Films

Going tonight, sounds wild.

Titane and Raw are also recommended in the female director / gets bloody at some point list.

He's great, makes me want to watch 23 again.

Just went to see Maverick at RAH and Tom Cruise made a surprise appearance

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I loved Titane and Raw!

I went to my local film society for a screening last night, That They May Face the Rising Sun, a proper gem of a slow burn in the genre of "not much happens but people learn something."

not much happens but people learn something

Funny, I was just considering rewatching Wings of Desire. Matches that description and has Peter Falk.

I feel like I've seen that, but it's hazy so it's going on my watchlist. Thanks.

Finally got around to watch Crimes of the Future.

Erm. Wow. OK? Hmm...

Is The Thing just simply the greatest single greatest movie ever made? I’m increasingly thinking that on my monthly rewatch…

I've always preferred 'Far Away, So Close' to 'Wings of Desire'. An odd film, and Horst Buchholz is dreadful, but there are some magical scenes, and Otto Sander is great in it. Some of it probably only works if you know German.

"Achten Sie auf das Fix-Vögelchen!"

Is Kurt Russell's beard just simply the greatest beard in a movie ever made?

Absolutely, took him over a year to perfect that bad boy. You probably know the stories but hard to believe it wasn't received well on release. John Carpenter took a bit of a kicking, not quite Michael Powell levels of wrong but still pretty brutal. And Rob Bottin is a genius.

In a similar vein i rewatched Speed again last night for the umpteenth time and whilst i won't be convincing anyone it's a timeless classic it's still in my top 3 best trips to the cinema.

I desperately need to watch Wings Of Desire. I went to watch Paris, Texas at the Prince Charles last week (at least my 4th time seeing that) and I loved it more than ever.

I'm like that with Point Break. Went to see it in the cinema with all my mates in the next town over.
We decided to try to walk home.
It's 7 miles away.
We walked across the cricket field and got chased by a group of lads carrying baseball bats.
We had to phone my mates mum to pick us up.
She hate a convertible XR3i with minimal rear seats.
There were 6 of us, but we all squeezed in.

When I first saw Wings of Desire, every time Otto Sander was on screen I was thinking "I know that face. Where do I know it from?". Took a long time, because the previous role I'd seen him playing was the alcoholic nervous wreck in Das Boot.

Ah yes, the Captain of the other U-Boat.
The opening sequence of Faraway so Close is stunning.

In just over a year -
Wes Anderson: The Exhibition - Design Museum
https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/wes-anderson-the-exhibition

Finally gave in to the fact that it would happen eventually and started watching Blade Runner 2049. Halfway through and so far fuck me this is some majorly boring shit. Not sure I have the strength to carry on.

Deadpool Vs wolverine was very silly and probably jumped the mutant shark a few times, but had a couple of funny bits in.

Fell asleep before half way, falling alseep mid movie is very very rare for me.

So that's my review.

What's everyone watching this spooky season?
I got a slight head start with The Substance last week.

This week I've watched The Keep by Michael Mann (also cheating, I watched it on the 30th of September). Not sure how I felt about it. It looked amazing and had a great soundtrack and atmosphere but it just felt a bit incoherent. I don't know anything about the making of it but it felt a bit like it had been cut down from a longer film with some important scenes missing.

Next up, Climax by Gaspar Noé. Absolutely amazing, really relentless and uncomfortable throughout, even if it's not a full on horror film. Very nearly made me not want to take psychedelics again.

Last night I watched The Thing With Two Heads (a tale of a world leading but deeply racist surgeon who's only chance to survive terminal cancer is to have his head grafted on to a black death row inmate). All you need to know is that it's on YouTube in its entirety for free because nobody cares enough to pursue the copyright claim. Worth it for scene in which a massive lad with a dodgy false head razzes around on a tiny dirt bike.

The Thing With Two Heads (a tale of a world leading but deeply racist surgeon who's only chance to survive terminal cancer is to have his head grafted on to a black death row inmate)

Heard of it but never seen it. The review I saw, years ago, said it was a satirical-comedy horror (or attempt at one), with the two heads constantly arguing. Was it funny or cringe? All I know about it comes from that review (which I recall said Ray Milland played the racist, and he's always worth watching), which was just enough to recognise it when Gene Wolfe reused it in one of the Book of the New Sun novels.

A bit of both but mostly cringe.
I read the Book Of The New Sun Series a couple of years ago but hadn't made that connection!

Another fan of The Subtance here. Lots of thoughts of the obvious Cronenberg inspiration, as well as Kubrick, Aranofsky, even Peter Jackson’s Braindead and Gillingham - all without feeling that they’d been ripped off. One part really made me think of Peckinpah’s Salad Days. I think the woman next to me probably didn’t sleep last night…

https://youtu.be/9MMPfFExul4?si=VJqYV5IoKLZk_Ne5

Not for me either. First and only time watching being at a double bill with Blade Runner at PCC probably didn’t help. I wanted to leave.