#221

It’d be really amusing to me if you don’t update it again and the only film you see this year is Spies in Disguise

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#222

i’m already following you

don’t know who 99% of you are on there because you all have different names and pictures

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#223

Yup you’re both right, it doesn’t look like it’s simultaneously on demand: https://www.curzonartificialeye.com/coming-soon/

#224

I’ve decided to watch some films this year, having not really bothered in 2019. I don’t get to the cinema much these days and I suffer from option paralysis at home now there’s so much available to stream. To combat this I set up a Wheel of Films on an app to choose randomly for me. If I don’t obey the wheel I must remove the film I’m refusing to watch. This helps me push through the, “oh this film sounds heavy and I’m tired so I’ll watch something mindless instead” barrier too.

The wheel is clearly not my friend though as its first offering was a nice and cheery double bill of Killing of a Sacred Deer and Inside Llewyn Davies. I mean I enjoyed both but I was left feeling like everything was a bit pointless afterwards. I really disliked the former for the first third or so as the weird deadened way everyone spoke rubbed up the wrong way entirely (the daughter says something about laughing so hard her ribs hurt at some point and I remember thinking, “no you didn’t - l don’t believe anyone has ever laughed in this world.”) Really won me over by the end though. Gonna have to go and check out that Lobster and Dogtooth now aren’t I?

Davies was really good too. Not sure where it fits into my overall Coen rankings but it’s easily the best thing they did in the 2010s for me.

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#225

Yeah - and the cat is adorable too

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#226

i really like the Coens but thought this was utter shit, Hail Caesar was their best of the 2010’s for me

#227

The moment Davies leaves the cat in the car I lost all sympathy for him. Glad he never made it, the bastard.

#228

really liked inside llewyn davies, didn’t like hail caesar at all

don’t like any coen brothers comedies though tbf except the big lebowski

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#229

I really didn’t get on with Hail Caesar. Normally a Coen’s film where a bunch of charming stuff happens that amounts to nothing much is grand with me but I ended that one feeling like it was all a bit pointless.

Can see why someone would feel the same way about ILD though tbf.

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#230

The Lobster is my favourite of his films. Just found it the best conceptually. You should be acclimatised to the flat delivery by the actors as well now!

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#231

I feel like the Coens are at their best when doing the whole ‘cruelty of fate/the universe’ stuff, which is why over the last 10 years or so I’ve really liked A Serious Man/Inside Llewyn Davis and liked Ballad of Buster Scruggs but was less keen on Hail Caesar. Mind you, two of my faves of theirs are Raising Arizona and O Brother Where Art Thou so maybe they’ve just got less good at comedy over time.

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#232

It feels to me like they’ve got a lot more cynical and unsentimental over the years. Which really suits their darker stuff but leaves their comedies feeling like they’re missing something. It’s alright to wrap things up neatly or indulge in a bit of schmaltz when you’re playing for laughs but they don’t really do that anymore.

#233

I might ignore the wheel and watch some more Yorgos while I’m feeling acclimatized actually. It’ll save me spending the first 45 minutes demanding to know why no one speaks like an actual human. I picked up Dogtooth on blu-ray for £3.50 on a rare trip into CEX on Saturday so it feels like a good time.

It looks like The Lobster isn’t on Netflix/Prime atm. My timing is terrible.

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#234

:joy: Strike while the iron is…behaving painfully unnaturally! I’m sure it has some kind of Brechtian theoretical purpose etc etc but I do actually enjoy the weird atmosphere it creates. If you’re starting to feel overwhelmed by existential angst I don’t think Dogtooth’s gonna help you much! Cracking film though, in a classic, sickening arthouse way.

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#235

I’m sure I saw a poster for it in one of the Brighton picturehouses last week

#236

Thought JoJo Rabbit was hilarious. It’s even persuaded me to watch the Thor film he made despite not really liking Marvel movies.

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#237
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#238

Our Little Sister (too sappy to be one of Kore-Eda’s best really, but worth a watch) is also on iPlayer I think

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#240

if you’ve seen Dogtooth you’ve seen em all tbh

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