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Thread: World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)

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    World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, 2015)

    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."
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    This should be your new favorite movie. If it's not, you should start quitting the things that you do.
    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

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    Watashi, thank you. Massive rep.

    Folks, he's not lying. One of the very few works of art deserving of the "Best Thing Ever" tag.

    Amazing.

    Brilliant.

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    "We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."

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    Have you seen It's Such a Beautiful Day, Russ?
    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

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    Not yet, but I've been meaning to. Have heard great things.
    "We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."

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    This was certainly and may improve on a re-viewing before the month-long rental expires. A lot of the Hertzfeldtian humor remains there--both the letter and the poem are dryly hilarious--and several different sequences have real resonance. I'm partial to Emily's visitations to the clone, and how she keeps trying to scan and understand David's interest in the step-walking.

    I need to think about it some more, but there's a way in which Bill's obliviousness made several sequences in It's Such a Beautiful Day resonate all the more, and here Emily's innocence seemed to operate at more of a counterpoint from what adult Emily was telling her than I expected it to. In that respect, I feel like it doesn't quite achieve as strong of an impact.
    The Boat People - 9
    The Power of the Dog - 7.5
    The King of Pigs - 7

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    Wats, your new avatar is AWESOME!
    "We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."

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    Well I signed up for Vimo just to watch this. I hope it's worth it.
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    "We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."

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    I knew the voice of Emily Prime was courtesy of Hertzfeldt's niece, but I didn't know this:

    The younger Emily, called “Emily Prime”, is voiced by Winona Mae. Winona is Hertzfeldt’s four-year-old niece, and her lines were recorded while she and Hertzfeldt drew pictures and talked together. Hertzfeldt then took his niece’s recorded words and partially rewrote World of Tomorrow in order to match up with what Winona had said. It creates such a unique experience, and makes Emily instantly endearing.
    "We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."

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    I had lunch today.
    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

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    Did a rewatch of this, and a few of my admittedly small reservations slid away. My main regret with this during the first viewing was how Emily Prime's naivete undoes a teensy bit of the pathos. On some level, there's little difference between her plucky skipping away at the end, oblivious to much of what she's experienced, and Bill's similar lack of understanding in It's Such a Beautiful Day. But this time through that contrast worked more as a counterpoint than as an undercutting.

    Several scenes retained their cunning humor, but some of Emily's attempts to understand the mundane beauty of walking down a path, and the viewers gazing upon screens upon screens, had more power this time through.
    The Boat People - 9
    The Power of the Dog - 7.5
    The King of Pigs - 7

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    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 had lunch today.



    I also made a pledge to Don's Kickstarter campaign to get World of Tomorrow AND It's Such a Beautiful Day on blu ray.

    1,970
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    Woo-Hoo!!




    UPDATED! STRETCH GOAL TIERS:

    $50K ACHIEVED ~* "THE MEANING OF LIFE" WILL NOW BE REMASTERED AND ADDED TO THE BLU-RAY ✨

    $75K ACHIEVED ~ "REJECTED" WILL NOW BE REMASTERED AND ADDED TO THE BLU-RAY ✨


    $100K ACHIEVED ~ A SECRET THING THAT CANNOT BE ANNOUNCED WILL NOW BE ADDED TO THE BLU-RAY ✨

    $125K ~ THE NEXT MYSTERY BONUS SHORT FILM WILL BE ADDED TO THE BLU-RAY
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    Masterpiece.
    I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?

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    This is now streaming on Netflix in the US

    http://www.netflix.com/watch/80093162

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    Irish continues to be wrong.
    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."
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    Wrong about what? It is on Netflix.
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    Quote Quoting MadMan (view post)
    Wrong about what? It is on Netflix.
    Irish had posted a nay opinion in the General Film thread. He's pretty much the only person here to go against the grain...
    The Boat People - 9
    The Power of the Dog - 7.5
    The King of Pigs - 7

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    Quote Quoting Irish (view post)
    This is now streaming on Netflix in the US

    http://www.netflix.com/watch/80093162
    So you're saying I'll rewatch it.

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    As a huge fan of stick figures, 10/10.

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    “World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts” premiered at Fantastic Fest 2017 after an Oscar-qualifying run in Los Angeles. It will presumably be released later this year.

    David Ehrlich gives it an A+
    "We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."

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    Is this on DVD anywhere?

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    Part 2 being released on Dec. 29th.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Available to stream from vimeo now.

    https://vimeo.com/ondemand/worldoftomorrow2
    "We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."

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