catching up w/ last year:
Zhang Yimou's Shadow is nuts -- and for long stretches, very talky -- but has the best 20-minute battle sequence I've seen in a very long time. Also never seen a lead actor with a dual role do the wasted/muscular contrast thing like Deng Chao here; I wasn't sure they were both him.
I didn't buy a lot of the plotting in Synonyms, esp some of the curious ellipses in the third act, but Tom Mercier certainly delivers a tour de force, and first-rate nudity.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
if you want to see the slowest and most minimalist 150-minute meta-drama imaginable then Domains is on Mubi and frankly be my guest but believe me when I say it puts its first 15 minutes to waste
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
Pedro Costa's Liberté: Almost as tedious as my days in the Central Park Ramble. The Salo of cum baths.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 May 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
i think you mean albert serra, still one of my most anticipated
― devvvine, Monday, 4 May 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
this CUTIES "controversy" is one of the dumbest online things to happen all year and that's saying a lot
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 11 September 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
link?
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/11/cuties-mignonnes-controversy-cancel-netflix-campaign
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 11 September 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
Tom Cotton being on the anti-Netflix side (as well as Pelosi's daughter) tells me all I need to know.
we're so fundamentally stupid every hit movie, book, or tv show these days just becomes more and more "on the nose" cos nobody understands how satire or social criticism works unless it's gift-wrapped for them
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
We watched Gunda, the new Kosakovskiy last night and... I can't quite describe it, we're still stunned... The "Eraserhead of nature documentaries" description is accurate but dumb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5DIS5c0D2U
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 September 2020 07:02 (three years ago) link
It's the best thing I've seen all year, but it's also made me forget what else came out...
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 September 2020 07:03 (three years ago) link
Can't wait to see that. Loved Aquarela when I saw it last year.
― brain (krakow), Monday, 21 September 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
I'm hoping this Joaquin Phoenix funded production doesn't go where Earthlings or Dominion did. I'm already part of the choir, so don't need the trauma.
― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Monday, 21 September 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
Apparently the movie was completed before Phoenix came on board.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 21 September 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
A statement from the National Society of Film Critics regarding the grand jury indictment of Netflix for the film CUTIES: pic.twitter.com/n2C8vn7dZh— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) October 19, 2020
― Sanpaku, Monday, 19 October 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link