Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:
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versh
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Fat City (1972)
John Huston thing with Jeff Bridges and Stacy Keach about a washed up boxer and a promising kid he meets. Almost feels like it's set during the Great Depression. A lot of broken people sitting around drinking and shouting and falling apart, wondering what happened.
John Huston thing with Jeff Bridges and Stacy Keach about a washed up boxer and a promising kid he meets. Almost feels like it's set during the Great Depression. A lot of broken people sitting around drinking and shouting and falling apart, wondering what happened.
shakahislop
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watched a half hour film called Maat recently. love the format, mostly handheld camera, fairly abstract and non-linear, and half an hour really works for that kind of format. very music driven as well. reminded me of auto-fiction in film form. do not like this 90s videogame shitty graphics thing that keeps cropping up all over the place, that's always looked like shit and still does.
Murphy
cat malogen
was thinking of certain American character actors, their faces, where they pop up, seems like a lost world
shakahislop
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watched a lot of films in the last couple of days. I'm a full on subscriber to the 'hollywood is dead' thing now. they genuinely look like they can't get the staff.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Dipped my toes back into the cleansing waters of the BFI player last night and watched
en.wikipedia.org
It was GREAT. I could go into it but why bother.
Pather Panchali - Wikipedia
It was GREAT. I could go into it but why bother.
Murphy
cat malogen
Watched Belly on nightshift after the conversations here and it stand up, if a little cliched
Sharp sumptuous colours, there’s no fat at all, really liked the bottom up shots which add vertiginous elements to tracking. The plot cracks along, you get just enough stressors and characterisation (banana crew) but it’s a visual feast throughout. Glide might be the right term, your eyes are constantly roaming and focusing. Lighting contrast/complementation, slick if a bit daft and overacted, wicked finale grounding monologue to punch you in the guts
overall will still look good in another 23 years
Sharp sumptuous colours, there’s no fat at all, really liked the bottom up shots which add vertiginous elements to tracking. The plot cracks along, you get just enough stressors and characterisation (banana crew) but it’s a visual feast throughout. Glide might be the right term, your eyes are constantly roaming and focusing. Lighting contrast/complementation, slick if a bit daft and overacted, wicked finale grounding monologue to punch you in the guts
overall will still look good in another 23 years
entertainment
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War of the Worlds. Shocked at how good it was actually. Something brilliantly theatrical, operatic about it, how it basks in the logic of the stage without sacrificing the poignancy of the horror.
Tom Cruise as the archetypal American, the confident American, the apolitical American, who has a blue collar job and fixes cars in his spare time, whose wife has left him for a rich asshole, who sings Little Douce Coupe to his daughter at the verge of the apocalypse, who always wins in the end of the day because deep down he is a good guy.
Tom Cruise as the archetypal American, the confident American, the apolitical American, who has a blue collar job and fixes cars in his spare time, whose wife has left him for a rich asshole, who sings Little Douce Coupe to his daughter at the verge of the apocalypse, who always wins in the end of the day because deep down he is a good guy.
The sOuND dESigN for the tripods is good, baleful hell trumpet, love it. And the fiery train. The Tim Robbins segment could be mercilessly cut tho.
Anyone seen infinity pool? Brandon cronenberg, body horror, fowlesian hall of mirrors games, sex, horror masks, handjobs, bowls of hallucinogenic smoke, Ustashian hyperfascism. I liked it.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Just watched Patrick Keiller's "London" (1994) on BFI player, I should think this film would be right up dissensian's streets if they've not seen it already
I didn't really know what I was getting into, thought it might just be interesting to see London as it looked 30 years ago, when there's a good chance I visited it once or twice, as a 7 year old (it's 'set in' 1992). And it was interesting on that level, plus to see how it's changed – the South Bank seemingly dormant or dead at that time.
But it's also contemporarily relevant in all sorts of dispiriting ways, there's a lengthy diatribe about what the re-election of the Tories means for the future of the city which could easily be transposed to 2023. (The video I posted above, in fact.)
Most of all it made me feel either ashamed or deprived to be so ignorant about the city in which I live and uninterested in learning more about it. Even though it closes by suggesting that Londoners can't 'know' London in any real sense, and that London is the most modern city because it 'doesn't exist' and was 'the first metropolis to disappear'.
Found some bits a little pretentious, esp. with the repteitive use of Beethoven's late string quartets but on the whole a real surprise and I loved it.
I didn't really know what I was getting into, thought it might just be interesting to see London as it looked 30 years ago, when there's a good chance I visited it once or twice, as a 7 year old (it's 'set in' 1992). And it was interesting on that level, plus to see how it's changed – the South Bank seemingly dormant or dead at that time.
But it's also contemporarily relevant in all sorts of dispiriting ways, there's a lengthy diatribe about what the re-election of the Tories means for the future of the city which could easily be transposed to 2023. (The video I posted above, in fact.)
Most of all it made me feel either ashamed or deprived to be so ignorant about the city in which I live and uninterested in learning more about it. Even though it closes by suggesting that Londoners can't 'know' London in any real sense, and that London is the most modern city because it 'doesn't exist' and was 'the first metropolis to disappear'.
Found some bits a little pretentious, esp. with the repteitive use of Beethoven's late string quartets but on the whole a real surprise and I loved it.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
You can watch it here but only with a BFI player subscription via Amazon Prime (there's presumably other ways to subscribe to that service, even leaving aside torrents etc.)
Amazon product ASIN B00ET279F4
Amazon product ASIN B00ET279F4
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I suppose that's a kneejerk reaction on my part, some weird sort of self-loathing snobbery, as is rote
Anyhoo
luka
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Patrick Keiller's 'London'
this keeps coming up so why not let it have its own thread. its my favourite film. well funny.
www.dissensus.com
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Some bits of Baudelaire and Rimbaud in there that I really liked
"Life is a hospital where every patient is obsessed by the desire of changing beds. One would like to suffer opposite the stove, another is sure he would get well beside the window.
It always seems to me that I should be happy anywhere but where I am, and this question of moving is one that I am eternally discussing with my soul."
"Skies the gray of crystal.
A strange design of bridges,
some straight, some arched,
others descending at oblique angles to the first;
and these figures recurring
in other lighted circuits of the canal,
but all so long and light that the banks,
laden with domes, sink and shrink."
"Life is a hospital where every patient is obsessed by the desire of changing beds. One would like to suffer opposite the stove, another is sure he would get well beside the window.
It always seems to me that I should be happy anywhere but where I am, and this question of moving is one that I am eternally discussing with my soul."
"Skies the gray of crystal.
A strange design of bridges,
some straight, some arched,
others descending at oblique angles to the first;
and these figures recurring
in other lighted circuits of the canal,
but all so long and light that the banks,
laden with domes, sink and shrink."