Just started happy hour last nightOP OTM about asako should have ended 20 minutes earlier
― calstars, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
maybe right when baku puts his hand down on the table, but before asako takes it. Or alternately ten minutes later when she says good bye and stares at the ocean. I didn’t like the resolution at the end.
― calstars, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
As of today Happy Hour back on MUBI US too!
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
I got almost halfway through happy hour until I asked myself why I was watching it
― calstars, Saturday, 14 May 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
Did you answer yourself and continue?
― Don't Renege On (Our Dub) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 May 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
I thought the ending of Asako I & II was really affecting, the pleading for redemption, the wavering and the ambiguous ending
― Dan S, Saturday, 14 May 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
and the view of the river
― Dan S, Sunday, 15 May 2022 00:04 (one year ago) link
to put it bluntly; i think he should go full rivette
Yes, while I was watching Drive my Car I was trying to make the experience more Rivettian, but all the plotty character stuff kept getting in the way, especially in the final third, where Hamaguchi was showing AND telling a bit too too much. I blamed Murakami!
All the Chekov stuff put me in mind of another good but narratively over-worked three hour art movie, Celan's Winter Sleep, even down to similarities in the landscapes.
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 19 December 2021 bookmarkflaglink
Thought about Rivette a lot but also how it was a good departure to use that example to do something a bit different with the road trip film, by replacing those long train journeys. The delay-delay of getting to that long road journey where the duo confront what can't be was a long time coming, and was nicely shortened at the end.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 16 May 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
― calstars, Monday, 16 May 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link
Almost done with happy hourNow I wish it was five hours longerThe dance scene in the club was a pretty great cinematic moment
― calstars, Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy > Drive My Car
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Friday, 1 July 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
Need to watch the first one soon.
― Build My Gallows Hi Hi Hi (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 July 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
Yes xpost
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 July 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
HH > WOFAF > DMC
― calstars, Friday, 1 July 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
All three of those - (Happy Hour, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, and Drive My Car) are pretty great, as are Asako I & II and Heaven Is Still Far Away. It's hard to choose between them
― Dan S, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 01:42 (one year ago) link
thread revive because the shot in Drive My Car of Yūsuke & Misaki flicking their cigarette ashes out the sunroof is just really cool-looking
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 10:55 (ten months ago) link
Can’t wait for his next five films
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 13:12 (ten months ago) link
Can’t wait for his next five hour film
― calstars, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 14:29 (ten months ago) link
Can’t hardly wait.
― CeeLô Borges (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 14:33 (ten months ago) link
Calling him “Oscar-nominated” is so funny. That is an image of him holding an Oscar. He won an Oscar. https://t.co/KH0LTLU3hn— Nick Newman (@Nick_Newman) July 25, 2023
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 14:32 (nine months ago) link
First runner up at Venice
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Saturday, 9 September 2023 21:23 (seven months ago) link
saw Evil Does Not Exist last night. feels a lot colder than his other films, but I still really liked it. at times very slow and methodical, and the ending makes you rethink everything that came before.
― groovemaaan, Friday, 23 February 2024 22:54 (two months ago) link
Is that a new one?
― calstars, Friday, 23 February 2024 23:44 (two months ago) link
Getting confused since there is an Iranian film with a title very much like that.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 February 2024 23:55 (two months ago) link