brephophagist wrote: Sun Apr 30, 2023 5:00 pm Maybe I missed something, but I didn't feel like the accusers were portrayed even remotely as bad as Tár. I also assumed that the film's perspective - camera, editing, etc. - was somewhat an extension of Tár's bias/perspective, so I didn't trust it too much.

It’s probably more likely that I missed something, since I only watched it once, but will try to explain what I recall:

- The quick shots of all of Krista’s e-mails. At best, it seemed ambiguous whether Tár was responsible for her undoing. She could have just been completely off-her-rocker crazy.

- I get the feeling that the people immediately surrounding Tár all have ulterior motives to get ahead through their relationship with her.

- The scene where they showed the horribly edited social media post of Tár going off on that kid during the master class.. sure, the original scene did not portray Tár well, but the edited video made it so much worse. Someone was trying to get her.

Kinda felt a little bit of an analogy between Tár and Trump in the way they use their power to get their way, but also didn’t feel sorry for anyone around her, kinda like I don’t feel sorry at all for Melania.

Maybe a bad analogy. At least Tár appeared to have some actual talent, unlike Trump.

This discussion is tempting me to watch it again.

Watched the Morricone documentary over the weekend as part of a local film fest. The good: was definitely worth hearing through a great theater system, relatively little Americanizing overall ("where's Dave Grohl", we joked). The bad: 2 hours and 40 minutes, with some bits that definitely could have been cut (graphic scenes of 9/11.. really?). Still NC.

(the ugly: Pat Metheny's hair..)

Watched a really shit horror movie called Smile. In my defence, I was trapped on a plane.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Tue May 02, 2023 1:00 pm Watched a really shit horror movie called Smile.

I put-off watching this one forever because I hated everything about its campaign. Ended-up liking it in the end. Didn't think it was a game-changer, but I dug it and I'm glad Parker Finn stuck the landing CGI and all. Really wasn't expecting that.

Recently watched Husera: The Bone Woman and didn't care for it much. Was hoping to, but didn't

I just saw The Pope's Exorcist at my wife's request. Pretty dumb Catholic horror, but Russell Crowe was decent as the exorcist priest. Also, Franco Nero plays the Pope.

We went to see "Showing Up" Friday night, it was great!

It's crazy how much feeling and tension Kelly Reichardt can wring out of seemingly ordinary situations and interactions.

I was waiting for a baseball game to start and needed to kill some time and watched The Goonies. My takeaway is that I learned Anne Ramsey was only 55 when she filmed her role as Mama Fratelli.

Went into The Lighthouse blind last night. I'm sure I'm the last FM to see it. It was really good and a masterful use of the slow burn and unreliable narrative / perspective.

Once again, in the “no one else here watched or will admit to watching” category:

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

This movie is a hot fucking mess.

I kinda liked it and want to watch it again, though was 30 minutes too long. Best Marvel film in a long time. Good soundtrack.

Charlie D wrote: Tue May 09, 2023 10:22 am Went into The Lighthouse blind last night. I'm sure I'm the last FM to see it. It was really good and a masterful use of the slow burn and unreliable narrative / perspective.

I just borrowed The Witch from the library and it's the first movie by that guy that I've seen, so fear not.