Never Coming to a Theater Near You: Arthouse Cinema 2013

I know donna rouge loved it (as apparently did everyone else on the planet except Stephanie Zacharek), but Leviathan left me cold. Some amazing technical stuff but the increaing intrusion of humans seemed increasingly banal after all the dying, flopping fish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEQoB_aRB3c

Copenhagen PIX starts in a week! I'm going out to get my ticket in a moment. They will show the latest Panahi, Kiarostami, Oliviera, Hong Sangsoo, Kim Kiduk, Ruiz, Reygadas, as well as a lot of other stuff. Also the latest Malick and Assayas, but I can't make it to those screenings. Really excited. It's most of what I wanted to catch of arthouse from the latest year, except for Beyond the Hills and that Resnais one. And Leviathan, but that was apparantly at the DOX-fest in the fall, and I missed it.

had the same response to Leviathan, was quite excited for it too (i think it's the first movie i've paid for this year so far). not sure why it's been so hyped.

my friends' movie is coming out on DVD real soon; saw it as part of the brooklyn film fest last year and loved it.
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Kind-Words-Brad-Dourif/dp/B00BJB2GDI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365027535&sr=8-1&keywords=last+kind+words

yes, yes it is.
http://www.jazzdisco.org/charles-mingus/catalog/

i think my copy of 'you gotta quit kickin my dog around' is on columbia.. what a great record. interested for sure in what the OKeh's are! some great stuff on that label.

oops wrong thread!

nb re: my leviathan gushing: i was three glasses of wine deep when i saw it. i liked the human intrusions though (and loved that they included all the different species in the credits list)

not sure what the diff is between this and the film snob thread but i'm excited to catch ulrich seidl's paradise trilogy in a few weeks in LA

Think I might have to see the new Ozon film, but memories of 5x2 still linger.

is Ricky typical of Ozon?

not really, aside from its strangeness

any thoughts on 'neighboring sounds'? probably gonna catch it this week

Gutted I missed it. Lots of credible praise.

v good, esp for a first (?) film

When was it released in the US? Missed a screening in the UK a few weeks ago and saw Post Tenebras Lux instead, and much to my dismay it left London last week.

Basically asking is it possible that it will be released in DC in the coming weeks or did I just totally miss it.

Count me among the legion of Leviathan fans.

(Side note: Is it just me or does it seem like this was an extremely solid Q1 at the art house?)

My friend saw it at AFI fest last year and has been singing its praises for so long I feel I've missed that one as well.

There was a short adjustment period while I got used to the fact that the images were not going to look like the movie poster but something very much more unnerving.

Neighboring Sounds played NYC last summer

Yeah, I thought I missed it. Catch up on DVD I guess.

LA lags behind NYC by anywhere from a few weeks to a few months (the odd concurrent retro notwithstanding, e.g. the zulawski retros last summer)

anyway 'neighboring sounds' was indeed really good and i am looking forward to catching 'consuming spirits' this weekend as well

So what do you guys think of the Cannes-linup? http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/cannes-lineup-includes-new-films-from-payne-soderbergh-polanski-coens-and-james-franco I think it seems pretty boring, with way too many american films that hardly need the exposure.

I'm at at Copenhagen PIX these weeks. Closed Curtain is really a marvelous film, great followup to This Is Not a Film. And if you get the chance, check Leonardo Brzezicki's debutfilm Night. Absolutely amazing.

Coming to this late in the run, but I quite liked No, which has healthy attitudes about both advertising and political change. Bernal not annoying like he is sometimes.

It's good. Coulda done without some of the drama-at-home stuff.

I can't stop thinking about that fadeout or w/e it's called in neighboring sounds when it transitioned from those two girls at the party to the two dudes standing in the elevator, an excellent movie

Follow up to This Is Not A Film? Sounds like a must-see.

that is the most routine element, Simon, but GGB did conduct himself like a fucking skateboarder dad. (Do they have those on Portlandia?)

kind of on the fence on Ozon's In the House. It's reasonably fun, playing w/ metafiction, surrogate offspring, horny teenagers and cougarism, but kinda slick ultimately, and one NY critic wrote its condescension was like the last 10 years of Woody Allen.

Armond loved it tho.

Has Armond ever not loved Ozon?

Alfred might like this one for the lit/academic themes and model-beautiful teen antihero.

huh i saw it also - yeah, it's almost fun but idk, it's weirdly v uncinematic; i give ozon credit for the attempt; havent read anything on it but the condescension is much more knowing/winking than woodys recent stuff

yeah kind of a cross btwn Almodovar and Chabrol.

(I liked the scenes where Fabrice Luchini popped in on his student's provocations in the house)

yes well one has to get IN THE HOUSE, you see

the least believable detail is that the raphas are memphis grizzlies fans

also liked the blowup-doll w/ Mao's face

should i see any of these movies playing down the block? The Angels' Share (NR), The Company You Keep (R), The Place Beyond the Pines 35mm (R)

sorry, i'm sure this isn't the right thread for this but i'm thinking about seeing a flick this afternoon, these are all that are playing, and i haven't heard of any of them

Wasn't particularly fond of either Angels or Pines.

Anyone heard anything about The Act of Killing? It's coming to SIFF, sounds fascinating/horrifying.

I saw it on Thursday. It was fascinating and horrifying to be sure.

And sometimes quite funny.

I liked In the House. Morbs otm about model-beautiful Claude.

act of killing is one of the best ideas for a movie ive ever heard

Pretty sure I'll be starting a dedicated thread, but An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is the best American indie I've seen in a dog's age. Funny and smart.... opens in LA tomorrow, elsewhere week by week.

http://oversimplification.mvmt.com/screenings/

Anyone seen Simon House?

after years of wanting to see it, catching the full 4-hr cut of Grin Without a Cat (in TO).

Anyone seen Simon House?

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 17, 2013 7:25 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

hes posting right under u, haha lol

http://www.gifsforum.com/images/image/you%20are%20funny%20i%20will%20kill%20you%20last/grand/you_funny_i_kill_you_last.jpg

It's not new, but I figure anyone who hangs out itt might be able to advise: is it worth watching (all four hours of) Mysteries of Lisbon?

yes!

oui

waiting for Time Regained to get a DVD release here

Been meaning to watch Mysteries of Lisbon but haven't found the time yet.

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Time Regained did get a dvd release here from Kino.

Yeah, I just checked Lisbon out of the library and only then noticed the running time. Just need to find a 4 hour block of time sometime in the next week (I can't watch movies in broken-up parts).

Have it queued up on Netflix. Truth be told I was hoping to brush up on my Portuguese a little before embarking on that 4-hour cruise.

There is another Raul Ruiz on Mubi right now, can't remember which. What's it called, Three Lives and Only One Death maybe?

A River Changes Course was very good

Xavier Dolan's Laurence Anyways: Couldn't foresee him coming up with something quite so operatic and ambitious, but it only kinda gets halfway there, and the lead female is more compelling than my beloved Melvil Poupaud. So, F.N.S. otm:

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/larry_lucky_in_love_Ov6dnYqibG9sOh1A8Qk4hN

FSN, that is (she blogs as the Self-Styled Siren)

Looked at that blog once. Thought it was pretty good from what I saw.

The Siren is great but I haven't read many of her reviews of contemporary cinema.

I was pretty surprised that people were repping for a Dolan film after the awful Heartbeats

I've avoided Dolan until now, but I'm interested in checking out his new one. Sounds like this may have been for the best.

this is better than Heartbeats.

i really want to see "computer chess" but it's not playing anywhere in illinois

http://www.computerchessmovie.com/

I suspect this has more of a built-in audience than Bujalski's other films; sure to hop from city to city throughout the summer/fall.

Anyone besides me see Museum Hours? Mary Margaret O'Hara with a more affecting film role than her sister Catherine has ever had.

You have a gift for telling people why they wouldn't like a movie and then blaming them for skipping it.

re MH? Did I just set off bells for Christopher Guest fans or something?

I really want to see MH and Viola but alas, Alabama

whoa she's in a movie?!

i don't really see anything anymore, no idea if it's even played LA

...it apparently is coming to laemmle soon! saw a preview last night, looks fantastic

anyone seen 'our children' yet? (based-on-true-story post-partum depression drama)

Anyone besides me see Museum Hours? Mary Margaret O'Hara with a more affecting film role than her sister Catherine has ever had.

― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), T

About ten minutes too long but I liked it. The Brueghel lecture among the best I've heard outside a classroom.

I'd like to see Museum Hours. I've met Bobby Sommer, the lead dude, and he is a really nice guy.

I thought it was 10 mins too long too, cuz I made the mistake of drinking a bottle of water right before the show... dyyyyying.

museum hours kinda floored me. morbs potshot at catherine o'hara not cool though!!!

I love Catherine! Do you not agree nearly all film roles of SCTV cast members come up short?

(If you are as neutral about Chris Guest movies as I am.)

I have mixed feelings about Guest, but O'Hara is well suited his particular brand of awkward humour.

yeah i guess the roles haven't always been there. she does steal beetlejuice though. and home alone, partially.

O'Hara should've flat out won best supporting actress for Beetlejuice and at least been nominated for Guffman.

otm

this listicle makes the otm point that she does drunk very well

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/84710/youtube-hall-of-drunk

anyone seen Ain't Them Bodies Saints

that movie got declared "overrated" a blink after the festival praise. Trailer turned me off kinda.

I watched it last night. Looks the part of the 70s New Hollywood he's clearly aping but it doesn't have much understanding of why you'd shoot a film that way.

Ben Foster really good tho

that's a terrible title. does the film fancy itself "gritty"?

The film is identikit Sundance channel fare.

yeah, sounded like it.

i tend to avoid most amerindie films b/c 90% of the time i'm disappointed (or worse, disgusted).

i've basically hated or disliked all the indie darlings of the past decade.

has Xavier Dolan finally made a good movie? (Highsmithesque thriller)

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-venice-toronto-2013-xavier-dolans-tom-at-the-farm

I heard some positive things about Laurence Anyways, but some of the reviews of this one have made me turn my head. Guess I gotta catch up.

Drinking Buddies getting good notices.

Is it? It's been On Demand for a while now and the reception is pretty much split down the normal Pro/Anti Swanberg lines.

Maybe it's tilting a little more pro here in Chicago, since it was filmed here.

people who hate swanberg should see "you're next" in which he suffers a fair amount of violence, along with fellow indie film darlings aimee seimetz and ti west

in Venice, doc about Italian superhighway takes top honors

http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/sacro-gra-venice-film-festival

Italian boss of the jury gives top prize to italian film. Well, it can't be as bad as Pieta.

the other awards look p neat
i wish i would get the chance to ever see any of these movies though

anyone seen The Last Time I Saw Macao?

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-joao-pedro-rodrigues-joao-rui-guerra-da-mataa

Yes, I've seen it - thought it was great

Oh and we are actually getting Museum Hours today at our one arthouse theater - excited to see it finally.

felt v indifferent to last time i saw macao. i thought its kinda illustrative/non-illustrative aesthetic strategy really failed.

I was meh on his dying crossdresser movie

I felt very "I didn't see any of his movies" about them all.

there is no Strand US release date for Stranger by the Lake yet, far as I can see

Also, in the true vein of the thread title, apparently Harvey W. is demoting James Gray's The Immigrant to "straight-to-video" (or streaming, or whatever that phrase means these days).

That's just nuts.

(time for a Margaret-style campaign maybe)

The news is coming from stans that may have been put on guard for exactly that.

Stranger by the Lake will open in Denmark on september 30th. Weirdly enough just four days before the opening of CPH Mix, the Copenhagen LBGT-filmfestival. Beyond the Hills will be shown there, which is really the only thing I want to see.

Can't imagine I'm not going to be incredibly conflicted by Stranger by the Lake.

I'm only dithering cuz it's going to be really disruptive when the NYFF octogenarians start hobbling for the exits.

Don't they know they can just use a popcorn box as subterfuge?

popcorn in Alice Tully Hall, tsk tsk

maybe the wine bar will be dispensing poppers tho

Weird that an unmitigated rave in Slant has me hedging all bets now.

all the shrugs about McQueen from Zero Dark Thirty fans has whetted my appetite.

Ditto all the vitriol about the latest Cuaron from people who like Computer Chess.

well, now we've left the arthouse for Pitt/Clooney movies.

OK, I bought my Stranger ticket. I'm bringing a police barrier so the old prudes can't leave.

Kinkay.

How crucial is it I see Musem Hours?

very, unless yer in the young turks' "Edgar Wright is a great filmmaker" camp.

I think Edgar Wright is a great filmmaker so I now want to know why liking the two would be antithetical

the only common description i can think of for both filmmakers is "studenty"

I really liked The Last...Macao. I thought its kinda illustrative/non-illustrative aesthetic strategy really worked!

ha, this is interesting me. writing on my phone so can't really expand on this but it's something common to a certain strain of new films that just doesn't quite connect, for me; the act of killing has a sorta similarly flat, un-punctuating dissonance between these lil flat digital interludes, kinda sardonically unengaged with the narrative, unadorned digital vistas of shopping malls or canals. idk, to me it feels like an early attempt to move out of the kinda sumptuous cinema era & into bright neon postmodern depictions of now, but it isn't cohering yet. it has that raised wry eyebrow of all that nineties shit that shot for meaningful nihilism, affectless actors speaking blankly while looking past each other in Crash, &c

are we talking about the kerchiche movie anywhere
i really liked it

Some very acrid dissents out there. His Games of Love and Chance was pretty terrific I thought.

Mother of George is very ambitious visually, keeps the central characters (religious Nigerian immigrants in Brooklyn) close to the lens with their environment often out of focus -- but the plot, with a young woman oppressed by the demands of conception and trad sexism, is familiar, with a twist.

Museum Hours on video in early December.

I really liked Black Venus, about the famous 'Hottontot Woman', a woman being exploited and humiliated in the name of entertainment. Which seems a bit ironic after the revelations from the shoot of the new one...

anyone seen Ain't Them Bodies Saints

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, August 29, 2013 8:58 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

its insanely dull

saw museum hours last week, thought it was cool. you get this mini bbc4 doculecture about breughel mid-film which is p fascinating but also s p e l l s o u t what the film is about quite wittily

yeah, movie within a movie about the movie

and I'm not the sharpest so really appreciated the cue re what was being focused on & why

yeah the bruegel lecture was mondo cool.

http://www.france24.com/en/20131023-abdellatif-kechiche-lea-seydoux-adele-exarchopoulos-blue-warmest-color-film
http://www.rue89.com/rue89-culture/2013/10/23/abdellatif-kechiche-a-ceux-voulaient-detruire-vie-dadele-246826

Anyone see Mother of George?

I did. Very ambitious visual aesthetics which ultimately annoyed me (camera on top of the actors, backgrounds either out of focus or otherwise minimalized). Hoped for something better, worth seeing tho.

anyone seen Ain't Them Bodies Saints
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

its insanely dull
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass)

this is otm

dull, and frustrating! it's so handwavey filling in the details of things that the movie itself brings up as questions, I got to the end of the movie & it just felt like a big waste of time

also there's a whole section of the movie shot in complete darkness for reasons that I still don't understand.

but Ben Foster acts his mustachioed butt off, I wish it was a better movie for how good he was in it

but Ben Foster acts his mustachioed butt off, I wish it was a better movie for how good he was in it

True of practically every movie he's in these days. He should've flat out won the award for sashaying through 3:10 To Yuma.

does a nice Wm Burroughs impression in KYD

he was SO good in Yuma, otm. Honestly I can't believe he hasn't shown up in something like Boardwalk Empire, he was born for the period-piece gangster stuff

Is KYD any good, aside from Ben Foster?

nope! i had to review it, p much a guarantee of crap.

anyone see The Unspeakable Act? 17yo girl in love with her older brother, w/d by film critic Dan Sallitt. If you like something more elegant and creepy about Brooklyn youngsters than Baumabach/Gerwig...

(also the bro is played by former Stylus film critic Sky Hirschkron, whose name I remembered cuz there are few Skys outside of Guys & Dolls)

Did you see that in the theater or is it streaming somewhere I'm not aware of? I feel like I'm the last person in the circles to see that.

I finally saw it at home last night; u might ask EG, p sure he provided it months ago

Must've missed that one ...

Want to see this mainly because Dan is a friend from way back, but I'm glad to hear that people like it.

unspeakable act kinda blew i thought. though great performance by the central girl. that everyone else had this kinda uniform dreyerian serial killer vibe threw it off somewhat i thought. i feel sometimes like all people can think to do with digital is try to make it almost deadpan, sedate.

I assumed that like most white families in Ditmas Park, they were on antidepressants.

Girl WAS great, how can the film suck then? Therapist sessions particularly good.

just wrapped up at AFI fest - no clear favorite but the kazakh school-bullying drama 'harmony lessons' has really stuck with me (despite overstuffed final 20 minutes) - incredibly visually self-assured for a debut feature, flirts with certain coming-of-age movie tropes without totally conceding to them. seems like it'll get wider play soon (very well received at tribeca and the berlinale)

also the new xavier dolan left me totally drained

Yeah, Harmony Lessons is amazing. Glad to see it get wider exposure.

i thought wiseman's at berkeley was killer, dunno if there's a thread already

where did you see it forks and is it showing with an intermission?

it's showing at the IFC theater in NYC. no intermission, three screenings a day; looks suspiciously like this is the last day tho.

the 3 hour french lesbo movie is incred. i gotta see more kechiche

but Ben Foster acts his mustachioed butt off, I wish it was a better movie for how good he was in it

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, November 12, 2013 4:39 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

True of practically every movie he's in these days. He should've flat out won the award for sashaying through 3:10 To Yuma.

― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Tuesday, November 12, 2013 4:42 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

somehow i didnt realize how good foster is until I saw him play a bum in Rampart. he really nailed that bum. that was the movie where i first noticed how amazing brie larson is too

the 3 hour french lesbo movie is incred. i gotta see more kechiche

yup. i loved it, too.

i've really been scared to do that film, afraid it's not gonna click for me.
seeing a lot of young women downtown with blue hair or blue streaks lately, like A LOT more than usual; thinking this may be a millennial signifier?
IFC is offering free tickets if you can prove you're from Idaho, lol

fwiw i was very skeptical going in. but i thought it was a great piece of filmmaking and the level of performance he got was incredible (especially exarchopoulos). i found it almost painfully intimate and real. it's really engrossing and the 3 hours of lesbian existential pain really whiz by, and as a bonus it left me contemplating all my fucked up relationships afterwards. the sex scenes do sort of demand to be talked about because of how wackadoo they are (i was holding back laughter) but i dont wanna make the movie sound bad. because its good

I've seen Black Venus and Secrets of the Grain, to prepare, and both those films have amazing performances, and feel incredibly real. There are long stretches of dancing, eating, and doing humiliating things. Kechiche is really good, I think.

the school one I liked more than Grain.

Blue coming to Criterion on Feb 11! Isn't that crazily soon? And later, a deluxe one with extras.

4 month window can be normal, but it does seem soon, yes.

seems like they're doing the ifc films a bit quicker.

the sex scenes do sort of demand to be talked about because of how wackadoo they are (i was holding back laughter)

So I've been trying to make sense of the sex scenes, which feel like a departure from the film's otherwise naturalistic approach. I mean, the explicitness of what's shown is certainly in keeping with the film's verite style, but the dramatic lighting and the non-stop intensity -- without any build-up, hesitations, or interruptions -- sets those scenes (esp. the first one) apart. I think part of the idea is to show Adele and Emma's sexual connection as taking them to this transcendent and even sacred place, outside of everyday realities. But not only does that subjectivity fit oddly with the rest of the film, Kechiche doesn't fully commit to it, since there are hardly any POV shots; most of the time, their bodies have been framed for the audience's benefit.

There are two other scenes in the film that seem significant in relation to those choices: 1) Adele and Emma's trip to the museum, and the presentation of nude female bodies in an elevated aesthetic context, and 2) The party at which the gallery owner mansplains the mystical power of female sexual pleasure. (I've seen suggestions that this latter scene functions as a way for Kechiche to signal his self-awareness about what he himself is doing.)

So I've been trying to make sense of the sex scenes, which feel like a departure from the film's otherwise naturalistic approach. I mean, the explicitness of what's shown is certainly in keeping with the film's verite style, but the dramatic lighting and the non-stop intensity -- without any build-up, hesitations, or interruptions -- sets those scenes (esp. the first one) apart.

yes, exactly. the editing is what made it almost comic to me, there's no flow between sex acts, its like a greatest hits comp of lurid lesbo stuff. they're like these near-camp interludes (i thought of verhoeven in Showgirls mode) plopped down in random moments. or thats the effect it had on me, kechiche is clearly a canny filmmaker and was trying to say something, idk what...

the speech by the gallery owner gives these scenes some context, but only some - i didn't really know how to interpret him. is he meant to be a blowhard? that's how he came off to me but there are no obvious signposts in the scene, the people listening to him nod along and finish his sentences. is he a stand-in for kechiche? is he poking fun at himself & in the process 'lampshading' the sex scenes? is he making a satirical point? or are we meant to take him and his ideas seriously? as you say the sex is staged so oddly, in many shots there's no apparent POV - it's like the two girls are on display. did kechiche just want to film 2 chicks scissoring? its not the most generous reading but i think there's room to suggest that, especially with the troubling reports about his working methods. i had to keep myself from laughing. i thought maybe i was being immature (i mean im just a simple country moviegoer and i guess when it comes down to it i don't know a damn toot about ladies lovin' ladies) but then i read julie maroh's blog and she confirmed that it was comical too so idk.

i think ifc uses their theater as a midpoint for straight to video in some ways

this is making the rounds btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIjJ_VtU9PA

"i have no immediate plans to give a fifteen year old a rimjob, so no"

"In lesbian sex there's a whole lot more crying."

hollywood reporter on aleksei german's hard to be a god, one of those negative reviews that leaves you with a burning desire to see the film in question

Costume designer Yekaterina Shapkaitz and the multiple production designers do a hats-off job creating the film’s unified look of grit and grime, a kind of outhouse esthetic filled with excrement, vomit, spit, blood and spilling guts. Editing likewise goes all-out, avoiding a single quiet moment in almost three hours of running time.

based on the strugatsky bros' novel, director started work on it in 2000 and died last feb, his wife and son finished the film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0C_Bi7PQoo

idk abt the medieval space warrior who busts out a branford marsalis solo in the trailer but other than that I'm down

just wrapped up at AFI fest - no clear favorite but the kazakh school-bullying drama 'harmony lessons' has really stuck with me (despite overstuffed final 20 minutes) - incredibly visually self-assured for a debut feature, flirts with certain coming-of-age movie tropes without totally conceding to them. seems like it'll get wider play soon (very well received at tribeca and the berlinale)

― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:39 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

lmao at the guy in that being named Bolat. stop that bullshit, you know your mama aint name you no Bolat

So Manakamana. Really really liked it, amazingly paced for this kind of film. If people has seen it, did the audience loose it at the icecream-scene? It was weird, first there were these chuckles, and I think people sorta felt it was out of place, but then it escalated and then the whole room was laughing loudly.

I feel a little predictable in how much I loved Museum Hours.

Saw Dumont's Camille Claudel 1915 last night, which is both a new departure (actorly performances, resolutely realist narrative) and very Dumont-like (religiosity, long takes, provincial landscapes). He still makes us look long and hard at 'difficult' things (here, many of the supporting cast are genuinely 'mentally ill') but - perhaps because of Binoche - there's a greater compassion and empathy than before. Excellent film.

Great - all excited for the two week run at the Renoir.

skipped it here cuz yechhh Dumont

This was a better movie than Kiarostami and Panahi's combined ouevres

but not better than Howard Hawks' worst western, eh

Holy shit @ leviathan, what an intense film

deathliest catch

This was a better movie than Kiarostami and Panahi's combined ouevres

― Ward Fowler, Monday, November 25, 2013 11:42 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haven't seen but lol

it's like nano-targeted arthouse baiting
have u seen all the panahi & kiarostami flicks ward

schlump, i was quoting another ilxor, from the Gravity thread

like someone in love is one of my films of the year, fwiw, and gravity isn't

ha ha sorry!
let me go get indignant in the gravity thread brb

This was a better movie than Kiarostami and Panahi's combined ouevres
― Ward Fowler, Monday, November 25, 2013 11:42 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

why are iranian films so terrible

bcz no Seth Rogen

anyway, this Brit film, The Selfish Giant? anyone?

top ten in the sight & sound poll, that's all i got

I avoid British movies for the most part

So did nobody watch leviathan

mental

i liked the bits in leviathan that looked like brakhage but parts of its left me cold hoho

think this leviathan = a horror movie idea is a bit overstated tbh

the deep inky black at the start was nice

I am biased towards The Selfish Giant because it is local and want to love it, get a feeling it is going to be very impressive until it becomes overly sentimental and am hoping it proves me wrong, but from the trailer it looks a bit predictable.

Xp the brakhage bits were almost comically so

idk about horror movie but like I said intense, and you know I love the sea but damn they made it seem inhospitable, think I'd rather hang out in the space of gravity than the sea of this film

i loved leviathan and am considering getting a copy to put on loop in the background when i'm sleeping. the gopro sections of leviathan where the camera is on a rope and flying wildly from the mast are really difficult and beautiful; the horizon switches and you rapidly sway from watching birds above you to a shift on the horizon and now the birds are below you and the sea is the sky. not recommended if you're squeamish about watching hundreds of fish get hacked up into pieces; mammalian empathy means i don't really count bugs or fish as especially sentient but this gets kinda uncomfortable in a watching-a-kid-kill-ants way after awhile. great credits; all the fish are listed as cast members by latin name.

― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Monday, December 9, 2013 6:15 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah god I never gave any fucks about fish but jesus the casual slaughter backed by industrial dirge, unchill

The bird bits were sublime

it made me queasy and at the end OH LOOK THERE'S A LIGHT AT THE END OF AN ENTIRELY BLACK SCREEN. WILL THERE BE SOMETHING ELSE? I GUESS NOT

Yeah that was funny

the moment when the fish slaughter went overboard (GETTIT) was when they were hacking the wings off skates and casually throwing the lopped up bodies aside. Skates hardly look like fish anyways and the entire process felt like some kind of cronenberg exercise designed to stimulate aliens, not how i get my dinner

leviathan made me less queasy than breaking the waves
in every possible way

You know that bit in ape and essence when ppl are casually bayonetting babies

neat parallel

Don't belittle horror by saying Leviathan doesn't qualify.

I avoid British movies for the most part

So did nobody watch leviathan

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I was going to go see it at the picturehouse but bailed for a friend's leaving do. Sorry to hear it was awesome :(

adele exarchopolous is attending a screening of blue is the warmest color at IFC NYC on jan 8
just feel like that's going to be the creepiest q&a ever

The Great Beauty: Y/N for a Fellini/Antonioni fan extremely skeptical their style can transfer to the 21st century and who will be disappointed if there no more upside down dancing than there was in the trailer?

aint seen. wary.

It had amusing scenes but it's also attenuated and committed to duplicating Fellini's ideas about womankind.

Basically. Very pretty but it's more interested in being smug about the life than it is understanding the sadness beneath it.

Fellini and Dany Boyle had a children.
Liked the movie even with the cliches towards the ending

In any case it's better than most mediocre-to-bad films released lately

http://vimeo.com/84135659

thanks for that, forks

I liked Mother of George a good deal. Very affecting and gorgeous to look at. I agree with Morbs that some of the editing/visual stuff was a bit much but it didn't bother me.