Haha. Fair then.
What's that gif from chap?
― Cake hawn. (jed_), Friday, 11 August 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
Hot Fuzz.
― chap, Friday, 11 August 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
This is reminding me that I need to watch Khrustalyev, My Car!
― imago, Friday, 11 August 2017 14:20 (six years ago) link
Khrustalyov, even. It seems this movie night be somewhat indebted to it
― imago, Friday, 11 August 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
That's quite a cast. Looking fwd to Buscemi's Khrushchev and Palin's Molotov.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/fullcredits/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 August 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
this looks great but personally - and it might just be my mood today - the terror looks thick enough in the trailer to be a bit too frightening for full belly laughs
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 August 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
I think it's a good moment for comedies of terror.
this is playing the NY Film Fest
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 August 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
oh it's certainly the right moment
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 August 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
it's super weird to me that it's in english but other than that i'm highly anticipating
― Mordy, Friday, 11 August 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
That looks awesome! I was wondering on Wednesday where Michael Palin had gone.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 August 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
Love that no one tries for accents! It was all I could do to stop the trailer early just so I could watch it again.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 August 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
PBS just aired this 3-year-old Palin show
http://www.pbs.org/show/remember-me/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 August 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
Isaacs is Zhukov I'm guessing?
― nomar, Friday, 11 August 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
looks fantastic
I presume he is Zhukov, it isn't credited on imdb.
― calzino, Friday, 11 August 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
It's the perfect moment! Hell it should be coming out right today.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 August 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55893/stalin-vol-ii/
woah! Kotkin's vol II has a release date as well.
― calzino, Friday, 11 August 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
when I say "shit taste in music" - he is a fully paid up member of the Real Music is made with Guitars posse.
He is also autistic, and has admitted he has some issues as a result
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 14 August 2017 01:47 (six years ago) link
so i guess this isn't getting released in the usa until 2018
― circles, Sunday, 22 October 2017 03:34 (six years ago) link
Booooooo whereza torrents then
― Hit to Death in the "Galactic Head" (kingfish), Sunday, 22 October 2017 06:42 (six years ago) link
[doing a Rick & Morty fan Szechuan sauce freakout, but about not being able to watch The Death of Stalin even though it's out in the UK]— The Discourse Lover (@Trillburne) October 22, 2017
― Hit to Death in the "Galactic Head" (kingfish), Sunday, 22 October 2017 07:08 (six years ago) link
honestly I saw it at TIFF and it was dece but certainly no IN THE LOOP. it feels weirdly slight for what's effectively framed as a huge story, whereas ITL managed to be v funny while also telling a complete story about how modern war legislation is sold. certain awful truths of the characters and period sit awkwardly with the lols. Friend and Isaacs are great and should both do more comedy
― Simon H., Sunday, 22 October 2017 08:48 (six years ago) link
I don't remember ITL so much but I thought this was great, the fact that it was about a real and murderous regime made it all the more chilling. The climactic scene was seriously intense. Some insight into how these regimes function - the groupthink, the cognitive dissonance; the true believers, the cynics & self-servers. Still funny though, & not too much of the fucknugget cockwomble type dialogue.
― Monogo doesn't socialise (ledge), Sunday, 22 October 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link
not on in Hull today sadly, wanted to fuel my inner despair without booze
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 October 2017 11:01 (six years ago) link
Friend and Isaacs are great and should both do more comedyReally well-cast all round
― The Suite Life of Jack and Wendy (wins), Sunday, 22 October 2017 11:22 (six years ago) link
Was just reading about the Aleksei German death of Stalin movie. Which provoked a massive walkout at Cannes '98 and Scorsese wanted to award it the palme d'or. His movie is coming from the pov of a persecuted Jew during Stalin's antisemitic Doctor's Plot. It sounds fucking great tbh, I just wish my copy had subtitles.
― calzino, Sunday, 22 October 2017 12:06 (six years ago) link
http://sensesofcinema.com/2013/cteq/khrustalyov-my-car/
― calzino, Sunday, 22 October 2017 12:07 (six years ago) link
thanks for tip
subtitles! [
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 October 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
https://sovietmoviesonline.com/drama/305-hrustalev-mashinu.html
Is that site legit? I wouldn't complain about paying $3 for a good copy.
― calzino, Sunday, 22 October 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
Oh I see you don't need to pay to watch, cool!
― calzino, Sunday, 22 October 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
no idea bud but you can stream the movie for nothing anyway
― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 October 2017 12:16 (six years ago) link
Absolutley fucking cool, tbh!
excited for my tankie friends to get all mad about this
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 22 October 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
omg thanks nv!!
― imago, Sunday, 22 October 2017 16:51 (six years ago) link
Will give that a watch.
Not seeing Death of Stalin but its been an...experience seeing Peter Hitchens go on about this *all day*.
Stoked for the opening of the communist museum.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 October 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
I bet there isn't a moment in The Death of Stalin where Beria, standing over Stalin's fresh cadaver, says to Klensky: "Make him fart again".
― calzino, Sunday, 22 October 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
I thought this was A+. Good year for films imo.
― chap, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 11:04 (six years ago) link
I saw this several years ago as part of a German retrospective. (I think My Friend Ivan Lapshin was the only other title I managed to get to.) My impression was of a nightmare journey seeded by a deep study of the period. My memory is almost certainly at fault, but I'm remembering a faux-one shot stream of consciousness a la Birdman. I probably should revisit it, if it's available to stream.
― Virulent Is the Word for Julia (j.lu), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
I thought it was very good. It felt you are experiencing someone's internal memory of The Terror and experiencing memories in the abstract and disjointed way that they are relived in your mind. If that makes any sense. And this was mixed with much more vivid horror, like the innocuous looking NKVD van with the advert for Soviet Champagne on the side.
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
And Klensky seems such a strongman character and pretty invulnerable in the first act, by the end he is broken and humiliated. I'd imagine this was the director's memory that *anyone* could be broken in that era.
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 12:32 (six years ago) link
The overwhelming atmosphere of menace rendered simple sight gags excruciatingly hilarious. At some points I almost felt like I could be shot for laughing, which made not laughing much harder.
― chap, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link
I thought this was great, amazing entrance scene from the guy playing Zhukov.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link
Jason Isaacs, he is hilarious in this. I liked it a lot also. I expected it to have had all the best jokes in the trailer but there were plenty more. I also found it surprisingly affecting. Andrea Riseborough as Svetlana deserves a lot of credit for that, in particular. Great performance.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
when/where can i see this
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link
I saw it (friend wanted light relief) and it was really bad although given where I am often coming from it might be impossible for me to find it good. There were only a couple of funny moments in this (the "you can plot while you run" quip at Khrushchev) and Isaacs was given the best lines, although the general as working class no-bullshitter who cuts through felt too easy a thing to do.
Otherwise it wasn't doing much of anything - felt like middle-class people laughing at stuff. Palin's role gave it a People's Front of Judea vibe to it and I mostly hate Python.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 10 December 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
Palin was the week link
This was great
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 December 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
It was a weird experience. About 20 of us. One man at the back was laughing hard, a couple of others were doing so now and then. Everyone else quiet - it could be they were all laughing silently.
I was just hate-watching: these people are my enemies. I don't much like Thick of it either, not that they were attempting that trick here so much.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 10 December 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9eAshaPvYw
― omar little, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
omg it's cpt lorca
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
Is there a patreon I can subscribe to where I can see this folder
― U. K. Le Garage (wins), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
their rumsfeld caricature was realer than the entire politburo put together
Did you ever hear Kubrick quoted by one of his actors, "Real is good; interesting is better"?
I think my favorite line is "Who the fuck would want eternal life?"
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
i've read descriptions of stalin's actual moment of death, the deathbed scene where he raised up his hand, that were genuinely chilling and haunting and nothing like the goofy and over-the-top way they handled it here
b-b-but it's a comedy
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
It's a comedy in the sense that life is a comedy, but it's not particularly funny.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
Then it's a not very good comedy.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
Comedies don’t need to be all that funny, tho.
― rb (soda), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
heard a lot of that lately and not seen many good comedies in the past few years
― ogmor, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
compared to Tag i expect it's funny
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
Stalin doesn't have much confidence in the setting; it could be any corrupt regime perpetuating itself, an idea that absolves the filmmakers of writing jokes to fit the material.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
i agree, and i liked that about it
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
(i have forgotten most of the Soviet history i knew in college)
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
nearly assuming the audience knows what the NKVD was is plenty confident for this era
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
the palin committee meeting stuff was actually painful bad and well beliw the rest of it
― the last famous poster you were surprised to discover was actually (darraghmac), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
You didn't need to know anything about Soviet history. Imagine watching a Italian comedy where they talk like Cubans.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
"or the titles calling 1953 "the midst of the great terror""I didn't notice this at the time and I was looking to pick at this thing, cos I can't fucking stand Ianucci's style and the rest.. anyway absolutely fab post there, DLH.
― calzino, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
the CC scenes are actually not far from Python's People's Front of Judea in Life of Brian
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
Imagine watching a Italian comedy where they talk like Cubans.
is this a Scarface reference
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
Just finished on BBC2, what a piece of pointless crap.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
yep. A self-satisfied Iannucci gag fest no less, with some good and bad actors enjoying themselves much more than the poor viewer.
― calzino, Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
It's not good on many levels but I enjoyed a couple of the performances. I don't much care about movies having a point either but yeah, this is waste, especially compared to Khrustalyov
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
It was simultaneously too light and too dark and ended up as nothing. Not funny. I grinned once.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
It really doesn't work as a comedy
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
And it definitely doesn't work as a drama, apart from the last 5 minutes.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:28 (three years ago) link
Plus I'm sorry the bit where Beria has a hissy fit and starts shouting accusations at the other committee members was just a pale shadow of Glenn's "I AM MAN" meltdown in "Rise of the Nutters".
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
There was an 80's brit tv comedy drama about Stalin that pissed all over this, but I saw it years ago and can't remember the name of it, and then there is the darkest of dark comedy of Khrustalyov My Car which isn't going to be for everybody but goes more into the anti-Semitic "doctors' plot" violence at the end of Stalin's era, which much more interesting than doing shit comedy versions of famous Soviet commissars in *hilarious* UK regional accents. Actually maybe the latter could actually be funny if it was done by anyone but fucking Iannucci.
― calzino, Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
Having Paul Whitehouse play Paul Whitehouse, Michael Palin play Michael Palin and Jeffrey Tambor play Jeffrey Tambor was a bit lazy.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 December 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/14/khrustalyov-my-car-review-visually-amazing-russian-gem-aleksei-german
lol Khrustalyov is the recipient of that highest of movie accolades, a five star P Badshaw review! tbf on him it is a decent little review.
― calzino, Monday, 21 December 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
Fuck off back to Georgia, dead boy.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 13 September 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
finally watched this. not funny at all apart from isaacs
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 September 2021 06:48 (two years ago) link
i mean there's a line of people being shot in the head and then news of stalin's death reaches siberia and the next guy doesn't get shot. that isn't funny and it isn't satire
it's reveling in misery
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 September 2021 03:19 (two years ago) link