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Title: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on January 15, 2020, 06:13:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2m-08cOAbc

potential best Shawn Levy movie since Real Steel which is the best blue collar futuristic movie ever so far

there's a literary similar concept novel

(https://i.imgur.com/rA5viKl.jpg?1)

QuoteA deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, and escaping the roles we are forced to play—by the author of the infinitely inventive How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.

Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. At least that's what he has been told, time and time again. Except by one person, his mother. Who says to him: Be more.

Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet.
Title: Re: Free Guy
Post by: jenkins on January 16, 2020, 06:15:02 PM
the disruptive component is the idea of a Ryan Reynolds Cinematic Universe innit. i mean he don't impress me neither but he's happened
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on February 14, 2020, 11:52:11 PM
as last year's um Ron Howard Republican Book Adaptation was converted into a Misc Thread, so thereby was Free Guy transformed into a Shit Happening Thread

Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on April 25, 2020, 02:15:09 AM
from the director of Fantastic Four and that teenage superhero movie whatever it was called. he's also the writer and, oh, editor. costarring Kyle MacLachlan. Lynch's dp (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005687/). Music by El-P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHYlKQSc7rA

Was originally intended to be theatrically released but due to the COVID-19 pandemic these plans were dropped in favor of a direct-to-digital release. May 12, 2020
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on May 13, 2020, 11:17:20 PM
You Should Have Left (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8201852/) is an adaptation of a Daniel Kehlmann novel, written and directed by David Koepp (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1547234/). it's listed as Completed

the book is a breeze of a read and it doesn't make its The Shining influence unclear. the movie not the book
(https://i.imgur.com/KqkBoYl.png)

um the line between reality and dream becomes blurred for a writer owing to a mountain setting

i'm sort of fascinated by the idea of being a marvelously gifted individual who's magnetized by imitating King, Kubrick, or their powers combined. like theoretically fascinated
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on May 14, 2020, 02:34:24 AM
that previous photo is slightly blurry which drives me insane and unfortunately an insane man can't make the minor effort to fix it, though i did concentrate when taking a photo of my favorite line in the book, also placing a red box around it

(https://i.imgur.com/DQnBC3q.jpg)

"The devil built it and a wizard destroyed it, with God's help." i def most like the part about God helping the wizard destroy a tower the devil built

this is a better book than it will be a movie maybe, because it's seriously an easy read, and it says things like "The hall expanded, and I ran, stumbled, caught myself, kept running toward the stairs" and "[...]in addition to the three dimensions you have to imagine another three from the other side, or actually from within . . ." i was into unfamiliar spooky voices the father heard, and people appearing from nowhere! new doors appearing! strange reflections! it was so fun how it kept scaring me

i fully support its sense of adventure while also thinking that it doesn't exactly rattle my soul, however well it's written, when a father and his daughter walk down a mountain to arrive back at the top. i'm like oh, okay, overall. that's why existentialism is my thing
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: WorldForgot on May 14, 2020, 10:31:56 AM
Quote from: jenkins on April 25, 2020, 02:15:09 AM
from the director of Fantastic Four and that teenage superhero movie whatever it was called. he's also the writer and, oh, editor. costarring Kyle MacLachlan. Lynch's dp (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005687/). Music by El-P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHYlKQSc7rA

Was originally intended to be theatrically released but due to the COVID-19 pandemic these plans were dropped in favor of a direct-to-digital release. May 12, 2020

CAPONE's Madness is a Breath of Fresh Air (https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2020/05/12/the-grotesque-ballad-of-alphonse-capone)

QuoteThis is a go-for-broke movie on every level, from Tom Hardy's ferocious lead performance to Trank's aggressively non-conventional script to the grisly tableaux Trank gleefully parades Capone through as he tries to get inside this dying, increasingly-insane gangster's mind. The discourse surrounding this film has already become a reductive echo chamber of "lol Tom Hardy poops his pants" observations, which is pretty stunning when you consider how much more there is to chew on here. I'm honestly not sure what would motivate anyone to make this particular movie, but the fact that Josh Trank's the one behind it makes the whole thing even chewier. Given that, it's the sort of film you might feel compelled to decode, but I suspect that would ultimately prove to be a dead end. Capone can't trust his mind any more than we can trust the film itself (both are unreliable narrators of the highest order), and what clues we think we've found would likely turn out to be red herrings.

You see? Fascinating.

There's very little narrative to CAPONE: it's 1946, and Alphonse ("Fonzo" to virtually everyone in the film) Capone has been sent home early from prison thanks to his deteriorating mental condition. He, his family (including his supernaturally patient wife, played by a stellar Linda Cardellini), and a small army of gardeners, servants and handymen fill out a massive estate in Palm Island, Florida, where everyone does their best to navigate Fonzo's outbursts and occasional cruelty. He might sit for hours in a chair, chewing a cigar and looking out across the lake behind his house (Is someone watching him from the other side? Are those...binoculars?), only to suddenly explode in a fit of mush-mouthed obscenities. What caused the outburst? Who knows? Whatever's going on inside Capone's mind as he rides out this final year is not pretty, and it's everyone else's job to stay out of his way ... and, when necessary, to clean up after him.

There are dangling plot threads. $10M which Capone may or may not have hidden somewhere on the property, and the various hangers-on and government stooges who seek to get their hands on it. An illegitimate son who appears to be in cahoots with some of those stooges. A doctor (Kyle MacLachlan) who's trying to avoid prison time. These threads exist but they're never fully explored or resolved; the vast majority of the film takes place within Capone's sizzling, collapsing brain, and what we find there is a swirling miasma of disconnected memories, simmering fears and rage. As crazy as this sounds, the film I kept thinking of while watching CAPONE was Pablo Larraín's JACKIE, another film which was more concerned with impressing a feeling and tone upon its audience than a traditional narrative (that CAPONE's score, gorgeously rendered by Run The Jewels' El-P, also sounds a little like Mica Levi's JACKIE score only serves to make the comparison feel less crazy).
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on May 16, 2020, 03:59:07 AM
i recently read We Have Always Lived in the Castle, which is a marvelous book, that has been adapted (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5952138/), though i'm in no rush to see its adaptation. what interests me is i learned that just this year Elisabeth Moss acted as Shirley Jackson in a biopic directed by Josephine Decker. the release date is June 5. it played at sundance and has thus been reviewed (https://www.metacritic.com/movie/shirley)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2oA35q212E
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on May 20, 2020, 12:54:53 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWPKv-FyxOY

Written and Directed by Nicholas Ashe Bateman
Executive Produced by Shane Carruth and Lawrence Inglee
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: wilder on May 20, 2020, 07:03:35 PM
Wow that looks different. Good different.
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on May 20, 2020, 07:42:26 PM
i liked it better after my second viewing. sometimes i often say i want to experience the movie freshly, without the trailer, but i think that works best when i already know i'll like the movie, and on occasion one has to get to know a movie in order to feel comfortable

to me there's a sense of rigidity that suppresses the ecstasy of infinity but idk sometimes you gotta serious chat about love and beauty, so i gotta loosen up to get serious
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on May 21, 2020, 10:13:45 PM
Shane Carruth Discusses The World-Building In The New Indie Fable, 'The Wanting Mare' (https://theplaylist.net/shane-carruth-wanting-mare-interview-20200521/)

QuoteThe first thing I wanted to ask you is how did you get involved with the film?

Here's the deal. I'm not involved with the film. I didn't make this. I just know Nick was in CoatWolf [Productions]; Evan has a movie coming out called "Canary." It's gonna pretty much destroy everybody all day for years. It's one of the most amazing things I've ever seen and he's still not done with it. So it's still getting better. In the meantime, Nick did a lot of work, a lot of 2D, CG editing. Making it. Perfecting it. 

And after that, he knew that he was his own Alpha Wolf and he needed to make his own thing. And so they separated. I loved it. Because I get to be friends with both of them. And so Nick, he's been building this world. If I talk to him to call him, then we'll talk about "The Wanting Mare," about Whithren. We'll talk about cities. And after a while you have a map in your head and you're like, "Oh God. This guy's only telling you a fraction of the story of how this works." But I can pull out shit right now about what's coming next. And it blows my mind, the ideas that he has. But you know, it's not time for that. Still, the guy made a world, and now he is taking a moment. It's so good.

I found myself gravitating toward the mythos that's been created around this world of horses and different continents. There's that first aerial shot that's a map. Immediately I was thinking, "What's that dot? That dot?"

Totally. Totally. And that's what I mean. And of course, I mean that's not real. That's just him being awesome with Blender. He's amazing. And here's the thing: the guy's going to get promoted like a CG 2D artist, like a Neill Blomkamp kind of guy. "Oh, okay. That's a skill. I get it. Cool."

That's not the case with this guy, dude. Like yes, that stuff. But he did it out of necessity. It doesn't mean that the literature is less. The literature is real. In the trailer it says, "If you're not going to get me across, then you'll just have to forget me. I'll forget you. You forget me." That is not somebody who's obsessed [solely]  with using CG-like rendering, right? This is literature. It's just in this day and age, some of us have to come up with clever ways to get it across.

Something that really interested me was the ecological theme in the film. There's a scene where someone turns into dust and is consumed by a horse, which on its face feels fantastical, but is actually grounded in realism. As you know, we ultimately return to the ground and become the mulch for the grass the horses graze on. There's a Whitman transcendentalist quality to it, which reminds me of "Upstream Color." Could you speak on the return to nature theme that's prevalent in "The Wanting Mare."

I'm thinking. Alright, well I'm stuck. I'm in a dichotomy right now. Cause what you said could be true. It could be. I can't fight it, but I'm not here to say that at all. I don't say that there's similarities.

I mean, you know my deal with "Upstream," right?  I didn't know that I was stealing from "Walden." I don't think I was stealing from "Walden." I really don't. But I do see it. I see the similarities. I see what I got from it; what I stole...Maybe that's the wrong word. So I'm not going to do that with Nick, but um... 

I wouldn't call it theft. Just a theme that feels recurrent, like with anything that ends up feeling somewhat universal.

I could try to do it. I could make a connection, but I'd be lying. I'm still watching his film. I watch it once in a while. I watched the trailer. It's one of these things. It's like you leave the theater, you know, after "Phantom Thread" or whatever you saw and you're like, "Okay, well I don't know if I saw a whole movie there, but I just want to talk about it."

What's that Tarantino movie that Tony Scott directed starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette?

"True Romance"

There we go. "True Romance." Okay. It's like that. There we go. Great. Because in "True Romance," after they see the movie, Patricia Arquette, says she wants to go have a piece of pie and talk about it. That's literally the only reason I even brought it up was to recall that scene.

I think one of the values you get from making something that's a little bit obtuse, a little bit insular, a little bit inside itself is that you allow the audience to walk away and have something to talk about. And I don't mean it as a trick. I don't mean you should make movies obtuse just to make people have a reason to go get gelato afterward. I just mean that there is such a thing in film that is just like the greatest book you ever read, and you can't wait to tell your wife about it. And have her read it; and you can talk about it in depth.

What have you taken away from "The Wanting Mare?" How has it connected with you?

It's the women, generation after generation, that have the same dream. They have the same longing. They know there's something they should probably do, they think, but they don't know what it is. So they live in this place, but only once in a while can you actually ever leave. And so eventually the third one decides she has to go. She's gotta get out of this. It's "Thunder Road." "We gotta get out of place. We've got to go to a city. Pack up. You want to get in the car with me?" That kind of stuff.

In the meantime, you have a lot of men running around with guns that are worried about tickets and horses. That's the bit about money. That's the bit about dollars. That's a bit about coercion. Moving and pressing, and you mix them both up. Then you have something like a spirit that's got to get out of that fucking town.

i'm not sure if he was the right person to interview for this
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on May 22, 2020, 01:17:50 AM
have decided to make it a personal mission to appreciate this movie
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on May 30, 2020, 04:50:58 PM
Carruth's executive producing gig has dovetailed into a trailer pitch for his next movie

https://vimeo.com/23608364
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: Drenk on May 30, 2020, 05:37:25 PM
A Topiary won't be made, they just made public the mock trailer. The script is available on the world wide web. You can see a still from the creatures of A Topirary in Upstream Color, by the way.
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on May 30, 2020, 05:53:16 PM
oh right right. this was a sideline to the neighborhood protests
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on June 09, 2020, 03:23:39 PM
Quote from: jenkins on May 13, 2020, 11:17:20 PM
You Should Have Left (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8201852/) is an adaptation of a Daniel Kehlmann novel, written and directed by David Koepp (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1547234/). it's listed as Completed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw0-cV_J9q4

looks blah. the vo from the unseen person is a grocer in the small town if it parallels the book in that regard.  there are book-to-movie changes noticeable in the trailer though
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on July 26, 2020, 05:02:24 PM
https://Www.twitter.com/handsome_pal/status/1287185719589388289

when a tweet nails what has always bothered you about a person. this same quality applies to bret easton ellis and alex ross perry as well, and it's why i think they're bad role models. any promotion of any form of bitterness is bad news
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: putneyswipe on July 26, 2020, 06:18:09 PM
Given that the film industry generally definitely doesn't have any vendettas against "visionary" straight white male filmmakers, it always seemed like maybe a personality problem
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on July 27, 2020, 08:01:15 PM
oof it's weird to say but to be fair to bee and arp carruth is a problem on another level (https://variety.com/2020/film/news/shane-carruth-accused-abusing-amy-seimetz-1234717339/). the general feeling is that it was wrong of him to disclose the papers in the first place btw
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on July 28, 2020, 12:17:37 AM
to run it through reason here:

Amy Seimetz is a person of sound mind

it was not in fact she who brought this to our attention

Shane Carruth is a person who asks for trust regarding specific perspectives

"You are Shiva, the goddess of death. I see you. I will know when it’s time for you to be done… You should be scared. You don’t know what I’m going to do… You should be scared.”

“You want to fight me? Bring it. I will kill you.”

she pleaded with him to stop contacting her ... “I know exactly where your house is… you’ll never beat me.” ... “Understand how dangerous you are making this encounter.”

and reportedly

Carruth had screamed at her repeatedly while drunk, put his hands on her, and called her a “stupid whore” and a “stupid c—.”

if he is exactly the person he says he is, it is of sound mind for there to be suspicions of "moderate to high level of threat" and possession of a “fixation” that coincides with “direct homicidal threats"

to summarize: a restraining order is reasonable if he sees it as reasonable to say outrageous things

my personal perspective: it's not my fault that he's not funny in the first place, and it's not my fault that humor never saves a bad deed anyway
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on July 28, 2020, 03:47:53 PM
QuoteUpdate, 12 p.m. Tuesday: The hearing on the restraining order was held via telephone on Tuesday morning. Carruth dialed in and interrupted the judge at least a dozen times, even after being repeatedly admonished to be quiet. Unable to mute his line, the judge continued the hearing to Aug. 21 so that it could be held either in person or via video.

Joshua Rosenberg, Seimetz's attorney, informed the judge that Carruth had violated the order to have no contact with Seimetz 20 times since the last hearing on July 6. The judge, Commissioner Laura Cohen, advised that she could take any alleged violations to the police. The temporary restraining order remains in place until the next hearing.
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: Drenk on July 28, 2020, 04:27:58 PM
What a psycho.
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on July 28, 2020, 07:09:08 PM
https://www.twitter.com/ZingularDay/status/1287236207005532165

https://www.twitter.com/UpstreamColor/status/1288178076317229056

simply, although it's complex, to find a root problem here, the conversation is not being engaged in a rational way, and, unfortunately, he is def-def not lol

at this point it's best for me to follow this as little as i can/not at all

it is, as i would say, am saying, bad melodrama shane carruth
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on July 29, 2020, 12:09:23 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/0hKbx4t.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on August 24, 2020, 04:25:51 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6512XKKNkU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOp_6uPccQ
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on August 26, 2020, 02:47:39 PM
Steven Soderbergh executive produced Bill & Ted Face the Music, which is set to be released this Friday in select theaters and PVOD
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on September 08, 2020, 10:48:08 AM
Ben Wheatley is dopeass living the dream and i look forward to when he makes another movie i want to watch even though ughck i'm sure this is fine fine fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFVhB54UqvQ
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: WorldForgot on September 08, 2020, 01:49:28 PM
Quote from: jenkins on August 24, 2020, 04:25:51 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6512XKKNkU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOp_6uPccQ

lol! I missed you posting this, jenks -- this event was so funny. A "virtual convention" / a very well disguised press junket. Much less crowded than ComicCon San Diego, and essentially just as effective. Well, press wise. Energy and fandom needs the room, to feel truly hype, though. Empty virtual "halls" and tiny humans are funny - not grand.

(https://i.imgur.com/5SW9yhQ.png)
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on October 30, 2020, 11:30:34 AM
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Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on November 01, 2020, 07:14:03 PM
A special message from the writer of Hillbilly Elegy:

https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1323057629317550081
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: Drenk on November 01, 2020, 07:56:32 PM
Is that supposed to be viral marketing?  :ponder:
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: WorldForgot on November 04, 2020, 10:18:21 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4F0rT0F6OQ
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: WorldForgot on November 20, 2020, 12:03:51 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1u0hzLuDCw
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on December 15, 2020, 11:33:20 PM
movies unknown to me appearing on 2020 lists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sxCFZ8_d84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73_7Y95snIs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96FqfaglWZ0
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: WorldForgot on December 16, 2020, 08:35:32 AM
^posted about TIME in our Docs recommendations thread ~
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on December 20, 2020, 07:03:06 PM
sorry I'm just lumping stuff together and this thread has turned positive

To the Ends of the Earth has opened in virtual cinema. I don't really understand virtual cinema (I haven't read about it) but for example it's here today (http://www.belcourt.org/events/virtual-to-the-ends-of-the-earth.4509276), I'm not sure where it will be tomorrow. I think this movie would work for you guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdfKVJi7rIs

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who some of us learned about through Cure. or Pulse. maybe Tokyo Sonata
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: wilberfan on December 20, 2020, 07:59:07 PM
Quote from: jenkins on December 20, 2020, 07:03:06 PM
I don't really understand virtual cinema

My only experience so far was to see the recent live "virtual" screening of Phantom Thread--with Adam intro'ing the film, and interviewing Vicki post-screening.  You connect via a web-browser.   I missed the first 25 minutes because the website wouldn't connect, and also managed to get it 'mirrored' to my Roku device so I could watch it on the (bigger) screen.  I stayed anyway and found the interview interesting enough to have made it worth my $5 fee to join for the month.    I'd do it again if I deemed the film/event exciting enough--or wanted to support the theater chain in question.
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on December 20, 2020, 08:24:32 PM
oh man, I'd be so bummed if I showed up to a non-physical theater and was still late to the screening

I went to the above movie's official website (https://www.kimstim.com/film/to-the-ends-of-the-earth/) and I see it has release dates in different theaters. it opened at VIFF (https://www.viff.org/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=fc10537-to-the-ends-of-the-earth), you can see it there until 07 January 2021, and it's opening in other theaters too, the release list is on the official website I linked to. it appears to be available for a period of days and not otherwise confined to starting times

you know wbf I'm not sure if you'd like it but what's going on here is a horror filmmaker has applied his cinematic grammar to the quotidian, such that the ordinary horrors of life are appearing in a cinematically palpable form
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: wilberfan on December 20, 2020, 11:11:00 PM
Quote from: jenkins on December 20, 2020, 08:24:32 PM
you know wbf I'm not sure if you'd like it but what's going on here is a horror filmmaker has applied his cinematic grammar to the quotidian, such that the ordinary horrors of life are appearing in a cinematically palpable form

You made me curious enough to check it out, but you're right.  It's not a bad film by any means, just a very slight one to me.  I got the gist in the first 30 minutes and bailed at the 90 min mark.  Not proud of that, necessarily, but life just feels too short these days. Gotta move on to the next thing on the watch list...
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on December 20, 2020, 11:45:26 PM
classic wbf. i'm truly not sure why you watch so many movies in the first place, but every now and then you find your Peanut Butter Falcon
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: wilberfan on December 20, 2020, 11:51:06 PM
Trust me, it's just as disturbing to me as it must be for some of you.  A lifelong cinephile, the disconnect from contemporary cinema over the past decade or so is....deeply disappointing.  Maybe I watch too many other things--documentaries, limited series, much of which I respond to much more strongly.

But yes, the intermittent reinforcement of finding a Peanut Butter Falcon or Deerskin keeps me in the game, I guess.

In the meantime, I've got Lovers Rock, Ma Rainey, and Sound of Metal queued up.
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on December 21, 2020, 12:09:59 AM
Deerskin and Peanut Butter Falcon, well i just don't know what to do with that information. there's a certain lightness there

you're definitely the Armond White of contemporary cinema, which i've mentioned before and you googled him, and also i've defended Armond White too
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: wilberfan on December 21, 2020, 12:16:02 AM
I prefer a Large if we're having T-shirts made. 
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on December 21, 2020, 12:21:51 AM
lol i would definitely wholesomely laugh if i saw a person wearing a The Armond White of Contemporary Cinema t-shirt. that strikes me as a funny idea in general. i want to wear a The Radley Metzger of Tuesday Nights t-shirt
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on December 21, 2020, 04:20:44 PM
QuoteAlmodovar's Best Films of 2020 list includes:

"First Cow"
"The Devil All the Time"
"Another Round"
"Swallow"
"I'm No Longer Here"
"Little Joe"
"Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always"
"The Painter and the Thief"

what's funny to me is I was like, oh, The Devil All the Time isn't on any lists, hmm, but then birds of a feather
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: wilberfan on December 21, 2020, 04:23:22 PM
QuoteAlmodovar's Best Films of 2020 list includes:
"Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always"

I liked that one, for whatever that's worth.
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on December 21, 2020, 04:41:21 PM
count it! lol. I haven't seen it! I want to because Beach Rats was really special to me. you know I want to admit that even i sometimes go into arthouse movies like, you know, unsure about what's ahead of me. then I thought Beach Rats was such a fully dimensional delight

I've seen so few 2020 movies. from what I've seen Jasper Mall (https://xixax.com/index.php?topic=14378.0) has stuck with me the most. I'm such a fan of documentaries about normal people being normal people, like Hale County This Morning, This Evening (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6634646/) and Minding the Gap (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7476236/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) and Only the Young (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085888/) and etc. obviously I need to also see Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11392114/?ref_=nm_knf_t2)

but I'm not recommending Jasper Mall to you wbf. you won't like it and that's fine lol. I don't like slim narratives, I like completely absent narratives. I like the narrative to be a million fucking miles away
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: wilberfan on December 21, 2020, 08:20:51 PM
Quote from: jenkins on December 21, 2020, 04:41:21 PM
I don't like slim narratives, I like completely absent narratives. I like the narrative to be a million fucking miles away

Thank you for sharing that.  It makes me feel....better...somehow.  Maybe just a little bit less of an outlier.

But I'm still waiting for my T-shirt.
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on December 21, 2020, 08:32:58 PM
you're definitely the majority of people my friend
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: wilberfan on December 21, 2020, 08:50:28 PM
Ouch.   :yabbse-wink:
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on December 21, 2020, 08:57:09 PM
you winked it but i'm a fringe salesman from a mile away, i mean that's me. and one sells the fringe to the masses, that's the situation. but you see i got this entire personal philosophy and you got a personal philosophy and we're just people in the end. I fucking love cats, dogs, sunrises, water fountains, jellybeans and gardens just like you do
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: wilberfan on December 21, 2020, 10:28:43 PM
 :embrace:
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on December 30, 2020, 01:37:24 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0NjBayFz9Q

Quote"An Easy Girl" ("Une Fille Facile") (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/an-easy-girl-reviewed-rebecca-zlotowskis-brilliant-portrayal-of-a-teen-agers-brush-with-glitz), the new film by the French director Rebecca Zlotowski, borrows tropes, tones, and even a lead actress from reality TV. But it also looks behind the genre's vulgar appeal—and the appeal of vulgarity—to locate the authentic substance that such spectacles demand and conceal. The film, which comes to Netflix on Thursday, reimagines the genre of a teen-age girl's coming of age in the form of a tightly framed social experiment: she follows her much worldlier adult cousin into the social orbit of a rich older man and his yacht, and then she returns to her regular life. Moreover, Zlotowski crafts a distinctive style to distill and heighten the drama's psychological complexities and societal analyses. No less than its young protagonists, the film dangerously brushes against the edge of modernity's enticingly destructive glitz.

The film's protagonist, Naïma (Mina Farid), is a high-school student, in Cannes, who lives with her mother (Loubna Abidar), a chambermaid at a nearby luxury hotel, in a modest apartment complex not far from the waterfront. She turns sixteen on the last day of school. When she gets home, she has a surprise: a visit from her twenty-two-year-old cousin, Sofia (Zahia Dehar), who has been living in Paris. Sofia is sexually candid and dripping with bling: she has jewelry, fancy clothing, and a Chanel handbag—and brings one for Naïma, too. In the evening, on the waterfront, Sofia and Naïma walk by a yacht that's docked at the marina, and two middle-aged yachtsmen follow them to a nearby night club and invite them on board the boat. Naïma is scheduled for a summer internship, in the kitchen of the hotel where her mother works; she also has plans, with her best friend, Dodo ("Riley" Lakdhar Dridi), a classmate, to audition for acting school. Yet her pursuit of glamorous adventure threatens all of those plans. Over the next ten days, Naïma both consciously and naïvely follows Sofia into the high-finance, high-society whirl of brazen wealth and power and gets a heady apprenticeship in the ways of that cozy and cruel world—one that, for all its dangers, helps Naïma to see where she stands in relation to it, to see her path in life.

Dehar is one of France's most prominent celebrities. She first came to public view in notoriety, in 2010—with a sex scandal involving some of France's leading soccer players, who were accused of paying her for sex when she was seventeen. (The age of consent in France is fifteen—and even that is fluid—but prostitution is legal only at eighteen; the players were acquitted on the grounds that Dehar had claimed to be eighteen.) She then appeared on TV, became a model, and—with the help of Karl Lagerfeld and other fashion notables—launched, at the age of twenty, a line of designer lingerie. The casting of Dehar, in her first major acting role, is a coup de cinéma. Zlotowski grafts Dehar's real-life energy, knowledge, and power into the film—and they're embodied all the more movingly in her limpid, frank, and graceful performance. With her blend of worldliness and otherworldliness, bluntly practical candor and ethereal majesty, Dehar pairs tensely with the rough-edged modesty and shy sincerity of Farid, a nonprofessional actress, who plays Naïma pensively and brusquely, with an inescapable adolescent awkwardness, carrying the film ahead on a rush of newly concentrated and unleashed energy.

Zlotowski, who wrote the script with Teddy Lussi-Modeste, presents the story from the perspective of Naïma (she's onscreen most of the time), whose voice-over narration lucidly punctuates the story with her insights and recollections. "An Easy Girl" is a tale of observation giving rise to action, of the spectator becoming a participant, which, in Zlotowski's view, is the definition of a coming of age. What Naïma participates in—the workings of the world of business and money—is sketched with a scathing clarity. The yachtsmen whom the young women join are Andres (Nuno Lopes), a suavely bearded, guitar-playing, mightily wealthy Brazilian stock-market investor and art collector, and Philippe (Benoît Magimel), his art adviser, a sort of freelance cultural counsel who also functions as Andres's paid companion and unofficial factotum (and whom Andres calls by the part-admiring, part-demeaning nickname of Socrates). Their yacht, when it's docked, becomes a sort of theatre of luxury that local passersby watch, to Philippe's embarrassment and Andres's haughty contentment. When the two men meet up with Sofia and Naïma, the pairing off is obvious and automatic: Andres is pursuing Sofia for a sexual relationship, whereas Philippe becomes Naïma's sort-of friend and sort-of mentor, even as more intimate possibilities loom.
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on January 05, 2021, 06:04:04 PM
Soderbergh's 2020 Seen, Read list (https://extension765.com/blogs/soderblog/seen-read-2020) makes it clear he spends ample time consuming culture as a way of life, so I can relate, and anyway there's To the Ends of the Earth at 12/23
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: WorldForgot on January 05, 2021, 10:16:19 PM
Glad to know he also digz Below Deck, lol
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on February 09, 2021, 07:11:21 PM
these movies were recommended by the movie person during today's staff work meeting

The Old Guard (2020) (https://letterboxd.com/film/the-old-guard-2020/), Little Fish (2021) (https://letterboxd.com/film/little-fish-2020/), The Dig (2021) (https://letterboxd.com/film/the-dig-2021/)

I should give him wbf's email addy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knPhaXYG4YA
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: wilberfan on February 09, 2021, 07:46:12 PM
Quote from: jenkins on February 09, 2021, 07:11:21 PM
I should give him wbf's email addy

Wait, was that a shot?  :ponder:

I actually enjoyed The Dig.  Gave up on The Old Guard.  Hafta check out Little Fish.   :yabbse-grin:
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on February 09, 2021, 07:56:06 PM
yeah I think he mentioned The Old Guard for like diversity. just in terms of I don't suspect it was genre related. Little Fish is Chad Hartigan (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1029961/) so it has potential
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on March 04, 2021, 07:10:22 PM
Mad Max meets Casablanca? Space Jam: A New Legacy will dive into the WB film vault (https://ew.com/movies/space-jam-new-legacy-wb-film-vault/)

Quote"You can look at the WB catalog and just see how many things they have in the archives," James says. "And for me to be able to travel through and be part of Wonder Woman, Casablanca, The Matrix, it was incredible. We were able to dive into some of those worlds, along with some other ones that... I gave you a couple, but I want to save some for the film. I couldn't believe it, to see some of the live footage that we were able to shoot, along with some of the digital and animation stuff to just bring it all together."

Space Jam: A New Legacy premieres July 16 in theaters and on HBO Max.
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on May 27, 2021, 12:28:03 AM
shoutout to this person in the Unpopular Film and TV Discussions fb group already mad shittalking the new Woody Allen movie I didn't even know about, Rifkin's Festival

QuoteWoody Allen regurgitates about half a dozen of his less interesting films, in this rambling narrative of yet another disgruntled alter ego (Wallace Shawn) with a stalled literary career and faltering marriage, who attempts to frolick with a (surprise) younger woman while attending a film festival in Spain, when not daydreaming à la mode of his favorite boomer arthouse directors (you probably can already guess which).

Rarely has Woody felt so insular, out of shape and derivative as in this trivial cinephile soap of typically pretentious (and mostly miscast) neurotics consumed by their own dwindling intellects (and libidos), whose only grace lies in the deployment of the EU landscape he's basically stuck with, now his status as persona non grata back on home base has solidified.

Not to worry though - we'll have another serving of the same soon enough.
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on June 03, 2021, 09:06:38 PM
it's rude of them to make me want to see John Wick 4. it's pushy

Donnie Yen Joins Keanu Reeves In Lionsgate's 'John Wick 4' (https://deadline.com/2021/06/donnie-yen-john-wick-4-keanu-reeves-lionsgate-rina-sawayama-1234769020/)
Title: Re: Shit Happening
Post by: jenkins on June 08, 2021, 12:39:10 AM
Rob Zombie To Helm 'The Munsters' For Universal 1440 Entertainment
(https://deadline.com/2021/06/the-munsters-movie-rob-zombie-universal-1234770945/)

The best that can be is Tim Burton's Dark Shadows level