Good. Going next week because I have a willing accomplice. And everything else holds no interest.

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I like the fact that superficially as the doll began to get sick and eventually die, the more Lars began to grow and release his grasp on the juvenile outlook that he was somehow responsible for his mother's postpartum death... eventually emerging as "a man".

Subliminally, the movie plays on the needs for/as children to create inanimate friends with benefits (barbi, gi joe's, stuffed animals etc) as they begin to develop their own identity and individuality.

As you know, children make up stories, go on adventures and treat, as they want to be treated, their "made up" friends.

This is a coming of age film... just not one normally portrayed.



But hey... I still love "Corndog Man"

Windmills in Movie News - Seems as fitting a place to post as anywhere:

A French court Wednesday threw out a request by producer Paulo Branco to stop the Cannes Film Festival from screening Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” clearing the way for the festival to press ahead with its closing-night plans. However, the court in Paris said the May 19 showing of the film must be preceded by a statement saying that the exceptional screening does not prejudice Branco’s claim to the rights to “Don Quixote” or the ongoing legal proceedings surrounding the film.

Full article linked below:

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If you poke about the world long enough does your brain desiccate and turn to dust, then slowly dribble out your ears into the desert wind?

I like the phrase "commercially exploitable" in the article.

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You need to watch Sullivan's Travels if you haven't seen it already. The theater of the street loses out to the pure joy of comedy, as it should.

Few of my friends like my movie recommendations. That sounds like a "John Cole" movie! Of course, some lunatic raving about why My Night at Maud's is a masterpiece usually sets them on edge. A movie about two people talking? That sounds just like My Dinner With Andre, which you also recommended, and I hated. It's not like I go around recommending Passolini films to everyone.

I did get one friend to watch Wings of Desire, and a couple weeks ago she borrowed Strangers on a Train from me. So there's hope for her yet. My former administative assistant, though, is the one person who will go to see just about anything with me. But I think she still trusts me.

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A film festival dismissing a "self-important troublemaker" may signal the end of the industry.

The Battleship Island. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5969696/

In 1945, near the end of the Pacific war, 400 Koreans, men women and children, were press ganged into forced labour by the Japanese and sent to work in a coal mine on Hashima island.
After enduring harsh, violent conditions and treatment they discovered that they had been marked for death so they organised a mass escape.
Great Korean movie with an awesome and brutal final action sequence.

Battle For Moscow (Panfilov's 28). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5207204...?ref_=tt_ov_pl
Pretty good small scale Russian war movie.
True story of a company of 28 Russian soldiers, armed with only standard issue Mosin-Nagent infantry rifles, PM-M1910 machine guns, inadequate RPG 40 anti-tank grenades and PTRD-41 anti-tank rifles, who stopped a column of 54 German panzers from breaking through the Russian line of defence around Moscow in 1941.

A Twitter friend who usually raves about Avengers movies saw me talking about the Three Colors trilogy, so she gave it a shot and loved it. Now she's asking me for more recs. It's a slow battle, but it's worth it.

Speaking of:

Avengers: Infinity War

Well, that was dark. But I guess, as happens in these movies, all those deaths aren't going to last.

It was surprisingly engaging...even emotional at times (Elizabeth Olsen/Paul Bettany-Red Dude, Gamora/Thanos).

About time Groot finally got to kick some ass.

Dom,

The funny thing is that while I recommend movies and directors that no one else among my circle has heard of, they also know I love Fred Astaire movies and screwball comedies. So it's not like I'm a prig or anything. Well, maybe I am because I can't understand how someone could watch a Terence Davies film, such as The Long Day Closes, and not be enchanted. I've recommended the Three Colors trilogy to numerous people, and I don't think one has watched it.

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So, What is the purpose of life???

Holy ****! A scalf sighting!

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Blade Runner 2049:

There's no capped lifespan...

Damn, I've been looking for the porpoise of life all this time. Talk about being out to sea!

I just checked out Barton Fink from La Biblioteca, gonna see how well this craziness stands a rewatch years later. Will report back if it proves to be at all life-affirming.

Watched The Endless last night, it's a pretty cool low budget mind-bending horror sci-fi movie that's pretty charming. and funny (it's kind of like a less serious "Annihilation").

There are times in the movie where you're distracted by the low production quality but overall it's well done, smart and hilarious. If you're into weird sci-fi movies it's probably worth a watch.

Barton: Have you read the Bible, Pete?
Pete: Holy Bible?
Barton: Yeah.
Pete: Yeah, I think so. Anyway, I've heard about it.

Womb

2/10

Eva Green decides to clone her dead lover and impregnate herself with his embryo and raise the kid.

I guess this is someone's bag but it wasn't mine. It's got slow long shots, little dialog, the actors purposefully don't emote, England or wherever is dreary as hell meaning the palate is various shades of grey, making it a slog to get through.

Rewatch of Barton Fink went ok. I appreciate it more that love it tho, leaves me a little cold. I much prefer Lebowski, Fargo, and Raising Arizona of their work.

Womb sounds better off as an episode of black mirror

This is for you, Kioshk, because I know how much you love Yacht Rock:

Ugh. I am conflicted about this one. There was really no story here - it was all filling and no crust. I felt like they just dropped you directly in the middle of a horror movie and left you without the beginning or the end. You got all of the action in the middle but none of the stakes because they didn't build up any story around it. In the end, it felt flat to me.

But I didn't hate it. :shrug:

I find Raising Arizona the weak link in the Cohen portfolio... it's good (as any Cohen movie is better than no Cohen movie), but it's just slightly wacky for my re-watch tastes.

I bailed out after 40 minutes. This was like John Wick only with really bad action choreography and without Wick's impeccable sense of style. I like the premise that women can also be badass 007 action movie stars, and Theron has legit action hero chops to pull that off (cf. Fury Road), but Blonde fumbles the execution. Go watch The Long Kiss Goodnight if you want to see a blonde chick be a spy action hero.

A good movie doesn't always have to be plot-driven imo. A Quiet Place is more about the feel and atmosphere of this world and how the characters deal with it.