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Buffista Movies Across the 8th Dimension!

A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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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.

Amy - Sep 14, 2019 4:06:48 pm PDT #2240 of 3435

Because books.

Help me, movie people? Of the following, which should I watch tonight? Suburbicon, I Tonya, The Favorite, Bad Times at the El Royale, or Sorry to Bother You?

Kate P. - Sep 14, 2019 4:12:54 pm PDT #2241 of 3435

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I just saw Sorry to Bother You last week and loved it. It had a sort of Terry Gilliam feel to it, especially toward the end, which I really dug.

Of the others, I've only seen I, Tonya, which I also really enjoyed.

Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 14, 2019 4:25:31 pm PDT #2242 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've only seen Bad Times at the El Royale out of those. It was fun, but I think The Favorite is the best film of the lot based on people's reactions.

Dana - Sep 14, 2019 4:38:09 pm PDT #2243 of 3435

"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

The Favourite is weird, so be prepared for that.

Didn't love Suburbicon, despite the Oscar Isaac.

megan walker - Sep 14, 2019 5:44:09 pm PDT #2244 of 3435

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Help me, movie people? Of the following, which should I watch tonight? Suburbicon, I Tonya, The Favorite, Bad Times at the El Royale, or Sorry to Bother You?

Of those that I've seen, I'd rank them roughly as follows:
Bad Times at the El Royale
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I, Tonya
The Favorite
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Sorry to Bother You

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