this thread always makes me feel better abt my own top ten list
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 1 December 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
McQueen is getting 20x the attention for his crap second film than his brilliant debut.
Do you find this surprising in some way?
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
I was thinking 10x
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
Just watched Tinker Tailor. Quite enjoyable, I thought. (Having not yet seen the '79 version.)
― Simon H., Friday, 2 December 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
Just watched Beginners and then read Lord Soto's review which I thought was absolutely spot on. I laughed a lot at the bit about Goran Visnjic's character
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About KevinBest Original Screenplay: Will Reiser, 50/50Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim RashBreakthrough Performance: Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon TattooDebut Director: J.C. Chandor, Margin CallBest Ensemble: The Help
UGH, I wouldn't rank a single one of these. (Well, maybe Chandor did an okay job directing, but the script was a big 'feh')
― remy bean in exile, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
Have you seen Dragon Tattoo remy?
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
Yah, unfortu. P.S. I haven't seen We Need to Talk About Kevin, I just can't stand Tilda Swinton in anything people have ever, ever given as an example of a good performance.
― remy bean in exile, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
Not good then? Didn't have high hopes tbh
― Number None, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
I don't like the conceit, the book, or the Swedish movie, so I don't really know why I'd like the remake. But I'm perpetually unimpressed with David Fincher's technical gimcrackery; I kind of feel he missed his calling as film school survey f/x course professor.
― remy bean in exile, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
I've never had any interest in the DragTat thing, so if they don't make it easy for me to see it I won't be troubled.
Woody Harrelson is fine as usual in Rampart, but there's not much to the film besides the not-so-tragic James Ellroy tale of the fall of a dirty LA cop in the late '90s.
also saw a beautifully lensed doc-neorealist mix of Thai sharecroppers, Agrarian Utopia.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
I just can't stand Tilda Swinton in anything people have ever, ever given as an example of a good performance.
I'm pretty unreasonable on Tilda too. I can't remember seeing anything she's been in and not thinking she's given the best performance ever.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
i guess margaret is out in the uk? peter bradshaw gave it 5 stars~
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/dec/01/margaret-film-review
― j crunchwrap supreme, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
didn't like the Italian family thing last year, but she did save Julia from being unredeemably bad. Since I like Lynne Ramsay's miserabilism I have some hopes for Kevin. xp
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
It looks like Jaime's petition worked or had good timing, bcz Margaret is going to get some critic screenings.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
if I haven't mentioned yet, Vanessa R, Brian Cox, and R Fiennes are all stellar in Coriolanus (roughly in that order).
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
margaret on one (1) screen in the uk fwiwi would be psyched to catch it on dvd if i didn't suspect it may only be released on import laserdisc
― Never translate German (schlump), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
wld think itd be ripe for ondemand, etc like Melancholia but who knows
also i didnt know scott rudin was a producer of it. sorta shocked he cant get more distro but mb he doesnt want to
― j crunchwrap supreme, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
there's a piece in the new sight & sound on its spiteful distro setup, w/bizarre details about contractual limits to running time, etc (w/the edit coming in twelve seconds under the 2 1/2 hr ceiling); does just seem like an act of reprimand to release it so unenthusiastically. i hope the dvd w/the three hour cut comes out, anyway
― Never translate German (schlump), Friday, 2 December 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
If I were a writer-director I'd create roles just for Vanessa R.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
if it's true that Scorsese and Schoonmaker edited this cut of Margaret, it's Marty's best work in years.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
How was Coriolanus? I'm waiting on a screener...
― remy bean in exile, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
Since I like Lynne Ramsay's miserabilism I have some hopes for Kevin.
I've enjoyed all of her work too, although Morvern Callar a little less than the rest. MC was a little trés dreamy and elliptical for me, and I felt like it suffered a little from story-lack. But the source material for Kevin is pretty dense and phenom, and if it doesn't fall to sentimentality I think it will be a fantastic – difficult - film.
― remy bean in exile, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
I went in not knowing it was gonna be contemporary, shot partly in the Balkans with Hurt Locker-style shooting (same DP), lotsa cable news tableaus etc, and was pleasantly surprised. Can't think of a Shakespeare film I've liked since the Hawke/Almereyda Hamlet.
xp
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Have you guys read the play? That charater's so difficult to render.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't, and I bet cutting half the text was a good move here. RF has played it on stage before.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
I was actually planning on reading it this weekend prior to watching – a co-teacher recommended it as "Hamlet, but for grown-ups."
― remy bean in exile, Friday, 2 December 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds minor.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Friday, 2 December 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
re: Scorsese and Margaret, according to Lonergan, he worked on a "fuller" cut that no one's seen yet.
― Simon H., Friday, 2 December 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really like the tragedies that much, except for Othello.
― remy bean in exile, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure this comes across as a tragedy! Caius Martius is such a prick. There should be more parts for 75ish actresses in butch military drag, tho.
Eric, how can something with world-class classical acting be considered mino... oh, you.
I didn't recognize Vincent Cassel in his meaty, brief A Dangerous Methodrole after being left with the caricature he drew in the ballet potboiler last winter.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Morbs, you're getting me awfully psyched to see the Cronenberg -- too bad the nearest it will come to this location is at least a 2 hour drive, and possibly more like 3 1/2.
― William (C), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
I think it helps w/ ADM to believe psychoanalysis is essentially ridiculous, as I do in my Irish Catholic heart.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
RF has played it on stage before.
Apparently the first acting job Gerard Butler ever had was in the ensemble of Coriolanus. History!
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
much barely sublimated man-pounding btwn Fiennes and Butler here
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
Detrius '12 all wrapped up.
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/12/02/tim-erics-billion-dollar-movie-red-band-trailer
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
yesssss.
― Simon H., Saturday, 3 December 2011 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
Since I didn't crack a smile, I suppose those guys are big on cable.
Typical NYC award screening attendee on line for The Artist: 80-year-old woman who asks "Is this the one with Meryl Streep?"
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 3 December 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
Huh, seems I'm the one who likes comedy now.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 December 2011 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
the unfunny post-1977 kind yah
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 3 December 2011 06:24 (twelve years ago) link
What does 1977 represent? Annie Hall?
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Saturday, 3 December 2011 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
Kentucky Fried Movie?
― Tumblr Whites Off Earth Now!! (Sandbox Grisso-McCain), Saturday, 3 December 2011 06:36 (twelve years ago) link
Star Wars
― Number None, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
Annie Hall, Let's Get Small, an extra year of Bicentennial Nigger, the deaths of Chaplin and Groucho
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
...the last time Jimmy Carter boasted high approval ratings
― Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
So it's even then. You don't like unfunny post 1977 comedies, and I don't like unfunny pre-1950 comedies.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
LOL, meant to type 1960
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
What does 1960 represent -- Nixon/Kennedy debate?
― William (C), Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
The year comedy became funny.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 December 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
It was three years before It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
― Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 3 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link