Everyone's costumes in Knives Out were SO GOOD. I can't wait to see it again.
Where's the praising and extolling of my virtues? Where's the love?
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Jesse - Dec 01, 2019 3:10:44 pm PST #2307 of 3434
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dana - Dec 01, 2019 4:57:37 pm PST #2308 of 3434
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
That costume article was great. And I do not blame Chris Evans for stealing the coat.
P.M. Marc - Dec 01, 2019 7:39:25 pm PST #2309 of 3434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Given the opportunity, I'd totally steal that coat.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 02, 2019 1:48:50 am PST #2310 of 3434
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Little secret, a lot of times we don't mind if you "steal". Especially if you are nice, and also don't steal rentals!
Steph L. - Dec 07, 2019 5:35:15 pm PST #2311 of 3434
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Knives Out was a LOT of fun! And holy shit, that was Captain Von Trapp!
amyparker - Dec 08, 2019 12:33:23 pm PST #2312 of 3434
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Jim and I are going next weekend; Plei has persuaded me!
billytea - Dec 08, 2019 1:01:26 pm PST #2313 of 3434
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I took Biyi to see Knives Out last night. Such a good movie!
Tom Scola - Dec 08, 2019 2:05:27 pm PST #2314 of 3434
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
So good!
Fred Pete - Dec 09, 2019 4:24:17 am PST #2315 of 3434
Ann, that's a ferret.
I was a bit disappointed by Knives Out. I went in expecting a comedy murder mystery in the vein of Murder by Death or Clue. I didn't find the funny.
Don't get me wrong -- it's a fascinating movie with its intricate plotting and the way little things prove to be important later. (Because we're still in Non-Spoiler Time, I'll only mention Ransom's name.) It'd make a good double feature with The Last of Sheila.
It was nice to see Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, and Christopher Plummer again. And Chris Evans playing against Captain America type as the spoiled rich kid.
Vonnie K - Dec 09, 2019 4:46:24 pm PST #2316 of 3434
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
The 25 Best Films of 2019: A Video Countdown: [link]
David Ehrlich, who's a film critic for Indiewire, puts these together every year, and they are always a delight. His rule for the music selection is that all the songs he uses in the video compilation have to come from the soundtrack of films released that year (I *knew* there was gonna be a version of "Being Alive," and of course it's Raul Esparza.) He makes idiosyncratic but interesting choices. The section set to "Glasgow (No Place Like Home)" in particular really hit me where I live.
(I don't think I mentioned here how much I loved James Gray's Ad Astra. I saw it in IMAX theater three times in and cried all three times. I know Gray isn't everyone's cup of tea -- he makes contemplative epics that are usually humourless and which can come across ponderous -- but *something* about his sensibilities vibrates in my own particular frequency. He slow-burns to operatic emotions without losing his restraint, which I am a sucker for.)
Of the lesser known films on the list, I only just watched I Lost My Body this past weekend, which is an animated film from France, told partly from the POV of a severed hand (!). It's a strange and evocative little film, and really quite beautiful. It's streaming on Netflix and very much worth your time if you have 90 minutes to spare.
Also on the "lesser known, strange and evocative" spectrum is Christian Petzold's Transit, which Ehrlich describes as Casablanca as directed by Franz Kafka, which is as good a way as any to describe it. It *looks* like it might be about the refugee crisis, or possibly a film about purgatory, and you'd think it was set in a particular time period except it isn't -- the movie made me feel disoriented and unmoored in a way I found difficult to describe. I saw it over a year ago at TIFF and it's one of those films that linger. If interested, you can rent it on Amazon or Google Play. Most of Petzold's earlier work is streaming on The Criterion Channel right now and if you haven't seen it yet, I cannot recommend Phoenix highly enough -- it's got one of the most shattering endings I've seen in any films in recent memory.