me and you and everyone we know=best movie i've seen in years

for me it was really really perfect

wait, what does she have to do with the need? i saw the need once and didn't like them.

It looked a bit indie!!!

netflix says availability unknown :(

You know, if you liked Garden State, you'll probably love this movie. Let's put it that way, okay?

you should check it out again

okay FUCK this, I'm not even giving this movie a chance.

Funny Ha Ha is fantastic, I highly recommend that one. It airs on the Sundance Channel every so often, so if you have that on your cable, look it up.

sound like a fair deal?

I really wanted to see The Holy Girl, but it only showed for a week and I couldn't make it to Dallas. Art-house/foreign films need to speed up their DVD cycle.

*not ever, but it has been a while.

I quite liked her book, or thought I did, and then I saw the film, and absolutely couldn't stand it, and thought: well, maybe this film is how she imagined the stories to be, in which case I don't like them like I thought I did.

O_o that just seems like a ... totally bizarre reaction. the film isn't based on her book or vice-versa.

and i'm with omar: i really liked this movie! and the book! funny ha ha is a terrible piece of shit, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R86u250DXi8

like it

Love the hell out of this movie and now it has deep associations for me with this absolutely ridiculous relationship I was a part of for the past 5 months with a certain famous punk rock drummer's niece (hint: I'm in Mendo) so I need to at some point see if I can even still watch the thing given that she would call me when she wanted to go out drinking, say "macaroni" and hang up. But I introduced it to her, not the other way around and I think it's a strong enough film that maybe it'll have an ever deeper meaning for me.

P.S. Can I like marry Miranda July or is that one dude still hitting that?

LOL married to the non-REM Mike Mills. Drat.

To her detractors (“haters” doesn’t seem like too strong a word) July has come to personify everything infuriating about the Etsy-shopping, Wes Anderson-quoting, McSweeney’s-reading, coastal-living category of upscale urban bohemia that flourished in the aughts. Her very existence is enough to inspire, for example, an I Hate Miranda July blog, which purports to detest her “insufferable precious nonsense.” Or there is the online commenter who roots for July to be exiled to Darfur. Or the blogger who yearns to beat her with a shoe.

I understand this, at least in theory. The urban bohemian irks precisely because his or her quirky individuality is just part of a different kind of uniformity, where the uniform happens to be a bushy beard or Zooey Deschanel bangs rather than country-club khakis. Twee fascinations with childhood innocence can mask an unwillingness to tackle life’s darker quandaries. Who wouldn’t be annoyed by a guy who, say, finds a cracked milk bottle, makes a film about it, then silk screens it on a T-shirt and names his band Milk Bottle? The stakes are low. The results are soon forgotten.

But is Miranda July the archenemy of seriousness?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/magazine/the-make-believer.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

i thought that was an interesting article, & i liked her stated investment in sincerity at the end. seem to recall it was written very strangely though, as if the interviewer had followed july around and expressly asked how everything they came across informed her artistic development - very literal & analytical, especially the family stuff

Back and forth.Forever.― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, September 3, 2005 9:56 PM (5 years ago)

The writer, director and star of "The Future," performance/conceptual-artist-turned-filmmaker July, is making her second feature here, following up her unusual and somewhat affecting 2005 film "You and Me and Everyone We Know." But feature writers and critics are already talking about her as if she's a pretty big deal, and a pretty divisive big deal at that. Apparently, she infuriates certain film enthusiasts on account of her making twee accounts of really pale semi-bohemians who sit around listening to NPR and have classic affected problems that pale people like. And apparently, said detractors are mostly themselves rather pale and affected, and the whole anti-Miranda rap is a self-hatred thing that wouldn't necessarily be mitigated if July were to go out and get her butt shot while making a picture about the problems of people living in Sudan. Now, I have some real problems with July's work, but the fact that she makes art about people somewhat like her isn't something that sends me into an apoplectic rage.

Glenn Kenny on The Future

She said she thinks she's "punk" for keeping all those voiceovers from a clinically depressed, mortally wounded cat in her new movie.

a ban on serious writers using "haters" in a story.

haha for real. esp in scare quotes!

i still like Miranda July and think her art is better presented and constructed than a lot of art that appears to be similar and has no effect on me. July has an effect, plus affect...

Favorite parts of this were the meeting on the bench and the 'Fuck' breakdown in the car

Wes Anderson-quoting

ah yeah. all those classic lines from 'the life aquatic' people are forever quoting at each other.

The Future - Official Trailer (HD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2FuwJh8DSs

I was thinking "I kinda want to see this" for the whole first :12

i'll see it no matter what complaints i hear about it beforehand.

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR_QAaLFAJn2V6ZMNOeV0NiX6q3LqKOsu3w0bYu311VkpiIRy4dfA

i havent seen this movie, but

isnt there some 80s synth pop song with a lyric in it kinda like the movie title? this was really bugging me recently. i can hear the english, foppish singer's voice in my head but the lyrics are muddy... i cant find it on google... no im not talking about the band with the movie's name!!!!!!!

there's that cut copy song..?

no nevermind, why'd i even ask

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Melt_with_You ??

u are probably into the jason mraz cover versh

im just gonna stare at soft rock playlists until i figure it out

also hdu

Just watched the clip. I guess every generation needs their own Thirtysomething.

i don't know that she is so much concerned with what it's like to be thirty as what it's like to be a bit batty. i am a bit batty myself (not in an overt underpants on my head kind of way but i have foibles i've had to accept) and i appreciate her kindly take on things, and i like how she understands the joy of nonsense. and i like what i've read of her writing, which is not very much.

I don't know, seemed to have that yuppie-with-problems vibe to it. I wanted to smack the characters around a little after watching that clip, but this type of stuff is pretty much everything I don't like in movies.

I have a friend whose nutty like Miranda July, but she's also evil, so it's fun. This lady seems like an oblivious kook.

the song i was thinking of, was motherfucking DANCE HALL DAYS by wang ass chung

i was thinking of the part where the dude is like

When I
You
and everyone we knew

etc

just updatin yall

dope re-edit of dance hall days:

http://soundcloud.com/psychemagik/dance-hall-days-psychemagiks-leg-warmer-edit

dang that owns

Going to see her movie at the Arclight today, with a Q&A afterwards.

Unsatisfying movie, mostly because a few threads at the start of the movie never come back or are resolved. Still, some great parts to it. The hair-dryer old guy is very reminiscent of the non-actors in Last Days. The cat storyline is weirdly derivative of Malick, both in content and underscoring. New guy isn't as good as John Hawkes.

ha i feel like seeing john hawkes in the trailer for this would make me want to see it but otherwise its pretty repellent

i like her writing more than I liked the movie, certainly. I'd watch a second film.

but I watch anything. I complain about it later, but I rarely avoid things.

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

wang chung > anything miranda july's ever done

otm

Who are your fans?

I meet women who have grown up with me like we're marching along through the same issues. A lot of young gay men, which I love, that's sort of the core constituency, then I've gotten the demographics: somehow they can tell you who's going to your website, broken down by age and gender, and I was really happy that the 45-55 set was almost as solid as the early 20s.

feels like this is where you draw the line between friend and foe

the future is very shit

I like Dance Hall Days

and Fire in the Twilight !!!

Who the hell is Miranda July. I have no idea who this broad is

i really liked this new movie

Back and forth.Forever.
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https://www.criterion.com/films/29112-me-and-you-and-everyone-we-know

Etsy-shopping, Wes Anderson-quoting, McSweeney’s-reading, coastal-living

Best Nirvana T-shirt.

not a fan of that cover

Forever

sounds like Miranda July did a variation of this IRL

Before she met Mills, July dated the director Miguel Arteta, whom she met through the Sundance labs. She pinpoints the end of that relationship to a day when she had to use the bathroom badly. “He was in the bathroom,” she explains. “From my point of view, I really had to shit in a pressing way, and half because of that need and half to be funny, I shit in a frying pan. When he came out, I plopped it in the toilet and flushed it and went to wash the pan very matter-of-factly.” She continues, “But he saw it, and to him, that was like, This is over. That’s how he described it to me at the time.”