Licorice Pizza - Speculation & General Reactions

[Drenk]

With mirror and comb....

Just making sure her future boyfriends are combed perfectly all the time.

[PaulElroy35]

With mirror and comb....

I assumed that was a 70s LA thing or am i wrong? haha

[HACKANUT]

Could she be involved with some sort of audition happening at the school? Possibly for the Waits movie? Is that why Gary is standing in line?
Just spitballing here.

[Alethia]

Ah yes. Possibly why she's on set with Jon Peters too, side eye smilin at Gary.

[wilberfan]

Yeah, was she using the comb and mirror on herself--or (more likely) someone else?  I've never understood teenage girls (!), but I sure don't remember girls walking the school halls with comb & mirror.   Makes no sense to carry them around like that the way we now carry around cell phones.  Is she helping get all the 'bunkbed kids' hair ready, or...? 

[Yes]

https://twitter.com/DennisDuganFan/status/1452748594390441990?s=20

[Drenk]

Yeah, was she using the comb and mirror on herself--or (more likely) someone else?  I've never understood teenage girls (!), but I sure don't remember girls walking the school halls with comb & mirror.   Makes no sense to carry them around like that the way we now carry around cell phones.  Is she helping get all the 'bunkbed kids' hair ready, or...?

Not only access to the kids, but physical access! The comb: Kane's incriminating rosebud.

[wrongright]

https://twitter.com/DennisDuganFan/status/1452748594390441990?s=20

Ugh, I still remember when he hyped Marvel on that show. I think he even referred to Jon Favreau as "an exciting filmmaker". That was the nadir of his recent "praise everything" vibe.

Anyway, that Interview Magazine feature was much better than whatever that Vanity Fair thing was.

[Yes]

https://twitter.com/DennisDuganFan/status/1452748594390441990?s=20

Ugh, I still remember when he hyped Marvel on that show. I think he even referred to Jon Favreau as "an exciting filmmaker". That was the nadir of his recent "praise everything" vibe.

Anyway, that Interview Magazine feature was much better than whatever that Vanity Fair thing was.

He saw Free Guy a couple months ago in IMAX and loved it

[PaulElroy35]

https://twitter.com/DennisDuganFan/status/1452748594390441990?s=20

Ugh, I still remember when he hyped Marvel on that show. I think he even referred to Jon Favreau as "an exciting filmmaker". That was the nadir of his recent "praise everything" vibe.

Anyway, that Interview Magazine feature was much better than whatever that Vanity Fair thing was.

I mean is it wrong If he likes marvel?

Their bland films but maybe he needs brainless vanilla films to watch after making cinematic masterpieces.

[Drenk]

He has a lot of kids, mostly.

[Jeremy Blackman]

Remember when PTA was saying Jaws was a crime against art and ushered in an apocalypse of blockbusters? I think it's just that as you get older, you stop caring about certain things.

[Lewton]

Remember when PTA was saying Jaws was a crime against art and ushered in an apocalypse of blockbusters? I think it's just that as you get older, you stop caring about certain things.

I haven't seen that particular quote but maybe he wasn't being serious. In the Lars von Trier interview his thoughts on Jaws are very enthusiastic:

LVT: Another film that is very dear to me is The Deer Hunter.
PTA: When did you see it? When it came out?
LVT: I've seen it ten times.
PTA: Really. What are the others? What else?
LVT: There's a lot of old Italian films. Pasolini. Antonioni, of course. It all depends on when you become aware of film. I was ready around the time of this German period, with Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders, but I was too late to be fascinated by the New French Wave. But it's very interesting, this question of when you are open to this--I don't think it's very many years, five years or something.
BB: Do you have your Deer Hunter, Paul?
PTA: Yeah, the first thing that comes to my mind is Jaws.
LVT: Jaws! I've never seen that.
PTA: Jaws was a big, big, big, big, big deal to me. My dad was in television in Los Angeles--he did voice-overs, so he was friends with all these technical guys, and really when it was possible to get a 3/4 inch VCR machine in your home, he taped The Wizard of Oz, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and he had a bootleg copy of Jaws. So those were the three movies that I was able to watch over and over. And the VCR was as big as this room, it was like a tank, and the tape was as big as a truck--and I would come home and watch every night, every day, Jaws, Monty Python, The Wizard of Oz. Then later, things happened here and there--like I was saying when I saw Breaking the Waves. And it was interesting because I felt confident enough that I didn't want to copy Breaking the Waves--I just felt, like, I'm allowed to do that. It was almost like it was OK to be that honest.

http://cigsandredvines.blogspot.com/2011/04/flashback-friday-pt-anderson-talks-with.html

[wilberfan]

Lot's of (gratifying) attention and buzz building around Alana today.  Front-and-center on the poster.  Tip of the marketing spear at this point...

But what about Cooper....?   Crickets. 

What can we read into that? 

[edit]  Another thought:  Why is that @jasonosia dude the ONLY person tweeting about LP screenings today...?  I guess the people actually invited to attend are too professional to say anything?  They must be VERY select friends, etc, of Paul?

[WorldForgot]

Lot's of (gratifying) attention and buzz building around Alana today.  Front-and-center on the poster.  Tip of the marketing spear at this point...

But what about Cooper....?   Crickets. 

What can we read into that?

Well Alana mentions an imminent Beatlesmania so I think we're chillin