devvv had a good comment on letterboxd about Image Book, m/l it works as a pure light and sound show. I mean obviously ymmv but I think the pure flow of the film's images and sounds itself is what makes it so beautiful, compared to Ici et Ailleurs or Numero Deux, much more programmatic and willfully difficult films. I haven't read Finnegans Wake but it feels like the only proper comparison.
― flappy bird, Monday, 30 December 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
ok who is PWB
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
phoebe waller bridge, creator of fleabag
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 30 December 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgHVoeo5K0s
reading the NYT's Year in Culture wrapup yesterday, i have never felt so alienated from everything
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
Obama probably didn't even recognize Jello Biafra in The Last Black Man in San Francisco pathetic.— β ππ¬π«'π± π π©ππͺπ’ ππ¬π² (@NickPinkerton) December 29, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
I don't count for much but I put an end-of-decade detrius together.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 30 December 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure i ever heard of Only the Young, but the library has it so i'll give it a go.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Yay! It's short and sweet.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 30 December 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
Walter Chaw's year-end list is always a great read, no matter how seriously you can take a list that includes Terminator: Dark Fate and The Kid Who Would Be King but no Uncut Gems or Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2020/01/the-50-best-films-of-2019-by-walter-chaw.html
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Thursday, 2 January 2020 02:18 (four years ago) link
I've seen a number of serious critics who dislike the latter two
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 03:47 (four years ago) link
however, his #1 "group" includes Her Smell, High Life, and ye gods, An Elephant Sitting Still, plus the Tarantella, so you can't do much worse than that.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link
for a long film I thought An Elephant Sitting Still was mesmerizing
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 January 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
the quietness and overwhelming grayness and emptiness of tone, long hypnotic circling tracking shots, shunning of the most violent elements of the story, specific blurring or highlighting of background images, grim determination of characters, subtly hopeful ending - it was all so hypnotic and beautiful
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 January 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
I disagree in every particular; found it just overwhelmingly dreary
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 04:17 (four years ago) link
I can see not liking it but thought it was so unusual
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 January 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
wouldn't have thought that such a constantly moving camera could be that subduing, but it really drew me in
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 January 2020 04:40 (four years ago) link
honestly gun to my head you could erase every Tarantino movie except Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and I would feel a mild sadness but it would be an easy choice
Don't trash movies you haven't seen
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 January 2020 05:17 (four years ago) link
Get rid of Jackie Brown over my dead body.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 January 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
Elephant Sitting Still was one of those movies I will never watch again but it was definitely a memorable experience.
― ryan, Thursday, 2 January 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
β temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, January 2, 2020 5:59 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah wtf
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 January 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
Miami critics: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/miami-film-awards-2019-local-film-experts-pick-their-favorites-of-the-year-and-decade-11396761
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 January 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
I said gun to my head!
― flappy bird, Thursday, 2 January 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
Won't someone out there help flappy bird?!
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 January 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
i'm not trashing it, i'm trashing HIM. He's an immoral person and artist who is getting no more cultural oxygen from me.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
Jackie Brown was the last good thing i saw from him, and it is overrated.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 January 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
you guys ready to die for some movies huh
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 2 January 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
hidden decade gems
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6738-hidden-gems-of-the-2010s
Ari Aster otm
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
wow i gotta see the homesman
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
helluva blurb
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link
it's the better version of MM: Fury Road
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
Lol, Morbs absolutely otm.
― Frederik B, Friday, 3 January 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
It's fine.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 3 January 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
Wow, would not have expected a Tommy Lee Jones western to have tons of overcranked, reckless in-camera stuntwork F/X but sure let's give it a try!
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
the most deeply affecting western since Unforgiven
you lost me immediately by not acknowledging meek's cutoff
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
not having it is the virtue, honeybunch
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
Cool, good luck selling fans of MM:FR on it then.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
the commonality: transporting traumatized women through the desert
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
OTOH, i am here for any love for Seidl's Paradise Trilogy which i consider HIGHLY underrated
i dunno about hard to be a god being underrated (i think it's universally beloved?) but it was one of the more hallucinatory experiences i've ever had in a theater.
Still need to see Capernaumwill add Homesman and Ingrid Goes West to the watch listgonna continue passing on The Bad Batch
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
those fans are busy at amusement parks xp
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
xp, i forgot that morbs is anti-Reichardt
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
unless that honeybunch was directed at eric
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
The H stands for βHot Lipsβ
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
nope! liked Meek's Cutoff and all her other stuff a lot, til the last one at NYFF
xp
"h" is my Otto Preminger-derived nickname for E
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
okay, i love you again then. you thought first cow was a snoozefest iirc.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
yes, first dog
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
Paradise trilogy is good, but I kinda think Faith is the weakest part.
― Frederik B, Friday, 3 January 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
Advise and no consent.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
I knew you'd snag a husband when you put on a few pounds.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 January 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link