Anticipate Yorgos Lanthimos's KINDS OF KINDNESS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fYtuE_ZJ4E

inject this shit into my veins

I fckn hate trailers. That one told me exactly zero about WTF the film is about.

That's a point in it's favor imo, I'm so in.

Now time to parse it thoroughly to see how this is Joe Alwyn's response to Taylor's new album and etc

Dislike trailers that give too much away. Ruins the mystery. This was pretty decent.

We are a strongly pro-Yorgos household here so I am seeing this regardless, but I like the trailer. Just enough to seem interesting. Also, at some future point that cast will feel soooo 2024.

guessing that's just a teaser trailer and a longer one will follow.

also, I believe it's been announced that this is an anthology film.

xpost would’ve been a perfect 2024 cast had they added Pedro Pascal and Ayo Edebiri.

Mostly good reviews from Cannes (I've been avoiding reading too much about it).

https://x.com/davidehrlich/status/1791510625350189465

I have an uneasy suspicion this film may be his 'New Jersey'. Is there a filmic equivalent of that illustrious album btw?

Waterworld

Maybe it’s his Wild at Heart.

I'm always on here complaining about trailers, but I liked the one I saw a couple of weeks ago (haven't checked if it's the same one). Stayed away from Poor Things because of the trailer, but this one I'll see.

(I am, admittedly, highly susceptible to even something as overplayed as "Sweet Dreams" if well used.)

I hated Poor Things. I will watch this, but am maybe coming to the understanding that I just don't like his films

The Lanthimos/Filippou-scripted films seem like an entirely different thing to the two Tony McNamara has written for him though

This was a fucking mess.

Well acted and it looked good, but it seemed like it was written in a day from a bunch of madlibs.

well yeah that would cover all his movies

b) fuck off 3 hours for a smart boy movie

True but this lacked the same desire to tell an interesting story or the strange whimsy that made them feel refreshing. This did have a couple funny moments but it felt like a rushed writing exercise with no attempt to care for entertainment or message. In the whole, it really fell flat.

This was a fucking mess.

Well acted and it looked good, but it seemed like it was written in a day from a bunch of madlibs.

Agree! My heart sinks every time some name director makes an anthology film with overlapping stories etc etc snooze. If these stories couldn't support a full-length script then they're not good enough to make a film out of, end of story.

I did laugh at the Dio bit though.

And the cop's home video.

My heart sinks every time some name director makes an anthology film with overlapping stories etc etc snooze. If these stories couldn't support a full-length script then they're not good enough to make a film out of,

Or just make & release them separately as shorts? I'd rather see a good short that uses its time wisely, just as long as it needs to be, than an overly-padded feature.

Jesus...I've only seen one other Lanthimos film (The Killing of a Sacred Deer), and while I remember that as being strange, there's that kind of strange and then there's this. The only thing I can discuss with any ground underneath me is the music. Immediately, he completely flubs "Sweet Dreams" (better in the trailer). Two hours and forty minutes later, in a 164-minute film, there's 45 seconds that are the most thrilling 45 seconds of movie-music I've seen in a while. The rest I watched slack-jawed, except when I turned away from the screen, which I did a few times. Also: I'm Greek!

I can’t argue with the criticisms but I liked this. After two complicated, effects-heavy, ambitious best picture-nominated films I don’t begrudge him emptying out his idea notebooks and clearing his throat with a minor work. It won’t make my year-end list but it was fun. Jesse Plemons unsuccessfully trying out his “hurt hand” routine got a huge laugh from me.

My heart sinks every time some name director makes an anthology film with overlapping stories etc etc snooze.

I wish more name directors would do this! Blow off steam and throw together weird, cheap, low stakes, not-entirely-thought-out quickie movies in between bigger projects. Take my money.

^^More directors need an After Hours.

Lol

Also there was that multi-director triptych he was part of

NEW YORK STORIES

It's still lingering in my mind two days later. When I start to describe it to friends, I start by dramatically announcing "I don't even know where to start."

I’ve somehow managed to avoid this guy prior to this film so went in mostly blind and kind of liked it

Coming off a film that got so much mainstream attention, this one seems not to have gotten much (though I could well be missing it). Maybe it's length works against it--almost three hours.

This one seemed especially indebted to (post) modern literary fiction, rather than cinematic sources - it's not much of a leap to get from Kinds of Kindness to a Coover or Barthelme short story.

OTM

I get the criticisms and it is kind of a mess but kind of liked this? I couldn’t stop thinking about it anyway.

If it’s a failure, it’s an interesting failure like Beau is Afraid.

anthology movies are fun imo

My heart sinks every time some name director makes an anthology film with overlapping stories etc etc snooze.

I wish more name directors would do this! Blow off steam and throw together weird, cheap, low stakes, not-entirely-thought-out quickie movies in between bigger projects. Take my money.

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, July 22, 2024 12:28 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was my first thought. it's probably not going to enter the "major" Lanthimos film tier but i enjoyed it nonetheless. i was dead laughing at the cop tape reveal.

This is one of those movies that was always meant to be a deep cut, not a new release. I enjoyed watching it 1/2 an hour at a time, would have been a lot all at once.

They really felt like short stories put on film, especially with that stilted, flat-affect dialogue. I liked the the first two better than the third, the endings redeemed them and made them more interesting in retrospect. The last one succumbed to cruel irony (despite the last scene with Tamale Jesus).

I finally saw this last night, and I loved it. Imagine these were three short stories you read in a book. They'd be great, no? Well here they are as short films. I'm surprised people didn't enjoy it.

oh I guess Jordan said the same thing, haha

It definitely made an impression on me, and I still think about it now and again--will watch it a second time for sure when it becomes available to me.

It's not his worst film but it's his least interesting -- and too long to exist as a clearing house for his greatest bits. The score and his sudden extreme close-ups bothered me more than usual. A valuable supporting player, Jesse Plemons can't carry a film.

I like anthology films!