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why doesn't this country have a joanna hogg? maybe we are too young and stupid. in a thousand years there will totally be serious movies here again. that movie Afire i watched on Criterion channel. i don't even know who directed it but nobody could make that here. it would just be something...not as good. i dunno. i think i need to move to spain.

if they would have me...

i just repaid for yearly MHz Choice channel and they are merging with Topic channel so that I get twice as much snowy murder now! or almost now. in a week or so.

i feel guilty that i haven't watched anything on MHz in a while. but i've been busy with other channels. they do have tons of great stuff though. i like knowing i have the option. there is a new Finnish crime show that looks cool. A Good Family.

I like Homicide Hills. gonna watch more of those.

i am watching The Devil’s Hour on Prime w Peter Capaldi. It’s kind of daft but creepy, I like it so far i think

lot of table-setting tho

Will Trent is the best network cop procedural in a while, love the characters

i like it too but almost feel like a trauma warning should start that show. its intense. at least the first season. haven't watched the latest episodes.

please explain that show to me
it has good ppl in it but imo the will trent guy in the trailer seems like the least interesting thing about it!

I kinda hate-watched the first season but no longer have Hulu so can't see the new one, even though I totally would because an actress I really like has been added to the show.

My wife and I watched the first two episodes of the seven-episode Netflix show about the life of Rocco Siffredi. It's pretty bad, but the main actor gets one very important thing right: the look of violent rage in Rocco's eyes while he's fucking.

ahh! i don't want to watch a rage porn netflix show! that sounds scary.

"please explain that show to me"

its trauma ocd columbo only with more action. its entertaining. the main people all grew up together in abusive group homes and trent is a weird cop. he's good on the show. his accent is cool. but if you don't like him you won't like the show.

my money is on Elsbeth though. i wish they would put out another Elsbeth though. i don't think that pilot was the best.

oh and what's her name from the wire is the chief on will trent! she's funny on it. she's almost a parody of the gruff police chief.

and erica swimfan is good on it. i always kinda had a crush on her. i guess she was last on Parenthood? which i watched even though it wasn't great. it had a good cast. can't not watch lauren graham in something. its the law.

ok i’ll give it a go, i need a good cop show

Maria and I just finished episode 5 of The Expanse.

aw yeah, that's the stuff

I believe the guy who plays Will Trent was also on the Wire, one of Omar's lovers

it's kind of like a less broad/schticky Monk basically

yeah i’m enjoying the first ep thank you guys!

why doesn't this country have a joanna hogg?

You don't have as much public arts funding would be my guess?

you could be the next joanna hogg and just make movies on your phone. if you wanted to. not saying that money doesn't make things easier/bigger/better but i don't understand why more people don't take advantage of this amazing tech in their pocket.

new (2023) frederick wiseman doc will be on pbs in a couple of days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heZOZ7CzuRw

The camera's far from being the biggest expense in Joana Hogg's films!

tbc I think America has plenty of great directors, and some use phones. But Hogg strikes me as the kind of artist that only really springs up in a context where there's a certain amount of state funding, I don't think she'd be out there if the BFI wasn't.

skot, how specifically would you replicate the three different film stocks, varying lenses, and effect of switching between other media of SouvenIIr on your phone?

Snapchat filters

also you could make the principal actor look like a rabbit or something

Does VSCO still exist?

i wish cindy sherman would make a movie on her phone. it would make Mandy look like Benji!

i didn't really mean that someone could replicate joanna hogg on their phone. i just meant cool and brainy people have always been resourceful and could do a lot with nothing. and since this government is never going to give out money for film you have to be resourceful. at the very least get into some school somewhere where you can use all their equipment.

there is probably good DIY stuff out there i just don't see it much. sometimes ovid or mubi will show some zero dollars movie shot on video that is cool.

but i mean...you CAN make a movie on your phone. and put it online. for the world to see. that's pretty cool. a lot of arty directors of the past would have killed for something like that.

Tangerine is the most famous shot on phone film I think.

Not much that connects the two aside from being highbrow female directors, but if cool and brainy is all we're talking, scott have you explored Kelly Reichardt?

Soderbergh has made at least a couple of movies on iPhones — Unsane and High Flying Bird.

i have tried kelly reichardt and i kinda feel about her the same way i feel about nicole holofcener. indie shmindie. not horrible. the one with the three women....i did like that. lily gladstone was in it! i got bored of the cow one and the dog one and never finished them.

i admired frownland. as far as american indie goes. i never ever want to see it again, but it shows what you can do with peanuts. its memorable. that might give you an idea of where i am at..........

american stuff - not all - but especially the sundance-y stuff just seems so surfacey to me. comfy films for comfy people. and then i watch some bonkers iranian or turkish movie and i'm like holy crap that was a movie wow! you know? i don't need anything that reminds me of robert redford ever again in my life. i mean i do on occasion watch stuff like that because its like a valium or something and maybe i need a valium.

i mean have you seen the movie Baskin? holy shit! nobody in this country could make that thing. though i did enjoy mandy. it was groovy. there are probably horror examples that i enjoyed. i liked Mother! and hereditary. stuff like that. they are cool.

i mean not everything has to be a freakout or whatever. but the writing in the slice-of-life white people movies usually isn't that great and if you are making movies like that the writing should be really good.

i liked the florida project. there are good things. i know there are. its just the things that really move me don't come from here anymore.

and Tangerine was awesome. for the record. more like that please.

there is good t.v. anyway. made by people who used to make movies. reservation dogs and atlanta better than most amerindie movies.

i really liked Godless. i want Merritt Wever and Lily Gladstone to make an epic miniseries together. Maybe just Godless 2.

Murder and Other Details - an overdecorated christmas tree of a mystery. they just kept adding shit until i stopped caring about anything including the “mystery” also the ending was so DUMB

*The Last Year Of Darkness* on Mubi. So awesome!! Pretty much everything you could want in a documentary. So cool.

Without going on and on, I'll just quote the first sentence in the Mubi description:

"As the city of Chengdu changes, the future of beloved club Funky Town is unclear."

2 ep into Monsieur Spade and pretty much love it. Except for the music, of all the signifiers that this is some retro/neo-noir the deco private eye trumpet or whatever is a step too far.

Otherwise a pretty good representation of Sam Spade, reimagined in a different country and a different decade.

oh yes i agree re Monsieur Spade it’s so good!

AND I LOVE THE TRUMPET HOW DARE U

Into episode 5 of Monsieur Spade, not sure I like where the main story is headed but it’s very enjoyable.

The actress playing Teresa makes me think of Brick, she’s mid-teens but doing a very credible noir femme fatale.

Haven’t seen brick since it was new but my feelings then was that is was the most accurate representation of a Chandler novel ever filed, despite the age of the actors and era it took place.

tried to watch Apple Never Falls and bailed after the first episode.
too much tennis (j/k but also not really)

couldn't get through 20 minutes of it, awful

Are there threads about Three-Eyed Problem, if that's what it's called?

**Googles** Okay Three Body Problem

Anyway - it wasn't very good but I enjoyed it? Very Torchwood vibes, with all that entails. Some really ropey acting from a few of the leads and the gratuitous violence of the opening scene was, well, gratuitous. The SFX are well ropey, which I actually quite liked.

For the moment the mystery is good and mysterious, so I'll carry on watching until that changes.

I've decided the Road House remake is symptomatic of some very depressing shit, so I'm gonna write an extended essay about it in the hope that I can get a deal for an entire collection of essays on pulp culture. (Not joking.)