Sep 13, 2016

god @Charlie is AWFUL lol.

@Dew prepare to receive a stream of angry snapchats

 

Sep 15, 2016

How did you see it?

I wonder how the experience would be if you saw it in 35mm. I think with Guerin, especially on Sylvia and Trains, the quality of actual film plays an integral part in his conceptual intentions. Every film of his seems to be much about the act of filmmaking and the value of film specifically in creating unique and wonderful images. In Sylvia, the way for example that grain and selective focus are juxtaposed in a single frame is a major part of its beauty. Not sure if that would come across if not a film or at least theatrical experience. I downloaded it and noticed one scene in particular, when he stares at a woman in his bed, looks terribly dull and lifeless on my screen here while in the theater it was mesmerizing, with great detail of traveling light and grain which is frankly unnoticeable on laptop or tv.

 

Sep 15, 2016

That's a good point. I did actually watch it at home rather than in a theater. I can certainly buy that it's the sort of film that improves immensely with a theatrical experience.

 

Sep 15, 2016

Here's a new short film I made guys, hope you enjoy it. Falling is still coming at the end of the month.

 

Sep 17, 2016

This is pretty decent. I like it more than your last film. The river shot after Neil Young starts and the moon shot are dope. I think the epilogue is too tonally different to be there.

 

Sep 24, 2016

Sat for a private screening of Moonlight...mmm

 

Sep 24, 2016

Live up to the hype??

 

Sep 25, 2016

yes.

 

Sep 26, 2016

Scorsese's Silence finally gets a Dec. 23 release date.

 

Sep 28, 2016

Wrote about the history of presidential biopics -- with southside with you already out and Jackie/LBJ on the way + the actual election . Dig in pigeons:

https://psmag.com/presidential-movies-a-flattery-scale-c321e2351ec6#.ie316uuv8

@MovieSXN @BigCountry @CODEiNE DEMON @Dew @Radeem @Michael Myers

 

Sep 28, 2016

Cool stuff! There was also Barry which just played at TIFF. Young Mr. Lincoln is definitely my favorite on the list you covered. I still haven't seen Nixon though, but from what I gather that might have been the last great Oliver Stone film.

 

Sep 29, 2016

The Playlist posted their list of 100 "Best and Most Exciting" Working Directors. While I love a lot of the names on this list, the order is pretty absurd.

http://theplaylist.net/100-best-exciting-working-directors-20160926/#cb-content

1. Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Kathryn Bigelow
3. The Coen Brothers
4. Todd Haynes
5. Martin Scorsese
6. Pablo Larrain
7. Denis Villenueve
8. Jonathan Glazer
9. Mia Hansen-Love
10. Claire Denis
11. Yorgos Lanthimos
12. Alfonso Cuaron
13. Asghar Farhadi
14. Jane Campion
15. Pedro Almodovar
16. David Fincher
17. Ava DuVernay
18. Steve McQueen
19. Bong Joon-Ho
20. Steven Soderbergh
21. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
22. Wong Kar-Wai
23. Lars Von Trier
24. Christopher Nolan
25. Steven Spielberg
26. Shane Carruth
27. Lynne Ramsay
28. Michael Haneke
29. Lucrecia Martel
30. Andrew Dominik
31. Cary Fukunaga
32. Leos Carax
33. Jill Soloway
34. Jacques Audiard
35. Park Chan-wook
36. Wes Anderson
37. Edgar Wright
38. Sofia Coppola
39. David Lynch
40. Paul Verhoeven
41. Spike Jonze
42. Ryan Coogler
43. Sarah Polley
44. Maren Ade
45. Damien Chazelle
46. James Gray
47. Andrew Haigh
48. Celine Sciamma
49. Terrence Malick
50. Xavier Dolan
51. Nicolas Winding Refn
52. Werner Herzog
53. Kenneth Lonergan
54. Jim Jarmusch
55. Charlie Kaufman
56. Quentin Tarantino
57. Spike Lee
58. Andrea Arnold
59. Jafar Panahi
60. Abderrahmane Sissako
61. Miguel Gomes
62. Joshua Oppenheimer
63. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
64. Cristian Mungiu
65. Kelly Reichardt
66. Dardennes Brothers
67. Darren Aronofsky
68. George Miller
69. Michael Mann
70. Pete Docter
71. Ben Wheatley
72. Laura Poitras
73. Guillermo Del Toro
74. Ang Lee
75. Nicole Holofcener
76. Mike Mills
77. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
78. Barry Jenkins
79. Rian Johnson
80. Jeff Nichols
81. Joanna Hogg
82. Olivier Assayas
83. Kim Jee-woon
84. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
85. Rebecca Miller
86. Andrei Zvyagintsev
87. Phil Lord & Chris Miller
88. Amma Asante
89. Abdellatif Kechiche
90. Carlos Reygadas
91. Lucile Hadžihalilović
92. Ana Lily Amirpour
93. Richard Linklater
94. Gina Prince-Bythewood
95. Haifaa Al-Mansour
96. Taika Waititi
97. Lisa Cholodenko
98. Marielle Heller
99. Joachim Trier
100. Luca Guadagnino

 

Sep 29, 2016

Malick, Refn, and Mann placements hurt me. Lol @ Amirpour being placed over Linklater with one movie out right now, and Sofia being top 40. No wonder they put a "warning" in the article.

 

Sep 29, 2016

Top 10 working directors off the top of my head for me:

Malick
Weerasethakul
PTA
Tsai
Gray
Korine
Louis CK
Haynes
Carax
Mann

 

Sep 29, 2016

Yeah, the placement for Linklater set a very poor tone for the rest of the list. Lots of Wtfs throughout. Andrew Dominik has made three films, his last film from 4 years ago was wack, and he's in the top 30.

 

Sep 29, 2016

@Vahn 's list is fire though.



Seeing both of these in the next week at NYFF

 

Sep 29, 2016

Villenueve in the top 10 lmao

There has to be some sort of joke I'm not in on with all of these wildly average filmmakers get unanimous praise over the past few years.

 

Oct 2, 2016

Suffering from Stendhal syndrome after watching Toni Erdmann and Paterson back to back at NYFF

 

Oct 5, 2016

Did my yearly October re-watch of Eyes Without A Face. Visceral, beautiful, and poetic at the same, it's utter perfection! (oh and trick r treat is dope too).

 

Oct 5, 2016

It is dope as f---! I probably should check out some other films from Franju at some point.

Movies on my radar for October:
October 7- Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker), Under the Shadow (Babak Anvari), Voyage of Time: IMAX Experience (Terrence Malick), The 13th (Ava Duvernay)
October 14- Tower (Keith Maitland), Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt), The Handmaiden (Chan-wook Park)
October 21- Aquarius (Kleber Mendonca Filho), Moonlight (Barry Jenkins), Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi), In the Valley of Violence (Ti West)
October 28- Into the Inferno (Werner Herzog)