yeah, the alarm was...yeah.
the tension in the hong kong hotel scenes was so heavy.
i was like one of two people in the screening i just saw to laugh nervously, otherwise it was dead silent
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 30 January 2015 02:46 (nine years ago) link
Poitras on Bill Maher's show tonight (along with Mel Brooks).
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 January 2015 02:01 (nine years ago) link
ended up seeing this a few times and the last ~20min are kind of rudderless and repetitive but yeah the HK scenes are like nothing else.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 31 January 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link
gukbe otm upthread about the ominous shots of facilities, tho; at least the last section had plenty of those.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 31 January 2015 02:08 (nine years ago) link
Last Saturday I ennded up watching this in the afternoon, and in the evening saw a small theater's not-so-subtle play about America's complacency w/ rendition/NSA intrusion/etc. - made for a weird paranoid day. The next day I really fell down the youtube hole, watching Snowden 'remote camera' speaker events. I find him likable and sensible and I feel like he's being true to the fact that he doesn't want the individual attention. The doc has its ups and downs (yes, how to end ... how to end indeed), but I think that it's overall great that there is a doc to capture the subject matter.
― BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 31 January 2015 03:03 (nine years ago) link
the obama appearance in this film created waves of cognitive dissonance that were almost palpable
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 31 January 2015 08:44 (nine years ago) link
for whom?
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 January 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
Well, for anyone who legitimately care for public life as it is, as opposed to some pipe dream- which sure, go for that, why not, i'm sure that will prove to be as richly rewarding for you as it's always been
― Gatemouth, Monday, 2 February 2015 04:38 (nine years ago) link
premieres on HBO on the 23rd
(day after it loses the Oscar to the gorilla doc)
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
he's doing a talkback via skype in NYC on thursday! kinda wish i could go.
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:11 (nine years ago) link
for whom?― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 January 2015 15:41 (1 week ago) Permalink
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 January 2015 15:41 (1 week ago) Permalink
for anyone who placed any hopes in Obama? who admires aspects of his governance? who thinks he is a "good person," whatever that means? I fit into all of those categories. I realize your protective shell of cynicism is too thick to empathize, though.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
so some of you rich ppl w/ hbo have seen this now.
never heard of this lawsuit!
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/everything-about-the-edward-snowden--citizenfour-lawsuit-is-batshit-crazy
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 February 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Saw it twice in the theater.
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Thursday, 26 February 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
yea i watched on hbo, im a rich person
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
liked how snowden knew hed be prosecuted under wwi era relic laws, and then how the doc let the aclu lawyers acknowledge that the fight is 95% political
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 26 February 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
"Poitras is teaming with AJ Schnack and Charlotte Cook to launch Field of Vision, a documentary unit that will commission and create 40 to 50 episodic and short-form nonfiction films each year.”
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/citizenfour-laura-poitras-documentary-unit-1201589083/
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/09/field-of-vision-interview-laura-poitras-aj-schnack-charlotte-cook/
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 September 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
Watched the DVD this week... Good supplements, including the Greenwald/Poitras/Snowden interview by David Carr a few hours before his death.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
Poitras on her Whitney show and return to NYC
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/the-sleepless-nights-of-laura-poitras-the-snowden-collaborator-and-award-winner-on-her-return-to-new-york-8336016
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 March 2016 12:28 (eight years ago) link
i should watch this again, it was easily the most fun i had at the movies last year. (i missed a lot of stuff i'd probably have had fun at.)
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 4 March 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSAiI3xMh4
i had to recheck to see if Snowden's voice is as weird as JGL's in this trailer but nope it's just JGL.
― nomar, Friday, 29 April 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
Future poll: Most annoying JGL voice--SNOWDEN vs. THE WALK
This looks every bit as boring as I predicted; pity to see my fave actor of the last decade or so entering into the prestige-y biopic stage of his career. But who is the hottie who plays his friend (the one who calls him "Snow White")?
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Friday, 29 April 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
of course oliver stone had to direct this
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 29 April 2016 19:16 (eight years ago) link
JLG is a horrible actor
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 April 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link
er, i mean JGL
ha
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 April 2016 20:46 (eight years ago) link
The Whitney show is terrible--Poitras should stay in her doc lane and not try to be a visual artist
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 29 April 2016 20:54 (eight years ago) link
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, April 29, 2016 3
you're a horrible actor
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 April 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
Can't imagine this movie having anything more suspenseful than the hotel fire alarm going off in CitizenFour.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 29 April 2016 21:44 (eight years ago) link
did snowden himself approve this?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 April 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link
just watched the trailer. before doing so, i had forgot that oliver stone has been a purveyor of left-wing kitsch for 30 years.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 29 April 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
why the jame gumb voice, is my question
― nomar, Friday, 29 April 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
It puts the files on the USB penand it gets a Pulitzer for the Guardian
― Is Jack Nicholson really qualify as "Partyman"? (jim in glasgow), Friday, 29 April 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
lol
― sciatica, Friday, 29 April 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
this. like the half the exhibition space is taken up with a cheeseball IR closed circuit gag that is on par with a children's museum
― adam, Friday, 29 April 2016 23:37 (eight years ago) link
I mean, how many more worthy artists could have had that space. Gets an art world Razzie from me.
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 30 April 2016 01:50 (eight years ago) link
how many more worthy artists could have had that space
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18gw0zg0xka4qjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 30 April 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
^^^^^ on this.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 30 April 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
xp Ha ha Aimless. NY art critic Jerry Saltz is on record that he thinks GWB is a good painter. That how awful the NY art world is
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 30 April 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
His paintings look like the things they look like.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 30 April 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
what exactly does her whitney show consist of? any fun reviews i can read.
tbh there are much worse amateur painters than bush. at least he offsets the basic sentimentality of his subjects with the muted colors.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 1 May 2016 04:50 (eight years ago) link
good review of Whitney show http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/04/07/laura-poitras-on-target/
I liked the show although it does have weak points. It's a bit off the mark to dismiss it as Poitras' misguided attempt to remake herself as a visual artist—not, I think, what she tried to do at all
― VC, Sunday, 1 May 2016 05:13 (eight years ago) link
One element of the show I really liked was the hallway of redacted documents. I liked how the narrow viewing slits gave the feeling of peeking out through the black bars on a document.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxkZP6pjs0k
― 龜, Saturday, 20 August 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
jesus fucking christ I could never be an actor
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 20 August 2016 21:28 (eight years ago) link
<3
― schlump, Sunday, 21 August 2016 01:24 (eight years ago) link
if you're in a Stone movie, best to follow Tommy Lee Jones in NBK and pretend you're Daffy Duck
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 21 August 2016 02:01 (eight years ago) link
who is the audience for this movie?
(answer is probably nobody: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=fifthestate.htm)
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 21 August 2016 05:15 (eight years ago) link
so in this movie snowden has a manic pixie dream girl who turns him from a dumb ass stick in the mud conservative into a fun-loving NSA whistleblower?
― ♫ Corbyn's on fire / PLP is terrified ♫ (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 21 August 2016 07:52 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/magazine/edward-snowdens-long-strange-journey-to-hollywood.html
this article starts out normally enough and then takes a really...bizarre turn towards the end
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 22:59 (eight years ago) link
In the spring of 2014, Stone flew to Berlin and met with Poitras. The meeting did not go well. According to Poitras, Stone proposed that she delay the release of “Citizenfour,” which she was then in the middle of editing, to time up with his film. “Because his film would be the real movie — because it’s a Hollywood movie,” Poitras told me. “Obviously I wasn’t interested in doing that. To have another filmmaker ask me to delay the release of my film was — well, it was somewhat insulting.”Stone was annoyed, but he stuck around for a few drinks. They discussed new movies, including “12 Years a Slave.” As Poitras recalls, Stone found the film too violent, while Poitras thought the brutality was appropriate given the subject matter. Stone was growing increasingly frustrated. “At some point, he reached over and had his hands around my neck,” Poitras said. “It was sort of in a joking way. I think he was a little bit drunk. But it was not a particularly pleasant evening.”
Stone was annoyed, but he stuck around for a few drinks. They discussed new movies, including “12 Years a Slave.” As Poitras recalls, Stone found the film too violent, while Poitras thought the brutality was appropriate given the subject matter. Stone was growing increasingly frustrated. “At some point, he reached over and had his hands around my neck,” Poitras said. “It was sort of in a joking way. I think he was a little bit drunk. But it was not a particularly pleasant evening.”
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
haha holy fuck what an asshole
"mine is the real movie!"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 23:23 (eight years ago) link
Poitras was being very charitable there.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 02:19 (eight years ago) link
yes
Ollie v much the opposite of classy
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link
Snowden was really useless, it's just Citizenfour with prettier people. Far less compelling and not nearly as scary. No wonder Stone was pissed at Poitras.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 18 September 2016 23:11 (eight years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2016/09/what_snowden_gets_wrong_about_its_hero.html
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 03:51 (eight years ago) link
Lol @ zachary quinto's greenwald.
― Treeship, Sunday, 25 September 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link
can't believe James Clapper's performance in this was forgotten yesterday
perhaps "not wittingly"
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 January 2017 12:24 (seven years ago) link
Just seen 5 minutes of the Stone movie, hadn't realised it was a spoof.
― The Xylems of the Limes (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 April 2019 23:36 (five years ago) link