View Full Version : Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
Boner M
03-01-2013, 07:26 AM
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Boner M
03-01-2013, 07:29 AM
One of the best of this/last year; next-level stuff for documentary filmmaking. Wrote some words here. (http://themusic.com.au/blog/film/2012/09/21/tiff-3-ian-barr/)
Great trailer, too:
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Sxottlan
03-01-2013, 08:45 AM
This is playing on the big screen at the local museum I think next week. It'd be during my work shift.
I'm seriously considering taking a vacation day so I can see it.
Skitch
03-01-2013, 11:06 AM
Am I the only one missing the premise?
Boner M
03-01-2013, 02:24 PM
The premise is 'announced' in the trailer. Beyond that it's what you see vs what you feel.
ThePlashyBubbler
03-01-2013, 02:54 PM
Really want to see this, but worried it won't play around me. Anyone know what distribution is gonna be like?
D_Davis
03-01-2013, 04:16 PM
Imagine if this movie showed with smell.
Derek
03-01-2013, 05:37 PM
One of my favorites of last year as well and the most visceral doc i've ever seen. It's as if Stan Brakhage directed an episode of The Deadliest Catch. See it in theaters if you get the chance.
plain
03-01-2013, 05:59 PM
I have no clue when this will come near me, dying to see it.
NickGlass
03-01-2013, 07:37 PM
What I scribbled when I saw it at TIFF (second favorite of the fest for me, only after Tabu): Pretty sublime. Soundscape and experimental-looking visuals thrill. Thankfully curtails human profiling (my problem with Sweetgrass) for nautical ontological research.
Stay Puft
03-01-2013, 08:39 PM
US release date is today. Limited release. I don't know how limited, could only be NY/SF. I know it opens in Toronto in another couple of weeks, plan to see it then.
Stay Puft
03-25-2013, 07:30 AM
Yeah, this was rad. Amazing sensory experience. Found it a bit repetitive towards the end, but amazing editing in the first half, almost seamless in the way it moves through the ship and the routine of life on the ship, exciting in the way it's both rhythmic and disorienting (quality sound work, too, though I made the mistake of closing my eyes at one point to focus on the soundscapes and I think I dozed off for about 10 minutes... more a byproduct of working graveyard shifts, though).
I think I was also setting myself up a bit for something more aggressive/abstract (there was even a sign outside the theatre warning about motion sickness via atypical camera work, and telling patrons to say in their seats until the light comes back up because of the atypical ending), so I was at a bit of a loss when I got something with recognizeable roots in enthnographic documentary filmmaking (even as it did approach something more phenomenological, which I appreciated). Also, while some of the camera work was indeed inspired, I thought some of the first person stuff went on far too long and didn't provide much in the way of interesting material (I felt they did a much better job capturing footage of the product, and those goddamn seagulls, than the humans onboard).
Reservations are minor, though; still an exciting documentary and highly recommended.
Dukefrukem
05-29-2013, 03:33 PM
Oh hey, New Bedford MA.
ThePlashyBubbler
06-09-2013, 11:34 PM
Coming to Pittsburgh June 21-23. Yessssss.
Yxklyx
11-20-2013, 11:34 PM
This has some incredible camera work! Groundbreaking stuff especially the scene on the poster! But as a movie I was bored stiff for most of it - so I can't recommend it unless you're really interested in its technical aspects. I hope it influences some new films.
I wonder if it was padded to 90 minutes for theater. I'd prefer a 45 minute version - I mean do we have to see the fish catch all over again but from a different angle?
wigwam
11-21-2013, 09:14 PM
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Lazlo
12-16-2013, 02:08 AM
This has some incredible camera work! Groundbreaking stuff especially the scene on the poster! But as a movie I was bored stiff for most of it - so I can't recommend it unless you're really interested in its technical aspects. I hope it influences some new films.
I dunno, it doesn't take much skill to put a GoPro on a pole and stick it in the ocean for ten minutes a pop. I too was bored out of my mind. Looked nice for pieces, but it didn't grab me in any meaningful way.
dreamdead
12-20-2013, 06:07 PM
I see the positives and negatives equally here. The underwater material, where the spray of the waves creates patterns and rhythms of light, is sublime--as close to Brakhage homages as a film is likely to get. And the seagull stuff I could view forever. That said, the film also seeks to underscore the mundanity and boredom of these excursions, and by presenting us those sequences in real time, there's simultaneously a sense of wonder as to how these people do such monotonous work daily and a frustration as to why the filmmakers insist on battering us to understand that monotony.
Would love to have experienced this at the theater, but I do think my minor reservations would have remained regardless. In any light, this is still bravura filmmaking, and its highlights are among the best of the year.
Watashi
12-20-2013, 10:12 PM
Incredible. This film brought me to tears several times (that seagull trying to escape!). Almost works as a horror movie. I was enraptured all the way through. Don't know how anyone could get bored and I saw this on my laptop. I would have loved to see this on the biggest screen possible.
Dukefrukem
06-27-2014, 08:08 PM
Hard to Yay this since nothing really happens. It's more like a sensory experience for those really interested in the fishing industry. Not the least bit surprised MC ate this up. Sometimes I feel like you could poop on a plate, film it for 65 minutes and slap Terrence Malick's name on it and it would get 700 yays here. For those that argue that Hard Rain isn't a video game, they should also agree that this isn't a film.
Boner M
06-28-2014, 06:35 AM
Never change, Duke.
ledfloyd
06-28-2014, 01:05 PM
What does Terrence Malick got to do with it?
Boner M
06-28-2014, 04:12 PM
What does Terrence Malick got to do with it?
He makes 'weird' films, like Leviathan.
Dukefrukem
06-28-2014, 04:24 PM
He makes 'weird' films, like Leviathan.
Not weird. Just incredibly boring, non-entertaining images on my TV.
Boner M
06-28-2014, 04:33 PM
"Stupid TV. Be more funny!"
Watashi
06-28-2014, 05:28 PM
I found Leviathan very entertaining.
number8
06-30-2014, 05:00 AM
I usually find good movies entertaining.
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