i really don't want to imagine what "combusting internally" means in this context, though i think i just did.
― omar little, Monday, 28 September 2009 18:37 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
if *anyone* else had used this innocent if slightly grandiose metaphor for attraction, it would have passed without such comment
repulsion didn't really reach me. came across as a visually impressive but slight and conceptually unconvincing study of neurosis. the rotting rabbit carcass was effective. maybe if i see it again i'll appreciate its trip into unaccountable human darkness a little more enthusiastically
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i think it is a pretty perfect movie. you weren't moved by the first and last shots?
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
it's been a while! i will have to see it again, as i say. first shot is a london cityscape, isn't it? like i say, visually it was very well-executed, so i wouldn't be surprised if some of the shots are stunning
obv he is (was) a vile person for doing what he did and deserves at the very least to have his name tarnished
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
don't complain lj, you received a free pass on this earlier exchange imo
Anyway, Deneuve was in a film just 2 years later that was 3x as shocking, 5x as good, 10x as devastatingly psychological, and in colour. So ner.
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:50 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
(and a film moreover with a FAR more interesting take on sexuality, especially the contradictory and spry sexuality of its still-glacial star)
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:55 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Belle du Jour?
Much as I love that film, your choices and descriptions are a real give away that you've never been a female.
― emil.y, Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:58 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not. see it again. and it goes beyond some "stunning shots" to the very meaning of the movie.
― fountain bleaut (s1ocki), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean that's like saying an album has some "stunning chords"
well, some stunning melodies maybe
i think i'll be better equipped to appreciate it given what i've seen in the meantime...it's certainly a film i can imagine missing the point of
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, 28 September 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
All this and now the hating on that movie?
What a disaster for Belle du Jour.
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 28 September 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Fck, meant Repulsion! WHAT A DISASTER FOR REPULSION!
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 28 September 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't really appreciate repulsion until I had to write a paper on it
it's a movie that's more fun to pick apart than it is to watch imo
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 28 September 2009 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
even if only for the lolfreud symbolism... rotting rabbit, get it?
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 28 September 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
the first glimpse of the rabbit was my favourite bit of the film...it practically made me jump...beautifully *done* even if the symbolism is a little obvious
― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, 28 September 2009 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I am dum so um... no?
I thought Repulsion was okay but not a patch on my other favorites of his (chinatown, rosemary's baby, lolz Macbeth), but obviously I am missing something
― man, motherfuck a paddington bear (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 September 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, 'lolz, enough!'
― omar little, Monday, 28 September 2009 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
L.A. Times: Roman Polanski attorneys may have provoked arrest by complaining L.A. wasn't serious about arresting director
― "apostrophe" is not Latin for "watch out for the S" (reddening), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 01:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm glad they're not my lawyers
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
re: Repulsion, i believe i've talked elsewhere on this thread about a paper i once wrote on disembodiment and schizophrenia in Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, and The Tenant. with some mentions of other films of course...
watching the Tenant more than ten times in four days made me feel more than a little o_0
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link
The Tenant is pretty damn funny.
At a press conference earlier today, the Zurich Film Festival jury wore red "Free Polanski" buttons and accused Switzerland of "philistine collusion" in arresting Polanski. "We hope today this latest order will be dropped [as] it is based on a three-decade-old case that is all but dead but for minor technicalities," said jury president Debra Winger. "We stand by and wait for his release and his next masterwork."
Festival de Cannes president Gilles Jacob, Italian star Monica Bellucci and directors Costa-Gavras, Wong Kar Wai and Bertrand Tavernier are among the signatures on a petition demanding Polanski's immediate release. Harvey Weinstein also lent his support to the cause ...
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/09/rally_round_1.php
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 01:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Do they think they're defending Ezra Pound here?
― Little starbursts of joy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think it's funny. i thought and continue to think that it is quite a terrifying meditation on the Other, the fluidity of identity, and the death drive.
but what the fuck do i know right, i don't understand why all these douchebags are supporting him or why all these douchebags are adamant about this abstract sense of 'justice.'
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
lol alfred.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/28/polanski_arrest/index.html
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link
well, the Other is very funny at parties, does snappy patter and impressions.
(rlly, I always roffle at the second leap.)
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
hey. it's not just me!
“A comedy tipped with poison . . .perfect, typical Polanski.”– Jay Cocks, Time
http://www.filmforum.org/films/tenant.html
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 02:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i watched repulsion alone in someone else's apartment, which it gave it that certain extra something
― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
the tenant is hilarious
― il miglior Fabio (s1ocki), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
The Tenant is perfect proto-Lynch, wherein hilarity and horror cozily exist side-by-side.
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
as they always should.
(which is why Dario Argento... never mind)
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
― Little starbursts of joy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:59 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is hilarious.
why the fuck is ezra pound a more defensible – apparently *much* more defensible – figure than polanski?
seriously, what is it about pound, unbelievably tedious and fraudeulent before he became a fascist, that you like?
― history mayne, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 08:52 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmhIMbdecEU
this is pretty hilarious
― history mayne, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 08:53 (fourteen years ago) link
"No one does it to you like Roman Polanski."
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 09:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Whoopi on Polanski: It wasn't rape-rape
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Though nice try Whoopi with the "Europeans have sex with children all the time!" argument, or whatever that was
Uh...
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh, reading reports of the french reaction to this, i can see why she'd think that.
― history mayne, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link
When in Rome...
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
...nope, give up.
― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link
When in Alabama...
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Christ almighty, Whoopi. I like his movies, too, but wtf are you on about? I don't believe in hell, so I think the man should at least die in prison.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:57 (fourteen years ago) link
SNL seriously needs to get Tracy Morgan to come back and cameo for a parody of that conversation. serious lolz at "allegedly"
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Has the victim been quoted anywhere?
Ah yes, here in the NY Times: "The victim in the case, Samantha Geimer, has long publicly identified herself and expressed forgiveness of Mr. Polanski."
That's kind of all I need to know.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh is it now.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh the man should at least die in prison now.
― conrad, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link
American prison would be preferable, for my vengeful purposes.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
What do you care?
― Niles Caulder, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh fuck you.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskib1.html
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:03 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
http://arthive.scrippscollege.edu/2007_2008/ART_142/YOU_WILL-SP08/KSTATES/morbo.gif
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:15 (fourteen years ago) link
xp You're right, I suppose. It's not my daughter. But Jesus Christ almighty. Does everyone understand what it is that he plead guilty to?
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
diiiiiiiiee
― conrad, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/la-oe-samantha-geimer23-2003feb23,0,4716430.story
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks for that Ward, hadn't ever seen that!
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 11:21 (fourteen years ago) link