I just saw Transit again, almost a year to the day of my first screening. My heart was in my throat. How quickly the times line up with our aesthetic preferences.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 January 2020 14:31 (four years ago) link
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Jack Mercer and Dave Fleischer for me, thanks to all those Popeye shorts I logged.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Saturday, 11 January 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
Do you like Franz Rogowski, Alfred? I love him.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
Glad you came around on the Petzold, Alfred!
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_),
I do enough to vote him as a finalist in the Florida Film Critics Award for Best Actor, and, yeah, he's cute in a whey-faced Joaquin Phoenix way.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
I missed, for reasons too stupid to go into here, a crucial plot point in Transit and was therefore completely baffled by it and had no idea what was happening. I still enjoyed it though.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:42 (four years ago) link
No Joker to be found...
https://filmmakermagazine.com/108819-the-2019-village-voice-film-poll-reconstructed/#.Xh4z2Kl7lBw
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.indiewire.com/2019/12/directors-best-movies-tv-2019-bong-joon-ho-guillermo-del-toro-sofia-coppola-luca-guadagnino-1202197153/
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:13 (four years ago) link
Have just seen that's from Dec 30, so apologies if it has already been posted here
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:14 (four years ago) link
Parasite winning best cast at SAGs tonight was embarrassingly thrilling. If it can win the top award at SAG (especially with the AFTRA inclusion), maybe it's got the best picture Oscar in the bag?
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Monday, 20 January 2020 03:42 (four years ago) link
Oscars? What're those?
Just got back from Little Women and can't remotely see how that's not the best cast. I mean, Jayne Houdyshell and Tracy Letts are great in it.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 January 2020 03:47 (four years ago) link
Apparently Gerwig's editing choices confused old people!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 January 2020 04:56 (four years ago) link
yeah like that dope J*** Wells
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 January 2020 08:36 (four years ago) link
Yeah, Little Women was fantastic.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:00 (four years ago) link
Best part of SAG awards: Superhero clip montage (featuring cash-in roles SAG doesn't take seriously enough for awards) & without a single ZSnyder film--yet scored to the Man of Steel soundtrack. Undeniable greatness. Truth will out. #ReleaseTheSndyerCut pic.twitter.com/4hj0wWGyQr— armond white (@3xchair) January 20, 2020
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Monday, 20 January 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
Keith U goin' characteristically idiosyncratic on the decade... I count 3 liberally defined musicals.
https://www.keithuhlich.com/2020/01/decade-dance-10-for-10s.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
Here's my annual survey of last year's 35mm-shot US theatrical releases (26 in part or whole, 18 35-only) https://t.co/BbvvhCzE0e— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) January 21, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 January 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
PGA and DGA both confirm that this year was about 1917 all along.
Jesus, and I thought Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Green Book was boring.
― I Heard You Ain't HOOS's (Eric H.), Sunday, 26 January 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
WHY 1917??
― flappy bird, Monday, 27 January 2020 02:18 (four years ago) link
why anything?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 January 2020 02:38 (four years ago) link
fortunately, it's not important
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 January 2020 02:45 (four years ago) link
Fortunately, nothing is.
― I Heard You Ain't HOOS's (Eric H.), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:13 (four years ago) link
Cut!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 January 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
Nothing matters, but still 1917 matters least of all.
― Frederik B, Monday, 27 January 2020 08:43 (four years ago) link
soviet proverb
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 27 January 2020 09:04 (four years ago) link
Look I'm not going to go see a movie called "1917" if it isn't about the October Revolution. That's just how it is.— Brad 🇮🇷 (@havingabradday) January 11, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 January 2020 09:07 (four years ago) link
pvmic
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 January 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
baftas
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/bafta-film-awards-2020-winners-list-1203489809/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
Oscar will Xerox that top 8.
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
WGA: Parasite, Jojo Rabbit
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
the continued success of Jojo Rabbit is unfuckingbelievable
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 February 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
it's the "with-it" Life Is Beautiful
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link
Jojo's screenplay is Adapted from my nightmares iirc
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
My main glitches with Jojo is that I think the whole Wes Anderson look is a little played and the trailer/marketing really kneecapped it. Its conceit isn't as affecting/smart as, say, Transit, but I think for a middlebrow movie that tackled a serious thing, it looks great and is funny and is emotional without being bathetic. Taika is phenomenal in it!
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 February 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
Really? as 'adorkable Hitler'?
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
add one to the listhttps://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=67985
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 3 February 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
whoops, er, broken link i guess
I don't have anything against the guy but the whole thing struck me as profoundly stupid and often offensive, not out of malice but ignorance & naivete. of course a holocaust/nazi comedy can be made, but the movie had the stale fake woke posturing of a Sprite commercial. imo
xxp
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 February 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/cats-2020-razzie-awards-949791/
― 🚶♂️💨 (Eric H.), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
WORST SCREEN COMBO Any two half-feline/half-human hairballs,CatsJason Derulo and his CGI-neutered bulge, CatsTyler Perry and Tyler Perry (or Tyler Perry), A Madea Family FuneralSylvester Stallone and his impotent rage, Rambo: First BloodJohn Travolta and any screenplay he accepts
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Spirits to Safdies, Sandler, and... The Farewell
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/2020-spirit-awards-winners-list-uncut-gems-1202208889/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 February 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
Cinema Scope
https://cinema-scope.com/columns/cinema-scope-82-editors-note/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link
Crazy follow up for Honeyland here:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/world/europe/honeyland-north-macedonia-bees.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 07:22 (three years ago) link
“It’s impossible!” sighed Mr. Georgiev. “We are filmmakers, not social workers.”
Maybe you shouldn't have bought her a fucking house then! Morons
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
i applaud their willingness to share their good fortune! It's incredibly rare among filmmakers that they treat their subjects as human after the camera stops rolling. can't help but feel that follow up pieces like this are sort of mixed-up PR though.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
That's absolutely what it is. And there's a difference between treating your subjects as human beings and all of a sudden becoming their patrons. It's really deplorable, unethical stuff, and anyone that couldn't see these issues coming from a mile away, I don't know what to say. Good intentions mean so little.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
I will say I think cutting a check and sharing in the good fortune of the movie with its subjects is one thing, and admirable -- what I find inappropriate is the extent to which the filmmakers became involved in her life, whatever their intentions were.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
well they clearly got heavily involved in both families' lives in the process of filming! They just never disentangled.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
I don't think it's despicable? ethically fraught, sure. but when you spend a lot of time around specific humans, these things can happen.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
You're right, too harsh a word. But this is the A1 rule of documentary filmmaking, and yes, these things happen, they are human--they still failed to do their job and "disentangle" from the family.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link