Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell, 2019)
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Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell, 2019)
Under the Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell’s follow-up to It Follows, finally gets scheduled for a platform release beginning June 22.
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Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell, 2018)
Under the Silver Lake
This gave me a big Pynchon vibe, so I hope this is as unique and good as Inherent Vice was (for me at least).
I really liked Myth of the American Sleepover and It Follows so I'm excited for this. Cannes official selection?
This gave me a big Pynchon vibe, so I hope this is as unique and good as Inherent Vice was (for me at least).
I really liked Myth of the American Sleepover and It Follows so I'm excited for this. Cannes official selection?
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Looks weird in a good way. Definitely Inherent Vice vibes
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At first watch this looked like a period piece with all those records and fashion but I spotted the drone and a laptop. Interesting mash. I hope this is more Pynchon and less The Nice Guys
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That's kind of Mitchell's thing. There's an intentional blurring of period in his other films as well
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This is certainly a film for this time and place. Nothing makes me laugh harder than a bunch of people thinking random facts of data factor into major plots and conspiracies.
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I rather... like it? It definitely makes sense
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Finally took the time to watch this trailer and LQ and I were discussing it last night: I still just have these reservations about David Robert Mitchell's sensibility I can't quite get past. You can't tell too much from a trailer, of course, but there's sort of a 'noir-for-kidz' vibe to much of it, even moreso than something like Rian Johnson's Brick, which despite its setting played things pretty straight and pretty dark, which to me was the appeal. The trailer starts compellingly but then we've got this very candy-colored vibe that's drawing from clever faux-cereal boxes and old video games and 80s records... I mean, again, I'll give the film as fair a shake as any other despite my not enjoying It Follows partially for some similar reasons, but I'm not sure how this sort of pop fetishism is much different from the sort of thing that Ready Player One is trading on, with shaggier and more humble ambitions, but the same sort of borderline cynical touchstones.
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Mind expanding your opinion on It Follows?
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Not to jump in for mfunk, but you can check the It Follows thread for his take from a few years ago.
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In your perfect world, would someone be able to merely think of a film and acquire the CF.org URL for it via some sort of electrified teardrop that emerges from their eye?DarkImbecile wrote:Not to jump in for mfunk, but you can check the It Follows thread for his take from a few years ago.
That makeup case e-reader still strikes me as the most impractical mise en scène contrivance imaginable.
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A tear of pure joy. Perhaps we could join forces and eventually have each user’s mandatory avatar be a clickable link to a complete sortable list of all of their film-related comments.mfunk9786 wrote:In your perfect world, would someone be able to merely think of a film and acquire the CF.org URL for it via some sort of electrified teardrop that emerges from their eye?
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DarkImbecile wrote:Perhaps we could join forces and eventually have each user’s mandatory avatar be a clickable link to a complete sortable list of all of their film-related comments.
Now we finally know what he saw.The last words of the late, much-lauded and much-quoted Steve Jobs have been revealed almost a month after the Apple co-founder died at the age of 56.
Jobs, who once memorably described death as "very likely the single best invention of life", departed this world with a lingering look at his family and the simple, if mysterious, observation: "Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow."
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New poster. As A24 puts it (cringingly), it's "inspired by Highlights for Children":
Had no idea this was Riley Keough until right now. She's something else.
Had no idea this was Riley Keough until right now. She's something else.
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Note Garfield's face in the palm trees. That makes a bit more clever I guess given the subject matter.
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Didn't realize this had gotten such pans coming out of Cannes, it's got a 2 on the Screen International grid, one of the lowest of the festival, and 58% on RT. Joshua Rothkopf gave it 5 stars, even though nothing in his review seems to really point to why, as he seems to have more than a few qualms with it.
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The main complaint seems to be that it's 140 minutes long, which while it seemed totally appropriate for Inherent Vice seems to me like a movie of this apparent tone wildly overstaying its welcome
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At least Mitchell can continue to edit if he takes the criticism to heart/sees anything that wasn't working for the crowd. And has the ego for it, of course, I'm sure most filmmakers wouldn't. It'll probably be an instance where during the U.S. release most critics here will like it because it isn't another summer blockbuster, or just because it plays better here in general.
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It fared well on these fairly highbrow polls (especially the latter): http://jury.critic.de/cannes/, http://www.todaslascriticas.com.ar/cannes/2018
But yeah, it's hard to ignore the pans and I really cannot form any sort of expectations for it, regardless of my adoration (and, it seems, this forum's) of The Myth of the American Sleepover---which is thrilling! Jonathan Romney compared it to Lynch and Pynchon (not favorably---"Incoherent Vice"), but that only stokes anticipation. Some are saying it's one for the incel set and others are saying that it's actually critiquing white male privilege. Fortunately, it's being released very soon.
But yeah, it's hard to ignore the pans and I really cannot form any sort of expectations for it, regardless of my adoration (and, it seems, this forum's) of The Myth of the American Sleepover---which is thrilling! Jonathan Romney compared it to Lynch and Pynchon (not favorably---"Incoherent Vice"), but that only stokes anticipation. Some are saying it's one for the incel set and others are saying that it's actually critiquing white male privilege. Fortunately, it's being released very soon.
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DVD pullquote, baby!Omensetter wrote:it's one for the incel set
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Only three weeks before its release date, A24 has pushed this back to December 7th
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Well that’s just logical, there’s always way too many big indies in wide release during the summer and too few in December.
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Yeah, the article makes the point that only one other project is scheduled for that date while failing to add in big letters FOR THE MOMENT. Though looking at A24's other releases scheduled for the year, maybe they view this as their best shot at some nominations.
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That may be, but I think Mongoose was being sarcastic (think Oscar season)