yeah that RAP WORLD video is incredible
“YOU’RE FREAKING OBSESSED WITH ME”
“i took off work so you could go to a party and talk to sluts all night?”
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getting rivettepilled lately… i’ve seen celine & julie, le pont du nord, duelle, story of marie & julien, gang of four, half of up down fragile, and i just started watching noroit. he’s so good! makes me want to make movies
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I watched Out 1 when @TooManyCookbooks was out of town. He makes moviemaking look so easy and playful. It’s even easier now than when he did it because you don’t have to worry about the cost of film.
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watching that new ghibli joint
am enjoying the matter-of-fact strangeness of the plot, shit just happens and one interprets best as one can, cool to see a contemporary picture in this mode
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we watched häxan from 1922 and saw the devil churning butter among many other images
omw home after pissing on the church altar
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Watched Venom: Last Dance. I’m stupid fan of Venom and felt disappointed. The big alien threat comes out of nowhere and somehow never really satisfies my disbelief. The character stuff is good fun. Venom hitchhikes with a family that feels sort of out of time to Vegas, and it’s good times. There’s a dance number with Venom under a disco ball that is some legitimately impressive CG work.
Maybe the problem was how tough the monsters were. Having one get sucked into a jet engine during the encounter that introduced it, and then having all of the pulp reform itself into a bug thing like the T1000 did not sell the thing as tough but as arbitrarily tough, invulnerable until it’s time for it to not be invulnerable. There was zero foreshadowing of how the fight would happen.
It was a pretty good road trip comedy wrapped in a pretty lackluster action film.
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I feel weirdly positively towards the first two of these because “Tom Hardy in a buddy movie with his own raging id” is such a wonderful premise
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There is plenty of that and it’s still great, it’s just the big antagonist is unsatisfying. The hippie dude taking his family to see Area 51 get decommissioned is kind of hokey, but his teen daughter feels suitable cringe at her family and the guy makes a great foil to Tom Hardy falling through the system.
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Sleepy Hollow is still good
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Best thing about Focus (2015) is the ending song from Barbara Lewis 
watched Trap by M. Night
the first half is goofy fun, then it goes off the rails extremely hard. i enjoyed it but this probably depends on your tolerance for M. Night-ery
Josh Hartnett is extremely good in this, but everyone else sucks. it’s a quintessential Shyamalan, for better or worse. his daughter (and like 5 different pretty generic pop songs she wrote) features prominently and she’s fine but Hartnett is giving such a great performance that everyone else just kind of sucks in comparison
Hayley Mills seems to be in the movie exclusively due to M. Night liking the pun on “The Parent Trap”(!) … like i said, quintessential
tho, she’s actually the second best thing in the film besides Hartnett
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he made a comedy and I love it
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more movies from a local film festival
A Scarecrow In A Garden Of Cucumbers - starring holly woodlawn of warhol factory fame, this was fun. it sort of had that feeling of “hip” movies made by people a little less hip than they thought they were, woodlawn aside - like some really broad comedy that you could imagine someone thinking would freak out the squares, or something… a wacky segment abt dwarf wrestlers that feels like it formally can’t accept one of them, Sonny Boy Hayes is maybe the most charismatic actor in the film… etc… but there were some good bits and a good emmaretta marks psych soul title song so overall it felt pretty energizing
Vileness Fats - screening of both the c45min edited version and also c45mins of unedited scenes with original audio incl bloopers, crew chat, etc. hot take but imo vileness fats is to forbidden zone as the residents are to oingo boingo… which is to say, better and with more going on if not immediately as much of a good time… pretty much the same amount of blackface in each though. i’m glad i got to hear the extra dialogue since i actually got kind of into the weird declaimed symbolic plot. the residents turn up to play jazz club mutants and at one point do a weird version of randy newman’s “lonely at the top”!!! a cat named gandalf is waved in front of the camera.
The Big Blue - apparently this was critically neglected in part bc a luc besson movie with the same name came out the same year, which to me is the funniest reason for something to be critically neglected. evan lurie of the lounge lizards turns up on the credits as having worked on the excellent title song which makes sense cuz the whole movie is in a sort of similar vein of 80s downtown noir pastiche… it’s more stylistically interesting than that sounds though, sort of taking the stylised hardboiled dialogue of old movies and stylising it further until the endless list of like gnomic assertions or adjustments feels like something out of beckett or even wittgenstein. some good fake movie backdrops. they’re apparently looking to reissue this one soon so i’d recommend if people want like the most abstract end of neo noir.
Screamplay - no-budget crime thriller produced by troma and featuring George Kuchar as a sweaty, glowering slum hotel manager!! the recorded intro mentioned that the whole thing was shot in one small room with just three white walls and a staircase worth of scenary props, which have to be moved into different configurations for each room and which did actually give things kind of a hypnotic quality. it’s light, there are some fun gags incl a great ending one which made the whole room groan, but it was mostly fun to me just to see kuchar in a nasty vest throwing people around.
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Oh Canada was a masterpiece… Probably my favorite Schrader film period.
It’s that, eephus, and anora this year for me, head and shoulders above anything else
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Hundreds of Beavers is on youtube. One of the things only I find funny: the dogs are all in BDSM harnesses to pull the sled
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where’d you watch eephus! i’ve been trying to see if it’s playing anywhere, but nothing comes up
went back to vancouver for that one since my wife had some work meetings that coincided with the film festival. I’m surprised that AC etc haven’t picked it up yet since Carson is local iirc but it has distribution now and they’re screening it super irregularly at festivals etc
it’s very very good… much like Anora which was mostly a movie about people in new york yelling at each other, it is mostly a movie about people in new england yelling at each other
(oh canada is about a person who moved to canada yelling at himself)
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watched The Wizard of Oz again last night. it’s good in a lot of ways but dang, i had forgotten that the music is like absolute non-stop earworms the whole way through
consistently strong melodic potency even in the “throwaway” tunes
i like this outtake with the original voices better than the final version
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family movie night. hey kids, wanna see a spooky movie?? no? well too bad
Flying Phantom Ship was not spooky in the slightest. when the protagonist finally confronts the skull-headed captain it’s all “wow great job kid, you really worked it out”. I thought it would be a ghost story, then a giant robot appears. then more stuff every 7 minutes in case your attention is wandering. body horror, Bond villains meeting in underground lairs, X-COM: Terror from the Deep, kaiju attacks, shadow government conspiracies, casual death, last-chance bombing runs, cops telling kids not to waste their time with stories from comic books
there is a scared Great Dane with overly-human reactions, but carries a bundle of favourite knick-knacks in a “character design flair to make legal distinction from S***** D**” clarifying way
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