In a strong month for dogs in movies (the mutts in Fallen Leaves and Anatomy of a Fall are v good too), Tilda’s springer spaniel may be the best.
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 12:42 (five months ago) link
iirc Kaurismaki was a good director of woofers in the other side of hope as well
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 13:32 (five months ago) link
have been quietly stewing all afternoon over the level of critical idiocy reflected in that guardian quote, calz.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:05 (five months ago) link
I haven't seen the movie yet but I thought that either is an absolute clunker of a headline quote or a radical departure for J Hogg, the former being the odds on fav!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:22 (five months ago) link
Upthread I called it her slightest film, but I think of it a little more kindly now. It's audacious to do the third part of an autobiographical trilogy as a gothic ghost story, and it pays off nicely at the end.
The privilege discussion upthread puts me in mind of Sofia Coppola, who I think has a similarly ambiguous posture toward her privilege and the world she occupies.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 30 November 2023 03:29 (five months ago) link
Mentions of 'Hammer Horror' are almost always a sign of critical carelessness, especially in the Guardian.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 30 November 2023 09:48 (five months ago) link
my bf was so infuriated by an interview with tilda swinton's daughter that he now refuses to watch any movies by j hogg
― plax (ico), Friday, 15 December 2023 15:04 (four months ago) link
Lol, got a link?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 15 December 2023 15:07 (four months ago) link
I read a graun interview with HSB and was bristling a fair bit at the smugness and nepo-brat quotient and all the usual shit (private school education, idyllic country house) but lol, despite this I'd still watch a Hogg movie!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 15 December 2023 17:31 (four months ago) link
This film added up to less than the sum of its parts, other than the aforementioned Carly-Sophia Davies. Maybe it needed more heaving bosoms, if it is indeed "two parts Hammer"?
SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER
Tilda seemed to be cured of her psychotic episode quite sharpish at the conclusion!
― You have already voted in this poll and cannot vote again (Matt #2), Friday, 15 December 2023 17:46 (four months ago) link
I think this was it: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/23/honor-swinton-byrne-interview-souvenir-tilda-joanna-hogg
"“From what I understand, she couldn’t find Julie in these posey professional actresses who were very comfortable in front of a camera. She just said they’re all too pretty. And then she cast me. Which, you know, I took as a compliment,” says Swinton Byrne. She lets out a throaty laugh, wriggles her feet out of a pair of sparkly stilettos and snuggles herself more comfortably into a sofa at the upmarket central London hotel that is the base for her first solo publicity round, for the sequel to that first film."
― plax (ico), Friday, 15 December 2023 20:02 (four months ago) link
Yer faither wid be proud
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Friday, 15 December 2023 20:05 (four months ago) link
that quote nails it!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 15 December 2023 20:35 (four months ago) link
idk I like the sass. American actors are reluctant to show it.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2023 20:48 (four months ago) link
Thanks for that link plax, understand your bf's reaction.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 15 December 2023 21:42 (four months ago) link
This film added up to less than the sum of its parts, other than the aforementioned Carly-Sophia Davies. Maybe it needed more heaving bosoms, if it is indeed "two parts Hammer"? SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERTilda seemed to be cured of her psychotic episode quite sharpish at the conclusion!
― Fizzles, Sunday, 17 December 2023 12:25 (four months ago) link
Great comment.. Did the film need that malevolent detachment? Is that mode even Hogg's specialty?
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 December 2023 12:29 (four months ago) link
right. it’s an interesting decision. i like that she tried it. not sure it worked.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 17 December 2023 18:47 (four months ago) link