seeing this again on sunday :D
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
http://www.brattlefilm.org/2019/01/18/mandy-5/
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
I love that theatre. I remember seeing Duck Soup and Pierrot le Fou there.
― jmm, Thursday, 17 January 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
lol i saw this twice, is this your third brad
― imago, Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
yep third
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 21 January 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
that was fuckin great
― maura, Monday, 21 January 2019 05:33 (five years ago) link
very glad the audience was mostly not the giggly type
― maura, Monday, 21 January 2019 05:36 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NwBh2UTivs
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Sunday, 14 April 2019 01:09 (four years ago) link
really like Mandy
that song is awful
― Dan S, Sunday, 14 April 2019 01:26 (four years ago) link
My friend came to town the other day wearing a Cheddar Goblin shirt. This is why we are friends.
― Hangover Ape (Old Lunch), Sunday, 14 April 2019 01:33 (four years ago) link
uh i went into this knowing nothing except nic cage is in it and it's a revenge plot.
what did i just watch
― just1n3, Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:20 (four years ago) link
a masterpiece iirc
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:20 (four years ago) link
it's v much not the kind of movie i would normally watch but i was mesmerized
― just1n3, Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:22 (four years ago) link
that's exactly the word i used to describe it upthread! it's got such a uniquely hypnotic vibe
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:25 (four years ago) link
this got my number 1 vote in the film poll, it's completely insane but also the most heartbreaking thing ever
― or something, Thursday, 27 June 2019 09:34 (four years ago) link
this got my number 2, but it was close, and my number 1 is also a mind-altering masterpiece
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
Just learned that Cage was initially meant to play Jeremiah Sand.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 June 2019 12:18 (four years ago) link
I'm glad he didn't
― or something, Thursday, 27 June 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
it would have been a much more... i dunno what you’d call it, conventionally strange movie that way?
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 June 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
imagine what we'd have gotten if he played the role of Mandy
― mh, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
really love the whole story about cage insisting that he play red
Well, when I first met with Panos, he told me he wanted me to play Jeremiah Sand, and I said, “Why?” And he said, “Well, I see him as the California Klaus Kinski.” And I said, “Well, I am the California Klaus Kinski, but I want to play Red.” ... I did not want to play Jeremiah Sand. I felt that I had gone through enough life experience. Not that I can’t work from the imagination, I normally do, but I had enough life experience contending the failure of my third marriage and still trying to recover from the loss of my father after many, many years. Still not just quite over it. As I look at these footnotes here from the talking points that coincide with Panos himself, that I … having had experiences with loss, certainly family loss, I was in step with that.I felt I could play Red authentically and organically and put those feelings of loss in a productive place as opposed to a destructive place, and a constructive place. And so, that’s why I gravitated towards Red. I just felt that I could go after the cult and the demon bikers in a way that was in his world, but had some sort of sound of truth.
I felt I could play Red authentically and organically and put those feelings of loss in a productive place as opposed to a destructive place, and a constructive place. And so, that’s why I gravitated towards Red. I just felt that I could go after the cult and the demon bikers in a way that was in his world, but had some sort of sound of truth.
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
that has added an awesome new dimension to this
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
btw i am seeing this in a theater again on saturday
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
hyperbole ahead: god last october i was aboslutely in hell and i think this movie saved my life
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
it's a movie about music, art, fiction and movies and how they save us, so its power to save was already coded in
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
hope ur in a better place now obv
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Of all the indelible moments in the film, the bathroom scene is the one that has lodged itself most firmly in my brain. If for no other reason, I'm glad Cage portrayed Red so he could gift us with that moment.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
I think I can convince my wife to watch this as long as ilxors can confirm that no one's children are murdered in this movie (yes I know everybody is "somebody's* child but you know what I mean)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
can confirm
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
the (i think) youngest character is spared death, even!
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
thx
it was between watching this tonight on my own or waiting til she's back in town in a couple days
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
I thought my gf was gonna hate this (she generally won't watch anything horror-ish with me) but she thought it was fantastic. Everyone I watched it with was just in kind of a speechless daze afterwards.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
my wife is down for the gore and the horror and trippy weirdness (she *loved* "A Field in England") but parent-losing-a-kid trauma is a bridge too far for her
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
nah she’s in for a treat
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 27 June 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
Mandy is the best :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 28 June 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
It's really great!
― gbx, Friday, 28 June 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
I didn't vote in the film poll because I didn't see enough 2018 films to make it worth anyone's while but if I had Mandy would've been my #1, no question.
― I Ate Those Food (Old Lunch), Friday, 28 June 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
came #5 in the film poll yesterday btw folks: I Just Wanted To Take Another Look At You - the 2018 ILX Film Poll Results Thread
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 28 June 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
this was prob the best time i've ever seen it, they cranked the volume at momi and it was almost uncomfortably loud and i was so high, waves of vibrations, total sensory overload
in the q&a aaron stewart-ahn referred to magic mike xxl as a masterpiece, my kind of person
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 30 June 2019 06:54 (four years ago) link
I follow him on twitter! I can’t remember when I did so, but it was way before Mandy. I think he interacted with or knows s1ocki?
― mh, Sunday, 30 June 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
magic mike xxl is a fucking marvel
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 30 June 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
excited to fry my friends' brains w/ this today
― Simon H., Sunday, 30 June 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
also apparently the shared cinematic reference between stewart-ahn and panos for this film was cyborg
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 30 June 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
well this certainly delivered
in a funny way it felt like every scene was better than the one before it
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 July 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
not untrue imo, it just keeps building in about fifteen different ways as it goes on
― coroner criticises butt (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 1 July 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
Friend introduces me to "panos"
Me after shaking his hand to friend: "panos cosmatos?"
In hindsight he could totally hear.
How not to be.
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 6 July 2019 08:51 (four years ago) link
so was it
― mh, Saturday, 6 July 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
Yes
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 7 July 2019 09:25 (four years ago) link
I saw a midnight screening of Mandy last night. (Sadly underattended; The Room and Rocky Horror proved to be bigger draws. And I brought a flask to drink along with the bathroom scene.) What got me is that both Mandy and Midsommar culminate in triangular structures, built for ritual purposes. Was this a coincidence, or do such buildings commonly occur in vernacular architecture?
Also, between these two movies I'll never look at folkloric embroidery the same again. But then I never was the customer for such garments.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 15 July 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
How is it that I'm only just now realizing that the director of Mandy is the son of the director of Cobra?
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link