is this thread being audited? there's nowhere else yet for top 10 lists, I was stoned last night when I posted that, fuck it lets roll with 10 for now
maybe it's because tarantino and joker is such rank garbage it puts your movie tally into negative equity!
― calzino
it was either joker or booksmart, two mostly ok movies with great moments.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 March 2020 02:30 (four years ago) link
Saw Portrait of a Lady on Fire today. (No director- or film-specific thread.) Liked it more or less as much as Girlhood. That song that's used at the bonfire and again over the end credits is unsettling and memorable. Noémie Merlant looks so much like Emma Watson. Lots of great images. I'd pull a screenshot of the most painterly one from the trailer, but there's a pull-quote overtop.
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 March 2020 03:22 (four years ago) link
Sciamma did best with Tomboy, I think.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 March 2020 03:44 (four years ago) link
Saw a copy at the library--I'll take it out.
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 March 2020 03:58 (four years ago) link
haven’t seen this one, but I liked Tomboy, also Water Lilies
― Dan S, Sunday, 8 March 2020 04:27 (four years ago) link
it’s fuckin great
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 March 2020 04:33 (four years ago) link
as I said in the arthouse thread, I was relieved that there was only one Risible Feminism scene (yeah, the one with the baby on the maid's face)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 March 2020 04:55 (four years ago) link
I liked POALOF, but I was disappointed. Probably the ~10 month wait since Cannes, nothing but raves. Very pretty but to me it was dead, not moving at all, never romantic. But it's obviously there on some frequency, it just didn't hit me. I was going to say something about how predictable and boring the actual arc was and how cliched it was at points, but you could say the same of Carol, which actually did sweep me up and move me in a way where I forgot where I was. That was what I was expecting with this movie.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 March 2020 06:25 (four years ago) link
i thought as i watched it “oh maybe this isn’t affecting me as much as i expected” and then it would reliably do something that dragged me further in
“risible feminism” smh
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 March 2020 06:50 (four years ago) link
I was going to say something about how predictable and boring the actual arc was and how cliched it was at points, but you could say the same of Carol, which actually did sweep me up and move me in a way where I forgot where I was.
I don't get what they have in common other than lesbianism, but I'll bite: Carol moved me far less.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 March 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link
yes Brad, every single ideology has risible manifestations, regardless of its merit
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 March 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
which thread, Morbs?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 March 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
Never Coming to a Theater Near You - Arthouse Cinema 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 March 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
the abortion subplot is one of the best things about the freaking movie
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 March 2020 14:53 (four years ago) link
i still can’t decipher what you find risible about it or that scene, just that you find it risible
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
the baby's presence
i'm not saying anymore bcz there's no path to victory
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
Once Upon A Time… In Pollywood: The ILX Film Poll (for 2019 viewings) Voting Thread - Ballots Due Friday April 3rd
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Sunday, 15 March 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link