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Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:56 pm
by DarkImbecile
Re: New Films in Production, v.2
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:34 pm
by therewillbeblus
Going by the plot, it sounds like new territory for Aster who has always depicted events occurring over acute time periods of gradually-swelling dread. I'll be curious how he manages to navigate his strengths with a very different scale of time, especially after his last film essentially did the inverse where it toyed with our processing of time by depicting a week's events over seemingly one
looong day when going by our perceptual cues of the sun (well, not the director's cut, but still)
Re: New Films in Production, v.2
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:41 pm
by Never Cursed
Re: New Films in Production, v.2
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:46 pm
by Never Cursed
Photos of Phoenix on set in Montreal (spoilered for length, and because one may be NSFW)
Re: Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2022 4:23 pm
by DarkImbecile
New title and poster:
Re: Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2022 5:31 pm
by tenia
Oh, didn't realise it changed its title to Joaquin Phoenix.
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 1:20 am
by domino harvey
This is one of the biggest downgrade title changes of all time. WTF
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 1:27 am
by therewillbeblus
It's strange too since the original was in step with Aster's previous two titles, all of which are effective for their simultaneous provocation and restraint, capturing an indistinct force overwhelming the characters in ways we aren't invited to know just yet. I guess this one does the same thing, but in an annoyingly clear manner. If it ain't broke, don't change your style
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:16 am
by brundlefly
Easy change, marketing-wise. Ties it to the director's previous horror output. At the very least you don't give your film a title that makes snarky box office reporters' jobs too easy.
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:13 am
by Never Cursed
For what it's worth, the script for this has been floating around the internet for a few years, and it always had its current title, never "Disappointment Blvd."
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 3:24 pm
by yoloswegmaster
Coming out in April:
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 4:50 pm
by Altair
What is Beauis Afraid? A broad comedy about a French family in New Orleans?
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:25 pm
by DarkImbecile
Trailer
Release date set for April 21, 2023
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:18 pm
by therewillbeblus
Wow, that looks next-level ambitious for Aster, and also like what I'm Thinking of Ending Things would've been if Kaufman had collaborated with Gondry again instead of helming the movie himself
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:45 pm
by brundlefly
Saddened Russ Leatherman is not listed on the film's imdb page.
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:29 pm
by yoloswegmaster
Take this with a grain of salt since it's coming from Jordan Ruimy but the runtime is said to be 179 minutes.
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 6:21 pm
by Persona
therewillbeblus wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:18 pm
Wow, that looks next-level ambitious for Aster, and also like what
I'm Thinking of Ending Things would've been if Kaufman had collaborated with Gondry again instead of helming the movie himself
Yeah, the Kaufman/Jonze vibes are strong with this one.
I am a huge fan of
Thinking of Ending Things but I don't really need another movie in that vein, and that's all I could think about watching this trailer. Hopefully the actual movie is much more its own thing.
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 6:37 pm
by therewillbeblus
It looks like a more accessible and comedic version of that, which is why I thought of Kaufman's collaborators who reigned in a lot of his unhinged mental projections and packaged them more digestibly for audiences
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2023 3:48 pm
by Harvest
Not much excitement for this on this board it seems. This has been screening already and comes out in NY/LA this week.
Here's the 2nd trailer that hadn't been posted here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrCg9G_OHAA
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2023 5:00 pm
by Boosmahn
I'm looking forward to it. Just waiting for showings to start in Chicago. I read its (since changed?) script and found it... unique.
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2023 7:33 pm
by therewillbeblus
I imagine most of us are pumped, but there hasn't been much pre-release chatter on this forum in general these days, at least between PTA movies
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:30 pm
by EWMMTFAN
Ari Aster has stepped out of line with this reckless length. Creatively freedom is fine, not at the expense of general audiences. When you are giving this free reign to these wunderkind directors, you are trying to alienate a portion of the public with their self-indulgence. This was the root of cause with Babylon and with the reviews pouring in, the same issue with Beau is Afraid. A24 needs to have a better editor watchdog to not let such languishing runtime that will led to a decrease in the marketplace. Remember, the motto should be Less is More. When you become this sprawling you have a disaster at your hands.
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:50 pm
by therewillbeblus
Ari Aster is two for two with A24 collaborations that garner both critical and audience appreciation, plus "general audiences" by and large responded so positively to his three hour director's cut of Midsommar that A24 put out only that edition on blu and UHD on their site. So it's entirely logical that they refused his four-hour cut, just like they did with Midsommar's four-hour workprint, but chose to sign off on this when the last three hour film the same director made yielded praise and revenue. It also made sense to give Chazelle a big budget after a bunch of hits, but it won't to do it again (at least not directly after Babylon), so let's see how this does before we tell people making sweeping financial decisions above our pay grade what to do with their business. Also, maybe see it before making assumptions, or don't see three hour movies if you don't want to? This shouldn't need to be said here, but our own aversion to an attribute of a film should not be extrapolated to determine mass audiences' alienation or the appropriate business practices of art industries
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:54 pm
by yoloswegmaster
EWMMTFAN wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:30 pm
Ari Aster has stepped out of line with this reckless length. Creatively freedom is fine, not at the expense of general audiences. When you are giving this free reign to these wunderkind directors, you are trying to alienate a portion of the public with their self-indulgence. This was the root of cause with Babylon and with the reviews pouring in, the same issue with Beau is Afraid. A24 needs to have a better editor watchdog to not let such languishing runtime that will led to a decrease in the marketplace. Remember, the motto should be Less is More. When you become this sprawling you have a disaster at your hands.
Are you Erick Weber's alt account?
Re: Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 9:07 pm
by EWMMTFAN
yoloswegmaster wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:54 pm
EWMMTFAN wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:30 pm
Ari Aster has stepped out of line with this reckless length. Creatively freedom is fine, not at the expense of general audiences. When you are giving this free reign to these wunderkind directors, you are trying to alienate a portion of the public with their self-indulgence. This was the root of cause with Babylon and with the reviews pouring in, the same issue with Beau is Afraid. A24 needs to have a better editor watchdog to not let such languishing runtime that will led to a decrease in the marketplace. Remember, the motto should be Less is More. When you become this sprawling you have a disaster at your hands.
Are you Erick Weber's alt account?
Big fan of his criticism. No critic has the guts to call out the industry. We need more freethinkers like him and Chris Gore in the film criticism world.
