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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by max from fearless - February 18, 2024, 02:05:28 PM


Michael Bauman on camera. Let's go!!!
#52
This Year In Film / Re: Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthi...
Last post by WorldForgot - February 18, 2024, 09:46:02 AM
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by wilberfan - February 17, 2024, 06:50:35 PM
Hey, that makes ME fringe!!  That's a cool thing to be, right?  8-) 
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by WorldForgot - February 17, 2024, 05:44:24 PM
That's fucking hilarious
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Find Your Magali - February 17, 2024, 05:21:04 PM
I love this sentence on Vineland's (the novel) Wikipedia page:

Paul Thomas Anderson has spoken many times of his love for, and desire to adapt, the novel. As of February 2024, it is heavily rumored and believed only on the fringes to be true that he has finally begun filming this adaptation, with first time collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio in the role of Zoyd Wheeler.
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This Year In Film / Re: Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthi...
Last post by WorldForgot - February 17, 2024, 12:23:07 PM
On release I think the response to this movie around people I was talking to was divided. Either they felt it was too 'feminism 101' or they loved that it was unabashaedly 'itself' - unlike Saltburn which sort of goes through the motions of other thrillers within its genre. This movie's ear for dialogue is too playful for me to berate its plotting. One could argue it's facile - but I think the easier point of entry for critique would be simple: Yorgos has made this movie before, and with more complications, in Dogtooth. But I don't fault it for being its own ludicrous fable.

Thing is, we all ought to be as voracious and curious as Bella. So whatever the trappings of this script's trajectory, I think there's worth in its notion of 'pursuit' and 'awe' and compassion. Taking compassion into account, not every movie has to be entirely for me. And when I think of the thrill this movie's lewd-introduction to intellectualism will be for high school film enthusiasts, I'm filled with gladness.

Super cool chapter cards and sets. Makes me wish we could get a movie that looks like William and Catherine Blake's artwork. Production Design and Costuming awards are going to be a hard battle between this, Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Killers of the Flower Moon. Drop your other Prod Design hopefules in the comments if I missed one. hehe.
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Scrooby - February 14, 2024, 11:10:47 AM
Quote from: Find Your Magali on February 14, 2024, 09:17:06 AMWhatever the genre mashup, whatever the tone, whatever the film stock, whatever amount of people running appears in the movie, I am confident that PTA moved Vineland's setting from the 1980s to the present because he has something meaningful to say about the 2020s.

Agreed. On 30 Jan Scroob remarked :

Also, many Elizabethan revenge tragedies have a social element to them; that is to say, the genre was used to comment on the dystopic conditions of the time.
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Find Your Magali - February 14, 2024, 09:17:06 AM
Whatever the genre mashup, whatever the tone, whatever the film stock, whatever amount of people running appears in the movie, I am confident that PTA moved Vineland's setting from the 1980s to the present because he has something meaningful to say about the 2020s.
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by Scrooby - February 14, 2024, 08:16:32 AM
Quote from: max from fearless on February 13, 2024, 06:23:10 PMRattle the fckin cages Paul, movies are kinda boring af right now. Pls, Rattle Rattle Rattle and electrocute!     

Now this is art! It wakes us up. It's what we need. Art is the greatest therapeutic tool available to the human soul—if we know how to use it.

Max's excitement! Our excitement! This is why first-rate artists should be fostered and cherished.

Knock it out of the park, PTA! Knock us all out. To give us food for thought, and therein, hopefully, make us better, more thoughtful people.
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Paul Thomas Anderson / Re: Untitled Paul Thomas Ander...
Last post by max from fearless - February 13, 2024, 06:23:10 PM
Initially, from the bts clips, i also felt their was a touch of 'comic' 'zany' 'irreverence' (leo's wardrobe?) brewing with this movie (and i'm sure there still is, PTA is a tonal g) but NOW, having scrambled in the dark, with a few more random bits of bts from this week, which i am hyped and grateful for, the movie ALSO feels: frantic (skulking around) chaotic, paranoid, IN MOTION (car chases, running from police) and therefore propulsive! Teyana running from the cops, shiiiiiiii, I hope this stuff makes it into the picture!

The camera set ups for the police chases have been really interesting (a lot of movement) and the Vista Vision talk is cool (some of Poor Things is Vista Vision madness courtesy of Robbie Ryan)

Whether this is Vineland or not, one of my issues with PTA and Pynchon's IV Movie is that it felt a bit stilted, almost as if the movie had happened already and we were picking up some sort of replay feedback fumes (weed blowback?) somewhat like a hallucogenic staged play in parts (which maybe should've been even more trippy? too much loyalty to the text, perhaps?)

Whereas Phantom Thread felt so highly charged (the crackling fire from the off OMG delicious) drifting through rips in space-time with those amazing cross dissolves that pierced the veil to offer up spectral delights, yet with this furious, raw, viscious and delicous English interplay between all the live wire leads. (i've got a friend who is just like woodcock the twat, same freakin energy) But everyone in that movie LIVE WIRE, electric!!!! Locations costumes all so ALIVE and carrying so much of the load story wise....

Scrobby, when you spoke of revengers tragedy, I was hoping for a TWBB vibe with this one - something operatic, epic, highly focused, singular with a propulsive force guiding us out into the nether regions and emotionally violent gushers of its own (maybe cos subconsciously I want this to echo TWBB and be a cultural juggernaut with this budget and interest and TWBB is his 'biggest' movie to date (maaan, i still remember people who weren't PTA fanatics until that movie walking around talking about Milkshakes) But I digress, who TF knows what the hell this is!?!?!?!

I'm hoping it's electrical, full of sparks and shocks, even if it is a scattershot panorama or a more episodic portrait fare like Licorice Pizza, whatever tf it is, please let it be LIVE WIRE PTA!!!!

Rattle the fckin cages Paul, movies are kinda boring af right now. It took Godzilla Minus One to wake my ass up. Pls, Rattle Rattle Rattle and electrocute!