Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Runs longer than the movies its referencing would have been in their era. Would've been tighter if it was 30 minutes shorter. On a surface level, it's a lot of fun to watch its Technicolor recreation (and play a game of spot the anachronisms), but it's also a good example of a hyper-accurate homage that makes time to critique and subvert the politics of the genre with more modern ideologies.
I gotta check out Biller's previous films.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
I want to see this so bad.
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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Her first, Viva, is on Mubi for the next ~28 days
https://mubi.com/showing/viva
This is exactly what I thought. The movie has problems with length and pacing, which the type of film is styled after would've never had.Quoting number8 (view post)
Other than that, I enjoyed it a lot. The cinematographer is a goddamn genius, I don't think this type of homage is usually this well done. And the core performance by one Samantha Robinson is pretty good since it's highly stylized and filled with mannerisms and yet it works very well when it has to.
What the fuck.
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Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
That must've made the film's success extra satisfying.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
What the fuck? Everyone who actually did that should be blacklisted for life.
EDIT: But why would they sabotage the film they were working on? Did they just not get the intentional campiness? That's just weird.
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I'm not sure that the film's thesis, so much as I could understand it, makes a lot of sense. But as an homage to a different time period, it's pretty remarkable. The costumes, lighting and make-up are amazing. It started to lose me midway through, but won me back with the faux-renaissance fair section. If Biller made another movie in the future, I'd be curious.
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) ***