arr it be The Lighthouse (Eggers, 2019) - Pattinson, Dafoe, sea shanties

spilling beans itt

lol... and that capt ahab reference didn't quite glisten like the pecker of a sperm whale.. who get's paid for doing this stuff?

hahaha fuck this was so fucking good. It's been a while since I've seen a good midnight cult movie ala Eraserhead. This will stick with me for a long time. I hope either of these guys gets an Oscar nom.

Looked good, was tedious. Eggers has yet to "wow" me. His films seem to be reaching for some sort of thing - primal horror? - that I just don't think he's able to deliver.

I'll take Ben Wheatley in horror-mode over this guy any day.

I like some Wheatley, but hasn't captured the horror of awaiting the winter with a failed crop.

The Witch is doing a lot of things that haven't been as well done in the horror genre before. Most notably in period production design, but also in period daily concerns. Your 17th and 18th century farming ancestors had a very real chance of slowly starving to death, and by the end of harvest they'd know whether they'd survive the next 6 months or be reduced to beggars.

Yet to see The Lighthouse, but if Eggers ouvre remains period films with slowly growing dread, leading to his characters finally cracking, that's something new.

... and also timely. We're all watching the same news of the collapsing world, and some days its all I can do to stop myself screaming naked down the street. We're surrounded by others pacified with political propaganda, like having credulous neighbors in Jonestown (now there's a film I'd love to see a docu-psychological horror). A horror cinema of this sense of glacially encroaching dread, that its all falling apart and we're doubtless doomed, but which focuses on the psychological tension of the struggle to stay presentable... that's something I can identify with.

I liked The Witch quite a lot. I think its stature will only grow.

I was expecting something more tepid reading takes on this here. This was convincingly possessed and demented. Loved it.

I'll take Ben Wheatley in horror-mode over this guy any day.

I’m more of an Amy Jump fan

when the two actors started autocritiquing the movie via each other's performances {You're a PARODY of an old salt!) i lost all hope

basically a Corman movie with drunken comedy and Prometheus baggage; nice-looking tho

i'll send tabes a list of the many movies i liked this year btw

Dafoe really makes Lionel Barrymore look like the king of Bressonian understatement in this

xp it better be a list of pop movies you liked this year or else his point is proven

i think Little Women, Ad Astra, Irishman and Dolemite count on that score

Also, a lot more pop than this movie tbh.

People are suckers for Grand Guignol when it's black and white.

nice-looking tho

nice-sounding too

Hell yeah we are xp

and most successful when it's a comedy (again, the Corman-Price-Lorre films)

This is not a genre of movie https://t.co/pVnlAl3mVk

— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) January 28, 2020

yeah I had that argument in 2011 when The Artist wowed too many people ("Silent movies aren't a genre").

So what tho

I saw this on Valentine's Day - I can't off the top of my head think of a film more likely to put people off sex afterwards.

A lot of weird authenticity when you read around about it - they built the lighthouse, a lot of century-old film lenses, they built the light and the foghorn (and most of the weather is natural) - but in the service of very keyed-up and unnatural performances. Which is great!

The real anachronism is that the song they're singing before they don't kiss was written in the 1980s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpWWWhc9QzI

weird, given its not that long since this story was given the film treatment

He's been working on this since before the VVitch, I understand - though both Pattinson and Dafoe approached him after that and asked to be in a film of his.

when the two actors started autocritiquing the movie via each other's performances {You're a PARODY of an old salt!) i lost all hope

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 29, 2020 3:38 PM

I was a little irked by this bit but I liked the film a lot.

I had heard it was a remake of The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) but apparently not?

Feeling smug about catching the Sascha Schneider influence.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4198/34681056660_492c0f4fd4_o.jpg

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/lighthouse-robert-eggers-literary-visual-influences-melville-lovecraft-dads-army
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/lighthouse-robert-eggers-influences

Would like to see this with subtitles someday because I think I missed a bunch, or a script to appreciate all the sea dog talk.

Getting excited for The Northman, and wondering if Eggers will ever make a film not titled "The ___"

https://www.slashfilm.com/the-northman-viking-film-anya-taylor-joy/

Cool.

saw this, enjoyed everything. looked amazing and the two lads were game.

surprised nobody made a pattinson/day lewis link, i think he was blatantly lifting entire elements tbh

I fell asleep to this just as old mate was killing a seagull about a year ago. Figure nothing important would happen after that moment so haven’t turned it back on

I fell asleep to this just as old mate was killing a seagull about a year ago. Figure nothing important would happen after that moment so haven’t turned it back on

(It’s kind of a funny idea the movie ending there as if nothing else happen and I haven’t been willing to ruin that illusion yet)