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KATJA DREAMS OF WAKING UP comes to streaming in the US on December 5th, courtesy of Fandor and Cineverse!

It will also be available on iTunes and Apple TV.

Great throwback conversation between Paul Thomas Anderson and Lars Von Trier in Cigarettes and Red Vines -- from the Punch Drunk Love / Dancer in the Dark era. Pre-Dogville.

QuoteLVT: But saying that I know how your country could be a better place, as somebody who is not American, is the most provocative thing you can say, and why is that? It doesn't have so much to do with nationalism or borders; it has to do with politics and your basic idea of what you should do with human beings.
PTA: Where did you get the title for Dogville?
LVT: I spoke to Thomas Winterberg, to one of his colleagues, actually, and we were talking about concentration camps, and then it became America straight away [they laugh]. No, we were talking about how they managed to keep discipline and life going on in the concentration camp, and his theory, which I believe, is that they transformed people into animals. If they are animals, then they are much easier to control. It's very easy to make human beings into animals: let them be cruel, let them be anything--it's such a thin layer, and that was part of the strategy in the concentration camps. And then we talked about dogs, and I said the film had to be called "something-ville."
PTA: So there are a few things.
LVT: [laughs] Actually, quite a lot of things. But the strange thing is, in my situation--which you cannot put yourself in--I know so much about America. Eighty percent of my media, the media I see, has to do with America, 80 percent of the paper has to do with America in some way or another, 80 percent of the television, can you imagine that?
PTA: Isn't it that way in most of the world?
LVT: Yes it is, but that puts me in a situation where America is a part of me also, whether I want it or not or whether you want it or not--it is a part of me. And that's why I'm completely entitled to say whatever I want, because I've heard more about America than I've heard about Denmark, for Christ's sake!
PTA: Beautiful.
LVT: I watched Magnolia--actually to cast my own movie--but I liked it very much. It was kind of European, although now I don't like European films, either, because they are too American. It's very much a matter of taste, but it's very fulfilling when somebody dares to do what he thinks is most interesting, and I believe that is what happened with Magnolia. I think it is extremely important to please yourself.
PTA: I can count on one hand, maybe both hands, people that I trust, and I feel that if I make a movie, I make it for myself, absolutely first. But there are people that I want to show it to, that I want to like it, but it's also okay if they don't like it, because they'll let me know why, and how, and for what reasons. And that feels good; that is in no way debilitating or hurtful--but if you can hold them in the palm of your hand--
LVT: --To me it was very, very important to show the first film I did to Andrei Tarkovsky, and he hated it. [laughs] He thought it was a load of crap. The film was Element of Crime. He hated it, I tell you.

Behind the Scenes for Eli Roth's THANKSGIVING!
Such a laid-back comfy slasher.

It's been long enough since I first saw it that I entirely forgot the plot! Plus, I never found the director's cut. Thanks for the reminder! In a Lonergan mood...

Just rewatched this.

I think it's worth revisiting, for everyone. Its sound design and script are 'unique' within the American cinema scene. Such a delicate, humanist film.
Also, a bit dark to have Matthew Broderick in a film about a vehicular accident.

As did I.  My Letterboxd comment: A somewhat by the numbers yet cozy tale of three withdrawn people stuck in a boarding school in 1970. I loved how the film made me feel, and I'm a sucker for the aesthetic. Some beats get dropped, and some are predictable, yet still I smiled a lot and enjoyed the journey. I've loved Giamatti since American Splendor (er, actually Storytelling), and it's so nice to see him again.

It makes me want want to revisit Payne's other work.

Unsurprisingly, I adored this movie 

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE / A Woman is a Woman - Dec 1, 2023 - Aero, Santa Monica

https://www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/punch-drunk-love-a-woman-is-a-woman-12-1-23/

Saw this at a Bafta screening in Glasgow.

Compelling, unsettling and so meticulously crafted.

Quite unique and disarming. Wasn't entirely sure of my feelings about it immediately after, but it stayed with me for days.

That's a fucking hilarious way to put it