I missed this gem in the VERY limited release it had in only a few theaters so I ordered and waited a long time to get this one just today... I ordered it in early Sept, of 2023.




it's pure esthetic story telling of the indigenous peoples in various parts of Mexico... there is NO dialog, but the movie doesn't need language to portray the peoples and there lives.

it's a beautifully shot and rendered cinematic piece.

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Kristin Stewart has taken on some very different roles, apparently, from her early Twilight films. Personal Shopper and Clouds of Sils Maria are extraordinary films with extraordinary performances by Stewart. (Both films are directed by Olivier Assays.) She is one of the finest actors working today.

I've tried watching Beau Is Afraid three times and just can't get through it.

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Ari Aster is a vastly over-rated filmmaker. Hereditary is a mess, Midsommer was decent but ultimately exists for shock value, and Beau Is Afraid is awful.

The Loves Lies Bleeding (2024) movie is a love story and a thriller and is totally bonkers, but is not dull. Somehow actress Kristen holds the movie together. I just finished it. Early on you know something is wrong with this movie when Lou Sr (Ed Harris) decides to get the attention of an employee of his by firing a bullet past her head from 50 yds away. You get women's bodybuilding, fine actor Ed Harris looking ridiculous in his makeup, Hulk-like scenes, shiny handguns, FBI, drugs, sex, fights, and love triangles. The central question is "are muscular women hot or not?". What else could you want?

Go Kristen Stewart

It's interesting when I don't know whether she's channeling a Japanese middle school girl, or a porn star.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/p...ng-1235983799/

Meet the Huggetts, along with Dennis Price as the holiday camp psychopath. Can post-war Britain have been remotely like this?

Challengers - Finally, a Guadagnino film I like! Maybe because it centres around tennis, albeit that's truly a cover for a toxic love triangle. Zendaya is really good as the manipulative wife/coach who is living the career she never had through her husband. She's no master manipulator though, as she's easily distracted by her attraction to the down on his luck loser Patrick Zweig, in whom I think she also sees potential. There are a lot of layers to the character dynamics, plenty to talk about.

I have minor quibbles towards the end of the move, when Guadagnino can no longer keep a clamp on his inner 'artist'. Slo-mo is overused to capture every drop of the players' dripping sweat and hammer home the underlying message of the characters' actions. It's not art Luca, it's cheesy and incredibly blatant storytelling.

She's channeling human garbage.

I can't say much about Claire Denis's Trouble Every Day except it's some kind of horror/cannibal film. Stars Vincent Gallo who is suitably strange.

It's in Criterion. I can't recommend it, but I think Denis is a great director, and if you want to watch a film that has no linear narrative, explains little, and serves as a kind of metaphor for perhaps a kind of forbidden desire, give it a shot.

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Holy ****! I read “Claire Danes” and was in shock for a second….

And anytime I hear about Gallo, what no one ever talks about is that for the bargain price of $1,000,000, you can purchase his seed for which you can make your own lil’ Gallo…. Dude is a freaking wack job lol

saw Challengers tonight.

it was ok , but too much man ass and club music for my taste. Zendaya was good but Josh O'Connor really carried the film. my gf loved it

Finally got to see Inland Empire this past weekend when I saw it was playing on HBO Max. I've seen most of Lynch's films but had never gotten around to seeing this one. Watched it alone in a dark room and yeah unsurprisingly it kinda freaked me out lol. Lynch probably one of the only directors who makes movies that I find genuinely frightening at a gut level - not just a jump scare, but where you still feel uneasy for a while after watching it.

Almost pointless describing the plot (although there definitely is one... it's not a random collection of scenes that mean nothing - which was the impression I had gotten from some of the stuff I had previously read about it). I guess you could say it's a story within a story within a story within a story? The common thread is women in trouble (and I think "A Woman in Trouble" was the official tagline for the film.) Anyway, Laura Dern is absolutely phenomenal in it.

It's 3 hours long and quite a trip, but if you're willing to just give in to Lynch's weirdness I think it's definitely worth watching. Not sure where I'd rate it among the Lynch films I've seen. Probably need to watch it again.

I Love Beau is Afraid... but I am also someone that adores unhappy endings and perceived nonredeemable hot garbage.

that's why I am drawn to David Lynch

I actually ended up watching about a third of My Dinner With Andre last night, different than I remembered it somehow. Confirmed watchable for the 2024 version of me, probably not really my type of movie but interesting still. Even the subway ride at the start was cool, and the way the camera watches him walk thru 80s NYC. I was there, and it really did look like that! Will probably finish it off tonight.

So yeah, I retract some of what I said earlier.

Proud of kioshk for giving it another chance. Don't we all have friends who are our opposites in many ways?

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oh yeah

I wanna watch Vanya 0n 42nd Street again soon...Brooke Smith is such a revelation in it....and how they start the movie with the actors showing up at the theater, chatting, and they sort of just start the play without even telling us...just a brilliant adaptation

I think you know how much I love that movie and Brooke Smith doing that closing monologue. It's heartbreaking.

I also recommend Drive My Car about a director staging a production of Vanya.

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Megalopolis...

Coppola’s been talking about this forever. Awesome.

Word of mouth on this has been fantastic.

Happy Chungking Day!

On this day in 1994:

30 cans of pineapple expired;
One can of Portuguese Sardines expired;
May’s love for Officer #226 expired;
Officer #226 turned twenty-five years old;
#226 went jogging so his body wouldn’t have enough water left for tears;
#226 threw away his beeper;
#226 received birthday greetings from his friend in room 702;
The friend in 702 smote all her enemies in a pistol-packing rampage, then threw away her blonde wig;
The friend in 702’s kidnap victim awoke with a tummy ache from eating too much ice cream, and,
Faye met Officer #663 (sometimes erroneously called #633) and fell in love with him 6 hours later.

What costume are you wearing? This year I’ll be dressing as #226’s pet beagle, the one who refused to help him eat the expired pineapple!