Never Coming to a Theater Near You: Arthouse Cinema 2013

I know donna rouge loved it (as apparently did everyone else on the planet except Stephanie Zacharek), but Leviathan left me cold. Some amazing technical stuff but the increaing intrusion of humans seemed increasingly banal after all the dying, flopping fish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEQoB_aRB3c

Copenhagen PIX starts in a week! I'm going out to get my ticket in a moment. They will show the latest Panahi, Kiarostami, Oliviera, Hong Sangsoo, Kim Kiduk, Ruiz, Reygadas, as well as a lot of other stuff. Also the latest Malick and Assayas, but I can't make it to those screenings. Really excited. It's most of what I wanted to catch of arthouse from the latest year, except for Beyond the Hills and that Resnais one. And Leviathan, but that was apparantly at the DOX-fest in the fall, and I missed it.

had the same response to Leviathan, was quite excited for it too (i think it's the first movie i've paid for this year so far). not sure why it's been so hyped.

my friends' movie is coming out on DVD real soon; saw it as part of the brooklyn film fest last year and loved it.
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Kind-Words-Brad-Dourif/dp/B00BJB2GDI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1365027535&sr=8-1&keywords=last+kind+words

yes, yes it is.
http://www.jazzdisco.org/charles-mingus/catalog/

i think my copy of 'you gotta quit kickin my dog around' is on columbia.. what a great record. interested for sure in what the OKeh's are! some great stuff on that label.

oops wrong thread!

nb re: my leviathan gushing: i was three glasses of wine deep when i saw it. i liked the human intrusions though (and loved that they included all the different species in the credits list)

not sure what the diff is between this and the film snob thread but i'm excited to catch ulrich seidl's paradise trilogy in a few weeks in LA

Think I might have to see the new Ozon film, but memories of 5x2 still linger.

is Ricky typical of Ozon?

not really, aside from its strangeness

any thoughts on 'neighboring sounds'? probably gonna catch it this week

Gutted I missed it. Lots of credible praise.

v good, esp for a first (?) film

When was it released in the US? Missed a screening in the UK a few weeks ago and saw Post Tenebras Lux instead, and much to my dismay it left London last week.

Basically asking is it possible that it will be released in DC in the coming weeks or did I just totally miss it.

Count me among the legion of Leviathan fans.

(Side note: Is it just me or does it seem like this was an extremely solid Q1 at the art house?)

My friend saw it at AFI fest last year and has been singing its praises for so long I feel I've missed that one as well.

There was a short adjustment period while I got used to the fact that the images were not going to look like the movie poster but something very much more unnerving.

Neighboring Sounds played NYC last summer

Yeah, I thought I missed it. Catch up on DVD I guess.

LA lags behind NYC by anywhere from a few weeks to a few months (the odd concurrent retro notwithstanding, e.g. the zulawski retros last summer)

anyway 'neighboring sounds' was indeed really good and i am looking forward to catching 'consuming spirits' this weekend as well

So what do you guys think of the Cannes-linup? http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/cannes-lineup-includes-new-films-from-payne-soderbergh-polanski-coens-and-james-franco I think it seems pretty boring, with way too many american films that hardly need the exposure.

I'm at at Copenhagen PIX these weeks. Closed Curtain is really a marvelous film, great followup to This Is Not a Film. And if you get the chance, check Leonardo Brzezicki's debutfilm Night. Absolutely amazing.

Coming to this late in the run, but I quite liked No, which has healthy attitudes about both advertising and political change. Bernal not annoying like he is sometimes.

It's good. Coulda done without some of the drama-at-home stuff.

I can't stop thinking about that fadeout or w/e it's called in neighboring sounds when it transitioned from those two girls at the party to the two dudes standing in the elevator, an excellent movie

Follow up to This Is Not A Film? Sounds like a must-see.

that is the most routine element, Simon, but GGB did conduct himself like a fucking skateboarder dad. (Do they have those on Portlandia?)

kind of on the fence on Ozon's In the House. It's reasonably fun, playing w/ metafiction, surrogate offspring, horny teenagers and cougarism, but kinda slick ultimately, and one NY critic wrote its condescension was like the last 10 years of Woody Allen.

Armond loved it tho.

Has Armond ever not loved Ozon?

Alfred might like this one for the lit/academic themes and model-beautiful teen antihero.

huh i saw it also - yeah, it's almost fun but idk, it's weirdly v uncinematic; i give ozon credit for the attempt; havent read anything on it but the condescension is much more knowing/winking than woodys recent stuff

yeah kind of a cross btwn Almodovar and Chabrol.

(I liked the scenes where Fabrice Luchini popped in on his student's provocations in the house)

yes well one has to get IN THE HOUSE, you see

the least believable detail is that the raphas are memphis grizzlies fans

also liked the blowup-doll w/ Mao's face

should i see any of these movies playing down the block? The Angels' Share (NR), The Company You Keep (R), The Place Beyond the Pines 35mm (R)

sorry, i'm sure this isn't the right thread for this but i'm thinking about seeing a flick this afternoon, these are all that are playing, and i haven't heard of any of them

Wasn't particularly fond of either Angels or Pines.

Anyone heard anything about The Act of Killing? It's coming to SIFF, sounds fascinating/horrifying.

I saw it on Thursday. It was fascinating and horrifying to be sure.

And sometimes quite funny.

I liked In the House. Morbs otm about model-beautiful Claude.

act of killing is one of the best ideas for a movie ive ever heard

Pretty sure I'll be starting a dedicated thread, but An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is the best American indie I've seen in a dog's age. Funny and smart.... opens in LA tomorrow, elsewhere week by week.

http://oversimplification.mvmt.com/screenings/

Anyone seen Simon House?

after years of wanting to see it, catching the full 4-hr cut of Grin Without a Cat (in TO).

Anyone seen Simon House?

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 17, 2013 7:25 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

hes posting right under u, haha lol

http://www.gifsforum.com/images/image/you%20are%20funny%20i%20will%20kill%20you%20last/grand/you_funny_i_kill_you_last.jpg

It's not new, but I figure anyone who hangs out itt might be able to advise: is it worth watching (all four hours of) Mysteries of Lisbon?

yes!

i think ifc uses their theater as a midpoint for straight to video in some ways

this is making the rounds btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIjJ_VtU9PA

"i have no immediate plans to give a fifteen year old a rimjob, so no"

"In lesbian sex there's a whole lot more crying."

hollywood reporter on aleksei german's hard to be a god, one of those negative reviews that leaves you with a burning desire to see the film in question

Costume designer Yekaterina Shapkaitz and the multiple production designers do a hats-off job creating the film’s unified look of grit and grime, a kind of outhouse esthetic filled with excrement, vomit, spit, blood and spilling guts. Editing likewise goes all-out, avoiding a single quiet moment in almost three hours of running time.

based on the strugatsky bros' novel, director started work on it in 2000 and died last feb, his wife and son finished the film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0C_Bi7PQoo

idk abt the medieval space warrior who busts out a branford marsalis solo in the trailer but other than that I'm down

just wrapped up at AFI fest - no clear favorite but the kazakh school-bullying drama 'harmony lessons' has really stuck with me (despite overstuffed final 20 minutes) - incredibly visually self-assured for a debut feature, flirts with certain coming-of-age movie tropes without totally conceding to them. seems like it'll get wider play soon (very well received at tribeca and the berlinale)

― Rothko's Chicken and Waffles (donna rouge), Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:39 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

lmao at the guy in that being named Bolat. stop that bullshit, you know your mama aint name you no Bolat

So Manakamana. Really really liked it, amazingly paced for this kind of film. If people has seen it, did the audience loose it at the icecream-scene? It was weird, first there were these chuckles, and I think people sorta felt it was out of place, but then it escalated and then the whole room was laughing loudly.

I feel a little predictable in how much I loved Museum Hours.

Saw Dumont's Camille Claudel 1915 last night, which is both a new departure (actorly performances, resolutely realist narrative) and very Dumont-like (religiosity, long takes, provincial landscapes). He still makes us look long and hard at 'difficult' things (here, many of the supporting cast are genuinely 'mentally ill') but - perhaps because of Binoche - there's a greater compassion and empathy than before. Excellent film.

Great - all excited for the two week run at the Renoir.

skipped it here cuz yechhh Dumont

This was a better movie than Kiarostami and Panahi's combined ouevres

but not better than Howard Hawks' worst western, eh

Holy shit @ leviathan, what an intense film

deathliest catch

This was a better movie than Kiarostami and Panahi's combined ouevres

― Ward Fowler, Monday, November 25, 2013 11:42 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haven't seen but lol

it's like nano-targeted arthouse baiting
have u seen all the panahi & kiarostami flicks ward

schlump, i was quoting another ilxor, from the Gravity thread

like someone in love is one of my films of the year, fwiw, and gravity isn't

ha ha sorry!
let me go get indignant in the gravity thread brb

This was a better movie than Kiarostami and Panahi's combined ouevres
― Ward Fowler, Monday, November 25, 2013 11:42 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

why are iranian films so terrible

bcz no Seth Rogen

anyway, this Brit film, The Selfish Giant? anyone?

top ten in the sight & sound poll, that's all i got

I avoid British movies for the most part

So did nobody watch leviathan

mental

i liked the bits in leviathan that looked like brakhage but parts of its left me cold hoho

think this leviathan = a horror movie idea is a bit overstated tbh

the deep inky black at the start was nice

I am biased towards The Selfish Giant because it is local and want to love it, get a feeling it is going to be very impressive until it becomes overly sentimental and am hoping it proves me wrong, but from the trailer it looks a bit predictable.

Xp the brakhage bits were almost comically so

idk about horror movie but like I said intense, and you know I love the sea but damn they made it seem inhospitable, think I'd rather hang out in the space of gravity than the sea of this film

i loved leviathan and am considering getting a copy to put on loop in the background when i'm sleeping. the gopro sections of leviathan where the camera is on a rope and flying wildly from the mast are really difficult and beautiful; the horizon switches and you rapidly sway from watching birds above you to a shift on the horizon and now the birds are below you and the sea is the sky. not recommended if you're squeamish about watching hundreds of fish get hacked up into pieces; mammalian empathy means i don't really count bugs or fish as especially sentient but this gets kinda uncomfortable in a watching-a-kid-kill-ants way after awhile. great credits; all the fish are listed as cast members by latin name.

― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Monday, December 9, 2013 6:15 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah god I never gave any fucks about fish but jesus the casual slaughter backed by industrial dirge, unchill

The bird bits were sublime

it made me queasy and at the end OH LOOK THERE'S A LIGHT AT THE END OF AN ENTIRELY BLACK SCREEN. WILL THERE BE SOMETHING ELSE? I GUESS NOT

Yeah that was funny

the moment when the fish slaughter went overboard (GETTIT) was when they were hacking the wings off skates and casually throwing the lopped up bodies aside. Skates hardly look like fish anyways and the entire process felt like some kind of cronenberg exercise designed to stimulate aliens, not how i get my dinner

leviathan made me less queasy than breaking the waves
in every possible way

You know that bit in ape and essence when ppl are casually bayonetting babies

neat parallel

Don't belittle horror by saying Leviathan doesn't qualify.

I avoid British movies for the most part

So did nobody watch leviathan

― deeja entendu (wins), Monday, December 16, 2013 10:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was going to go see it at the picturehouse but bailed for a friend's leaving do. Sorry to hear it was awesome :(

adele exarchopolous is attending a screening of blue is the warmest color at IFC NYC on jan 8
just feel like that's going to be the creepiest q&a ever

The Great Beauty: Y/N for a Fellini/Antonioni fan extremely skeptical their style can transfer to the 21st century and who will be disappointed if there no more upside down dancing than there was in the trailer?

aint seen. wary.

It had amusing scenes but it's also attenuated and committed to duplicating Fellini's ideas about womankind.

Basically. Very pretty but it's more interested in being smug about the life than it is understanding the sadness beneath it.

Fellini and Dany Boyle had a children.
Liked the movie even with the cliches towards the ending

In any case it's better than most mediocre-to-bad films released lately

http://vimeo.com/84135659

thanks for that, forks

I liked Mother of George a good deal. Very affecting and gorgeous to look at. I agree with Morbs that some of the editing/visual stuff was a bit much but it didn't bother me.