where are you in all this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHe4wwF9O6Q trigger warning: clickbait, algorithms, engagement content That video is literally unwatchable... it's like a collection of the most cliché clip-art and internet memes, with a monotonous voiceover that sounds like machine-talk. ...

I sort of get the complaint about Altman, who I don’t particularly enjoy. Even my favorite movie of his (The Long Goodbye) has a few scenes that, painfully, look like improv exercises in an Intro to Acting class. The only Altman film I actually like is The Player, which is the only one that seems t...

Sokoninaru are an "indie rock" band from Osaka. Their early releases sounded like melodic 80s metal on speed, but since Shiyu (the drummer in this video) joined them, the more "experimental" side of their music took over. The music is very complex, but unlike "prog metal&quo...

RyanZ wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:36 am Please turn us on to some of these bands in the Crap/Not Crap. I am interested.

I'll do that, just hope the reactions will be funny!

Seriously, though, I get it. I had a decade from like 2003-2013 where I had pretty much written off modern rock music and wouldn't even deign to consider it's value. But, of course, there's always something great going on out there. I was just being pretentious. Trends in music are often annoying, ...

For real. Between this Zappa-as-stand-in for "good" music and the sub-Hollywood Elsewhere slighting of Bresson, Altman, and Reichardt over in the Kelly Reichardt thread, I don't think I"ll be introduced to anything mindblowing here. For some people, "Mouchette" means the be...

G'day y'all. I used to be an occasional here -- way, way, back, when the old forum was young. I may not be as old as some of the codgers here, but suffice to say I'm old enough to remember Polly Harvey spending an entire Shellac gig sat in John Loder's lap... back in the 20th Century (Steve should k...

Lynn Shelton's My Effortless Brilliance (2008) was Mouchette -level torment, the epitome of the we-have-no-script-and-are-making-up-crap-as-we-go-along jeanre. Lynne Shelton was working with improvised acting so making it up as they went along was kind of the concept. It's a feature, not a bug. But...

Crap. Lazy, self-indulgent filmmaking. To be fair, though, she's not as godawful as some of the crap that came out of the "mumblecore" scene... Lynn Shelton's My Effortless Brilliance (2008) was Mouchette -level torment, the epitome of the we-have-no-script-and-are-making-up-crap-as-we-go-...