ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I'm guessing 'Diana' has recently fallen out of copyright or something as they are all at it.
Netflix recommendations
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Reno
The In Kraut
This one is bound to be less referential and far more experimental, considering the filmmaker behind it.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
But it won’t have a line as good as ‘is it true one can die of a broken heart?’
T & P
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Lucifer fans be advised that brand new S6 has just dropped. Well, the first episode at least, haven’t checked if the others are available now.
This is now produced by Warner Brothers. Just started the episode and have to say the image looks really nice and crisp and properly cinematic.
This is now produced by Warner Brothers. Just started the episode and have to say the image looks really nice and crisp and properly cinematic.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Surge. Ben Whishaw is completely fucking fed up with his life.
It's got flaws but is entertaining enough for an hour and a half.
It's got flaws but is entertaining enough for an hour and a half.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Yes. This was very good.
Reno
The In Kraut
....from boredom to mild irritation.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
It carried on much in this vein until some point in episode 8, where the real headfuckery started and increased exponentially right up to the end of the finale. Well recommended, I hope season 2 is as good.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
I’ve made a dent in the last half season of Lucifer, which dropped this week.
The pendulum has swung fully away from quirky police procedural to bonkerballs supernatural scattershot daftery, but it does give the actor playing Chloe much more fun stuff to do after a joyless first four seasons so I’m inclined to indulge it, given that the end is nigh. And Tom Ellis duetting with Bob the Drag Queen? A treat worth tolerating some dreadfully laboured dialogue scripting.
The pendulum has swung fully away from quirky police procedural to bonkerballs supernatural scattershot daftery, but it does give the actor playing Chloe much more fun stuff to do after a joyless first four seasons so I’m inclined to indulge it, given that the end is nigh. And Tom Ellis duetting with Bob the Drag Queen? A treat worth tolerating some dreadfully laboured dialogue scripting.
I watched the entire first season of Who Killed Malcolm X tonight.
Very good. Certainly sheds new light on the case.
Very good. Certainly sheds new light on the case.
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Watched the new film Kate with the family.
Passable trash.
Wannabe John Wick / kill Billish nonsense. I wasn't into it but my wife and daughter (14) seemed to be suitably engaged, though that was probably helped along by the Japanese backdrop (the reason they put it on in the first place).
Passable trash.
Wannabe John Wick / kill Billish nonsense. I wasn't into it but my wife and daughter (14) seemed to be suitably engaged, though that was probably helped along by the Japanese backdrop (the reason they put it on in the first place).
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Fascinating (though probably only if you’ve seen Andy Kaufman biopic, Man on the Moon) documentary “Jim and Andy - The Great Beyond”.
Access all areas, fly on the wall documentary during the filming, shot largely by Kaufman’s real life partner, Lynne Magulies. The footage is interspersed with contemporary interviews with Jim Carrey and the whole thing is… well, it makes me think Jim Carrey is not the happiest, or most stable man in the world.
He full-on bonkers-Method acted throughout the shoot, not only being in role as either Kaufman or the obnoxious alter ego Tony Clifton, but doing so to the point of enormous disrespect to some of his fellow performers, and the late Milos Foreman, who directed Man on the Moon.
In the contemporary interviews, Carrey talks a lot about discovering who he really is, but the whole thing was notable for how little sense of a real, unified person came across.
As a teacher of acting and film studies the whole thing was a terrible car crash. Carey’s Kaufman is a good performance, but great acting doesn’t require this performative psychosis. It’s self-indulgent. Kaufman too, was someone I find inexcusably disrespectful and selfish in his practices, but at least he was creating something original. Carrey is being a dick during the shoot to better tread in the footsteps Kaufman already made.
Anyway, it’s fucking fascinating, if not in the way Carrey may have intended.
Access all areas, fly on the wall documentary during the filming, shot largely by Kaufman’s real life partner, Lynne Magulies. The footage is interspersed with contemporary interviews with Jim Carrey and the whole thing is… well, it makes me think Jim Carrey is not the happiest, or most stable man in the world.
He full-on bonkers-Method acted throughout the shoot, not only being in role as either Kaufman or the obnoxious alter ego Tony Clifton, but doing so to the point of enormous disrespect to some of his fellow performers, and the late Milos Foreman, who directed Man on the Moon.
In the contemporary interviews, Carrey talks a lot about discovering who he really is, but the whole thing was notable for how little sense of a real, unified person came across.
As a teacher of acting and film studies the whole thing was a terrible car crash. Carey’s Kaufman is a good performance, but great acting doesn’t require this performative psychosis. It’s self-indulgent. Kaufman too, was someone I find inexcusably disrespectful and selfish in his practices, but at least he was creating something original. Carrey is being a dick during the shoot to better tread in the footsteps Kaufman already made.
Anyway, it’s fucking fascinating, if not in the way Carrey may have intended.
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danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I’m glad to see my revulsion at Carrey is justified. I physically can’t bear the man. Seconds is too long. There’s no way I could ever watch a film with him in.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
I genuinely love Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He plays an introvert, which helps.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
People do say that to me. But it’s too big a risk.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
It’s at an intersection of magical realism/near future sci fi/quirky indie romance. Kate Winslet is glorious in it.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I do like Kate Winslet.
BoxRoom
nicely inconspicuous
Not a fan of Winslet or Carey but still somehow managed to watch that film and loved it.
I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that in Carey's case, the director made him do multiple takes until he was practically broken doing the same thing over and over again and using the most real, heartfelt, exhausted take rather than letting the lad be a gurning idiot.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
I love that film. I do not normally like Jim Carrey stuff but that is the exception to the rule.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Conflicted over JC. Loved Eternal Sunshine, Truman Show but as a person, he seems to falter. And then there's that horrible business with the suicide of his girlfriend.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Yes I enjoyed that doc. Didn't really like man in the moon.
I'm sure I saw a terrific Kaufman doc once, but I can be buggered if I remember what it was called. I may well have just canned Kaufman you tube docs and interviews.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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That doesn't sound like Gondrey, I always thought he was supposed to be a super nice fun guy. . . . I could easily be wrong.
If anything though, this was a period where Carey was getting into being more intense and less Ventura.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
kittyP
Pluviophile
When I first watched it (the doc) I did enjoy it but it was on hearing the comedian Debora Francis White talking about it I thought "Oh, yeah, it's a fucking shit show".
She said she sat down to watch it with her husband and very quickly started to think "this is a documentary about a man being a fucking awful human being, portraying another man who acted like a fucking awful human being and everyone treating them like they are genius, I am so over that, bored with it, I don't need to watch this" and that "a woman/actress would never get away with behaving like that, not for one fucking moment".
Or some thing to that effect I can't remember exactly what she said.
Reno
The In Kraut
Jim Carrey may well be a total knob (he also has been a public anti-vaxxer) but I'll never turn down a great film by a talented director and/or screenwriter (in the case of Eternal Sunshine, Michel Gondry and Charle Kaufman) because of an actor, especially when that actor gives a good performance as Carrey does in the film. Film is a team effort, seems odd to not watch a film because one of the many people who worked on it doesn't live up to your standards.
I was never a big fan of her. Was just kind of indifferent.
But I went off her when I found out she said that women don't need feminism anymore.
It was years ago though so she might have changed her tune by now.
Eternal Sunshine is a brilliant film.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I wasn’t endorsing her views (of which I know nothing), I just think she’s a very fine actor.
Yeah I'm not saying that you were endorsing such views mate. And I think she is a very good actor.
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