come anticipate "YOU, THE LIVING" (new film from roy "SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR" andersson) with me

This is exciting. Hope the local place picks it up. I saw Songs there.

Yes, I'm extremely excited to see this.

should i liveblog it y/n?

Enjoy these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ofPRv29RMs

and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKBjF5VymcQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uE3cDw76Rk

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Oh wow, oh wow. I loved Songs, so I am very much going to anticipate this with you.

Much love for SftSF

What a brilliant, beautiful film this is. Just watched it on dvd after meaning to for ages and am kicking myself that never got to see it at the cinema. Utterly hypnotic and the train/apartment sequence, ridiculously, made me feel emotionally raw like nothing else in film for ages.

Love this film so much. It made me think of some kind of Tati/Kaurismäki hybrid (apologies for lazy comparison).

So many favourite scenes, but agree that the train one is the pinnacle.

funny, have just downloaded songs from the second floor having got into a feedback loop remembering how much i liked this. his commercial for the socialist democratic party on youtube is great too.

favourite scenes/the tablecloth takes some beating

songs from second floor is so much better (friend called this "songs from the second tier") but this is still pretty amazing.

>favourite scenes/the tablecloth takes some beating

I laughed out loud at this, especially with the swastika reveal on the table beneath the cloth. There's a long, infuriating thread on the IMDB message boards regarding the symbolism of this which has some textbook challopsing.

I loved particularly the first 35-40 minutes of this, but it kinda ran out of steam with the customer in the barbershop (tho I love the gag), and the final tableau didn't really work for me. My favorite scene might be the crying biker chick putting down her BF's (husband's?) mother as she makes dinner.

This has been DL-ed. I'll let you know what it was like on my computer.

nyc retro

go see this mofos

anything in partic besides the two features?

i would def check out his earlier (70s) features—haven't seen them but I want to... and his commercial/short work.

hah, I didn't even know he'd made two '70s features, or was that old! He sounds like the Swedish Malick.

Might go to the student films today, A Swedish Love Story on Sunday.

I saw three of his student films yesterday, and they were... student films, tho the third and longest was the most accomplished and somewhat recognizable as his. He was there for Q&A, and said with his new static-frame style, he sometimes does 90 takes!

whoa!!

any other interesting qs or as?

Mostly pretty standard. He thinks a panning/dollying style is so much "easier." He wants his films to be more like paintings than others' are.

is the series called "me, the living"?

alas, no. r u at TIFF?

ya!

crazy times.

i'm curious about his commercials actually! in sight&sound i remember when you, the living came out they were trying to make a link between the style of that and that of his commercials/commercials in general

I actually had to turn this off half way through, the humour really just wasn't working for me at all and neither was anything else.

I can understand that -- as I explained above, I felt some last-half-hour fatigue with the style, but it worked great for me early on.

Finally saw this a couple of months ago. My feeling was basically this:

songs from second floor is so much better (friend called this "songs from the second tier") but this is still pretty amazing.

― s1ocki

It felt like the humour was much less dark than Songs, giving it a lot less substance overall. The scenes are still beautiful, though.

two set pieces from this really stand out tho:

the table trick dream sequence

the newylwed house-train thing

both incredible imo

really, LESS DARK? I haven't seen Sft2F in awhile, but YtL has those bomber-plane bookends -- kind of apocalyptic.

i would have preferred it without those tbh... it's apocalyptic enough without and i find they were a little DO U SEEEE

This is really good, and that train sequence was fucking stunning!

oh, and I ran into Tripmaker after the screening; he's got me thinking that SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR must be better!

this is playing in SF next week, planning on seeing it.

It's coming out on DVD next week, isn't it?

I don't know - it's playing at the Red Vic.

It's actually coming out on the 12th.

<3 roy andersson so much

Finally saw SFTSF after getting hold of an imported dvd (tip for UK ILXors, avoid the horrific prices for this on Amazon etc and order for £10 incl. shipping from Moviemail.co.uk). Although this is the slightly inferior Alliance-Atlantis edition (so no extras) it's perfectly watchable.

I really enjoyed it, although not as much as YTL but I've seen that quite a few times now, and it was my introduction to Andersson's work so suspect that's an influence.

Things that lodged in my mind from one viewing were: The insurance adjusters in the shop and processing crowd of flagellators. The bed bound General's birthday and his enthusiastic salutes, which felt like a precursor for the same theme on the table-cloth trick in YTL. The hobo and Lasse's son in the street, digging in the bin. The sacrifice.

A couple of further reflections: *really* interesting to see how Andersson's mise-en-scene develops from this (where it still has a slight looseness of tone and obv location shots) to the extraordinarily controlled studio sets from YTL. Also, damn this made me wish these films were available on blu-ray, the murky nature of SD DVD clearly robs them of so much detail.

I rewatched YTL after this and dug into the dvd extras, which include a brilliant 8 minute sequence showing how all the sets were created - well worth a look if you've got the disc.

i got the shitty alliance edition too!

songs is better than you the living imo. but maybe it depends on which order you see them in?

saw a few months ago - loved this

>i got the shitty alliance edition too!

From the dvdbeaver review it seems that Andersson was unhappy with this (there's a small audio drop out on the soundtrack early on, and barebones content), hence the New Yorker edition. Sadly, the NY edition is at least £25 used and Amazon marketplace uk lists it as £60 new currently!

I've been watching some of his amazing commercial work (loads on youtube), and trying to track down A Swedish Love Story on subtitled dvd without paying a fortune for it. The ad for the Swedish Democratic Party about halfway through this is A++

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ofPRv29RMs&feature=related

I still haven't seen You The Living. Roy Andersson has a special place in my heart.

(rats, shoulda read upthread again - props from schlump and admrl for that ad earlier - well, it's worth another look)

admrl, nothing but a recommendation for YTL from me - I adored it.

I also have Giliap and A Swedish Love Story here at home. Interesting but not quite as good as Songs From The Second Floor

Worth a bump because UK dvd distributor Artifical Eye have just released SFtSF and A Swedish Love Story on dvd; it's disappointing that they've not gone for a blu-ray release too, but I'm guessing the transfer on both of these is better than what's currently available. Gonna pick them both up when I get paid so will report back.