Thinking on Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon and it's insane to me that this year Scorsese arguably has made the more straightforward and nakedly blunt movie in its thematics while the Nolan movie is the one that speaks a thousand words based on what it DOESN'T show.
This is worded so funnily because I didn't know the name of his movie and thought Soderbergh was just scaring the shit out of people at Sundance while just sitting around
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Where actors and objects are placed and move within the frame. This video is a short good rundown on why and how it can be done well
He has amusing moments scattered throughout all his other movies but I just can't around how much more consistently side splittingly funny Grand Budapest is compared to the rest of his work. It's like the awkward kid in class just pulling off zinger after zinger out of nowhere
i don't have much to add to any sort of Wes Anderson discourse except that no tiktok has ever been as successively funny as this scene from Grand Budapest Hotel
Absolutely insane that two summers in a row we've gotten personal auteur-driven alien invasion movies that are analogues for our need to find more beyond our own existence and how that relates to the creative process, both released under Universal too.
Imagine making 12 Angry Men as your first film and then almost two decades later mastering another era of Hollywood with Dog Day Afternoon. Imagine being that guy.
Thing is, for all the talk of this being weird, violent and sexual it's ultimately a crowdpleaser with lots of laughs and a satisfying ending. Unlike virtually every other movie Lanthimos has made it is full of payoffs and catharsis that rewards everyone who goes with it.
Disney / Searchlight's Poor Things grossed an estimated $6.6M internationally this weekend.
Estimated international total stands at $50.9M, estimated global total stands at $81.2M.
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“It’s an elitist notion to be able to go to a theater. It’s very expensive. So, this idea that was created — that we hang on to — that the theater is a sacred space, is bullshit. And it rejects the idea of allowing everyone in under the tent.” - Joe Russo
David Gordon Green was hoping “The Exorcist” director William Friedkin would live to see “The Exorcist: Believer.”
"My understanding was that he didn’t want involvement in the film production, but he would give us his thoughts after the movie.”
Xavier Dolan is quitting filmmaking.
"I don't feel like committing two years to a project that barely anyone sees. I put too much passion into it to have these disappointments. It makes me wonder if my filmmaking is bad, and I know it's not."
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NEXT GOAL WINS is self-aware of the sports genre cliches & white savior stereotype it’s playing with. Taika Waititi tries to make light of them with a vibrant exaggeration of a true story designed not to be great but to have fun & make audiences feel good. Imperfect but endearing
It's still beyond insane to me that this movie was a flop with general audiences when it came out. You'd swear it was A Serious Man or Barton Fink again instead of a movie that's wall to wall hilarious scenes and fun cameos.
Love how this question seems like a lead-in for Scorsese to opine about the lack of risk-taking in modern movies but he instead goes Larry David mode. Fantastic
Post-cinema. A sobering invective about how utterly incapable this medium is of truly confronting evil and honoring the victims of atrocities. We can soak up the ambient dread for two hours but it's still 1s and 0s processed into a digital image and projected on a screen.
Making an 8 hour movie by putting Dune 1 and 2 together but also adding Casino. Implying all that stuff with Ace, Ginger and Nicky is happening on the other side of Arrakis while the Harkonnens and Atreides/fremen are at war
Covenant rules because it's an old master in truly not giving a fuck mode and 2049 because it's a former arthouse guy making the most glacially paced and somber 200 million dollar movie ever made. All was right in the world
RIDLEY SCOTT regrets directing ALIEN: COVENANT instead of BLADE RUNNER 2049
"I should not have made this decision, but I had to do it. I should have done Blade Runner 2049”
Is Howl big among the zoomers or something? I really don't understand because ever since it came out it's felt like the reputation was "that pretty good Miyazaki that was still a huge drop-off from Mononoke/Spirited Away"