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Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 01, 2019 6:32:20 am PDT #2183 of 3462
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Sounds good to me. Hey, the cargo shorts I like wearing might come back in style if people see clothes with pouches on the silver screen!


Vonnie K - Aug 02, 2019 8:37:37 am PDT #2184 of 3462
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

The lineup for TIFF 2019 is starting to shape up: [link]

Barring last minute work shenanigans, I plan to be there (I think, my fourth year in a row). The film I'm probably most psyched to see is Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite," which by all reports is fucking brilliant and took Palme d'Or at Cannes. Interested in "Jo Jo Rabbit," in which Taika Waititi directs himself as an imaginary friend of a lonely little German boy, who is... um, Adolf Hitler (if anyone could pull off that premise, it would probably be Taika). And Makoto Shinkai, who made the gorgeous "Your Name," has another anime fantasy called "Weathering With You."

They are also World-Premiering Rian Johnson's star studded murder mystery, "Knives Out," the trailer to which I linked upthread. Itching to be there with BELLS ON.


Jessica - Aug 02, 2019 8:40:11 am PDT #2185 of 3462
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Rian Johnson's star studded murder mystery, "Knives Out,"

Until the title card at the end of this trailer I thought it was a remake of Clue.

(And I was SO EXCITED. And then when it wasn't a remake of Clue I REMAINED EXCITED.)


megan walker - Aug 02, 2019 10:34:26 am PDT #2186 of 3462
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I am so excited for Knives Out. Can't wait.

On a related note, I'm hearing good things about Ready or Not.


P.M. Marc - Aug 06, 2019 2:40:16 pm PDT #2187 of 3462
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I am very excited for Knives Out. Also for Parasite and JoJo Rabbit, so Vonnie will be living my dream.


megan walker - Aug 06, 2019 3:36:49 pm PDT #2188 of 3462
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I saw The Kitchen last night. Way grittier than I expected but relatively satisfying as these things go.


Steph L. - Aug 06, 2019 3:47:24 pm PDT #2189 of 3462
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I'm reposting this from FB, because some of the folks who post here aren't on FB:

What movies do you find visually striking? For whatever definition of "visually striking" you care to use (because, on my list, some are really gorgeous, and some are just...striking, but not gorgeous). My initial list:

*The Talented Mr. Ripley
*Moulin Rouge
*Far From Heaven
*Sin City (the 2005 one; I didn't see the 2014 one)
*Fido (a really excellent zombie movie that's not scary or gross and is SO worth seeing) (seriously)

I'm amused that 3 of these are set in the 1950s, which I guess was a cinematically gorgeous decade?

Then msbelle added The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, which -- definitely striking!


billytea - Aug 06, 2019 3:54:34 pm PDT #2190 of 3462
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

The first one that comes to mind - possibly because Ryan and I are currently watching it - is Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse.

Also The Grand Budapest Hotel, I think.


Steph L. - Aug 06, 2019 4:12:23 pm PDT #2191 of 3462
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

The first one that comes to mind - possibly because Ryan and I are currently watching it - is Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse.

Oh, HELL yes. I can't believe I forgot that one!


Vonnie K - Aug 06, 2019 4:36:43 pm PDT #2192 of 3462
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

I am very excited for Knives Out. Also for Parasite and JoJo Rabbit, so Vonnie will be living my dream.

:)) Can't wait for the full schedule to come out so that I can agonize over what to pick for which slot!! It is painful AND great.

What movies do you find visually striking

Blade Runner, both the original and follow-up. All of Guillermo del Toro films but especially Pan's Labyrinth. In the Mood for Love (pretty much all Wong Kar Wai really). Zhang Yimou and his color poetry, Hero in particular. More recently, Kogonada's Columbus, which is full of static, long shots, which gives it a lovely, contemplative stillness (one of my favourite films in recent years and steaming on Hulu!)