It's in the union bylaws
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
Every movie production must feature at least 25% slimebag produced content
Thought that was only in Canada
― The Understated Twee Hotel On A Mountain (silby), Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:44 (nine years ago) link
"All movies are made by slimeballs"
Sitcoms, too.
― nickn, Sunday, 21 December 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
Carnage was ok. Foster overracting a bit much, and since all you have in this kind of movie is the acting, when one of the four actors is distracting it becomes a bigger problem than it might otherwise be. Winslet's character seemed underdeveloped compared to the other three. Waltz and O'Reilly are great, deliver some much-needed laughs.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
Liked Foster, bcuz I haven't even bothered to see much she's in the last 15 years, and that is a scarcely exaggerated Park Slope Parent, really.
Venus in Fur is both superficially "stagier" and more cinematic.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
there was just so much vein-popping straining going on w her
my wife's review: "I'm glad we don't live in New York" lol
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
My list and comments.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 August 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
Oh my, The Tenant is an easy second behind the obvious winner.
I have unwatched copies of The Pianist and Tess (not to mention Oliver Twist) that I should get around to someday.
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Saturday, 12 August 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link
I have good-ish memories of Bitter Moon and Death and the Maiden. Anyone seen them lately?
― the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Saturday, 12 August 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
I thought Frantic was terrific but only saw it once, on release. I'd like to see it again.
― WilliamC, Saturday, 12 August 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link
...an opinion I've already put in this thread. I need to remember, "just quit posting."
― WilliamC, Saturday, 12 August 2017 12:25 (six years ago) link
From the Criterion Daily:
Back in August, a woman identified only as Robin became the third woman to accuse Roman Polanski of sexual assault after Samantha Geimer and Charlotte Lewis. On October 3, two days before the New York Times blew the Harvey Weinstein scandal wide open, a fourth woman, Renate Langer, accused Polanski of raping her in 1972 when she was fifteen. Last week, Marianne Barnard became the fifth woman to come forward and, as Martha Ross reports for the Mercury News, her call to have Polanski expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been met with considerable support.
Whatever the outcome, films such as Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974) will endure, even if the context in which they’re viewed now or in the future evolves. The Cinémathèque française will present its Roman Polanski retrospective from October 30 through December 3, and Polanski, now eighty-four, will evidently carry on working. He’s “returned to Poland for the first time since the country's top court rejected a U.S. extradition request last year to shoot a documentary about his life in wartime Krakow,” according to Nick Holdsworth in the Hollywood Reporter. Polanski, Horowitz (working title) will be “about his childhood and youth in the southern Polish city with his longtime friend, the photographer Ryszard Horowitz.” The AP notes that they’ve specifically visited “the site of the former ghetto where he was held as a child by the German Nazis. His mother was taken from there to her death at Auschwitz, and later his father made him flee the ghetto.”
Relevant links here:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5058-the-daily-in-the-works-polanski-cuaron-and-more
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 October 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
Just seen Tess and I think it's my favorite, really beautiful, glad I didn't pass on it. Tenant is probably my second.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 3 June 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
for a debut feature-length film, Knife in the Water is outstanding
― Dan S, Sunday, 30 December 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
This has been out since February, but I just stumbled over it last week.
http://www.amazon.ca/Big-Goodbye-Chinatown-Years-Hollywood-ebook/dp/B07QSPPLQQ
Waiting for the price to come down, will certainly read it then.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 May 2020 03:47 (four years ago) link
Just finished it a couple weeks ago, and while I think the author sometimes presumptively gets inside his protagonists' heads in a way that kind of turned me off, and while its denouement is a little sharper than I'd hoped for, it's not merely the love letter to New Hollywood the subtitle suggests.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Friday, 22 May 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
tragic he’s not dead yet
― no (Left), Friday, 22 May 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
He will be. His films will go on, so you'll have to come to terms with that.
(xpost) I don't think I have any illusions about that period. I'm sure the Peter Biskind book barely touched on the horrible stuff that went on off-camera (if that's what you mean). And as I've said many times, the more self-indulgent films of the era are almost unwatchable by any standard except repeated exposure to them at a young age (i.e., why I can still watch, say, Save the Tiger).
― clemenza, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
I will watch a Roman Polanski movie no sooner than the day he dies, I decided quite some time ago.
― silby, Friday, 22 May 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
i read that book, it was fairly interesting but the writing was frustratingly florid
― na (NA), Friday, 22 May 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
(xpost) Intrigued by the marker; I would have thought that people are either okay with watching his films or not okay with that, regardless of the timing.
― clemenza, Friday, 22 May 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
(xp) yeah, I think that's kinda where I was trying to go with the bit about needlessly inserting himself into the mindset of the players
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Friday, 22 May 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
"tess" is a decent historical costume drama but dang it LOOKS gorgeous
― na (NA), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
How does nobody vote for FVK? Bloomin Bad Brains even wrote a toetapping toon with the title
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
Fearless Vampire Killers is amusing and well-made, doesn't deserve the terrible reviews I've read; I saw both it and Tess on the big screen. My vote would have been for Cul de Sac.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link