Mar 11, 2017

Top 15-20 for the decade. Syndromes and Splendour on a different level

 

Mar 11, 2017

Tropical Malady his most magical to me, but nearly all of his films are masterpieces.

 

Mar 11, 2017

Tropical Malady
Uncle Boonmee
Syndromes and a Century
Cemetery of Splendour
Blissfully Yours
A Mysterious Object at Noon

 

Mar 11, 2017

Wow I've been sleepin

 

Mar 13, 2017

Uncle Boonmee

 

Mar 13, 2017

hi everyone

I loved Get Out a lot

 

Mar 13, 2017

Do I have to catapult you into the trash can again?

 

Mar 13, 2017

Pipe down, weeb.

 

Mar 13, 2017

Wow personal shopper ::flames::

@Vahn is Kristen Stewart
I'm the guy texting Kristen Stewart

 

Mar 14, 2017

Dug it? I didn't know what to make of it walking out of the theater, though I eventually came down on its side. The movie flirts with a number of genre elements and narrative threads without ever wholly committing in any direction, all while maintaining this quietly melancholic tone and cryptic atmosphere.

The extended attention given to texting (too much for some viewers) is interesting and I think suggests a little bit of what Assayas is getting at. At the time in the film, the unknown texter could be a threatening stranger, the ghost of her brother or just about anyone, but the protagonist's experience with this person is nonetheless the same; he/she is just words on a screen (The texting also does set up one cool scare). This falls in line with many of the character's other interactions, as she receives tasks from her boss via messages left in her apartment and communicates with her boyfriend through Skype. Presumably they're living and breathing human beings, but their presence in her life is not much more than "ghostly" (In his own way, Assayas uses the supernatural to highlight the unique sense of loneliness brought upon by the modern world in a manner loosely kin to Kurosawa's Pulse.).

This, I think, is part of broader ontological study into its character, which comes to full bear in the sequence where she tries on her boss' expensive clothes and tries slipping into someone else's persona (During this scene, she is also asked bluntly by the texter, "Who do you want to be?"). The last lines of the film are likewise in this vein and I found that the ending scene overall had a deceptive emotional pull, thanks in great part to KStew's stellar turn, one that's often uncomfortably unnerved.

 

Mar 14, 2017

I saw Beauty and the Beast early, AMA

 

Mar 14, 2017

I don't have a question, but this poster of Josh Gad will haunt me until my end of days.

 

Mar 14, 2017

@Twan good post - thought the movie lived and died on Kristen Stewart's tics lol; mostly she pulls it off. Deeply moody film - not sure it all works to your point... maybe it's the French setting but it almost felt like updated Besson, particularly with the focus - and derived alienation - on technology. All the brooding and supernatural hocus pocus is ultimately one long meditation on grief, guilt, forbidden desire etc. Those themes manifest differently which to me explains the sometimes wild tonal shifts - it may not always land but there's something ultimately rly touching seeing Stewart become consumed then haunted, figuratively or not

 

Mar 14, 2017

Will it make a billion?

 

Mar 14, 2017

it's gonna be huge

 

Mar 14, 2017

worth seeing? can't imagine anything appealing to me less, but

 

Mar 14, 2017

if it doesn't appeal to you, probably not. If you liked the animated version, I think this one is a fairly fun (but unspectacular) take on it. I didn't think they nailed the casting and it's a bit uneven at the start, but it does eventually find its groove. Overall, serviceable - good, even - but far from great

 

Mar 14, 2017

The Love Witch blu ray rip is out @Pinhead

 

Mar 14, 2017

Enjoyed the Disney movies as a kid and still do to this day. Excited to watch Beauty and the Beast this week and Im looking forward to the Aladdin live film in the future.

 

Mar 14, 2017

He doesn't like it