Jackie Kennedy biopic (with Natalie Portman) thread

ay freddy b tony manero is no way 5th on the list jesus

also fuga apparently is crap

ach, really wasn't that keen on Neruda at all. the whole meta thing fell a bit flat for me, and the chase aspect of it was without any sort of jeopardy or urgency to make it seem remotely compelling

chilean press prosaically and provincially annoyed at the depiction of neruda

I should never see a film on a Friday night--may have nodded off for about 10 minutes early on. I'd like to watch it again at home a few months from now. I found the conception of Jackie Kennedy as really caustic and embittered--things like her line about de Gaulle on a tank--but drifting in and out of her prescribed and more proper role intriguing, and some of the visuals were nice.

Neruda's the better film, but not by much. Weirdly minor.

One of the weirdest things in Jackie: early on--maybe it's the first time she speaks in the recreation of the White House Tour interview--it's hard not to notice how much she sounds like Marilyn Monroe, and right then you hear her say something about the Monroe Room.

not sure where else to post this

saw Larrain’s Tony Manero yesterday. I thought it was just going to be a dark comedy about a man with a John Travolta / Saturday Night Fever obsession.

I guess you could call it a black comedy but it turned out to be barbarous and unsettling, with a memorable final scene

Post Mortem was also interesting. It was apparently filmed in a 2.66:1 aspect ratio using Lomo lenses on 16mm film, and had beautiful subdued colors

didn't love this quite as much, but the final scene was as memorable as the one in Tony Manero

No is a little more conventional as a film than Tony Manero or Post Mortem

I’m really impressed by Alfredo Castro after seeing three films featuring him now

Castro is very good! Check out From Afar as well, it has gorgeous cinematography by Sergio Armstrong (Larrain's usual photographer) and a great part for Castro.

No was the first I saw of Larrain, and I kind of dismissed him as a crafty stylist. Then I saw El Club and loved it. No still seems funny, feel good and slight tome, but I like it a bit more, since it really is funny. It also helps that it's a bit removed from the hype of 'this TRUE STORY shows the power of advertising!' which but me off at the time. Now it seems more in line with Larrain's interest in storytelling and how it shapes our lives.

I’ve been continuing to watch his films. I just saw El Club. Like Tony Manero and Post Mortem it is solemn but also incredibly savage and strange. It also has beautiful photography, with back-lit washed-out images

will watch From Afar

A story about institutionalization of denial. The pious moral compromise of the final scene in El Club is another subtly shocking ending for Larrain, it seems like a signature for him

haven't rewatched Jackie yet, but Neruda seems so much more watered down and conventional than his earlier films

Nooooo! It has one of my best new filmic ideas, the way that scenes are cut between so many locations, and in the beginning you don't really notice it, because films sometimes do that, but then in the climactic conversation Gael Garcia Bernal all of a sudden notices that he is moving between between places every cut! Because the past is an unstable construction! I love Neruda, kinda thinks it's his magnum opus.

i didn't really enjoy neruda that much either. i think either tony manero or no are my favourite of larrain's films.

no feels extra relevant this week obviously

will have to see Neruda again

Jackie seems better to me than it did the first time I saw it

didn't notice that aspect of Neruda tbh

Tony Manero, Post Mortem, El Club were so good

Jackie gives a sense of how constantly Jackie Kennedy was watched

Ema is v good

No special interest in the subject, but I liked Jackie, like Kristen Stewart (or at least did, until seeing she doesn't count Adventureland as one of her five good films--clueless!), and like the poster, so I went to see Spencer. I may see it again, eventually--I was tired, so I drifted off for possibly 15-20 minutes.

Very hush-hush and morose. I wish they'd had a bit more of the Diana you see with her sons, but the director wants you to know how miserable her life was, so I guess he didn't want to undermine that. Sally Hawkins has a great scene that will get her lots of year-end recognition and awards. Unusual score--jazz concrete, or something. An accomplishment of sorts: it's all so gloomy, when Mike & the Mechanics barrel in after two hours they practically sound like the Sex Pistols.

the score is so good

i thought this was all around better than jackie but could’ve lost twenty minutes

Maybe I got lucky and those were the 20 minutes I slept through.

Looked back at my Jackie post four years ago: "may have nodded off for about 10 minutes early on." I'm taking longer naps now.

Larrain should make more flicks like Ema.