of the three samples eric posted: first one i don't get (sachs is hardly the fassbinder type?), second one is weaksauce "critique" (someone was horrible? in a movie???), third one is...well, armond
― donna rouge, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:31 (five months ago) link
I also liked All of us strangers - hard to resist if you grew up in the 80s suburbs listening to Pet Shop Boys. Kind of a queer spooky sibling to Eternal Daughter.
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 17 November 2023 23:35 (five months ago) link
Mescal and Scott did a q&a at my screening and their mutual affection was almost as moving as the film!
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 17 November 2023 23:38 (five months ago) link
i recommend paul b. preciado’s new godardian recasting of woolf’s orlando into the current-day trans milieuhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpGFplNRUmc
― donna rouge, Saturday, 18 November 2023 05:36 (five months ago) link
Def my favorite key art of the year
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Saturday, 18 November 2023 14:47 (five months ago) link
Man, Saltburn sounds awful
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:10 (five months ago) link
promising young woman was godawful, guess we’re in for more
― ivy., Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:29 (five months ago) link
It's definitely less than the sum of its parts. (Its parts being Brideshead Revisited, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Gormenghast.) Great casting, lovely main location, song choices that a little TOO obvious at points.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:36 (five months ago) link
But basically I forgot I saw it within a couple of days. I was thinking "Wait didn't I see a movie this past Monday...oh yeah right."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 21:37 (five months ago) link
didn't really have any interest in seeing saltburn till I saw Ned's post that added gormenghast to the brideshead/ripley comparisons had already heard - now sounds gloriously bad and i wanna see
― H in Addis, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 02:59 (five months ago) link
Barry Keoghan could make a great Steerpike. This attempt at a variant, well...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 04:31 (five months ago) link
Silverlake Life if "arty" = "gritty, lo-fi mid-80s documentary"― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:07 AM (eighteen years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:07 AM (eighteen years ago)
gygax! OTM, absolute doomwatch that turned entire cinemas into weeping masses
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 04:40 (five months ago) link
I've got a chromosomal aversion to gay films of arty qualities infused with a special pleading, so I'm still thinking about my response to All of Us Strangers /
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 December 2023 16:32 (four months ago) link
You're not alone in that, but it worked a treat for someone like me
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 December 2023 16:37 (four months ago) link
Paul Mescal, though! I thought he was a wan little thing. Every time he chortled and looked at Andrew Scott I wanted to -- well.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 December 2023 16:48 (four months ago) link
First reasonably mainstream movie to feature one man cleaning up his own, er, mess from another man's chest?
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 December 2023 16:56 (four months ago) link
I finally saw Saltburn. And I wish I had stayed home and rewatched Teorema.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Sunday, 10 December 2023 21:55 (four months ago) link
something i’ll say for saltburn is i’ve never felt completely uninvolved in something “trashy” before
― ivy., Wednesday, 27 December 2023 15:37 (four months ago) link
anyway, very bad! gorgeously lit but no one behind the camera is making images out of this gorgeous lighting! script is obviously intended to be Hilarious but it isn’t funny???? (rosamund pike doing her best)
― ivy., Wednesday, 27 December 2023 15:39 (four months ago) link
https://t.co/k5HoOU1NLv pic.twitter.com/abH1tYD0tD— Larry Fitzmaurice (@lfitzmaurice) December 27, 2023
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 15:43 (four months ago) link
Not much discussion here of Rotting in the Sun. I watched it last week and liked it, actually found it fairly affecting at the end. Won't say much because it starts out seeming like one kind of movie and becomes quite different.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 15:55 (four months ago) link
There are individual scenes in All of Us Strangers that I found really affecting, and the performances were uniformly excellent, but as a narrative I'm not sure what to make of it.
― jaymc, Sunday, 14 January 2024 02:32 (three months ago) link
I watched the trailer and determined it wasn’t for me.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 14 January 2024 12:55 (three months ago) link
Ha, I watched the trailer and determined no movie has ever been more for me.
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Sunday, 14 January 2024 13:53 (three months ago) link
Y'all should watch Winter Boy, a gay film of arty qualities released last year that covers some of the same ground yet is funnier and lighter.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 January 2024 13:57 (three months ago) link
I don’t think All of Us Strangers was meant to be light
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 January 2024 14:32 (three months ago) link
That's the problem.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 January 2024 14:42 (three months ago) link
There really should be more light, funny films about grief
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 January 2024 14:47 (three months ago) link
My problem mostly has to do with the ending.
― jaymc, Sunday, 14 January 2024 14:58 (three months ago) link
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.),
I recommended one!
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 January 2024 15:01 (three months ago) link
Hard pass then
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 January 2024 15:22 (three months ago) link
Short read: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/all-of-us-strangers-bottoms-queer-storytelling-1235784736/
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 January 2024 17:17 (three months ago) link