Motion Pictures (that anuse me)

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 05, 2022 3:54 pm

Like all the very best super hero films

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Tue Mar 08, 2022 9:57 pm

Petite Maman. Why aren’t all films a) this good and b) 73 minutes long.

Post by **vom** » Tue Mar 08, 2022 10:30 pm

excellent

I'm doing my March "watch movies from different countries" thing and I have that one lined up for "France", or whatever it's called

Post by **dng** » Tue Mar 08, 2022 10:57 pm

yeah, its really lovely.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Wed Mar 09, 2022 9:25 pm

how has he forgotten how to do the voice?

https://youtu.be/TWTfhyvzTx0

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 09, 2022 10:14 pm

same way carrie fisher forgot how to do hers i suppose

Post by **vom** » Wed Mar 09, 2022 11:15 pm

at least he's not talking about a "limited series" in the movies thread

the shame of it

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 09, 2022 11:16 pm

maybe if they limit it enough it'll be okay

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:29 am

I watched the BBC televisor comedy porgramme The Witchfinder, to-night.

It looked nice and you could see that quite a bit of money had been spent on it.

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Mar 12, 2022 1:25 pm

blombluss wrote: Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:29 am I watched the BBC televisor comedy porgramme The Witchfinder, to-night.

It looked nice and you could see that quite a bit of money had been spent on it.

For some reason I gave episode 2 a chance, and it just clicked, so I watched the rest of it, and completed it at 4.30am this morning.

Daisy May Cooper is the best thing in it by quite a distance.

It's still not funny, but I really enjoyed how it all played out.

Post by **Chortle Hound** » Sat Mar 12, 2022 2:28 pm

The French Dispatch

I think this may be my least favourite Wes Anderson film. I quite enjoyed the first part about the painter, but I found it really hard to care after that.

Post by **vom** » Sat Mar 12, 2022 6:33 pm

hooray I watched Petite Maman and it was absolutely lovely.

Post by **vom** » Sat Mar 12, 2022 6:34 pm

Chortle Hound wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 2:28 pm The French Dispatch

I think this may be my least favourite Wes Anderson film. I quite enjoyed the first part about the painter, but I found it really hard to care after that.

my interest definitely dipped in the middle story, but came ROARING back in the third one.

I liked it approx. 150,000 times more than Isle of Dogs

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:31 am

Gravid wrote: Tue Mar 08, 2022 9:57 pm Petite Maman. Why aren’t all films a) this good and b) 73 minutes long.

Didn't she make jelly?

Post by **dng** » Mon Mar 21, 2022 4:32 pm

Onibaba - two women murder lost soldiers and throw their dead bodies down a great big hole. this was one of the best films i've ever seen somehow

Post by **vom** » Mon Mar 21, 2022 4:41 pm

it's pretty great, although I liked Kuroneko by the same director even more (because cats)

Post by **dng** » Mon Mar 21, 2022 5:00 pm

I haven't seen that (or any of his other films) but want to.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Mar 22, 2022 12:40 am

This noon I watched Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet. It's a mostly Soviet SF film that Roger Corman bought the rights to, then reedited, redubbed, and added in scenes featuring Basil Rathbone.

An interestin' curio to view, but not that good, really.

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:07 pm

blombluss wrote: Tue Mar 22, 2022 12:40 am This noon I watched Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet. It's a mostly Soviet SF film that Roger Corman bought the rights to, then reedited, redubbed, and added in scenes featuring Basil Rathbone.

In 1968 he had it edited and redubbed a second time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to ... oric_Women

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women is a 1968 American science fiction film, one of two films whose footage was taken from the 1962 Soviet SF film Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms) for producer Roger Corman.

It was overseen by none other than the late Peter Bogdanovich:

Of the production, Bogdanovich has stated:

[Planeta Bur] was a Russian science-fiction film that Roger [Corman] had called Storm Clouds of Venus that he had dubbed into English. And he came to me and said, "Would you shoot some footage with some girls? AIP won't buy it unless we stick some girls in it". So I figured out a way to work some girls in it and shot for five days, and we cut it in. I narrated it, because nobody could make heads or tails of it. Roger wouldn't let me add any sound. It was just a little cheap thing we did, and people think I directed it when I really only directed 10 minutes of it.[2]
Bogdanovich said he had to paint out the red star on the spaceship, "in every frame. We painted in some obscure symbol that might pass for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration".[3]

Bogdanovich hired Mamie Van Doren and several other blondes to play Venusians "because I thought everyone should be blonde on Venus. I dressed them up in rubber suits, bottoms only and put shells over their breasts. I had them traipsing around Leo Carrillo Beach for a while shooting inserts that might relate to Venus".[3] Bogdanovich says he gave the female characters "South Sea movie names" because "it seemed right".[3]

One of the actresses was afraid of sharks and when she was in the water they threw her a rubber fish; she got hysterical, grabbed the fish and bit its head off. He said that people did not understand the film and its new sequences when first cut together, so he added narration. He decided one of the astronauts, "the best looking one", should narrate the film. Bogdanovich wrote the narration and provided the voice, and it was the one credit he took on the film.[3]

Bogdanovich also stated he did not claim credit as director, because "such a small piece of it is mine",[4] although in fact his adaptation of the Planeta Bur material had much more original material in it than the previous version, made by Curtis Harrington. His then-wife Polly Platt worked on the film as a production designer.

Post by **dng** » Thu Mar 24, 2022 8:29 pm

Excellent. How odd

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Mar 25, 2022 12:57 am

Seconded. Ta for the info!

Also, that linkuss reads: "Voyage_to ... oric_Women", and for a moment I thought: the world needs more women into the Oric-1.

Post by **dng** » Fri Mar 25, 2022 11:14 am

what if they women made from oric-1s?

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Fri Mar 25, 2022 1:48 pm

Moving On - a film about going to live with your grandad for a bit. Your grandad is Korean. I thought this was great.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Mar 25, 2022 8:48 pm

dng wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 11:14 am what if they women made from oric-1s?

They would be stylish, yet underrated, and have a slightly buggy rom.

LIKE ALL WOMANS!!!!!!!!!1111111

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:13 pm

live flesh - pedro almodovar adapts a ruth rendell book for some reason. anyway it was quite good

Post by **vom** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:20 pm

I watched that recently too. Also this week I watched Talk to Her which was again quite good

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:22 pm

its my last week of my 3 months of mubi for a pound, so i might finally watch all the films of his on there that i've never seen yet

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:23 pm

there's quite a lot

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:24 pm

is talk to her the one where the man is a nurse of a comatose hospital patient of is that another one?

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:24 pm

cause i found that one kind of off putting (although its quite along time since i've seen it)

Post by **vom** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:24 pm

yep that's the one

and there's a really amazing silent film homage in the middle

Post by **vom** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:25 pm

it was very off-putting but that seemed to be the desired reaction

Post by **dng** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:28 pm

yes. also i don;t remember the silent film bit at all so maybe i will watch it again and try and remember it this time

Post by **dng** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:32 pm

Annette - Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard give birth to an animatronic bjork for some reason. With songs by Sparks

This was good in places and great in other places but also completely boring in lots more places. Probably the worst Leos Carax film I've seen, possibly because it's the only one without Denis Lavant in it

Post by **dng** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:32 pm

(I have seen 5 leos carax films)

Post by **vom** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:44 pm

yeah I didn't like it very much

Post by **vom** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:45 pm

I've only seen one other Leos Carax film

Post by **vom** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:46 pm

this afternoon I watched a film called Turtles Can Fly that is set in a Kurdish refugee camp and most of the cast were real refugee children and it was incredible, absolutely harrowing

CandyDarling · Post by **CandyDarling** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 12:37 pm

dng wrote: Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:32 pm Annette - Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard give birth to an animatronic bjork for some reason. With songs by Sparks

This was good in places and great in other places but also completely boring in lots more places. Probably the worst Leos Carax film I've seen, possibly because it's the only one without Denis Lavant in it

As a Sparks fan I have heard of this, but am slightly put off due to mixed reviews. I think I will eventually see it soon

Also there is a showing of Eraserhead at the Prince Charles Cinema on April 1st, at 11:45PM so it's not a joke. I wanted to go but I can't make it

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 1:55 pm

I quite liked Annette, but I think it pretty much peaked with the opening song and everything after felt a little disappointing by comparison.

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 1:55 pm

I haven't seen any other Leos Carax films.

Post by **vom** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 2:26 pm

Yeah the opening song was great.

Post by **dng** » Mon Mar 28, 2022 2:53 pm

That was my favourite bit too. And also the shot of a salamander or something scrabbling around in a puddle in the bottom of a deflated inflatable in the bottom of an empty swimming pool

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 12:56 am

Today I watched It Conquered The World, a Sci Fi film starring Peter Graves and Lee Van Cleef. The monster was a sight to behold.

4/10.

Post by **dng** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:01 am

I watched Drive My Car, a film based on a couple of haruki murakami stories somehow spun out for exactly 3 hours. it was quite good but basically it lasted forever when maybe it didn't really need to last forever to be honest.

Post by **dng** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:02 am

anyway, out of films i've seen based on haruki murakami stories (i have seen 4 film sbased on haruki murakami stories) i would say this is the third best (after tony takitani and burning, ahead of norwegian wood)

Post by **dng** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:04 am

norwegian wood's not bad but it's sort of superfluous really and also the book's extremely good which makes it worse really in comparison. whereas the others have the good sense of adapting short stories i barely remembered the plot of

Post by **dng** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:47 am

other things i watched this week:

zero for conduct (on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlSS4Bf8rpU ) - french film from the 1930s (directed by jean vigo, who also made the excellent absurdly cat-filled l'atalante) about naughty boys in a boarding school rebelling against their teachers/school masters. this was great. funny, odd, excellent. apparently this was banne din france for twenty years for being too subversive, even though (apart from a bit where a pupil tells some unctuous teacher to fuck off) its basically as subversive as a bash street kids comic

apropos de nice (on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYuqok9YOiQ ) / taris (on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erMPN8Z7wac ) - two more jean vigo films, both documentaries. the first is loads of shots of tourists having fun in nice (which apparently he wanted to sicken you so much you'd rise up and overthrow the entire capitalist system - "In this film, by showing certain basic aspects of a city, a way of life is put on trial... the last gasps of a society so lost in its escapism that it sickens you and makes you sympathetic to a revolutionary solution"), and Taris, which is ten mintues of french swimming champion of the 1930s Jean Taris teaching you how to swim. I have no idea if this was also designed t o make you want to destroy the goverment, but mostly it made me feel a bit inadequate for not being able to swim very well, especially not in the crazy styles they used back then (front crawl, breast stroke, some sort of weird side ways stroke, thrashing about wildly, other styles)

tale of tales (on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN1zimADh6Q ) - amazing russian animation from the 70s (by the man who also made the hedgehog in the fog, which is even more amazing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf4GfWPnHxM ). tale of tales features some animated skipping that is much better than my animated skipping attempt of today

songs my brothers taught me - two hours of well shot, nicely acted, total misery about some native american teenagers kids growing up. good, but i'm not sure anyone actually smiles at any point

SCUM manifesto - a french woman reads out bits of the SCUM manifesto (the art/feminism manifesto made by the woman who shot andy warhol, and which was apparently banned in france at the time) while another one types it up, for half an hour, while occasionally listening to the news.

Lions, Love (And Lies) - english language Agnes Varda film, set in hollywood in the late 60s (and which also includes them watching andy warhol getting shot on the news). anyway, there's quite a lot to like about this - it looks amazing, it's odd, weird and experimental, an doccasionally pretty funny - but also unfortunately in addition to all that it's incredibly irritating for at least 50% of its runtime. also while watching it i couldn't help but wonder if quentin tarantino used this as a research piece for the look of once upon a time in hollywood, because the shots of all the hollywood streets, houses, etc, look almost exatcly the same as onceupon a time in hollywood. or maybe he just used different idental footage who knows. (further also: the calendar they use in this to show the date each day is the same as one used in some of buster keatons films, which is possibly just a coincidence, because maybe all american calanders looked like that, but also then later they go into a bookshop and there's a big buster keaton book on display and i really wanted that book it was the best bit of the film)

nightmare alley - guillermo del toro remake of a 1940s film noir that i've never seen. anyway this was two and a half hours long and completely awful, i thought. largely because bradley cooper is absolutely the most awful uncharsimatic actor ever, and also partly because despite all the sets and costumes and that being amazing and lavish it all just felt completely inert and dead. disappointing. also rooney mara and cate blanchett are in it, but never actually on screen together, and for most of the entire film it just left me wishing i was watching the two of them in carol again, because that was actually good.

titane - this wasa directed by the woman who made raw (which i liked a lot). in this a woman fucks a car, kills everyone she sees, then pretends to be a teenage boy and becomes a fireman. i'm not sure what this film thought it actually was, but whatever it was, it was probably better than what it actually was, which was a mess.

number 17 - i bought my dad a box set of old alfred hitchcock films from before he was famous. there's 4 or 5 silen films from the 20s, then 4 or five talking films from the 30s. this one was a convoluted mystery set in an abandoned house, where you don't know who anyone is or why they're there. pretty good initially, although the last twenty minutes is pretty shite, and also my mum couldn't tell any of the characters apart AT ALL (they all have suits on and hats and moustaches) and we had to keep stopping it and telling her who everyone was every 5 minutes, which was tiring.

murder! - another old hitchcock film. this was like three films in one (theres a twenty minute section near the start that's basically 12 angry men, but 12 angry men where everyone in the jury is an absolute idiot, which is great and funny), but also towards the end half the plot is people saying "and he was secretly a HALF CASTE!" very loudly at the camera, which was ever so slightly offputting, to say the least.

ulysse - short agnes varda documentary about a photo she took in the 50s. it was good i liked this. i love how easy agnes varda made documentaries seem, even though presumably making anything like this even vaguely watchable is actually impossibly difficult.

voyage of time: the IMAX experience - terrance malick takes the history of the universe/earth section from the tree of life, makes it 50 minutes long, and has brad pitt talk in a sort of bored way over the top of it. it looks beautiful, but the words basically add nothing and also it was better in the tree of life so i'm not sure why this exists (it exists for IMAX, but i did not watch it on IMAX i have never watched anything on IMAX i presumably never will)

dogtooth/the killing of a sacred deer - two yorgos lanthimos films, which basically follow the exact same trajectory as all the other films of his i've seen (the lobster, the favourite), in that they have a brilliant, unsettling, incredibly atmospheric premise/opening hour or so, which slowly fizzles out over the course of the film to leave you feeling slightly deflated/dispirited by the end. which is a shame. the killing of a sacred deer, especially, has an absolutely incredible first half, and then just sort of wheezes on for at least half hour too long and then ends in a completely unsatisfying way. which was a shame. also he has an obssession with killing animals which i find upsetting especially when its cats poor cats (in dogtooth they kill a cat i almost switched it off then and never really forgave it)

Post by **dng** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:48 am

thats a lot of words you don't have to read any of them really

Post by **dng** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 1:49 am

i thought writing might keep me warm but if anything i'm colder now than ever