DISMANTLE WHARF

I fully respect your boundaries. "What are the ethics and thresholds of my deep interest in representations of violence and death?" is definitely one of the central questions of my life so far. I actively avoided horror until my late 20's, and I wouldn't be surprised if there comes a time when I put up that boundary for myself again. Possibly my threshold was permanently bent out of alignment when I saw Visitor Q at a public library screening and was like "well THAT'S too much."

I love both Midsommar and Hereditary so, so much. It is rare to see a truly perfect film and yet he has made TWO! I was really just astounded and haunted so profoundly by both of them.

I would like to note that the movie "Midsommer" is pronounced as an Italian would say it, and is thus 4 syllables at least.

"Hereditary" is either 7 or 3 syllables, depending on in which region of Italy you spent your boarding school days.

hahaha

I have a work/life friend who I think is maybe a libertarian? (or some shit) who liked both movies but marinara ritchey endorse’ got me interested

ritchey wrote: ↑Sat May 09, 2020 3:04 am Last night we watched The Square, a movie by the guy who made Force Majeur. Force Majeur is SO good. If you haven't seen it I beg ye to put it to the top of yon lists. We were excited to see his follow up and it was also so good! Both are so precise and fully realized. They're both about the weird pathetic experience of contemporary (upper class) masculinity but in very quietly hilarious ways. The Square also explores a critique of the (high) art world and of late capitalism generally that I found pretty satisfying. All the performances are amazing. Did anyone see it?

I LOVE MOVIE

Tonight I think we are watching the movie about Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" that somebody for some reason made, god bless them

dumb brag Ari Aster came to a house party last year and was kinda weird and I didn’t know it was Ari Aster until later someone said that awkward person was Ari Aster. I like both those movies so hard.

ritchey wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 3:12 pm I love both Midsommar and Hereditary so, so much. It is rare to see a truly perfect film and yet he has made TWO! I was really just astounded and haunted so profoundly by both of them.

Y’all seen the television show `Lodge 49` — I’m an extra large wine into it. It’s on Hulu. Very specific socal vibes that fuck me up but are so rewarding. Also weird!

I have not heard of it!

I also forgot to report that that Piketty doc is ABSOLUTE trash

I will look up Lodge 49. I would love/hate to be fucked up by So-Cal vibes!

After being told countless times to watch the Netflix series Fargo and just assuming that every person was wrong, I finally watched it (one season so far) and it is GREAT! Great cast, great writing, great surprises. It has a lot in common with the film thematically while still being fresh. Highly recommended!

Season one of Fargo is really great I thought! Fun role for Martin Freeman

watched this a few weeks ago and keep thinkin' about it. is it perfect? no. but is it a swoony western romance featuring Rosalind Chao rocking some excellent looks? YES! (also [mention]w0lf[/mention]-approved)

https://youtu.be/xGp3xbbmsWU

[mention]alex[/mention] Great find. 11 years of over-height trucks ripping their tops off. It’s bizarrely soothing?

I think there’s something for everyone on this board in this movie:

https://youtu.be/OJY78MIDE4A

It’s free to watch on PBS!
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/fil ... s-project/

Yeah it is pretty soothing, and such a simple "plot". Also amazing that they haven't done more to prevent it...over 150 crashes since they started recording them!

It also resulted in a rabbit hole that ended with tunnels in Sydney that shoot a curtain of water down across their tunnel entrances and project giant stop signs onto the water curtain to get the attention of truck drivers who ignored other height warnings.

I saw Recorder at Metrograph!

pizza wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 11:39 pm I saw Recorder at Metrograph!

Whatta ya think? Of course I loved that she was an Apple hoarder.

The chairs are uncomfortable but the movie was good!

New season of Search Party is so good!

I May Destroy You is so good!

I just discovered, thanks to a chat with [mention]Evan.V.N.S.J.[/mention], that there was a great Robert Altman film I had never seen. What a golden discovery in these trying times! So I got to watch California Split this week for the first time and it was indeed great. What a lucky gal I am.

Oh that’s fun, we have a file of that movie! Will watch. Just recently watched the Altman flick “Ready to Wear,” which is lightly a stinker but was filmed at Paris Fashion Week in the ‘90s so it has some pretty amazing authentic runway moments!

Sasha and I are (re)watching all of Twin Peaks. Just finished the first two seasons, starting in on the third. Also need to watch Fire Walk With Me because I've never seen that, although I've heard it ain't great.

Update: loved California Split. I think I have the hots for Elliot Gould

Right? Love that Gould. I thought having the hots for Gould was a given, but I grew up in a house with a mother who went on and on about sexy Gould. Sexy Gould and sexy Alda.

Anyone seen Brewster McCloud? That one seems to have passed me by as well...

I know Popeye was hard, but I was just reminded that Nilsson did the music. This song is so great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ji0RvwjntA

You know what I'm watching? The Dick Cavett Show. Just clips of interviews on youtube. Damn, they are fine. Scorsese talks about how he isn't very good at reading or talking because "grammar." Norman Mailer is just an absolute piece of shit to Gore Vidal. Peter Falk, John Cassavetes and Ben Gazzara just have the sillies together. Recommended.

Sounds fun. I love watching stuff like that because 90% of the cultural context just sails over your head but charm’s charm. We watched The Long Goodbye last night, absolute PEAK Gould! Loved it so much. Was everyone just sweaty and a little dirty all the time in the 70s?

[mention]alexshred420[/mention] Fire Walk With Me gets a lot of flack but I love it! It’s David Lynch being like, “fuck TV, I’m the boss” so it’s extra-weird

I MEAN

The only thing that brings me little bits of joy these days is LEGENDARY, a ballroom/vogueing competition show.
https://youtu.be/tXYwR5gDb34

The iconic Leoimy Maldonado is a judge! Spins, dips, and flips!

Watched Hamilton because [mention]joni[/mention]’s mom gave us her Disney + password and insisted we watch it. Wow! It’s unbearable!!!

oh god, can you give some fun details aka rip on it?
I have no desire to watch.

First of all it’s three hours long

It has a one-minute intermission, which is just rude

It’s RELENTLESSLY corny

I have a soft spot for musical theater and will honestly stand for most things but we had to clock out because it was just exhausting to bear witness to this level of cringe

I’m sure it was exhilarating to watch live in the simpler days of 2016, but it kinda feels like the 8 Mile “Mom’s spaghetti” battle rap meets Schoolhouse Rock?

I mean everyone’s doing a great job at their craft & I do respect that but...why?? I do not understand why it was such a huge cultural phenomenon. I guess Broadway theater is such an old-world institution that anything breaking convention or addressing “modern” themes feels like a revelation?

I’m crying this is making me so happy

Lotta good things about that.

Took a few minutes to review some more of Rita's work today. Formidable. An Italian Liza /Nancy Sinatra/Judy Garland. All gas, no brake. Potato still killing me. Dismantle.work!

Can we get an Everyday Joy and Pain of my name is potato

Watching recs:

When's the last time you saw The Big Chill? Still slaps!

Speaking of William Hurt, BODY HEAT! Mentioned this in another thread but I'm pretty sure nobody has ever looked better on a movie screen than William Hurt and Kathleen Turner suckin' ice cubes in this movie. A classic Neo-noir! Laurence Kasdan's directorial debut!

A low-budget 1983 sci-fi called Wavelength, starring Cherie Currie (from the Runaways) and Robert Carradine, with a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream. Cherie Currie is a sensitive artist who turns out to be the only person whose brainwaves are chill enough to receive psychic communications from alien tourist children trapped in a government research facility in Laurel Canyon.

The 1988 David Mamet flick Things Change, about a modest Italian immigrant shoeshiner (Don Ameche) who becomes mistaken for a bigwig Mafia boss while on a weekend trip to Lake Tahoe. Co-written by Shel Silverstein?! Sweet and funny.

Speaking of Don Ameche, COCOON! Oh boy. The best alien invasion movie about a group of Florida retirees that money can buy, and what a cast! Would not recommend the sequel, though.

Is anyone else having the thing where they're watching so many movies that they all seem to be connected in some way? Like...you watch one movie starring Don Ameche, and then suddenly somehow two weeks later on some totally unrelated jag Don Ameche turns up again, co-starring with someone you just realized was in some other movie you like, which was written by the guy you like who wrote the other thing, and on and on forever?

I had that connected moment when I realized I watched a string of 3 seemingly unrelated movies (different directors, different countries, different time periods) earlier in quar that all shared the same cinematographer, Hélène Louvart: Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Happy as Lazzaro, and The Beaches of Agnès.

my most recently viewed movie is First Cow, which felt very sentimental, as that was the movie I had highly anticipated plans to see in theaters the week in March I stopped going anywhere. my most recently completed TV series is Watchmen, which…!!!!! (!!!)

Speaking of what are you watching, I want to make available our Plex server to anyone that wants to watch anything in our modest collection. Plex is free to download on mobile devices, Apple TV, and works via the browser on computers. Just let me know and I can add you.

And [mention]uncleboatshoes[/mention] has a very sick and deep collection of movies and TV on his Plex server. I bet he would also add anyone here that wants access.

joni wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 10:11 am Speaking of what are you watching, I want to make available our Plex server to anyone that wants to watch anything in our modest collection. Plex is free to download on mobile devices, Apple TV, and works via the browser on computers. Just let me know and I can add you.

I would love this! Yes, please and thank you!

Huzzah! I'm gonna watch 'em all! Thanks [mention]joni[/mention] !!

I want to Plex! I bet the teen would too.

Perhaps local to a spatiotemporal particular, but this presentation made me feel sentimental in a way I hadn't for a long while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mapzNpcprSw

Just found out about this today. Can't wait to track it down. THIS IS THE LIFE dir. Ava Duvarnay
Documentary about the scene at The Good Life Cafe. So influential and inspiring to so many in cities on the west coast USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_t ... 2008_film)

[mention]richjensen[/mention]—I went down a TwinsthenewTrend rabbit hole last week. I think part of the appeal rn is that it's not possible to coexist with friends and play each other songs and videos for each other for hours, and this is the closest I can get to that feeling.

https://youtu.be/bGEuY5wKUGs

https://youtu.be/7KiuBnvE-Dw

https://youtu.be/1OCi-AKCPlg

https://youtu.be/EqITzPGD0Ko

https://youtu.be/ON1ozhvATcE

I'm also deep into the twins video hole. I mentioned it to my mom the other day and she was ALREADY deep in as well!
The enthusiasm just feels so good. The sense of discovery and joy!

I loved Steely Dan, Nirvana, Radiohead reactions. I'm going to go watch more right now.

The other day I full sobbed watching a few nice young people's first listen to Joe Cocker singing "with a little help from my friends". I guess it was a serious quarantine mood.