To quote Ed Gonzalez quoting Rosenbaum, it's "dangerously close to being all notations and no text," or rephrased, it's a jumble of thematically related signifiers with the thinnest of strings tying them together. Enough of what Carax is saying, and the means through which he is saying it, worked for me however so that I generally liked the film just fine. Was anybody else reminded of Alps while watching this?
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
Yes. Alps, Cloud Atlas, and Cabin in the Woods. Like I said before, I felt like I kept seeing films that were in the same ballpark but didn't totally work for me. Holy Motors was the only one that hit all the sweet spots.Quoting Rowland (view post)
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Carax's not-in-attendance speech for his 'best foreign language film' LAFCC award:
"Hello, I’m Leos Carax, director of foreign-language films. I’ve been making foreign-language films my whole life. Foreign-language films are made all over the world, of course, except in America. In America, they only make non-foreign-language films. Foreign-language films are very hard to make, obviously, because you have to invent a foreign language instead of using the usual language. But the truth is, cinema is a foreign language, a language created for those who need to travel to the other side of life. Good night."
Movie Theater Diary
Want to hug Leos.
I just want to hug Ryan Gosling now.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
Well, that's a constant for all of us.
That's one of the best acceptance speeches I've ever heard
I didn't think I was going to love any movie this year more than Django Unchained, but this was incredible. The more I think about it or read about the various connections to other films the more I'm convinced about its brilliance.
This was the 2012 film I hadn't seen that I was most excited for and man what a letdown. The previous posts using the word "tedious" sums up my feelings pretty well. The Eva Mendes/sewer man stuff was the only thing I cared for.
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Well at least all the haters have a different favorite part.
Mocap segment ftw imo.
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
1. Accordions
2. Opening
3. Mocap
4. Picking up daughter
5. Sewer troll
Only the warehouse/assassin part doesn't really add much to the film, in my eyes (it's fine as a standalone vignette).
So, yeah, this was fucking awesome.
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
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I really liked this.
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