didn't think a whole helluva lot of Killer Joe, tho Mac and Juno Temple have good moments. A lot of it is awfully familiar amid the flesh and splatter.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 12:18 (eleven years ago) link
oh, and Thomas Haden Church gets some good laughs. Temple and Emile Hirsch miscast tho.
big transgressive chicken scene is just vicious and unenlightening.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
unenlightening
You're running out of words to hide your latent moral disapproval over people getting off on naughty cinema.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
howbout "pointless"
I like getting off as much as anyone, but movies gen don't do that for me.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe if you had a popcorn box handy.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
he claims Sorcerer BR is coming, and is flummoxed by unmedicated aspect-ratio blogger Jeff Wells.
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2013/02/sorcerer.php
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
I used to be a licensed theatrical projectionist so don't tell me.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
more details on Sorcerer reissue / dvd
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/william-friedkins-misunderstood-1977-sorcerer-getting-re-release-exclusive-81966
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 23 March 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
"...as he recounts in his upcoming memoir 'The Friedkin Connection,' the release of 'Star Wars' that same year made it a film out of time and place. 'The zeitgeist had changed by the time it came out,' Friedkin said."
I'm looking forward to this (never seen it), but that seems like a rather self-serving simplification. My distinct memory--I was 15 at the time--was that there was a certain amount of confusion created by the title and the marketing; people were expecting another horror film, and there was some backlash when it turned out to be otherwise. It's not like Star Wars instantaneously killed interest in large-scale ambitious films. To name one obvious example, The Deer Hunter won awards and made back three or four times its cost a year later.
― clemenza, Saturday, 23 March 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i wrote that comment off as bullshit.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 23 March 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
Friedkin tells a story in Easy Riders... about how Sorcerer was the film programmed directly after the initial engagement of Star Wars at Grauman's theatre (or some other landmark Hollywood place--I forget), which was like a week. The trailer for his film ran before all the SW screenings, and one evening he took his new bride Jeanne Moreau to see both. After the film was over, he talked to the manager, who told him that if Sorcerer didn't deliver the goods audience-wise when it opened, they would pull it in favor of more Star Wars screenings (it had sold out every show there thus far). Of course, Sorcerer didn't bring them in, and I think that whole experience has colored Friedkin's memories of the whole bloody affair.
Also, lol at this poster/flier
http://images.moviepostershop.com/sorcerer-movie-poster-1977-1010204873.jpg
― Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 March 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
Brooklyn retro, Boys in the Band through Cruising; two Q&As:
http://www.bam.org/film/2013/friedkin70s
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 April 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
has he ever directly addressed all the homoeroticism/homosexual themes in his movies
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 April 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
(I'm under the impression that he's straight correct me if I'm wrong)
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 April 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
friedkin is 87% full of shit but sorcerer is a great movie.
btw those last posts remind me of when someone asked david fincher about homoerotic elements of "fight club" and he got all mad and was like "what are you talking about bro?"
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 26 April 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
better to ask Chuck Palahniuk and his boyfriend mebbe
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 April 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
so that's a no then
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 April 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
I would think he'd be a little cooler about than Fincher, at least a couple of his films are explicitly about gay characters/culture and then there's all the wierd shit in things like To Live and Die in LA that seem pretty consciously thrown in there...
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 April 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
You could get quite fucked up playing a 'Hi Bob' game with the featurettes on the Cruising dvd. Your keywords: Friedkin saying "Leather Bar".
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 April 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
Friedkin writes in his book about Mart Crowley taking him to Fire Island before filming Boys in the Band so he could soak up the milieu. I think he's pretty hetero.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 April 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
“Cruising,” was set in the clubs – not the gay clubs, but the S&M clubs, which many gay people had never seen – which to me was just an exotic background. By the time it came out, the gay liberation movement was very strong. And this sort of subject matter was not the best foot forward at that time. So I understood the protests, I really did. But I was not thinking, when I made the film, about how this would affect gay liberation or not. When you’re making a film, you don’t start to think of the social consequences, or whether there will be any. Now, that might have been nearsighted on my part. But that’s the way I felt.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/i-thought-i-was-bulletproof-william-friedkin-looks-back-on-the-seventies/
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Sorcerer is a good, visceral spin on its great predecessor. There's one edit, involving the rope bridge in the poster, that I think is a bit of a cheat, but it's pretty gripping once he's done with the time-marking backstories (which are there to establish the principals as killers). And this might be Roy Scheider's best performance.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 May 2013 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
(It also felt very Peckinpah to me, then I saw in the credits that Walon Green of The Wild Bunch wrote it. Had no idea he's been busy with the various Law & Order series for the last 20 years.)
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 May 2013 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
Still need to see that
― Blue Yodel No. 9 Dream (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 May 2013 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
Adding to the Peckinpah thing: Friedkin approached Steve McQueen to play the Scheider part, but McQueen said no when Friedkin refused to add Ali McGraw into the deal as anything from actress to a bs "producer" credit.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 May 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
he talked about that in the Q&A; said he still regrets not acceding to the demand (Mastroianni and Lino Ventura also dropped out).
choice quote: "I couldn't watch (Marvel's) The Avengers if it meant getting off double murder." (I clapped.)
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 May 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
director of jade has opinions
― buzza, Friday, 3 May 2013 04:59 (eleven years ago) link
he then said "It's not the film, it's me; I don't get it."
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 May 2013 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
Saw tladila, liked tladila, placing it above french connection is lol
― the norman wisdom of gaffers (darraghmac), Friday, 3 May 2013 08:35 (eleven years ago) link
kinda agree darragh, and ive been a big tladila advocate around here
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 3 May 2013 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
I'd probably vote cruising if this was done again
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 3 May 2013 08:53 (eleven years ago) link
Sarris was def not a fan of Sorcerer
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1299&dat=19770718&id=5PZNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OYsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5900,1064206
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 May 2013 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/nyregion/crime-scene-chasing-down-a-gps-blip-to-a-stolen-iphone.html
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 3 May 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
“I honestly have never thought the idea that these were ‘gay movies made by a straight director.’”
http://flavorwire.com/394993/flavorwire-interview-william-friedkin-on-the-controversial-legacies-of-the-boys-in-the-band-and-cruising
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
!!!thx
― Mr. Scarf Ace is Back (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Keep forgetting he made Blue Chips.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
He should have stuck w/Shaq up through Kazaam.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
Sorcerer is a good, visceral spin on its great predecessor. ― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Friday, May 3, 2013 3:55 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's even better. More suspenseful, unflinching.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
noooooooo. I couldn't believe hauling out the sentimental watch the second before Fate takes a hand.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
even if it was just a product of the time, Wages has more cheese and softheartedness in it, while Sorcerer is as dark and creepy as the story should be. Also they put sand in the trucks.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
I love pretty much every change they made, kind of my standard for a great remake.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
He say things:
“There were some really fine films in the Seventies, like The Parallax View, that dealt with the human condition and moral complexity. That’s disappeared. Now, it’s all about guys in spandex suits flying around saving the world. There are a number of good films around today. [Pause.] I can’t name them… But it’s no longer for me, I can tell you that.” He presses an electronic clicker and a houseboy appears in a Union Jack T-shirt and silver shorts to take orders for coffee and croissants.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
Sure that's not about Michael Cimino?
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
lol
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
He just wants his damn croissants, is all.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
watched rampage - is like an overlong & really muddled law & order. 1st ~10 mins are kinda scary
http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/images/7493.jpg
unfortunate, cuz it looks like there was some good facts 2 work w/ from the guy it's based on wiki
Once alone in the apartment, Chase began to capture, kill, and disembowel various animals, which he would then devour raw, sometimes mixing the raw organs with Coca-Cola in a blender and drinking the concoction. Chase reasoned that by ingesting the creatures he was preventing his heart from shrinking.
Chase granted a series of interviews with Robert Ressler, during which he spoke of his fears of Nazis and UFOs, claiming that although he had killed, it was not his fault; he had been forced to kill to keep himself alive, which he believed any person would do. He asked Ressler to give him access to a radar gun, with which he could apprehend the Nazi UFOs, so that the Nazis could stand trial for the murders. He also handed Ressler a large amount of macaroni and cheese, which he had been hoarding in his pants pockets, believing that the prison officials were in league with the Nazis and attempting to kill him with poisoned food.[5]
― johnny crunch, Monday, 22 July 2013 01:25 (ten years ago) link
o plus grace zabriskie is p good in it
― johnny crunch, Monday, 22 July 2013 01:29 (ten years ago) link
Deal of the Century is a 1983 American comedy film directed by William Friedkin and starring Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, and Sigourney Weaver.
The film follows the adventures of several arms dealers that compete to sell weapons to a South American dictator
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, July 27, 2012 4:52 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
after years of asking I've literally met no one who's seen this.
i watched this, mostly mediocre but 1 good wallace shawn scene and chevys dimple is in full force. plus its prescient abt unmanned drones. for the life of me, i cant figure out y 'santa claus is coming to town' plays over the closing credits
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
Friedkin directing Pinter's The Birthday Party onstage in L.A. this winter.
Cast includes Tim Roth and Steven Berkoff.
― tbd (Eazy), Monday, 30 December 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
A certain critic wrote on FB about Cruising, "It's amazing what you notice if you watch this movie without huffing poppers the entire time."
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 26 January 2014 02:22 (ten years ago) link