Film

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched Târ tonight. It contains a 5 minute scene in which various details of the lives and work of Furtwängler and Karajan are discussed. And that fell within the sphere of the probably less than half the total musical references in it I got. I don't know who the target audience for this movie was, but I hope they all see it.

[StoutAndAle]

Watched Târ tonight. It contains a 5 minute scene in which various details of the lives and work of Furtwängler and Karajan are discussed. And that fell within the sphere of the probably less than half the total musical references in it I got. I don't know who the target audience for this movie was, but I hope they all see it.

Todd Field seems to revel in the density of his scripts. As I've gotten older, the running-time of a film has become a determining factor in if I'll watch it or park it for the next time I have the flu. If a film is 2 hours+ - it'll need to be a masterpiece.

Field is an interesting guy to listen to - he was on Marc Maron's podcast recently. He's had an almost Zelig-like wander through life.

Is it available somewhere online?



I watched "Aftersun" the other night. It's OK - not sure I'd be calling it a masterpiece. Paul Mescal's performance is good, matched equally by the 12 year old Frankie Corio who plays his daughter - not sure it's worthy of a Best Actor nod (I haven't seen many of the films in this years Oscar batch though). T

he cinematography, framing devices and music - especially the way that they manipulate it - are phenomenal though.

It's currently on MUBI.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The only other film I've seen of Field's is Little Children from 2006, with Kate Winslet. It's a lovely film, a very good and very lovely film, being a difficult balance to strike. I hadn't remembered his name as a writer/director for that, so was very surprised when I looked up after Târ to see what else he'd done. But yeah, Târ was too long, for sure. There were some shots that felt gratuitous, and just generally it didn't do what you would expect it to do, what Black Swan, for example, did very well, which is to follow a swell and dip and crescendo, etc., pattern akin to the kind of music it's all about.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched the first Knives Out movie there tonight, since the second one, Glass Onion, I found ultimately decent but overly gimmicky and the first one, at a glance, looked gimmick-free. It is! Great old school whodunnit, perfect fun watch for a Saturday night in.

[Necro Red]

I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once at the weekend. I really enjoyed it now. It is definitely not a movie for everyone. I got a Lynch/Aranofsky buzz off it. Its up for a few Oscars and deservedly so!

[StoutAndAle]

"You People" - starring Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Duchovny, Nia Long etc.

I watched the trailer and thought that I'd give it a go. To my surprise - it starts off pretty well. The first 45 minutes or so are quite funny.

Then - sweet merciful Christ - it takes a dive that Neymar would be proud of. The whole thing stops being a romcom and becomes preachy, laboured, sanctimonious - and nonsensical in an effort to educate the viewer.

They might as well have had Keenan Ivory Wayan's "MESSAGE!" character from "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood" pop up whenever there was a learning moment.

Obviously this film was in the can before the whole Tyre Nichols murder but it was only released on Friday. I wonder did Netflix consider holding this back due to certain jokes about police brutality - or did they rub their hands?

[Carnage]

Operation Mincemeat - fairly average tale of the WW2 counter intelligence project. Colin Firth being Colin Firth. Take 30-40 mins. off the running time and decide on a tone, it would have worked better.

[nukeabuse]

An evening with Beverly luff linn. Weirdo absurd comedy with Matt berry Audrey plaza and a flight of the concords go all giving top tier performances. Definitely a love it or hate it, but Im firmly in love it.

Best in show - best mockumentary bar spinal tap

[Eoin McLove]

Best in Show is so funny. Genius.

[StoutAndAle]

Re-watched "Casino" for the first time in over a decade last night. I threw it on primarily to make sure that my new region-free DVD player was working. Ended up sitting there for 3 hours having a great time.

Forgot how much of the narrative it is driven by voice-over and music cues. Must be 80%.

There's a couple of scenes in it where, and maybe this was De Niro's choice, the acting looks almost improvised and undersold.

Still excellent though.

[astfgyl]

Casino is a class flick watched it a few times

[CorkonianHunger]

Ended up sitting there for 3 hours having a great time.

This always happens to me with that film. Once my mate was playing some stupid simulator game where you could load a video file into a TV in the game, he only had Casino on his PC. Ended up watching it in full through the video game haha.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Science fiction festival at the aul art house doing a showing of Dune today. It'll be the 4th time for me, but it'd be rude not to!


Edit: It's just so good. If Villeneuve can keep it up for another two films, that's the original Star Wars trilogy just absolutely blown out of the universe. If.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Off a Snatch recommendation tonight, Bull. British revenge movie. Class. Impressively grim. Like the Streetcleaner of revenge movies.

[astfgyl]

Science fiction festival at the aul art house doing a showing of Dune today. It'll be the 4th time for me, but it'd be rude not to!


Edit: It's just so good. If Villeneuve can keep it up for another two films, that's the original Star Wars trilogy just absolutely blown out of the universe. If.

This reminded me to throw on Jodorowsky's Dune last night. Fell asleep before the end but that's not to say it wasn't really interesting. Looking forward to finishing it out later