Clockwork

Dear god!

The Indicator BR is good, but not Region A to your point.

The Alan Arkin film has a specific vibe, definitely need to rewatch.

Have you read any of his other work? I just started 'Kill My Mother' and it's already complex in interesting ways.

Also... C'mon, right?

Cara Jade Myers was a highlight for me. Both character and performance operating at a different register than the rest.

I finally caught up with 'Killers of the Flower Moon'. Incredibly depressing, while being fascinating as a glimpse of history often happens hidden.

Oil painting of a woman wearing a veil, displayed in an ornate gilded frame."

Helene Schjerfbeck. 'Spanish Woman after El Greco', ca 1928. As seen at The Met.

Much delayed, but finally caught up with and finished ‘The Lowdown’. For a work that references Jim Thompson so directly it is maybe too optimistic in its outlook, but I really liked it. It felt like reading a good modern crime book, which might be the best compliment I personally imagine.

How do you like the Greenaway?

I saw this at a long gone theatre outside of Atlantic City when it first got play in the US. Griped me immediately, an absolute favorite. Just such a great tone.

The Branchman, Nessa O'Mahony
The Book of Evidence, John Banville
House of Splendid Isolation, Edna O'Brien
The Rage, Gene Kerrigan
Mondo Desperado, Patrick McCabe

The glass blowing scene presumably an exception for safety reasons. While not too different from what you might see in a sales pitch on Murano, in the context of the film it captures and holds the viewer's attention with its direct capture of action and expertise.

Famously, the performances were given under hypnosis, which aligns with the numbed reactions in the face of unexplainable catastrophe.

Some of the footage of the natural world feels like it could come from Middle Earth. Primarily shot in Bavaria and Switzerland, but with additional shots taken in Yellowstone, the Viamala canyon, and Skellig Islands.

I wish I had watched it earlier, absolutely fascinating. While the tone here is more fable than allegory, the complete social breakdown in the collapse of an all encompassing combined culture and industry feels relevant.

I picked up the Herzog collection a while back but prioritized his most famous films in initialy viewing. Now will occasionally grab it off the shelf on occasion to fill in the gaps in my viewing. A colleague's comment prompted me to finally take a look at 1976's 'Heart of Glass'.

So good. It holds up as a single season plot wise, I think. Hope it gets rediscovered at somepoint.

Anyone wants to talk about this movie, DM me, please.

I mean, come on.

Just watched the 1971 Michel Piccoli and Romy Schneider film "Max and the Junkmen' and I almost feel ill at the psychological stench coming off it. Really good, but rotten to the empty core where a soul should be. Need to watch again when I'm less susceptible to whatever that mood is. Recommended.

Love Is The Devil is quite good, I think, need to rewatch. The blurred photography, the Soho bar scenes, and of course Potemkin!

Good movie, love seeing young Robert Loggia in a significant supporting part.

I think I agree, while maybe not being entirely negative. Effective filmmaking on a moment to moment basis, but those are huge, painful, and messy cultural themes being brought up that resolve plot wise in something much simpler.

I mean, they can still want to die, no?

Have you seen Garner in the 1969 'Marlowe'? Was evidently an influence on Rockford Files along with the Maverick TV show (updated to the then present).

It's not that really, but 'Wonder Boys'?

All of the distance of the film collapses onto you watching her grieve, and pretend for a moment she has escaped the ugliness around her.

Her comfort and sense of peace at the book depository never feels false to me. At being both lusted after and respected at the same time, which is so new. And Mirren plays the of how wrong it went so humanly.

It's one of my absolute favorite films. Maybe it's just me, but I find the theatricality and the artifice (which are fantastic) break through to something genuine. I find it deeply romantic, between 'His Wife' and 'Her Lover' as the story moves forward.