I sat down with Albert Serra to talk his opus-to-date PACIFICTION, lensing, waxing poetic in screenplays for investors, Jerry Garcia dosing his camerapeople with LSD, and why lingering on faces is “the pleasure of cinema.” for
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Jean-Luc Godard's Instagram live masterclass—in which the filmmaker discusses his Cahiers du Cinéma peers, the role of the auteur and producer, and his new film—is now available to watch with English subtitles via
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breaking: Terrence Malick says his next film will be about “god stuff”: “And it’s a drama as well … blended with philosophy, but I would overall call it a drama.”
Adam McKay says his next film will be about “big, dirty money”: “And it’s a comedy as well … blended with drama, but I would overall call it a comedy.”
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stranger: oh, so you write about movies?
me: yep
stranger: then you probably love [their favorite movie]
me, sometimes: ah, not the best, in my opinion
stranger: YOU THINK YOURE A FUCKING GOD DONT YOU
between The Tree of Life, Killing Them Softly, True Romance, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Meet Joe Black, Ad Astra, and Fight Club, Brad Pitt might have the most impressive career in box office flops
the irony of the "JOKER is problematic/dangerous" crowd is that they seem to have missed marvel's glorification of the u.s. military industrial complex in 30+ films over the past 11 years. if anything, shooters are inspired by cpt. america types that tout american exceptionalism.
overheard on the subway:
“I walked out of the new Tilda Swanson movie. She made it with some Colombian director in the jungle, and, like, I have a pretty high tolerance for that shit, but this was like, ‘What?’”
believe it or not, this is INCEPTION in all of its color. chronologically, from left to right, each skinny line is the full color palette of the scene it represents. courtesy of Dr. James E. Cutting.
BROKER: a tender continuation of Kore-eda’s career fascination with alternative families and the legal, social, and philosophical values that paint such complicated ethical portraits of them, this time through a soon-to-be abandoned baby. funny, lovely, and sad.
ANNIHILATION came out 2 years ago this week. i wrote about how it's been swirling around in me ever since—tapping on the glass of my perspective with the express purpose of challenging my worldview and how i perceive others—and how that's hard to navigate.
THE LIGHTHOUSE comes out today. i've wanted to watch it a 2nd time more than most movies a first time in 2019. believe the hype. if nothing else, it teaches imperative life lessons, such as (and perhaps only) do👏not👏fuck👏with👏seagulls. my cannes review
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wow, what a joke. if ever my non-Texas friends doubted my cultural criticisms of A&M, here's all the proof you need. a city so devoid of culture and self-awareness that it's "traditions" are merely a lapse into a white-powered past (i'd still be saying this if there was no video)
criterion color coding project complete in the sense that every time i pass the shelf i will rearrange a few, never find the perfect order, and remember how sad and complicated life is
things that actually happen in DOLITTLE
• dolittle goes down on a squirrel
• dolittle’s animal friends forcefully drug him with anesthesia while he’s seriously yelling at them to stop
• dolittle gets shoulder deep in a dragon’s ass hole and pulls out human remains
kid stuff!
film journalists get generalized as one type of person too often, but we are many: celebrity junkie, history dweeb, awards goon, franchise whore, critic prick, grammar stiff, basement dweller, and other such cool stereotypes
THE LIGHTHOUSE: hOooOOOoOly fuck WHAT. truly truly unbelievable. i’m in shock. absolutely bewildering, the least predictable a movie can be. eggers is as good as they get. filming must’ve taken years off of dafoe/pattinson’s lives. do NOT fuck with seagulls.
#Cannes2019
Robert Pattinson is on a fucking roll and cannot be stopped
directors of his next 5 films:
1) Robert Eggers
2) David Michod
3) Ciro Guerra
4) Antonio Campos
5) Joanna Hogg
of his most recent 5 films:
1) Claire Denis
2) Zellner bros
3) Safdie bros
4) James Gray
5) Brady Corbet
MEGALOPOLIS: a goofy, ambitious film that reflects a great artist having lost much of the creative sensibility that made him profound. a silly, salacious, at times beautiful, at times entirely fake looking surface level dive into what amounts to Coppola’s Southland Tales.