It's so funny George Lucas has a networth of 7.9 billion and seemingly spends his days drinking mediocre Californian wine and lounging around in salad bars. His dream life is that of a middle class retiree
taika waititi likes to pat himself on the back for how "gay" his movies are, meanwhile Sidney Lumet made a film back in 75' about Al Pacino stealing from a bank to pay for his trans wife's transition surgery
Between this, PTA Vineland at 115 million, Joker 2, Mickey 17 at 150 million... we're headed for a 70's studio collapse type deal. Hope our best minds take advantage of this.
Kanye talking about fake children being planted in his home is absolutely terrifying and concerning and I think that we're handling this very poorly and that it might end badly
Feel like De Niro's turn in KOTFM is weirdly under-talked. I've never seen him like this. It's a performance that just gets the more mindblowing with each revision. No clue why it's not the automatic lock for best supporting actor. Hall of fame stuff
I know there is more interesting narratives or whatever (Riverdale to Haynes, Downey Jr making real movies again, etc) but De Niro as William Hale is for me, by far the greatest supporting role of the year.
Ernest is just the proxy of most white audiences. Scorsese says (himself included) sure, you got some love in your heart, but you can't even understand the scope of the evil you have aided to.
Killers Of The Flower Moon is, with difference, the best *blocked* movie of the year. That's the one area in which he sorta puts most contemporaries of his to shame. The man knows how to place things on frame
The appearance of the FBI in Killers Of The Flower Moon is fascinating, its not so much an investigation, its all such a hairbrained, toothless, evil scheme commited by savage, lazy, drooling white men who cant and dont try to hide whats going on.
The Last Duel fucking rocks and you all should support one of the few high budget flicks in recent times that is not a corporate monstrosity designed to span a neverending empire of IP
Scorsese truly enters some uncharted territory with this movie. If The Irishman was a distillation of all his work, this feels like a leap into the unknown. This man should not be 80
Scorsese let this actor and Osage member basically improvise the whole scene as if it was a contemporary Osage council. He was talking to the crew and they put the cameras on him and asked him to repeat
At one point in "Killers of the Flower Moon", a character in a community meeting uses the word "genocide" to describe the treatment of Native Americans. However, the word "genocide" was not coined till 1944, decades after this scene was set. Apart from that, the film was alright.
I love how people have at their disposal half a century and more of actual queer art and instead they try to dilute themselves into seeing a Disney product as some revolutionary piece of representation. Fuck off. Watch a Fassbinder movie
Killers Of The Flower Moon is not that straightforward. There's a tremendous, sharp meditation on the construction of historical images. Saw a tweet saying it was blunt and it is, it's simple with a modernist, incredibly complex center to it.
Killers Of The Flower Moon is a deeply rich film due to it's center being out of axis and Scorsese himself seeming unsure of the enterprise. The realization of this ocurring in the process of the shoot is both Scorsese at his most disoriented AND at his most transfigurative
I think, ultimately, criticisms of Killers Of The Flower Moon come with the terrain. It's thorny. The ending itself reasserts that complexity- it's not self absolution. These gray areas of its existence are baked into the work. Personally i think it's monumental.
Images can be like gunshots. You dont immortalize. You paralyse. The white men who then shoot you in the head shoot an image of you and your family. Thinking of Godard equating representation with violence in The Image Book.
these guys are very comfortable existing in a hyper capitalistic, fascistic power structure:Disney, and, simultaneously, trying to pose a defiant attitude. woah you made the rock guy kinda gay and you can cut that whole thing for international markets; just scummy.
Ernest Burkhart incrementally slouches, drools, slack-jaws as the movie keeps going. He starts as a pseudo regular DiCaprio charmer who looks rougher than usual and he ends up as a bumbling goblin. This progression is all the clearer to me now.
We're dealing with a severely ill person. That of course doesn't justify his comments. But I am of the opinion that we should tread lightly because for about 5 years now he's been an erratic, broken and dangerous guy and the type of attention we give him is damaging
Some years ago, I might've scoffed at the notion that Martin Scorsese was the greatest living filmmaker, now i'm not sure how I could object (Godard no longer being with us) Happy birthday to the most desperately curious director alive.
Saw it again. Probably will be a while before I see it again (Frankly, it's to good to kill the strength of it via repetition) but. Goddamn. Scorsese goes through Griffith to come out horrified at the other side. On third watch, De Niro stands out as the very best of the film (?
I have no clue how these images of Killers Of The Flower Moon will function in movement and within the larger piece they inhabit but, if i can be an aesthete for a second, this movie looks special.
The Irishman and Killers Of The Flower Moon are both about split loyalties, between the person you love and the systematic machinations of evil. Both of these hollow men could be redeemed by a slight act of confrontation, but they give it up for broken things.
Film Criticism is such a failed form of writing. A mildly educated bozo who read like two books by Deleuze and has a mild political theory background will be considered a luminary because he doesen't just say stuff like "the second act is boring"
@undtheinfluence
He doesn't even spend that much money on like, stuff. He's just tantalized by the prospect of that money sitting idly on his bank account
Re: Beyoncé (an artist I admire) with Renaissance/Cowboy Carter, and all her press releases, she seems to wanna assert herself in the avant-garde, stressing the title of "greatest musical artist of the century", but if you are so adored by the establishment, you can't be that
people's weird attachment to celebrity relationships... really bothers the shit out of me. Taylor Swift is not your friend, you did not go out with Jake Gyllenhaal, why do you care so much
I see people struggling with their health and spotlight just by being on Twitter exposed to strangers. Imagine what a lethal concoction is a paranoid, seemingly schizophrenic reactionary who has lost grip of reality and also happens to be one of the most famous people alive
Cannes will go "oui oui Mr Andersòn bring this ah,fílm, Asteròid Citíe" it gets a 10 minute standing ovation and then the most 40 year old filmmaker named "Jejune Dupéx" will take the Palme for a movie about some traumatized ipad kid that serves as a satire of Norway's high-class
Cillian Murphy really deserves that Oscar he is the absolute gravitational center of the film and he is in practically in every single scene doing understated, beautiful work.
and alt right conservative grifters being thrown in the mix makes this all the worse. they give him the small amount of enabling he needs and make him a pawn. it's clear from how they tampered with the interview to cut out the more schizoid stuff that he's being used
Lot of people who pretend to have technical knowledge of film photography absolutely looking like clowns when they dismiss what Prieto did in Flower Moon.
watch and learn. this is a fucking artist, he's willing to burn through all that cash on an insane vision that will probably flop. people like him are lacking
I think Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is greatly misunderstood. It's his smartest movie because it shows restraint about its own ideas. But to think of it as a nostalgic love letter affair is to miss a huge chunk of subtext
The only time King Hale's demeanor changes from cool and collected is when he demands they "Give me my Henry Roan money" like a petulant child. He feels entitled over a corpse. An individual as a check
The Osage beg for help, the FBI does too little, too late, and all they do is realize what Molly and her family knew for years; but white people can't afford to seem complicit, so they "uncover" something a toddler should've been able to piece together.
Lots of people tried and lots of people share the pieces but i'm yet to see an interesting takedown on Killers Of The Flower Moon (yes i've probably read the one you think is good)