Funny, all-too concerned, and a bit stilted by its own characterization. In the reverberation's of A24's Everything Everywhere All At Once, a wake of output to continue their success. On one side sits CIVIL WAR, their bombastic large-scale effort, with effects work to surpass Everything Everywhere without losing the social-commentary tinge, and then they've got Problemista and Tuesday.

Within their 'smaller' 15m budget fare - Problemista iz a sort of twee, sort of quirky tale of the oxymoronic capitalist pressures around us. It works better than the best picture winner, for me, but it's still not a great flick. It apes Being John Malkovich without ever having as much depth as Kaufman's existential annui and persona fracturing.

A fable in urban outfitters pants, without being so annoying. 

Quote from: Find Your Magali on March 28, 2024, 10:10:38 AM$175M + PG-13 + major VFX indicates to me there must be some sci-fi and/or futuristic elements. Not sure why the cost would be so high otherwise. They are clearly aiming for a commercial bonanza.

The notion of a blockbuster hit from PTA is rather mind-boggling, to be honest.

You can hear plenty of f bombs in the leaked set videos. This isn't pg 13

$175M + PG-13 + major VFX indicates to me there must be some sci-fi and/or futuristic elements. Not sure why the cost would be so high otherwise. They are clearly aiming for a commercial bonanza.

yo. I finally put together my favorite films/recommendations if anyone is interested. I remember the old school xixax crowd used to be perplexed by my lists.

https://boxd.it/pE49s

Such a set-up recalls the prehistoric days when PTA edited his films from VCR to VCR; and recalls the production company of EWS : "Hobby Films".

PTA—shooting his "event film" as if it were a home movie!

Quote from: Achpi on March 25, 2024, 11:11:21 AMso the movie could have a 175m budget...

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/3/24/paul-thomas-andersons-new-film-actually-costs-175-million

Always take his scoops with a grain of salt, but his most recent one about Euphoria ended up being true and he was the first to claim this was going to be $100 million before the trades mentioned it a few days later, so who knows. He's had some bad misses, too. The "secret" David Lynch movie being the biggest lol

so the movie could have a 175m budget...

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/3/24/paul-thomas-andersons-new-film-actually-costs-175-million

Saw Julia Jacklin & Mitski last night. Beautiful show, seated in a hall from 1889, the Auditorium Theater - where the Joffrey ballet company performaned for two decades.



Julia's set was all guitar and amplifier, one woman carrying a whole lot of power in her lyrics and gain-steeped chords. Really dug Crushing and Pre-Pleasure so it was an ultimate joy to watch her perform those tracks by herself, filling the auditorium. Behind me, before the show started, highschoolers - "You're ready for your AP tests?" - had to google the Aussie songstress. "Is she verified?" After a particular howl of a song, she wins at least one 'em over. "Oh, I'm dding Miss Jacklin to the playlist ~"

Mitski's was an all-together romantic-suite with a whole lot of southern influenced jamming. New arrangements of her canon with organ, fiddle, rollicking toms and fresh choreography. Notably there's a whole lot of light and shadows going on with the set design, complimenting the poetic morbidness of her latest album. Love to mourn and cry in the same set! Sick stuff. Her drummer, Bruno Esrubilsky - the whole band really, Patrick Hyland on guitar iz her production guru, Jeni Magana's been on electric and stand up bass for a decade with her now, but to highlight my favorite of the gang - went into deep zones and back.