https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/cats-2020-razzie-awards-949791/
― πΆββοΈπ¨ (Eric H.), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
WORST SCREEN COMBO Any two half-feline/half-human hairballs,CatsJason Derulo and his CGI-neutered bulge, CatsTyler Perry and Tyler Perry (or Tyler Perry), A Madea Family FuneralSylvester Stallone and his impotent rage, Rambo: First BloodJohn Travolta and any screenplay he accepts
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Saturday, 8 February 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Spirits to Safdies, Sandler, and... The Farewell
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/2020-spirit-awards-winners-list-uncut-gems-1202208889/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 February 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
Cinema Scope
https://cinema-scope.com/columns/cinema-scope-82-editors-note/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link
Crazy follow up for Honeyland here:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/world/europe/honeyland-north-macedonia-bees.html
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 07:22 (three years ago) link
βItβs impossible!β sighed Mr. Georgiev. βWe are filmmakers, not social workers.β
Maybe you shouldn't have bought her a fucking house then! Morons
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
i applaud their willingness to share their good fortune! It's incredibly rare among filmmakers that they treat their subjects as human after the camera stops rolling. can't help but feel that follow up pieces like this are sort of mixed-up PR though.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
That's absolutely what it is. And there's a difference between treating your subjects as human beings and all of a sudden becoming their patrons. It's really deplorable, unethical stuff, and anyone that couldn't see these issues coming from a mile away, I don't know what to say. Good intentions mean so little.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
I will say I think cutting a check and sharing in the good fortune of the movie with its subjects is one thing, and admirable -- what I find inappropriate is the extent to which the filmmakers became involved in her life, whatever their intentions were.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
well they clearly got heavily involved in both families' lives in the process of filming! They just never disentangled.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
I don't think it's despicable? ethically fraught, sure. but when you spend a lot of time around specific humans, these things can happen.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
You're right, too harsh a word. But this is the A1 rule of documentary filmmaking, and yes, these things happen, they are human--they still failed to do their job and "disentangle" from the family.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
true. Herzog's almost certainly done worse of course
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
I haven't seen the film or read the piece, so I'm just responding to what I take is the general gist of the story. I've mentioned this anecdote before. At a Q&A with Frederick Wiseman after a screening of Juvenile Court, I asked him if he followed up with any of the kids he filmed. His answer was four or five words--I forget exactly what he said, but the unmistakable message was no, of course not, and that I'd asked the dumbest question in the world.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
Other end of the spectrum: Steve James and Stevie.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
(Or not--James had a relationship with Stevie Fielding that predated the film by a decade.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
now, conversely, I'm wondering to what extent the subjects of The Act of Killing keep an eye on Josh Oppenheimer and co....
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
now, conversely, I'm wondering to what extent the subjects of _The Act of Killing_ keep an eye on Josh Oppenheimer and co....
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
I haven't seen the film or read the piece, so I'm just responding to what I take is the general gist of the story. I've mentioned this anecdote before. At a Q&A with Frederick Wiseman after a screening of _Juvenile Court_, I asked him if he followed up with any of the kids he filmed. His answer was four or five words--I forget exactly what he said, but the unmistakable message was no, of course not, and that I'd asked the dumbest question in the world.