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tilbageidanmark · 3 years ago

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Movies I watched this week - 39

I spent over 50 (!) hours on the sofa this week, (enjoying myself 85% of the time)...

Sløborn, an ominous Danish-German TV pandemic series, very much like Soderbergh’s ‘Contagion’ and in ‘Black Mirror’ style. Normal life of a small island community between Denmark and Germany breaks down and completely collapses when it is hit by a lethal bird flue like virus.

It was extremely prescient, as it was shot in 2019, before Covid! Conceived as Si-fi, it looks today like TV, because the series was able to capture everything that happened around the world after January 2020 in accurate details.

With Roland Møller (of ‘Riders of Justice’). 7+/10

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My introduction to “The grandmother of The French New Wave”, Agnès Varda (Hard to believe that I never saw her films before!):

✳️✳️✳️ “Inspiration, Creation and Sharing...” Varda by Agnès, my first Varda is her last 2019 auto-biography, in which, at 90, she shared footage and stories from her life and work. The first sample clip (of meeting her Uncle Yanco in Sausalito) won me over, and the rest convinced me to catch up on everything I’ve missed through the years. What a wonderful artist!

✳️✳️✳️ Cléo from 5 to 7. A feminine film about female identity - a new favorite! A beautiful singer must wait 2 hours for the results of her cancer tests. With a magnifique mid-film scene (at 0;38) of the heartbreaking chanson 'Sans Toi', marking the beginning of her quiet transformation.

✳️✳️✳️ Vagabond, a story of a lonely, young woman, an unapologetic drifter, unglamorous, aimless, independent, desperately lost. Dark and nonjudgmental exploration of the refusal to conform to anything. 8+/10.

✳️✳️✳️ (For Sammy - Per our conversation). The Gleaners and I, "The eighth best documentary film of all time”, per ‘Sight & Sound poll. Derived from the famous painting by Millet. Simply wonderful!

✳️✳️✳️ One Hundred And One Nights, 100 year old Michel Piccoli “Monsieur Simon Cinema”, hires a young girl to reminisce with about the history of cinema. An unsuccessful Meta-film that nevertheless is a love letter for cinephiles. Populated by 3 dozens of Who’s Who of French (and World) stars, playacting in this symbolic, Fellinisque fable that draws upon the classics. Mastroianni, Depardieu, Belmondo, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau, Anouk Aimée, Fanny Ardant, Gina Lollobrigida, Jane Birkin, etc, etc..

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✳️✳️✳️ The Young Girls of Rochefort, the wonderful, colorful, sentimental musical by Varda’s husband Jacques Demy, with the most beautiful woman in the world and her sister. Romantic eye candy set to music by Michel Legrand. A year later Deneuve would do Belle de Jour, and Françoise Dorléac would die in a car accident, 8+/10

✳️✳️✳️ Even better, The Young Girls Turn 25, Varda’s 1993 behind the scenes documentary and return to small town Rocheford, to show how it changed the town and left an impression. 9/10

“...The memory of happiness is perhaps also happiness...”

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The other Jacques Demy modern opera The Umbrellas of Cherbourg knocked me over all over again. Catherine Deneuve’s angelic beauty in this film made me cry for the duration like a baby. And not only at the train station when they say goodbye forever.

10/10

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Night moves, a tense thriller by Kelly Reichardt, about three radical environmentalists who blow up an Oregon dam. Slow and tense, and like her ‘First Cow’, watching it filled me with constant, low-level anxiety. The off-screen sabotage is placed at the exact mid-point of the movie: The first half is the preparation for it, and the second half shows the aftermath of the act. 7+/10

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2 unexpected Small Town gems by Miguel Arteta:

✳️✳️✳️ The good Girl, an odd and surprising mismatched romance between 30 year old Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal (22) as employees of a Texas big-box store that is always empty. Her voice-over reminded me of True Romance’s Alabama Whitman. 7/10

✳️✳️✳️ Ed Helms, a sheltered insurance salesman from the backwaters of Wisconsin, goes to an convention in the big city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The nearly conventional story arc has some genuinely heartfelt funny moments. With Maeby Fünke, as Bree the prostitute and Sigourney Weaver as the ex-teacher he balls. Also a surprising drug party, where he smoke crack cocaine and loves it. 5+/10

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Same theme of people prostituting their own ‘morals’, the notoriously-prudish 1993 Indecent Proposal didn’t age too well. “Billionaire”-porn that asks the question ‘How much would you pay for one night with Robert Redford?’ Gratuitous semi-naked Demi Moore included.

Related: “Stop hitting the button!”

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Wildland (Kød & blod = Flesh and blood), an uncomfortable and claustrophobic Danish gangster thriller about a 17 year old girl who moves in with the criminal family of Sidse Babett Knudsen, her estranged aunt. 6+/10

“For some people, things go wrong before they even begin”

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Jim Jarmusch‘s Broken Flowers, a touching road film with Bill Murray, as an old ‘Don Juan’ who receive a pink, unsigned letter from an old lover, letting him know that he has a 20 year old son he never knew about.

Loveliest film of the week.

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The 2 films directed by Tom Ford:

✳️✳️✳️ A single Man, a sad and lonely gay professor, closeted in 1962 Los Angeles, is preparing to kill himself with a gun, after his boyfriend / love of his life had died in a car accident. Mute and haunting aesthetics in the fashion designer’s debut film, based on a Christopher Isherwood novel.

The ‘Stormy Weather’ dance scene between Charley and George. 8/10

✳️✳️✳️ Nocturnal Animals: Amy Adams is an unhappy owner of a fancy art gallery who receives a disturbing book manuscript written by her ex-husband, which symbolizes their relationship 20 years prior. Rarefied visuals and distinctive style.

Starts with an astonishing scene of obese old ladies dancing naked at Amy’s gala event. Michael Shannon rules as a dying Texas detective! 6+/10.

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Jean Vigo’s 1933 classic Zero for Conduct was so blatantly anarchistic, it was immediately banned in France until after WW2. In silent film style, it tells about a group of mischievous kids who rebel against the authorities of their old-fashioned boarding school. Part-inspiration for Truffaut's 400 Blows.

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Anatomy of a murder, Otto Preminger’s 1960 courtroom drama, with opening credits by Saul Bass. Crisp black & white cinematography, and with rape victim Lee Remick playing it as an outgoing loose girl of ambiguous morals, a modern floozy. 7/10.

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Blush, a wondrous, spectacularly-animated, wordless short by Joe Mateo. What starts as a riff on ‘The Little Prince’, ends up like the opening montage from ‘Up’. The obvious realization that this is a personal metaphor makes the story even deeper.

I watched it twice back to back. 10/10

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If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast - 95 year old Carl Reiner asks a bunch of charming nonagenarian friends how they manage to live so well for so long. Their answers may (not) shock you...

Spry Dick Van Dyke (92) and half-his-age wife end the film with a lovely rendition of “Young at heart”

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Hi-school-level adaptation of Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the 21st Century. A breezy discussion of how slave economy and colonialist military repression 300 years ago turn into extreme capitalism of inequality & tax-avoidance today. America is now similar economically to what England was in the early 1800s. A tiny percentage of society controls almost all its wealth. (Full text of the book here).

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Ride the eagle, a flat new indie about a guy whose estranged hippy mother leaves him her cabin at the lake when she dies, but only if he complete a certain list of tasks. Could be so much better, but the actor playing the guy was just so terrible. Unlike JK Simmons who had a small role. Best detail, when he discovers that all the cabinets in the house are full with pot.

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Old, my first, (and possibly last), M. Night Shyamalan. The seductive premise of a secluded beach at a fancy tropical resort that ages everybody who comes there, turns into an unconvincing Twilight Zone bore.

...”(Gurgling sounds)”...

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First watch: I never saw (any) Planet of the apes before, and in spite of my misgivings, gave it a go. 100% anthropomorphic, it couldn’t visualize a universe different from the American mindset of that period. Preachy and very Rod Sterling-like. "It's a madhouse in here”. Pass!

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The latest Veritasium YouTube video about bowling current technology. Always interesting.

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Throw-back to the art project:

Planet of the Apes Adora.

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(My complete movie list is here)

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someonelookingpretty · 10 months ago

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hmmmm could it be the High Chief Idiot himself, Mr "walked here" Josten?

Seriously tho, I would give my first born and my right foot for a full deck of aftg tarot cards! Now, logically, I know that 78 cards is just way, way too much work for you. I know you'll never do the whole deck prove me wrong

but here are my predictions suggestions hypothetical ideas for future tarot cards

Major Arcana

0 - The Fool - Neil Josten 1 - The Magician - Andrew Minyard 2 - The High Priestess - Betsy Dobson 3 - The Empress Queen - Kevin Day 4 - The Emperor King - Riko Moriyama 5 - The Hierophant - Aaron Minyard 6 - The Lovers - Andrew/Neil 7 - The Chariot - Mary’s pyre Andrew’s car 8 - Strength - Renee Walker 9 - The Hermit - ???? neil again? 10 - Wheel of Fortune - oh god knows, eden's twilight?? 11 - Justice - Mary Hatford-Wesninski 12 - The Hanged Man Butcher - Nathan Wesninski 13 - Death - Stuart Hatford 14 - Temperance - uhhh Matt? 15 - The Devil - Tetsuji Moriyama 16 - The Tower - idk kengo i guess 17 - The Star - Allison Reynolds 18 - The Moon - Jean Moreau 19 - The Sun - Jeremy Knox 20 - Judgement - Ichirou Moriyama 21 - The World - The Foxhole Court

The "Wands" Suit

King of Racquets - Coach Wymack Queen of Racquets - Abby Winfield Knight of Racquets - Betsy Dobson Page of Racquets - Rocky Foxy

Ace of Racquets - Dan Wilds 2 of Racquets - Kevin Day 3 of Racquets - Andrew Minyard 4 of Racquets - Matt Boyd 5 of Racquets - Aaron Minyard 6 of Racquets - Seth Gordon 7 of Racquets - Allison Reynolds 8 of Racquets - Nicky Hemmick 9 of Racquets - Renee Walker 10 of Racquets - Neil Josten

The "Swords" Suit

King of Knives - Riko Moriyama Queen of Knives - Kevin Day Knight of Knives - Jean Moreau Page of Knives - Nathaniel Wesninski

Ace of Knives - Riko Moriyama (again) 2 of Knives - Kevin Day (again) 3 of Knives - Jean Moreau (again) 4 of Knives - Nathaniel Wesninski (again) 5 of Knives - Random Raven #1 6 of Knives - Random Raven #2 7 of Knives - Random Raven #3 8 of Knives - Random Raven #4 9 of Knives - Random Raven #5 10 of Knives - Random Raven #6

(Are there even any other ravens?)

The "Cups" Suit (I don't know how to exy this one up)

King of Cups - Coach James Rhemann Queen of Cups - Coach Jackie Lisinski Knight of Cups - Coach Michael White Page of Cups - Coach Eduardo Jimenez

Ace of Cups - Jeremy Knox 2 of Cups - Xavier Morgan 3 of Cups - Jean Moreau 4 of Cups - Catalina Alvarez 5 of Cups - Laila Dermott 6 of Cups - Ananya Deshmukh 7 of Cups - Min Cai 8 of Cups - Madeline Hill 9 of Cups - Zachary Price 10 of Cups - Emma Swift

(Or whichever ones actually turn into characters in the books I guess, I picked these totally at random from the TSC list, complete coincidence that Jean ended up #3 I swear)

The "Pentacles" Suit

I dunno. I've run out of teams. Maybe this is just the rest of the Trojans.

Alsooooo, look what arrived todaaaay <3<3<3

🌿 March Patreon print 🌿

My patreons this month voted for tarot cards so here’s a little lovers print. To get the March free print you can join my Patreon at either the Pomegrante and saffron tier (UK SHIPPING) or almond and plumb (INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING)

This print is available as an a4 and will be sent out around the 1st April. This is a Patreon exclusive and will not be published on the shop

(Though keep your eyes open for potential tarot card bunds!)

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