Recent Viewing Part IV

[Love and Friendship

excellent, witty movie: i wasn't bored for a second. Kate Beckinsale's Lady Susan is one of my favorite characters. Tom Bennet was hilarious! Check it out; it's short and entertaining, like a piece of fluffy cake.

I've been looking forward to it, but I've heard about them shortchanging Horner. That's a real shame.

REVENGE

I don't think he was alive when they started the shooting, no. I think the end credits tribute is a lovely way to bookend the film. While I think the film is a good 'missionary document', I have some issues with it -- it's unnecessarily scatterbrained, and it spends FAR too much time on John Williams (without actually having any new interviews with him).

Btw, I presented this film during a film festival here in Oslo before the summer, followed by a Q&A with Gaute Storaas and Henrik Skram. The house was jampacked.

Didn't you read the post above? I just said -- Horner was dead when this was in production. And he was not omitted; instead, they used archive footage and some new quotes by Cameron to make a decent tribute over the end credits.

I think you'd find some value in watching this, D, even if there is not a lot of new stuff for us hardcore film score fans. It's still great to hear the composers we all love talk about their artform.

Yes, I have. Very disappointing. And I've pretty much liked everything Aronofsky has done up to this point.

Arronofsky is confused i think, from Noah and afterwards, included.

Haha, friend of mine just asked me to go for a The Beguiled / mother! double bill this Sunday, so this'll be one disappointing evening

On Sofia copolla, really, why? I mean other than the brilliant lost in translation, everything she's done since never lived up to that level or hype.

Ah right, I'm sure I'll feel differently about The Beguiled then. I think Sofia is an interesting auteur and each film of hers is worth seeing, but she's also hit or miss to me. Lost in Translation is obviously great, Marie Antoinette was a mixed bag for me - thought the concept was cool, but worked brilliantly in places but at other moments felt off, I didn't really care for Somewhere, and found The Bling Ring amusing. With The Beguiled she seems to tackle the kind of film I love (victorian / southern gothic) and is right up my alley. But I'm having an open mind about it - I know it's one of her more conventional films so I'm not expecting something too exceptional.

With mother! I expect Darren to do something wild, something that will get a response out of me. I'm try to stay as blank as possible going in, all I know is that it's incredibly decisive, and that's exactly how I want my Darren. Big fan of his - strong Noah defender, by the way.

When I was an intern at the Amsterdam Film Festival I fought to have The Fountain in its programme, which the actual programmers weren't too happy with - to ultimately have the film get high marks from our visitors and even a programmer going up to me after he saw the film the second time, saying how wrong he was in his negative assessment the first time and how all of a sudden the film 'clicked' with him. Hehe.

Hehe, and that WILDness is exactly what makes me so curious about it.

the wrestler was a sleeper hit as well

haven't seen mother.

noah was a confused arronofsky. completely out of his league, didn't know what to do with the material, too complex, too out there, too not leading anywhere, what's the meaning of that film? i wanted to like it so much but man, was he off or what it's his least arronofsky film to date.i haven't seen mother and i have no opinion on it until i do but i really hope he returns to what he knows how to do best. the trailer and premise seems a bit lars von trier to me and i hope it's not 'cause only lars can do lars well, so far

Hmm, interesting, cause I'd say The Wrestler is his least Aronofsky film to date. Love or hate his films, they're all decisive and out there, ambitious, a different voice, something not tailor made to an audience, something that gets you talking - except for the melodramatic meh that is The Wrestler, if you ask me. Sure, it's competent, Rourke acts his heart out and everything, but I constantly had to remind myself I was seeing an Aronofsky film.

Noah, on the other hand, is an interesting take on the story which includes faith and doubt towards God, uncertainty of extremism, in a way using the biblical story as a form of religious extremism, and I loved the sequence that combined the evolution and the biblical telling of the creation.

No love for THE FOUNTAIN? I dig that.