Drive was like milk to me, cool and sweet and nourishing and refreshing, but turned sour for me by the passing of time. I tried to go back to it last night and ended up just turning it off to listen to the soundtrack instead (the soundtrack is still amazing) and making a note to enjoy something by Mann in the near future instead.
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Driveās soundtrack is a lot of why I couldnāt much abide the whole
Very, very done with apparently now ceaseless 80s gesturing
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Drive is the one that held up the least of his recent output for sure.
A few years ago I invited a girl I was dating around to my house to watch movies, and the one she picked out of my collection was Only God Forgives. That was an interesting night
news: this movie made a gawker journalist walk out mid showing, its quality is cemented
The local arthouse here is doing a season of NWR curated films: Carrie, Videodrome, Under the Skin, Body Double, Mulholland Drive and Suspiria.
Iām definitely putting money down to the see the latter, not sure what else to consider. I mean money is an issue, so Iām effectively discriminating by whatās worth seeing on the big screen or not. Thoughts? I feel like I can safely pass on Videodrome, and I saw Under the Skin when it came out. Maybe Body Double?
Why pass on Videodrome? Have you already seen it? Iād love to see it on a big screen (esp if its in 35mm), itād be top pick out of those for me.
Whatās NWR, I googled it but I doubt itās Namibia Wildlife Resorts or Nintendo World Report
nick wingdings refn, mainly known as a cousin to the writer of dog days but heās also a director of some fine films.
oh of course yeah, damn. Iām tired and old and all that
everything i read about this makes me more excited. i thought there was no way that could happen after only god forgives, but here we are. itās not even that i disliked the film; it translates twisted-psychology into action sequencies that sprawl seamlessly (thinking about the hot-oil-in-the-face chase scene and how the movie ends with the karaoke) which is great, itās just soā¦brain-dead the rest of the time? i remember that was the term i thought then and donāt remember a lot of the film itself. it couldāve been the dialogue, yes. i need to watch it again. for the record i love bronson/pusher/drive to death.
fuck āgettingā films though.
a thousand times this.
But Refn still wants to make a superhero movie.
āGod, I would love to make one, it would probably be great fun,ā Refn told Business Insider this week. āI just donāt know when itās going to happen. I very much enjoy my freedom creatively, but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.ā
So with Wonder Woman already taken, what superhero movie would he want to make?
āWhat ones are left?ā Refn pondered for a second. āYou know the one I want to do? I want to make Batgirl. Letās get Warner working on it.ā
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Frankly, would go to see all of these.
Money is an issue here, falsedan!
The only one of these I havenāt seen before is Body Double. Suspiria is obviously a movie made for the silver screen, Iām querying about the rest being that essential, though.
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I havenāt seen any Refn films, but my first thought reading this was Batman: Thrillkiller, which has a Batgirl focus and what seems like a similarly lurid approach to colors
Stuck the Suspiria OST on the office system close of Friday, went down amusingly