ALEX ROSS PERRY, filmmaker: significant auteur or just a smarter ex-video clerk than Tarantino?

of course i dislike Opening Night too

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5955-alex-ross-perry-s-her-smell

queen of earth was so terrible

the rants Moss directs at her band sound like... Murry Wilson

Watched a 90-second clip on YouTube and based on that I’d want about $100 a minute to watch any more.

you'll miss her solo piano Bryan Adams cover, then

holy shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoRVcsAEt0w

I’d watch e moss in just about anything

she said this was her first singing role since... and someone in the Lincoln Center audience yelled "Frosty Returns!"

Deep cut wow.

i guess she sang in some Bette Midler TV version of Gypsy that i hope we all missed

she's getting to be the person ppl cast in any type of role and it bugs me

review of new movie made it sound as insufferable as every other movie this dude has made

Christopher Robin on the other hand was pretty good.

had no idea that was the "Pooh movie" he'd been signed to do, I thought he was doing an actual Pooh story. Also one of 5 writers credited, so who knows what he did.

he goes into it in some detail here

https://www.metro.us/entertainment/movies/how-indie-darling-alex-ross-perry-came-to-write-christopher-robin-and-what-he-learned-from-disney

he originally wanted to write a Teddy Ruxpin movie

Finally getting around to Golden Exits. Adrock as vaguely creepy middle aged protagonist just feels awkward

Sevigny’s pain feels very real though, and Schwartzman is on point. he’s played this role at least two or three other times though

i feel similar with this dude as i feel with jason reitman, movies are comforting and watchable enough but they leave me feeling hollow or something (poorly articulated)

probably will see the new one tho after reading your post calstars

last three posts OTM. when I first saw Golden Exits, I liked it because it looked so good. super saturated 35mm color. Cool. nothing to chew on though. and calstars especially OTM about Schwartzman and Ad-Rock. shitty, boring people.

<I>Her Smell</I> made me ask: is there a worse working filmmaker than Alex Ross Perry?

he's so bad, he made me forget we use BBcode here

I've only seen Golden Exits and Her Smell, but I'm putting a priority on watching the rest of his films asap to confirm my theory.

so much wrong in Her Smell but main problem is one that fells most fictional rock band movies: the music isn't there. the songs are why we care about people like Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain and Bowie. without the music, we're left with a bunch of trim and nothing to hang it on. it's why Velvet Goldmine and Last Days suck, and I'm Not There is amazing. even something like Walk the Line gets by because the songs are there.

Subbing the Roxy songs for Bowie's in Velvet Goldmine was a slick move imo.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwKkmGCBLg4/

I saw this on Insta when I was baked and laughed for 20 minutes.

Anika Pyle of Katie Ellen and Alicia Bognanno from Bully wrote some of the music so I had hopes for that.

So did I, I don't know them but my brother is a big fan, and he was taken aback by how bad / completely anonymous, almost algorithmically generated the songs were.

Moss looks like she picked up a guitar for the first time a few weeks before shooting started. Her right hand is way out of position

No one knows how to play guitar in this movie

he moves into Stephen Kingland

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/alex-ross-perry-stephen-king-rest-stop-1203192545/

also he is making me pro-bully

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/05/alex-ross-perry-avengers-endgame-oscar-best-picture-1202130965/

Like you weren't already.

Not until the last drugstore has sold its last pill.

What a godawful piece.

xp After all, you didn't personally drain the gasoline out of the tank...

This is the most ghoulish conversation!

So unlike (apparently) a lot of people, I actively root for Disney’s success. I am really intrigued that Disney bought Fox. I am eager to see how many of the top 10 grossing films of the year Disney puts out. I have a lot of friends there at the executive and producer level, and I want the best for them.

Fuck you!

I can get behind a defense of Avengers as a work of art that deserves the BP Oscar, but being "intrigued" by Disney acquiring Fox? this guy is a fucking idiot

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords

If you don't support Disney's total monopolistic domination, it's bullying.

the way of all Kim's Video employees

When people dismissively bemoan “the state of things” culturally and use Marvel/Disney dominance as their primary target, all I can see is a square, flat-topped father drinking a beer in a barca lounger while the game is on, telling his son to quit playing guitar/painting/writing/reading comic books/daydreaming and get a real job.

Oh my god, we don't live in a binary of SPORTS vs. NERDS!

he's from Bryn Mawr so

An eloquent defense of those quirky, subversive, creative, outside-the-mainstream Marvel films that so many squares want to ban

it's more like the SPORTS guys took the NERDS' stuff and made a bajillion dollars out of it

This guy is not making a good case for my checking out one of his movies. Nor is titling one of them Her Smell.

the title is the only good thing about it

Her smell is the first one of his I have no desire to see. Maybe because the story seems so familiar and I don’t buy e Moss in this role

Didn't Juliette Lewis basically make this same movie 10 years ago?

that indiewire piece reads like a poorly executed satire of film popism

Tarantino is awful but having read this I have to take issue with the thread title

Heard a number of variations of this argument IRL this past weekend from otherwise-reasonable people and they honestly made me sad.

It’s hard for me to empathize with the person who feels lost in a world where the biggest show in the history of television stars dragons