SCFZ

i've enjoyed the last season of succession. one of the weird/interesting aspects of the show is that it has always had trappings of prestige tv serial/soap opera storytelling but on some level has always been closer to something like curb your enthusiasm or jesse armstrong's own peep show/veep/thick...

Palme d'Or: La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) Grand Prix: Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing) Jury Prize: Club Zero (Jessica Hausner) Director: Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismaki) really just taking wild guesses here. feels like the only movie i've seen hype for is the kaurismaki? i guess the wes anderson but a lot o...

now let me get this straight - demy directed an adaptation of a manga about the french revolution - in english. amazing granted it doesn't reach the dizzying heights of his musicals but it still has michel legrand :D thanks jacques i needed that the funny thing is that it isn't really an adaptation...

https://i.imgur.com/mnFcMhQ.jpg just starting the dandy at dusk: taste & melancholy in the twentieth century by philip mann, for odd research purposes... https://i.imgur.com/nGjkJPI.jpg and just finished guns & thighs: the story of my life by ram gopal varma for not entirely unrelated reaso...

is creed 1 any good? i heard good things but those movies look generic in a bad way...

but then all the good boxing movies in the last ten years or so (ah wilderness one and two, mukkabaaz, sarpatta parambarai, etc) are sprawling social dramas with boxing as just one of many elements.

neiman marcus was much more than a high end anchor chain - kind of an internationally famous luxury brand (maybe best known for their ludicrous christmas catalogs, which would casually offer up million pieces of jewelry and so on). pretty much dead now (i think they declared bankruptcy a few years a...

I will always take bloated self seriousness over what alternative - camp ? not at all - there is a wide ranger of pulp/pop modes you can work in before you get anything near something like the schumacher movies (or the '60s tv show), or even the baroque stylization of the burton movies (and others ...

the joker movie really is one of the stranger cultural objects of my lifetime. i mean, if you told 10 year old batman superfan nrh they were going to make a joker movie he would have thought it was kind of a weird idea. if you explained that it was going to be an agonizingly self-serious pop-psych o...

late spring in queens, which means the trees are flowering and petals are carpeting the sidewalks and gutters -

one of my persistent regrets is managing to miss multiple screenings of the store in the last 10 years... finally managed to catch up with obayashi's the little girl who conquered time . i think this one is relatively popular but not all that well liked by the obayashi super-fans? but i kind of love...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9BjtT0_KsE

mark stewart from the pop group, one of the great bands of the post-punk era (and one that doesn't get talked about nearly enough).

i'm shocked to have only seen nine: it makes sense with her fairly odd career - the decade in sweden, leaving hollywood for rossellini and europe (and of course the divorce and scandal which hurt her career), returning to hollywood around the moment the studios are falling apart. and even at the he...

under capricorn
viaggio in italia
elena and her men
stromboli
notorious
indiscreet

realize that i've never seen any of her pre-hollywood movies

on the other hand, tom (and to a lesser extent cousin greg) not only knows where the bodies are buried but has evidence of the cover up, so he does have some leverage if he gets pushed further into the corner. but then all the kids seem a bit fucked as we head into the finish line, even kendall's ap...

it is the peaky blinders guy, and as unbearable as you would expect. what kind of idiot casts matt berry in a great expectations adaptation and doesn't cast him as magwich? there are very few great dickens adaptations. i do really like the 1987 christine edzard little dorrit, should watch her other ...

tom gunning is great but i am kind of surprised at how paltry the extras are, especially how crucial they are to decades of (international) cinephilia. i know some people like nehme but taylor hackford?

dirty grandpa
the intern
once upon a time in america
greetings
hi mom!
jackie brown
the irishman
heat
great expectations
the king of comedy

i like old deniro...

trying to rate for performance, but that's a bit tough.

it's great to see justine triet in the competition, a very interesting director who i'm not sure gets enough attention (sibyl was in competition and played nyff but still feels a little overlooked, her older work only more so). truly bizarre that there are multiple wenders movies playing at a festiv...

i mean, cannes kind of jumped the shark by not putting denis in competition since chocolat when they are giving spots to...maiwenn? guess who made the 2023 cannes festival's opening film! :D johnny depp post abuse trial comeback movie no less! in the photos he somehow looks less healthy than leaud ...

https://i.imgur.com/d5ytZwk.png the only movie i caught during the ropert retrospective was the only one i hadn't seen before, the apple of my eye , which was pretty much savaged by the french critics when it released in 2016. but i ended up liking the movie a lot, a very dense (it is barely 90 min...

in the words of lencho: um... mann has more or less disowned the movie; i've never been sure if he just doesn't like the movie or finds what happened to it painful. someone asked him about it at a q&a i was at (for a different movie) and he kind of mumbled something about unfinished effects and...

the vhs rip is terrible, i've seen the dvd which isn't great but honestly not all that worse than the 35mm print i saw last (which was not in great shape).

have heard good things about the 35mm scan, and it seems like ptp has a slightly smaller option with some fixes for brightness.

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 11:38 pm ok i'm going to watch the keep

are you going to do one of the normal versions of the scan of the print?

Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood) Last Night at the Alamo (Eagle Pennel) Sagara Sangamam (K. Viswanath) Berenice (Raul Ruiz) Kandagawa Wars (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Three Crowns for the Sailor (Raul Ruiz) All the King's Men (King Hu) Katha (Sai Paranjape) Dhrupad (Mani Kaul) Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (Kundan Shah) ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6NkluQDUbU viduthalai part 1, vetrimaaran starts with the brutal aftermath of a train bombing (shown in one amazingly choreographed one shot) and then just descends deeper into nightmare, as a naive young driver (played by the comedian soori in his first dramatic rol...

Has James Franco been cancelled really hard? Cuz I can't think of an other reason why Sam Raimi could do a prequel to Wizard Of Oz... for Disney Studios... and it could sink without a trace. Watching it tonightish. james franco has been cancelled really hard, not until a few years ago. but even at ...

have been making an effort to go see more opera lately (one of the weird things about living in ny is that a ticket for the met opera is only about $10 more than seeing a new release movie) and saw a production of verdi's falstaff this weekend. man i wish lubitsch had adapted this in his silent era;...

visualtraining wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 1:23 am love crimes

love crimes is amazing, even in its compromised form. but i say this as someone who doesn't really like her earlier movies.

should say i have no idea why working girls is less famous than born in flames.

Reminded me a little of Eugene Green (a director I also should see more from). she is one of the people who appears in cameo in green's le ponts des arts in a theater scene that is a kind of who's who of a certain strain of outsiderish younger directors in french movies at that point, so there is d...