yes, i'd like to swing by there on a visit
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
That house gave great stair!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
has anyone feigned illness at dinner parties after seeing this?
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
The snot/snob sister in Archipelago is my favorite recently viewed movie villain.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
unfortunately, it's now a sainsbury's local
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
lol
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link
sequel imo
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 26 February 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
fuck me, archipelago might be even better
― vacuum head tree disease (imago), Sunday, 15 March 2015 02:30 (nine years ago) link
There are lots of things in Hogg's style that connect her to earlier British avant-garde filmmakers like Laura Mulvey and Sally Potter, without even addressing the distinctly British concerns - class, social hierarchy - that are embedded in the films themselves.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 09:49 (3 weeks ago)
have you seen 'riddles of the sphinx'
― pom /via/ chi (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 March 2015 02:34 (nine years ago) link
― vacuum head tree disease (imago)
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 March 2015 02:36 (nine years ago) link
thx for the dn
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Sunday, 15 March 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I've got the BFI blu - thought the 'performance' sequence in Exhibition was especially similar to the acrobatic sequence in Sphinx, and that both films used a long take aesthetic to explore gendered domestic spaces
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 15 March 2015 08:19 (nine years ago) link
no, Archipelago is not better
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 March 2015 08:42 (nine years ago) link
https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=cinemabornagain
Laura Mulvey talk on the 21st April. Seen her speak in discussions before, she is awesome.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
Have now seen Museum Hours - it's astonishing and the two protagonists are superb characters (also, the visiting lecturer bit is great) - could listen to Johann opine on art and its spectators for hours
a beautiful well-composed conjecture on art, survival and the search for context with one of the lightest dramatic touches I've seen - it felt accidental at times, as if a documentary, even though it was clearly complex and thought-out
makes me want to spend more time in art galleries, which will have pleased the person I watched it with
― to pump a bit of lye (imago), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 23:19 (nine years ago) link
excellent!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link
yeah ty! even more amazing is that it was a debut feature film (i think) by an admittedly seasoned documentarian & music video maker
― to pump a bit of lye (imago), Thursday, 19 March 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
it felt accidental at times
^ lovely
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Thursday, 19 March 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
I'm really glad you watched Museum Hours. It's a small project of mine to get people to watch it -very pleased! When MMO'H sings alone in her room "there is a crying in my heart..." - tears every time.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 19 March 2015 03:06 (nine years ago) link
I've watched the whole thing 4 times I think.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 19 March 2015 03:07 (nine years ago) link
I think this is key, really. The whole thing is about how accidental, or incidental, things shape our lives. Chance encounters lead to deep experiences etc. so beautiful. Deft.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 19 March 2015 03:15 (nine years ago) link
loved archipelago, thought exhibition was far more predictable, less interesting, and more prone to art house cliche, and also just had far less sympathetic characters. but her films are more notable for the milieu they feature and how she brings european arthouse style/formalism to middle class britishness than for anything all that stylistically novel. though i do love her.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 19 March 2015 10:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/learn/jem-cohen-compass-magnet/
^screening on Thursday with director.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
Come back from Museum Hours. Really set up a unique tension between a documentary and this quietly powerful encounter between two people - a spinning plates trick and Cohen pulled it off as both elements were really satisfying while being almost their own separate thing. Like how Cohen took a risk by switching off the developing relationship between the Johann and Anne to then wander off to the city, around the museum and a few monologues, before then returning to that relationship -- just when you thought he wouldn't. The delay kept me on edge.
A couple of things rang false: surely the guard would've known about the punk kid's arguments against art and museums? After all, he witnesses the gallery guide's (in his favourite Bruegel room) Berger-esque Q&A with the tourists. Plus he surely would've witnessed enough dumb remarks like this in his time touring with rock bands? Additionally, there is something unsatisfying about the family member in a coma as a device for Anne to come and then stay in Vienna for as long as she has. I know you needed something to light a match, some spark so that the act of kindness could be bought out into the open -- and while this was as powerful a moment there could've been another way? Also the nudity was unnecessary, empty surrealism.
I liked the monologues a lot though -- in complete contrast to Old Masters where the guard doesn't have an independent voice. And I loved his voice, the script and delivery were near perfect (although I would've liked the last monologue to have been spoken in German as well.) In my wanders in museums I often wander what the guard thinks of what's going on, what this might be for. Haven't we all? And even if you didn't then surely museum trips won't quite be the same..also liked the conflict with tech. Cohen doesn't put too heavy a judgement either way on earphone commentary, or does he? He sure locks in to the man pulling the mobile phone out during the tour guide's talk.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link
that's a very good review
did jemmy lad say anything revealing afterwards
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:44 (nine years ago) link
Cohen just gave an intro.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:46 (nine years ago) link
johann's voice was probably my favourite thing about the film tbh
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Mary Margaret O'Hara was singing a bit though. Still got it.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
Hey, I didn't realise that Hogg was joining Laura Mulvey at the BFI 'visual pleasure' panel
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 17 April 2015 10:51 (nine years ago) link
Only about 5 seats left!
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 April 2015 11:03 (nine years ago) link
Just watched Archipelago. I would love to see her movies on a big screen. Her composition is fantastic, but the quiet tones she likes get dulled out on a small screen. Even so, a gorgeous movie. Something I didn't realize to the end was the way the camera moved in closer to the characters over the course of the movie. At the beginning it's all medium to long shots, and body parts but no faces. So that by the time you can really see them close up, you already know them.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Monday, 4 January 2016 03:39 (eight years ago) link
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/news/filmmaker-residence-joanna-hogg
cantabs ppl get to 'go the whole hogg' :)
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I couldn't make the majority of the screenings as I'm just too swamped atm but I'm gonna try to get to Exhibition (+Q&A) tonight and maybe the early shorts if I get enough work done/think I can stay awake
― a mom shaped pom (wins), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 13:02 (seven years ago) link
Think I would've preferred her version of High Rise
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 08:12 (seven years ago) link
had no idea abt her film w tilda.
― 1st Amendment absolutist in favor of the unltd publication of sextapes (schlump), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:39 (seven years ago) link
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/souvenir-review-arch-dramatist-joanna-hogg-returns-home-personal/
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 28 January 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
getting a ton of raves/coverage before its US opening next week, Honor Swinton Byrne 's performance in particular
https://www.filmcomment.com/article/i-know-where-im-going/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 May 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
WTF, not opening in the UK until August??
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/15/the-souvenir-joanna-hogg-humanises-middle-class-problems?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2IfaRsDcxO_9u7u4DZJwzIBE0XHHSYglx-jSIQtGaS6_RfqNEF0TssfMA
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:11 (four years ago) link
Yeah!
Hogg has written that one of her inspirations is Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy, saying, “I strive to create this degree of aliveness. I need to see this film often to understand what it is I am trying to do.” Most of our time in life is not spent in dramatic standoffs and cathartic breakdowns. Most of the time we are cooking and eating, taking walks, making phone calls, having deep conversations (or shallow), having sex, having arguments. Hogg clearly has a plan and knows what she wants to create, but within that plan she allows for extraordinary freedom. Perhaps the limits she imposes, by proceeding in chronological order, by keeping the camera in doorways or on the far side of a room, encourages the exhilarating sense of “aliveness” felt in Unrelated, Archipelago, Exhibition, and The Souvenir. Helle le Fevre has edited all of Hogg’s features, and her contribution is essential.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
Superb Rebecca Mead feature.
No idea she directed the second (and bigger) of the videos for Johnny Hates Jazz's "Shattered Dreams."
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 May 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
👍
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 May 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
might go see this today, did we like it?
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 June 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
did like her previous stuff, mostly & found the background/build up articles intriguing but i could not get into this idk i felt like its a level of self-involvement too far & that somehow feels magnified by it being undramatic, etc
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, May 19, 2019 12:59 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
WHATTTT
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
yep
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
There's just something about the fact that the mother is played by Tilda Swinton and the daughter is played by Tilda Swinton's daughter that gets my back up. I know we are so used to this horrendous nepotism in the UK, maybe elsewhere, that we become inured to it and I also know that there exist think-pieces about how it's all perfectly normal and makes sense within the world she's portraying etc. but that makes it worse. She's a decent filmmaker with a singular vision who's made one good film so far (Archipelago) and she's being given huge leeway because she is fucking posh!
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
exhibition was pretty good too
― imago, Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
we need some kind of venn diagram that connects xyzzz and ward's politics to this sort of aristo masturbation fantasy.
I've not seen it. Also, I've just drunk a bottle of wine.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
xp it's interesting and boring. I dunno if it's good. It's unique though.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
I mean, I've seen Exhibition, not this new thing.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link