I know the Zuckerman stratagem from reading...reviews of Roth novels! (Nothing after Portnoy's for me.)
also i saw this '84 PBS adap of The Ghost Writer:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087331/
guess i shouldve started a Perry thread.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 01:22 (nine years ago) link
after Portnoy is when Roth gets funny!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
well i'm from Newark so i thought the early novels were funny. Also we read "The Conversion of the Jews" in HS.
oh yeah, this film is on VOD, it shouldnt even be in this thread.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
I thought it was amusing enough at first but wasn't at all bothered with another "look at this pretentious asshole" movie so was genuinely delighted when it expanded out. Thought it was really good.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
so all you people saw this but didnt start a thread bcz it wasn't MARVEL or what?
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 02:43 (nine years ago) link
did someone say marvel
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 02:57 (nine years ago) link
you started this marvel-lous conversation.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
we have this thread.
not really arthouse but Dear White People was okay. keeping on the sundance tip I was actually surprised at how good Whiplash was.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
Guard's high up for me on both those films. But I am excited about LUP.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 29 October 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
i have no time to see any of these movies. the next movie i see might be the new godard in two weeks.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
nice having an all purpose art-film thread, i think, though i will jump into an a-r-p thread if there's one too. but here we can digress. tonight i saw olivier assayas at the multiplex. i feel like maybe he was going to maps to the stars. buying a ticket like a regular joe. v handsome.
― schlump, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 05:18 (nine years ago) link
oy vey
Pryce gives the worst I'm-a-writer performance since Frank Langella in Starting One Evening. It's not his fault so much as the dialogue. From his complaining about "the innate ineffability" of human emotions" to "Every looking at the girls here brings a cascade of emotions" this is Chayefsky levels of pseduo profundity.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
*Starting Out in the Evening
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
I agree with schlump that the movie could've been crueler, channeling the true Roth -- the Roth of Sabbath's Theater.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
Boy, I love film festivals. That is all.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 6 November 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
cautiously optimistic about Dumont goes comic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ_-U6msBio
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 December 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
^My most anticipated viewing of 2015 (full TV version please)
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 19 December 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
love the look of the actor playing principal detective
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 December 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
...however, aside from the nearly lush 'scope cinematography i was generally annoyed by this.
Go see Winter Sleep, tho.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 January 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link
btw WF, i think there's only one version of Quinquin
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 January 2015 00:49 (nine years ago) link
Todd, no!!!!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/todd-solondz-plots-sort-sequel-742966#
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 10 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
xpost
Thanks Morbs, can't remember why I thought otherwise. You'll be delighted to hear that, according to Sight and Sound, Dumont is working on a second series of Quinquin and a 'rock and roll musical' based on the early life of Joan of Arc!
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 10 January 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
Are we doing a poll this year
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 12 January 2015 12:34 (nine years ago) link
i'll be skipping those, Ward
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 January 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link
Its a comedy Morbs.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 January 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
so anyone, ie Frederik, seen Ostlund's pre-Majeure films, like Play f'rinstance?
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/in-case-of-no-emergency-the-films-of-ruben-oestlund
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 18 January 2015 23:57 (nine years ago) link
i don't really "get" bruno dumont, although i thought hors satan was fairly interesting.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 19 January 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, Play is a must-see. Amazingly composed shots, almost all of them, so unlike pretty much everything else in Scandinavian film. Probably my favorite Scandinavian film of the decade, I think. Would be pretty interested in hearing what people outside of Europe gets out of it's politics, though, it's... complicated.
― Frederik B, Monday, 19 January 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link
My conservative friend went up to NYC to catch all of those, but he had seen PLAY before and said it was essentially about how Sweden needs to stop immigration.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 19 January 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
should i go see leviathan today or tomorrow?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 19 January 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
(the russian movie, not the harvard sensory ethnography one)
Of course -- so you can tell us later whether it's worth watching.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 January 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
I did not like Force Majeure
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 03:29 (nine years ago) link
(after the first 45 minutes, at least)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 03:30 (nine years ago) link
I didn't either. The Loneliest Planet did it better.
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 04:39 (nine years ago) link
exhibition was really interesting; my first hogg film. all three up on netflix.such a woman-centric and private story
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 06:16 (nine years ago) link
Hogg's collective is presenting a screening of Akermann D'Est tomorrow.
https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/nos-amours-chantal-akerman-16-dest
Harun Farocki season @ Goethe in Feb:
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en13760253v.htm
Two programmes of Straub-Huillet in March:
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en13760246v.htm
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 11:59 (nine years ago) link
Lots of nice things on at the Glasgow Film Festival this year:
http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on
They're offering five tickets for £32.50, not a bad deal. I've gone for:
-Jodorowsky's Dune (otherwise unavailable to view in the UK)-A Pigeon Sat on a Branch-Li'l Quiquin -Jauja-From What is Before (new Diaz, 5h38m)
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for the heads-up, picked up the brochure for this and forgot about it.
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
Stephen Cone's Black Box is out on a bunch of platforms this week and is really good. Grad students spook themselves adapting something like a V.C. Andrews novel. Not a horror movie at all.
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Thursday, 29 January 2015 00:24 (nine years ago) link
i should see that, if for no other reason than to support independent chicago filmmaking
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 29 January 2015 07:41 (nine years ago) link
I didn't either. The Loneliest Planet did it better.― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Monday, January 19, 2015 10:39 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Monday, January 19, 2015 10:39 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i thought that film walked a thin line between hauntingly terse and pretentious, but ultimately i liked it
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 29 January 2015 07:42 (nine years ago) link
Best of luck with From What Is Before. Saw it tonight, it is good, but very long indeed.
― Frederik B, Friday, 30 January 2015 01:51 (nine years ago) link
― Vulvacura (Eric H.),
if you mean "shots of Gael Bernal"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 January 2015 01:52 (nine years ago) link