Had no proper duds until GoodFellas
Best was probably Woman in the Dunes
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Quite a lot of ‘fine’
Started The Rip today feels like that is definitely going to be ‘fine’ as well, when I get chance to finish it (probably in two weeks time).
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Some really nice pictures.
My mmotm was probably when Quaritch rocks up in the tribal Na’vi body paint but still wearing his army jorts after fucking Varang (which he was right to do) in Avatar Fire & Ash
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Argh!
I knew there would be hell to pay with you 
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Bulk (the new Ben Wheatley).
Stylistically intense and throws you straight into things, though I guess the walk-in reel they were showing with messages and psychedelic b&w patterns helped set the tone.
I thought it was lot of fun, but I expect some people will bounce hard off it. Unlike other films that play with your sense of reality, this one does wind up making some kind of sense though, so repays any confusion if you stick with it.
Followed by a Q&A with the director, which ended up being quite interesting. In one of his answers he talked about how 3D printing has meant a new dawn for model effects in film (and his disappointment that the Meg 2 production team had made up some great models just for reference, which were rendered as CG in the film).
Bought one of the zines off him afterwards, mostly because of the novelty of a film screening with a merch stand.
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I liked it too but quite a few people walked out of the screening I attended.
Zine looks mega cool maybe I should have got one
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a pretty decent month, although it seems like forever ago I watched Monster. January really did last eleven weeks, huh?
MMOTM: obviously it’s that bit in Bone Temple but everyone else is saying that so I’ll go for the opening shot of Day For Night and the way the camera slides along
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Is This Thing On
Not sure if John Bishop should be happy with the takeaway that he perhaps become successful despite not being funny, but anyway.
I came for Arnett and Dern and whilst they gel well together, the film takes a long time to say that relationships are complex and sometimes involve compromise. No shit!
The most 3* film to ever 3*, and even gets outdone in its final needle drop by it being Under Pressure which will only remind people of Aftersun and make them wish they were watching a better film.
Very few if any walkouts from my screening, so don’t know if yours or mine was the outlier!
You’ve not missed the boat on the zine - it’s also for sale here, along with a couple of others about filmmaking and various bits’n’bobs:
Nouvelle Vague is fun! Amazing how spot on the casting is in terms of like likeness.
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There’s so much I need to catch up on but I just seem to be picking at random at the moment (when I get the motivation).
Movie moment was obviously the bollock barrage in Pom Poko though.
Best: La Haine (rewatch), Summer Interlude (first watch)
Worst: Breathless, Only God Forgives
Solid month of films.
MMOTM:
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Bounced quite hard off Marty Supreme - couldn’t fault any of the performances (and was reminded of how much I do enjoy Gwyneth Paltrow), but am quite tired of everyone is a complete bastard to each other films and TV now, it is a completely tired and saturated idea. I had also had two coffees so felt the stress of the film a bit too much.
The last A24 film I saw was the truly dreadful Smashing Machine and this felt like a better version of that. Enough of the 80’s soundtrack and slightly blurred camera 3/5
I’m not sure whether I liked No Other Choice or not. I think I did but I’ll have to mull it over for a bit if that’s ok
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It Was Just An Accident is really good, fair play. The Knife is boring though
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Had a good time with Primate. The trailers beforehand were all for horror films…and Melania.
So all horrors then.
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Forgot to log this on Letterboxed but, now you’ve reminded me, I can say what the best movie I saw in Jan was after all.
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