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Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed August 03, 2022 8:38 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 4:57 am Posts: 2798
i find it difficult to accept that the guy who directed The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford -- a film with a final act that literally dramatizes the problems of (auto)biographical representation -- would be making hagiography. we don't need to invoke other films, like Spencer, as desirable alternatives to what burt criticizes. dominik is already on record.
a big part of what makes hollywood biopics so insufferably dull is historical pedantry, of which a critique centered on authenticity (whether it has to do with accents or otherwise) is just a part
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Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed August 03, 2022 8:53 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 4:57 am Posts: 2798
hagiography is a necessarily uncritical mode. dominik's first historical drama featured an auto-critique at its center. maybe dominik has changed since then, but i doubt it. anyways. i'm mostly jazzed about Blonde. wish it hadn't been produced by netflix, which has an overwhelmingly bad track record of producing great movies.
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Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed August 03, 2022 9:17 pm
I've been POOSSTTIiiEEnngeeaahh
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10173 Location: in the air tonight
I trust Andrew Dominik.
And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).
Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed August 03, 2022 10:34 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 4:57 am Posts: 2798
The Argonaut wrote:
I trust Andrew Dominik.
And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).
i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.
spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?
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Jorge wrote:
I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed August 03, 2022 11:00 pm
I've been POOSSTTIiiEEnngeeaahh
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 1:53 pm Posts: 10173 Location: in the air tonight
Malloy wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
I trust Andrew Dominik.
And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).
i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.
spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?
Give us the narrative of your relationship with Kaufman. Were you ever interested?
Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed August 03, 2022 11:16 pm
Future Drummer
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 4:57 am Posts: 2798
The Argonaut wrote:
Malloy wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
I trust Andrew Dominik.
And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).
i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.
spoink -- what's the last great movie you saw?
Give us the narrative of your relationship with Kaufman. Were you ever interested?
former kaufman fanboy. i don't know that my relationship to his movies is necessarily complicated enough to merit a narrative account. the fairest way to put it is this: my boredom with myself has grown proportionally to my impatience with self-reflexivity & neuroses
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Jorge wrote:
I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
Post subject: Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Thu August 04, 2022 1:25 am
The Master
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 4:18 am Posts: 27937
Malloy wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
I trust Andrew Dominik.
And there are diamonds in the rough for Netflix. At the very least, they seem to be more or less willing to give a free hand to established filmmakers: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things; Bong Joon Ho's Okja; The Coens' Ballad of Buster Scruggs; Scorsese's The Irishman (though I wouldn't call that last one a success, necessarily, it does at least seem to be the movie Scorsese wanted to make).
i think The Irishman is legitimately great, Okja has legitimately great politics. have totally lost interest in kaufman, so i never saw that one. Buster is mostly gold.
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