May 18, 2017

https://letterboxd.com/Redwell/

 

May 18, 2017

Second single for the visual album so so soon

 

May 22, 2017

Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer “makes the absurd, amazing The Lobster seem like a warm and cuddly experience by comparison,” declares Jessica Kiang at the Playlist. “A film of clean hands, cold heart, and near-Satanic horror, it was garlanded with boos at its Cannes press screening and it is absolutely f---ing brilliant. Part of what makes its deep-freeze, suburban soul-sickness so effective is that, although the studied formalism, deterministically stiff performance style and deliberately flat line readings are instantly recognizable Lanthimosian traits, the film is set in a world that’s only a plate-glass sliver of weirdness away from our own.”

Sounds like my kind of movie.

 

May 23, 2017

Hi @MovieSXN buddies, I recently spoke with Debbie Downer herself Rachel Dratch when she performed in her hometown for the first time in decades. thought you might enjoy

http://splitsider.com/2017/05/rachel-dratch-returns-home-for-the-women-in-comedy-festival/

 

May 24, 2017

The Beguiled is getting some positive reviews out of Cannes. Glad to see Sofia Coppola rebound from Bling Ring and that s-----y Christmas special. Sofia and Kirsten Dunst did an interview with Variety I haven't read yet. Still need to see Marie Antoinette as well.

I'd like to see Kiaraostami's latest, but I don't think I've seen enough of his earlier work to justify it. Sounds like some s--- @FilmAndWhisky is going to soak his panties over. MK2 has acquired the rights to his first 20 films and are restoring them in 4k, so at least I'll benefit from that.

 

May 24, 2017

Next week we're doing a Kiarostami for the film club btw

I'm convinced his new film is going to be a masterpiece

 

May 24, 2017

I'll just add that Don Siegel's adaptation of The Beguiled with Clint Eastwood is also quite good. I watched it a few months ago as prep...It's what nowadays might be known as "problematic."

 

May 24, 2017

I was going to watch it as well, but I think I'd rather have my introduction to the story be the one that I'm looking forward to.

 

May 25, 2017

I was listening to some of the Cannes press conference and Sofia made an interesting point about how after she watched the original film she was really intrigued by the story but felt that it had more potential had it been told from the female perspective rather than the male, so that's what she went and did; it's cool cause that makes this more than a remake or a retelling as it completely shifts the perspective and focus of the story.

 

May 25, 2017

Dude in Variety went in on it:

She has ‘feminized’ The Beguiled to the point that she has really just pummeled it into the shape of a prestige movie, one that ends with a telling tableau of the film’s female characters posed in formation, like some Civil War sorority of the newly woke. Coppola, in attempting to elevate the material, doesn’t seem to realize that The Beguiled is, and always was, a pulp psychodrama. Now it’s pulp with the juice squeezed out of it

 

May 25, 2017

Sounds like a pleb. You can throw all the variety writers in the trash can imo.

 

May 25, 2017

I tend to write people off as soon as they use "woke" unironically.

I can't say I follow many of their writers. Amy Nicholson has a cool podcast that recently had Armond White on. They also have their backlog of reviews up so you can see how films were received at their time of release. Besides that, they do tend to bend to the will of pop culture a bit too often.

 

May 25, 2017

You should check out Slant Magazine & Reverse Shot, they're quite easily the best publications out. Film Comment and The Ringer are pretty good to an extent too. But the bulk of them are just really bad, delusional out of touch critics who have no interesting opinions or insights.

Variety's review of Song to Song was so embarrassing that I refuse to ever give them any attention again.

 

May 25, 2017

Wait he finished his last film?!?! Holy s--- we get one more

 

May 25, 2017

I already follow Slant and Reverse Shot lol. Probably at the recommendation of people from here. Slant's RSS is spretty s-----y though since you can't limit it to just their movie reviews.

 

May 28, 2017

Joaquin is back

 

May 28, 2017

heating up the summer

 

May 28, 2017

Joaquin takes Best Actor at Cannes!

Palme d’Or: “The Square”, Ruben Ostlund
Grand Prix: “120 Beats Per Minute (BPM)”, Robin Campillo
Jury Prize: “Loveless”, Andrey Zvyagintsev
Best Actress: Diane Kruger, “In the Fade”
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, “You Were Never Really Here”
Best Director: Sofia Coppola, “The Beguiled”
Best Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and Lynne Ramsay, “You Were Never Really Here” (tie)
Camera d’Or: “Jeune Femme/Montparnasse Bienvenue,” directed by Leonor Serraille
70th Anniversary Prize: Nicole Kidman
Short Film Palme d’Or: “Xiao Cheng Er Yue (A Gentle Night),” directed by Qiu Yang

 

May 28, 2017

Well the three movies I gave a s--- about all won something. wew

 

May 28, 2017

Good Time got snubbed on the major awards but at least it won Best Soundtrack