I had Covid this week, and I didn‘t watch as many movies as I’d liked, but boy if La belle noiseuse is one of the best movies that deal about the art craft:
https://youtu.be/uDDZQQHZ5Q4
Also, and at least to me, it's really mesmerizing to see the artistic process of a picture and then the plot twist and final resolution, and I'm interested in the original work of Balzac. It's not my favorite, but to me Rivette is becoming my personal refuge everytime I have the time to sit in and just watch.
I was looking up possible French influences on Gravity Rush besides the bandes dessinées side of things and I found Brigitte Bardot in Le Mépris by Godard. Fritz Lang's in it!
Watch maybe the first half hour and delight at the imperiousness of the American director, then tune out before the couple start arguing and the misogyny really ramps up!
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watched Boarding Gate. I liked it. Was not prepared for Kim Gordon speaking Chinese
Just when I thought I was out…
https://twitter.com/TheFilmStage/status/1537787931108286464?s=20&t=XsAVbb0Ppi6IVlyrmX5MLw
@“2501”#p74540 I really enjoyed that movie. If it‘s playing in my area, I’ll totally go see it. I also will need to buy it.
Tonight is an extra special FORT90 TV broadcast from (k, I say that literally each time, but stay with me here) cuz it’s a “best of” covering the year 2022 thus far. And cuz there’s so much to pull from, we’re talking about a EIGHT HOUR broadcast (tho longtime viewers will know that I’ve gone as long in the past, even longer).
But yeah, it’s all stuff that’s either been faves in the chat or just a fave in my book, including (movie trivia is included BTW/FYI)…
https://twitter.com/fort90filmclub/status/1539020357507620864
watched killer joe, real goofy and bad. I don’t get why people think tracey letts is a good writer. Or rather I do get why steppenwolf season ticket holders think so (they share the assumption that poor people are dumb)
I saw Chungking Express the other day and it was a lot of fun. I for some reason got it into my head that the woman in the blonde wig and Faye were the same person, and that her disguise allowed her to disrobe and live in hiding as herself in the second half of the movie. Don't make the same mistake I did!
Watched Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans last night. I‘m a big Werner Herzog fan, though of all his stuff I’ve seen, this one has the fewest Herzog flavors to it. Nicholas Cage plays the titular scumbag policeman and yep, he's depraved and out of his mind here, which I would say is the main reason to watch it.
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Overall, I think I enjoyed the movie but came out a little disappointed. Herzog is one of my favorite directors, and Cage is one of my favorite actors, so I was hoping for the best of both worlds. I think I got what I wanted from Cage, but not Herzog.
Just curious, how do other people here feel about these esteemed yet not-infrequently frustrating artists?
Saw Fire Island a couple days ago on the Hulu. It was a cute gay rom com with an extremely paint-by-numbers screenplay. Fun date night movie. I appreciated how this movie picked it‘s lanes and stuck with them. Like, I’m absolutely positive there‘s a trans culture in the setting this movie depicts but they don’t go there, which I‘m thankful for; it’d likely be messy.
Movies like this bring my ambivalence about LGBTQ representation to the forefront. On one (cynical) hand, movies like this package "queerness" into a highly polished product for capitalist consumption; on the other (optimistic) hand not everything need be liberatory in purpose and it can be simply fun to watch a cheesy rom com with cute gay men. I think both are simultaneously true.
Figured I'd watch Fallen Angels!
I really wish it could have been possible for me to have seen this before ever coming into contact with Cowboy Bebop.
It's almost immediately apparent that this was a heavy influence (probably the primary one) on Cowbop. Not just stylistically but most of the characters are almost 1:1. Leon Lai and Takeshi Kaneshiro are both Spike, Michelle Reis is Faye, Blondie is Ed, Kaneshiro's father is Jet. All it's missing is a corgi.
There's even that episode Ballad of Fallen Angels that's an obvious tip-off. I don't mean to sound like I've stumbled upon some hidden secret that no one else was privy to, but CB must sure attract a lot of morons because they praise that show like there's never been anything as stylish cool and sexy before or since, and I don't think I've ever heard this movie brought up in their discussions.
(I like Cowboy Bebop just fine, but I need the world to understand that Samurai Champloo was always better.)
Michelle Reis' raven fringe threatening to swallow her whole face and the shiny dresses she wears is an incredible look. Holy fuck.
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Before this week, the only Wong Kar Wai film I'd seen was 2046, and it left a lukewarm impression on me. Should I watch Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love?
waiting for a chance to see the new terrence davies movie 2501 recommended so rewatched Distant Voices, Still Lives that's a great one all right
I liked crimes of the future ok, but have a tough time shaking the been there done that feeling thanks to how closely it hews to JG Ballard themes, motif, etc. Not saying it’s a case of theft or anything I just didn’t find the Ballard retread + practical gore effects method all that meaningful. I mean the movie is a Vermillion Sands story with a “Voices Of Time” premise idk. It even does the weird single name character thing. It’s true that ballard doesn’t do bone-based technology though so credit where it’s do
Also rewatched that last 2 hours of _The Nightingale_ again. Can’t bring myself to watch that first half hour again. I think it’s really good, pretty brutal though
That new Alex Garland movie is pretty wild lol
have you seen the photo of the Barbie film that's being shot and going viral lately?…. yeah thats literally in my back yard and today I rode my bicycle through the set while carrying a 5gallon jug full to the brim with piss in the basket
@“yeso”#p75393 Haven‘t seen it yet, but if you’re refering to Benediction it feels like a downgrade compared to his latest two movies (those two were my faves, though).
Seen your opinion of the new Cronenberg and I‘m not particularly fond of that. I don’t know if I should keep it into my shelf and start watching films like Crash first.
@“xhekros”#p76101 you should watch cronenberg, don't be deterred by my crabby attitude. But more importantly you should read JG Ballard
On my Facebook memories the other day I had mentioned seeing Jackie Chan‘s Thunderbolt for the first time. Anyone ever see this one? He plays a race car driver for Mitsubishi. Some street racers kidnap his sister and he has to race to get her back.
It’s really dang good!
@“yeso”#p76149 Where is the best novel to start? I‘ve finished the movie and I liked the whole structure of the movie, so I don’t know how that fits with Ballard, but if you have any recommendation I'm up for it.
@“xhekros”#p76789 yeso is probably going to recommend the same but read Vermilion Sands and The Disaster Area.
