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beamish14 wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:01 am

cantinflas wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:10 am Horizon: An American Saga

Incredibly excited for these. Open Range is one of my favorite American studio films of the 2000s

Looks great, and frankly I'm excited to support longtime Hollywood icons like Kevin Costner and Francis Ford Coppola on these ambitious, personally funded huge swings. Production on Chapters 3 & 4 of Horizon should start sometime this year I believe.

brundlefly wrote: Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:23 pm The People's Joker

I saw this during its festival run last year and it's both a brilliant anarcho-comedy and a genuinely heartfelt trans coming of age film. I loved it.

Joanna Arnow's The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (NSFW)

Ethan Hawke's Flannery O'Connor biopic Wildcat. Maya Hawke, Laura Linney.

brundlefly wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:02 pm Ethan Hawke's Flannery O'Connor biopic Wildcat. Maya Hawke, Laura Linney.

This actually looks promising, hopefully evading some biopic trappings in favor of a more relatable meditation on the search for grace. Ready for all the nepo baby arguments resurfacing as a trade-off for Ethan Hawke gifting his daughter a starring role where she can actually flex her acting muscles for a change. She's been giving awful parts and nobody wants to see her go down the Zoey Deutch path (though glad she's getting a huge part in Linklater's next!) and I can't fault Ethan for trying to intervene and right that course.

I’m not sure O’Connor’s life fits the traditional biopic trappings anyway, apart maybe from her time at Iowa and her lupus. I’ll keep an eye out for this one; she was an excellent writer who I don’t think is read widely enough these days.

Yeah exactly, if they delve as deep into the religious turbulence and how she struggled but persisted to draw spiritual meaning in her own way, it could be fascinating.

It looks like it will incorporate scenes from her stories and novels, so it might be interesting if her imaginary world and her real world blend together. This was a trick used in Raul Ruiz’s Time Regained to marvelous effect.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 1:43 am Furiosa

Once again, only Bowier.

Tilman Singer's follow-up to Luz, Cuckoo.

brundlefly wrote: Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:12 pm Tilman Singer's follow-up to Luz, Cuckoo.

I've developed a bit of an obsession about Luz' elliptically affecting horror, which manifests as a form of intellectually-aroused bafflement. This looks like a ton of fun, and a logical next step in applying these skills within a more ambitious, and familiar scope for a general audience.

The trailer is awesome, but it gives away a lot of the plot and trajectory of the film. I wish I didn't watch it, but I've been excited about this one for too long not to touch the stove. Still, if you can resist, I'd recommend it

I've been waiting for it since it was announced, re-waiting for it since its Berlin premiere, re-re-waiting for it since NEON dropped one of their nibble-sized teasers a month ago; there was no way I wasn't going to watch the trailer. And as the Variety review had the phrase "Enjoyably Incoherent" in its headline, and as it can take a couple full watches to figure what's completely happening in Luz, I'm not scared of either spoilers or having my appetite sated here. Trailer's juicy.

What I need to know (without digging out the disc) is if that's the same house from "The Events at Mr. Yamamoto's Alpine Residence," or does Singer just have a thing about drained indoor pools?

Ha, I had a similar thought! And yes, the trailer makes the film look deceptively straightforward. Anyone who's seen Luz might be puzzled at how mainstream it appears, but I think we're in for something very different

I also love how it just drops a month before release

The trailer (sorry) for Sean McNamara's Reagan feels a parody from the start what with its somber Tears for Fears cover and the terrible hair/make-up, but there's a moment halfway through when an actor named Rachel Cannon summons some off-brand Kristen Wiig/Catherine O'Hara energy and threatens to run away with the thing. What could have been! Make a movie where she never lets them leave her living room.

brundlefly wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2024 5:12 pm The trailer (sorry) for Sean McNamara's Reagan feels a parody from the start what with its somber Tears for Fears cover and the terrible hair/make-up, but there's a moment halfway through when an actor named Rachel Cannon summons some off-brand Kristen Wiig/Catherine O'Hara energy and threatens to run away with the thing. What could have been! Make a movie where she never lets them leave her living room.

Magnificent, cheap-looking schlock that likely used Griffith Park to stand in for any scene where he’s on a horse. I hope this moment is in it

Damian Mc Carthy's Oddity

Memoir of a Snail, from Adam Elliot (Mary and Max).

And Paddington in Peru, which is coming to the UK on November 8th but not to the US until January 2025. Sony's fumbling a huge opportunity for Election Day counter-programming. I'd much rather be hiding from the civil warsing at a screening of this than in a theater showing the Joker or Venom sequels.

brundlefly wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2024 3:28 pm Memoir of a Snail, from Adam Elliot (Mary and Max).

And Paddington in Peru, which is coming to the UK on November 8th but not to the US until January 2025. Sony's fumbling a huge opportunity for Election Day counter-programming. I'd much rather be hiding from the civil warsing at a screening of this than in a theater showing the Joker or Venom sequels.

Last election day, I watched horror films non-stop. I just needed something else that could viscerally grab hold of my attention, and that did the trick. (FWIW, I know someone who watched similar fare over and over again when he was trying to quit smoking - worked there as well.)

hearthesilence wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2024 7:57 pm (FWIW, I know someone who watched similar fare over and over again when he was trying to quit smoking - worked there as well.)

It wasn't the Quitters, Inc. segment of Cat's Eye was it?

LOL, no but I'll have to send that to him

From Robert Eggers........' brothers, The Front Room.

Minhal Baig's We Grown Now.

Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain, Culkinier than Julia von Heinz' Treasure.

From Robert Eggers, Nosferatu.

JT Mollner's Strange Darling.

brundlefly wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2024 3:15 pm ...JT Mollner's Strange Darling.

I didn't realize that Giovanni Ribisi was adding feature film cinematography to his plate. Looks good!

Zemeckis' Here discussion moved, er, here.