RICHARD LINKLATER

I guess I'm a good kid, then! It doesn't work on as many levels as Topsy-Turvy, tho it was also shot by Dick Pope, but I was generally delighted. McKay's turn works in similar fashion as Streep's Julia Child, and Efron is good.

Recognized the Norman Lloyd character right away (tho the actor looks like Larry Fine), cuz I saw Lloyd describing his '37 role as Cinna the poet at the Film Forum a year ago!

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, December 30, 2009 7:09 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i meant it in a good way!

i mean it is based on a kid's book

also ya, as kids we were raised to bet on adults' sexual peccadilloes... sort of an ol'-fashioned way to pass the time during those cold winters

and you had to do it in english AND in french

*makes poutine joke*

well, I'm guessing quite a few changes were made in the adaptation then. This is to some degree a horny 1930s teenager movie.

it's a young man coming-of-age movie—he's like 18, but as a 12-year-old i would have loooooooooved this so much

There was a guy in front of me last night who laughed at EVERYTHING... shots of the marquee, Brutus's orations, you name it.

also, I did not recognize any of the 4 company logos that preceded the credits, I guess that's why I didn't get any info about screenings.

http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/06/richard-linklater-says-dazed-confused.html#more

depressing, the two fallen-through films sound awesome

didn't know M&OW didn't really open in the US. played multiplexes here.

when's subUrbia coming out on dvd?

when the economy picks up.

Texas true-crime black comedy... "Jack Black as a gay mortician" does something to my kishkes, but we'll see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEs7l6JTAc4

nephew of the murder victim seems OK with it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/how-my-aunt-marge-ended-up-in-the-deep-freeze.html

I guess Shirley MacLaine playing a high-maintenance Texas dame who gets offed could've been titled Debra Winger's Revenge.

I think I read somewhere that Linklater is related to Marge, too?

dunno, i'm seeing this tnite so trying not to read too much

i keep being ABOUT to rent me & orson welles ten i spot something else.... i guess i can't work up much enthusiasm about it? but i'd like to see. and this new one.

no way is D&C his best film BTW. oh well.

So I'm in the minority so far, but after 20 cute minutes Bernie deflates like a balloon. Jack Black doesn't have to do any *actual* gay stuff besides mince, and sing "76 Trombones."

A roundup:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/richard-linklater-and-bernie

curious what gay things Morbz wanted to see Jack Black do

haha damn, all kinds of gay stuff, probably.

Well, if they worked, the film could've made the next horror poll.

xp

Point is the character apparently had tons of sex with local men, something that's only referred to comically by McConaughey's asshat DA. If yer gonna tell a story, tell it. OTOH, singing showtunes is much more reliably audience-friendly.

ah well ok that makes sense

still wanna see this tho. bummed it isn't opening in SF just yet

on a related Jack Black genital note, my friend Jim did the new Tenacious D album cover art (likely NSFW, tho Jay Leno held it up the other night):

http://www.toogoodforradio.com/comedy/stream-tenacious-ds-new-song-album-out-in-may/

a new Tenacious D album is really not something that needed to happen

seeing Bernie tonight

shoulda read me, I am absolved

I did read it, still gonna see it

this was pretty enjoyable. lack of Jack Black bjs didn't bother me.

bernie owns

weak tea

yeah I enjoyed it. I like movies where the surrounding community is as much a central part of the narrative as the main characters

keeping Bernie offscreen wd've been better.

so I lost my hopes that Bernie would be uproarious but uneven like I Love You, Philip Morris in the first ten minutes.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Ethan-Hawke-Julie-Delpy-Shooting-Sequel-Sunrise-Sunset-31409.html

We’re also doing a follow-up to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, so that will be fun. We’re going to shoot that this summer,” Hawke reveals. “I’ve gotten into trouble, so I’m sworn to secrecy [about where it will take place]. The biggest change between this one and the last one is the Internet. The first time we did it, we didn’t have any pressure; nobody gave a shit.

omg I hope for good things, I love those 2 movies!

When I heard they were doing Before Sunset, I thought, "that is a TERRIBLE idea."

I feel the same way now, despite really loving Before Sunset.

Finally saw Bernie. Thought it fantastic, but that's perhaps owed to, you know, the TEXAS thing. He didn't get talked up as much as Black did, but McConaughey absolutely NAILED the lifelong small-time/big ideas Texan Politico ("Let me show you what I like to call my 'Wheel of MIS-Fortune'."), from the hand movements down to the cowboy hat and half-full bottle of Big Red on the table in the courtroom (that part I guess was really up the props department).

Was moved by the dedication to Lou Perryman and Eagle Pennell at the end of the credits.

i was crestfallen to find out at the end that Rick Dial had died

bernie was great. i thought shirley maclaine was just fantastic (jack black too, but her performance was so smart). especially after how much i disliked her on downton abbey.

i loved this. Morbs is probably right in that it does deflate a little. for that happened after the murder.

townspeople the real star (and maybe even subject) of the film, which almost reads like an ethnography of small town east texas. particularly loved the sense in which it was obvious (to me anyway) that many of the interviewees were cutting up not only for the camera but for each other--you get the sense this kind of performance in front the community is a part (and pleasure) of daily life in a town like that. this is like sitting in church and listening to gossip. Bernie is a hero because he played that game, because he performed so well. the "reality" of what he did is incidental.

*for me that happened after the murder.

I just watched Bernie, that shit was great!

Me too! McConaughey /is/ Texas as much as any of the folksy old people.

yeah, totally.

Before Midnight getting rapturous reviews.

This guy disagreess: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/21/before-midnight-first-look-review

the film it most closely resembles is not either of its predecessors but Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy, an ironic, metatextual take on cinematic love stories that somehow, and most unfortunately, feels much more genuine than this.

Somehow this doesn't dampen my enthusiasm.

uh ya haha