Let us Anticipate "Call Me By Your Name"

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nothing is worse than Y Tu Mama Tambien

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), S

except your inchoate animosity toward it

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 January 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link

man that psychedelic furs song has been stuck in my head ever since i saw this movie yesterday afternoon and now i can't stop listening to it

flappy bird, Monday, 8 January 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link

It's been 16 years since I saw YTMT and I'm beyond certain I underrated it.

Fred Klinkenberg (Eric H.), Monday, 8 January 2018 02:08 (six years ago) link

I love "Pages From Cold Point" so much, most accurate representation of a young white twink ever

I'm not gonna stan for "Y Tu Mama Tambien", I just felt it was the right balance of sexual titillation in a movie that was actually about other stuff

flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 January 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link

And "Happy Together" was perfect because Wong gives you the sex scene right off the top and then it's all about gay psychology, a perfect gay film imo

flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 January 2018 02:10 (six years ago) link

Curious to see how you'll react to The Ornithologist.

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 January 2018 02:13 (six years ago) link

Brought up the "what's some good white twink content" with my bf last night and he said The Outs, which I haven't seen

flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 January 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link

there's about to be an all-star Broadway revival of The Boys in the Band

I have not read any Bowles besides The Sheltering Sky

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link

Read his short stories –  a model of clarity and terror.

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 January 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link

Ya, "Pages" and also "A Distant Episode" are his two finest things imo

flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 January 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link

I haven’t read any Bowles at all. Just reserved the collection that “Pages from Cold Point” is in at the library.

iCloudius (cryptosicko), Monday, 8 January 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link

Oh and also, duh, I kind of half-mentioned it earlier but the two Alan Hollinghurst books I read ("The Swimming Pool Libraries", and "The Line Of Beauty") are extremely good depictions of white twinkdom-- even if both Will Beckwith and Nick Guest are mid-20s.

Hollinghurst is fucking brilliant imo. He has a way of creating these sexual worlds that are super titillating, but then deflating and upending their mystique by the end. The way "The Line Of Beauty" ended was crazy... after an entire novel's worth of snorting and fucking his way across London, Nick's whole abuse-of-privilege is laid out before him, ironically, in a homophobic rage by his patron-- (the "It's a homo trick" monologue.) Having Nick's real abuses of power described in homophobic language was really effective-- the criticisms were spot-on, and yet the language was so homophobic as to create this magical balance: the balance of "Nick has been a terrible person" with "Nick is subject to inhuman treatment as a British gay man during the AIDS crisis"-- it's this mix of disgust-at-his-tyranny and also empathy-for-his-lot that really gets to the heart of my feelings, at least, toward young white gays.

The fact too that Nick has been surrounded by AIDS for the latter half of the novel but only thinks to go get himself tested in the last few pages was... really amazing too. Contained all the feelings-of-indestructibility, lack-of-personal-accountability, and yet still we're sympathetic toward him because duh AIDS is a fucking travesty.

idk, I love that book, liked the BBC adaptation OK but would love to see a proper version of it on screen

flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 January 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link

The Line of Beauty is one of my favorite novels of the last 20 years; we may have discussed it once, goon

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 January 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link

Possibly, yeah. I need to re-read it, I only read it once (when it won the Booker) and I was 25 at the time and had AIDS nightmares for a week.

flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 8 January 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link

it's probably my favourite novel from this millennia. I don't like The SPL very much but it's a debut. The Spell is the underrated one.

Heavy Messages (jed_), Monday, 8 January 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link

I also liked The Folding Star

Dan S, Monday, 8 January 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link

The Folding Star has a CMBYN-esque plot but reversed. It has one of the hottest sex scenes I've read in serious lit.

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 January 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link

lol yes!

Dan S, Monday, 8 January 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link

I also really liked the echoes of Tonio Kröger and Death In Venice

Dan S, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link

and apparently (although I have never read it) Bruges-La-Mort by Georges Rodenbach

Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link

but yes, I've always read Folding... as a version of Death In Venice for our vulgar age. Luc is as blank as Tadzio, it's all projection. Thankfully, other than weekly checking the facebook page of a young actor I worked on a play with, I'm past that stage in my life.

Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 01:23 (six years ago) link

lol

Dan S, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link

I love this bit on the film from Walter Chaw's year-end round up:

There's a conversation between lovers I come back to a lot where they ask why they wasted so much time in the beginning and then tell their story to each other over and over. I do that with my wife sometimes. I start with "Remember when we met?" or, "Remember our first date, when..." I do it as a bulwark against the realities of the day-to-day. It makes me feel good. Another conversation, between father and son, is justifiably lauded as one of the great moments in 2017 cinema--maybe of any year. It's become a model for how I want to be as a parent: open enough to be able to be vulnerable with my children--to show them where I've been hurt, as well as where I'm strong.

iCloudius (cryptosicko), Thursday, 11 January 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link

So this is everything cinema should be i've decided, 10/10, as good as faultless. Minor gripe; i do wish characters would stop doing that 'look into the camera in the closing shot' thing. Happens in The Florida Project too iirc. Nit picking though.

piscesx, Saturday, 20 January 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link

It has been a wonderful time, coming up with new names for Timothy Swiss Chalet, Timberly Chaturbate

flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link

In an interview designed to piss off goon, Frank Ocean talks to Chalamet.

FO The time period of 20th Century Women seems close to Call Me By Your Name, that ’80s time period. Did you get into these past eras of fashion and shit when you were doing the film?

TC Absolutely. I’m a total “nostalgist” and Call Me By Your Name’s director, Luca, grew up in that time period. In fact, the book is set in ’88 and he changed it to ’83 because he said that was the year in your life you can hear music from. In the movie, there’s Talking Heads, The Psychedelic Furs, or just the Bach or Beethoven—those are all songs from Luca’s youth, what it was like for him in Italy in the ’80s. Also, in 1988, the AIDS crisis had already hit and that was part of the reasoning for making [the film] a little bit earlier too, so it wasn’t as intense, and could be a little more utopic. What a tragedy for movies now that if you want to be contemporary, phones have to be involved, with texting and FaceTime. I don’t know if [the characters in] Call Me By Your Name would ever have that relationship if there was passive-aggressive commenting and “likes.” They actually had to talk, figure each other out, and struggle with their emotions.

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link

If he wasn't a client I'd tweet that FO'd obviously been catfished into that interview

flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link

TC otm on electronic living

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link

did someone itt post that article about how the 'limited release' distribution plan is outdated and really screwed this movie and The Florida Project? it's strange, the more straightforward indie / art house theater here is playing every awards season movie (they've had Lady Bird since early November), CMBYN opened at the end of December and it's already gone. at least CMBYN got nominations- back in October I was sure The Florida Project would be nominated multiple times.

flappy bird, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link

yeah the studio badly fucked up this film's rollout. The good press built and crested just after Thanksgiving. It didn't open in limited release in Miami – where gay films do as well as T-shirt vendors – until the weekend before Xmas; it didn't go wide until the second week of January.

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link

Didn't hurt Phantom Thread any.

"Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link

Lady Bird has made $45 million and counting on a $10 million budget.

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link

I saw Lady Bird a day after it opened here in the middle of November, and it was sold out. from what I've heard that's basically maintained for 2+ months. Phantom Thread only opened in NY & LA in 2017, its rollout was a little bit later than others. hype and word of mouth for Phantom Thread hasn't peaked yet, quite the opposite, feel like it's getting stronger every day. Also Phantom Thread benefits from people seeing it multiple times, to be expected from any PTA movie.

flappy bird, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link

It's not so surprising that Lady Bird would have more universal appeal than Florida Project and CMBYN, no?

"Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link

(I doubt Phantom Thread is going to make much more than $25m when all's said and done.)

"Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link

absolutely

where is Phantom Thread at right now box office wise? aren't most of PTA's movies loss leaders?

flappy bird, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link

(absolutely re: broad appeal of Lady Bird)

flappy bird, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link

it's made $15 million and doing very well per screen. At one of our art houses, I learned last weekend, it's been sold out every screening since early January.

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:46 (six years ago) link

PTA, even adjusted for inflation, does not dominate box-office charts ...

Rank	Title (click to view)	Studio	Adjusted Gross	Unadjusted Gross	Release
1 Boogie Nights NL $52,801,300 $26,400,640 10/10/97
2 There Will Be Blood ParV $51,433,500 $40,222,514 12/26/07
3 Magnolia NL $38,309,100 $22,455,976 12/17/99
4 Punch-Drunk Love SonR $28,194,500 $17,844,216 10/11/02
5 The Master Wein. $18,955,600 $16,377,274 9/14/12
6 Phantom Thread Focus $14,697,700 $14,697,709 12/25/17
7 Inherent Vice WB $9,151,100 $8,110,975 12/12/14
8 Hard Eight Gold. $445,100 $222,559 2/28/97

"Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link

all threads are box office

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link

poison

"Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link

Anyway, my point was that I don't think the release was particularly fucked up for CMBYN and I think it did as well as it probably could've ever been expected to do, financially.

"Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link

haha holy shit Inherent Vice only made 9 mil??

xp maybe enthusiasm for it just calmed down naturally. I think there's much more of a case to be made for a studio fuck-up re: The Florida Project, which like I said, seemed like an obvious Oscar movie back in October.

flappy bird, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:50 (six years ago) link

Nah, I had that one pegged to be a one-nomination wonder the moment I saw it.

"Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link

(More a comment on the average Oscar voter, not the movie's worth.)

"Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link

I wasn't crazy about it either but Dafoe's performance & the topical subject matter seemed like a safe bet.

flappy bird, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link

but yeah i see what you mean

flappy bird, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link

couple that with my powerful voodoo spells counteracting the film's commercial prospects

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link

Alfred fucked up Florida Project

"Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link

that was MY Florida Project.

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 February 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link


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