scale: textured, multi-colored, intimate even. above all predictable, when it counted.i was just struck by the beauty of the wall and of the climbing. in some ways honnold's ascent is the supreme way to pay homage to all of what that is.― collardio gelatinous, Sunday, March 17, 2019
my climbing was mostly done with two good friends. we lived in montreal, so spent most of our time in the adirondacks. all granite. climbing was the first sport in which my gangly body felt gifted and graceful. i had a lot of difficult things going on my head in those days, self-hatred, terror, stuff that has taken me decades to get on top of, but the slow vertical dance on those vast granite faces, the rhythm of crack climbing, the controlled exhilaration i felt when leading a pitch, the feeling of setting up secure anchors for my partners, ...purified me deeply, and after topping out, the sense of feeling, not just okay, but exalted, was incomparable.
some years into this, i had a bad accident. not climbing: a car accident. i emerged with nerve damage in my left hand. could no longer oppose the thumb (i'm only half human now!), grip strength rendered negligible. i've continued climbing, but nowhere near at the same level. mostly bouldering, some indoor stuff.
for me the star of "free solo" was el capitan. i couldn't take my eyes off it. like many climbers who haven't even climbed the big wall i suspect, the profile of el cap, the great crack systems, flakes and roofs -- much of it is imprinted in our mind, from simply looking at so many photographs, topos, and whatnot. hell i went twice to the ansel adams exhibit that recently closed at the museum of fine arts, just to stand in front of those exposures and feel the storm clearing out of the Valley. i don't know, i just love granite. and el cap in "free solo" presented so many facets. massive and terrifying, yes. but on a small scale: textured, multi-colored, intimate even. above all predictable, when it counted.
i was just struck by the beauty of the wall and of the climbing. in some ways honnold's ascent is the supreme way to pay homage to all of what that is.
― collardio gelatinous, Sunday, March 17, 2019
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 03:05 (four years ago) link
great post by collardio gelatinous
thought it was interesting that functional MRIs suggested that activity in the amygdala, the locus of fear in the brain, may have been suppressed in Alex Honnold
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
dude has some serious issues but holy fuck he can climb like a spidermonkey
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link
I was surprised people thought that Monrovia, Indiana was apolitical, to me it described the whole place as a death cult. The creepy free mason ceremony, the priest at the end rhapsodizing about death, the pro-gun t-shirts, and of course, the constant work of that small committee (did anyone figure out exactly who they were?) to keep 'people' out of the city, no matter what. The reveal of their party at the city festival is one of the best side gags of 2018.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
hmmmm, more of you should've seen Monrovia. (it's even been on PBS already?)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:28 (four years ago) link
I don't see the point of these polls if seeing a Wiseman doc isn't due diligence.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:30 (four years ago) link
no uk release yet
― devvvine, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:31 (four years ago) link
oh apparently it played for four days and i missed it, apologies
― devvvine, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:32 (four years ago) link
not seen yet but somehow the computer graphics aspect of 24 frames completely passed me by, thought it was just static long takes
― devvvine, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
close enough
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 10:47 (four years ago) link
didn't realize that Monrovia was available on streaming. I downloaded the PBS app on my streaming device and it's there! I will watch it this week
― Dan S, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
yes, that's great news
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 26 June 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
I have seen zero Wisemans to date but I really want to
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
Can't go wrong really with any of his first 10 movies. after that they get progressively longer (still amazing obv). my favorite of that first run is High School.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 16:08 (four years ago) link
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25. The Other Side Of The Wind d: Orson Welles w: Orson Welles, Oja KodarUS 1970-71, 1973-76, 1979, 2008, 2017-18 35mm, 16mm, Super 8133 points, 5 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
for all it's meta-narrative conceits and internal references, it's kind of remarkable how *little* like Welles the Jake Hannaford character is. Welles was not this macho showman universally hailed for making stars out of actors or with particularly intense relationships w younger actors afaict, and he certainly wouldn't have made anything quite like the film-within-a-film shown here, which (as others have noted) is closer to something like Zabriskie Point or one of the "acid westerns" than anything in Welles' ouevre. Welles loved dialogue too much, for one thing.― Οὖτις, Thursday, November 8, 2018
― Οὖτις, Thursday, November 8, 2018
i'll be pretty amused if they finish "the other side of the wind" and it turns out to be a huge turd, but you know almost everything welles had a hand in is, at the very least, interesting. as with that talk show above.― amateurist, Monday, 11 May 2015
― amateurist, Monday, 11 May 2015
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
It made my list on the strength of my anticipation and the car scene; the making-of documentary helhped too.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
I regarded it as a curio, nothing more, though some of the later scenes with Huston are compelling.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
1970-71, 1973-76, 1979, 2008, 2017-18
Fantastic.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
it's a lesser work in Welles' ouevre, and overlong, but still compelling
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
the making-of documentary was better
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
Agreed.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
yes
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
mostly because watching Welles talk about films and making films is so reliably entertaining
I can think of few artists in any genre whose insights into his own work and colleagues, erudition (he's as likely to quote Shakespeare and Conrad as he is the NY Post), and charm come together as fetchingly as they do in Orson Welles.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
is it in that doc that he IDs loyalty as the grand theme of his oeuvre?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
what did i do wrong, daddy?
had it at 11
― devvvine, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Yeah. He annoyed Bogdanovich in his 1970s interviews when he insisted that Kane betrays Leland (and the Declaration of Principles), not the other way around, just like Quinlan betrays Menzies.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
cumming's framing in the making of doc was insufferable, and it also completely ignores f for fake if i remember. found the shorter a final cut for orson much more compelling
― devvvine, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
*Catching up* Love how Dead Souls made it.
I haven't seen any Wiseman - it's a gap ugh
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
Welles was not this macho showman
I bet he might've slapped Kael though
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
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24. Paddington 2 d: Paul King w: Paul King, Simon Farnaby a: &al.UK 2017 digital 2K141 points, 6 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
Placed at 21 in 2017, with 105 points, 6 votes and 1 #1
I didn't see the first Paddington and it didn't matter, I loved Paddington 2 and sobbed the entire time- flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018
- flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018
ffs
― devvvine, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
lol what is this bullshit
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
Liked it, but didn't vote because it placed last year. Sorry, bear fans.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link