re Wanda, Elia Kazan and...
Mel Brooks LEGEND pic.twitter.com/IZvkI4mvzp— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) January 9, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
btw Criterion of Wanda drops March 19
https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 January 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
Olivia Wilde's Booksmart beats you senseless for an hour--appropriate that "You Oughta Know" figures prominently (first time I've ever not hated it)--but I found the last 20 minutes or so (everything post-party) rather sweet, and I'd guardedly recommend it.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 June 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
I agree it's an often fraught movie but this is a strange thread in which to post the criticism. It would work in the x movie thread.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
I liked booksmart enough that I was bummed it didn’t make me laugh much. It was an 11am showing on a Sunday and the rest of the audience weren’t laughing either so the circumstances were tough. idk it was pretty much exactly this tho
these are the only jokes in like 90% of movies now pic.twitter.com/Qap6VJIK6O— Nicole Silverberg (@nsilverberg) June 16, 2019
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
(xpost) I sometimes post thoughts in the last-x thread, but I usually try to find something a bit more specific...not that this is all that specific, but it's the best I could do without starting a new thread (which the film may warrant--as much as Eighth Grade, I'd say).
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
In retrospect, you're right to keep it here; like you, I think it's not as solid as Eighth Grade.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
What I liked best: that the film ends up aligning itself with the time-honored tradition of high school movies that argue there's-more-uniting-us-than-separating-us (which, in the here and now, when you're actually in high school, is a complete fantasy; it's only credible with some time and perspective--and maybe not even then, but it's a nice thought).
One thing that leaves me at a complete loss: where the line of acceptability is for over-the-top caricature. The two gay students...If Chris Rock (or fill-in-the-blank) tried something like that, he'd be run out of town. It doesn't outrage me or anything--I basically never get outraged at the movies, just bored--I'm just curious. If there's controversy over these two characters, it hasn't reached me.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
You misread that sentence; it's less polished than Eight Grade (in that it's like a bulldozer), but I think it's a more interesting film.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
(I'm talking about the two guys--maybe the gay lead is seen as a fair trade-off.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
A rewatch of Wandayesterday, and that educational short by Barbara Loden about the frontier mentioned above. It's halfway into her interview w/ Dick Cavett from 1970 before the other guests chime in with questions -- Jimmy Breslin and Howard Cosell.
The loser thief Wanda hooks up with is treated with surprising depth, I think, w/out letting him off the hook or painting him as anything but damaged and cruel.
I hadn't realized Loden stayed married to Elia Kazan from '67 til her death; I thought they split up at some point.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 September 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
Also, I've been to the religious theme park that Wanda and Mr Dennis visit. It's in Waterbury CT, and is essentially in ruins as it closed in 1984.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 September 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
XP According to the You Must Remember This about Loden, they had agreed to divorce when she got her cancer diagnosis.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 9 September 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
They were more or less separated for a lot of the '70s.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 9 September 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
pauline kael was so mean to barbara loden in her review
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 September 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
cavett is sort of a prick to her too in that interview
sort of in the way of the era
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 September 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
for sure, tho unusual for Cavett
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 September 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
Not really, bcz he's *trying* to be 1970-woke ("It must be harder to raise money for a film when you're a woman") but then puts his foot in it anyway. Similar Cavett moment in the trailer for the recent Toni Morrison doc. He was nailed by Rick Moranis' namedropping impression on SCTV.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 September 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
on the history of women editors
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6582-hidden-histories-the-story-of-women-film-editors
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 September 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
S.C. centennial
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6616-celebrating-shirley-clarke
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
new Lupino set
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/09/ida-lupino-box-set
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 11:38 (four years ago) link
A woman I grew up with on Fire Island is making quite the name for herself as a director right now and it’s so awesome. Can’t wait to see what she ends up doing. This is her latest project: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiewire.com/2019/09/the-rhythm-section-trailer-blake-lively-reed-morano-1202174816/amp/
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:04 (four years ago) link
That Lupino set was announced maaaaybe a day or two after I bought The Hitch-Hiker. Which was pretty annoying. But the set doesn't contain Outrage which is a bit of an outrage unto itself.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
Went to see Hustlers the other night, good stuff
― Goose Witherspeen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 12:13 (four years ago) link
I recommend the pre-Code alcoholic romance Merrily We Go to Hell, directed by Dorothy Arzner (who quit directing features in the mid '40s, but later taught F Coppola at UCLA). Fredric March is a newspaperman turned playwright (a warmup lush for his Star Is Born role), Sylvia Sidney is his 'doormat' heiress wife, and when they end up in an open marriage she takes revenge with Cary Grant (one scene). Recently issued on a Universal disc.
https://www.screenslate.com/features/172
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
^^^ watching this afternoon on Criterion Channel (recently added).
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
Just watched Working Girls, which the Criterion Channel just put up as a companion to MWGtH. The screenwriters and director must have worked hard to get a happy ending for foolish sister May and wise sister June, in the big city and surrounded by men of varying morals. But they achieved it.
Related topic: Why do discussions of women in film rarely discuss female screenwriters?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 3 September 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
well we all love rio bravo
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 05:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.criterion.com/films/27854-daisies
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
Great film! I saw Chytilová's follow-up The Fruit of Paradise but don't remember anything other than bewilderment.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
My favourite film! Got to see it on the big screen a few times, the best was last year with a p raucous audience of mainly students who were v nonplussed but loved it
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
There's already an excellent blu-ray of this from Second Run, a label that's shown far greater commitment to East European cinema than Criterion. They also offer other Chytilová films:
https://www.secondrundvd.com/release_daisiesBD.html
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link