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[Food for Thoth]

I miss Alan Rickman.  Great character actor.  Gone too soon.

Perfect in Truly Madly Deeply, which some critic called " 'Ghost'  for grownups." 

[Food for Thoth]

Inside Man (2006) holds up well as Spike Lee's most mainstream film while still retaining his flair for interesting montages of New York personality types and capturing moments of humor in crisis.  Good ensemble, great curtain drop. 

Wish I could say as much for the mediocre 2019 sequel, which Lee was basically shut out of directing. 

[Oilcandide]

Remember Harry Belafonte in "Beetlejuice"

https://youtu.be/nbkybaDR_Co

Jump in the Line!

[Oilcandide]

Oscars diversity rules make Richard Dreyfuss want to vomit.

https://news.yahoo.com/vomit-jaws-star-richard-dreyfuss-160417954.html

For some reason I found the URL amusing.

[Oilcandide]

Triangle of Sadness is a takedown of the wealthy and social class boundaries that is worthy of Bunuel at his best. Maybe not Ostlunds best work so far ( I am a big fan of his previous film, Force Majeure) but it gets my vote as one of best films of 2022. The humor is dark, often unhinged, and sometimes hilariously so. A quid pro quo involving pretzel sticks, a post mortem psychoanalysis of a donkey, a matriarchal social order established by a restroom cleaner, Woody Harrelson as a drunken Marxist luxury liner captain, an astonishingly gross descent into sickness and chaos on said luxury liner during a storm, a woman who has only three words....all morsels of disruption to be enjoyed. As I said, Bunuelesque, and possibly a good double feature with The Exterminating Angel.

[Hairy Lime]

Have not seen ToS but from all reports 2022 was a rough year for donkeys. Cinematically speaking.

[FlyingVProd]

Las Vegas Review-Journal

A bill to make nearly $200 million in film tax credits available every year for the next 20 years was introduced in Carson City Thursday, part of a bid to get Hollywood studios to relocate to Nevada → bit.ly/3M1WoKK

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We need to let the film students know about the money for filmmaking in Nevada, we have Chapman film school, and USC film school, here in California, and there is NYU film school in New York City, etc.

We also have The American Academy of Dramatic Arts for actors and actresses which has campuses in New York and in Hollywood.

Westerns and Bible movies are popular now, and Nevada has great scenery.

Salute,

Tony V.

[Oilcandide]

Indeed.  The donkey in ToS does not have a happy ending.  Much hasard.

Both EO and ToS owe much to sixties masterpieces that inspired them.  The more I reflect on ToS, the more I see how much was borrowed from The Exterminating Angel.   

Sad that the lead actress, whose performance had me seeing a stellar career ahead of her, died shortly after the film was made at age 32.  I expect the superstitiously minded will find parallels, as her last name was Dean and her date of birth was three days before James Dean s.  And she died of septicemia which was worsened because she had previously lost her spleen in a car crash.

[Hairy Lime]

Caught To Leslie, streaming on Netflix. Plot wise, "Alcoholic ... Uplifting Ending" and you can fill in the plot beats without seeing it. But Riseborough was pretty good and added some subtlety to the more predictable drunken histrionics.

[Oilcandide]

Thanks, in my queue. Three more episodes of Travelers and I'm done watching brain snatching time travelers try to save this stinking planet.  Oh, and spouse and I want to see The Wrong Box, some sixties British thing about a tontine policy and attempted murders. 

[Hairy Lime]

So watched Band of Brothers over the weekend. Had not seen it before. Suddenly during the concentration camp episode I noticed an actor in the background and said to myself, "Hey! That is Jude Law!"

Fuck. Again.

[Oilcandide]

Heh.  I forget what my Law/Fassbender litmus test was, so I'll just make up a new one.  If the character leans toward physical violence, including warfare, then Fassbender.  If towards psychological violence, including snark or sarcasm, then Law.   Fassbender has coiled energy, like a clockspring.  Law is more languid, more hedonistic.

[Oilcandide]

RIP Member of Parliament and Oscar-winning actress (who first wowed me in Marat/Sade) Glenda Jackson. 

And a fatally-donkey-choking thumb up to Lime's new tagline. 

[Hairy Lime]

Always brought a touch of class to,any role, but especially whenever playing women in love.

[Oilcandide]

   
To Leslie is an acting showcase for Andrea Riseborough, playing an alcoholic Texas woman who abandons a child and blows her entire lottery win. (as well as any man who will look her direction) Also a notable supporting performance from Marc Maron, mostly known as a comedian and podcaster, who plays a motel manager who tries to give her a break and help her get her shit together. Many themes which would be trite and dull in lesser hands, are rendered with depth and beauty here.  As Hairy said, Riseborough brings some subtlety to her rendering of a drunk and some predictable trajectories.

Also, not technically a movie, but its length and standalone plot should qualify it as one, is Beyond the Sea, one of the episodes of Black Mirror s new sixth season.  (not to be confused with a Bobby Darin biopic). It is brilliant, with fine performances from Aaron Paul, Kate Mara, and Josh Hartnett, and I would nominate it for any Best SciFi Drama of the Year list. The other two episodes I had seen had me worried the whole season would be nothing but Black Mirror Lite, but Beyond the Sea definitely brought it back to its full darkness and depth.