Take Shelter was quite good, except for the usual indie film gripe, i.e. the writer-director can't end the film properly.
Chastain's oppressed normality deserves as much props as Shannon and his flop sweat.
― Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 4 December 2011 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
house of pleasures, as its being called in the US i guess, is on amazon instant to stream for $7/$8 (HD)
i liked it, its def a bit blunt when it gets around to making its points but i enjoyed the languid time it took getting there
― j crunchwrap supreme, Sunday, 4 December 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
it is a big Sicinski fave, I will see it this week at the IFC Center.
I found the new incarnation of Tinker Tailor a bore, sorry spyfans.
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 4 December 2011 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
it's just v efficient or i guess slightly more generous deft, i think. surprised to see it in top ten lists
― Never translate German (schlump), Sunday, 4 December 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, I actually thought a movie was better than Swinton's performance therein, for once.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Sunday, 4 December 2011 07:07 (twelve years ago) link
Naturally, it's a horror movie.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Sunday, 4 December 2011 07:12 (twelve years ago) link
I found the new incarnation of Tinker Tailor a bore,
The original is too.
― Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 4 December 2011 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
^nuts
I had forgotten all the gay/bi stuff in it, unless they left some of it out on TV in deference to Sir Alec.
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 4 December 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
had you read the book, eric? hated WNTTAK but can't quiet eliminate the possibility that it might not have been so heavy handed & ott had one not known where it was going, as i did
― Never translate German (schlump), Sunday, 4 December 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
International Documentary Association gives best feature to Nostalgia for the Light (which I found visually ravishing but not as transcendent as others did):
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/ida-awards-and-more-documentary-news
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 4 December 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
Have you seen Incendies yet, Morbs? The plot calisthenics strained the credulity of the final twist, but the movie's quite good.
― Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 4 December 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
I have a library copy that will be watched sometime in the next 167 hours. EH, you're welcome to my spot on this next year.
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 4 December 2011 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
I won't even be reviewing movies next year, god willing.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Sunday, 4 December 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
pish tosh i say
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 4 December 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone warmed up to these Russian art movies Silent Souls, My Joy, etc? They're morbid as hell and yet I still can't get into em.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 5:47 PM (5 days ago)
Silent Souls is competing with Midnight in Paris for worst of the year
― VHS duct, Monday, 5 December 2011 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
i'm so sad i could knock over a tree with my bare hands
― VHS duct, Monday, 5 December 2011 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
a woman is like a river to drown your sorrows in, excuse me while i have sex with this woman
shot of bird in cage
― VHS duct, Monday, 5 December 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, if i'd finished another earth, that would end up in the worst-of competition, too.
― VHS duct, Monday, 5 December 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
The Way is at the top of my "Jack and Jill, Zookeeper and the like don't even count" worst-of list.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
Cahiers (the no-US-release Skolimowski), Edelstein (Ruiz, Spielberg x 2 and... Beginners!), more:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/daily-briefing-cahiers-du-cinemas-top-ten-of-2011
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Lars von Trier has done a masterly job of evoking onscreen his nihilistic worldview. But how can you champion a film that is, in the end, so loathsomely anti-life-affirming?
Someone hit this man with a dead squirrel.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 December 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
lol yeah i sawi can get behind most of bradshaw's, however; the appreciation for kevin mystifies me but even the almodovar i can get behind
cahiers gets point for cover design. will anyone else (here) rep for the new moretti? having trouble working up the enthusiasm to go seexpxp lol, melancholia was so vague
― Never translate German (schlump), Monday, 5 December 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Just watched The Future on Amazon-on-demand. I was expecting more of a comedy. It starts out as an amiable quirk-fest a la Me and You and Everyone We Know, but ends in a much darker place.
― o. nate, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
Brit Indies -- Tyrannosaur, Fassbender, Ramsay, Redgrave:
http://www.contactmusic.com/news/michael-fassbender-and-vanessa-redgrave-win-at-british-independent-film-awards_1270200
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
btw Tyrannosaur ran one week (I think?) at one theater in NY, and I missed it; the last 4 days were 11a.m. shows only. British miserabilism not traveling well these days.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Not miserable enough?
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 5 December 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
distrib didn't realize NY is the Miserabilism Capital of the US.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
really afraid of this one where Glenn Close looks like old Stan Laurel.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
Trailer for that looked pretty hokey.
― dyao think i'm sexy (jaymc), Monday, 5 December 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
also saw the French fin de siecle brothel wallow House of Pleasures last night, which has something for everybody: a panther, appalling knife wounds, "Nights in White Satin."
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
sounds like Julia then.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 December 2011 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
no, i rather liked it.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 5 December 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear rend
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 December 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
Meanwhile Denby pisses off Scott Rubin.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 December 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
just gonna use this for an all-purpose film thread for a sec; finally caught, it having been on the shelf for forever, maren ade's everyone else, which i remember hearing such good things about but never catching over the last couple of years of EOY lists. so good. & not really because it was appealing at all, i am a sucker for appealing, but just earned excellence. brutal. she made a student film as well that's apparently v interesting, also.
i can't quite get interested in denby-gate, sorta inside baseball to me
― Never translate German (schlump), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
I don't care about it (DDenby, that is)
tonight I saw Pina, or Modern Dance Is Rubbish
3D sleepies
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
I'm more interested in Denby-gate than "everyone is all of the sudden interested in Margaret"-gate.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
ppl were interested when/if it played in their city too.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
And these were all, I'm sure, people who were huuuuuuge fans of You Can Count On Me, too. Right.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
i loved the 'action' bits of pina, the talking heads not so much
― silvana mangano, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
is there a problem with people's interest being piqued by hearing about a film they might like? i don't know if anyone has to swear allegiance to YCCOM first (i found that film kinda limited by its trappings but ymmv). margaret is interesting, it's a film w/an unusually visible cast with zero distro if nothing else.
― Never translate German (schlump), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
people got to see YCCOM is the point, and yeah, Margaret has two of the best American performances of the year by Paquin and Berlin.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
Lonergan's ambition here is far greater here than in the other film, even if his reach exceeds grasp etc.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
G Kenny on A Brighter Summer Day, Margaret and 'activist' criticism:
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2011/12/a-brighter-summer-day-margaret-and-film-criticism-as-activism-andor-service-journalism.html
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://whatdoyouthinkmaxvonsydow.tumblr.com/
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
Again, I don't get it.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
beyond to do with his mute role in Incredibly Hanks Unbearably Bullock?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
I like this about the Yang film:
In 2006, when I was at Premiere, I put Jean-Pierre Melville's 1968-made Army of Shadows on my year's best list—at the TOP of my year's best list, in fact!—and I quoted Robert Christgau's review of Dylan/The Band's The Basement Tapes, which had been recorded in the latter '60s but not released officially until the mid-'70s: "We needn't bow our heads in shame because this is the best album of 1975. It would have been the best album of 1967 too." That went for Army at the time, I thought, and it goes maybe even double for Yang's film. Still. In 2006 Army of Shadows got a relatively high-profile arthouse rerelease courtesy of Rialto Films. It was highly publicized; an event more or less. A place on a critic's ten best list that motivated new viewers into seeking the film out would not necessarily led to something like a dead end.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say the same about The Killer of Sheep.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 6 December 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link