Feb 15, 2019

Hey

Made my debut in the Washington post today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...ab2f17e305b_story.html?utm_term=.fea2de10b691

S/o @WPG and @Swizz for the help. And @Dew for the inspiration.

 

Sep 2, 2018

Heading off to the city to see 2001 in IMAX. Never get to see anything like this, feeling a hardcore vibe right now.

Few notes:

- Six people walked out during the Stargate scene.
- Old mom's around me were bored, but clearly interested and with it because of their partner's clear love for it.
- The guy behind me "hadn't seen" this version and that it was a lot longer, even though it's like the only version in existence and only seconds separate the possible versions he could have seen. His girlfriend was bored so he playin' defense.
- 15 minute intermission! Yay.
- The picture quality was so crisp to the point where I spent most of the movie looking at random parts of the frame since my entire vision was engulfed. Seeing the pores on people's faces, practically individual pixels in stationary objects - it was unbelievable. Stargate sequence was the most visually stimulating thing I've ever seen, was vibrating at the end of the movie and the entire Beyond the Infinite sequence went by in what felt like minutes after the intermission.

One thing I picked up on that I never could have on home video - there are some orange/blood red desert shots at the beginning of the movie which if you saw it for the first time today would make you think of the new Blade Runner. When we start getting the close-ups of Hal's eye later in the film, it looks like those desert shots digitalized. His pupil is the sun, and the outer circles make up the backdrop of the sky. Another case of something in Dawn of Man mirroring what we see in space, which almost never stops.

I've also come to the conclusion that this movie is definitely about or at least finishes on the idea of Nietzsche's Übermensch. Ape to man, man makes machine, machines take man to the super-man. Works for me.

 

Jun 2, 2018

Annihilation got me f----- up rn

 

Dec 12, 2017

ya an ensemble based-on-real-events movie about institutional failure and racist cops torturing african americans shouldve been entertaining and relatable..like bad moms lol

 

Dec 8, 2017

here's my ballot this year. didnt see phantom thread, or a few others yet:

PICTURE

1. Detroit
2. Dunkirk
3. Get Out
4. Killing of a Sacred Deer
5. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
6. The Post
7. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
8. Good Time
9. Girls Trip
10. Personal Shopper

DIRECTOR
1. Kathryn Bigelow, Detroit
2. Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
3. Angelina Jolie, First They Killed My Father

ACTOR
1. Adam Sandler, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2. Robert Pattison, Good Time
3. James Franco, Disaster Artist

ACTRESS
1. Kristen Stewart, Personal Shopper
2. Sally Hawkins, Shape of Water
3. Meryl Streep, The Post

SUPP ACTOR
1. Barry Keoghan, Dunkirk and The Killing of Sacred Deer
2. Jason Mitchell, Mudbound and Detroit (and Kong: Skull Island and Disaster Artist)
3. Patrick Stewart, Logan

SUPP ACTRESS
1. Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip
2. Michelle Pfeiffer, Murder on the Orient Express and mother!
3. Mary J. Blige, Mudbound


ENSEMBLE

1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. The Post
3. Dunkirk

SCREENPLAY

1. Yorgos Lanthimos, Killing of a Sacred Deer
2. Martin McDonough, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
3. Jordan Peele, Get Out

FOREIGN
1. First They Killed My Father
2. Okja


DOCUMENTARY
1. Gilbert
2. Long Strange Trip
3. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

ANIMATED
1. Coco
2. Batman v Two Face
3. Lego Batman

CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Dunkirk
2. Florida Project
3. Good Times

EDITING
1 – Baby Driver
2 – The Post
3 - Dunkirk

SCORE
1 – Good Time
2 - Dunkirk
3 –Shape of Water


and here is my wife's

[Your Name]

PICTURE
1 – Get Out
2 – The Disaster Artist
3 – Coco
4 – Uh
5 – Get Out
6 – Why is the one 10 and the rest are 3?
7 – LBJ because I got to see Woody Harrelson IRL afterwards
8 – Beauty and the Beast
9 – Lady Bird (ugh)
10 – Get Out

DIRECTOR
1 – Jordan Peele
2 – James Franco
3 – Absolutely never Greta Gerwig how dare you

ACTOR
1 – James Franco
2 – The creepy kid from Baby Driver
3 – The son from It Comes at Night

ACTRESS
1 - Soaraseafesa Ronan
2 - I guess Jennifer Lawrence
3 – Whoever voiced Coco

SUPP ACTOR
1 – UGH I forgot this was also a thing
2 – The TSA agent from Get Out
3 – Paul Scheer because I got to meet him after the movie

SUPP ACTRESS
1 – Michelle Pfieffer, why not
2 – The girl who played Juliette Danielle in The Disaster Artist because she KILLED it
3 – Not Marnie

ENSEMBLE
1 - Did
2 - Not
3 - See

SCREENPLAY
1 – Get Out
2 – Lego Batman LOLOLOL
3 – Def NOT The Shape of Water bc GROSSSSSS

FOREIGN
1 – I’m
2 - Not
3 - Cultured

DOCUMENTARY
1 - Or
2 - That
3 - Intelligent

ANIMATED
1 - Coco
2 – Lego Batman
3- Despicable Me 3? whatevs

CINEMATOGRAPHY
1 – Still don’t know wtf this is
2 –
3 -

EDITING
1 – I guess Baby Drive bc they synced the music up and that’s dope
2 – Shape of Water?
3 -

SCORE
1 – Good Time
2 – Get Out
3 – Beauty and the Beast



happy 2017 guys

 

Sep 30, 2017

I just learned that Danny Glover was a producer on Weerasethaskul's Uncle Boonmee and Cemetery of Splendor. He also produced the latest film from Lucretia Martel. I had no idea he was such a true head.

 

Sep 1, 2017

Jeremy Saulnier codirecting True Detective season 3. Mahershala Ali in the lead. Dope tbh @Pinhead

 

Aug 31, 2017

Don't miss seeing it in theatres it's breathtaking.

Also, watched Good Time and Logan Lucky recently. Good Time was a career changer for Pattinson(hopefully the tide turns for him. I've been a big fan of his since Cosmopolis). Reminded me of Victoria but better. Logan Lucky was lots of fun. Glad Soderbergh is back.

 

Jul 21, 2017

Having seen it, I'd certainly argue it's a stretch to call it a horror film. Even drama doesn't seem to quite fit, as most of it isn't very dramatic, at least in any conventional sense. It's a somber, melancholic movie about the passing of time. What genre that fits in...I'm not sure.

Just got back from Dunkirk in 70 mm...Despite some reservations, I liked it quite a bit...the best Nolan film for me since at least The Dark Knight.

 

Jul 18, 2017

 

Jul 13, 2017

Scorsese works as a comparison, but he's the exception more than the rule. I still don't understand how a 70 year old gets Wolf of Wall Street right in a way that speaks to millennials so effortlessly. Tarantino hasn't had that kind of awareness since the 90s. Dude is still watching s--- on VHS tape and riffing on the same exploitation genre films he's been riffing on since his first movie. He doesn't have the flexibility of those people. At least, he hasn't proven it to me yet.

 

Jul 10, 2017

crime, penetration, crime, full penetration and this continues for about 90 minutes or so until the film just sort of ends

 

Jul 3, 2017

@Pinhead gon like this

 

May 8, 2017

@Vahn @Pinhead

For Mann fans, Mann's director's cut of Blackhat is going to play on FX tomorrow.

http://theplaylist.net/directors-cu...t-premiere-week-teases-changes-heat-20170508/

Also, there's this...

 

Apr 23, 2017

Unfortunately, I really don't have anything insightful to share, but I did like it a lot. While I don't think it hit me quite as hard, it's easily my favorite Ang Lee film and certainly miles above s--- like American Beauty. Lee weaves the multiple character strands rather seamlessly, including how the struggles of the parents mirror those of their children. Also appreciated how, for the most part, the film's central conflicts stay firmly on the side of ordinary without overreaching into anything more overtly dramatic (I'm a little mixed on the late act conclusion of the ice storm itself), thus allowing its mood and its nuanced take on the nuclear family to carry it. Strong stuff overall

 

Apr 14, 2017

here it is m8s, stay blessed

 

Mar 30, 2017

https://aestheticsofthemind.com/201...p-on-raz-vahn-emerging-independent-filmmaker/

@FilmAndWhisky wrote about ya boy

 

Mar 18, 2017

Saw Song to Song with @Vahn ...It's dope as f---! Achingly beautiful, it's definitely more rooted in character than Knight of Cups, which may win back some of the disillusioned. Malick conveys his tale of romantic entanglements as a continuous ebb and flow of emotion with his camera and actors in a perpetual dance around one another. Though there isn't much resembling conventional scenes of drama, the actors nonetheless succeed in grounding it in real feeling (Gosling, in particular, brings a welcome sense of humor). There's an additional emphasis here as well on touch and sensuality that feels new, where even a fleeting embrace contributes shades of depth.

 

Mar 14, 2017

I saw Beauty and the Beast early, AMA

 

Feb 28, 2017

In the lab on the new film, end of March.