lies. still easily my favourite film of the past few years, having watched again the other day. possible a favourite film of all time.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
i think presuming this is a horror music is a grave mistake
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
er, movie
when i recently watched the new bfi dvd of Dead of Night i got a real BSS vibe from the credits:
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/mivana/mediaplayer.php?id=b5e1d5fdeb5e2abe5f7b90c98afabdac&media=deadofnight1972&type=mp4
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
Put off seeing this a long while, wouldn't have if I'd known it's not really a horror film; also a rather forthright critique of the genre's misogyny. Never really liked Toby Jones before, but this frustrated mama's boy role fits him like a glove.
The first guy in the studio (sound editor?) he's working with is a riot, then the director is even funnier.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
(I think giallos are the worst shit in the world in case you've forgotten)
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Yeah there's definitely some genre critique in here. It's meant as affectionate, but clearly it works either way.
― Simon H., Saturday, 11 January 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
also had forgotten Broadcast did the music
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
man I LOVED this
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link
I really dug this. Those wacky eye-talians, amirite?
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
I'm not a huge giallo fan but I've seen and enjoyed enough of them to lol at lines about aroused goblins
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
I enjoyed the movie immensely up until the big transition 15 minutes before the end. I'm quite skeptical about how this movie is alternately classified as a horror movie or a thriller. Though broad, both of those labels presuppose certain elements that are completely missing from this experimental film. Still, it was a fairly good movie and I am so happy to see Toby Jones in a starring role. Though he has starred before, this is the kind of "actor's actor" that is all too often relegated to outer reaches of the supporting cast.
― Jak, Monday, 7 April 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
just went to see the duke of burgundy. v enjoyable. long-game fetishism and lepidoptera. a small figure of eight of sexual domination.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 22 February 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
sound again central. the list of recordings listed at the end as if not more important than the visual scenery. pleasing joke in the credits - the informal English names of the moths and butterflies played by their Latin classification.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 22 February 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
WHY NOT START A THREAD FOR IT?
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 February 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
v nearly did - or a P Strickland thread - and still might, but the film itself feels a little lightweight. not all in a bad way - wish there were more films that were intriguing bagatelles - but I'm still thinking.
actually that's not true, I'm sitting in the cinema bar drinking, but that's what passes for thinking round my way recently.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 22 February 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
A Strickland thread would be better.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 22 February 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
Title keeps making me think of the Mr. Show Burgundy Loaf skit
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 February 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
no men in this film btw. relying on Morbs or someone equally well informed to mention other general release films where this is the case.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 22 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
That's a really good question, and a unique aspect I'm not sure I've encountered reading about this film yet.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 February 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
the film is superbly punctuated by lectures on lepidoptera, with slow scans of the all women audience - they're all fantastically dressed and individually beautiful - in the way that is sometimes demeaningly termed "striking". the only exception being a slightly toppling badly wigged mannequin.
this film is as much about dress and dressing up as it is about anything else. the visual and aural aspects of the fabric are v sensually indulged in.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 22 February 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
very high among 2015's anticipatings
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 February 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
will port all this over to a new thread when I get 'ome.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 22 February 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
Saw the trailer when I went to see Goodbye to Language (another film of tiny bits of very beautifully done sound) (as almost all Godard) and I quite like to see this as well.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for reminding me that I missed my chance to see "Goodbye to Language" in Chicago, apparently. How does Herzog get a 3D documentary about a cave into theatres, and Wenders gets a 3D doc about a dance into theaters, but Godard's lauded latest barely sneaks in for a couple of weeks? And alas because this is meant for 3D, I have a sad feeling that means I will never get to see it.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
I was quite taken with Duke of Burgundy.
The psych/soft folk soundtrack by Cat's Eye sounded good as well.
― the gabhal cabal (Bob Six), Sunday, 22 February 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
i missed this at ifc, sadfacejosh, tbf, both herzog and wenders' films are narrative and about subjects people can easily grasp and are in focus
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 February 2015 03:08 (nine years ago) link
Hope I manage to see this next week.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 23 February 2015 03:27 (nine years ago) link
I seen it. Very lovely and cosy, I wish I lived there. It is a lot like Morgiana minus the crime and identical twin stuff. At the beginning I thought the plot was going to be totally unimportant but it gradually becomes more interesting. I think it's too long but I liked it a lot.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link