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Post by sgev1977 on May 19, 2022 22:42:28 GMT
James Gray is getting a great reception for his new semi auto biographical film, Armageddon and I'm very happy about it! He hasn't received the acclaim he deserves. In the 1990s he, for some reason, was considered the opposite of Tarantino and in the war between cool retro populism and intelligent classicism, well, the winner was the obvious one!
I also hope BC could work with him one day. He was attached to his Lost City of Z but it didn't worked because the filming (in the jungle!) clashed with the birth of his first son.
Also Gray is slightly snobbish (another reason why the "dude" Tarantino was more popular with other "dudes!) and he said he doesn't watch modern movies so he barely know new actors but he hired Marion Cotillard (for The Immigrant) and originally BC for LCOZ for the same reason: he loved their faces and thought they were very expressive faces when he met them. I thought that was a nice comment!
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Post by sgev1977 on May 19, 2022 22:54:20 GMT
I am reading an overwhelming number of raves but I found interesting that the only two negative comments I have seen are are by award pundits! Lol Remember how award pundits first commented that TPOTD wouldn't went anywhere in the Oscar race? Those vibes!
EDITED Award pundits are saying it will be polarized and surely loved by Americans and hated by Europeans but the French reactions I have seen are very positive. Also he has always been beloved by European and New Yorkers, the problem is the more mainstream American press so those comments are kind of bizarre!
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Post by sgev1977 on May 23, 2022 0:44:50 GMT
This is great!
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Post by queenzod on May 23, 2022 1:22:54 GMT
His last statement ain’t going to happen, unfortunately. We’re living in late stage capitalism. Money is the only thing the big studios think about or want. They’re not really interested in artistic expression, they just say they are and throw a bone or two out there to keep their creatives happy. Every once in a while they’ll produce something good or important, but always at a cost to their bottom lines and that’s really all that’s important to them. Rake in as much as you can with each product now, because the system is failing. I’m telling ya, it’s bread and circuses.
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Post by sgev1977 on May 23, 2022 10:59:33 GMT
It's not different for what BC said but his words were a) ignored by Film Twitter; b) misinterpreted by a few in Comic Book Twitter.
I think movie theater owners have a lot of blame but because they are also the "victims", they aren't questioned. As Gray suggests, they just decided to abandon certain kind of movies and give extra screens to franchises so they just send a part of the audience, which exists!, to their homes to saw movies they care for on streaming. Big screens are reserved for Disney!
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Post by sgev1977 on May 21, 2023 3:14:30 GMT
Kinda angry about this,
A few Film Twitter’s Americans have been claiming that everything is a masterpiece but the real consensus seems to be that the competition is until now pretty bad and a few are claiming that the only Mexican film in the whole Festival but out of competition, directed by Amat Escalante, is the best thing until today! If the return of Victor Erice, also out of competition, is another masterpiece then I will be really pissed off! Why are always the same names? And I can imagine a really bad movie winning and Film Twitter claiming it’s the best thing ever because, you know, it won at Cannes! And then next year, we will have another movie by the same director in competition or as President (It’s not necessarily against Ruben Östlund! I haven’t watched his last film even when it’s on Amazon Prime. I enjoyed his other movies but he is still a polemic auteur and a lot of people though he didn’t deserved that award) and new or, at least different, talent being totally ignored because they aren’t part of the small elitist circle!
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Post by sgev1977 on May 25, 2023 1:41:48 GMT
About the selection,
It’s incredible how unlucky this extraordinary filmmaker is! There should be much more films by him out there! And even if the film weren’t bad (it was acclaimed by critics!), it should had been automatically considered for a more important section in the Festival considering his place in film history! It’s so bizarre! I don’t know why he couldn’t pulled it out of Cannes and sent it to Venice, tho. He says it was one of his options.
Also someone wrote a tweet saying that he didn’t understood why critics run to watch the new Wes Anderson film when it will be released in a lot of theaters in a few weeks meanwhile completely ignoring important non-mainstream films with much less publicity like this one and the comment made angry to a lot of American critics! Lol A prominent one from an Internet outlet tried to made fun of him with the “tell me you don’t know how this business works without tell me…” but the guy wasn’t claiming he knew the business! It’s a valid question and a valid criticism to the “business” if it’s indeed their bosses who forces them to give priority to popular things. It shouldn’t offend to the workers if they were really interested on watch and promote non-Hollywood relevant cinema but weren’t permitted. It’s interesting that more serious critics find time to watch the supposedly obscure films and talk about them, tho.
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