― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 8 May 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 8 May 2006 03:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 8 May 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link
hi john.
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 8 May 2006 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link
there was a twilight zone episode that had a woman without a mouth on it, and that gave me nightmares as a kid.
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 8 May 2006 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 8 May 2006 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I think Eternal Sunshine is basically a good romantic comedy which, in a world where romantic comedies are absolute shite, is a bit of a revelation. It does have some visually stunning set pieces too.
BJM is great. I think it's lazy to criticise it for being Meta. I hate that knee-jerk reaction that people have to something being meta. It's almost as if, because the arm chair critic is clever enough to be able to know the correct technical term - metafiction - then it must be a shallow trick that only stupid people would buy into. BJM revolves around a really interesting idea. Its Metaness is secondary.
― JoseMaria (JoseMaria), Monday, 8 May 2006 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link
pandering to people's already heightened self-regard in these matters
Yes, because without this movie those people would see themselves as they are. Where by 'those people' I mean everyone ever.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 8 May 2006 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan (Bah) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
See, for the last 20 mins I was all I GET IT AWREADY.
The first 20 mins of the Barris movie are astonishing -- big ups to Rockwell and Clooney -- then it just sorta flops around.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Monday, 8 May 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― JoseMaria (JoseMaria), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Adaptation really merits repeated viewing, too. crazy brilliant.
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― -+-+-+++- (ooo), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― David Orton (scarlet), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 May 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
BJM revolves around a really interesting idea. Its Metaness is secondary.I have a problem with this statement, because while it may revolve around a really interesting idea, once you see or hear that idea it's like OK, that's cool, now what? And there's nothing there. A movie has to be better than its synopsis (or gimmick) for me to care.
Eternal Sunshine is as meta and formalist as either of the other ones, but that nakedly emo bullshit core gives me a reason to want to see it again.
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 8 May 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 8 May 2006 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I personally love his first two films for daring to be so meta and formal in an age of formulaic blockbusters
It's no stretch for any screenwriter or director with half a brain to be meta. Gimme a formulaic blockbuster any day: at least the stars are prettier.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 8 May 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
new project: Steve Carell as a screenwriter, Jack Black as his film blogger nemesis.
http://www.awardsdaily.com/2011/10/about-that-new-charlie-kaufman-screenplay-frank-or-francis/
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 October 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
to HBO, with Keener.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/charlie-kaufman-to-write-direct-hbo-series-starring-catherine-keener-20120521#
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, yeah, I'm 100% on board with that.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
^well, what happened with this?
New TV pilot:
http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/john-hawkes-michael-cera-to-star-in-charlie-kaufmans-fx-comedy-pilot/
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
Okay, yeah, I'm at least 92% on board with that.
― Yes, Yes, Of Course, My American Friend! Ah Ha Ha Ha! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
lol
http://www.clickhole.com/article/cinephiles-rejoice-here-are-9-screenshots-movie-ad-3714
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:36 (eight years ago) link
maybe more appropriate for a spike jonze thread though
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
Anyone read his novel?
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Sunday, 26 July 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
“ B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer)”
Pass.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 26 July 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
No but it is being aggressively advertised to me on various platforms
― Rishi don’t lose my voucher (wins), Sunday, 26 July 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
Is there any talk around here about his new movie on Netflix?
I’m only about 2/3 through and had to take a break. But holy shit. It’s kind of incredible.
― circa1916, Sunday, 6 September 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
curious even though i hated anomalisa
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 6 September 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
same on both counts
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Sunday, 6 September 2020 03:08 (three years ago) link
I did. It’s ridiculous and annoying and brilliant and beautiful. I missed it when it was done.
― Cherish, Sunday, 6 September 2020 04:03 (three years ago) link
I really disliked Anomalisa too fwiw.This kinda became a different thing in the last 1/3 or so and I’m not sure how a feel about the turn, but the first chunk of this is pretty incredible. Don’t think I’ve felt or thought this many things simultaneously moment to moment in a film. Really masterful.
― circa1916, Sunday, 6 September 2020 06:00 (three years ago) link
Total sucker for Kaufman and can't wait to see this. Somebody start a I'm Thinking of Ending Things thread!
― life is beauitul (rip van wanko), Sunday, 6 September 2020 06:01 (three years ago) link
My partner audibly hating every second of it made it hard for me to form a considered opinion.
― chap, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 09:18 (three years ago) link
i watched what the theater claimed was the official big screen debut of Ending Things with Kaufman there to talk, preceded by his new sad-poetry-slam-meets-john-wilson short Jackals and Fireflies.
i got to ask Kaufman a question that's been on my mind with most of his movies which is if his intent is to leave the audience playing with the puzzlebox and trying to keep up with his story or if he means for us just to try to hang on and enjoy the immediate ride. He said his goal was for people to appreciate the moment to moment experience of the film and not get caught up in the details, which gives it a framework for response on his terms: Jackals and Fireflies was not much to write home about but I found Ending Things equal parts disturbing, frustrating and very very good. Gonna have to see it again. It's very much an existential horror film with a knockout cast.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 February 2023 06:46 (one year ago) link