Watching “Missile”.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 1 July 2023 23:28 (nine months ago) link
worth turning on the subtitles on that just for the “bland music “ cues
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 1 July 2023 23:37 (nine months ago) link
Kinda electric to encounter “Planet Claire” and “Pop Music” in Model.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 9 July 2023 19:44 (nine months ago) link
And … there’s Andy Warhol!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 9 July 2023 19:46 (nine months ago) link
We had to pause Crazy Horse midway through because I outbursted with "this is Fredrick Wiseman's verison of the James Bond opening credits!" and then we wondered what a Wiseman James Bond movie would even be like - we made up more and more preposterous and funnier scenes. Frederick Wiseman's UNIVERSAL EXPORTS: Endless meetings with photo-interpreters, do we/do we not burn fuel on the spy satellite to get a better photo? Lots of one sided telephone calls, many pained looks into screens, others repetetively cleaning up audio transcriptions. A janitor empties the paper shredders and burn bags and night, Bond himself is never direcly on camera, we only see him through drone overheads and surveillance video.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 07:27 (nine months ago) link
Will never forget the critic who dubbed that movie Tittie-butt Follies.
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 13:36 (nine months ago) link
The restaurant movie gets a title: Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros and a premiere at TIFF this year. It's 4 hours long too - stoked!
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 27 July 2023 06:45 (nine months ago) link
I hope it gets a decent run in the U.S.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 20:08 (eight months ago) link
sounds really good
going through all of his films in order by year I have still only made it up to High School II from 1994
― Dan S, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 00:05 (seven months ago) link
There are a couple of reviews of Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros out - this one maybe the most considered?https://outskirtsmag.com/Menus-Plaisirs
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 24 September 2023 10:01 (seven months ago) link
Tonight: Essene.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 4 November 2023 00:57 (five months ago) link
oh man, the scene with the flyswatter
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 06:05 (five months ago) link
watched Ballet, about the American Ballet Theater, from 1995. It is one of my favorite films of his so far. It is, as always for him, about an institution but features an amazing extended interview with Agnes de Mille before she died and many beautiful rehearsal sequences and performances
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 January 2024 00:37 (three months ago) link
"Most striking might be the sounds Wiseman captures, not just of the music, hardly at all of the music (there isn't even an orchestra at the Athens performance: Wiseman gives us a close-up of the giant tape recorder filling in for the band), but rather the grunts and thuds and squeaks of the dancers' shoes on the surface of the stage. The sound of gravity in an artform that aspires to weightlessness."
https://theendofcinema.blogspot.com/2014/09/on-frederick-wisemans-ballet.html
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 January 2024 01:25 (three months ago) link
this goes about exactly how you'd expect fred wiseman appearing as a talking head in a documentary called "cinema verite: defining the moment" might. pic.twitter.com/hiZR7s4irT— arlin golden (@cerealburrito) February 3, 2024
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 22:21 (two months ago) link
(last bit of it) pic.twitter.com/FJE5IHuAOD— arlin golden (@cerealburrito) February 3, 2024
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 22:22 (two months ago) link
Man, the judge in “Juvenile Court”… what a job
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:57 (one month ago) link
Apparently you can watch the latest film here
https://www.pbs.org/video/menus-plaisirs-les-troisgros-rbfnou/
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:28 (one month ago) link
we just watched that -- it was very long and medium enjoyable imo. i enjoyed the kitchen scenes and seeing the chefs foraging and clowning around, but it was definitely bougie Wiseman (not my favorite)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:47 (one month ago) link
i did like that it was an entry into the behind-the-scenes kitchen films/media that did not portray the kitchen as a chaotic/abusive/stressful place. everything was extremely placid.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:49 (one month ago) link
I’m sure i will eventually get around to it and probably enjoy it, but even as a Wiseman buff i’ve had a hard time working up much enthusiasm for it just based on the subject
After years of having it on my watchlist i finally got around to Near Death a couple weeks ago and it completely rocked my world, i havent been able to stop thinking about it since, might be his masterpiece imho. It wasnt as disturbing or difficult to watch as i’d always feared, but just unbelievably rich & complex.
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:10 (one month ago) link
Such a great film--my second favourite (seems like a weird word to use) after Welfare.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 March 2024 14:04 (one month ago) link
His new film is not as good as "Near Death", however, it is still worth checking out. Wiseman has great rhythm to his films. This latest one is no exception. The 4 hours zoom by really quickly.
― Vintage, Monday, 25 March 2024 04:45 (one month ago) link
Going through his films in order - after Ballet (1995) I had a hard time with La Comédie-Française (1996), I just couldn't relate to it.
Public Housing (1997) is about the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago (which was torn down in the 2000s). It is pretty great.
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:03 (three weeks ago) link
I am watching Belfast, Maine (1999) now and loving it. It is over 4 hours long though, so I'm taking my time
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:06 (three weeks ago) link