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Mellors was sexy. Too sexy for Connie. Director took some insane liberties with the book, which were totally not necessary and not improvements! Made Clifford somehow more evil and more innocent Made Mrs. Bolton less complex? Somehow still also not enough fucking? I think it's just too good of a book to be also a good movie...
OK yes this was the second movie of the night and I had smoked too much weed but it was also unintelligible and confusing! All the boys were cute and sexy and Jeff Goldblum got to dress up as a cowboy so that was nice.
This was not it. I always love Robert Beltran. Thought it would be more of a cannibal comedy but turned out to be a rape comedy? Rape and murder? Which is cool, too, but got old. Fun kill with the swingers in the hot tub. But eh.
Pretty good for 1932. Kinda boring ngl. Just because something was pre-code doesn't mean people were going nuts with it. Was fairly tame. The funny jokes about people speaking different languages and still being assholes were good. But tbh I was kinda struggling to pay attention. Marlene Dietrich was beautiful though, and her skinny insane eyebrows were cool.
Excellent. So playful and bold. Tried stuff with just about everything: switching between black and white and color, playing with parallels between what was in the movie and what was "real," having MULTIPLE people just be dreaming everything, the smoke machine, Peter Dinklage, jumping around everyone's imagination. So good! Steve Buscemi rocked. Catherine Keener rocked. The guy from My Best Friend's Wedding rocked. Just a fun, fun time.
Fun and silly time. Took me through the paces with ease, not quite as much of a mystery as the first one but who rly cares. Rly chaotic things with sound in this movie--not sure I needed all of it, but it was effective.
Fantastic, gorgeous, decadent, disturbing, very scary at times. He went so crazy with the multiple perspectives, split screens, jumping around in time, fuckin horror show momwnts, and the music choices! Was as scared as I've felt in horror movies during the doll scene, and of course the end of night one. The final shot was so pure genius I could not even believe it. Not to mention the incred acting. An instant fave.
This was funny, at times, and surprising, at times, and the main character felt really dynamic and bizarre, at times. But not all the time. Wasn't really a clear sense of a ramping up, or a progression, or a falling down the hole of late night weirdness, just kind of lateral movement through this neighborhood which is kind of strange but not really at all. Rosanna Arquette was the most interesting character in the whole thing, and they killed her! Always love to see John Heard as well. And Catherine O'Hara. I mean, the cast was stacked. But it just didn't add up into more than its parts for me, and I found myself a bit bored a lot of the time.
Not worth writing about. Drivel. It's not Road House's fault, it's our fault. It's the fault of every remake we can't stop making. We did this.
Edith Wharton is a queen of drama and subtle looks and decisions and lifelong smolder and Hating Society but Being Part of Society, living an unfulfilled life under the watchful eye of Others. So dramatic and so good. Daniel Day-Lewis was such a little biotch soft boy. Michelle Pfeiffer was so great, hope she was happy in Paris. Even Winona Ryder at least knew what she wanted and took it. Mmmm him not going to even say hi to her at the end was so brutal. He doubled down on everything more than anyone else! It was the only way he could survive! But what kind of a life is that I ask, you, hmmmmm???
Perfect, just as good as I thought/hoped it would be. More emotional, too. It was stressful and intense and loving and self-assured and beautiful, and ended so wonderfully. Julio Torres was such a cutie. His walk was so funny. Tilda Swinton absolutely motherfucking stole the show, though, as is her right. I loved his relationship with his mommy. I loved all the little touches of his style, how they showed up in her monuments especially toward the end. The cryogenic freezing shit is mfing real, too, so very funny that it was central to the plot here. Love the idea of an artist as a problemista--someone who makes problems for themself in order to live the life they need to.
This was fantastic. Beautifully shot, quiet and slow and very deliberate. Had to keep thinking about some things, mainly the complexity of Greta Lee's character. She's the vehicle for the whole thing. What struck me most was the scene where she was in bed with her husband and he was expressing all these doubts about the past and future of their relationship--what if you'd met some other guy just like me, instead of me? Wouldn't you be with him now instead? Existential wonderings and shit, different pathways life could have gone. And she was so certain: this is my life. This is where I am. This is where I'm supposed to be. Very, very powerful belief for this character! A cool and healthy way to process life as an immigrant, like... she is so stable and grounded as probably a response to all the upheaval in her life. Inspiring to me personally tbh. Also the concept of in-yun is very romantic and plays in super well with everything. Just v good movie, yes.
Rachel Says
Maybe it's the two hits of weed talking but I think all of Kelly Reichardt's movies are actually short stories? I felt like I was reading this film. In a good way! Maybe adding to this was the dialogue writing/delivery which felt very controlled and somewhat uncontrolled at times, respectively (aka the writing was a bit on the nose and the actors had trouble delivering these lines). Like the bit about the record store being gone, and all the records left in the bins were their friends'. I even found those bits lovely, though, because despite the relative lack of plot you can tell she had a mission. As always, perfectly complex and crystal clear characters, gorgeous reverence to the environment whether it's Portland or a forest road or the hot springs. And it's only around an hour and ten minutes. What's not to love??