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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.)

Something frustrating about the use of IP, as if the IP it itself valuable (Road Houses!) and not whatever moment-specific things made the film memorable or memorable-ish (e.g. Patrick Swayze, Patrick Swayze's hair, 1980s movie stylings, the VHS rental market, the thrill for kids of getting away with watching an "adult" VHS, etc.).

"essay about it in the hope that I can get a deal for an entire collection of essays on pulp culture."

chuck klosterperson

i would have watch road house based on the trailer but its hard to get past his face. that leering moony smile like a big weird pumpkin. though it seems like he's doing his best serious face for this. how much money does that body cost? does he have a tech person for every muscle? so many former nerds want to be tough guys. i kinda liked him as a nerd. also i can't stand the conor mcgregor guy.

First two episodes of 3 Body Problem were enjoyable although it's very much giving off higher budget Dr Who vibes so ymmv

Manhunt anyone? Somehow they made the Lincoln assassination boring

i saw the trailer & whoever theyve got playing Abe looked hilariously short, like the hat was doing all the work

what's funny is hamish linklater is playing him and he's 6'4"

they needed to get shorter actors for the other roles

xpost "I've seen the Better Angels of Our Nature. In fact, I met one them in a cave and brought him back here."

Yes Hamish brings some levity to AL and the protagonist is very good but somehow the pacing feels like molasses

I’m just going to pretend 10 or so minutes from the Monsieur Spade finale don’t exist. Loved
it otherwise though it could have used a couple more episodes for coherency’s sake.

Only seen the first few so far...but I just watched The Maltese Falcon again. Still delivers.

Halo and The Expanse totally helped me clean and price tons of cool singles at night this past week and I would like to thank them. It's hard for me to work at night now that I don't drink or smoke anymore. Those things used to help me forget that I had already worked all day. I need some sort of inspiration. Spartans and Belter Gumshoes definitely do the trick.

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i put on the kelly reichardt sculptor movie in honor of you guys but i dunno...is this like an ambient trance movie? like one of those warhol movies about tedium? the tedium of late capitalism? michelle williams is such a weird muse. she's so bland. oh wait now i get it. she's not weird at all if the movie is about the blandless of peak oil. i keep checking how much time has gone by. i've started reading the wall street journal. in honor of late oil. jack daniels did really well during the pandemic. now...the hangover. the negative interest-rate experiment has ended with a thud. Ghost of Microsoft Stalks Apple as DOJ Takes Its Shot. It turns out that feeling lonely isn't just about being alone. i hate the landlord who won't fix the water. i hope her show goes shitty.