Saw a couple good #movies this week. First up was the classic #Hitchcock adaptation of REBECCA, one of the all time great Gothic romance thrillers. We got to see a lovely print of it on the big screen at the iconic, beloved Hollywood Theater here in #Portland. It's an extremely subversive film for the era (1940!!), with brilliant #gender themes and brazen #queer subtext. Was presented as part of a queer film series and the crowd was brilliant - knowing and engaged but respectful. Superb
Art and artists really are strange. This film has a lot of really smart, thoughtful things to say about the relations between men and women, and the damage that power disparities cause. Yet we know about Hitchcock's treatment of women. Ain't that something.
If you have, and liked it, can you inspire me to do so too?
It was adapted from my grandmother’s book, but my Dad and her were estranged, and I’ve never been able to find a copy to watch.
Today, May 23, 2007, is 500 days after Tom Hansen met Summer Finn. He attends a job interview at an architecture firm and meets a girl named Autumn (500 Days of Summer, 2009)
Tonight's film club choice is Silent Running. When I bought it on DVD, the salesperson at Fopp said it was a classic and that I would like it, but I found it very boring and grim (and dated - there are no women other than in music / computer voices, bit like The Deadly Assassin).
7:30pm UK time, remote over Skype - DM me if you would like to attend (we don't publicise the URL widely now as we used to get Zoom-bombed)
I liked this one. It's not great, but it's well done and is a novel twist on the regular found footage ghost house type film. It's found footage ghost house at the bottom of a lake, in scuba gear.
This movie is one that is distressing to me in a unique way. I myself have been traveling with another person who was way more into chasing exotic sights than I was, and I also felt held captive by the other person.
Pure serendipity that I finally decided to watch "Lost In Translation" for the first time, been in my queue for weeks, the same week that OpenAI decided to steal Scarlett Johansson's voice for their Her-inspired voice system. #movies#OpenAI 2003 film directed by Sofia Coppola
This evening's viewing: a long-overdue revisit to Wings of Desire. First seen many years ago at my beloved Filmhouse, this was the #film that introduced me to Wim Wenders, who would become one of my favourite film-makers.
Achingly beautiful piece of cinema. How many amazing works did the Filmhouse introduce me to that I'd likely never have seen otherwise? So looking forward to its return later this year...
Today, May 22, 1983, Dr. Emmett Brown is committed to a mental institution. After Marty McFly burns a stolen sports almanac from the future and corrects the timeline, today, May 22, 1985, scientist Dr. Emmett Brown receives a civic award (Back to the Future: Part II, 1989)
I recently began watching this magnificent series called 'Heeramandi' and I am already in love with it's cinematography and aesthetics ❤️
You should definitely give it a watch!
@matt@gruber Really good examples. The movies were good but, to me, they were missing that storytelling magic that was everywhere in the earlier movies. Feels like a personnel loss, replacing A+ storytellers with B+ storytellers. My two cents.
@davemark@gruber For sure, their recent movies aren’t my favorite Pixar film either. They captured a unique moment of magic in their first 10 years and you can’t keep that up forever. I just think the reason they needed to do some layoffs likely had more to do with Disney devaluing their work more than people not liking their films anymore.
I'm trying to figure out if I've actually seen this before and forgot, or if there's another movie where people hide inside a little beaver damn structure.
"[In Falling Down] Bill... represents every person who ever fell down and couldn't get back up again. Every person who followed the rules and did what everyone expected, and got punished for it. Who did everything right and still got screwed over by a system that was stacked against them.
Who spent their entire life striving for something better, only to discover that they were 'not economically viable'."
@billyjoebowers
> As an aside, not sure about the accent, but the only people I knew who loved it at the time were from Ireland
The Drinker is Scottish. Getting them confused is as understandable as confusing USAmericans and Canadians if you're not familiar enough with the accents. Also just as likely to cause offence ; )
As far as seventh films in a franchise about a tiny murderous doll, you applaud the attempt to at least break new ground, more or less.
This is a cult worth visiting but not joining. Fiona Dourif is the best Dourif since Kip and Alejandro.
Sicario, 2015 - ★★★★½ - this is one I'll be thinking about for a long time. a little too violent for my weak stomach but the story kept me on the edge of my seat. i was introduced to Josh Brolin as Thanos, and since then have seen him in No Country, Dune, and now Sicario. That man has range! #moviereviewhttps://letterboxd.com/codedbydan/film/sicario-2015/#movies#MovieReview#Letterboxd
Though mostly light-hearted, #Monsterdon has been known to delve into true horror. This Sunday, your weekly monster movie watch party will be featuring just such a film.
SON OF GODZILLA (1967), featuring perhaps the single most terrifying creature ever put to foam rubber; Minilla.
