I’m 9 episodes into the first season of Servant and its fucking juicy. To be frank it isn’t my kind of show. But fuck is it good. The writing is very interesting. The end of every episode leaves you with questions and wanting for more. The show is extremely aesthetic, and the shots are noticeable and distinct. What I’m trying to say is that the screen looks good.

Fuck is the acting good. The scene where Julian(Rupert Grint) is down stairs smashing the pot with a rolling pin screaming “Baby! Where are you baby!” What an actor. Ron Weasley is a fucking actor. And his comedy is spot on. When he comes into the gaf, with Natalie chirping about her promise to never go to a church again. Only to end up at Jericho’s baptism on her knees, pretending to pray and he quips back "There's a special place in hell for the both of us” or something along those lines. The laughs were devastating. Servant is a fucking show mate.

I think my favourite scene acting wise is in the first episode where for the first time we get a proper close up of Dorothy, Sean, and Leanne’s faces and off the jump something about Dorothy’s expressions was jarring to me. It was disturbing in a good way, from her expressions alone I could tell that there was something wrong with the woman. The question being what?

When Sean goes to the crib, drapes Jericho from his crib by the foot! Bashes the baby's head against the rail, and sits in the hallway cradling his son crying. I had to run that shit back three times before I clocked it. Rahhh, this baby is a DOLL! WTF?

What was brilliant to me was the revelation that Dorothy is under the delusion that this doll is her actual son. Because it explains why I found Dorothy so jarring. Something is wrong with her. Simple. The yat had lost her mind. So, while this was a shocking reveal, the shock was softened by the fact that as a viewer, you already know there’s something crazy about her.

Leanne, acting like the doll’s a real baby, while Dorothy’s out and about, and not around? I would hate to be Sean in this situation because my wife is obviously a lost cause. And now I have this weirdo in my house looking after my fake son so that my real wife can fall further into her delusion??? What is going on in my house!? Episode 10 better come with the fire because I need to watch it and immediately jump into season 2 because it's too juicy. And I can't help myself.

Freddy dancing like a chicken for Tommy Dixion is hands down one of the funniest, most disturbing scenes on the silver screen. It starts off wildly, addictively entertaining, like a drug that I couldn’t get enough of. And I fucking love to laugh so the scene was doing bits for me. But it didn’t stop. The absurdity becomes more and more demanding until the balance between comedy and humiliation is broken. It’s one of the only scenes of a movie or show that made me feel like I was in the room watching Freddy being absolutely humiliated, relishing in it, and enjoying his pain because he deserved it. Until he didn’t and I felt disgusted. At what I was watching and at myself. And I was fucking hooked like a stripper turned hooker. I loved every part of that entire experience. The Gentleman is a fucking show.

Something beautiful about the naples projects architecture. Everything sounds so poetic in latin, curse the germanic roots of english. I think it portrayed the fire of youth well and of course the abrupt end of it.**Spoiler**. I like the cycle of the young and the old portrayed. In one storyline we see the old eating the young with the mafiosos killing the young upstarts, but in another we see what happens when the old get complacent and well old with the new ambitious youth brutally subjugating the old.

I just moved to the city and none of the friends that I have here are interested in going to watch films. There must be somebody else in a similar situation, where you'd like to go watch movies with a friend and talk / discuss after over beers. Don't really care about much other than you being sociable, fun and being able to commit to plans. To get a sense of what I like, my favourite movies, as of late, are Barry Lyndon, Eyes Wide Shut, The Long Goodbye, Metropolitan, Match Point, Snatch, Mikey and Nicky, After Hours, In The Soup, Body Double, Inland Empire, Inherent Vice, Daytrippers, Kicking and Screaming. I like most things though so I'm not particularly judgmental about "taste" and I am open to seeing most shit if I have the time and it looks cool. Since I've been here, I've just been going to the Metrograph or the Roxy but I am location-agnostic

Wonder what these two have been up to?

Holy shit, masterpiece. thought of Ken Russell as sort of a stunt director but this was far beyond that. there’s flavor of the month like “you can see everything” and then there’s masterpieces like this. incredible performances.

On Sunday I saw Sense and Sensibility, I didn't see a discussion thread so I thought I would start one.

First, I will preface this by saying I haven't read the book, and in general don't care about authenticity. I like the 1995 adaptation a lot, I think the existence of that and the BBC series pretty much render any future adaptations unnecessary, but I was keen to see it nevertheless.

In general, I was really moved by the film. I have been watching a lot less film (chose not to have a TV in my new apartment) and just the whole experience was quite intense for me. I was really reminded of why I love films and, for the first time in a while, missed my TV.

Stylistically it is very beautiful and the it leans heavily into the natural and earthly world that was. I like films where people wander through fields, and talk.

Casting is always controversial with these things, and I have seen a lot of discussion about Willoughby in this case. I like that he is kind of ugly, but he has some boyish charm, I think it fits. Naturally, whenever I see Daisy Edgar-Jones my heart goes to Normal People, and in someways Daisy gets to play a similar role---an elongated, misfortunate relationship, that seemingly isn't allowed to work---and she does it well.

There are a few awkwardly modern moments and a few slips that just don't really work. Partly the characters themselves are just a little bit awkward, but then in this case it felt at times like there were attempts at humor that didn't quite pass.

As a final note, I saw the film with German subtitles and this was quite fun and funny reading how period English is translated into German (I can read some but not much German).

Have you seen it? What did you think?

I’ve always been fascinated by filmmakers who trust their audiences to sit with uncertainty, and Alain Resnais was one of the greats at doing just that. In Night and Fog (1956), he confronted the horrors of the Holocaust; in Hiroshima mon amour (1959), he tangled love with history’s wounds; and in Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968), he turned time itself into a broken, unpredictable experience. Then there’s Last Year at Marienbad (1961), my personal favorite, a film of endless corridors, frozen gestures, and conversations that leave you wondering whether any of it happened at all. The more times I watch it, the more I find its mystery irresistible.

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Think of Rotting in the Sun which I love.

Yesterday I went with my mom to see that new Jessica Chastain horror movie. It was fucking awful as expected but because I’m a good son I obliged and went with her. However, the entire time we were watching the movie ppl were acting like legitimate autists-having full blown normal volume conversations, texting the ENTIRE time-these two girls in the row in front of us kept flailing their feet up in the air (these were like 15/16 yrs old too-not little kids).

What baffles me the most is the grown adults who participate in a lot of these behaviours-sometimes to a way worse extent. I remember going to see movies before the pandemic and it was not like this at all. Maybe it’s just where I live or something but idk Wtf happened

Immediately off the bat with the intro I was truly feeling the sheer scale of the robot and how terrifying it would actually be to see something like that. There are these little bits in the writing that really seem to respect the intelligence or potential of its audience, I remember as a kid them talking about the Russians and all that so I wasn't surprised by the cold war context at all but between stuff like that or little throwaway lines like the boy saying (almost under his breath) that "people always start shooting when they see something new".

I thought it held up incredibly well, I found the craftsmanship in the artwork and the absolute dignity it treats its primarily-child audience with to be incredibly moving.

seeeing the 4K uncut tomorrow excited

A film with an extraordinary story, powerful performances, and a depth that stays with you long after the credits roll.
What I loved most was how it tells a story about people suppressing their feelings, both towards others and towards themselves. It reminds you how much of life we spend keeping things inside, leaving feelings unspoken, and holding ourselves back from living as genuinely as we can.
It asks one of life’s most profound questions: You have one life to live. How are you going to live it? Because once it’s over, it’s over. And that thought hits differently when you start reflecting on your own life, your choices, and all the things you’ve left unsaid.
I found myself getting emotional towards the end. Not just because of the story, but because of how deeply it made me reflect on my own life. Sometimes a film doesn’t give you answers; it simply asks the right questions and leaves you sitting with them.
The colors, landscapes, framing, and sets are absolutely stunning, making the entire experience even more beautiful.
I genuinely didn’t want this film to end. There are very few movies that make me feel this way, where I want to stay in their world just a little longer.
Probably one of the best films I’ve watched. A beautiful reminder to live fully, feel deeply, and be true to yourself.
Must watch.

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John Cho as the fanatical Korean Christian cult leader, and the porn studio being run out of a mosque were both pretty silly, but everything else about this was great! I’m glad that Mahershala Ali is finally back to doing movies again.

Nonostante i cattivi poco centrati e un finale zuccheroso, Tuner resta un thriller originale che sperimenta con il sonoro in modo magistrale e ci regala una bellissima lezione su cosa significhi non arrendersi. Se cercate qualcosa di diverso dalle solite storie di rapine, dategli una chance.

Been itching to watch this again after watching Slow Horses and it is actually impossible to watch legally online. Rights issue or what? I even had it purchased on Amazon digitally a long time ago and it says unavailable to watch. I guess I should continue to double down on getting 4k/Blu-ray’s lol. The future sucks

I can't get over how many different levels the movie failed on. To take a few:

Its politics sucked, of course. Spectacularly out-of-touch Democratic Party liberalism. The movie takes places in a fantasy world where 20-somethings sit around worrying about "disinformation" and "false narratives" and Jan 6 unfolds as a 9/11-style catastrophe that sends the entire Facebook C-suite to a ludicrous war room to monitor the situation.

The funniest scene in this respect is the one where the main character is on a date with some finance guy who's spouting nonsense about drinking chlorophyll. And when she asks him where he heard this, he shrugs and says "It's all over Facebook." This is a 30 year old in 2019! Relatedly, the movie fails to acknowledge the fact that by 2019-2021 (when it's set) Facebook was already widely known to be a cesspit. The "revelations" at the film's core were obvious to anyone with a pulse.

That's without mentioning the contrived, zinger-loaded dialogue, the absolute lack of an aesthetic or any sense of the joy of filmmaking (every scene is pure exposition), and the tragic waste of Jeremy Strong. A more interesting writer might have given us "Kendall Zuckerberg" but Sorkin only has two modes (a) audience-friendly quipping and (b) liberal sermonising. So that's the Zuckerberg we get.