In other movie news, I saw both Hustlers and Ad Astra this week. Hustlers was very fun and well directed. Ad Astra was very pretty to look at but very much a slog, with far too much voiceover.
I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets.
River ,'Safe'
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megan walker - Sep 12, 2019 6:14:03 pm PDT #2230 of 3435
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Fiona - Sep 12, 2019 9:33:24 pm PDT #2231 of 3435
I can see the movie netting multiple acting Oscar noms...
Only if Netflix decide to release it in cinemas, which I'm not sure they have any plans to do at this point.
megan walker - Sep 12, 2019 9:48:39 pm PDT #2232 of 3435
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Only if Netflix decide to release it in cinemas, which I'm not sure they have any plans to do at this point.
I can't imagine they won't give the latest Baumbach a least a limited release. And I'm pretty sure they would at least make sure to screen it in L.A. to qualify. Isn't that why they are trying to buy the Egyptian?
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 13, 2019 11:14:24 am PDT #2233 of 3435
"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
I feel obligated to see Ad Astra because my frenemy from middle school is in it and we recently reconnected. It's going to be World War Z in Space, isn't it? All about Brad Pitt's character's personal manpain, with the threat to humanity's survival as a secondary backdrop?
DebetEsse - Sep 13, 2019 1:02:02 pm PDT #2234 of 3435
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm still salty about World War Z and want someone to make the movie that book deserves: a Ken Burns-style mockumentary.
Vonnie K - Sep 13, 2019 4:30:16 pm PDT #2235 of 3435
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I am on my 5th (!) and last screening of the day and basically running on fumes. Tomorrow is the last day with 4 films, including Kore-eda's The Truth and Knives Out (!) thanks to TIFF throwing in an additional screening due to the high demand. They did this for Parasite (twice), Marriage Story, Waves, Bad Education and The Two Popes, in addition to Knives Out. I cannot remember TIFF ever being this generous with additional screenings.
Only if Netflix decide to release it in cinemas, which I'm not sure they have any plans to do at this point.
From what I hear, Netflix plans on 3-4 weeks of theater screening for Marriage Story before putting the film on streaming service in December. The movie is playing in every single big festival, which tells me Netflix machine is 100% behind its awards campaign. It's gonna be wack, since Driver notoriously hates doing press and Johansson cannot seem to open her mouth without putting a foot in it.
P.M. Marc - Sep 13, 2019 5:08:15 pm PDT #2236 of 3435
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Vonnie! I AM FILLED WITH ENVY!
DavidS - Sep 13, 2019 5:51:01 pm PDT #2237 of 3435
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Thanks for all the advance reviews, Vonnie! You've got fantastic taste and it always helps to find new stuff.
Consuela - Sep 13, 2019 8:37:18 pm PDT #2238 of 3435
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I saw Brittany Runs a Marathon this week and I thought it was really very charming. Brittany is a hot mess and she shoots herself in the foot but you want to her to succeed, and she does too, but she doesn't quite know what "to succeed" means and it hurts to see her fucking it up. But then it mostly works out.
I really liked Jillian Bell, and the rest of the cast, and I hope it does well.
Also it's pretty inspirational.
Vonnie K - Sep 14, 2019 1:34:58 pm PDT #2239 of 3435
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I am not sure if Taika Waititi's satire about Nazism, Jojo Rabbit, entirely works - it's whimsical and adorable, anchored by an excellent center performance by its lead child actor. But it's tonally a tough sell given the subject matter and there are parts in the movie that made me go 'yikes.' But my audience at the screening last night was extremely into it. And I talked to a couple of festival goers this afternoon who were convinced that it was the best film of the festival and the frontrunner for People's Choice Award. It might pull a Life Is Beautiful.