yeah it was a melodrama but it was so honest in its misery and meloncholy, and so difficult to watch it, the frogs seemed to be nessecary to alleviate the tension.
― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 28 April 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ryan, Monday, 28 April 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
amateurist=the film Geir? ;)
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
strangely, the first thing that comes to mind is the laughable scene in "Dressed to Kill" where the black thugs at the train station exist solely to menace Nancy Allen and chase after her purty lil' white booty... i.e. their blackness is used as shorthand for "menacing strangers"... and this from a guy who howls at reruns of "All in the Family", okay!
― absolute skittles, Monday, 28 April 2003 22:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ryan, Monday, 28 April 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
god that is so ILM
― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
it's been around for like six hours dude.
― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 00:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
At least he's better than Aronofsky, imo, who is even more entrenched in flashy filmschooly formalism at the expensive of character development.
― Vic, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 03:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
hah expense, sorry
― Vic, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 04:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
something about tarkovsky's supa long takes makes them more tolerable. i think its because they seem to be just images with a real aesthetic quality to them, whereas bela tarr just had very long shots of people walking, for like, 7 minutes. sometimes it owkred, but as i got more tired, i got less patient. and it seemed to be underlong in some places: the point where the looters find the old man in the bath could have dwwelt a bit longer on the scene...
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
WTF?? There are only six or seven threads (!) and at least three of them are just me waffling about nothing. I'm not sure if Amateurist is being funny when he gets like this. Or is he just 1 BIG hata? :p
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 09:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
uk ilxors, magnolia is on ch. 4 tonight, 11pm.
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 29 August 2004 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― henry miller, Friday, 7 January 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― papa november (papa november), Friday, 7 January 2005 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― peepee (peepee), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― henry miller, Friday, 7 January 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link
So now then...
http://www.ptanderson.com/featurefilms/magnolia/articlesandinterviews/magessay.htm
― peepee (peepee), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Boogie Nights and Magnolia are both overweening Grand Statements -- saying what, I couldn't tell you. Tho the frogs ALMOST saved Magnolia.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
but the vvv enjoyable scorsese-altman fest 'boogie nights' is not a big statement. it's just a lot of fun.
― henry miller, Friday, 7 January 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― henry miller, Friday, 7 January 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
PDF of new Esquire feature on PTA's early years: http://www.cigarettesandredvines.com/news/?p=197
― caek, Friday, 19 September 2008 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice read!
― Nhex, Friday, 19 September 2008 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
70mm screenings of PT's PT
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/phantom-thread-70mm-screenings-1201905384/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 December 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
You can't get it cheap, but you can get it:
You could have bought that film print yourself, too.
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Tuesday, 19 December 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
Before the Boogie Nights screening tonight--a 35mm print that Warners supposedly gave them a hard time over, suggesting they play a Blue-Ray instead--Brendan, host of the series, brought a friend with guitar up and they played "Feel My Heat." Pretty funny.
Notwithstanding that I have watched it too many times (not for quite a while, though), the film still amazes me. Even the dark, slow section, where I can understand the argument that it seems layered on--things fall apart now, because they have to fall apart--the way PTA cuts between Wahlberg in the parking lot and Reynolds/Graham in the limo, and then links both of those scenes to Cheadle in the donut store, all of that is masterful (punctuated by immediately going into the spectacular Alfred Molina scene). And I love everything after that: Wahlberg's apology, and the beautiful--except for the Colonel--grace note of the last five minutes. Really, the '80s third of the film is no less great, I'd say, than what comes before it.
― clemenza, Saturday, 30 December 2017 04:17 (six years ago) link
Looks like the new one doesn't have a credited cinematographer, yet again--I wonder what happened between him and Elswit.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 19:20 (three years ago) link
He turns 71 in a few days, maybe he wants to just chill idk
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 19:25 (three years ago) link
If Anderson and his crew enjoyed the collaborative experience on Phantom Thread, makes sense to carry on and develop that. Being 90% shot in the same environment was probably a good training-wheels experience for lighting?
...though I just went to check my memory on that and found that Elswit said (on a Mission Impossible podcast) that reuniting for Inherent Vice didn't feel so good:
“God, I don’t know what it is anymore. It’s like a bad married couple. Unpleasant.”Asked whether he could see them collaborating again, Elswit didn’t sound optimistic. “I don’t know. Probably not. You know, it depends on how he feels. I would do it again…I didn’t enjoy myself on ‘Inherent Vice’…It was a combination of me and Paul just not getting along, and I can be as immature as him.”
Asked whether he could see them collaborating again, Elswit didn’t sound optimistic. “I don’t know. Probably not. You know, it depends on how he feels. I would do it again…I didn’t enjoy myself on ‘Inherent Vice’…It was a combination of me and Paul just not getting along, and I can be as immature as him.”
And when he was asked about Thread for Adam Nayman's PTA book:
“Well, I know how he did it, because it’s the same people I work with, it’s the same crew. He just threw a lot of smoke in the room. Which he never would let me do, he never let me smoke a set. Not that I wanted to — I mean, he wanted it for a scene. But I think he shot tests and he knew enough that he didn’t know enough. But with the modern stocks you can do minimal low lighting and you can lower the contrast and shoot all the detail you want, just by adding smoke. I can’t imagine I would have done it that way and I probably could have talked him out of it if he wanted to.”“But yeah it was a period film, it was okay and had really good locations. I enjoyed the film. I just…if I’d shot that movie I would not be happy with it ending up looking like it looked, that’s all. But I liked the movie. I actually like it better than anything else I’ve done or he’s done with me or without me. I like it more than “The Master” and I like it more than “Inherent Vice.”
“But yeah it was a period film, it was okay and had really good locations. I enjoyed the film. I just…if I’d shot that movie I would not be happy with it ending up looking like it looked, that’s all. But I liked the movie. I actually like it better than anything else I’ve done or he’s done with me or without me. I like it more than “The Master” and I like it more than “Inherent Vice.”
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link
He turns 71 in a few days
Really? Wow--had no idea. I would never have guessed that Boogie Nights was made by someone almost 50; always thought PTA was around 30 at the time.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
PTA is 50 now, he's referring to Elswit.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
I'm laughing at myself...that makes sense.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
Lol, I pointed that because I also misread it at first but realized that couldn't possibly be right.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
Just watched Phantom Thread the other day and wow what a film... why do I have such a love/hate relationship with PTA? Couldn't stand Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, and Inherent Vice but I adored Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood and now Phantom Thread. What a weirdo.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
https://x.com/JarmuschMood/status/1752353224860827696?s=20
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link
yeah, they're shooting that up in Humboldt County. A bunch of PA's went into a thrift store multiple times to buy clothes for the extras, they're stoked
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:35 (three months ago) link
Vineland? Holy Shit! Is that confirmed?
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:17 (three months ago) link
More details... they're being cagey about what they're filming
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/leonardo-dicaprio-eureka-arcata-movie-filming-bc-18636090.php
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:44 (three months ago) link
DiCaprio in a bathrobe and scenes of paramilitary forces would definitely fit.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 12:53 (three months ago) link
the thing i saw said the movie had a "contemporary" setting
― circles, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 13:25 (three months ago) link
Disappointed Leo isn't wearing the party dress and carrying the ladies' chainsaw.
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 31 January 2024 13:57 (three months ago) link
More cast announced: Alana Haim, Teyana Taylor, Wood Harris, Shayna McHayle (aka Junglepussy)https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/paul-thomas-anderson-alana-haim-teyana-taylor-1235813631/
― jaymc, Saturday, 3 February 2024 05:13 (three months ago) link
Chase Infiniti does already feel like a Pynchon name tbh
― Piedie Gimbel, Saturday, 3 February 2024 10:10 (three months ago) link
PTA was shooting in downtown Sacramento on Saturday :D Sacramento Bee included this v bitchy aside in the report “The film is reportedly based on the Thomas Pynchon novel "Vineland." In a biting Associated Press review that ran in The Sacramento Bee on March 4, 1990, Mario Szichman called the novel "a sea of boredom, sailed by hardly recognizable characters." “Noted. Thx for that lmao “biting”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:10 (two months ago) link
I know you'll recognize this: "It's a honor to leave the Chronicle and go work for the Sacramento Bee. Dare to dream, right, Robert?"
― clemenza, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:40 (two months ago) link
looool yes I loved that line lmao
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:41 (two months ago) link
Lol
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 12:38 (two months ago) link