Roxanne, Roxanne... back at 46 or something! Awesome
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 March 2016 21:29 (eight years ago) link
from Japan, Happy Hour. No US distro yet? I generally prefer at-home options now for single-sit 5-hour films.
http://filmmakermagazine.com/97860-happy-hour-the-best-317-minutes-of-new-directorsnew-films-2016/#.VvWageIrJhE
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 March 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link
times loved it too.
gonna see embrace of the serpent tonight, looks good
― ulysses, Friday, 25 March 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
Embrace the Serpent has got future midnight head film written all over it, but it's very good anyhow. (Especially before they reach the Messiah.)
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 March 2016 02:26 (eight years ago) link
that made it to a theatre 2.5 hours away from me. fuckin Batman + Supes taking away art-film slots from the one Regal that shows them.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 31 March 2016 02:51 (eight years ago) link
yes it was an eye popper
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 March 2016 02:57 (eight years ago) link
man, i thought embrace the serpent was great all the way!april and the twisted/extraordinary world and born to be blue, not so much.
― ulysses, Thursday, 31 March 2016 14:42 (eight years ago) link
I just felt i'd seen a lot of what was in the third act of EotS before, not that it was bad.
sorry i left of outta the title
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 March 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
there were definite "LET THE INFINITE IN" 3rd act stuff that was a little old when 2001 did it but I thought it was artful and well handled.i'd say it's the best or second best film made this year that i've seen tho'
― ulysses, Thursday, 31 March 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
btw it has grossed almost $1M in the US! A HIT.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 March 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link
“Rain The Color Blue With A Little Red In It” was a little slow and some of the acting isn't the best, but I still liked this adapted homage to Purple Rain
This Tuaregs in Niger movie is gonna be shown again (twice) at another DC fest, Filmfest DC between April 14 and the 24th
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 March 2016 20:05 (eight years ago) link
Next weekend I'll have three days in a row where I'm watching Out 1 pt 1 on Saturday, Out 1 pt 2 on Sunday, and The Assassin on monday. That's a good few days :)
― Frederik B, Saturday, 9 April 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
Surprisingly promising Cannes program this year. Ade, Mendonca Filho, Puiu, and, yay, Guiraudie. And a bunch of usual suspects, many of whom I have hopes for.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 April 2016 10:30 (eight years ago) link
Yay, Dumont and Mungiu
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 14 April 2016 10:56 (eight years ago) link
Perhaps a few more coming? 20 already, which is more than the last few years.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 April 2016 12:28 (eight years ago) link
v strong less obvious picks, wonder how every usual palmes suspect's entry is tho. i feel like the surplus that makes it a large group is just unpromising American films, cf sean penn ~helmed~ dramas
― 1st Amendment absolutist in favor of the unltd publication of sextapes (schlump), Thursday, 14 April 2016 14:42 (eight years ago) link
Dumont is a plague.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 April 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link
With a bit of luck he will infect The BFG
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 14 April 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link
I kinda don't get how Nicholas Winding Refn got so big that half the newswires from Cannes seem to feature pictures from his film. The wisdom on Drive was that it was a commercial dissapointment, and most people hated Only God Forgives. And yet apparently there's still a bunch of clicks in writing about him?
I mean, I like it. I liked Only God Forgives. I saw Bleeder the other day, and it really is one of the best uses of Copenhagen on film. He does certain things really well. But somehow, someway, he became a world director, three time Cannes participant, even when the second was called a flop and the third is divisive.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 14 April 2016 23:02 (eight years ago) link
Quainzaine:
Divines - Houda BenyaminaDog Eat Dog - Paul SchraderL’Économie du couple - Joachim LafosseL’Effet aquatique - Sólveig AnspachLa Pazza Gioia - Paolo VirzìLes Vies de Thérèse - Sébastien LifshitzMa vie de courgette - Claude BarrasMean Dreams - Nathan MorlandoMercenaire - Sacha WolffNeruda - Pablo LarraínPoesía Sin Fin - Alejandro JodorowskyRaman Raghav 2.0 - Anurag KashyapRisk - Laura PoitrasTour de France - Rachid DjaïdaniTwo Lovers and a Bear - Kim NguyenWolf and Sheep - Shahrbanoo Sadat
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 10:19 (eight years ago) link
"The wisdom on Drive was that it was a commercial dissapointment."
It was not some huge crossover indie hit, but it was only a commercial disappointment if your expectations were that it was fated to be.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 12:19 (eight years ago) link
I think Refn's appeal maybe has more to do with his personality than his films (and certainly their commercial successes) anyway.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 12:25 (eight years ago) link
A mate of mine got his movie "The Transfiguration" selected for the 'un certain regard' section. Delighted for him.
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 12:44 (eight years ago) link
Showing at Filmfest DC tonight and later this week:
Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It
The Tuareg people who live in the Sahara desert region of Niger don’t have a word for purple, which is why first-time director Christopher Kirkley’s adaptation of Prince’s Purple Rain is called Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It . Starring singer/guitarist Mdou Moctar, this leisurely paced effort substitutes tea-drinking rituals for the flash and sex of its 1984 Minneapolis predecessor and is the first full-length movie to be voiced completely in the Tuareg language Tamasheq. While the film’s plot, with its father/son tension and battle of the bands ending, is a tad simplistic—and the acting a bit wooden—this Afro-groove celebration of Tuareg culture is nonetheless unique and endearing.
Tues., April 19, 6:30 p.m., E Street Cinema; Sat., April 23, 9:15 p.m., E Street Cinema
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 13:49 (eight years ago) link
well, this was astonishing; go in knowing as little as you can i say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaKUaqJHYeI
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 May 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
on Minervini's Southern 'docufictions'
https://thefilmstage.com/features/the-films-of-roberto-minervini-capturing-a-complicated-portrait-of-the-american-south/
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 June 2016 16:32 (seven years ago) link
aferim is one of the best films ive seen in a long time. set in the 1800s, with a brilliant sense of the period and place, a little bit like a western, full of humour, *life*, and tragedy, but never striving too hard to make its points. the humour in fact just makes the serious points its making even sharper and more powerful. its also quite timely, and makes you wonder if people/society can ever really change that much. really want to see what his other two films are like now. shame its not getting a wider release from the looks of things, just a few weeks at bfi southbank. basically, another example of why modern cinema programming/programmers/audiences are all equally disappointing.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 09:33 (seven years ago) link
hmm, looks like its been on DVD for about 6 months already! odd :|
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 09:36 (seven years ago) link
morbs thank you for the louisiana recommendation, really loved it
going to see the new hong sang soo film on saturday at the fancy metrograph place. reviews are good
― adam, Thursday, 23 June 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
so has anyone seen Happy Hour?
http://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-week-happy-hour/
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 August 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I saw it in Gothenburg. It's quite good, the extended setpieces are the best thing about it. But I was perhaps slightly disappointed that it wasn't the masterpiece I'd hoped it would be. Anyone seen earlier Hamaguchi?
― Frederik B, Friday, 26 August 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
I found it equally compelling and irritating.
Pinkerton:
http://reverseshot.org/archive/entry/2233/happy_hour
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that's kinda how I felt as well. That scene with the reading, though, right?
― Frederik B, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
possibly my least favorite
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 August 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
apparently that story was supposed to be godawful, right?
I honestly have no idea... The scene is so weird. I didn't really get the sense that the husband was showing a better side of himself, he keeps talking about himself rather than the story in question.
― Frederik B, Monday, 29 August 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
no, Men Are Creeps was a steady theme.
anyone seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8HY-6F4Y_I
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 04:28 (seven years ago) link
That Venezuelan Golden Lion winner, From Afar. It's actually really good guys, even though Guillermo Arriaga is involved. Great as an aesthetic portrait of the isolation felt in a society with nothing inbetween the utmost private and the completely public, shades of Pablo Larrain and even Lucretia Martels great The Headless Woman, I think. As a gay film it's admittedly more problematic, though. Still, worth seeing.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 1 September 2016 09:50 (seven years ago) link
Diaz wins top prize at Venice with a short one - hope this gives it a chance of a wider release
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/the-woman-who-left-by-filipino-auteur-lav-diaz-wins-venice-film-festival-golden-lion-complete-list-of-winners-1201856697/
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 11 September 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
Diaz wasn't who I was rooting for originally - probably Larrain or Konchalovsky - but I kinda love how it played out. Filmtwitter was just an echo chamber for the first week, when all the American prestige films came out before Toronto. Tom Ford? Stylish genius! Damien Chazelle? Better than Demy! Villeneuve? Sci-fi masterpiece. Malick? Hum... Then came the second week, and it all died down. I didn't even see anyone talk about Konchalovsky, and he was considered a frontrunner, ended up winning a Silver Lion, and his Postman's White Nights was a great great award winner a few years back. So to see the jury - led by Sam Mendes - give out the main award to the four hour b/w low-budget one, that's great.
There's no hope of a release in Denmark, though. I really hope that both Diaz' 2016 films will be shown at CPH:PIX next month, but I'm kinda worried they're going completely mainstream. The opening film is Dr Strange...
― Frederik B, Sunday, 11 September 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
So has anyone seen FuoccoAmare, the winner from Berlin? It's pretty fucked up. I was quite surprised to find it's not the humanistic documentary I was promised, in fact, it's one of the most inhumane documentaries I've seen in a long time (the Italians live pointless and banal lives, while the Africans are depicted only as this swarm on the periphery of the continent, I think they're compared to a squid fisherman's catch at one point. It's quite explicitly racist, though that's the point (that they're denied their humanity)) It's not really about immigrants, as much as it's about European pathologies, I think. I'm a bit shellshocked, actually.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 29 September 2016 10:08 (seven years ago) link
it's playing NYFF next week, opening NY/LA later in October
https://www.kinolorber.com/film/fireatsea
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 September 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
hoping to catch this a/g thang this weekend
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/deborah-stratmans-illinois-parables
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 November 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link