I bet gabbneb likes The Artist, too
OH NO, PRINCE REF
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
That is what I thought of first, being that music is the greater medium.
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Obama has saved more lives, net,
"net" is what should be thrown over you.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
That seems insensitive somehow.
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
The Artist is crap.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, December 23, 2011 10:19 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Permalink
yes, it is to Singin' in the Rain & Guy Maddin what Drive is to Le Samourai & The Driver.
I was wondering about this - the breathless reviews I've read, none of them have cited Maddin or Singin' In The Rain, both of which seem like such obvious touchstones/reference points. It's like people forgot these movies existed or something.
― I am womansplainer hear me roar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
music is the greater medium.
haha okay waht
It's like people forgot these movies existed or something.
It's possible. Watching The Artist made me forget that movies can ever be any good.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
The Artist is what SITR would've been if it had concentrated exclusively on the Kelly-Reynolds relationship...without songs or jokes.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
I suspected as much
― I am womansplainer hear me roar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
I have to stress what a boring nullity this thing is.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
You guys seem to be talking about it a lot.
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
weren't you talking about Jacko?
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
Most ppl who are mooning over The Artist have never seen Maddin, and probably no silent films in decades if ever. (Then there are extreme exceptions like Kevin Brownlow and Godfrey Cheshire, which just flummox me.)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:33 (twelve years ago) link
have never seen Maddin
same goes for tree of life apparently
Q: should i watch the crappy version of a brighter summer day that i just torrented or wait a billion years for it to somehow become attainable to me otherwise
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:40 (twelve years ago) link
the 2011 version, that is, which i assume is of better quality
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
it's on Google video too.... I would wait, it's gotta be coming out on DVD in the next year.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
schlump, Tabloid is not a mess or anything--quite amusing, actually--but it's very much television. Like an extended episode of First Person, nothing ambitious about it.
― VHS duct, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 08:14 (twelve years ago) link
If he's a Great Filmmaker, it's because he freed someone from death row, an impact I don't immediately recall any other film matching.
lol, NOT taking this bait
― VHS duct, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 08:16 (twelve years ago) link
Nat'l Film Registry list gets downright schizo.
● “Allures” (1961)● “Bambi” (1942)● “The Big Heat” (1953)● “A Computer Animated Hand” (1972)● “Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment” (1963)● “The Cry of the Children” (1912)● “A Cure for Pokeritis” (1912)● “El Mariachi” (1992)● “Faces” (1968)● “Fake Fruit Factory” (1986)● “Forrest Gump” (1994)● “Growing Up Female” (1971)● “Hester Street” (1975)● “I, an Actress” (1977)● “The Iron Horse” (1924)● “The Kid” (1921)● “The Lost Weekend” (1945)● “The Negro Soldier” (1944)● Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-’40s)● “Norma Rae” (1979)● “Porgy and Bess” (1959)● “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)● “Stand and Deliver” (1988)● “Twentieth Century” (1934)● “War of the Worlds” (1953)
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
● “Stand and Deliver” (1988)
haha waht
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get the doc love for the late-opening El Sicario, Room 164.
also not sure it's a documentary.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
saw Tuesday, After Christmas today. I can't think of any significant flaws except the fuzziness of the husband's relations with his in-laws.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
heads up non-critics like myself can stream Tuesday, Poetry, Certified Copy and uh Cold Weather on netflix right now
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
ty, cosmo
i watched poetry just the other day - is v good
― j crunchwrap supreme, Thursday, 29 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
Poetry is marvelous.
Will watch CC tomorrow now that I see it's available.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 December 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
uncle boonmee also streamable
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Thursday, 29 December 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lchb2pe8RW1qa0jlno1_500.jpg
^^ would stream
― Never translate German (schlump), Thursday, 29 December 2011 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
you trout!
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
(oh, catfish I guess)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
someone commented in the VV film poll that the "verdant night-scapes and gently materializing apparitions of uncle boonmee" were the best movie moments of the year. agreed!
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 29 December 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
and finally saw Meek's Cutoff last night. Kinda thrilling to watch Kelly Reichard handle the sex/race relations. Also a plus to see something where Paul Dano is tolerable.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 29 December 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
got my hands on UK horror-thriller Kill List; a little too familiar in some ways (the climax splits the difference between a couple of genre touchstones), but damn if that last 20 minutes didn't give me heart palpitations.
― Simon H., Thursday, 29 December 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
Tinker Tailor was pretty great. Bellflower was interesting.
― gukbe, Thursday, 29 December 2011 05:45 (twelve years ago) link
finally saw the stylish indie rapefest Martha Marcy Carsey Marilyn Manson. Damn, Brady Corbet is growin' up real nice.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
I forget: did you like Certified Copy?
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 December 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah: your #2
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 December 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Dunno, Corbet seems a little like the guy you'd cast as the real-life version of Chucky in A Child's Play Pinocchio Christmas Special.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Thursday, 29 December 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
after flirting with American movies Juliette Binoche has become an actress whose performances I look forward to watching.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 December 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
can't imagine anything topping certified copy this year except for maybe margaret?
― VHS duct, Thursday, 29 December 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
I had about a dozen films btwn those two. Didn't give much of a damn about the mom in Margaret (u know, actress).
I'm sure the kids appreciated all the Chinatown, Leone and Hunter Thompson refs in Rango.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
out of the 160+ films in the VV poll why don't I see any repping for Wuthering Heights, Pariah, or Oslo, 31 August? Thought these all got some screenings this year.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Friday, 30 December 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
Pariah just opened in NYC yesterday. Hear much praise for lead performance.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
Finally saw Cerified Copy, which I liked a great deal in spite of its Marienbad-La Notte flimflammery. I realized that I wish Juliette Binoche would film a Before Sunrise-esque walking-and-talking film every year. Like I said upthread, this actress is getting more and more fascinating to watch.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
wd slap you for invoking Bored Sunrise!
the 'flimflammery' makes the movie, if it doesn't let it touch A Voyage in Italy.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, I think the flimflammery works but the kind of leap of faith of which second viewings are made.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
*it's the kind of
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
'certified copy' is p corny looking but its also really rad
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Friday, 30 December 2011 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
13 assassins was a pointless testosterone blahblahblah, i might actually prefer miike when he's doing torture porn rather than war porn. i don't have a history with samurai movies though.
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Friday, 30 December 2011 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
and to completely kill my credibility, the more i think about war horse the more i realize it's quite a good WW1 movie, conceptually at least.
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Friday, 30 December 2011 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
I want to watch it but I'm not sure I can endure two-hours-plus of equine porn.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 30 December 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link